skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Obtain perhaps, but identify no. Identification requires a database of samples to match against.

Those databases already exists (just look at the MyHeritage, FamilyTreeDNA, 23andMe etc companies). Furthermore, DNA has the advantage, that you can find someone via relatives. The person to be identified doesn't have to be in the database. It's sufficient if his brother or father is in that db. Afaik this is not the case for fingerprints.
Doesn't this create the same problem, albeit on a different pain point? Now the service/methods you use to sync and store your DBs are a problem without much benefit? I've seen people use keepass and then google drive, which just seems silly at that point if you're going to negate keepass' benefit (local management) just to attempt to gain some of the benefits of managed services like bitwarden in very clunky ways.
Only if you're correct about them being a Mongol horde and not a rational actor, but their actions were predictable and were in fact predicted by professors years ago who understand the geopolitcal landscape and history of NATO.
Think of delegating it to artificial intelligence! With high-quality machine learning models, you can get rid of manual work and focus on strategically ...
https://gloriumtech.com/machine-learning-services/
Just cutting some hair won't do it. Given that DNA is in the follicle, you would have to extract a hair, e.g. pull it out. Doing so without consent or demanding it is a violation of medical ethics and/or assault.
There has to be an incentive for someone to write an authoritative and unbiased list in order for such a list to surface via web search. For the two examples you give, it's just not going to happen. For other products, I agree with the frustration but, again, who is going to provide this information for no reward?

I'm no apologist for Google but I'd be willing to bet that if you wrote such a list and it was truly authoritative and unbiased then it would be very easy to find.
> Can you cite a rule preventing this? We'd like to keep it from happening.

You made the claim that it's happening, not that we need a rule to prevent a hypothetical. This is a goalpost-moving behavior.

> The Veterans community is pretty pissed off about that Paralympian athlete who was offered suicide instead of a wheelchair ramp. They don't feel this is working correctly.

This isn't the same as a population-based study to prove that these are not edge case exceptions that receive appropriate outcry and thereby support. I'm more interested in whether or not this is happening broadly. I want to know if this is happening to people who wouldn't get broad support, like homeless felons, on a population-wide level.
All the presence of the content-length header would do is change curl's exit code when the connection breaks. The part where curl output the truncated script and bash executed it would be unchanged.
Now deleted but here's the archive - https://archive.vn/xo5Da#selection-1521.0-1550.0
I thought none of the 3 US car rental brand holding companies franchised. But it seems that Avis Budget and Hertz do franchise. Enterprise does not.

I wonder if that is why I seem to prefer Enterprise. Not that I would touch Hertz with a 10ft pole anyway.
My mother is still affected from this psyop. She doesn't even go out anymore. I try to encourage her to find a therapist but my words fall on deaf ears.
Plastic doesn't recycle, at a practical scale. I like the idea of developing garbage burning plants with superb emission control, and burning it all locally.

As well as reducing plastic usage in low value applications. It is sad, all the plastic litter in the world.
I like the use of emojis. At first they don't make sense. But as soon as you realize what one does, the others immediately fall in line.
Article is about CD-Rs, afaik those used organic dye.
DVD you bought sounds like pressed one = no organic materials. Whats more DVDs are build in a way where the data surface is sandwiched between two sealed polycarbonate platters.
zero robocalls, and I don't have any spam - but that's a bait in bad faith, as you have zero experience on your own.
If 'm' and 'u' are symmetric, surely 'n' is as well?
Anecdata:

Years ago, when I was still in the school I had a cheap Chiniese alarm clock with a lever-thingy to disable the alarm. It was quite simple, when the hour hand reached the position of the alarm hand it popped the lever to the raised state, which engaded that dreadful beebeebeep alarm sound. To turn off you just pressed the lever back in.

One morning I woke up totally oblivious to why did I wake up - it was cold and still dark out there. In a second I heard a click of that lever (meaning it would start beeping now) and I managed to threw myself to the clock (which I positioned ~two meters from the bed specifically so I would need to stand and go to it => I would properly wake up), disable the alarm and dug back under the blanket with a blissfull feeling in my mind. Alarm didn't sound and I hadn't a single step on the floor with my legs.

I was late that day.
Can someone point out a big flaw in my password management system? I have always felt kinda dumb for not using a PW manager but my system has worked for the last ~10+ years and I have never had any issues.

I memorized a small function that takes the product name as input and spits out a password. it achieves the goal of having a unique pw for every service without having to write anything down (in software or on paper). I had to amend it to account for some services that require you to reset your password to a new one and for sites with annoyingly specific password formats (i.e. 3 special chars).
It’s not about what you’d expect but about what the consequences of normalizing it are. If you’d never heard of MAiD before, you’d react with shock and horror to the mere suggestion that your family members should get a lethal injection like the USA gives to criminals. I think that reaction is the right one, and the “what’s the big deal?” attitude you see a lot of downthread is terribly wrong.
Nobody in this thread apparently read it. This has turned into a Reddit America-bad thread, it's embarrassing for HN.
> What was the court's reasoning for denying the appeal?

I don't know. The layer wouldn't talk to me (because client confidentiality, despite the fact that my subject was wiling to sign a release). I learned about the appeal results through my subject, who was not an entirely reliable source. It was emotionally wrenching for me just to watch him talk about it. I can't even imagine what it must have been like for him.

It's possible that there are public court records if you really want to know. If you know how to look these things up contact me off line and I'll give you the info you would need to locate the records.

> This sounds terrible, unfair, and unjust.

Yes. That was kind of the point.

However, there is more to the story. If you want to know you'll have to watch the film :-) You can find it on iTunes and Amazon. But I'll tell you this: the subject was a psychologist with a masters degree.
But the efficiency of taking power to make the hydrogen into liquid form only to make it back into electricity later on is horrible.

Also with a BEV if you have solar, you can literally fuel your car for free. Why bother with hydrogen?
Unfortunately UE is on an even worst path: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsigen.2019.03.023 and the "underway" https://www.soprasteria.com/newsroom/press-releases/details/...
At least this seems like a cross-superstate* request, which makes it less likely without reciprocity:

my analysis
Oceania : US + Airstrip One + ... (5 eyes, etc.)
Eurasia : EU
Eastasia : CN / RU+BY+RS (disunited ATM)

* Was Orwell reading James Burnham (1941) to come up with his superstates?
>COVID-19 is far more serious than a cold

Not for kids.

And we always knew this, but our public officials didn't listen. It's one of those cases where it was better to do _nothing_ instead of force this massive mask trauma on our children. And still, they want us to vax 5 year olds against a virus that has long passed us by. For what?
The ignorant and condescending sentences you pointed out are true and I only added them because you still seem to be looking at this from an upper class American/European perspective.
> writing that he had “job opportunities” in three occupations that are nearly obsolete and agreeing with the expert’s dubious claim that 130,000 positions were still available sorting nuts, inspecting dowels and processing eggs.

Whether 'nut sorting' is an actual job or not seems less important than "are there any nut sorting jobs open within a reasonable distance from the applicant?".

Someone with a disability may need familial support. Telling someone they have to move - possibly their entire family - across country to take some bullshit minimum wage job which may go away 6 months from now to avoid paying out some reasonable social security disability claim is ... nuts. And they don't need sorting.
> Here’s the baffling bit. I make a reservation this morning at Enterprise in a KC suburb and get back a confirmation number, cool. Five minutes later I get a call back that they don’t have any cars available. I ask him why, because I got the confirmation number. He says the website isn’t accurate at the moment. WTF? So when a car is rented and driven off the lot the database doesn’t update? Or worse, the local dealer data is not synced to corporate in real time?

Same thing happened to me. My wife even called the night before and talked to someone (not at the airport, though) and confirmed. The guy at the pickup had to tell 6 people at 6am that they were only honoring reservations made at least three days prior, and all of them had confirmed numbers.

Likewise, no cars are available within a two hour drive. It looks like the first few days of problems sucked up any available inventory in the system.
in one regard i'm with this and i do want them to have a fiduciary like responsibility

on the other hand i almost see this as similar to the groups of people who swarm towards televangelists, who sign up to donate their last dollar to a millionaire who's scamming them for everything they're worth

if you trust it, then maybe falling for it is the best thing for you, to learn this lesson the hard way :/
That doesn't come close to addressing the problems stated in the article.
If vim is working well for you, I'd say not to chase neovim, unless you feel like trying something new. Moving to nvim is pretty straightforward, but more and more stuff is expected, in a way, to be configured through Lua. That's nice, but it is a change from vimscript which you may not want to make.

Neovim has a lot of momentum going and high quality (and fast/light) plugins, in part due to Lua, but also due to the ever growing integration with modern editing and software development tools like TreeSitter and LSPs.
It's a really nice ecosystem, where you can find pleasant plugin surprises almost every week. I really like it, but if you fancy a more stable and battle-tested system, vim may still be more appealing. Or neovim with just classic vim plugins.
This certainly needs to be fixed.

Having said that when I think of job titles today and the “Senior Full Stack … Recruiter” who contacted me.

I don’t know what would replace it.
Does Amazon declare the financial and legal risks of externalizing the disposal costs of their plastic- and styrofoam-based (and cardboard!) packaging onto municipal recycling and waste processing?

For example: what would it cost Amazon if they were charged a recycling fee for all single-use packaging by the state California?
We also have policy problems. As previous commenters with experience in the industry point out, this problem is easy to solve. It’s not a technical problem, it’s a policy problem.

It’s not an ideals problem. Even very conservative economists would agree that there exists a negative externality in the transaction between the call center and the telecom company on the person being called where there should be some cost on the transaction to account for that externality.

So, it’s not even a conservative liberal thing (intentionally not using party names as those names may not reflect conservative or liberal ideals). It’s a policy problem. Write your member of congress.
No, they're rational actors in this scenario.

In real life Putin changed strategies in a way that made his country worse (turned into a Mongol horde) but personally improved him (gave him more power over the country).

You can ignore anything he says; it's not meant for you and he doesn't care if you hear it or believe it. It's like when Russians say that Ukraine is run by Jewish Nazis. It's not intended to be truthful, which is why they don't care they've caused /more/ countries on their border to join NATO.

By "professors" you presumably mean Meerscheimer, who's basically like a cynical politics poster who thinks everything is about "making hard choices" and so is in favor of anything that sounds like it's "making hard choices" even if it's wrong.
How could we know? They haven’t tried yet.
Ok, we've changed to that from https://techlomedia.in/2022/12/data-of-30-million-indian-rai.... Thanks!
Maybe Americans should abandon English.
Whether it's good local privacy laws in your country or a good privacy-respecting TOS from a company, both are basically worthless when a bigger entity comes barging into the picture.

So your government collects biometric data but passes laws promising not to misuse it... you may very well find that those promises are worth less than dirt when a country with leverage over your own starts making demands that your government feels obliged or coerced to obey.

Or you give lots of your personal data to a software company that promises privacy in their TOS. Great.. until that company gets bought out by the likes of Google or Facebook, then those promises evaporate and good luck doing anything about it.

The solution is to never trust any promises of privacy, and don't hand over personal data to anybody unless it's taken from you at gunpoint. It doesn't matter what promises are given, because all promises can be broken with enough leverage.

I recommend that Europeans petition their governments to delete such databases now, so that compliance with American demands simply won't be possible. Delete the databases now so your governments can't fold to pressure later.
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All airlines economize. An airline that doesn't is a bankrupt airline because typical industry margins on flight are razor thin.

Southwest isn't a particularly budget airline compared to modern budget carriers like spirit and ryanair that haven't copied the open boarding policy. I suspect the opportunity to upsell seats / luggage and have distinct classes outweighs the turnaround time costs of assigned seating.
It makes you realize how rubbish the big brand razors are. I used to use a Gillette "how many blades can we stuff into this plastic" piece of shite that cost a fortune. My face appreciates the safety razor with a single blade.

I bought a bulk pack of 3000 blades for about $30 from eBay. I got those when my kid was 6 and now he's old enough to be using them. It's a staggering saving.

I have had to replace my handle once though, they don't seem to be made that well, the outer shiny layer bubbled and peeled.
Sure, but you’re going to disclose all of the same biometric and criminal database information should you then do the U.S. visa application, so this does nothing to improve your privacy or stop the U.S. having this information.

You need to travel to the U.S. with these changes? You still use ESTA and VWP, and the U.S. pulls what they need via an IT integration.

You need to travel to the U.S. and these changes get a “No” from EU states? You go through the visa process for tourism or business, they get your biometrics and background checks through that process. It takes longer. It costs more money. It is more onerous to you as an applicant.

Every time you cross the border as an alien you are fingerprinted and photos are taken (exceptions are given for diplomats).

In short, it’s the same outcome for U.S. travel and your only way to stop the U.S. having this information is to not travel there…
I think they are asking for MacOS support (which Nix supports). Not possible with Guix except through a VM.
Asking the government to step in for additional regulation is rarely helpful. For this type of failure, the free market will determine whether processes and tools improve, or whether the status quo is good enough.
> Biggest issue with disability is you cannot start working again, even as an experiment, without losing your disability. It’s a lifetime disability.

One of the worst things about the US social safety net, almost as bad as how weak it is even in total and in theory, is how piecemeal it is. Workers Compensation (and, for veterans, the VA) provide benefits that apply to partial and temporary disability, whereas Social Security provides benefits for only long-term total disability (that both prevents your past work and prevents transitioning to new work.) But evolution in jobs and working conditions, evolution in medical and assistive technology, and, frankly, refinement of knowledge about the initial injury can change what once seemed to be in one category to the other, and vice versa.
This doesn't actually answer the question, though, as people value their home interior video privacy a lot more than they value their biometric privacy.
In that case the good faith people can move to a different provider and the problem will self segregate out.

Pretty much everyone who communicates overseas use apps now because they’re free.
I'm curious how this compares to other causes of deaths for kids under 18. I'm sure there have been more teen suicides, overdoses, accidents, and car accidents that tragically ended lives (about which the government largely does nothing, except for the National Suicide Hotline, which is important).
As I understand it, older appliances had a 3-wire cord with two hot wires and one neutral wire. An additional ground was added, making requiring a 4-prong plug. We came across this when we replaced my mother's electric stove.

When I bought my house, the (nimrod) flippers didn't hook up the stove, they just pushed it into place. Never having installed an electric stove, they didn't know you order the plug separately. As it turned out, the connection was so old that I had to special order a plug.
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The fact you think something entirely subjective and ill-defined is 1) objectively true and 2) something you can know without being in my head is ridiculous.
Forbes estimates the current value of DCG to be approximately $0
Will this be the first crypto casualty of 2023?
Well, you could try mentioning that Turkey managed to leak the personal data of more or less its entire adult population (50M people or so; https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/04/database-...).

Or, maybe closer to home, that several European states were complicit in helping the US to kidnap, torture and imprison their innocent citizens (the euphemism for accidentally kidnapping and torturing some completely random person is "erroneous rendition" https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna10618427).

Both the US and European allies went through great pains and costs to provide the Taliban with detail biometric data for kill lists https://theconversation.com/the-taliban-reportedly-have-cont....

For just $68 you can even get the collector's edition on ebay, which includes not just lots of biometric and personal data but also comes with the original capture device (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/27/technology/for-sale-on-eb...).
The EU is subservient to the US. The war in Ukraine has not improved things as the US have also become a key supplier of LNG...
> Algorithmically, that means they can't accept approximate solutions!

Well, of course they can

Not enough pilots make the general problem infeasible, so you have to make do what you have

In practice this means a) flying the schedule as best as you can b) get people/crew/planes back to hubs c) prioritize based on displaced people/cost/other variables
not on demand.
I don't know, i feel like going from a wheel barrow to a train (or car) was a pretty big shift.
I wonder if their body just has no capacity to heal or regenerate. I’ve kept bees for a few years now and am
still very much an amateur, but I’ve never heard of sick/wounded bees recovering from anything. Their bodies are pretty simple and don’t have much in the way of superfluous parts or capacity.
Two important specifications (for me) for annotations:

1. Long term preservation (most important): I want to use the annotations in 10 years, 30 years, etc. Using them means they must be readable and be connected to the object they annotate.

2. Migration through updates to the object. That is, if I annotate a PDF of a book, and later a new revision or edition comes out, I'd like my notes to automatically transfer. I know there are some cases where that is difficult - e.g., if the annotated object isn't present in the revision - but most notes can be migrated.

I don't know anything that does #2. #1 is only available in PDFs (and especially PDF/A), afaik.
'maybe Which? in the Uk..'

I would argue that Which is no longer a reliable source of unbiased information. They have affiliate links and the number of products tested for each category is suspiciously low.

Office chairs is one recent example where the one you are thinking of is not even listed, although a much cheaper version from the same company is cited as the best buy, (Herman Miller Verus Triflex).
What Microsoft doesn't have, AWS does. Several european governments store all passenger/traveler data (including biometric photo scans at the very least) in S3.
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As constructively as possible: This is awful.
You mean USA won't misuse this data?
I belong to an ancestor worshiping culture(தமிழ்|Tamizh), Crows have very high reverence here as they're believed to be carrying our ancestors soul.

So each day many people here feed the crows first with rice before breakfast and on new moon day many undergo fasting, Make special food and give it to the crows first.

Obviously crows , Extraordinarily intelligent as they are keep perfect timings for their food and seems to know the lunar phases; No wonder we revere them.
Except we're talking about Twitter, which is designed to do exactly that, and Elon Musk, who should know by now that any thread he replies to will go viral. In this case, "satire" is bad because is spreads the thing being satirized, yes.
I don't think this is a complicated moral issue, and it takes some really sloppy thinking to see any ambiguity here.

Defrauding individual people out of their savings is bad, even if the victims live in an expensive country that's home to some very wealthy citizens (like the US), and the criminals live in a country that's home to some very poor citizens (like India). How could the existence of poverty in India make it moral for college educated Indian scammers who live lavishly on the stolen savings of Americans [0] (youtube has plenty of scammer channels that show scammers are mostly college educated Indians who never, ever give the money to the poor and malnourished)?

[0] https://youtu.be/rfX8ZlBK0Uo?t=635
I've been playing with chatGPT lately and now when I see certain styles of writing it has me paranoid that dead internet theory is true.
> the time when I spent 6 hours on a bridge trying to get into Canada because they could not imagine a person carrying a Dutch passport had a legitimate interest in crossing the border into Canada.

The US doesn’t operate Canadian border control?