skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A note, why do they use such small sensors (11mm) rather than the large sensors in full-frame DSLRs (42 mm)?

Didn't quite get that constraint as being absolutely necessary.
Are there any other records of infrasound making people panic like this while camping in the mountains?
I don't think "striking up conversations from anywhere" is the way to go to find long-term friendship. Friendships work best when the lives of both parties (assuming over 30 years old) are in sync: this can be either similar situations, or common life threads to talk about. Outside that, the energy required to maintain friendship goes up dramatically.

For people over 30+ some common threads are same-aged children, similar pets, common hobbies, etc. It's just easier, and let's assume that my life is busy enough that I don't have the energy to work in new relationships that don't have a certain flow to it. It's not about fear or lack of social skills, because at some point we are ALL going to be awkward in a conversation and this is easily forgiven, especially since by the time we hit 30+ we are a bit more patient.

Personally, I've found that creating a small group is the best way to find new friends and the energy to cultivate it is spread out amongst the group. Inviting new people into the common circle is MUCH easier. It's easier to keep interesting conversation with 3 people than 2. But with more people comes the problems of scheduling and opportunities become slimmer.

Similar-minded people looking for friendship is easier than doing it alone.
The secretive Hacker Conference is for people featured in the book Hackers. Ted Nelson is one person who I know, who is in it.
That's not enough if you are using an online crypto wallet.
You also need to check if the seeding is deterministic. And also it could send the data 'later' when you next visit the site rather than now, storing it in indexeddb/localstorage/ etc. So you have a false sense of security.

Also as in this example loading a .jpg could be a way of communicating something.
This is one of the biggest reasons for why I hope gasoline vehicles don't get banned as we move toward a more electric vehicle society.
I think that women tend to be better at creating and maintaining relationships (I'm not necessarily talking about romantic relationships here).

I also think that women tend to get more emotional support from their relationships. Men don't really get this (at least explicitly) from their friends. They do get it from their intimate partners. For a lot of men, their partner is the only person they ever 'open up to'.

In general, I think there are strong cultural (and possibly even biological) reasons for the different approach to and amount of emphasis men and women put on socialising. In some circumstances, being a bit of a social recluse can be advantageous (e.g. extreme dedication to particular pursuits such as a career), but in total I think that men as a group suffer for this tendency. They are much more likely to end up alone and lonely in later life (discounting the fact that women live longer). I think this probably plays a large part in the high suicide rates amongst older men.

I think that something that could be done to address this issue - and something that would benefit both men and women in a variety of ways - would be to focus on removing cultural and financial barriers that keep men away from their families and in the workplace. For example, we shouldn't talk about maternity or paternity leave, but instead parental leave. The financial security of families should not be seen as a man's responsibility, but a shared responsibility (this goes back to the seemingly intractable issue of the relationship between financial status and attractiveness of men). These are really ingrained cultural attitudes but we can chip away at them.

Focussing on some of these sorts of issues would be good for men's mental health and a much more productive means of levelling the earnings gap between men and women than focussing almost exclusively on sexist discrimination in the workplace - a red herring in many (but certainly not all) cases. As most people are aware, a significant part of the earnings gap is down to the responsibilities women take on outside of the workplace, such as caring for children and elderly relatives or supporting the local school. We should be looking at what it is that is holding men back from participating more fully in their community. I think by not doing this, many men are missing out on one of the fundamental aspects of being human.
With a single trusted party, a blockchain is just a wildly inefficient database.

There's literally no reason to use it at that point, just make a simple db of account numbers and balances.
Not enough RAM at the moment my water cooler failed and I just replaced it. I want to try some of the Optane memory and my MOBO supports it. My other hobbies have been comsuming my spare cash.
I used Apple Maps a couple of times and it did its job well. The UI is pleasant and simple to use and the directions are clear and accurate.

When there was an error on the map, giving feedback was easy and the map was corrected relatively quickly.

But to me, the main advantages of Google Maps are Streetview, offline caching and better POI. Web access is also a huge plus because there's way more eye balls seeing the map and making corrections so I bet Gmap is more accurate.
Opposite here. Google, going forward, is more dangerous with it's censorship imho. There is still a lot of trust in google by the average people who think that it's verifiably right XX% of the time, so it can be trusted.. for many reasons..
however there is no transparency in how results are ranked. With Matt Cutts gone there is even less discussed about things. Broad confusing terms like "we changed a couple things and it's only affecting 3% of results, so no worry, carry on.." - and then the things that are changed and not discussed. People don't know.

At least with fbook and twitter, people are figuring out that much can not be trusted, and that some "friends" are easily duped into sharing things that are not 100% right. I agree we still need to deal with repeated things affecting the subconscious as everyone scrolls past things, and we need methods to screen capture and research other viewpoints on things that come into a feed..
You can mute people view these other networks, with google you can't mute individuals, or tell it stop prioritizing "xx group thinks".
It's not a mild player by any means, it's used like most use wikipedia, but it's used much more. That is a threat to many minds and the future, not just democratic whatever.
Meaning it's just a rendition of a hum, not an actual recording of "the hum".
None of those things are free to me. It's something in the range of %1-%3 of all I spend. Despite the fact that a lot of the time those charges are hidden in the price of the items I purchase, I pay them even if I use cash.
"for much of it I have risen before dawn to work, skipped lunches, returned home somewhere in the evenings, by and large have been unable to take vacations"

This is certainly nowhere close to the norm in europe. I only know a couple of people who work more than 40 hours a week (37.5 is standard in the UK), and they definitely take vacations.
Most of those businesses however would probably prefer to get their capital back sooner. Unlike large corporations, for a smaller business working capital is generally worth more than the 2-4% interest they can collect on an outstanding delivery for 7 months.
I don't know about that. You just shouldn't strap more meaning onto it than that it's a survey that gives you a qualitative description of the answers you gave to it -- people have some innate attraction to such things and I find it hard to criticize them for it. I just don't think it's appropriate to use for career counseling, etc.
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The ancestor of Mad magazine fold-ins?

I was expecting some dubious Bible code or play-it-backwards -type thing, but this is a cool idea. However the message is just in the sheet music, not in a piece of music at all.
Monero, ZCash :)
My suggested antidote is involvement in civic groups. Neighborhood associations, block watch/civilian patrols, volunteer fire dept., Lion's club, Rotary club, Library board, school board, etc. These are very productive channels for adult male socializing, because they provide a healthy pretense to satisfy the masculine desire to be useful and important to the community, without ostensibly showing the need social bonds which many men might feel shows weakness.
They've been talking about it since 2011: https://www.detroityes.com/mb/showthread.php?10923-Low-level...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/mysterious-windsor-hum...
I see we will soon stop putting stickers on camera holes, but will use screwdrivers to pry them out and remove them. :)
Luckily Attlasian has jitsi too so you can separate it into two again :^)
And if any of those are words or almost words, you'd guess that first and probably have it.
Only if weight loss by Kg is your only metric of success.

And dieting is by definition a temporary thing to fix an issue, rather than actually changing eating patterns and content permanently.

People just generally don't want to do the hard slog (i.e. in permanently avoiding sugar and carbs), they want the short term 'fix,' hence 'dieting.'
I’ve been burned by Apple maps too many times. I just use google maps now.
This article references one of my favorite anecdotes about infrasound and "hauntings": https://gizmodo.com/some-ghosts-may-be-sound-waves-just-belo...

It's early in, look for the part about Vic Tandy.
I think I do live in a remote working town. The downside is that it removes the upside of remote working. There are traffic jams at 2 PM, long queues at the supermarket every day. My wife often complains, "What's wrong with these people? Doesn't anyone go to work?"

Food prices are above average. There's a lot of premium grocers with cheap organic food. 2 restaurants are nowhere near enough; we have about 30, but there's "nowhere to eat".

Ironically, the city has turned into one of Malaysia's two fashion capitals. It started with Instagram sellers wanting a cheap place to use as a warehouse, with easy access to deliveries, and yet something which wasn't ugly, so customers could look through their goods.

One or two big name sellers settled on a cheap, abandoned row of shops. When those two set up, it suddenly became popular to set up up shop next to the big names on Instagram.
It is hard to make friends. In some ways, we turn to online communities. Take for example HN. A great resource of intelligent knowledgeable people. But because the focus here is on high signal to noise postings, relationship building is not exactly encouraged. If there is one thing I'd like in a site like this, is a dual-mode. e.g. High-quality posts in the thread, but a side mode for chat.
I came to the comments for this post literally to post that article, which articulates things nicely.
> Meaning it's just a rendition of a hum, not an actual recording of "the hum".

...what? Did you not open the link at all? Or are you suggesting they're lying? They literally explicitly say it's an actual recording of the Windsor Hum at 11:12pm on August 24, 2011...
Python is not statically typed. Mypy adds a layer of static typing on top of Python.
This is why I support local motors and their open source vehicle efforts. The cost is high, but my dream vehicle is essentially a rally fighter. Till then, this is why I still like old jeeps and the like.
That's ok you still have almost 26 months ;-p
Mostly for legacy compatibility, but the lenses would need to be even larger to cover a larger sensor.
Completely true, take everything I said and reverse it for Europe. But I'm referring to life in These United States, where we don't have health care, we don't have vacation, we don't have maternity leave, we have very little public transportation... ok, I'll just stop before I get out of control.
> there's little that we can do right now to change that

There's plenty, but I think it starts with not wasting that energy on people who think there is nothing we can do.

> already it seems wild that we could have ever had it

It seems wild to you, it's a given to me. The metrics for what is wheat and what is chaff haven't changed one bit, it's just we have a lot more chaff, to the point of chaff declaring itself edible. But individually, a piece of wheat beats a piece of chaff every single time. So I suggest thinking of it sequentially going through a mob person by person. The emperor is naked, the people who worship him are fools, and individually they can offer no resistance and no argument. All they have is "but there are so MANY who have spines like wet noodles", or even "I agree, but there are these other people who aren't even here who maybe don't". In my mind, the more the merrier. Let every last person on the planet buy into this and it will change nothing at all about my personal outlook.
One cup friends.
Agreed, US is probably one of the worst places to work remotely. Even if you want the region, Canada or Central/South Americas are probably better choices. Maybe Chile.
The types were never meant for the Python interpreter, they were meant as documentation and as input for static analysis tools. Mypy just happens to be a static typechecker that takes advantage of the type annotations.

Just because mypy is optional doesn't mean it's not static typing.
It's more complicated than that. The $500k is for married couples - it's $250k for singles. You also have to stay in the house for at least 2 years. There are a bunch of other rules, too.

> It’s really easy to manipulate the price of a piece of paper.

The real estate crash of 2007 shows there is no such thing as sure thing in real estate, either.
I'm assuming most readers are in an American context where, unfortunately, I don't think what he's describing is that unheard of.
I usually test the waters with some polite talk, but I dont want to be talking for 2+ hours of the duration of the flight dude...
This is great.

Waze provides an additional service here - pointing out police locations, which is extremely useful over long stretches of highway.

I wonder if google Maps' performance is due in part to Waze users being shunted off of main highways?

Another weird though - if Waze is spoon feeding you ads, don't they want you to drive as long as possible?
I agree, it runs nicely, and is nicely presented. The term best practice does irk me. But weirdly enough I think the use of that term is why I decided to give it a go.
You can't even consistently get the same results for the same person.
I wonder what the easiest method would be for all of us to share screen shots of these results that we say are good at engine X and bad at Engine Y.

I see many people say results from [whatever] are bad - but not enough info to know if they are tech people who 99% search for debian docs and uber eats... and or other people who say [other] are good / bad.. we need to start posting examples.
If there were some way to use the firefox screen capture and share tool for example, to upload good / bad searches, i'd love to see how others see things.

I really want to make new search engine options, and want to show examples of the others and how they could be done better. Crowd sources examples of good and bad would be a benefit to many.
I've stopped recommending Alberts. It's a great cartoon guide to a mythical average eukaryotic cell, but it abstracts much farther than the data can bear and leaves the reader without the intellectual tools to work with the material in it. And so you get computer scientists thinking about assembly language and compiling and physicists building little stochastic models of state transitions without knowing the biological considerations that lead those efforts astray.

Not that I have a book to recommend instead...
> Anybody knows why we cant just write a cell simulator

This is hard. To my knowledge we can't even write most basic components of a cell simulator yet. One of the obvious requirements would be a protein folding simulator. Nobody has been able to come up with a working one of those yet.

> when I have a simulator I can try changing them and see what happens?

If you write a simulator that does this you will be a billionaire and probably win a Nobel prize in medicine while you're at it.
Creepy shit
One feature I miss in navigation services is an ability to choose the “easy” route. For example, I live in the Midwest and usually I’d rather take the interstate, even if it’s 5 minutes longer, than a series of country roads. Obviously you can choose this when you know where you’re going but forget it if you’re in an unfamiliar area. A simple heuristic for this would be which route involves the fewest different roads.
> perhaps they re-used the hole and just drilled it deeper

So many things could be going on underground (types and shapes of materials) that would make your location affected (or not) based on how the waves travel from each location. Maybe you were just better situated to dodge the waves of the second drill, or something didn't match the same acoustic resonance to be a problem.
When I say the article I’m specifically referring to the title and some language at the start.

It starts off like it’s talking about fake sounds, then goes into differentiating. The comment the person linking made sounds like they were slightly mislead by that.
@mathperson - pureGuano covers my view of it too, which is why I added that caveat to my message. It's certainly indicative of personality, but not all encompassing. It's pseudo-science, but interesting and a starting place to understand someone.
Indeed!

Since off-road use for smart cars is comparatively small, we should optimize the roads to be smart-car friendly.

Perhaps we could install systems which would enable smart cars to stay in lanes, perhaps with some hardware preventing the smart cars from going off-road.

And while we're there, we could also have systems providing charge built right into the road! Wouldn't that be neat?

The lane-keeping and power systems could allow regular cars to operate on the same roads, for backwards compatibility reasons.

Sounds too expensive to build? Not until you realize that you've re-invented the infrastructure for trams and trolleys put in place a 100 years ago.
T-Mobile has a new feature where you have an [edit:] 6-12 digit pin associated with the account, and it's used in the store or when porting a number. When activating the pin (which requires calling them), they used an SMS text message to verify me. I asked if people can change the pin like I just did, he said that they'd always be sent a text message.

I hope that's true, because if so that'd mean a hacker would need my phone.

I think that guards against the attack whereby someone steals your number by porting it to another provider. Assuming what T-Mobile is saying is true.

I also use Google Authenticator, but that terrifies me since someone could steal my phone or I could lose it, and I'd have to find (and I'd better re-create NOW) printouts of all the words to recover / move Google Authenticator access tokens.
What's All This Femtoampere Stuff, Anyhow?
For normal starts the 7 series is quieter than the Model S for total noise so I didn’t think it was worth bringing up.
Why? There is nothing stopping manufacturers from applying this to ICE cars. In some cases they already have as there are some ODB2 codes that are proprietary.

As emissions standards get tougher makers are relying on increasingly complex fuel and emission maps that are also proprietary. There is nothing stopping you from building an electric car today from Open hardware and software. The same can’t be said for ICE cars.
> Different era.

Yes, that's my concern too.
attempting to start a friendship (or more) with someone who is serving you is one of the more risky avenues. if you're both on the same page, it can be totally fine and work out. unfortunately, most of the time you are just another customer to them and you just put them in a situation where they have to figure out how to gracefully decline while still doing the deferential customer service dance.
There's definitely something to this.

What other struggles are there that we can take on to facilitate bonding?

It occurs to me that raising children is a struggle and can help someone bond with their spouse. That doesn't help single people (like me) though. Work can be a struggle, but not always a positive one, and switching jobs can end it. I imagine firefighters and EMT workers face a deeper struggle than corporate jobs and form deeper friendships.
Sounds a lot like Malaysia's Cyberjaya. Good internet, cheap offices and homes, no hustle and bustle of city life, lots of parks, no taxes.

But the city feels dead. The no tax initiatives pull in big corps setting up call centers, rather than the startups.
I feel like the "creative" routes have gotten so much worse too. Some of my favorite examples-

* Driving from Fremont to Berkeley and it took me over half of the bay bridge to Treasure Island, where it had me loop around and get back on and over to 80.

* From Union City to Hayward, where it had me take a street that had not finished being built.

* In what should have been a 30 minute trip but took three times that, Waze managed to find the only one lane dirt road in the entire Bay Area and send me along it.
Hardware and Firmware Issues in Using Ultra-Low Power MCUs
If you want to stay in your bubble, Google is probably better (getting local results or results that are related to your search history), but personally, I don't like that, most of the time.
Is it as clear cut as that? Such a thing would probably be some kind of EULA, and I think those have more limits on the kinds of terms they can include.
The beauty of strong static typing–you don't need to get the types right immediately. Just get an initial design out the door and iterate towards better designs as you go. The compiler helps you tremendously for refactoring, and managed deprecations let you change types gradually over time.
I haven't looked into their new minion much yet, but how cheap are really talking about?
Looks like it's a lot faster. They compare their approach to the Luan et al. approach, and for a 1024x512 image, they are about 30-60x faster. They also seem to be more accurate with better results.
I'd agree with that; there are some good values to the south.
Designing Watchdog Timers for Embedded Systems
How would you avoid blending the cost to acquire paying, non-paying, etc.?
Want to start a new charity or non-profit coding project?
- start up

- cash in

- sell out

- bro down
The Microprocessor at 40
Yes, but not for the reasons you think.

It's an ethics arbitrage. This kind of business looks for unethical technologies that other companies wouldn't dare to create, and then packages it up in a form that is palatable enough to bring to market at a profit.
Yes, especially in the case of CarPlay it's just a second display streaming protocol. Additionally, most auto nav systems run on a separate CAN (Controller Area Network) bus although this isolation is usually extremely leaky and not particularly secure (the "gateways" linking the system are often full of memory safety exploits at best or simply pass malicious messages between buses or don't verify anything at worst). But in short, jailbreaking your iPhone is much more dangerous for the security of your personal data on your phone than the integrity of your car.
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And not only the main entrance: google maps will route me so that I always end up driving along the side of the road the destination is on.

I don't mind crossing the road on foot if it gets me there 5 minutes faster! and infact, at my apartment there is usually more parking on the other side of the road...
But waze doesn't point out police by itself, waze user did that when they're driving. And I really don't want the drivers in the cars around me doing that...