skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great work.
If you can make the service GDPR compliant and get certification you are probably 2 steps ahead on any big brand where it concerns Europeans. Distrust towards built-in AI on devices like Ring and Nest is growing.
Is offering a white label version on your roadmap?
Transsexual trying to commit suicide imagine my shock
My sense is that all soaps are the same from a chemistry/physics perspective. But of course they could be in different concentrations. Maybe Dawn has more amphipathic molecules per liter aka is more concentrated?
> Your argument is that we should not pass anything to help those affected by the virus and help prevent the spread

No. My argument is that if we don't sunset socialist policies, they will become rule of law. Without a time-limit provision the socialist programs in this bill are partisan.

> we should also end medicare, medicaid, snap and social security because that's not what the framers intended

Yes. Social Security removes a person's ability to choose how they spend and save the money that gets shuttled to the government. All social programs create dependency on the state; a state of being that we call "unhealthy" when it is between two consenting adults. I think that it is even less healthy when a person becomes dependent on a bureaucratic behemoth that does not have their best interest at heart.

I'll point you to the cases of Alfie Evans [0] and Bloomberg's comments on death panels [1]. Social programs aren't about helping people (even though they are talked about that way). Social programs are about power and removing choice from people.

> Condemning the poor to death is not the way to go.

I do not condemn the poor to death. I say that the states are responsible for their people, not the Federal government. This isn't an all-or-nothing proposition. It is possible for states, family, friends, etc. to see to the welfare of their own and for the Fed to stay in its lane. No one is condemned to anything.

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/25/health/alfie-evans-appeal-bn/...

[1] https://twitter.com/CANCEL_SAM/status/1229127380402393088

[edit for spelling]
Here is one source based on income bracket[1] which I think is a pretty strong corollary. Here is a nice visualization of spending by age group[2] and the original source for that data[3].

1. https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-bri...

2. https://engaging-data.com/household-spending-age/

3. https://www.bls.gov/cex/home.htm
Fiscal Policies to Address Covid-19
I don't think trump has said a single sensible thing about the pandemic, I'm not on his side. Im talking in general.
Amazon Trains Alexa on GPUs to Better Handle Complex Queries
The rest of the text isn't particularly valuable, in my opinion. Essentially, the author seems to believe that everyone is really a greedy ass who is trying to deceive you, and considers people who act nice to be particularly dastardly because they're trying to hide that they're a greedy ass.

It's a dark view of humanity that, in my opinion, is not supportable.
America’s shamefully slow coronavirus testing threatens all of us
I'm a little confused. I thought a lot of new businesses were started by immigrants who often do use / need transit and such....

I feel like there's a lot of factors here that aren't being accounted for.

I'm not sure if this isn't just "lots of new businesses in cities"...
This isn’t a bailout for wall street, it’s an attempt to bailout the economy as a whole because there isn’t enough money in the banking system to cover the institutional sell off. In other words, they had to do this to prevent a run on the banks which would royally fuck everyone.
Love that meme: https://www.xkcd.com/538/

So true too. At the end of the day, digital security must be reinforced with physical security and good opsec.
By contrast, the Hong Kong plan is to mail a grand to every citizen (iirc)
Again, there is nothing prohibiting the establishment of a social safety net in the constitution. What you have said here is just building another strawman next to the first one.
Both. The value of services is shrinking because there is less demand for e.g. cruises, air travel, restaurant meals, concerts, sporting events, etc. This is partially offset by increased demand for non-perishables, but that is only a small fraction of what is being lost. And the total value of physical goods is shrinking because supply chains are being disrupted and so less stuff is going to be produced. There is a lot of time lag of course. This is all going to play itself out over a period of weeks if we're very lucky, more likely months, and possibly years. Interesting times.
there's a fairly objective definition of a currency. it's a store of value and it's a means of transaction. Bitcoin is not really a means of transaction except for illegal ones where people are willing to accept the high fees.

Also, there is a clear difference in underlying value. Bitcoins value is entirely speculative. The US dollars value is guaranteed by the US government, which in turn is underpinned by real economic assets of the American economy and its firms and so on. Which are very much real and not imaginary.
Exactly. If you were an economist or a banker, you might not get that until it was too late.
Potential Pipeline Medications May Help Patients with Novel Coronavirus
I'm not a secret asshole, but secretly I'm sarcastic and even snide. My idea of humor is sometimes obscure and hard to get. That's hardly ever good in business communications, so I hide it. I'm nice.
Prisoners who are either in for 10 years+ or are put into solitary confinement should be given a voluntary euthanasia option. If Chelsea Manning sincerely believes that she will not be freed, and wants to end her own life on her terms, let her.

This objectively reduces harms. You cannot sincerely tell me that people who wanted to end their suffering in the face of extreme torture or solitary confinement are "mentally ill" or acting irrationally.
If you think options are overpriced you can sell options too. They're crazy expensive because people think they'll print.
I was commenting yesterday about how surprised I was that the FIA was continuing with the season, especially given the international travel requirements. It seems this has all unraveled even before the first race of the season.

It’s also worth noting the FIA hasn’t confirmed this yet, and it seems to be a decision made by the teams to not compete.
There's something incredibly perverse about this; that business is inherently about exploiting others.

You don't hear similar advice in medicine, education, entertainment, politics, etc. Sure, you can manipulate people at any juncture in life, in any industry. But business? Capitalism? "Fuck you", basically.
> If you compile without debug symbols you don't get a trace after a seg fault.

uh... no. given

volatile char* foo = 0x0;
struct crasher
{
void crash()
{
*foo = 1;
}
};

int main()
{
crasher c;
c.crash();
}

and

$ g++ foo.cpp
$ ./a.out

then

$ coredumpctl gdb

gives me

(gdb) bt
#0 0x000055cea1ff6187 in crasher::crash() ()
#1 0x000055cea1ff615c in main ()

The only case when you wouldn't get function names is if your binary has been stripped manually (or as part of a build system step)
Last I checked, "real" PoS was at least a year away, and receding fast. The current testnets are so lacking in functionality I'm not sure they can be called PoS.
True. Public health emergencies are about making hard choices.
Flying cars are always poor cars and poor airplanes.
And then the article says:

"But secret assholes pretend to be nice too."

So it's being able to tell the difference between someone genuinely nice and someone pretending to be nice? I guess that's just life and comes with experience and time.

I've known nice people who are also very sharp at business.
for me, it not so unthinkable that you could have intermittent access to the internet (out days at a time), or that some parts of the internet would not be accessible for extended periods of time

for you it seems that must equate the end of the world where it doesn't matter anyway.
Every flying car startup is a grift, I guarantee.

There are two possibilities when it comes to making a flying car viable

1. Use fossil fuels even less efficiently because now not only does your vehicle have to move forward, it now has to keep itself in the sky.

2. Use electric motors which are already hard enough to sell in cars because they don't give as much range, and then put them in an application where, again, they have to keep something in the sky.

It's just not feasible, along with all the other requirements for training, storage/landing area, etc...
Ah, that is too bad about it being blocked. It is an incredible movie. I've watched it a few times over the years and always find something new.
.... The raw materials for doing these tests scale linearly with population too.

It's just RNA sequencing, it can be done at any university using standard equipment and materials
I tried to click your Propublica link because I want to see their numbers, since the wiki article on TARP points out that the "profit" the government made comes out to a 0.6% annualized interest rate, so once you take inflation into account the government actually lost money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program
I think that's a pretty good analogy. Viruses are just as incapable of being considered life as our chromosomes are, until you give them a support network.
Yeah, it would need to be combined with a (long overdue) closing of all bars.
The linked article https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/16/politics/chelsea-manning-back... says she's in the Alexandria Detention Center.

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Manning#2019_jailing_f... she was in "administrative segregation" for the first month or so but has been in "general population" since then.
But how strained the hospitals get has little to do with how panicked people are.

I don't care about what tugs on people's fears the most. I'm not afraid of their fear, I'm afraid of hospitals being overrun by actual cases.
If that were true, why does every director/principal/VP/ceo spend almost the entire week in meetings?
Absolute financial control of citizens is a hell on earth type of dystopia we must resist, thwart, and avoid at all costs.

We must not go silently into that dark night.
Of course, and that reinforces their status of imaginary genes.
> Cities With Good Transit ... San Francisco

Does not compute. San Francisco has essentially one subway line, one slow local railway line, some horrendous busses, admittedly a good airport. That's it.
If you expect volatility to increase, which I think is very reasonable, then buying options is a very safe bet, and if you only put in a reasonable amount, it merely serves as insurance against getting laid off.

If the market gets bad enough for him to have to be laid off, his presumption is that the puts will be valuable enough to get him along for a little while. If it doesn't, then he probably loses money on the puts, but he's still employed, so it doesn't make much difference.

edit: I'm an engineer, not an economist, so this is probably wrong, but I think it's the line of thinking that songzme is on too.
Uh what?

Fed = Monetary policy == Make sure money can flow "appropriately"

Government = Fiscal Policy == "Who gets money"

I don't know how your quote is relevant at all.
It makes me very proud to see such a wholesome gesture from a Jewish company! Hopefully many more Europeans will enjoy the long-term benefits of pornography.
Thank you! Great feedback. We are actually GDPR compliant but don't have the certification yet.
The cameras we are offering are indeed white label cameras. They are the same cameras as the ones sold by Wyze...
Ok, but this article doesn't explain any of those interesting things. Instead it says things like "We invite all hackers, seasoned validators and professional stakers to join Stake Heist, and unlock prizes totaling up to 10 Million ONE tokens." Promotional language like that is the opposite of what readers come to HN for. That's undoubtedly why users flagged the submission.

You'd be much better off writing an intellectually interesting article about the project. Here's the advice we give to everyone about how to do that: such an article should tell the backstory of how and why the project came to be, should explain the problem it solves or pain it addresses (or if it was done for fun, which is just as fine), should tell what's different about it, and should give plenty of interesting technical detail.

The votes and comments were obviously promotional, not organic. Regardless of exactly how that happened, it's definitely not in your interest. HN readers are experienced in picking up on that and classify it as spam or worse.

You're a good HN user and I'm not trying to shame you! just trying to explain what will work better for you.
The lack of an About page is weird.. I don't think you are being too cynical, the lack of information about this company on their site is concerning. Especially considering they are selling cameras you put in your house.

I'm also surprised by the name they chose, as Visual One is already a software product by Agilysys. I would be surprised if it's not already copyrighted?
This article is confusing. How are they determining what's a "startup"? If you count a small retail, food, or tech business as a startup, then it's going to appear like there have been a lot of startups in suburbs. But more people don't consider mom and pop operations to be "startups".
I've worked in silicon valley for the past 11 years, in startups as well as two so-called FAANG companies. There are a lot of brilliant people out here.

So that is well known. What's not well known is this: there are pockets of brilliant people elsewhere, including Bentonville, Arkansas.

Especially in the years running up to 2000, I had the pleasure and honor of working with some of the most talented people in the world, even though we were all looked down on by many people on the coasts.
Company's welfare is somewhat connected to their stock price, but it's a really weak relation. The stock market is mostly a gambling simulator that runs beside the economy as it's own little micro-economy - this doesn't make it worthless but it does make this sort of a statement ring really hollow.
To clarify, I don't share that dark view of humanity. I just think we value the wrong things in business. You shouldn't value someone who is friendly. You should value decency in actions and general respectfulness.

Nice is a red herring I observe greedy people using to land deals. More than anything, I wrote this for people to protect themselves.
We're already slowing down the spread. The country is pretty much shut down. And you aren't going to be able to test ~60 _million_ people who will ultimately be infected with this (using 2009 H1N1 estimates). This is not an excuse to the utter CDC/FDA incompetence/sabotage we're witnessing, it's just a statement of fact. We're in the uncharted waters with this, countermeasures of even the _current_ magnitude have never been applied before.
I think it's because your looped demos are autoplaying videos. Modern browsers can control media playback, and presumably these autoplaying videos are hijacking the currently played media for some people?

As an aside, I was actually looking for a comment about the opposite issue: I have a browser which blocks autoplaying videos, it took me a while to realise that what I thought were static images, were in fact videos without playback controls (and a little bit longer to work out how to re-enable playback controls!).

Either way, once I got them playing, it looked like a slick experience, congrats on the launch!
One super annoying thing I've noticed about OpenCV - no ability to read relevant metadata from streams. It seems like lots of applications of OpenCV would benefit from using the motion capture functionality of these cameras (for example, streamed over RTSP via OnVIF) as a pre-screening technique, but I've had trouble getting access to it.

It seems like it should be straightforward to add, but I haven't had a chance to do so.
this is a very disingenuous read of that interview.
My dashboard aggregate data from Worldometer and some people prefer a simple view: https://coronavirus.gg

I want to add deaths per country as well and maybe other ideas you guys have that would not clutter the view too much...
Fascinating to see all those attempts to count the number of dependencies (including calling the man page), but why include this in the post?
I've always felt like flying cars are a solution looking for a problem. Massive deployment of flying cars has similar problems to cars on the ground (need space to land/park, airspace isn't unlimited, humans can't be trusted to fly safely). Additionally, they don't go fast enough to glide and don't have enough rotor mass to perform an autorotation in the event of total power loss. I doubt they're viable as a method of transportation at any large scale.

EDIT: Not to mention the much worse energy efficiency - staying in the air is _expensive_.
Hacker News is reddit now
They are. This article doesn't prove, or even show, the opposite.

(CityLab does a lot of good stuff, but they are 100% pro-dense-urban development. Independent of whether it's a bias you support, it colors the articles you'll see from them.)
Watch the Fed's actions:
(eg: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/12/fed-to-pump-more-than-500-bi... )

The Fed has been very active in repo markets since last fall and has aggressively ramped up operations. As an armchair fake-economist, that sort of thing signals that banks are reducing loans between themselves because they don't want to be low on cash when stuff hits the fan. Reducing in available loans -> pretty high interest rates -> Fed stepping in to float the cash and buy some bonds.

Perhaps someone closer to the money will chime in here with corrections/details but this smells like the big banks expect unpleasant times ahead (remember this started before Covid19)
Sure. Given sufficient scale, a crisis can destroy anything, including crypto.
"Even when you consider indirect ownership via 401(k) retirement accounts and similar vehicles, fewer than half of American households own any stock at all."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/18/for-r...
The virus isn't the lifeform. The virus is just one component needed for the lifeform to exist and reproduce. The lifeform is the infection.
If there is any correlation between current events and bitcoin price, then we have both a monetary and an existential crisis happening. What other crises would bitcoin be useful in?
La Liga, The Champions and some other European soccer leagues have been suspended as well.

https://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/news/newsid=2640915.html

https://www.laliga.com/noticias/laliga-acuerda-la-suspension...

https://eredivisie.nl/en-us/highlighted/eredivisie-matches-s...
I'd much rather have a device with a keyboard..
> My noob a-ha example is `rails generate devise:install` where I first thought, wow, what a time saver. Eventually I learned lessons like, perhaps authentication is too important to be hiding from your source code. In fact, maybe almost everything is.

You can view the source code of Devise any time you want on its github repo - it's not hiding anywhere.

I think that having authentication code vetted by 100s, if not 1000s of different developers is much better than rolling your own authentication code.
The analysis of the generated profile images is all well and good, but a much better indicator of a bot account[0] is the incessant tweeting about certain issues with little to no commentary or context.

0: a bot account or a friend not worth continuing to follow
encode.su forum posts compare image quality of JPEG XL, AVIF, WebP, MozJPEG and HEVC:

https://encode.su/threads/3108-Google-s-compression-proje%D1...

The most comprehensive comparison:

https://medium.com/@scopeburst/mozjpeg-comparison-44035c42ab...

"... according to my personal visual tests, starting from 0.4–0.5 bpp it [JPEG XL] usually wins most other formats."
Well, we did almost have a worst case scenario pan out with the Jazz game.

Rudy Gobert was about to play, but the game was halted when he tested positive. I'm sure none of these leagues want that to pan out.
I prefer to get places in my Coronavirus-ready Autonomous Rover (CAR, for short).

Being in it alone or with a few friends, family members, or co-workers means that there's an innate means of social distancing. That's also improved by the way it doesn't require hubs where many people are forced to congregate - for moderately long journeys, I can stay in my CAR all the way from my house to walking distance of my destination.

And of course, while not as fully autonomous as the name might suggest, my CAR only requires refueling every three hundred and change miles, and maintenance every five thousand or so. This provides some robustness if the infrastructure is compromised, whether by disease or other issues.

It looks like CARs might have a place in the 2020s.
Wait for it. Next week stock buybacks will be all over the news. I bet AT&T will be leading the charge.
the part where it says the fed is a government institution...
>if you refuse judicial order, you will be imprisoned.

You will be imprisoned to coerce you to comply with the order. If you are uncoerciable, it is unlawful to imprison you for refusing the order.

Anybody can get out of an order like this, just most people can be coerced.
"Don’t use classes" is not what I meant. It’s "don’t create abstractions”. Create the literal thing you want to create, in any way (though preferably somewhat organized), then maybe think about making it cooler.

It also wasn’t supposed to be advice. (Not sure what you mean by TFA.)
Someone did something because it interested them, and someone posted it here because someone here might find it interesting. So I generally know why those people did what they did. But what about you? Why are you posting what you are posting?

If you have constructive criticism, this is the right place for it, but frankly, you're just being mean on the internet for no reason.
The cynical take is that this is a rhetorical question.
99% of people would just find a street dealer or buy off the dark web. You're the 1% that the laws are actually established for.

> I can’t believe I’ve been made to do this in order to get medical treatment.

No one made you break bad and then brag about it on the internet... Fabricating your own controlled substances is exactly why certain types of glassware are illegal.
This has more insight into your perception the world than anything about Manning. You (and I) know very little about the situation. Trying to ascribe self-harm to "seeking attention" is pure projection, and this whole comment tells me a lot more about you than about Manning's motivations.
Then I'd expect at least a link to a privacy policy somewhere on the site?
Right in the first article it says "they are still unraveling whether large numbers of computer-generated tweets can really sway policies or elections—and how such influence might be countered."

They don't really have any evidence.

I know it was a big subject, mainly driven by the left to somehow rationalize why Hillary lost. It's just a narrative.
Nuance is important. You can be a mean asshole and a nice asshole.

You can also be a mean, decent person and a nice, decent person.

My goal is to get people to look at things that matter like respect, decency in actions rather than the surface level features we associate with them.
This is true.

Bitcoin is more of bet that Keynesian monetary policy fails. It doesn’t hedge for Armageddon.

Planning for a collapse of world order involves small coins, farmland, prepping pantries, home schooling, and firearms.

Hey, I’m all for individual sovereignty!
Covid-19: A direct, raw, no-frills calculation
There are a lot of cities that seem superficially cheaper based on housing prices, but are more expensive including transportation costs, i.e. two cars per household.