skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are all demonstrating you don't know how FR works, nor the article author. FR is a technology that helps to identify, it is not "the authority" and was never intended as such - but hard explaining that to any journalist, or people predisposed by fear journalism. When an FR system scans people and produces "false positives" - that is what you want. The system is tuned sensitive to generate false positives on purpose, so a human can then make the final determination. The point being, a human cannot look at thousands of faces and remain objective, but they can look at a dozen and tell if they have the person they are seeking. The FR system does the labor of throwing away the obvious non-matches, and shows the operator possible matches for final confirmation. That is their design. FR systems are not tuned the other way, because you are trying to help find someone, not be the authority on finding them. Such a system will never know their "false negatives" when dealing with the public - but comparing their ROC Curves ("false negatives", "false positives", "true negatives" and "true positives") is exactly how they are measured and compared when selecting which FR system is better. The key take away is: they are not intended to be an autonomous agent, they are used by a human to help scan more people than they can alone, and it is the human who makes the final identification.
Took a French course on a whim, and ended up learning moving to France for a month, getting myself to comfortably conversational in the space of 5 months in all. Had my first insightful conversation on Blockchain tech entirely in French!

note: French shares many long and technical words with English, thus more complicated topics are often easier to discuss.
> The FBI should not apply American rules on a global populatioj. .com and other top level extensions are not us country domain extensions they are global.

I'm pretty sure they went through ICANN, which would absolutely (and should) support taking down criminals and criminal services from the internet, that they control. There are international laws and treaties. I don't think you'll find too many countries who would agree that it's ok to sell DDoS services. There is no legitimate use for them. Are you suggesting that that position is strictly an American one? I tend to think it's a global one...
Credit card charge back, identify culprits, prosecute. Write off any actual monetary loss.
As someone who strongly believes that people should have the ability to communicate truly privately, I upvoted you because you're correct and people need to be honest about it.

The problem is that "content that stands to gain most from using [encryption]" also includes activists protesting authoritarian governments, or even government officials themselves who don't want to be spied on by their rivals, or victims of stalkers and domestic violence.
Yeah in the context of multi line functions the overhead is

A new line
A tab
A return

This does not sound heavyweight to me (in that context). In the context of a single line function I see the utility of lambdas.
Gatwick airport: How countries counter the drone threat
In Defense of Twitter
Not OP, but I had great success with learning languages after reading Gabriel Wyner's "Fluent Forever". Don't pay attention to the way he advertises his new app, frankly it does a disservice to the quality of the book. I ended up thinking and gaining much more fluency in my chosen languages after reading his book and using his techniques.
of course you blame china. if your house gets broken into and then you still don't buy new locks or a security system and you house continues to get violated... sure you're not very smart but it's still the criminals commiting the crime.

And that wasn't even the comparable situation. From the article it looks like IBM was continually responding to an evolving attack and very deep and extensive penetration.

Maybe, possible, at worst, IBM was arguably negligent here but it's still Chinas fault the situation occured.
With human shoppers, it should be a relatively fixed percentage of the time spent shopping, right? Why doesn't that scale?

On the other hand if you go high-automation you'll have more accurate inventory and the situation should improve.
World Time Buddy – Time Converter and World Clock
Ask HN: Mental Health Professionals/Performance Coaches in Bay Area
Hello,
Reaching out here because I'm sure other folks have had this problem as well. I'm a Senior engineer at a fast growing Bay Area startup, that I've worked at since the company was founded.

I'm looking for a Mental Health professional/Performance Coach to help me navigate the ins and outs of my personal life, figure out ways to cope with the stress of building this company, and help me develop the skills that I need to level up as both a leader and engineer.

There are tons of websites that have listings of therapists and other mental health professionals, but I've seen many therapists over the last few years and haven't been able to find what I'm really looking for.

What I'm looking for:

1. Someone who can empathize with a founder mentality.

2. Someone who can help develop leadership skills in a person who has generally been introverted.

3. Someone who can help develop skills that lead to better work/life balance.

4. Someone who has spent time working with engineers and tech professionals, and deeply understands the pressure that comes with building a tech startup.

5. Someone who may have worked or can empathize with the additional pressure that comes with being an immigrant or the child of immigrant parents.

Curious to hear from you all.

Thank you
Been wondering this all afternoon as I've been curious how one could track down the operator, then I realized it didn't need one. :/

It is (at least it was this morning) being billed as being an "industrial specification" drone, which implied that made it more difficult somehow.

Would love to hear others opinions on the options.

Amazing its going to remain closed going into Friday.
Lowering the effort bar for making Mac apps doesn't mean that every developer is going to do the bare minimum, but it does mean that more developers will find it economical to build natively. The point you're arguing is not good apps vs. mediocre apps, it's mediocre apps vs. no app at all.

Frankly, there are many cross platform services I use where I would prefer a straight Marzipan port from the iPad app over the electron psuedoapp approach that's so pervasive these days.
The pilot project of one APAC director doesn't represent the entire company. Per an exgoogler on the project, Scott Beaumont tried to bypass the company's privacy and security review process, and the employees revolted.

The focus on Google's dragonfly is strange because it never came to fruition, yet other major tech companies like Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon are already operating in China and currently giving similar concessions to the Chinese government.
It is perfectly fine to fly without GPS, it isn't part of the control loop. You can navigate with a compass and a clock, it just has increasing errors. Many systems for resetting drift using SLAM techniques, or star observation at night in country areas.
> "The world's scientists" are in fact a small cadre of self-described climatologists whose academic careers depend on this being a real issue.

Really? I think a lot of countries have scientific agencies whose job it is to as accurately as possible monitor and predict the climate because those countries economies (eg especially important for planning in agricultural economies) depend on it. If they had scientists that could show it was a non issue, those governments would be all over that. And after all those scientists would still need to be employed predicting the natural climate cycles anyway.

The world would fall at the feet of scientists that could scientifically refute this. That would be the hugest money making opportunity for any climate scientist, and instant fame. To contend that whatever secret international cabal in favour of promoting climate change can outcompete the fossil fuel industry for resources is frankly nutty. If these academics are as corruptible as you seem to claim, why would they choose the low reward side of the debate?

You seem to be trying to inject some false "balance" to this.
Other huge reason is poor data. Prime now has a ton of stuff you can get from the stores but a lot are either mis categorized, missing pictures, missing nutritional info, size of package not listed, etc. One good example was a frozen pizza I assumed was full size. Everything seemed to indicate as much including the price. When it was delivered it was a tiny personal pizza. Another case was hamburger patties. Wasn't clear how many or what the weight was.

If they want me to shop online they need to make sure all of the information from the package is listed on the page.
Sadly, the article is paywalled. Do you have a short summary?
Impugning the broad base of climate science by comparing it to some garbage results from dietary research is unfair.
> The next time anyone tries to sell me on the notion that the public sector can't do anything as well as the private sector

The Soviets sent the first rocket to space in 1961. Twenty-one years later the first private space company launched its rocket using repurposed government technology.

There is no doubt that governments can do things. They are, after all, just groups of people; the same as private enterprises.

But while the Soviets were launching rockets, their citizens waited hours in line for their day's rations.

"The accepted norm is that the Soviet woman daily spends two hours in line, seven days a week, daily going through double the gauntlet that the American housewife undergoes at her supermarket once, maybe twice a week." Hedrick Smith.

When you marshal the entirety of society towards a goal you can accomplish great things. But always at a cost.

When a private business makes a terrible app, I can sleep soundly at night knowing I never gave anything up for that app's creation. If I see a beautiful, well-constructed, publicly funded app, I might be pleased at the attention to detail and admire the construction of the thing. But I have to wonder, what did I give up in return? How many people with broken arms waited in an over-burdened system for the prestige of a beautiful website?

The problem isn't that the government can or can not. Its the choice to do or do not. Its the opportunity cost to the society that poisons the government's action.
I used to use voice commands extensively when I used Android. But in 2015 I got an iPhone and Siri is so much worse (both recognition accuracy and available functionality) that I stopped bothering. It’s a shame.
> Yes. Sitting for hours at the Amtrak station waiting for a delayed train to arrive.

That really depends on where you are. You could do a lot worse than waiting for a train in Chicago [1] [2]. Amtrak sold development rights to a parking structure across the street from Union Station and got a boatload of money, which they are spending on upgrades and restoration, including a 400-room luxury hotel on the roof of Union Station that will give them a nice continuous revenue stream to continue developing rail projects.

[1] https://chicago.curbed.com/2016/6/24/12024162/chicago-transp...
[2] https://chicago.curbed.com/2016/11/28/13764122/chicago-archi...
PewDiePie’s Battle for the Soul of the Internet
Frankly, it's going to be very hard to avoid disparate impact with a blind skills assessment. I'm not sure whether that's a legal issue in your situation.
As far as I understand it, this is a temporary injunction. These are granted by weighing the damage that would be done to the plaintiff without it against the damage that would be done to the defendant if it were wrongly granted for the duration of the actual proceedings.
> Which providers are there?

In the "high spatial resolution" - i.e. 50 cm per pixel or less the well-known providers everyone is using are Digital Globe, Airbus or Nearmap. Above 50 cm it starts to get hard to confidently see enough detail.

Google maps terms of service actually prohibits using satellite imagery for feature extraction ( https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms/ ).

Bing is the best on the cheap end. Actually, Bing donated imagery for OSM mapping purposes ( https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bing_Maps#Bing_Aerial_Im... ).
It wouldn't have to be perfectly covert. Also it wouldn't have to be purposeful, spooky collusion between private and public sector from the start. That's an unfair assumption and a bit of a straw-man. What's going to happen is Amazon and others will develop methods to collect ambient data at all times and sift through it efficiently for marketing info--come on, you know for a fact that they are doing that--and eventually there will be another fucking patriot act, some awful legislation that is blatantly unconstitutional but nobody cares and brows are furrowed and think-pieces are typed up but the law goes through regardless--the feds will eventually subpoena the massive cache of data Amazon owns, they'll make a bit of a show of resisting for PR's sake, but eventually law enforcement will get it. And maybe they'll use it to solve a legit case, they probably really will. But forever after that tool will be in the hands of whatever regime or agenda reaches office. It's not ridiculous and people shouldn't dismiss it so easily.

Infosec conspiracy theories are different from normal conspiracy theories because while normal ones are pretty much always bullshit, infosec paranoia is always proven sensible on a long enough timeline. Yes, there will be an incident sometime soon where law enforcement builds a case through evidence gathered with a virtual assistant using AI or something to sift through all that audio. The constitutionality of this evidence-gathering will be superficially questioned but it'll end up getting admitted anyways, or used sneakily via parallel construction techniques. Assuming it hasn't already happened.

They've already done it with phones. Providers and manufacturers used to resist, but after lots of murky "national security" legislation they can't really refuse anymore. Ever read about how the stingray was first discovered, and that law enforcement was sneakily using it extra-legally to build cases? Now it's pretty common knowledge that your phone can be tricked by a fake cell tower and there's nothing you can really do. But does anyone give a single shit? Nah. It's normalized. Every successive technology that is developed and added to the panopticon toolkit will make us more and more accustomed to it. There's been enough overreaches and abuses of technology already that you shouldn't have this blase attitude about it. But that's not how people really work.
Yes it's been done for a long time and it's trivial to do so. It's a standard course project in many computer security courses.
Instacart does this as well, and I can specifically order from a liquor store, at least in Chicago. Just have to show ID at delivery time.
There's already p2p messaging apps that do that without any blockchain nonsense. The blockchain would leave a permanent trace to which pseudonym posted what forever.
I don’t get why you were downvoted. Life time banning new phone numbers is a real concern considering how often they are recycled. I mean WhatsApp isn’t doing that (as far as i know) but some services do that or even do a step further and ban your whole account if you add a banned phone number.

For instance, steams anti-cheating service will lifetime ban you and your phone number if you ever get chaught cheating in any game that uses steam anti cheating services. And apparently you will also get banned if you update your account to a previously banned number. That sucks for normal users who get a new phone number but doesn’t do much against determined cheaters who just purchase a new SIM card if they get caught (and they won’t use their real steam account as well).

Steam is not the only service that heavily relies on phone numbers not changing and I find it very troubling how little is reported about that (which might become a real concern later).

I believe the only reason WhatsApp doesn’t do that is because
90% of all people aged 16 to 69 use it at least a few times a week in many of their markets and a recycled phone number will very likely be given to a new, innocent user (unlike smaller sites such as steam where giving a cheaters number to another person who also uses steam is quite slim).
I'm 56. You're not the oldest one here.
Following the instructions of pasting the snippet into `~/.kube/config` I get the following error:

kubectl cluster-info dump
The connection to the server [IP address] was refused - did you specify the right host or port?
To clarify - I imagine it's more subtle than a constant slope. I imagine the value per user stays steady for a while then the starts dropping quickly.
Yes, thats exactly what they claimed they were for, stress testing your own site.
Someone at Apple may be reading this thread, because it returned the answer normally for me.
Slack shutting down user accounts with links to Iran
It has 7 microphones and its only purpose is to record you, then respond to your request. That's literally the only thing the device is made to do.
I take it you don't shop for perishables, much?

If you're going to a butcher, you should expect 4 star meat since you're paying 4 star prices. A butcher that sells questionable product probably won't be around for too long.

Whereas the chicken breast on special at the local Whole Foods may look fine but have a dodgy smell indicating that it's not as fresh as it may seem. Your nose will let you know if there's a lot of e. coli growing on that chicken.[0]

And no, everything on the shelf is not uniform. Watch how people buy fresh produce. Blemished produce gets put back.

[0]http://www.greatlakesbiotech.org/news/2017/6/4/the-smell-of-...
> Can I watch you shower and use the bathroom?

This approaches one thing I always wonder when this comes up: Are people with that argument really okay with their co-workers finding out what porn they watch and when they watch it?

It's perhaps a little extreme, but I can totally see it becoming a possibility due to large leaks like this.
I’d say try Hired and Triplebyte as a baseline to get some deal flow going

A good remote culture is something you should look for. Remote-first if you can find it.

For example, where I work (Abstract) we are based in SF but 70% of employees are remote and we do not change the pay scale based on geography. The center of gravity is remote and not at HQ
The article mentions how Myspace wasn't able to monetize its users as well as data-driven Facebook does. I wonder if 2006's Myspace could have survived if given more mature toolchains for users' pages to not look as though they were made by a teenager. Or Facebook made an early decision that having less customization is better for growing a userbase such that people will use a service with posts in a format they can be more familiar with across all pages.
Unfortunately the code powering OpenPilot is not very reliable. As the OP alluded to it's time-sensitive code written in (very hard to understand) Python.
Very true. Not everyone's cup-of-tea though.
I don’t get anything, just activates Siri normally.
If you're using Kubernetes, you should check out Ambassador. Declarative syntax, no database (persists to etcd), very high performance, built on Envoy Proxy.
I completely disagree, as long as you aren't selling the original content people are free to make their own versions. This happens constantly with music and other media. Some of the most popular songs are covers of others work and not a cent of royalties is paid.

For example the Simpsons has copied scene by scene dozens of famous movies and made billions doing so.

Backpack kid didn't even "create" the dance, it's just a cheap litigious money grab.
I believe I read that Robespierre seemed to have suffered a nervous breakdown, after which the reign of terror really commenced.
Nice explanation of quotient types. How do they get used in 'application' programming though?
It seems pretty obvious that personal computers (not workstations) are going the way of the typewriter right now. Most people just don't need a computer when they have a smartphone.

The PC can be dated back 1975. But even in 2000, only 51% of US households had a personal computer. Not even 20 years later, it sure looks like the PC is going the way of the calculator and typewriter.

The first modern smartphone can be dated back to 1996, but it wasn't until 2013 that 50% of US adults had one.

Two year later, in late 2015, mobile web traffic had already overtaken desktop.

By 2033, I would be surprised if we don't have something challenging the smartphone. And the technology is probably around already.

These technologies seem to have about a 40-50 year life cycle. The first half of the life-cycle is the stage it takes to get to 50% saturation. Then the next third of the stage they dominate. The final third of the stage, they phase out to a niche market.

Sure, the smartphone is the bees knees today. But, really, is it? You've got to carry it with you everywhere you go. What if you just had a contact you kept over your eye at all times? What if you just had something you kept tucked behind your ear at all times?

How often do you REALLY need that screen? Remember, when the iPhone came out -- most people were thinking -- who's going to buy a smartphone without a freaking keyboard? Within literally 2 years, Blackberry's stock had dropped like 70%. Within 5 years, it was on the brink of bankruptcy.

And before that, when the first Palm came out in 1996 -- how many people do you think REALLY envisioned the smartphones we have today dominating web traffic and starting to encroach on the work station?
Mathematics in the 20th Century (2002) [pdf]
While it doesn't seem entirely unreasonable, I can't help but feel it's the state we're at. A platform having to trawl the web to find links to its own service, infiltrate itself, verify the contents, then shut it down... I suspect a marginally easier way might be to maintain a list of referrer URLs/joining IPs (or start collecting them) and check them against a list of domains/IPs of sites known for sharing CP.

I'm also not sure to what extent the onus should be on WhatsApp to try and remove this stuff, in the same way that I'm not sure to what extent the onus is on Google to trawl through Gmail inboxes it finds through crawling child porn sharing sites - the latter idea seems ridiculous to me, but maybe it's just because of the scale of the platform or the issue, but with a lack of hard data made available as to the extent of WhatsApp being used for CP, I think it's better to remain skeptical.

But I will add this: if (and it's a very big "if") it is determined that it is right (in whatever sense we can use the word) to stop people using the platform in this way, I would never consider "but it costs money to do that" to be a reason against doing it in most cases. Justice doesn't stop because it's expensive.
I loved CS. I had a tool that generated personal data for their trial accounts for most of my pre-flatrate dial-up internet time.
20 years ago you spoke directly into a microphone and could only use an extremely limited set of supported languages and locales/accents.

You're also missing the point. I don't think anyone has ever claimed that speech recognition can only be done on supercomputers. Your laptop can surely run one of these models (though it would take a long time to train one). But there's a reason why an Echo Dot cost $20 and not $1000.
Ordered several times from Amazon Fresh. The delivery failure rate and prices are high, the selection is terrible, and the quality of the food is shaky at best.

I had a delivery person call me and need street by street instructions on how to reach my place. I spent 20 minutes guiding them in the little bit of Spanish I remember from high school.
Haha I also thought this was referring to the most delicious ingredient known to man