skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The match between what Clearview AI is doing and it's founder's personal stories is just... cinematic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoan_Ton-That
Customized chains of trusts can be created too. Where you could choose either directly who you want to read, or who you trust to "whitelist" people, so you can have censorship but you can choose your own censors.
What do you mean? The expansion of the sun, or a meteor strike, or a caldera explosion, something like that? Well, yes of course those are all likely on some large time scale, but they are entirely out of our control. Meanwhile we have every likelihood of having a 1M year existence, as a species embedded in a biosphere, if we can "get on the same page" with respect to our behavior. I propose that we adopt the universal rule that we all act "consistent with our survival, and that of our species" in an exact analogue to Issac Asimov's Zeroeth law of robotics. It is a small jump from that to the protection of the biosphere in general, if you are willing to ignore the strong emotional pull of science fantasy narratives that imply that we can survive without it.
I see ci/cd mentioned every time there is a talk about tech debt, but I dont buy it.
The code mess is usually in the code itself, the abstractions being used, the db schema, and etc - how does ci/cd help tackle this kind of tech debt?
Here's the wikipedia article:

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

"The Pentium D brand refers to two series of desktop dual-core 64-bit x86-64 microprocessors with the NetBurst microarchitecture, which is the dual-core variant of Pentium 4 "Prescott" manufactured by Intel. Each CPU comprised two dies, each containing a single core, residing next to each other on a multi-chip module package."
Micrograph Contest
Ask HN: How do we fix peer review?
Peer review made sense in the paper age.

However, it is severely outdated in the Internet age when corrections and changes can be published and tracked instantly. Moreover, the noble goal of filtering out junk yields the undesirable consequence of conformism, gated by whoever happens to review a submission.

If the objective is to surface quality research, how do we update our systems to reflect technological advances?

The tradeoff of accelerated publishing is more misinformation, both intentional and unintentional. But the benefit of faster, more valuable knowledge reactions (chemical reactions but for knowledge) seems to merit deeper exploration.
Evidence for earliest use of lignite in bronze age Eastern Mediterranean
Telegram doesn’t even post their source code to match their releases on macOS and iOS. Sometimes they’ll do a code dump somewhere around that time, but it’s not a guarantee.
The only cookies of this website are (and no local storage or anything):

cc_hide_prompt:"1", which is there for the cookie prompt itself to function, and:

cc_accepted_providers:"analytics,dummy_group_1", which doesn't contain any other info than that, no unique tracking codes

Why is this web developer even adding cookies at all here, given that there doesn't seem to be anything of value in them (unless the dummy group thing is valuable), and the prompt makes the website look worse?

EDIT: correction, when visiting the blog, more cookies appear
... and hope his definition of "basic" unblockable cookies aligns with yours:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29753032
Shit Italy adoption sucks, that's so curious like I am 34 years old now but I think I've used IPv6 since I was like 13-14 years old, with tunnels like sixxs and before that there was also another one I forgot the name of, now my italian provider (fastweb fiber) supports it natively, but yeah just wondering now, we sometimes say that tech world changes fast, but can you imagine like how long things like ipv6 have been around, and still haven't had much of an impact from a practical point of view? Like I have a book of abount 150 pages that talks about IPv6, can you imagine that like every year I have to read it again because I just can't seem to retain the knowledge? Not just if it is just like something like XML too focused on machine and not very human friendly, or if it is like unmnemonic, or that you don't get in contact with it ever.. it's so curious for me
It's an interesting reflection then on the Actor paradigm where you are encouraged to create large numbers of fine grained tasks and toss them into a giant thread pool blender because light weight threads are "free" now. It would be quite interesting to see the consequences of thread affinity loss in that setting.
year 2000 called, they are asking for cpanel back
You could even deterministically map pubkeys to handles with something like bip39. it won't be pretty but it will be unique, human-readable and uncensorable.
I think it's because torque specs for cars assume unlubricated threads. If you lubricate them and torque them to spec, you'll overtighten them.
Use a proof-of-stake chain and they're a few dollars, so much cheaper. That's why Visa and JP Morgan are hiring to build a blockchain to run inter-bank transactions to get around them.
There are lots of things that highly-engaged young people have done that don't catch on in the long run. Given the problems that Web 3 has, I see it as a lot more likely that Web 3 will go the route of fidget spinners than the route of Google.
erowid.org
>but the latency for keeping audio and video in sync when watching tv (or computers for that matter).

realistically speaking latency only matters in games/calls. For any sort of media playback you can just delay the video stream to compensate.
Usually it is not recommended due to the risk of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naegleria_fowleri
With the people who purchase iPhones? That's where Apple's money comes from.
3x my salary for a week? Definitely. In fact, I've gotten more than that as a end-of-year-good-job-we-did-it bonus.
Before everyone laments their ISP is part of the slow half remember the majority of this migration is still driven by the switch to users browsing on mobile device networks rather than a traditional desktop on a hardline. E.g. T-Mobile is IPv6 only for a number of years now, using 464XLAT to let customers access IPv4 only services.

Also I'll throw in the standard "HN is still v4 only" :).
Oh neat, you can even see their horrible little mosquito ghosts go shooting out of their cursed bodies. (it is OK to be completely spiteful toward mosquitos, right? They are like the #1 all-time human killer)
The FCC declared that wireless text messages (SMS and MMS) are information services (Title I), not telecom services (Title II), so this type of practice is unfortunately perfectly okay with the FCC.
Success Story: Chip-Scale Atomic Clock (2020)
It's very simple, and yet difficult enough that most won't do it by free will. The ones that do are very likely to have tried all other options.

Because it involves seeing things for what they are, changing perceptions, letting go, forgiving, facing pushed down trauma and all sorts of nasty, emotional stuff.

But the method is as simple as it gets: remove all inputs, stay completely still, close your eyes, observe your body breathing all by itself, and wait, and have patience with yourself, it takes practice.

It's very much like establishing a connection; the method will allow you to reach deeper from where you are right now, but with practice it becomes who you are. Self realization, or realizing who you really are; is a one way street, you can't go back. And it never ends, there's always more to discover.

You can get glimpses using psychedelics but from my experience you still have to do the work to fill in the blanks if you really want to know the truth. Maybe the more shamanic ones like Ayahuasca, but I count that as doing pretty intense work.
barrier to entry. You can start broadcasting your thoughts within seconds with no infrastructure.
No need to worry about hosting content until you're big enough to be censored.
My progress in porting Wine
Most fascinating and new (to me) thing in the list:

"Starved men, but not women, significantly oriented toward the ambient/modulated magnetic north or east, directions which had been previously food-associated, without any other helpful cues, including sight and sound. The orientation was reproduced under blue light but was abolished under a blindfold or a longer wavelength light (> 500 nm), indicating that blue light is necessary for magnetic orientation."

So many questions..
We made a product called Hoppy Network (https://hoppy.network) that fits this use case perfectly. We use WireGuard tunnels to bypass all ISP restrictions, and provide a clean /32 IPv4 and /56 IPv6 using a native network interface. Some of our customers are on Starlink or cellular ISPs. We just launched our annual plans today, cheapest plan is $80/year. Plus, we're sending out a sticker-pack to our first 20 annual plan customers. For the purists out there, we don't filter ICMP packets and don't block any ports.

TLDR: You can self-host without your ISP knowing!
Likely just a demonstration of this quirk for fun, and I imagine it's good conversation for interviews in case the interviewer took a look at their website beforehand.
It's not that ambiguous.

The actual statement was "flight attendants [...] will be receiving 200% pay", which means they'll be getting double their pay. If the statement had been "flight attendants will receive a 200% pay increase", then that'd be triple their pay.

The actual confusion was caused by the fact that pilots will receive triple pay through an overlapping period.
Its more like experienced tech leaders have guardrails to prevent accruing unnecessary tech debt by using code reviews, arch reviews, etc
And remember relays can be incentivized to host content by micropayments via Lightning network if needed.
I've been able to vote abroad in state/presidential elections from my last address in the US. I do it by email.

My only major hiccup is that the MA secretary of state's website
www.sec.state.ma.us (which has the info about upcoming elections, the tool to check your registration, and the instructions for voting overseas) is blocked in Japan "for cybersecurity reasons". I've tried contacting the department of state and my state representative about this, but nothing's come of it.

The government of Cambridge on the other hand has been quite pleasant to deal with.
Thank you for being a friend
Oh I was talking about the general case from a programming standpoint. What do you do on a typical local filesystem?

The point I'm trying to get at being, you need to worry about the representation at multiple layers, not just at the bottom FS layer.
Show HN: Browser based deep fakes in pure JavaScript
The lock analogy is completely false. A better analogy is state sending this person a letter with all the social security numbers.
For masochistic reasons?
in English we call that a Cheater bar, so it seems like that has carried across pretty well :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheater_bar
Yep in this case it might not have helped, but all this to say that some exploration of having multiple reference counts is a great idea. The balance becomes the overhead of coordinating multiple reference counts versus the gains from reduced atomic operations.
I was expecting it was all a building up to the house to burning to the ground in the end or something... but nothing ever happened. Oh well.
Happy New Year HN
I know. You may be probably be in a time zone that already made the change to the new year. Or may be you don't care about this made up construct that we call the new year. May be you are right; this is just a social construct that has no bearing on our actual lives. But I don't care. May the next revolution around our nearest star bring you the happiness you always wanted in your life.

And, by the way, thank you for making my life a place full of curiosity earning to learning new stuff. You literally made my life better, HN. Thank you!

And happy 2022. I mean, happy 12022, fellow homo sapiens!
I don’t understand your complaint. This is just like every newspaper website, just slightly more obvious about what they want to make you do. Heck, the “manage cookies” button isn’t in some tiny, unreadable pale gray, so this is probably a less tricky design than most.
> They are so underpaid and overworked.

Care to give any specifics? A quick Google shows flight attendant salry in the US can range anywhere from $17k/yr to $120k/yr, with an average answer closer to about $32k-$50k/yr

Can you define overworked? How many hours a week is your friend's mom working a week? 40? 50? 60?

If she's working 60 hours a week for $40k/yr, I would say she's partially to blame. It's up to you to not let your employer take advantage of you.
Once again the promise of decentralized crypto rests on centralized authority. Either it's Coinbase or one of the other exchanges that facilitate purchase or trading of currencies, or OpenSea which facilitates the sale of NFTs, it all eventually becomes centralized because the underlying layer is simply too complicated for every day consumers.
It is intentional. It's caused by `funnyButton` function which after beautifying looks like this.

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Found some detail - apparently the CPU manuals are the place to check https://cs.stackexchange.com/a/1090
Because you're packing unbounded floating point values into an 8-bit RGBA unorm texture. Yes, it can be done. Dealing with the issues is annoying, though.
Duolingo doesn't handle Unicode normalisation for certain languages, and it's incredibly frustrating. Here's one example[0] (Vietnamese) and I know it's the case for Yiddish as well.

[0]: https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/17787660/Bug-Correct-Viet...
Apologies for the re-post. I realized since I'm the author this would make more sense as a Show HN than as a anonymous link (and it was too late to edit).
Information ownership and a digital bill of rights would solve this. It should be considered a basic human right to own one’s information just as one owns one’s body.
Added/changed punctuation:

> Anybody experience this while learning something or talking, listening, mind wanders suddenly to irrelevant things? Is this behavior normal to everybody? Basically I will not be in the present moment, is this a symptom of ADHD? I'm suffering a lot because of this. I used to get bad reputation in the corporate companies because whenever getting the requirement I was suppose to listen properly and implement the thing as I'm a developer, but I used to end up with understanding different things and this happened many times.

Also I'm an introvert and shy because of this trait, I will not open up with my team members so that many things were unclear when they asked me "Are you clear with this?" out of fear I used to tell them that "Yes I understood" instantly, but when I come back to my chair I used to assume things and implement which was leading to conflict and escalations. My fear was that when they asked me did I understand the requirement what if I tell them that I didn't understand and what they might think about me will they think I'm stupid to understand anything, dumb, useless.

Did Anybody faced this kind of difficulty and how you overcame it?
Heh, funny, I'm implementing this exact thing at the moment, oddly enough -- rather, implementing a security check that provides that same guarantee you mention, Mixed Script protections.

In Unicode spec terms, 'UTS 39 (Security)' contains the description of how to do this, mostly in section 5, and it relies on 'UTX 24 (Scripts)'.

It's more nuanced than your example but only slightly. If you replace "German" with "Japanese" you're talking about multiple scripts in the same 'writing system', but the spec provides files with the lists of 'sets of scripts' each character belongs to.

The way that the spec tells us to ensure that the word 'microsoft' isn't made up of fishy characters is that we just keep the intersection of each character's augmented script sets. If at the end, that intersection is empty, that's often fishy -- ie, there's no intersection between '{Latin}, {Cyrillic}'.

However, the spec allows the legit uses of writing systems that use more than one script; the lookup procedure outlined in the spec could give script sets like '{Jpan, Kore, Hani, Hanb}, {Jpan, Kana}' for two characters, and that intersection isn't empty; it'd give us the answer "Okay, this word is contained within the Japanese writing system".
Be careful with those. The FDA reports all kinds of adverse reactions with other drugs[1]. Like a list 7 pages long of drugs with adverse reactions.

1. https://www.fda.gov/media/155050/download
It does say that if comparisons are being made then... and comparisons are being made, so yes, it does.
> Nothing in the web2 tech stack currently allows this.

Seriously? It takes five seconds online to find projects like https://solidproject.org (backed by people like Tim Berners-Lee) that don’t need blockchain and present strong arguments to address the kind of issues you raise.

But it’s an open specification for the web. How lame and very NOT crypto $$$diamond_hands$$$.

The most impressive thing about blockchain is its capacity to create zealots for the One True Way, all others be damned.
I don’t know what the statistics are for stolen license plates but it seems to me, here in the San Francisco Bay Area anyway, that whenever there’s a recorded incident of a robbery or assault where the perpetrators used a getaway car, in all likelihood they put stolen plates on the car.

Here’s an example of a gang who prowled around with impunity, comfortable that their cars could not be traced because they would just put stolen plates.

https://sfist.com/2021/12/15/six-bay-area-men-arrested-for-a...

Technology like Clearview could find a use case not just for facial recognition but vehicle recognition with validation to the license plate. We have many checkpoints and toll junctions where it can be installed and just run these exception checks. At the very least it would establish statistics on these gangs that are committing crimes with impunity. Vehicle recognition would be much easier than facial recognition.
Not sure why you were downvoted. Mistrust with medicine is widely documented as a key factor in the slow vaccine rollout for some groups in the US, particularly Black Americans [1][2]. There's a century-long history of bias, mistreatment, and systemic racism which led to mistrust in medicine [3][4]; vaccines are just the tip of the iceberg.

Thankfully the situation is slowly improving thanks to targeted work in specific communities [5], but still some work to do.

EDIT: sure, not directly related to parent's horrific experience, but similar theme: we've made great strides in the last few decades to treat the body, but still struggling to overcome the traumatic experiences some groups had in the recent past.

[1] https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/newsletter-art...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/05/14/us/vaccine-ra...

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4843483/

[4] https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a35483492/racial-bias...

[5] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/us/black-americans-vaccin...
For example, El Salvador recently made Bitcoin legal tender.

The government has proclaimed BTC as legal tender. Whether people will actually use it is another matter. Current indications are this move is wildly unpopular and its adoption is floundering.

In Venezuela it's in everyday use

In a country with a truly basket-case economy like Venezuela I can imagine BTC making some sort of sense.
The analogy of the locked front door is correct, except the governor got it completely wrong. The truth to that analogy is that the reporter came along to a house where the keys were left in the lock. He knocks on the door politely and says: "Hey your keys have been left in the lock. Try and come up with a solution so that this doesn't happen again and a true threat actor to your belongings would come along and steal your valuable things." I can't tell you the number of times I have alerted people to this at their front doors or their mailboxes. It happens. Every single person has responded with graceful humility. This exposes the lack of graceful humility that the governor and potentially the DA lack. This is a basic civility exchange where it's obvious these people shouldn't be in power.

EDIT: if the courts do not recognize this for what it is we are in bigger trouble than we imagine already.
27% is a misleading number because it is the average for the whole period. On some days, wind and solar can provide 100% of all electricity. But on windstill nights, it is closer to 0%. Without having a way to store a whole nation's energy needs for several days or even weeks, you still need fossil fuels (or nuclear).
Wouldn't you have to prove you don't look like a terrorist?

Clearview is probably saying that if you convert an image, or set of images, of a person to vector(s) then there are some similar vectors that are associated with a terrorist. If they are saying it, it's because it's probably true in their implementation.
My example of the $3 Starbucks purchase is not specific to BTC and applies to every distributed immutable ledger technology I've seen. I use Bitcoin because it's the most ubiquitous but generally these same statements and data apply to every cryptocurrency (just at different scale). From the Bitcoin node documentation:

"It’s common for full nodes on high-speed connections to use 200 gigabytes upload or more a month. Download usage is around 20 gigabytes a month, plus around an additional 340 gigabytes the first time you start your node."

There are roughly 1 billion credit card transactions per day. There are currently 500k Bitcoin transactions per day.That's 2000x for credit cards alone. Bitcoin transactions are at a more or less all time high and it's still a TINY number. Yet, the full ledger is at least 340GB with 20GB added each month. With simple math (and current tech) if credit cards were Bitcoin the ledger would be 6.8 petabytes. Back to my comment about it only being available to well funded large players eventually...

In terms of everything from energy consumption, supply chain, manufacturing resources, raw minerals etc there are roughly 13,000 bitcoin nodes online. That's 13,000 nodes using 340GB of storage each with total storage use at 4.42 petabytes. If there were still only 13,000 nodes at credit card scale the global storage resources alone would be 88.4 exabytes.

At 500k transactions/day some estimates put Bitcoin's global energy usage at seven times higher than all of Google. Bitcoin is a mid-size US cities worth of ledger activity while Google gets 3.5 billion searches per day alone. That's not even considering their countless other products - GCP, etc, etc.

Blockchain advocates always like to point out the energy consumed by the financial system and that's fair. However, if you think it's absolutely vital that the record of your $3 Starbucks purchase needs to be accessible to your great-great-great grandchildren 13,000 times over I think we're just going to have a fundamental disagreement about that.
Fixed above now. The page had https://www.groundedsage.dev/ as the canonical URL, so our software had switched to it.
1. Finish pilot #1 for my startup, start pilot #2

2. Publish 2 papers

3. Go through all board prep material (one pass before 2023)

4. Eat less dairy (cut meat out last year)

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