skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They aren’t violating your rights. At least not in an obvious way. The government’s use of your photo ID is not controllable with the non-existent privacy law the US has not enacted.

However your concern about building a face database is valid. Note that China somehow can do it with only your Wechat profile. Maybe they are better at ML than the US. They are already automatically fining jaywalkers by face ID. And I assume worse.
>How can human beings treat other vulnerable human beings in this fashion, in public, in full view of everybody?

Either the people are innately monsters (i.e. some groups of people can have innate differences from other groups) or the environment breeds monstrosity (i.e. monsters arise wherever policy creates a place like LA). The debate never seems to rise to acknowledging this essential contradiction.
Fearless only when their fearlessness supports their viewpoint. They wouldn’t dare look into issues that go against their bias. According to the Guardian, Brexit is 100% bad, when in fact, the issues surrounding Brexit are in shades of grey. It’s not particularly courageous to write articles with which you already support. Courage would be writing articles that challenge their widely held assumptions.
I don't see the problem with that, because it would require me to convince you to vote for Y although you want X.

And in addition, seeing as this is an anonymous (I'm assuming) vote, then I could lie to you and vote my way (to get more votes for Y), but then if everyone will do it, the colluding wouldn't work, so we need to be able to trust each other and work together, which is exactly what we in the end, for people to work together and not against each other.
There have been several cases where legal American Citizens have been put into deportation proceedings or formally deported. All it takes is for a border agent to choose not to believe the documents you’re handing over. There is no rule at the federal level that entitles noncitizens to trials. So a border agent declaring you a noncitizen without court oversight strips you of your constitutional rights. One US citizen was detained by ICE for 3 years, other reports exist of 1-year detentions. It all really depends on how poor you are and how backed up (by design) the system is.

Anyway, a citizen being turned away, shipped back, or put into deportation at the airport isn’t a far reach from any of this.
Most of Tumblr is not, and has never been, NSFW. The fact that the site permits such blogs to exist does not in any way mean that the vast majority of it could not easily support regular ads.

It shouldn't even be difficult for Tumblr to enforce a separation between the two—a hard requirement for any blog that hosts adult content to be marked as such, and blogs with adult content only get ads from advertisers who have explicitly indicated that they're OK with that.

Now, granted, it may still not be a multi-billion-dollar enterprise. I don't know much about the economics of ad impressions. But that doesn't mean it can't be profitable.
Anyone know which of these are true for Redshift as well?
Better approach would be using warnings.
How is that inconsistent? Both things are heavy-handed.
I do use LibreOffice. There seems to be some way of using SQL to access Base data, but I still didn't explore that.
people are downvoting you because that's one the saltiest opinions I've ever seen on hn. the guy is a narcissist because he writes a blog and other people post it? how does make that sense in your head? or do you think that the people that post links to his blog are shills? not to mention his pedagogy is excellent - these blog posts (which are not his primers) are meant to be introductory and cursory.
Don't kid yourself. It's not "consumer demand" that's doing the harm, it's companies. Companies aren't interested in fixing this because fixing it is not profitable. But you can't blame that on the consumers.

The obvious solution is to make it less profitable not to address these problems but that means passing crippling regulations that will result in companies going under, markets shrinking, jobs being lost and products vanishing. In other words: political suicide.

And it doesn't even take consumers protesting about these things, it's enough if a few billionaires or megacorps use their political power to push back on these attempts of "regulatory overreach" or whatever riles up the conservative vote today.

Literally noone in a position necessary to do something against the climate crisis has any incentive to do anything meaningful to stop it.
> .. allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to connect to the affected system with the privileges of the root user.

> The vulnerability is due to the presence of a default SSH key pair that is present in all devices.

That's quite a bug -- I expected to see obscure exploit deep in the networking code which masterfully bypasses all code hardening, but found a default credentials instead. This is the kind of mistake that a random IoT company would do, I would not expect this from Cisco.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/27/manafort-hel...

https://theintercept.com/2019/01/02/five-weeks-after-the-gua...

I'd recommend you watch this[1] interview with the author of that article as well, for some context as to who he is.

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ikf1uZli4g
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Then why are wealthy people paying (and in many cases risking) so much to get their kids into elite schools? It's an important signalling complement to existing networks, and a way to extend them.
Good on you for being willing to say you made an error publicly.

(This isn't meant to mean anything sarcastic, I believe that the humility and cognizance to be able to do something as simply as to say 'whoops my bad let me fix that' publicly is increasingly rare and wish to praise it whenever it happens as a brave and ethical behavior.)
> People ... who support Orwellian government are unfortunately abundant pretty much everywhere and on both sides of the isle.

That may be true but these are his personal observations. He hadn't observed the other side with his own eyes - he can't comment on that, he's commenting on what he has observed.
A great deal of the porn is, as I understand it, not pirated, but original content. It is, after all, something a significant percentage of the population naturally possesses the resources to create.
Kinda odd they left potato, which in xbox context is always kids calling each other 'retard'. Is 'retard aim' ok?

See also, euphamism treadmill.
Birth control limits. We can be happy fat cats and solve global warming just by having fewer people.

Richness is resources per person. Resources on the planet are approximately fixed with occasional (large) increases from tech advances. The divisor, on the other hand, can be changed from 7 billion to 1 million. We would all be 7 thousand times richer. I would immediately own 5 abandoned Ferraris, and there would be hardly a need for any speed limits.

Here's hoping for WW3, mass infertility, etc.
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The New York Times?

Read about how the Spanish American War got started and what role the media played in it.

Read about Puerto Rico.

None of this is new. What is new is how far the media elite have tried to take it this time. They dropped all semblance of objectivity out of fear that Trump would become some kind of despot. Or was the real fear that unconscionable crimes would be exposed? What would the people do if they found out their elites enjoyed having sex with children, for example?
Google actually needs Firefox to be around the most; for the same reason, why Microsoft invested into Apple after their antitrust case.

There's no other explanation for Mozilla's attitude towards Linux than negligence; objectively, it is neglected. The degree of willfulness is up to the debate.
I guess time at the Recurse center is substituted for work here?
> ...to public pressure, doesn’t that demonstrate that these “market leaders” don’t actually get to decide what content they host?

This is a strange way to frame what businesses do every single day. If a business believes a certain product is unethical or that the product wont sell very well, they choose not to peddle that product. This is a determination just about every business deals with on a regular basis.
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This is not saying anything about anyone.
It's a school test for children.
Bullshitting (or rather guessing) is exactly what you should be doing in this situation so you can try to get some partial points for whatever you might have gotten right.

It's saying more about who is disillusioned about the education system and understands how to score well.
A much older example is the high cost of sending text messages basically eliminates text message spam.
I assumed it was in amino acid side chains, but it's not my area of expertise. I do know that sulfides are part of some amino acids.
Absolutely. But the level of selection bias on display here is extreme enough that it's almost easier to believe it was done deliberately, if naively. Which suggests the potential for a contest of sorts where participants would compete against each other for the most biased method of selecting research participants. It could be fun, in a cards-against-humanity sort of way.
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Thirding this. Much better to find out what your back can do in the gym and improve what your back can do, than to discover your limits by accidentally overloading yourself out in the world.
Netflix has long been open about the fact that their costs for content dwarf their IT costs, and encoding is a bursty CPU demand that perfectly fits cloud economics.

Note I'm not including their networking costs to get to the last mile, where they place a lot of their own boxes in ISP facilities pretty close to users, that would be about the same however they were doing core IT.
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I don't know that we'll go full-tilt computer generated. The truth is probably somewhere between, where some companies and brands retain humans as a more honest and authentic way to connect with consumers. Then you'll also see ML models that go far into the spectrum of being impossibly perfect and inhuman.

It's honestly exciting to imagine where we'll be in twenty years. I don't think we'll resent it - it's got fascinating artistic potential and will probably be quite liberating to finally realize that the things we strive for are artificially distilled.
> [1] https://github.com/flyingcircusio/vulnix

Similarly, ‘guix lint’ has a CVE “checker” that reports CVEs that affect a given package [0]. Since the Guix package name might differ from the “CPE name” (the naming scheme devised by NIST), Guix package definitions can include the CPE name to make sure ‘guix lint’ will look for the right thing. ‘guix lint’ is also able to determine whether a vulnerability is already patched in the Guix package definition.

There’s also work on a ‘guix health’ program in the pipe [1], which is again complicated by this whole CPE story (which Vulnix seems to ignore.)

Last but not least, Guix has “grafts”, a mechanism that allows for fast security update deployment, meaning that rebuilding the world is unnecessary when applying a security update on a package deep down in the dependency graph [2, 3].

[0] https://gnu.org/s/guix/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-lin...

[1] https://issues.guix.info/issue/31442

[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2016/timely-delivery-...

[3] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Securi...
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Can someone describe a practical case to use such a language?
I'm not. This article is a perfect example of how the overall climate change narrative is one of averages (9F temperature increase by 2100) but the impacts are "spiky" (localized in time and space, much greater magnitude than the popular narrative). People are really bad at rectifying these two concepts.

See also: structural racism/white privilege doesn't exist, because I have experienced bad things X, Y and Z.
Which part is different?

- Do illegal immigrants with families mostly have significant existing criminal records in the destination jurisdiction? The ones that do should of course be treated more harshly, but most do not.

- Do illegal immigrants with families mostly have outstanding warrants in the destination jurisdiction? The outstanding warrant should of course be honored in that case, but most do not.

- Or are we imprisoning people for sometimes over a year, placing their children in (at best) the care of strangers, purely as a mechanism to ensure that they show up to court? Could you imagine the outcry if we did that for speeding?
Consider that the overwhelming majority of startups don't make a positive exit/acquisition/IPO... but in a group as large as YCW19, some of them will. (That being the entire purpose of YC.)

Assume your prospective employees are economically rational. They have a couple of offers on the table, identical as to salary, benefits, and track record of existing founders. The only difference is that one is offering a tiny percentage of a lottery ticket that will pay out if they exit successfully, and the other is offering a tinier percentage of a lottery ticket that will pay out if any of their sister companies exits successfully. And there's little chance that you picked a unicorn, but a pretty good chance that somewhere in the cohort is a unicorn.

Being in that cohort becomes a hiring advantage if you get to share in their success.
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The domain is not displayed in the RSS feed (which, IMO, is a frustrating oversight).
This seems to be an extension of "people won't pay for local news now the classifieds have died", only that England itself is now too small for a profitable news constituency and the only money to be made is in telling Americans what terrible thing their government has done today.

The effect on Scottish press is even more acute; readerships are tiny.
This argument has been going on for a while Einstine said:

"der alte herr doesn't throw dice" or "The old man (God) doesn't throw dice"
His comment was in reference to Quantum Mechanics which is based on stochastic functions and make this deterministic approach invalid. This was one of the instances where Einstein was wrong.

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1301/1301.1656.pdf
So is this essentially an RTG powered by Americium instead of Strontium or Plutonium? Or is this pioneering a new method of operation compared to a traditional RTG?
I find it difficult be interested in these, primes are primes; bi-truncatable are base-10 specific. It feels more like numerology in the same way that we assign meaning to powers of 10 and the natural world does not.
The more people know about it, the more they are. Talk to academic ecologists. It's also very gradually dawning on the general population, but slow-motion catastrophes are hard to address with urgency given the many demands on peoples' attention. Add to the mix a firehose of lies and propaganda from the Murdoch media which has given many a false impression that climate collapse is scientifically controversial.

There are signs of panic amongst the very young. A widespread rebellion is the only thing that could move fast enough to save us at this point, and I can't see where that could come from other than our youth. The chances aren't good, but if there are signs of hope, that would be where to look.
I used to spend hours in Chapters / Indigo. Now half the floor space is devoted to overpriced crap, and I never go there.
> They have articles on privacy yet have lots of trackers themselves. They're really no better than what they preach, at least the last time I checked.

Isn't that a side-effect of having business and editorial separated? The individual journalists don't have any power to change the templates their CMS uses.
> With the landscape now, installing and launching software involves clicking on it in the app store and waiting a few seconds for the installer to finish.

Even when it really is that simple, any extra steps are going to increase drop-offs.

> I don't have to deal with individual passwords for each of my native apps, for instance.

Single sign-on solves this and you can create web apps that don't require initial sign up to use. Any desktop software that allows collaboration is likely to require a sign-up process as well so the desktop solution is always going to be more complex to set up.
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Rebel.
What does stigma mean in this context? I was not aware of this term being used in this context.
What publication would you recommend for someone on the opposite side of the political spectrum? The Times has a paywall and the Telegraph is only good for rugby.
I disagree, too many people associate the opinion pieces with the general tone of the rest of the newspaper. All opinion pieces are effectively clickbait (go take a look at the Times or Telegraph (if you dare)). Their general position is generally centrist, they are pretty much LibDems as a newspaper.
I cannot but disagree: there is no such a thing as time without a timezone. It is just an undefined time. The "local" timezone could be anything and could change any time. Not recording it is just data loss.

Java Instant is a timestamp in UTC, but it's all too easy to make mistakes in serialization as the timezone information is just not present. I have spent a few hours fixing exactly that yesterday in my day job.

The page you link says that with timezone makes sure to convert to and from UTC, which is just a transparent optimizing implementation detail. If you don't do timezone conversions at DB level, you have to make sure your applications do, which is a recipe for disaster.
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Sounds like they could do with an automated plagiarism detector, although that has its own gameability problems.
170M for what can essentially be done with https://github.com/tj/git-extras/blob/master/Commands.md?

Wow
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It's important to note that "with time zone" doesn't actually store the time zone, but converts to UTC.

If you actually need the original time zone preserved, you need to store it separately.
Because it's not for you to pick and choose which laws you wish to follow. If a firm starts in the third world, it also likely cannot handle the regulatory burden of gdpr.

For what it's worth, it would only have to be out side Europe. If a firm has no office in Europe, it would be difficult for Europe to enforce its laws. Extradition requires it be a crime in both countries.
I sense there's a business opportunity for "finding another person's data that looks very similar to you according to facial recognition models"...

If there is such a person, you could sign up with their name / birthdate and walk through the control points without having to show your ID (which you didn't bring "because you thought the face ID was sufficient").
Don't do that either, but -W will always ask for a password even when one is not required. Got a keylogger or someone watching over your shoulder, and they now have your password even if the server is not actually asking for it.
All that insecurity just to, potentially, save a roundtrip to the server.
legacy code and backwards compatibility are dumb excuses to not cleanup the codebase and make bad practices like those listed impossible.

there's always deprecation notices, deprecation flags and "not giving a shit that somebody's 20 year old codebase breaks on today's version of $project".
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So, does this mean there is no longer a good reason for fixed-width text fields in any databases? Why not?

Surely if it's variable-width, that means you can't guarantee it will be on the same page? And therefore there's a performance cost?
> I'm just guessing, but based on experiences with my family and the people they know in Texas, the people who most support this kind of behavior are also the people who see little reason to travel outside the US.

I've observed the same from people living in New York City. They see absolutely no reason to ever leave the country, don't have passports, etc.
> A few iterations of cost cutting without much regard for safety (why is that skin so thick? Why do we buy premium quality materials?) will easily give you such a device.

It's not a complex profit making product, it's a single piece of rubber, it's not gona suffer from washing-machine syndrome (hot water bottles predate them by centuries).

The modern rubber design was patented in 1903, you find the exact same design everywhere today - If anything is a time proven piece of technology it's the frickin hot water bottle trust me.
> 1oca1host is just me corrupting the word localhost, but making that inference requires a visual understanding of words

No it doesn’t, and pg explains why in his essay. (Don’t know if the article states this too as since I’ve already read the essay before I didn’t bother to read a summarizing article about it. The essay is really excellent though.)

Quote from the essay:

> I'm more hopeful about Bayesian filters, because they evolve with the spam. So as spammers start using "c0ck" instead of "cock" to evade simple-minded spam filters based on individual words, Bayesian filters automatically notice. Indeed, "c0ck" is far more damning evidence than "cock", and Bayesian filters know precisely how much more.

> [...]

> To beat Bayesian filters, it would not be enough for spammers to make their emails unique or to stop using individual naughty words. They'd have to make their mails indistinguishable from your ordinary mail. And this I think would severely constrain them. Spam is mostly sales pitches, so unless your regular mail is all sales pitches, spams will inevitably have a different character. And the spammers would also, of course, have to change (and keep changing) their whole infrastructure, because otherwise the headers would look as bad to the Bayesian filters as ever, no matter what they did to the message body. I don't know enough about the infrastructure that spammers use to know how hard it would be to make the headers look innocent, but my guess is that it would be even harder than making the message look innocent.

http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html

And as for your point about text in image I don’t know of any email client today that defaults to showing images from unkown senders.

I receive a lot of spam and it is all very distinct in nature and the Bayesian approach is still the way to go for fighting it I think.
Call me a dreamer, but I believe unbiased reporting should be the goal of journalism and I associate a "political bent" with poor quality.

You must be associating (lack of) quality with how sensationalist/tabloid-style a publication is, which is more superficial.

> I appreciate being exposed to alternative views that consistently challenge my own

Which is why a publication should aim to challenge its readers with opposing opinion pieces, instead of constantly reinforcing their beliefs (aka "the easy way out").