skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't like the idea of taking a free and simple house, which you can sell, and myring it in a contract with another company (no less a startup!) so that when I want to sell, I need to explain the agreement I have with this other party to annex the land. I reckon it would devalue the house.

I think people would be better off borrowing the money and building their own. Where I live (not in US) you might spend say $100k or more building one of these, but without necessarily adding capital value to your house, so you'd break even on your first $100k of rent, after tax. So even building your own may not make sense. The many reason for building on is as a 'granny annex' or a place for your parents to live so you can help them out. Or a place for your kids to live when they move out.
This, maybe? https://medium.com/datadriveninvestor/why-the-nsa-called-me-...
I am not sure what part of town you are in. Can you open google maps and tell me how much "green space" you see? More than I grew up with. Hint, there is a rather large rectangular one on the west side of town.

But I have noticed (and been criticized on HN for claiming) that the parenting cultural bubble in SF seems completely unknown to many other subcultures. It is indeed a very good community, though.
Buzzfeednews does ok sometimes but I'd have to disagree with this. Even as a staunch privacy advocate facial recognition could do wonderful things to benefit society, is not the real problem overzealous governments and wideranging police powers lauded over innocent citizens?

Maybe there really needs to be a discussion about how intrusive we are going to allow them to be and the dangers that poses. It's a silly kneejerk response to say "we should only allow human beings to stare at cctv cameras, not an algorithm"

The cat's out the bag, the technology isn't the problem, tech is amoral, it's the people using it we need to solve.
I don’t think LLVM (which Zig uses) can currently target PIC.
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"User count" sounds so simple when you put it that way. That spreadsheet isn't trivial to build, and the situation on what's in it may be foreign to some readers here (it was to me).

A Microsoft shop needs licenses for each laptop/desktop running windows, but in an office using Microsoft Server to operate its LAN and the requisite services - DNS, DHCP, SMB file sharing, VPN, email, etc - basically any device that touches the Windows Server machine needs a Client Access Licences (CAL), which is available in user-based and device-based flavors.

Let's say the company operates a website and has developers. The development/QA environment requires an (expensive) MSDN account (or whatever it's called now) per-developer. In production, unlimited anonymous/unauthenticated users are allowed to hit IIS (web server). Authenticated access by employees to IIS needs a user CAL, authenticated customer access requires an External Connector (EC) license. But don't worry, the backing MS SQL Server database for the website also needs to be licensed, with per-cpu-core-per-machine licensing available. Except everything's a VM theses day, so the servers sit on top of a VM host (Microsoft Hyper-V), so there's some additional licensing intricacy there to deal with.

On top of that, there's the Services Provider License Agreement (SPLA) licensing model available for ISVs, but OEM licenses cannot coexist wth SPLA licensing on the same system (VMs + host).

Just to make it more fun, different Microsoft reps will have different answers on how some of the more subtle intricacies even apply!

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/product-licensing/...

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/licensing-programs...
Which provider is this? MTNL or BSNL?
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This site desperately needs a picture like the one you just posted on its front page.
It is impossible to ban an idea or an algorithm.
Sometimes the tech is so dangerous and the legitimate uses so minor in comparison that it should be largely banned or regulated.
Your statement only applies to the subset of countries where there is judicial independence.
Over-reliance on search may be a sign that you are unfamiliar with the general patterns and background knowledge of how this API is supposed to be used. It is a shortcut, a very useful shortcut nonetheless but it definitely shouldn't be the only way to do things.
Counterpoint from the article:

> The threat that facial recognition poses to human society and basic liberty far outweighs any potential benefits. It’s on a very short list of technologies — like nuclear and biological weapons — that are simply too dangerous to exist, and that we would have chosen not to develop had we had the foresight.
I don't think that even if Google avoided the tactics they used, you still could not compete with YouTube. Alphabet has as one of its goals cultural "guidance". This is openly advocated by Eric Schmidt in his book 'A New Digital Age.' They ran YouTube at a gigantic ongoing loss for over a decade solely to suppress competition and establish themselves as the only viable video platform. If you can build a billion-dollar infrastructure, and after those bills are paid you can lose hundreds of millions of dollars a year running it, than and only then can you compete with YouTube and face these tactics in addition to all of the legal and political pressure Google can produce. They haven't even needed to break out political pressure (and by that I mean getting government to establish regulations and legislation that YouTube is omitted from by being grandfathered in, not any kind of 'conservative/liberal bias' sort of thing) yet. And so long as Alphabet is profitable, we may never see those tactics as they're simply not needed.

YouTube is a key factor in Alphabet exercising the cultural 'guidance' that Eric Schmidt argues is not only Googles responsibility but moral obligation. For people who agree with Schmidt and disagree with the position that the public should be permitted to decide their own future, good or bad, it will be impossible to gain their support. Make no mistake, that viewpoint is the one that has supported every monarchy, dictatorship, theocracy, and non-democratic social structure throughout history. Political scientists call is Conservatism with a capital C, whereas the view that the public should play a role in their own governance and decide their own fate, for good or ill, is the alternative that drove the American Revolution, French Revolution, and countless blood-soaked revolutions across the globe. It won every single one of those wars. But it, too, lost to Google.

Just consider, if 70+% of the public today believed that interracial marriage was offensive and disgusting, which was true when interracial marriage was legalized by the Supreme Court in the 1960s, Google would deplatform anyone who agreed with the legalization of interracial marriage in order to defend that status quo. They do not seek to provide an open, global platform that can host or play a part in public debate about serious issues. They seek to exercise cultural guidance as Eric Schmidt sees fit. It has been the public which has reliably improved over time and progressed while still containing contingents of nuts and extremists. And it has progressed not despite that, but because of it. No closed and centrally managed society in history has become more progressive except through dreadfully bloody revolutions that destroyed its management.
I don't know about autistic children, but "overpaid manbaby technologists" sure love Google Glass.

http://notokglass.com/creepy/ok-glass-impress-teenage-girls/

http://valleywag.gawker.com/google-glass-fanboy-robert-scobl...
Same here, and if I were able to afford a downpayment I would live in daily fear of an earthquake because I wouldn't be able to afford Earthquake insurance, and if I did I wouldn't have the 20% deductible in the bank. I'm convinced that most non-wealthy bay area homeowners are essentially betting their financial future on there being no earthquakes here until the house is greater than 50% paid off. Tenuous is a fitting word I think.
If these large scale planned cities are doomed to failure, will they simply be completely abandoned in 20..40 years.. or will they be repurposed, perhaps surrounded by tent cities or shantytowns, and find a way forward?
No worries; I'm just trying to be clear.
Half way through reading this now actually and can't recommend it enough.
The featured article links to an article from Cylance that _does_ actually claim their model could've _theoretically_ detected and flagged malware before its creation.

_"...before the cybercriminals set up the crypto-system, the payment details of the campaign, the C2 infrastructure and before anything else was readied, our model was fully able to predict and prevent that campaign’s malware."_

They claim that a 2015 version of their product _could have_ detected malware that was written in 2016.
This conjecture seems plausible but on closer inspection seems to be... speculative. Especially if something like this could undermine it.
“Person”...
Elon Musk’s Neuralink Says It’s Ready to Begin Brain Surgery
You'd have to have about $50K to perpetually make $100/month risk-free, so if you say $100/month is insignificant, it sounds to me like you're saying a lump sum of $50K is also insignificant.

Also, even if you're going to drink coffee at retail prices, you can have the kind that's under $2 rather than close to $5 (I'm not even aware of where to get that where I live).
> is not the real problem overzealous governments and wideranging police intelligence agency powers lauded over innocent citizens?

Yes, they're the real problem. That doesn't mean it's futile to take away a powerful tool for them to use.

> tech is amoral

Tech is not amoral. It doesn't exist in a vacuum -- it has a context of who created it and what human actions it facilitates.

For example, ransomware is amoral. Sure, the tools used to build it are neutral, but that's true of anything if you zoom out far enough (e.g. steel is amoral, but CIA drones aren't).

> it's the people using it we need to solve

You can't "solve" people. There will always be selfish, stupid, and shortsighted people in the world. All you can do is make sure that they don't have concentrated, unilateral power over others.

Technology gives people that kind of power, and we can at least make sure that law enforcement in liberal countries doesn't misuse it.
AWS's "on-prem EC2" is called Outposts

https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/
> Syntax coloring isn't useless, it is childish, like training wheels or school paste

Disagree with the sentiment behind this. Just because you can read code without syntax highlighting doesn't mean it's useless, or only for programmers who need training wheels. It makes scanning code by eye so much easier, in the way that capital letters make reading this blog post easier.
> deadly metallic stress machine

A packed 4-5-6 line on a sweltering summer late afternoon can be a bit of a metallic stress machine. Not deadly, at least.
I used it back in college (10 years ago), being a dedicated Windows Dev. It was the only IDE that came close to approximating Visual Studio (after a few trivial tweaks) and deeply impressed me. The C++ support was probably better than VS.
Looks like a BOW classifier is the 'AI' here.
So we should ban the human brain for doing illegal facial recognition and other privacy violating acts?
This might work well with Golem (www.golem.network) because they've implemented WASM which opens up many possibilities. I haven't found a cheaper way to render.
Two malls in the province where I live got in trouble recently for secretly deploying facial recognition.

https://globalnews.ca/news/4355444/chinook-mall-calgary-faci...

Edit: consider supporting the Canadian civil liberties association! They speak out about these sorts of things when others don’t
I can only imagine how completely unreproducible that would make the outcome of literally any operation on client machines.
By hiring a lawyer to represent you.
Lenovo Leaks 32 Terabytes of Data via NAS Drives
I'm trying to decide what makes facial recognition more dangerous than the tracking beacon we carry in our pockets that is famously being used by every bad actor on the planet to perform population surveillance for fun and profit.

Just riffing, I think the core differences are probably:

1) Your phone has some security, so only your telecom or manufacturer can spy on you easily and consistently if you take some precautions.

2) You can leave your phone at home, switch it off, or put it in airplane mode.

3) There are wiretapping laws already on the books that probably make it difficult to use certain evidence in court.

Whereas with facial recognition:

1) The recognizer is controlled by random property managers, both public and private. This makes it easy for bad actors to create systems of surveillance where they share with each other.

2) You can change your phone, but you can't change your face except in bad movies.

3) Fewer laws on the books to make abusing this data easier.

4) It's only semi-accurate, which is a plus, because a random detection gives you probable cause to fuck with people so long as you claim high accuracy on a carefully concocted test sample. The semi-random terror is a feature not a bug.

5) You can find people that are off grid that the community is hiding from the state or private security (undocumented immigrants, leftist activists, etc).

So much potential here.
Would you really be comfortable with universities having that power? This sounds like something law enforcement and courts should handle, not an institution for education. This should be completely removed as a capability from the educational institution.
Previous discussion 8 months ago with 133 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18293940
Ask HN: Tech Depth vs. Business Deliverables
As senior employees, how do people balance between tech depth vs business deliverables. The former allows us to explore formal/principled/fancier (such as ML/DL/AI-based) solutions and possibly helps with external visibility and growth. The latter is aligned with organization's business goals and possibly helps with internal visibility and growth. Sometimes they happen within the same project/initiative which is golden -- but that is more of an exception than the rule. How do people balance between the two, if at all?
Which is true in case of India
Is it not within the bounds of believability that the same generation that has safe spaces and fears of sauce (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/style/snowplow-parenting-...) on college campuses might also be literally afraid of cooking.
Caloric restriction extends the lifespan of mice, but I don't think there's any good data on longer-lived animals.
Is this really considered journalism?

What is the author's knowledge of the technology behind facial recognition?

What is the author's position on the snowball effect of banning algorithms?

Through what means does the author suggest we ban facial recognition?

https://evangreer.org/
Why do browser extensions do so much worse compared to, say generic Linux software? I think the biggest problem is lack of reputation -- the "value" of being trusted extension author is low, as long as people can find you in the appstore, you'll get the installs.

There are probably many ways to fix this, but one of the least-impactful ways to do so is to use third parties for extension approval -- if extension authors do not care about their reputation, let's find someone else who does!

The system would be simple:

(1) Anyone can publish an "extension whitelist", a list of (extension, version, hash) entries. Maybe it's just a webpage in a special format.

(2) In my browser, I can optionally subscribe to as many extension whitelists as I want.

(3) If I have any whitelist installed, then any extension versions must be on the whitelist. Auto-update does not work if the next version won't be on the whitelist.

That's it! I am sure that once such system is in place, then would be people who would provide such whitelists. There are already people out there that examine source code of extensions they run, as the original article shows.

And additionally, one could make automatic approvals -- say an AV vendor could scan extensions from app store, and automatically make a whitelist of all scanned and safe versions.

This will be a big departure from the current extension model, and it will bring control back to the user.

... and of course, this is why there is approximately 0% chance this or similar idea will ever get implemented. Chrome nowdays is not about user control at all.
Andy Ngo Has the Newest New Media Career. It's Made Him a Victim and a Star
Same amount of time? I have 20 restaurants within a 30 second walk. There also is never, ever the diversity of food or entertainment.

Also, many small towns have higher crime rates per capita than cities.
To the limited degree that that's true, that's too bad for the American employer. The American citizen wants the government to put those restrictions on the American employer, and he is the one the government exists to serve, at least ostensibly.
Microsoft got the OEMs via anti-competitive actions. To quote myself from a few years ago:

> Probably one of the worst and most egregious is Microsoft's use of a "per processor" fee in the 90's which they only stopped when the government forced them to. If you were an OEM like Dell or HP, and sold Windows on any computers, you had to pay Microsoft for a copy of Windows on all computers you sold, even ones without Windows.

> This anti-competitive move meant alternative operating systems, like BeOS, or OS2/Warp, or even Linux weren't really an option. BeOS died, not on any technical merits, but because Microsoft forced it out via other means. Linux only survived because its openness made it hard to kill.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9552661
Basic and Pascal might not be modern, but they surely are alternatives to C for targeting PIC.
The reason you can't afford a 4 bedroom apartment when you can afford a HOUSE is that large apartments are rare in American cities, because municipal governments do everything to prevent them from being built. The few that exist were built mostly before WW2, and are rented to students.

In other countries, large apartments are plentiful, and they are cheaper than houses the same size, because of economies of scale.
I apologize. I don’t understand. My understanding was women were fighting to be equal, but men were the bar. What rights are being fought for by women that men don’t have (“people”)? What is the “baseline” for “people”?
Book publishers let white nationalists, pedophiles, sex offenders, and others publish books. Books don't even have age gated ratings, so parents don't even have any idea what kind of content their children are consuming when they read a book. If you want disgusting trash, pick up 'In Defense of Elitism' sometime. It's the only book I have destroyed after reading several chapters.

When you paint a medium or platform with a broad brush, and chastise them for not censoring it to your liking, you should at least check the alternative you're recommending is at least as censorial.
I don't get it.

Why would anyone comply with this system and pay for their messages to be delivered? So long as nobody is using it (which is the current state of affairs), users of this system will see all their email, legitimate or not, ending up in the "unpaid" box, and nothing is accomplished.

I'm reminded of the famous old "Your post advocates a ____ solution to fighting spam" form-letter. This proposal checks quite a few of its boxes.

https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt
The 3 layer hierarchy which seems to be a cornerstone for that piece's thesis is just a restatement of the structure of The Party from Orwell's 1984, applied to companies rather than all of society.

It is an interesting way to look at organizations though.
Or you could have a plain coffee and add milk, and consider whether a latte is enough better to justify the much higher price.
Part of it is just that "1:1" is misleading because of how camera manufacturers count pixels. A "pixel" on a monitor is a set of R, G, B subpixels but camera manufacturers count every subpixel separately and essentially 2/3 of what you're looking at is interpolated data at "1:1" view.
The truth might be worse than you think. Not only has QA been a popular H1B approved requisition, but so are positions that are simply listed as “Analyst” and “Business Analyst” and so on, as well as the many many variations on “Analyst” (QA or other). It might compete with “Developer” as the most common H1B position.
Here’s the thing, too: sexual assault is a crime. Universities shouldn’t even be investigating crimes at all. That should fall to law enforcement. And, if a conviction is obtained by the appropriate authorities (who do have the power to compel testimony and such), then the university should impose appropriate punishments, up to, and including expulsion or revocation of degrees.
Glad to see that this type of thing is getting reversed. If you believe all accusations without the most basic of investigations, you are on the edge of a very slippery slope.

It's generally very simple to find out if someone is lying: just question them 5-6 different times about what happened. No one who is lying or exaggerating keeps their story straight.

I had a friend who was the victim of a false allegation but he fought very hard and people lost their jobs over it because they didn't follow basic investigative procedures. In the end, he was out time, money and peace of mind because someone was vindictive - he wanted to break up with her. It of course helped that he was rich enough to fund a multi-pronged attack.

The woman received no repercussions.
> like nuclear ... simply too dangerous to exist

False equivalence aside, that's a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of civilisation there
Sky: Children of the Light from the Creators of Journey
Rhymes with "fragile".
> But it's like nuclear weapons, yeah? We are the only ones who can be trusted with them.

Like bombing Japan with nuclear weapons and murdering thousands of people?
Do you really? You don’t know what the difference between rich and powerful men and a bunch of mostly no-name nobody young adults?
I personally think it is amazing and relevant.

These two videos are worth watching for the reasons: in short, it's a great way to aggregate legacy backend services. And, your client data shapes are much better, and this makes a difference when optimizing your server side (without knowing how your clients use the data, you can't really optimize, which REST doesn't tell you).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8YnVk2vhzg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVNrqo9XGOs

But, the reality is that even the biggest providers of public APIs, GitHub being the biggest example, have major holes in their offerings. For example, you can't yet make commit mutations in their API, which means you can't edit git data using their graphql API, though you can edit GitHub data... (My O'Reilly book is still relevant for this reason: https://buildingtoolswithgithub.teddyhyde.io/)

Graphql is not always the best fit, but it is really a powerful idea.

In the same way that people suggest you learn a new language each year even if you don't necessarily switch to using it full time, learning graphql will make you really think through how you access APIs.
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Agreed, and it is indeed possible to have "context coloring" with normal, useful syntax highlighting alongside it - subtly lighten or darken the background color when going down a scope level into a nested function etc.
Too risky to put so much of my hard-earned money into it. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night.