skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the argument is "they're already doing this, so what's the issue?" then I have to ask: if they're already doing this, then what's the value-add? Face scanning seems like quite a large complex system to deploy compared to the tried-and-true method of paper ticketing and identification. The push for this technology is suspicious to me as a Westerner because the benefits to me are unclear, while the risks (e.g., China-like ubiquitous surveillance and repression, and corporate access controls like those attorneys who were barred from a Madison Square Garden show) are a little more established.
When a measure becomes the objective, it ceases to be a good measure.

Even if you could perfectly measure customer happiness (very hard, as you note) - it's relatively easy to make customers happy by giving them more value than what they pay for. Sure, that may cost your business more money than what it makes with said customers, but hey, who cares, "profit" was not the metric...

(and as you note, if you make "profit" the metric, that has its own set of challenges - e.g. the optimization towards short-term profit in detriment of the long-term sanity, which is what we observe in a lot of corporations).
it works fine for me on windows, only annoyance is google maps, switching to street view, one wheel rotation unit acts like 15, so switches back and forth uncommanded to street mode and out
> Plus I'm pretty sure (just like everyone else) they're doing this not to avoid climate change but because they have a huge opportunity coming out ahead as providers of cleaner means of transportation

I detest the authoritarian government but in this case it’s hard to feel bad if it actually works. Our strategy of letting hordes of MBAs optimize for the quarterly report is racking up future costs and unfortunately I don’t think we have the luxury of being picky about who’s going in the right direction here.
> you just don't like someone doing it more efficiently

For some value of "more efficiently". I mean if the most efficient way to work is to have delivery drivers pee in a bottle and warehouse workers develop RSIs, who am I to complain? Someone else's dignity is a small price to pay in order to get a 3% rebate on some commodity.
Good response. The GP is trying to be woke where it is not warranted.

> they approach each logic problem with more novelty than I do, not for a lack of practice or ability, but for a lack of a mental model to map heuristics to.

Very right; A proper "mental model" is fundamental to all types of learning.
Should I spend 15 minutes each way driving (carbon emissions) to the store and waste 1 hr of my time in this case, when it can be delivered to me tomorrow? I definitely want to support local, but the cost/benefits are not as clear in this case.
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Your brain can also do 1+1 and end up with 2.5 or even 3 in the brain :) I have really bad eye sight on both eyes, one can not see enough alone but both together see much better than I would expect on the same distance.
> I'm with a modern European bank though, I wouldn't be surprised if the mainframe-lowing US banks that do everything via overnight batch jobs are incapable of this.

I wouldn't be surprised if your European bank still relies quite heavily on its mainframes. The mainframe offers high availability, reliability, and, contrary to popular belief, high throughput. Batch processing is just one thing they're good at; real-time processing at high speed is another.
Fair, maybe "prosumer" is more fitting, was thinking of the Pocket Cinema 6K (also from Blackmagic). Not exactly "high end cinema camera" so I still think the data rate doesn't sound out of the world.
Yes I agree there's little point in instantiating arbitrary abstract structures, however that isn't what I was suggesting. The related structures and properties identified in Levin's work are specifically those of the 'agential' type (going from molecular-networks/cellular scale right up to and past human-level): Goal-following meta-rules is what would be in the 'class', not just measurements or information attached/correlated to something because some numbers happen to be equal, but a type of memory of intrinsic meta-self-serving micro-behaviors that actually do inform the micro-elements how to behave.

I think that self-organization creates the possibility for the natural nucleation of agential-behavior (akin to crystal-formation) and when the system is also replicative overall, it might cause itself to happen again too! (and down the rabbit-hole we go!)

And I wonder whether it's really ok to just claim there is no micro-organizational structure that gives rise to this meta-goal-following, I mean, this is what Levin's work is all about! My own consciousness/'intelligence' is brought about by many smaller agents (my cells), and I think there's really no sharp categorical barrier here - goal-seeking (and hitting, for the winners of evolution) are pretty clear strategies from the molecular-scale to the blue-whale-sized (and humans too I reckon!)
If elephants were carnivores, with their trunks, they would have evolved efficient methods to hunt, and would probably be the dominant species on the earth landmass surface.

All this without hands.

The fact that they are vegetarian gave us the chance to do that evolution ourselves.
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what kind of a law would you put in place here to make this illegal? and who would it cover? amazon has a business, yes? and if you want to do business with amazon you have to abide but those rules. you can also just NOT do business with amazon - sell your shit at another place, done deal. too many times here on HN we see people say what you say - let's just add mooooooar laws (these would have to be FEDERAL to make any sense) and have government involved in as many things as possible... it is just wrong although in theory you can say this is unfair - but certainly should be be illegal... like saying apple charging 30% wig should be illegal :)
I have no faith that the extra 15 hours of grind is worth anything. Let's compare for example:

55h/week job because time sucked up by lengthy meetings and status reports.

40h/week job then spend 15h/w spare time learning algorithms and design interviews.
I worked at a fucking air conditioner manufacturer, and sure as shit they had an AI developer. people are huffing some strong shit.
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The CDC statement might be helpful https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2024/m1218-h5n1-flu.html
"nulls should not be in your language" is my version of "doctors should wash their hands"

"Immutability-first, with mutation-as-a-special-case" is my "accountants should not use erasers"

"make illegal states unrepresentable" is my "hospitals should sterilise their operating rooms and equipment"

As a field, we are very far from reaching broad agreement on the left side (which I consider the basics). So what would the training materials teach?
There may be many Indians, but when I was on h1b me and my colleagues were from Germany, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine, Brazil, India. All of those moved on to other companies, even multiple times and/or went through the green card process.

The salary I got was ok for bay area standards, certainly not rockstar level but would make jaws drop in Germany. For me it was an amazing opportunity and I would recommend it to anyone to do for a while.
Well, of course. But primarily, you have to be able to write code. And to do that, reading books is the primary resource (and for a lot of the other things you mention).
Any future plans for linux support?
But not "Palestinians deserve to be exterminated".

That's just a weird, semantic distortion.
I consider myself a pretty egalitarian dude. That accent still makes me stand to attention internally. I hate it. (And I haven't had much exposure to it in real life, so I suspect it's because its baked into our media landscape).
Having people who have been living in the country for decades, but have the threat of leaving anytime they get fired from job or due to visa issues doesn't encourage them to "integrate into the society they are joining".

If anything, the way the country caps work in the US right now make integration harder, because no matter how much they try to integrate and be part of the local community, they could be kicked out at any time. That just encourages people to have one foot out the door at all times.
Seems like a relatively niche, but potentially helpful tool. I might try it out properly later. I have a couple of questions:

There seems to be a fair bit of effort put into this, and you are seemingly offering it completely for free. Do you have any plans to monetize this?

What sets this apart from other tools that help with SEO?

P.S. Really nice work on the landing page
But I think that just comes back to his mental game/lack of match prep. The Ding of 5 years ago that pushed even Magnus Carlsen wouldn't have been out of prep 5-8 moves into every game and could've afforded himself more time in the mid-game to find the advantage.

It's basically what allowed Gukesh to do exactly that throughout the match. His opening prep was impressive and because he allowed himself time to think outside of the opening he at least tried to push on most games.
Gnu guix has a system that does this as well. I just started using it and have had use for it already: replicating my home environment on another computer was flawless.

Copied one dir over, ran guix home reconfigure and after everything installed, the environment was... Almost the same. I just need to write an integration that installs flatpaks since some apps are only available there.
In Neuromancer(1984) it's called Simstim. I think Strange Days got it from there.

Fragments of a Hologram Rose (1977) also by Gibson already had this.

Does anybody know even earlier instances?
How would have the same policy had any effect in Canada? Country caps in the US don't change anything about who can enter the country, they only affect who gets permanent residency.
I was talking about buying from online merchants. I’m less familiar with the security implications of chip-and-pin or contactless card for in-person transactions. Do those technologies prevent the merchant from getting raw CC info?

Rightly or wrongly, I worry less about the security implementations of hardware point-of-sale terminals than the security implementations of small websites.

I mostly prefer Apple Pay for in-person transactions because of anonymity — my understanding is that it makes it harder for companies (other than Apple) to track my purchases.
I like Solaar more than the actual Logitech shit actually cuz 1. you can see actual battery % and 2. you can set actual dpi numbers instead of a f*king slider like the actual logitech app, like the software department for logitech should get fired just for that.
I'm glad you've had good experiences - so have I. But I'm not sure where you're going. You can't advise everybody into happiness when they are stuck in a social group that makes them unhappy. There are immutable forces at work. We're humans. Learning a language is an enormous task, and it feels horrible to imply somebody should do it who is just trying to be comfortable in their own country. You should make that attempt when you visit other countries. Not to mention, it wouldn't solve this multi-dimensional social problem.
everyone today is rolling out face scans as authentication hacks.

third world banks have palm readers on ATMs for two decades now. amz is trying this on whole foods checkout

most government apps use face scan now, because google and apple limited access to fingerprints on the OS.

they will relearn all lesson learned by govts using numbers at random for people for benefits auth (like ssn) by using biometrics, which is the same thing.
A magnitude is very exaggerated. Also consider Covid won’t change the obvious trend since the 50’s: https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/32068/average-price-of-ai...

Regarding jets vs mass transport, I think it is misleading to oppose them. Remove all the jets on the planet and we’ll have exactly the same sustainability trouble.

My old dad points the fault of rich people taking jets to go everywhere, and also the fault of "billion of Chineses starting to take more and more flight". His bi-monthly usage of plane for Holliday isn't worth considering through because he "has no choice, people have right to takes Holliday and we-the-world-middle-class are not the problem"
> It seems to me that playing a cat and mouse game with these anti-bot systems is unnecessary. Design a system which mimics a legitimate user to such a degree that it's either indistinguishable from an actual user or would produce an unacceptable level of false positives for the detection system.

This is the most common misconception, challenges you face with browser automation at scale are not *automation* challenges.

You can use real human input, by having actual humans doing the input and you will still get blocked.

Automation at scale means running dozens to 100s of browser instances concurrently on the same hardware, then after you mitigate IP related issues is when you start running into actual challenges that are completely different from the actual automation part.

You have to research all the little quirks browsers have through the various APIs that they offer and then compare that data to real world data before you can start to actually fix the problems.
It's an client error and it's highly beneficial to make it 400 for monitoring purposes. You want to see your FE or mobile devs deployed a faulty app.
Some apple-pickers think the point of picking apples is to prove how good you are at climbing trees. They'll never not be mad at pluckers who just pluck the nearest apple, and the people who reward them for the apples, and the world that doesn't understand the pluckers picked their apples wrong, and didn't even earn them, and they're not even real apples.
> While complimentary, the various policy, legislating, rules making, procedures, and enforcement are distinct activities in the governmental stack.

I agree that there are distinct activities. In our system, there are three distinct activities: lawmaking, law execution and law application; they correspond to the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government.

It’s clear to me that regulations with the force of law must be passed by the Congress, while regulations applied within the executive without the force of law may be promulgated by the executive.

> By necessity, legislators delegate rule making to agencies.

I don’t see that it is in any way necessary, and I do see that it is extremely dangerous to a republican system of government. Every member of the executive ultimately answers to a single man: the President. If the Congress enables the President to dictate the content of a law, then that one man is a dictator.

The Founders did not want a king, and the Constitution does not allow one. Again, to quote the document: ‘All [emphasis added] legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress …’ Not some legislative powers, but all.

> Who do you want determining the precise definition of a kilogram? Congress or NIST?

It’s not about what you or I want; it’s about what the supreme law of the land allows.

As it happens, it wouldn’t bother me if Congress set the definition of the kilogram. Why would it bother you?

> Do you really want legislators doing the technical and operational evaluation of tabulators?

Again, it’s not about what I want, but what the law requires. In the case of tabulation, that seems pretty clearly an executive responsibility. The rules for tabulation seem to be pretty clearly a legislative responsibility.

If one doesn’t like that arrangement, then one is free to advocate for changing the Constitution! An amendment such as ‘The President or his delegate may issue a law defining weights and measures’ would work. I think that it’d be a bad idea, because it gives too much authority to one man (imagine if some future president issued a law defining that any use of the meter is to be punished with death …).
Looking for 1M+ links/day webscraping K8s solution
hi.
We are currently using Selenium + Selenosis/Selenoid k8s solution but it does not work well.

Is there any other in-house solution?
It needs to be able to render the website and create snapshots.

Thanks!
lol. people pay $100 for the benefit of signing away all and every privacy just so they keep their shoes. not a single people who signed up for this things realize for much privacy rights they signed away to the government.
My theory is that impact is heavily context dependent.

If you can solve a problem quickly, at the right time, with buyin from your org, that’s positive impact.

That general case differs wildly when you descend to the particulars.
Well for one, lots of my local economy would just involve trade and helping community members for free, creating local community gardens, etc. Quite a lot can be possible with very little.
I agree. I know from looking at a story that if Alice picks it up it’ll take her about a day and be decent quality, but if Bob picks it up it’ll take him about a week and be worse quality. And I know that this will be pretty consistent week-in, week-out.

Developer productivity exists and I am totally comfortable describing Alice as being more productive than Bob. The fact that there isn’t a good, generic way to distill this into particular values does not mean that the phenomenon doesn’t exist.

We’ve all worked with Alice and Bobs. Claiming there’s no such thing as developer productivity is denying what we’ve all experienced. We aren’t special snowflakes whose work is beyond the ken of mortal men. Our work has value and sometimes we produce a lot of value in a particular time period and sometimes we product a little. This is productivity.
"bits of information" doesn't mean 1's and 0's. "bits" is a measure of entropy.

If you send an analog signal over a wire and the receiver on the other end can distinguish between 1024 different voltages reliably, then you sent 10 bits of information. Even though you sent neither a 0 nor a 1, but an analog voltage.

It's about the "information" as an abstract concept, not about how that information is encoded as data sent over some medium. I can send you the same thing thousands of times. I would have sent you lots of data, but 1000 copies of the same thing still only contains as much information as a single copy does.
One thing I'm kind of surprised by is that the custom mouse space is so empty, compared to custom keyboard scene.

I would like to have some custom micro controller/ZMK based mouse that I can pair with say my wireless split keyboard. Logitech has OK hardware but they don't have basic functionality like sync switching between devices - this would easily be handled by OSS firmware.
What about the apple battery kits?
I'm OK with the One-Year-ish battery life and happy to change them yearly. I try to do them in batches (the fours usually die together within about a month).

The irritating ones are in the bags/check-ins I stashed/stored snugly, and now I have to take them out to replace the battery. Of course, the bearable thing is that the battery lasts for about a month after the warning, so there is that.

I think I'm complaining about something which is not a big deal.

I’m not sure if this much bigger device is any benefit just to make it last 10-years and forget about it.
The first example doesn’t show anything particularly wrong with Rust syntax. You can construct a troll example like this of an arbitrarily complex type in any language with generics.

The second tweet, as is common for these discussions, doesn’t give any specific example of what’s wrong with Rust syntax.

I remain baffled by how many people hate Rust syntax. I really don’t get it!
I bought some switches from aliexpress for my Logitech G203 and replace them when they fail. I've had it for 5 years now.
Even with critical timing, real time GCs exist for decades now, PTC and Aicas are two surviving companies selling software tooling for embedded markets, including their own JVM implementations, with AOT compilers, bare metal deployments and real time GC.

Many of their customers are factory processes and military deployments with weapons control, two scenarios where any kind of stall might produce deadly results.
You certainly have not understood what the GP was talking about. It is about Concepts, Computation and Mental Models. The fact that you equate it with PLT just proves my point.

> CS is not complete without compilers, networks, DBs, OSes and computer architecture.

This is completely orthogonal to what the comment is talking about.

PS: Here is a good tutorial on Map/Filter/Reduce model of computation - https://web.mit.edu/6.005/www/fa15/classes/25-map-filter-red...
This short film he mentions (of the previous "longest" line hike) is really a lot of fun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64wZHZSxCZM
You might want to try with another browser then.
Ask HN: What do you think of Agile/Scrum?
Hello everyone, what are your opinions about Agile, Scrum and similar management methodologies?

Do you think they help?
Only 200 is detrimental for monitoring. You have to parse response body to classify response types. HTTP status codes is a cheap and already existing way to get insights into service behavior.
AI excels at whiteboarding, struggles with deep diagramming
The first part - that the Rust borrow checker and overall memory model ensures thread/async safety - is true. I cannot speak to the second part - that other systems don't have this assurance.
I use it for things that I know the answer to, but takes much longer to implement by hand. It works relatively well for that. If it does not know, I can nudge it in the right direction, and is still faster than doing it by hand. I built many projects with it. I could have built them by hand, and indeed I started, but have not completed. I finally managed to finish projects I have not finished prior to this because there was just so much to do and so little time.
My brother and I used to take our grandmother to church for Easter mass, and a friend of mine goes once a month with his wife's family, despite all three of us being atheists. I really don't think that 2% is guaranteed to be polling error, as Lizardman's Constant would suggest.
I remember reading engines of creation in my second year of uni and then asking Andre Geim for a summer placement - he said no, he was busy, and then a few months after he got the Nobel prize. Instead I went to the material science school and got a summer project playing with the old tunneling electron microscope in the basement. it felt like flying a 747, given how many buttons, levers and knobs you had to tune to get a good picture of nanotubes. They also showed me their state of the art AFM but I wasn't allowed to breathe near it.
"Biometric identifications using the fingerprint and the anal creases (the distinctive features of anoderm, or analprint)"

As far as I know, one can use the sphincter's unique pattern to identify people to some degree. Exactly the same way we can do so with iris patterns, fingerprints and even ear patterns.

So be careful what you wish for!

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Biometric-identification...
Why would it be a stretch? Again, you’re making a lot of assumptions. We don’t know a lot of how people lived then. Serial killers in modern society have committed brazen crimes in small communities and got away with it for long periods of time. It seems not very rigorous to discard alternative explanations. I’m not saying it’s likely or the probable thing, I just am not really convinced they were very rigorous about any other possibility other than the conclusion they set out to believe in the beginning.