skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why so many cities and other jurisdictions are trying to ban facial recognition. It's a tool, like anything else. We make policing easier by letting the police department have access to plumbed city water, electricity, computers, cars, and so on. Facial recognition is a way for them to work more efficiently and effectively.

In Seattle, we've had rampant property crime to the point where people don't even bother reporting a lot of it anymore because the insurance deductibles and lack of consequences for thieves makes the effort a depressing waste of time. Unfortunately, without deterrents, most people expect crime will continue and likely get worse. This isn't the fault of the police department - Seattle has less than half the number of active officers per capita compared to other large US cities. So they can't afford to investigate property crimes, let alone locate suspects and bring them to justice.

Having facial recognition as an available tool would help with that. It means the police can be dispatched to the location of a suspect and bring them to justice, instead of letting them continue consequence-free, or relying on dumb luck to stumble upon a suspect. False positive matches can be mitigated trivially by having a human in the loop. Does that mean the overall matching process is perfect? No, but it never can be, and perfect is the enemy of good. We need deterrents to crime and real consequences if we want to ensure a safe society, which is the most basic expectation taxpayers have. If facial recognition is regulated, I hope they don't go overboard, like requiring evidence of a crime (through surveillance footage) to run a search, or something to that effect.
that reminds of that presentation about Google's monorepo, in which a graph makes the distinction of the commits made by humans versus done by bots. The bots there were really active.
> I am unable to find any mainstream or heterodox economist who disagrees that DMUI is real.

I agree that DMUI is real. As I've said multiple times. But in attempting to use it as a basis to argue that there is a net increase in value or utility from taking some amount of money from a wealthier individual and giving it to another, less wealthy individual, it's being misapplied.

Attempting to aggregate a subjective, ordinal concept like utility across a group of individuals is, unfortunately, not novel either, but it is incoherent. You're not going to find any political (i.e. mainstream) economists admitting to that, of course, because it undermines the logical basis for their entire profession. However, even mainstream economics these days acknowledges that value is subjective, and the fact that it depends on aggregating metrics which cannot be quantified objectively is a common objection to utilitarian philosophy.

The idea that marginal utility is specific to the individual is hardly novel either. As Herbert Davenport put it in The Economics of Enterprise[0] back in 1913:

> As the human being changes, the utility changes — may become greater or may disappear entirely. [p. 87]

> All utility is relative to the individual. — The foregoing discussion should, by implication, have made it clear that utility and marginal utility and relative marginal utility have to do solely with the particular individual as an account of the way in which he arrives at his purely personal and individual decision to become a purchaser at not more than a particular price — to enter his own demand as one among the great total of demands. Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as the comparison of the utility to one person with the utility to another. Men differ in desires and in the degree and manner in which things appeal or appear to offer service. [p. 97]

Or as Ludwig von Mises explained in The Theory of Money and Credit (1953) on the subject of "Total Value"[1]:

> Value can rightly be spoken of only with regard to specific acts of appraisal. It exists in such connexions only; there is no value outside the process of valuation. There is no such thing as abstract value. Total value can be spoken of only with reference to a particular instance of an individual or other valuing ‘subject’ having to choose between the total available quantities of certain economic goods.

[0] https://archive.org/details/economicsofenter00dave/

[1] https://mises.org/library/theory-money-and-credit/html/pp/12...
> Full vaccination is not achievable

That's called the fallacy of the excluded middle (sub-species "argument by demanding impossible perfection") and it doesn't negate my own point at all. No, 100% elimination isn't possible, but every reduction helps and literally saves lives.

> The un-vaccinated aren't restricting your travel.

Simply untrue. There are still countries that won't let me in because I'm from a country with too-high case levels. There are more that I wouldn't go to because I don't want to be in a small confined space for hours on end with people whose oppositional defiant disorder has made them dangerous. I would have liked to visit family in New Zealand this year (from the US). At one time that might have been possible, but no, because of people who are too selfish and/or arrogant to do what's obviously right for public health.
One recent anti-meme is words that you are not allowed to say even to refer to the word. If you didn't know the word, the phrase "the N-word" is not very enlightening, but people have been censured and even fired for using that word just to refer to it as a word[1].

In addition if you search for the actual word (not "n-word") on HN none of the articles are from the past year (there are two submissions from the past year, but the articles are from 1999 and 1971. The submissions have a total of 11 upvotes.

I recently ran into an article that used the phrase "the R-word" and I had to ask my teenage daughter which particular word that referred to. It's now very googleable, but at the time none of the top 5 pages on google indicated what the word might be.

1: One example: a white teacher at a meeting discussing standards for materials used in the classroom. One rule disallowed books with the n-word. The teacher said roughly: "So if there is a book about the black experience, written by a black author, I can't use it in my classroom because it has the word 'n*****' in it?"
This is interesting. A lot of machine learning works exactly like this [1], in the sense that you're biasing your prediction of each ticket time towards the average, except when there is strong evidence that ticket is special.

(You'd arrive at exactly this method if you found that there were no easy to find characteristics of tickets that could distinguish them as extra-long or extra-short)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridge_regression
I have found that those who find other to lack a proclivity for novel thought due to obeying spelling and grammar and promoting the correct usage to be insufferable arseholes.

As such, I dismiss their dismissals as the ravings of a fool.

"Some more words to make this seem more profound a thought than it is."
> “…murders are more likely to occur in this location between these hours…”

you’re on the wrong track if murders (and the like) are the crimes you’re targeting. murders, while horrific, are a tiny and very localized danger. the crimes we need to be policing more actively happen around money and power (mass surveillance, corruption, etc.), which are far too common and have broad, highly externalized, and surreptitious effects.

i’d heartily support (heavy-handedly, even) applying any and all such techniques on (so-called) white-collar crimes. in contrast, social norming in communities (like not murdering) should be convivial rather than adversarial, as that’s much more effective (as evidenced by how little murder actually happens).
Open source: Google is going to pay developers to make projects more secure
Hosted Dev Env – VSCode Secured with Tailscale
Still cheaper than SF.
I tile (in the traditional sense) when I have the screen real estate to do so. Particularly when using large (>=32") screens with at least 4k resolution. However, I do find Windows built-in window arrangement tools (Win+arrows) to be suitable for that task.
Well, I don't enjoy the "happy path" programming. Admittedly, this implementation to improve speed feels a bit hacky. I only did it because it had a measurable impact on the computational performance of my program. In my other grunt worker scripts, I actually prefer if-elif-else statements because they make code readability better for other programmers who are not Python "natives", but use the scripts or modify them to suit their use cases.
The fact that you are uploader (e.g. distributing the content) while downloading a torrent seems to me to be the biggest risk.
Almost 3 years old at this point, but still highly relevant:

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2019/01/15/quantum-comput...
For those in the US, I've used this "No stud" TV mount multiple times with great success on TVs up to 43". Granted there is no swivel feature, it's super easy to install and very secure.

https://www.amazon.com/Hangman-Products-S-2040A-Hanger-55-In...
Well I think there’s quite the difference any. A regular user of Facebook is worth roughly tens of euros. But working there rewards you with a salary that’s easily upwards of 200k. Given that they’re not losing money if you, you could consider yourself as one of the few power users around by providing a value to evil corp north of your salary. So I think you can definitely differentiate between a regular user contributing 50euro of value, or contributing >200k of value. Making numbers up here but suffice to say you’re talking about an order of difference north of 100x. Definitely something to think about I reckon, and definitely something reasonable to draw the line at. Imagine hyping the evil corp and adding 100+ users would equate to a year of working there, roughly.
OAN is to the right of all the major cable news networks, and CNN is the centermost of the major cable news network; that's not “two sides” of anything.

AT&T was heavily invested in the Right causes before acquiring CNN(’s parent, not CNN alone), and is investing to pushing the media space, and thus the Overton Windoe, to the Right; trying to push CNN hard directly would have visible pushback from staff and audience, shifting the ground under CNN doesn't have that problem.
https://commoncog.com/blog/the-hierarchy-of-practical-eviden...

I would ask the OP a simple question: what organisations have they built, and where are they now?

Longer, but establishes the epistemology of the blog: https://commoncog.com/blog/practice-as-the-bar-for-truth/ and https://commoncog.com/blog/four-theories-of-truth/
Yeah, it looks like there are a lot of hard-coded credentials, and one of those is to a twitch_reports database, which might be where these financial reports came from.
DeFi Platform Compound Mistakenly Sends $89M, CEO Begs Its Return
I actually generally like AMP, but I paid for the extension because AMP breaks native app URL listeners, so from an AMP page it's impossible to open the page in the native iOS app e.g. YouTube or Reddit. (FYI, free AMP blocker extensions quickly emerged after that paid one went viral.)
How can you learn a programming language
I'm hoping we will get to see a transparent report (from hacker or Twitch) on how this happened.

I think anyone would be excited to hack Twitch as the site alone - or any big platform for that matter - but this is quite literally someone just downloading the entire Twitch ecosystem and publishing it online.
Ok so you don't want them to have your phone number but you're ok with them having your payment details?
I haven't! Thank you for the tip!
The reality is that the group can decide that something that was legal before is no longer legal. I don't think there is a need for a new law, existing ones will be sufficient to show that Apple causes harm to consumers and the market. Even in US apple just lost a trail about payments, though it will be appealed I think the days for Apple having a payment monopoly on iOS and not allowing you to show a link to your website to buy directly are numbered. But I expect tsomeone to also claim that is Apple duty to delay that day and make more money for the shareholders.
There's diminishing returns (credit score wise) on open accounts once you're at three - ten is hardly necessary - and if you're churning, you don't need the churned card in Apple Pay long-term.
> Obviously this is absurd

What's even more absurd is that Congress can approve trillions in tax cuts and new spending over the last four years, and then just refuse to pay for what they already approved.
The treatment is similar regardless. Which is the real issue I am getting at.

The point I am arguing agrees with the second thing you mentioned, psychiatry is about treating the symptoms not cause.

Should they be both treated using the same medication?

Situational depression doesn't "count" as real depression.
> anything less than 10 is considered as having too few accounts.

Source? I do not think any person reviewing people’s credit history would rate people higher for having 10 low barrier to entry revolving credit accounts rather than say 5 or even 3.

Different types of credit are weighted differently, so mortgage and auto and student and revolving credit card are not all seen the same, and I would not believe “more is better”, especially just for revolving credit lines for credit cards.
Egress means files being requested, right? Is there a charge for sending files to the server (ingress)? Does this mean the only charge is the storage space?
Maybe not an entire TV show, but it could make a good episode of a series like Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits, if it didn't happen already.

Like a lot of SCP material, really.
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> Having trouble spelling doesn’t make you stupid

It does suggest that what you’re reading hasn’t been proofed. That increases the chances of other, more significant errors, e.g. ones in fact checking, logic or thoroughness.
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There are a ton of companies hiring pentesters. Most testers fall into the profession after having worked in other network or IT related professions. A few are free lance, most work for a company or in my case start their own and expand out services. It's not really any different than any other tech job at the end of the day, it just seems glamorous. Don't become a pentester if you're not ready to write extensive reports.. it's probably 75% of the job.

With that, there are tons of specific disciplines you can focus on for pentesting. I'd figure out what excites you and then go for it. Web app is diff than physical exploitation of security systems etc. but some of them cross over.

Another option. Work for the government, join a red team or apply. They'll train you and you'll leave with a new perspective and possibly knowledge you can't get elsewhere.
Why is that problematic? Individuals are allowed to capture photos and footage in public spaces, and there isn't an expectation of privacy there. I don't see why capturing footage is a problem - without that the cost to actually apprehend a criminal is so high that we might as well not have laws for many crimes.
I have been pretty happy with https://www.getsjabloon.com, which is not sold as a subscription.
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Capitalized keywords and section declarations on their own lines helps with quick comprehension for me at least
It does, Volksbank Germany offers a dedicated app for NFC payments that does not use Google Pay
My 6 semesters of computer science in 8 minutes
Depends actually, if you just want to do pentesting then probably do some certifications like OSCP, CompTIA, etc. Once you get those its quite easy to land a interview for pentesting.

Initially job may not pay good but you can build your network and then probably start doing contract works. Most of the pentesters I know make more from freelance/contract work then their jobs. Because mostly those contract/freelance work pays on hourly bases. The initial hour rates usually are somewhere between 40-50 USD but they can go to 120-150 with just after few jobs.

P.S - I might have made it sound a very simple or easy profession but its not :)
You play Among Us on the Twitch.TV!
WHO endorses use of world’s first malaria vaccine in Africa
Any idea why so many providers charge for SMS?
Smarking (YC W15) Is Hiring Head of Eng to Digitize $655B Parking Industry
Fine-- campaigning is hard, and a bit broken. So is running the country, but on a much much much larger scale. As I said, if a candidate can't do the former without staff mistreatment and broken lies, I'm not optimistic about when they suddenly have to deal with issues many orders of magnitude larger and with less control.

The fact that Yang acknowledges the issue doesn't make it better.
Apple uses their own IP address when accessing sites to protect privacy:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212614

Maybe the majority of iOS 15 traffic coming from Apple servers instead of individuals is causing trouble with Google's current AMP implementation somehow, so they check the iOS 15 user agent and disable it?

IMO more likely Google just has a user agent whitelist or regex that misses iOS 15 and AMP was just showing up initially while Apple was sending an old user agent during the iOS 15 betas or something.
Are income share agreements the new mortgage-backed securities?
Barclay's implementation of it may be awful, but I'd much rather use a bank's implementation directly than give Google direct access to information about all of my transactions.
> As a HN reader from Argentina, I thank ColinWright to share this with the community. Here in Argentina we are very proud of Borges and his works - and it is always nice to see people from around the world discovering or revisiting him.

Borges and Cortázar taught me anew what literature could be when I thought it was all the same. They are amazing authors and reading them is transformative.
Where are all the Backblaze marketing folk? :) B2 has an offer at present where they will eat the cost of a one-time S3 egress in exchange for a 1 year storage commitment. This offer is much more transparent, although I do still admire CloudFlare's strategy here.
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Not necessarily, I went in cold and it blew me away. Need to remember to check out his other books...
Apart from neural networks most models are somewhat transparent in terms of reasoning. Neural networks would be the wrong model to use for this anyway.

For instance, decision trees can tell us if the population density between this range and the percentage of single family residence is between this range, the probability of a package being stolen is X.

Or regression could tell us that the square of the population density is positively correlated to this crime .
Creating Wireless Signals with Ethernet Cable to Steal Air-Gapped Systems Data
https://xkcd.com/305/
> That's a dangerous game around these parts.

Subtlety is lost in text, and wasted on the technically-minded.

> the locked content is taking up storage space

Modders noticed unknown amiibo codes in the Wii U version of Breath of the Wild version and were able to create tags months before the amiibos were actually released. So in this case the locked content is released earlier than designed.
Allsides (https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings) rates cnn and oan on either extreme.
For me it isn't about the cost. Modern languages like Go and Rust separate the error handling from the conventional logic, and that makes the code more readable. It's my only complain about Python, (outside of performance of course). In Python when you see a `try`, you don't know if it's because there's error handling going on, or if it's because that's the only way to achieve a certain goal due to Python being designed to mingle logic with error handling. After doing projects in Go and Rust, I can see the value in separating the two, and that makes me sad that Python is old now.

Maybe what they're planning to do with this is allow wrappers to hide the places where exception handling is gratuitous, and therefore try to bring Python forward into the world of more modern languages.
"Anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." this isn't. There is nothing scientific or substantive about this article and it's more-or-less basic information found in any old Black & Decker home improvement book.

Plus, only an idiot uses expanding anchors that cannot be removed without getting into drywall repairs. Blue putty for an unframed poster, brads (tiny nails) for light items, screw-in removable drywall anchors, or anchoring into studs using lag bolts are basically all you need.

Meta: I have lost a lot of confidence that are enough hackers left on HN to outweigh the nonhackers who "Facebook viralify" junk articles and low-signal arguments.
I think this is where the operator pattern really shines. By defining a custom resource that contains the cluster configuration, the operator can detect certain types of changes, such as upgrading Postgres to a new major version, and automate that change the same way that you'd do it manually. Of course, if such an operator doesn't already exist, its on you to build it, but with popular databases like Postgres, they are generally already out there in some form. That said, I'm not sure if existing Postgres operators handle your specific example.
Apples to oranges. Glacier Deep Archive and R2 (And really, all the other S3 tiers) serve entirely different use cases.
Anyone considering investing in Regetti should take a look at the company's negative reviews on glassdoor. They paint a picture of a highly disfunctional organization struggling with behind-the-curve tech driven on hubris and the ego of its founder. Some people note the irony of him being married to the famous Uber whistleblower while creating a corporate culture that's comprable to early Uber in many ways.

Rigetti investors are trying to dump this mess onto retail. Be cautious.
What you want to prevent is logdumping to some third party which is a pretty easy exploit in many applications I have touched. Ops always have access to the data I think that is why we have devops, so maybe you are talking about some other kind of ops.
That's what spell checkers are for. There is a point at which poor spelling will begin to undermine the legitimacy of your thoughts as the reader becomes dubious as to the care you put into writing it. I do not think this is necessarily the case with this article, but just wanted to illustrate that correct spelling is valuable.
I think it's misleading to the point of maliciousness to call depression contagious. The phrase "ideas are contagious" is a great concept; because it's obvious on it's face that it's a rhetorical concept, and not really contagious. The average human however wouldn't be able to fairly determine if depression was actually contagious, or if it's just a rhetorical device. It's especially confounding when you consider that depression is both a symptom and disease. I recall a study linking depression to gut bacteria, which is without a doubt contagious. But that's not depression that's contagious, that's a bacterial infection; that has depression as a symptom.

That's just the long winded way of saying yes, I think depression as a concept should be considered contagious, but only philosophically. It's wrong to say depression is contagious if the discussion is remotely medical.
In Venice, High-Tech Tracking of Tourists Stirs Alarm
It's not easy to divorce "culture war" from "problem solving", since the question of whether problems even _exist_ and need to be solved is frequently a culture-war issue.

For example, you can't pursue "energy modernization and decarbonization" in the USA without taking a side in the "does anthropogenic climate change exist?" culture war.

Any infrastructure plan, whether heavy-infrastructure or social-infrastructure, touches the culture-war questions of "should the government subsidize industry?" and "should the government subsidize the working class?"
That sounds like it's just the database. The full leak is 125.89gb