skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> […] there would be enough information out there that my precise location could automatically be determined based on me taking a picture looking out at the city from my balcony.

In Japan someone doxed a singer by zooming in on the reflections that were in her eyes from a selfie she took:

> A Japanese man accused of stalking and sexually assaulting a young pop star told police he located her through the reflection in her eyes in a picture, according to local media reports.

* https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50000234

* https://petapixel.com/2019/10/14/attacker-used-eye-reflectio...

I'm curious to know what became of the case.
https://archive.ph/s8gq3
thank you! Very interesting. According to their latest financial reports, their volume of deposits doesn’t marry up with the claims made by Tether. Will be very interesting to see what Silvergate report as inflows/outflows at the end of the next quarter.
Have you tried Vega? It sits on top of D3.
They are (usually) rubber tracks.
> Lastly, maybe they wheren't sustainable, after all they are extinct.

I mean, they existed for tens of millions of years (according to wikipedia), which is 1000's of times longer than the entirety of human farming; I think this easily classified as "sustainable".
> The big thing is I want to write my own UDP protocol for it.

In theory WebTransport could solve both the problem of a UDP like transport (it deals with encryption and sessions as it's QUIC based, you could still do mosh like things inside it) and browser support... Sadly as https://web.dev/webtransport/#try-it-out says:

"The best way to experiment with WebTransport is to start up a compatible HTTP/3 server locally. (Unfortunately, a public reference server compatible with the latest specification is not currently available.)"

It's one of those things Google hasn't quite finished and it's unclear if they care enough to.
To expand a bit for the grandparent, if you check out this authors other repos you'll notice they have a thing for implementing these papers (multiple DALLE-2 implementations for instance). You should expect to see an implementation there pretty quickly I'd guess.
That's indeed a quite raw abstraction, but is way too powerful performance-wise to not expose...
I think this is nearly entirely wrong. It's entirely about power and god.

Xi Jinping has cracked down on Christianity shutting down many churches. China has other ethnicities besides the Han, which don't speak Mandarin. If the Uyghurs had no faith they would be safe.

There is little room for religion unless the religion is centralized and submissive to the state. In some sense religion undermines the state.
I also recommend StatQuest for this type of quick review.
Why that surprises you?

As a German minister of defence, she is known as a person who paid half a billion euros to PwC consultants. Also, she renovated a sailing wooden training ship for more than 200 million euros.

And she is accused of removing proofs by deleting data from her phone and “not remembering” anything.

I would trust that person every evil and corrupt thing one can imagine.
Lesser-Known and Underused CSS Features in 2022
From the perspective of most high level programming - say web development, C has no advantages whatsoever.
The fine print for the Starlink RV system says you can use the terminal outside of your registered country for 2 months, after that you'd have to change the registered address to whatever country you're using it in.
YouTube have begun asking people for their opinion on videos in quick surveys.

Every so often (for me, every 2 days or so) there is a blue prompt with a video you watched recently. "What did you think of this video?" You're asked for a rating from 1 to 5, and then you can provide a little more data to contextualise your rating. For instance, if you vote 5, you're presented with a list of adjectives like "heart-warming", "motivational", "entertaining", etc, and you can choose as many as you like. If you vote 1, you're asked "did you regret watching this video?"

YouTube are optimising for user time on site, not time on video, so they use these surveys to steer people away from videos that you might binge but regret, and leave YouTube.

Right now, at least, the surveys have an enormous impact on which videos are pushed by the algorithm. I use the surveys personally to tailor my recommendations (and try to push creators who I think deserve more views). That is, I basically answer them honestly.
If you’re programming autonomous weapons for fighter jets it tends to require a little more than a web server, or so I’ve heard!
For the terminal use-case, what would your stance be on exploiting modern terminal functionality for e.g. high-res images (cf. kitty protocol, notcurses, sixels)?
I think I understand the comment you are responding to.

There is a difference between a great film and a terrible film — though both can be entertaining. The great film will change you, change the way you think, spur you to action, or change the way films are made. It's not just about taste.
“Surveillance” isn’t very profitable; Google ad targeting isn’t even good and when it is good it doesn’t need your data. (For instance, if you search for “buy ps5” they don’t need a secret profile to show you ads for a PS5.)

The reason their ads make infinite money is they’re the best at serving them, they’re vertically integrated, and their ad auction systems are set up to cheat in their favor.
I think this is quite a good definition. After all, it's a key principle of toxicology - courtesy of Paracelsus - that the dose makes the poison. (Any woman who's had Botox can attest to this.) It certainly seems to be used that way in this article, in being applied to 'positivity'.
> That comparison is not just factually wrong, it's one of the most morally despicable takes I have ever had the displeasure of reading here on HN.

According to who, you?

Have you actually looked at what and how Palestinian's are forced to live during occupation and then made worse after COVID?

Here is an example of fored labour via poverty [0]:

Construction and infrastructure projects in Israel, and in Israeli settlements within the West Bank, are hugely dependent upon Palestinian labor. Under a lockdown in a pandemic this means that Palestinian workers are exposed to serious health risks while helping Israel cement its control over Palestinian land and people.

You want to see death squads in Palestine? But how about just watching illegal phosphorous munitions (a war crime) being used on Civilians [1]. You can also look into all of the atrocities of disproportionate violence against civilians by the Isreali military (which is to say the Israeli Citizens themselves since it's mandatory) from re-settlement on your own.

Your selective biases and forced narrative work with those with woke political bends, that much is clear, but they fall under even the slightest amount of scrutiny for anyone who is willing to look.

And before you resort to the absurd notions of antisemitism, I've been helping in Ukraine since the Maidan Revolution which has a large Jewish population, specifically in Lviv which is where I've spent the most time.

This has nothing to do with antisemitism and everything to do with calling people who are driven by genocidal and ethnic cleansing ideology what they are: Israelis as a whole have become the very thing they supposedly detested and have behaved that way since the re-settlement after WWII.

0: https://merip.org/2020/05/palestinian-workers-in-israel-caug...

1: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/oct/23/israel
Why is it so hard to believe she simply wants [Chat] Control, then?
> semantics over the meaning of simple

Thankfully there are two different words with very separate meanings that people nonetheless tend to conflate [1]. "Simple" means "not many features", and "easy" means "good to get things done with".

[1] Maybe because we have lots of people speaking English as a second language? In my mother tongue, German, there is no distinction in vocabulary between "simple" and "easy". Both translate as "einfach".
I believe the load balancer is pretty new and it is probably the only service that allows connecting to dedicated servers -- which is separate from their cloud offering.
In the paper they say about half the training data was an internal training set, and the other half came from: https://laion.ai/laion-400-open-dataset/
> In China you are a member of an ethnic minority if one of your grandparents was of that ethnicity, who themselves might only have had one grandparent of that ethnicity.

I mean, America has the one drop rule too, and you’re highly suggested to pick your most minority group any time you apply to a job, school, or basically anything. So you have people who are 1/128th Cherokee trying to game diversity benefits while people who actively culturally identify with their tribe are on reservations and basically forgotten by the world.
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Comments which mention socialism or communism in a way that doesn't explicitly condemn it are often downvoted to oblivion on HN. I got it once because I mentioned that I thought Tito was an interesting guy. FWIW I'll vouch the comment if it gets made [dead]
With the high-likelihood of false positives, this is just another Child Benefits scandal waiting to happen if the system were to be completely unsupervised.
IIRC he was lying and it was actually in the EXIF data.
Perhaps they can identify what you like by what you order??
This title is very misleading (and really should be changed).

This is not about search. To be clear, when you load our search results, you are completely anonymous, including ads. For ads, we actually worked with Microsoft to make ad clicks privacy protected as well. From our public ads page, "Microsoft Advertising does not associate your ad-click behavior with a user profile." This page is linked to next to every Microsoft ad that is served on our search engine (duckduckgo.com). https://help.duckduckgo.com/company/ads-by-microsoft-on-duck....

In all our browsing apps (iOS/Android/Mac) we also block third-party cookies, including those from Microsoft-owned properties like LinkedIn and Bing. That is, the privacy thing most people talk about on the web (blocking 3rd party cookies) applies here to MSFT. We also have a lot of other web protections that also apply to MSFT-owned properties as well, e.g., GPC, first-party cookie expiration, fingerprinting protection, referrer header trimming, cookie consent handling, fire button data clearing, etc.

This is just about non-DuckDuckGo and non-Microsoft sites in our browsers, where our search syndication agreement currently prevents us from stopping Microsoft-owned scripts from loading, though we can still apply our browser's protections post-load (like 3rd party cookie blocking and others mentioned above, and do). We've also been tirelessly working behind the scenes to change this limited restriction. I also understand this is confusing because it is a search syndication contract that is preventing us from doing a non-search thing. That's because our product is a bundle of multiple privacy protections, and this is a distribution requirement imposed on us as part of the search syndication agreement. Our syndication agreement also has broad confidentially provisions and the requirement documents themselves are explicitly marked confidential.

Taking a step back, I know our product is not perfect and will never be. We face many constraints: platform constraints, contractual constraints (like in this case), breakage constraints, and the evolving tracking arms race. Holistically though I believe it is the best thing out there for mainstream users who want simple privacy protection without breaking things, and that is our product vision.

Overall our app is multi-pronged privacy protection in one package (private search, web protection, HTTPS upgrading, email protection, app tracking protection for Android, and more to come), being careful (and putting in a lot of effort) to not break things while still offering protections -- an "easy button" for privacy. And we constantly work to improve its capabilities and will continue to do so, including in this case. For example, we've recently been adding bespoke third-party protections for Google and Facebook, like Google AMP/Topics/FLEDGE protection and Facebook embedded content protection.
That's true of most Youtube videos...
Newly Released ‘Xinjiang Police Files’ Affirm Scale of Campaign
No one was talking about comparing general car safety, the discussion was specifically around car fires on ICE vs Tesla EVs for relatively newer vehicles.

I don't understand why you went on this diatribe about general safety...
Do Julia devs not upstream their LLVM patches?
Is this one of those “saves energy” but in some indirect way like those carbon credits? Say the Video card generates 300w of heat, why does the cooling method make it save or not save power? 300w of heat will need to be dissipated through air or water regardless.
I’ve heard this theory a few times but it doesn’t sound very plausible: could you speak more to why you think the goal was always to mine wifi network information?

We know that Google was doing that, but I thought it was an after thought associated with street view, not the motivation for street view.
Did you read your own link? The "Aftermath" section where several courts condemned those actions and awarded substantial awards to the victims. The City apologized. Independent commissions condemned the decision.

Can you please list all of the acts of restitution that the Chinese government has done since 1989?

Oh, and ignoring all that, you're posting an awful lot of whataboutisms. I count about 9 of them so far.

What game are you playing?
I just went to a massive workshop by Esther Hicks, famous for “law of attraction” and emphasis on positive emotions for manifesting deliberate creation. She presents a classic ”New Thought” philosophy—and her ideas are a big target of those espousing the dangers of Toxic Positivity.

I was happily surprised. She emphasized the value of negative emotions, the importance of noticing and identifying negative emotions, and the importance of “not beating yourself up” about having negative emotions.

But, at the same time, she unabashedly presented moods as something that we can and should consciously control. And, she claimed that positive moods can allow good things to happen that don’t happen when we are focused on negative emotions. I’d have to write more to clarify more, but I was surprised by her nuance.

“There is just one message: You create your own reality, and —-you just gotta vibe it out.” I’ve read a ton of philosophy and I just love this. It might seem vacuous, but now that I’ve seen her, I really think it is on point.
And non-western countries were very adamant that Ukraine is an European problem and they don't want to take sides. Why exactly is it the responsibility of "the West" to do something first? Let other countries take the lead for once instead of sitting on the sidelines and crying that whatever the West does or doesn't is wrong.
Only if you're more interested in pedantry then efficient communication.

The people overly concerned with insisting things are just a model are generally about to make a bunch of claims they do not intend to research or support with further evidence.
Oh, I would say they are probably underestimating the impact. You only saw the images they thought couldn't raise alarm bells. Anyone will be able to create photorealistic images of anyone doing anything, Anything! This is certainly a dangerous and society altering tech. It won't all be teddy bears and racoons playing poker.
"There is literally zero reward for hard work. It's actually more likely to hurt than help you because original scholarship or novel insights is definitionally more dissimilar to existing things than low effort derivative spam."

I use social media quite effectively within my industry circles to promote myself and stay relevant. It's a grind, but 100% get a ROI in the form of brand awareness leading to more work opportunities.

I disagree that the formula "make something good and reap rewards" has ever been effective outside of lucky breaks. If the reward of making something good is not enough for an individual, then extra effort is required in the form of market research, promotion, and sales.

The stuff you're seeing seem to exploit the back half, but I have always found that making something good and doing any marketing at all has huge benefits.
Why do some people never get Covid while others get it several times?
Because why else would you do it?
Although wheels are much more efficient than flight, I wonder if low cost solar charged and battery powered fleets of drones will be deployed for seeding and harvest in our lifetimes.
I completely agree, but conventional database systems don't support dependent typing unfortunately. Given the constraints, the best you can do in this situation whilst remaining semantically consistent in the type signatures is to leave the field nullable and enforce value checks (e.g. can't be blank).
I live in a small town and look around on Apple Maps is everywhere. What’s wrong with it in NY?
I see the opposite future.

As AI advances, a lot of people will look after experiencing life outside the digital world.

Even digital communication will not be trustworthy anymore with deepfaces and everything else, so people will want to get together more often.

Edit: for the lazy ones, yeah, digital will be a sad and heartless environment...
>It's a deliberate program of ethnic and cultural dilution and assimilation.

As opposed to a proper racial segregation. Horrible indeed.

/s
If that were true then they wouldn't collect it.

It doesn't mean it's effective, but it's still clearly profitable.
That's exactly what I mean. It's annoying seeing as in theory the diff should have been small. But I guess it's just MoSH's algorithm not being quite clever enough. I wonder what can be learnt from video codecs in this respect?
I agree with you on swift. The evolution process seems to favor adding more "features" instead of unifying, simplifying concepts. For instance, we have special syntax for optionals, exceptions, asynchrony, coroutines (mostly hidden), and any other effects they decide to add in the future. Whereas in haskell, all you get is `do` syntax for describing these things. The trade off is that in haskell it's harder to learn the first thing, but then easy to pick up the rest. In swift, you have to learn how all these special effects interact.
Bold of you to claim that Gmaps is actually updated just because they say it is.

Brisbane (the Australia one) has a 3D satellite map from 2010 despite the 2022 copyright date on it. And if you walk along the street view images, it tends to tell you you’re currently viewing the underground tunnel you’re over rather than the surface street you’re actually looking at, which is a funny bug.
It's more complicated than that. The majority of China's Muslims are Hui, who are ethnically Han Chinese and thus not considered an existential threat to the state. The Uyghurs, on the other hand, are genetically and linguistically different, live in territory that was not originally Chinese (Xinjiang literally means "New Territory") and would genuinely prefer to have their own state.

Of course, the CCP is very averse to any power structures they don't completely control and thus regularly cracks down on all sorts of organized religion (Christian churches, Falun Gong, etc).
IMO it's ok to edit a comment to ask why you're being downvoted. The comment itself is on-topic, and has sparked an on-topic discussion so I don't see the issue.
There is not flashing background in the S&T column. Also when I inspect the HTML, there is not text or anything apart from some gibberish :-)

(refreshed, cleared cookies, using FF and Chrome on Mac)

Also, thanks for the reply. Appreciated :-)
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Post about US funded biological weapons labs in Ukraine. I've seen half a dozen Twitter accounts banned and subreddits quarantined/banned over posting on that issue alone.

I'm not saying I necessarily agree with the claim myself, though Victoria Nuland's "denial"[1] certainly raised a few eyebrows. She said that Ukraine has biological "research facilities" and implied that it would be a very bad thing if any of these "research materials" fell into the hands of the Russian forces. Whether that counts as a "biological weapons lab" or not seems to just be arguing about semantics.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y39veTO7kF4
Note that in just about any store here that uses coin operated carts you can go to the service desk and ask for a coin for the cart and get it. It's really not about the money, though I see how it can feel like it is.

I figure the coin is really just mostly there as a signifier that it's your job to return the cart and not some store employees job.
You don't do it for a good feeling, you do it so they can feed their family.
Doesn't the economy of scale teach us that one big apparatus is cheaper than many smaller ones?
I'll be the contrarian. I have a Roomba and a Dyson cordless. I'm very happy, and my home is much cleaner than with my old industrial-grade vacuum:

- The Roomba goes once a day. It doesn't pick up much in one pass, but my house is much cleaner because it runs all the time. Covering the same spot many times, it does well.

- The Dyson cleans very well, and picks up all the places the Roomba doesn't get to or emergency spills. It's never run out of batteries.

On the whole, it's less effort and cleaner than with my old big'un vacuum.

And if I want to do a deep clean, I'd rather wash in either case.
I agree that Gaza is a crime against humanity, but neither is it Buchenwald and you're not doing your argument any favors with the hyperbole.
The bus factor is 1. It's much more likely the dev can't do something for some reason than the datacenter catch fire.
I, and a fair few number of people I know, carry a specific cart-coin in their pocket.
i tried to use it out of curiosity but the documentation was really lacking and the workflow of creating the networks is bad
Right; you just add definitions you need like

let Y = \f. (\x. x x) (\x. f (x x)) in
program-using-Y

which is the slightly more legible version of

(\Y. program-using-Y) (\f. (\x. x x) (\x. f (x x))
Here's Jay Leno driving a Case IH 620 QuadTrac. It's so huge it needed a police escort to be driven on the city streets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zh3OBxh8Po
Do you use Hetzner for DNS too?
> blockchains to fingerprint their behavior and build an unbreakable chain of authenticity. Later in that book that is used to authorize the hardware access of the deceased and uploaded individuals.

maybe I misunderstood, but I had it that people used generative AI models that would transform the media they produced. The generated content can be uniquely identified, but the creator (or creators) retains anonymity. Later these generative AI models morphed into a form of identity since they could be accurately and uniquely identified.
Off topic, I keep coming across so many fintech startups whose product just seems to be a debit card end of the day. What is the business model here and why would I as a consumer be interested?
Then why do I have to sign off on 65 pages of “we collect every scrap of info about you short of sequencing your genome, and we would do that too if it weren’t a logistical nightmare” every time I install a piece of software or buy a device with wifi capability? Someone ought to relay this insight to tech companies - it would save them a fortune.
Good empirical question. I bet we will find out soon enough.
It would take a large team or teams to add the required functionalities, and would take quite some time, maybe a year at least? I don't think Apple is going to do that.
Not sure it'll end up as a cloud offering and instead just a lightweight desktop app, but have you looked into Jetbrains Fleet (w/ Spaces)? Not released yet, but it has potential
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