skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The worst part about Clearview is there is no way to easily opt-out if you do not live in California or Illinois.

I wrote Clearview an email a long time ago saying I would like my data removed. They asked for my ID to verify who I was. Clearview responds saying thanks for sending your ID, but you aren’t a California resident so we don’t have to remove your data. I wrote follow up emails still asking if they could consider removing it. After my follow up email, they just stopped responding. It’s been months now and no word back.

I get that they have no legal obligation to, but they should provide people a way to opt-out in other states. It felt like a bait and switch to ask for my personal information then just ghost me. However, I guess nobody can expect Clearview to be a moral company.
Depends,

Cloud providers cut compute/storage costs every few years. You can get long term contracts with them that have heavy discounts for guaranteed spend. Switching compute instance types is pretty cheap, and switching compute platforms is relatively low cost when the time comes. Meaning that investors can generally expect your compute costs to fall YoY all else being equal.

Building out your own compute generally means adding new headcount to deal with colo things such as vender management, technical details such as networking, capes/opex management, and finally hardware selection. The odds that the hardware you select perfectly matches the compute you need in 2 years is low. The odds that a cloud provider has made a cheaper compute option in 2 years are moderate. The odds that your app needs something that’s available trivially in a cloud provider are high.
>Breaking and entering is the entering of a building through force without authorization.

Where's the force? Door unlocked. I'll give ya the lack of auth though as I'm not willing to die on the hill of unlocked doors being an implied grant of authorization.
So copyright isn't a thing anymore?
There is also ScyllaDB, Rockset, Hazelcast, Aerospike, VoltDB, GridGain… too many to count and all valued in hundreds of millions of $
I fail to see how the similarity of those “artifacts” would imply that the camera software added a leaf… and a branch… and connected them realistically… in the foreground… in place of the face it apparently “replaced”

A simple application of Occam’s razor could’ve saved a lot of furor
In addition to all the other great advice and heart felt sharing here I would add:

Do some research into the composition of the human mind and heart. Basically train to be a clinical psychiatrist. I know it sounds like a lot, but I don't mean to aim to be a professional, but more of a survey of the subjects would help. Mostly help inasmuch as knowing how your and most everyone elses minds, hearts, and souls work and how they can heal.

There's lot of models. From Jungian to whatever they all point to the same mystery. Dive into that.

The unexamined life, and all that...
The Quantum Mechanics of Viscosity
Most dirt isn't red though. I'd worry more about dirt obscuring the red and making it look black.
So the answer is web2!
appreciate the response - your second point especially rings true for me and has set off some thoughts of my own:

I would say my 'theory of crypto' is that they're rediscovering the financial system. The financial system can do everything crypto can and more. The fact it does not is due almost entirely to regulation.

This implies crypto will be most useful in environments where you can skirt regulation the longest. I imagine cross-border payment systems(esp to emerging market countries) are the most promising examples of where this would be useful, and i know there are some groups working on this already.

This also implies that in the developed world, crypto has capped upside. The point at which it's big enough to matter is the point at which its regulated. It will rapidly converge to 'Trad Fi' without the institutional support the financial world already has.

Just some thoughts bouncing around my head that your comment spurred...
I'd trust that if it gave Business Insider gave a methodology that wasn't absurdly vague. And in the top three hazards listed for flight attendants is "Exposure to minor burns, cuts, bites, or stings." That's not threatening to the health of anyone familiar with bandaids and Neosporin.
As opposed to the other one where she lives forever?
I am located in the EU too. Maybe that's why we see uncensored results? As an American, I sure hope not.
I'm not confident that anything will stop US military and defense intelligence (which is completely distinct from the FBI, as a domestic LEO) from doing shady things.

Instead of worrying about how they're going to get around the law (they can do parallel construction on the Moon, for all I care), I'd prefer to have a sufficiently big punishment waiting for them when the public finally learns about it.
Same is true of H3N2 and other flu variants.

“Zero risk” is not a reasonable threshold for routine life decisions, IMO.
I hear you, but I also am encouraged that, for example, in 2017-ish, Chrome was able to turn on enforcement of deprecating CommonName in favor of SAN for single-name serverauth certs. They flipped a switch and a lot of sites broke, then fixed themselves. There was no mass exodus. You could argue that this was because of Chrome's dominance and I'd agree to an extent, but I like the fact that the solution was not just "have browsers pretend this is ok." And that was for a change that really did not matter from a security standpoint, it was just catching up to an RFC change.
This is a common problem is aerospace with obvious potential for bad consequences. The general approach is safety wiring.[1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_wire
To be fair, Ryzen mostly underperformed when it was released which was not AMDs fault. When for years engineers used Intel as their benchmarking and testing machines and were tweaking all sorts of parameters to measure against Intel-only, you inevitable end up with an optimized implementation that resembles the hardware details of the Chip in some kind. Any new architecture would perform badly, except if it is a perfect clone of the original testing hardware.
I’m not sure that’s true in the EU, for instance. It seems like it would fall foul of the GDPR, doesn’t it?
Makes you wonder what you are actually building then, if it wasn't the product that ended up making you succesful.

I notice a few of these stories involve stumbling on an itch that badly needed scratching while doing something else with as much purpose. One of the big challenges of entrepreneurship in software is finding a problem worth working on when you're not actually experiencing any problems that aren't software related.

In that sense, perhaps you're building up experience in a new industry when building an idea, which introduces you to new problems, sometimes better problems.
To beelzebub the devil...how many large scale hacks/data leaks/embarrassment from large companies are because of a misconfigured S3 bucket?
I've been doing this for 40 years. I've never had a lug nut loosen, or rust in place.

But this, of course, is anecdotal data. Do what you judge is best for your situation.
I'll preface this with the fact that I'm very pro-privacy. I don't so much object to certain technologies or data collection; the cat is out of the bag to some extent. I do object to the conspicuous lack of regulatory frameworks. For instance, if you're going to use Clearview on a suspected terrorist my first question would be, "What due diligence and groundwork have you done to prove that they are in fact a terrorist?" If it's a known member of the Taliban who has a Twitter account that regularly calls for death to Americans, is that enough -- or is that some kind of edgy free speech? My point being, I'd like a very high bar to use these technologies and I'd like for them to be, mostly, used in apprehension rather than intelligence gathering.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_wages

This seeps into the unskilled-adjacent industries (like foodservice, on the ground or in the air) because approximately ~anyone can be trained up to do the job.
I would imagine that without unions, flight attended would probably earn much more today without the need for a raise.

The fact is that those flight attended are working at 1/3 of the market rate currently.
Rebuilding a transmission is easy in the same way, undo some bolts, replace some parts, press in some seals, and screw some bolts back in!
Wood for trees. The problem was caused by an ill-thought-out design. We can do similarly performance degrading things in GC languages, just the details will be different. However, at some extreme, which, to be fair, most systems won't hit, GC languages perform vastly worse than non GC languages. In one service I own, Java's G1GC uses 20x more CPU than Rust for an application specific benchmark. Most of this time is spent in the concurrent phase so Shenandoah and GenShen aren't going to make a dent (and we can't afford the RAM for Shendandoah). 20x CPU and 2x wall clock. The question we are looking at is, "Should we just continue to spend 20x $ on operating costs for the Java version to avoid writing it in Rust?"
For starters HVDC lines are being installed in many places and many are already operational, and the 'windmills kill too many birds' thing was a push by the fossil fuel industry and has been debunked.

I don't know which five articles you have read but I suggest you read a couple more and more recent ones.

As for 'citation please': that does presume that you have done your own homework, I really don't see why I should do it for you but as to those first two points of yours:

https://theconversation.com/wind-farms-are-hardly-the-bird-s...

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HVDC_projects

Some of those links are well over 1000 km long.
I don't know where to even begin. I'll just leave you with this about the EU's vaccination fuck up. They were hamstrung with negotation of prices where the rest of the world including US moved on. There were several discussions on HN about this: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2021/03/31/why-the-eus-co...

> Yet one of the worst outcomes fighting the virus. "UK had one of Europe’s highest excess death rates in under 65s" in 2020

Very disingenious to quote pre-vaccination death rates and studies from 2020. I am specifically talking about post-vaccination phase of UK. They have 70% vaccination rate, much higher than EU which is at abysmal 54% (Data from Nov 2021). https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/24/only-54percent-of-europe-is-...

Quoting misleading data and then immediately jumping on to bashing right-wing UK media isn't helping your arugments.

Here is the WHO data on vaccination rates, UK sits at the very tippy top: https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
> [DAO, NFT, gold]

Pretty bold stuff! Thought people had generally accepted DAO's and NFT's as likely scams.

Do you want to actually share the URL's for these things? Shit, does web 3.0 even use proper URL's? Where is this magic land of highly democratized services? And why isn't a URL, perhaps the most fundamental tenet of the "web", _ever_ shared in these discussions?

Perhaps it would illuminate the fact that this stuff is all highly centralized already? With most services requiring personally identifying information in order to use them? Wonder what that's needed for...
There is also a nonzero risk of catching the flu and being fatal.

There is also a nonzero risk of the plane crashing and being fatal.

...

Zero risk is not posible. It's about reducing the risks as much as possible and then managing them.
They can show you ads, they just can’t track you without consent
Yes, it's clearly still a photo that has been messed up by the phone in terms of some kind of artificial image replacement, smoothing and blurring. We just have slightly more context for where the big leaf in front of the face came from.
Ask HN: Best online resources for starting a business in 2022?
Please forgive my lack of Googling the answer, but I’m looking for your expert suggestions on this topic.

My family is a bunch of scientists and I’m looking for the best next thing to learning this stuff from parents with their own businesses. Thank you!
Can't you:

docker system prune

with perhaps a filtering flag attached?
Or maybe the leaf-head people forced him to post the "explanation" and the really AI-produced video.
Rounded corners actually
>And the people who were forced to evacuate and then forced out of the shelters with nothing to go back

Perhaps evacuating unnecessarily large areas was the problem in the first place. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095758201...
I don't know much about organizations like UXPA-MN.

I don't know if I have any good advice beyond the obvious things like Glassdoor. I worked a couple agency jobs early on in my career and while it was a good couple years for career experience, it was also my hardest working (as in hours) and least paying years I ever had. Once I switched to product development I found much higher quality jobs in both pay and work/life balance. That can be kind of tough to find in TC compared to other cities, though.
> my pick for 2022 remains crypto crash.

You know what?

Maybe this time, you could be right.

Let's come back to this in a years time and tell everyone about it.
I'm not sure this problem even has a "right" solution.

> Wrappers around it like whatever Nextcloud is doing should be treating the filenames as a dumb pile of bytes.

What do you do when the input isn't a dumb pile of bytes, but actual text? (Like from a text box the user typed into?)
does xanmod work as a drop-in replacement in Ubuntu with an NVIDIA card?
> Traditionally nobody was censored in the town square.

This isn't true, it's just that the spatial constraints IRL mean there's never been a need to scale moderation of town squares beyond intuitive methods. Go to your physical town square and start screaming slurs and threats of violence at passers-by, and see how long it takes before the community "censors" you.
This is what I found quite refreshing about Rust — instead of choosing one of the following:

A) The programmer is a almighty god who knows everything, we just expose him to the raw thing

B) The programmer is a immature toddler who cannot be trusted, so we handle things for them

What Rust does is more among the lines of "you might already know this, but anyways here is a reminder that you, the programmer need to take some decision about this".
Interesting topic, I just flew into SFO this week and there was a 7 year old boy playing on his iPad.

He was mostly chain-sawing prostitutes the whole time…
A Guide to Twitter
Qualitatively better, or quantitatively? If the latter, do you have some metrics you can share?
Ask HN: Is 2022 the year of web components? [front end web dev]
I've been out of the loop for awhile, but back in 2017 I was a big fan of Polymer by Google (web components utilizing shadow DOM.) At the time there was a feeling you didn't need frameworks if you had components you could use like html tags.

In 2021 I got back into it:

I took a look at Blazor. Ok, that's just web components, where the file name is the component name.

I took a look at Svelte. Ok, that just web components with reactivity. Svelte looks like the inspiration for Blazor.

I took a look at Angular. They have components now or did they always have components?

I took a look at React. Look, they're starting to use Polymer type components inside React components.

I took a look at web components, not longer called Polymer it seems, and wow, they've made a lot of progress. Salesforce.com is a big user (a company I respect for their tech) and Google itself is a big user. Google says Web Components are everywhere and I'm using them a lot without knowing it.

So have Shadow DOM components arrived?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components
Clearview is selling use of the imagery without a license. If you or I scraped everything off of Instagram and started offering derived data as a SaaS, we'd go to jail.

These people don't because they're using it to help the cops.
Slipper torque wrenches prevent over tightening
They also work for a budget airline known for cutting costs, so I doubt it's the union driving down wages, in this case.
Interesting. So the Buddha was a micro-managing prick, just like everyone else.
Adding on, the aforementioned worker is semi-retired and gets travel perks as part of the package. I don't know what the value of their travel is, but it seems fair to consider that part of their pay (used or not).
Managing Humans (Book)
>If a large non-toxic chunk of the population starts getting banned, non-toxic alternative platforms will become viable for the network effects that power social media centralization.

Case in point: a number of Youtubers fed up with the platform demonetizing and delisting their content are advertising their content on other video platforms, or just hosting their own like Corridor Digital.

The web is one of the few examples of the free market actually working, but people have fallen for the defeatist and nihilistic narrative about the "centralization" of the web and "control" by sinister forces, insisting that competition with any big platform is simply impossible.

They said that about MySpace too and look what happened.
I can't find it at the moment, but there was a Reddit post from a claims adjuster that said when filing a claim, be as specific as possible. So don't just put down "55-inch flatscreen television", it's a "Samsung ABC-55-OLED with stand" (be honest! insurance fraud is a crime). This is because the policy you have with your carrier says they have to replace your stuff with as close to original as possible. If you aren't specific enough, you get reimbursed for the cheapest 55" TV they can find.

So go through your house and make an inventory, writing down the actual model numbers and when you bought the item. A video record where you verbally give that same information can help too. Don't forget small items like the pots & pans, knives & forks, bath towels & linens.

Pay close attention to your policy's exclusions. High value items like jewelry, tools, firearms, art, and computers often have fairly low limits on them. Or maybe your teen-aged daughter has a closet full of designer clothes. Get additional specialty insurance on these - it's cheaper than you might think.

So far as saving your data - if it's not offsite it's toast [0]. Copy it onto an encrypted external USB drive and leave it at the office or at a friend or relative's house.

Have a storage tote with all your important "must-save" papers and some cash, so you can just grab it and go in case you have to evacuate. Print out your insurance policy and important phone numbers so that you don't need electronics and power to view them.

[0] I don't know why insurance companies don't offer 10gb of storage with someone like Backblaze for their customers. Seems like a natural thing to want, now that everyone has electronic files for everyday life.
Dude if you weren't busy scamming them, that'd be one less source of adversarial financial risk and you may not have to throw some crumbs at them.

Charity is when the taxpayers failed :(

And I'm glad at least you helped people buy clothes, that sounds more rewarding than selling them debt and misery :) And I've sold personal loans, I know :D
Welcome to Europe, there are a lot of US News-sites doing this.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/08/more-than-1000-u-s-news-si...
Accept that it was done, that you can't fix/undo it, and that it's part of you now. Once you realize that, you learn from it, change whatever you can/want to change and move on.

I'm sorry I can't be more helpful, but my approach is very "what's done is done, no use crying over spilt milk", which I know people don't find helpful.

I have a suspicion that the Stoics wrote about things like this, but reading and internalizing are very different. Still, maybe it'd interest you to read it.

As far as habits go, it's going to be hard to move on, because you're used to something else. Don't feel bad about still missing your old life, that's normal. If you feel bad, you feel bad, you're entitled to your feeling. Don't beat yourself up over how you feel, just accept it and try to do better/take better care of yourself tomorrow. It's all good and you're going to be happy again very soon.
How Much More Can the Restaurant Industry Take?
Agree that Heroku, while possibly more expensive, is the most straightforward to get going and maintain over time. You're paying them to figure out all the VM/container/database/etc. stuff, and that's what you want. I've had several apps running pretty much untouched for years on Heroku (other than updating libraries and the Java runtime).

Depending on the language, there may be other services that work just as well, but AWS/Google Cloud/Azure are either more expensive or will require more time to setup and maintain.
That seems like it would burn a lot of space on store file snapshots to replay the relevant WAL atop.

Did they integrate with an underlying filesystem's snapshotting feature to make the store file snapshots differentials, or was that also implemented in the database? Or just threw space at the problem?
I'd be interested in hearing details on this practice.
You are very precise in your criticism, have my upvote!

A couple of things:

1. the crypto has been improved significantly after the launch as far as I know. That release was back in the dark ages about half a year after WhatsApp got caught sending data unencrypted (and I'm using that word in its original meaning).

2. Can we agree to stop recommending WhatsApp soon?
It is relatively easy to understand a financial debt (compared to technical debt). There are straightforward calculations to talk about how financial debts combine, change over time, and the consequences of paying them back at various times.

Less so with technical debt. How do you quantify it? Perhaps we should define a Technical Debt Unit (TDU)? How do you combine two technical debts? Do you add them? What if one compounds the other? So... we multiply them? Wait, that would result in TDU ^ 2. That breaks the units. This suggests that tech debt cannot be represented with a TDU -- or any commensurable unit.

So, money tends to be fungible. Tech debt, not so much.

We can choose our metaphors. Why is the tech debt metaphor so common? Perhaps because it fits the minds and brains of the business decision makers.

Also, businesses recognize financial debt as quantifiable and manageable. It is no surprise that the "tech debt" language is somehow comfortable, even if the connection between the two is on shaky ground.

However, too often, the hard work of conceptually mapping why and how financial debt is useful seems to be waved off.
The rule to making your own game is that there are no rules
Just a nit. Color Television was demonstrated in 1928. Telechrome was demonstrated in the 40s. The NTSC color spec was complete in 1953 when a color performance of Carmen was broadcast. But yes, it wasn't until 1965 when all prime-time shows on the three major networks at the time were broadcast in color. So assuming you're a 70 year old lawmaker in 2022 and you graduated high school at age 18, you probably graduated in 1970, well after the invention of color television. If you're an 80 year old lawmaker in 2022, you probably graduated in 1960, well after the first NTSC color transmission.

In 1971, 48% of new TV sets sold were color, so you certainly have a leg to stand on if you're counting the 50/50 point as "common." But if "common" means 25% of new TV sales, then that event came in 1968, so there's two years where a lawmaker in 2022 who is 70+ could have graduated as and after color TV became "common."
Was coming back to check that I remembered this prediction correctly; I read it earlier today when she was still alive.
Seems HAProxy can do it, though it's manual, not automatic when the app is unavailable during reload: https://serverfault.com/a/450983/187237
Absolutely not :). There's quite a distance between 'wouldnt be surprised if' and 'am sure of'.