skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well executed.

I was aware of most of the data protection and privacy concerns presented, but I wasn't aware facial recognition system are being used as widely as suggested here.

If these systems ever become widely adopted I might seriously consider obscuring my face in public.

Here in the UK I've noticed over the last year or so many supermarket self checkouts have been fitted with cameras and screens. I'm not naive enough to believe I wasn't being recorded previously, but I can't help but find this trend of sticking a camera directly in my face whenever I'm trying to make a purchase extremely insulting and violating to my sense of privacy. Now after watching this I have almost no doubt that facial recognition software is installed on these systems.

I've spoken to other people about the rudeness of this but most people seem to think it's fine. Perhaps I'm just weird and more bothered about this stuff than most people. If sticking a camera in someone's face when they're trying to purchase something in a pharmacy isn't going too far though I do wonder if the average person would really care about anything presented here.
> Share data and metrics with developers and competitors,

I will quit Apple. Wait … Google is worse … :(
The preview gives no hint as to what this game is actually about... certainly not running a BBS.
I'm not talking about trade-offs of async vs sync. I'm talking about the color article saying languages have "color" when one type of functions (sync) can't use results of another type of functions (async). If you have threads and mutexes, then one type can use the other, regardless of whether that's a good idea or not. The point is that there either is a hard unsolvable api-infecting limitation (like in JS) or there isn't.
Not an anime fan, but some of my brothers are, and years ago the times they were watching it was the time I was supposed to be sleeping (opposite schedules are great) and it just ruined it for me...

Half of the shit they watched seems like it was written by some timid teenage boy with a romance fantasy. If that's what you like, it's not really my concern, but I found them too cringey and repetitive in a way that could challenge Hollywood. There were some ok ones, I didn't mind a lot of mainstream stuff or things that had a particularly interesting or unique premise, but for most the plots were just too easily predictable (an issue that some shows seems to have in general regardless of genre).
just that? felt it's a bit deeper
This is how the "passing the savings on to their customers" happens.
The Tao that can be told is not the true Tao.
Hi! Task runner would not be an appropriate term for this. Since it also defines target based on their modification times. This is what we call a general purpose build system, just like we call Make and Ninja build system.

It can do anything you want if you can provide it with proper shell commands and define targets. This can not only be used for tasks but also for physical building targets that can be built on the machine.

I believe that the project you linked here is itself also a build system and not just a task runner. But again, it uses yaml, which might not be best while defining custom things related to a build system
When you use the phrase “having payments be at the mercy of [Facebook]” you’re pretty much granting the premise that the project could have seen major adoption -- and that's significant given that its sole justification was to provide an alternative to legacy payments tech. If everyone thought Libra/Diem/Novi was going to crash and burn, there wouldn’t have been so much emphasis on preventing its launch (over perfectly reasonable concerns.)
Google Chrome is appalling, but this "article" is just as bad.
Was Fedex really running its own infomatics operation or did they mostly have layers upon layers of IBM consultants? Yes, the "owned" the hardware in that case, but it would likely have been no easier to switch.
Next C compiler is a D compiler: Introducing DMD's ImportC
This could be huge for open source on iOS
I absolutely love D&D, but it's important to consider who your players are.

This is dangerous advice:

> Stories can become a way of learning how to face situations we can't control, grapple with loss, and become resilient.

This is true of books, but you can put a book down and walk away. D&D has the potential for social and emotion investment that is far more difficult to walk away from.

Your players need to know what kind of game you are running and aware of what bad things are possible. And you need to be open to ret-conning mistakes that ruined the game for someone because of mis-matched expectations in this regard.

An example from my experiences:

I ended up joining late in an online game that had vampires. I was completely unaware they could take over player characters using mind control. As a result, I got blindsided in the middle of a very emotional point in combat. My character's agency was completely removed by a failed saving throw. There was no recourse, no way out.

The rest of the party knew vampires were dangerous, but no one explicitly told me why. The DM forgot I didn't know what everyone else did.

This was more than just a dick move for me because I had some past traumatic events where the same thing happened to me. Most of the DMs I've encountered were hardliners when it came to rules and events. They'd rather kick a player than ret-con anything. Since I was new to the group, I was worried I'd never be invited to play with them again if I dropped out or said anything.

Fortunately in the next session, the DM realized something had happened and privately asked why I wasn't engaged as much as I was. Ret-conned who got mind-controlled to a player who would have fun with it.
At some point it changed to // as in: Apple //e on the boot screen and the case.
> That being early to mid 1900s england.

Not that I think this is _particularly_ relevant (as mentioned elsewhere, most of the characters aren't even _human_, and it's not like he generally specified "but if they _were_ humans, the Ringwraiths would definitely be white"), but LoTR was finished in 1949. There were lots of non-white people in the UK in 1949; if you've heard of the Windrush scandal, the people impacted by that arrived the year before, and it's not like they were the first non-white people in the UK...
Yep.

Source: burnt through all my time just getting frameworks compiling on AMD GPUs back in 2014.
I dont known about the poster, but me personally I do remember having been a kid, meaning someone made a different calculation. Past performance is no indication of future returns I guess...
Indeed. I'm all in with Apple, but I ran Linux on the desktop for 19 years, and ran my own infra out of my house. I keep close tabs on Apple. It was a lot of work, but if they renege on their current "privacy" stance, I have an escape path.
thread poster could include a fourth alternative... the "hesitant adopter," left behind when they missed the bus early on and every goodname they wanted was taken while they took the tour of the service.
not even the badnamers want them. they're not the type to "go along to get along"
Superhero movies are certainly not high cinema, but I challenge the "no risk" assertion. In the first 22 MCU films, the heroes take major losses in 5 films (e.g., a city is destroyed with impact affecting the rest of the series). The heroes suffer more personal losses in many other movies beyond those 5 (e.g., losing a loved one).

So you usually know what you will get, but the villain winning or partially winning is a credible threat.
> [sha256 is] also a slower hashing algorithm

Unfortunately, in an otherwise good post, the author is likely just repeating a myth. Due to HW acceleration, sha512 is the fastest and both sha256 and sha512 are faster than sha1. Go ahead. Compare sha1sum, sha256sum and sha512sum on a large file. If you don’t have HW acceleration for some reason Blake3 is the fastest and as secure as sha3 (since sha1 doesn’t benefit from HW acceleration, Blake3 would be a better hashing algorithm from this perspective). That being said, it might be true that sha1 is faster on lots of small inputs as most benchmarks focus on the aggregate speed of large files. Still, my prior would be that sha1 would still lose out unless I specifically benchmarked that use case and found it performed differently.

This doesn’t take away from the author’s main point that sha1 is still fine and there’s probably a certain amount of inertia with HIBP that makes changing the hash more difficult operationally/not worth it.
Does your nickname has a meaning or it was the shortest .net domain possible?
uwu or UwU denotes (AFAIK) the exterior of the human female reproductive system. I didn't know about owo or OwO. Looks like an owl to me. On second thought, so does uwu or UwU.
There’s a lot of landline / phone booth / message machine based jokes and story lines.

I don’t think 20 year olds will have an easy time picking up the show as they can’t relate to those problems.

I think Seinfeld is very much riding the nostalgia train now.

Mad men don’t assume any of its audience knew what the 60’s was like, so it has a chance of being more timeless.
I doubt they have too much COBOL lock-in, since the article notes their datacenter opened in 2008.

Here's the thing: A mainframe may have spare capacity, but you still have to call IBM to unlock it. In order to make a Z run in a cost-effective manner, you need to run at 90%+ utilization at all times - which is excellent for batch jobs that can be scheduled, but is difficult to achieve with on-demand loads.

You're paying based on compute available, not just compute used (unless I'm misremembering our contracts back in the day). Sure, the amount of available capacity can be changed, but a phone call to big blue is not automated. Cloud autoscaling is.

You're right that IBM mainframes are far more modern and cost effective than we assume. Sadly, they are still behind the curve of cloud hosting.
Subtraction of natural numbers is non-total, and can result in negative numbers, which cannot be represented as a natural number. Most languages throw an exception, panic, etc. None of these are solutions I'm happy with.

In Tao, natural numbers don't support subtraction but you can decrement them by pattern-matching as in this example, allowing the compiler to 'check your workings' and statically prove that your program can never result in underflows.

In a similar vein, you can't index directly into a list (because indexing is a fallible operation). Instead, you must pattern-match on the list and explicitly handle the empty case (you can also write a utility function to do this for you like so)

fn nth : Nat -> [A] -> Maybe A =
| _, [] => None
| 0, [x ..] => Just x
\ n + 1, [.. tail] => tail->nth(n)

Used like:

[1, 2, 3]->nth(1) # Evaluates to `Some 2`
Did you mean these?

https://archive.org/details/tntvillage_483933 Monk

https://archive.org/details/tntvillage_484094 Dizzy

I'm finding it a little hard to work out which tracks are Minton's!
Car Quality Is Slipping
It's worth remembering that only about 5% of the population† can even complete a task - like looking for a job - wholly online. It's not a skillset the general population has. And you need that skillset before you can even think about programming languages, mathematics, algorithms, etc.

†https://goingdigital.oecd.org/indicator/24
Today I learned that economies of scale and specialization are not things.
You might also enjoy http://endless.horse/
I doubt that the costs of supporting firefox outweigh the benefits of forcing users to use Edge, especially since it already works on firefox.
Great concrete example of the principal-agent problem here.
Star Wars Episode 3 was made off of 115 million to put things in perspective. Even adjusted for inflation.....
Didn't it? Every Android user I know is a data leak firehose.
>Not very surprising that they would go after a company with barely a 30% share of the market.

You do know that the DMA and DSA are not Apple-specific laws, right?
no they aren't gamma rays
If EU plays their hand too hard they may just end up with no Apple devices at all. Maybe that's their goal anyway. I wonder how long until the US takes them to the WTO or starts creating retaliatory tariffs.
I believe it’s due to the fact that after several years of upgrades, they started running it today at much higher power (13.6 trillion electronvolts).
You need fresh produce
I am a parent and I'm not a hypocrite so obviously the reality isn't rosy at all. If you want to look for bad things, you can always find plenty of them. As for benefits, there are also a few. The most important one depends on whether you have a kind of higher goal beyond this life. If not, personally I wouldn't have a kid. Because the reality for all humans is the same: we are young, we have a lot of expectations, then we have to work to sustain ourselves, then we become older and older, get more ill, and finally die. So from the perspective of human life the end is never bright. But if you have a wider perspective, things get more interesting. And at this point having a kid makes sense. The negative aspects don't disappear, but there is more to gain (not for you, for the kid).

That said, having a kid is always a gamble. It may turn out they have a very bad character, some grave illness or other serious problems. We all gamble hoping it will happen to someone else, but there is no any guarantee. And if it happens to us, we basically have to live with it until the end, and frankly it's a miserable life.
There's configs which make Sway behave (more) like dwm. Sway is config-compatible with i3, so that makes it a good successor as a tiling window manager.
After living in Solano county (That’s the bay as far as I checked) for 10 years and paying $500 a month for electricity to cool a 900 square foot house that would go out weekly between July and November, while repeatedly watching neighboring communities burn down due to ineffectual public services until I left for a more functional state with none of the same problems, yea, I think I’m pretty qualified to have an opinion.
If you are currently living paycheck to paycheck this is understandable.

Something that helped me out was filling out a dedicated digital calendar with actions actually done. First entry each day is usually the hours i slept, for example. I'll lump things together to try to make entries fit at least half an hour, preferably an hour+, so im not tediously filling out a calendar all day.

A little backwards to how calendars usually get used, but being able to open it up and see where all my time went helped me feel better about the never ending to-do list. I started seeing the sea of to-dos as an opportunity landscape that I could mine in order to improve the things i see marked down on my "actual" calendar. when i make an entry i am proud of, i see it every time i make a new entry for a little bit. i am able to continue being productive with a clear head most of the time; while compounding that good feeling each time i make an entry; which is almost always between tasks and a good time to bask in it a little bit.
> and on falling planes

I'd like to hear more about this one.
Conversely, I use Edge for Google sites (and nothing else) because Google goes out of their way to make them unusably slow on Firefox. They look for polyfilled, unimplemented, or bugged features that see low usage, implement them in Chrome, and then make Gmail, YouTube, etc. depend on them so Firefox takes 20s to load.
I think that, even though it's an odd question, it's a fair question. But I'll try to answer a different question:

Having kids means that your life is no longer yours - your kids become the primary focus. When you cannot complete a 20 minute task uninterrupted because your kids require your attention. Or the only free time you get is at 9pm and you're ready for bed. At least for the first few years.

So if you are asking what are the benefits - there are benefits as some other posters commented. But if you are asking the question, it's probably not the right choice for you.

For instance, asking others what the benefits are to getting a dog. Yes, there are benefits, but if you haven't reached the point of wanting a dog simply because you want a dog, then getting a dog probably isn't the right choice.
I know nothing about physics as it is not my domain. So I don't know if what you're saying is true or not. But if it is, I find that notion somewhat poetic.

For the sake of my own edification, I'd like to follow this up with a few somewhat seemingly dumb questions if you dont mind:

Is it the case that a given particle is trying to settle into a "lowest energy state" possible? I am not using physics terms here. More like conceptually, are these particles, due to the number of options available to them, decaying into the lightest stable variant allowed by the laws of physics? if that is the case, then could we perhaps find ways to engineer structures within which these particles last for a whole lot longer than they should (on a human timescale)? And what is stopping us from doing that? is it the energy cost associated with such a structure/device or is there a more fundamental reason we cant do that?
> The last mile is the same as the previous mile.

Is it, though? Maybe from a biological perspective, but definitely not in terms of lifestyle.

The times I've needed to lose weight, the first few pounds came off easily, because I usually just need to clean up a few bad habits. But then I typically settle in to a set point that's still above a healthy weight. At that point, further reductions require more and more calorie micromanagement.
But those aren't good analogies for "C". I think the best analogy is the long-standing belief prior to "C" that assembly would "always" be the systems programming language. Yes, someday a new king will be born (I doubt a coup).

In a similar grain, git is a beautifully designed and conceived simple content-addressable object store. With a complex and challenging UI (I don't have any problem with it, but still).

Neither of these tools are perfect; in fact they can sometimes be objectively be more imperfect than many of their competitors. But they are special.

> some have written the same about various assembly languages, about COBOL, about FORTRAN, about LISP in AI

It's not what people write about - it's what they use. C, UNIX(/Linux), Git are all very similar - and Pervasive.
There's another article floating about how they increased energy of collisions recently at LHC.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01388-6
Are you saing you just buy some server unpack them and throw them into production.....oh man...the lost art of systemadmin, if your system is not stable (in testing) you for sure disassemble it, or send it back. How much money have you lost playing around with your unstable database? Was it more then test your servers for some weeks? Do you buy/build software and throw it into production without testing?

You can test your stuff and be still profitable henzer aws etc would make no money otherwise....you know they test their server much more (sometimes weeks/month)
> I run an email newsletter with 30k+ readers and currently do 6 figures annually in revenue with a very predictable path to 7 figures in revenue (just reinvest all the revenue into ads lol). I've seen firsthand what it takes to grow an audience having done so myself (first 25k subs were all organic).
> I'm also really really dumb. It's honestly just write a lot of content, make each post 1% better than the last one, and figure out a solid distribution channel.

People treat intelligence the same way they do wealth: nobody likes to admit how high they are on the ladder. You say you're dumb despite being obviously intelligent. I've met lots of very wealthy people (multiple houses, fancy vacations, etc) who claim they're not rich. If you're dumb, what do you call people who are significantly less intelligent than you? Is there even a word for such a level of profound lack in mental abilities? I'm glad your business is successful but you are definitely an outlier in terms of identifying and executing on ideas, not nearly the norm.

> Yeah, I didn't mean go from 0 coding knowledge -> Facebook. I meant you're working as a software engineer at a smaller company and want to get a job at FB.

That's also not trivial. Very intelligent people get rejected from FAANG companies all the time. If getting a FAANG job is anywhere near easy for you then that only emphasizes how out of touch you are with regular people, or how much you're intentionally downplaying your own intelligence. In a word, utopian, because the vast majority of people are not remotely capable of getting into a FAANG or starting a 7-figure business
Surely an additional factor is that criticism is actionable, and praise is not? If someone tells me they like my shirt, it feels good, but there's nothing to be done about it. If someone tells me there's a hole in my shirt, then I actually have a new thing I need to deal with. Why would our brains remember comments that are not actionable over ones that are?

I'm not disagreeing with the article, but I suspect this multiplies with the psychological factor.
I don't know why this is on HN, but this is the degree of protesting I'd like to see happening against patent law.
Arguable, "why are lions?" does not constitute a conversation to me.

[bit of an obscure reference there, see "The Safari Park" episode of "The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin" http://www.leonardrossiter.com/reginaldperrin/Scripts1.html#... ]
If people dislike the US so much they should leave. Canada is extremely easy to immigrate to, they'll even let you drive up there with a US license and license plates while you're moving, you just need to fill out all the paperwork.

Except it turns out most of the laborers seem to prefer the US to Canada.
> it's hard to believe that it's incompetence.

On the one hand yes, but on the other hand, https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362
> But overall the deviation from the statistically recommended procedure will lead to worse outcomes in aggregate. It has to, because if it lead to better outcomes, the doctors 'personalized' process should become the statistically validated process with time.

Yes, but not for the reasons you're implying.

Following the impersonal process leads to better outcomes in aggregate because it's less labor-intensive; and so doctors end up seeing more patients; and so more patients end up being seen.

But "number of doctors per patient" is only a bottleneck because we make it one, with medieval-guild-like limited-acceptance-per-year medical-bar licensing.

(And the medical bar does what it does, IIRC, because doctors really like being paid as much as they are; and having a more efficient market for doctors would mean doctors would be paid less. Even if it'd also mean that e.g. hospital doctors could work 8-hour shifts rather than 24-hour shifts.)

There's also the fact that flowchart-based diagnosis is liability-minimizing from a medical-malpractice-insurance perspective. With the flowchart, a hospital being sued can always use the defense that the doctor took the lowest-risk, best-practice next step they possibly could at each juncture. (Mind you, it's the best practice because it's the lowest-liability-risk — not for any other reason.)

> Measurement in medicine is also in many cases not particularly quantitative. E.g., fatigue, pain, cognitive dysfunction etc. So taking more measurements doesn't necessarily give you any useful information.

You only need quantitative instruments if your goal is to aggregate data to achieve statistical significance. An individual patient can be evaluated perfectly well ("clinical significance") with qualitative instruments. There are tons of objective-yet-qualitative instruments — e.g. observation of signs (rather than symptoms) of a syndrome, where there's no clear weightings to give to any given sign, but where one can always track each sign "dimension" of the syndrome separately, and then observe whether a given intervention improves outcomes along the "dimensions" you're tracking.