skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure it's 100% clear what they're being used for or what the plans for them are. What I know is that when I walk into my local ASDA I now appear on a screen with green box around my face like this: https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/business/asda-denies-usin...

As you can see they're denying that this is used for customer identification, but who knows. It seems extremely suspicious to me that they'd go so far as to implement AI to identify individual faces, but then do nothing with it.

What I do know is that there is a company called X5 in Russia which has similar self checkout cameras and they do use this for identification. And recently ASDA and other Supermarkets have partnered with Yoti (a UK digital identity company) to use their checkout cameras for age verification,
https://www.yoti.com/blog/yoti-digital-age-verification-tria...

Imo it's clear where this is heading regardless of what it's being used for exactly today. And it's possible they might already be using these cameras to identify previous problematic customers, but I might just be paranoid. I don't think anyone really knows what individual supermarkets are doing with them today and no one really seems to care either.
The last sentence of the article makes me wonder if this is more Google making a data grab, or more Google trying to get out in front of government requirements (see, we can self regulate, no need for additional regulations).

> "Google turned on SafeSearch as its default for under-18 users in August 2021, having been pressured by Congress to better protect children across its services, including search and YouTube."
So it's someone crying racism every time they are disciplined. A position that can kill tons of people with one wrong move should not be able to do this.
For me its not the language its the tools. Writing code is getting easier but to deploy and monitor microservices on a cloud requires dozens(!?) of little tools, scripts, config files all different.
rational? stock prices are speculative.

i'm glad that layoffs pump got wiped out, at least for now.
It reminds me of how they do it on Mastodon.
The former is also claiming that many territories it doesn’t hold are actually theirs and countries around the former are asking the latter to come help them defend in case of former’s attack.
I used Godot 2 a few years back to make a demo of an (interactive, non-videogame) system when interning for a government contractor.

They loved the demo, but management felt uneasy about moving forward with an open-source engine with no support guarantees.

So they decided to go with a proprietary commercial game engine with a license compatible with our work.

All I know now is that proprietary engine is dead now and Godot isn't.
For what it's worth, Google should be taking a page out of Netflix's playbook in pivoting their search business: not by improving/adding LLM features to existing search algorithm and results, but instead fork into a new site and starting from scratch. Netflix had spun out their DVD mail-in business to focus on streaming but had maintained ownership of both.

This would allow them to innovate quickly on the new tech without worrying about the baggage and backend migrations required for the first approach. Otherwise it could slow things to a crawl and risk of being leapfrogged by Microsoft. We saw a similar scenario play out for YouTube Shorts - it took 2-3 years of beta testing to avoid disrupting the core YouTube content but that allowed TikTok to firmly entrench itself.
Love the Steam Deck but I wish we had been able to get an Nvidia GPU in there. For desktop it does not matter much but Nvidia mobile GPU's are killing it compared to AMD (as far as I know).

Then again I totally get that AMD may have not gone with that setup (since they want to sell their GPU's) but I feel like we would have a much more power efficient Steam Deck with that setup.

Endgame with all of this I think is a device with ARM that can (hopefully eventually) run full ARM on Linux and Windows on ARM and whatnot and uses an Nvidia GPU
(Reposts are fine after a year so but there was a major thread already this year, so the OP counts as a dupe.)

Related:

Politics and the English Language (1946) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34277254 - Jan 2023 (41 comments)

Politics and the English Language (1946) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27067007 - May 2021 (20 comments)

Politics and the English Language (George Orwell, 1946) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24828499 - Oct 2020 (1 comment)

George Orwell on Writing and the 4 Questions Great Writers Must Ask Themselves - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21712057 - Dec 2019 (1 comment)

George Orwell – Politics and the English Language (1946) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13538496 - Feb 2017 (21 comments)

George Orwell: Politics and the English Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12327324 - Aug 2016 (1 comment)

George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” (1946) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12271030 - Aug 2016 (150 comments)

George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” (1946) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10452900 - Oct 2015 (2 comments)

George Orwell: Politics and the English Language (1946) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6643231 - Oct 2013 (62 comments)

“Politics and the English Language,” By George Orwell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6277405 - Aug 2013 (2 comments)

Politics and the English Language [1945] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3752825 - March 2012 (13 comments)

George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language" 1946 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2079477 - Jan 2011 (1 comment)

George Orwell - Politics and the English Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=997940 - Dec 2009 (14 comments)

Orwell: Politics and the English Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=636287 - June 2009 (14 comments)

Orwell Essay: Politics And The English Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=272211 - Aug 2008 (11 comments)

Politics and the English Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=115519 - Feb 2008 (5 comments)
I haven't followed the Bundy affair closely and it does seem Clive Bundy himself ultimately got off, but I'm mostly talking about all the other guys who were on the overpass that day pointing rifles at federal agents. From what I've read and heard, they were all IDed and arrested afterwards. Wikipedia says that besides Clive, 18 others were indicted for federal felonies allegedly perpetrated that day.
XAML is static, and XUL had verbose and awkward syntax & commands. I think QtQuick is also static. QML is perhaps a closer example (but not XML), but many Qt-related tools are proprietary or have dodgy licenses.
> It does not run PC games but it does run a fairly standard OS ( I believe a flavor of android )

No, it's a totally custom OS. Custom kernel, custom user space. They run the BSD network stack off on the side, but so did Windows up until Vista.
> What advantage would I have as a user of a "digital pound", compared to a regular bank account

Two largest groups of users will be:

1. People who don’t have access to pound bank accounts (folks who live abroad).

2. People who effectively give all this control and info away already by not using cash ever.

Note that we are in an economic battle/war right now with regards to crypto/digital currency in developing countries. The digital RMB, digital pound, digital USD, and perhaps others will be an efficient way for the currency distributors to influence/control foreign populations.

It wouldn’t surprise me if the west wins most of these battles simply by offering colonial digital currency with which folks can conduct transactions.
Ha I worked for a startup that said this was one of their guiding principles. What it really meant was we will pretend to understand and will save it for later when we need to lay people off. Was also big on radical candor but that really meant radical candor flowed from above but not so welcome when it went back the other direction.
Stay tuned for vulnerabilities in 3 2 1
It's the fear of silence
That gives us away.
Cause when we're alone
We have to hear
What our aching hearts try to say.
-- Randy Stonehill
Yes and it was incredibly difficult to displace the monopoly of a vendor that had incentives to make their product, ultimately, unattractive in every regard.

Imagine now the network effects and a browser that actually keeps up to date, they'll just have won, period.
Whack-a-mole. The SEO-bots will be after Bing and ChatGPT soon enough.
They absolutely _can_ lend out more than they take in. They tend not to because their owners are risk adverse and depositors get precedence in receivership. But you can find banks with 6 or 7 to 1 LTD (I’d not want to be invested in one).

You bother with deposits for a few reasons a) banks get a lot of power assuming they’ll play a public good in the form of managing deposits and b) they can earn more using the deposits than they have to pay out to depositors.
Enough to dedicate an 60-90mins of my day to scalping one or two trades and then go about my day as usual. I have a consistent strategy I backtested and follow. I don't see a trade that meets my criteria, then I close my broker. Most people that day trade don't do that and that's why they lose money.

I've been trading for a while and don't suggest to others to trade futures[0]. It's essentially highly leveraged stock, but less risk than options.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/widow-maker.asp
Its integration with other HTML widgets is shaky.
> Which is not actually legal.

Perhaps so, but the legality of an action is immaterial if it is left unprosecuted.
The accounts are already electronic and can be frozen at the government's will, and the government can already set new spending rules which apply to all bank accounts whenever it wants. Commercial banks have the same purely theoretical capabilities to issue electronic accounts with time limits or spending restrictions on the money as the central bank, but the central bank has a lot less incentive to do so
Yeah, unfortunately not every company allows that plugin. And I wish Google Docs would adopt the editing style of Obsidian: when in focus, the formula is editing mode. Out of focus, the formula is rendered.
To respond I need to separate mental illness into three categories.

The first category contains illnesses like schizophrenia, with schizophrenia you can induce symptoms of the illness in healthy people by giving them medicine used to treat parkinsons. We can point to specific structures and chemical reactions in the brain as a cause for the illness, it may not be perfectly understood but we have a good understanding of what is going on.

The second contains things like personality disorders. It's not clear these are actually related to physical defects, at least in the same way the first category is. For example people who meet diagnostic criteria for antisocial personality disorder often report no symptoms and are successful in day to day life, some even thrive. Borderline personality types are often distraught over the state of interpersonal reletionships, that is the primary source of their suffering, however they behave in ways that destroy those reletionships. These behaviors aren't accidental, they involve sophisticated thinking, borderlines spin complex webs of lies to justify and hide these behaviors.

The third are things that are normal human suffering. Most people feel anxiety for a big date or a job interview. Most people feel sad when they lose a loved one. Negative emotions are a part of life. It's hard to draw a line on what is normal but a nonzero number of people are medicated for having normal human emotions.

It may not be helpful for the second and third category to be enabled in the way they have been.

For the second group, as the root of their strife is generally interpersonal, and only changing day to day behavior, over a lengthy period of time will have any effect in alevating the true symptoms of the illness. We can pretend the problem "isn't their fault" but essentially all their issues can be tied directly to their own behavior, it may not be their fault but it's certainly their problem.

For the third it isn't clear that they need to be treated at all, if you are too sad to go to work because your son died a month ago, nothing is wrong with you. Perhaps people are sad in society in general because the society in general sucks, medicating them in mass lowers the collective motivation to fix the society, what's the end game there?
At least you have plenty of options to conserve battery. capping framerate at 30 or 40 fps, FSR, configurable TDP limits, underclocking the GPU.
Languages are not tools. Languages are materials. If you buy a house you are quite likely interested in what materials were used to build it. There are different features you'd expect from a wooden house vs concrete house.
we need to publish documents in a new format. pdf is ridiculously restrictive and makes training the language models a nightmare.
The Bank of an England does as it requires reports from each of the banks in the Sterling Framework.

Anti money laundering regulations allow the authorities to gather a full picture if they need to.

Including any accountants or financial or legal professionals you interact with - all of whom are required by law to report any activity they consider suspicious.
If you want an add to wrap, you should use a wrapped_add, useful for angle math or whatever. If you want it to saturate, use a saturating_add, and if you want to check for overflow, use a checked_add. If I were to write a rust coding standard it would prohibit + in favor of explicitly using those functions.
If you look at ATC employee responses, you're missing the context of the FAA: https://old.reddit.com/r/ATC/comments/10u0zvl/disaster_avert...

They're notoriously awful for not firing people who repeatedly put lives at risk.

Additionally, assuming you're American, would you apply this same logic to police officers? ATC is similar in that lives are at stake.
The defusing of the Cuban missile crisis involved delicate diplomacy
I've always considered this video the canonical example of intentionally misleading censorship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AXPnH0C9UA
Length of the solution correlates with difficulty just not perfectly. It's easy to come up with artificial boards with high move count that are easy (e.g. Hanoi towers or long winded corridors)

With three pieces difficulty gets much harder past 16 moves optimal.

It was a long process but in the end I wrote program to generate all different board shapes, for each of those shapes I generated some basic starting position (all pieces next to each other) and then generated all positions reachable from starting position.

Then I tried different heuristics as to which level is the most interesting and ended up with just taking the one with the longest solution.

It generated approximately 100k levels and I started playing them randomly and marking those I liked to final game.
And a lot of us are the most able to pay for these things we use for free, but don't.
Social media isn't totally global, though -- I would be interested to see this youth mental health data correlated with smartphone uptake in a given country.
Yeah... For those who haven't seen it:

At one point they were unable to demo because there was no phone to demo on (~9:35).
The Canadian government didn't just freeze bank accounts, they froze bitcoin addresses that the protesters used to receive donations from supporters. There is no reason for me to think that a CBDC wouldn't be used the same way.
>It's something that Apple fans always told us it's impossible to build ...

Yes, but we all know that's a 320B dollar (so far) lie.
Just skimmed your sources.

> https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/glyphosate-the-new-bogeyman...

"Glyphosate is one of the least toxic herbicides used. It inhibits the enzyme 5-enolpyruvylshikimic acid-3-phosphate synthase which interferes with the shikimic pathway in plants, resulting in the accumulation of shikimic acid in plant tissues and ultimately plant death. The enzyme and pathway do not exist in animals, which is why toxicity is so low."

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikimate_pathway

"The shikimate pathway (shikimic acid pathway) is a seven-step metabolic pathway used by bacteria, archaea, fungi, algae, some protozoans, and plants for the biosynthesis of folates and aromatic amino acids ..."

Even if there is no biaccumulation of glyphosphate in animals (maybe), can we be sure that there are no negative effects on digestive systems of humans (and wild animals)? What about water and soil biomes?

> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_propaganda

Is is really wise to base food production on (overuse of) poisons? Especially when reasonable alternatives exists?

The idea that current industrial agriculture practices are the only viable method of farming is just another form of propaganda.
This may be the intent of the rules/contract. But real world stories and experience show that unions tend to make bad employees untouchable, to the detriment of their fellow union members. And I say this as someone who generally supports unionization (but not necessarily the union management beast)
Tech Volunteers Rush to Save Turkey’s Earthquake Survivors
I had the french canadian version of that 'eurk'.
The a16z podcast has the whole talk if you want to listen to it...
Assuming that these armed people actually broke the law, that’s the better move then. Otherwise there would be a huge outbreak of violence. But that’s not really comparable to lawful protests.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34708693.
If a different director put on the same play adapted for an all female cast it would be “inspiring”.

I find all of this gender nonsense childish and exhausting. I just don’t care how you want to present yourself or what kind of person you want to have a relationship with. If we’ve gotten to the point where a play has to be canceled because it’s not got any women in it, I think it’s time to declare victory and go home. If it’s not time for that, focus on more important unfairness, for the love of god.
This... sounds like something I would be interested in, but I cannot for the life of me understand what this does.

Is this decentralized file sharing?
Maybe, but you can at least see the context, where it came from, all that. In my house we have a habit of asking our Google Home "Hey, Google, can rabbits eat..." and then you can see where the info came from and make a pretty good decision on if this random vegetable you have will kill your pet. If AI chat stuff takes that over, I'm out.
Then the value is not in the created world, but in the curation.
At least the people are able to vote for those who write the rules for the government. If people want to ensure a warrant is required, then they can push for it by voting for candidates that will enshrine that requirement into law and put into a place audits that ensure compliance.

It's a lot more difficult to get the same results from a private entity who has a financial incentive to skirt laws.
Looking forward to the headlines of Apple taunting the Glasgow staff by offering benefits to other stores but not them, with the defense that the new benefits aren't part of the Glasgow agreement.
lots of big, confident-seeming moves from Redmond—it'll be interesting to see what happens.
Actually lots of people asked to pay for the service and wanted them to accept money. Nobody is against subscription if it comes to things like remote resources.
Just thinking of the term "movie goer". I don't hear it much and not sure it really reflects the current crop of modern cinephiles. 25 years ago I had a regular cadence with a couple of friends to grab dinner and see a movie on a Thursday. It was usually an offbeat movie night in the review theatres in Toronto. First we picked the movie (you scanned the entertainment section of a NEWSPAPER!) and then where to eat. The effort of organizing ourselves and getting out created a commitment to the whole scene. We would debate what we saw, make comparisons and recommendations. We also traded hard to get movies from our respective video stores.

Better or worse, I don't care, but it was a lot different. I could see people caring about the Oscars more in the past because there was a commitment beyond the couch. You couldn't normally see an Oscar nominated movie unless you got to a theatre. I can see the Oscars becoming a footnote pretty soon.

I've been listening to The Video Archives podcast and really enjoy the analysis and movie lore. It will be interesting to see how this present generation of movies gets analyzed and the stories they generate.
Try out CSS Nesting today
Many hours after the quake hit, he came out of wherever he was, poured out all his hatred, threats, and then went right back in. He has the complete authority over everything in the country yet no accountability in anything ever. And his stares; effing evil!
But how much of that is because they were ARM vs being the first desktop-class CPUs on a 5nm process?
Really impressed that they're supporting dotnet six and are in active testing of their support of dotnet seven. IIRC, Unity is currently supporting dotnet three.
Many games with those invasive rootkit DRMs simply don't work.

Some publishers actually did remove the DRM just for the Deck version proving that DRM maybe isn't all that necessary when there's a will and manufacturer that doesn't bow down to ridiculous requirements :)
Got it. But the hardware is still tablet hardware so its perfectly hackable into Android mode. Not the same as the Steam Deck at all but I think my point still sort of works
For commenters who can’t be bothered to RTFA, and is somewhat confused because the Keybase name is used for a couple of not terribly related (on the surface) products: keybase.io the popular identity hosting service isn’t going anywhere, what is being shut down is an unpopular file hosting service:

> Although the service was a great showcase for the kinds of cool things that could be built with Keybase, the usage of this product never took off.
> do you think the release of one superhero movie per quarter

This in sense large number of people have only so much time. With Superhero stuff dropping in with high frequency and kids forcing families to watch them, other mass movies do not stand much chance to find audience time.
I'm not saying superhero movies are directly attributable, just that their decline might be a moment for a shakeup. I'm not particularly convinced it will happen because I think streaming and prestige TV have also had a strong effect on what the movie industry does and doesn't do.

In terms of the kind of movies I'm thinking of, looking back through past best picture winners I'm thinking of things like A Beautiful Mind, No Country for Old Men, American Beauty. But also "frat pack" type comedies like Knocked Up, Dodgeball etc etc, they were their own mini industry for a time!

Obviously it's difficult to say which of those would be affected today (effectively asking which movies do we not know about that haven't been made today) but the mid-budget decline is a well documented thing.