skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Of course, then I realized the trap: it's a perfect honey pot to get everyone to scan their face.

This isn't a massive database containing scanned faces. This is really just the next generation of compression. It was only logical that neural nets would be involved in the next gen of image/video compression.
An impressive display of not just the right to repair, but rather the will to improve!

Reminded me of the time when I needed to restore network adapter's firmware in T43 after the eeprom apparently got reset by a minor spill around the touchpad. Luckily it was just water, but still the restoration was almost like a neurosurgery.

Still hoping to find replacement batteries for the T43 and T430.
I’ll have to look! I think it might have come down to who was live in the store first.
What’s the TL;DR?
What if my frontend is written in non cpp? e.g haskell, js, java, c#, etc.
Is it possible to ensure that your resource is delivered on a specific site?

For example if I have an image and need to be 100% certain where it was loaded, is that possible to do with some very high level of certainty?
While I am not trying to shill for artificial sweeteners (drink water, it's good!), this overstates the amount of uncertainty. Many studies have been done on aspartame and have concluded that it is a safe food additive. People have been guzzling aspartame in large quantities for thirty years now; if it had a large-scale effect that was worse than sugar, it would be pretty evident given all the attention that aspartame receives. What my cautious language is intended to couch is that you should not assume that aspartame has no health detriments; some studies have tried to link to aspartame to increased risk of cancer, while others have failed to replicate that result. But even if large-scale consumption of aspartame did lead to increased risk of cancer 30 years later, it would be less dangerous than the risk of diabetes (and its associated comorbidities) from the analogous sugar consumption over that 30 year period.
BeOS[1] was an OS at the time that by many accounts had good user experience. Didn't achieve commercial success though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS
> As a protease inhibitor, Paxlovid is free from the theoretical DNA-alteration risk tied to the mechanism of action of Merck’s molnupiravir.

This is the line I was looking for. Not that I know how protease inhibitor works, but looks more like a traditional anti-viral approach v.s. the potentially DNA altering molnupiravir.
At an Internet-major co in my country, my VP Engineering told me "We don't run stuff downloaded from the internet around here" - I was proposing to trial a Solr/Lucene based search backend as a replacement for the awful MySQL based hacked-together search they then had.

I wanted to ask him if he got his copies of Apache/Mysql/php/Redhat on government stamp paper. Instead, I quit two weeks later.
That sounds like a straw man argument to me. I think capitalism is amoral.

Regulations are added to restrict some of the harmful effects of uncontrolled greed.
No, you don’t have that right. If I buy toe fungus cream at your store you absolutely may not tell other shopkeepers about that. I can’t even get my head around a mentality that considers this behavior to be moral or even normal.
By "stop", I guess I really mean slow/reduce/flatten-the-curve, etc. It's all a game of probabilities, and I guess I'm on team lets-work-together-as-a-society-to-reduce-the-chances-of-getting-and-spreading-sars-cov2. But that's slightly less catchy.
I take it interchange fees is the reason some small stores will not take credit cards for small purchases, and low-margin stores will often not take Amex.

Separately, is the "credit score" system a particularly American concept? In the UK the credit report companies will give you a number, but it seems to be something they make up to fill a consumer demand rather than something card issuers actually use. Do you know how the FICO score became such a central thing in US consumer credit, and does Japan work differently?
An ill-posed question, and badly so, to be thrown into the public space as such and bootstrap a good discussion. (well it is twitter after all, so lets lower the standards).

It is no feat to show that just to offset a year's worth of CO2 emissions of USA one would need to plant in excess of 10^11 trees (all trees in Canada every year). So on the face value, not a 'solution' if I understand the implicit context; although what the metric to use, what is 'climate-change' in this context, time frame, and myriad other things come to mind for this to be informative.

However, what is probably less known is that forests (not necessarily the ones managed for industrial purposes) serve a role that cannot be overestimated as they drive the water cycle on land, and play the key role in stabilizing environmental conditions for life as a whole. Unfortunately, we have practically next to zero understanding (in coherent frameworks) of these ecological, non-local processes (apart from knowing that they exists). So planting (for industrial purposes in order to avoid large scale deforestation), but mainly protecting the existing ecologically functioning forests is preferred (ideally) over any technological solution (available so far) (although not because CO2 seq. is the main role of forests).

[https://efi.int/forestquestions/q7]
When we were deciding our kids names, we established some 'first principles'. I thought that simplified the process for us a lot. Of course, these principles are very subjective to the couple based on what they believe etc. Sharing hoping some might help others:
1. Names should be simple and should be pronounceable by anyone (we are from india and people can't just pronounce our names)
2. No association with anything religious or gods (we both are atheists)
3. No attributions to characteristics or features (it's common in indian names where the names mean something like one with beautiful eyes, one with great smile etc)
4. Names should end with vowel sounds (our mother tongue has sounds ending with vowel sounds. i heard it's the same with italian)
5. Avoid name bias and make sure people cannot guess ethnicity based on their first name
6. Have a middle name related to indian roots

Quite interestingly, our super set became quite limited with just those 6 principles.

My biggest take away is, there is no such thing as a beautiful name. When we think about names (at least in US), kid is not born yet. So we think about them as an independent thing. When as kid is born, they look so beautiful to you that, name naturally sounds beautiful to you. :)
Those days are long gone for American Express.

Only a handful of their cards - the Green/Gold/Platinum - are charge cards, and they all now have "Pay Over Time" (allowing a month-to-month balance on charges over $100) and "Plan It" (allowing one or more charges to be put on a 3-24 month payment plan with a fixed finance fee).

https://www.americanexpress.com/en-us/benefits/payment-flexi...

https://www.americanexpress.com/us/credit-cards/features-ben...
There is one in the Pfizer application for FDA authorization in 5-11 age group, see Table 14, page 34. It is not a direct study, it's an extrapolation based on antigen titers in a 2000 kid 2 months clinical trial, but it's the only one I am aware of.

https://www.fda.gov/media/153447/download
If they're actually legitimate they don't need to ask for consent, they are two separate lawful basis for processing data.
Forgot to mention that we had an extra rule when deciding on a name: it had to have a unique starting letters. I had a friend in highschool his parents and his siblings all had the same first letter. They thought it was fun but later on it because a privacy nightmare when post arrived...
It's better to look at excess deaths since testing is so haphazard in much of the world. Current estimates are between 10-15m excess deaths world wide.
Same here. I recently started sipping one to one and a half cans of soda during the work day, my work is half physical and on a PC, and my mood and energy levels are way more stable.

When I remember I substitute dried figs and prunes plus water with a dash of juice or weak cordial to flavour, works just as well and probably way better for nutrients and fibre.
"the construction of capital markets inevitably lead to labor exploitation through a natural series of actions and reactions"

Can you explain what this means, with some key examples?
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This is definitely true but just fyi by now you should be getting 2% back on everything, more if it's specific categories. If you're only getting 1% and have good credit, you need a new card.
> If I buy toe fungus cream at your store you absolutely may not tell other shopkeepers about that

Why exactly? Which laws would I be violating if I did?
FWIW: I think technologists are far too quick to jump to "I bet they want to do it for free marketing" and far too slow to think "I bet they have a large team of people who does almost literally nothing other than study this exact question, has thought about it for hundreds of thousands more hours than any credit card user has, and has a highly developed technical infrastructure capable of authoritatively answering it."

It is a curious, curious belief in the engineering community that we are better at trivial math than banks are. That is not a bet I would encourage people to make.
Unless you have significant risk factors, this is unnecessary. Most people don't and/or took care of business.
All good stuff, I agree with everything you said.

Heavily researched the tread and competitors and then decided that it was idiotic to pay for something I could do outside every day, for free, even in the forthcoming Northeast cold. Have one friend who really likes the tread boot-camps. That particular use case makes the tread more appealing.

What I do like about the more expensive membership is the ability to group together family accounts. That might be the only thing I actually care about. Bit easier to administer. All comes up cleanly on the bike interface.

Haven't spent a ton of time looking at the differences in the real time metrics with more expensive membership vs. basic but I assume that's a thing people care about. I personally think real-time power on the bike is mostly useless - would love to see averages over different time periods (similar to Strava's power curve).

For what it's worth, I really like Future. Joined because I actively weight-trained prior to March 2020 and wanted to keep up momentum. But a key feature for me is sending videos of movements to the trainer and having that person critique/give advice/suggestions. Exactly what I want and need. I otherwise don't need someone to build workouts for me.
> Visa does not make money from individual transactions. Instead, it earns revenues from the issuers and acquirers based upon the overall payment volumes and number of transactions processed.

Which is effectively the same thing.
S3 is actually totally gone on Tiger Lake and newer, so with a new laptop you are hosed. This is a really gross move by MS and Intel.

If you want to make s0ix (which is what you'll need to now research if you're in this boat) suck somewhat less, start here [0] then follow the troubleshooting steps [1] (since it surely won't work the first time).

It used to be I'd roll my eyes at the people on HN complaining about Linux suspend, assuming they just had outdated information (from personal experience I'd not had any issues with S3 for many years), but now with the removal of S3 I have to start agreeing with the neighsayers.

[0] https://01.org/blogs/qwang59/2018/how-achieve-s0ix-states-li...

[1] https://01.org/blogs/qwang59/2020/linux-s0ix-troubleshooting
That's one of my hopes. I don't know if this would have an adverse reaction for immunocompromised patients, but if not that would be fantastic.
The problem is the scale at which this is done. Technology allows to not only collect much more of this data but puts that data at risk of being stolen much more than a single physical notebook.

If you employed an army of people to be able to take photographs and remember or write down what every customer looks like, what time they come in, what they typically wear, how long they spend looking at each product, etc... most people will find that creepy and will take offense at that.
No, my employer specifically stated that the vaccinated would not need to mask or distance at work. Then they walked it back.
Exactly.

Let's say we lived in a time where the internet didn't exist but we somehow knew its potential could lead to what it has today. You better believe that someone commercially minded (think AT&T) would be sitting on DARPA's shoulders to make sure they captured all of the value.

Peter Thiel's obsession with naturalistic monopolies is no coincidence.
I went through your current situation three years ago, lived for a year or so with my Dad going through treatment and eventually coming to terms with his passing over the two years since, my main piece of advice is that the best way to look after those around you including your mum, is to look after yourself first.

I put a brave face on and tried to support my family putting myself second. When I eventually addressed my own emotions and experience in therapy I realised I was only bringing about 10% of what I could have had a really looked after myself.

If I had that time again, during his treatment, I would have been there more for the brief peaks of his health and not rush back to work knowing the fire was briefly burning less, rather than just being there in troughs when he was less present and alert. Obviously be there for the tough times when your family needs you, but don’t let work take up precious moments you could be having with your mum.

Good luck, wishing you and your mum all the best.
That's the beautiful part of humans, though, we push through and live our lives no matter what. If everyone panicked every time there was something that seemed apocalypse, then we probably wouldn't be where we are today.
Maybe it's just the resilient ones that survive and keep reproducing.
> Do you really think modern medical psychology has moved past the "blood letting" phase of knowledge? If so, then why are so many people still depressed, anxious, etc, despite all the supposed advances?

A common misunderstanding of psychology is that it's about "curing" psychological illnesses. Almost all psychological illnesses are chronic and not diseases that can be cured. As such, the work of a psychologist is almost always around managing, not curing.

You wouldn't, for example, look at the physical therapy an amputee receives and go "Physical therapy must be no better than blood letting because amputees still exist!"

> The fact is that psychology has a long way to go before it can be treated as a proper physical science, requiring researchers to bridge vast gaps in neuroscience and the structure of experience, which includes the huge and significant role of symbols in life.

That's happened perhaps more than I think you'd expect. This is where, for example, SSRIs have come from. It's not random shots in the dark and guesses. The unfortunate problem is there's a bunch of stigma around taking medicine for psychological problems.
Dang, I'm sorry about that.. any chance you can send me a screenshot / phone details? I unfortunately don't have a good way of debugging this (essentially I think that error implies that you can't reach the server for whatever reason). And looking at the server logs is telling me that I have some more work to do there :(
He shared his marketing strategy here:

https://www.starterstory.com/privacy-firendly-web-analytics-...

The answers are content marketing and spreading words in niche tech communities.
Why do you think those bots were scraping your data in the first place?
This is the genetic fallacy, no? Americans are bad, so they must be hacking hospitals even though we can't see it.
I mean, once I have enough money to retire, I'll retire, but I'll "keep working". The difference is that I'll be my own boss and manage my own time and lead my own projects. I can't imagine not doing this, since there's so much left to do.
Either llvm.org under Developer Meetings or the LLVM Youtube channel. The advantage of llvm.org is that it has a lot of the PDFs for the presentations as well as some old, pre-Youtube tutorials.
Google has reviews? o-O
It's only when you look into the Black Hat world that you realize how deceptive the Ad world is... Major Record labels botting their music videos to make them look extremely popular, social media profiles with millions of followers for sale providing instant impressions of fake fame, and the majority of ad-based revenue being eaten up by scammers.

Even Google analytics are so convoluted now that they really make a simple process of tracking real engagement into a maddeningly confusing bowl of spaghetti.

The people that seek to overcomplicate the web also create wild pyramid schemes for profit that really corrupt purpose and utility of the Internet. It won't be long before we begin to see completely fabricated statistics everywhere, and it will feed into misled investors and more deception.

I'm glad we still have the ability to create our own web sites and resources, many companies have been lobbying to take that ability away from us, to drive costs of doing so up wildly, and to cripple our ability to have an even playing field.

I don't run ads on my personal web sites though, it's better I don't contribute further to the problem.

My friends and family don't realize why I'm such a pessimist when I speak about the Internet and Social Media now, I worry about them being scammed and influenced by the fake aspects of certain business and celebrity online.

If there's one thing that the Pandemic has shown, it's who had money and who was faking. There were many people using black hat techniques to fake popularity, success, and fame and that began to dry up quick every time Google pushed an algorithm update.

The sad reality is that normal creators, and business owners that don't participate in the ad/manipulation madness can't ever make it to a point where they'll be visible, and the Internet can't ever return to the point where equal opportunity existed because of all of the now embedded ad-based revenue culture that we all let take hold of it.

The only way to thrive moving forward will be to create small (focused) communities that avoid the current pitfalls of ad based communities, and to be able to sell valuable and highly useful products and services within them that fund reasonable expansion and operation of those communities.
> Germany is Europe’s technological leader but ...

Uh huh.
They may find it creepy, but why should it be illegal or regulated by the government in any way? If you don't like the creepy establishments, go elsewhere?
“Dr Merritt” – Humans Are Free
> Historical relevance means using terminology that is relevant to the people who are there.

Wouldn’t that approach needlessly advantage genocidaires?
I'm very happy for you! Still a happy paying customer. I've recently upped my plan. =)
One thing, could you please stop the "too many redirects" problems? It's annoying.. -_-
The thing that surprises me about the facial recognition news is that I was expecting it to be the other way around. For meta to outlaw it.

The reason for the re-name is to separate Zuck and his new project from the toxic reputation that facebook has. So the logical thing to do is to get meta to outlaw facial recognition, as a first indication that it's going to do business differently from how facebook was operated.

Instead this is really interesting. Zuck has 'moved' from facebook to meta, and apparently, plans to bring his complete lack of ethics along with him (or to put it generously, his ignorant view of the world). Could we see the next evolution in facebook to be a social media platform that the company has decided is the past- and therefore they can afford to run it more ethically and be more considered about their abuse of their users. Become the warm and fuzzy that some parts of microsoft have become. Meanwhile Zuck moves to the "metaverse" which is him and a few others desparately trying to carry out the exploitation he succeeded with in the heyday of Facebook?

Or to put it another way - it would be genuinely surprising if Zuck has the self-awareness to realise that Facebook's brand can be rehabilitated but that his brand is what's poisoning it.
Vaccinated people still spread the covid and vaccinated people still get covid. Most of my friend group was infected when two vaccinated friends came up to visit. They said they were feeling sick but because they were vaccinated it was fine. I think everyone in the group but 1 person was vaccinated.

The idea that once you are vaccinated you don't need to social distance or wear a mask is wrong and is getting people sick. In fact a vaccinated infection appears to have the same viral load as an unvaccinated.
https://www.ucdavis.edu/health/covid-19/news/viral-loads-sim...

If I'm out in public, I wear socks everyday (well most), I wear a shirt, I wear pants. Its not much of a stretch to wear a mask out in public too.
Can you run it without SIMD (fmla)?

Same as these tests: http://web.eece.maine.edu/~vweaver/group/green_machines.html
Scotland's Largest Pictish Fort 'Reconstructed' in New Images
Honestly the only real argument I've heard for Golang is that it is "coming from Google so it must be good". Every time I've tried to write in this language it feels like I'm hitting my head with a hammer.

Google might have very smart and knowledgeable people in it but this language is like a bad overhyped C. See next code that all it is doing is parsing a CSV line:

func NewPoint(line string) *Point {

tokens := strings.Split(line, ",")

if len(tokens) != 4 {

return nil

}

var err error

p := new(Point)

// why cannot I declare and assign err in one go??

p.id_ride, err = strconv.Atoi(tokens[0])

if err != nil {

return nil

}

p.lat, err = strconv.ParseFloat(tokens[1], 32)

if err != nil {

return nil

}

p.ts, err = strconv.ParseInt(tokens[2], 10, 64)

if err != nil {

return nil

}

return p

}

most of the code has nothing to do with its functionality - it's just error handling that is plain hideous to write and read. Not to mention all the clutter to just convert an integer and a float.

And let's just not go into deeper aspects such as the structs that double as classes and has everyone creating his own style of SOLID and DPs. Or the inconsistent syntax which sometimes looks like traditional OO and othertimes like plain C further confusing users.

I find it very hard to believe that this language would have caught on if it weren't for Google pushing for it so aggressively. And I find it so disheartening to realise that after all these years developer productivity and happiness is merely an afterthought for language designers and that marketing and hype are the main drivers.

And yes I know the saying "there are languages people complain about and languages that people do not use". I find it worthy of high school gotcha sayings to which I reply that language designers of the majority of programming languages have no clue about how to make a language nice to its users. It's as they know how to design a internal combustion engine and then they put a chair and 4 wheels on it and they dismiss complaints about how unreasonably difficult and miserable the driver experience is.
Funny enough, this blog post is more monolithic than the original documentation.
It's not bullshit if it's true. It can be true, or it can be bullshit. Which makes it such an awesome bullshit excuse.
Sigh: https://youtu.be/iR1jzExZ9T0

The only difference with freedom of speech is that in the US, your allegiance is to corporations not the government.

Ask yourself this: would you rather have the homeless problem solved (everyone given reasonable housing and food to be clear), or freedom of speech?

Additionally, what do you think a homeless person would say?