skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is pretty exciting! In this case, users will retain an 'escape hatch' in the sense that they'll be free to descend from whatever higher-level configuration options a module author wants to offer (which could set multiple settings, or generate settings based on other settings) and use all the configuration primitives offered by the underlying software being configured. We just won't have to manage it as a big, dumb string anymore. :D

I suppose this could still be annoying for someone who really just wants to copy/paste, though.
When I google Pinboard I get an indian site - maybe it's big there? the second result is a similar site for a different country
But unfortunately, the ban only applies to King County agencies, e.g., KC Sheriff's Department. It does not apply to the numerous independent city jurisdictions within KC such as Bellevue, Redmond, Kent, Auburn, Snoqualamie, etc. who may have their own law enforcement entities, including the Seattle Police Department. And while Seattle does have more restrictive oversight of facial recognition tech through the Seattle Surveillance Ordinance[1] passed in 2018, there are several local governments located inside the boundaries of KC that have experimented with or have indicated they may implement the tech.

TL;DR, those of us who have been working this issue for several years are gratified with the unanimous(!) vote of the county council, but realize there's still a lot of work to do both at the local and state (and national) levels.

[1] https://www.seattle.gov/tech/initiatives/privacy/surveillanc...
One reason to use WASM to run JS, even in a browser, is to allow for interruptible execution of untrusted JS code. I built a library for this (1.2mb) that uses Emscripten to build QuickJS to WASM. I know of a company using my library to implement "plugin"/user-scripting using my library.

https://github.com/justjake/quickjs-emscripten#quickjs-emscr...
Here in New Zealand the payee name and the bank account number are not checked by banks for domestic electronic payments. I can only assume this is standard practice overseas as well.
> With fiat, only the banks (or the governments) can see transactions. If I was to say there is some good thing, I would say that is a new innovation that hasn't been possible before.

What do you mean it hasn't been possible. It's absolutely possible. We don't do it because no one wants to advertise how much money they have and who they give it to, unless compelled by a specific reason.

> Cryptocurrency also does enable new illegal activities that weren't possible before, so there are definitely pros / cons, but I would say there are pros / cons to fiat as well.

So the pros are things we could do (publish our private transactions), but we don't want to, and the cons are things we could do (blackmail each other), but we don't want to.

Lol, great.
These are bad assumptions about what options and interests and motives that attackers have.

Laundering is very easy with cryptocurrency. Despite the transparency on chain, how can anyone distuingish between someone buying a meme coin earlier and cashing out at 80,000% gains, versus someone with two accounts and bought a meme coin with clean money (account 1) and then pumped that meme coin 80,000% with their dirty money (accounts 2 through n) coming from different addresses. The dirty money accounts are now saddled with the meme coin, and the clean money accounts as well as yours and every other fomo trader's account that sold now has the more liquid cryptocurrency. For all reporting purposes, everyone has clean money and simply was a good trader. No investigator or government is proposing that traders are liable for determining who they traded against when its onchain or in an offchain exchange.

Secondly, not everyone wants fiat currency. The attackers can invest in other cryptos and make any founder or fund popular and highly revered. They can acquire goods and services and access with the crypto itself. They aren't sitting there trying to figure out how they can buy multimillion dollar houses and yachts, as its not a priority, but if they do want a lot of fiat its always available.
Considering how rampant property crime like car break-ins or catalytic converter thefts or shoplifting are in King County, this seems like a really bad decision. I would definitely like to see criminals identified, located, arrested, and sentenced. Not to mention, we just had a whole year of regular rioting in Seattle, with fiascos like CHAZ and daily illegal blockades of highways. This technology makes it much more likely that the police department can actually enforce the law as it exists on the books by identifying and locating these criminals. It also makes it much more likely that home surveillance footage from law-abiding residents can be put to use.

I do not think this technology is intrusive or invasive as the quoted council member claimed. Recording in public spaces is completely legal to begin with. And we can always limit the use of facial recognition by police departments to cases with either a warrant or probable cause, to prevent completely uncontrolled surveillance. The allegations of racial biases are also not meaningful. In practice, false positives in machine vision algorithms are contained by maintaining a human in the loop to verify matches. It is trivial to use this technology in a way that matches human-levels of accuracy with this layer of safety in place.

Banning this kind of technology outright feels like a fear-driven decision by luddites. That's a charitable take - a more direct perspective is that the politicians and interest groups supporting this ban are looking to protect their favored groups, which very frankly seems to include criminals.
I removed all of my payment information from paypal when I noticed they would readily engage in what amount to political sanctions.
Someone should let these people know that nobody gets put in jail based on the facial recognition’s decision, so their “concerns” are impossible. Not only that, but if anything, it’s less likely to find darker skin tones at all, so it will favor minorities, not hurt them.

It’s a shortcut for manually digging through databases to identify people. Any identification is followed up with investigation, just as it would be if a human matched it. No decision is made by the machine.

So, no, it’s not racist at all.
So you think there will be 4-5x as many ads and "click tiny [x] to actually see the contents" ads ? I don't see how else they can leverage the platform to make significant cash.
Also worth mentioning the fully Open Source and Open Hardware TSynth by ElectroTechnique, which is very cheap and sounds great for what it costs.

https://electrotechnique.cc/

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I think on HN this has always been a trend. a headline sparks more headlines of similar stories regardless of date. I've seen it happen quite frequently.
They know exactly where their sploits are going and how they're being used, they chose to look away with a blind eye.
This person has freely put in the effort to provide a solution to a problem you have at work, and you can't even be bothered to click the upvote button?

Also, maybe this is just because I'm just a forgetful idiot, but on numerous occasions upvoting has proven beneficial to me. I'll be searching for the solution to a problem and I find that I've already upvoted a question which relates to my issue - then if there's an answer I've upvoted, that's probably going to be the best one.
I’d even say go one step better and join a credit union. Less to worry about when you’re a member-owner of an organization that is focused on its members and community over corporate shareholders.
This is a system I put together at my first IT job.

Backups get pushed from devices between 1AM and 3AM each day, so the primary backup server enables it's network card at 1 and disables it at 3.

Primary backup server also has a second network card, that in turn is attached to a small subnet containing it and the secondary backup server only. The secondary backup server pulls a copy from the primary on a weekly basis in a similar manner as the primary, disabling it's network card once it has finished.

Maybe they can hit the primary if the infection takes place overnight, but the odds of getting the secondary are pretty low.
Oh I see. Yeah the "Swiss" thing is probably more folklore than anything, but admittedly for the client-side encryption you can use their IMAP bridge that's open source and therefore technically auditable and not quite as easy to modify on-the-fly.

But any claim of security for emails will be contingent to a huge number of factors anyway lest you use end-to-end encryption so I see where you're coming from. Less technical people would probably have a hard time understanding the true security and privacy implications of protonmail.
A better analogy would be an armored truck full of cash parking overnight in a bad neighborhood with the doors unlocked, then crying to the media about how they were robbed by criminals. There has to be some level of personal responsibility; it's foolish to expect people to not do bad things just because the law says they shouldn't.
I would expect that a pi0 could do it - depends on what sort of performance you want. An of course for a NAS you are better off with an Ethernet port - I would recommend a full-size SBC for this reason. But no fundamental reason why a pi0 can't do it. Here's a nice example: https://hackaday.io/project/8688-raspberry-pi-zero-altoid-na...
If this is a team effort and capitalism is benefiting us as a society as intended, then the majority of people should feel better off that we had amazon here to help us through a time of need, and amazon should feel appropriately rewarded for its technological foresight.

If instead this is a war between corporations and society, then we would expect to see a huge number of people feel like amazon exploited them in a time of weakness, furthered an already bad state of wealth inequality and classism, and accrued an order of magnitude more power over everyone than they had before.

Which outcome do you think is a better reflection of reality?
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To me you proved the point. Centering with Flexbox requires styling the parent and they use two different properties for horizontal and vertical centering.

Truly simple to me would not be CSS but rather an attribute on the element. But with CSS, the simplest thing would allow one to just put a style on the element you want to center.

The other aspect of this is that there are multiple other ways of doing it.
> (Bill Gates, 1990: “How many f*cking programmers in this company are working on rich text editors?!”

Where is this quote from? I haven't read this one before.
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> I once saw someone on Twitter whose bio said "deeply passionate about Agile." That made me low-key angry, because the last thing programmers need is a person who has dedicated their career to creating more process.

I agree with you, but Oh, the irony!

From the Agile Manifesto:

> Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Do you also apply this reasoning to fingerprinting, DNA analysis, tire prints, and ballistics comparisons? Like most people, I don't understand all of the failure modes involved with those technologies, but they do seem to be helpful tools for bringing violent criminals to justice.

I also think eyewitness testimony has many failure modes. If anything, it's probably less accurate than current facial recognition tech and biased in ways that are harder to determine. Yet I wouldn't want to ban all use of eyewitness testimony.

Banning facial recognition seems like overkill. Instead, it makes more sense to restrict it so that we can get the good parts (catching violent criminals) without the bad parts (oppressive surveillance state). Instead of banning all fingerprinting and DNA analysis, we have rules for how police can use them. Why not have similar rules for facial recognition?
Well, there's another amendment to the US constitution that is a substantial contributor to the level and severity of physical violence on our streets. But we won't talk about that...
Wow what heroes.

Hey, quick question: Did they also ban Stratfor's gait tracking technology that they piloted for years?
> Surveillance technology enables all sorts of new attacks

Sure, but like any other tools it also enable all sorts of new benefit.

The preferable action would be to take advantage of the benefit while also try to fix whatever it is that cause problem with the tools instead of simply banning it.
I would take this with a grain of salt. Amazon is listed, but most roles cannot be done in ANY location. I had a recruiter reach out and it was made very clear that I would have to be in Seattle for that role.

My interpretation of "fully remote" is any job, anywhere (unless your physical presence in an office is part of the job).
I guess the graph ends somewhere and my guess is we largely stop using energy during the coming nuclear winter.
One difference is that people may have a safety net in either savings or insurances, but underfunded open source projects don’t.
exactly, they are all just internet resellers, and every single review site is affiliate marketing.

"oh wow the blogger disclosed that they're paid to advertise them, that makes me trust the service even more!"

people just need to understand there are just limitations with that concept. don't rely on them for doing anything criminal anonymously. but its fine to hide activity from the people in your house and ISP and circumvent geofenced streaming services.
I'm not professional or anything but I find 3ds max UI and way of doing things/UI/toolbars/working with geometry and keyboard shortcuts MUCH more intuitive than Blender. Everybody says Blender is awesome and I respect that, but seriously, no matter how hard I try I always end up saying "this is much easier in 3ds max". Any recommendations?
The issue here is a complete lack on the behalf of the FR industry from impressing the importance of human oversight, and then validating that human oversight does not suffer racial blindness. It is pointless if the operators of an FR system cannot distinguish between similar age siblings or cousins of the ethnicity they are seeking via FR. This is far too often the case, and those police officers operating an FR system could simply be replaced by same ethnicity operators to receive significantly less bias.
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Its like fixing the wifi router for your parents and then having them call you to complain that their emails now have a signature at the bottom... "I didnt do that", "Well, you were the last one to touch the internet"
I've also noticed. I think once interest is sparked in a topic, any topic, people are thirsty for more. I don't think it's the most useful way to orderly accumulate knowledge of a subject but there it is, i'm as guilty as the next guy.
I think the perpetrators are now taking data "hostage", and threatening to release it publically unless the ransom is paid - in this case backups don't help, though it depends on how sensitive your data is.
Honestly I've used stack overflow since it started and read tech news daily. I do not know or care about Monica Cellio or internet/twitter drama.

I would bet money that if I asked any of my friends or colleagues they wouldn't know either.
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As somebody directly involved in this space, that's a pretty bad summary. The spec for first party sets (not an RFC, just a draft) isn't in a great state. Google is going to implement it anyway, Microsoft is supporting, Apple basically said the spec was crap but they might be interested in a good version of it, and Firefox said they didn't like it.

Speaking as engineer.. the Firefox folks don't really get it. You can't just break what sites like StackOverflow and Wikipedia have been doing for years (and in some cases decades) and then say "you were doing the wrong thing." Some version of FPS will ship in browsers, probably in the next 2 years.

Quoting Apple's position directly "[...] Given these issues, I don’t think we’d implement the proposal in its current state. That said, we’re very interested in this area, and indeed, John Wilander [Safari lead] proposed a form of this idea before Mike West’s [Google] later re-proposal. If these issues were addressed in a satisfactory way, I think we’d be very interested. [...]"

Also it was a W3C TAG review. The W3C and IETF are different organizations.
The gamedev industry will no doubt be shocked to learn that they could have just been running native with zero overhead instead of implementing and embedding various forms of scripting.
For me it is that I think the general public has no choice in the matter now, the banks and governments do. That is the difference I see.
I was curious:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_length_fluctuations
That's a fair point and you can and should press people for their sources and how they can validate them because that's a good point of comparison when you're able to point out ways that things can be checked and they're not.

For example, some people were nattering on about the vaccine remaining in the blood supply or whatever for years after and worrying that they would somehow acquire a vaccine that way. For that, you can point to the mRNA sequences on Github and tell them about the tests that can be used to detect them.

Meanwhile there's some incoherent nonsense about the vaccine making your arm magnetic and free radicals from someone on 4chan who claims to be posting 2nd hand info with no sources. You can give them a damn magnet and let them see that it doesn't stick to the arm they vaccinated you in.
Everything else that you described – computers, digital records – has simple algorithms understandable by the average police officer or citizen. You type a document, it gets saved. You can do a full text search on it. You can pull up an old case and look at photos. You can quickly cross reference. All these tasks could be done step by step by a person and it would just take more time.

When it comes to facial recolonization or AI in general, could anyone really tell you why the computer decided to flag your face and why another similar one was rejected? Would you accept a search warrant when the judgement wasn't based on any human's perception but something which came out a black box? Who makes sure that the data sets used to train the models was 100% free of bias?
Same here, except it was fleeting. Too repetitive for me.
> WebAssembly doesn’t allow you to dynamically generate new machine code and run it from within pure Wasm code.

I think this focus is about RUNNING the wasm. If you have are a host, I think you can generate wasm inside it and pre-cache the "std library" or something, this is what I infer from this idea (from other users that wanna implement it).

Because certainly you can generate code with control of your host:

https://docs.rs/wasmer/1.0.2/wasmer/
This seems rather suspicious all these reports of a sudden - are they plotting to bring back the Clipper chip V2 ???.
You’re more biased than you think
The general physics concept is moment of inertia. If water is moved uphill, this redistributes some of the Earth's mass further away from the axis of rotation, which increases its moment of inertia. Since the total angular momentum of the Earth is not changed by doing this, the result is a reduction of the angular velocity, in other words lengthening the day.

NASA calculated, for instance, that filling the Three Gorges Dam reservoir would lengthen the day by 0.06 microseconds.
And to add to that, offline backups that go back 90+ days. Ransomware gangs frequently use time bombs to deploy their encryption after sitting within a system for a month or two. If you get hit by one of those gangs and only keep backups for 45 days, you're screwed, because your backup is still infected.
The winds on Venus' surface are actually pretty tame ("light breeze", 1 Beaufort, 0.5 to 1 m/s) [1]. Problem is, that even this very slight wind packs a considerable punch at 92 bars of pressure and is comparable to a category 4 hurricane on Earth in terms of power (i.e. it would roughly translate to about 90 m/s; 325 km/h; 200 mph on Earth).

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Corona isn't over and we should still be screaming at the top of our lungs at the Chinese for answers. Instead of going out to the shops and buying brooms to sweep the topic under the carpet (which are also recent buys).
> Vesting is every 4 months and risk is minimal.

For very few companies. Most companies - even tech companies have annual vesting (so 25% every year). And Amazon has 5% vesting after the first year.
> would you have been smart enough to give Tencent all that money, way back when?

Investing in China at the time seems like it would have been a valid strategy. They’re just incredibly lucky with the scale of their success.
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Paying ransoms can be illegal if it is happening with a sanctioned entity.

We need to start holding companies criminally liable having security vulnerabilities that get breached. It is true that there will always be exploits but the issues are usually much more wildly irresponsible security practices and not “didn’t know about the latest 0day”

There needs to be a statutory liability to customers and required insurance. Let the insurance company figure out the regulations instead of bureaucrats and politicians, insurance company rules are optional and noncompliance is just more expensive.

It is an increasing trend but the current uptick in awareness is mostly media coverage. This stuff has been going on forever, a few particularly newsworthy things happened now everyone is going out of their way to report each new instance. Trends in reporting instead of trends in exploits (to a degree)
What is that supposed to mean? Seems like a pretty good price for a soul.

I would "sell my soul" for a measley $10 million.
>A lot of games do require controllers that are at least no more capable than one that came with the console though.

An example of this would be if the original controller won't let you press both left and right at the same time, and being able to do so gives an unfair advantage due to the way the game was programmed (I think Castlevania SOTN is one of these.)
Could be this, could be that, nobody knows, more investigation needed, probably a real phenom, probably artificial, probably not aliens.

Really, the only interesting question here is whose military technology it probably is and what the objects in question were actually doing, rather than just appearing to be doing from one perspective. I would love if it were aliens but if they wanted to announce themselves there are so many more obvious ways of doing so.
Yes who is going to serve the champagne and canapes ???.