skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an absurd misunderstanding of FR and biometric security. I am a lead developer of a leading FR system, and whomever is designing this deployment does not know what they are doing. First off, for public access, FR is not secure because it does not prevent someone being forced through FR security, and in some opinions will encourage such coercion. Extra measures are required for piggy-back access behind the FR enabled entry, and at that point you may as well have a minimum wage human security guard. FR for doorway access makes sense inside a secured space, but not for access to the secured space. The secured space needs to be completely enclosed, and have 3 passive biometrics collected or something such as a key or a human guard to access to the secured space for the creation of a secured space ready for FR within that space. Are they even at that level of security yet?
Hey guys, I'm the author of this project. Surprising to see it on HN but life is surprising sometimes!

I actually made a little demo video about this system just yesterday if you'd like to see it running: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE52D-zbX3g
That would certainly make sense. A huge benefit would be it would make it a lot easier for the cars to co-ordinate which lanes they should be in to maximise road throughput.
Considering how benefits are usually financed by employers I doubt that you will ever be able to get this. It's not as simple as "oh we won't need to pay $10k for your BCBS? Well, sure, let's give it to you".

Employers usually pay insurance ("stop loss") instead of health plans.
iwantmyname says they've had ~20 employees. You can't compare a company like that to Google, Uber, Tesla, etc, who've got multiple orders of magnitude more employees.
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Very awesome. Love that it’s a new take on a modern OS - including a GUI. I didn’t think I’d see even an entrant into that sphere from a non-corporate entity again.
> Which type of driver do you choose?

Being able to explain the mistake (eating, texting) vs. (???) makes things qualitatively different.

I think any reasonable level of risk for the computers can be acceptable, if glitches are explainable, able to be recreated and provably remediable.
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Well, it's not like a support vector machine that just separates two point clouds by a hyperplane is that much more advanced than an algorithm that draws a line that best matches a point cloud.
That's a massive stretch. Has this ever made court?

I believe a court would find it was the owner's responsibility to wipe it, not Tesla's. Tesla didn't put it there.

Sounds like you theory crafting rather than an actual law.
I don't understand why such uncontacted tribes live outside of national and international laws. If you murder someone, whether from another tribe, or a non-native person, you should be arrested and tried for murder.

Why do they get an exception? Serious question -- it seems ethically dubious to me to both refuse to hold them to legal standards, thereby treating them as having the moral awareness of chimpanzees.
That hero picture at the top isn’t the Matrix code...it isn’t even kanji...in fact it’s full of “missing character” boxes. Not impressed, Wired. :)
What does it mean to be “better than human drivers?” One of the features of humans is that while they make mistakes, those mistakes tend to be pretty randomly distributed. In any given unusual scenario, most people will be fine most of the time. Sometimes we get tired and veer into the incoming lane, but you could get rid of the lane markings entirely and almost everyone would still be able to figure out what to do. A self driving car might never get tired and veer into oncoming traffic on a well marked highway on a sunny day. But we don’t know what phenomena will emerge if a particular stretch of weirdly painted lines causes every vehicle to veer into oncoming traffic during rush hour.

“Better than human drivers” is not an analytically useful criterion. The question is, can you handle all the corner cases human drivers manage to handle every day?
Bootcamps vs. College (2016)
Do you accept a lower salary if you opt to work four days a week?
It goes on the same list as the person who made their own video game console on breadboards: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19393279

These are the most inspiring HN posts. They’re not marketable startup ideas, but the “lone hacker” working on something huge that I wouldn’t even consider, and then getting it to work, is very impressive.
The article states the government tries exactly to prevent this from happening since the isolated tribe is about to have contact with a non-isolate tribe:

> Anthropologists now fear that, as well as the prospect of both tribes launching deadly attacks on each other, the potential of contact between the Matis and the other, as yet still isolated Korubo tribe, as well as the desire expressed by the breakaway tribe to reestablish contact with their relatives, could lead to a breakout of disease which could bring the ancient tribe to extinction.
20 employees is down in the range where noise dominates. I’m not sure exactly how many employees are required for statistical significance, but it has to be in the hundreds.
Right, and in a language where you are predominantly using strings, arrays, maps, unless you can remove and optimise through these data structures you spend your whole time allocating them, collecting them, doing lookup in them and you won't have any opportunity to apply other optimisations. You need to be able to understand these data structures at the level of an IR - DynASM or LLVM aren't going to remove a call to a lookup routine for you.
Really not true at all, it's a matter of contract negotiations and deal sizes.
It's more like people are cooking spam when they get the emails.
I understand that many people will view it that way, but there is another way to view it.

Every single time I get in a vehicle, the people coming towards me might be talking on their phone, drunk or whatever. There is a very real chance I will be injured or killed on a daily basis even if I drive perfectly, and nothing beyond my abilities happens.

In the same way that seat belts and airbags and automatic braking improved safety, imperfect self-driving cars will improve overall safety.

The important thing to note is that seat belts, airbags and automatic braking a far from perfect, and thousands of people a year still die even though they are using them. People still use them, because it is safer than the alternative - which imperfect self driving cars will be too.
FTA: "I would pay money to see someone convert HDMI to USB-C to USB-A to PS/2 to RS-232 to current loop and then plug it into a teletype, just to see what happens."

Probably a lot of garbage characters, if anything.
The issue isn't the language which is great. The issue is with the development hell sapping resources from the community
Yeah, you'd need a proxy server (websockets) to establish WebRTC connections. Even after a WebRTC connection is established, you'd need a STUN or a TURN (coturn supports both) server to get around NATs. Pls somebody correct me if I'm wrong!
Really? You have "no position" on this conspiracy theory? You think it's possible that it might actually be true that everyone has been "incorporated" via the Social Security Act?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modus_operandi
In Pursuit of Enjoyable Developer Collaboration
No tech that requires a special type of road will ever get successful, whether it's aids for autonomous driving aids, electric roads for on the go charging, or similar. The world already have countless of kilometers of roads, and all you need to drive a regular car is a relatively hard and flat piece of dirt. The cost and time required would be immense, and there will always be a need to use cars outside any built up road network.

Sure, for commuting in large cities anything is possible, but then cars still need to be able to do both old an new navigation.
Almost all companies who claim to use AI lie.

Do nothing.
A lot of the smaller shops just ignore the ban, though. It's still helped quite a bit, but it hasn't been complete.
The dynamics of this situation are weird. Leave them uncontacted for however long out of principle, monitor them from above, commit to preserving their culture, but then intervene and try to manufacture a truce between tribes (thereby interfering with their culture) because we want to keep them around.

"Hey guys, uh, you know, we were pretty happy to just let you do whatever, but we've been watching you for a while and you've started taking risks. We're not real fond of risks. Would you prefer not taking risks for us please? It would make us feel much better about letting you do whatever you like if you didn't take any risks."
I'm fine with paywalled content overall. I'm not fine with paywalled content on the front page of hn, because it reduces hn utility: I can't see the content.
The paper bags I get from whole foods with the glued on handles routinely break before I even get to my car.

I don't think I've ever had a disposable plastic bag handle break on me, and I used to walk about a mile to get groceries for a number of years.
Modus operandi - someone's habits of working, particularly in the context of business or criminal investigations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modus_operandi
How Banksy Authenticates His Work
I've heard physicist Michio Kaku say something similar, that western thought historically has rewarded the mavericks but that eastern thought has tended towards a "the tallest blade of grass is cut down first" mentality. I think it was him who said that had Bill Gates been born in China, his peers would have made his success very unlikely.
Interesting, but honestly don't think this is going to be a viable model for education, especially for CS education. The setup looks too cumbersome (and probably unreliable) as of today. And worse, there are just too many hidden parts which are sometimes faulty. This is bad because it creates a leaky abstraction; when the users see some abstraction (e.g. face recognition) reliable but others not, they'll have to work around the system and make up some ad-hoc solution. This might be useful for teaching social sciences (with manipulatable graphs, etc) but I'm afraid that this just confuses students more in certain subjects.
That terrible routine is repeated many places in the world. Here in Thailand students do a full day at low quality public school and then a few more hours of tutoring. What is particular foul is that many public school teachers are very corrupt. They withold important teaching at school and then tell students they need to go to their paid tutoring center in order to do well on the tests. It is pretty awful.
You can avoid that issue by using clamp mode when compiling: https://emscripten.org/docs/compiling/WebAssembly.html#trap-...
So what's the difference between ketchup and catsup?
In a pinch you can also use a can of compressed air (not actually air) held upside down.
> the average software developer in Wellington NZ makes NZ$64k. We pay more than that, but when you become a remote company, people start looking for the $134k USD

These are two different scales, so for help I will normalize them:

$64,000 NZD = $43,641.60 USD

$134,000 USD = $134,000 USD
Which is, I believe, exactly what FreeBSD does.
> It seems kind of short-sighted to me to say that the people who are trying to build those aren't doing "real science." I don't understand the theory there... that they haven't figured it all out yet, so it's not worth doing?

It's not about heuristics. It's about experimental validation. Both physicists and chemists take great pain in actually rigorously confronting their theories to reality. Biologists try. Most economists don't.

It doesn't mean there is no value in economic models and theories. It does however mean it's not a science.
How do you tell the difference between passive soft power and active influence campaigns? Consider e.g. the handwringing about Russian troll farms.
Oops, I forgot that comment in there huh!

I keep postponing writing a better malloc because every time I run into trouble with this thing, I spend 5 minutes optimizing away whatever the current problem is and buy myself another month of not having to write a better malloc. Someday though.
Nevertheless, here are the email headers, in case anybody can spot something that Google didn't:

https://github.com/nh2/gmail-spamfilters-paypal-security-mes...
I mean, the term bikeshedding was created to describe a specific phenomena where people in an organization tend to put disproportionate consideration into trivial design issues. Particularly, as an example, the color of a bikeshed.

Here someone is just pointing out a semantically incorrect or misleading statement. And we can say that's nitpicky, to a degree. It lacks some of the other nuance of the term 'bikeshedding,' though. If anything that was nitpicking also was bikeshedding, then what's the point of inventing such a term?

And yes, I'm being nitpicky about the term bikeshedding, and proud of it :p

(P.S.: As far as comparing the word nitpicking to bikeshedding, I think nitpicking already implies disproportionate attention to small details; hence the 'nit' part of it.)
what board/generals?
You do not have a general right. Obviously, 3rd-party penetration tests exist, and obviously there are a variety of things you can do short of actual testing to "check" security.
This would seem at first glance to be evidence against entropic gravity?
To play devil's advocate a bit: If most of the plastic bags in NYC were coming from New Jersey, that wouldn't be a reason to allow them in New York. It would just emphasize that they should be restricted in as many jurisdictions as possible.
I have moved in 2012. Happened after getting arrested without charges twice during peaceful protests.

The elections in 2011-2012 were undoubtedly faked to a major degree. But these years most people in Russia praise Khuylo for the victory in fratricidal war with Ukraine.
yeah although people want to know "how much do people make" or "how much are people paid"

they - and the sources they find on google - quickly conflate income, salary, compensation while also having wrong and old aggregated information for all of it

this works for most people's fields, doesn't work for tech.
Ah, cruel, you are so cruel, how could you be so cruel; the OP was hoping for something so much better than just some interpolation!!!

Cruel or not, at least in practice, you are on solid ground.
For me it was good for a long time, but for the last year or so it's letting more spam through and also putting some legit emails in Spam.
It sounds like you're talking about collecting from delinquent tenants. They can be hard to track down and rarely have the money.

I'm talking about a subtenant retaliating against a prime tenant who kicked them out. Getting the prime tenant evicted is easy. On average, they're easier to find and collect from. Suing to take over the lease is hard, but collecting from the landlord is easy.
It's not about the storage of the value, it's the fact that PG will potentially change the value you provide compared to what's stored when using 'timestamptz'. If you use UTC and send it as UTC and request it as UTC then everything is fine but there are plenty of edge cases when using ORMs, handwritten SQL, different server timezones, or type conversions that can lead to issues on the way in and out of the database.

Having the database store anything other than what you provide is always a source of bugs.
Russian, China, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, UAE, NSA, 5 eyes spring to mind.
Because they can't be under anyone's jurisdiction if they haven't been contacted? It would be like aliens arresting us for breaking galactic laws when we didn't even know there were aliens.

If you're asking why they've never been contacted: we know that doing so would be irreversible, and anything we could learn from observing them would be tainted with our own culture as it inevitably seeps through.

Even if this wasn't the case, morality is not universal and we have no basis on which to judge them.
> What does it mean to be “better than human drivers?”

It's extremely simple, and the same criteria they use to determine if driving is safer with many safety devices (ie. airbags or seat belts) than without them.

Injuries or deaths per x miles or x hours driven.

It's very important to note that in some cases airbags and seat belts actually result in more severe injuries or deaths than without them, but overall they are better because they reduce the fatalities per x miles driven.

Just because airbags sometimes kill people, it doesn't mean I'm going to choose a car that doesn't have them. Overall, I'm better off to have them.
>as obviously it fits far more poorly (ie doesn't) with the legal-historical position here

A country with a thousand years of accumulated legal rulings seems like fertile soil for conspiracy theories. Superseded common law is the framework for many sovereign citizen's arguments in the US.

>Oh yeah, and we get Trump supporters.

We also weirdly get Brexit supporters.
That's too bad. Needs more HolyC! (Rust would also do, in a pinch.)
I think GP was referring to petty vandalism rather than hyperbolic debate, i.e. the tendency of unwatched drying concrete to attract drawings of cartoon penises and bendy swastikas.

There really should be a name for the phenomenon if there isn't already.
Email pipeline to train GPT-2
Weird that someone there doesnt throw u a $100K acquisition bonus just for good karma...

If u think u would enjoy gradually building a B2C product drop me a line. Maybe i can hook on u on a better story...

B2C, paid product, well differentiated, plenty of demand.

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New Zealand's Response to the Christchurch Attack
I don't think that particular reasoning works - perhaps New Yorkers (hypothetically) behave very nicely and properly dispose of plastic bags, so there is no need for ban.
While I’m somewhat sympathetic to your point in general about loyalty, I think you’ve missed the point by a lot. This is more than “feel good words”, this is a concrete set of actions about compensation that affects how much money gets paid to whom. In the world of business it doesn’t get much further from “feel good words” than that.

I would also advise caution about loyalty for equity. Bery few startup employees are paid enough on exit event—if it ever happens—to compensate for the time, stress, and loss of wages that they incurred over a non-startup job. Most people would be statistically better off not working for equity, and just accepting cash.
Your observations are of course accurate: many parts of the system are indeed quite bare-bones. I've been trying to bring up a huge number of subsystems in parallel by building enough of the scaffolding and infrastructure in each area for a larger system to grow around.

Now for the rest of my life, I will always have something to hack on. :)
Probably right, but you could say: I was taught by the brightest students at Harward. Brendan Eichnan was my teacher! Zuckerberg too. In fact I gave him the original inspiration for Facebook :-)
Elon Musk also keeps fear mongering about AI (which is what made him invest in OpenAI). His success made him overconfident about, thinking he knows more about a field than the experts.
Also Musk seems quite confident https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8dEYm8hzLo&t=9m00s
They probably needed the data collected by the current hardware in order to consider developing the next generation. Then they needed the hardware in order to develop the software. The only way to get the data is from a real fleet running hardware and software you control.
I’m rent controlled, from about 7 years ago, and am at about 60% of market for my neighborhood. However, I’m handy and have been pretty good about fixing/improving the house on the cheap for him.

Still, my own landlord aside, the enforceability of contracts that require intimate knowledge of my day to day life seem to rely on surveillance or over reporting.
I would not be where I am without my involvement in OSS or other projects, mostly due to the gained experience. The "trick" about putting it on your resume is, if it's significant, to make it not sound or placed any less worthy than any other experience on there (possibly also avoiding terms like "free", "personal", etc)
Yeah there is MoltenGL which will probably be open sourced eventually. The real future is Vulkan which is moving to replace OpenGL and for the Apple platforms there is MoltenVK [0] (Vulkan re-implemented on top of Apple's new Metal) which is open source. Magnum has an initial Vulkan backend [1], and many other engines have them or are building them as well.

0 - https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK

1 - https://blog.magnum.graphics/announcements/2018.10/
While I generally agree with the op's sentiment (if your goal is to gain financial independence, a high income and saving+investing will get you to that goal with less risk than starting a company), it's not really certain we'll be seeing 15% or even 5% annual returns on S&P 500 for much longer.

The short term (10 years to retirement) plans are not going to work if there is another global recession, especially if it's a prolonged one. And this time around there isn't much firepower left for financial manoeuvring (QE+lower interest rates)
Since Uber drivers are independent contractors you need to account for the extra ~7.6% Social Security and Medicare tax they will have to pay when comparing it on a $/hr basis to w-2 jobs.

If they are also paying Uber drivers for their time in addition to their per mile vehicle costs then having a per mile cost in line with the cost to operate the vehicle is fine but when I looked into it ~5 years ago they charged the rider per mile driven and per minute of standing and then gave the driver a cut of that.
> thereby treating them as having the moral awareness of chimpanzees

Is one of your premises that morality is something that has an objective scale and ours is better developed than theirs?

Non-agrarian societies around the world tend to have cultures/religions more similar to each other than to ours, in part because it's more advantageous to how they live their lives.

As an example: a lot of hunter-gatherer cultures have a way of committing what we'd consider infanticide. Agrarian cultures would tend to frown on that since "all humans have a soul", but the reality of moving around with limited food means that you have to find some way of controlling population.

Another example: the way we treat livestock might be appalling to hunter-gatherers since "animals have souls too". But farmers need to raise and slaughter herd animals to survive.

> uncontacted tribes live outside of national and international laws

Also consider that maybe they have their own laws that you and I are in violation of, who's laws should we follow?
You don't have to believe it. I believe the post because I have experienced this similar behavior with two clients that were involved with yelp. And both times yelp tried to use scare tactics to get me to purchase their services on behalf of my clients. I won't go into detail. But this is more than some anti-yelp cult like some people from yelp would love for you believe.
That would fit nicely with dark matter being perfectly ordinary stuff like chunks of rock that happens to be difficult to observe from afar.
That ... didn’t help.
Surveying peoples physical dimensions across a room seems to be a reliable evaluation method of height/weight.
I am very skeptical of that reported average.

The average salary in Wellington, is NZ$59,649.

Maybe get a new graduate for $50k.
The /g/ daily programming threads.
If you word it like that of course. But "many" users is totally handleable without becoming a cesspool, HN is a good example.
Why? The enemy still exists physically and can be attacked like any other target. Being distributed is precisely the reason why we need a strong Air Force with global air superiority so the enemy can't hide.