skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Radio technology has been in widespread use for over a century. The only health effects that have ever been conclusively demonstrated are due to heating of the tissue. A typical Wifi router with a few hundred mW of maximum power probably won't do much. The LTE transmitter in your phone is considerably more powerful and much closer to your body. Most likely the effects you have seen are entirely psychosomatic.
I think it's good that it is simple. People are constantly complaining about the excess of legalese in various contexts. A law that can be understood is cool and a breath of fresh air. I doubt the judges will have any trouble parsing between face blurring and face recognition.

Also, the definition excludes the face blurring use case. "'Face Recognition' means the automated searching for a reference image in an image repository." Although that detail does mean that if you're not searching for "a reference image" then you would technically be clear of the law's restriction. What if you build features based on a reference image then delete the image? Or what if what you're searching for is a person and the image is not the search target?

That I suspect would take more effort to parse. But the penalties are pretty light and the provable damages done by facial recognition are pretty minor, so if organizations get a lot of value out of facial recognition then they might want to try rolling the dice.
If keeping control of what apps get installed on an iPhone costs them good will with lots of developers, I think Apple is willing to make that sacrifice.

Epic has already shown that they will go to great lengths to get what they want, would you trust them with your customers medical data?
If curious see also

2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18959766

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6980058
Underground has a bunch of other issues as well, in the UK all records of the underground ducting have been lost in many areas in the 50-70 years since it was installed, which makes it a big headache.

Which makes fixing, replacing etc quite expensive and the quality can be suspect.
> We have a pretty good idea of what's going on based on the scientific method, not conjectures from single individuals.

Where do our theories come from, if not single individuals?
HTTPS shouldn't be any slower. The encryption is transparent to the proxy.
SHOW HN: Yet another Hacker News clone
The most upvoted comment, and the comment with the most amount of responses, is this one, which doesn't provide any insight to the story posted.
You think an unprivileged docker container is more dangerous than a curl to bash with sudo inside? I beg to differ.

If you care to please elaborate as to why I would be better off piping to bash rather than installing per the documentation? I am honestly interested in your take.
The objection I have against CoCs is that there’s no actual evidence they work.
No, it won't matter. Any bad press from this will absolutely not adversely affect their brand enough to move the needle.
Not for all purposes, no. You don't have an unlimited right to publish other people's imagery for commercial purposes absent permission, even if they are photographed in public, and they would be able to recover damages from you for doing so.
What a dog’s breakfast of a story. What’s with the LSD blurb?
Just wear a mask and stop pointing the finger at people protesting institutionalised oppression as an excuse not to wear a mask.
Plus we spent $31 Billion more than Abbott/Turnbull told the voters it would cost.

We would have saved $11 Billion if the original FttP rollout, which had just begun, was allowed to proceed.

The valuations of Murdoch's decrepit coax network and Telstra's ancient copper network have skyrocketed, now that they have been forced back in as the last mile delivery to the home.

I read recently that given better pricing of fibre rollouts nowadays, it would take $7 Billion to rectify this failure for most of Australia, by completing the FttP network that got cancelled.

Political lies and/or gross incompetence resulted in spending 20% more than fibre to the home, and ending up with unreliable much slower copper to the home, and harder to maintain mish mash of complexity via grab bag of mixed technology in use now.
No, I'm not trolling, and I do NOT believe the earth is flat. Everything about this "pandemic" seems artificial. It's been driven by media creating fear and hysteria, compromised scientists driven by control and fame, and politicians driven by further power. If you're curious for more perspective on understanding the false narrative, check out coronacircus.com or r/LockdownSkepticism — even if you think I'm crazy, maybe you'll have better insight into how I am crazy.
Note that some implementations re-use ephemeral keys on DHE, this was one of the finding of LOGJAM, and I'm not sure if this has been fixed in every TLS libraries.

https://raccoon-attack.com/
Oh don't get me wrong, I'm aware I'm biased. You just picked a bad example. Just because lifting the SALT cap temporarily is politically advantageous, doesn't mean it doesn't help lots of people. All kinds of tax relief are on the table[1][2][3] as part of the Covid response, so why call just this one "political"?

If you live and work in the US, you probably pay US taxes, so you do have a dog in this fight whether you like it or not.

1. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/memorandum-d...

2. https://www.irs.gov/coronavirus/new-employer-tax-credits

3. https://www.irs.gov/coronavirus/coronavirus-tax-relief-for-b...
> How did you determine the posts are conspiracy theories ? Is that your personal opinion?

Well, on the front page at this moment:

"Mile Markers of Tyranny: Losing Our Freedoms On The Road From 9/11 To COVID-19": editorial about how lockdowns, mask mandates and "veiled threats of forced vaccinations" have "merely provided the architects of the American police state with an opportunity to flex their muscles". Cross-posted from the Rutherford Institute, an ultra-conservative Christian group, complete with a Ben Garrison cartoon.

"America's Caste System & 'Deviating From the Norm'": editorial which is "just asking questions" about whether the "culturally elite" are encouraging "weirdos, diversity, and individuality" to "weaken and divide the power of the masses."

"Is the Pandemic Over?": making the case that, uh, the pandemic is over, because "the latest reported weekly death count (August 29) was 370." This article links to an interactive graph at the CDC web site so you can check for yourself. I did, and a cursory glance shows that the article's entire premise is based on using data clearly marked as "incomplete"; the last complete week, August 8th, shows a death count of 6873. The week of August 29th is still marked as incomplete, but the count is now 1594. The answer to the question in the headline is, for the record, "No."

"We're Headed Toward Stagnation Unless The Fed Reins In Its Money Printing": an article arguing that our current recession actually started in 2011 because of "a downtrend in the monetary growth" and warning against another bailout because it will "redistribute further the already diluted real savings of the wealth generators" and how the real solution is, of course, "cutting to the bone government spending." Cross-posted from the Mises Institute, which is known for heterodox economic views, if you're being charitable, or being a bunch of cranky goldbugs, if you are not.

I mean, look. I'm not going to say ZeroHedge never gets breaking news right. But as someone who spent a while digging through the strange rabbit hole of Ron Paul/Lew Rockwell paleoconservative libertarianism, the similarities are really, really hard to miss -- and that mindset is definitely conspiratorial.
> "Was it ever a mainstream view? I thought it was just a conjecture, leading to the 'big crush', and was disproven long ago, way more than 2 decades ago."

How would one disprove the ultimate fate of the universe?
You cannot imply this, the stats is about US adult, many adult may also have the same speaker in their household.
Apple’s App Store ‘Deserves Scrutiny,’ Says Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg
You can write ordinary C code to run on them. You just need a separate compiler/linker/etc. because they have a different CPU architecture than your computer. For an ARM Cortex-M chip, you can use the `arm-none-eabi` GNU toolchain:

https://developer.arm.com/tools-and-software/open-source-sof...

But when you write a program for a microcontroller, you don't have an OS kernel, so your code needs to include drivers for anything that you want to communicate with.

It's a little outdated, but I like this introduction to STM8 chips (which this article also mentions) as a quick crash course on embedded C:

https://lujji.github.io/blog/bare-metal-programming-stm8/
Tell you what: I (a frequent protestor at the JC and elsewhere) will volunteer my face and address, and allow you to perform facial recognition to match my face at any public place in Portland, if every PPB employee will do the same.

Deal?

Presently, the only way to identify the police officers who are polluting our town with toxic gasses and brutalizing families who are trying to assemble to protest the existence of their employers, is by their face.

So don't pretend for a second like it's we, the protestors, who are trying to hide.
It is determined by the architecture, clock speed, memory architecture, time to wake from sleep, etc. So, some ISA, some other stuff. If you are familiar with the arch, you can guess pretty well, but in a big survey it seems like the point is you aren't.
Yeah, it will be some more years before you can simply write async stuff in Django and not worry about every single library that you use, whether it supports async or not.

That's why some years ago I gave up on Django altogether and moved to Nodejs. Much better experience writing async code.
It's literally just:

1. Here's a URL (custom to each user/applet). You can either GET or POST to it. No auth/headers required (the URL includes a token).

2. You can optionally submit a JSON in the format of {"value1": ..., "value2": ..., "value3": ...} and set up the applet to set those values as the notification title, body, link, or image.

Rather unfortunately, you can only specify three values in the JSON so you can only ever have three of those four properties filled in for a single notification. But you can set up multiple receiving URLs/applets such that you can send the first notification containing three of those properties and then a second notification containing the last property.
Oh god silly semantic games? really? Of course Bezos eats dirt because it's reasonable to assume without evidence to the contrary that Bezos eats food. It's reasonable to assume without evidence to the contrary that Bezos' food is no cleaner than yours and will contain some dirt.

Do we feel better about that now?

It's not reasonable to assume anything about the Intel Bezos has without evidence. Could be none. Could have hard evidence of crimes of the president and many senior politicians and public servants. Could be something in between those two. All are possible and there is no reason to discount any of it in the absence of evidence.

Good on you sticking up for the world's richest man who just hired a criminal though. It's important to maintian principle regardless of the optics.
I trust the iphone with my medical information because Apple has controls in place in their App Store review process to prevent that data being leaked out of the phone.

I do not trust Facebook to avoid leaking that data out of my phone.
New York. Italy.
> The music is absolutely terrible, it's going to ruin the film for me.

Music can be very polarizing, but once I recognized the Pink Floyd I thought it was a perfect track for the trailer.
> Shoot, they even rolled back some big privacy change in iOS 14 because Facebook complained about it.

I must have missed that news — could you share a link?
Book Review: Marketing Rebellion
One of them even murdered another citizen recently

It's widely agreed that an Antifa-supporting protester killed someone. whether it was murder we'll never know as he was killed by US Marshals prior to trial (and whether or not that was murder, we may not know any time soon either). there was a strong self-defense argument to be made - and yes I read the criminal complaint that was used to swear out the warrant, and don't think it would have stood up to close scrutiny.
My experience has been different.

I currently maintain about 280 different API integrations. I have a team that does constant maintenance. Usually 1-2 API breaking changes per day is what we see after you get past the stable big ones. Even versioned APIs kick you off the old version pretty regularly. In the upcoming months we have 3 scheduled version bumps that are mandatory as they will discontinue the old version completely. Not "use the new version for more features", like completely 100% "we are not supporting v2 any longer. You won't get responses in 60 days. Good luck."

It's easy to say, "they're doing versioning wrong" but it's the reality.

Everyone does oauth wrong. Everyone does versioning wrong. Everyone adds or removes fields that were once critical to someone's workflows. Maybe 25% of our integrations are a joy to work with. Once you get to the smaller players, things start to get weird.
Rain has negligible affect on EM propagation in the frequencies we are operating in.

See: http://gsp.humboldt.edu/OLM/Courses/GSP_216_Online/lesson2-1...
In the book it is revealed that the tester gave him _more_ pain than she'd ever used on any previous test. She almost wanted him to fail.
It's ok - thanks for the comment
I use them for PCB's - I don't have access an local version of OSH Park, so if I have boards fab'ed locally I am paying though the nose for them. (If anyone has a link to a decent OSH Park alt based in the UK I would love to give them a try)

If I need them "ASAP" even tacking on the £17 DHL shipping for 2-4 day shipping they still come out much cheaper than purchasing locally, but I normally just choose "standard" postage which means it takes ~10days from ordering until I have the boards in my hands but drops the shipping cost to ~£4. (shipping costs vary based on size and weight of the order)

I've yet to use lcsc for components because I've been burnt in the past from ordering IC's from china and when ordering anything over the value of £15 I often get handed a £8 handling fee from the postal service to process a few quid of import VAT which always grinds my gears, so I tend to shop locally for components. But I do plan to give them a try at some point.

EDIT in ref to jlcpcb: Just keep their capabilities in mind and set your EDA/CAD software to mm and not mil to save headaches if you are planning to use BGA's in your design.
That it's easy to set up means there's no risk to it going away because you haven't invested in it.
I have been enlightened - thanks!
Unfalsifiable conspiracies are my favorite kind!

There's got to be a natural law that, for any given situation, one can compose a scheme whereby no proof of anything would actually exist, but evil would still be done.
JEDI has been headline news on CNBC for the last year. DARPA has numerous highly public initiatives and partnerships with SV darlings. Working with the DoD is almost never a secret, it just isn't sexy.

The government didn't create Silicon Valley, Robert Noyce and the rest of the Traitorous 8 did. They did however bankroll semiconductor fabs here and in Texas for a few years but the world is better for it.
You call Reuters zero credibility but then link to some crank with a background in telecom litigation with no virology experience whatsoever who denies that we can sequence viral DNA?

https://davidcrowe.ca/cnp-wireless.com/dcroweresumelib.php

Holy shit, of course that nutjob is also an AIDS truther:

https://www.davidcrowe.ca/SciHealthEnv/alive-aids-stats.html

And still was in 2014! (Ctrl + F “David Crowe” in the comments):

https://retractionwatch.com/2014/09/26/publisher-issues-stat...

Find better role models.
The social media loophole seems ripe for exploit. As long as the destination of the content goes to a social platform it's all free game.

I wonder what they will consider a social platform as people develop new systems to get around this law. Cuz logic and unknown reasons.
Seems a little young for a mid life crisis...

I see a guy who was handsome, clean cut, ambitious and successful who quit as CEO of a growing business for no apparent reason to become a a long-haired degenerate who prides himself on riding a scooter and using LSD.

Is there a term for this phenomenon? Is it just a spectacular manifestation of burnout/stress?
> "Unless the rate of expansion starts to slow down or we have indication that it will ever reverse, there's no big crunch. The rate of expansion is increasing"

What if it is increasing because it is falling towards a great mass on the other side of the universe? That would still count as a big crunch in my opinion.
There isn’t a legal means for that to happen as long as it’s possible to profitably market to potential new customers, pricing innovation falling under that category.
I hope Vince Gilligan becomes aware of this for this next show after Better Call Saul.
The fact that people are still watching this movie 35 years later implies there is something very good about it.

Lynch distanced himself publicly from it, because it was an economic disaster bad on many levels, but I'll bet $100 that with some afterthought, people can recognize what is 'good' about it.

It's a genre defining feature, almost entirely unto it's own, the creative design was 'otherworldly' to the point it probably has not been matched in SciFi ever. Baron Harkonen's scene where he murders of his aid ... the scene where Paul sends his ultra-creepy sister Alia in, alone to 'face the emperor' and she murders Baron ... the representation of the Gild Navigators - just so well done.

Almost everyone but possibly Feyd (ie Sting) and maybe Duncan Idaho, maybe the Padishah Emperor was perfectly cast.

Lynch bit off more than he could chew, and there were too many characters in too little time.

You know when a creative representation just 'feels so right it's right'? For example with the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy? Frodo, Gandalf, the Elves - it was 'perfect' - it seemed to 'everyone' that 'this is right'.

I feel the creative direction with Lynch's Dune was that. Reverend Mother Gaius Mohiam from Lynch? I think this image is etched into our minds as 'exactly what she is like'. Our comparisons in the future will be in reference to her.

There was a very interesting version by Jorodowsky that looked really fun, however, I feel it was way too corny, and would have ended up more like Barbarella [1].

For those interested: Jurodovsky's Dune [2].

The missing ingredient in everyone else's Dune is the acid! I would say to Villeneuve "Ok, now take what you have done, and remake it while you are on an acid trip". It's a psychedelic movie about transcendence, God, realpolitik etc.. Hardcore stuff.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarella_(film)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodorowsky%27s_Dune
How does the first amendment protect your right to photograph others, and even if it does somehow, how does it protect your doing whatever you want with that photo?

If you take a photo of someone and don’t obtain their permission to use it aren’t you violating their right to privacy, which is clearly secured by the forth amendment?
I have 'lighght' as a tattoo on my ribs. No regrets.
Theoretically any distance is possible. Practically, we are limited by antenna size considerations.

For example, we are currently looking at powering an island across a distance of 30km with an end-to-end efficiency of around 60%.
23andMe Covid-19 Study Findings Published
In my opinion eugenics is only wrong when it is forced. I see nothing wrong with providing financial incentives for people to reproduce if they have qualities that society tends to find positive, such as having a high IQ or performing well on some exam. Obviously no metric will be perfect, but they are at least a better proxy for intelligence than a coin flip.
It’s incredible isn’t it?
Great, I'll be touch. The datasets are NLP and NLU derived correlation matrices used to cluster stocks in different ways outside of standard time-series
Their software is really good and every year gets you more so I've never felt like my $150 has been poorly spent. I could use the old version, but honestly I'd much rather use the newest.
Some people might say that it's for interactive use, not for programs. But to me the point of shell is that you can seamlessly cut and paste your interactive sessions and now you have full automation. It's an amazing way to quickly build programs.

one could argue that a shell based on python should be especially suitable for turning your commandline into scripts.

i have never tried xonsh but i have used the python repl to interactively build a python script

xonsh approach is just about the most unprincipled approach there is

could you possibly elaborate on that please?
Also there is a point where managing many threads become a load on the CPU, which my inderstanding is why Rust is not provinding green threads anymore.
Can you please give us a TLDR of MIT's 18.S096 and the strategies from the course you tried to adapt into this package?
Good point. It’s easy to forget this stuff isn’t obvious.
I thought people went to Instagram to flex.
now when it rains the internet drops out. How greats that. espesh for the elderly who rely on landline phones
The CDN isn't resolving, which makes the page a bit of a mess.
True, but the improved contrast would probably make it a no-brainer if the other issues were taken care of .
Tried installing NixOS a few days ago. Live CD created an appealing desktop environment, could not get it to install on a partition though. There is no installer to speak of, I followed the instructions closely but ended up with a starter configuration that lacked network access (which was required to install the network components; ikr). gave up.
Will we see a “Drop Amazon” site (and social media campaign) on the lines of “Drop Dropbox” [1] now? Or is Amazon too big and too entrenched that it’s almost a lost cause? [2]

[1]: https://www.drop-dropbox.com/

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/technology/blocking-the-t...
Radio waves were discovered by Hertz long before Tesla or Marconi were working in the field. When it comes to actual applications of radio, Marconi was certainly much more influential than Tesla despite him holding some early patents. It is also with noting that nationalism probably influenced the american court's ruling against the british Marconi Company [1].

[1] https://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_whoradio.html
Don't mention that microphone.
Mozilla used to have volunteer add-on reviewers, which meant slow turnaround, but worked OK.
Qualitatively different. Apple's cant risk looking weak here because this issue went to court. Epic could have had an out of court settlement with much better terms.
Lol ... as you probably know this sort of comment is not really appreciated here on hn ...
I think capital JAVA is enterprise notation
It’s the iPhone Camera App, not the camera. Control of white balance is available in other Apps. For example, the Adobe Lightroom App provides white balance control when taking pictures in the “professional” mode. The App is free in the App Store.
OS thread per connection? Nah. BEAM process per connection - hell yeah!