skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why everyone should have a credit freeze in place with all three big credit bureaus.
I'd argue if you have sensors that take images in multiple wavelengths, and they are combined, it amounts to a imaging system (=camera) that senses colors - vs upthread argument of "colored black and white images".
I have similar 'issues'. My wife tends to fuss over tiny details that seem completely irrelevant to me. It's not that I don't want to make an effort to comply with her more stringent expectations, it's that I don't even notice those details to begin with. It's distracting to think about them. My mind is always trying to minimize its mental load by focusing only on things that it deems necessary. I guess it's a more 'entrepreneurial' mindset?

Most mathematicians seem to be able to remember anything regardless of utility value. I guess that's why I chose a more engineering/business career.
SSNs sit in a middle ground between being public and private. A large number of companies and organizations use it to both identify people and as proof of identity. Those are two separate functions.

When I go to a bank for a loan, I should give them some form of private id as proof I am who I say I am (this doesn't have to be a federally issued number).

When companies communicate about me with each other (such as running a credit check on me which is likely why T-Mobile even had SSNs) they should use my public id.
otherwise I would get a headache

In my experience, headaches from cutting out carbs are almost always because your body is retaining less water and you're running low on water/electrolytes. Add some salt, zinc, magnesium and potassium to your diet.

When I do extended fasts (1-5 days), I'll literally grind up cal-mag-zinc pills, add salt, and dilute them in warm water and drink them. It tastes awful, and there's products out there that work better, but it feels great once your body absorbs it.
It's a GUI around curl commands. Any enterprise company could trivially spin up a team to build an open source tool that does 80 percent of its use cases.
OK, I'll bite. If the vaccines are as effective as the numbers in the article suggest, why is Israel suggesting booster shots? The lowest suggested efficiency rate is 81% for those in the 80-89 age category, this seems pretty good, no?
This is an example of the type of post I was referring to being tired of correcting.

I don't use Reddit anymore, but if memory serves there have been about 5 people total banned from the aforementioned Elm subreddit, which is fewer than 1 ban per year it's existed.

I invite anyone to evalute the accuracy of "Dissent is silenced and banned" with that data point in mind, and to evaluate the accuracy of the other above claims accordingly.
WannaCry was developed with stolen NSA technology in 2017. Despite that the National Security Agency should be more secure than anyone and these tools weren't available to the public. You really trust a public service, not run by the Security Agency, to be more secure than that?
Not sure it's strong, but The Netherlands has DigiD with 2FA?
Nothing except clothing and religious spiritual belief is "18th Century".

An on-line camera store is not 18th Century.
Why would you give your cell phone provider your SSN/DOB? Just use pre-paid and avoid this nightmare.
In the post they say:

> There are now 17 million developers on the Postman API Platform, and the Postman app has been downloaded more than 60 million times so far.

That's a significant user base for a b2b oriented app in a very monetize-able space.

Throwing out some numbers to try and math it out:

- At $5 / yr / user, that's 85mm revenue. 5.4B = 64x rev

- At $10 / yr / user, that's 170mm revenue. 5.4B = 32x rev

- At $20 / yr / user, that's 340mm revenue. 5.4B = 16x rev

All depends on how effectively they monetize.

There's definitely a credible-to-vc's story that this is a large company in the making.
There isn't enough love for TSV imo. Unlike commas, tabs rarely appear in input data, so you don't need complicated quoting or escaping rules. You just have tab and newline as special characters. Processing this data is extremely fast. Grepping for particular values is also very fast, as you can use the tabs as anchors when searching.

TSV allows you to do stuff on a single machine and GNU parallel that people would normally create a Hadoop cluster or 128GB database for.
> if snooping is moved outside of either end

Yes, but this isn’t snooping.
Seems like Cruise should be on this list?
>Can we please have this in the US?

No, because a significant amount of people in the USA think any kind of federal identification system is the "mark of the beast" from the biblical book of Revelation.
> Any enterprise company could

And yet...don't?
Which is why it is illegal, of course. Sadly that bit of the law is rarely enforced.
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Is Javascript a C-style language? Because even though the syntax looks superficially similar, REAL Javascript programmers apparently `npm install left-pad` instead of writing their own.

The C programmer in me feels abhorrent.
Or, just a thought, design an identifier where compromising one system doesn't immediately compromise all the individual data contained within it. SSN breaches only really hurt because its exposure means instant compromise of identity, whereas a system with some sort of partial key, signature, etc, where the user retains a portion means they have to compromise the database and the user, and if a "central" system (i.e. government, private key issuer, etc) is compromised you can re-issue the user identifier portions.

If anything it might encourage companies to smarten up if there was a law on the books that required companies that get compromised to pay for the re-issuing of the user tokens to every impacted individual.
Bottom up = individual users sell to decision makers

Top down = decision makers force individual users to use
There's not a secular group that seems to be happy either.
Of course it's doable.

But SSNs aren't even ONE factor.

It's time the US government entered the 21st century.
What was being argued was exactly this.
do you have the code for training ? i wasnt able to find it in your repo. That would be so cool!
I think there are lots of other parallels you could draw.

* Religion is supposed to define almost every aspect of life and culture.

* Unlike many other Jewish and Christian movements and communities, both groups emphasize visible, conscious, active separatism from surrounding cultures. (Whereas other orthodox Jews not uncommonly wear clothes typical of their neighbors and work in secular cultural vocations, like secular university teaching or even being the host of Jeopardy.)

* As a sibling comment pointed out, having lots of kids is encouraged.

* There is a process by which local authorities can interpret the rules, and their interpretations are binding on their communities. (If you don't like them, you need to leave the community to be subject to a different community's interpretation.)

* There are different communities with different interpretations and traditions, but, within certain parameters, they may respect and accept each other, intermarry, cooperate in various ways, and so on.

The hasidim do also regulate the use of technology by their members (this article alludes to Internet restrictions, for example), but maybe on a "default allow" rather than "default deny" basis.

It seems like the Amish prioritize keeping their communities based around certain kinds of work (farming and small-scale crafts and manufacturing), and also keeping them rural. Hasidim have made a switch to urban (and, as the article notes, suburban) living.
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My rudimentary understanding is that your body

- converts carbohydrates to glucose on the way in

- stores glucose as glycogen (fast-release energy mostly in the liver and muscles) or storage fat (slow-release energy mostly in dedicated tissue)

- converts glycogen[0] back to glucose when you need energy to burn

You don't need dietary carbohydrates very frequently. Your body will be fine converting glycogen[0] to glucose at an appropriate rate, and you store about a day of glycogen. The problem with dietary carbohydrates is that they always start as glucose and then get stored. If you dump a bunch of simple sugars into your stomach, they all end up in your bloodstream at once (hyperglycemia), your body releases a lot of insulin to cope with the surplus, and then there's a dip (hypoglycemia) afterwards. Once you're through the dip, though, everything should go back to normal.

I think this is the same as what you're saying, just with more detail on why it works that way.

[0] or other things, like fat and protein, in a pinch
Yeah but once you move something from your personal device to a cloud operated by a private entity why would you expect privacy anyway?
That isn’t correct, nor is it credible.

See: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Security_Threat_Model...
If they're dead we shouldn't worry about what they would think about what we do; we have enough to worry about.
I knew someone would try to say I was victim blaming. OP IS NOT THE VICTIM HERE. OP's namesakes are the victims here.

> OP's use of a name isn't responsible for this. It isn't the name on the book. People reading the book wouldn't have reason to think it was about a pastor in another country. And in the other direction, people looking up that pastor by name would not be immediately let to the book.

That is indeed the name of the Author that is on the book.

I often google Authors of books I've read. And if you're a crazy person who harrasses women who write about cults and rape and other things. You would probably Google the Author's name too and see that Author and then follow the rabbit down the hole.

> OP might not have "claimed" the 'knowledge' panel, but they certainly did work very hard to have it taken down or removed.

I dunno, there is a link that says claim and they didn't follow through on it.

And I would disagree that all the harm is done by Google. In fact out of all the actors except the victims of the harrassment they seem to be the least to blame for any harm.
Why should Apple let pedophiles store CSAM on iPhones just because they’re not uploading it to iCloud Photo Library? It’s morally reprehensible to not disable that flag when it’s such a simple thing they can do to catch so many more criminals!
Yep. Public private key is absolutely great for this.

SSH been using it all these years and still going strong.
If the US was capable of rational policy decisions, you could do any of a number of things to present a trusted representation of your identity without a “secret” 9 digit number.

We already have such a system, it’s called a passport, and it has complementary “cousins” like passport cards and nexus cards. That framework could easily be built upon, but there is a mountain of paranoia and stupid to climb first.

Instead we have the current system where fraud is endemic and where millions of people are marginalized by poor access to ID.
I'm not telling you what to do, am I?
> But this demonstrates the problem with JSON for CSV, I suppose. Is each line an object?

How is that not a problem with every data serialization format? It does me no real good if I have an XML schema and a corresponding file. If I don't know what those elements and attributes represent I'm not really any better off.

It's not like JSON or XML can meaningfully be marshaled back into objects for use generically without knowledge of what is represented. There are generic JSON and XML readers that allow you to parse the data elements sure, but so, too, do generic CSV readers like C#'s CsvHelper or Python's csv. In all cases you have to know what the object turns into in the application before the serialized data is useful.

And, yes, CSV has slightly differing formats, but so does JSON. Date formats are conventionally ISO 8601, but that's not in the spec. That's why Microsoft got away with proprietary date formats in System.Text.Json. XML isn't really any better.
Yes, but this sturgeons law (maybe less extreme extent) often applies to within labs or within scientists as well.

Newton did first rate work, but he also spent a lot of time working on alchemy and theology which didn’t get anywhere.

Research grants are generally competitive, if you haven’t shown you’ve ever done something my significant or haven’t done something significant in a long time, it is difficult to survive. But indeed even the top scientists spend a lot of time on dead ends.

It is true that often only top 5 labs or so doing good work, but those top 5 labs are not constant over time, they wax and wane like fashion trends.

The lesson is just because over last few years the top work came from only a few labs, it’s premature to eliminate all other labs because those top labs could be lower in the next cycle.
Seems like an empirical approach to addressing this would be more effective. Otherwise it's just a gut feeling. I am not saying its wrong its just lacking in verifiable information.
Does the article mention this? Sorry I have been looking for this information and did not see it. Regardless I am a Mint Mobile user and I don’t think I gave my SSN to Mint. Hell I don’t even think they have my DOB.
And there are also a ton of cases from an AirBnB host to a potential date to a lazy recruiter where someone decides it's just more trouble than it's worth to confirm that news story isn't actually about Person A.
[I’m not YC] For one they are YC alums. Also the “Peloton for your brain” angle means there’s motivation in the value proposition, and a group aspect. Whereas FocusMate comes across like pairing two souls to be a little better off together. There’s a slew of other group coworking things but they haven’t launched yet.
> That allowed the person to eventually pivot to the LAN.

Once on the LAN, the same person claims the data was "sitting in plaintext on an insecure backup server": https://twitter.com/und0xxed/status/1427639599636041742
Desktop: I am currently on Windows 10. I have a lot of experience with Windows since Win 95, and more or less sure I can keep their invasive features in check via registry editing tools and also double check suspicious addresses on home router. Otherwise Windows is quite open OS without strict binaries signing rules.

I develop on PHP, Python, Kotlin and Go natively, using WSL for things like Ansible.

Phone: any recent Android with medium privacy settings on Google services. I allow location tags on Photos and location history on Maps, because it is quite useful. I tried to regulary change GAID, but untargeted ads became really awful, so I am keeping it for now.

Laptop: I don't always use it, but when I do - it is Lenovo X1 Carbon with Windows 10.

Fitness bracelet: cheap monochrome Xiaomi (v3, I think). I am interested in step count and sleep monitoring, it is good enough for me.
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It's not just the poop, it can be the urine, too.

Cat litter + indoor plumbing = not a good time.
I have heard that in some poorer countries, authorities are requiring fingerprints, passport size photos, and even video statements for certain transactions and real estate.
Efficacy is currently high, but that doesn't mean it still will be in 12 months without booster shots.
When I see someone complaining about the loss of metadata, I have to wonder if they've ever had to deal with a swamp of data from different organizations, all of which disagreed on when to use what piece of metadata in what way.

Bad CSV is a PITA, but usually you can make reasonable sense of it. Merging bad/inconsistent/conflicting metadata tends to be an open-ended nightmare with no good resolution at the end.
I'm a contrib on a bunch of nix projects and people are shocked when I tell them my home desktop "chill machine" is windows. I do work dev on osx. I had so many problems with my 16" macbook running my 49" monitor I threw it all into void linux desktop w/ kvm and gpu passthrough.

A whole lot of work to use osx on a machine that doesn't constantly throttle, but not enough work for me to justify spending $3-5k on the apple hardware I need.

And honestly I hadn't used nix on the desktop in years, almost all of the apps I needed work natively - the Zoom client even looks exactly like the OSX/Windows zoom. I'm slowly de-osxing myself.
I don't see a better system. Maybe I'm misunderstanding his or your point. To me this is essentially capitalism. 90% or more of businesses fail, and of those that don't, 90% or more suck. But if you tried to call that 99% "waste" that could be avoided by only running the good business, you would fail miserably. Research is exactly the same. We can't just identify and fund the good research.

(But this should be obvious to a VC so I may be reading it wrong)
"Its just X around Y" is actually a very common multi-billion dollar solution/business.

> could trivially spin up a team

Or they could trivially pay for a 100% solution w/o having to lose focus on what they actually do.
Exactly. I don't dispute government services existing, I'm disputing that the government will do a better job than T-Mobile just because they're the government.
> So those five labs have a pretty good shot at doing interesting work, even some of that is going to reproduce and some of it isn’t. But once you get out of those top five labs, it’s pretty much make-work, incremental, marginal improvements at best, and a complete waste of time otherwise. And I said “good God, why does the other 90% continue to get funded if you know this?” And he said, “well, there are all these universities and professors who have tenure, there are all these journals, there are all these systems and people have been promised lifetime employment.” Anyway, a longwinded way of saying that we have pretty serious structural and incentive problems in the research complex. "

This seems like an non-thorough and fairly uninteresting answer to the question.

I would want to know how much useful-but-not-groundbreaking stuff still comes out of the "make work" crowd, how wide you need the funnel to be at the top to make sure you catch the people who can end up in the top labs and who make breakthroughs, how much of a "safety net" that you need to make sure people are motivated to jump into the funnel in the first place rather than going into something safer, etc.

A world where we have fewer "wasteful" make-work research jobs but also have fewer breakthroughs isn't great. Hell, you could call the majority of today's service- and information-oriented non-academic jobs "make-work" too (let's up those clickthrough rates! let's stream this video in 8k instead of 4k! let's move this money around slightly faster!). So is there necessarily much utility in moving "make-work" researchers into other fields?
Too long in the trenches in my guess.
I’ve totally had the why not just use curl moment a la the famous Dropbox quote. But man developer tool saas in general are on fire with growth and outright command these type of valuations. Congratulations to the postman team!
I know. However my C++ skills are almost non existent. :-(

But I keep to throw this idea over over. Maybe someone adopt it one day (and I will definitely beta test that later).
Just visiting this page would trigger a bit right?
> I would prefer the quality of engineering required in knowing how to do some of these things yourselves.

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.

Writing your own implementations of everything can be fun, but it’s not possible to compete with all of the iterations and reviews that a mainstream library collects over time.
I'm not sure what kind of commercial backing FPC or Lazarus have, if any. As I mentioned, I've never actually used it for anything serious, so I can't really speak to how good it is.

Yeah, there are a lot of relatively unknown projects that keep going. Pharo (a smalltalk inspired language) is another example of such a thing that I've also never used.
Leaving aside their valuation, profit, or ability to scale (which other comments have brought up), what could they possibly need that much money for?
What happens if someone with access to the database maliciously crafts innocent-looking images that collide with of the registered images?

Maybe include children so that on first glance the reviewer will just forward to the authorities.

You get these images, store it, then you get flagged.

Now what? What’s your recourse when the FBI insists that you’re guilty, and your reputation is ruined?

There absolutely is a problem of pedophiles, but the process that Apple is using seems ripe for abuse.
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I agree and they were generally designed with that intention. The reason they aren't used that way is because we have no other means of federal ID.
Those people are now 100% convinced that the election was fraudulent... I don't see how that's a good thing?
> Freedom of speech is freedom from consequences: … of relationship risks.

Wait, seriously? If I choose whether to have a relationship with someone based on the things they say, then you regard that as an infringement on their freedom of speech? You do later say:

> … other rights such as freedom of association sometimes override it. (And sometimes not.)

… but I don't really understand this as a statement of position. It seems to be saying that freedom of speech should not have consequences, except when it does, except when it doesn't, and I wind up not really sure what position is being espoused.
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> I WOULD have used a NonEmptyString type for the deserialized result of the response body. That's... pretty much my whole freaking point here

Huh, you rambled about not being able to do so. But now you claim it's totally feasible if you wrote it?

It seems you're just ranting against bad programmers instead of missing language features then.
Again, this has always been the case in the US. Newspapers were owned by wealthy businesses with a message to spread, as were the radio stations, then it was the big 3 TV networks for a long time, now it’s the 5 big tech companies. The gatekeeping is a feature, not a bug.

If you look to other societies, this happens there too. There is a symbiotic relationship between mass media and government at a fundamental level. There’s a reason that the first things you do after a coup are to lock down the Internet and sieze the TV / radio broadcast infrastructure.
This article confuses the idea that certain race/ethnicity are "protected classes", versus the idea of race/ethnicity itself being a protected class. It's always a "protected class" doing the discriminating, because everyone has a race/ethnicity. There's no special law that protects Jews and blacks but doesn't protect Indians or whites.
Are you able to run Protools and the Adobe Suite your Linux desktop is that no yet possible?

And how long do you plan to keep the Precision before upgrading?
This problem was started in the 70s and 80s. How long has the current mayor been in office?
Or seed it with XKCD.