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I understand your intent, but what people "want" reads like an utopian wishlist. It's not clear that any strategy sustainably can take us there.

All regulations are tweaks to free market capitalism, and more are definitely needed. But do you think that the masses that are rallying up behind authoritarian governments around the world are taking a view as nuanced as yours? I fear they are not.
Considering the amount of jewelry in the Diamond District, there isn't a full time turret installed by the NYPD. I've walked through there in the middle of the night and it was dead like most other midtown streets around it.
Nice! I've been trying to do some RE myself to no avail. This project (https://github.com/TheCrypt0/yi-hack-v4) maintainer puts a paid DRM atop the main functionality (enabling rtsp streaming for Yi cams). I tried bypassing the DRM by replacing the MC command in ghidra but it didn't work. Do you have any learning resources you can share so I can bypass/crack this DRM?
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> My uneducated guess is that the Europeans lived in much larger communities (in Europe), which is a much better breeding ground for disease

Not a bad guess, but completely wrong. The cities of Mesoamerica or the Andes or the Mississippian culture of North America would have dwarfed most European cities, before they were ravaged by disease.

The best explanation I have seen is that almost all domesticable animals in the New World were exterminated early, and so there wasn't anywhere near the cross-species disease potential in the Americas. Old Worlders had domesticated horses, goats, sheep, pigs, cows, a wide array of fowl, camels, dogs, cats, etc, etc. In the Americas, there were turkeys, ducks, llamas & alpacas, and guinea pigs - and not all of those in any one place.
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I'm a self-taught programmer, currently in college and I'd really like to have a side-project to devote some of my free time towards but I seem to be going through a long period where none of my ideas interest me. Any recommendations for a problem that you think might be worth tackling?
Why aren’t those the customers you want?

Each additional customer costs 0 more (since its software), and it’s a side project, so maximizing revenue isn’t necessarily the OP’s chief objective. He made a cool thing, and people like it!
Touchscreens: cheap to design around, easy to rearrange into the latest fashion, hateful to use, and here to stay--and I don't even have an RSI!

Don't have a child's fingers and a eagle's eyes? Suck it grandpa! You weren't part of our hyperconsuming target demographic anyway.
> I don't know the realities of the weird city life Americans experience, but the places I've lived in Europe make this trivial.

Every time I've visited Europe, I've been able to find a Monoprice (or a Carrefour, etc.) within walking distance of my hotel. They all had fresh meats and vegetables at reasonable prices. Nothing similar exists in most U.S. cities.
Even worse, many think they understand finances without realizing there is a difference in corporate versus personal financing. The rules don't necessarily transfer between them.

Or just large numbers. A valid strategy to invest a million will be worthless with just a dime. No matter what the silly myths of success say.
I see those positions as "Researcher", "Research Fellow", "Associate"(-member of the academic staff) etc.

They add the term "post-doctoral" to indicate that you need to have completed a Doctorate. Or if you wish - to indicate that the conditions will be poor :-(
It is transparently using the enforcement in a predatory way. Their goal clearly isn't to keep the parking enforced or they would have done it from the start or at least after move in times. That is what is highly unethical - they deliberately let the /problem start/ for profit.

They aren't the law either any more than Jimmy's Pizza place is when the call to tow a car that was abandoned for a week.
The bit about disk drive lying about syncing writes is a persistent myth. There have probably been some HDDs at some point which had notable bugs in their flush command, but in general drives do actually write data to disk before reporting complete status for a flush.

I spent several years working for a major HDD manufacturer and their firmware QA process included a test rig which would repeatedly pull power to the drive while sending write and flush commands. The drive would then be powered up and the data on the drive examined to verify that all data which should have been flushed actually made it to disk.

I think this myth persists mostly because it can be surprising difficult to coax an OS into sending a flush command for much the same reason disk drives get accused of lying about it: performance.

These days the most reliably solution is to reconfigure the drive with write caching disabled. This way the drive will ensure every write hits the disk before reporting completion to the host. Write caching remains enabled by default on SATA drives mostly for historical reasons. Back before command queuing was commonly supported write caching gave a large speedup. These days everything supports NCQ so disabling write caching only has a small performance impact.
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I think this picture of how HFT and games work doesn't have much connection to how it actually does. In these industries you can't just get all or even most of the high performance stuff you need off the shelf for a variety of reasons. You have to write a lot of it yourself, and likely you'd need to write quite a lot of unsafe code (certainly in HFT, speaking from experience).
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The last paragraph in this article is as follows:

Finally, the British had servants. Even common British soldiers had servants.

So maybe read the article before commenting on what is or is not in it?
Not true other wise why would lottery winners and sports starts lose money to scammers etc Boxers in particular are prone to ending up in poverty.
"California's AB5 Leaves Business Owners Reeling. Some of These Business Owners are Female."
I stand corrected, thank you! Unfortunately I can neither delete nor edit my original comment.

I was thinking of ultralight aircrafts, but those have strict weight limits (no VW bus), so the potential damage from one crashing is much reduced.
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Or alternatively, increase property tax for rental properties where average utilization drops below a set threshold.
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Which just goes to prove that the emperor is wearing no clothes: The vision of democratized crypto mining has not been realized. Instead of millions of people collectively holding the network in check, the mining power is being centralized by big key players. It's only a matter of time until the mining power has centralized enough to where the network can be sabotaged and taken over by whichever party is mining more than 50% of the work.
While almost anyone can code up a game, I disagree with you overall.

"AAA" games are MASSIVE undertakings of world building, art production, coding, integration, and, of course, financing.

Very similar to movies and, well, goddamn everything of any complexity in our economy, a cartel has formed.

There are only a handful of AAA "studios/producers".
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Exactly. As long as you get the proper results within reasonable time and memory constraints, why should you care exactly which algorithm is used?
I agree - I think MIR is trying to produce better machine code more quickly, but that isn't the problem Ruby faces! The problem Ruby faces is having to inline through ten levels of metaprogramming in order to get any meaningfully-sized compilation unit that you can optimise, and only then it makes sense to worry about code generation.

However, the reason that this is not so simple is that Ruby is a vastly more complicated language than JavaScript (I've worked on implementing both.) Ruby has an enormous standard library and most Ruby programs are just endless calls to the that library, so your compiler must be able to understand the library semantically, either by rewriting it in Ruby (not likely at scale in MRI) or by adding tens of thousands of individually optimised intrinsics (again not likely).

Ruby is digging itself further into a local optima with these approaches optimisations, rather than looking further around for a better global optima.
> that “last 1%” happens every trip at any time.

Are you are going to randomly have to park in a wedding lot? The only example you gave which might happen in the middle of a trip, the Tesla can handle just fine for long enough to pass control over to the driver.

> you can’t because you (the royal you) are three sheets to the wind plastered drunk.

It's still the driver's responsibility to drive sober. Even so, I'd far rather someone who is drunk be behind the wheel of a self driving car than otherwise.
Because they aren't investing and letting their money work for them. They are spending it frivolously.
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It's more like a compound interest. A financial example would be payday loans with an incredible APR and a low monthly payment, your debt is forever increasing.
Very curious where you work, because there's only really a handful of major places doing HFT (as opposed to algorithmic trading) and haven't heard of Rust being used at any of them.
Usually classical, jazz, or Celtic/ambient. Words are only allowed when I'm doing something mindless and rote - anything that requires real thinking, especially writing, will have the lyrics take the quality down a couple of notches - not a lot, but enough to be noticeable. The only exception is pure non-verbal creative work (CAD, graphic design, etc.) where relaxation is key - there, Jimmy Buffett, or old country or pop music can be quite useful.
Because they are terrible with money?

Rich people are rich because they see money as capital to create more opportunities with by investing it.

Poor people are poor because they see money as something to be spent buying more things.

That mentality doesn’t necessarily change just because you suddenly come into money.
I was forced to work less hard by my employer who was paying by the ticket, and that stumped my creativity badly, and the seniors basically told me they're just planning to retire on a slow burner career.

Success these days is mostly about bowing down and impressing the executive branch, which will reward your achiever attitude, according to their standards.

That said, im kind of fresh to work, and those guys got kids.

I think hard work is something reserved for hard things, and maybe what we consider hard work is just misidentification with a job, we on the cost of spiritual growth?

I think were just confused, since what was hard is these days no longer that, and we’re experiencing a sort of midway shift.
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> It's actually terribly expensive compared to a bag of rice and potatoes

What about the time cost?

To make food from fresh, you need significantly more time to prepare and cook the ingredients. You also need more frequent shopping trips to ensure fresh food is ready for cooking.

If you're working long hours or working shifts, or are living on your own, this becomes significant.

Also of course rice and potatoes on their own are not very nutritious. Brown rice is better than white rice, but that takes longer to prepare again.

Preparing a meal from fresh also takes more willpower and energy than selecting more immediately available calories. I'm pretty sure that's a lot easier after coming home from an office job rather than a 12-hour factory shift.
Types of technical debt are not made equal.

Implementation technical debt (the code) makes it harder for devs to work in a given service, slows down velocity and increases the risk of bugs, but is at least contained to a given service and can be rewritten as a known quantity.

Architectural technical debt will crush your product or your stack, often quickly.
Yes. Two teachers (one elementary, one college). A former boss. Each helped me by not just expecting more of me, but mentoring me in ways that allowed a bullied kid with little self-respect recognize and grow into my talents. I think it is a great idea and recommend it. As OP said, the conversations that arose from each were great.
2 years for 40% reduction in daily calories? No fucking thank you.

You know what blows away the actuarial tables for life expectancy? Exercise. That makes your life better for longer, much more than starving yourself.
Binding arbitration doesn't mean you don't have recourse. It means the recourse is arbitration.
Good post thanks
I subscribe to Bitwarden but this is a real issue with a lot of things: subscription overload.

It is especially bad with newspapers where everyone seems to be optimizing only for subscribers, not for sale of individual news items or even single day access.

Consequently I don't buy (except one local and one national one.)

The Guardian seems to be the winner in my case. They accept donations and get $10 for each thing I read there it seems :-]
It’s a mix of everything.
Ask HN: How to stop "demo" abuses
I've been keeping efforts to implement the internet's "basic+free" SEO tips into the product, which worked. Ours is now at the top.

This is the first time, I ever concentrated on SEO for any of the projects, certainly happy about the result. I want to understand the risks and precautions I should take, especially when you have a "Demo" for the trial but users are constantly abusing it with their skills.

I've the very basic usage check (with a counter stored in the localStorage) limitation implemented already which is not enough. Will be helpful if someone chip-in with leads on the ways to limit the users after certain number of trails per day.

Thank you.
The question was specifically about British officers.
In what sense has "progress" "stopped"?
Rubinius. Here are Evan’s slides from the 2009 LLVM developer conference:

https://llvm.org/devmtg/2009-10/Phoenix_AcceleratingRuby.pdf

EngineYard took Rubinius in a few directions, but I think the main lasting impact was all the RSpec work they did along the way.
Thank you for this.

I don't know much about this topic, but it seems reasonable to think that multiple frames ought to be useful in estimating subpixel values.

I agree with your take on the suggestion that that police won't spend time on it, and that any altered images wouldn't be admissible as evidence. They did spend considerable time taking fingerprints in my home. And even the original video is damning. I am hopeful that better quality images can be used to get the name and possible location of the suspect. I'm offering a reward of $1,000 to the first person that gives Kirkland PD information that leads to them interviewing a credible suspect.

I doubt that any of our property will be recovered. I'd like to see this individual off the streets. Perhaps someday, he will get treatment that would help him.
That approach has been mentioned in the comments. Some problems with it are:

If a certificate is valid beyond 825 days Chrome will not honor it. So if you generate a key and cert at the factory for every device you run into the issue of the end-user getting a device with an expired cert.

If you generate a unique key and self-signed cert users will complain and call support about the "insecure" site warning.

Communicating upstream to a third party to get a cert won't work for all users (e.g. those that need to configure a static IP from their ISP.)
>The decrease in average body temperature in the United States could be explained by a reduction in metabolic rate, or the amount of energy being used. The authors hypothesize that this reduction may be due to a population-wide decline in inflammation

Let's not ignore the elephant in the room. A sedentary lifestyle with minimal exercise has become the norm.
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*After a certain level of wealth _and knowledge of investment markets_, your money will work for you.

For the majority of people reaching a certain wealth point, they leveled up their knowledge with their incoming cash flow. For lottery winners and sports stars, they got plopped in the middle of level 20 among the sharks.
Given that the DB is designed to survive power outages (even during transactions), I don't really understand how that would be the case.
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I haven't followed Oculus stuff at all, but some of the comments there talk about how great Oculus keyboards will be. Anybody know if that's still the case?
Can I show off a bit about my project too?
We make a huge database of user manuals you can check it here https://manualsbrain.com/en/
Do you literally google it? Why not make an `alias` once, or `man youtube-dl`, or `youtube-dl --help | grep audio`?
I will be the oldest person on the bench for sure (almost 40... time flies!), and I'm nervous as hell. :)

I will second Kragen in saying that there surely are many others like me, that has been inspired by your work.

Oh and btw, it was the post on Automata, not ripgrep. This one https://blog.burntsushi.net/transducers/
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Thank you for this. I'll take a look at Pixelmator Pro and their "ML Super Resolution." It seems credible to me that some kind of ML approach ought to be useful here.
See also: counterfeit SD cards.
While I agree that companies should share development libraries/SDKs, this will not prevent reverse engineering and if closed source gives reverse engineers another avenue to gain access. BMW likely declined due to possible liability. If someone creates a smartphone app than anyone could download that unlocks the vehicles and is sued, it is easier to convince lawyers, judges and nontechnical plaintiffs that the company is not at fault if they provided no access to the software regardless of whether the SDK provided was utilized or not. Even if there was an explicit opt in for each vehicle to allow users to utilize a SDK, the auto industry does not have protocols on how to do factory resets after the vehicle changes hands.
You're underestimating luck. A better analogy would be a process that selects for the top 2% of athletes through competition, then enters them into a lottery.
Don't worry, progress has taken care of that too. Many fixtures are now via LED, soldered onto the fixture and not repairable/replaceable.
This is what I was thinking as well. Superresolution techniques aren't going to surface information that was not already in the image. However, combining multiple sequential images of the same subject can have this effect.

The problem is that I'm sure the subject moves considerably from one image to the next. You will have to isolate his face in each frame and transform the face grabs so that they line up perfectly before the images can be combined by averaging.

It's worth a shot!
So the summary is they aren't certain why, but it seems like it's due to people being a lot more sedentary, having lower metabolisms and being in climate controlled buildings a lot more.

Unfortunately, it seems pretty predictable given the changes in our lifestyles...
Ask HN: I'm a total jerk, would you hire me?
Here's my portfolio: https://github.com/crislin2046/portfolio

You can see how arrogant and up myself I am.

But I've also clashed with all previous bosses I've had, so clearly, the problem is not them, it's me.

What should I do? Give up? Kill myself (kidding, totally. Jerks never self-harm).

I don't want to give up who I am, but I am the problem. I thought I'd have made my own successful business by now so I wouldn't have to face the situation of being an unemployable, awful jerk, but here I am.

Tell me HN, what do I do?
Do you mean other sorting algorithms, or other out-of-core algorithms in general?

There are many - this has been an area of study since CS began. Have a look at vol 3 of Knuth, for starters.

Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_sorting talks about distribution sort; there are others.
Congrats! Lovely work.
When you walked up to talk to an acquaintance, wouldn't it be nice if your AR glasses popped up a display of their name, a brief bio, and the last time that you met?

It isn't just useful for mass surveillance.
Correct, if the information simply isn't present no amount of trickery will conjure it up.
Even if the photos can't be used as evidence, they may be useful in identifying a suspect enough that a warrant could be executed to search his apartment or whatever. For commercial crime cases in my city, the police almost never count on the courts to convict people of theft; their primary focus is on getting stuff back to its rightful owners if possible.
These days that's not enough; most come with 6 Reasons, and often one of them is particularly Unbelievable.
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If you are using WAL, I feel volume-level snapshots are an acceptable approach.
Oh an fwiw the political system can’t get the nuance because it purposefully pushed free speech and debate out of Congress into the real world. Plausible deniability. They’re just a bought vote.

Read what the Founders intended. Free speech, vigorous debate in the official political realm is what they were protecting.

It was pushed onto the masses to debate markets. You want a political system that gets the nuance, make them discuss it all day instead of market gains and protectionism for old schemes.

All they debate is the flow of paid speech. Bribery of the masses to work for it and how we must pay them back for that work. Wait, what?

It’s wrapped in jargon to obfuscate the shit deal. Decades ago we passed laws against contracting people who can’t read for a similar reason: it’s manipulative to say ones very abstract model is just right. Yes the combination and division of quantities is correct. What quantities are you measuring? How are you weighting them? So the rich get richer clearly and tighten control of our agency.

The political machinery is off limits to free speech. Boring as it is CSPAN will teach you that in a day. It’s boring on purpose, to keep us interested in the “real action” on cable news talk shows.

Someone like AOC comes around and brings nuanced debate back to the political world itself and she’s a demon.

And I don’t post for you all but for Internet posterity, search engines, etc. most of you all, like myself make bank off it. Talking to a wall here.

Information warfare is all over.
> 5000 (fully organic) users.

It'd be more newsworthy if they were like half organic, half machine. Cyborgs are an up and coming niche market!

Kidding aside, congratulations, that's impressive!
Based on this news, I just looked around and discovered that LastPass has a way to export a CSV file of all the passwords in plaintext. I just did that and have a PGP'd archive of my passwords stored locally. Not a bad thing to do with any password manager.
> because the company was pretty cheap, but also we had so many to deploy

Isn't "deploy many systems in hard to reach places" the prime target for enterprise-grade hardware? Fixing problems on one bespoke system is a lot easier than fixing the same problem 8000 times, and of course with a large sample size the number of problems experienced goes up.
Why do you choose to participate in such a system?
Can you change the title of the question? I think you're asking about users abusing your trial/demo service, not anything about Google search results.

> the very basic usage check limitation implemented already

What are those limitations? It's hard to answer a question when basic information is missing.
Arduino controlled real live squid with water backpack. That’s the future.

I wonder if some sort of jelly would work to do the same thing, like a snail. Or a dynamic cup surface that conforms to the wall better.