skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What? A Supreme Court dominated by ideologues of the ruling party concludes that the ruling party can do whatever it likes to keep the ruling party in power? I am shocked.
That's for 4kp60, 1080p30 HEVC encoding was at IBC 2013. And there were more encoder projects. MPEG codecs create a lot of interest.
Google's captcha system is overkill for most websites. If I want to filter out bad actors (on a simple straight-forward site), there are other more simpler and easier to solve captcha systems out there. They might not have the rigour of Google's system, but they do the job, and well.

I would however use Google's system if the site is massive and there is the possibility that someone is using a script or some program to algorithmically bypass the (simple) captcha, and register accounts en-masse and trying to create a psyop[0], or disinformation campaign, or even a sockpuppet army.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_Operations_(Unit...
Pedometer++ has a nice interface and it lets you set goals etc. You don't need it to get the raw stats but it's a more pleasant experience than delving through the health app.
Gnome annual report (USD 1M+ in income) [pdf]
People will find a way..
I see in the future one can subscribe to one of these streaming services for just one month, and then use recording software 24/7 to record all the shows and movies they want to watch in the future. Repeat with another service and slowly build your own database.
I read the article and full disclosure, I don't use Dribbble and am not a member. My thought is that temporarily suspending a user based on report from community members is reasonable. Dribbble looks like a very social/community-centric site, I'd imagine if a rogue member were to post inappropriate content, the community can come together and help moderate. This also mean that if community members feel personally offended and take it the other way, and ding someone like in this instance, the site steps in and make it right. Again, Dribbble unbanned him shortly after. I just feel like it's a non-issue-but that's just my opinion.
But this is exactly how it works. On my 8, I have emergency bypass turned on for my wife. When the hardware switch is turned to the "silent" position, I still get a ring when she calls and a tone when she texts. Everyone else I hear nothing.
So, the author basically draws the conclusion that Things are Very Bad, (primarily) backed by a number of statistics, as well as his own perspective seeing people in bad situations as a psychiatrist.

I - strongly - disagree.

First of all, like the author says, these statistics are most likely inflated, "since I took them from groups working on these problems and those groups have every incentive to make them sound as bad as possible".

Secondly, even if you take the numbers given as fact, this is incredibly bad statistics (like most statistics not done by actual statisticians.)

Specifically: Most of these problems go hand in hand. If you were physically abused as a child, there's a higher chance you were also sexually abused as a child. If you were abused at all, there's a higher chance you'll go to prison. If you have chronic pain, there's a higher chance you'll become a heroin addict. If you're a heroin addict, there's a higher chance you'll go to prison. If you went to prison, there's a higher chance you'll be unemployed after.

I have made it one of my main life goals to meet all kinds of people. Really _all_ kinds: homeless people, extremely rich people, devout Muslims, devotees of all religions (Bahá'í, Hare Krishna, you name it), "normal people" around the world, farmers, writers, surrealists, artists, drug dealers, geniuses, idiots, assholes, extremely kind people...

One thing I've found is that the good (and the bad) seems to clump. If you get lucky and end up with some of (good friends|good family|good partner|good financial situation|good career|good health|happy) you will often end up acquiring some of the others. The reverse also works. If you had a terrible childhood, that often leads to crime/drug use, which can lead to prison, which most always leads to further problems in life. So, in a room of 100 people, maybe:

- 9% were abused as a child
- 1% were in prison
- 7% were depressed
- 2% were addicted to heroin/meth/prescription pills
- 10% were very unhappy with their life
- 7% had chronic pain

...but 90/100 had none of the above, because most of those overlapped.

I'm not saying that the world is perfect, but rather that many negative things clump.

TL;DR: If one person in 10 is sad, one is poor, one is sick, one is a heroin addict and one is in prison, that doesn't mean 6/10 people have one of these issues... perhaps 9/10 are fine, and it's just one person who's got all of those issues. Which of those 10 do you think is going to a psychiatrist?

Further note: In America, the cycle of poverty/jail/addiction can trap entire families for generations. In other countries, government assistance can take the worry of housing or medical care off your back either permanently or long enough to work on other problems.
I've had iPhones exclusively since the 3G, buying basically every other year.

My happiness peaked with the 5. The 6 was "fine", the 7 was a downgrade, and I then I didn't like any of its replacements and finally got an XR, which I don't like nearly as much as the 7 or 6.
I didn't know about this option - thanks. This option basically uses the OS cert store for server certificates, which is one part of the story.

Now, if they also did this for client-certificates then all the folks in companies that use corporate certificate-based single-sign-on can use FireFox!
> He claims that Jetson can achieve over 95% accuracy under good conditions

Isn't it critical to state how many signatures are in the database when quoting an accuracy? 95% accuracy among 4 different heartbeats is much easier than 95% accuracy among 2^32 heartbeats, many of which will resemble one another.
New AI deepfake app creates nude images of women in seconds
The cognitive dissonance required to wax poetically about how voters should just get their representatives (elected and permanently in power because of these broken districts) to pass laws to redraw the broken districts is astounding to me. Checks and balances, never heard of them.

i can't wait to see what districts look like in a few years now that there's 0 potential for voters to be heard.
Elogic Named a Top Magento Developer by Clutch
oh wow, a long list, thanks!
I’m interested in presentation detection and enhancement in general. For example, if a person is standing in front of a mostly static chalkboard for an hour, there is a ton of information there about the writing on the board. The frames could be fed into a handwriting detector and perhaps vectorized, and the video format should understand this and transmit a full resolution chalkboard on frame zero of the transmission, and not send any board info until there is an actual modification.
I get 0.1 continuously, possibly because I have resist fingerprinting enabled in Firefox. I'm not changing anything to compensate that score; it shows I must be doing something right. If I encounter a reCAPTCHA I will continue to (usually) just leave the site it's on.
I don't see how that is a pragmatic view. Rather the idea that you can fix something with personal responsibility, true introspection and growth to find true happiness is quite distinctly romantic.
Just to be cranky, shouldn't we eliminate all the permutations that use the same number three times? (i.e. 11-11-11)? My knowledge of combination locks doesn't extend much beyond goofing with Master locks in high school, but the more rudimentary designs require that the middle number be different from either of the two end ones. This doesn't sound like a super-advanced safe.
The moral and ethical issues aren't unidirectionally bad - you're building things that keep your side safe/secure and ensure a win. Those are your friends and neighbors on the battlefield - they aren't unthinking stormtroopers, they're the people you went to school with.

Even guided missiles, which seem indiscriminate, are much more precise and limit collateral damage. 50 years ago the alternative was carpet bombing - a guided missile produces much more targeted damage. You can argue that guided missiles save lives - if you want someone dead enough that you're willing to kill everyone around them, having an option to just knock them out seems much more humane (especially to the kids on the nearby playground).

Plus, I'd absolutely hate to be the side that didn't uparmor with autonomous systems - you'd get creamed. Like it or not, it's a part of the battlefield now. I'm not a fan of us bringing back tactical nuclear (low yield) munitions, but that's apparently also happening.

AND the work can be totally badass, the stability/pay is good, and you just get more valuable as you age (unlike being, say, a front end web developer). Plus seeing something you built go out to the range and tear apart a tank/knock down an RPG/launch into space/whatever is really, really dang cool.
Why isn't it a long time? 30 years ago the internet didnt exist, we've gone from making 100 million tonnes of plastic to 400 million tonnes (and 30 years before that, we were making almost 0 plastic). The entire US highway system took 60 years. We've made it to Mars in less than 10 years. After WWII, vast amounts of Western Europe were rebuilt in a decade. The entirety of the UKs coal mining industry was decimated in 5 years.

30 years is an absolute eternity.
I only saved the first chapter, but you have the whole thing archived:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190627151514/https://www.datap...
Regarding #1 for expectations of a position, many people don't know how to properly articulate the position well. I say unfortunately, it's up to the candidate to do his due diligence and ultimately, still test the job in the early phase. Now, if it's really far off, that's just poorly done then.

2. Just sounds like bad companies or big companies to me. Makes sense to me, move on. That's the sign of a good developer as well as a strong individual in my book.
Was reading article while listening to his banjo song: https://dancederholm.bandcamp.com/track/election-day. Good article, fellow Masshol...yman!
I actually did notice that, but I decided to say cyberpunk anyways because I related more to that term.
Interesting article, but I think Wired has to be one of my least favorite places to read something on the web. The performance is bad, there is popping/jarring of the viewport as content shifts around, intrusive pop ups, and just a generally high amount of bloat. I’m starting to feel like the old man shaking his fist at the clouds, but can we just go back to more simple pages without all this cruft?
Intel Calls AMD 'Formidable Competition' – Lists Down Competitive Threats
I worry about this as my 6 is on its second battery and slowly dying. Apple Pay really needs to make the Express Transit feature - where confirmation is already "done" for your selected (read: default) card - available for all transaction types by default.

It doesn't solve the unlock delay, but it would make most other things people use FaceID for much quicker.
Amazon, the New King of Shipping
Oscillates between 0.1 and 0.7 for me, and I'm changing nothing on my end (just hitting "Try again"). Does it have to do with refresh speed, I wonder?

Privacy Badger and ABP on my work (less-locked-down) Mac.
Echo cancellation and voice activity detection (VAD/what they use for gating), AGC, etc is all done in software in modern VOIP (or firmware? It's on a dedicated processor). And it's quite good if you spend the money on it.

Those cheap Cisco conference phones do sound terrible, and I don't think people replace them very often.
It's not just imported energy that's the issue, it's imported goods. If continue to effectively outsource all our manufacturing elsewhere, and then count that as a win on CO2 emissions, we haven't really achieved anything.
Then you can bask in the joy of the anonymity of being the guy who walks around with a breastplate.
I think privalage is contextual. It depends on you actually coming into contact with situations where it helps.

- You can't be privileged in getting a promotion in a dead end job where no one gets promoted.

- You can't be privileged in social acceptability if you have a mental health issue that keeps you from going outside.

- You can't be privileged in educational opportunities when you had to quit high school to pay for a parent's medical bills.

It goes on and on. Privalage is real, but it's mostly real for those who are successful, and have a whole pile of luck and privalage backing them up. It's a lot less applicable for everyone else, the suffering masses.
There is a swipe down gesture that cuts the screen size in half making one handed operation extremely easy

Its like vertical video complaints: 90% of the people are conflating several UX issues to express their disdain, and the remaining 10% have a valid complaint
Congratulations. You've just discovered the basics of MapReduce :)
Eight Unreleased AMD Radeon GPUs Found in Second macOS Catalina Beta
Microsoft turns off aging PBX phone platform, completes move to Microsoft Teams
Drivers followed a Google Maps detour and ended up stuck in an empty field
> except that communications directly related to the protection of property may be provided by amateur stations to broadcasters for dissemination to the public where no other means of communication is reasonably available before or at the time of the event.

Are transactions or "coins" property? Wouldn't this exception cover the case where you've lost internet "no other means of communication" and are protecting your transactions?
In Newtonian physics, you can think of every object as having an inertial mass (m_i), which controls how it responds to forces, and a gravitational mass (m_g), which describes how strongly it pulls on other masses through gravity. The gravitational mass can be thought of as the "gravitational charge," in analogy to electric charge.

In Newtonian mechanics, there is no reason for m_i to equal m_g. It is simply a coincidence. If they were not always equal, then some objects would fall faster than others in a vacuum.

The interesting thing is that there exists a class of forces which are proportional to mass - so-called "fictitious forces." These are forces like centrifugal force, which only appear to exist if you are in an accelerating frame of reference. You only feel centrifugal forces if you're spinning, for example, and the "force" you feel is just your body trying to keep on going in a straight line. Fictitious forces always act on an object with a force proportional to its inertial mass.

Einstein's insight was essentially to view gravity as a fictitious force. The hint is that m_g = m_i. In General Relativity, gravity is not a "real" force. The effects of gravity are caused by geometry being non-Euclidean.

If you want to understand this better, you can start by reading about the "Equivalence Principle": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_principle
Arctic Permafrost Is Going Through a Rapid Meltdown – 70 Years Early
That's the so-called Aristotlean viewpoint, which has been common in Western thought for thousands of years. Brought to a peak in British and American politics.
It's dangerous to have wealth/value in prison because it's easy for other prisoners to extort you through threats or acts of violence.
While the article and the other comments are about military uses this could also be used for physical access security instead of finger or iris (or badge.) The next question would be if there is a way to spoof someone else's heartbeat signature. Maybe a flat panel speaker playing a recording of the other person's heartbeat. Good morning Mr. Phelps.....
Instagram Is Trying to Curb Bullying. First, It Needs to Define Bullying
You didn't have a case on it, did you?

Madness. Sheer madness.
I really hope this trend reverses soon.
At least one study [1] finds topical doxycycline to be useless for prophylactic treatment of lyme. Do you have any evidence supporting its use?

1 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3910720/
Yeah, if you work for a company that has to run any kind of validation on addresses, you learn quickly most people cannot type their address in correctly at all. My take: Make it as dumb and straightforwardly painfully obvious as possible.
Considering that polygraphs are mostly a sham, I'd say no, these couldn't be used to detect emotional state.
Which Captcha systems would you recommend?
I don't have any of the issues you are experiencing. I'm using Firefox, AdBlock Origin, Privacy Badger and containers and I don't see any ads, the page is plenty fast, no popping/jarring content.
I have the iPhone 7. At work, everyday, there comes a point when I can’t listen to and charge the phone at the same time. And I curse Apple for it everyday.

I finally got my mom an iPhone 7 and took her iPhone SE. I use the iPhone SE with a hotspot off the iPhone 7 and listen and charge it at the same time. I pick up the phone and I admire it every time. Its just the perfect machine. Almost reminds me of the last non-touchbar MacBook Pro. It’s like beating a dead horse at this point, but looking at how they went from the SE form factor to the 7, I always say to myself “what were they thinking?”. Maybe we’ve come to expect too much from Apple. They have been making life easy for a while but when they go the other way, I think the criticism is warranted.
I had an X for 10 days and used that gesture often. It sucks. Returned it and have been using my 6SE ever since.
I fully agree. Adds which are integrated into the content, especially into the youtube videos are difficult to impossible to block, but also usually acceptable because the content provider or the youtuber do stake their reputation on them and have full control about the content.

And my experience matches yours, I am much more likely to get actual interesting information and consequential the ad might lead to an actual purchase, if it is not generated by tracking me - usually those ads just repeat what I looked at recentlxy - but by being related to the content I am interested in. Much more likely to be something interesting and especially new to me.
have you seen any GPIO devices that can multiplex a water pump onto many water lines?

I have many rose bushes peonies that cannot be watered very frequently, but when you do water them, they need a good amount of water.
I don’t know about that last part. My dad is a fairly old physician and the way he tells it hand washing has been mandated by the feds for decades and the last cohort of old docs who refused to change in that respect retired circa 1990. But the culture may be different in other parts of the US or world.
There are diminishing returns once a CAPTCHA gets past a certain point. Bad actors can (and do) just humans to fill out captchas all day. We get some spam submissions on our sites that I'm 99.9% certain are people in developing countries copy/pasting spam templates and filling out captchas by hand.
The average consumer likes a bigger screen, but I get a (truthy) feeling that production doesn't match demand.

- Smartphone design goals are to cram as much into a phone as possible, so engineers prefer having more space to work with.

- If I'm a designer for a smartphone, I'm probably pushing for more screen real estate to work with

- If you can only pick 2-3 form factors to build with massive economies of scale (as Apple in particular has to do), the demand for a smaller screen might not align with the relative cost to produce

- I wouldn't be surprised if the "it's smaller so it should be cheaper" mindset that people have in other markets (cars come to mind) plays a factor here. The reverse would be true true: A company can charge more for a bigger phone because it's bigger.

So if, say, 20% of the market wants a smaller screen size but wants it done cheaply, there might not be enough incentives to mass-produce such a device in a way that makes enough money to be worth it.
It hasn't stopped HEVC from winning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgE8-4rcXl0
Yes, it turns out that transparency isn't always the best thing, even if it is always the best thing for security systems.
It's basically the same as canned tuna. In fact, since both are massively overcooked, they're barely distinguishable.
You don't even need a database of pulmonary patterns. The human baseline and deviations from it is plenty strong enough for crude emotion state detection.

See also https://news.mit.edu/2016/detecting-emotions-with-wireless-s... (using wifi to detect heartbeat) , https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs231a/prev_projects_2016/fin... (various video-based methods) , https://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/evm/ (and see the video), and a lot of other things.

The paranoid in me wonders if this isn't released because it's irrelevant now, since even in the civilian world with civilian technology the "laser" would seem to be nearly superfluous.
My boys wore chainmail in high school routinely. Everybody got used to it easier than you might imagine.
This is probably good for proxy users, since it probably isnt just tracing a polluted IP anymore

But Im not sure, since the browser sessions for some proxy users like TOR exit nodes are so short
1. Head First Java

2. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

3. Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
I know next to nothing about ham radio, but I’m curious... who would enforce the rules at an international level?
But the information bulletins must be on the topic of amateur radio: Definition in 97.3.
Well, when are they going to remove the ad placeholders on pages? It's great we don't have to see ads, but they still take valuable screen space this way. With uBlock origin, I don't have to see te placeholders.
Everything everywhere is securities fraud
Given the stress that money problems can cause in relationships this doesn't seem surprising to me.
I don't think I've ever heard a more satisfying rocket launcher sound effect than Marathon. That game had fantastic sound engineering.
Things have been planned. Coal has almost run out, gas is running out (probably calculation showed it will end by 2050). So why not set a target that no fossil fuel will be burnt (and forget to mention there will be none left to burn)
FWIW 5" bezel-less screens can fit into the same space as a traditional 4.7" phone. Just nobody is willing to make a phone that small any more. You really need to shop by outer dimensions rather than the actual screen size now.
I don't know where you got the 3% from but isn't UK population just 0.8% of the global total and therefore, per capita, it should be reduced significantly?

Since global warming is global, perhaps it would make sense to invest those trillions offshore in the countries where the impact per dollar would be higher.
Twilio's login form commits this sin, but goes further and tosses in a baffling "Enable 2FA" checkbox for good measure.
Especially if it was a low value transaction or a transaction between two accounts held by the same person, they could argue it falls under experimentation, I guess?
On mobile GMail sign-in (Firefox on Android), there's a form with an email address and a 'Next' button.

Type into the form and press return and... it clicks the 'forgotten password' link. I'd love to know the UX behind such a significant change to normal behaviour.
What do you mean by "we poison alcohol"?
Introduction to Statistical Learning [pdf]