skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds like a privacy nightmare come true. What else will they use the palm scan for?

Here is how you unenroll if you are as concerned as I was.
https://one.amazon.com/data-deletion-request/verification
Yes, and it scares the shit out of me.

Now. Facebook, the company that nobody trusts to do this sort of thing, is going to have to really work hard to demonstrate that they are to be trusted with this data. Apple, and to a lesser extent google, don't.

That cool startup could get away with lots of things, so long as people like the product.

Fortunately for us, AR glasses are limited by power consumption, this means that they can't really do always on realtime streaming of data to the backend for mining. Sure you could have always on mm accurate location, but you can't have video recording at the same time. If you want facial recognition, you'll have to stop the music playing.

Now, what would help is a decent set of privacy laws, ie:

Any cameras smaller than x, must only allow recording of data from persons that expressly allow it, unless in the public domain. People attempting to re-create personally identifiable data from such sensors will be liable to 5 years in jail and or an unlimited fine. (insert carveouts for legitimate research and persons working towards providing evidence for court cases)

This isnt perfect, but its a lot better than what we have now.
SICP gets challenging in the very first chapter. You should aim to do about 1/3rd of the exercises, knowing that you can come back and do more later. The first chapter will certainly improve your ability to reason about recursive code. If you lose motivation later in the book (like I did), you will still have gained something.
I mean, sure, but we’re not even close to there so I’m not sure why it’s relevant right now.
You could have had a safe space in your high school cafeteria, or anywhere you wanted, to play MTG or whatever other nerdy game.
A person is responsible for creating their own safe space - one cannot control other people, but one can control themselves and their reactions to others and what they say. We were all intrinsically blessed with the gift of free will as humans, which allows us to decide how certain things, like the words of another, will affect us. We weren't intrinsically blessed with safe spaces.
These are called "Sponsored Articles" and they're very common in industry-specific publications. For general business, Forbes[1] pivoted this direction a few years ago, and this is the entire raison d'etre of CIO Magazine & cio.com. It's like charging people to create LinkedIn/blog posts with the benefit being distribution to eyeballs.

[1] https://wikiprofessionalsinc.com/blog/how-much-does-it-cost-...
I use https://alternativeto.org to find tools, might be useful.
You knowing this, by the tone of your writing, what do YOU do about it? What computer are you working on right now? Are you sure every component on it is legit? I take it you're using some for of Linux because they're not "corrupt" (well, depending on what distro as even that is a big debate).

Or do you live and operate like RMS?
But you might buy things the government doesn’t want you to have. Real meat? Nope. Religious texts? Nope.
There are plenty of reasons but none of them include existential threat.
My understanding is that in the U.S a patient always has the right to refuse treatment. The only power a Doctor might have is to deny a treatment, but that seems reasonable from a positive/negative rights perspective. But I get it, you and the other poster are trying to seed doubt about vaccines.
AVIF is even more limited in resolution than that, just 8.9 megapixels in baseline profile or 35 megapixels in the advanced profile.

If you have image-heavy workflows and care about storage and/or bandwidth then JPEG-XL pairs great with AVIF: JPEG-XL is great for originals and detail views due to its great performance at high quality settings and high resolution support, meanwhile AVIF excels at thumbnails where resolution doesn't matter and you need good performance at low quality settings.
I get where you're coming from, but I am going to push back a bit.

Most of the folks getting fired are low level scut workers that are trying to get by and maybe even thrive (most wont), sort of like most of us.

The folks that truly deserve the hate for the direction financial services has gone in are the c-suite execs and their board of directors, with a little going to regulators that are bought and paid for.
I used to work with a physics postdoc who would sometime leave a sign on an equipment setup that read, "Do not touch. There are hidden dangers."

The lab was full of smart people who were used to looking at things and making their own well-reasoned conclusions about whether it was OK to change something. This was a warning not to be too hasty about doing that!
It's not your fault, but it's your problem
I know that it's inaccurate to project back modern conceptions of sexuality, but it's a useful lens; being a queer woman, and knowing queer men, Michelangelo sounds queer. It's hard to put my finger on anything specific, but there's definitely a difference between the way straight women describe men's bodies and the way queer men do, and vice versa. Michelangelo's description of the male form sounds like a gay guy.

Why did Michelangelo prefer male models? Because he thought they were hot. (I'm far from an expert in art history, and from a quick google this seems to be a common theory)
From a quick google search, the number is roughly 660300. Divide 100 by that, you get .00015. A fraction of a fraction. 301 died to Covid in 2021. Hell, according to [0], the deaths to gunfire were only 61. 58 died to traffic related causes. Nearly five times as many cops died to Covid than gunshots!

Another question would be, of those 61 deaths to gun violence, how many were because somebody was further instigated into a shootout BECAUSE of the confrontations with police? What about friendly fire?

If police are quick to resort to violence, why should the people not be?

[0] - https://nleomf.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2021-EOY-Fatal...
This isn't compulsory, it's just personally beneficial. There are plenty of beneficial contexts you need to opt into, and include some cost or compromise.
US attitude towards national IDs is amusing, lol
That sort of thing can drag on for years. Why would Valve be eager to get into such a fight, even if they feel certain they would eventually prevail? Valve is a business, not a charity or a public utility. (I think a lot of Steam-fanboy gamers are often confused on this point!)
I use the following aliases in my ~/.zshrc file:

alias workgit="git config user.name 'full name' && git config user.email 'karan@org.tld'"
alias persgit="git config user.name 'full name' && git config user.email 'karan@my.email'"

I prefer this because there are some overlapping directories in my filesystem and don't want to automatically use another git identity just based on file paths. Works well enough for my usecase.
The thing is, the big money isn't in being a highly skilled theoretical computer scientist who is a technical expert. The big money is in being someone who is able to execute an idea that he came up based on his knowledge in another area of expertise that is completely orthogonal to his technical skills.
>The obesity epidemic is because people eat too much. Calories are stupid cheap.

Not really... It's kinda like saying "My cars engine blows up when I put nitromethane in the gas tank", well, we aren't designed to run on nitromethane. And yea, you could probably run your car on that fuel if you highly restricted the injectors to drastically reduce the incoming fuel.

If you just eat sugar every day it seems pretty likely in 40 years you'd get ass cancer and die. The human body requires fiber for intestinal health. Fiber is something that has been removed in mass in our diets and turned back into animal feed. Fiber also gives you a feeling of fullness and helps prevent over consumption.
It is a start, true, but it's already game over: if I can execute code on your box, then the keys are the least of the treasures I've uncovered.

I can initiate connections, keylog, request or hide confirmations, steal all your other data, piggyback on your authorized SSH connections, etc.
SICP is an amazing book that will make you a better programmer, but might not help you with the task of writing better professional Python programs. If you aspire to understand computing systems from first-principles, there's no better resource that SICP. I've read it multiple times and I learn something new each time.

Do the exercises too!
Clicked to "See how it works" and received a page not found message:

https://docs.permit.io/frontend-only-authz/overview
I like the Notion and Confluence UIs.

Are there tools for importing from Evernote?

Does this have mobile apps?

And I assume, if I want to back it up somewhere, I can set up a peer that would sync from my devices?

A UI specific for journals is a huge selling point for me. That's like 80% of my use of Evernotes.
In the end the choice is simple: follow local laws or drop features or devices.

The calculation is going to be different in each country, but there is no hypocrisy here.

The Chinese government messing with Chinese servers affect the Chinese market, which makes a lot of money so there is a strong incentive to remain in it. The UK backdooring FaceTime compromises it for the rest of the world and would actually put Apple in jeopardy in other jurisdictions with stronger privacy and data protection laws, for a comparatively minor market. It’d be more significant if the issue was with the EU or the US (both scenarios can realistically happen in the next few years, unfortunately). All they are saying is that they will comply if the regulations are put in place. Also, the British government is known for making noises along these lines before quietly dropping the whole project when it turns out that it’s actually not that simple. Different countries will lead to different risk assessments.

So yeah, there is no inconsistency, it’s just a matter of how you stay on the clear side of the law.

> It's easy to criticize a government when you know there will be no retaliation. To judge a company's true stance on such issues see how they behave when there's a prospect of real financial loss.

A company is not sentient, it does not have a stance. Its policies have no value except when they are decided and enforced by people. It’s dangerous to talk of corporations in terms of ideology, because these things can change and often cash trumps good intentions. In the end all that matters is how much the company and our interests align. The best way to have a company behave over the long term is if it makes sense for it to do so from a business point of view.
> Not that we have the technology to move a dense space object that's "173 miles at its widest point" to a useful place.

Would that really be out of reach for what we can currently do? Naively I would think that strapping a few boosters to a rock to nudge it in a direction closer to Earth, and then decelerate it to keep it in a stable orbit, seems like something within our capabilities. It might take a lot of time and resources to accomplish, but I've heard crazier ideas from Elon before. Any reason why it wouldn't work?

That said, are there nearer and smaller objects we could mine first? Any ideas why NASA decided to focus on precisely this one?
TypeChat
They said they would pull two services and not all their products. I know you didn't say "all products", but was just clarifying.
Our Chosen Chains: Smartphones, handguns, and the destructive use of freedom
Gold is crazy useful. Platinum is one element I could see having expanded uses if it were suddenly much more abundant too. Lots of use cases for things that are hard to deteriorate.
It’s not really about liberal versus conservative. Their livelihood depends on the federal government maintaining a certain consistent laxity in financial regulation; unfortunately, it seems like consistent strictness in regulation will be necessary to make real progress on climate change.

This theory of mine explains their post-2016 depression, I think. Everyone knew he would make chaotic policies and wild card political appointments. I’m sure he was horrid for their bottom line.

But yeah, I could be wrong. Never really got in with that crowd for some reason. If GS’ charitable arm has given some reasonable fraction of their pool to green charities or something, I’ll change my mind.
An interesting narative, but there are alternative perspectives to consider as well. It's not necessarily a matter of whether or not the UK needs Apple to break their encryption. In fact, they may not need to do so at all. Companies like certain Israel-based firms specialize in selling a myriad of cyber tools, often at quite reasonable prices, that can potentially bypass the need for direct encryption breaking.

It often feels like these public back-and-forths could be theatrical performances, designed to shape public perception more than anything else. State-level actors generally operate with a much wider set of tools and resources at their disposal than what is commonly understood. The fact that the UK is a member of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance is also noteworthy here. This alliance allows for expansive information and resource sharing. The reach and depth of these resources can often surpass the need for individual corporate cooperation.

It's essential to look beyond surface narratives and remember the complexity of global surveillance practices and cyber strategies. Yes, a company's commitment to privacy is admirable and crucial, but it's equally important to stay aware of the many other methods that state actors have at their disposal for obtaining information.

Edit: Fixed typo
> There is no "constitutional court" to strike it down.

The Supreme Court exists for this very purpose, although it is subject to Parliamentary Sovereignty[0].

> No "president" to "not sign it".

Bills do not become law until given Royal Assent by the King. The King may refuse to give Royal Assent to any bill, although this has not been done since 1708.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_Ki...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_assent#United_Kingdom
If this probe confirms what this asteroid is made of, and it's as rare as some articles say we should be putting a colony on this rock before Mars. All the stories talk up the gold but that is a lot of iron that does not require launch costs (or greatly reduced costs). It may not be profitable in the short term, but who ever controls this resource may have a leg up in solar system colonization in the coming centuries.
And in even more fairness, privacy was not the reason Threads didn’t launch in the EU. It is in violation of the digital markers act, not GDPR. The leveraging of market power in one platform to boost another platform is what is at fault, and seeing the meteoric rise of Threads on the back of Instagram’s popularity the stratagem worked.
the West Cannot Cure Russia’s Nuclear Fever
my 3060 running LLaMA-2 13B entirely in VRAM begs to differ
To nitpick, unless I'm missing something, a 6-sided die rolled 5 times should only give you 7776 (6^5) different sequences.
If you go back to the early 1900s, the cladding was installed on a diagonal, which helped greatly in preventing the building from racking. Now we rely on sheet rock and plywood to provide that protection in earthquakes and wind storms.

If you ever see a house stripped down to the sticks for a rebuild, you will hopefully notice a few braces added. Not to keep the walls from falling down, but to keep them square and true until the walls are rebuilt.
It’s their truth. Don’t deny it.
Here's another notion open source alternative: https://affine.pro/
The tricky part is: that's also often a good way to get a misunderstanding.

Above you say "tried to overturn an election" - I'm not sure who it is you are referring to here, but that charge was laid at the feet of thousands of January 6th protesters by thousands of journalists and armchair experts, few of whom even ever considered if that was the actual intent of the people.

People often don't wonder what is true, because they are not able to even try.
I could see more water being useful in earth. Probably a way to fend off climate change in there too.
Then you'd think STP wouldn't offer support for JXL. But it does, both to the site itself and in the release notes.
I would read it as “a loop that authors behaviors”.
So when can businesses start utilizing this to replace ACH? I run a b2b company and right now ACH is our most popular payment option, but the settlement time is a pain.
Windows 3.0 MIDI
Children need to be exposed to language. It doesn't need to be a spoken language. Deaf people can do very well.
Testing the Compiler for a New-Born Programming Language
> If I send an SMS message to a group of people, they all see a message from me. They don't know who else got it. And if they reply, they reply only to me. Is your experience different?

Does MMS not exist in your country?
Freelancers don't use reference letters.
Wait, arent policemen entitled to safe space to be protected from microaggressions with trigger warning?
on one hand it’s good that we have so many note taking apps.

it could also signal about a huge gap in the platform that’s not being addressed

is it sync, ux , storage , collaboration

the fact that we are pivoting note taking an productivity trends every couple years is interesting

it could also just be another trend like micro services , nosql, orm , oop– something people do when they need to procrastinate getting work done
Insurance company drops customer saying a 'drone' took photos of clutter in yard
You can, although this is definitely "hard mode" when writing Modelfiles.

Easier is to override SYSTEM which allows will customize the system prompt.

SYSTEM "You are an expert in writing python."

If you do want modify the template, you can start by looking at the "base images" https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama/blob/main/library/modelf...

For example with Llama 2 as a base model, you can do this, but YMWV:

FROM llama2
TEMPLATE """
{{- if .First }}


A conversation between three friends


{{- end }}

Friend 1: hello
Friend 2: hey
Friend 3: {{ .Prompt }}
"""

edit: we're looking at how to make it easier so you don't need {{ .First }} to provide the system prompt on first message
Hence why I said "in IT"? Did you misread my comment?

Obviously in a chemical plant this would be futile in a lot of scenarios. And so much more complex proactive measures are the norm.
I'm not suggesting that at all. Putting on a badge enhances assault legal protections. Assault on a peace officer is an upgraded charge from assault on a civilian.

Being a cop enhances your chances of being in a volatile situation. But you also have more leeway in how you address that violence, and have the backing of legislative branches (via legal enhancements such as assault on a peace officer) and the judiciary (via qualified immunity, among other things).
except for encryption benefit, what difference these two has?
> The important datum here is that Nintendo has legal arguments why Dolphin is illegal software and that's presumably why Valve decided to drop Dolphin.

If Nintendo had sound legal arguments, they would have already won a lawsuit, ergo it is reasonable to assume that they're just being Nintendo (i.e. loudly screaming that emulation is illegal regardless of the actual law).
These devices rolled out at a local store, and the self-checkouts aggressively push the option. I was deeply creeped out by it, given that one's palm is just as personal as one's fingerprint and there's a credible risk of the data being sold/stolen.
Although a big selling point for Anytype is that it is local-first.

My main gripe with Evernote now, is that in its effort to be a collaborative app, there is a lot of network latency for edits on my mobile device. By comparison, NotesNook is local-first and super fast.
Porting my libGDX games to Godot
Because patches to military software could be "delayed". What operating system does military hardware run on?
Apple working on a ChatGPT-like AI tool
I’m fairly sure that “wallball” played in most elementary schools around the US is a different game than what is being referred to here. Growing up in New England, what we called wallball involved throwing a tennis ball against a wall and attempting to catch it before someone else, while the NYC handball/wallball is closer to racquetball, but played outside against a (usually) freestanding concrete wall with palms used instead of racquets.
A saying that's stayed with me recently is:

> You can only change the past. The future is unchangeable.

Which is an interesting reversal of the usual perspective, I think. You can change how you perceive the past. You can learn new things about the past. You can change your stories about it. You can even assist others in doing that.

But the future? That is always out of reach, and already encompasses all your attempts to change it.
The worst is probably sharing a fairly uncommon name with someone notorious who is plausibly you at first glance.

I had a classmate in pre-Web days who lived in NYC and shared a name with someone who was widely hated in many NYC circles (don't remember the details). Anyway, my classmate got literal death threats by phone.
How we built the fastest MTA out there, and made it open source
This isn’t about targeted attacks, though. This is about a blanket bill to monitor everyone’s communications.

The tools you mention still generally require either physical access to the device, or are in some way targeted. You’ll likely never be able to stop these, but a blanket communication encryption ban both serves an entirely different purpose and can much more easily be stopped.
Any one of these Cameroonian sand miners could be a model for a statue of Hercules for instance https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6602363/Cameroons-m... working a tough job with not a ton of food can get you pretty far.
wishatzu - shirt (from white shirt)

oranju jusu - orange juice
I think this is an important lesson for folks struggling with anxiety about what will happen with climate change as well. It is already awful for lots of people and will continue to be, increasingly so to some degree and up to some point, but like it did during Covid and the Cold War and the world wars and the flu pandemic, in aggregate, life will also go on.

But I think it's also important to remember that that's only the case in aggregate. For many many individual people, life did not go on during all these events (and all the other tragedies that are constantly happening), they lost their own lives, or their parents, or their children, or their friends.

I personally find it really hard to hold both of these truths in my head at once.
For other, less brain-wormed people, being trans is not considered a mental illness. Maybe it was in the past, similarly to how being gay used to be considered a mental illness; but it definitely isn't today. Gender dysphoria, is a mental health condition, like depression, but it is treatable through transition.
It's easy for me to forget how different my circumstances are from most other people. I'm far more likely to be in a place where I have no WiFi than a place where I have no cell service. And I don't personally know anyone outside the US, so I don't send international messages. I guess I've never paid enough attention to the fidelity of pictures I'm sent or am sending over SMS to notice a quality difference.
Ah, following the footsteps of .png (which is pronounced ping, according to the standard)
Wrong. The human knowledge is subjective, but we believe (for good reasons!) that there exists an objective past, which is true for everyone.
You are indeed correct, should have dug a little deeper (or maybe not doubt the OSD's definition in the first place). Thank you for the clarification :)
I know some guys who get millions a year to play basketball, but all the blue collar workers I know work way too hard for something like $50-60K/year.