skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, it's not that this specific issue can't be dealt with by canceling your palm print or convenient checkout. You're just left with not being able to safely register your palm print with any company if your biometric data gets stolen. I can envision a world where it doesn't take a master counterfeiter to 3d printer a palm print that gets through the scanner and a database of stolen palm print data people can buy and trade like they currently do with stolen credit card numbers.

The issue is once your biometric data is compromised you have no recourse to regenerate it. Your solution is you just don't get to participate in these features anymore.
Have there been side effects from the use of ADHD medication in your experience? How much do you pay for this annually?

The comparison to prescription lenses isn't really accurate. Almost every lens wearer I know (myself included) do not wear lenses all day as they strain your eyes. They have a backup pair of glasses that can be more comfortable and provide the exact same level of visual perception.
Please remember that punitive changes like limiting SALT hurts actual people before it causes changes in the way state governments run.
Well said. Obviously I wouldn't mind earning more, it goes without saying. But I do appreciate the fact that my siblings, nieces and nephews can have a humane life at whatever their profession is, and can study to their full potential regardless of their parents' income. And that my parents and grandparents can have a dignified life at old age, with proper care and without fear of ending destitute.
And again, even if we restrict ourselves to honest parties, hardware failures happen. Auditing the code tells you nothing about their infrastructure.
And Tesla needs to be held accountable for a security system than be easily defeated and puts innocent bystanders in danger.
I exaggerated in my post, but the general difference is: in US to access high paying jobs, you can either live in city centres where rent is sky high, or suburbs which are very car-centric. This is not compelling to many Europeans. I might not be earning six-digit salary, but I don't share a room with 3 people and don't live in a van (this is probably grotesque but there were many stories like that on HN alone).

About the shootings, yes, media coverage is skewing things a lot. I live in France and my friends abroad think there's an islamic terrorist attack happening here every week.

Anyway, the US society feels way more class-divided. Even if as an employee of FAANG I would get a good health insurance, the way the system works overall for average folk just doesn't make me feel like living in such a system. (What if I lose a job for whatever reason? No fancy insurance anymore!). And as someone with a "preexisting condition" I'm actually not sure how my case would be treated in case I wanted to apply for a visa.
But now that's part of the data and the parser doesn't know any better. Comments are more useful if they are close to the thing being talked about.
My monitor only has a single input, that's the problem I'm trying to solve. I don't need to switch USB.
Give it a decade and we'll be taking this to a level of customization where we'll be able to select our own level of marbling, connective tissue and water content.
While I think you are wording things more harshly than myself, I am largely in agreement.

It is still difficult to get a vaccine in a lot of places in the country but once we get to summer and there are walk in clinics everywhere my sympathy levels for people who get sick out of vaccine stubbornness is going to be zero.

At some point you need to take personal responsibility for your own health.
ah. Those must also be modules that fell from the truck.... (these companies clearly have trucks like sieves) I have no doubt that already, cellebrite are on the phone ordering more secure, err 'trucks'
When we re-up a post we adjust the timestamps relative to the re-up time. If you look at the item IDs in the URLs you can clearly see which post was earlier. Sorry, I know it's confusing! It's just that the other strategies we've tried have been even more confusing.

More explanation: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I think it's a fair guess that a security researcher like that knows how to post on hn without leaving their home address. It's not particularly difficult.
I’m always surprised at stuff I take for granted that doesn’t work on Windows. So yeah, it seems like cross-platform should be easy but since my dev environment is zsh, it’s easy for my stuff to work sort of “everywhere but Windows.”

Add to that that the reason things fail on Windows is usually something Windows specific and “their fault.” So it’s unusual for me to fire up a Windows VM just to sanity check my code. And since Windows CI runners cost 2x or more, I don’t usually run cross platform CI.
If they’re using their monopoly power to disadvantage a competitor while leveraging that disadvantage to compete against Facebook, it is definitely anticompetitive and could get them sued by the government and Facebook. It does conflict with them ramping up their own ad business if it’s anticompetitive.

Giving users privacy is indeed a good thing, but Apple is not an ethical company so I’m not sure why they should get the benefit of the doubt. Without inside information into the reasoning, it is wrong to assume they are doing this for peoples privacy. They could just as easily be doing it for selfish reasons.
it's been over four years, how have we still not learned the number one lesson from the 2016 US Presidential Election: that highly-engaged views and opinions expressed online so as to create an outward appearance of nearly-uniform perspective, do not necessarily represent the views of the collective whole, because many people with the unpopular view/opinion will actively choose to not express it, for fear of ostracization? there are many people in tech who don't share the popular view/opinion on many different subjects, and instead keep quiet about it. sometimes they push back on things in very measured amounts here and there; other times, they make throwaways just to fire off a rant of their true feelings, knowing the throwaway will be banned. most of the time though, they just shut up.
They are just fine with it until it happens to them.
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Of course there are. Just not in the hot spots on the east and west coast. If you go outside of those you can get ridic cheap.
Farmed salmon incurs a heavy cost to the environment that surrounds said farms.

Demand for real salmon will still be around but it will be a rare delicacy, which is totally OK.
The issue has nothing to do with technology, it has to do with 'quality' information ranking and Google's supposed bias with regards to who they deem 'credible' and not.

Breitbart is a much more aggressive tabloid, and individuals within Google wanted to ban it outright, arguably because of their 'poor quality' but mostly because their political bias.

My point is that if there is a 'right wing tabloid with questionable legitimacy' that might make people uncomfortable, it's Breitbart. Not The DM.

People are lamenting the DM here because they use 'click bait' headlines and 'misrepresent' information, people are using shamefully hyperbolic language on this thread.

But in reality The DM is just a regular tabloid, and it's not that bad - technical quality issues notwithstanding.
Many out here are saying that "the system has collapsed".

They are _SO_ wrong. We never _had_ a system to begin with, in the first place!

Our "system" is only _EXPOSED_ now, to the entire world.

What's seen and exposed now, is what had been operational for the last 30 odd years. Everything needs some strings to be pulled and some hands made warm with a stash of notes.

A nation full of mostly meek, timid, inherently corrupt people all of a sudden wondering that "our system has failed! uiuiuiui!"

Indian nation had a grand opportunity at getting better. The Indian public just shat on it and smeared cowdung listening to the right wing propaganda. Now, let them drown in cow-urine / dung.
Show HN: Bulk Image Crop
There was a time, I used to crop and resize tonnes of images for a particular product. I had to make all sorts of images into perfect 1024x1024 squares, while keeping the features/faces in the crop.
It was a time consuming task, so I made this simple website which let people do content-aware bulk cropping and resizing for free. All the existing tools I found online, weren't simple and straight forward enough and very often clouded with Ads.

Recently, I have added feature to get all the social media sizes on a click. I am not sure if its helpful for anyone.

Feedback is welcome and if you need some other simple tool, let me know. I am feeling generous these days, I might make it for you! :D
As someone who has access to and regularly works with (pays) tax professionals and financial advisors, I've yet to be able to take advantage of much, if any, way to avoid paying any tax.

Most of the things I'm aware of, and have been advised of, are things like QSBS (Qualified Small Business Stock) which I've been able to claim once. In that case it was a 5 figure gain. So the tax benefit was not particularly amazing. Yeah, others have been able to benefit much more from this. But it's a pretty narrow situation where you can.

I've recently early exercised some ISOs, so if this proposed tax change didn't pass, I'd have the long term cap gains rate.

I think there are some interesting things you can do with charitable trusts, but I think you're mostly deferring taxes, and I haven't had a situation where it made sense.

But all in all, in the years that I've paid, what I think, are a pretty competent set of financial professionals, I've yet to come across any magical way to avoid paying any taxes. I've actually paid a large amount of taxes and have to ensure my investments and finances are planned so I can pay the tax bill when it comes due.

I think most stories we hear about the wealthy not paying any taxes are either tax fraud, or substantial capital losses that offset all gains.

In the capital loss situation, that's probably a temporary thing for that person, otherwise they won't be wealthy for long.
Are capital gains taxes lower in real estate investing? (I'm not an American)
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Yes, see Wright's Law: https://ark-invest.com/wrights-law/
This is spot on. We made exactly the same calculation and you make more money, have better healthcare, can buy a better house, and save far more money in the US than in the EU as a developer.

Yeah, you have to buy the perks that are free (because your taxes go toward useful things) in the EU, but you make so much more money, that buying them is easy.

The US is a really strange place. It's far worse for 90% of people than the EU, but for the top 5% or so, it's unimaginably better.
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In your example, it's true that you could question Carl, but the a warrant to search Carl based on the false data should be overturned later.
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But they're also just uninformed about the subject, generally, no?
So basically, if passed as proposed this would be a higher rate of capital gains tax than at any point in US history?
I clicked on this thinking it's a grep that can search code snippets based on language-aware syntax matching instead of regular expressions.

Agreed, this project name is misleading about what it does. The name "grep" always indicated some kind of "find a text/pattern and print results to stdout" utility. Like pgrep, which searches running processes by name and then prints their IDs.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn#Mainland_China

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Gou#Political_career

To say Foxconn is complicated would be an understatement.
Most of the money goes towards social security and medical expenses, and the percentage is going up. So it's not so much about giving politicians more to play with, but being able to honor the debts that have been incured to the citizens.
This is the full quote:

> Firefox, OBS Studio and many applications built with Electron and Flutter take advantage of Wayland automatically, for smoother graphics and better fractional scaling.

It implies that there are already many application built with Electron and Flutter.

My question is simply: what Flutter applications?
> It's not a huge assumption at all. Lots of us already have access to this data from our analytics.

So you're saying that a lot of people have access to privacy-violating analytics. And that the analytics don't tell you what people want. And so you make decisions based on inferred information.

No wonder the web is a dumpster fire today.
I never felt at home anywhere and I never felt to be part of a group.

Somehow people around me always think the opposite. They're telling me I'm their best friend or at least that they value my attendance.

Overall, I'm okay with this. When I have to move or leave a group, I usually don't miss what I've left. I have the impression my life gets better when it changes.

But sometimes I think if my life would be better if I was more invested in belonging.
It's a technical post on a technical forum filled with technical people. We aren't just users, we're programmers. It makes sense to include broad implementation details in the title.
At that level, abstract logic becomes more important. Is it better to think of a flower in a field as part of a larger ecosystem, or characterize your company as a machine composed of cogs?
They still have a sample size of 1...

Surely a better test would be to get 1000 mobile phone processors and put them in a radiation chamber on earth and see how many fail? It would be far cheaper and be better science.
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Yup, it is what it is. Good news is the points mean nothing and there are plenty of critical thinkers still on this forum. BTW is it tow or toe the line? Homonyms always catch me up!
The problem (other than double taxation)is that people whose wealth is predominantly held in a diversified portfolio will be able to avoid this sort of tax much more easily than people who have more concentrated holdings.

Someone who sells a $2 million business is rich, but they aren't that rich. The rules for houses and incentive equity compensation are complex. But this would generally be bad for people who get equity compensation in companies whose value is very volatile (read early stage startup workers). This is very problematic for Silicon Valley's current economic model.
maybe some people believe those things, but simply not true to grossly overgeneralize as those people because the bible is pretty clear about the mark of the beast being on the hand or the forehead.
(I'm not denying that possibility, and I'm only one datapoint, but) In practice I have only ever seen one DE (GNOME) with these "crash the world" stability bugs, and they also happen on X, which makes me think the problems are not with Wayland.
I think most people who commit crimes do not believe they will be caught. Most data shows sentencing shows no deterrence. Alternatively sometimes fines do more to deter than other penalties. A theory I remember from a college class on the topic were that sentences are so unevenly applied that many people reason that they won't actually get the max sentence.
In addition to what others have posted, it matters if you ever expect to read or modify the source. Assuming my capability requirements are met, I’m going to prefer a program written in a language that I’m comfortable with (such as C or lisp) to a program written in a language foreign to me (such as Go).
I am guessing that it is not working because it is just an example, or something like that
Am I mistaken? If so I would appreciate a correction.

I based my post primarily on what I recalled from this talk[1] by a HGST engineer.

[1]: https://youtu.be/a2lnMxMUxyc?t=556
There are plenty of reasons to move employers that doesn't involve saying that company you were working for is unethical. You could say that you've reached your ceiling and are looking for the next step up. That's a fair one. The company you are leaving may not be able to promote you. You're looking to work on new projects and your current company is just maintaining and/or adding features. That's also fair.

> checking to see if I'm a disagreeable person who is willing to badmouth somebody generous enough to employ me.

Ah, but you see, the guy I originally replied to is checking to see if you're willing to badmouth companies he dislikes. And if you don't, he will dismiss your application. It's an unspoken rule you can violate without ever knowing you're in violation of it and has a huge affect on the outcome of the scenario.

No reasonable interviewer is going to put you in the position of having to cast aspersions on a previous employer. That's a minefield for all sorts of reasons.
> This is what "responsive design" used to mean. I remember being quite confused when people started using it to refer to distinct, non-responsive mobile-vs-desktop views.

I agree this is confusing, but I think we still need a term for distinct types of views. The point of the article is that, once a user has started using one particular view, it shouldn't suddenly change to a completely different view with a different layout just because the user's browser window got resized by a few pixels.

I don't think it's possible for an app to auto-detect which view the user wants to use, particularly not if the auto-detection logic allows changing views on the fly in the middle of a user session based on resizing the browser window. I think the only real solution is to have different views that each have their own distinct URL, so the user can choose which view to use. Each view can then be "responsive" within the general constraints of the layout it adopts.
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Arguably. Hashrate was chosen as a proxy for compute power (which was chosen as a proxy for time). Compute power (or hashing power, now we have ASICs) is effectively a measure of energy, since the hardware cost gets amortised.
That's fine, just understand that your moral intuition isn't universal.

If there were some device (which doesn't exist and maybe can't) which simply lights up with perfect accuracy when pointed at someone who tortured someone before murdering them, I would support instant execution of that person by firing squad.

I'm not willing to accept a 4% error rate however. I'm not sure how low it would have to go, but it's lower than it plausibly can.

This isn't some kind of lack of "understanding" on my part, and you're not going to "teach" me to feel the same way about this issue as you do. We have different values. So you'll have to content yourself with my being on the same side of the policy question for different reasons.
I’ve been a cog before and had hippie managers and asshole managers. Honestly, I prefer the occasional whip from the asshole than the constant stream of bullshit from hippies trying to tell me every day how my data entry was “awesome.” The weird thing is sometimes I think they convinced themself that our cog work was awesome.

If I’m a commodity, I’d rather be straight about it and have a shared reality since businesses will actually treat me like a commodity when it’s important.
The "Tiny town" is 70,000 people who live in an multi-city metro area of around 600,000. That may not be like SF or NYC big, but it's also not just a random metro area. Having lived there for a few years, you're painting with a poetic brush a bit and I'd like to clarify how I see it.

Walmart owns Bentonville. The city council, mayor, and basically anyone there is almost completely subservient to their interests. Again - WM never moved in to the small community, the small community literally is Wal-mart.

For many years, people in the town worked in Wal-mart retail buildings & warehouses around Bentonville. Around 2013 the company started to struggle to compete and found that they needed to attract talent, so the Walton Family Foundation started spending somewhere around $300 million - $400 million a year in improvements and restoration projects. This included massive subsidies for companies that moved in to the area - WFF also paid partially or fully relocation money, but I have no idea how much they paid other than one restaurant owner I spoke to who was basically given moving costs, a building, and "free" rent for a year.

The whole "Wal-mart HQ" thing is just another in their line of tactics to attract new talent in to the area because they are struggling to build an ecosystem of talented developers and analysts. Which, again, there's nothing wrong with this tactic if that's what you're hunting for.

One thing I'll give WM for sure - they are 100% focused on building out a tech bubble for people who want a semi-urban lifestyle. There's a lot of TX & CA transplants and honestly it's working great for them.

All told, none of this is even kind of comparable to Amazon moving to NYC or Atlanta. Nor is it comparable to a company moving in to a small town brand-new.

[ed: oops missed an important sentence!]
Out of curiosity, what were some of the differences in work culture you experienced? I've never worked outside the U.S., so would be interested to hear a different perspective.
go vegan, problem solved
Yes, and that altitude is right at the limit that helicopters on earth can achieve.
Having 2 kids by 30 without being financial stable is kind of bad planning. They deserve to get crunched.

Where would you need cars and have to pay 2-3k for an apartment?

Prob like 1.5K/month, two economical cars. Pay off debt and build a nest egg, married at 30, kids at 32. Cook cheap and healthy meals. Outdoors for fun. No big drinking or expensive hobbies.

They can easily make it happen if they do the above.

It’s not my fault that people can’t prioritize and strap down.
Don't do that then.

If you find that someone has (somehow) managed to duplicate your palm print then you probably do not want to enroll with that option for payments in the future.
Thanks a lot for pointing this out. I will happily fix this now!
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I wouldn't be too trusting of the claims of a manufacturer who's main selling point is the savings in energy...

They might still be true though, but if you keep in mind that it takes about 5 times more energy to evaporate water than to heat it to 100C, and that heating water is more difficult than most other substances it is really not clear why using more heat would be (far) less efficient. Sure it would consume heat at a higher rate, but also less long.