skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facial recognition and mass surveillance has been done at stadiums, casinos and all over cities for over 12 years.

I worked at a company in NY that designed and deployed the software that controlled the video feeds for stadium and casinos. We even had our software running when Obama went to a stadium in NY.

Our software certainly recognized faces, objects like backpacks and guns, detected loitering, etc.

Events were triggered for custom event setups and triggers like guns spotted or black listed people.

Fun fact, the original architects and owners of the company were Israeli (still are). My project manager was ex-mosaad and used to be a software developer himself.
Factorio? Stationeers? There’s games and then there’s games.

People seem to like writing off the entire medium, which makes about as much sense to me as neglecting all of fiction. That happens, too.
I am amazed that this statement is unqualified. There is not one ounce of doubt that some strains of language thought are very well suited to translation, while others really are not. On tech forums, so much is assumed to be formal writing for work. That is not the only kind of writing. As much as I believe you, and I do, there are realms of written words that just will not yield to fast-spinning tumblers IMHO. (those with formal linguistic and grammar training maybe jump in here.. )
Typical COBOL has no unit tests, no version control, and no "dev" environments, while handling millions of dollars. Touching this stuff is scary.

So if you are (say) IT director in the bank, and you value your career, you should reject all attempt to modernize, as all failures would be blamed on you. Just say something about COBOL being most reliable and ask for more budget for contractors.
Or by the rise of salmonela infections...
> Oh, sorry, you wanted to copy and paste because you didn't think twice about the security of your clipboard, whether other userland programs are reading your memory? My bad.

What do you do about keyloggers?

> People like you with your mindset are why I have a job and why big breaches of F500's that "care about security" will always keep happening.

And attitudes like this are what sours the relationship of regular users (who are not opposed to security but don’t consider achieving it their main objective) and the security/IT/… team of their company.

Provide users an actionable, practicable alternative to their existing insecure practice, or you haven't solved any problem. Ridiculing or belittling your user base doesn't help either.
I think most frameworks I have worked with have the concept of configurations, more advanced ones have config that can be overriden by environment files. Definitely a solved problem if you want to roll your own.

.env files are the quick and dirty version for simple sites that don't have an admin panel or database.
Just installed, c sharp extension installed fine, looks very promising.

The only issue I've run into so far is signing into my Microsoft Azure and GitHub account since it doesn't seem to be able to load a web browser by default from this VS code instance?
I’m so humbled by your comment, and the one below.

I really knew nothing about “game programming” when I wrote the book, but I did know a few things about graphics programming, and in particular a thing called “WinG” that was a very short-lived extension to Windows that I had used a lot in a product I helped develop.

But most importantly for me, I wanted to write something that inspired a young person of the right inclination to become as fascinated by programming as I was.
Round Rects Are Everywhere!

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_...
Over the years, my team and I built large Javascript files, made up of lots of methods, but only a few would be used in any given app or page.

We wanted a reliable way to refactor these files and split some of the methods out into their own files. And this is how we came up with that library.
Priorities I guess. I would feel pretty stupid paying that money to live in a shoe box, wherever it might be located.
That's because they are niche container host operating systems. Without support for modern hardware like GPUs, it makes no sense to run them on bare metal
According to [1], in a given year, 5000 tons (I'll assume metric ton which is more generous) of helium is produced by alpha decay of radioactive ores in the Earth's crust. At 0.1785 kg/m³ for Helium, this is 0.89 million m³ of helium produced by natural alpha decay each year.

According to [2], in a given year, 160 million m³ of helium is extracted across the planet. This rate of extraction is 180x the replenishment rate.

According to [2], there are at least 12061 million m³ of helium reserves known to exist and have been measured/estimated.

The timeframes for depleting this precious resource are incredibly short. The known 12061 million m³ of helium reserves, making the very generous assumption it can all be economically extracted, will be depleted by 2096.

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41247-020-00072-5

[2] https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2023/mcs2023-helium.pdf
It's funny that Mac people want their computers to sound like an IBM 5150 PC Model F or Model M keyboard.

I use the real thing on my Windows box.
> I simply cannot imagine a Hetzner-style company could not offer dirt cheap consumer storage on the order of 20$/year/TB or even cheaper

Hetzner does offer a storage service for ~$40/TB/year (and less for >1TB)
This is unadulterated comedic genius.
Jummbox being a web app is the most striking diffeence. Plus it doesn;t seem to be "emulating" different chipsets, just general chiptune style.
Interesting, but you should show the example as concrete evidence, rather than hand waving arguments based on loss curves “evidence”.
The lack of detail is troubling, will new prospective shareholders be happy about pricing given the sheer time length.

Was Apple trying to get this in specifically before IPO
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37396155
The trust is misplaced because while the photo might be accurate of what the photographer saw as they clicked the button, nothing says its representative of the overall scene, or that a different picture of the scene could show a very different description.

For an example, consider a side on closeup of a trump campaign speech vs a top down view zoomed out of the whole park.

Photojournalists can choose which pictures to use to make an argument, and people are too trusting that there aren't alternatives that more strongly support a different argument

The photo doesn't have to be untrue to be misleading
Ask HN: How to find current phone numbers?
Even when I know the name and address of someone, it is nearly impossible to find their current phone number (in the USA). People search sites will give up to a dozen numbers for a particular name+address, but usually all of them are discontinued. If people don't maintain LinkedIn/Facebook/Twitter activity, how can you contact them?
Cryptomining is mostly gone.
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Hi moderators, please consider not downvoting me here; I'm resorting to commenting in this newer thread where replies are still enabled in an attempt to reach mrob (whose profile has no contact info).

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Hi mrob,
I just wanted to thank you for your extraordinarily helpful comment about harmonics in music. I've been playing guitar for about 30 years and make regular use of harmonics in my playing (and tuning), but when a nonmusical friend recently asked me to explain why those sounds were so different when lightly touching strings above the 5th, 7th and 12th frets, I had little to offer by way of a coherent explanation. Favorited and bookmarked / added to my PKM. Have a great day and thank you for such a great comment! You're a great example of what makes HN such an awesome community.

PS This is the comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37047142
A smart, insightful interview of Doctorow, with a good interviewer, Michael Nolan. Reasonably optimistic, the framing is on target, dare I say inspiring.

Read it; it is worth your time. That's more useful than dwelling on thoughts such as "the Web is past its prime" and "even if we improve it, Big Tech will exploit it". Repeating the negative generalizations over and over can contribute to a self-fulfilling prophecy.

If so inclined, after you read it, find a way (small or otherwise) to help.
I opened a GitHub issue about it at https://github.com/bintracker/bintracker/issues/19
Or have the SAN make a snapshot of your db before the deploy, no fancy solution-looking-for-a-problem tech needed.

Completely reverting all the state to some point in the past is easy and have been a solved problem for quite a while.

The actual problem is undoing states changes related to the code change, while not losing state changes related to normal system activity.

If I add some new fields to how my web forum records posts, and then find out that it's eating every tenth post and need to revert, it'd be good to not lose and posts made in the meantime.
For people reading this, just remember that people who prefer videos over prose aren't hanging out in a text-only forum like this. There's some self-selection happening here.

You should not automatically assume that most people prefer text over video!
Considering it cost me $750 to rekey all my locks and now one can duplicate keys from just an image, I don't think I would rekey ally locks every time my key is visible in public (which one should consider compromised).
Incorrect.

I trained people for 5 word pass phrases with no BS.

They were free to spice them up if they like. In 6 years I have had zero password reset requests.
I think OPs point was a simple app doesn't need this whole suite of tools, but you pay for them anyway, which makes it a bad cost/value proposition for simple apps.

So yes a more complex situation could benefit from all this extra tooling and complexity but otherwise it is dead weight/cost.
Having Google crawl everything on an Open Web is immensely preferable to the alternative of a closed web, or no web at all. Part of uploading things to the internet is reconciling that everyone can see, copy and distribute the content you provide. It's part of authoring anything digitally, and a poor boogeyman in a world where the Open Web has few demonstrable harms.

What should really scare people is the prospect of a common interface like the internet disappearing and being monetized by private interests. We take the Open Web today for granted, and while I partially feel like Doctorow is too fatalist, I also agree that interoperability is a core part of what makes the web function.
By rule, do you mean something like PW = PBKDF2(TLD || master_password), or something like “mysecurepw!amaz0n”? I see the latter a lot, and it makes me quite nervous – it seems quite pattern/AI-iteratable.
So...

"I'm already an AI but, you know."
Nobody cares about invisible good solutions, because invisible solutions are simple - and developers are to one degree or another, rated on the degree of complexity they can deal with and how smart they can be. It is common here to understand the cleverness behind just doing the dumb thing, but it is not common in many places.
The End of Airbnb in New York
I would guess that they have a later model on web than on API (I also see worse results on API with 0613). Further testing shows that it loses the plot after a few more digits, which wouldn't make sense if they were injecting calculations.
amusingly i was just wrangling with how to do this yesterday, while writing a CLI common lisp file-watching testrunner.

i ended up heading toward something that was more engineered to run a simple repl function call via SWANK, because i'm increasingly settled to having a single, long-running SBCL image rather than starting up individually compiled or interpreted lisp scripts. Feels more lispy somehow -- and definitely better for TDD.
The context is a lyric in the musical Hamilton referring to the Hamilton-Burr duel, which took place in NJ. Apparently dueling was already illegal in NJ.

Lin-Manuel didn’t invent the phrase, and I wonder if the original meaning was more in the spirit of “New Yorkers can get away with violating NJ laws” rather than “New Jersey literally has no laws”.

https://www.revolutionarywarnewjersey.com/new_jersey_revolut...
Can you say more about how commissions for solving problems work?
> In this case, your wife values the story of a natural diamond that was formed through long, natural processes and required the effort of finding, excavating, cutting and so on.

I see this come up a lot, but I doubt very much that this story forms a large part of many people's thinking.

People want the status symbol and they want what they perceive as the ‘real’ thing, not what they rightly or wrongly perceive as an imitation.

As such ‘natural’ diamonds currently have successful marketing around them. I really don’t think the geology figures in many peoples minds. Geologists excepted of course.

Humans are indeed story telling machines, but you know what else they are? Hierarchy-driven apes who love showing off shiny, expensive shit to make themselves appear high status. The emergence of chemically, physically identical synthetic diamonds has triggered this in really very predictable ways - rationalisations of prior behaviour and desperate searching for ways to utilise this new phenomenon to maintain or elevate status.

The story here is a prime example. When both 'prettier' and 'not real' can no longer be defended, a new rationalisation for the large outlay of cash, and new explanation of how this makes the outlayer special, must be found. It doesn't have to be true (please don't try to tell me that all women have some sort of innate appreciation of carbon geology, I'm sorry but I don't believe it) it just has to sound right and allow the teller of the tale to continue to claim the high ground.

Because otherwise we have to face up to questions like "Did I spend all that and not prove I'm better than Bob who spent half as much?" and "Was I just doing this because of peer pressure and societal expectations? What does that say about me?"
ZX Origins 8x8 bitmap fonts
I'm using Keypass with Syncthing which is really great (both on Android and PC), but I need something that can properly auto-fill forms.

Lastpass wasn't great at doing this automatically, but Keypass cannot do this automatically at all.

Any recommendations?
You invest by HOLD. If you trade with exchanges, that's just speculating. Also not your key not your coins. The money will be lost eventually with rug pulls, scams, or hacks anyway. Password being compromised is the least of the worries.

Offline wallet making it slow and difficult to transact is a feature, less chance to be scammed.
You would have to disallow weak passwords. It should be at least as cryptographically hard to crack as (the also fully public) Bitcoin network. Also, turn the bad guys into good ones by offering a reward for any cracked credentials (if the credentials are not used within a particular period of time). Seed the system with fake credentials that can be used by authorities to track down criminals (if used of course). Essentially, build a game with the right incentives.
In regards to 3.2, I'd like to propose 3.2.1, where a smart device manufacturer must clearly label and explain that A. their device requires a connection to a cloud service, and if so, what for and what data is sent/transmitted, and B. what functionality, if any, remains if you refuse.

I have a Winix air purifier that has a sensor and filter lifetime suite that I cannot communicate with because it refuses to connect to my "IoT" SSID that has no access to the outside internet (no, you stupid piece of crap, my WiFi is working fine, now just start sending data damnit).
View transition is not such an impressive thing for a front-end framework to have, most do.

Idk why magic move isn't built-in every front-end framework these days.
> Was this not sort of the clear implication of the fact that most LLMs are currently only being trained with one epoch?

Slight nit: Many public LLMs are trained for at least slightly over one epoch, and usually several epochs on particular subsets of the data (like wikipedia).
yes, yes it can.
Maybe, but there are a lot of unknowns. Does the "memorization on the fly" come with catastrophic forgetting of other information? How does one control for memorizing recent stuff vs. remembering older stuff?
The article is behind paywall so I don't know what's the full story or conclusion. But as a Czech this is not an issue. It's our tradition. And it sounds much better too.
If it has an implementation of reverse mode automatic differentiation, then it might be possible.
Why this new Chinese phone has rattled the US
I can see it now: a developer copying Bitcoin code into his authentication library because "Bitcoin is secure"
No 1, nobody needs another shitty ai chat app in a foreign language
The world will always need software engineers. If it is your passion, you can make it your career and improve the world that way. If law is your passion, you can do much the same in that field. They are both important fields and respectable careers to have.
I think if I had one key as the root to all others (just like LastPass basically), it could be manageable.
The new version V0.5.0 of ChaosMeta, has been officially released! This version includes many new features and enhancements, offering users platform capabilities to support various stages of chaos engineering, along with a user-friendly interface to lower the entry barrier.
In my experience, GPT-4's Chinese-to-English translation is the best I've seen, easily surpassing Deepl and Google Translate. However, its English-to-Chinese translation performs at a level similar to Deepl.
it's horrible,yes.

in a similar vein sending your own children away to abominable, putrid institutions at the advice of pastors for being LGBT+ is something still a thing in some.circles.

it's beyond me how such doctors and pastors did and do get away with that inhuman cruel "advice"
Cool but it doesn't look 21st century at all, it would be entirely at home in 1992. Retro is cool though.
Sort of. If you pay new-hires significantly more than existing employees for the same work, its not going to end well (and it can potentially open the company up to a lawsuit on discrimination grounds). I suppose the caveat is check your local laws.

https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/california_equal_pay_act.htm
> What else are you going to do with them?

They were sold, sometimes as new by unscrupulous vendors. Mining graphics cards flooding the market was a huge problem a few years ago.
Five English words have an entropy of about 55 bits [1] "Spicing them up" probably adds a handful more, but not much.

That's about as much as a 12-character truly random case-insensitive alphanumeric password without special characters (log2(36^12) = 62).

> In 6 years I have had zero password reset requests.

What do you mean by that? This can mean that either your scheme is secure, or that nobody has ever attacked it (or you haven't found out that it did happen).

[1] https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/62597/calculating...
You cannot pay a physician enough for the sacrifices they have made — just to an ugrateful diagnose You.

To any pre-medical students, please seriously consider a better pathway forwards. There are literally SO MANY BETTER METHODS "to help people" and "to make money." If these are two of your primary reasons for joining medicine, please spend the time thinking about how you want a well-lived life.

src: dropped out of medical school, after ER rotation, prior to ACA. Hadn't thought enough about a livable professional experience. I became an electrician.
Where is a significant amount of green hydrogen being made? What is the price? All I’ve seen are technical prototypes with low output and a lot of expense. The only volume production seems to be converted from natural gas.
This is selfishness bordering on psychopathy. Just because you'll be dead doesn't mean you should be complacent about things that will fuck over future generations.
The actual Slime Mold Time Mold analysis is more nuanced than the previous characterization. Yes, you'll lose weight if you run a caloric deficit; the SMTM argument is that something is messing with what they call the "lipostat", which regulates how much your body thinks you should be eating. So when your body is yelling at you that you're starving (even though you aren't), it's very hard not to overeat, because hunger is right there at the bottom of the Maslow pyramid and it takes inordinate willpower to consistently ignore it.

http://achemicalhunger.com/
> even if I'm willing to pay a bit more for something a bit nicer.

I can easily find a brand new Amish-made dining room table in my area - with same-day delivery - for under $2000.
That's effectively what RLHF is; a means for LLMs to self train on their own output exclusively by using a small human curated dataset as guidance as to what a "good" and "bad" output is.
Practically, how would you do it? Memorable passwords unfortunately have really low entropy.
This reads like NSA Public Relations.

Snowden was no whistleblower, NSA did some overcollection but anyway their mission is great and yeah some safeguards had to be improved.

And Keith Alexander is a reliable source.
Listen. I don't know you and you don't know me. But I know and you should know that no one is "goods", damaged or otherwise. You are not a broken toy. You are not and never have been a box of clever tricks arranged wrongly or rightly. You are a person, with talents and dreams and all the other things that you should never forget you have that make you a person.

Labor markets are sometimes shit. Sometimes the skills you have are no longer in fashion. I don't know the answer to your situation. But, from experience, I suggest that if things are tight then the thing to do is find work that pays the bills today but also build skills that will pay off tomorrow. Life is long and it's only an always up elevator for the lucky few.

I don't have specific advice, but I've found that it helps to analyze the business your company is in in the same way you would analyze the code on your screen. What are the inputs and outputs? What makes it all work? Etc. if nothing else, that might help understand why the labor market is shit, and what you personally can do about it.
https://htmx.org/docs/#view-transitions
Huh? View Transitions are an entirely new API supported only by Chrome currently. (And Edge, which is a flavor of Chrome.)
Re ‘most nuget packages’ What’s the limitation here? If it requires the ability to read a file on disk, does it straight up fail or does the file read interface push the action back into a server-side rendering type action?
I agree. Crypto currency private keys are something that is better stored offline instead of online. I'm comfortable storing my online banking password in an online password manager as I know even if these credentials are leaked, there are still anti-fraud department and maybe insurance protecting my money in the bank. But with crypto currency private keys? If they are leaked, those crypto currency would just be gone without any way to do a "stop payment" or something.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36603382
At this point, social media is the wayto get ahold of people. Not having social media in 2023 is like not having a phone number in 1990
There should be a Hong Kong HN meet up
> You would have to disallow weak passwords.

That's unfortunately very hard: Determining what constitutes a weak password is computationally more expensive than actually attacking a database dump of many weak password hashes.

> turn the bad guys into good ones by offering a reward for any cracked credentials

What bad guy would take your reward if it's lower than the value at risk? And if the reward is higher – how would you fund that?

> Seed the system with fake credentials that can be used by authorities to track down criminals

How? This might work for online account takeovers, but not for the problem discussed in the article, i.e. compromised crypto wallets.

Hash cracking doesn't leave a fingerprint.