skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hot take: fighting this is a losing battle, because you’re fighting against technology. Can you think of a single technology that society has successfully rejected? It’s pretty hard.

In general, once the tech to do X exists, then X will find a way to exist.

Instead of crucifying Clearview, it might be better to open a dialogue about regulation in this space. But even that has problems; bitcoin was eventually accepted. Yet ICO regulation shows that it’s worth trying.

The point is, this kind of tech can be helpful. Feynman once cited a quote along the lines of “Science is a key that unlocks the door to heaven, but the same key unlocks the door to hell.” It seems relevant here.
Imagine reading someone else’s mind, only to discover that they are reading yours... Mind-stack overflow?
Haha, dude, I remember that. They were definitely breaking OSHA rules. They had something like 3x the dudes per bathroom allowed

I used to just go home when I couldn't find an available bathroom. Fuck that company
From what I recall of the blogosphere reaction when the iPad Pro first came out, I think it having a 120Hz refresh rate had a lot to do with it. Not sure if the Surface has since caught up, but the generation of the Surface out at the iPad Pro’s release wasn’t nearly as responsive-feeling.
“X is better than coal” is damning with faint praise.

“At least I am not a mass murderer.”
Data point - of my close friends in our 20s the stressed founders were the ones to go bald. It could be genetics, but it’s interesting.
Fair question. The desktop is still around. As long as plain old laptops or desktop machines are required (which is still a high percentage of computers) and there are developer who want to write lean platform independend applications, Qt has a good chance to being considered. The embedded market is very attractive for Qt. Actually it is also very suited for server side applications and supported async style long before Node.js was invented. The mobile market is likely lost though, and technologies like Dart/Flutter will also go towards the desktop and already support web development.
The normalization issue is not about quotients at all. It's https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08174 "Failure of Normalization in Impredicative Type Theory with Proof-Irrelevant Propositional Equality"
Even if Clearview somehow shuts down...this sort of thing is basically inevitable without laws to protect our privacy. And honestly, all of these companies that might at least complain when Clearview does it would gladly share this data with the federal government. So I'd be surprised if at least some federal law enforcement agencies have had access to equivalent (and probably better) technology for quite awhile.
Reality doesn’t matter, the naysayers will be dumping again on APPL very shortly. 33 Quarters since SJ died, it’s over!
I see that as a problem also, yes. Not sure how to find a way around it at this point. Hoping to find innovators who trust us.

We're not even saving the file data, just matching the file names. Its too heavy in any other way for us.

We got a request from a Law Firm who needed HIPAA and I checked the requirements and we kind of comply. This means besides the topics and the recipients we don't save data.

Also, our system is light enough to be deployed in a small AWS machine into a custom cloud, but I don't think this would help. This would jsuit make it more complicated?
I wouldn't make my worst enemy try to program without the internet...
Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
I know there are lots of really interesting problems out there waiting to be solved, but I haven't been exposed to much in the software world besides web technologies.

I'd love to hear about what interesting problems (technically or otherwise) you're working on -- and if you're willing to share more, I'm curious how you ended up working on them.

Thank you :)
There’s going to be legislation. That’s more or less a given at this point. The question is: can we actually get good legislation? My fear is that we’ll get something more along the lines of the EU cookie directive than a full-on GDPR.

So instead of worrying that your biometric data could be captured anywhere and used for anything without your knowledge, you now have to click “I accept” before engaging in any activity with a business or government entity, which then establishes your consent to your biometric data being captured anywhere and used for anything without your knowledge.
I have more energy since shifting towards a vegan diet-- mid-day slumps are rare now and I have more energy after work in the evening as well.

Work on complex coding and DevOps tasks continues as before.
Reports: Best and Brightest Don't Want to Work at Big Tech Companies Anymore
Absolutely this... if it doesn't affect buying decisions it doesn't matter. Whining about it without changing behavior is a waste of time.

From what I've seen the most important factors in customer use and purchasing behavior are user experience, user experience, user experience, user experience, and user experience, in that order. Did I mention user experience?

I've even been a little shocked in the B2B market by how rarely corporate customers ask about privacy or security. Only the most seriously security-conscious customers have ever asked my company about e.g. what kind of crypto we use, and these are people dealing with financial or national security data. Everyone else seems to not even care.
According to news reports from the time, both Rite Aid and CVS initially supported NFC payments (at least at some locations), then proceeded to disable them shortly after Apple Pay launched:

https://www.macrumors.com/2014/10/25/cvs-disabling-nfc-apple...
What was weak about the article and study?
Those numbers are surprising to me. Have latency charts to share? And are you using think time? http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/detail.asp
Make them pay restitution, bar them from the career they committed fraud in.

I don't know - it seems like we jump to prison way too early for so many offenses, why not try more reparative approaches first.
>The walled garden has never been a problem, more of a strength (integration, cohesion, etc).

>My music is in Spotify and Apple Music, my video is Netflix and Amazon Prime and Apple+, my email is Gmail, my eBooks in Kindle for Mac and iOS, I talk with friends with Skype, Facetime, Messenger and Whatsup. Even my iCloud apps (Calendar, email, etc) are available from any browser.

How do you actually benefit from the 'cohesion' in this situation, more say than my KDE/android setup which provides fairly seamless integration between my phone and computer?
I was confused for a moment there about how GitHub could be a replacement for Microsoft's ActiveX Data Objects.
Dont use FB, but for FF I use a plugin to block this type of behavior.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-cont...
Yeah, I think "forking" iOS was a fine decision at this point but I really hope they make the aggressive product decisions that are really needed to turn it into a practical general-purpose machine for users who aren't just content consumers.

Also, I don't think they will. But I hope it anyway.
I just listened to an episode of the Hidden Brain podcast from last May: https://www.npr.org/2019/05/09/721733303/whats-not-on-the-te...

The subject being interviewed is a Nobel Prize winning economist, James Heckman. The starting point was noting that people who get a GED (on average) score just as well on IQ tests as those getting an ordinary HS diploma. However, their life outcomes tend to be much worse than those who got a HS diploma the ordinary way. Why?

The economist said that 150 years ago schools taught reading, writing, and arithmetic, but spent as much time on "character building" lessons: diligence, persistence, working well with others, etc, but that mostly was removed by the mid 20th century for a couple of reasons. One was that the character building exercises were cast in terms of Protestantism, and as the US became more diverse, there was a push against it. Second, psychology was in the thrall of things that could be machine scored like IQ tests and looked down on squishy character traits.

Anyway, although the GED students did as well on IQ tests, they did substantially worse than normal HS graduates when scored on those other personality skills (not traits, the economist said, since those things can be taught to a large degree).

In the mid 60s a controlled experiment was run where a preschool for impoverished kids were split into the treatment group and the control group. The treatment group's teachers did non-standard stuff, eg, simply exposing the kids to the larger world by taking them on field trips to parts of the city they would never otherwise experience. They were read stories with those character building traits about fairness, persistence, etc. The teachers built relationships with the parents and emphasized how important the parent-child relationship was and not to expect that learning is simply the teacher's job. They provided child care for single/working mothers. This intervention lasted two years of preschool, so basically ages 3-5.

The kids were tested at age 10 and everyone was disappointed that there was no difference. But the economist (and others) revisited the test subjects decades later and found there was a profound difference in outcomes. The treatment group attained higher levels of education, had better incomes, better health, and lower crime involvement. The children of the treatment group were substantially better off in those regards than those of the control group.
Why? Why does someone allude to a point without saying it. Perhaps because even mentioning it brings with it a certain level of controversy and thus speaking about it indirectly allows more focus on the topic at hand. Also, while there is one in particular, there are other needs listed that are often not given the full consideration (though the others rank higher of the hierarchy, and thus if the discussion is only on ensuring people have the lowest level met, the other needs aren't within scope).
There's a Shawshank Redemption joke hidden in the headline, but I'm just going to go with heartfelt congratulations instead. Good job on turning that spiral upwards!
You should vote for policies and politicians that advocate for strong social safety nets.
RealityEngines’ AI could help small businesses overcome the data gap
https://www.macrumors.com/2014/10/25/cvs-disabling-nfc-apple... mentions Rite Aid and CVS disabling all contactless payments, after previously supporting them, shortly after Apple Pay launched.
You can't go wrong with either one (Kotlin, C#) tbh. The Microsoft Docs and Jetbrains docs are pretty decent.
>Do you mean the "Client attorney privilege"? Or that we just resell their data?

The fact that you are bothering with a distinction is concerning. The answer is you don't disclose anything. Lawyers are in the business of keeping secrets. Any suggestion of leakiness in your product is an automatic nope.
The probability of your data being seen by another human and attributed to you is 0.00000001%. You have better chance of winning lotteries than this. Only ultra losers whose time is worthless or Ultra Rich who have lots to lose due to a data breach care about privacy.
It's just manufactured outrage because everything else is comfortable to them (it's usually white dudes because they don't face real persecution in life and they have to manufacture this so that they can claim to be a victim)
Relative poverty is really a proxy for social exclusion/marginalization. You don't solve "poverty" by giving people more money, you solve it by strenghtening local communities, building solid institutions and enhancing social capital. This is the best foundation for solid middle-class values, which in turn are the catalyst for self-sustaining growth in incomes.

(Of course meaning "poverty" in this relative sense, as opposed to the very real material deprivation that's common in least-developed countries, which often is addressed to a surprising extent simply by providing more financial capital.)
Actually just ran into this [1] today. Not production ready, but you could hack something together with it. It was even trained on Wikipedia articles.

[1]: https://rajpurkar.github.io/SQuAD-explorer/
> This is how they keep people in.

But sometimes, it also keeps iOS users out of stuff. For example, in Germany, Android has a market share of 70%. Hence, iMessage is useless here, because the majority can’t be reached. Thus, WhatsApp has the biggest market share for messaging services.

Now, it probably doesn’t matter for Apple, but it prevents the iMessage experience for most iPhone users in Germany, because it’s kinda useless here. I guess the same is true for most European countries.
It'd be nice if they could sell a fixed 13 mbp like the new 16 model
Wild, sustainably caught fish is the diet to go for if you care about the environment and your own health. I'm not going to give flak to vegans, their self-sacrifice is indicative of real care for their fellow beings.
AMD Radeon RX 5700 vs. Nvidia RTX 2060 Super: 11 Game Performance Benchmarks
In UK, and most of Europe AFAIK, the "mailbox" is a hole that goes through to inside the house. The thief would probably have to break in to the house to get the code. Porch pirates are specifically avoiding breaking-and-entering.
I can relate, somewhat.

My ambition is (was) borne out of my absolute drive to never be in the same situation I was when I was younger. Also allowed me to dig myself unapologetically into my work and it was a way of escaping when I was younger too.

But I’m 30 now, my ambition is waning. And a lot of what I learned during my “hot passion” years is already sort of old and nothing is truly fundamental in my area (devops/SRE/sysadmin).

If I had one bit of advice, it would be to try pacing yourself and think long term, I wish I’d done university and bitten the bullet of it. I recently failed a google interview for instance because I didn’t think about something foundational in sorting. And that really struck me hard. If I’d gone to university and actually focused on studying I would have been much better. But I’m so risk averse that I would never risk taking time off working to study.

I think eventually you’ll settle. Based on my single data point. I’d prepare for that.
I'm immediately reminded of the Crash Test Dummies song: https://www.songfacts.com/facts/crash-test-dummies/mmm-mmm-m...
Can you think of a single technology that society has successfully rejected?

Eugenics?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics
"Others are found in vegan foods, but only in meagre amounts; to get the minimum amount of vitamin B6 required each day (1.3 mg) from one of the richest plant sources, potatoes, you’d have to eat about five cups’ worth (equivalent to roughly 750g or 1.6lb). Delicious, but not particularly practical."

Chickpeas, canned, 1 cup 1.1mg of vitamin B6 55% DV
Source: https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminB6-HealthProfession...

And let's not talk about their claim that omega3 cannot be found in plants or that vitamin D can only come from supplements...
Poor people need more money.

There is nothing else to this article other than this tautology.
Same. I come from a long line of prematurely gray haired folks. I'm 42 and my hair and beard are almost entirely white. I definitely have a problem with stress, though given the number of family members (distant and otherwise) that have the same coloring I suspect there's more to it than just that.
Hence why we're against treating said "mostly packaged, mass produced crap" the same as local European food.
Programming without the internet isn’t hard. It’s like driving without a GPS. You have to commit more to memory, or, you know, use offline resources.
This is a pretty well written article. Hopefully people read past the headline. The most important bit being "could" affect. Some limited tests have been done on kids which found some difference but its not clear if it has any effect on adults.

It also sounds like a vegan diet with a few nutritional supplements could entirely solve the issue. At the very least we know that we can hugely reduce our meat consumption with positive outcomes.
"Free software" is about freedom, not price. Putting the research that is your life's work inside of proprietary software that can be taken away from you, forever, at any time — that seems foolish.
You are probably right. The thing is, if Apple wants to drive more iPad sales, they really need to open up what it is allowed to do. iPads from 5+ years ago are still great for almost anything but the most intense games.

I have the 9.7" iPad Pro, which is something like 3 years old by now. I have no reason to upgrade. Swift Playgrounds is a great app and has a built-in compiler. It's very nearly an IDE at this point. On my iPad, it compiles slowly and really eats the battery. But I don't really care; it's just a toy app. If Apple were to allow things compiled in Swift Playgrounds to be run, say, via the Shortcuts app (in any shortcut I created), I'd be excited to start really developing code on the iPad, and I'd want to buy a new iPad to enable that.
Was your previous non-vegan diet actually good? As in high on fibrous veggies, moderate amount of complex carbs, low on sugar and high on high quality protein?

When people switch to vegan they essentially rely more on home cooked meals and stay away from junk it doesn’t mean that a vegan diet is better than a non vegan diet of the same quality.

If you switch from twinkies to lentil patties and cauliflower rice it’s no wonder that you feel better.
The iPod Video and lower had some pretty incredible tools and firmwares available looking back. I was part of the iPod Wizard team (mostly helped with mapping hex locations on new firmware releases and created a handful of themes, including backporting the color themes to the 4-tone generations) and contributed a bit to the iPodLinux project. At one point, I had a bootloader that let me switch between the normal firmware, Rockbox, iPodLinux, and iPod Wiki (all of Wikipedia viewable offline on your iPod) available just be restarting my iPod. It was a dumb smart phone half a decade before the iPhone.

The devs on those teams really pushed that little MP3 player to do things it was never intended to do.
From the article:

"Other [nutrients] are found in vegan foods, but only in meagre amounts; to get the minimum amount of vitamin B6 required each day (1.3 mg) from one of the richest plant sources, potatoes, you’d have to eat about five cups’ worth (equivalent to roughly 750g or 1.6lb). Delicious, but not particularly practical."

And yet when you investigate plant sources of b6,

Banana:

Vitamin B6
per 200 Calories
0.8mg
(49% DV)

Beef:
Vitamin B6
per 200 Calories
0.4mg
(21% DV)

Interesting! Very interesting! I wonder what percentage of readers of this article are going to investigate what this authoritative science writer says for themselves? After all, why not trust the expert with a graduate degree working for the BBC?

So which is it, is the author unable to investigate in the most basic manner the actual B6 content in foods, when she apparently has a doctorate, or is this some sort of propagandist trash article with an agenda? Because I'm not sure what other options there are based on the way the quoted paragraph is written.

Moreover, what are the implications for the BBC's editorial standards that something like this was greenlit?
Fair enough, but nothing about eating 50kg of meat per person per year suggests not treating it as primary or essential.
> Along with the children who received soup with added oil, they also did the best on a test of arithmetic ability.

So huh, really, it was the extra calories, not the meat per se.

> In the winter months, when the sun is weaker, omnivores living in the UK have nearly 40% more vitamin D3 in their blood than vegans.

...Because milk is artificially supplemented with D3! Funny that.

> No one has looked into how this might be affecting their cognitive abilities yet

So don't be a scaremonger?

> As for Gandhi

That renowned nutritionist!
My workflow was extremely simple; a terminal window, with cutting-edge tools like ripgrep to search for patterns and neovim to edit. When I had made a change, I ran make.

When I wanted to test out a change, I had print statements in the clang source code and wrote a small test file which I could use to decide whether the prints I saw matched the prints I expected to see. Revolutionary stuff, I know. One trick I like when working with huge projects is to do my printf debugging with `fprintf(stderr, ...)` instead of the project's standard logging, just to avoid having to fight with log levels and such. (These print statements should obviously be removed once they're no longer necessary; here again, using fprintf helps, because they stand out.)

I didn't even think about tests, but I'm happy to report now that the entire test suite still works after my change. I don't think any kind of test-driven debugging would have worked here; almost none of the challenge was in the actual code behind the feature, it was all mostly just work to try to understand the code base. For example, "Oh, this looks like it's where lambdas are parsed. Let me add a print here and try to compile a file with a lambda to see if I'm right", or "Ok, I think I should end up in this branch if I have a fat arrow token in a lambda expression, let's add a print statement and modify the test file to check if that's true".
Probably due to eating less simple carbs and sugars.
Please don't use circle radius for indicating the number of observations. It is really easy to confuse the circle radius with the geographic extent of the observations, when in reality they are likely more tightly clustered.

Rather, consider using a heatmap to show the proportional density of observations in a way that better highlights their geographic distribution.
Reading PDFs on Kindle Paperwhite is much more comfortable with KOReader. Thanks to https://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/ it can crop pages and reflow text unlike the native reader. It's not the best experience with some types of documents, but generally it works very well.

I don't have a solution for synchronization at this point. My current workflow is quite involved: import a document into Calibre, upload it to Kindle via Calibre wireless connection (KOReader supports it), read and highlight, get the modified doc back to Calibre, extract highlights with https://github.com/0xabu/pdfannots. It'd be more convenient to send new highlights from Kindle somewhere immediately without transferring the document itself. I haven't looked into it, but I believe it should be possible with a KOReader plugin.
And you can't forget - you need to get at least one with the silly notch in it.

Oh, and don't even consider emulators - the iOS device emulators are trash.
I haven't done a PCI project with windows in a long time. If it isn't compliant, it's probably because it's unmanaged.

If you use SCEP (Windows Defender Managed by SCCM) or other tools, you're probably ok. But don't quote me!
Planetes: https://myanimelist.net/anime/329/Planetes

Paranoia Agent: https://myanimelist.net/anime/323/Mousou_Dairinin?q=paranoia (this is amazing)

Samurai Champloo: https://myanimelist.net/anime/205/Samurai_Champloo

And of course, GITS: https://myanimelist.net/anime/467/Koukaku_Kidoutai__Stand_Al...
It's not just recent grads. I've noticed that an increasing number of established devs I personally know at Facebook, Google, and to a lesser degree Microsoft are growing pretty shy about telling people who they work for. They find it increasingly embarrassing.
Just want to note that "risk" is a highly malleable term, and "risk of risk" is not unheard of either.
The astounding thing about Apple is not the scale at which they operate, though that is impressive. It is the rate at which they still grow revenue concurrent with insane profitability and revenue diversification at that scale. Incredible business execution.

Their slow creep into healthcare is a particularly interesting longterm play, due to the size of the market if nothing else.