skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, at least, avoiding C allocation and deallocation functions can surely give one more control over the used memory segment. And I am not aware of any discussion of the positive or negative aspects of CryptMemAlloc and CryptMemFree.
Consistent sources of water for cities are really important, and people were historically more willing to make pragmatic tradeoffs.
$99/year is peanuts, that's less than 1 hour of developer time. All it does is prevent spammers from creating a shitload of free accounts.
AWS Elemental Link
Do you have a record of the original tweet by any chance?
Can anyone recommend a writing coach I could work with?

It's important to my role. I'd happily pay someone to set me (and hold me accountable to) relevant assignments and give feedback on my work.

I understand there are writing courses, it's the 1:1 timely feedback I'm seeking.
Well, of course there are. "Warrantless search" is one category, and "search by random person" is another. The 2nd is closer to harassment, in some opinions.

It's not quite fair to compare actions by an officer of the court with that of the general public. By design.
This should be the top reply in this thread.
Well, they'll always oversell the damage, but realistically, not much impact to their bottom line. They do release remasters and ports, but I'd be hard pressed to see it being a significant loss in the grand scheme of things for a company that doesn't need to subsidize hardware with software. Like: people would buy a hypothetical N64 mini regardless of 3rd party emulators available. Or buy old games on the Virtual Console or however it's now called on the Switch.

From enthusiast perspective - it's a boon for preservation purposes.
If I zoom out I get "73 species in view" and if I zoom in I get "313 species in view"

?

Anyway, it would be nice if there was a filter so you could select all trees of a given type. Or view all the public trees versus privately owned trees.
Show HN: Finding dirty XTC with machine learning
I created a reverse image search for a harm reduction group as a side project.
Many people don't test their MDMA, this at least makes it easier to search for past lab results. It's not a replacement for a chemical test.

It was my first project getting into machine learning.

It's made with 2 models, a Retinanet model for localization and a triplet loss model for generating image embeddings.

Those are then compared in an Annoy database and voila.

Feedback is appreciated.
Thanks
> American Indians and Aboriginal Australians have been living like that well into historical times...

They're not time travelers from the past. They're our contemporaries, who are every bit as 'modern' as us. They just made a different set of choices along their historical arc.

> ...there's no real reason to suppose that humans at the most primitive state of society were living any differently.

At the same time there's also no real reason to suppose that primitive humans were living any similarly.

We just don't know. Any attempt to frame this differently is just ideology.
I would actually be fine with this kind of surveillance of my movements, except that it's inaccurate. It could lead to falsely accusing people due to circumstance, like why were you in that bad neighborhood so often? You must be a drug mule. Or we saw a car just like yours go back and forth between the scene of this crime, and we don't have proof it was anyone else behind the wheel, so it must have been you.

I would actually feel better if this was used in conjunction with even more surveillance. That way there's more data to rule out coincidental or misleading information. It still wouldn't be great, but it would be better than this method alone. (They do already use cameras on cop cars to record license plates of passing cars, and cameras at intersections that flag when they register the sound of gunshots. This still isn't enough to correlate the complex movements of organized crime across the city)

Another more positive way it could be used is for community outreach programs to contact at risk youth, before they get deeply involved with gangs. Or to document and protect the LGBT POC homeless youth, one of the most vulnerable class of people in the US. Or to inform programs on overhauling public transportation, to update bus routes or plan a new rail line better. Or public health programs to battle drug addiction. Or to fine companies that dump waste into the watershed that makes its way into the harbor. You could potentially use this data for a lot of good.

Sadly, Baltimore's police have a long record of corruption, including planting evidence, a private hit squad, violence, and abuse of surveillance methods such as Stringrays. So even if I'd like to play devil's advocate, this is not a city with a great track record. They need to make this program very transparent to show it isn't abused.
I tried getting Disney+ a week or two ago to watch a few things I still had on my list, but no support for my device and the website is completely broken in multiple browsers (I don't use dns blockers and one of the browsers is a purposefully clean Chromium). Not to mention HBO content, "get HBO" on the website just links to itself and I don't see any sign up page in Germany. I'm really sorry for the people that worked on the content, I tried to pay for it... Paying for ProtonVPN worked fine by the way.
I know Sam (the creator) and can vouch that he's a good guy and a bit of a legend.

He hasn't had the easiest of rides when it comes to sustainable support for his work. I'd encourage folks to contribute here: https://www.patreon.com/samaaron (he'll certainly do wonderful things with such support).
I am not sure what economists at a commercial firm have to do with computer scientists doing academical research.
A court of your peers.

We live in a society.
> The companies will collect and store the tracking data, and the government will, one way or another, have access to it. What is so difficult to understand about that?

It's difficult to understand because it's false (and this statement shows you haven't tried to understand the solution they are proposing): The data doesn't leave the phone without the user's consent, the consent is only asked for if the user contracts the disease, and the data uploaded when consent is given is only useful to those who have been in the vicinity of that user: the companies developing the system and the government do not get a list of users and their contacts (they get no data at all from anyone who does not consent, and they still don't get contact data from those who do).

The only issue of trust is whether the implementation on the phones matches their statements: but this is already a general problem with phones in general: if you are trusting them to run the OS you are already trusting they will not exfiltrate this and more data. I see no actual expansion in their powers through adopting this approach, and I see them making every effort to protect privacy while achieving the requirements, which is in stark constract to government approaches.
I have a Ryzen 2700X. Is Ryzen 9 3900X going to be a good upgrade for me?
Some people simply have reasonable standards. I tried for years to hire a PHP dev. I never found a single one. I found tons of people who had PHP on their resume, and not a single one of them was anything close to competent. PHP only makes hiring easy if you don't care about the quality of work that gets done. I can hire a million PHP monkeys, but everyone who has the right combination of intelligence and conscientiousness to be a competent software developer moves on from PHP after 2 or 3 years as they discover what it is.
LOL thank you, English is hard (like engineering) ;-)
this is a text book cluster fack
> lots of century-old brands that people have fond relationships with.

That's the problem being discussed--the fond relationships are built with entities that no longer exist, and it is argued that current brand practices are deceiving for the consumer side of the relationship and abusive on the producer side.
It depends, of course. Are you making decisions in situations that are familiar or unfamiliar? Is this a one-time or recurring decision? What's at stake - is there a lot to lose, or perhaps is it a question of optimizing. What information is available to you situationally, and in terms of predicting what may happen? Is it just you deciding, or a group; in implementation is it just you or do you need to convince other people.

I am inferring that you want to get better outcomes from operational decision making, and quantifying something might help. I'd suggest looking retrospectively at the decisions you've made, the way you've been making them, and the role of those decisions in the outcomes you've seen. In terms of what factors shape outcomes, what is under your control, what is not? You'll want to model the range of possibilities and impacts of the stuff you don't control ultimately as distributions, and look to forecast outcomes as a combination of what you do and what else can happen, over the range of what you do and the range of what elses. That will look like a decision tree, and at a first pass you can model and evaluate that qualitatively, then shift to a quantiative model. The retrospective question is represent explicitly the factors your outcomes are most sensitive to, and then to focus more quantiatively from there - if it adds value.

Annie Duke's "Thinking in Bets" is a good book on decision making under uncertainty in a landscape (poker) that can be modeled quantitatively and in an environement that punishes thinkers that are not dispassionate. Like is not poker but the book is good on dealing with uncertainty.

In terms of hard decisions, Groopman and Hartzband, "Your Medical Mind", is an informed, lucid, and humane book on personal decisions related to healthcare. It's hard to know what to do, given data and advice or not. One line take away: see what people like you have done in similar situations, and how they feel about it.

In terms of strategic decisions, "A Structured Approach to Strategic Decisions", Kahneman, Lovallo, Sibony, [1] is for me the state of the art.

[1] https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/a-structured-approach-to...
I guess they can make the argument that it will damage their financial prospects of reselling old games on digital platforms, such as Virtual Console.

But emulators are already available with very good accuracy so I don't know if this will actually have any actual impact on their potential sales.

I do believe that N64 emulation might benefit from the leaks, as I am under the impression the accuracy of N64 emulators has some glaring issues still.
The last chapters seemed to be empty the last time I've checked?
All it does is making it goes from an open-source DRM to a closed-source one.
10% of the US population is currently unintendedly striking. I don’t see the ruling class crumble yet.
SEC loosens crowdfunding regulations for small businesses financing in pandemic
Open source and being freely available (not necessarily FOSS compliant) are different things.

Currently there is no way for you to say download or build cumulus Linux to run it on your own hardware without buying that access afaik.

Checking their site again today seems to confirm it the only thing they have available is a VX appliance you can deploy in the cloud as a demo.

I think with NVIDIA behind them they might have a business model that would allow them to release CL openly or at least in the form of a community/light edition for small scale use.

I would love a reliable DD-WRT like option for switches especially since SOHO grade managed switches are becoming crappier by the day with more and more of them going into cloud managed and licenses.

This is becoming a problem with NAS as well if you want a cheap Ethernet based storage you pretty much only have WD MyCloud which requires internet access to access your drive on your local network.

There are probably some hacks around it but these things are becoming more and more prevalent.
This is such a defeatist attitude and, I think, completely unnecessary. And saying it as fact sort of perpetuates the whole situation. It doesn't have to be this way. But most people allow it to be this way.

> Your co-workers may be amazing, but they were never your friends.

Anecdotally, I've met some of my best friends by working with them. I have many friends that I haven't met through work, but when you spend the bulk of your day with people you form bonds - and friendships - with them. It's sort of human nature.

> There's what you love, and there's what you do. It's best to keep some distance: because no one cares about what you love.

What you love and what you do don't _have_ to be different. And some people _do_ care about what you love. Most don't, sure. And at most larger companies you _are_ just a cog in the wheel. But that doesn't mean folks shouldn't strive to find meaningful work that they love to do. It may not pay as well monetarily, but it pays in other ways.

> No, you only cared them inso far as they can cook for you. This is how others saw you.

I don't seek out the immigrant family, but I'm friendly and cordial with them. I chat with them and treat them as equals. I pay them fairly for what they provide me. I don't try to squeeze every last cent out of them or negotiate my meal from them, or make them feel like less of a person. And in return they provide the same. Maybe I'm naive, sure. But if so, at least I'm not an asshole.

> Big companies, and indeed most big institutions is made by a silent majority of the defeated.

This is mostly true. I agree. It's unfortunate. But big institutions aren't the only options.

> You have to look elsewhere.

You don't have to. You can, and in some cases you should. But it's not the only option. There ARE people who aren't wholly obsessed with making money at all costs. Unfortunately, in the US at least, a lot of people don't have that attitude and _are_ obsessed with making money at all costs. And our society (at least in the US) has been built in ways that praise that sort of attitude. But there are plenty of people who aren't like that. It's hard to find them sometimes, depending on what sort of circles you run in and the sort of people you surround yourself with - but they are out there.
>For a long time I couldn't focus on any remotely intellectual pursuit.
I even thought I permanently damaged my brain.

He didn't appear to mention the presumed cause of this. Stress?

As to the rest of the contents, it's a mistake to assume that two experiences given labels of "high-point" and "low point" having a common feature implies that all other experiences of the same species (presumed to be on some spectrum that they bookend) also share that feature. Maybe were he to have worked for a smaller scale established company, he would have found his experience to be less unpleasant.
I had to click Report Abuse on this Gist.
Precision is bounded by the channel capacity. The advance was an intellectual one - that there is value in maintaining an accurate record.
https://app.effectivealtruism.org/funds/global-development

This fund goes to GiveWell's top charities, unless there's something that the fund managers think could do better in expectation. (For context, the EA Meta fund went towards founding GiveWell and https://80000hours.org/; they know what they're doing.) If you're too lazy to keep track of GiveWell's top charities at any given time, or want to contribute to medium-risk high-reward causes too, that's a good place to put your money.
I actually posted my comment from my Android phone. And yes, it is garbage.
Yes, as mentioned in my other reply, I think Rails is probably the closest competitor and can do most (although not everything) of what Laravel can. Django is the third option I think comes very close.

Admittedly, limiting the selection to first-party code might be a bit unfair to frameworks that maybe simply rely more on community-built extensions, but I have to draw the line somewhere, otherwise I guess every framework theoretically "supports" everything through some third-party module that may or may not work ;)
Ironically, the root cause that made me think of that example was AWS.

The example was where each SQS call (there could be as many as five) was taking between 50ms-200ms, and logging took another 75ms. The rest of the request processing time was approx 50ms.

There's a bunch of other architecture options we could have looked at, but due to the share-nothing nature of PHP, they weren't an option.
Learn to Code If You’ve Lost Your Job
Define “know nothing about Christianity”.
The idea was that if they were going to port native than wow, we'd have this one amazing way to create all these interfaces on different systems!

As if we'd have 5 or so platforms and a single command to go "presto!" and build on a bunch of devices with a slight button offset change.

I always said "how about, if you want a linux version in qt, you fire up qt creator, drag your mouse around a bit, click a few times, take 20 minutes and that's it. You then literally just walk away because the work is done".
Maybe most of the people in Vegas don't actually live in Vegas.
I don't recall hearing it from anywhere, but it's the sort of idea I'd expect to crop up from time to time. I haven't done any research to find out if anyone else has seriously suggested or investigated it.
Especially in fast changing domains like tech, essays and blog posts must state publish dates.
For all of you interested:

A Map of the Trees of Vienna
https://www.wien.gv.at/umweltgut/public/grafik.aspx?ThemePag...
Putting the “Fun” in “Hash Function”
>>> The answer is: you can't.

Yes you can and it's almost trivial to do.

Require an active ticket to access stuff, that needs approval from a second person. For very sensitive matters (say doing large transfers in a finance/bitcoin company), make it three or more people.
Isn't this the price of doing business?

I'm not being facetious, but ops people have always decried giving up control of the platform and especially buying into lock-in to services that only exist in a particular cloud.

If there's no corollary to firebase, and your app is built entirely on firebase, and they increase the price or change direction, you gotta go with it. I mean it's the definition of vendor lock-in; and it applies too when the political whims of the company change. IE; if you're making games and you're hosted on Azure, you have to have some level of knowledge that Microsoft makes games too, and that they could potentially subtly harm you if you're outcompeting them.

Everyone knows that you "buy" time, you "buy" less burden of operation and you "buy" the fact that you're living at a higher abstraction and can move more rapidly; this is baked in to the extra cost of hosting with a cloud provider.

Maybe people don't really know (or grok) that you also "sell" not only your competence, but your self reliance?
> Any slipup, they lose their contract

Who enforces it? How can they know?
Rubbish beer anyway, the Ship is two minutes away and they have a fabulous pint of London Pride. Or rather, had. <sniff>.
I'm cloning that, just in case.
> Quantifying losses doesn't mean that we consider the quantified as fungible.

Unless you're a hospital director on a budget, or something. (I don't know how such people cope; there's no winning decision there.)
I'm surprised, that no one here has mentioned Eblocker yet. It works a bit like Pi-hole, but is much easier to install and use. Eblocker used to be a commercial product (with its own hardware), but since this didn't work out the company open-sourced it a few months ago. It's free now, has a good interface and great performance and the former developers are still working on it. You can install it on a raspberry, but also on other SBCs. I'm in no way affiliated with them, just a happy user. https://eblocker.org/en/
The US isn’t China or Russia while everyone is capable of lying on internal matters it’s much harder to do so in the US.

No universal healthcare so billing data is available, local and state governments are do not answer to the federal government on most matters.

Press is free and for the most part anyone is free to tweet what ever is going on without the fear of diving out of window.
>Grokster established that companies marketing file sharing applications have liability for infringement conducted by users. It did not establish that the companies' service providers can be sent DMCA notices

Sure it did. Those are the same thing under Section 512(c)(3)(A)(iii):

>Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity

The js files are the subject of infringing activity. Popcorn Time is "inducing infringement" as stated in the unanimous SCOTUS ruling against grokster.

https://www.copyright.gov/docs/mgm/opinion.pdf

https://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512

Popcorn Time is toast.
Actually, I'm startled by the religious believe that nothing can go wrong with "snap"! What is so new to snap that it is so reliable, in contrast to Debian-packages? Currently I'm trying to update my 18.04 to 20.04 but get stuck, because the Python3-Version shipped lately seem to have issues. So, the upgrade process abruptly stops, leaving the system in a half-baked state. While I do not complain, Ubuntu is free, I'm terrified by the thought such an upgrade could be initiated, without me monitoring it, and having the chance to try it on a non-productive system first.
Currently I can live with the snap-approach, because I don’t have to use it at the time being, but if this is the way Canonical will proceed, I probably will have to vote with my feet too.
Mark (not Shuttleworth :)
I naively picked up a late 2018 air without considering the thermal aspects of the performance. It sounds obvious but I totally missed it and bought on basis of the benchmark numbers, make sure to look at the thermal performance under sustained loads. Notebookcheck do a good job at deep diving on this in their review https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-MacBook-Air-2018-i5-256-....

It's basically passively cooled! There's no heatpipe connecting the fan to the CPU so it kicks up to max all the time trying to cool it but can't make much of a dent on the temp. Really mind boggling.

I had to switch back to my old pro machine and felt like a bit of a berk for not reading up on that aspect.
American Air’s $1 Price Target at Evercore Implies 92% Collapse
Hugging strangers who haven't indicated that they're up for hugging in general is a good way to get an assault charge in a lot of places...
Ask HN: What can I build that would pay a dollar for?
I want to build something of value within one month that a lot of people would want and will pay a dollar a month for. I am open to ideas where usually the market charges $10 or more. I am experimenting on a model that needs zero employees, zero evil, no hockey-stick growth ambitions, and yet delivers a great lifestyle by doing what people want and charging 10x lower.

What is your no-brainer idea?

PS: I am a 2-time entrepreneur with 1 small exit and a reasonably successful product startup.