skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How are barcodes read? (Library-less image processing in C#)
People in America and Britain are working with mud in quite sophisticated ways, only it's called "cob" and "adobe" and "rammed earth" and isn't stigmatised as "mud huts".
I would encourage you to look outside of simple "good v. bad" when it comes to medical sciences, and discourage anyone from doing newobj's research for them, unless a medical professional online here can shed light with proper terminology
https://archive.is/ixNen
Simple math. Herd immunity requiring 50%. World population 7.6B. So 3.8B infections. Hospitalization rate is roughly 10%, so 380M hospitalizations. IFR is roughly 1%, so 38M fatalities.

So again, 3.8B infections, 380M hospitalizations, and 38M fatalities. Even assuming a magnitude of error, we're still looking at 38M hospitalizations and 3.8M deaths.

Michael Osterholm had a really good analogy into COVID. We're wrong to thing of it in waves; it's more like wildfire. Where it finds fuel, it will burn until the fuel is gone.
Very kool. didn't know I needed them! thx. Not having had time to look indepth, wonder if either platform will allow embedded videos, particularly from youtube? currently have a bunch uploaded as private links since it was the easiest to share. It would be awesome if they allowed it or may be could be mod...

[EDIT] wow..you have given me some motivation to look. Didn't realize how many there are. however, still want/need to find one where I can embed youtube videos but thx for the push to look!
Guess you didn't read the articles explaining that reduced performance on phones with heavily amortised batteries is to be expected. And didn't read the testimonials of people who paid for a new battery and got their device working fast again.
The title should probably be:

> The FSF provides AVC (H.264) videos

or

> The FSF tolerates AVC (H.264)

This sounds like they're endorsing it.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24111740.
It would really depend on the specifics. I was somewhat surprised to learn that my girlfriend sleeps with her phone under her pillow. That's pretty close to your head, for a fairly large portion of each day. That said, I was more concerned about battery malfunctions / fires.

EDIT> Inverse square law. Presumably those other emitters aren't right by your head.
> If I'm a client, and I've bumped my dependency from 1.2.3 to 1.3.0, it doesn't matter in that moment whether my deployment is on fire because there was an unannounced but intentional change, or a breakage because of a bug.

So in your mind because bugs exist there is no purpose in communicating whether an update intentionally changes things? I can not see your logic.

Bugs will always exist. No meaningfully complicated software will ever be bug free. By your logic we should just never upgrade anything? Except that there are time-based bugs all over the place, so not upgrading anything is also guaranteed to break things (2038 anyone?)
Carthage was in what is now called "Tunisia".

It was founded by people from Tyre which is indeed in Lebanon.

After gaining independence in the seventh century BC, Carthage gradually expanded its economic and political hegemony across northwest Africa, Iberia, and the major islands of the western Mediterranean.

In 146 BC, after the third and final Punic War, the Romans destroyed Carthage and established a new city in its place. All remaining Carthaginian dependencies, as well as other Phoenician city-states, came under Roman rule by the first century AD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Carthage
99.99% of our 300,000+ years of history is people going around avenging their ancestors through pillage, enslavement, rape and murder. We're for the most part in a brief moment of respite from the norm, but I'm sure we'll be back to genocide and slavery before long.
Around here the typical failure pattern is the power goes out for a second or two, then comes back on for a few seconds, then goes out for good.
I am missing the connection here. Why would this improve your eyesight?
Sort of counter-intuitive, but for small projects, you want resilient hardware systems as much as possible... the larger your scale out, the less reliable you would want them to force that out of hardware into resilient software.
Diet and exercise being by far the most important and lowest hanging fruit here is definitely true. But even so, what percentage of people do you think even have a rough idea of what an optimal diet+exercise routine would look like for themselves? Different fad diets have come in and out of fashion over the decades, and while some have had quite a bit of interesting research backing them, not all have.

Motivation is a difficult part, but I think we can help people out a lot by making accurate, personalized, and easily actionable information much more accessible to them.
While these are not exclusive, personally I'd look instead into studying my system's reliability in a way that is independent of a cloud provider, or even of performing any side-effectful testing at all.

There's extensive research and works on all things resilience. One could say: if one build a system that is proven to be theoretically resilient, that model should extrapolate to real-world resilience.

This approach is probably intimately related with pure-functional programming, which I feel has been not explored enough in this area.
the US is a colonized nation. The relatively low population (because up to 95% were killed) of Native Americans in this country live with profound social problems and in horrid conditions (there's Native American reservations right here I have seen) and they are not happy about it. I'm outraged on their behalf. As kids we grew up playing things like "cowboys and indians" and naming our sports teams things like "the redskins". We as kids were fully ignorant of what any of this meant decades ago. Once we learned, if you decided to feel "pride" that we wiped out a whole culture, or revulsion, basically says a lot about what kind of person you probably are.
Genius, love it.
I wonder how this is feasible for US embassies in countries like Myanmar where basically all telecom and connections are ZTE/Huawei related.
I find their conclusion that taxes "weren't that much higher" not supported by their graph. In 2010 the rate they show was 30% (it is a bit higher now) and in the between 1945 and 1970 it was roughly 45%. Thats 50% higher. That's a lot higher.
The Texture of Understanding
> Single income households were a common occurrence, since dual income households competing for housing were not out competing single income houses. And I don't mean this in a crypto conservative way, even Elizabeth Warren wrote a book about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two-Income_Trap

I haven't read the book, but her speech a decade ago is really eye opening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akVL7QY0S8A
NOVA's Kings of Camouflage is another great doc - on cuttlefish

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/kings-of-camouflage/
Sure but the end user of this product doesn't know or care about the parts. This matters to those of us in the plumbing business and those businesses that would hire us to do their plumbing.
My $0.02 on this:

A work colleague worked on a document signing solution for a client once. Legally, at the time (and I hope this has improved), when a person added their digital signature to a document, that meant that they signed that exact version (read: hash of all the bytes) of the document.

That meant that PDF was sort-of problematic for the use case that the customer required: Giving the customer an A4 version to keep for their documentation was important - but having an A4 version on screen made for terrible scaling UX on mobile and tablet devices.

The fact that PDF is more than just text+formatting in that manner was a real hindrance at that point in time (2017).

(I'd be happy to know if I got any of this wrong after only hearing about it second-hand. This was in Switzerland, if this affects which laws were relevant at the time.).
Trump administration announces major midband spectrum auction for 5G
New Zealand man gets paid $10k a year to be a city's official wizard
You would think everything we know about Covid would be motivation enough to exercise...yes, there is the rare outlier story of someone in excellent shape dying from Covid, but the norm is people with lifestyle conditions that could have been prevented.
I don't think it's unfounded, since once these companies have your DNA, they can keep it forever, share it, or even lose it in a data breach, and presumably over the next years/decades we will be able to make DNA information about you significantly more valuable.

In general there doesn't yet appear to be common significant gains that can be made from the DNA tests available. Sometimes you will be lucky and find you're at high risk of certain things, but the vast majority of the information won't help you much. You still need to eat and exercise well either way.

Until this changes, and we can actually do a decent job of offering personal recommendations based off of one's DNA, you're likely better off getting a lot of blood tests and working from there.
None of the statements in the comment you reply to relate to your situation so you didn't have to defend yourself. That you did makes it appear like a source of insecurity.

Now maybe it isn't a source of insecurity, but it still looks like it is.
Oh noooooooo.

I name my projects after plants. Calla is a type of lilly. And in English, it's like "making a call".

Crap, that is not good.
In many areas, mask use isn't mandated, nor enforced. Same with social distancing; a megachurch in California ignored all the social distancing recommendations and even had the chutzpah to inform the authorities. They didn't cite a single violator.

And outdoor exposure is largely immaterial. It's exposure indoors where the research is starting to indicate aerosols as a significant vector (compared to droplets).
Simply host on Google Cloud! They will terminate your access for something random, like someone said your name on YouTube while doing something bad! They don't have a number you can call, and their support is ran but the stupidest of all AI algorithms.
How to Show Kids the Joy of Reading
I wonder if anyone is breeding cephalopods for longevity and intelligence
Wouldn't matter, we're discussing the storage medium used to perform the software update, not the format used to store the software in the aircraft.
“Cloud-Like” Infrastructure at Home – Part 1: LoadBalancers on the Metal
we're getting to the point where the only reasonable answer is to regulate this, as the tech giants have well demonstrated that their only concern is to do the bare minimum trust & safety work that's beneficial to their business. users are an afterthought at best.

if you provide identity services to more than 100k people or w/e, you need to have a defined dispute process, served by humans with the power to do shit, with legal recourse in the event that they fail to do so. the "run a flag up the pole on social media, hope you're important enough or friends with the right set of people if you want shit done" approach is terrible.

the inevitable "but that will be vulnerable to fraudsters" backlash is stupid--the existing systems are too; fraud prevention and such isn't something you can ever do perfectly, since it's inherently adversarial. the problem we have now is that EVERYONE is treated as if they're a mastermind professional fraud network from the outset, and this does seemingly little to prevent actual bad actors. Twitter's trust and safety team is an even more egregious example, where they very effectively and immediately suspended my attempt to create a single parody account, immediately suspended it again after unsuspending it, and said any future attempts to reach them would be blackholed because the first unsuspend request was still open (there's, of course, no way to see that ticket or respond to it--all you get are email notifications stating that the reply-to discards all inbound mail). this, of course, does seemingly nothing to deal with actual bot networks, since those are run by sophisticated actors who've figured out how to game the system.

something like Estonia's digital ID system is perhaps best, with, importantly, built-in protection against tracking: I should be able to generate an ID that a company can verify, but all they should be able to glean from that is that I have an ID and that I've authorized X other IDs for that company--it shouldn't be something that's traceable back to who I actually am or trace my actions across companies, which is very much not the case (and is something companies very obviously take advantage of for adtech purposes) for the de facto standard of using mobile phone numbers.
Sounds like a nice, no-frills tool that does its job!
I have 4-5 hours outages every day, I use 2 APC ups to keep my modem and router up, while I still work with my laptop.

It works perfectly for me, these APC devices have given me at the very least 1500 hours of continuos internet access where I could work or entertain myself during the outages over the last 4 years, so I think the 180$ per unit it cost, was a pretty good investment in my case
Mud houses in traditional cob and adobe designs tend to be built thick, partly in order to be sturdy, but also because the sheer mass of the walls acts like a heat capacitor that can be used to either absorb cool night temperatures and smooth the temperature extremes, or warmed with a constant low level fire for colder climes.
Agreed, compared to most developed countries, a couple times/year would be extremely high. But, it's not relatively high for America. I remember living in the midwest and every major storm usually resulted in power lost to somebody. Many of my neighbors had (Generac) generators that would kick in automatically when the power went out. They're so common there that home depot stocks them on the floor.

In Southern California, we rarely get rain, let alone major storms and we still lose power 1-2 times/year.

On the other hand, I lived in a number of areas across Canada and power outages were quite rare despite the harsher climate.
> > The only people I know who seem to feel really good about their COVID fitness levels are those who prioritized it before the pandemic and are so committed that they were willing and able to figure out alternatives.

> Definitely not my experience. I was going to the gym regularly before: lifting weights and cycling. Post pandemic I've lost 5 pounds thanks to cycling outdoors, swimming outdoors, lugging heavy bags camping in the wilderness, Ring Fit, Just Dance, Box VR, Audica, Beat Saber, yoga and pilates TV shows, and first one set of resistance bands and now a second more advanced set. Started doing acroyoga with my girlfriend, which is a blast.

Am I reading this wrong? You said "definitely not my experience" and then validated everything he said. Looks more like "definitely my experience".
Its really not. Medical care and insurance is very very expensive. Rent that is actually near somewhere you can work is very expensive. Cars are expensive. Keeping a beater running can be more expensive than making car payments on a cheapish car.

There are niches wherein some can survive on little because they can rent a room or stay with family, because they don't have medical issues and can go without insurance etc etc. These are situational factors that don't scale to a whole society or even the whole of an individuals life.
This material is at the edge of my comprehension, but it seems that genetic variation is likely not directly relevant to this specifically. What appears to be happening here is that gene activation patterns which work through methylation of DNA strands leave a kind of footprint behind over long periods of repeated gene activations. This is driven by gene activations which are required for basic biological function. If your genes are not being activated through methylation then you would have a range of problems with ordinary body function. It is possible that you might have generally reduced DNA methylation which could lead to slowed biological aging, but that would cause illness up front so the situation is kind of complicated.
Is this only about talking to other people or does it allow shared experiences, such as watching a movie, playing games or watching a concert together?

I'm thinking about something like https://kastapp.co where people can do stuff together. It's easier to hang out with other people if there is something to do.
But I don't think he's suggesting he's reporting his experience with Britons. I'm pretty sure they evade the bad parts of empire in their education. Just like the Civil Rights Movement is sanitized in US.
Show HN: Discord utility to compress video to 8MB
WebRTC unbundling: the beginning of the end for WebRTC?
Someone created a G Suite trial for a domain I own. There was no option for me to contact Google to tell them I did not create the trial account and do not want it, since all contact options required me to be logged into the trial account I did not create :)
tl;dr

humans can act good or bad, this will never change, if you don’t understand nuance, you will not be a happy person
Git is another level. But I have seen documentation of Linux systems in Google Docs. Commands, fragments of config files etc. This can burn your brain for sure.

Therefore Markdown should have higher priority than some crappy level Word or Excel skills.
Even if 80% of endusers will use Markdown wiki/docs just as viewers, there is no point of hogtie sysdmins/developers and ask them to document in Word, google docs and keep data in excel files
You have wrong premise here. First of all, current Mozilla data is almost useless for training because it is carefully read speech. You do not need much of it, even accents. If you add 1000 hours of CV data to 1000 hours of random data the improvement in accuracy will be minimal. Same for the speech collected with Firefox Voice, it will be mostly a set of short commands, most likely it will not be very useful for generic transcription of random people speech.

Second, you can build models much better than Mozilla ones simply from public data, there is no need to collect user voices. We at Vosk https://alphacephei.com/vosk/ support 10+ languages for example without any user data. Everyone creates very good models from augmented text-to-speech data these days (Microsoft demonstrated in the last paper you can get almost as good as domain-specific data https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15188).

Given that it surprises me that Mozilla continues to insist they need the voices of their userbase.
You can't conflate population and labor supply as the specific scenarios being discussed are cases where population was fixed but labor supply changed anyway: like, the reason increased population is different should be obvious... you also have more consumers (and yet, amazingly, the average wages stay the same while total output goes up, per the comment by someone else, as that is also comparing two incomparable things); but, if you do something where consumption is the same but competing labor force goes up, that allows you to isolate the two effects. (FWIW, I have no skin in any of the rest of this position, so please do make another argument against it: it is just that your statement that it is "obviously, clearly wrong" is itself "obviously, clearly wrong" as it is at best arguing against a straw man of what other people are saying.)
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It seems like no matter the industry, a (good) temporary fix becomes a permanent solution.
So far my most effective method has been to stop trying to categorize and organize my notes.

I just use org mode and:

- have a to-do list up top. I try and keep notes as I progress through these

- below is a "waiting" group of todos which I check every few days so they don't clutter the top list

- below that is a simple daily log. I just write notes and tag meetings inside each day. I also write down a checklist of daily goals.

I used to organize everything by category and I found I still had to search for keywords anyways! I have been using a simple linear method for a few months now and have been sticking with it every day. Trying to organize it upfront gets too hard over time.
Are there any particular reasons why you want to host your website on your home network on the Pi?
The neat thing is that incoming bandwidth to AWS is free, so people upload 100's of megabytes and we only get billed for the 8MB we send back. (CPU time/cost to transcode is negligible).
Sure, obviously. We seem to be straying a long way from this article about Nigeria written by a Nigerian. Maybe we should listen to and value the Nigerian's perspective about Nigeria instead of zooming in on an uncharitable interpretation of one sentence from his article, is all I'm saying.

A friend's mother was put into a residential school in Canada. When she says "it wasn't all bad" is that a defense of the practice and institution? Of course not, but maybe we should listen to her, you know, lived experience and add it to all the other experiences.

EDIT> Think of it this way: why are you telling a Nigerian how to Nigeria, in the spirit of anti-oppression?

EDIT2> People and life are complicated. We live in a world where people beat the crap out of each other based on which sport ball jersey their team wears. Nuance and anti-knee-jerk are required if we're going to find our way out of this chimpanmess.
Yep, and once you start using custom DC UPSes the biggest issue will be battery chargers that kill lead-acid batteries. Things are better with LiFePO4 these days, but for lead-acid I haven't found a solution except for literally hacking a pulse charger and battery management on top of arduino.
What happens when you search for flights?
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A few days ago someone here point out the numbers aren't actually "receive-only" for IBANs either, but anyway, the point you're making is a separate point from the one being made here. If anything, it's the opposite -- it's arguing that the US system is too capable, rather than insufficiently capable.
This is a really great idea.
Self selection bias surely doesn't apply to software developers.
https://archive.vn/GNff3
The teams they buy could!
Isn’t iBeacon a passive technology, though? I don’t think the beacons are listening for any incoming client connection, they just blindly broadcast their identifier (UUID+major+minor IDs). Unless you are assuming an app might store the beacon IDs and then report back via the Internet.