skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The obvious harm in outright bans (I know this specific case is only banning it in public areas) are that it stifles innovation where the technologies are used to empower society.

Fair enough but I've just asked this somebody in another thread here: What innovation? This seems completely hypothetical, facial recognition is neither hard, nor complex. Neither is image clustering and other backend stuff required to use this for malicious purposes. If innovation means use cases like clearview I don't really care. Surely the privacy of millions should be valued higher than a few startups with smart photo album technology or whatever that will likely fail anyway for completely untechnological reasons. The EU seems to be, quite surprisingly, relatively specific with this call for a ban.

> The reference to smartphone tracking before the one I believe you're referencing in that article details the myriad other of ways to track people; financial transactions, license plates, MAC addresses, heartbeat, gait, etc.

Don't see how that changes my argument, in the EU none of those are treated like they might be in the US. Especially after the introduction of GDPR that's already mostly illegal tracking, no matter the specific technological implementation, and should satistfy the critique Schneier brings in his article.
Title should mention this is from 2016.
UTF-8 complexity
We’re All in the Bathroom Filming Ourselves
Rohingga are split Muslims and Hinduism. So it’s not about a specific religion, but rather an ethnic group. Similarly Jewish is an ethnic group with many Christians and atheists being killed in the holocaust.
I thought this was going to be about stockpiling sand because of semi-conductors.
I'm probably not here for the accelerationist argument that the most popular messaging application in the world should be kept unencrypted in the hopes that it would get people to move to better applications.
Any disruptive technology should be preemptively locked before public use. Times of "move fast and break things" are gone for good.
GE offers a bypass filter that has a chip that lasts forever for exactly this use case.
Innumerable? Can you point me to stats of those claimed innumerable Islamist terrorist attacks? I'm willing to wager a bet that there have been more cow vigilante fatalities in the country than Islamic terrorism.

Whilst we are it, I'd encourage you to read https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2006/08/refuse_to_b...
Thatcher is an extremely fascinating woman (I say this as a centre-left leaning person).

If you're looking for a very balanced view of her rise to power, exercise of it, then fall go on youtube and search for the 3 part BBC series "Tory! Tory! Tory!". It's amazing anybody, let alone a woman, pulled through it all (she had exceptionally good luck with timing, especially in her early PM years).
How can it not be? We are talking about public spaces here.
Not true. I am resident in Swindon and I don't know anyone who is 'terrified' of the magic roundabout. On the whole, we rather like it.

Caveat: I am talking about driving around it in a car. I wouldn't want to cycle around it when it is busy.
Any number of ways. For example pitching behind closed doors to potential customers.

Others don't have customers, they trade with their own money (not just small-time traders, by the way).
ha, yeah very muich in the same boat. been following some of the zettel blogs for years and have read an ungodly number of posts, but it still hasn't entirely clicked — that said, I've moved entirely to plain text for note-taking and it's been a godsend moving out of evernote.
He wrote an example argument to how one could argue depression away in the same way. He does not seem to encourage that kind of arguing, just showing how stupid the "5 out of x symptoms does not equal an illness" argument is.
This is a fantastic idea. It's kind of the opposite or at least going in a tangential direction from something like Wirecutter. Instead of recommending the solution that will be merely adequate for the majority of people you would recommend the solution that would be the absolute best but may appeal to a smaller audience.
How China Tracks Everyone [video]
> Now could you explain away major depression using the same logic?

> You can yes

> You seem to think I’m arguing depression doesn’t exist. I am not.

That is precisely what you were trying to do. And the response to your comment was in fact civil. Claiming that your argument is fallacious attacks your argument, not you, and is perfectly appropriate for civil discourse.
False positives.

(See also: smart speakers listening for a hotword.)
> You know what? I'm glad someone spoke to me that way. It got me up and motivated to work on myself. I can't imagine how poorly I would have turned out if I was coddled and allowed to stay in bed and read about all of these new pop-psych diseases I could blame. But that's just me. Maybe I can reach someone the way I was reached.

I think that is the problem. Maybe it is just you. The language you use, coddling, and how you speak of mental diseases as if it's some made up thing suggest maybe you weren't going through what others are going through.

> Maybe I can reach someone the way I was reached.

I doubt it. I read your first comment and then the edit, and thought maybe you'd come to your senses, but no. You do lack empathy and understanding. You sound very like your not trying to reach some one, instead, you're trying to tell them how it is from your point of view. No empathy. People actually suffering don't need that from you.
Disrespect? Ignorance? They're huge fans of surveillance capitalism? The more GDPR rules and further privacy regulations such as this help prevent this practice, the better.

Consent should not be assumed and should be revokable if ever given. Yes means yes -- everything else means no.
I just don’t like tinkering. I want what you describe but I what to pay with money, not time. Simply a raspberry with a good case, a good psu researched and tested by someone else. They aren’t that easy to find. The market for those of us who are happy to pay $50 for a case and $50 for a psu to house a $30 computer is slim I suppose.

But the pi does have a bit of a dual personality problem where it is made cheap enough to be a toy or hobby thing but people often want to run them unattended for years.

I’m not trolling I’m genuinely looking for advice on more recommended psu’s, cases, raspberry clones etc that don’t require any modding and still makes a 5 year uptime server from a pi.
I have the "Offical Raspberry Pi 4 Power Supply" from CanaKit. $8 from CanaKit, also available through Amazon.
Love this. Adding to my `.emacs` now :)
IMO, the image showing all the various Siri interactions should be at the very top. It succinctly describes the product quite nicely.
I can alrady imagine a three-year waiting list to get new apps remotely installed, which then inevitably fails under common international travel circumstances.
Yes, there are several details that I did not mention (Proposition 8 reductions, appraisal of improvements, base year value transfers, etc.)

> The actual rate of inflation is not a factor.

Incorrect. The change in base year value is less than or equal to inflation. Proposition 13 allowed annual adjustments to the base year value by “the inflationary rate not to exceed 2 percent” (California Constitution XIII A http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xh...), which the legislature implemented as the lesser of “the California Consumer Price Index for all items” and 2% (RTC 51 http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection...). See the most recent letter to assessors for the actual numbers (https://www.boe.ca.gov/proptaxes/pdf/lta19050.pdf). But I take your point that I should have said “adjusted by up to 2% per year” instead of “adjusted for inflation” above, since it usually isn’t fully adjusted for inflation.
This has been rolling out for a couple years across parts of the US government. The primary objective, as I understand it, is to eliminate the pervasive use of WhatsApp and Gmail for unclassified communication for security reasons.
The answer is yes. It sadly happens all the time. Death sentences should not be a thing.
Highly cynical statements by highly politicized scientists.

What could go wrong?
"If I don't want to wash a fence, I can't think about how to wash the fence. I go into complete lockup. I ask the question, "how do I wash the fence?" and the answer will not come to me.

I can't get to "first I need a bucket and water." "

This is so true! I'm ADHD, diagnosed and tried medications for a while, they helped, but had other issues so I stopped. What really helped was the realization that there are tasks where I can't even begin. I then gradually trained myself to think about the first thing and just focus on that. Don't feel like getting up from bed? Thing about moving my hand, then make it move the covers off, then move my legs and so on. Soon the momentum develops and I find it easier to do whatever I didn't feel like doing. Now my default is to just think about the very first thing and take it from there. It took me a while but has worked wonders for me.
Digital Ocean used to hand out SSDs without scrubbing them.

https://github.com/fog/fog/issues/2525
If emacs keyboard macros haven't bridged the gap for you, try https://github.com/magnars/multiple-cursors.el

Keyboard macros: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/KeyboardMacros
Amazon's prime's 66% content is user uploaded
> A local, on-device facial recognition programmed to immediately discard information on unrecognized faces has exactly zero privacy impact. (See also: smart speakers listening for a hotword.)

This just isn't true, though. Hotword detection fails frequently for me with Siri, Google Home, and Alexa. I haven't tried the others. They all pick up unrelated sounds and record them as if the hotword was spoken when it definitely was not. Not even a similar sounding set of words.

There are absolutely privacy implications for technology that does automated scanning and recognition of its environment. They are buggy, as all programs are, and they are hackable, as all programs are.

Being both potentially buggy, potentially hackable, and constantly alert and running algorithms on their environment is absolutely a valid and real privacy concern.
I get the impression he’s trying to extort Apple into buying this new company — which, if true, is not cool man
Ethics is a field with a long, rich history of study and many-threaded tapestries of thought. It's certainly not "whatever you want it to be", although there are schools that do what you suggest - picking the end point they wish to arrive at and and trying to reverse engineer the ethics that would lead to it.
Well there is a bit of a difference it is unlikely a web browser is going to directly cause of a person's death.
I wish everyone had gone w/ the nat geo test instead of 23andme. Seems much more valuable and I liked my results more comparing the two.
At one job we actually had to give up on take-home challenges basically because a good, humble junior was indistinguishable from a good, clearly-thinking senior
Not all funds are looking for new investors. Some just grow their own money, and outside investors would limit their agility.
French tourists face jail term for stealing sand
When I first started reading it, I thought he was going to tell us all the sand was gone or the beach was too polluted.
Eventually, there'd have to be a leaked anonymous source?

"Fund beats S&P by 20% for 20 years straight" is a good story?
Yes! https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server
It's a shame that saying "I don't know" isn't as culturally acceptable in many orgs. Technology is incredibly vast and entirely designed by humans, more people than you could ever imagine in the enterprise actually have no idea what they are doing.

Whenever I have casual conversations with individuals that have the same skillset as me, outside of the environment where I wear my professional "all knowing" persona - Admitting that you don't understand something sparks incredible conversations.

What's even more incredible, is that every time I've stood up and said "I actually have no idea how X works. It is magic to me." Every single time somebody else in the room that had me completely convinced they had a strong grasp on those concepts will also admit they don't know either.

These answers are also my red flags. But I place more blame on culture than the individual sometimes.
Yes, without the context it could be misleading that is why there is the hyperlink, so one can understand more.

Irrespective of what party is in power now or previously, the policy-makers should not be making these crazy claims. Please understand this is not a race to the bottom, anyone who holds public office should be held accountable. A countless number of people will take their words as the truth.

And to answer your question yes many of these people still hold the office and all comments were made when they held the office.
I can not not to find parallels with Xi. Just Modi, he looked like a god sent safe candidate for party leadership: unaligned, far from being a clear kleptocrat, and having just enough of his own skill and charisma to hold the seat on his own till last of nineties era elites retire.

Now people who propped him out can't regret it more.
And being a small country in gigantic bloc in a world of superpower real-politik is worth more than soverignty
Please don't join HN threads just to look for an ideological argument (for instance, "the sin of enjoying another culture's music").

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I am not an American. Also, EU is anything but convenience in trade.

-It had been a peaceful night in Europe where all the women are strong, the men are good looking, and the children are above average. Martin woke up on his EU regulated bed and looked through his EU regulated window. This night, Martin had slept like a baby thanks to the 109 EU regulations concerning pillows, the 5 EU regulations concerning pillow cases, and the 50 EU laws regulating duvets and sheets. Martin went to brush his teeth with his toothbrush regulated by 31 EU laws.

After that, our EU-regulated man went to his EU regulated kitchen to grab a Class 1 EU regulated apple. For the benefit of society, the EU had defined what a “class 1” fruit actually is: to class a "Red Variety" apple as "class 1" then 50% of its surface must be red. To class a "Mixed red coloring variety" of apple as a "class 1" apple 33% of its surface must be red, and so it goes for the 3 quality classes and 287 individually named apple varieties. Martin ate fruits and vegetables because the government told him it is the right thing to do. He switched the TV on and listened to the “eat five fruits and vegetables” government ad with attention. Martin’s apple was not very tasty, but at least it was controlled by a European central authority. “Isn’t that great,” thought Martin, “the EU takes care of our food. We now can eat only nice and safe products!” Martin is paying 40% more for his food because of the EU’s highly protectionist agricultural policies, but it is the price one has to pay for civilization.

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I don't know much (anything, really) about this so please don't construe my comment as one of any judgement. I'm really just curious to learn more.

A quick search shows that 9.4% of kids are diagnosed with ADHD.[1] (It's also the exact same percentage of total population with diabetes, which society seems to treat as an epidemic [2]) Of those kids, over 60% were on medication. Maybe I'm naive, but that seems like a lot. Do you think there are really that many kids who have "a debilitating condition"? The source lists a "behavior or conduct problem" as the number one reason to be diagnosed. That...seems a little suspect to me at first blush, but again, this isn't something I have much knowledge about.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/data.html

[2] https://www.diabetes.org/resources/statistics/statistics-abo...
Exactly, majority of the people in many of the states in the US believes gay marriage to be unethical.

I mean, not long ago, these same majority of people wouldn’t have voted for African americans to go to the same schools as white children.

And that’s all within this current generation
Yes, indeed. You can also do that, and other small variations on it depending on the context, with a macro.

You go to the end of "josh", press F3, add a comma and a space and you delete the rest of the line, until "sam" is now the next symbol after your cursor. Then you go to the end of the line (C-e) and press F4. Your macro is now recorded. To call it, press F4 repeatedly until everything is on one line.

As a bonus, you can actually name your macro, assign a keybinding to it, and can also save it as Lisp code.
Of course it's probably mentioned in the user manual and mentioned in the warranty if you use unapproved filters your warranty is null and void.
Bill Maher: The Zuck Stops Here
yeah in programming you get a feeling of if someone is really uncomfortable pair programming.
What makes you think he has better information this time?
It’s just for this sort of turn of events that hn should allow a limited number of memes and emojis.
Your point as a whole stands, but I think even saying “we don’t have data” misrepresents the situation. We have strong theoretical reasons, from our understandings of physics and biology, to believe that there will be no harmful effects. An expert would reasonably say to someone, either a layman or another expert, “5G is safe.”
Has anyone in the world actually delivered effective, large scale software that was primarily pair programmed?

Genuine question. It would be fascinating if there were documented examples.

Note that this is distinct from having a company culture where pair programming is common. I am skeptical that just because you occasionally look over each other’s shoulder and exchange ideas, that the software ends up being fundamentally different from the ground up. It seems unlikely that two people would both decide to rewrite an entire subcomponent of the project from scratch, whereas individuals do that often. And the results turn out better (but only when the person is an effective programmer, otherwise it’s just a mess).

I don’t think you’d learn much from pairing with me. You’d see me sitting, staring at the screen for long periods of time, saying nothing. Or experimenting with pasting various code tweaks into a repl. The final result that makes it into a text editor is the outcome of both processes, and these have long time horizons. Sometimes far longer than someone else could reasonably tolerate.
Of course it's probably mentioned in the user manual and mentioned in the warranty if you use unapproved filters your warranty is null and void. However, those are almost never read by the buyers.
I’ve been using this for a few things, and while it’s a little more unwieldy than Sublime’s it works fine for most of my uses so I’d definitely recommend giving it a go.
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Please stop using HN for political, ideological, and/or national flamewar. You've been doing it repeatedly, and we ban that sort of account. It's not what this site is for, as you'll see if you read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
The largest chunk, $300 million, was a buy-in from GlaxoSmithKline, with which it purchased access to the database and research.

Given the slowing pace of drug development, that was probably a very good "investment" by GSK. But maybe it was a bad one for 23andMe if it limits the scope of deals they can do with other pharmaceutical companies.
I have a few requests for you:

1. Allow people to enter transactions ahead of time and plan ahead. I dropped Mint in favor of Quicken because no other tool allows me to properly plan ahead. But Quicken still lacks support for a number of financial institutions as well as stock options.

2. Please support stock options and non-public wealth tracking. Quicken has to be shoehorned into it, Personal Finance supports it but doesn’t allow you to plan ahead. You could do a lot here for people.

3. Have it be cross-platform. I wish I could edit Quicken transactions on my phone but I get this dumbed down synced version that is practically useless.

Put those three in and I’ll be one happy user.
It's easier to sue someone / take them to court.
(both criminal court and civil court)

Also much, (like a LOT), cheaper to get local lawyers to handle non-international things.

Easier to ruin their life - shaming someone in the US could be devastating to their entire future work and possibly family life. Knowing how / where to do such in other countries is not normal domain knowledge.

You also don't need a passport to travel to their place and punch them in the face.

When actually doing the work:
It's easier to figure time zones, weather issues, and holidays as well.

Language / accent barriers cost time and are extra work too.

Given the above situations, work done cheaper over-the-border has to be re-checked by someone local for security issues / backdoors are more of an issue.

In my very small data points / experiences, ymmv.
Wonder how this compares to AdGuard[0]

[0]https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html

EDIT: They have a lot more products than just DNS (if you poke around the site)
To build on what you've said, I've learned from experience that alternative data can be misleading in the presence of unusual tail events. It's the fundamental bias-variance tradeoff. I was benchmarking one of our simple models (based on known causal variables) with another from a third-party that claims to be augmented with alternative data. When things were normal, both models behaved similarly. When things were out of left field, the alternative data model tended to be more wrong, whereas the simple model tended to be more robust and less wrong.

This is a surprising but well-known phenomenon in mathematical modeling [1, 2] -- simple models tend to outperform complex models in complex situations.

Complex models can give you accuracy refinements during normal situations but need to be detuned/weighted-reduced during abnormal situations.

[1] https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2012/09/17/robustness-of-simp...

[2] https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/why-forecasts-fail-what-...
Cryptography has always been used by militaries, and was legally considered a munition back in the 1990s. Since then, two courts have ruled that cryptographic source code is protected by the First Amendment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_i...
Our team made it. Ask us anything.
Pah! I laugh at your pathetic 'magic roundabout', where the roundabouts don't even overlap.
Ah my bad, I think I misread this paragraph:

> Apple sued Williams in August, alleging that he breached an intellectual property agreement and a duty of loyalty to the company by planning his new startup while on company time at Apple, spending hours on the phone with colleagues who eventually joined the venture.
Perfect - I'll try this out. Thanks for helping me out despite my newby-ness!
I don’t know about the rest of the EU but in Belgium you cannot point it at the sidewalk. You can only film your own property, not a public space.