skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Police departments are not well informed at all; and they are the constant targets of manipulative, fact-free marketing.

Thank gawd they can't just go out and purchase any security / surveillance technology they fancy.

Typically a trial / vetting period is used to test a given system for accuracy as well as ability to integrate with existing systems, plus the over all expense of operating the system over time.

This is when Rekognition falls down, because the accuracy is too wide, the system requires human operators to make up for the lack of accuracy. Then the monthly is expensive to use it is high. Plus there is a perceptual disconnect officers have with the FR system operators required to maintain Rekognition: these operators more or less become FR specialists, with salaries to match, but their actual moment to moment work is closer to a security guard, with their technological knowledge only needed for moments at a time. Police department Directors have a hard time justifying these new roles, in light of the multiple new high expenses required to use Rekognition.
I should have rephrased that: if its creators prefer to keep it under lock and key for decades (or forever).

Regarding the tech: ok for 360 in the 60's, 70's, 80's even. But they couldn't do it even after 30 years? We had to wait for VMWare and Docker...
That's under-informative, we only know that both points are in the same polygon or outside of it. The underlying elegant algorithm is that of knowing whether a point is inside a polygon: a ray from that point out to infinity intersects the polygon an odd number of times if the point is in it, even otherwise.
Not sure how accurate it is but the fact that it's so reproducibly different does make me trust it a little bit. Also jives with how tired I am the days after I drink. The resting heart rate seems to be quite accurate, I've compared it to manually checking my pulse. During exercise it tends to be slightly less accurate because of the sweat and movement.
Wikipedia says the Himalayas extend into Pakistan, and it's marketed as "Himalayan salt" regardless.
I see. I think it's fine to overload an English word to have both a precise meaning or an informal one.
Objective-C called closures blocks because that is what they are called in Smalltalk.

Objective-C was modelled on Smalltalk.
It's not hidden, it's de facto disabled for 99% of users. Fix this, Paypal.
There was a similar poker competition but it died out pretty quick: https://github.com/mdp/JsPoker
Yeah, and I no longer work for the company with that second device. I don't get the down-votes (Apple apologists). I had to go through this just a couple months ago.
The EU is probably even more divided from what I can see over there in Europe. Aren't Italy, Austria, and Spain actively looking into leaving?
This is a closer analogy. It has the same "sounds right" appeal, while sharing the problem with confounding variables. But Yglesias' analogy does a much better job of illustrating the problem; it is purposefully absurd in a way that quickly leads to the desired explanation.

I'm finding it interesting to consider all three scenarios together. What is the similarly between your analogy and the book study that makes them sound right while the pants analogy sounds wrong? I contend that it is the aspect of growth through practice. My intuition is that these three scenarios exist on a spectrum with regards to how much affect practice has. It is clear that working out a lot results in more muscles, and it's clear that trying on tall pants a lot does not result in becoming tall. To me, it's also clear that reading a lot of books "exercises" some sort of book-reading "muscle". But it's less clear what the follow-on effects of exercising that muscle might be. It's also not clear whether growing up with either gym equipment or books around usually results in heavy use of those things!
I've been told that they had taken people to court and won. And, if it gets to the point that you're going to have to hire an expensive lawyer to fight a big company with uncertain prospects, I think I'd just take a year off at that point (or take a job that wouldn't be subject to the non-compete).

ADDED: Although I actually agree that, for the most part, the harm of non-competes is in the chilling effects for both workers and potential employers because no one wants the uncertainty and risk. And there are enough lawsuits in many locales to give credibility to non-compete enforceability.
Can you cite those efforts and negotiations? I want to read more.
Some ancient narratives contain remarkably reliable records of real events
The tricks had much to do with kalman like techniques, and possibly non-linear analysis, than doing brute force position estimation or statistics.

For that though, you had to have an ability to do millisecond precision timestamping. I'm not math PhD, but been told by one that the only avenue to mitigate that was to drive down sampling frequency to single hertz.

Guys who write web standards today don't even try to put some farsight into security implications of countless random apis being introduced to the web standard every year.

Would Chrome unbreak the timing, or if somebody will find a workaround, that technique will become viable again.
It could also be that the fade-out is not compatible with the crappy compression that is used in today’s recordings.
A Vox video on this topic - "Why more pop songs should end with a fade out": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpKypvDjiPM
I highly doubt if there would be any performance difference between carefully written Fortran, Ada, C, C++ codes. The much more relevant question is which one has the least development time for the given task.
How Enticing and Simple Is Your Credit Union Membership Application Process?
It's interesting to speak directly to someone taking a survey, thank you for posting.

My question isn't about your surveys themselves, but rather if you have observed any bias in other surveys compared to your results.

A pessimist might believe that most compensation surveys are used by peer HR departments to set compensation bands and, naturally, they have incentive to systematically report those surveys low. Then they can point to these as "Market Rate" to cover their asses if challenged.

So is that intentional under-reporting happening, or do independent surveys mostly agree?
One more reason why we need to overturn Citizens United.
I really hate that 50% of this thread has ran off on a military-related tangent. Could have been a good discussion about facial recognition, morality, and authority, but instead, because one looney posted some "super-uber-pro-military" comment, the first 50% of my scroll is related to that one topic.

Will post this in ASK HN another time, but HN really needs some sort of drop down mechanism where we can show/hide a top-level comment's thread at will (mobile & desktop). Makes no sense the way this current setup is.

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Ruins the UX when I have to scroll aaaallllllll the way down to get to the top level comments. Not saying we should discourage constructive discourse by any means. Just saying we need to better organize how that discourse is reflected, so as to make for a better UX.
Eh. . .I'm not against your points, but I think your analogy is off. It seems more like your CTO is saying "There's this bug in a library we use to improve this part of the system - if no one comes up with fix in the next year or so, I'm just gonna remove that lib and we can handle it's functions ourselves."

I might still disagree with that, but it wouldn't make me "seriously doubt their leadership".
Thanks!

Yes, there's a real connection between concatinative languages and logic languages. In some sense you can think of a concatinative logic language as Joy with the ability to push "unknown" values onto the stack, as well as a few constraint manipulatives. That's somewhat orthogonal, but it makes sense an interpreter for Joy would be quite compact in prolog.

Thanks for the links, I'll review your work later!
Are you sure your premise is accurate?
There are consistently more murders in cities throughout the US where gun ownership is heavily restricted or de-facto banned -- Chicago, DC, etc.

Out in the wild west, where there are more guns, there are fewer killings (per capita and absolute).
Where is it documented that it occurs in places with lower vaccination rates? From my reading, in one cluster, 8 out of 9 were up to date with their vaccinations.
Also isn't biodegradability technically a feature in opposition to at least some of the uses like sanitary uses? Since by definition you don't want bacteria to be able to make it through. Granted for most applications "only" one hundred years would be more than sufficient.
Palantir looking at $41B IPO in 2019
Does it sound right that I think I'd need to lose more weight before I could do those? I'm 6'3" and "lumbering" is the right way to describe me. I only ever see small, light people doing those.
Most embedded devices which have ssh server functionality use Dropbear. You'll have to look really hard to find anything which uses this "libssh" server functionality (which, again, is _not openssh_).
Calculus Made Easy (1910)
>Amazon’s ‘Rekognition’ program shouldn’t be used as a tool for mass surveillance

I agree with this, but it leaves the question: what else is there for it to do?
Since this is going to be a great pass time for geekids, wanted to throw in a few resources for completeness:

Windtunnel to test: https://www.instructables.com/id/Paper-aeroplane-wind-tunnel...

Project form: https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project...

Another page with slightly different features: https://www.origamiway.com/paper-airplanes.shtml
Largely unrelated anecdote:

About 1992-3, I worked at IBM Austin on the IBM Microkernel and Workplace OS[1]. The development machines we were using were "Sandalfeet"[2][3] which ran AIX and (IIRC) a weird 64-bit port of Windows NT (and the in-development Workplace OS). I once expressed the opinion that these were pretty neat little machines, and a co-worker (a real IBMer who had been there for a while, not a contractor like me) told me that they had warehouse full of them somewhere since they were never going to be released.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_OS

[2] http://www.os2museum.com/wp/os2-for-powerpc-tidbits/a-look-i...

[3] http://www.os2museum.com/wp/ibm-power-series-exotica/ I don't recall the boxes looking like the image of the Power Series 600; they were black, desktop machines, too tall to be pizza-boxes.
The way to solve this is static analysis. I'm not giving up on the Turing machine, so we'll just need a way to analyze a given machine to determine whether it falls in to your low power use case.
Love this video. I have a background in Earth Science so this kind of stuff is right up my street.
Searching Points of Interest with the HERE Places API in a Vue.js Application
Food-safe dyes and little airbrush template.
It's not "considered", it is a BSD.
This is the theory I put into practice when making my own music.
It's not. Those lines are not "memey" in any way but straight cringeworthy. Like memes for 12-year-olds.

"gamer" language is more like stuff you read on 4chan, where most memes originate.
> The ideal of democracy is not that whoever has the most power should have the loudest voice.

The ideal of democracy is that everyone has an equal vote, no matter how loud their voice. Anything else is basically reminiscent of Harrison Bergeron. [0]

(And, in this case, the entity with a voice here does not even have a vote! Though its individual workers and owners and stakeholders do.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron
> there seems to be no research supporting that "Growing Up Surrounded by Books Could Have Powerful, Lasting Effect on the Mind"

Maybe not in this particular study, but the whole point is that any given study is going to be done in the larger context of a one or more fields of pre-existing research.

If you look at the paper I linked to, the proposed model is that in order for kids to be good at reading, they need to read. And the kids who read the most are going to be those who love reading. Now when you as a parent read books to your kids, some kids will love that and others will hate it. And if you read to them if they don't like it, that can actually turn them off from reading and lead to them being worse at reading in the long term. Whereas if you just leave books around the house, sooner or later they're likely going to read some of them, and are more likely to develop a love of reading just by reading things they're interested in when they're interested in them rather than having reading being forced on them before they're interested.

No one is arguing that there isn't an SES component or whatever. But the actual proposed explanation comes from the context of the last 50+ years of research on intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation, and is interesting on its own.

Any one paper isn't going to look at more than one specific thing, but if you're only looking at that one paper without understanding the larger context of the research then you're not going to understand what's interesting about it or why it was worth doing.
Probably, but it would be unenforceable.
I disagree. Mosquitoes could be very effective flown by highly skilled pilots and navigators given great latitude to use those skills effectively. But one problem with the war was that it tended to kill those highly skilled pilots and navigators faster than they could be replaced.

Even in 1944, after losses had declined, most 8thAF Bomb groups had one or two really good navigators and bombardiers, and had everyone else play "follow the leader," even to the point of having entire bomb groups release their bombs simultaneously, rather than each bombardier making their own independent calculations. Obviously if the leader was shot down, then the next man up would take over, but degrading accuracy. Similarly BC used skilled Pathfinders (in Mosquitoes) to mark a target, and then let all of the rest of the unskilled drop somewhere in the target area.

Without the skills to take advantage of the Mosquito, the majority of pilots would have been worse off with less defensive effect, and because it would take more planes- and therefore pilots and bombardiers- to carry the same bomb load, it would have pulled more heavily from the middle and lower levels of pilot skill to put the same bomb loads into occupied Europe.
And the answer is yes, the benefits are worth the price, provided you have a way to analyze a given page to determine whether or not it's a part of that multinational corporation botnet.
Not really. But there are some other measures to address those issues.

Would you be interested if I write a post on the existing and proposed measures to tackle this issue and analyze their effectiveness?
I think that would be almost a given. We know there were certainly hominids (Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens) living there, so if there were caves, it follows there would be cave art.
Better to use a hash map instead of an array. When iterating the second string, as soon as you see a character without an existing value it's not an anagram. If you finish the second string, check that all values are zero.

This way you only need to check the character values you actually use, and not all 127. It also generalizes trivially to larger character sets.
You don't need to actually run Haskell on the target, you could just use Haskell as a imperative DSL which compiles to C. Copilot does this for hard realtime programs in avionics.
> UML is purpose-first, not solution-first

I don't believe that's the case. If we set the Wayback machine for 1999, it's pretty clear: "The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is the industry-standard language for specifying, visualizing, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of software systems. It simplifies the complex process of software design, making a 'blueprint' for construction." [1]

It's very clearly about software.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/19990127214541/http://www.ration...
In 2014 I thought that Google paid Apple around 1/10 of Google's search ad revenue from iPhones, but that number involved quite a bit of guessing.
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this is the aspect of self-driving cars I've been most excited about for a while. But what's the incentive for any car to become the "leader" and take the VTL? surely people will hack this so that their car never does this. This might be a good application of a public ledger.
You have to distinguish between micro instructions in the meaning of "line in microcode store" which for the horizontally microcoded CPUs contain bits that more or less directly map onto datapath control signals and micro operations in the superscalar x86 sense, which typically are more or less reformulation of x86 instructions into something that is both more easy to execute in parallel (which involves breaking instructions into their constituent suboperations, which are RISC-like in the load-store sense, not in the other RISC characteristics) and maps better to the actual execution units (which may involve combining instructions).
Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check it out
If you give me a realistic physics environment to train an agent in I'll do it for you.
Absolutely on the money! You can't walk a mile in someone else's shoes, but with the right book, you can imagine it - which can make you do a complete 180 change in how you see a situation. I've had this happen many times and I attribute a lot of that to fiction!
Similar to noncompetes, forced arbitration agreements are infesting every employer/employee relationship. I recently had to pass on joining a really cool startup because their PEO insisted on an arbitration agreement. The startup offered to bring me on 1099 to work around the PEO, but I'm not really interested in the overhead of managing my own health insurance, etc right now.

Somewhat amusingly, days after settling back in at my current employer I logged in to our PEO's interface and found myself staring at fresh employment agreement... with a nasty arbitration clause smack in the middle. Fortunately current employer was willing to stand up to their PEO and get it removed company wide.

Fucking lawyers man.
The idea to use ”a roll of paper tape with holes cut into it” to control a machine was 250 year old in 1975 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basile_Bouchon)

(It took around 80 years to get a decently working implementation)
Neo4j is a good option for organizing and viewing graph data
There is really no performance difference between carefully-written Fortran and C codes for scientific research purposes. Really none. But in terms of learning and coding, Fortran is far easier to learn with a learning curve comparable to Python (but with the power of C language, again mostly for number crunching). Fortran has a wide variety of vectorization and native parallelization concepts that are extremely easy to use, something that almost no other compiled language has, at the moment.
When I was a child, I had a book with many of these designs. I tested them all from the top of a nearby building's fire escape. My goal was always a long, slow, stable flight and I got the best results with the Square Plane and the Bird. These planes were able to glide all the way across the parking lot (about 120ft estimated using Google Earth imagery.)
Bezos had a reasonable response as reported by the WSJ, though it was somewhat hidden beneath a clickbait headline.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/bezos-bucks-the-bullies-1539818...
When white dwarf meets brown dwarf, pow
More reasons for a nonhanthopogenic explanation:

Some of the smaller burrows (dug by armadillos) are too small to fit a human.

These kind of burrows are only found in south america.

There is no evidence of human presence (wall paintings, fireplace remains, etc). Except in some cases and even then only at the very entrance (suggesting that people found these later but never ventured in the dark parts)

There is evidence of claw marks on the walls, but no evidence of human tool use (pick axes, etc)

Some of the burrows are dug in sandstone.
You're thinking of a different form of abuse. Absolutely a police officer is more likely to arrest someone whom he does not identify with. That's the type of thing and why police districts try to create some community bond. I've never seen this bond be successful long-term except in small towns where everyone knows each other.
Very cool! Hadn't heard of Juniper before. Do you use something like regions to group and inline memory allocations?
It is good for established interests but bad for the industry. Banning all car makers except Ford would be good for them but bad for the automotive industry to give a deliberate extreme.
I completely agree with this article, based on my own anecdotal experiences (I don't think the science behind this article was the best, but I'll save that for another post).

My great grandma never had the chance to go to school, but she loved to read. She would work, save up, and buy books whenever she could. Books were all she ever wanted for her birthday or Christmas. Even though she had no formal education to speak of, she was an intelligent woman and wrote prose and poetry as good as any I experienced in college.

My great-grandmother's love of reading has been passed down through four generations now (down to my children). I have over a thousand books in my house, some of which belonged to my great-grandmother. I learned software engineering by reading books I borrowed from my local public library and built a successful career through reading and studying these freely available tomes on my own. When my kids were in school, I told them to put all their efforts into reading. I knew from personal experience that if they could read well they would be able to learn anything they wanted to. So far, that has been the case.

If I could only have one life skill, it would be reading. Having access to hundreds of books growing up certainly helped me and made me who I am today. Of course, having books around does nothing for you unless you crack them open and read. The only downside has been schlepping all those books around every time we move.
Yeah, I’ve always had the same thought.

Another musical pet peeve of mine is when, usually during the intro, a song doubles the number of bars for a sequence, basically repeating itself for no good reason.

My ear is ready for the song to kick in, but at that moment it just repeats the previous 8 bars. Every time I think “really, we need to do this 8 more times? Can’t we just get on with it?”

It’s like the musical equivalent of waiting in line.
This is a big improvement, but the restriction that prevents streaming responses unfortunately still apply: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/go/how-requ...

Would be great if that was solved.
Something sounds broken here, I have projects with similar numbers of dependancies, including heavy ones like pandas and numpy, and don't get anywhere near that long to lock. I don't have a specific suggestion for you, though. How long does a regular `pip install -r requirements.txt` take for the same dependancies?
What about Sultan of Swing? I always want this solo to go on. But that’s probably true only for guitar players:)
LSM trees are good for frequent updates on recent data. Frequent updates of old data are much worse on LSM trees since they trigger merges on the oldest (and typically largest) levels of the tree.

Some storage engines allow for in-place updates of records if the fields are fixed-length or if the updated variable-length value fits in the existing space. I've used some of those (e.g., MS SQL Server) to good effect in high-update scenarios.
Quite. Especially now with their hideous CoC. That thing is straight out of the pits of PC hell. Many people think Linus will never again assume command now that he's stepped down for his so-called infractions. Gone now is the merit-based stuff and now it's all based on PC garbage. I miss the old days of IT, especially now.