skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were not originally, but now they are. There is an interesting case of a Texas woman who was born "off-radar" to libertarian parents and had no government documentation of her existence. This caused major problems with access to services and employment in her adult life until a senator intervened and introduced legislation for the situation.

SSNs are not universal, either. There are some unions and religious groups that have legal exemptions.
Then there's the "Dubai Porta Potty" phenomenon: https://travellingjezebel.com/dubai-porta-potty/
Yes, this and other distance metrics are what are used to do reverse and image similarity lookups with perceptual hashes.
Well, we could just make it just as mandatory as the social security system. And since the SSN is constitutional, so can this private/public pair system.
I'm using mine as a general cloud storage alternative as well, so it's using a little over 1TB. About a quarter of that is photos. So not too huge, considering they're saving at full resolution.

Nextcloud has https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/facerecognition which integrates with their CardDav, but I don't think my Pine64 with only 2gb of RAM would be able to run that.
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Probably because they learned how much it hurts? (They get money but lose their baby)

Going through all the trouble to rebuild the product I doubt they’ll do an acquihire again.
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Facebook is the most toxic social media there is right now
You don't have to guess. You only had to go to their pricing page [0] to find out what they are selling.

0. https://www.postman.com/pricing/
Can you give an example? The rules for CSV files are so simple I'm struggling to imagine a case where something looks correct but in fact isn't correct.
And cameras are no substitutes for eyes yet.
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Research in general is the same, but shouldn’t _published_ research have already gone through a filter such that it represents the 10% that hasn’t failed?
In their defense, there has been an awful lot going on.

The EFF reported on the expiration in the brief window when there were no authorizations:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/yes-section-215-expire...

It's being reintroduced as the equally doublespeak "USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act":

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6172

I'd be interested to know if any behavior was changed during the few weeks that the permissions were not covered by either law.
TSV solve a lot of the pain
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Well-preserved skeleton sheds light on culture in ancient Pompeii
Let me define a sane CSV standard:

1. Encoding is UTF-8.

2. Header line with column names is mandatory. If there are no column names, the first line must be blank.

3. Each record is a line. A line is defined according to the operating platform's text file format.

4. In the light of (3) CSV does not dictate line endings and does not address the conversion issue of text files from one platform being transferred to another platform for processing. This consideration is a general text issue, off-topic to CSV.

5. CSV consists of items separated by quotes. An item may be:

5. a) a JSON number, surrounded by optional whitespace. Such an object may be specially recognized as a number by the CSV-processing implementation.

5. b) the symbol true, false or nil, optionally surrounded by whitespace. These symbols may have a distinct meaning from "true", "false" or "nil" strings in the CSV-processing implementation.

5. c) a JSON string literal

5. d) any sequence of printable and whitespace characters, other than comma or quote, including empty sequence.

6. In the case of (5) (d), the sequence is interpreted as a character string, after the removal of leading and trailing whitespace. (To preserve leading and trailing whitespace in a datum, a JSON literal must be used.)

7. In (5), whitespace refers to the ASCII space (32) and TAB (9) character. If there are any other control characters, the processing behavior is implementation-defined. Arbitrary character codes may be encoded using JSON literals.
Thanks for bringing that up. Denmark, an EU member state, does not have ID cards, so it's not exactly mandatory over there.

Seems weird that a SSN is not considered a national identity system? What if the federal government sunset SSNs after a bunch of big states implemented an equivalent of EIDAS on their own volition?
I left it out as I wanted people to use their own generative art. Here's the implementation I used: https://github.com/taki0112/StyleGAN-Tensorflow
> It is illegal for the US government to create a mandatory national identity system or coerce the States into creating one. The limits of this have been pretty thoroughly tested in the US Supreme Court.

No, they haven't. There are people who have speculated that it is illegal since the idea started being discussed (serious discussions are actually fairly new, mostly a burst in the late-1990s and another one shortly after 9/11, though speculative strawman negative arguments go back a bit further, at least to discussions around HIPAA in the mid-1990s.) Those speculations have extrapolated from cases that are quite distant from a national ID (e.g., weirdly, critics of the idea have suggested a national ID would violate the protection of the eight to anonymous political speech found in the first amendment under McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission (1995), which aside from the WTF of what a national ID even has to do with that right, is clearly false because the First Amendment applies to the states under the 14th Amendment, so if somehow the creation of a federal ID would violate a First Amendment right, the creation of a state ID would equally violate the application of that right under the 14th. In fact, we have federal (directly issued or state-issued under federal regulations) ID cards required for certain federally regulated purposes, notably:

(1) Passports (or, for certain cases, state-issued under federal rules Enhanced Driver's Licenses) for border crossing;

(2) Passports, state-issued ID’s meeting federal Real ID standards, or certain other federal or federally-regulated IDs for air travel and access to federal facilities.

There are usage or production requirements that government might adopt for ID that violate Constitutional protections that have been firmly articulated by the courts, but those generally apply to state and federal ID equally.
This is only one study. And only from UK.

Plus, it's from 11 years ago before a lot of B12 fortified products were introduced.

And most importantly, it's only showing decrease in B12 while folates are higher and a healthy diet requires many hundreds nutrients.

This is exactly what cherry-picking represents.
The Mechanical Turk
Where would that $$$ come from? Like I said, the only attack possible is to overload the human reviewers, and even that is difficult to pull off except as a coordinated effort by lots of people.
Testing space software on a drone in Alaska
> Scanning people's on-phone photos clearly has nothing to do with being a precursor to e2e encryption

This is what you were arguing. It is false.
> (who probably receive 25% of that themselves)

This tidbit suggests to me that it might be useful to delineate between the two archetypal tech contractors:

1. Less experienced workers who are having trouble breaking into FTE world. They have to work through agencies (who take the other 75%, which is perhaps high but not by much).

2. Experienced engineers who maybe have niche expertise or just a strong track record.

When you talk about FAANG comparisons, I think you’re mostly talking about the latter group.

There are gains for the employers potentially. But these folks also tend to have more bargaining power. At a certain point, working for a “cool company” may not be all that exciting. Instead, they just want to consult.

(Also, I think other have made good comments re:benefits.)
> Where is astronomy's actual equivalent of that?

Removing StarLink satellites? ducks
>> and probably has affected her ability to work as well

>That is NOT how the law works, or every writer who got a bad review would sue the reviewer saying it "affected their ability to work".

I thought it was quite clear that I was suggesting that the pastor should sue, and that it was a tort case for her. I was expecting that being a pastor - which is a semi-public role that it might have affected her work.

At any rate a tort is in no way like a book review and if you have a case where your work has been affected that may very well figure into the damages you will be awarded - if it didn't every medical malpractice suit wouldn't mention how their client was unable to work for months after the surgery.
Anywhere I can see this in action?
yeah this feels like a prime candidate for sci fi "good thing turned out to be a bad thing"
> Or, we just have a natural/historical aversion to centralized power.

And yet support a sprawling state government machinery almost as powerful as the central/federal government so much so that states can dictate terms and laws they want and "local" cities and counties have to abide by it.
A Company That Designs Jails Is Spying on Activists Who Oppose Them
Hmmm, I think it's my VPN. My bad.
But what would be the point of committing voter fraud in a county that had 60/66 votes for Trump[1]?

Seems more likely to me that the Census is incorrect or that there is something going on with multiple residences.

[1] https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/texas/
Why? I see Twitter, Instagram and Reddit being just as bad?
That actually makes a bit of sense. NeXT (which reverse bought and absorbed Apple) was a weird pragmatic/bastard Smalltalk on top of Unix type system. To see that Avie hard worked on smalltalk (as well as microkernels) isn't a shock to me.
More likely (given other references in the wikipedia article to "non-resident males") there is a discrepancy between who gets counted as a resident by the county and who can be registered there by the state.

Additionally, Texas might or might not have a habit of purging dead or emigrant voters from their voting rolls, which would skew the number of registered voters.

Lastly, yes, the census is almost certainly an undercount, including in the more (shall we say) government-counting-everybody-skeptical rural regions of the country.
So basically a list of Trump supporters. Well known for their opposition to COVID measures, and claims of election fraud, and belief that Trump can be reinstated.
Forking has long-term maintenance costs, even without the hassle of trying to hide your efforts from the Elm maintainers.

I’d be fine forking it to pursue a personal project. I’d never do that for any critical business need.
They don't call the USA a capitalist country for no reason.

It's pretty much intended that way, by design. Power to the people, who in turn gives money and clicks to megacorps that concentrate the power and obliged to answer to nobody except their P/L spreadsheet.
Honestly though, if people are doing that with CSVs there is no system where they won't also go off the reservation and do something insane with an excel file or sqlite or whatever. At least with CSVs there are common lines of code all around the internet to wrangle all sorts of issues.
Thanks! Yeah, I removed it as I want people to use their own generative art in their own build. But if you're interested, here's the implementation I used: https://github.com/taki0112/StyleGAN-Tensorflow
Realistically, a couple of engineers writing a library from scratch isn’t going to be higher quality than adopting a mainstream, battle-tested library that accomplishes the same thing.

That's true but the vast majority of what you find on NPM is not mainstream, battle-tested libraries.

Libraries that do clear that bar tend to be widely useful but that suggests generality you won't necessarily need for any single use case. A couple of good engineers might struggle to beat a well-established open source library at everything it does, but that is rarely what they are trying to achieve. They just need something that is better for their own specific needs at that time, which might be a useful and realistic target.
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Of course there is a old solution in the ANSI character set. File, Record, Group and Unit separator characters
They answer their own question:

>Most of us don’t use punch-cards anymore, but that ease of authorship remains one of CSV’s most attractive qualities. CSVs can be read and written by just about anything, even if that thing doesn’t know about the CSV format itself.

Yes, we keep CSVs. If you care about metadata and incredibly strict spec compliance, then yes: avro, parquet, json, whatever. But most CSV usage is small data, where the ease of usage, creation, and evaluation wins.

One of the problems with CSVs he cites is a great reason why I like CSVs:

>CSVs often begin life as exported spreadsheets or table dumps from legacy databases, and often end life as a pile of undifferentiated files in a data lake, awaiting the restoration of their precious metadata so they can be organized and mined for insights.

A benefit of a CSV is a skilled or unskilled operator can evaluate these piles of aging data. Parquet? Even SQLite? Not so much.

For small-to-medium sized datasets, CSV is great and accessible to a wider user base. If you're relying on CSV to preserve structure and meta, then meh.
Franco did little to affect people outside Spain and Morocco, so he is guilty mainly for what he has done to his own people.

Mussolini cannot be compared to Antonescu in any way.

Antonescu entered the war in 1941 only to recover the territories previously occupied by force by the Russians in 1940, while Mussolini was like Hitler and the Japanese, an initiator of wars against his neighbors, the only difference was that unlike the German and Japanese armies, the Italian army was incompetent and they failed to accomplish Mussolini's dreams of becoming a great conqueror.

I agree that the fact that Roosevelt was equally bad does not excuse in any way Antonescu's actions, but it is annoying to see US officials blaming Antonescu without first looking into their own yard and see if they have any right to criticize others without presenting excuses for the actions of their own people.

I would have nothing to object to a critique of Antonescu coming e.g. from Iceland or whatever other place not involved in those events, but any such critique coming from US officials appears far too hypocritical.

All this discussion started from the quoted article where the epithets applied to Antonescu are either meaningless ("far right") or completely false ("all-too-willing Nazi accomplice"), instead of making any correct reference to his actions, including those that can be indeed considered crimes.

Also, what you say "Hitler's aggression was significantly worse than Stalin's during the war" is false.

The Russians were much more brutal in the territories occupied in 1940 than the Germans ever were in Western Europe.

Later, the Germans behaved significantly worse in Russia and Eastern Europe than they did in Western Europe, but that only matched what was standard practice for the Russians.

In the territories occupied from Romania, during the winter of 1940/1941, so before having any war with Romania, all the people that could be distinguished somehow from the masses, e.g. the teachers and anyone else with higher education, those who previously had any public jobs, all that had some properties, and so on, were selected and sent to Siberia to labor camps, i.e. they were turned into slaves, like during the wars from Antiquity.

There the older people died, either killed by the guards when unable to work enough or due to illness. Many of those who were young and fit have survived, but they were never allowed to return to their homes, where Russian settlers have been installed and they live there until today.

The Romanians from Siberia were not sent to the same places, but they were dispersed there over vast territories. Because of that, many years later, after they could leave the labor camps, but not the region, they were forced to settle and marry Russians, as there was no other choice if they wanted to have a somewhat normal life.
Living experiences are valid.
And yet it is used as such, in banking, healthcare and everywhere that matters. An alternative ought to be made.
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Voting is not a constitutional right.

Voting Rights Act is statutory like most of our laws.
Arithmetic coding can be implemented in as little as maybe ten lines of code. It is far simpler than Huffman coding.
A good example of their SEO content generation:

https://www.aplaceformom.com/sitemap

This websites also used the same website design:

https://www.allconnect.com/internet/cheap

This one is slightly different but same leadgen business model:

https://www.mymove.com/

Also with a coupon directory with affiliate links: https://www.mymove.com/coupons/electronics/

Couldn’t find any obvious cross links between properties. But definitely giant Google keyword engines with a leadgen business model.
"If this desktop doesn't look hauntingly familiar to you, you either didn't live through the '90s, or perhaps just didn't live through them right."

In fact, I used OS/2 through the early '90s, and Linux through the late '90s and early 2000s, so I missed this era altogether, and I don't think I lost anything through it. It wasn't until 2006 I had a job that required Windows, so I didn't use anything between 3.11 and XP.
13 years olds should be mature enough to know how to behave.
Not true if you get paid on a 1099 since 2019.
That's what I think as well, it adds an interesting dimension to the installation
The current title "Apple is suing smartphone emulation software startup Corellium" takes away a lot of context of what the actual article is about. In my opinion, the article title (and the HN title I posted and edited to "Apple says researchers can vet its CSAM tools, but sues a startup that can") is not "clickbaitey" when it is actually factual:

> On Monday, Corellium announced a $15,000 grant for a program it is specifically promoting as a way to look at iPhones under a microscope and hold Apple accountable. On Tuesday, Apple filed an appeal continuing the lawsuit.

> ... “With their left hand, they make jail-breaking difficult and sue companies like Corellium to prevent them from existing. Now with their right hand, they say, ‘Oh, we built this really complicated system and it turns out that some people don’t trust that Apple has done it honestly—but it’s okay because any security researcher can go ahead and prove it to themselves.’”
Docker's valuation didn't pan out because they tried to swim against Kubernetes.. compare that to CoreOS and openshift.

In this case it should be compared to valuation of tools like figma
Once you detach from "I must use a library for every thing" land, you begin to realize you don't need the overwhelming majority of them. Which results in writing cleaner, simpler, more focused code, with less of a surface area for bugs. It's a whole mindset, tbh.
As an intern I once had an assignment to try and figure out how to sell water depth monitoring to the federal government (in Canada, but it is no better) for monitoring of a waterway.

To put it mildly, we couldn’t figure it out despite our solution having a unit price of a tenth of our competitors.

This is sorely needed.
> You mean being put on a restricted rights/law enforcement attention list with no due process?

What novel 'due process' do you believe is necessary for the police to unintrusively start investigating someone?

We already require judge-issued warrants for intrusive investigations (Searching your things, tapping your phone lines, arresting you, etc).

I don't believe there's any country in the world that requires a judge to review the police putting you on a list as a person of interest. I am no legal scholar, so I should probably cut myself off right here - but do you not think that perhaps, there is a valid reason for this? You're inventing novel legal practices without precedent, here.
Where is this alleged list then? Very convenient that this guy is not disclosing a link to this supposed leak. I think someone wants notoriety.
Strongly disagree and I've noticed this is a common trait amongst developers. I think it stems from the fact they are more comfortable on the CLI and are used to poor interfaces that they more easily justify a sub-par UX. Just look at how many HN "readers" are out there because this site subscribes to the same philosophy
This. Eventually all sensitive data becomes concentrated enough that it becomes leakable material
Specifically SSNs have none of the security features of an ID. No biometric info or photo, numbers used to be assigned in sequence, only a few of the digits are unique, no parity/checksum check bits.
When I start going back into a fast (usually when cycling fasts) I can get back into ketosis within a day according to the strips. It took years to get to this point though.
I spent some time in chassidic communities in Israel a few years ago; that 13.2 median age figure is very believable.
Sorry - I posted that link in the wrong place.

Either way, if the claim is that it’s possible to reverse engineer CSAM from the hashes, proof is needed, and nobody has provided even a proof of concept.

The person I responded to was claiming it had been demonstrated. I asked for a link to evidence. You just made a hypothesis about how it might work. That’s not helpful.
Interesting! I built a generative art frame based on "{Shan, Shui}" by Lingdong Huang

https://dheera.net/projects/einkframe/

but also planning to use it for neural-net based generative art. I wasn't planning on putting a NX in it though, I was thinking of just keeping the Pi Zero in there and have it do all computations in "the cloud" or on a Nano/Xavier box sitting elsewhere on the same network.

I'm currently working on a 3-panel version of the above:

https://imgur.com/a/3IfKpb3

I didn't make my own frame though, I designed the dimensions and had it custom-built by a frame company, which was surprisingly affordable.
The columns are aligned with the headings if you use the tool for the job, like R or python or awk or insert favorite cli parsing method here.
Any chance you have a gallery somewhere with some of the nicer images?
I've been using VS Live Share too, and it is good, however, I still use a Pop session along with it, as we still need to share the browser at times as well as other things. So, I use both in tandem and will likely continue to do so.
Right. That's required velocity to make equation balance. Much different than actual velocity.