skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This honestly feels like you didn't even read the article and are responding to what you think it says. If I'm wrong I'd be happy to have you clarify why Molly is wrong, instead of just generally asserting that people misunderstand.

> It doesn't store biometric data.

She addresses this: they do in fact store the biometric scans if you opt in, and they strongly encourage you to opt in because if you don't you'll have to periodically reverify as they tweak the algorithm.

> It doesn't store any information that is useful to anyone for any purpose. The only thing it can do is tell if your iris has been scanned before. That's it. It can't reproduce what your iris looks like and can't sell any useful data about it to anyone.

As Molly points out, you're making a huge assumption that this number that uniquely identifies your iris isn't useful information to sell to someone (or for someone to hack).

> Yes, people will sell accounts. This is fine because it still solves the problem of people being able to make infinite accounts online at present. It still creates a barrier of entry for spam where there currently is often very little or none. Inauthentic behavior online will continue but not at the rampant pace it currently has.

This is where the project really needs to figure out what it's actually trying to do. If the goal is simply to reduce inauthentic behavior on the ETH chain, then it's possible that you are right that sale of accounts doesn't matter. But if the goal is to provide some sort of UBI system, the fact that it has no way to verify who is using the account after its initial creation is a huge huge problem that will lead to massive amounts of corruption and harm if they succeed at implementing the kind of worldwide UBI they're talking about. Just look at what happens to humanitarian aid that goes into territory controlled by warlords: that's what we're talking about.

Again, Molly addresses this, so it feels like you didn't read her article.
This is a false dichotomy. You can have reasonably priced food you can walk to.
Take a look at the DWave computers, they use the same processes for silicon and superconductors in one big wafer.

The chemistry and processes can be made to be compatible.

So, in theory you could assemble a device with multiple SQUIDs on it, sampling the A field[1] in 3 dimensions, instead of the B field (the Curl of the A field) that is usually measured, just for one instance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_vector_potential
> Freedom to travel is a right in USA.

That doesn't imply (let alone exply) a right to board a plane. This is the same logic used by self-proclaimed "sovereign citizens" to get out of everything from speeding tickets to California's agricultural checkpoints, and said logic falls apart for the exact same reason: you can exercise your freedom to travel on foot.

> If you closely observe the TSA process, they check the ID with the name on boarding pass.

Well yeah, obviously. The whole point of the checkpoint is to establish "you are who you say you are" and "you're authorized to be here", not just one or the other.

> they claim full body imaging can be required yet they do not have that authority in practice. They can't even detain people.

They clearly do and can, as plenty of people have learned the hard way. That, or you can walk (or drive, or bus, or train, or boat, or whatever) to your destination.

Like, I'm with you that TSA is security theater and largely pointless, but you don't have to buy into sovereign-citizen-style misinterpretations of the law in order to arrive at that conclusion.
long ago this 'category' was referred to as 'grandma gifts' by folks near me on the net : a computer that no one in their right mind would buy themselves, but seemingly everyone had received one from a distance grandma/aunt/uncle who themselves were clueless about computers so they hop in the car and just buy whatever is cheapest on the Circuit City (or equivalent) floor; generally they were Presarios/Inspirons/Pavillions/etc.

If you were real lucky you'd get a Sony VAIO; but fashion be damned it had the same crap specs as the rest of the grandma gifts.
Thanks, may I ask for one of three?
+1000 and they should ban TSA precheck as well. Combine that with mandating that Congress travel commercial and wait in line with the proletariat and you’ll have a solution faster than you can say “equal treatment”.
They are working on this. All the major clouds have initiatives to do short term requests/reservations. It’s just not a feature that has ever been of much use pre-GenAI. How often do you need to request 1000 CPU nodes for 48 hours in a single zone?

Secondly, there is a fundamental question of resource sharing here. Even with this project by Evan and AI Grant (the second such cluster created by AI Grant btw), the question will arise — if one team has enough money to provision the entire cluster forever, why not do it? What are the exact parameters of fair use? In networking, we have algorithms around bandwidth sharing (TCP Fairness, etc.) that encode sharing mechanisms but they don’t work for these kinds of chunky workloads either.

But over the next few months, AWS and others are working to release queueing services that let you temporarily provision a chunk of compute, probably with upfront payment, and at a high expense (perhaps above the on demand rate).
> The whole "API" concept has always seemed like a power-grab since it was introduced

What do you mean? Do you mean a public, free API offered by these services?
There's gc.freeze for that now https://docs.python.org/3/library/gc.html#gc.freeze

If you load something big before forking workers, there's no CoW issue with that big structure anymore.
I don't pay people for that. Job description called for at least 3 years' experience, which I should've added to my post.
How to make money from superconductor (if it is true)
So do TISAX auditors actually go into systems and check stuff or do they talk to people and look at documents?
There's also different types of sweat glands. The product of apocrine glands has more odor when broken down by bacteria than eccrine gland sweat.
Which one? Butter? The moves California ABC made during Covid were interesting.
The only guarantee is them not paying it back
I don’t understand how people don’t like War and Peace

Easy, try mandatory-reading it in the summer when you’re around 15. I told my teacher that I will not do it and I don’t care what comes with it.
Occam’s Razor: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor

Also: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/officials-believe-fresn...

An investigation found the tenant was Prestige BioTech, a company registered in Nevada and unlicensed for business in California. City officials spoke with Xiuquin Yao, who was identified as the company president, through emails included in the court documents.

Yao told officials that Prestige BioTech moved assets belonging to a defunct company, Universal Meditech Inc., to the Reedley warehouse from Fresno after UMI went under. Prestige Biotech was a creditor to UMI and identified as its successor, according to court documents.

Officials were unable to get any California-based address for either company except for the previous Fresno location from which UMI had been evicted.

"The other addresses provided for identified authorized agents were either empty offices or addresses in China that could not be verified," court documents said.
Does it need any special care when washing? Can I throw it with my regular clothes in the washer and use regular detergent?
Not OP, but I have socks, underwear, and a shirt. The shirt I feel a bit meh about, because the durability hasn't been great and it was expensive (but very comfortable). Socks and underwear have been great for skiing, cycling and just days when I walk a lot. I can wear my Darn Tough socks to Disneyland in the summer and they have no smell after a day, whereas cotton socks would be very unpleasant. The ski socks are nice since as long as they're dry they're usually good to go the next day. I have gotten my merino stuff to smell eventually, but it's taken multiple days of heavy usage. And in the meantime, it's a much more comfortable to wear material.
It's not a surprise that fundamental health improves outcomes against novel infections. Public health should be encouraging significant evidence-based habits routinely.
Actually, the TPU Research Cloud program is still going strong! We've expanded the compute pool significantly to include Cloud TPU v4 Pod slices, and larger projects still use hundreds of chips at a time. (TRC capacity has not been reclaimed for internal use.)

Check out this list of recent TRC-supported publications: https://sites.research.google/trc/publications/

Demand for Cloud TPUs is definitely intense, so if you're using preemptible capacity, you're probably seeing more frequent interruptions, but reserved capacity is also available. Hope you email the TRC support team to say hello!
Who is "we" in this? You're making things up, casing baseless assumptions, and I said "anti-gun rhetoric," not pro -- so if you're going to lie, at least don't make it something instantly disprovable.

Your rhetoric is by your own admission rhetoric, and is demonstrably anti-gun, therefore "anti-gun rhetoric" is an accurate observation to make -- why are you getting triggered about that?

I didn't say the NRA wasn't a steaming pile of trash. I didn't say there weren't issues with big gun manufacturers getting into bed with politicians, just as happens with corporations across the entire capitalist hellscale -- that's the nature of it.

Instead, you just made baseless assumptions (which you're patently wrong about) and lashed out with your spiel.

Don't assume. Quit trolling. Try harder next time.
> But at some time between 50k and 20k years ago, all humans outside of Africa seemed to have died: Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Sapiens, all of them.

Hasn’t this been debunked by the discovery of Neanderthal and I think Denisovan DNA in contemporary human populations?
I was wrong about the American Rescue Plan
Wow, if an unbiased independent news source as credible as The Register is against it then maybe I should reevaluate!
> don’t think Clear distinguishes between domestic and international flights

Sorry, you’re correct. Clarified. Point is, someone ”who lives and does business completely in the USA” is Clear’s target market.
My most recent trip they were no longer asking for ID, just the boarding pass. They already have everyone’s photos.
Tories.

(including Blair and Brown)
Gemini is a joke. The main proponents like Drew Devault chuck a tantrum when browsers allow users to optionally show favicons https://github.com/makew0rld/amfora/issues/199
With your anecdote you've mostly described the difference between apocrine and eccrine sweat glands, their locations, and their effect, with the former generally causing the noticeable odour from bacterial enzymes breaking their secretion. Body hair does have a significant effect in those areas, too. Some people also don't experience this, or in a very limited manner.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022202X1...
A Year in Review of 0-days Exploited In-the-Wild in 2022
gojurescript.
JRuby has been pretty actively maintained for about 15 years and had a big release this year.

It’s an impressive project.
Wow. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this looks like a hybrid of RO and distillation.
Hotz followed a guide published by another team’s research and made the exploit into something that could be easily accessed by the public, which the original researchers weren’t too happy about because it brought Sony down on their heads and tightened security up again.

But yes, this one sits squarely in “nobody involved looks real good” territory. AMD puts out shit software in general, and ROCm is exceptionally far behind the standard in this field, and often difficult to set up and broken even in “supported” configurations. And the ROCm team have a habit of doing this closed-door development, splitting the actual work into the AMDGPU-PRO driver while neglecting the open one (even in “supported” configurations), and generally just having a process that is not compatible with delivering high-quality open software.

And Hotz is being a manchild who melts down about a driver he knew was bad and berates the people who are trying to get him rush patches while they do their dayjob getting the ROCm release out (which hopefully fixes a lot of the complaints around lack of windows support, lack of consumer gpu support, and general (near-total) lack of polish and stability.

To their credit AMD finally posted a job listing for like 30 engineers for ROCm. It’s just something they should have done like 4 years ago when ROCm first got rolling. And we are well past the “poor lil amd couldn’t afford that” in 2019 or whatever. If you can’t afford it then don’t start the ROCm initiative and make the promises.

Even 2-3 years ago it was clear that the foundation work was done and that if you ever wanted it to go bigger you’d have to do some hiring. And frankly it’s been just as bad with OpenCL before it - support was never good, the runtime constantly had bugs and paper features, etc.

AMD didn’t care about GPGPU compute until AI turned into a billion-dollar industry overnight. And that’s a 15-year story there.
I bought a bunch of clothes from the techwear brand Outlier and found their synthetic pants are basically indestructible, but the wool shirts get holes in them if you scratch them on anything.

It's always possible I have moths though.
go on a long hike or bike ride in fully synthetic garb—you will absolutely reek by the time you get to your car.

if you’re talking a 1 hour workout, then i agree.

the bummer is that synthetic materials are so comfortable to wear during exercise compared to cotton and so easy to care for compared to merino wool.

i just accept it and smell like my body has been turned inside out after long exertions.
Basic economies of scale disagree,

Neighborhood stores will not have the volume to support a 100-300,000 sqfoot store, with all the selections I get at my local supermarket that services many many neighborhoods
Love it, love that the retargeting is fine as long as you control the new targets. Love it.
The one with the libraries you need.

So... Depends on the task? Every language has good niches, so start by searching pypi, cargo, rubygems or even just github.
Unlikely. At scale, will likely be setup like an RO membrane with 3 lines.
That would do the opposite. The main idea of this feature is that DRM and banking sites could block access when they can't verify the browser is untampered with. So your old browser would just be shown an error page telling you to install the latest chrome to continue.
Hedge funds employ cutting-edge economists who command princely fees, but routinely underperform index funds.

no kidding. that is the objective of a hedge fund. the idea is to diversify and hedge risk, not track an index fund.
This is such a common refrain ("it's security theater"), but I never hear any alternatives that I think would be slightly viable.

To be clear, not really making an argument on TSA vs private security screeners that were in use before 9/11. But I am making the argument that those who like to shout "security theater" - what do you think is a better alternative? Do you honestly think it would ever work to just let flyers board planes with no screening of them or their luggage? When the inevitable jet loads of people are taken down by a terrorist bomb, the populous at large would be scrambling for more security, basically like they were after 9/11.

Basically I'd like to know what your alternative proposal is.
This seems pretty neat. We’ve been getting reports from a lot of people where they seem to be having random DNS failures, and from what we can tell it’s because they’re on an IPv6-only network (seems very common in developing countries with infrastructure that can’t hand out IPv4) and the UDP DNS fails. Hope this helps resolve it for them.
Yeah, cryptography is bad and consumers shouldn't be allowed to prove their browser hasn't been modified or have safety when using biometrics or making payments.
I'm not even talking about intentional Sybil attacks, I'm talking about the very real possibility that people get excluded from this system because the system mistakenly identifies them as having already scanned in.

If the goal of this is really as ambitious as they claim, with every single person on the planet getting UBI through it, their biometric system needs to be strict enough to not conflate two people and flexible enough to match the same iris when scanned a second time for verification. I don't believe the tech is there.
I assume the rabies will get them first
Or literally anything with a coil...
I wonder, for which language would that be?
I read that they’re good nitrogen fixers so I left mine this year (they really should be our provincial flower), dead-heading them before the seed puffs appear. I’m also working on a nettle patch in one corner as they are the preferred egg laying spot for certain butterflies.
Unfortunate that they don't mention the running times for any of the applications they benchmark (e.g., PageRank). Does anyone in the know have some idea how long this takes?
I see people complain about needing subtitles all the time. I don't have the best hearing but I can regularly listen to video media (TV, Movies, Internet Content(think YouTube / Twitch), Streaming) at very low volumes and hear everything fine. I can only attest to anecdotal evidence but it sure seems to me that folks are just getting older and can't hear and think the problem is with the content but not themselves.

I recognize TVs aren't 1:1 on volume scales. When I am at my house, I can listen to the television at 5 - 15. If I have anyone else over it has to go to at least 40. When I go to someone else's house (both older and younger than myself) but am watching the television by myself I'll turn it down to 10 or so, depending on how far away I am. Everyone else gets concerned like I can't hear it. When I am watching the same content on the same screen with the same speakers, they regularly need it back toward 40 at a minimum.

I have to imagine that while audio mixing may not be as clear as it was before it does not rise to the need to increase the volume as much as folks tend to nor the need to use subtitles.

Personally, and maybe this is from watching anime a lot, as soon as there are subtitles, I read the subtitles and the actual content on the video is lost because now there are words on the screen that my brain needs to read rather than consume the actual content. It turns content into poorly written novels.
It's not always shorter, but it definitely is the vast majority of the time.
I politely suggest that zoning is not the proper regulatory framework to score, assess or influence what by body needs.
What you're saying is logical, but the perceptional reality is different. There are large scale AI customers out there who absolutely refuse to use the large public cloud providers for training on the grounds of protecting their data. They want 100% control over it and they want their own segregated data centers.
Because any other option is not sensible:

1. Authors don't understand what tech they use. (I will leave it to your belief - but that would be even worse for Internet)

2. Authors don't understand that something unrealistic is unrealistic.

Idea that you can give companies or corporations tools to check "did user modify his environment" and they would not use it to exclude users is stupid or disingenuous because advocates for this did exactly comment in such way: We want this proposal to do precisely that.

Again Google tries to defend it by saying "we will return invalid 'false' for some of the users/times of Chrome users" [to make sure that website will not do that] which for me is not only bad because it then creates "when google revokes this policy we are in even worse situation" but then leaves the issue how google decides "who" to give back this 'false':

I will reject times immediately not only because this can be easily circumvented by website [check n-times] to detriment of user but it would also contradict official documentation of WEI (same token for same input from user).

And this leads us to another point - if Google wants to return false negatives it would need to either keep information that is supposed to return 'false' - EU will not be very happy with that (also it does contradict this "chrome users"); or more likely it will be implemented in chrome.

Now when we established that implementation in chrome is most probable - we can also establish that:

A) Implement this on profile basis - companies will ask you to reset profile if you are this false negative.

B) Implement on connection basis - companies will ask you to refresh.

C) Implement on device age / os version / type - Google can even make the manufacturers happy with this one.

… as you can see at most this will be nuisance and if by some weird way:

Z) Implement on Super-complicated basis - this will be still possible because…

3. Google plays disingenuous word game with us here by saying - We won't destroy open web

Other Chromium browsers may ignore that Google X% false negative (Google may loose few % of users before it scrapes this policy). And there is 0 need for Google to actually do something when companies will misuse this API.

In simple words the part that should worry you is not that "Google will destroy web by using this API on Chrome and it services", what must worry you is that other companies will do that for Google and Google will wash their hands from this by saying "We wanted good but didn't work". You can see that tone from the Google - We don't want that so we created these "holdouts".

Don't let Google move Overton window, they are proposing thing that any sensible person see as clear cut attack (or stupid idea that can only work this way) on Privacy and Your Right to use Your Device (and for some people Your OS and/or Your Browser) as You want to use. They are at fault here.
Well, the thing is that they’re currently not being taken down by terrorism. So maybe we don’t actually need to do all that much?
> non-attestable browsers will be locked out of attested sites and it will be a numbers game to see if sites want to risk losing these customers/viewers.

Rather than being completely blocked, I think non-attestable browsers will be subject to more CAPTCHAs and other annoyances, similar to what TOR users see today from anti-DDOS services. Perhaps ad-supported services using large amounts of bandwidth will decide not to support non-attested users, since the ad revenue from those isn't enough to pay for the bandwidth.

What I would like to see is a solution for anonymous microtransactions, so web sites have a monetary incentive to serve users who want to use a non-attestable browser (and don't want to see ads).
For me menus are great for discovering related features on my own, search is great for getting to them quickly. I wouldn't want to have only one or the other.
As far as I can tell, there are two reasons for this feature, the legitimate one is that users largely have browser extensions which are malware. They may have even been legitimate when they installed them, but then auto updated to be malware later. This poses a problem for banking sites because desktop browsers can no longer be trusted to be secure so they push you to use the mobile app or at least confirm transactions with the app which is trusted.

The illegitimate reason is they can stop ad blockers and content downloaders / DRM bypassers.
Lots more chart types, or at least chart types that aren't found anywhere else. JSON render, SALT UI markup, regex diagram, a YAML renderer. That said, Mermaid also has some unique diagrams, like the fantastic git renderer. And it runs on JS only. So Mermaid has probably got longer legs, while stuff like PlantUML and Vega/Vega-Lite taking on more edge cases.
Same here. I find it much more legible. I can also finally move beyond the teleprinter and vintage terminal screen legacy of monospaced fonts. I’m a person not a robot :)