skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This company will bring personalized ads to the highway, bus stops, malls, and restaurants. They will make a lot of money and use most of it to record what we look at and how long, and store it forever.

I predict that these ads will eventually be like Tiktok. Every moment that your eyes pause on an ad will be recorded. They will use the data to pick videos that are better at holding your attention. The videos will be super interesting or shocking, with ads interspersed.

Eventually, the system will use deepfake tech to insert ad content into your tailored videos. As you walk past a shoe store, your eyes linger for a second on a particular shoe style. Half a block later, the bus stop ad shows the latest Tiktok fad video but the people are wearing the shoe style you looked at.

Eventually, the video ads will cause a lot of vehicle accidents and will get banned on roads. Then the billboards will show static ads, but still personalized and still recording your gaze as you drive by.

Some people will die from exposure after standing in front of ads for too long. There will be lawsuits. School districts will sue to have the adboards removed from near schools. Vending machines will let you pay by watching ads.

The ad companies will categorize people as desirable and undesirable. When an undesirable is standing in front of a billboard, the system will show a blank screen or a disgusting video to make them leave.

With so much face & eyeball data, the billboards can pick audio or a video+audio tracks to maximize their income. A group of teenagers are watching a music video on the board. The audio suddenly switches to an ad for expensive men's clothing, just as a wealthy man walks around the corner in earshot of the board.

Directional audio tech will add personalized audio to the adboards. Adboards will increase volume to reach people across the street. Cities will get much louder. Vandals will use spray glue to damage directional audio systems.

Personally, I don't want my physical movements and eye gaze recorded. Only regulation can prevent it. We need regulation now, before the companies get too powerful.
npm ecosystem is a cve & backwards incompatibility nightmare that incurs a huge maintenance treadmill just to stay in place. I've had repeat vacations interrupted by npm, and never pip/conda. Why, I don't know: community, tool, stdlib, ...?
Through governance and civilization? There will always be an incentive to bribe public officials, too. Or for that matter, to rob, rape, and kill.
This makes me think of the Nintendo 3Ds. It tracks your head and makes the image 3D. Only this is much more of a privacy screen style 3D. Nifty.
Well at least we had nice things for a while.
It's a great question. TouchDesigner and similar programs have a limited number of data types even though touch designer does a great job at being a little more general than other programs. Also TouchDesigner and Houdini both have shader languages that allow someone to make nodes that do general purpose array transformations which ups their utility a lot.

One big aspect is handling state. Connecting nodes without side effects is great when each frame is a cycle and all you have to do is transform data into a final result. When actual state is involved it becomes hacky or impossible to do in with only transformations. Other similar hurdles are branching and IO.

The other is having general purpose programming underneath. Shader languages enable a lot, but using a real programming language like C++ somewhere not only opens the door to whatever you need, but allows you to integrate all the libraries already made as well as call out to OS IO APIs etc.

It is amazing though how nice it is to work with an integrated and fluid environment where iterations are updated in real time and errors are narrowed down for you, not to mention profiling broken down by node.
Elon Musk accuses Twitter of rushing its lawsuit along at 'warp speed'
Prefab is a different animal altogether in the US from manufactured homes. Prefabricated homes are many times built to higher standards than regular homes, and prefab homes are usually permanent with no intention of moving the structure to other sites over their lifetimes. Unfortunately, prefab homes are equal (if not more in some cases) in cost relative to standard “stick-built” homes.
> I wouldn't want random people in the airport to see my personal information.

Why not? I'm as much a privacy advocate as anyone, but I don't see the big deal here.

The board seems to display your first name, your gate number, your destination city, and your departure time. Why is it a concern that strangers potentially standing next to you might see this? You already see tons of boarding passes while waiting in various airport lines.

My point is that people don't typically care about these four data points, so why is it a concern that they're displayed on this board (which ostensibly only you or someone directly in your space can see), especially when someone can go to a random gate, and ask your name, and now they all the same data points.
FWIW straw bans and recycling are typically not really about carbon at all, more about the impact of waste. Recycling can sometimes have a meaningful carbon impact, but it can also be carbon positive in many cases.

But I really dislike the attitude of "well this thing isn't going to solve climate change, and the real problem is industry/agriculture/government/etc, so we shouldn't bother doing it." Of course we should. We should all try to make incremental changes to respect the environment more.

It's just lazy reasoning to try to justify continuing to live a lifestyle that damages the environment without having to question it.
The main issue with many of these claims is that they didn’t happen because action was taken to stop them. For example

1974: Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life’

The treaties to deal with this are literally one of the best examples of success around international pollution

1969: ‘Everyone will disappear in a cloud of blue steam by 1989.’

The clean air act was passed in 1970

1967: ‘Dire famine by 1975.’

Writing just after the green revolution, it would be easy to miss that the trajectory had changed

Are some statements overblown sure, but calling some of the articles that directly lead to change liers because they successfully inspired change is pretty low
I first heard the term a few years ago, but because I work in that space it didn't bother me. When I talk about it to network ops folks I like to say "perimeterless", which is a fair description of what they care most about: no more firewalls, DMZ, or "internal" vs "external".

The device-centric authentication and authorization part, I don't really have a good simple term. When it works well, I call it "better user experience" because to the people accessing, there's a lot less for them to deal with, and fewer passwords to remember or VPN status to worry about.

The lack of a VPN requirement is nice. The experience from my last job where we had a VPN was that everything worked pretty well for employees with company-issued laptops, but when a division hired contractors or brought in a third party, they weren't issued laptops, so they couldn't access anything on the VPN, leading to continuous support issues and work for the netops folks.

For my part I really like it because it addresses one aspect of security often neglected (even more so than security in general): internal malicious actors. Disgruntled employees, workers that expeditious bypass security because their boss has to have it NOW, executives and senior leadership that throw their weight around and get special access to bypass security, or simple human error. Also, all the un-encrypted internal traffic. In this case, "zero trust" applies, because where companies used to trust their employees not to screw around with company assets, hard experience has demonstrated that even absent malice, people do stupid things and it costs real money.
> “Do nothing until it’s an actual problem.” - people old enough to die before it’s a problem.

Imagine being a developing country and people saying "yeah well, you can't become developed because... you know ... climate change. Think of humanity and stay undeveloped while we keep exploiting you"

I'm in no way saying we should not care, but if the data is not collected the right way we could end up focusing on the wrong solution.

In one of these examples looks like tearing down airports and grow grass fields back could lower the temperatures collected by those climate stations. But would it be the right thing to do?

Just asking.
> Who can even remember how ASCII punctuation should be "alphabetized" in an index, let alone Unicode?

Ideally, the entries should mostly be one character long, at most two, and appear i a dedicated non-alphanumeric index section that runs for no more than half a page.
Show HN: A compiler and VM for a simple language, in 150 lines of code
There's struggling, and there's "grab Starbucks on the way to work" struggling...
This sounds freaking awesome.

Wait. Actually... no it doesn't.

The more I think about it, this sounds freaking terrifying.
Have you tried scratch? The blocks are written programming instructions, with some puzzle piece connectors which help avoid basic syntax errors. These instructions drive the sprites.
I don't understand why is it hard to build a JSON/XML converter? XML is represented by a DOM and DOM should be easy to convert to JSON. Actually I did just that. I made a service which uses XML for inputs and outputs and those JavaScript people kept asking me about JSON. Not sure if they were happy in the end, JSON is too verbose to my taste, but whatever.

So some simple XML like

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soap:Body>
<soap:Fault>
<faultcode>soap:Server</faultcode>
<detail>
<ns2:SendMessageFault1_SendMessageFault xmlns:ns2="http://bip.bee.kz/SyncChannel/v10/Types">
<errorCode>SCE013</errorCode>
</ns2:SendMessageFault1_SendMessageFault>
</detail>
</soap:Fault>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

is represented by the following JSON monstrosity:

{
"name": "soap:Envelope",
"attributes": [
{
"name": "xmlns:soap",
"value": "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
}
],
"children": [
"\n ",
{
"name": "soap:Body",
"children": [
"\n ",
{
"name": "soap:Fault",
"children": [
"\n ",
{
"name": "faultcode",
"children": [
"soap:Server"
]
},
"\n ",
{
"name": "detail",
"children": [
"\n ",
{
"name": "ns2:SendMessageFault1_SendMessageFault",
"attributes": [
{
"name": "xmlns:ns2",
"value": "http://bip.bee.kz/SyncChannel/v10/Types"
}
],
"children": [
"\n ",
{
"name": "errorCode",
"children": [
"SCE013"
]
},
"\n "
]
},
"\n "
]
},
"\n "
]
},
"\n "
]
},
"\n"
]
}
Google has gotten worse.
Ok, we've done that.
Single point of failure devices for decryption of traffic (MitM) is not in line with the original definition of "zero trust", and VPNs certainly aren't either.

Zero trust arose out of this exact sort of scenario following the Snowden leaks and the NSA document showing "SSL added and removed here". End to end encryption and removing MitM middleboxes was the answer to SSL intercepting proxies.

This is a VPN/SSL interception product attempting to remain relevant by advertising as something it isn't.
If I remember correctly the early days were painful as well, with it being necessary to manually unpack the jar file, and work with deobfuscated decompiled code. I'm not sure what the state of it is nowadays, but I hope its more pleasant.

My favourite game from a modding perspective is Kerbal Space Program. Just drop a Mono/.NET DLL into its GameData folder and you're good to go, and code completion works automatically during development as long as you have Squad's own DLLs in the right paths.
> easy to regulate.

Theoretically.
"You are responsible for your career. No one else is."

That is common sense. It is also non-controversial.

"You are responsible for raising and feeding your own children. No one else is."

That is common sense. But it appears these days to be quite controversial. Why the difference? I think part of the woke wave is the idea that if you are sub-elite status in the United States, then society cannot reasonably expect anything from you, can hold you to no standards whatsoever.
Ask HN: How did free people in USA thrive in high heat before air-conditioning?
I live in Mid-West USA. It's been hitting 95°F the past few days. I experimented with trying to go without air-conditioning. Couldn't do it. Couldn't work on my computer despite being indoors and having a fan on my desk. Had terrible sleep (despite having a powerful ceiling fan).

Air-conditioning is not even a hundred years old and was originally not even invented to keep people cool (it was invented to keep machines from overheating).

How did free people stay thriving and productive during summer in places like Florida, and certain other parts of America where there's not only extreme heat but also extreme humidity?

Is it a case of:

- temps have gotten hotter more recently?

- if I had continued my experiment, I would have eventually gotten used to the heat and learned to thrive in it?

When it gets extremely hot around here, I think a lot about the Bedouin with all their layers of clothes in unimaginable heat. I also think about photos of Americans from around a hundred years ago when all men seemed to be dressed in suits and a hat. Such a mystery to me. (And yes, I realize the Bedouin wear all those layers to protect themselves from hot wind. But still, it must feel like an oven in there.)
But it demonstrates that SWAT teams are not being sent to people at risk of suicide.
Practically speaking, none of these things will happen.

This is actually one of the big hurdles to getting some people into therapy/treatment/medication that they need: They imagine a lot of catastrophic scenarios about what could possibly happen if they get the help they need, which creates a gridlock that traps them in their situation.

From a pure risk management perspective, the highest risk by far in these scenarios is failing to accept help that could improve the underlying problems. If someone reaches the point of considering suicide, it doesn't make sense to refuse help due to hypothetical fears about some future job obtaining phone records and declining someone for a job (which isn't a thing that happens, BTW).

Don't let fear of far-reaching hypotheticals get in the way of making progress on mental health.
I had an older professor of physics at the university (I was studying physics) - he was a theoretician. Once a year he felt the need to make an experiment "for completeness".

As good as he was as a theoretical physicist, he was a walking disaster with experiments.

In mechanics there is an experiment where you sit on a chair, with weights in your hands, someone makes you spin and then you extend the arms and the movement is slowed down (conservation of momentum if someone is interested).

He wanted to show this, sat on a chair, extended his arms and asked a student to spin him fast. And then retracted his arms next to the torso. He flew two or three meters away from the chair and fell down, with us jumping to help him (he was something like 70 at that time).

After getting back to his senses he continued with an experiment where you hold a bicycle wheel in your hands by the axis, it spins quickly and you cannot flip it right or left. So he did.

And then he was left with a spinning wheel in his hands, wondered a moment what to do with it and simply dropped it on the floor. It is amazing he managed to squarely hit the audio system of the amphitheatre which did BOOM and we did not have sound anymore.

That was the end of the experiments for that year.
Actually, this is not the real problem. It's not the herding of animals that's creates the overgrazing. It's the large scale killing of predators. This creates huge herds of grazers that absolutely destroy the landscape.
This is how the savannah and the great plains where created. To protect their herd and children; natives killed the lions, saber tooths, wolves, hyenas, big cats and bears. In effect creating the great grassy plains. Not saying that humans created all the large grassy plains; just saying they have become substantially bigger since humans are around.
A little simplicity goes a long way (2008)
...with a mortgage, and the house tends to maintain value. They don't have that kind of money lying around to throw into a risky business.
Disagree, don't chase the features of a competitor. Find the features your customers need and the features you can build better than others. We don't need another flippa clone.
Can you provide more details on what you're thinking here?
Well, except many of the claims were true when they were stated. The ozone hole really was a crisis and only stopped being one because the international community put together treaties to stop it
Also if you get Scratch Addons (https://scratchaddons.com/) and enable the Debugger addon it adds a console and blocks to log to it.
It seems to be common enough that they had to make a specific rule in the guidelines preventing people from calling it out.
The source's lean does matter, as that tends to influence the things that are not said in order to make a point.

For example, how much of the predictions that have been made in the past have come true? Does climatology have a different track record of predictions being incorrect than other fields? Are predictions that have been made decades ago and published in the media relevant to the current state of things?

Also, as an example of how using failed predictions is fallacious, in the past it was predicted that in the 2000s we'd all have domestic robots in to do cooking and cleaning. There aren't such robots generally available. Does that mean that we can say that robotics today is all bunk and robots don't exist?
I was just in the DTW airport a few weeks ago and experienced this firsthand!

The representative said there can be up to 100 people in this large-ish rectangular area and each person can only see their details and nobody else's (even as everybody moves around). Everybody outside of the rectangle sees generic information.

I'm generally pretty good with figuring out how things work. I could figure out the tracking piece, but I definitely didn't figure out how they could so accurately make sure that I could read my info everywhere within that box. There are some other comments here that describe how it works -- pretty cool!

I was definitely amazed at how well this actually worked with about 10 other people also testing it out. Privacy issues aside, this is an amazing experience to be able to be on-the-move and see a giant arrow that points you to exactly where you need to go in an airport you're unfamiliar with.
An inspection is required for most home purchases that are financed. The inspection report would clearly indicate the construction type. If buyers aren’t reading their inspection reports, what can you do?
Ah that's unfortunate. I'm sure there's technological solutions to point 1, but that's pretty irrelevant if the other three points are true. It seems a bit ridiculous if a project funding is 3-5 years, if it's supposed to be a permanent solution.

Are corrupt funders really such a large share of money for these projects? Is it industrial companies using non-profit funding to grease wheels for their endeavors?
The only time I fill out pop-up surveys is when I want to enter wildly inaccurate data bout myself. That time back when Facebutt forced everyone to use their government names (as if it was an authentic requirement) I was shocked at how many people caved into entering their full name.

Companies are having a field day with all this data collection. I hope they get real karma for the deception.
I thought the point was that an airport is a poor choice for an unbiased climate station because the airport generates/retains heat.
This started out very insightful and turned into a weird fan fiction right around “vehicle accidents”.

I think most of the things you predict prior to that will be accurate.
Once a customer logs in, they are identified by the motion sensors as a specific moving object tied to a specific customer record

Dislike. Also, I think this will have deleterious effects on the general level of mental health.

Misapplied science, indeed.
Abortion laws spark profound changes in other medical care
You need to think in percentage and not in hard money.

How many of the people born in the first quintile of wealth in the 80s are still in the first quintile? How many people born in the last quintile are now in the first quintile?

If the answer is 20% to both, great, you have no predetermination of wealth at all. if you have 50%/10%, you have what is expected in a country with correct social mobility (Most western countries post WW2 until the 70s). If its 95%/2%, or less, you have an almost non-existant wealth mobility.
This framework does this same thing:

> It does not embed a browser, so it is resource efficient. Instead, it uses the native rendering engine for the platform. On Windows, this is the new Microsoft Webview2 library, built on Chromium.

https://wails.io/docs/introduction#native-elements
Seems pretty tenuous, and I don't see any radiocarbon dating or high quality archeology. It's not surprised this doesn't "occupy anyone's mindspace".

I think the claim "There are still people living in medieval-era houses in the US " is misleading and possibly wrong. A more accurate claim would be "It is possible but unconfirmed that there are a handful of occupied houses in one location in the US with walls that were originally built in the late medieval era. These are extremely far from population centers, so it's unsurprising most people don't think about them the way Europeans think about older structures".
I assume that a shipping container is only at end of life one it starts rusting and loses structural integrity. Not sure anyone would want to live in it at that point.
All we do is ML and image processing. We use huge libraries like PyTorch, ones with insane packaging like OpenCV, and things are so stable I haven’t felt the need to introduce version pinning yet.

Maybe you’re using recent less-stable projects? I found that the main ML packages rarely break things without months of deprecation warnings.
This is utterly insane to me! I work in a lumber yard (yeah, physical labor <SHUDDER!!!>) where doing 30 minutes of actual work in a _12_hour_day_ would get a person fired, much less in _12_weeks_! I'm stunned that this sort of thing is fairly commonplace in the tech industry. Utterly atrocious productivity as measured by productive man-hours (pardon me-- person-hours^), yet billions upon billions of dollars get thrown at companies with the faintest of business propositions. No wonder our economy is fucked! But thanks for the highly entertaining stories, y'all! It makes me thankful to work for a (mostly) sane company, in a (mostly) sane industry, even if I have to bust my ass to make a living.

^ I am a proud East Texan, where we don't put a whole lot of stock in all the woke bullshit. No offense meant if you're about that life, but from our perspective, y'all are fuckin' crazy people. ;-) Love ya anyway, because we're all one big, dysfunctional American family, right? Hell, I've got family members who are batshit crazy, but I still love 'em. Anyway, /tangent
i’m not really sure what you mean. most of these products are indeed reverse-proxies, but reverse proxies do not sit in front of the whole internet, just corporate services
Corporations? That hardly the case. People make up their own minds about green energy and make decisions about about voting themselves. People are seeing the affects right now of what happens when they vote for politicians that are doing their best to shut down oil - $6 a gallon gas.
That's what WebStorm is for.
With typical currency a central bank can arbitrarily inflate (read as dilute) the purchasing power of your savings and there is nothing you can do to prevent it.
The source is a far right ideologue who misrepresents the facts.

About what you would expect from someone who made his career as a paid shill for mining companies.