skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly enough, this is the one most people who ask me why I opt out of face rec at airports don't seem to "get". They probe for more info, as if there needs to be some extraordinary reason for opting out to be justified over simply going along with it.

"They already have your photo". Yes, I know. I gave it to them in exchange for documents that grant international travel privileges. The rules/laws also say I can opt out of face rec and are posted on that big ass sign. I exercised my rights as a citizen to apply for documents within the rules allowed. Now I am excising my rights to the part that says I can opt out of having my pic taken every time I want to get on a plane.

I would like more clarity on the storage of the bio info derived from the photos. My guess is they keep updating profiles every time they take the pic, but discard the actual photo. This is not why I opt out, but like the salami slicing up-thread, I would guess they are waiting for everyone to get use to the pic at TSA before removing the opt-out clause and letting everyone know they are storing it to update profiles - for your safety. I am just waiting for that big leak, and then massive bio id fraud that will be harder to clean up than it is now. I know someone that has been a victim of id fraud (complete nightmare), I can't even imagine how one would clean that up once bio fraud becomes the norm.
There's a massive difference between fingerprints and a model of your face.

They're not going to trace my fingerprints to what activity I was up to before flying an airport.

You know normal American stuff.. buying porn, accepting political literature, spending too much time in a public bathroom, and then going to the gun store.
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Show HN: I wrote an indie hacker manifesto for all who choose this path
I published this manifesto as a value system for indie hackers. More and more people are choosing this path, especially with the development of AI. At the same time, it is a very challenging path, It is a value system that one can rely on if you choose the path of indie hacking.

Would be glad to receive your feedback
Upgrading JioCinema Carousel Design
> You also can't use it if you're the government of India.

Why is that?
I would be extremely surprised if that's the case. There are "open-source" multimodal LLMs can extract text from images as a proof that the idea works.

Probably the model is hallucinating and adding "Hungarian language is not installed for Tesseract" to the response.
I hope you're not compiling C to sh for performance reasons.
AI should not be open source because it can be used in military applications. It doesn't make sense to give away a technology others might use against you.
The feed certainly is, but I suspect most activity left on Facebook is happening in group pages. Groups are the only thing I still log in for as some of them, particularly the local ones, have no other way of taking part. They are also commonly membership by request and actively moderated. If I had the time (and energy) I might put some effort into advocating to moving to something else, but it will be an uphill battle.
why not bypass the bike completely? Thin flexible solar panel - disguised as some hologram-like corporate sponsor logo or even under the shirt with the shirt somewhat transparent or the panel weaved into the shirt - on the back of the cyclist as a source of energy which is fed as electric impulses straight into the cyclist muscles, pacemaker on steroids so to say. This can also be done in the other sports - like long distance runners for example. Another use of the energy, instead of into the muscles, is to generate some wave like vibrations of the shirt and the pants, like dolphin skin does, to decrease the air friction.
Did you just try to browbeat me for not breaking down the deflation over a time period... then compare 10 years of BTC movement to some arbitrary period of USD movement?

Then top it off by claiming someone would want a currency that deflates 20,000%?
>. "the person is a mentally stable and healthy individual", then not.

Some 4 years ago I went through an autism scare with my daughter and booked a 2 day course for parents of children with autism about ABA therapy, held by one of the first parents who cured autism in his child in my country. One of the best courses in my life, and if we could clone that guy and his team, I'm sure ABA therapy would be a lot more efective and the world would be a better place.

Anyway, my daughter was completely neurotypical (the trainers explained that even though she was 1.3 years old and nobody could say for sure at that age, a lot of items in her behavior were neurotypical and how those items would have differed in a child with autism).

There's a huge deal we don't know yet (why 40-50% of children are completely unresponsive to ABA), and ABA is a huge umbrela for a vast array of techniques, but I'm convinced the approach is solid, and the way to go forward.

The issue is the really experienced people who know the high level stuff in ABA go to the "supervisor"/therapy planner role and they work with therapists of various levels in individual therapies.

I was taken aback when they showed us the cognitive/emotional skill sets/inventory for children at various ages. There are HUNDREDS of items they work on and evaluate on.

For each one of those skills there are a few known therapies. Working on each one takes time. Some skills build on other skills. It's probably impossible that a single therapist has all the right personal skills and personal chemistry with a child to work on all the skills. And it's usually a race against time.
So you have a supervisor, a team of 2-3 therapists that work with a child for 8 hours a day. It's very expensive when done right. It's impossible that mistakes are not made, and I'm talking if you get the best supervisors money can buy, the best therapists money can buy, which is usually not the case.

The information about the inventory of cognitive/emotional skills ABA has to train in order to "cure" autism made me realize just how complex human beings are, and I'm surprised given this information that the incidence of mental issues is so LOW in the general population, given how many things can go wrong with the human psyche when developing.

But the approach seemed very solid, scientific and professional, though misunderstood by many and I'm sure mistakes are impossible to avoid.

I've seen other "psychologists" of dubious lineages and while I've only seen a few, the difference was just staggering -- the ABA guys looked like professionals knowing their stuff, knowing their limitations, while the various mono-therapists looked like complete amateurs and full of shit.

So I do have faith and hope that in the future, as ABA is refined, things will get better, but the bad labels ABA gets are hurting progress a lot more than they help.
there are plenty of places where they chop off a couple of zeros off their currency every few years.
Of course it's a matter of $$$. Sports doesn't actually make anything. It's entertainment that's paid for via ads. But that's also why hitting the sponsors wouldn't work, because without them the (professional) sport might not survive.
Building an email verifier for fun (and profit)
CrowdStrike Outage: The Unofficial Retrospective
Nobody knows, and that is the Foundation's obvious intention. [ETA:] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41054995 [/ETA]

Bryan Lunduke's report on it: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5899324/gnome-ousts-elected-... . And his video (basically just him reading his own article): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrcFwjhW9uY .

Hilariously, someone else -- and not just anyone else, but the Gnome package maintainer of the Manjaro Linux distribution -- mentioned Lunduke (apparently by linking to the article mentioned above) on the Gnome discussion about this, and was immediately banned! Lunduke's takes on that: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5908516/gnome-bans-manjaro-c... , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ64k2BXAjs .

And yes, a member of the "GNOME Team" confirmed that posting any link to Lunduke getting an insta-ban is official policy there: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/updates-to-the-gnome-foundatio...

Why anyone would trust anything that bunch of loonies does is beyond me.
Yeah calm down chief. You sound 13 and cool.
There’s nothing more boring than someone who explains everything according to their passion-hobby or work.

- Programmer: my life is a program

- Marathoner: you know, life is like a great long race...
Samy Kamkar's pwnat: The most advanced NAT hole-punching tool
No, the Twitter poster is still wrong.
Computer security is clearly not the core competency of hospitals, nor should it need to be. I'd argue, putting Internet connected systems running MS Windows in the critical path was already setting them up for failure.
Honestly, regulators should probably step in already when it comes to anti competitive practices on social media sites. It's clear they're doing everything in their power to kill off the open web and stop people using their platforms for anything other than self posts, and a few future legal guidelines saying platforms with X number of users or more can't limit posts based on corporate interests would do a lot to fix it.

Of course, LinkedIn's other issue is that the only content I've seen do well there is meaningless fluff about 'the hustle' and 'how millionaires/large companies have the right mindset to succeed'. If you're a Tony Robbins/TedX kind of person, then LinkedIn's probably a great place. If you actually want to share your knowledge about a subject you're qualified in/have experience in, then you're better off on Twitter/Substack/Hacker News/niche specific forums and Discord servers.
It's called Twitter.
And what side-effects do you think that making it "effectively impossible to buy drugs" will have on society? I'm genuinely interested in your opinion on this.
See, that's the way the system has been crafted. Letting theives/incompetents get away with their mistakes/crimes is tightly coupled to people getting money for retirement.

Who's gonna rock that boat?

People are now literally invested in in a system that tolerates, if not ofttimes rewards, bad behavior from companies all the way from small things right up to "deliberately poisoning/cooking the whole ecosystem to make a buck"
The only thing I can say is that it does not happen in windows 10.

Do you have any more information on how can it be diagnosed?

The motherboard it does have the latest bios update.
> Finally, who is buying them competitors? I.e. Hyundai in US sells same number of EVs per year that Tesla sells per week

That might be more compelling if the US were the only market for electric cars; in fact it is the smallest and least mature of the big three, after China and Europe. And the trend in the US market definitely seems to be moving more towards the European market; a bunch of manufacturers with 10-20% share. This is what you'd _expect_ as the market matures; the idea that one manufacturer would be able to maintain a functional monopoly on something like this was always a little fanciful.
security researcher???

its not a hash muppet

perl -MMIME::Base64 -le 'print unpack "H", decode_base64 "0YFf04Y3rGRo6NEn2915frQ=="'
d1815fd38637ac6468e8d127dbdd797eb4

hash identification
d1815fd38637ac6468e8d127dbdd797eb4

you can do the rest
>15 minutes before eating is a must or else you’ll be on a wild chase.

Also going for a walk after meal smooths the BG curve wonderfully.
I completely agree with the author. T1Ds must take care of themselves.

Doctors and nurses suffer from Dunning-Kruger massively. They will quite often be confidently incorrect. I’ve seen this living in large cities in the US and Europe. Or you can read about how medics often make potentially murderous decisions on diabetes treatment — there are plenty of stories. Humility is the cure. I say this as someone who went to medschool myself and I have a lot of respect for medics.

The most infuriating thing is when they say that diabetics just die in surgeries, but forget to mention that often the reason is medical negligence. Anyone who has had their T1D loved ones go through general anesthesia surgery knows some of the things doctors tend to suggest, like going off the pump for a number of hours with no insulin replacement. Or demanding significant diet changes just before the anesthesia with no insulin adjustment.

One doctor once told a patient I know their blood glucose is okay in the morning, so they don’t need to check before the general anesthesia surgery in the evening — the blood glucose only needs to be checked twice a day. I’m sure the care diagram in that hospital says that, but it’s with the assumption that the patient is conscious and actively managing blood glucose on their own.

Another way I agree with the author is about closed loops. Many T1Ds, I believe, cannot have adequate control with the “one basal pattern and set carb ratio boluses” approach. Much less with multiple daily injections. Their daily insulin needs just fluctuate too much for an appointment with the doctor or nurse once or twice a year for dose adjustment. If the patient has any sort of hormonal deregulation day-to-day (which many of us do), it will just not work. My closed-loop total daily dose of insulin fluctuates between 90 and 220 units with very good control. Any sort of “roughly one total daily dose every day” approach will fail spectacularly in this case. Such a patient cannot achieve good control with traditional treatment, in my opinion. Though they sure are shamed a lot by doctors who, once again, Dunning-Kruger their way into thinking that treatment absolutely should work.

All in all, closed-loop is leaving many medical teams dumbfounded, some are even afraid of it (and refuse funding or tell parents their treatment is good without closed loops), but it’s a life changer. And a patient with this disease always needs to take it into their own hands because the 30 minutes T1D of training in medschool that I got is absolutely nothing compared to years of first-hand experience patients like myself have. That’s why I don’t blame doctors for being misinformed, but I do blame them quite a bit for not realizing the shortcomings of an education that, once again, generally touches on the subject very little.
Note that there are actually a BUNCH of different formulations that do the same thing (mostly) -- the class of GLP1 Receptor Agonists:

- Semaglutide
- Tirzepatide
- Liraglutide
- Exenatide
- Danuglipron

Those are just some.

And like others noted, it's not an absolute miracle (there are side effects, it's hard to get right now, somewhat contentious) but it's definitely miraculous in effects so far.
Why would they need a palm scan at Whole Foods?
Nerds are good at pretending they understand everything by way of reductionist metaphors.
You have no idea how wired this country is. HN is a nerd cluster with zero social awareness. Half this site would die within 30 days of an insurgency kicking off hardcore.
their privacy policy page connects to 3 trackers
That is a nonsensical comparison. Remote software updates and administration are common professional services that consumers of software cannot execute themselves.

The correct comparison would be handing your house keys to a licensed insect exterminator and the guy accidentally poisoning your family. You of course are not liable if a professional supplying you with a service messes up.
Unfortunately no, I don't think I have the knowledge to try a hackintosh? Also not very sure if the system would be compatible with it. It is something to try eventually though.

what do you think it will happen?
That's fair. That's the ad-hoc data engineering I was talking about.

I interpreted the question to be asking about "warehousing" moreso than just "laying out data", but I think I might have read too far into it.
I would love to see HS2 reinstated, but I agree that it is not likely at this time. There are likely higher priority projects that should go ahead first (some form of Northern Powerhouse, for example). At a minimum, though, I do hope that they protect the route for HS2 north of Birmingham even if construction is indefinitely deferred. It is going to be needed eventually.
This is one of the things I like about F1. Everybody plays the game and everybody knows everybody plays the game, even the fans (one with brains anyway). There's this sort of "Oooh clever one dear adversary, let me copy that/make a complaint" energy because everyone recognizes that the goal isn't to race within the rules, it's to find what the rules don't cover and race there.
Thanks! I've fixed my post. I wonder why HN doesn't list this in their FAQ. I looked here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
Show HN: Llama 3.1 405B code interpreter/advanced data analysis
I find this result in researching many things. For instance in nuclear armageddon, the southern hemisphere is relatively ok, temperature and fallout wise. Wondering if I should move there.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1bvy6sz/by_popular...
"It’s not insane if your desired outcome is to stir up hatred against immigrants"

That sort-of violates the principle that you don't attribute to malice what can be explained by plain incompetence. People who really dislike immigrants won't vote Tory anyway, Reform UK is there to catch their vote (and sink the Tories in the process of doing so).

Most of the immigration influx is legal anyway, not boat travellers.
Not sure if this is exactly what you mean but Buttondown is Markdown-first: https://buttondown.email/features/markdown
Very nice, seem to work pretty well!

Just

maintainFormat: true

did not seem to have any effect in my testing.
All the images on the site are from the same dashboard. Doesn't inspire much confidence.
I think you're right. People describe Java as being colourless.
> Sure.

Cool. I'm glad you agree. Given that we're talking about a particular entirely-avoidable footgun, there's nothing more to be said.

> TIOBE

Oh boy, there are assloads of very valid critcism of TIOBE's popcon. You should take a look at their methodology some time:

> Since there are many questions about the way the TIOBE index is assembled, a special page is devoted to its definition. Basically the calculation comes down to counting hits for the search query +"<language> programming"

See [0] for more embarrassing details.

> And whiteboards don't give two fucks about whitespace.

Given that you're late-career, you may be unaware that very many interviews are done remotely these days. So, no, whiteboards absolutely do give many fucks about whitespace these days.

[0] <https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programminglanguages_defin...>
You're typically not going to kill yourself with weed or shrooms, or a lot of other well researched psychedelics. It may well get uncomfortable, but not dangerous.
Wondering if this is a thing in Europe too? I did not know you could opt-out of this in the US but every time I go through one of those machines I always wonder where that data is stored, how long it is kept around and why.
I just tried opening the link, and got a 500 error. Too many connections from hn?
It compiles to python?
Oh no! Not the ToS that hides inappropriately behind AML/KYC to stop you withdrawing cash, or arbitrarily lets a platform ban your account and seize funds with little recourse to any legal authority (as they're generally operating out of weird territories like Gibraltar/Isle of Man or Malta to circumvent other rules).

As for unethical, things like PioSolver, MonkerSolver, and PokerSnowie are basically de facto standard for play at high level online - and are absolutely used at breaktimes in live play. Then you have people multi-monitoring, or running GTOWizard in a VM, as a given.

You're basically claiming that all bots in action are Pluribus style, which is just nonsense. I bring up SuperSystem since its the earliest reference I can think of by a Pro to the concept of range advantage.

The modern poker sites basically just teach game theory optimal... which ends up with people running GTOWizard as a given. The best bots I've seen that avoid detection are basically doing some variant of the strategies outlined in modern guides like RIOs From the Ground Up.
I wonder if the emergence of type 2 diabetes has had a negative effect. Many practitioners call it something like "fake diabetes" as it has very little in common with type 1. It's not uncommon to meet people who are "diabetic" today, but most of them are type 2, they don't need insulin and you probably won't have to save their life.
That you, Steve Ballmer? (He used to get very upset when Microsoft employees used iPhones, apparently).

But no, _employees_ of a company do not have the same fiduciary duties towards a company that its officers do.
Thanks for the link!

My comment was based on cloning master yesterday and trying to build redbean but hitting what looks like https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/issues/940

Indeed it lioks like the commit you mentioned should have fixed the issue with the pointer having too many bits for the weird kernel used on android and some raspis. Fingers crossed that release works.

edit:

Testing that release on Termux 118, stock Android 14 on a moto g73 5G (XT2237-2):

~/cosmopolitan $ uname -a
Linux localhost 5.10.205-android12-9-00027-g4d6c07fc6342-ab11525972 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Mar 4 18:49:33 UTC 2024 aarch64 Android
~/cosmopolitan $ /data/data/com.termux/files/home/cosmopolitan/build/bootstrap/cocmd
ape error: /data/data/com.termux/files/home/cosmopolitan/build/bootstrap/cocmd: prog mmap failed w/ errno 12
Yes it is absurd to rewrite your entire software stack when 99% of scenarios have the same requirements: CPU, I/O, drivers. You know how many bugs you have with one stack? Multiply by 2x for each of your custom OSes. I’ve seen the fragmentation in edge devices and no thanks, I don’t want more “secure” “proprietary” software.
I went to a car rental company the other day. I looked across the counter.

“Is that a dot-matrix printer?” I asked.

“Yep. This system here—” and she tapped the monitor “— runs DOS.”

“Any downtime on Friday?”

“Nope. Solid as a rock.”

And I wonder do we really need all this complexity to run our every day stuff? I mean, yeah if you're running Photoshop or something, but basically moving numbers and demographics through a system, what the heck do you really need an ad-riddled privacy-invading behemoth like Microsoft Windows for?
> Probably by article 1.3.010: "The bicycle shall be propelled solely, through a chainset, by the legs (inferior muscular chain) moving in a circular movement, without electric or other assistance."

Well that just says you need to build your regenerative braking system into the chainset. Use of stored energy is obviously allowed or else you couldn't make use of gravity when on a hill.

> Even if not, there's a rule along the lines of "any technical innovation must be pre-approved,"

What innovation? Mechanical energy storage is ancient technology.
Can a customer buy multiple of these and have them automatically synchronize? For the users directory at the very least, and any other resources that need to be shared.

If not, then it's going to constrain businesses who want to open remote offices abroad. For example, having this appliance in a UK office while the US satellite office struggles to use it at latency, isn't a good experience.

Also you haven't mentioned backups. When the appliance eventually fails - which it will - how will a customer restore their data onto a replacement? And if they want to port their data out, how can they easily do this?
From the looks of it, not much.
Remarkable how rules accounting rules like this can derail a project.

Almost as though it was done on purpose in order to derail the project . . .