skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never been interested in using cameras for security concerns. By the time you need to use camera footage for a security concern, it's usually too late.

I think they're really handy for monitoring the status of routine household tasks, though.

"Did I get a package today? What time does the mail normally arrive? How is the dog doing? Did the garbage truck come by yet? Did the storm do any damage while I was away?"
I think I was the first to upvote it this morning when I was browsing the new section. Pretty sure it just had 1 point. It just struck a chord with me because my brain goes through the same thought process when I consider practicing mindfulness to ease my seemingly ever-increasing anxiety and though maybe some people here would have some ideas that oppose it so I could get past my own lazy "why bother" conclusion.

The submitters older posts don't have more than 1 or 2 points, I don't think they're manipulating. Maybe my highish karma gave it a bit of a boost?
Here is my two cents, maybe not entirely on topic.

It seems to me, that an being at peace with it self has no need to change or make progress in any direction.

Human actions, and progress seem to originate from various needs we have, and not from a peace of mind.
I'd imagine a pair of candles would cause the cursor to jump around a lot because of the flickering - how did you solve that problem?
I didn't downvote you, but initially I did not get your joke.

It does stand to reason, I guess, that currency is as fundamental to Apple as system calls are to Linux.
You're rambling a little, is my guess. Plus, humor seems appreciated here, but not as the single point of a post.
I mean, that's only the latest few generations. Android is worse for sure, but Windows does seem to support old PCs as long as the specs aren't as so bad as to be beaten by an older raspberry pi.
As a UK citizen, I agree with you (a Federal Europe would be a bad thing).

As a resident of Germany, I disagree with you (a Federal Europe would be a good thing).

Perspective matters.
> Folks who lived through that have such a strong compulsion to hit CMD-S every few minutes, that a lot of cloud software today offers a “save button” that actually doesn’t do anything because the document auto saves as you type anyway.

This describes me.

And I often wonder if the presence of the "save button" is what causes the compulsion: in web apps that auto-save, I trust/assume they're auto-saving, and feel more free.

In web apps that have the save button, it's always occupying some part of my mental capacity to keep hitting it after significant edits.
Technical Debt Isn’t Real
There are so many models of awakening it’s boggling. The traditional Theravada 4-path model is a little too psychological perfection to me.

From what I understand, Buddhist ultimate insight is typically defined as the realization of the three characteristics:

1. One cannot separate the self from the context the individual is embedded in.
2. All phenomena are transient.
3. Nothing is satisfying forever, even jhanic experiences.

There’s a certain shift of relationship to suffering that occurs after various forms of insight. There’s still pain and suffering, and you can still be a total jerk face.

Jack Kornfield’s “after the ecstasy the laundry,” I’ve heard is a great exploration of this.
The diplomat was not a diplomat, he was a American intelligence officer based at RAF Croughton. The letter of agreement between the Foreign Office and the US ambassador to Britain in August 1995 about the American personnel at RAF Croughton says explicitly that diplomatic immunity for people like Mr Sacoolas would not apply for "acts performed outside the course of their duties".

The US has acted dishonourably in this case.
I wanted to read in to something deep and twisted, but this article is a nothing-burger. Alas.
Commercial banking, together with the Intellectual Property system, is one of the greatest Rentier swindles of all time. We are literally renting the money we use, for extortionate prices [1].

"The dollar as a reserve currency transfers wealth from the rest of world to the USA

One final way in which money works today that has a substantial effect on the workings of the global political economy is the use of the US dollar as the international reserve currency. This follows the decision of the OPEC countries shortly after the end of the Second World War to accept only dollars for their oil. Today, the dollar is used for trade in many other commodities.

This acts as a huge subsidy to the US economy, since countries elsewhere in the world sell goods and services to the US, but instead of buying back from US companies, they keep the dollars so as to be able to trade among themselves — as well as to be able to protect their currencies from speculative attack. This effective transfer of wealth from the rest of the world to the US permits the US to be easily the world’s largest debtor nation, while driving the unprecedented widening of wealth disparity within the global community (Douthwaite, 1999)." [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzCegQVljdY

[2] https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/impacts-of-our-curre...
Carrying it, how? Assume uneven terrain, either human or animals. The sacks are being banged around (and are probably pretty porous).

They may not necessarily have chariots, wagons or other animal powered vehicles at all or in the necessary quantity.

> I did this plenty of times

How much did you carry? Was it for barbecue or are you a blacksmith? How did you transport it over 4km? Did you use any roads? Any modern containers?

Like the article says, iron smelting requires an enormous amount of charcoal.
L-carnosine is VERY promising for MS treatment. It's been found that carnosine levels are significantly decreased in both animal MS models and humans with MS. [1]

This [2] completed (results pending) small study will try to verify if supplementing with carnosine will help slow down the progress of or even reverse MS.

Unofficially, I've heard it was a great success. But let's wait.

Edit: Just found another completed study [3]

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29454153/
[2] https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03995810
[3] https://www.jns-journal.com/article/S0022-510X(19)32236-1/fu...
My NextJS Setup
> Because company makes these resources available specifically for employee's personal use

Really? Is that an Amazon thing? Because my company's equipment is clearly not primarily intended for my personal use, as stated in a few company documents.
Just an FYI that GitX won't work on an up to date Mac
I will try to get back to this thread with some resources but I would recommend as you are in the UK to look into clemastine/tavegil which you can get without prescription (noted in the article as about to be trialled with metformin) due to its action on P2X7 receptors/Schwann cells.

The ReBUILD doses were rather high though (10 tabs a day!). 1 tab would probably do it over a few months.
If doesn’t fit my mindset I need to get rid of it at whatever cost.
What's wrong with just plain old curl?
to be fair most firefox people I know call it "my browser" as well
You can make a lathe from other materials. Most people building one in their garage these days use aluminum. Cast iron is better in a lot of ways, but the temperatures of aluminum are much easier to deal with, and today we can get good aluminum alloys to work with. You can also use bronze if you wanted. Granite is probably better than cast iron if you design for it. Concrete has been used commercially.
Programming has Epigrams:

https://cpsc.yale.edu/epigrams-programming
Are you a woman or do you live with any women you care about? It was just last year it was reported that Ring employees had access to live customer camera feeds and would regularly watch each other’s homes and joke about who each other had slept with.

If you’re okay with someone in front of a computer screen watching what you and the people you care about do through a camera or even share those videos across the internet, then you’re all good!
I think I wasn't clear in the first post. The customer did not have to do anything (i.e. no need to configure any NAT passthroughs on their router etc), this was entirely transparent to the user.
The Mythical Man-Month is not a silver bullet.
I get that most people don't like to deal with that sort of set up. But we live in a world where the Raspberry Pi is extremely popular, yet also the most average consumer unfriendly computer in the entire world. Not everything needs to be a mass market product to be successful.
Assuming read access to your device: Detecting a shift in daily patterns to burgle your house when you're on vacation.

Assuming write access to your device: implanting false digital evidence on your device, calling the cops, and framing you

Assuming root access to your device and network: if you work from home, exfiltrating company-confidential from your home network. Running a botnet from your home.
How would this actually work?
Memory access on your non-ecc processor is (for example) 64 bits wide. Your data is using all 64 bits. Perhaps you would only use 56 bits for user data and 8 bits of ecc data on every read? Suddenly you need two memory accesses to read your 64bit value?
i didnt say devs hate users, i said they don't care.

> because reddit wants to be

It used to be that devs would add features to please users and apps didn't have an agenda about what they "wanted to be". And what prevented reddit from introducing a "meme feed mode" for subreddits that are full of memes? People seem to have forgotten that they can make incremental changes, not every update needs to be a full rewrite.

> new additions, like the search omnibar are,

See this isnt even new, windows 7 had a much more compact start menu without ads and with a search bar. They didn't add to that, or improve or that, they literally made it terrible. And my Photos app keeps crashing all the time, it's ridiculous. It didnt use to crash in win7.

Another is the old Skype, the new one is still missing features that worked in the old one.

But most of all, what's missing is snappiness, not because my computer is slow, but because the new apps use frameworks in which it's impossible to have low latency.
Also confused about this, as well. You don't sh*t where you eat.
I’d love a small robot that I could put inside the walls of my house that would crawl around and check for water leaks, bugs, etc.
That's technically true, but most average users probably don't care. It's like optimizing your car's fuel efficiency by changing your spark plugs more often. When was the last time you changed your spark plugs?
This is an interesting proposal.

Private banks have two very important functions in society: they provide the infrastructure for the payment system and they control credit.

This proposal would disentangle those functions making, I think, a more robust financial infrastructure.

The payment system is, by its characteristics, a natural monopoly, and it's so important that makes sense that it become public. If that was the case, the main function of private banks would be to control the issue of credit.
Here’s the story about the accidental discovery of Viagra.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jul/11/from-vi...

For some reason, every time this discussion happens, people think we spend a lot of research money on hair loss and impotence drugs.

Next, move onto how much care for people with Alzheimer’s is costing:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alzheimers-costs-americans-277-...

It would be cheaper to invest into medical research...
> Why can't we acknowledge that YC has had a massive positive impact on the world, while still acknowledging that it's a bit of an echo chamber

The question contains the answer. Because "it's a bit of an echo chamber". I also think that over time it has gotten better, so that's encouraging.
Ask HN: What skills are adjacent to software development?
Provoked by going down a rabbit hole on using adjacent skills to foster career growth and career serendipity, I wondered what skills/disciplines would be considered adjacent to software development.
i relate to the first paragraph. i agree with the author's quoted 'friend'. i dont think marriage validation and/or requirement is for everyone. i believe that marriage should be personal and maybe it can be religious for some, but the state and law should have no foothold in how people choose to form unions or define it.

there can be no separation of church and state if both of them consider themselves to be the authority that validates marriage. why should the state dictate mormon unions or LGBTQ unions or religious or civil unions. any legal contract should be drawn by the parties involved. contracts should be under the purview of the state, not the unions themselves.
> and it's not a technical problem

For a memory controller to add extra bits, they would have to come from somewhere. For every 64 bits (8 bytes read), you now need to read 72 bits (9 bytes).

However “DIMMs are printed circuit boards that carry multiple packaged DRAMs and support 64bit or 72bit databus widths, the latter to enable eight error-checking and correction (ECC) bits to protect against single-bit errors.”.

So now every read from 64 bit (non-ECC) DRAM now needs two reads, one for the 64 bits you want, and another to read the 8 bits ECC.

If your access pattern is random, then you will slow down memory access by 100%. For long run sequential reads/writes the slow down will be 12.5% assuming you can lock the memory accesses for 9 sequential reads/writes (avoiding invalid memory states is essential!).

The “cost” of ECC implemented by the memory controller is:

* you lose 1/9th of your memory (as you point out)

* the speed of your computer drops by up to 100% (speed of many operations is limited by random memory access speed, not CPU)

* CPU atomic instructions for memory access are complicated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compare-and-swap and would also incur a further speed penalty in critical sections - which can very significant.

The idea seems useful (clearly it would be a fantastic feature to be able to switch on if you suspect faulty memory) but there are likely technical reasons for why your idea is not implemented (not just price discrimination).

> dumb

That appears condescending to me. Generally you should assume people are smart. ECC RAM is designed by smart people to be the way it is and start with the assumption that if an idea isn’t implemented that perhaps there are good reasons why not?

(Edited to make reply flow better. Disclaimer: I only have a very shallow knowledge of the design constraints, and I expect there are other more serious problems with the idea).
3 billion people anecdotally believe in an invisible man in the sky that grants wishes if you pray hard enough.

Gods existence proven!
I use JetBrains Mono now but I've also used Source Code Pro before. Really good fonts.
Initially it was an option to become the engine, then after a time it simply became the place to try and engines and they said it would never be the "new" browser engine. It was a prototyping area.
Eh. I used TLA+ for a few projects inside Microsoft. It probably takes a couple of weeks to write a spec for a complicated problem. Then less time to implement it, because all the heavy lifting has already been done - in many cases you're directly transcribing the spec logic without having to think very hard.

The sort of things for which you write specs are generally "core" functionality that doesn't change very often. If people are constantly mucking around in that area without writing specs, your system will be a pile of crap.
Bronze is not that bad. Several reproduction efforts have used bronze axes, at first like you they assume that you need to worry, but by the end they realize bronze isn't that delicate and works just fine. Don't get me wrong, iron is better in every way, but bronze isn't as bad as people think.
I'm dealing with a Firefox issue where painting on canvas with a CSS filter is magnitudes slower than Chrome. It makes my app almost unusable for Firefox users. Improving the performance would certainly make users notice since it's one of the most common complaints.
New partnership brings high-resolution satellite imagery of the tropics to all
'Real' Facebook oversite board launched
My bad, it was in the 9to5mac article where "[Update: Applies for all devs]" is in the title. Updated my OP.
As Brooks said (paraphrasing), "you can't make a baby in one month with nine women".
Programming Weapon Sway
What is the unique value set that it brings to the table?
I really wish Ruby would grow up and deprecate method_missing
When my bike was stolen the police didn't even want to see the security footage from my apartment complex. Indeed quite useless imo.
An indie approach to procedural animation
This is factually untrue: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/these-7-social-security-my...

In fact, research shows that accounting for Social Security essentially cancels out the recent increase in inequality: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3546668
I used ipython for many years, but eventually moved on to jupyter. For me, it's even better. It still supports ? and ?? and the case of re-using your normal imports and variables is handled well by having a saved notebook.
> Do you have time to debug that?

By the way, for detection you don't need the full error correcting code, but you can use an error detecting code which can use fewer bits.
Yeah, that would be awesome for web games.
I too like the smell of my own farts.
The 9to5mac article suggests it is all developers: https://9to5mac.com/2020/09/25/apple-pausing-its-30-ios-cut-...
Maybe if they cared more there would't be only one in a dozen who cares? It's my speculation but i think the culture of jumping from company to company every 2 years to maximize "total compensation" does not allow one to jump from being a code monkey to programmer.
It's a review of Plomin's book, Blueprint, including putting it into context with the history of similar works.

"Like much of that literature, Blueprint plays fast and loose with the concept of heritability. Sometimes Plomin treats it (correctly) as a variable property of a population in a given environment. As population geneticist Richard Lewontin pointed out in a scathing critique of Jensen’s approach in 1970, in times of plenty, height is highly heritable; in a famine, much less so (R. C. Lewontin Bull. Atom. Sci. 26, 2–8; 1970). But elsewhere, Plomin, like Jensen, treats heritability wrongly as a property inherent in a trait."

...

"The most troubling thing about Blueprint is its Panglossian DNA determinism. Plomin foresees private, direct-to-consumer companies selling sets of polygenic scores to academic programmes or workplaces. Yet, as this “incorrigible optimist” assures us, “success and failure — and credit and blame — in overcoming problems should be calibrated relative to genetic strengths and weaknesses”, not environmental ones. All is for the best in this best of brave new worlds.

"Plomin likes to say that various components of nurture “matter, but they don’t make a difference”. But the benefits of good teaching, of school lunches and breakfasts, of having textbooks and air-conditioning and heating and plumbing have been established irrefutably. And they actually are causal: we know why stable blood sugar improves mental concentration. Yet Plomin dismisses such effects as “unsystematic and unstable, so there’s not much we can do about them”."
Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O (2009)
On a much smaller scale, and very much closer to home for many, is the advice "Work like you don't need a job." Which is essentially do the Right thing, always, and if it gets you fired or you lose your job, that is okay because you were doing the right thing.

You know how they say "Trying to explain privilege is like explaining water to a fish, they can't see it until they're out of it?" Now I understand that saying.
The USA is not, in percentage of their economy, the largest debtor nation. The dollar have a special status, because of the importance (economic and geopolitic) of the USA, but that's not what explain the untroubled existence of a big public debt.

If that theory was true how they explain Japan?
Sorry about that. The way HN renders on my phone it looked like you were replying to me.
> As part of the AWS Cost Management suite, AWS Cost Anomaly Detection is integrated with AWS Cost Explorer

> https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/pricing/

> The Cost Explorer Hourly and Resource level granularity allows you to access hourly granularity for the past 14 days and resource level granularity for EC2 instances. The cost is $0.01 per 1,000 UsageRecords month. UsageRecords are defined as one line of usage. For example, one EC2 instance running for 24 hours will generate 24 distinct usage records at the hourly granularity.

Life is good for Amazon, when they can get their customers to pay extra to see exactly why they're paying so much.
Yes, the visualizers are key. My experience is that every team needs approximately one Git guru who can run basic training sessions, dictate the workflow (branching/tagging/etc), and fix things when they go wrong. Otherwise you get stick with a bunch of people memorizing Git commands and creating some unusable history.

And while I say “Git”, it’s really the same situation for any VCS, in my experience. I think the underlying problem that a VCS solves is the truly complicated part here.
I doubt anyone is going to tell another employer about sometime they messed up or let their personal issues interfere with work in a bad way. It's difficult enough as it is to get hired. In my opinion, time is the best indicator.
With a clean, dry wick it's pretty easy to get a very still flame for a long, long period of time. Though if you have a fan or something blowing, you're out of luck.
Whew, I'm a dude, so glad thoes cameras can't actually see me.

Does that also mean that the cameras can't see if a guy breaks into my house? That seems like a pretty big risk then.
Should be labeled 2012, but still worth the read. I was struck by the total lack of today’s most active Ars space thread commentators.
With respect, that doesn't seem to be a problem with the video system, but with the police department. As with any professional, a gentle reminder to please do their fn job often helps (this is from personal experience spesifically with lazy police officers). ^^ If the case goes to court, you will have a much better case against the suspect. In fact as a lay judge I've presided over many criminal cases where I live, and every case with video evidence stands a much higher chance of convicting the suspect. As for the gentleman who didn't even bother to put the video on the required media; well, I guess the case wasn't that important to him after all.
No, just no. they were badmouthing Mozilla because they didn't like mozilla firing their rust resources while they continue to pay enormous amounts for a CEO and other higher ups while Firefox's market share is in a death spiral currently. The only thing that can save it is better branding and "gotta have it features" which Rust can bring, along with stability.
I know

I think Assange move to relocate himself to UK was very unfortunate for him

He didn't consider Brexit was going to happen
Minor nitpick but it does not have seamless interfacing with anything other than Objective C.

C can be exposed as Objective C, but C++ has to go through C (potential objective C++) first.

This is really no different than most other languages.

What it does do is provide good auto binding tools however to expose classes and objects bidirectionally to objective C.