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I think the “interests” that might “conflict” are “business” vs. “public policy.” For example, a criticism an opponent of Al Gore might make is something like, “Would you still be …

Right you are, yes, it was that same message. I suppose what I meant to convey is, "despite the thoughtful safeguards built into Slack, I still managed to screw this up." :) I real…

Seems like an innocent enough mistake. Remind me of when I once helped organize a volunteer hackathon with people from different companies. We created a Slack organization just for…

Hi HN! I frequently find myself needing to label small batches of images with class labels as well as bounding boxes and masks. Last year, I developed a Python library to do that s…

Hi HN! I created remstat (short for: remote status) because I found myself wanting a simple way to monitor long-running tasks like training a deep learning model, downloading and p…

I developed QSL because I found myself appreciating existing labeling tools (e.g., VGG Image Annotator, labelImg, VoTT) while also wanting additional features (e.g., remote file la…

If you are (a) willing to take the word bounding boxes and convert them to paragraphs yourself, and (b) okay with a deep learning approach, you may want to give keras-ocr [0] a try…

Tesseract is a great solution for scanning books -- but agree that it doesn't work very well for most other use cases, especially when compared to cloud providers. FWIW, I have sta…

Hi HN! I made this because I wanted a toolkit for training custom OCR models that included both text detection and recognition along with the necessary tools to create synthetic da…

Interesting that you mention ExxonMobil. ExxonMobil does, in fact, cite "technological advances in energy storage that make wind and solar more competitive for power generation or …

Perceptual hashes in this family will probably not be the right fit for that use case. There is work out there to build hashes that are intended to find find semantically similar c…

Hi there! Our example on deduplication [1] takes the case of deduplicating of the Caltech256 [2] dataset for the purpose I think you're describing, which I interpreted as avoiding …

Great question — organizations decide how to handle reviews internally. So the answer to your question on “review all” versus “automatically submit” is a, perhaps unsatisfying, but…

Thank you so much for asking! Naturally, part of why we wanted to share this with the broader community was to make it so interested people can jump in and help out in the open. An…

Thanks, old friend! Hope you decide to give the package a peek and maybe lend us some of your Python chops. :)

Great question -- all of the hashes we included in the package have been public for years (except for PDQ, which was open-sourced this year). So this package doesn't reveal anythin…

Cool (re: writing a PHP version)! Generally speaking, hashes from different hash algorithms cannot be used with each other. By the way, would be glad to connect and chat, especiall…

Great question! PhotoDNA is the most well-known and supported hash function for this use case. And we do support hashing and matching with PhotoDNA in the Safer product. However, t…

To build a classifier, yes, you are correct. But this isn’t a classifier to identify new content that has never been seen. This uses perceptual hashes to help organizations detect …

Thanks for asking these important questions! * What are the challenges surrounding verification that your system functions properly, given that the test material is illicit? You're…