skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your homepage says "protect your photos/faces etc. from algorithms"

The algorithms are what makes Google Photos; Google Photos. If I wanted to just store my photos I'd throw them in a S3 bucket or Dropbox or something.

Google Photos lets me automatically categorise my photos by person, lets me search my library using text search for anything (e.g. I can search 'museum' and see pictures I've taken in museums). That is where the real value of Google Photos comes into play.

> But we are far from where we want to be in terms of features (object and face detection, location clustering, image filters, ...) and user experience. We are hoping to use this post as an opportunity to collect feedback from fellow hackers.

So you're going to implement algorithms then?
> Before admitting it in court, it should reach a confidence of disproving someone’s identity before being believed to prove* another identity.

Which is exactly how it was used in the case in question—Black said it couldn’t prove the identity of the attacker, but was enough to show they couldn’t exclude the girl’s father.
So?

Imo, 1 billion a decade is way too much. Experts say it will slow down, tbf.

It won't be a problem if we actually start colonizing space. Some safety will have to go out the window, though.
Well Yes, it was kinda the first step on new terrain. It was correctly not used as convicting evidence. But as it was filmed at night in the girls room with a hidden cam, it was a likely match, and that's probably what motivated her to keep doing research in that direction. Later cases described in the article were using more features than just vein patterns. Plus evidence unrelated to hands.

While a sample of 1000 to compare against is certainly small, it's in the ballpark where it's valid supporting evidence.

And if you want to make it better, maybe just contact Black and ask if/how you could submit your own sample?
Part of the discussion should be, can the 'masses' "Generate income not based on hours worked", "Minimize taxes", and "Leverage time and debt to become wealthy like the personal-finance gurus themselves did?"... in other words, is becoming wealthy possible?

It is worth being honest about the false hope these authors are peddling about "becoming wealthy", instead of what they are really advising which is, to become above average / not poor. It is ultimately good advice for most while the crux of the issue is pretending everyone in America is a millionaire waiting to happen.

I would add that much of the sensible advice provided by these types of authors is not taught in public schools as a basic necessity of general education.
While I generally agree, I think for many people it's easier to cut 10% of their annual spending instead of getting better return rates or a salary raise.
It is not possible to prove this, because the photos are encrypted.
Yes, we have both a 100GB and a 1000GB plans, you can check them on https://ente.io/#pricing
That is not categorically true.

On the business side, there's plenty of companies that have offered and succeeded with self-hosted software. On the client side, there's many individuals like myself willing to dedicate time, money, and effort to self-host services. I spent quite a bit of time setting up my NAS with self-hosted services, not only because the number of photos and media I store would be prohibitively expensive to host elsewhere (I do photography and videography as a hobby, 120 fps 10 bit footage adds up), but because I enjoy the hobby.
Looks cool, congrats on the launch! Will you guys be doing text to speech in any indian languages? If so would love to see a demo of that!
Not a tough opinion, just a flawed one.

> I’m glad they can’t get into college.

I saw this sentiments a lot with the older workers I was surrounded by when my father put me to work doing manual labor for construction sites during my high school summers.

In the same way that college isn’t suited for everyone snd set them up for success, the trades aren’t suited for everyone. Stop being happy to see choice taken away from the younger generation.

> We need welders, machinists, mechanics, HVAC, plumbers, electricians, ironworkers. You’ll tackle some of the hardest problems…

You sound like a FAANG recruiter trying to make ad-tech sound sexy. The majority of someone’s time in the trade will be spent following poorly planned blueprints led by site supervisors that only care if you can do three days of work in two.

> Our wages won’t move you in to Ole Musky, but they’re enough for me to comfortably own a home, a car, a motorcycle

The wages also don’t take into account a lifelong career of manual labor that slowly breaks down the human body.
Umm, nothing against trades but i have trouble imagining that people who are self-taught academics would be happy there. Its not that the problems to solve are any less real, just really different.
Yeah, but the audience of those financial gurus are the general public. So sure, their advice might work for the top 5%, but the rest of people will never "get rich" using that advice. Even that top 5% could be better off if building passive income, businesses, etc.
Looks great, but based on my limited time with it:

- when registering via the Android application I got no 1Password prompt to fill in the fields; this is usually the case with other applications
- there doesn't seem to be an option to back-up single photos, only whole directories; why is this?
Author samples

https://www.popsci.com/authors/jess-romeo/

https://daily.jstor.org/daily-author/jess-romeo/
Go is a modern take on coroutines (M:N threading), when everyone else seems to be going the async/await route. Though, I don't know how simple that scheduler implementation is (or if there are books about the internals).

Since the Linux kernel has pluggable schedulers, that code might be well-structured for reading. Again, I don't know the specifics.
Is there a way to “one click” move from google photos?
People like to dislike XML Schema, but this JSON Schema proposal is horribly more verboss.
It is not just the future that needs it. Time travel stories are part of our mainstream fiction and so we need to deal with time travel tenses when discussing the plots of those stories.

Here's what can happen with our current tenses if you try to discuss the popular movie "Back to the Future": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLpUlmiVo2k
The r/personalfinance and r/financialindependence subreddits are quite good and even cover more exotic details like the “mega back door roth” otherwise known as “after tax 401k contribution in plan conversions to roth” (which can let you add an additional 36k to a Roth IRA over the 6k limit each year in addition to the normal 19.5k for a traditional 401k).

They’re mostly bogleheads so are a little risk averse, but for most that’s probably the right move anyway.
I think I know the type of video you mean, I always assumed they were not TTS but professional speakers hired on Fiver and obliged to speak the text verbatim even though there are weird phrases.
Thank god it wasn't TCL.
Average People require average advice. Above average people can figure it out on their own. This piece is fine and good, and I appreciate that it was written. I agree with its thesis.
A lot of banks don't have 2fa

Chase for instance
This is a mischaracterization of Ramit Sethi’s class. I’ve taken it and it’s the opposite of what the article claiming. It focuses on helping you build your business and income streams.
Fred the Robot Arm – 6 DOF 3D printed dynamixel robot arm
Kelvin has no degrees sign (°) because it’s an absolute unit.

https://sciencenotes.org/why-there-is-no-degree-in-kelvin-te...
Surprisingly few mentions of the orange elephant in the room here. Perhaps Don Jr shot the elephant on a "hunting" trip.
And it never caught on outside limited contexts because dev environments were thousands of dollars per seat.
It is "easier" for people that are capable of becoming wealthy to do so by making money and leveraging their skills to accrue wealth not by hours worked.

It is unclear weather it is "easier" for everyone to do so, or possible. And if not, whether they are better off not trying, and instead saving and budgeting.
My comment is saying they're not transferable 1:1 right there...

Even between first world countries they're not transferable 1:1, even within single countries they're not transferable 1:1

But the reality is your friend had an incredible head start going over the same stuff she learned. There's this narrative that high educated people form 3rd world countries all have to end up in menial jobs because somehow a doctor/lawyer/engineer/tradesperson from a 3rd world country is not knowledgeable enough to do anything else by 1st world standards, and it's more of a meme than anything.
It’s not a question of whether the satellite will hear you, it’s a question of whether they will ignore you because you’re not a subscriber.
we have so many consumer facing apps. you'd want to maintain all those and actually have a life to use those? good luck!
A sphere in the mathematical sense is the 2D shell on the surface of the sphere you're thinking of. So, no height, no volume.
Ultimately this crowd wants to change the practice of mathematics in the real world, so they are very accomiadating.

See https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2021/06/large_sets_1.ht... for tackling the "large cardinal pissing contest" that is much of modern set theory.

Your very statement is a good retreat from platonism with blinders, acknowledging the inherit "moral relativism" that there are many possible foundations, and it is up to usflawed humans to decide what we like to work with best.

The earlier intuitionists like Brouwer were polemicists, perhaps because they felt very alone. Now there is a good network of CS-mathematician hybrids to keep everyone feeling more sane.

Here we see the dual track that you can question your foundational choices and your higher level abstractions (point-set topology vs locales which are distilled to being purely order-theoretic) concurrently. It's nice to take the same skepticism and interest in finding definitions the work with not alienste the working mathematician at multiple levels.

Because, for all the trepidation about abandoning ZFC, the mainstream formalizations have clearly failed in that mathematicians that aren't logicians or set theorists would rather engage with them as little as possible.
I have spent a good bit of time thinking here too, on two primary parts.

First, in my mind the difference between reddit, FB, twitter, HN, forums, etc is really just configuration. Abstracting just a tad bit higher, you can include Slack and other realtime options. I just want a curated gRPC API that implements it with pluggable auth and let others figure out discoverability and network (not activity api and not with an already built network, just persistence and auth). End to end encryption is important IMO too (even for large groups) so the host can have plausible deniability.

Second, you have to solve for hosting/network in distributed fashion without over-complicating server democratization and discoverability/naming like p2p often does. I see 2 options: 1) self hosted on at-home workstation using Tor onion service (get NAT busting for free) knowing you need an offline friendly implementation or 2) one-click easy reselling of cloud instances and domains from inside the app (this also provides a funding model).

I know of many p2p options for solving these problems, but I think we dont need to complicate at that level. As for the quality of the communities themselves, a self-hosted megaphone instead of perverse share/like broadcast incentives of companies today will automatically improve discourse (at a potential cost of creating echo chambers).
It varies widely by person (some people are addicted to spending money), and by career (bumping salary up by a few percentage points is a lot harder in some industries than others), which is part of the problem
Latin America is a mess in many ways.

VCs there suck, and do not understand that VCs are about inherently risky investments. They want the guarantees of a low risk business with the profitability of a high risk business.

Leadership in Latin American companies also sucks. As soon as the company has any revenue, the leadership will go all out and spend it all on themselves on some extravagant lifestyle adjustments rather than reinvesting it on the company. And because of this, many companies stay small and mediocre without fulfilling their true potential. They waste their money on MBAs learning things they are unwilling to apply.

Then, there is nepotism. Hiring from your family equates creating conflicts of interest, creating situations where relatives of key people do not need to comply with HR, do not need to be competent, cannot be fired and create an unprofessional atmosphere.

Compensation in most Latin American companies sucks. They aspire to be like Silicon Valley startups and hang framed posters of Steve Jobs on their wall, but when it's moment to create compensation packages they grant zero stock and award zero bonuses, all while having the same work-life balance of a startup. They do not understand the key role of employee stock in company growth.

Why the fuck would you work for a wannabe startup that doesn't give you any stock or bonuses? Or work for some entitled aggrandized clown that doesn't understand the simplest technical concepts? And the answer is: because
business owners in Latin America have never had to care much about their workforce. Because of exploitation and their informal caste system, having a happy workforce has never been a requirement.

That's why Latin America is undergoing a massive brain drain that will only get worse in the years to come.
I got a Somewear recently (really happy with it too) almost expecting this to finally land in this year‘s iPhones in a classic late early adopter‘s moment.

At least you‘ll be able to resell it to Android users :)
I don’t know what you mean by critically. But everything from calling law enforcement for pedestrian and vehicle strikes to handling special operations (i.e. single tracking in a work zone) uses wireless communication.

There are also defect detection systems that rely on radio transmissions to indicate if a train is for example dragging equipment.
Self-hosting a zero knowledge service is probably unnecessary.

If you're hosting the service, there's no need for data to be encrypted client-side. Unless, of course, you were intending on running the service on a public cloud which you didn't control, but that's something I don't think many privacy conscious folk would do.

There's plenty of open source, self-hosted alternatives to Google Photos.
Thanks! ente is currently not directed at an audience that has the knowledge to set up and maintain a reliable storage infrastructure. We had started off on the self-hosting route and then realized the difficulties in scaling such a product in the consumer space. So we have for now decided to direct our limited bandwidth into making the product accessible. Sorry about that.
This is an important but seemingly understudied subsection of my field (human-robot interaction). From some well-cited work:

"Our goal is to enable robots to express their incapability, and to do so in a way that communicates both what they are trying to accomplish and why they are unable to accomplish it... Our user study supports that our approach automatically generates motions expressing incapability that communicate both what and why to end-users, and improve their overall perception of the robot and willingness to collaborate with it in the future."

I'm not as plugged into human-computer interaction work, but as a user, it seems like this is sorely missing and getting worse. I wish I could get a happy medium somewhere between a full stack trace and silent failure, e.g. when my iCloud documents won't sync.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3171221.3171276
Fair enough. I felt compelled to post in this thread because I've seen the "ban unsafe languages" sentiment expressed several times here and on Reddit before (especially on r/rust I remember reading some comments that had a hostile tone written by people who were serious about it). Your initial comment in this thread resembled one of those.

I think you've misunderstood why I mentioned Verona and Vale though. It is to challenge the notion that there could not be any other language than Rust that could be more ergonomic but with slightly different trade-offs. Moreover, I agree with your point regarding the ecosystem.
I have family, but they are based in Germany, but everything depends IMO if your kids are able to speak Portuguese or not. That for sure would impact your budget for education. Living in Setubal/Almada, you can plan a 700-800 euro/month rent, 300-500 for supermarket, 100-300 transportation and then education in case your kids need a private school. The costs with transport may vary if you have to commute daily to Lisbon, if you use car or not and etc.
This edge case, while admittedly existing, doesn’t seem worth wringing our hands over. There are other channels available for that.
I agree with this. Not everyone can be above average and not everyone should pursue self-employment, passive income and leveraging debt to grow wealth. For many many people lessons on saving and budgeting are the best course of action.
Democrats gonna democrat.
I think an even deeper question is, is it possible for the masses to get rich and what would the macroeconomics look like? I would think competition and resource scarcity would prevent this.
I think most financial advisors target people with no impulse control, spending the bulk of their income each month, with a measurable part of it on non-essentials.

Those kinds of people can budget to some version of wealth (especially when you consider the median net worth of their peers is most likely only barely a positive number).

To get into "real" money (5+ million dollars in savings?), then you can't budget yourself to riches if you simply do not have the gross income, and time horizon for some amount of compounding interest. The financial advisors in this bracket are usually not telling you what to save vs. spend, but instead more commonly discussing investment diversification strategies, ways to (legally) avoid or defer taxes, etc.
No, it won't.
I just don't see how they will fit a good enough antenna. I highly doubt this will happen.
Sidenote: are you aware that "Ente" is German for "duck"? :)
Why does a university need multiple religious people, let alone a chief chaplain? As someone who studied in France, that concept seems extremely alien to me ( to be fair the separation between church and education was forced here a century ago).

Is that a common thing in American universities / colleges?
If someone is self-taught, i think its more likely than average they care about knowledge for the sake of knowledge.

Like any expensive purchase, its important to know what you're buying before you buy, but that doesnt make it worthless
> These "big idea languages" tend to assert a kind of "programming ideology" over reality, and tend to, in my opinion, distance you from the thing you are trying to do, often, they claim, "for your own good".

Another angle on this for a language like Rust is that Rust is designed the way it is because it’s favouring reality over programming ideology, distancing you from the thing you’re trying to do when it’s something that doesn’t map to the reality of how computers work very well—and yes, that reality does end up leading to ideology, but Rust is the way it is because of reality more than because of ideology.

But then Lisp! Why, Lisp is the epitome of programming ideology over reality! Ask me to name a “big idea language” under the provided definition and the first language (well, family of languages) that springs to my mind is Lisp. It’s not just unopinionated, it’s aggressively unopinionated, which is an opinion, an ideology (to say nothing of the doctrine of S-expressions), and one that flies in the face of how computers actually work; so that you pay at least a performance price to use such languages, and often other prices too, like with threading, as ekidd’s comment mentions.

There’s a reason Lisp machines died.
I have a Garmin InReach Mini. It uses the Iridium satellite network. No calls, but it can do texts and data. It’s dimensions are 23x23mm. It worked quite well in the Arctic wilderness this summer. So I would say putting satellite capability within a phone size form factor seems quite achievable.

I was quite happy to read this news simply for the fact that if true it should hopefully cut into the arm-and-leg price Garmin charges for me to use my InReach to access the satellite network.
Phone calls would be surprising, but in a way that seems vaguely plausible based on current technology.

GSM phones used to have large external antennas too, until one day they simply didn‘t anymore.
In the overall distribution of risk-aversion, bogleheads are more comfortable with risk than far too many savers. I’ve seen too many of my parents’ generation squander decades of investment returns because of the idea that stocks are risky.
Yes, and that is a problem.
But the irony is that the generic advice actually applies to the hacker news audience pretty well.

People reaching 100k/year or so single income should be able to save comfortably. And a lot of programmers are on an appropriate career path to get there in a few years
the answer is right here https://ente.io/transparency
There is a saying: "Do not think how you are going to spend the money. Think how you are going to make money."
Why would this type of feature invoke that type of response?
Rust typesystem has its place in many soft realtime / system programming domains.

Problem is people trying to push it as one true solution. But that's a human problem.
Trick question. What we are dealing with is a redefinition of economics with a substantially reduced emphasis on "money". Minimize how much of your wealth is exposed to the financial system.
> Except we used our cards to make $3,624 in spendable cash last year, all while paying zero in interest — because we paid the cards off in full each month.

Yeah except the merchants probably marked up their prices 4% to cover card processing fees so really we are just paying more for goods than we otherwise would have with cash and the card company is giving us a tiny kickback.

Let's not pretend credit card kickbacks are free money... The card companies are glutting themselves on merchant fees and we are all paying the price in the form of costlier goods in exchange for a small kickback.
That blog is a false dichotomy built on top of a strawman.

The strawman is that it's all about "getting rich". Ramsey (the one I've heard talk the most) is mostly about just getting people to stop digging themselves deeper and deeper into debt where they will have no hope for even the basic stability that you need to build greater wealth upon.

The false dichotomy is that you either need a side hustle business or you need to follow sound day-to-day money management discipline. Following sound money management discipline is what gets you to the point of having some discretionary income to build your own business.
I feel like this is a pretty harsh take for what is good advice even if you do want to go down the starting a business route. Personal finance (i.e. managing your personal revenue, costs, and tax burden) is still necessary even when you’re running a business. You just have more tools as your disposal to manage your tax burden when you have a business.

I really don’t think anyone believes they’re going to get rich after reading a personal finance book. The hash reality if even if your expenses were $0 your total salary times x years still wouldn’t make you rich is unavoidable and known to basically everyone. These books are for people who need to get a handle on their spending, pay down their debt, and start gradually accumulating positive net worth.