skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But the Smart Streetlights were more than lights. They included streetlight-mounted cameras and technologically advanced sensors with the ability to turn video images of cars and people into valuable data the city could use — thus the “smart” in Smart Streetlights.
Email registration is the gateway drug to conversion. We AB tested this. Requiring users to sign up meant we got fewer sign ups but a higher conversion rate to premium. So although we had fewer users, more paid. Giving your email is a committment. Maybe once you've made a small committment it's easier to make a bigger committment. If you're running a commercial product, especially freemium, it's not just about number of signups.
That hasn't been true lately. Lately I'm getting spammed at least a dozen times a day by SMS.
Thanks for the advice! I actually started doing the same. If there was position for a Software Engineer, i ask if there is room for a quick learning intern.

Thanks again!
The line is still very blurry. How about a camera using the depth information that is already necessary for AF to automatically crop out of process differently out of focus areas, thus detecting objects? How about a camera automatically focusing on an eye?
I think one problem was that LetsEncrypt's marketing failed to make it clear that it's a tradeoff: You get automation and free, but at the cost of extra sysadminning headaches. I was initially sold on both the cost and the turnkey nature of the system, but realized only after 3 months that it needs to be constantly babysat.
> Do that and soon you're going to have to introduce namespaces

Everyone says this but there is strong evidence from npm and other package ecosystems that you can go surprisingly far with a single flat global namespace.

I think there is a paranoia among software developers about potential name collisions. But in reality, name collisions are rare and easily avoided. There are 308,915,776 unique six-letter identifiers. Go to eight and you have 208,827,064,576 names to choose from.
How about you put the recovery code onto the invoice / credit card line?
When the app starts, it makes a HTTPS call to the ip address "104.248.78.24" which is owned by DigitalOcean.

@njhaveri can you please clarify?
I live in Florida and I'm surprised we aren't number 1 on the list. My wife and I have been talking about moving to another state in the future. Our state government's response to the Coronavirus has made it clear where priorities lie. Governor Ron Desantis (now affectionately called Ron DeathSentence) has shown himself to be a Trump lapdog, and the amount of Trump supporters in my county is disheartening.

Low taxes are nice if you are retired, but along with low taxes comes little funding for schools, public infrastructure, a social safety net, etc.
> One of the presidential candidates wants to tear down all the stuff you pointed out.

Biden is not going to change anything NSA-related, do not delude yourself and do not mistake electioneering frenzy for policy.
Yes, but without criminalizing individual's right to video recording in public - sometimes this is necessary when you're dealing with bullying or sociopaths (where covert body cameras can be highly effective). Same for exposing animal rights abuses in farm. You want to be gather as much evidence, preferrably video, as you can in those circumstances?
Old Reddit is the epitome of user friendly web design.
> Could it also be that they are counting flu as something else?

The article raises that question, but it does not reach this conclusion. In particular, it states:

>> [In the six countries with robust data] the total number of influenza tests has fallen by just 20%, while the share of tests that have come up positive has plummeted to record lows.

It appears to be a legitimate effect.
That name sounds like a place where you can get a degree in user tracking. I'm almost disappointed.
I agree that the data is pretty much worthless since it doesn't measure actual population or the reasons. But at the same time, a lot of that 15% who do move are not moving out of state. So I wouldn't list that as a reason.
Ask HN: Connect to Swift Network Programmatically
I want to arbitrage assets between US and India and requires really fast interface and good exchange fees to US Bank account.
As someone who has played a few hundred hours of the base civ6 game, I agree with the combat needing to be improved. The biggest flaw imo, is the AI makes terrible decisions. To overcome this, the harder difficulties give the AI a huge resource material advantage. This makes attacking early suicidal. Instead, the best strategy I have found is to turtle up until you unlock the bomber.

This bomber has a gigantic range. Forgot exactly what it is, but something like 15 tiles. Comboed with spies to give you vision of the enemy, and a few bombers utterly destroy everything. The solution to every problem becomes spies + bomber. The enemy close to getting a science victory? Put a spy in their city and bomb the spaceport. Going for a domination victory? Put a spy in their city and bomb all the units.
(I live in Massachusetts)

1. The appeal of the city is drastically reduced by coronavirus + remote work
2. Boston cost-of-living is really expensive

Put them together and moving to New Hampshire or Vermont starts to seem really attractive. Just compare Zillow for Manchester, NH vs, e.g., Somerville, MA.

Combine with 3. Most MA residents live in Greater Boston, and it's easy to see MA at #5.
3,200 cases/day is a little more than the daily positive UK RT-PCR tests. But by the government's own admission and recent commentary about cycle counts, it's entirely plausible and in fact likely that 100% of these are false positives. It's the only explanation you need to determine why there are no deaths, although there may well be other correct explanations too.

The problem is that the test's sensitivity has been amped up to such a huge level that labs are reporting positive for people who have virtually no virus in their blood, or actually no viable virus at all, and certainly are not infectious let alone at risk.

Fortunately the British government in the last few weeks finally understood that RT-PCR tests do in fact have false positives, contrary to what was being regularly claimed back in April. They changed their guidance on September 6th. There's an analysis of this by a scientist here:

https://lockdownsceptics.org/when-is-covid-19-not-covid-19/

A useful quote is this one:

The number of cycles is not actually specified in the publication. Instead each laboratory must determine their own. A beautiful French study demonstrated the relationship between the number of cycles and the chance that a sample will be from an infectious case. Above 30 cycles and the chances of a test being from an infectious case are only 50/50. Above 34 cycles they are all positive. Another laboratory may find a different cut off. Indeed, a Canadian study found no cases requiring more than 24 cycles were infectious.

To put it in perspective, COVID testing labs have routinely been reporting positive at 40 cycles.
Personally I don't think it's worth worrying about scaling like that until you actually need to. There are other reasons to choose JWTs, but I don't think scalability is a good one early on.
Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN. There's no information here. If you wanted to say something specific about how this is like Creative Commons, for example, that might be interesting. But shallow denunciation isn't interesting, however intense you make it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Bringing Debian to mobile phones, one package at a time
I'll build on this.

One thing I like about phoenix/elixir is that its as easy as a rails app to get started. The really cool thing is when you need some power/polish you can reach under the hood and do very powerful things with the BEAM.

My experience running rails apps at scale has been nothing but headaches when I do something concurrent or slightly weird in ruby. I always feel like I end up rewriting parts of the BEAM with redis/postgres
A third of Americans might refuse a Covid-19 vaccine
Why not just copy sections of the Bible if it's just a sample of work? Why go through the extra effort of creating a new script and possibly a new language just to show how well you can write? Latin would have been the predominate language for manuscripts at this time so writing in Latin would have been a better example of the writer's skills. These kinds of manuscripts took a lot of effort and resources to put together so if someone was just trying to make a portfolio of their work, do you think they would need to produce such a large volume when several pages would have sufficed?
It's a great start at a young age, congratulations and all the best!

I'm not into VR, but can this setup be used to create a 'Wearable low latency display for computers'[1] i.e a wired video headset? None of the current video headsets seem to work well according to the reviews be it $800 Ziess Cinemizer or $200 Avegant Glyph.

[1]https://needgap.com/problems/16-wearable-low-latency-display...
Well there's negative economic effects to the flu in any case.

There's a variety of relatively low cost preventable steps that would just help in general if people followed them (may or may not fit your definition of social distancing).

I'm thinking of stuff like

- Contactless payments

- Head nods instead of handshakes for greetings

- More remote work options (where applicable).

- Mask wearing on public transit or by people with lots of personal contact
If you can, as TFA, plumb it for deeper political meaning, you can also, like Errant Signal, criticize it for that political meaning being a glorification of a rather weird, authoritarian-nationalist (nearly fascist, with the game's single-minded obsession in directing all resources, human or otherwise towards the service of a single-purpose state) world view, that does not even make any sense in 95% of the time periods that the game covers.

Your argument can certainly be made, but it can also be turned against the article this thread is about, with similar levels of success.

Errant Signal is not saying that the game is bad. It is saying that the political picture its mechanics paint isn't one with any depth to it.
Calling that transparency is selfish to the business wants; the only context in which that word could be used without qualifying and asterisks. User transparency is choice - even the choice to do something that’s a little less than optimal from the business perspective. Don’t abuse language more than it already is, everywhere else. “Everybody does it” to redefine words doesn’t make it right.
Simulating webkit force and using a color swatch with canvas and JavaScript
Does he have a wife?

I want to move but my wife won't let me.
I always find these stories interesting, because, frankly, these cameras I'm sure DO help catch criminals very effectively.

However, they also allow very effective privacy violations of course.

Because of this there's no perfect outcome (and opinions across the board).
How about we try to encourage people who are feeling sick to wear a mask and leave it at that. Making everyone do it outside of a pandemic is absurd.
It's a great app and open source: https://sourceforge.net/p/opencamera/code/ci/master/tree/
In addition to a dearth of jobs in many areas, Florida can have deceptively higher costs due to insurance (for sinkholes, hurricanes, bad drivers) and needing to spend a lot on electricity for AC.
I like the idea of starting registration with no email but with the option to add a recovery email later on, once I am sold on the idea that this account is worth recovering.
Boston's one of the most expensive cities in the country to live in/near, so that's probably a contributor.

I'll point out that small states mean that when you "consider moving" to the suburbs/exurbs, many people are going to be at least "considering" New Hampshire or Rhode Island (possibly even Maine) among their choices if they want to move from the inner Boston metro area to the outer parts of it. Which means answering "yes" to this question regarding you're "considering" moving out of state.

Most of the smaller metro areas in the state are similarly on or near state lines as well, like Springfield and Lowell. Even Worcester is commutable from CT.
We literally make people wear clothes. Especially women.
That's for 2k @ 120fps. You're free to use any display pair.
You can shade a dependency, which can with the requisite budget in frustration allow for importing a library with multiple versions in the same program.

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-shade-plugin/
Ask HN: State of data visualization/dashboard tools in 2020?
It's been a while since I worked on data visualizations and dashboards. I'm about to start a project that requires some statistical computations in the back-end and a interactive dashboard to present results, while also allowing users to tweak parameters and/or select certain parts of the data.

I have used Tableau, PowerBI, R Shiny and Python Dash for this purpose in the past. But have been out of the loop for the past 3-4 years.

What's the latest trend on dataviz/dashboard tools? Any suggestions for what tools to use? I would like to use Dash to stay within the Python/Pandas/NumPy environment, but it seems R Shiny is still ahead of Dash these days.

Thanks.
But they need to establish themselves as successful politicians before they can have a successful post-office careers.

By enforcing duration of political careers, there will be a constant influx of new blood who will represent the people of the time.
The 'package c6 state' thing?
I ran a small system for awhile where you could designate three other users to act as backup. If you needed to reset your password each of the three backups would receive a unique token and a request that they forward it to you out of band. With all three tokens you could reset your password. This was optional, though, and in addition to a classic email based reset flow. Obviously a solution like this would only really be feasible for a few niche applications.
Would be great for a quiz to guess the result!
I've been using autocert (golang.org/x/crypto/acme/autocert) to fetch and renew certificates. A few weeks ago, I added new subdomains to my site, and noticed that it wasn't being issued new certificates.

After searching for the error in the logs, I landed here: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/end-of-life-plan-for-acm.... I missed the whole ACMEv1 deprecation notice. I thought autocert would take care of this (and it does), except I had not updated to the latest version of the library. Everything was resolved after updating the library, but I still had to clear my local HSTS to verify. This would not have been acceptable if there were actual traffic going to that subdomain.

I guess the lesson to learn is that even though many of the barriers to automatic certificate renewal have been removed, I still have to keep up to date on breaking changes and deprecation notices, especially if updates only happen every couple of years.
> there was a lot of left-wing direct action

There is a lot of that too, but I also find that fairly toxic. I'm not interested in angry tribal signaling even when it's for my own tribe.

> Maybe find different friends :)

We don't all have the luxury of replacing our family and personal history.
Seriously how can someone think that mask requirements cannot be legal given this precedent haha
Do you have blue eyes?. I do, and in summer i can't look at the ground without being blinded. Read somewhere that the lack of pigments lets more light through. Comes with the upside of seeing better when it is dark. I use redshift on all computers plus switch to a different colourprofile on my monitor at night. On mobile i use the nightmode all day.
Fair observation. I was talking about what photographer sees on the DSLR display immediately after capturing similar to how a mobile photographer sees.
Use This Startup's Playbook for Running Impactful Virtual Offsites
A german saying that translates to "where there's a trough, the pigs will gather" is sometimes is more apt than "build it and they will come".
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It means I think Oregon is so great that I can't imagine going elsewhere. I'm exaggerating only a little bit.
Ok, we put the cameras back in the title above.
Kuma and Envoy: Multi-Cluster and Multi-Cloud Service Meshes
There is a theory that non-depressed people are the ones who go about their way with rose-tinted glasses on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressive_realism
Forums aren't really more inherently "old-school" than instant messages.

A flashy new version of AIM is popular, a flashy new forum could be too.

I think the difference here is that forums were popular for communities where people were active at different times, while chat was real-time. For in-person offices, things then trended after the physical real-time nature.

If people stay more remote after this, though, and time zones are less uniforms, I think that's ripe for a change.
> I would love it if after this is over, masks were required in public from say Nov 1 to Mar 1.

This is exactly why there are anti-mask protests -- people worried that temporary measures turn into permanent restrictions and security theater a la TSA. By proving them right -- that you'd love to gently normalize new restrictions -- you're making it a lot harder to get people onto the same page about truly temporary worthwhile measures.
Data Science Is a Science (Just Not the One You May Think)
My experience is similar and I'm pretty certain it's because I'm friends with so many people from my hometown who are all mostly conservatives. So I get a lot of conspiracy theories and stuff. I guess I should just start unfriending people. I decided to just quit using FB for a while and see how it goes. So far my anxiety levels are down.

The sad part is that I don't really have real life friends, so seeing what people are up to on Facebook was kind of cool. Until it turned into just a big political echo chamber.
> My point is that even though they're loosely coupled, the API actually cannot change freely because the actual consumer of the API, the business logic, is still tied to the API through the client.

The main promise of REST is that following that particular application style does indeed allow the API to freely change without breaking backwards compatibility.

The main drawback of REST is that no one actually follows those principles.

With REST, the client is not tied to an API. The client seeks resources, and relies on content discovery processes to determine how to access those resources. The only endpoint that may be hard coded is a home/root endpoint, and all other resources are accessible through it by following hypermedia. With REST you care about the what, not the where.

> If your API changes and the client/browser is still able to traverse it fine, but your business logic breaks

This is where you're getting it wrong. REST is all about the interface. The interface has zero to do with the business logic. If you have an interface that allows you to access the same data but for some reason your business logic breaks due to non-opersrional reasons (i.e. extra latency from the content discovery process) you need to have a talk with whoever screwed that up.
I'm surprised that the powers-that-be are greedy enough to not involve the judicial branch. Lock the video away until there is a warrant! It's not like your right to privacy in your home or phone calls extends past a warrant.
It's not that you are against a website's being tested with edbrowse; it just that you don't want that to be a substitute for testing using a screen reader and a mainstream browser. Do I have that right?
Bugging out to New Zealand is a meme among rich techies: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-rich-new-zealand-doo...
Anticipating the Feeling Economy
Linking multiple versions is rare until you allow it. NodeJS uses a quadratic linking model. It's why Hello World examples frequently require downloading thousands of dependencies from the Internet. So it sounds like Go is opening Pandora's Box. There will be anarchy.
If anything probably the opposite.
You're much more likely to get medical treatment if you have some "undefined respiratory symptoms" right now, and doctors will usually try to find out if you have covid or something else.
I tried a bunch of times to help a supervisor that was an alcoholic. He wouldn't even talk about it. Helped his family when he was in the hospital with pancreatitis. Offered everything I could. He never did get help, lost his job, lost his family, ended up dead in the street a couple of years later. Still makes me sad.
Wearing a mask in public doesn't restrict any commerce

Social distancing restricts some, but even without any legal enforcement I wouldn't be surprised if people just don't want to be close to others like before anymore. And for perfectly acceptable reasons!
> has normalized the practice of wearing a mask if you must go out and are sick

This is one of the reasons people who are against mask wearing are against mask wearing - they encourage people to break the rules that we have good evidence for (self isolation) in favour of rules we have weak evidence for (mask wearing).

Please do not go out and about if you have symptoms. That mask isn't doing much to prevent the spread of your disease.
The fact that the author could make such a simplified blanket statement shows that the author has never run a business nor does he understand how corporations work.
That’s amazing!

You’d be surprised (or maybe not), that there’s still quite a bit of legacy software kicking around on stand alone desktops out there.

Most facilities have shifted to the cloud, but there is still the odd facility that runs everything locally and processes their monthly rent roll manually.

Gate and security system APIs are also much easier to work with now for sure.
References to white men still dominate college biology textbooks, survey says
When I lived in Melbourne I was blown away by the coffee culture there. They took it damn seriously, and the local places were amazing. Even the random dudes in vans with an expresso machine in the back that were parked outside of parks/venues/busy areas were slinging primo stuff.

Hands-down best coffee I had in the Oz, though, was in Perth (Northbridge area). There was a tiny hole in the wall coffee shop next to a spice market that was amazing.

If the rest of the Oz is like either of those 2 locales, I can see why S-bux would fail.
If the entire premise of our rule of law is being ignored, then one has no reason to abide by it. Declare it tyranny and become a scofflaw. This disenfranchised mentality is how empires crumble.
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> more insight into CBP's nationwide tracking database, which it purchased access to from a commercial vendor called Vigilant.

I can understand, sort of, why a 3-letter agency might want to have access to vehicle tracking; but why does some commercial entity have this information in the first place? Some corp is silently collecting location data on everyone (how? Buying it from phone and CCTV operators?), and everyone is ok with this? US needs GDPR, stat
Wouldn't it be a lot less difficult to not collect the user data governed by privacy laws at all?

I think that's the message being encouraged by laws like that of the EU
You are giving anti mask folks a lot of credit here.
The flu test results are way lower. So it’s most likely under counted COVID deaths if we were to apply the Australian results to the US.
AMD has said in the past that the GPUs will be available before the new consoles. I'd expect very limited availability sometime early November. CPUs maybe a bit earlier and a bit better availability.
They look pretty good, check out the benchmarks:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15578/cloud-clash-amazon-grav...