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OK I agree with you about setting a precedent that future storage will be scanned by default. Additionally who will control the reference hash list?, since making one necessitates hashing that illicit material.

I only hope the court systems escalate it and manage to protect free speech or unreasonable search and seizure or self incrimination or whatever if the CSAM hash comparisons are used against political opponents or music piracy or tax evasion or whatever.

Good point.

I’m unsure I wrote that from like an ethics standpoint. The silk road guy was got on conspiracy for attempting murder and not drug or human trafficking charges. So I’m unsure of legal side.

I think if you knowingly provided a platform to distribute SA/CP/CSAM and the feds become involved you will be righteously fucked.

Reddit clamped down on the creepy *bait subreddits years ago. Maybe it was self-preservation on the business side or maybe it was forward looking about legal issues.

I’m not a lawyer I was just mentioning things that I would follow for ethics morals and my sense of self preservation.

In my opinion, despite the technical merits of an algorithm, encryption is only as trustworthy as the computer who generates and holds a private key.

I would personally not knowingly use a cloud provider to commit a crime. That is a fairly naive take to assume because your browser is https that data at rest and in process isn’t somehow observable.

And I see where you’re coming from but I am afraid that position severely overestimates the will of US people to trade freedom/privacy for security and the legislature to hold citizens’ privacy in such high regard.

But he wasn’t running a computer in a rented space, he was using storage space on google’s computers.

In an older comment I argued against analogies to rationalize this. I think honestly at face value it is possible to evaluate the goodness or badness of the decision.

If I import hundreds of pounds of poached ivory and store it in a shipping yard or move it to a long term storage unit, the owner and operator of those properties are allowed to notify police of suspected illegal activities and unlock the storage locker if there is a warrant produced.

Maybe the warrant uses some abstraction of the contents of that storage locker like the shipping manifest or customs declaration. Maybe someone saw a shadow of an elephant tusk or rhino horn as I was closing the locker door.

Yeah I’m paranoid like I said, but this case it seems like the hash of a file on google’s remote storage flagged as potential match that was used as justification to request a warrant. That seems common sense and did not involve employees snooping pre-warrant.

The Apple CSAM hash detection process, that the launch was rolled back, concerned me namely because it was run on-device with no opt out. If this is running on cloud storage then it sort of makes sense. You need to ensure you are not aiding or harboring actually harmful illegal material.

I get there are slippery slopes or whatever but the fact is you cannot just store whatever you wish in a rental. I don’t see this as opening mass regex surveillance of our communication channels. We have the patriot act to do that lol.

But this court decision is a real world example, and not some esoteric edge case.

This is something I don’t think needs analogies to understand. SA/CP image and video distribution is an ongoing moderation, network, and storage issue. The right to not be under constant digital surveillance is somewhat protected in the constitution.

I like speech and privacy and am paranoid of corporate or government overreach, but I arrive at the same conclusion as you taking this court decision at face value.

I read that as the puppy emoji escapes itself as two characters print a single character, similar to \ in python strings using \\ to print \

I don’t know of the example systems but I’ve applied to a handful of companies recently, all running the same-ish workday resume ingestion. You can actually tell which are running a more recent version because the parsing is more accurate.

There is also a common no-account single page application software, I checked at a company I’d applied to and it was called Lever(?)

Normally, I thought for ATS parsing if you upload in an application and a few of the prior experience text boxes are accurate, then you’re good. I’ve always had to fix my experiences though, even with using a word doc.

Hi, do you have an example of your latex source or template?

Here’s a sparse copy of mine.

https://michaelwilly.com/cv/latex

I don’t want to share the git because my real resume has more details.

I learned tex during a degree, I can use it mainly for math notation but I’m not sure that I know it in and out for typesetting.

My resume now uses a template.tex and a main.tex file and I \\input sub section tex files so I can iterate using git.

+1 for ruff for python as a formatter & linter that allows single quotes without shaming you.

I’m all for keeping consistent flat utf-8 files. I’d hate for my code ultra simpleminded, possible to pen test with a pen and paper, python and sql code to be wrapped in a god awful xml or json or proprietary db markup and object hierarchical model of what code should look like.

Like I imagine trying to check in a jupyter notebook but worse.

For instance tabs vs spaces was decided and text editors accommodated this and despite what may be someone’s personal preference a uniform decision was made.

Humans can learn. We should use accessible formats and push for standards and keep those readable.

Lol fentanyl is more toxic by an order or two of magnitude. People would be on prescription opioids, lose a script, get on heroin because that was 4 to 8 times cheaper and more available than black market pills. The fentanyl crisis is a phenomenon between cheap imported precursor and Cartel economics.

The synthetic opioid demand in the US was a result of a chain of events including the purposeful stimulation of demand by marketing directly to Drs, lying about abuse potential, lying about withdrawal and addiction potential, and not introducing mediating controls when evidence of abuse and sales not meeting market demographics was clearly evident. Like they imported millions of pills to small towns with over selling pharmacies. Drs would up dosage to adjust to tolerance. But anyway it’s fentanyl that is killing people. I’d argue just let people use opium and regulate that sale.

Edit: changed and to an. Chinese precursor to imported precursor bc I honestly don’t know how many different countries are sources of a precursor. Added part about importing to small towns and upping dosage.

I love SVG as a consumer for flow chart graphics. Visio and Omnigraffle output to SVG and it displays nearly perfectly when pasted and rescaled in a powerpoint or embedded in HTML. The files are light compared to PNG and are guilt free git commit-able.

I even like XML as a user of my work’s external vendor’s configs. I edit subsections more than I write it. It is well documented, errors are easy to spot, and the file is git-able. I would honestly hate to see what that company would come up with in JSON or YAML configs so in this case XML is a great fit.

Nah there needs to be trust in engineering or review principles and leadership to do the right thing under ambiguity within a company above and beyond regulations. Codes and laws don’t move fast enough for innovation and invention. And take building codes for example, they keep homes safe but you can build a lemon of a house that passes inspection. It can also have terrible architectural layout. That doesn’t mean you need more codes or inspectors.

In highly regulated industries there’s a revolving door issue where private employees join government, write the specifications, then return to private industry at a higher level.

But yeah in this case I agree regulators and company controls should have a pause or mitigation plan before running at risk. Guess we’ll see over the next few days.

Taiwan and Korea built capable semiconductor fab ecosystems because of their countries’ economic development position, not despite their precarious political position.

People need to understand fabs are both skilled labor and automation intensive. Apart from that there are supplier ecosystems that only exist in those regions. Korea and Taiwan needed to have globalized export economies. Their education standards and culture are a good fit for scale manufacturing, both still had conscription military service. The labor at the time 80-90’s and currently is still highly competitive for their skilled labor force.

EU semiconductor is not a joke but the tools and wafer size are not state of art. I know EUV machine is a product of EU, but that moonshot tool is something that can only come out of a long dev government subsidized program like CERN and the bosson. They aren’t exporting that tool into the EU too it’s going right to Asia.

The EU is full of high living standards and well educated people but the semiconductor production is mainly serving local consumption (or local companies supply chains, automotive parts). EU does research but that doesn’t translate to at scale fabs.

EU gets protective and wants to secure local supply for their own tool vendors and needs to understand that smaller local machine brands cannot compete with the majors for the run of mill machines. EUV is a different story that thing is anomaly and power to them for following up on it.

Also strong labor organizations don’t attract capital. And semiconductor cannot take the month of August off.

US has capital and plenty of cheap land and cheap labor but still more expensive than Asia standards. Depending on state non existent labor protections and competitive environment permits. Not great education standards. Excellent skilled immigration. But still not leading in semi production especially with the old guard just keep losing. Still strong #2 though. And the ecosystem is nowhere near as integrated as Seoul. Like would you leave your hame family and friends in Oregon to startup a next gen Fab in Phoenix? No way. Geography isn’t doing US favors there for dynamism.

Those prior ones are binary lifestyle classifications whereas your exposure to microplastics is ubiquitous and the results are probably dose-dependent.

I personally use stainless lunchware and cotton clothing but if we’re to run an analysis of variance on my ingestion the effect is likely nil compared to walking on office carpet or drinking from aluminum cans or brushing my teeth.

Like refinery operators and gas station workers are exposed to benzene at different levels. But what about people who buy or lease new cars every two years.

There’s too much noise vs signal for insidious risks like these not well understood factors.

Sometimes when people discover or extensively use something they are eager to share in contexts they think are relevant. There is an issue when those contexts become too broad.

3 times across 3 months is hardly astroturfing for big parquet territory.

“We” don’t have any say.

It’s naive to take the charter of openai at face value. It’s hilarious to see applications of non-profit tax filings as I’ve grown up. There is tremendous wealth and commerce flowing through the US tax free. Religions, universities, “good” tech companies. To whose benefit? Humanity’s? Lol

I bet the nonprofit with a small for profit arm that the tech is licensed from is the next best thing since the defeated incorporating in Ireland for tax avoidance.

I was using .gitignore generated by an aliased touch function in powershell. Despite my best efforts, I could not get git to respect its gitignore. Figured out the touched text file was utf-16 and basically not respected at all. Lesson learned I uuchanged a system default to utf-8 but just rely on my text editor now.

Lol, over 400/week is standard in eastern PA, US. Many daycares sampled in our search. Medium cost of living suburban area.

Also over 1 year wait list.

Multi indexes is baking my data into the horrible pandas object model into weird tuples. Every gripe I’ve had with pandas starts with trying to do something “simple” then following the pandas object model to achieve it and over complicating things. Polars is awesome, it fits my numpy understanding of dataframes as dict labeled arrays. I even like the immutability aspect.

Lol I agree with you. I think ambitious ideas about automated factories are made by people who have never worked in a manufacturing, much less automated industry.

That’s what’s awesome about Jay peak tho in VT. If you want gaudy corporate attractions ski town then go to Stowe. There’s plenty of west coast and rocky mountain ski town targets too for that type of bland investment and redevelopment. Jay peak is awesome how it is as a low key border community. There was a corner store there that sold milk to the Canadians at CAD parity to USD around 2018.

Not every town needs to become a tech hub. And VT basically locked itself in a time capsule by their regulations on development ensuring that the only land owners are wealthy people who can afford to buy large areas of farmland. Also the environmental aspirations of the state don’t support a population boom. They don’t have new landfills and restrictive waste policies that keeps the place awesome now but is not universally economically achievable with larger population centers.

If using python, I’ll also recommend polars sql context manager to run queries on csv.

https://docs.pola.rs/py-polars/html/reference/api/polars.SQL...

ITAR is more permissive, with US persons being the minimum requirement.

https://oiir.hq.nasa.gov/nasaecp/Webbrfg/tsld018.htm

Spacex recently was sued by DOJ for discrimination

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-space...

I have no idea about security clearances tho.

I work on oracle dbs at a large non tech company. It is a great performant rdbms with poor tooling that I cannot believe they included for the licensing cost. Sqlplus could be great but totally isn’t good as a shell tool. Sqldeveloper is garbage. Python libraries and connection engines are solid for running anything automated. Dbeaver is a cool IDE alternative for clicking through tables.

From my experience across some MSSQL server, oracle, sqlite, and some non-professional postgres, the given database model trumps the underlying database tech when dealing with pains writing analytics reports. There are many options to mess up a model design or for feature extension to turn the model ugly.

Forget about building a new company on an oracle stack, the cost is prohibitive. The open source rdbms are very good and cloud providers have chosen their champions. But for a large legacy corporation with expensive, sensitive data, oracle makes sense. To an extent with a well trained dba the db is “self-documented”

Lol sometimes dbs aren’t exclusively used as a global web app backend for ultra scaling grocery delivery services or whatever. Sometimes db models persist for years and you need assurance that this tech is archival quality.

An aside, I think it’s funny the link you shared is a php site, another dinosaur!

Wrong video on my part.

This is my favorite video using the poor rendering in the game to make cool art effects. Full disclosure there may be an artistic license and post processing but it’s hilarious you can get these visuals in a modern game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ13OFmRF-4

That’s what I’m trying to understand too.

Analogously, chemical sunscreens turn UV to heat by absorbing wavelengths with their different bonds and vibrating.

I agreed with you but a true low brightness setting while maintaining contrast is hard to dial in.

Also, due to either the driving electronics or LED diode physics sometimes the back pane initial brightness at 0br+1*dbr is too bright (lol or lumens instead of br), for instance on my macbook pro at night lights out darkness.

For instance with OLEDs there is a turn on voltage, where either the pixel is Off or On at this initial brightness. That goes sufficiently dim on my phone with an OLED screen. I suspect the back pane LEDs have this same minimum brightness at minimum voltage.

An OLED laptop or desk monitor would be nice but I don’t have that money.