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Ask HN: Mild face blindness affecting relationships. How do I manage?
Background: I forget faces (and names and roads) within 5-10 minutes of meeting someone. I can manage with forgetting roads with use of GPS, but forgetting a face (and name) after meeting someone is a huge embarresment to the point that it is affecting my personal and professional relationships. I typically try to manage by remembering a person's dress etc, but that also fails if I am meeting someone (again) out of context, or after some time. I can rarely make new friends in local community because of this.

The faces finally get etched in my memory though after 4-5 interactions within similar ecosystem. Seeing people outside of context and remembering them is again a challenge. But, association gets stronger over time, and after meeting someone regularly for couple of months, I hardly forget a name or a face. I hope you get the picture.

1. Is anyone dealing with simliar issues? How do you manage?
2. How and where can I get help, if at all? (such memory issues seem to have no known medical cure is what I read)
3. Do you recommend some technology or habit which can help?

Thanks in advance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia
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In my opinion the term intelligence itself is misplaced for machine learning tasks. Every problem that is solved with ML and "big data" appears to me to be a perception problem (which wouldn't be surprising because the mechanism is inspired by human vision, not cognition, which it lends itself to naturally).

As a specific example, a few months ago or so openai released their text generation tool and branded it as "too dangerous too release", claiming it could , with the help of AI, generate believable texts.

But what it generated was simply natural sounding gibberish. There were plenty of sentences in the text along the lines of "before the first human walked the earth, humans did..""

What, for me at least, lies at the core of intelligence is understanding semantics. An intelligent system can recognise the sentence above as flawed because it could extract meaning.

Everything coming out of the field of ML seems to me just like sophisticated statistics. In many ways symbolic AI to me still seems more valuable, profit aside.
Yep, that's a massive positive that I forgot to mention. In that space they're competing with Revolut rather than the traditional banks. Many people's setup will be traditional bank for everyday banking + Revolut for travel. Monzo can potentially replace both if it gains traction and people trust it enough.
> And yet blaming a specific team is exactly what they did.

In this specific case, just blaming "Verizon", it was not personal. (There are a variety of things that can be classified under "blaming a team" so I can't give it a blanket okay/not okay.)

Knowing it's the NOC team, as an amorphous blob of nameless people, is not getting too personal.

Just because something can be traced to a team doesn't mean that shaming the company is the same as shaming specific people from that team.

Going down that road would declare everything as personal, and that's really not how things work.

> I wouldn't be surprised if Verizon is much less inclined to participate in any cooperation.

The public pressure should be stronger than any pettiness, and if it's not then the solution is to let even more people know it was Verizon's fault.
FWIW Monzo are in the process of rolling out business accounts at the moment - I received an email about it from them yesterday.
I recently visited my local branch after shooting myself in the foot when re-installing their app and locking my account.

After waiting a couple of minutes, a lovely lady sorted out my problem with no fuss at all.

I agree, mostly I never need to step foot in a branch but sometimes it helps to be reminded that there are advantages of doing business 'face to face'.
Small solar powered like with calculators and their roughly 1” sq. solar power strip?

That would be amazing but probably not feasible with the kind of display people have come to expect on their smartphone.
Yes, just like Lehman Brothers / Northern Rock.
I thought that this was harsh but then I went through GPs comment history and now you make more sense. Thanks, for pointing out.
> the EU market is 60% larger than the US, and Europeans are already used to paying for everything with debit cards.

I'd argue the other side and say the EU isn't a single market when it comes to payment and banking culture. I'd also argue that there are large swathes of Europe that still don't have a card culture.

My personal anecdata on chargebacks corroborates yours, but my own assumption is that the market for a fintech company is much larger in the States than in continental Europe.
Nah, that's not my argument. My argument is that a tax against billionaires tends to increase the culture around "taxing more" and leaks out to taxing their corporations or subtly changing the structure of the market so that the incumbent corporation can handle it just fine, but newer ones have a difficult time getting to the point where they can compete. I'm never going to be in the mega-rich basket, and frankly, I don't want to be. But a lot of them are very good at subtle PR and lobbying to change things that benefit themselves even while making it look like they are doing something opposite. I don't trust them, especially when they are doing something that looks "against their interests" when they've never seemed to do that before in either their public or personal lives.

Here's a simple example of what I mean. The billionaires pushing this tend to have certain political ideas and tend to be active in politics. If they give just their money, then they have limited political effect. But if they can get _all_ billionaire's taxed and then lobby to use _that_ money to further their political ends (including for things those other billionaires don't agree with), they can amplify the power they have to make their pet social policies. I'm not interested in helping them do that.
For a real emperor's new clothes moment, look at SpinVox!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpinVox
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I monitor several solar plants with old syntronic inverters using node installed on rpi. Works 24/7 without any problems.
It offers literally all of those services.
For some highly-specific performance scenarios, Oracle still cannot be beat. I know far, far more businesses where a supported Postgresql is perfectly suitable. I know only one business where Oracle was a defensible technical choice.
Where've we heard that before?
Load Balancing with Nftables
India has its set of branchless digital banks, Paytm is the leader.

India also has other things which is driving digital payment adoption, Aadhar based KYC system, UPI payment interoperability system. Google Pay, PhonePe, Amazon Pay and many other payment apps are now bringing payment to the masses.

and suddenly we realise, India leapfrogged many developed nations in the process
Futurewei- Huawei’s U.S. Research Arm Creates Separate Identity
With 90% of modern art, the "point they're trying to make" is whatever is the most convenient at the occasion. For the artists themselves rarely know as modern art is as much a BS-industrial complex as the AI.
Wow! It feels fast and looks great. I'm still waiting for someone to make a WebGL viewer for SSVDAGs, but maybe that's wishful thinking.
Yes, but this is probably meant for daily commute in which case (in the Netherlands at least, where this company is based) the commute usually is about 30-40km which makes it doable.

If you look at it: if they can deliver about 3-4kW of power (quite high, I guess they wont get there any time soon) you can manage to do all the things a normal car (gas) would do with the accessory belt (usually about 6hp max). So power the AC/Stereo/screens/windows/lights etc. It's not a lot but you get some extra miles from your charge which is always nice.
Scientific Bias in Favor of Studies Finding Gender Bias
Wouldn’t it be more likely they’d infer he was a doctor? I wouldn’t expect patients to go every day for 8 hours. (Not saying either is “ok”, but guessing patient from those facts is particularly poor I think)
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/revolut-trade-unions-labour-...
Solutions to some problems from cracking the code interview ( C language)
Uploaded code solutions for some problems of the book in https://github.com/dariogithub1/cracking-the-code-interview-solutions , I would like to know your rating and potential improvement of the code I wrote.

Any suggestion or advice is welcome, thanks for your time.
Might be a struggle to teach him iptables
but the link was useful, even for me

Thanks
I have a few Raspberry Pi boards and since I've seen folks doing stuff similar to what mostly do I thought I comment on something I hadn't seen yet.

I struggle with tinnitus distress and Ménière's. One of my coping strategies is to continuously play some sort of background sound in the areas I occupy.

I have a first gen RPi with a set of USB powered speakers in my bedroom that plays long form background soundscapes I get from YouTube on loop. This is the lowest tech I could muster. YouTube-DL is a command line tool that fetches content from places like YouTube and recodes it. I use mpg123 to play the resulting audio file on loop... and because I'm already using ssh for all sorts of other things as go about my day this workflow is basically completely integrated into my normal day-to-day activities.

When I first started doing this I changed the audio track on a fairly regular basis. Sometime to suit my mood, other times for the weather. These days it's more of a seasonal thing.

It works great. It's proven to be really reliable and it was really, really cheap.
Why are nodes a linear step of 2nm?

It seems to me that going from 7nm to 5nm (a factor 1.4) is a smaller step than going from 5nm to 3nm (a factor 1.6666). Not just a smaller step in engineering effort, but also in effect size.
I disagree that these grants aren't worth it, but it depends on the industry you are in and if you are used to writing grants. My company (biotech) has had a few of these grants and they are an excellent way of making a dollar go twice as far. They are certainly easier than a full ARC or NH&MRC grant.

If you are a typical software startup pivioting from idea to idea then no they are not so good. Do look into the export marketing development grants as they are a much better fit and are almost like free money.
autossh is a nice suggestion
I used a Raspberry Pi to solve the problem that the trash can in front of the building where I lived was often overflowing when I tried to take out the trash:

I connected a 20x4 character LCD to the Pi and put it next to the bathroom mirror. The display displays some useful info:
- Estimated garbage can levels (interpolated based on the trash calendar)
- weather forecast
- cryptocurrency prices

So when I notice that the trash can level is low I can take out the trash without troubles.

(These days I use my Pis for more simple things like RetroPie+Kodi and PiHole)
I think I understand your concern about the [local] legality of “recording audio”... if everybody would cease bringing (or otherwise sufficiently disable) _recording devices_ to/in public spaces.

I don’t think the average person understands > cares > is negatively impacted by that concern.

Any knowledge or experiences?
I've long been interested in both software and hardware. My first computer was a Mac Plus, and I had to fix it myself at age 9 before I could start coding on it. That progressed into fixing iPods, and playing around with firmware: modding them with iPodLinux.

I studied Electronic Systems Engineering at university, through to a first-class honours Masters degree. With the trend towards custom chips (Apple's A-series processors, Bitcoin ASICS, etc), I thought it's the future.

However, I've only been able to find jobs in software. Usually for startup companies in IoT. From 2014-2018 I moved to Taiwan to work for a microSD card manufacturing company, but even then I ended up writing control systems software rather than actually designing chips. The designs are all made in America, the silicon at TSMC, so OSE's packaging business wasn't able to use that part of my interest. I'm not trying to move to the US, so I guess I can't be a chip designer.

Hardware still interests me though, and I carry around a lot of gadgets to help me pursue projects when I think of them. Then I usually post them on Hackaday (e.g. KeyMouSerial, SMC Voltmeter).

When I get a stable address (I've been wandering around the world for a year, and now I'm waiting for a visa), I'd like to learn KiCad, and get a PCB manufactured. I've been wanting to build an EspUSB [1] for years, but they're not available to purchase. The problem is I don't know what to write to PCBWay. The design files are online, but PCBWay couldn't understand them. I'd be guessing the BOM from the schematics, and I have only one chance to get it right - I probably can't reorder if I mess it up. So I've lived without it, only using my KeyMouSerial adaptor instead.

Video is another area that's ripe for hardware hacking. HDMI input is expensive for computers. Some projectors have a Freeze button, but others don't. I'd like to build a hardware Freeze button for HDMI or VGA, probably using a CPLD or FPGA.

In some ways, this is a project where circuit simulation is useful: clock timings are important, cost of manufacturing is high, I can't just buy an existing finished product. But I don't need a web app with some virtual transistors and blinking lights (though that's fun for education). I need a professional tool, and I'm not really sure what to use for this next step.

Will I ever build these projects? I don't know. It depends as much on factors from my personal life as the availability of tools and educational materials towards this kind of project. I hope that even if I don't make it though, someone will, and will make their hardware easily available to purchase (not just a half-finished design file that PCBWay can't understand).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPBzOaLbWhM
They don't have FCSC protection, how is that a better thought-out offering for private customers?

"We can just throw away your money and you have no recourse, trust us with your ~banking~ beyond banking"
It depends on the situation. If the car will be parked outside then charging 12km/h is very nice. During 8h at work that's 96km charged, that's enough for a daily commute and some shopping.
Ask HN: What's your self-hosted setup?
I'm looking for ideas for apps / systems to self host on a new VPC. I'm particularly interested in setting up a music library / streaming service.
Do you by chance have a link to a good development kit for the esp32? I checked and I'm a bit overwhelmed by the amount of different components one can get.
This is false. You only pay income tax if you are a resident of Australia. If you are a resident of another country you pay tax there - Australia is not like the USA in regards income taxes.
For credit cards, check Tandem Bank. Worked there until a couple of weeks ago, they do several credit cards including one with 0.5% cashback on all transactions. Plus the usual no fx fees etc.
This could be an unfortunate name if the rumoured Huawei OS is actually named Oak.
Sorry if I wasn't clear, our problems are CRUD at modest scale. There is little room for the application of machine learning.
That's a terrifying story in that link :-|
I built a device that pulls the weather from Darksky and displays it on electronic paper every hour.
Udemy business model, fake 90% discounts

https://www.google.com/search?q=udemy+discount
Weren't they dodgy as xxxx though?

I mean if you're not criminal/greedy/irresponsible.
My understanding is that AI has different failure modes. If it doesn't see the road, it might not realise it doesn't see the road and just go off road. It's not necessarily going to react like a reasonable human.
I've needed cash more often in San Francisco than I've needed anywhere in Europe in the last 5 years.

To my experience, even the smallest shops in most of Europe accept contactless payments, whereas in the States the smaller ones did not accept card payments for purchases under 2 (or sometimes even 20) dollars. I'd agree that the market for a fintech company in the States is much larger, but this is solely because its current state is so bad.
I would see the value for something in keeping the A/C going at a reasonable power without tapping the battery when you have to leave the car out in the sun. Also if you commute and can get a "free" recharge every sunny day.

Assuming you take a long trip where you average 80Km/h you still get over 100Km of extra range which is not bad.
There will be a new JSON API in .NET Core 3.0:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/try-the-new-system-tex...
Whois.com business email from $0.48c/account/month
Is a startup going to be able to do research? Research takes years, is extremely risky, and even if it's successful may not produce anything that can be a product. Most of the time the output of successful research is a paper.
> This software license is the 2-clause BSD license
> plus clause a third clause that prohibits redistribution for commercial purposes without further permission.

https://github.com/AllenInstitute/volume-viewer/blob/master/...

I really like what the allen institute is doing and that they put so many interesting talks onto their YouTube channel, but clauses like this make it proprietary software.
KPN does al government telco stuff because it used to be semi-public. As such, they have a lot of institutional knowledge behind this kind of thing.

I would not trust any other telco to do this better. It seems to me the issue is the commercialization/privatization of KPN. Instead, we should go back to a more semi-public KPN that is assigned to cover this form of critical infrastructure.

Or alternatively, we should not have any telco be a single point of failure.
> China is turning inward, maybe they're getting some state support, monetary, political, or otherwise;

This seems to be the most likely factor.
I thought that was a joke! Awesome though!
You want to be the next Nick Leeson then? (He who took down Barings)
I think calling the app nicer is an understatement. It's lightyears ahead of other banks.

The use abroad is fantastic and it's the reason I originally got their prepaid card. Some UK banks do offer a similar service with no fee and/or low exchange rate, I think Nationwide's clarity card is one but that's a credit card so withdrawing cash is costly (IIRC).

I also like Monzo's saving pots idea but since they apparently can't provide any proper financial statements to go along with them they are pretty useless to me. I really don't understand how that is supposed to work if you need to complete a tax return.

My local bank branch closed down last month. And to be honest it was a frustrating experience of queueing up to talk to someone who sometimes knew less than what I read from the website.

So, considering how trivial it is to switch current account in the UK, I'm looking at it from the other angle - why would I stay with my current old-school bank?
If everyone sophisticated enough to be on this site would just use the term “applied computational statistics” (even just in their own thoughts) instead of “deep learning” or AI, the world would be a better place. Gradient descent finds some fun minimia (my current venture is heavily based on that idea) but to assign more agency to Adam or RMSProp than they merit is just an exercise in feeding the trolls.
I've been looking for e-mail hosting to go along with a domain name purchase, without the file and site hosting I'll just use other services like GitHub for. Does anyone know any better or comparable offers?
I don't know that this is generally the case. I've never been involved directly in bigger (6+ figure) grants, but I know plenty of academic spinoffs who have had no problems writing their own grant proposals (admittedly this is a specific skill you pick up in academia so maybe not relevant to the general public).
Would be cool to make a demo that would fit on a magazine page in something like a QR code (scannable with a normal phone).
Why do we need billions of people on this planet? Wouldn't it be better to cut down our population a bit? Earth cannot sustain infinite people..
AFAIK, some (less than?) 2% of energy put into the EUV source ends up at the wafer. The EUV-source has been the biggest struggle for ASML from what I gathered in media.

Apparently, tiny droplets of tin are created by spinning some disk(s) and then those droplets are zapped with with a laser before they emit EUV. Those machines are crazy complex.
>In this specific case, just blaming "Verizon", it was not personal.

That isn't what they did. They specifically called out teams, which according to what you just said, is too personal.

https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1143182575680143361

> The teams at @verizon and @noction should be incredibly embarrassed at their failings this morning ... It’s networking malpractice that the NOC at @verizon has still not replied to messages

Not only does he specifically call out the NOC, he also calls out teams. It is very obvious which "the teams" he is referring to, and "the NOC" is indeed a specific team. In other comments he also calls out Verizon's support team.

This wasn't the case of "tracing it back to a team". CF's CEO specifically addressed them and told them to be ashamed of themselves. That's personal, and it's also being a dick to boot. Was there anything in this situation that was gained by Prince calling these people out in these tweets? Would it not have been just as effective at calling out Verizon (while being less unprofessional and less personally malicious) if those tweets had been less vitriolic?

> The public pressure should be stronger than any pettiness, and if it's not then the solution is to let even more people know it was Verizon's fault.

So the solution to pettiness is more pettiness? Why does CF have a license to be petty but VZ apparently does not?
> Your notion of cognitive resources is most likely very different from your brain's.

In this context, I disagree. If the act of writing is using most of my attention, I will miss large amounts of what is being said.

> As I recall, all the evidence shows that handwriting rather than typing - even when using similar strategies - has better recall.

I believe this is a highly nuanced issue and it's hard to make blanket statements. For example, I can't see how it would apply to people with various degrees of dyslexia - which could be up to 20% of the population. Having said that, I'd be interested to see evidence that proves otherwise.
Sort of. Google, but 5000 years earlier.
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Visa/Mastercard use a DMS or dual-message system that is basically a digitisation of the paper-based "click-clack" machines, possibly with a phone-based pre-authorisation.

The first message is the auth which comes online. This can only be accepted or declined. Once it has been accepted the value of the transaction is reserved against the credit limit but no movement of funds takes place. The issuing bank can remove the auth manually, but this just releases the credit, it has no impact on what happens next.

The transactions are posted to the account in overnight batch, during which the card system will attempt to match the pending auths and remove them. Some transactions (such as recurrent ones) will have no matching auth. There is no opportunity at this stage to "reject" a transaction, the batch is applied or it isn't. The issuing bank will typically get or more batches per BIN.

The dispute process at this point involves the issuing bank (Revolut) issuing a chargeback against the acquiring bank, which triggers a process during which each bank has certain timeframes to reject or accept the chargeback. So from this standpoint Revolut is basically following standard process.