skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I know they didn't. The r&d was in NL but the sales and marketing, as well as the funding, was in China. Last I heard our prototype machine got shipped to China, and either our work sucked way more than I think it did, or the sales people botched it (or I'm wrong and there's simply no market) but last I heard its still in boxes in a storage facility somewhere in Shanghai.

I know it's easy to say "we did great but the HQ fucked it up" so I don't want to make that claim. I honestly don't know where it went wrong (and I was way less interested in sales and marketing and entrepreneurship then, so I didn't ask).

I learned everything I know about lean and agile and just shipping from our R&D lead though. He was ex-ASML and they definitely know how to ship.
So I might look silly here but what I do is take a snip of the displayed picture and save and use that. Was I doing it wrong?

All I was really concerned about was getting rid of metadata tied to my phone.
PV is good enough for drones if wing area is large, the aerodynamics are super-efficient, and it's daytime.
"With a crime rate of 47 per one thousand residents, Camden has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the smallest towns to the very largest cities." [1]

Seems to have worked out very well...

[1]https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/nj/camden/crime
The found missing matter doesn’t include dark matter, which scientists still do not have an answer for.
This article from Saturday compiles a hodgepodge of things about the protests. None of it is original reporting, and most seems to be internet copycat/follow-up stuff (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...), presumably trying to siphon some of that sweet sweet click action away from other sites. Readers looking for real information, of course, are indifferent to that agenda, except that it makes finding real information harder.

Its source for the inflammatory phrase "contact tracing" is a Twitter search link that mostly points back to this very same article. That's a pretty lame trick. What's the actual source here? What exactly does the phrase mean?

The clear implication is that covid-related contact tracing techniques or apps or data have been repurposed to track protestors. If that's true, we should certainly discuss it, with a real source as the basis. If it's false, this is the worst case of flamebait/clickbait that I've seen in a long time.

All: please don't believe what internet titles say, even when they feed into what you were already expecting might happen. It's possible that your expectations are being fulfilled. It's more likely that our attention (not to mention our adrenalin) is being exploited. On HN, at least, let's try to let that first rush of a reflexive response subside, and wait a few seconds for the slower, reflective circuits to engage (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). If you watch your own reactions, you'll notice what a huge difference that makes.

Edit: ok, here is the source: https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1266758240018276352. It looks like he made an unfortunate analogy between tracing violent protesters and tracing covid-19 cases—unfortunate because it could be blown up into yet another internet story with no there there. Unless he gets to it later in the video (I only watched half), there's no suggestion of any data or technology being shared across these two categories.

I don't want to overreact out of being pissed off that this site wasted all our time, but can anyone give a good reason not to ban bgr.com on HN? It used to be banned. I'm not seeing a lot of valuable threads at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que..., nor stories that wouldn't have gotten discussed through some other submission.
Oh, I don't know. Peaceful protests of police violence have been a regular feature of life here in Baltimore, thanks to our famously corrupt and racist PD, but it took the 2015 Freddie Gray protests - which occurred in the wake of the same kind of murder as was done to George Floyd, and were violent enough to garner nationwide coverage - to spark the federal investigation that led to the 2017 consent decree and the ongoing scrutiny that, among other improvements in police behavior and in response to police misbehavior, looks to have so far at least kept Baltimore noticeably absent from the lists of cities seeing significant violence this time around.

So, at least in my town, it looks a lot like violent protests of the sort you decry do help. Certainly nothing else has done as well.
More generally, SpaceX doesn't have to pay the cost of crossing organizational boundaries. When that happens, unless the parts are standardized and commoditized, then requirements have to be formalized, contracts and costs negotiated. Time and again SpaceX found it was cheaper and faster to just do things themselves rather than buy from traditional aerospace contractors.
At least for certain types and locations of tech and given people who are in-demand/interview well/have a good network/etc., the penalty for a "grass is greener" mistake is usually fairly minor. They were unlikely to hang around too long in any case.

However, as you say, if changing jobs is going to require moving across the country to maybe one of a handful of companies suitable to your skill set, you should probably be a lot more conservative.
NRF24l01 + ESP8266 (or arduino) + OLED screen can do the same for less all-included
> The community edition is a castrated mess with ads in it.

I understand your frustration with FOSS pushing you toward buying proprietary software.

But your lede will mislead people into thinking CE gets revenue by serving up third-party ads because that is what "ads" mean for web services 99.99% time the term is used on HN.
So I’ll take that as a “No, there’s no evidence whatsoever that these are connected. It’s entirely baseless speculation and conspiracy theory.”
I attended a school where calligraphy was still a major aspect and we were taught to use fountain pens. You know how in the Harry Potter series there’s all that very real-feeling ‘tradition’ about how a wand chooses its master? That feels real because J. K. Rowling drew inspiration from the tradition of schoolchildren choosing ‘their’ pen and it sticking with them for evermore.

I’m 39 now and use them almost exclusively, and I have a collection of over fifty (predominantly metal-bodied, because I like the heft, but I have three or four Lamy pens too, including two transparent ones loaded with fluo ink which I call “the lightsabers”).

I still write letters by hand and send them by post. I sit down and erupt fifty handwritten page documents detailing my plans or thoughts before typing them up for editing. There’s something almost zen-like and cathartic about writing in cursive with a good pen, weighty, well-balanced pen.

Anyway, if you’re really interested in upper-crust writing, I strongly recommend the Graf von Faber-Castell “Tamitio” calligraphy set (see http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/331163-first-l... for a review). If you have good cursive skills and know how to glide over the page rather than dig in and apply force, it’s heaven to write with.
I worked with a colleague who had... 'interesting' ideas about software development. He'd put together a 'web framework' before joining the company, but was redeveloping a new one. It was... bizarrely weird, and was missing some 'normal' things like session management, authentication, etc.

I didn't care much, cause I didn't have to use it, but... reviewing it, it didn't make sense. People using it were having to take a lot of time to do basic stuff, and ... people were constantly waiting for the main guy to 'finish up' the next bit that would save everyone 'lots of effort'.

Some of the other 'sr' people there fawned over it - "he's a genius! this code and system is amazing. it's so hard to understand the brilliance, but that's because he's such a genius" (near exact quotes from his internal fans).

Again - wasn't on that team, didn't care. Then... I was told to use it. For a project that needed things well beyond what it had in place. We needed session mgt, authentication, caching, solid XML support, etc - everything this 'framework' didn't have. I criticized it, saying we shouldn't use it for this new project.

What complicated this is that I'd put together a framework before I'd started working there (with a team of other folks). It was far more feature complete (not great but functional). I was accused of being jealous, and wanting to use my system, etc. Well, yeah, I'd like to use my stuff, cause it checked the boxes we needed, and I'd used it for several years, and could be productive in it. But... I said "take my code off the table - it's not about me. System X is just not usable for our project needs - we need to plan to build something new, or spend time building out all the missing stuff."

What a shitstorm that became. Internal fighting between people who'd never looked at the code, but insisting it was fine, and that I didn't understand 'enterprise' work. I left - turned in my two week notice (not 100% over this, but it was a factor). The day after I left... the "genius" quit the company, without telling anyone, no notice, just... left a voicemail saying he quit.
This is great news for a bunch of reasons. In the immediate term, it's great that people and families saw extra income in a trying time. In the longer term, hopefully this informs a larger discussion on the minimum wage and effectiveness of various social programs.
I'm generally puzzled why Lamy (although clearly with a distinctive design and marketing up the wazoo) gets so much attention. Maybe it's just a taste thing.

Give me this stylish, classic look for $19 from Pilot any day:
https://www.amazon.com/Pilot-Metropolitan-Collection-Fountai...

I have 2 of them, they are great. Solid metal, sleek construction.
It's not like Microsoft is pure as the driven snow, either. It's a massive corporation with all sorts of warts. Just to name a few from the past few months:

WinGet fiasco: https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/28/21272964/microsoft-winget...

O365 Installer forces Bing as search default: https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/22/21077280/microsoft-chrome...

Azure jacks up prices in sneaky ways: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/microsoft-screws-customer...

MS ends partner benefits: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/11/microsofts_reasons_...

Closes eBooks store, customers lose all purchased books: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47810367

Microsoft partners with ICE for facial recognition and other technology: https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-employees-up-in-arms-over-clou...

etc etc etc.
I’m on a Mac, so I would need Docker if the tool wasn’t built for Mac (only Linux).
Of 65 St Louis homicide victims for the year, 50 were AA males; of the 15 identified killers, 14 were AA males.

I'd caution against implying that this is a choice at all. It's not as if 15 times as many are 'choosing' to murder because of the colour of their skin.

That's why I'm glad this fact was omitted - it's not hard to imagine how it might be misinterpreted or exploited.
How well do you actually know LabVIEW? Have you ever used its object-oriented system, actor framework, network streams, or get/set control value by indices (a feature actually implemented for SpaceX) functionalities? These are all things a professional LabVIEW engineer will be familiar with and use. The fact that a system didn't use these means it's either seriously outdated or the person writing it wasn't aware.

It sounds like you hate LabVIEW because you worked on a few poorly architected systems, as I don't see anything in your hate for it that actually applies to LabVIEW the language/environment.

> If you're not working it essentially full-time, on the same codebase, it's insanely difficult to maintain any non-trivial code.

It's hard to maintain any codebase if you're not giving it attention. I would argue that LabVIEW, when properly architected, can be maintained just fine and maybe even easier than other languages. I've done it.

LabVIEW is highly performant and excels at throwing data around and processing it and interacting with hardware. Its dataflow nature actually makes it easy to modify and maintain, when done properly. There aren't many languages that make it that easy to make user interfaces and distributed systems. Another language/ecosystem that I would consider for such a system is Elixir/Erlang, but you'll be searching for a user interface solution and lots of hardware drivers. However, with Elixir/Erlang you gain a system even more built for distribution but you lose out a lot on synchronous/sequential performance. C#/F#/.NET are other options to use since NI makes quite a lot of .NET drivers.
https://github.com/Y-Vladimir/SmartDeblur

http://smartdeblur.net/
DahliaOS.
I put comma ',' instead of the dot '.' in a file name with extension and wasted a couple of hours debugging.
I have the SpaceEx RSS feed [0] where it was annouced some days before. You could also find it on HN and the reddit frontpage. But I also don't really know how to keep up with that stuff without digging through tons that doesn't interest me.

[0] https://www.spacex.com/news.xml
No, you can just install it via Homebrew.

brew install qrencode
I personally can't stand the smell of line-dried laundry. It's not worth changing your habits to reproduce it.
What kind of dashboards - monitoring, business intelligence?
Hi, please let me know. I would also like to learn about this sort of thing myself.
Yea, I'm a big fan of mithril.js, but I've moved over to React as my preferred framework primarily for this reason. The fact that the Clojurescript community has embraced it via reagent is a big factor as well.
Similar issues have confounded me for years. And I've come to believe that a consistent strawman and Catch-22 can be found in political correctness: If we agree to use the substitute words, we admit the original words were designed to segregate and that we used them to that end. If we don't agree to the substitute words, we prove the original words were designed to segregate and that we will use them to that end.

Most of these claims are bait. The goal isn't for the person asserting them to strike meaningful change in our understanding of the issue. They want to appear informed because they feel protected from criticism over their individual culpability. An anecdote: I had a friend who spent years patronizing white people she knew over their "ignorance" on the disproportionate impact of domestic abuse on black and Hispanic women. One evening, she flippantly described them as "too ghetto to know 'wuz good'..." So, all that talk and insistence, and she was the only person in the room with that opinion.
Professional applications, e.g. video nonlinear editing, have a huge number of shortcut keys. You can buy entire keyboards with colored key caps that are labeled with shortcuts for a single application like Final Cut Pro.

Would be great for that.
I would love to have one for mine,

www.escape-team.com

(a printable escape room), especially for its growing base of user-created missions!

Fabian
Like when your pilot isn't sure there's something wrong with the plane, but just has this feeling that something's not right.
> According to Minnesota Public Safety Commissioner John Harringon, officials there have been using what they describe, without going into much detail, as contact-tracing in order to build out a picture of protestor affiliations — a process that officials in the state say has led them to conclude that much of the protest activity there is being fueled by people from outside coming in.

This article has zero information on what they are doing. This could just be routine investigative work, it could involve private contractors scouring social media, it could be the FBI + NSA + Fusion Centers collating phone data. Who knows. This author definitely doesn't.

AG Barr claimed the "outside agitators" are "far leftist" groups like "AntiFa" (and lots of conservative social media is conspiracy theory talking of Soros-funded groups hiring and bussing in crisis actors. Lots of public social media posts speculating that White Nationalist groups are executing an anti-government agenda to spark a race war (a la The Turner Diaries). Simply not enough signal yet in the "fog of war" and this article doesn't reveal anything useful.
He’s been pretty careful to not do anything illegal (he’s talked about this in a few live-streams), for example not open-sourcing any of his control software and using just local IMU data for in-flight control.
Banning line drying is the kind of thing you do when you're afraid your neighborhood might be mistaken for poor if there are a few backyard clotheslines. It's a middle-class class anxiety thing.
Seven Obvious Reasons to Use TypeScript
You clearly don't have a community already invested in what you have to say about the state of the problem, never mind your solutions to it. So I'd say take a step back and prove that you can build a community that cares about the problems you are trying to solve, whether through a mailing list, IRC channel, slack group, twitter list. Once you have built that community, it's a lot more likely that you'll have a group consensus to what the problem is, which is a necessary foundation for you to build any kind of a solution.

Thank you, this is very good advice.

And yeah, I have a bad habit of "doing the hard things" and taking risks to engage smart people in conversations, sometimes stupidly (because I walk into a group which has been conditioned against, say, cryptocurrency, and try to present my case). I do it to improve my own communication skills and also understand the dynamics on "hard mode".

I've focused on the foundation. I just didn't want to mention it here. I wanted to see if smart people would talk about the real problems for their own sake, and not just getting on the bandwagon of something already successful. But, I've learned over the last 10-15 years that this is largely a waste of time. Time could be better spent actually building the thing you're talking about.

I'll try to be a bit smarter about it in the future. It's the same impulse that makes people get into Twitter wars for no reason and waste time.
Examining links between procrastination and prospective memory failures
There's a well-known correlation between psychopathic tendencies and holding a CEO position. I would assume that also applies to politicians, to some degree. The thing is that usually these people are good at thinking holistically and long-term which, even when totally driven by self-interest, can result in somewhat more "moral" actions (especially if appearing to be moral or trustworthy is useful to their own interests).

Trump simply has none of that foresight or self-control. That's the only difference. We needn't continue being surprised by his behavior.
I think its root is in "direct action"[0], and intentional/encouraged by at least some. Others are just opportunists, for their own gain.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_action
Yes, flyspray is atrocious. But it's also one of our more complex migrations, so it'll take some time to complete the work on it.
How much is Astrée? I get nervous when you can’t see a price on the website.
Having worked at National Instruments, I will say there are some engineers out there that really love LabVIEW. It has been a successful tool.
> What's the actual source here?

Apparently the only nugget of info in this article about "contact tracing":

> According to Minnesota Public Safety Commissioner John Harringon, officials there have been using what they describe, without going into much detail, as contact-tracing in order to build out a picture of protestor affiliations — a process that officials in the state say has led them to conclude that much of the protest activity there is being fueled by people from outside coming in.
Also, a normal drier pulls out a lot of the fabric lint so if you line dry a lot the clothes will accumulate lint and that adds to the weird rougher texture.
Why is that chemical so prevalent in Chicago?
What’s the application of super high-quality earth cable?
I was responding to the parent about feature comparison.
I wouldn't take him at his word. Musk says a lot of shit in his tweets.
Small tip: look for smiles in the corners of the eyes. This happens when laughter is genuine. If you do things that make someone laugh genuinely, they will probably stick around.

How to Win Friends and Influence people is also a masterful book for socializing. It basically teaches you what naturals do automatically.
> What about retirement savings? If you had funded your 401(k) and IRAs with an engineer's salary for this many years you should have many millions to live off of.

Retiring to millions may be true in theory for certain programmers, but certainly not true for all programmers.

Reality is often different for everyone. As the African proverb says: “all fingers are not equal” meaning the outcome of a specific situation can differ across people. For instance, what if s/he had a financially draining medical emergency, forcing them to rejoin the workforce?
If you want low latency you really need to use USB3/USB-c. USB3 doesn't use polling like USB2. USB2 latency is measured in milliseconds. USB3 latency is measured in microseconds.
I second this. Competitive programming helps you develop skills that I find important in a career and that, in my opinion, had a strong influence on my current success.

There are many benefits and things where Comp. Programming can help you, but the most obvious one is how interview questions in FAANG (and similar) companies are easy compared to your weekly Comp. Programming contests.
> contact tracing was never going to be left 'only for medical purposes

That's all fine and well to speculate, but where is the evidence that it's true?
Thank you!

I think most (like myself) don't often click through to read before reacting
Care to plug the retreat? Or a similar option?
First-degree is premeditated. Third-degree is depraved-heart ("murder as a result of callous disregard for the value of life"). What evidence supports a first-degree charge? If you want him to walk, charge him with first-degree. Good luck proving premeditation beyond a reasonable doubt. The depraved-heart charge is a slam dunk, and is clearly the right one if you actually want justice.
If you blur then mosaic, or vice-versa, then presumably you get rid of the low and high frequencies? Depending on the detail shown in the original image either, or both, might remove enough information to render the image anonymised.

How about replace each face with a "this is not a person" AI generated face, then blur+mosaic. Or just a non-person face using a deepfake system that matches the facial expression?
Yes, and they make a big, serious-looking, citationey link to "Minnesota Public Safety Commissioner John Harringon"—how official!—that merely points to a Twitter search that mostly fills up references to this same article. I called that a pretty lame trick above. Internet bottom-feeding is more like it.

They couldn't even spell his name right, by the way.
The data isn’t usually gone, just spread out!

Deconvolution was used to fix the Hubble Space Telescope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope#Flawed_...

Even more impressive, you can see around corners with similar reconstruction techniques

https://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/dual_photography/

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-new-science-of-seeing-aro...