skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's pretty widespread, but I frequently have to wait in line to use the self-checkout machines. It doesn't necessarily get me out the door faster.
Interesting. Personally, I’ve been using VMAF extensively in my imager.io project. With regards to only testing the luma channel, someone submitted a PR for such some time ago yet it’s never been merged; I was under the impression that the UV channel isn’t significant (in practice). Personally, I think VMAF is great for images. For me, the biggest downside of VMAF (implementation wise) is that it’s not currently thread-safe.
Well it's a good thing that Americans aren't susceptible to misinformati... oh.. yeah...

This is probably my biggest fear, not that I'll die from CORVID-19 but rather fear and panic will take over and cause people to do stupid things. Well, that and our healthcare industry being completely overwhelmed in part because we aren't taking this seriously enough ("It's just the cold, no big deal" <- I've heard that SO many times). No need to go into full blown panic but wash your damn hands and take some minor precautions. You personally might not be at a high risk for death but you can still spread it. Wash your hands for your parents, your grandparents, your aunts/uncles.

Our best bet to stretch this out as long as possible as to not overwhelm our healthcare industry. We have 2.77 hospital beds per 1000 Americans and remember CORVID-19 doesn't magically remove all the other reasons people need those beds (over half are already in-use). Our government is telling us we have stockpiles of 12M N95 masks and 30M surgical masks. We have ~18M healthcare workers in the US. You can do the math. I've got a friend who is a nurse and they've been told to use each mask (N95) for 8 hours putting it in a brown paper bag while they are on break/eating. If our healthcare workers start getting sick it only makes this whole issue worse.

Don't panic but dear god, wash your hands, and follow the other CDC guidelines on how to protect yourselves and others.
Weird, WD40 is one of my favorite smells. It's the best chemical smell I can think of.

I can't speak for Ballistol, but I probably like that too.
>But I agree with other posters, he is capable enough to clean his leaking, but not his kiddie shit ?

As I wrote in my post, he wasn't capable enough to clean up a lot of his leaking. They found various kinds of evidence. A lot of it was covered up, but a lot wasn't.

>Also he was never recognised for the kiddie stuff before ?

I would bet the majority of people who download child pornography probably never end up getting on anyone's radar. Or at least a large percentage don't.

>Why not? They claim end-to-encryption is protecting pedophiles... And it's their selling point. That trench of absolute human shit is their marketing. - For impact, they need to sell it over the value of e2e for the citizen.

Sure, I don't like that one bit, but it's a huge leap to go from that to planting child pornography evidence on a suspect's computer. Many people do legitimately believe encryption is a net negative and enables criminals like pedophiles and terrorists. I don't agree with them, but this is a belief people have. On the other hand, there is no belief or rationale that could ever justify planting child pornography on someone's computer.

Are you suggesting that this is a double-layered conspiracy - not only a way to get a leaker convicted, but also a way to make those who use encryption seem like pedophiles? If so, you're going to need to provide even more evidence than if you were just posing the first claim. I could think of like four more layers of conspiracy theories I could pile on top of that, but they're also meaningless without evidence. I could spin your comment as you being part of a conspiracy theory to protect pedophiles; also meaningless.

>Planting that shit seems a perfect candidate to get a no questions asked lock up. And lets be honest, if its true, we would all burn his balls attached to him and than let him go to prison.

Sure, that'd be one of the best ways to secure a conviction if you're trying to think of what sort of evidence to plant, but I don't see how it relates to your other points or to the likelihood of it being true. Conspiring to crash planes into financial and government buildings on 9/11 would be one of the best ways to start a war in the Middle East if you're trying to think of some casus belli, but that doesn't mean that's what actually happened.

I would recommend reading the documents. Yes, some are long, but they're much more informative than completely blind speculation from HN commenters going off of nothing but a thread title.
That’s a fascinating explanation. Did you come up with it by yourself?
> RFID are not good enough for this application. In the end you'd still need to take the items out of the bag to scan them, as RFID blocking tech is real,

Like, obviously customers are blocking RFIDs en masse then the tech is a non-starter. I've never heard anyone say this was a serious threat; do you have a reference?

If you're just going based on some youtube video proof-of-concept: it's not at all clear that this hypothetical attacks are more realistic than hypothetical attacks I could dream up for Amazon's system.

> You'd need to chip every item in the store, which is a LOT of human labor (expensive),

I am not suggesting RFIDs as an alternative for Amazon's business contracting with storeowners. I am taking a society-wide view and wondering why suppliers didn't switch from barcodes to RFIDs.
And under all rules, the last time it happened was 1997, so it's still signficant
i used to get glasses from costco for years now, but i've often had some minor quality issues.

not bad enough to return, but enough to annoy me. things like small scratches or poor fitting service (the employees at my local costco locations are spotty. some are good, others are terrible and i’ve had scratches or over bending). i tried polarized lenses and they came out terrible. at least the glasses are cheap enough that i don’t mind tossing them.

i recently got custom glasses from https://www.topologyeyewear.com/ and the fit and lens quality is the best i've ever experienced. very pricey though.

is there anyone else with asian bridge problem that they have a good solution for?

not affiliated, just a happy first time customer.
This is a major improvement. It's better than WebP by a bigger margin than WebP was better than JPEG.

Lossy WebP couldn't even match JPEG in some aspects, like full-resolution color (4:2:0 only, not even full 8-bit depth). In terms of quality or features AVIF doesn't have such "buts". It can support HDR and high depth we're likely to want in the near future. AV1 has palette blocks, so it's no longer all-or-nothing choice of lossy vs lossless formats.

I am worried that the AVIF spec is complex (like HEIF, it's a bag of image-related features, more like a PowerPoint file than an image), but probably only commonly-used features will survive out of it. Early JPEG also used to have many more modes than are usable today.

If you like questionable hacks, you can use AV1 codec today in Firefox and Chrome by embedding <video> element with a 1-frame AV1 "video".
I believe you’re referring to a story about Target from a few years back:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...
Isn't iOS a version of Mac OS? :-)

Do they share any new code nowadays?
Isn't HEIC (iPhone and Android P) patent-encumbered by HEVC? $0.20/device, but your photos are probably using it now.
Technically true, but good luck convincing a judge you were fired because you're a white cisgender male in an industry dominated by white cisgender males.
Yup, you're right. And yet it doesn't matter because this is a moral issue, not an economic one. Not everything comes down to the cold, hard logic of economics and incentives - nor should it, for the sake of humanity.
Another one: https://www.accelrobotics.com/
I'll be very interested to learn how often this happens. Certainly Kalanick and Neumann managed to walk away billionaires from companies that have never turned a profit. But I'm hoping that is a rare outcome.
Unless you're going to college for engineering, math, the sciences, or to become a doctor, college really isn't for learning.

It's for having fun and to some degree networking. If you can join a fraternity/sorority, your network will most likely get you a job right out of college.

I knew a guy that had jobs in the tech industry lined up after college for nothing more than knowing people in his frat.

He was running his own business and had very little hands-on experience and wouldn't have lasted a week at most of these jobs.

I, on the other hand, had at least 5 years of experience at that point (not to mention the decade prior to this of writing software as a hobby) and had to work pretty hard to get my first job.

Somehow, it doesn't seem fair. But it taught me that networking is equally or more important than experience and skill.
My contention is that twitter has not been only a negative development for politics in western democracies. I don't have a strong opinion about it being a net negative or positive, probably won't be confident about that for at least another decade or two to see how it all settles out.
or if you're _not_ interested in front-end work, but need to do something quick.
Upvoted you just so I get shadowbanned from upvoting in the future.
How is the content updated?
I agree with focusing on actionable alerts during on-call hours. You might be able to have some kind of scheduled change in sensitivity.

One thing I've wondered in the past year is whether fuzzy logic would be useful. Your example is a really good case of linguistic variables -- "lightly loaded", "a long time", "normal temperature" and so on. These can be assembled into rules or tables that should fire more sensibly than exact threshold values.
https://archive.md/CHw4G
> Apart from sentiment, does anyone, including Apple, still care about OSX?

Going to hazard a guess that the users of the approximately one hundred million Macs currently in use are among those who still care.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/30/there-are-now-100-million-...
The primary purpose of NDAs is to keep confidential information confidential. Every business has information about their operations and plans they want to keep confidential, in order for their competitors and suppliers not to have an advantage.

Essentially every knowledge work employee signs a nondisclosure agreement during their employment. Most who leave reaffirm the agreement in return for severance. So statistics of NDAs would just tell you how many employees an outfit has.

An employee who knows of actual lawbreaking can report it to authorities and be protected as a whistleblower. There's no protection for telling journalists that the company had execution problems.
Trading options that reflect market pullback and volatility. VIX being one method in short term. Trading put vertical options on SPY as another.
Which historically-trusted media companies are claiming that the masks are "ineffective"? At the end of the day, it's a red herring, but I'm still curious.
I'm no fan of 4:2:2 (2:1 chroma subsampling), but the comparison looks a lot better for JPEG when you use 4:2:2 (which is the usual JPEG default). Using 4:4:4 instead drives the blocking artifacts way up, and isn't fair to JPEG.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22529670
under "contact" it says:

For migrations-related inquiries (getting a quote,
analyzing the compatibility of your code,
discussing the technology, etc.), please write to: [...]

If they can reliably migrate a decent number of vital corporate applications, then that's a business that can put some food on the table.
If you're just worried about customer's bags, it's pretty easy to say customers have to shop with the store carts and can't use their bags until after they've checked out. You could also weigh the bag to make sure the expected weight of the successfully scanned products is in the same ballpark.

The collision problem is discussed by other commenters.
I bought a new phone in a store, then bought a cover and a screen protecton on amazon. It sent me a notification: "We think you might be interested in a new phone".

It's pretty obvious that people don't go around shopping for screen protectors and then buy phones to match.
Are you asserting that an NDA about limiting what you can talk about an organization is not enforceable? Because I think a 30 second google search will literally find you thousands of such NDAs being perfectly legit.
It looks like it's a plugin for Visual Studio and from what I can tell Visual Studio requires a Microsoft account. There's a link to their Github repository and it has the project files for compiling OpenSilver in VS. I think the Microsoft account in required for installing plugins hosted by MS.

https://github.com/cshtml5/CSHTML5
And it looks like 2mm and rated for 15A, and 1mm for 10A.

(I thought DC current used the volume of the wire and AC the surface area, so I'm a bit surprised that wire ratings don't distinguish AC and DC. Though I suppose heat dissipation is determined by the surface area so perhaps that makes sense.)
As much as null is considered the "billion dollar mistake", personally, I think that Java giving Object a virtual equals() and hashCode() was an even bigger mistake. NPEs blow up loudly in your face and are fairly easy to lint for. By comparison, bad equals() and hashCode() implementations can cause difficult-to-track-down errors. Unfortunately, this design was inherited by C# and other OO languages. C# does have the IEqualityComparer interface, which helps in some cases, but many containers and other framework methods rely on an overridden instance equality method.
If they decided to cash out for any amount, that would go against their track record of holding on to companies and exiting when they are much larger in evaluation.

This would not only raise eyebrows, but eventually the truth will come out. Put yourself in the shoes of a buyer, if you were buying out Sequoia's shares and after a few weeks/months news came out that they only sold their shares because of this. Not only that, but that Finix is pretty much competing with Stripe, which they have no chance of succeeding at, it would tarnish Sequoia's reputation and also open them up to litigation. As someone else in this thread pointed, $21 Million is a rounding error for them.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22527796
https://archive.md/KNzyq
> She was 5 months pregnant being threatened with termination

> You talk to a lawyer in that situation

Stop and listen to yourself.

Do you honestly not see how someone in this situation might not believe that retaining a lawyer is a realistic possibility for them?
It's pretty horrendous. It got to the point in the fall that I had a couple days a week on average that were 100% meetings, wall to wall. I finally went through and blocked out my lunch hour and all of Friday, shoving meetings around to crowd the rest of the week so that I could have some uninterrupted time at least once a week to catch up on all the stuff I couldn't do while sitting in meetings. Even then, I still have to make exceptions into that for last-minute meetings, although at least then it's my choice to do it.

One thing I'm trying to get better about is not attending all of the weekly/bi-weekly "let's just check in with each other" meetings. If I'm not attending I let them know so they can pull me in if needed, but otherwise I make those meetings more of the "if I'm not actively engaged in deep work, I'll be there" priority level. FOMO is real, but I'm combating it with the satisfaction of seeing servers up and code running. :)
> large app developers seem to not be embracing new systems/APIs, software largely isn't being ported

What makes you think that? Microsoft, Adobe, heck, even Valve have ports of their stuff on macOS. They seem to use new systems/APIs when appropriate, but maybe I'm not sure what you're talking about there. Care to elaborate on what you mean?

As for:

> What is the reason for macOS at this point?

Well, it's for people who want something more usable than Linux, but don't want to deal with Windows. Pretty much the same as it's been for decades. It also works very nicely with the iOS devices that many people love, so that helps, too.
And how do you know when the feed isn’t being fed or sold to a company utilizing facial recognition?
ok. yea if she can prove that she was fired based discrimination.

>trying to get rid of her without doing the proper legwork to establish that she failed in any measuable fashion.

I responded to this quoted comment sayin that employer has to establish poor performance. I was fired with any sort of "establish" and i found out that i couldn't do anything.
From what the numbers are saying it looks like the USA is both under-testing and over-reporting simultaneously. Very odd state of affairs. I'm ignoring the total cases number from the USA at present because it is a clear outlier. The # of deaths is much more reliable but that number will lag as tests are performed.

(The # of deaths for Germany is suspiciously low, as is the # of deaths for S. Korea.) I actually think the Chinese data is fairly accurate. the Iranian data, well, who knows. I'd like to think the European data is reliable, but again, who knows.

If the USA becomes a hot-spot then other countries will undoubtedly institute a travel ban to/from there like is happening with parts of China, S. Korea, Italy, Iran, and so on.
Don't forget the planes!
That's generally true. But you don't have to join a fraternity and bro down with people to build a network that'll get you jobs. Writing articles, publishing open-source, going to industry conferences, etc. are probably more effective.
The article considers Debian Linux one item for the list, yet treats each version of Windows as separate. In their 20 year chart, all versions of Windows adds up to 4865 to Debian's 3067.

Otherwise, we have to split up Debian by version, or at least only count the versions since Windows 10 was released. For example, the chart showing just 2019 shows Debian with 360 and Windows 10 with 357, essentially neck and neck.

If you look at the vendors charts, you'll see that Microsoft is clearly in the lead.
How to Prepare a Go Bag
She's an adult and responsible for her actions.
Actually the thinking still holds: it’s better to have some cash besides your business if you would really need it that soon, or be prepared to take out money from your business when it’s cash strapped (I’m doing the 2nd actually, but I’m OK with it, and am prepared for it emotionally).
I wonder how vulnerable this system is to adversarial attacks. This will depend on the details of the implementation and is probably easy to guard against (e.g. by using an additional, non-NN based tracker or out-of-distribution detection), but it is an interesting scenario. Would you get arrested for entering a shop with a sweater that features a (seemingly) random noise print, making the payment system malfunction?
Many companies criminally underhire talented technical PMs and team assistants. The latter in particular are fantastic and you’d be amazed just how much can be handed off to them. You can completely transform how much time you have for people by investing more in these areas.

The phrase “executive assistant” is just one huge mistake. It makes the role sound like a secretary to one person, which makes people think they shouldn’t have one until they’re overburdened to the point of being completely ineffective at their job. In fact, even small- or medium-sized teams can benefit immensely by having a team assistant who can handle tons of logistics and odds and ends for everyone on the team.
I don't like how it is formatted for starters. Also the reply button is impossible to find- since its not at the time like it logically should be. Reply all and other options are hidden instead of being exposed. When clicking on reply, it takes me to the bottom, away from the content so its impossible to read and response.

It also doesn't have proper mailboxes, and rules are impossible to make.

I do not like it at all.
I always thought that was why the big ATX connector has multiple 12V wires, multiple GND wires, etc. To push heaps of current, but using a normal gauge of wire, rather than something huge.
disclosure: I work in automotive trade craft as a diesel mechanic and I dont care to have WD40 in my shop at all for a few reasons:

0. It is a solvent, not a lubricant. This is often lost on apprentices until they wear out a drive chain or blow up a firearm. WD40 does a terrible job of blurring that line. even the article touts it several times as a lubricant :(

1. it absolutely CAN NOT be used around hot work, unlike most other lubricants like ND999. cans --aerosol or not-- are treated just like a can of petrol.

2. Again, it is stunningly flammable both in and out of its aerosol form because its mostly kerosene. That means aerosol vapors floating around a powdercoat setup, an open flame, or any ignition spark, will cause it to catch fire. if your apprentice just hosed down a part with WD40 and you need to take a torch to it, youre going to have a bad time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WD-40
Legally, sure.

Morally? At this point she's standing on higher ground than you.
> However, Linux experienced the most reported vulnerabilities per product at 139.4, which is likely because the software company is relatively young and has fewer products. However, Linux is projected to grow and may soon join the likes of Cisco...

Does the author realize Linux isn't a company?
Even if you grew all your own food, there’s plenty of other things you will need.
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-emigrants-1973
Definitely a skill founders (CEOs) should optimize for.
Reminds me of another free resource https://www.foundingsales.com/
"“You don’t need college to learn stuff,” he said. The value is “seeing whether somebody can work hard at something.”

He added that “colleges are basically for fun and to prove you do your chores, but they’re not for learning.”"

I tend to agree, more so with tech than with subjects like medicine. I think institutions will catch on before long that degrees are not all they have been cracked up to be. We need a less costly method to prove people can follow a deadline and collaborate with others.
Hent-AI: Automation of censor bar detection
Native HTML vs. Website Builder
Hi folks, we are a young start up currently with a simple native html website. We are finding it a bit time consuming for our technical founder to manage content updates and a/b testing. How do other startups solve for this problem, do you use a content manager or just go to a website builder like Wix, Squarepace etc.Any wisdom would be appreciated!
Yes, correct. I should have clarified, before things started crashing, we were up 30% in a few months.
Minor compared to self checkout seems understating the impact depending on where you are and how busy the store is. I find myself waiting in line for a self checkout regularly. (Target and recently Home Depot.) Compared to just walking out, this would save at least 5 minutes for each visit in my experience.
Five 20 minute "standups" per day....#fragile
Is this a 'man in the middle' attack for 3rd party nefarious purposes, like controlling someone else's Audi ... Or just plain reverse engineering of a communications protocol to hack the software for 1st party education and extension? Why the click-baity title as if this is some great compromise to the integrity of the Audi? Am I missing something?
Anyone think the housing market will also crash at the next recession?