skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is one thing to have cameras for security and store records for a limited amount of time for police investigation and what not. But applying facial recognition, biometric analysis, and storing it indefinitely is whole another ballgame.
I don’t think there are enough unique human distinguishable colors to make this worthwhile. I imagine it wouldn’t be too hard to find a “collision”.
What is the shape of that regulation?
Because it fuckin' rocks, that's why.
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I don't have a problem with this. Most ppl don't know this but there are ppl who make a living harassing other ppl in malls or abusing associative learning to give ppl positive or negative feelings about where they are shopping. They use actual "models" if you want to call it that to influence your decision making everywhere you go. It's actually highly targeted and dangerously accurate.
You can do zero roll jump takeoffs if you have enough rotor speed. Watch this: https://youtu.be/9ISIlgMcb-U
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Ok, I see. So just so we're on the same page, for reference, the average surface temperature was thought to be 7.7 C in the last ice age. Converting both to Kelvin to account for the arbitrary zero point of Celsius, the 20th century was a 2.2% temperature increase relative to the ice age. Does your math agree?

I agree that a delta of 0.5 C is less dramatic than a delta of 6.2 C, but is your intuition in accordance with all that, and do you think percentage increases are useful here for building intuition? Where would you draw the line for "small" in terms of percentage change of temperature?

I also calculate that the Earth is 30% warmer than Mars, but you might want to double check my math.

Edit -- we could also consider that temperature is in most respects an exponential measure of physical quantities (E ~ e^kT). So the ratio increase in a physical quantity of interest (E2/E1) is already given, on a log scale, by an absolute temperature difference (T2 - T1).
so you suspect that some gene (evidence for which also exists "anecdotally") triggers a genetic response only in countries where this type of food isn't regularly consumed? because then this sounds like a wild guess prompted by suspicions and pseudoscience
Please don't take HN threads on generic tangents. I realize that that kind of thing can be provocative—we all have our buttons—but the idea here is to resist provocations toward the less interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Absent any other evidence, the quotation:

> "Overall I think this piece can work best if..."

is a suggestion (and a perfectly fine way to start a discussion).

Greenwald might have good reason to believe there's more to it than that based on a perceived history of political bias. But, based solely on the text of the email I'm inclined to give the editor the benefit of the doubt.

As a matter of fact, I was firmly in Greenwalds' camp before reading the email exchange. It does read like a bit of tantrum IMHO. It certainly doesn't scream "censorship".

I concede, said "tantrum" may actually be justified based on history that we aren't privy to, but the raw text of the exchange alone does not paint Mr Greenwald in the best light.
What about the other 159?
I've been doom-scrolling through this cursed page of comments, and this is one of the few salient points I've read. Kudos.
Yes. And why do you think I'm not upset about that dataset?
This argument assumes the court is looking only for compensatory damages whereas punitive damages are likely more applicable in an invasion of privacy case like this. No direct damages but the social implications demand a “whack on the nose” via punitive damages.
The key difference is the music streaming services aren't necessarily owned by the content producers. I'm assuming Spotify and Apple Music dominate streaming (could be wrong), whereas Hulu/Disney+/etc are all owned by the content producers. Netflix eventually merged into a production company too, which has only made it worse
Ho ho, bookmarking this for future use :P
I think they explicitly choose to run the same ad over and over again for 40-60 times to the same user to force that user to subscribe to Youtube Premium.

(Someone's evil A/B experiment resulted in such a high conversion rate they couldn't stop themselves.)
The user is referring to the Osborne effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
"Merchants should be able to hire humans that sit around looking at camera screens all day trying to find shopping patterns, shoplifters, etc."

There is no identification part in what you describe. Generic stats (how many person in the queue, etc.) are okay.

The issue is not facial detection but facial recognition.

They stored model of faces associated with data which mean they could point a camera at anyone in the street anywhere in the world and find back what is the data associated with that person.

Hiring humans would not result in creating and storing models of faces
> All forms of censorship have no place in a free society. Not by the government. Not by private enterprise.

People pay good money with good reason to have things curated for them. The New York Times decides what to publish and your local TV station decides what to air. That they choose to not print your article or letter to the editor or air your content is not out-of-bounds censorship. Why must Twitter or Facebook or YouTube be held to a looser standard? Or should the NYT print it all as well?
> your editor is just insisting you don’t spread misinformation.

The misinformation they don't like.
Pure clickbait? The design choices are indeed bizarre, even if the reason ends up being for legacy support, no?
Standard Bits, an ultra lo-fi video game named after the Mac's graphics blitter
This is reminiscent of Vinge's Rainbows End where 90% of every chip is DRM and 10% is actual functionality.
If I factually published some random website's password database and posted the link on Twitter, I'd expect them to take it down.

On the other hand, Twitter changed their rules now, so other people will be able to link to the data? I wouldn't be surprised if they have to add another epicycle soon when they don't suppress something the majority agrees they should.
I knew someone was going to bring up music streaming. Yes, it's indeed true that releases there are (mostly) available across the major platforms. The difference I think, is that music is a loss leader. record/streaming sales is a small drip in the bucket compared to other sources like touring/events and merchandising[1]. Streaming to them is basically another way for them to promote themselves, to get more customers so they can earn the real bucks via the other methods. The same can't be said for tv/movie releases.

[1] random source: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-do-musicians-make-money-...

> According to a recent Citigroup report, the music industry generated a record $43 billion in 2017, but recording artists saw just 12% of that revenue, or $5.1 billion, and the "bulk" of their revenues came from touring.
> It's only two components, one takes the place of a wire or a crossover on the circuit board if you are working through hole, so it's really only one extra component.

You describe only an order 1 passive filter, which is only 20db / decade attenuation. To reach 16-bits of accuracy (or 100db attenuation), you'll need 2.5 decades of buffer (1Hz to 500 Hz)

If you are seriously trying to tackle the aliasing problem, you'll need a high-order antialiasing filter, most likely built by opamps and capacitors. Its not an easy calculation or design, but its something that's basically taught to most EE majors. Butterworth Filters, or whatever. Tons of methodologies with tons of tradeoffs depending on what you want exactly. (Linear phase? Or sharpest cutoff? )
> Greenwald has in his contract that he's not subject to editorial oversight

Really? Where can I inspect that contract? Clearly, the terms that allow him to publish elsewhere if TI doesn't want to publish his stuff that he claims exist seem at odds with the claim that there are terms that he is free to publish whatever he wants in TI without TI exercising editorial control.

I suspect that the story he is painting about the contract terms is misleading, as it makes no sense as presented.
This looks amazing... can't wait to go home and try it with my daughter. How long did it take to create this btw?
Hi, author here.

> Why is the author so fake-surprised that the source code isn't available on the internet? Zoom isn't open source software, and has never claimed to be.

I don't use Zoom and wasn't familiar with the company before I looked at their whitepaper. It's not fake-surprised at all.

> The title is also pure clickbait, since the article itself comes to the conclusion that the design is secure and the oddities are likely due to the need for legacy support.

...Yes, but they're still oddities, right?

I wouldn't call a title clickbait when it's completely accurate.

If I found security issues, I would've titled it "Vulnerabilities in Zoom's End-to-End Encryption White Paper", if I even blogged about it at all.
Because they bring it all together in one package, maybe call it something like "Direct Video"
Anyone, assuming such a person actually exists, who ever "trusted" DNI is a credulous fool. Foisting disastrous falsehoods on the gaslit USA public is the job. The current questionable proposition might be slightly more believable only for the fact that it seems more likely to discourage than to encourage war, which is opposed to the traditional preference of the office.
I had a subscription for soylent for years.

I remember someone asking me if I could go 100%. I said NO WAY. maybe 10% of your diet, more is not great.

I treated it as a snack replacement because -- hey, it's better than reaching for something really bad, right?

In the end I think it IS a snack. It was better than eating donuts, or hotdogs all day, but is only by a matter of degree. It is a highly processed food, which is not great.

I see it a little like the emergency room - it will prevent you from dying today. But it will not help you with a healthy and thriving lifestyle.
And when the phone was invented Alexander Graham Bell could have started listening in on phone calls and banning service to individuals who had differing opinions to his own right? Sounds like you'd be cool with that. Ya know. "non public entities" and all.

And your reply about that would've been: "Hey people can still send information using radio and telegraph, so they should just come to terms with that and stop trying to rely on phone systems that belong to Bell?"
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Betsy Reed making personal attacks and calling him a child making a tantrum doesn't really lend credit to her opinion.
The question is "will this story make some people stay home?"

Because when you go out to vote, you don't vote against a candidate. You vote for one. And with two obviously unfit candidates, people may prefer to not legitimize either through voting.
What other unsubstantiated claims did she make?
Yeah, it's mostly that--generally also some design stuff to hide it. It's just so tedious, or you can buy into a big framework with all the downsides that implies (big bundle size or a lot of tooling for code splitting).
What about Apples history makes leads someone to think they would ever allow customers to 1) select different types of keyboards for their laptops 2) define the number/ types of ports in the same laptop SKU?

I’m not criticizing your desire to want those things. But this feels like you are defining some ideal and then lamenting the company for not delivering you ideal, when their history shows they don’t believe in that ideal at all.
It seems evident that the relationship has been incredibly tense in their emails over the story. It goes from "here's some suggested edits" to "you clearly don't want to work here"/"I'm quitting" in what feels like seconds.
Because allocating limited resources isn’t in the purview of a 4 year old. As you grow up, you begin to learn who wields the power and resources and how it’s allocated and what the consequences are for those who forgo it or can’t get it.
Aha, it was just "will be published" when I read this. Thank goodness for the WWW, since when this happens to TV reporters they can't turn around and host their own TV station.
Well, bizarre would be using SHA3, some GOST algo, or maybe putting some postquantum crypto in there. The article describes something that is just a little strange.
Thunderbird has a checkbox in its address book for if a contact prefers plaintext.
The core mistake Apple made with the Touch Bar was to focus on application-specific actions rather than cross-application ones, something BetterTouchTool actually remedies quite well.

It never made sense to duplicate actions that professional users already know the keyboard shortcuts for. You already have muscle memory for all of those, and even if you're learning a new app, it's faster long-term to learn the shortcut than to look down and hit a non-tactile spot on the Touch Bar every time.

For controlling other applications than the currently active one, however, the Touch Bar is great. I have BetterTouchTool set up to show my currently playing music, my next calendar appointment, and the weather, plus BTT's built-in clipboard management tool. I actually miss it when I'm working on my non-Touch Bar personal laptop.
but tarmac does flow at an observable rate, although only observable over the course of years
Yeah I see where you are going and I think Biden is a "clean" candidate corruptionwise, at least as much if not cleaner than Hillary was. That being said I have no doubt he is an accomplice for the US backing corrupt politicians in the Ukraine or other countries.

Also I think accusing Russia of running a disinformation campaign to try to cast doubt on the emails form Hunter is cheap and dangerous, it makes his base more angry for no reason.
Or, you know, because it’s a legitimate concern that readers on HN value higher than the MDN maintainers.
It’s not snark at all. In fact it’s direct lineage. You think nobles weren’t expected to work at all?

An investor who is a completely layabout won’t stay rich very long, there is a natural terminus to that sort of behavior. Look at interest rates, the risk-free rate of money is 0%, less with inflation. We have inheritance taxes and can move that slider up/down as needed to prevent aristocracies from forming. Perhaps this is where your real disagreement lies?

>If they stop working, they end up destitute same as any other employee.

https://calmatters.org/category/economy/california-pension-c...

>You do realise that Ron Swanson is a fictional character, don't you?

Funny you falsely accuse me of snark and then reach into your bag of insults.
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To me it's clearly saying "that would make us look bad because it's a reasonable story". And here we are.
Some universities recommend avoiding gmail accounts for application process precisely for this reason (I can't find the reference). My personal experience is that open source spam filters (spamassasin/rspamd) are far better at classifying spam than gmail's filter.

However, there is another reason why no one should use gmail for anything serious. There is always a risk that you may get shut out of your account without recourse, taking down access to other services along with it.
The original that inspired my version: https://floccinaucinihilipilificationa.tumblr.com/post/96040...

The furry version was made by https://twitter.com/loviesophiee
The friction is lower because I already have a GitHub account but I don’t have an MDN account.
Don’t deflect here. Alphabet benefits as well.
PQC would be more interesting than bizarre and SHA-3 wouldn’t be bizarre at all (it’s a straight improvement on SHA-2 in isolation).
Here is a letter signed by 50 former high ranking intelligence officials - it's easy to absorb and if you're interested, it will give you plenty of threads to Google.

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000175-4393-d7aa-af77-579f9...
“Near monopoly”? Outside of duty free, where else can you buy booze (not beer) besides the LCBO?
Mask is necessary but not sufficient
> He moved to a country that soon suffered a de-facto coup

No, it didn’t.
Just posting a link to the story since I didnt see it elsewhere in this thread: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-b...
We all have a sphere of influence, and we all have a duty to use that sphere of influence for good.

Free speech isn't free. It's a responsibility, and we should take care to fulfil that responsibility with caution and diligence.
> Blocks are one of the most confusing, yet most powerful elements of Ruby. They allow you to group expressions, save them to a variable, and even pass them to a method. I’m still getting used to blocks and realizing their usefulness, but overall I feel that they condense a lot of code, and also make code more reusable and extensible.

Agreed re: confusion! I've been using Ruby (and Crystal) for years and I'm only slightly ashamed to admit that while I fully understand how to _use_ blocks, I haven't really truly grokked them. I kinda use them and use yield and it all works.

But! Something clicked recently, and I'm not sure why it took so long (maybe it was lots more experience with JavaScript lately?) and I feel kinda dumb that I just realized this:

Blocks are just anonymous functions. That's it. Yield just means "call the anonymous function that was passed in". Yield with arguments (which always confused the hell out of me) is, again, just calling that same anonymous function with arguments.

(I think?)
$1100 doesn't seem exorbitant on the scale of HVAC equipment:

https://foursevenfive.com/lunos-e/
I'm not the original poster, but I was shocked by how many of the otherwise super smart friends I had in college were taught common falsehoods in high school. For example: the idea that your veins look blue through your skin because the deoxygenated blood in them is blue, and that it only turns red outside your body because it's exposed to oxygen.
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Close to every single journalist uses Twitter though. Most companies requires them to do it. So if you want to reach journalist you use Twitter. Twitter banning you thus greatly limits your ability to talk to the press.
I use libbpf-sys but that’s user space
It's more likely that the Church is right about heliocentrism being wrong. They do after all, have more people on their side.

In my opinion this is weak reasoning and it only serves to allow people to cement their minority opinions more. Regardless of whether they're correct or not.
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The NBC article is focused on an anonymously drafted report, which was mostly a dump of open source intel. The article criticizes that report for using a fake persona as its author. The initial disseminator of the report (who may or may not be the author of it as well) cites privacy and fear of retribution as reasons for publishing anonymously.

What the NBC article does not do is address or refute any of the facts in the report. It also ignores a lot of relevant back story and fails to make connections between this report, Hunter's laptop, and Tony Bobulinski.
The pictures are not what matter, what matters is the "face features <-> data" association.

The harm ? With that data, any camera in the world pointed at you can find what you did in that store.
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I've used Vitamin D drops to raise my Vitamin D levels

That's just one vitamin. I'd venture that the micronutrients you need all have different absorption profiles.

For example, someone I know had an iron deficiency. It turns out there are lots of different ways to attack that, with quite different effectiveness.
> It's absolutely fair and the Mueller Report proved Greenwald was right all along

So says... Greenwald.

He's doing a classic strawman: claiming that the "Russian interference" claim was that the Trump campaign co-ordinated with Russia. Outside some fringe beliefs that isn't the claim: instead it was that Russia interfered in the election which was exactly what the report found.

It found Russian intelligence agencies hacked the DNC, stole the emails and disseminated them via DCLeaks, Guccifer 2.0 and Wikileaks.

In regards to involvement of Trump campaign personnel, Greenwald conveniently leaves out the multiple mentions of Paul Manfort (pg 52-55) which the Republican-led intelligence committee confirms "One of Manafort’s closest aides during his time in Ukraine was Konstantin Kilimnik, who the Senate report identifies as a Russian intelligence officer."

It's ironic that Greenwald would do what he claims other publications do: only publish material which confirms his views.

[1] https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...

[2] https://theintercept.com/2020/09/03/trump-russia-senate-repo...
> wasn't familiar with the company

I think you are in quite a rare position if you have not heard of Zoom but visit sites like this in 2020.

I am just curious with this following question. Do you usually not perform a search query before you read a paper?
Agreed. I think we should all focus our energy on that instead of refusing to work together unless the other person supports our specific set of solutions (nuclear power, ending capitalism, whatever).
Thanks, it's a little hard to be sure, my first commit according to git is March 30th, 2018. On one hand, I did take months long breaks while I worked on other things since then, but I also have tried to build something like this once before, years and years ago, but it went nowhere back then.
> Individuals need not believe all these mystifications, but they must behave as though they did, or they must at least tolerate them in silence, or get along well with those who work with them. For this reason, however, they must live within a lie. They need not accept the lie. It is enough for them to have accepted their life with it and in it. For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120107141633/http://www.vaclav...
What's to deflect? Duh that Alphabet benefits as well, it is not running a charity, nor are the content creators who spend countless hours and thousands of dollars creating content. They are doing it because they can profit from it.

It's important to know and point out that the UX of ads is in part chosen by creators.
If people need to be 'controlled', then why can't AT&T use voice recognition to do exactly what Twitter does, and if someone says something offensive in a phone call or text like "There are two sexes" or "All lives matter" then the person's phone can just be disconnected right?

This is what Twitter does. Permanent ban for even the slightest offence.

No, the solution is to make all censorship illegal on large platforms, because otherwise the unsolvable question of "whose standards" it is that determine "offensive" arises. Right now Twitter employees consider themselves this high court and they will ban you based on their own political leanings, which only 50% of the country agree with.
Am I missing something? Iowa City seems to have only busses, and they run hourly. Perhaps I'm wrong?

If I'm not wrong, then we have vastly different definitions of "great public transit" -- I would not be happy there without a car.
Congratulations, that's called science. I don't get where so many people forgot the point of science. Create a falsifiable hypothesis, test said hypothesis over and over again with new techniques and data. When said hypothesis is invalidated, create new hypothesis. Our techniques and data collection and quality are orders of magnitude better today.

I also point you to this: https://www.skepticalscience.com/What-1970s-science-said-abo...

All the data points to anthropogenic global warming and the fundamental phenomena has been understood for well over a century.
So did Pol Pot...<//s>