skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pixel 2 and newer have a completely independent processor for photo processing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_Visual_Core

It also includes :AI:

The Pixel 4 has renamed it the "Pixel Neural Core" and has given it even more machine learning tasks and offloading such as Google Assistant and face unlock.
“in” is missing in the HN title. They’re not being accused of filing a price fixing lawsuit, they’re being accused in one.
I'm sure google will fix it now
The nice thing about a laptop is that it has a much bigger screen than my phone, but the tradeoff in the phone case is that I can't see the other people as clearly when I'm looking at a 4-box of people. The tradeoff in the laptop case is that (usually) laptops have a pretty crappy integrated webcam.

Another solution that I'm going to experiment with sometime soon is to use my iPad Pro as the video conferencing device so that I can (hopefully - haven't tried yet) see a 9 box of people on the device. It's probably a step down in video quality for other folks looking at me, but that's OK :)
I'm little bit troubled by the model created for classifying the vein patterns. With only corpus of size 40 and using two classes without augmentation will most likely end up overfitting the model. I would say the model is currently learning to classify left or right hand but doesn't really care about the veins much.

Have you tried the performance with some other user?

I would also probably use data augmentation and ie. flip and rotate images, vary contrast etc. That might prevent some amount of overfitting.

With these kinds of problems usually classifying models are not very well suited. Basically with neural networks you are causing the manifold to partition whole output space and so you can expect that there is practically unlimited amount of different patterns that look equal to your hand (the class you have trained to be 'your hand')

For better model you need more data, it can be labeled of course but there is also unsupervised options you could consider such as autoencoders. With facial recognition the siamese networks and triplet loss based networks are pretty popular and you could maybe take a look into them.
I've gone the opposite way and invested in a lovely Ultrawide Dell for home work and it's a huge benefit.

Coupled with FancyZones from PowerToys (https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys ) it's even better.

You might think, well if you're just using FancyZones to split the screen up again doesn't that take you back to close to a two monitor setup, but the key is the flexible sizing. I have a main pane centrally for core focus and then I have really small side windows for scripts, upcoming reminders, and a bigger side section for calendar and chat, which are both handy to glance at (eg to confirm things during calls)

I honestly think it'll be a struggle to compete with "home me" when I go back to the office, as it's just so much better. A certain amount may be a placebo effect but I sense the effect all the same!
The discussion seems to have shifted to argument for argument's sake.

But for the sake of argument: large bank VaR models affect hedge funds because hedge funds get their leverage through their prime brokers which are... large investment banks.
There's some argument in favor of clarity I think.

Statically typed languages often require a lot of additional annotation of types and more awkward logical structures that interfere with readability. Obviously there is a counter weight that not having types be explicit creates its own set of problems. If type inference was perfect and languages were able to support things like union types seamlessly I think it would be possible to get close. But I've used languages with quite good inference (Kotlin) and it is still regularly a battle with the compiler to get it to believe something is "safe" which actually can only ever be safe but requires me to add extraneous syntax all over my code just to "convince" the compiler.

I quite like languages with incremental typing for this reason - you can create a statically defined interface and data structures but if you already know constraints are satisfied you don't need to pamper the compiler to continuously reassure it inside the function. But these would fall into your definition of languages "with static analysis" I imagine.
The eastern half lasted another 1000 years after this.
This is exactly my use case. I wanted to play Red Dead Redemption 2 during the lockdown but I didn’t want to spend €300-400 on a console that I won’t play afterwards. The stadia experience for me has been brilliant. If it disappears in a few years along with my game I won’t be happy but it’s not much different to owning Red Dead Redemption 1 on disc and a broken Xbox 360. Total cost of ownership is lower for me and I’m willing to take the risk.
Mac Colour Classic made in 1994. Still has HyperCard working last time I checked.

If anyone can tell me how to get Dark Castle running on it, I'd be grateful
Exactly, it's protecting large airlines from going under. This means there's less risk here than if the government had not intervened. Any future pandemic will likely result in a similar response, therefore, airline stocks have reduced risk of becoming worthless.

At a basic level, if you removed all demand for airlines, you'd say "well, airlines don't look like a great investment". But now the demand matters less during disasters because demand isn't actually keeping the company alive as in most businesses.
I've used it in a personal React note-taking app project, to add basic offline functionality.

It's a nice idea, and it's pretty magical to be able to build an interactive website that can work fully offline. That said, there are some pitfalls you have to watch out for, e.g. database connection contention if you have multiple tabs to the same origin open.

The lack of great tooling around indexeddb is also a bummer. Something like TablePlus but for indexeddb would be great.
Ahh, one more year until I finish creating my fake digital self and delete fingerprints.
TI calculator from 1991 that I still use weekly and a Makita cordless drill (NiCDs are tired) from 1995. Before we moved my car was a 1988 Toyota.
I do this too, but for more practical reasons. I work from home normally, and I like being able to move around (while the video is off). So, connecting from my phone is my default.

Also, when I’m the one presenting (from the big screen), I can see what everyone else sees on my phone. This helps a lot. You then know when slides actually changed, how big things are, etc.
As I've been studying news from the last decades I can see certain categories unfolding.
Tech that is available now and was predicted pretty precisely — eg. https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/11/magazine/tech-2010-24-all...

Ideas that took a lot more time to get implemented — https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/11/magazine/tech-2010-14-fee...

And, essays with ideas that seem even more relevant today — https://web.archive.org/web/20000815060013/http://www.beyond...
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There are several verboten topics on HN. I hadn't noticed China among them but there are several sacred cows here which, when criticized, will get you a swift burial by downvoting. At least in those cases, it's definitely intentional and related to the subject person or industry, regardless of the truth of the post itself.
A 1960 Fisher X-1000 stereo amplifier that pumps out about 50 wpc, high for a tube amplifier. I found it on the street about 10 years ago, restored it, made a new brass faceplate, and it sounds just amazing.
Nonetheless, there are loads of successful projects written in Javascript, which was GPs point (not the quality of the language).
This is only mostly true, they do subtly change some semantics.

As a motivational example, it is possible to encode a colon in a header name in http2 but not in http1.1, and this does not violate the RFC which only blacklists "\0\r\n".
I've heard this before. Wonder how much it would help to just attach a bigish capacitor between the 5V and GND pins on the expansion header.
The reporter from the BBC who started that Twitter thread is also the one who published the article.

https://twitter.com/zsk/status/1269968388497047553
I do the same but with "wi" because I find it's nicer to type, but yeah this sort of thing lets me skip search pages regularly. I also have a shortcut for word definitions in English and Dutch, skipping the YouTube search results page and go straight to the top hit, Dutch and German Wikipedia... I may like shortcuts a little too much.
But will my weather always show in the clock now instead of randomly? (The "At a glance that's on the homescreen, shows the date, weather, upcoming events etc. Frequently it just shows the date for me and drops weather info)

And do we really need bubbles? Do people actually like those? I always found that annoying.
The name was probably too similar to another Norwegian company that is also named Appear.
Call Centers Discover Work from Home Doesn’t Work for Them
I have a Unicomp but I'm disappointed that the resistance varies a lot from key to key. Maybe I got a bad unit?
Yeah, until there’s a better market to invest in than the US or an attempt to dethrone the dollar as the reserve currency I don’t see anything changing no matter what the fed does with QE and bailouts.
> means you can't own those goods while renting labor

And this is only slightly different than banning all private enterprises.

I do not consider "you can own some capital, but only if you are a single person, and you can't purchase labor from others for your business" to be significantly different than the slightly more extreme situation of banning all private enterprises.
Yeah, but did you move in 1989?
You seem to be conflating enterprise and home/personal networks. They are not the same.

> nobody should ever get used to the idea that their network is MITMing their traffic

and:

> surveillance technologies like this will be abused by people with power over others

Then simply do not add a CA or self-signed cert to your cert store. IOW: the default is secure against SSL MITM. Nothing to "get used to" or "abused".

> What happens when libraries and software starts dropping support for old, insecure protocols, and the new protocols are designed to treat MITM as an attack?

Much simpler than you think. In an Enterprise, they block what they cannot inspect. Clients do not own+run the networks, the enterprise does.

> What happens when they're spending huge amounts of money maintaining forks and patches?

This runs counter to your earlier argument: "You can block spam and outbound attacks without MITMing traffic."

How do you control a myriad of versions of client software on a myriad of versions of devices across a myriad number of applications? There are bound to be some software the Enterprise cannot control (e.g. proprietary, or simply does not have the resources to fix+recompile).
You are expanding the definition of capitalism. Why is that expansion to be preferred over what you call expanding the definition of socialism? Especially since socialists defined both?
Other than two screens (which I do agree is a great idea) pay attention to how you position those two screens and the ergonomics behind them.
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This is how we "teleport" thought from one person to another, we have to replay the same series of events that enable them to have the same thought patterns. Communicating and educating is basically replaying the stage for the same thoughts to form.
Whoa. I didn't know that. Even though my trust of Zoom isn't completely eliminated (yet), that absolutely negates my reasons for using keybase.

Granted, I haven't used it in a while because they put me in a position where recovering my account is impossible.
Its true that the McDonald's case is often presented in a one-sided fashion that makes it look like it was a baseless lawsuit.

But its also true that responses, like the one you linked to are also often one-sided. And what would you accept from an association of lawyers who make money launching such suits?

The truth is, its not as simple as either side tries to make it out to be. I think the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restau..., does a good job of presenting pertinent details from both sides.
Okay, no point with you then. Have a good life.
They're not exactly clear about it, but I think the use case they're getting at is that you can have one screen for videoconferencing and a second one for materials that are being presented. We had a setup like this at my office that I miss. If you're in a lot of meetings, it's nice to have a powerpoint slide or a screenshare in full screen, while still having the video streams up for questions and discussion.
I would seriously consider hosting my own startup ideas and side projects at home on a personal server if I had a symmetric 10Gig service. An old server off of Ebay with an SSD raid-1 array is reasonably unlikely to fail, and much cheaper than a VPS.
An optimal CC should have high utilization with a single stream¹ and behave fairly to other connections on the network. Measuring multiple streams misses the point of the exercise.

> other than a masters thesis which suggests FASP outperforms on transferring large files over long distances

I found that one too. I would take it with a grain of salt since it uses scp for data transfer (which has its own flow control and may be the limiting factor here) and doesn't list the values of some important tcp settings, e.g. tcp_wmem, which can be essential for transoceanic connections.

¹ ignoring the case where a single CPU core can't move bytes fast enough to saturate a link.
I like your choice of phrasing on “impression”. I think it captures what is meant by embodiment, that the knowledge is in the body, so you can get at it by imitating the whole of a person.
I was thinking filing amicus briefs in support of the ACLU in the cases mentioned above but this is helpful too.
You have to personally break a law to go to prison.
Hmm, weird. I just set up a new machine at home with Windows 10 Pro and it worked just fine. No more web search. Perhaps since you're at work there's something else negating it?
You have a point there. I can see people continuing to wear masks even after the order is lifted across cities.
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Here's Amazon making a similar decision: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23482406
Physical Conversations isn't a brand of a company that would be negatively affected by bad publicity (although physical locations/neighborhoods with bad reputations that have trouble attracting investment etc are certainly good examples of this effect). You're not gonna say "avoid physical conversations, that's where criminals hang out." But people can say "avoid that neighborhood/avoid Zoom, that's where all the criminals hang out." So the neighborhood and zoom have incentives to police conduct occurring within their borders.
Yeah, I think there are issues that fall away when you stop trying to be good and just embrace pretending to be good. Confidence is one of those. I also think a lot about evaluative mindsets versus learning mindsets. Copying puts me in learning mode.
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Step 2: End Ring contracts with police departments.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/five-concerns-about-am...
Ah, right, yeah. Admittedly I never think about Home, as I've just come to accept the quality of life upgrade that comes with Pro (this being one of them), regardless of the machine.
In the US judges tend to be elected. That's not the norm around the world. US judges must to a certain extent be politicans, and "being tough on crime" plays well to the electorate. Many probably do feel their sentences are appropriate, but if they are collectively anchored towards harsh sentences the end result is the same.
When the guy who created Smarty (his name escapes me) and announced it on the core PHP developers mailing list, the other developers practically begged him not to release it and told him outright how redundant it was. He did it anyway. PHP may deserve some hate but we shouldn't blame PHP for Smarty existing.
"...McGraw installed a botnet to some of the computers to subsequently use it to initiate denial of service attacks (DDoS) on the websites of rival hacker groups..."

DDoS with "some" computers?
One other other thing. Functional thinking has greatly changed the landscape of client-server applications that are hosted in the cloud as well. If your aim is apps, maybe don't bother to master the skills needed to set up and maintain a Linux server (although if you follow OP's other suggestions, you're well on your way). Instead, consider your backend as a network of microservices, functions, that each do one thing and do it with side effects only when necessary. The host for your app? Poof! That's AWS/GCP/Azure's problem.
The practice of requiring and enforcing non-competes.
It might be something other than <array>. The name depends on the DTD. It does need a DTD that has the concept of allowing either a single item or a container.
When this topic comes up I like to chip in to remind the quiet readers that not everyone does the 4k * N screens thing.

I was confused for a long time as to why people seem to need larger and larger screens (not want, but need, it would seem). That changed when recently I had to use a GUI static analysis toolkit on my 1440 screen. It was too small. The GUI wasn't customizable and its usage on my screen was very awkward. Its single window was split into a number of panes, all of which were too small to use comfortably without constant horizontal and vertical panning.

The mentioned GUI's devs created it for big screens. I'd guess that this happens with popular IDEs as well, right? In a way it's about modifying hardware to adhere to software. Sounds backwards.

The reason why a 1440 laptop screen is enough for me is that I use vim and cli for pretty much everything except browsing. That makes my workspace relatively space efficient.
I believe the same thing is a problem on Windows, too. Linux has fast lstat.
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yes, keyboard is attached via pogo pins (which actually are just USB), but tablet also has a "normal" USB port where you can just insert any plain USB keyboard.

source: https://www.pine64.org/pinetab/ ("Learn More About It!" link at the bottom goes to forum post from 2019)
Right, a way to broker requests between objects. Just a common architecture for that.
Analog circuit design is very very secretive because the semiconductor industry is so cutthroat. I would definitely get fired if I posted about any of my design work on a blog. And to be fair, anything specific enough to be interesting could be copied easily enough. For a website, there is an enormous amount of visibility into the final product. You can even look at the source. For circuits, though, all you get is a tiny piece of plastic and metal with a silicon die inside. Even if you decap it, analyze it, and produce a netlist, the information is still limited and very hard to use.

If anyone has any questions about analog design in general, though, I'd be happy to answer them. Maybe a Q&A blog would be interesting enough?
Perspective of a Jewish Writer in Support of BLM
>Ira Glasser says the organisation he once led has retreated from the fight for free speech.

The ACLU would not take the Skokie case today’: https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/02/14/the-aclu-would-not-...

Former ACLU board member Wendy Kaminer:

The ACLU Retreats From Free Expression: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-aclu-retreats-from-free-exp...

to complaints of sexual violence. We will continue to support survivors.”

The ACLU Declines to Defend Civil Rights: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/11/aclu-devos...
They're hamstrung by their shareholders. This is why it's impossible to find a public company that cares about ethics in any context other than potential blowback.

Amazon can keep the sharks at bay for a year and cry for help, but if regulation is too late, they're going to be eaten for lunch by shareholders and they know this.
One thing I find myself missing from Windows Vista/7's Explorer is the tiny media thumbnail in the lower left corner, in the bottom bar. Useful when browsing using the "details" view and going through the list with the keyboard arrows, without bothering with a full preview panel.
I recall the game of thrones episode where this guy is telling a really old and well-known joke, and when he gets to the punchline, basically everybody in the room can't help but blurt it out before he can.

Or if you're in line and the cashier can't ring up your stuff for some technical reason, and you blurt out "well, I guess it must be free, huh?" But they have heard that one ever single day since they started.

Even I, paragon of ...uh... stuff... I once cracked a joke in the TSA line.

I would just imagine that most of this is human nature and I expect graduating to a higher level of power and responsibility has the same sort of well-traveled detours.
You seem to be arguing from an agnostic or atheist point of view (correct me if I'm wrong). If that's the case, then there is no incentive whatsoever to limit the "damage" to the people who do get locked up, because it's meaningless. Whether they get locked up for 1 year, 10, or just straight out executed, it's all the same. Rape isn't inherently bad anymore, it just is. Same with murder, theft, etc.
Never is a very, very long time.

At some point in an encyclopedia's lifetime, it's "complete enough" that you'll see an excess of authors. "Compiling the world's information" and, past that, "compiling current events as they happen" (with a side of "occasionally improving/updating old articles") need very different numbers of authors.
What prevents a private company (ex. Clearview) from using Rekognition to accomplish the same thing for the police as a government-contractor?

Without any kinds of laws, wouldn’t things like this incentivize new niches to popup to milk money from the government?