skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Essentially, it doesn't. Congress has no say in how States operate their policing - it only has a say in how the Federal policing operates. But this hasn't stopped congress from overstepping their constitutional powers for the past 6 decades at least. The same goes for the office of the President, where _at least_ the past 10 Presidents (just off the top of my head) have deliberately acted outside their given powers on several occasions. The Judiciary is no better, but their transgressions are more spread out among a much, much, much larger flock of people.

That said, whether individual States are allowed to use facial recognition is another question entirely. I don't think so, because it most likely violates constitutionally protected rights such as liberty. But IANAL.

Probably one justification congress gives for allowing themselves to pass legislation like this is that it attaches them as prerequisites for special funding mechanisms.

I don't think that makes it legal either, but - again - IANAL. I also haven't read the bill in question.

But who's going to stop them?

I believe the main problem in the US is the low voting turnout. You could say the low voting turnout is caused by centuries of bad politicians and lack of hope in the system, but then you're just arguing in circles (chicken/egg). The US elects people all the way down to the city level, and even Sheriffs, Judges, and AGs on the local/town/city level. There are elections each year in the US where turnout is below 1% of the eligible population, and it is never above 65% (even in Presidential elections, which is the one that affects you as an individual the least), if I remember correctly.

Also note the disrepancy between vote tallies and exit polling in many elections in the US is routinely above 8-16% (the margin of error is 4%), which likely means many elections in the US are rigged. And note the over 1000 _convictions_ of criminal election fraud in the US since just the 80s. Not alleged, but prosecuted and convicted.

Contrast this to elections in most European countries, where turnout is rarely below 60% at any level of government. At least in my country. I've not researched it thoroughly, but I have done a bit of reading on this some years ago.

In the end, voting is the only mechanism you have for keeping politicians honest. And elected representatives are supposed to keep the rest of the bureaucracy and government honest.

So if you don't vote, or keep voting for people who don't understand their own system of government - or worse, who don't care about the limitations put on them by the framework - then in the end, revolution is the only thing that can fix it. And you don't want revolution. You'll most likely be killed.

At the extreme, those are your options; vote cleverly and wisely, or die.

Many people choose a 3rd option; ignore politics and live their lives. What that does is it pushes death down the line to your children, or your childrens children, etc.

/rant :-D
I want much less software in a car - or no software. Which car would that be?
Because you haven't seen it, doesn't make it so. It is absolutely possible.

What it does take is time. Lots of time. I consider myself full-stack, and I've worked with a few great full-stack engineers over the years too. The thing they all have in common is 10+ years of software development experience, and without exception every one was what I call an "IT generalist" - aside from software development, they all knew a bit about Windows, Linux, databases, DevOps, networking at different layers, infrastructure, virtualisation, etc.
Do criminals actually respond to deterrents though? Sam Harris argues otherwise in a couple of podcasts and I tend to agree...people break the law constantly without thought of the penalties. People text while driving when that could kill someone else.
One problem is the inability of media to separate the issues of protesting for change, and the organization Black Lives Matter. As such, the protestors are basically being ignored, and BLM are being lauded. BLM are the "face" of the protest - made this way mainly by left-wing media.

But BLM is a questionable organization. It's aims are not merely supporting black lives - but there is an insidious Marxism to it (and an underlying anti-white racism). So if I disagree with BLM's other aims, I'm obviously not going to join the protests, or take the knee, because they're the face of it. The protestors have effectively become BLM endorsers - not merely people who have the opinion "black lives matter" (which includes the vast majority on the right), but they may as well be out in the streets saying "I agree with BLM on everything."

I've not heard of any protestors denouncing BLM's other aims. I'd like to think that it's because the media's agenda lines up with BLMs, and they chose not to air those opinions, but part of me thinks that the majority protestors are simply unable to make the distinction themselves between the phrase "black lives matter" and the organization "Black Lives Matter", or they're in agreement with the other aims anyway because they are also "woke" opinions. I'd doubt even half of the BLM endorsers have read the BLM website.

The right-wing media obviously focus on the riots, arson, looting and iconoclasm, which gives the protests a terrible image to the larger population, even though these are the actions of a tiny number of troublemakers.

What does one do if they want to express their support for persecuted minorities and denounce racism (in all of it's forms), but does not want to endorse the BLM in any shape or form? I also don't support the pulling down of statues and attempts at woke history revisionism - which let's face it, aren't doing anything to help blacks.
That hits closer to home than I'd like to admit. :)
It's a false choice.

But even if it were true, yes, over lives. People already died fighting for my liberal rights, I'm not willing to trade any of that for some temporary safety.

I'm from a Warsaw pact country. Seeing westerners so willing to give up their rights these days is so deeply disappointing.
What language is this? I visited https://www.phoenixframework.org/ and even watched a few minutes of a video but there's no mention of the programming language. I suppose the language is called Phoenix?
For most small retail and restaurants, the customers are ephemeral; the value of their info is nil. Supplier relationships aren't of much value either. Equipment? Especially in the restaurant business, there's a well-established used equipment industry.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23943441
Is that the realm of the driver?

It seems like the driver should detect paper size, broadcast a compatible print area/capabilities to something above, and then stand by to make any dot it can in the allowed area.

Why would the hardware driver need to deal with pagination, layout, or print previews (beyond advertising capabilities accurately)?

I've always imagined that drivers are hard on the hardware side. It is really difficult to reliably place dots on a page with the requisite precision/reliability at the price-point to which we have all become accustomed.
>to help the College maintain it's reputation, which in turn helps the alum's reputation for having graduated from there.

Surely this can't work without some aultrism involved? I find it doubtful that any alumni can get 10k of benefit from the increased reputation that a 10k donation can provide.
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I agree. Banks haven't been disrupted in any serious manner yet.

You could go further and note that every angel or VC backed firm has a financier behind it.

I wouldn't claim it will be easy but I will suggest there is a large opportunity.
It's Elixir.
> See the comment above: “I'm not even sure what to recommend for developing good software judgment and habits.“. It’s like a chess coach admonishing their subject to simply “think harder”. Not helpful.

Hey, it seems like you took this as gatekeeping or something. These skills can definitely be taught or self-learned, I've done it and seen it done many times.

My point was only that I don't know resources that can act as a shortcut (my actual word above), i.e. ways to skip over the longer path of gaining experience through long engagement with the topic. So maybe more like a chess coach saying they don't know any books that let a beginner jump ahead to being a more experienced player?

There are hundreds of past threads on HN about books to level up in software, so clearly some people have thoughts about this. I just don't know what to recommend a data scientist who needs these skills immediately.
No there will be a human pilot in control. It's going to be many years before fully automated aircraft are allowed to carry human civilian passengers through regular airspace.
It's a cool idea, but the old anti-pattern about security through obscurity applies.
Well, not exactly

1. You are saving $49 month by spending 250+ hours engineering hours to structure the application which is near impossible to extend/maintain.

2. The $49/month subsidy (free tier) you are getting is temporary and will eventually go away (think about google maps api price change).

3. 50x cost for serverfull solution is not a right number. lets say you have to handle 500M requests per month (around 200 QPS) the 50x becomes .000X.

4. If there is any sudden spike to popularity, you are screwed. you will end up paying several thousand $ per month.
As does Psilocybin in Magic Mushrooms. Back when we used to sell the stuff (UK, 2005 or so), we had a small 'lab' (a grand term) run by someone who suffered serious cluster headaches and had gotten involved with us through our selling of 'shrooms.

We used to sell to quite a few people who similarly suffered from the condition, and used mushrooms to treat it - but it was an impossible thing for us to market or advertise, due to the way the MHRA (Medicines and Health Regulatory Agency) dictates what beneficial claims can be stated about retailed items.

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> I definitely do not want to be taught Indian English.

So does that mean you would refuse to learn English words which originated in India like Shampoo, Juggernaut etc?

https://www.dailywritingtips.com/15-english-words-of-indian-...
Elixir (on top if Erlang VM)

- https://elixir-lang.org/

- https://www.erlang.org/
These fees aren't for bloated admin. They support resources like the library, general student use fitness facilities, techology, and other student focused items. I get why students want to stop paying these fees during the pandemic since they can't use many of the resources. The issue is that most of the costs for these resources are fixed, mainly personnel and facilities. If you cut the fees, the university would have to lay off many of its staff, librarians, IT support, etc. The facilities would also fall into disrepair. There's no easy solution here.
Is the new app Shopify launched like that or not good enough?
huh. I would have thought https://www.phoenixframework.org/ would mention Elixir then.
Ask HN: Has Amazon ever used AWS to pressure potential competitors?
I have heard people suggest that relying on AWS could be a risky move for potential Amazon.com (e-commerce) competitors. The rationale seems to be that if Amazon wanted to, they could refuse AWS discounts or be less willing to support and cooperate if they deem someone to be a competitor. Some have even suggested that Amazon could access one's business-critical data on the back-end without having to disclose the access if they chose to, and so gain a competitive advantage.

The logic further goes that in order to avoid ending up in this hypothetical situation, one should not make use of AWS products and features which could be viewed as "vendor lock-in" and design one's systems to be "cloud agnostic". Or just avoid using AWS altogether.

My position has been that it is irrational to think that Amazon would a) even think of me as a competitor and b) put AWS' reputation at risk by employing shady tactics to sabotage my business. And that preparing for this (imaginary?) scenario would lead to missing out on or making ineffective use of AWS' (arguably best in class) cloud products. Or taking on significantly more complexity in order to be "multi-cloud". In other words, choosing to perform more "undifferentiated heavy lifting" on the basis of what seems to me like an irrational fear of being locked-in and taken advantage of by Amazon.

My question is: are there any documented cases of Amazon taking advantage of competitors via AWS in this manner? Does anyone here have (anecdotal) experience with such a situation that they'd be willing to share?
> I have seen many people getting diversity lottery just by virtue of having a family member in USA.

AFAIK the diversity lottery is random and doesn't take family members into account.
WASC: an efficient WebAssembly to RISC-V AOT compiler
Depends on their position. When my restaurant went under, we had a pretty hard lease with the landlord, and he wouldn't budge one iota. After 6 months of paying the lease, we were finally able to negotiate 15% off the remaining term.
I was in Dalvik back in early 2015. As soon as I’ve arrived at the town and parked the car I was approached by two kids in bicicleta aged no more than 15 and they’ve tried to sell me weed.
>The Sinclair Broadcast Group has drawn criticism in the past for pushing a conservative political worldview in its newscasts and programming decisions.

Why is CNN dignifying right-wing cranks by categorizing them as "conservatives"? Mitt Romney and George Will are conservatives -- these people are something very different.
The biggest problem here is that the company involved is ran by monkeys and there's no way to report this issue. In a proper company this would either not have happened (if competent people were behind the feature and would've tested this properly) or would've been resolved the same day as soon as a customer reported the problem.
If Apple or Google are going to introduce a non-optional surveillance mechanism into their devices, there’s no particular need to build it off of their contact tracing platform.

You’re thinking the contact tracing platform somehow paves the way for an actual surveillance system, but it doesn’t. If they want to build a surveillance system then they will, and the success/failure/adoption rate of their contact tracing platform won’t affect that at all.
It does in a few places, not very obvious though, especially if you might not know that "Elixir" is a programming language, agreed.
One of my hobbies is asking christians if they know about the time god told a bear to maul some kids for making fun of a bald guy. When they say they aren't I dab, tip my fedora, then moonwalk out of the room. Aren't humans goofy?
Open the mind is a figure of speech. If you think its hippie, you have your speech buried in the 1960s. Opening the mind is about accepting sensory data without mental heuristics (like concepts) titled over everything.

Opening the mind is used a lot in Buddhism and meditation to describe how consciousness is not inherently stuck in loops of negative thought, but that by opening the brain's perception of anything happening, we can see more clearly and without egocentric concern.

If anyone reading is thinking psychedelics and meditation are just hippie mumbo jumbo, check out Sam Harris or Dan Harris or Joseph Goldstein, who will show you how meditation is useful and not woo woo.
It’s more the case that the weight axis is common, and commonly understood, so the Google Fonts front end just leaves out any axis that isn’t Weight or Italic, I guess as a “UX” consideration. It’s unfortunate. The good news is, the Google Fonts API (the thing that serves fonts and CSS based on specific URLs) _does_ handle the other axes.

So, the Recursive minisite has a configuration tool (under the “Get Recursive” button) that makes it easy to get Google Fonts embed code for all axes.
Modernist architecture's dirty secret: Many of the buildings were too innovative
Contrary to others in this thread, I give applause to anyone creating something.

I’ve been testing out a similar software only service (no hardware) and it’s a neat experience.

https://www.around.co/
This is a predictable pattern at this point:

1) Employers don't like the fact that the labour they require has skills that a lot of time to become competent at and the labour wants to be compensated accordingly.

2) They get universities to start offering degree programs tailored to churn out new graduates who are willing to work for entry level wages.

3) Employers complain that the grads who come out of these programs are unprepared to do the same job as the old guard.

Using Metasploit, Nessus, and nmap should be a 1 credit elective course in a CS degree. Not top billing.
From what I've read there's a cap on how much VitC you can absorb orally, IV VitC can give you much much more (think order of magnitude or more).
I actually mostly stopped using it because it wasn't getting results for me. I removed it from most of my sites and this link got overlooked.
Asking platforms to not host and promote violent and racist content is hardly censorship.
> I find it doubtful that any alumni can get 10k of benefit from the increased reputation that a 10k donation can provide.

Declining marginal utility, and how rich the people who tend to make big donations are, play a role here.
https://www.recursive.design/
Show HN: A social network for language learning exercises
Supporting the racists because you think it's better for your wallet is still racist. Supporting policies that hurt POCs disproportionately is racist even if you don't understand why.

When someone points out something is racist, is your response to explain why it isn't or change?
On Salkantay (which can be a luxury trip, the facilities are first-rate), you start at Cuzco for a day or two which is a higher elevation than MP. But the pass is ~15k, which takes a few days to hike to on the trail.

Getting over the pass was still a major chore for many in our group. The last 1k uphill was walking 100' and taking a minute break. People who raced up or down got sick.
Webpack: A Gentle Introduction
What happens to students who were financing their tuitions through athletic scholarships? Or by working on campus?
It is. It just requires additional beacons and at least one point where a real identity can be matched.
Startup Crossword Is Launched
I think you'll need to offer something significantly better than what is already available for free on other apps to really get traction. This space is already pretty crowded -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flashcard_software -- but I still think there's plenty of room to improve on what current services offer.

Agree with the others that your pricing doesn't make sense. You want to get users to the hook point of SRS. Very few people reach this point [0], and having an arbitrary card limit will only make this worse. I would provide a very generous free trial period that has all the features of the full version -- perhaps something like 60-90 days. If someone is actually still using the app at the end of the trial, they'll be really easy to convert because they see the huge benefits. The reality is, the vast majority of your sign ups will not reach that point, but a bigger proportion will if they don't have the arbitrary card limit that prevents them from seeing the real value of SRS.

Best of luck to you!

[0] There's a blog post out there from an author of free SRS software that laments how awful the conversion rates were because users just don't stick with SRS, but I can't seem to find it.
What hype? I think it is very likely that a sufficiently high dose of just about any drug, LSD included, will kill someone. If no one has died yet, that just means no one has ever taken a big enough overdose.

We know the LD50 of LSD in rabbits, rats and mice [1]. Surely, there exists a human LD50 as well, it is just that hopefully nobody will ever be evil enough to do the necessary human experiments to determine it. (That's true for all drugs – just because we can't ethically discover the human LD50 doesn't mean one doesn't exist.)

What's the biggest overdose anybody has ever taken? This case report is the biggest one I know about. And yet, they each only consumed "two lines" of 3mm by 4mm by 30 mm, which is less than a gram, administered nasally. They were hospitalised. Would they have lived without medical attention? We don't know, but quite possibly not. And surely it would have been physically possible to take an even bigger overdose than that. How do we know an even more massive overdose would not have been fatal?

People rarely take LSD intravenously. I think a fatal overdose of LSD would most easily achieved with intravenous administration. That's what the animal study LD50s are calculated based on.

Unless you are trying to commit suicide or murder, you wouldn't do it. And if you are trying to do either, there are far more practical methods than massive LSD overdoses.

[1] https://maps.org/research-archive/w3pb/2008/2008_Passie_2306...

EDIT: I deleted my back of the envelope calculations about how much the people took in mg/kg. I don't have confidence I'm doing it right so better not to.
Crime rates have been falling across the developed world for the last 30 years. I assume that's a decent proxy for teenage risk-taking behavior too. I wonder how much of this success is coincidental to broader social trends, rather than due to any particular policy or planned effort. I think we don't really know what's cause and effect if we don't try to measure these confounding factors.
It is, though. If you're not infected you retain your privacy, but once you're infected and give up your contact tracing key, everyone can know whether you have been near them or not. Combine this fact with a network of Bluetooth beacons at fixed locations and a malicious actor can basically track where anywhere an infected person has went.
Suppliers for lots of things charge whatever people will pay regardless of current market conditions. From time to time I read about lobster surpluses, where prices for distributors plummet and they just can't get rid of them. But when I go to the supermarket the price hasn't budged even $1. The supermarket knows the average consumer isn't aware of the fluctuations in the wholesale lobster market and even if they are, who's going to change supermarkets just to save a few bucks on one item.
you said you stopped reading after the first few words, so how would you know what the rest of the comment says?
This is an interesting question.

I started my professional development career 20 years ago, and there were pretty much 2 types of developer: those that did embedded development, and everyone else.

JavaScript was even more of a shit-show than it is now (except that npm didn't exist), and browser support for, well anything, was terrible and inconsistent. Almost exclusively, server-side rendering was used (e.g. PHP, CGI, dotnet when it arrived a short time later). JavaScript was used sparingly to add interactively when needed.

It was only really when npm and specialised front-end frameworks started to arrive that a distinction started to form. At the same time, browser compatibility started to improve, and JavaScript, HTML and CSS finally started to evolve and improve. With those additional capabilities came more complexity, and so front-end has gradually became a more specialised field.
It's bizarre but these criminals need to establish trust generally.

If victims believed that a ransom wouldn't do anything they would not pay them as much.

I think there's a parallel with kidnapping in some countries, it's almost business like.
Harvard Profs Plan Geoengineering Experiment
Yes, the regulatory overhead is quite high. There are plenty of adjacent firms who could start making moves. Banks are central but the disruptor only needs to provide increasing partial replacement at sufficient profit to continue offering services at sufficient parity.