skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The new system could well have automated more than just the role call, and so they can add in savings in the post processing of the attendance records.
Any privacy regulation that could be circumvented by simply transferring the data offshore surely wouldn't be worth the paper it's written on. The GDPR certainly doesn't allow this.
Recently I traveled through UK airport security with minors and was surprised that the staff did not seek approval from a legal guardian for a body search (pat-down) of a minor.

I try to refer questions of consent to my kids, but in this case the question wasn't asked, they just said "hold your hands out" and went ahead.

I don't think minors can retract parental consent, but IMO schools should accommodate an individual's personal consent if practicable. Indeed schools should where possible be advocating for pupils before their parents if necessary (things like a tutor contacting a parent to request consent on a child's behalf).

Aside: I heard security staff make an exchange suggesting they'd chosen a particular person to search "because you like doing the $ageGroupIdentifier", which might have been innocent but came across as wholly wrong.
I feel the opposite. Based on how people (and myself) behave, humans love to prioritize short term dopamine hits with long term costs. Whether it be children addicted to YouTube, people addicted to sugar and inactivity (see obesity), refreshing Twitter/Facebook/Reddit/instagram/Hacker News for new bits of information, etc. We’re even willing to trash the planet if it gives us the satisfaction of living in single family homes with parking and some land for heavily fertilized grass.

As a species, humans are getting better at using our susceptibility of the short term pleasures to operate businesses, but the long term effects are probably not going to be desirable.
It’s not just inhaling - perineal exposure seems to be bad too and had been associated with increased endometrial cancer risk in some groups. Perineal BMW exposure seems less likely.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2866017/
> There's no clear benefit to visually alluding to a near universal symbol of danger and poison.

I haven't thought of this. Makes sense.
Define inappropriate. The worst thing I've seen is somebody who swears or makes a fair amount of edgy jokes.

I'm guessing you're outside the US since YouTube controls the trending tab pretty closely there.
Because our society has become so politically correct and so afraid of racial inequality that ANYTHING even remotely suggesting things are unequal is attacked.

It’s just the opposite. People have been arguing that being gay “is not a choice” so society shouldn’t discriminate against gay people just like they shouldn’t discriminate against short people.

I’m saying that it shouldn’t matter whether it is “a choice” or not. Just treat everyone equally. I’m also saying that they could find a whole bunch of gay genes and it wouldn’t matter to religious conservatives who think it is a “sin”. It wouldn’t change their belief system. If they still “don’t believe in” evolution and think the earth is only 7000 years old as well studied as evolution is, why do people think they will accept a gay gene and change such deeply held beliefs in how wrong it is?

Just like we ignored them and struck down laws against miscegenation. We should continue to ignore them and treat everyone equally regardless of sexual preference.
Forget Old Generals–Highways Can Honor High-Tech
Bit surprising that as a German you'd regard antipathy for Nazi tropes as "political correctness".
It sounds like you're basically saying this: "Parents, stop complaining. Either move to a country that's safe like here in Eastern Europe where you don't have to helicopter your children in the name of safety, OR act on your parental responsibility to shelter your kids from the bad things in the world BUT don't discuss with anyone how society is broken or how it could be better."

I think the mistake you're making is assuming everything is binary. "A parent either assumes parental responsibility OR they complain about how society is corrupting their child."

But why can't a parent do both?
Children cannot reasonably consent to most things concerning them.

Ignoring reality for the sake of ideology isn't progress.

By that logic, next a doctor will refuse to vaccinate an 8 year old because the child refused to give consent.
It's a bit for mold mitigation, but mostly for personal comfort.

Cars aren't 100% airtight, but there is essentially zero circulation while parked. Over the course of sleeping for ~7 hours your breath will humidify the air enough to build up pretty significant moisture on the insides of your windows. Which if the reflectx cutouts in every window didn't give away, definitely let's passersby know theres a person in there.

So to mitigate against that and not wake up sweaty in a super muggy car, I buy these little things at the dollar store that are essentially plastic cups with a one way moisture membrane over the top of them and several ounces of silica desicant.

I also made a foam board cutout thing that slots into the sunroof space in the headliner. Then made cutouts for two USB fans (intake and exhaust) that I run off a 20,000mah USB battery.

With the air circulation and the desiccant it stays relatively comfortable temp/humidity wise, or at least no worse than it is outside.
From the wiki article:

orbital altitude of 250 km corresponds to a ground sample distance of 0.06 m (6 cm, 2.4 inches). Operational resolution should be worse due to effects of the atmospheric turbulence.[34] Astronomer Clifford Stoll estimates that such a telescope could resolve up to "a couple inches. Not quite good enough to recognize a face"
This is what I did for my tmux, vim and zsh configuration. As an added benefit it makes it easier to sync configs between computers.

On work computers I do the same but with git.
Small but significant change in how Linux systems work with runtime data
> That’s not their free time activities

It is. It is open source. Just because it's public doesn't make it non free time.

> I’m also not suggesting one should audit all their software, but it’s good to know about what kind of software one is running.

How does all this impact the software? Did this "kind of software" get "infected" by the views of its authors? How?

I used to think that the good thing about open source software is that the result is neutral and open for anyone to inspect, improve and use.
It makes perfect sense. If you file a bug assigned to me that doesn't seem to actually affect users or isn't aligned with the work I am already committed too, it goes in the backlog and I may or may not ever get to it. If it's a bot that generated the bug, it comes after user reports, and I may never get to all of those.

If it's a comment on a code review for code I am already working on, then of course I want my new or changed code to be up to date with standards and avoid error prone patterns, etc.
SAT is best when there is one true logical answer. ANN are best when you want "best advice".

A good guide (in my experience) -- with SAT while the answer is hard to find it's easy to check (like a Sudoku, or building a timetable with no clashes), while ANN give answers where verifying the answer isn't easy to perform computstionally (if I give you a translation of a text into Latin, verifying it is about as hard as just making a new one from scratch)
An addition to `{Push,Pop}-Location` - `Get-Location -Stack` will show the current directory stack. I don't know offhand of a way to get the equivalent of `pushd +11` though.
> But in 2019 it is basically an inferior and antiquated tool for syncing your own files.

IPO dates of most (once) cool tech startups signal time to search for replacement and time of approach change by them.
That is the minimum possible resolution* (hence the lower bound on the diameter). Atmospheric stuff will make it worse and be variable from day to day (and depends on the length of the exposure, which would be a bigger problem looking at stars than the earth). I think that is around 2 microradians for astronomical telescopes.

*there are tricks to get super-resolution, but ignore that stuff.
I'm not a senior engineer by any means, despite all the time I've devoted to learning about CS and development in general; my main problem is that I just don't code anymore. That being said, I always have found that it is better to approach a problem with a model/plan in your head for how to implement your solution.

It's fully possible to go in blind and just develop a solution iteratively, and that methodology can be useful sometimes, especially when working with something completely foreign. But if you can take the time to develop a model in your mind of how it works, then all that's left is translating the details of that model into code.
Yes, people go to Facebook to watch videos.

However, I think it's too restrictive to only consider platforms to be competitors of Youtube only when the use case is analogous, and it's incorrect to imply that Facebook can only be competing with Youtube if their users exclusively use it to watch videos.

Any platform that supports video streaming is potentially competing against Youtube. The specific use case of the platform is irrelevant, only scale and mindshare matter - the degree to which people spend time there rather than on Youtube.
The chief crime of PowerShell is actually how long it takes for a prompt to appear after starting it - especially on Windows. I still use it as a login shell on MacOS because it offers useful features, but it's (to put it bluntly) slow as hell to start.
Force them to borrow money? How big a fine we talking in your authoritarian world? How many people's jobs is it worth losing?

No. It does not need to be so damn high.

YouTube is aware of the warning, and yes it likely deserves another (order of magnitude larger) fine if they do nothing. But arbitrary fines right out of the gate just hurt everyone.
I'm not a proponent of facial recognition at all and would not endorse it especially in this use case. But, if you believe the 17,000 hours/year number, that's ~$500,000/year (assuming $30/hour, random guess) in potential savings. Are you saying there can't possibly be system that could be designed to take attendance while not further infringing on a student's privacy that's cheaper than that?

What is probably happening is that this is some sneaky way of introducing facial recognition in schools and something benign like attendance was the excuse. That, however, is a separate conversation from my original post of how would you automate attendance without using facial recognition.
Fire was used by early humans at least 200,000 years ago, perhaps as long as 1.2m years ago. Given how forest/bush fires are generally an effective hunting strategy today (e.g., by indigenous Australian), I'd expect that the first major effect of the anthropocene would be from large scale deforestation events. But, I can't find any evidence for it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_of_fire_by_early_hum...
Please don't post questions just to point to your own service.
> It is. It is open source. Just because it's public doesn't make it non free time.

How is an official conference organized by the project itself "free time" and not related to the project?

> How does all this impact the software? Did this "kind of software" get "infected" by the views of its authors? How?

Open source is also about open community. With a project like suckless, I know I wouldn’t feel comfortable contributing to it, opening issues, or trying to submit pull requests, because I wouldn’t feel welcome in their community.

In an open source community, where many of us would end up trying to give back, that’s a major factor in whether to use such a project.
WebAssembly will never become obsolete (in a technical sense, who knows what will happen in practice) as long as there are use-cases that require predictable and consistent performance. I predict these will become plentiful as more and more companies build web apps for increasingly performance-sensitive niches.

I'm not talking so much about raw speed, it's more about latency. Things such as realtime audio in the browser, non-CSS-driven animation, 3D (or any kind of realtime graphics, really), tight UIs where feedback must be very fast to be useful, etc. In lower-level languages, you must sometimes go as far as to avoid all memory allocations in one critical path. It's very hard to do so in JavaScript, especially when you take into account the prevalent coding style and functional nature of the language.

As long as you have GC and a dynamic type system which requires JIT heuristics to achieve that 2x speedup, you will always have cases of pathological latency which degrade the experience. When you measure raw speed in benchmarks, you amortize all of the jitter.

Now, whether the market is such that it will be satisfied by apps with this behavior is another story.
Decentralization is good when there is no need for coordination. We sometimes like to collaborate - but we don't like the constant requirement of mandatory coordination. Unfortunately technology connects us more and more and that means that coordination and un-coordination brings more and more externalities (positive and negative respectively).

Decentralization works in cases that are like we were back to the near empty savannah and where everybody could just go in his own direction. The Internet was once like that - but it is not any more, it is rather the reverse.

By the way, just a few hours ago I submitted to HN this article: https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/7230.html - it is about these tensions between our freedom to do whatever we like and the need for coordination in a more and more connected world.
Some people have so much time on their hands nowadays they become petty like this.
> Bit surprising that as a German you'd regard antipathy for Nazi tropes as "political correctness".

It is surprising to me that one suggests to choose software on the political views of the authors and not on technical considerations.

This has nothing to do with me being German nor did I support or endorse those (admittedly strange) views. All I'm saying is that it has nothing to do with their software.
I'm trying to understand what this is. So it's not storing any data? It is a web app that is capable of displaying data/files on other servers via the many listed protocols?
Sounds like that should apply to Dropbox, as well.
Oh, here is more recent (20,000 BP) evidence:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
I have been working on a smartphone AR visualizer for the magnetic field. I was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to develop this app. One of the surprising things I found was the inclination of the magnetic field vector. You can test the free Android app here:

https://www.vieyrasoftware.net/physics-toolbox-ar
Nutshell looks like it's shaping up to be the new hotness in shell land.
Then it seems like you misunderstood my points, or I failed to get them across adequately. Your children are your responsibility. If they take your credit card (and you know that it does not require any code to enter on the online bank interface to authorize/allow a purchase) and use it to buy whatever, then indeed you are at fault here, not the store. Do you need the Government to do the parenting for you? As it is, kids are not even supposed to have credit cards, and most websites have it in their ToS that if you are under X, you cannot make a purchase, and so forth. What more do you want? Camera identification each time prior to making a purchase? What about anything else, if your children swallows, say, your ring, should we blame whoever made the ring, or whoever sold it to you, everyone but the parent? Should we ban rings (at the expense of everyone else) because some parents are not capable of parenting? In my experience, this is what most people seem to be in favor of, "ruining things" for everyone because of some other people who are neglectful or reckless or whatever. This is what I am against. Feel free to make the world a safer place for children, but not at the expense of everyone else because a parent failed to do their duty. We should hold the parents responsible, and thankfully some do.

I am not telling them to not complain. They can complain freely, just as I am allowed to point out that no amount of regulations (sometimes at the expense of other people) will replace parenting. I, for one, would totally be against camera identification prior each purchase because parents cannot keep their credit card away from their children. They are also free to complain about issues that can be easily resolved were they to care enough and put some effort into it.
What you're describing is the American school system. As a Swede who spent an exchange year in an affluent Dallas suburb the systems couldn't be more different.

Going from Swedish to American high school felt like stepping back to elementary school in regards to personal freedom and trust.

First to set the base, in general in Sweden you have all your classes with the same 25-30 instead of different groups every period. From 7th grade we had our own schedule complete with periods without lessons where we would just hang out, walk around or go to the library and jump on the computer. In high school this ramped up even more. Loitering as a concept doesn't exist in Sweden.

To accommodate this the design of schools are completely different. The endless hallways don't really exist, instead there are areas between the classrooms with sofas, tables and whatever to enable people to hangout or study together. My school even had a café open all day. Doing group projects is the epitome of this, we'd show up at the start of the class for attendance and then take off to the library or some other place.

Contrast this with America. Hall passes to go to the restroom, hall monitors. We even had CCTV surveillance in the entire school building. If you would show up late you could be sent to the cafeteria and forcibly miss the class and have to write some essay about how wrong you were. How can a person learn to take care of themselves in such an environment?

This isn't even talking about the pledge or national anthem over the PA system.

Sorry for the rant.

Back to the topic on hand, from what I've read on Swedish news about it everyone involved generally was positive. No more the annoying wait while taking attendance. For the parents it was no different, even before this system they still immediately got a text if the kid didn't show up for class.

The questions raised by the DPA are relevant and my guess is that this will continue to be explored but with more caution towards how the data is processed to comply with this ruling.
Firefox: about:config, set browser.showQuitWarning to true
I'm struggling to see any actual harm from this use of facial recognition if the video is deleted promptly after processing and conversion to an attendance list.
So, if all that's sought is a pretext, why don't state actors just hack accounts and stage pretexts at will?

The elevation of social media to the level of a United Nations general assembly just doesn't seem to pass muster, boss.
Also why not chuck a capacitor in the mix to provide a little power buffer to shutdown the filesystem gracefully.
But consider for example the link between violent video games and prosocial outcomes. The effect sizes are tiny. The downsides of additional filters will very likely outweigh anything that can be gained regarding mental health and childhood development etc. I'd wager there are much much more effective ways of improving quality of life, e.g. improving community life, reducing working hours, reduce economic inequality etc.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10964-019-01069-0

https://www.mayamathur.com/publication/metawarspreprint.pdf
Letter of Last Resort
My current reply would be two fold.

1. “My biggest weakness is front end UI/UX. If you are expecting a great UI person, I’m not your guy.”

The purpose of that answer is to both show self awareness and self select out of jobs I know that I won’t be a good fit for.

2. “When I was a team lead/architect at the company before my current one, I realized I had X, Y, Z weaknesses even though I accomplished what they hired me for before the company changed directions. I ‘self demoted’ and found a company where I could fill in those skills gaps and strengthen those areas. Now as I pursue new challenges, I’m sure I will discover new weaknesses, but just as before, I have a methodical method for learning new soft and hard skills by doing $X”
Windows Terminal Preview app updated to v0.4, adds plenty of new features
Facebook never supported XMPP federation - only chat with Facebook contacts.
I suspect this is why they are being fined, but the article is a little bit vague on this unfortunately.
Just because something doesn’t have physical withdrawal or isn’t as severe doesn’t mean that it isn’t addiction or isn’t a problem. Your argument is akin to saying that you can’t complain about something if someone else is worse off than you, which is just bullshit. People who are addicted to, eg, gambling, can still have their lives destroyed.
> How is an official conference organized by the project itself "free time" and not related to the project?

I'm not saying that it is not related to the project. I'm saying that they are conducting the project in their free time.

> Open source is also about open community.

If you see how different people talk about their "tech stacks" (i.e. talk to a node module maintainer and a kernel hacker and you'll see the differences), it is a misconception that there is "one" open source community. Luckily, there are many.

> I know I wouldn’t feel comfortable contributing to it

Then don't. It would even understand if you'd advise people to avoid such conferences. But advising people, i.e. non involved end users, not to use the software is a bit far.
The shadow Trump and his cellphone are casting on the image is the best part. Guess nobody had the balls to tell him pictures aren't allowed in a briefing of this nature?
Sure. Because applications are never, ever hacked and we can always trust companies to look after our data.
vantablack has an interesting history - especially the feud between Anish Kapoor and Sturat semple.
The Wandering Earth: A Reflection of the Chinese New Right
Well, there goes my whole workflow of backing up my graphic projects into dropbox from their original location on our local server ...
Moving Chrome Audio to a Separate Process
Syncing tools are tricky because they bridge and overlap (at least) two filesystems - local and remote. It's not obvious how to handle symlinks there in general case. The default behavior dictated by filesystem abstraction is wrong (would duplicate files and break links). There are multiple other ways to handle it, but it's not clear what's best.
Agree very much.

I'm normally very much against enforced political correctness but this seems to be way beyond that.

I hate nazism. I'm not particularly happy with people calling other nazis that aren't either[0], but unless there is some serious amounts of missing context this seems to be glorification of nazism.

[0]: for a starter the obvious implications of crying wolf when there is no wolf.
How the brain approximates without counting
I think it's unlikely that Dropbox files would just disappear from the disk. They might not update, but that's the only realistic option.
The top left portion of the image is redacted. Which suggests it was cleared for publishing.

Lots of people saying this was not a good move by the USA to publish this image. But why? Yes, it's a fascinating image. But these high resolution capabilities are pretty well known and expected...