skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is wrong and not how the numbers are computed. It's not pairwise.

I thought that actually was the pairwise number for some algorithms in use. They're designed to produce a list of suspects to investigate, and then if you get a dozen hits against your surveillance camera photo from your database of a few thousand local mugshots, that's what you're after.

> NIST did a review in 2019 (published 2020) with datasets containing 12 million people. For searching a given photo against the database, solutions might, say, fail to pull anyone 3% of the time and pull the wrong person 0.5% of the time.

Doing the numbers this way implies that the error rate would be ~2800% higher if the database contained the entire population, even under these conditions.

> It was also under pessimistic conditions: a big fraction of the searches were for individual not enrolled in the dataset.

It was also under optimistic conditions: They had a database of profile photos taken under controlled conditions with an attendant present. This is obviously not available for most people. It's using the most sophisticated algorithms in existence under laboratory conditions rather than describing what happens in practice in most cases.

But even supposing that this is a problem, wouldn't it still be better to ban facial recognition databases than news reporting?
If you have to choose, going to get caffeine or a nap, choose the nap.

Best is to caffeinate then nap.

https://lifehacker.com/naps-vs-coffee-which-is-better-when-y....
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> "Near-death" experiences. Obviously, they didn't actually die when their heart stopped. At least, it should be obvious.

It's obvious framed that way because it's a tautology that removes the possibility of reviving (restore to life), by framing it as impossible.

Life, if truly and fully gone, cannot be restored; therefore any life that appears to have been restored must be an illusion.

E.g. Max in "A Princess Bride:" "He's only mostly dead."
Is that tracking deaths from COVID or deaths with COVID? I have doubts that the numbers are not overstated (by how much, I'm not sure).

Looking at CDC data for excess deaths from Jan through July 2023*, excess deaths have averaged around 1.7%. Deaths reported as being due to COVID are running at 2.7%.

Annualizing and turning the data back to excess deaths, that means of the ~200K people that "COVID is on track to kill", only about 53.4K total excess deaths are expected, projecting from Jan-Jul, or projecting mid-Jan-Jul, excess would be only 31.5K.

Perhaps COVID is saving 146K-169K lives and then killing 200K this year?

* This is to avoid the recent data incompleteness. If I include more recent data records, my argument becomes stronger, not weaker. Setting aside the first two weeks in January, the average drops to 1.0% excess deaths overall.
It's a bug that shouldn't have happened though. One hopes that they have a well verified reference implementation for all their signal processing pipeline (and ideally both a high level and a bit accurate model) and they're testing the output of any optimised implementation against that, with random input data. This is Apple, one of the most "valuable" companies in the world. They should do their job.
This stuff is so hard for me to understand. I put actual time and effort into avoiding those notifications - i try to give new apps a fair shake, but when spam notifications start to show, I slowly ratchet back notification privileges until eventually I just uninstall the app, especially if I’ve disabled notification permissions and it keeps begging me to re enable them.

To me, this sounds like teens - people, really, because plenty of people ‘somehow’ wind up in this exact situation, where ‘somehow’ there’s just too many notifications on their phone to keep up with, as if it’s some sort of inexorable force of nature that it’s futile to resist. It just comes off as such bullshit to my ears, it’s nothing more than unwillingness to take responsibility for your own choices, and to put effort towards arranging your environment in a way that suits you.

If your phone is doing things you don’t want it to do, your response should never be to just shrug and say “oh well I guess that’s the way things are for me now.”

Given how many times I see that same situation expanded to encompass someone’s entire approach to managing their life in general, I really shouldn’t be surprised - I just cannot understand why taking control of that stuff and working to resist the things you don’t want just does not seem to be a priority for so many people. They just let bad things happen to them. It’s mind boggling.

The fact that teens are struggling with this doesn’t even seem significant to me. This attitude is everywhere regardless of age.
Glass blocks most of UVB and a chunk of UVA, so there isn't currently a good solution for indoor full spectrum light exposure.
Please don't post in the flamewar style (e.g. low-information / high-indignation comments or putdowns). We're trying for something else here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Texas is applying an annual surcharge on EV registrations of $200/year (as a dual EV family in Texas, I can't disagree with the logic)
I kinda find it creepy tracking people’s flights. Besides, some jet owners charter out their planes when not in use, so it’s incorrect to attribute all the miles to them.
Not completely objecting to this idea, but even in ideal scenarios with high-tech hardware and specialized setup, getting useful US image quality can be non-trivial and requires training and expertise. I can conceivably see that these are to some extent technical limitations that can be overcome for some level of mass-adoption. However, I don't see what use cases you have in mind that don't require a doctor for interpretation anyway (in which case having a professional device and the required expertise present in the facility is much simpler and cheaper than putting it in the hands of every patient).

But also, particularly for pets I believe anything with a non-negligible amount of fur or similar (i.e. anything that is not just bare skin) will be fundamentally impossible to achieve good enough acoustic coupling for. Unless you also sell shaving equipment with it. Anything with bone in the way (e.g. a ribcage with gaps smaller than a human one) is also more or less out.

For inanimate objects I really wonder what use cases you have in mind. Acoustic properties (and coupling) are even more of a variable there...
What is so horrible about it? Our devs are happy they can focus on fixing unit tests in pycharm, while others care about where the code is going.
I list my birth year on my socials? Time to take that off, that’s unintentional. :P

But yes, I feel your sentiment is right. Although there has to be some moderation—I wouldn’t expose my children to the excess of social media. Internet addiction has messed enough with my life, the last thing I’d like to do is pass that on.
> pre-elon there were disgusting amounts of pedophiles on twitter, and they basically went ignored for years, apparently the old moderation team like that content

There is absolutely no evidence for this, and this kind of slander is the reason why Yoel Roth received death threats.
I find Facebook groups good for my niche interests. I stopped using Twitter, though.
The creation of DevOps teams instead of SRE / Platform seems pretty common and I think originates from ignorant engineering leaders and poorly defined roles and responsibilities. You want to leverage the expertise of the folks who focus on cloud infrastructure, but you can't move the responsibility of operations away from the application teams without seriously compromising incentives that effect quality, throughput and reliability.
I only install Uber when I want to catch an Uber. Helps with notifications, tracking, and avoids impulse usage.
The one that she takes in particular is a school bus, in a weird kind of way. Seems that it’s run by a private company but it only services kids travelling to and from a couple of schools.

But yes, it’s not like the big yellow ones the rest of us know from The Simpsons.
According to the media hysteria of any given moment, teens are always inundated with one new threat after another, and maybe they sometimes even really are, but they deserve a bit of credit for resilience, and in any case i'd call this one fairly mild in comparison to historical dangers.

Compared to past worries like military conscription (often deadly), mass state propaganda, and the crazy political cultures of decades past, the threat today from phones to teenagers is pretty tame and even gives them easy access to real information and data so much better than the past allowed for hammering down nonsense ideas and dishonest, manipulative claims. These latter two things have always been thrown at kids, today they finally have immediately accessible tools for digging deeper like never in human history.

Also, for when phones really do get tedious with an overload of corporate marketing and promotion garbage (Thanks so many of you high-paid BigTech/AdTech workers later commenting against online BigTech advertising right here on this very site!), you see, all modern devices have these little physical and digital buttons that let you set parameters to their behavior. Unbelievable as it seems, by pressing them in certain ways, it's possible to mute all sorts of notifications and prompts. My phone is right beside me all day, silent and discreet as an English butler unless I actively open it and seek sometimes, all because i set it to shut the fuck up with just a few moments of touch and clicking around. Any teen can usually do the same just as easily.

I know that many on HN will blather on about "disinformation", teen self esteem through social media and so forth as modern phone-related risks. However, much of this too is exaggerated or describes dangers lighter than the youth isolation of the past, which kids before mass digital communication had far fewer avenues for escaping from through access to their own personal interests and circles online.

If one thing truly is a danger to teens in modern phones and digital communications via social media spheres, its not so much too many notifications as it is the normalization of total 24-hour surveillance by faceless entities "serving your interests" and the inevitable data collection that makes young indiscretions now ever more literally unforgettable in the worst sense of the word.
Keep your tires properly inflated. Go easy on the accelerator and brake pedal. You'll be doing much more than the average person.
https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/transactions?s=fee_usd(desc)#
We don't have to eyeball a chart, the highest btc transaction-fees are public record and have (very rarely) ranged into the 10s of thousands of dollars.

More significantly, you seem to have missed his point: he isn't saying that fees are hundreds of dollars, but that a 50 dollar fee is too expensive for any transaction that isn't at least hundreds of dollars.
What? That’s not what taxes are for.
I think he spelt Technofascism wrong.

To whomever "flagged" my post. I am saddened that your mind is not
open enough to seriously consider the implied political question and
that you cower behind anonymous censorship. It seems wretched to
implicitly deem Feudalism "acceptable", beside a title that announces
the "death of capitalism", and yet fail to have the stomach to
entertain for a second that - in an era of rising authoritarianism -
the logical trajectory is indeed a form of technologically applied
fascism? Does the word scare you so much? Consider carefully your
position and what you are being part of.
I think the core reason is their monopoly and having over 20 million developers using their tool, and the hope that they can monetize this in future.

But yes $5.6b is nuts.
// That's why no one goes out of their way to hire unemployed people

I don't know why someone would "go out of their way" to do that, but the numbers take care of it. For example, if I post a job at $XXXK per year, if XXX < FAANG salary, I would expect nobody from FAANG to apply, but I might get some "laid off from FAANG" candidates.
Why is that unlikely? Nobody else is paying moderators. Prigozhin made the Internet Research Agency which we know conducts influence operations, it would be amazing if China didn't have a similar group.
I completely disagree. It's important to teach them to time-box and have the self discipline to try and control these things - but participation in the social structures of peers and society during the formative adult years is crucial to developing the social skills of being an adult. To dismiss them as meaningless is very naive.

Arguing that the social heirarchy is meaningless is utter nonsense because our work structures, family structures, political structures, friend structures, distribution structures, financial systems AND ENTIRE CULTURE is built upon social hierarchies, and while you might argue that the social heirarchy at high school is meaningless once highschool is over, the skills gained in navigating it will persist through the persons entire adulthood.
Disproving the existence of a medium with certain expected properties and behaviours - one of which was that light travelled through it like waves through water.

The reality is that light travels through spacetime and has completely unexpected and non-intuitive properties, one of which is an absolutely constant velocity.

This doesn't mean spacetime isn't a medium of some kind, it means spacetime isn't a medium of any familiar or intuitive kind, and the old waves-on-water metaphor is too simple to explain it.

QFT suggests spacetime is filled with fields of all kinds and particles are excitations of these fields.

But what these "fields" actually are, and what they're made of, and why there are certain kinds of fields and not others, and why they operate with relativistic geometry, is a complete mystery.
Humane, a startup full of ex-iPhone talent, trying to make phones obsolete
Just as info for the young folks, Safari had a Windows version until 2012.
For me, the alternative has been reading more books. I'm happy with the results so far.
I do not get it either honestly. All the acquisitions in the past i simply for the life of me do not understand why they ever allowed such a level of consolidation in big tech.

Why did they allow google to acquire waze for example. Google has not shut them down but technically if they start competing with gmaps google do that at any moment.

Why did they allow facebook to acquire instagram and whatsapp?

How can smaller companies compete against these behemoths if you just allow them to buy up all the competitors or potential competitors? Either they have a very good lobbying team (probably do) or the administration wants this concentration of power somehow.

Geopolitically it could help you keep the technological supremacy the US has enjoyed until now. You allow your companies to grow to giant mega corporations. And every time a startup becomes successful internationally you buy it, take the best pieces and manage it into a small steady decline.
Sure, it could. However, you'd have to have reasonable expectations regarding what you can do with it. Compiling will be slow and swappy, for instance, but it'd certainly work.

USB 2 is more than fine for storage and ethernet. You wouldn't have the fastest nor the most efficient system, but if you're the kind of person who appreciates things outside of the mainstream, it'd make for an interesting server :)
Among those with the means to fulfill it, who would you trust? Google? Microsoft? Apple? Another VC-handcuffed startup?
How do taxes offset CO2? If anything they indirectly contribute to carbon emissions by way of fossil fuel subsidies.
That’s fair enough.
I really don't trust any of the numbers on covid. A vaccine for a dangerous illness that can affect billions of people is a very big payday. There's lots of money to spread around to politicians, corrupt scientists, and corrupt media.

I'd like to see a real scientific debate with adversarial inquiry so we could know if numbers are being fudged and which ones they are.

I trust science, but not greed driven capitalists corporations. Having a measure of distrust for pharmaceutical companies given their historical record is prudent.
Agreed. Even solar + wind - when the buzz started it was all rainbows and butterflies because we found a silver bullet to energy!

There is no such thing as free lunch. If you start absorbing massive amounts of solar, you will have some effect on the environment that we have absolutely no clue about. Same with interfering with wind patterns and ocean currents, which would happen with energy generation at true humanity-scale.

Critical thinking left the room a long time ago.
I had a similar experience, 20 years ago. I was one of the first publishers to be accepted into Google AdSense in my country. I run a forum and had my blog on the same domain.

Initially Google used to send US cheques, in USD. So I had to go to the bank to deposit those in my personal account, which required a branch manager to sign it because 1. Who is Google and 2. Why is someone getting a large-ish cheque from a company overseas (AML laws).

Anyway, at some point I've decided to incorporate a company. Trying to explain to my accountant what my company was doing (online publishing), and trying to explain to the bank this was not a money laundering operation required some effort.

People had no idea that one could make money on the Internet.

Advertising for them had to fit in a TV, billboard, radio or cinema square. Anything else was science fiction.

I then left my 17-year full-time as a mainframe developer (yep) to run my company full-time. You can't imagine the run around I had when I tried to find a home loan for our first home a year later - how do you make money? was always the question. It didn't matter that my answer was "I am the owner/director of a company". They wanted to know what my company was doing and just "online publishing" wasn't enough. Even with tax records and everything.

So I empathise with the OP on how to demonstrate skills and experience while being self-employed.
Thanks for your vote of confidence!
So now it’s the severe lack of competition that allows Apple to support phones for a decade but stops Android manufacturers?
170 flights in a year averaging 200 minutes in air for... kim kardashian? What the heck does she need to fly for so far every other day?
Highgate Cemetary is where Karl Marx is buried, as well as many other famous people. You have to pay to get in, and Hampstead is a pretty rich area high up in London.

What I'm saying is, the people who could have access to the cemetery at that point in the night are probably the rich "rock and roll" teens who lived there (Oasis at one point lived on Steele's Road).
Pretty sure a lot of people worked all day. The difference is they probably slept all night as well.
Big Tech is the modern quarry: our attention is the solid rocks that big tech breaks into small pieces, so it can steal those one by one and sell them to advertisers. In return it gives us useless plastic thinklets.
How does Sundar or Eich compare?
You're so hellbent on proving your point that you don't even read what I write.

> Moral thing is for the child that doesn't have enough money to not go on that trip. It is a valuable lesson that to get something useful from other people you need to do something useful for them first. The difference of what you did and what you took is the money you have.

Child doesn't have enough money?! What are you even talking about?

> I myself was a child who very often had to stay at home when my class went to cinema or to play computer games. I never would even consider to want to have one less sibling in exchange for going to more trips. In fact i would happily give most of what i had as a child in exchange for having one more brother. After all the best memories are not from expensive things, but from reading a book, or playing together with toys made from simple sticks and newspaper.

And what about single children families?

> If your answer to your question is that, if a child can't go to a trip with the rest of the class then that child is better to not exist at all, then your system of beliefs is immoral and abhorrent. And it is a good thing that such a system of beliefs also leads people holding it to not reproduce and by that select such horrible thinking out of population.

I love how all of your message is focused on kid, like parents are just passive observers in all of this.

Keep searching for the boogeyman who wants kid to not exist, and not horrible parents to not procreate.

Either way, none will be able to convince another as it's impossible to provide whole life context to one another. Maybe if we had more extended chat in real life we'd be able to come to some conclusion together, but definitely not on a forum with limited time and limited text.
I think there is room for a DevOps team if they are focused on creating and maintaining the overall DevOps platform. But if they are taking tickets and setting up pipelines for individual applications, they are doing it wrong.

But a team focused on making a streamlined platform with ready to adopt patterns that already account for compliance and security related concerns, they can spread DevOps adoption more effectively and consistently throughout the organization.
> the vast majority of people who have children find it a positive experience.

How do you know this?
I see the same release note but that version is still offering me full-page translations in FF 117.0.1 (Linux Mint's build, unsure if that could affect things).
For a lot of NN-based analog modeling you don’t even need the GPU. I trained a model on the API 550A EQ and SIMD is fast enough for real-time inference.
666 tons of CO2 for Zuckerberg. Coincidence?
True. It took me years to realize that the most difficult thing is actually to systematically derive what to do in which order and concurrence, and that in any decently complex project, systems engineering (an art and science apparently long forgotten) methods are the only way to derive that in a sufficiently reliable way. The result is - no wonder - not just a gantt chart, but an n-dimensional model with multiple levels of detail. The PMI writings just tell you that you e.g. have to create a WBS, but they leave you all alone with how to derive something like this systematically. Accordingly, the many PM tools seem helplessly naive to me, where some computer scientists have simply built something that corresponds to the outward appearance of what they assume under PM.

I worked for many years on large, complex government projects and eventually started building prototypes for tools that would be useful (e.g. https://github.com/rochus-keller/FlowLine2 or https://github.com/rochus-keller/WorkTree); but you would have to invest a lot more development resources, and whether people would understand the tools and their usefulness (so there would be a market) is questionable.
Nobody said management is inherently rational.
That's what is happening...the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (the state police, essentially) is investigating. In my state, either a separate municipal police force or the state police will investigate a department too small to have its own IAB unit.
One could just as easily argue that technofeudalism is in fact the endgame of capitalism, not the death of capitalism. In old-school feudalism, wealth came from the land, owning the land and the productive capacity of the land. Labor has no value and only serves to extract wealth for the benefit of the owning class. Capitalism abstracts this. Wealth comes from owning 'assets.' The position of labor remains the same. 'Consumers' are just the middle piece, necessary to churn the inputs and outputs. In a highly technological society, 'assets' can be very abstract and the extraction of value from the labor and consumer classes very efficient.