skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple year ago, I was listening to music at a super low volume (way below that of people talking around me, if I removed the headphones) when fire alarm triggered. I didn't hear it.

A coworker did pat my shoulder to let me know, and I noticed the super loud fire alarm as soon as I removed the quiet headphones.

The headphones were not noise-cancelling or anything. Just Sennheiser HD380 Pro, which provide ~30dB isolation. I don't think it would have been possible for fire alarm to be noticeable under such conditions unless it was loud to ear-damaging levels.

This suggests that alternative indicators than just sound should be in place, such as automatically turning off lights and switching to emergency lighting.
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neat-o project. i love my ipad, but this indie piece if screen and tracking is excellent would be a total bomb. all the best!
This is how you reward children for good behaviour too, without decreasing their intrinsic motivation for said activity, a good reference for how to motivate without using money is "Drive" by Daniel Pink.
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do it.. :-)
That was so weird to read. If they are really free to say whatever they want can they talk trash about amazon and keep the ambassador job?
There are paradoxes that are unintuitive because they appear contrary to other knowledge that we seem reasonably certain of. Then there are things that people find unintuitive or unexpected simply because they run contrary to their intuitions and assumptions. Like, for numerous people in history, the idea of a spherical Earth or how far away the stars really are. These latter cases aren't paradoxes.

Is there some established knowledge that the relative difficulties of these AI tasks appear to run contra to? I believe it is just intuition and assumptions they run contra to.
If every hospital doing a transplant were required to do a quick gene sequence verification, it'd be pretty hard to keep that conspiracy under wraps.
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> It was quality content and services, subsidized by investors

You're joking about the "quality content" part, right?
Great analysis and comment. A question though - was MoviePass's flameout ("dictate terms to suppliers ... didn't exactly turn out well") because Hollywood/the movie industry is far more consolidated and cartel-like than expected/imagined? And more consolidated than for instance, distributed commercial building owners?

I agree network effects will come into play - the more WeWork can capture the demand side, and abstract it away from the supply side ("who else are the owners going to lease to"), the more powerful they'll become over the supply side. But are commercial owners organized enough to resist?
Beanstalk was announced in 2011. Heroku came out of beta in 2009.
Yep! And we have cheap wifi lightbulbs that have a reset mechanism similar to the one I described. He was less than 3 before he worked out that he could make the lights flash by switching on and off repeatedly.

Unfortunately, ours made the mistake of just forgetting everything when placed in reset mode, not being recoverable. Still, thankfully the phase was short-lived.
My biggest gripe is how hard they deliberately make it to disable. Amd even when I finally can, whatever settings I used may well have changed when MS updates. And when they do update, it gets re-enabled.

One of many instances where MS takes the "I know best" approach. You want to write a good anti-malware program, try not behaving like malware.
I’ve just discovered berberine recently and have had great success taking 500mg before each meal. I’m diabetic and have been able to halve my insulin dose since taking it. What’s the timing/dose
that you use? Same question for resveratratol which I’m also planning on introducing.
Nest thermostats are also very stupid. The 'smart' mode tries to build a schedule of activity based on how much you walk past the specific spot on the wall where your thermostat is, and predict when to heat the house based on that. It's garbage, we (and everyone else I know) just sets a schedule like a normal thermostat.

Given Google has access to my and my partner's calendars, why not link them and use that instead, and cut the AI shit?
How can Credit Karma say there was no breach? Just because their database wasn’t exposed doesn’t mean my personal information wasn’t exposed.

They got a lot more explanation to do.
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The generators can’t just do whatever they want, otherwise they could easily conspire to set prices.

ERCOT, MISO (mid-continent system operator), and CALISO (California) basically run the grid. The generators are all under contract and can be fined for not being able to spin up when asked. This is called an “unplanned outage” and it can really cause problems.
Maybe a newer graphics card would make sense (depending on the games), otherwise nice find!
>Fancy car like mercedes probably has 10+ of them going off around you

And a really well sealed cabin because they don't want any road noise creeping in.
https://www.crunchbase.com/search/funding_rounds/field/organ...

Kapwing has 1 Funding Round totaling $1.7M

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https://www.similarweb.com/website/kapwing.com

In the last 6 months, kapwing.com traffic grew from 1.75 M to 3.3 M Total Visits per month.

3.3 M Visits per month is, usually, a good result on $1.75M investment.
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Sometimes the physical reset button would be the worst way to reset. I have lifx gen 1 bulbs (post Kickstarter) throughout my house and they are in high places/not easy to access without renting a large ladder/scaffold. Even the worst on/off procedure to reset would be easier than climbing to get to a physical switch.
What I'm saying, basically, is that achieving true artificial intelligence does not mean mimicking human abilities and modes of operation. Grasping a pen is easy _for humans_. I am attacking the idea that human abilities should somehow serve as a benchmark or landmark for robotics and AI. Academia is really caught in that idea, and it is often used to justify research directions and whole fields.
PSA reminder they got caught scanning computers for specific documents at the behest of the Russians. https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-hackers-scanned-network...

They've still got some brilliant malware re & analysis guys and their lab is an excellent one, but I wouldn't use them.
The cross platform landscape is pretty daunting for a solo dev. I ended up just writing my app natively, time will tell if that was the right decision or not. Most of my business logic is handled by my backend. I like the performance and being able to implement platform specific features as soon as they're released. I might look into doing some codesharing in Rust if it becomes more straightforward. Sometimes it's OK to write things twice.
Even a piece of paper between each weight would surely absorb most of the energy and make it much quieter? Why don't all machines have that?
It's one thing to have "a corrosion or drive-train issue" that affects a model or series of models built with that design. It's another to repeatedly have the same issue, repeatedly say it's fixed and then have it turn out to be not fixed. Toyota light truck frames, Nissan CVTs and arguably Honda A/C systems are the quintessential examples of this (though in Honda and Nissan's defense, they never claimed to have ever done anything about it).

I'm not gonna comment on the Mercedes because while they definitely have earned their reputation for being expensive in old age I'm not familiar enough with them to pass a value judgement.
How do developers promote open source projects?
Same - hugely frustrating.
This strikes me as a pretty good idea? Ads like these can really have an impact on youth who are at risk of radicalizing. But I haven't seen stats on how effective this is and it is a worrying trend of having essentially government actors on public platforms that aren't open about that very fact. The devil is in the details in this one for me.
> Pretty much everyone who looks at it agrees that nuclear costs more than solar, wind and batteries and is a non-solution to climate change due to cost alone.

Could you point to some studies on this? I am open to persuasion but as far as I'm aware, the battery technology is not there yet, and lots of countries would struggle to find enough land to get all their power from solar + wind.
Thanks for posting. Really helpful for those of us who are just getting started with Golang
Or... Those are the only ones officially reporting it so they can get workplace compensation...

If I dropped my toilet lid, I probably wouldn't officially report it anywhere - not much can be done, after all.
> [...] just a software fix?

They paid for research, marketing, engineering, etc. By that logic one could also argue, that Amazon shouldn't store safety related products in their warehouses, but instead give them away for free.
This[1] is why I will never have a Ring doorbell camera. The slippery slope is becoming a vertical drop; Amazon (with the best of intentions, surely) is conditioning people to allow warrantless wiretaps and searches as if they are the new normal.

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2019/08/06/ring-coaching-police-foo...
I honestly question whether we need Biometrics at all? I don't really see what benefit they have over other types of authorization?
Imagine if Chernobyl happened in the middle of Europe (it _can_ happen again). Imagine if large parts around it became uninhabitable for hundreds of years.

This risk is not captured by a single deaths/TWh number, so please stop comparing this when debating (current) nuclear energy options (not talking about future designs or even fission-based plants)
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Even though this isn’t the same thing op is talking about, I also vouch for these. Slow-close toilet lids are amazing. The only problem is when you visit someone else’s house, you have to be conscious when using their toilets else you end up slamming the lid accidentally by reflexively just starting the closing process and finding out they aren’t slow-close lids (BANG!)
I used to swear by BitDefender Free as it was incredibly lightweight and offered good protection according to reviews. And then they dropped the “feature” on me and installed their own certificate to scan SSL traffic with absolutely no prior warning. I just realized it when sites with self-signed certs suddenly looked good because of the BitDefender CA certificate was in the middle.

I stopped taking any software’s reputation for granted.
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I like this project. However, I wish that under the FAQ for "What's the target price?" they had a better answer than "We'll know better in DVT stage, meanwhile please find the bill of materials in design files for detail." Who is going to Google each of the 89 components listed in the bill of materials to get a rough guess (since it doesn't list price info)?
I have a story on point. My brother is a manager at a company which installs electrical and HVAC systems, working mostly with very high-end private homes. They had this couple as clients, both very fancy architects, who designed their new home to be completely computer-controlled, from window shutters to air conditioners to lights, without any physical switches (I guess there was a remote and sensors or something). The architects had this theory that physical switches completely ruin the aesthetics of a room, and wouldn't abide having those horrible things in their dwelling. My brother says that he practically begged them to let him install backup physical switches - his proposal was that they would have a large panel in a closet somewhere with switches for everything in the house, which would still leave the switches hidden, but would at least make the house usable, if not very convenient, if the computer failed. But the clients insisted on no switches at all and the vendor of the computer system was willing to work with that, so that's what got built.

Anyway, about a month after the project got handed over, my brother gets a call: the computer had somehow worked itself into the state of "beyond fucked", the new computer brought by the vendor was refusing to talk to the controllers, parts were backordered, long story short, the house had been unlivable for a week with no end in sight, and could my brother come over and save it somehow. I think he was able to turn on a few of the most critical things on in manual mode, but obviously he couldn't wire up the hundreds of electrical devices in the house. Not sure what happened later.
Yeah it would likely be user password for services that don’t give API access. Access button means API.
It's not optimized for tablets, just scaled. Narwhal displays a normal ipad-oriented layout like mail.
India and China output a lot, but to manufacture items for the west. A lot of Chinese and Indian government officials would turn around and say, show this map 50 years ago when your industries were growing and you had the fast economic growth. Now its their turn the are being curbed.

The solution is to help these countries build better infrastructure, rather than blame them for our own demands.
Approachability-wise, wouldn't an even better approach be to drop ECS Fargate (in terms of API) and simply add to EC2 the ability to execute Docker images, instead of AMIs?

Feels like if AWS started with dedicated boxes, they'd now be calling EC2 the "Elastic VM Service Fargate".
I mean, the actual implementation of this feature could have been a few hours work...

Let the media center detect airbag deployment on CAN bus, then play a pre-saved quarter second audio sample at a fixed volume.

There might be complexities if the audio system is turned off and needs to boot up, but my guess is on all modern cars, the audio amplifier etc. is always turned on, even if the radio appears 'off'.
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There’s a giant empty Huawei building in Belgrade. Someone didn’t pay off the correct government official. I suppose the Israelis did.
You mean the economy which produces all of the useless things that the parent just said we should stop consuming mindlessly? Slowing economic development is a benefit.
In my experience older Facebook users can spend a lot of time on their desktop computer, too.
I have a small resolution video of a (static) scene, and a high resolution photograph of the same scene. Does anyone know of an upscaling algorithm that takes an image as auxiliary input?

Maybe some style-transfer related algorithm could be useful in this situation?
The shutdown is because 10% of the population of Indian Kashmir is hardcore wahabi sunni and holding the rest of it to ransom. People forget the 45% non muslim population suffering and the rest muslim population who dont turn up to these stone pelting protests.
Interesting topic, but the paper presentation looks weird to me. Most figures don't show curves but a single value with error bars. Never have seen such a way of presenting single data points. I don't see any advantage of presenting these numbers (solely) in text.

I wonder at which journal this paper is going to be submitted (I am not a CS guy so this is a honest question, no sarcasm here)
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My company doesn't. However, we've had a hell of a time finding a marketing firm that will work with us since we don't use Google Analytics. Seriously, we tell them over and over that we can't use Google Analytics (due to our site terms), and they are so confused and keep asking to be given access to it.

Anyone know and marketing firms that are privacy aware/friendly?
Show HN: Forcing myself to be a better planner on asana
After the fork both WebKit and Blink were able to delete large amounts of no-longer-shared code. Not half the codebase, but still quite a lot. The fork was a recognition of their having been growing apart for a long time.

Both groups still watch each other's changes, but it's very rare that a patch would apply cleanly.
Just a typical Concierge MVP :-)
Most hackers I know are chronically optimistic planners (both micro and macro), and at the same time, they (we) despise the authority of having someone "help" them with planning their own workload. So I'm taking a stab at solving this problem for myself, with a technical means to prevent me from blundering on with a bad plan. Long time lurker, first MVP post to HN, apologies for any faux pas I'm committing!
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>This suggests that alternative indicators than just sound should be in place, such as automatically turning off lights and switching to emergency lighting.

The commercial building fire alarms have flashers on them for just that reason. Deaf people need to know the building is on fire too.
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In Poundland, all but a few items cost £1. In U.S. dollar stores, prices vary a lot, and most items cost >$1.
Most countries also live in a single time zone and have winters too, so having enough generation capacity in the winter alone would already skyrocket the cost by an order of magnitude. Add to that energy storage and realistically we are not looking at solar and wind as significant power sources in the next couple of decades for sure.
It should announce its presence on an interval too. What if someone camoflages the camera in some Christmas lights? What if you're blind?
Aren't longitude/latitude co-ordinates even more precise? There's a bunch of free apps that give that information out. Am I missing something?

>I tried to get people to use longitude and latitude but that never caught on," Mr Sheldrick said.

Well, if it's a life or death situation Mr Sheldrick, I'm pretty sure people would catch on fairly quick
Sure but that's why I asked if the blocking tech was open source as well, but I probably didn't ask it very clearly. I couldn't tell from the linked page whether the tech (whether lists or algorithms) were closed or open, but if it's the latter wouldn't that be enough disclosure?
I don't agree that all pro-nuclear people are right wing. It's historically false for one. It's also financially unfeasible for private industry with current power plant design. The best model for current technology would be a large government backed program to build a national utility powered by nuclear with secure sources of fuel production and methods of disposal all of which requires influence at the state level to overcome nimbyism. It may even need to be run at a net loss but surely the value of removing such a large source of carbon emission and pollution is worth it.
Also, a tracking service could just ask to be CNAMEd to a random subdomain and become everybody’s “first party”, couldn’t it?
Now we're just waiting for American Pi, in other words.
They had a smartphone with working GPS and they didn't know where they were...
Until a few weeks ago I've never heard before of 3words, but they seems to be online from a very long time.

Another similar geo location system, if I'm not wrong created by Google but released with a liberal license (Apache) and not patent encumbered, is called "plus.codes".

Edit: according to Wikipedia they were founded in 2013, don't recall why I thought they were older...
The discussion is about 10-year fixed rates. After 10 years you can either refinance or pay (and it’s not an anticipated payment), or maybe it’s already stipulated that the rate after 10-years is floating (but then cancellation is also much easier than in the middle of a fixed-rate mortgage).
Works in animal training too. Intermittent rewards make them work harder because they “may” hit the jackpot from time to
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How many body parts can I replace with my spare-parts-clone until I don't have anything of the original left? We have a Ship of Theseus question about human identity. As interesting as this rabbit hole is, I think the pragmatics of "you need a new body part and this will save your life" will be more compelling.
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I think I remember my previous employment contract here in Germany stating that talking about salary was a fireable offense. Can't remember anything similar in Sweden. Just some datapoints.
I was thinking the same thing.

I believe it's just easier for the average person to communicate three words than two multi-digit-precision numbers.
It's just what businesses are familiar with and, frankly, what works. Before scrum you've had system analysts writing requirements and use cases, now you have product owner writing stories.

Engineers have so much on their plate fighting the actual code that making them talk to users (who don't know what they want half of the time or are involved in some sort political battles themselves) is just putting too much on their plate IMO. Maybe this could work in a smaller organisation with a fairly straightforward business, but in any place old and large, there's usually so many stakeholders involved (usually playing poor man's game of thrones amongst themselves) and so much random conflicting bullshit (in the requirements etc.) that any sane developer would be happy to just be oblivious to that.
Prior discussions:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15579017
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8614198

They summarise as "proprietary & commercial, not obvious to humans without the service, and not compatible with maps."
Something's rotten with article. It resembles an advertisement more than a news article.

If they had a cell phone and was lost in a forest why didn't they just boot up maps (they had bandwidth enough to download an app) and walk out of there?
A bad compromise leaves both parties dissatisfied, too.
1m fingerprints found in leaky database by firm who should know better
Uh, we're talking mainly about doorbell cameras, or using these cameras for security.
I’ve come to almost exactly the same conclusions. And it really is sad: Xamarin developer tools used to be decent, almost even good.

Today? I’d rather try to build mobile apps in COBOL than Xamarin. The developer tools are so broken, so buggy, and so poorly documented that it’s just not worth it.

I thought Microsoft purchasing Xamarin would have made things better at the lowest level of the dev tools stack - hey, finally some investment will go toward shoring up the dev stack! Nope, apparently not.

Years later, trying to connect VS for Windows to a Mac build server is still astoundingly, soul-crushingly broken. No way to get support. No straightforward way to file bugs.

Just a truly awful developer experience.
Note that the Philips system is a mesh network, so you communicate with the bulbs via WiFi/LAN to hit the hub, but the hub communicates via the mesh network, which lets it reliably reach distant bulbs out of WiFi range so long as there's a bulb chain it can bounce the signal along.
Isn't the argument also that when tired, stressed, cold, and maybe even injured, it's easier to tell a 999/911 operator three English words you're used to, rather than a string of numbers most people don't have any context for.
> For example, GitHub controls DNS for .github.io so if they wanted to track people across all GitHub Pages, they could.*

The public suffix list historically has been opt-in. If you look at the (human readable) https://publicsuffix.org/list/public_suffix_list.dat you'll see:

// GitHub, Inc.
// Submitted by Patrick Toomey <security@github.com>
github.io
githubusercontent.com

Major companies have historically wanted to list their user-content domains on the PSL because it helps protect users cookies from other users. It's possible that this announcement changes things, but I think it mostly doesn't.

The main problem with a DNS-based system is just that you would need to get everyone to switch to it, and figure out what to do in the mean time. If ".io" or someone doesn't set the DNS flag then that's a major security issue for everyone under it.