skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our sheriff department has come by asking people on our street if we have footage of a car they were looking for. The driver was going door to door checking door handles and took off when confronted by someone at home.
But it adds to the viewing time :)
Exposed database reveals personal information of 1.6M job seekers
You seem to forget that a lot of the refugees are coming from the sea (by boat), so that adds those that border with the Mediterranean, including Greece, Italy, and oh yeah, France.
Recently I did some research to choose a new TV. I plan to use it as a regular one, with HDMI input and don't need any smart stuff. Unfortunately, most models are smart and there is no information about their behavior when disconnected. It may still show popups to make an account or connect to the network. Choosing a smart TV feels like choosing a blind box with crap. Perhaps I'd spend more and buy a commercial monitor instead.
I think a good way to gauge a persons tech ability is just have them sit with you for a debug session.
Could you post some more detail, say, what you saw there that made you come to this conclusion - thanks.
U.S. defense, intel ramp up efforts to insert malware in Russia’s grid
Most non-native English speakers around the world will be taught British rather than American English, so this 'accent' would be what you could expect from them in real life if they were to speak English.
My comment was intended to make the reader reflect on what the problem really is:

That there are people living poorer quality of lives than legal Parisians within a certain distance of Paris, or that there are people living poorer quality of lives regardless of their location? The sub contractor's quality of life is too poor for you, but it's obviously better than where they came from.

If the goal is to remove people living poorer quality of lives from a certain distance around people living better quality of lives, then the answer is to deport them and build barriers to entry to the country.

If the goal is to stop people from living in drastically poorer quality of life conditions, then the answer is wealth redistribution.
Sadly, it’s not obvious at all. A few years ago, there was an article like this about the 16 most polluting freighters. Ever since then, I have seen the “fact” that ships emit far more CO2 than all cars put together repeated over and over again.
If scrolling is hard on your car’s touch screen, then the manufacturer failed spectacularly.

Nothing is easier, more intuitive, or less distracting, than scrolling on a proper multi-touch screen.
Just like how we have to have to spend billions cumulatively on computer security related products, because some people are trying to make a few million ransoming workstations and sending spam.
I think supporting Android Auto and CarPlay is pretty user centric. Those are the only half decent in-car interfaces I've ever used. Nothing else is close.
The grid doesn't really pass through each of the points though so you don't really get the frequency mismatch between one side of a node on the grid and another. Instead of a ring of nodes it's closer to a ring with nodes hanging off of it so you never really get two frequencies observed at one power station because it's only connected to the rest of the grid at a single point.
Hacker conference speaker axed over abortion views
Yep. I recently spent a day driving an S5 and S6, and the non-touchscreen carplay was terrible. I have a touchscreen version in my 2017 CR-V, and it is a joy to use. I read the comments in this thread, and it makes me laugh. So much "TOUCHSCREENS ARE THE DEVIL, NOBS AND BUTTONS ONLY." It just doesn't jive with my experience at all. Maybe it's a generation gap thing? I'm 30 FWIW.
Performance of a modularized deep NN vs. commercial algos for low-dose CT
Presumably any company that cares about this would have standard corporate images that they apply anyway?
Tesla indeed has a night mode. Color pallet of the whole UI changes.

Day: https://i0.wp.com/electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/201...

Night: https://cdn-vox--cdn-com.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/cdn.vox-cdn....
I just had my first experience with CarPlay this weekend and it was not positive.

What I want? An empty shelf just to the right of the steering wheel where I can charge my phone and connect it to car audio. I don't want to hand-off my navigation or music selection to the vehicle, just allow me to put my phone in a prominent visible location.
I remember when microwaves had one dial and no buttons, no digital touchscreens. You set the dial to the desired cook time in minutes/seconds, and it automatically started (as long as the door was closed).

Same with an oven. Turn the dial to 350 and the oven was on and set to 350. It took a fraction of a second vs a touch screen.

These new interfaces are often a terrible use of "technology" and are actually a step (or more) backward.
CDs? or CD-Rs?

Your Ubuntu 6.04 installer is probably burnt onto a CDR, unless you bought a pressed copy.

The AOL dial-up CDs are most certainly pressed CDs, and would have a far longer life.

I've seen bit rot in as little as 5 years on cheap CD-Rs.
I tried VirtualBox with Hyper-V and it's really slooow.

VBx also have some extra goodies like the built-in DHCP-server, host-only networking and so on which Hyper-V seems to be lacking.
Why isn’t it “oppression” to poison the air that someone needs to breathe?
CentOS 7.6 Ptrace_scope Privlege Escalation
Tiny bluetooth to aux adapters cost $10–20 on Amazon and work amazingly well.

Just get one that has a constant power source (no battery), and try to plug it in to a switched power outlet so it disconnects when you shut the car off.
Some manufacturers have had restricted interfaces in cars for a while now. On Ford's SYNC system I have not been able to type in an address if the car is moving. Android Auto similarly limits inputs to voice inputs on any kind of text entry while the car is in motion.
I recently found several instances of hand-crafted for loops in our Python code with:

j = 0
while condition():
++j

In Python, there is no "increment" operator, so `++j` is parsed as two unary plus operators: it's a no-op.
> increases the variance of outcomes more than the mean

So, it makes sense to apply it in circumstances where worse outcomes cost you the same as just bad ones, but best outcomes bring in much more than ordinary good ones.
> The dynamic you've described is no different than a licensed professional hiring unlicensed worker to work under them.

The key here is the second part, where that limitation is being used to coerce them into accepting disadvantageous terms.

> Sure, I guess the plumber's apprentice could just not work but so could the illegal immigrant at some point it just becomes an exercise drawing arbitrary lines with regard to how much money one needs to survive.

Perhaps we could implement some sort of "minimum wage" to ensure employers pay enough for their employees to survive.
Is there a good site or db that let's your compare cars without or with minimal LCD screens? I vastly prefer analog gagues and minimal b/w digital displaces for things like radio.
Skills of an Effective Programmer – Inspired by the TechLead
too bad there is not date on placement on it, since it says Basic is still being used. I imagine it will be possible that time in the future this won't be true anymore and withot a date it will be hard to tell.
Silicon Valley has a systemic customer service problem. The price you pay for "Free" services.
Products like [1] consider concurrent GPS+GLONASS tracking a paid upgrade.

However, they also have 'holdover performance' allowing them to remain accurate for several hours without a GPS signal.

[1] https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/carrier-grade-nt...
Nobody wants a world that is completely destroyed by poor ecological decisions either, but compromises have to be made one way or the other.
Silicon Valley has created privacy-violating 'chaos factory'
They are very large and heavy (much more weight per passenger), there’s additional drag and resistance, not to mention time, which I think accounts for some of the energy waste.

In short, that spending a few hours on a thin metal aerodynamic cigar is more energy effective than a week spent on a bulky floating city doesn’t surprise me.
Show HN: Awkward Conversations, a Card Game
Those ~£200 could get you a 1TB M.2 Samsung 970 Evo[0].

[0]: https://pricespy.co.uk/computers-accessories/computer-compon...
I feel like the advice "stop caring about what people think" is pretty useless for a lot of people.

Really, how much you care about what other people think depends on what phase of life you're in. In your adolescence, your social survival and who you get to date largely depends on the opinions of others.

When you hit your 30s, usually you have your own family and your own tribe, and other people just don't matter so much. You're in a different phase of life with different goals.

I guess it's possible to find a way to not care what people think in your 20s, too, but for those who DO care a lot, telling them not to care isn't helpful.
Or instead of spending $500 on the slow as mud Surface Go, you could spend $680 on a Dell with a Core i3...

https://deals.dell.com/en-us/productdetail/2hfm
Seems to me that onscreen displays and Alexa-style voice control would be the ultimate killer app for cars. How often do we have to divert our attention from the road just to check the speedometer?
Dyn (acquired by Oracle), PillPack, Dean Kamen, an Army research lab, and others are all located in Manchester. Considering two of those companies had Billion-dollar exits it seems they are doing something right in NH.
>If there's one thing that most car manufacturers aren't great at, it's with their car infotainment system UX UI and functionality

Funny thing. I have a newer car with a touch screen interface. I also had an older Civic which someone recently destroyed. So with the insurance money, I bought an early 2000's Accord. The previous owner had installed a new Bluetooth radio. No touch screen. Lots of buttons.

At least for entertainment, it's way better than any touch screen interface I've used.

It has buttons for FM presets - the thing I missed most with the touchscreen interfaces. And no, I don't want to scroll like crazy to get to the right preset using a knob or steering wheel. I know what station I want to go to, and it's so much better if I simply have to press a button without looking. Random access FTW.

Every Bluetooth interface I've seen in touchscreen cars has this flaw: Say I was listening to a podcast or some music. I decide I don't want to listen to it so I hit pause (there is no "stop" icon). I also have Waze running, and its volume is too low (very often the case that Waze's volume and the podcast's differ too much, so you can't use both simultaneously). I increase the volume so I can listen to Waze, and the music/podcast resumes playing! Why? Why on Earth would anyone want this feature where adjusting the volume means "Play"?

My 3rd party Bluetooth radio doesn't do stupid things like that.

And then the time to connect to Bluetooth. It takes too long in every touchscreen entertainment system. With the 3rd party radio, it's blazingly fast.

Lots of other cool things about the 3rd party tactile Bluetooth/radio. I rarely drive my newer 2015 car. It has nothing going for it over my old Accord (well, except possibly safety - but that touchscreen is making things unsafe...)
Ignoring the radio and focusing only on airflow controls:

I dearly miss the console in my base model 2006 Yaris. It had 3 Fisher Price-sized knobs that I never had to look at when switching from feet/defog/face, changing temperature, and fan speed. It never stressed me, and each position on the knob had a satisfying clunk.

I "upgraded" to a 2017 Subaru and the air controls are laid out with completely flat, indistinct buttons. The only knob is for temperature. Any time I need to change air position or speed, I need to take my eyes off the road and find the button, and then tap it multiple times to get to the right position.

I also drove a friend's 201x Civic for a couple months, and the air controls were actually worse: tiny buttons, tiny display showing what settings are current.

Bring back Fisher Price knobs, please.
For a long time, it didn't need any of those things. It's only been a recent need for marketing, mainly.
With clang you can write linters that get the AST of the code in input.

https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/
While running, yes. On Windows if you enable Hyper-V support, even when you're not using it at the moment, you can't use VirtualBox without reboots and shit.
I remember those days - I liked our microwave with just a time knob and a start knob.

But it had its drawbacks. My young children couldn't set the time to heat their oatmeal. "Turn it to 1 minute". They'd twist the knob and say "Is that enough?" Without knowing enough about time they couldn't (yet) figure out to turn right or left to get to the right number.

With a digital one, they'd just poke 1,0,0 and hit start.
Mathematician Disproves Hedetniemi’s Graph Theory Conjecture
I lived & worked in Nashua, there are/were several big tech employers. I worked for a smaller company.

IIRC Oracle has/had a big office, BAE, Progress software.

But for sure, all my NH friends who lived north of Nashua all thought Nashua was a bad place and didn't really deserve to be considered part of NH.

The commute will always be horrible because most NH will shoot down a rail line or anything else to fix it that actually works. There's been work for years to try and get a train line that currently exists from Boston to Lowell extended to Nashua. Trains are socialist though so that'll never happen.

Rt. 3 in MA between Nashua and Rt. 95 in MA was expanded from 2 to 3-4 lanes per side while I lived in Nashua. It helped for a year or two but otherwise was a futile waste of money. I don't think any road project can work. The only solutions that I think could work is a big train line or companies moving out of MA into NH.
Marketers on Twitter that drop great content
Hasn't this been known for half-a-decade?

I mean, it's a product you can literally buy and it's impossible to adequately defend against.

https://github.com/hak5darren/USB-Rubber-Ducky/wiki/Payloads

https://shop.hak5.org/products/usb-rubber-ducky-deluxe
Whilst that three-turns example sounds a bit extreme, I often plug in routes I could drive without GPS to get traffic / road closure notifications & automatic re-routing around them. There are benefits aside from not knowing where you're going :)
On the other hand, airplanes travel in the upper atmosphere, where pollution is supposedly able to do more damage[1]:

> However, in the cases of high-altitude airliners which frequently fly near or in the stratosphere, non-CO2 altitude-sensitive effects may increase the total impact on anthropogenic (human-made) climate change significantly.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_aviati...
I'm using Nestjs / typeorm for a mobile app backend, and I must say I am enjoying it a lot.

Previously I would use symfony / doctrine, or some other PHP / ORM combo, but the TypeScript environment is much more to my liking.

This will not convince anyone who dislikes node.js, but if anyone here is considering a node.js backend, give Nestjs a try. I did some tests and found it preferable than pure Express, Sails, or Ember.

Edit: I agree with softwarelimits comments. I absolutely hate synfony/doctrine comment annotations. TypeScript decorators are a better solution.
Your statement reads as though the research tested lower doses and 500mg was the lowest which "saw any effects". Is this accurate?
There are similarities too.
Streem Reduces Service Technician Visits by 42%
Recently I discovered that Facebook has a policy that no one with pending misdemeanors can be hired if they are just a contractor. We recently had to turn away a 23 year old combat veteran who had deployed to Afghanistan because he had a pending Class C misdemeanor. That’s a max fine of $50 for the state this was in. All for a $16.50 an hour job.

The amount of indifference to suffering by people in the corporate world today has gotten...I am not even sure what
the word is.
Sure, but that isn't the discussion at hand. That's overall autonomous driving, and in that case, the computer would ideally be anticipating hazards like a human would - only better.

You know, not driving tired, drunk, high, angry, or stupid...
>since Smart TVs are the most user-hostile thing _ever_.

Disagree - smartphones are far worse. At least I can buy a dumb tv and plug a box into it (for now) - my work requires mobile based 2fa, my bank/credit cards have features available in their apps that aren't available on their websites, my broadband provider only offers tech support through their app.

My smartphone OS was built by an advertising company and probably modified by the manafaxturer. The OS tracks everything I do, everywhere I go, everyone I contact, and the OS maker, my carrier, my phone manufacturer uses that information to sell ads to other people and put them in devices that I pay large prices for.
There actually is a small "2019" at the bottom of it.
The point of carbon taxes is that it captures externalities. To use some real numbers, instead of "$50 a package"; a fully capturing carbon tax on gasoline would raise its cost between $1-$3 a gallon.

People would scream, but the point is that WE'RE ALREADY PAYING $1-$3 a gallon for our CO2. It's just that it's not the driver that's paying, it's people in areas vulnerable to climate change and future generations.
How a feminist approach to design is the key to tackling bias in AI
Taxi drivers also provided a terrible experience, had dirty cabs, refused to pick up people, would lie about the fare, take the long way, etc. Uber and the other apps took a one time anonymous transaction where the cab driver didn't care about repeat business and made it accountable. Much like yelp/trip advisor hurting business for tourist trap restaurants. It aligns the incentives.
I bought my Mazda 6 the last year it offered no screen. The salesman wanted be to buy the next year which had a god awful touch screen on top of the dash, I hated it. I am glad I didn't get a touch screen!
I never give my TV Wi-Fi credentials, only the Roku and Prime stick.
> To call subcontracting "illegal" is a stretch.

Legal does not equate to moral.

The subcontracting going on here, illegal or not, is reprehensible because it is exploitative. On top of that the rent-seeking itself is morally bankrupt. It's extracting something from others essentially for free. I'm a socialist, but only the worst kind of capitalist or libertarian would think this is ok.
I don't have a great solution. But to me the contrast in infrastructure/training/redundancy in that system versus what we see in cars is pretty astounding. My only point is that if you applied the same kind of safety mindset that exists for this stuff in aviation, you'd think you were MUCH FURTHER away from full self-driving cars than what all of the marketing and hoopla is like. Just trying to say that the gulf between where we're at with safety in aviation versus cars seems pretty large to me, and larger than most people would care to admit.
Estimated 286 wolves in Wyoming right now (according to WGFD). Wyoming Game and Fish Department also made a map of estimated ranges of each pack. https://www.jhnewsandguide.com/news/environmental/by-design-...

Anyone want to overlay the two maps?
International labor is taking advantage of the arbitrage that exists due to wealth inequalities between different parts of the world.

Without the use of force (or natural borders via land, lack of information, or language), wealth will flow from societies that have it to those that don't, because the labor will be cheaper. Same situation as having a new store open in town selling the same items for cheaper. Buyers will flock to it and the original store will have to lower prices or offer a different product. Or put up new barriers to entry (immigration, etc).
Ask HN: Should I quit my comfortable high paying IT job to become Realtor?
I have been software engineer for over two decades. I am probably making near top end of salary range for a developer in my area.

Also I am not able to keep up with new technologies. I see management track at my company doesn't offer that much more than developer's in term of salaries. Also I don't feel motivated to put extra hours at work so that I can get 8-10% raise next year.

Honestly, money doesn't motivate as much as it used.

Now I am in my 40s and thinking of starting my own business. Real Estate Agent seems interesting to me because it is complete opposite of what I have done all my life. I am introvert, work from home, rarely talk with new people, hate rules and red tape, and not a sales person.

So by becoming RE Agent I will be learning complete new skillset. I think I will enjoy driving around and discovering new neighborhoods, meeting new people, running my own business, and just having time flexibility. Also I did consulting firm a few years ago, I hated getting stuck in long projects. With RE, most transactions are probably a few months long.

As a long time HN member, I am wondering if anyone else here has gone on similar path? What are your thoughts on this plan?
I think the headline is trying to imply that this is a big number, but at 1.8% of the world's daily GDP it doesn't seem like it. I would have thought GPS would have a lot more impact than that.
I used to do the other way around, and disable all my ports until I knew I needed to use one.

Of course, there's always the possibility that I unlock my port and plug in some infected USB of my own volition and it's much more likely than some random person plugging something in.

But, anyway, this thing presents as a keyboard, not a storage device.
Well of course the thing that's been missing is the periodic reckoning, a recession or a bear market. Much like exploring away from the coast, if you're guaranteed to have nice weather you have more to gain by going further out.
> It's crazy to destroy live for use of psychoactive substances

No, it's not. Those who purchase drugs directly fund illegal gangs and cartels, who kill, maim, and torture people. Over the course of years of drug use, drug users have likely funded dozens of murders, mutilations, wars, etc, for nothing other than personal pleasure.

It's fine to think drugs should be decriminalized, but to claim it's a victimless crime or isn't destructive, is simply ignoring reality.
Removing touch screens from the driver is a good one but there are so many distracting UI patterns for drivers. The scary thing is that I would bet people have died because of poor patterns that exist. These are some that I have:

1. Using Apple iPhone for navigation. Phone rings. I pick it up using car controls. The navigation screen is now gone and is replaced with the phone screen. [scramble to swipe bottom of phone to get back to nav]
2. Audio routing. The car winds up acting like a Home theater receiver that I have to debug while driving. Why can’t I hear my music? Am I on AM/FM/IPhone USB/iPhone Bluetooth/Wife’s Bluetooth. So many options.
3. Every time I start driving my car, Christmas music starts automatically playing from my iPhone through the car speakers. It’s in my music library and for some reason it auto plays (Why apple?). I always have to do some mid-driving swipeage to get this to stop.

These are horrible patterns. I’d love to spend the rest of my life designing UI for simplifying the driving experience. If anyone wants to hire me, please do.