skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So Clearview has a database of billions of faces scraped from the internet, and sells subscriptions to match photos on that data. I don't think we can put this capability back in the box. There is no moat around it.

Keyhole once had a similar business model for satellite data. Then Google bought them and offered it to everyone for free, making a fortune. I hope that Clearview's path goes the same way. If this is available to law enforcement and anyone else who can afford it, better for it to be available to everyone.

If big brother can have it, little brother should too. There is no serious prospect of withholding it from big brother. I think I'd rather have privacy from both, but that doesn't seem to be an option.
I think my insurance company is pretty lenient but my agent is a jerk.

I had a time when I was late making a payment and she was pretty abusive about it even though I was offering to pay right away.

I've talked to many people in business who were frustrated about a payment being past due but until then everyone I met was 100% cool after I told them it was a mistake and payment in full was immediately forthcoming.

I've been thinking about changing my insurance but there are numerous features about my house that make it hard to insure, such as the fact that it doesn't have central heat. (I've got the same propane heater you see in many anime and also two wood stoves though.) It is coming up in February and maybe this year I will look for a new agent.
Ask HN: Can you recommend full featured HN iOS app?
I use Octal and love it for the simplicity and interface. However, commenting is a bit buggy (have to kill the app to see new replies) and notifications are absent.

Can anyone recommend a full featured (ie not read only) app for HN?

I’m hoping for minimalistic design, functional comments with notifications and search. No ads, can be free or for purchase.
Most drivers for such hardware are based on DLLs or COM, and they aren't going to change any time now.
It’s super easy. Like literally would take someone who’s worked in infra an evening to set this all up and then a Sunday morning to have it automated in Ansible.

It’s a single server running a few containers with config files. The complexity comes when you outgrow a single machine or need stronger availability guarantees but none of that matters for a single-ish user setup.
I don't really get why you did it though. You risked your job, and potentially regulatory issues for the company just to get a build done? I'd have just submitted a request to unblock the official download site. Then it's security's problem.
Some specific games the Buddha would not play: chess, D&D, 20 questions.
Their normal pay is $13-$16/hour.[1]

[1] https://everydayaviation.com/spirit-airlines-flight-attendan...
Are you capable of achieving no downtime deployment ?
I mean, on the product I currently work on, we have one mongo database, and a cluster of 4 pods on which our backend is deployed. When we want to deploy some new feature without having any downtime, one of the pod is be shut down, our product still work with the 3 remaining pods, and we start a new pod with the new code, and do this for the 4 pods.
But with SQLite, if I understand correctly, you have one machine or one VM, that is both running your backend, and storing your SQLite.db file. If you want to deploy some new features on your backend, can you achieve no downtime deployment ?
This sounds very reasonable and it's the only comment I found in a see of people talking about how Telegram is doing this illegally. Would be curious to see how this turns out.
It's not that surprising when you know the history. This is the founders' second or third try at live chat with media.

At Ludicorp, in the early oughts, they were building a game called Game Neverending. They built a chat feature into that game. Then they added the ability to drop photos into chat. Digital cameras and cameraphones had just become affordable, so suddenly that was the main feature of the game. Flickr had to drop the single live chat window when they became too popular, and then it became a web-based photo sharing community. But they always had plans to bring it back, they just never got around to it. Once Flickr was acquired by Yahoo those plans became even more difficult to realize.

Like many companies in the middle-oughts, Flickr did everything over IRC. When they were acquired by Yahoo, most of them moved to San Francisco, but some employees never left Canada. So it was a distributed, remote workplace the entire time. It was natural to do everything over IRC and add bots and such to help you do things.

When the Flickr founders left Yahoo, they founded Glitch, and it was also quite distributed, half in Vancouver, BC and half in the Bay Area. I'm not sure how they came to build their own sharing-media-in-IRC solution again, but they had the tools to hand.

A fun aside: as Glitch was failing, but before they pivoted to Slack, they downsized. And a lot of those downsized employees reformed as "Tomfoolery" and created a product called "Anchor", which was basically Slack! There aren't a lot of traces that this thing ever existed but here's an article from Fast Company:

https://www.fastcompany.com/3013553/meet-tomfoolery-the-comp...

I assume that those employees realized that their internal tools were actually the best thing that they had made. Anchor was led by a former Yahoo executive who had I think been COO at Glitch. Tomfoolery/Anchor didn't get much traction and was acquihired by Yahoo just a few months later - most of those employees were ex-Yahoo anyway.

A few months later Glitch pivoted to Slack and the rest is history.

It's unclear to me why Tomfoolery failed when they had all the knowledge about how Glitch's Slack worked and a head start of many months. I remember a period in 2013 when a group I was involved in was choosing between Flowdock (yet another thing that was basically Slack) and Anchor and the recently-launched Slack. Anchor didn't have the rich integrations of Flowdock. Slack was very new and immature and was worse than both of them. But Slack improved faster and people like Stewart Butterfield had way more goodwill.
Please, let's not turn Go into the JS nightmare of asnyc hell. There are canonical ways to do this with the sync package.
If you told me to guess whether Hell had frozen over with flying pigs overhead or Spirit Airlines would somehow make a move like this, I would have bet the farm on the former.

But in all seriousness, friend’s mom is a flight attendant for a major carrier as a sort of “semi-retirement” career. I can’t believe the stories she has to share when we see her. They are so underpaid and overworked. She likes the free travel though so I guess that’s something. She also has a pretty sarcastic personality and does a good job rolling her eyes at bullshit.

Some horror stories:

- Having to stop a couple from actively fornicating in their row (not even in the restroom)

- Being handed a leaking poopy diaper for her to “do something with”

- Routinely being harassed, sexually/physically/mentally
Its non linear because enlarger optics are non linear.

The image of a digital or a film photo is a mosaic. This mosaic can be mathematically enlarged into a large mosaic. If you enlarge far enough you’ll see the individual tiles. This is a linear operation no matter the shape of the tile.

Digital photos do not, however, just make the tiles larger. They could but its not done.

Even before enlarging, they interpolate between tiles to recover color (each pixel in the sensor is monochromatic).

When a picture is displayed, the screen resolution is not that of the photo, so an algorithm has to fit one grid into another. And this is before going into superesoltion techniques.

But none of this would matter if we had a standard, open source, way to utilize digital photos in court. Until then Mr. lawyer can get himself an expert to testify to the validity of each and every still he wants to show the court.
It's not just about living forever, Jackie. It's about living with yourself forever.
This seems to be the RAM they're provisioned it with: https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/dram/module/M393A2K40B...

It doesn't look to be ECC.

> Why do you RAID-1 NVMe

That's what they set it up with when I first rented the server. What makes them likely to fail simultaneously, out of curiosity? I do backup everything irreplaceable as much as I can; I've not had to do it but theoretically I'd should be able to re-build everything from scratch with a day or two of effort.
This whole story honnestly paints a very bleak picture of the state of Missouri.

Honnestly, if I was a young, college educated innovator would that make me more likely to move to Missouri (or stay there) or move out of state?

Is Missouri attracting talent with these policies and practices?
The most common desktop file systems are case-insensitive, which complicates the picture.
I have seen some dubious statistics that downplay the number of deaths from nuclear accidents caused by cancer and play up the number of deaths caused by installing solar panels (e.g. by counting the number of people dying on roofs and assuming that most of them were up there installing panels).
> it be fair to say that you want others to not get anything for free but you are perfectly happy to get free things yourself?

I'm happy if it's legal, even if I think it shouldn't be. As long as it's legal for everyone I'm not going to be the only person to pay.
They can't show you ads because of the GDPR and they don't want to give away their work.
Right. Plus GCs can compact memory, which we can't do with manual memory management. I don't understand why people fetishize manual memory management --- do you want to spend your short time on Earth twiddling references?
That's just a launch page. Here's the article it links to: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/whats-entering-the...
Wow and I think as well they're only paid when they're actually on an aircraft?
Grylls fakes it.

Stroud doesn’t.
Building a Tech Startup with No Money
It's adorable how smart people can write thousands of words making eloquent arguments against something nobody has the ability to eliminate. It's like writing "The Case Against People Gossiping About Other People". Maybe reading your arguments against gossiping persuade a few people to stop gossiping, but gossiping, like cryptocurrencies, is a thing that will never go away no matter how strong your case is.
I have that same mindset, but at the last two companies I've been at, I was a bit disturbed that the software policy was basically, "If you need it, just go to the website and download it. Don't download a virus, good luck!"
it's my understanding that Telegram won't automatically translate messages unless the user chooses to click the translate button, and the option to enable the translate button does disclose that translated message content is sent to google.
2021 can't end soon enough. RIP Golden Girl.
Maybe it wasn’t but I don’t see how any business acquires their free competitor and then keeps it around to cannibalize their own potential market. Just doesn’t make any sense. It was inevitable - initially intentional or not. It’s just capitalism.
I purposely do not want e-mail notifications on my phone. E-mail doesn't solve all communication use-cases.
You can edit comments and titles for a short time, subject to certain conditions. I think it's a window of at most 2 hours, but the window will close (so to speak) once enough people have replied. The same (or similar) is true with regards deleting things.

All this is approximate, and I speak from experience, not knowledge.
Yes. Exactly. Which is why they shouldn't be blocked, forcing people to spend time and energy unblocking them.
If we want to assign blame by proxy - by virtue of being a citizen in the U.S. people are all paying for other humans to be murdered by the U.S. military. Do we blame the powers that make those decisions and enact against those or do we blame all 300 million Americans and treat them as murderers?

Blame those who made the system. Doctors are forced to work 80 hour weeks for not as much pay as you're thinking. Clinical Doctors don't have the power to better their own conditions, how are do they have the huge power to reform the regulatory issue of medicine pricing?
Ward Cunningham coined the term to mean knowingly borrowing against the future.

You seem to be describing a metaphor more like technical depreciation. Not to be confused with "deprecation." This is not what Ward Cunningham meant.
> and the builds of the clients that are published to the app stores could be anything.

Isn't Telegram one of very few that provides verifiable builds, (including on iOS if you root it)?

I might be wrong but I think not.

Edit, see : https://core.telegram.org/reproducible-builds

So it seems even on this point Telegram shines.
UTF-32 was an interesting choice. Was that done for the sake of completeness or was there a specific use case for it?
I donate a lot of money to charity (>10% a year) - that’s my way of having an impact. If I can make that money working on cool tech problems and without scamming people then I am very happy. If the tech also becomes useful then that’s awesome, that’s just added to the upside. If it doesn’t, well I’ve done a lot more good with my career than if I took a lower paying job to make some web app slightly more performant for people to buy sweaters.
Still interesting to see how people can rush to blame ML post-processing over a trivially overlooked parallax effect even when the former argument/theory may still potentially exist.

> btw, is the "Karen" reference really necessary

No, it wasn't necessary but at this point, what isn't considered a slur anymore?
My dream is enter in this space with a version of Access+Excel in the spirit of the old foxpro/dbase tools.

I have a sketch of the lang side here:

https://tablam.org

A big problem is that get funding outside of USA is not that easy, and here in Colombia this kind of projects is not considered "profitable" by investors.

But still convinced exist a lot of untapped potential in this area!
I don't really understand the strong position you take while at the same time admitting to not having read much on the subject, and then to regurgitate a bunch of debunked nonsense.

This is not a good basis for a discussion.
Video games nowadays are also really good at hacking people’s dopamine system. Trying to entice people to spend as much time and money as possible. The most important thing is self awareness. Know what a game is doing to you and decide if that is beneficial.
Few weeks shy of her 100th birthday...
The "moat" in this case would be overwhelming legislative action, criminalizing Clearview and its ilk out of existence. The law (supposedly) exists to ensure and protect the commonweal, and we should apply it instead of sitting on our hands and lamenting the market's unwillingness to self-legislate.

That probably won't happen, of course.
Same applies to Slack then
My son met his now wife while gaming online. I can report that online gaming appears to be an excellent way to learn to work and live with other people.
> And it could already be untrue previously e.g. the Pentium D were rushed out by sticking two P4 dies on the same PCB, I think they even had to go through the northbridge to communicate

Part of me hopes you're wrong here. That is absolutely absurd.
Cryptocurrency has no value beyond what someone is currently willing to pay you for it and blockchain networks are expensive always-on distributed systems which require payment in other currencies. That requires a constant stream of new buyers, and the combination of limited usefulness and mounting bad reputation was starting to cut into it.

“web3” is the rebranding campaign which the large holders came up with to try to drive demand.
What do they do about personal devices?
It has 1000000x the energy density. Even when accounting for refining losses, it's still way less mining than coal. And then there is thorium.
AHA – Avoid Hasty Abstractions
How’s that not a pivot?
Pretty sure it's just 200% / 2x. Here's the official MOU and FAQ from the union:

https://spiritafa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/AFA-2021-Ho...

https://afanewsletters.org/view/?id=30743

That "triple" word, though, is now in many news stories.
She had a great life. RIP.
“It’s about making them a certain way because it sounds cool” is an interesting statement to make. It assumes my mental state and motivations.

With all things parenting, there are many correct ways to go about raising kids. Whatever you want to call it, I’m trying to raise mine to be resilient, recognize self
imposed limitations, to be humble and to recognize the value of hard work and self discipline.

Feel free to disregard the suggestion of those things aren’t interesting to you as a parent raising a child.

Finally, there’s a huge amount of warrior worship these days (I have my own theory why but I’ll hold that back), so I understand skepticism of the book based off its title.
At least in Canada, it is sometimes only when in the air. They do not seem to be paid for boarding time.

> It's industry standard for flight attendants' pay to be based on the time from wheels up to wheels down, although most airlines also provide some compensation for the time flight attendants spend at airports before and after flights. WestJet does not, and it's become a sticking point with flight attendants as minimum wages rise across the country.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/westjet-minimum-wage-cupe-c...
It's just ridiculously capital intensive. If the government throws money at it it happens.

Some of the costs of a nuclear weapons program can be shared. This is probably partly why France invested heavily in it and why countries keen on it coincidentall almos always have nuclear arsenals. It's unlikely it's because they're secretly authoritarian.
How does it compare to the cost of a nuclear power plant?

Storing a weeks worth of consumption on a 'per person' basis can be done for a fraction of $1m. But energy scarcity will lead to an increase in prices, which in turn will lead to a reduction in consumption. One big problem with energy is that it is still way too cheap.

Another problem is that there are a lot of subsidies involved for large consumers as well as extra taxation on small consumers.
If you’re relying on the free offering that’s competitive directly with their enterprise offering and your organization is so large that it’s going to take over a year to switch - you should have probably been paying for RHEL to begin with. My midsize outfit that was running from top to bottom on centos did everything you described over the course of about 2 months to switch to Alma Linux. Hundreds of servers managed by an amount of guys I can count on one hand.

Sorry not sorry, but large outfits expecting to coast on a free offering don’t get sympathy from me.
> The data shows that.

I just added a source that shows that data tells something completely different. In the past ten years, German renewable generation more than doubled (from annual ~100 TWh to ~250 TWh) while their natural gas consumption for electricity generation today is basically the same as back then (somewhere around 90 TWh annually from gas back then as well as today). Not sure how natural gas stagnation can be described as "large increased reliance".
Same holds for HN discussion in particular. It's interesting to look back to what "metaverse" meant to HN in 2018-2020: https://jacksonkearl.github.io/HackerTrends/?query=%22metave... (shameless plug for my project)
Some are only paid duty pay when on an aircraft with the door closed.
Dad was there, in the 99th Infantry Division. They were a green unit (never fought before), yet were one of the few that did not give up any ground to the Germans. He was wounded and received his Purple Heart there [0]

Just to piggyback on what everyone else has said:

1. The other more experienced units in the area absolutely knew without a doubt that the Germans were on the run and that they were going to be crossing the Rhine any day now. The commanders of those units were overconfident [1] and forgot that war is a democracy, and the enemy gets a vote too.

2. The 99th had set up pre-planned artillery targets. So all they had to do was call the artillery unit and tell them what fire-plan to execute. A significant time-saver when presented with oncoming tanks.

3. They had also dug their foxholes correctly (by The Book), so they had protected positions they could fire from. This also gave them concealment, making them more effective when they did open fire.

4. Redundant communication wire was run, in case it was cut by incoming rounds/shells. The importance of being able to coordinate efforts with easy and reliable communication can't be overstated.

5. The VT Fuses were present in theater, but had not been authorized for use until this battle for fear of duds being found by the Germans and sent for analysis and reverse-engineering. The shells equipped with the VT fuses would explode at a predetermined height above the ground, so they made sheltering in foxholes and behind walls mostly ineffective. They really were a game-changer, and the Allies were right to withhold their use until truly needed.

If you ever get the chance to visit southeastern Belgium, you should. There are a number of excellent museums in the Bastogne area, and pretty much every town has an M4 Sherman tank on display. Plus the beer, fries, and waffles are excellent.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Elsenborn_Ridge

[1] I am of the opinion that the 101st Airborne gains ground by becoming trapped and forcing the rest of the army to go rescue them. As happened in Bastogne.
I also own devices like laptop graphics workstations.

The point I am making is Rust only for those with enough income to buy hardware powerful enough to have a usable workflow or for anyone regardless of what hardware they can afford?

As for coding on the go, classical desktops are a dying breed.
Except for public roads I believe those are functions that can only be carried out by the government and are exactly what and only what the government should do. As I said, for reasons I didn't mention, I only believe in negative rights, and those rights should only be violated if it necessary to protect someone's else negative rights. Because we need the police, the military and a law system to protect those rights I'm OK with having those things socialized.
It is if you have a zero-tolerance policy and they break it.

Their IT department will certainly ban Brave to prevent future uses of Tor, now that they’re aware!

But there are many industries where a zero tolerance policy for Tor session origination from a desktop is absolutely legitimately appropriate, as it could otherwise be (even just one-time) exploited for massive potential harm to wealth and people.

There’s a popular view with some freedom folks that we shouldn’t have the right to search people who are visiting family in jail, and while they’re right from a purely theoretical “my rights” standpoint, from a pragmatic stance it is generally understood that it’s fair to try not to let weapons be given from visitors to criminals, even if abrogation of rights occurs — and if you forget and bring a knife someday, you may get banned from the jail, even though it’s just a mistake, because of how serious the safety and lives are at stake.
Read “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Victor Frankl
This works until Microsoft also picks from the middle to make ten trillion Xbox controllers overnight and you can’t get parts for six months. There are so many competing constraints just in component selection.
For most people yes, and those who are high risk (elderly, obese, immunocompromised) are likely not working as flight attendants.
Meanwhile at work I can't convince the "firewall guy" to block YouTube to save bandwidth for actual work ... Even porn websites aren't blocked!
What are you looking for out of an app that the Web site in a mobile browser doesn't give you?
this only works in one country at a time, you can rest assured that other governments have your face tucked away in a datacenter