skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
cameras can also be used to measure the body and movement (for instance gait) of the criminal, which is actually useful for an investigator

For a theoretical investigator. Police departments don't have the money, manpower, or time to do gait analysis on a burglary suspect. And outside of China, is that even considered evidence in a real court of law?
"Credible" means believable, plausible, reasonable. Dr. Fauci is clearly saying the reports coming from doctors and patients around the world shouldn't be dismissed, but should be taken seriously and investigated further.
The accounts are true but the "size" of their stories is an indirect fear superspreader.

The reality is that these things effect like .00002% of the population. But a news story shared today on the Internet can make tens of millions in the general the population think it could happen to them.
Every person is born, without their consent and with a self-preservation instinct they didn't ask for, into a world where almost every resource is withheld from them by that same government violence you're complaining about. Access to resources is mostly distributed according to how good your ancestors were at killing people. Welfare is a partial correction of this injustice.
Google’s Geoff Hinton and His Team File a Patent for Capsule Neural Networks
I just tried Cmd-, in both Safari and Chrome, and in both cases it brought up preferences. That a website might interrupt that doesn't prevent it from being a MacOS standard.
> while most countries opposed the US invasion of Afghanistan, opinion polling in India—which shares a border with that country

India does not de facto share a border with Afghanistan (Its claimed extent of Kashmir does have a small border, but in practice that's irrelevant)
Traffic rules are not for the privileged who can afford nice cars witj airbags and good medical care, the are more useful for the people who cant.
Most of the comments here seem to think this is designed to track a perp in your house. My assumption is that it's for people who want to check if the gas was left on or spy on their pet.
This strikes me as laughably naive.

I once had my residence burglarized. The police came hours after they were called and stayed long enough (10 minutes) to write a report that took me weeks to get which essentially said "door kicked in, owner said these things gone." That was it: no attempts to follow up with my neighbor that had security cameras, no attempt to run fingerprints on the metal pipe that was found outside that was almost certainly used to break the window, nothing.

If your surveillance drone doesn't get a crystal clear picture of the face of the person who broke into your house, absolutely no one is going to attempt to pull prints or tracks or DNA samples from what it captured. And even if it did get a crystal clear picture, you'll be lucky to get someone to look at it.
You don't understand HN. There's two buttons (once you have enough points, I guess): downvote, and flag. All of the "valid options" you list above, except maybe "irrelevant to parent comment", are better served with the flag button, which will cause the comment to be deleted (if enough people agree with you) (even thus deleted (a.k.a. "flagged") comments are still visible if you want them to be).
> Mississippi, Alabama, Kentucky , etc have more senior citizens?

That...wasn't the argument. On average the pattern of "net-takers" and "net-contributors" is a proxy for where senior citizens live because Social Security and Medicare account for over half of the Federal budget. Yes, there are outliers (like Mississippi, Alabama, Kentucky), but there are outliers in the other direction as I pointed out (Washington, Utah, South Dakota, New Hampshire). I addressed this in the final point, that the disparity is:

"3. Better alleviated by directly targeting net-takers rather than trying to approximate which states are net givers and takers based on the state and local tax rates, which is ham-fisted"

> No, what they paid in doesn’t come close to paying for what they received.

None of your sources actually adjust for Medicare/SS/military expenditure.
I disagree. The role of software engineers has become so commoditized that engineer input doesn't mean much to management, and for every engineer that goes against a decision, there are another dozen who will do what needs to be done without complaints.

I see this as a symptom of the lack of democracy in the workplace.
old.reddit.com is the best, is there a plugin/extension or some script to force chrome to always redirect to old.reddit.com for all reddit urls?

edit: found https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirector/pajiege...

and https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirector/pajiege...

this one seems to be pretty popular (requestly) :

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/requestly-redirect...

anyone have better solutions?
As of 2019

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US 90th percentile: $184k (£144.3k)

US 95th percentile: $248k (£194.6k)

kind of a silly thing to say you are a 95th percentile British earner when that puts you in the 25-50th percentile in America.
I don't think that's a completely accurate summary of the debate, although I'm sure the fixists threw that accusation in a heated moment or two.

But, yes, it took decades to be broadly accepted, and we're lucky that Wegener wasn't "canceled" in the meantime.

We should always leave a little margin for the possibility that we're wrong. When it comes to 5g causing COVID, I don't think we'll need it...
I mean, there are actual measurable cases where “sugar was sweeter”: less chemicals, larger sizes, being produced closer to where you buy it and therefore being fresher, and smaller producers who delivered polished well-made product being squeezed out by large multi-national corporations.
The rules are made by the rich for the benefit of the rich and applied in that manner. There's a reason a millionaire with a rape charge spends about a half hour at a police station and a poor person with the same charge won't see daylight until after his trial.
Let's discuss it then, but first I need some sources on 'A lot of people in Russia died due to US election tampering'

I know that a lot of people in Russia survived because of humanitarian aid from US though.
All of these are also highly variable, and it's impossible to say how much is "needed" as a deduction. That gets into the government having to make value judgements on individual spending.

With a deduction for state tax, it's a lot more cut and dried "hey I don't have this money anymore because the state whose laws you officially sanction by virtue of their being part of your union is going to throw me in jail if I don't pay them".
The example in your blog post. Are those numbers close to reality? I’m just blown away by the CAC in the SaaS world.
So .MOV is basically already .MP4.
>The vast majority of apps in the store are free, which leaves Apple footing the enormous bill for providing the apps.

Enormous bill of what?

And lets not forget, and needs to be repeated every time this is mentioned, people are paying $99 dollar a year just to submit these "free" apps.
"rm deleted my entire root filesystem because I told it to" seems along the same lines of unexpectedness as "i handed the homeless guy a $100 bill instead of $1 because i didn't look closely" :)
TFA: The World Meteorological Organization has recognized a temperature of -69.6°C (-93.3°F) at an automatic weather station in Greenland on 22 December 1991 as the lowest ever recorded in the Northern Hemisphere.

Certifying a 30-year-old record.
Flicker free fireworks (or how I accidentally rediscovered the regen buffer)
I was digging into tutorials about Git internals recently and was surprised to learn just how straightforward the data structures are. Given how stupid-simple the data is, I'm all the more confused about how straightforward the CLI isn't.

There are very few if any ways to accumulate and amplify errors in the system. It's no wonder Linus created a working prototype so fast. It's the simplest thing that could possibly work. But this simplicity is also the reason why binaries occupy so much space.

A system can be so simple that there are obviously no errors, or so complex that no errors are obvious. In the middle ground we get progress by someone mathematically proving the soundness of a technique, and then a group of people working together to match the implementation verbatim to the proven technique.

Pijul seems to be stepping into that middle space, but it's not clear to me if we're going to follow, or if something else like it will get us moving. I do like the concept, but as someone else stated, it doesn't seem to be very lively right now.
As an outsider without context, the articles does nothing to properly introduce the people (like who is PG and which Jessica?) it's talking about. Even if it's a response post to something, you should always reference some context so people interested in the subject matter have further reading material instead of relying on letting them figure it out by Ctrl-F-ing through hacker news comments.
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Oh, I think you just stated P vs NP in plain English. Excellent!
I for one would love for [a version of] Linux to use the keybindings of macOS (in particular emacs bindings in all text fields) and really good trackpad support.

There are many subtle things that works amazingly well on macOS. Most immediately, scrolling with the trackpad is smooth, responsive, and smooth. On Ubuntu 20.04 (XPS 15 9550), my experience was pretty much the opposite and with visible tearing. I'm not trying to bash Linux, I want to move to it, but these are the things holding me back.
ah ha! This was excellent, thank you so much for posting it. Two things stood out: one, I was already doing the shake-and-grind without realizing that someone had studied it and two, that Krups grinder is the one I've been using because my partner was convinced it was a better grinder than the old cheap one I was previously using. This was a super helpful video!
I mean, that's largely the folly of having high Federal taxes. One of the political parties has made it is mission to reduce those, thereby blunting the supposed unfairness of this quirky structure.
There's git show-branch, too. It took me a while to grok its output.
Yes, "Old Reddit Redirect":

https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect
Discipline and professional responsibility on the behalf of programmers, coupled with patience.

Everyone is in such an irrational hurry, it's been built into the "culture" such that rushing and making messes is acceptable. And by extension, customers expect things to be shit so you don't get in much trouble for doing it.

It's a feedback loop that only stops if companies (and individual programmers) start taking pride in craft > careless speed and money like they used to do back in the 50s/60s.
"In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble." ~ Alan Perlis
Can someone with more domain knowledge than I comment on whether or not this project is mathematically possible?

I remember the reason given for not making git patching sound was because all the sound algorithms known to the git author were slower in the common case, and only better in less common cases.

Darcs is really fast for what it does, but git is way faster by doing less.
Sure, but in the same way, what about all the little things that go into making a pencil today? Usually, as long as there is a market, you can break down all those hours of gathering materials into the concept of "buy X at market price". It only starts looking unbelievably complex when you take control of every single stage and step, and are thus doing the equivalent of running multiple enterprises.

That was probably more common in a feudal society, but not a given. I'm sure a lot of producers just bought the materials they needed.
> I've actually run into issues with drug laws from a side I never even thought about: prescription medication. I have asthma, but I don't have health insurance. Asthma inhalers in my country require a prescription.

I'm afraid this is one of the many pitfalls that occur to the most vulnerable in Society, one that is largely ignored or dismissed entirely by regulators with good intentions that ultimately keeps the status quo in place. Last year the poorly kept secret of DNMs [0] less known usecase(s) came to the light to the masses in MN regarding insulin due to shortages and rising costs--it got so bad/lucrative that they were using clearnet marketplaces.

People need to realize that DNMs are more than just access to illicit drugs, they often serve as lifelines for people to get access to generic drugs or access to less expensive alternatives (drugs/devices) to people with limited means and no access to medical insurance and the Rx to otherwise insipid things as mentioned below (Melatonin).

This is why, if nothing else, people should not be lauding these closures, which are done with tax money, and done under the guise of 'helping people' when in reality all they are doing is reducing the competition for large pharma and to an extent the drug trades of certain intelligence agencies.

I see this becoming a bigger concern as so many in the US are losing their insurance tied to their FT jobs no longer existing or being reduced to PT status due to COVID. This news is just showing how inhospitable Nation-States are and to what length they are going to impair creating alternatives and maintain their perverse model(s).

Having spent time in the Pharma-controlled Industry of Diagnostics (post Obama-care), I have come to worry more about what a Stanforite CEO like Joe Jimenez can wrought on the World more than a Pablo Escobar or El Chapo.

[0]: https://www.govtech.com/health/Frustrated-Diabetics-Use-Inte...
> On the other hand sharing them spreads fear and, indirect, mis-information about the potency of the virus.

And what if it’s information and not misinformation? And what if the public should be scared?
They aren't. OP is excited about big numbers.
The fact that email preceded usenet does not mean that things cannot have been invented in Usenet before they were invented in email.

As a concrete example, :-) was invented on a bulletin board. See http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/sefSmiley.htm for the details.
I'm not sure that's true in whole though. I think it's more that the wealthy are more hit by the sort of things you can't do right now. I know I'm saving money by not taking much/any vacation this year, since flying is unsafe, and there's less to do on a trip since things are closed.

The wealthy have more leisure and discretionary expenses that they can no longer spend on safely, or choose not to because even if they don't NEED to save money right now, they may feel like they should.

For people in the low income bracket, a small increase in income will necessarily cause more spending because there's likely many things they've been putting off buying/doing.

Finally, it's worth noting that percentile changes isn't really apples to oranges here. The folks who were in the high-income bracket were probably spending much more beforehand, so if you're just looking to cause more cashflow in the economy at large, it's not clear that having low-income people spending a bit more would get you as much spending in total as if you did something to cause the high-income group to spend more. And that's before you consider what sectors that spending is in. The businesses that most need stimulus right now seem to me to be the sort that high-income people are more likely to spend on (local small businesses, entertainment, travel). Your local grocery store or chain fast food is probably doing fine, relatively.
I don't understand your point. Are you actually suggesting that poor people don't count?

If you consider the US alone you're still looking at ~17 million malware infections last year on Android devices.

> The guy that reviews the Apple Store has no idea if the developer sells the data to a third party, the chances that somehow Apple finds this out in time to help you is minimal

The fact that they can ban these developers serves as a deterrent. What you're suggesting is the equivalent of saying there's no point in having laws against stealing because some people will steal anyway. What you should be considering is the net effect of the rules against the overall frequency of the problem, not whether it prevents them 100% of the time (which is impossible anyway).

> Many existing apps are using FB SDKs, other advertising related library in the apps, loot boxes and other dark patterns and Apple is not blocking this because they have a financial interest.

Now imagine how much worse it would be if Facebook (and every other app) was directly distributed and had zero oversight whatsoever.
If I could find another job for the same money, yes.
Great. Now it's time to start throttling JS in browsers. Give them the equivalent of a few MHZ or a few seconds runtime to play with and no more.
As far as I understand it, the biggest difference is that biscuit restricts itself to working with a statically allocated amount of memory, reserved for the kernel, and then manages GC etc to not run out of that. That's the greatest contribution of the paper, IMHO.

gVisor, being a regular userspace program, has no such worries.
I think what GP is saying is that there has been a paradigm shift away from unintuitive maximalist apps that are fast once learnt to intuitive minimalist apps that are slow as treacle because everything is in size 16pt font and designed for the first time user. Both have their downsides so in a way software has always been 'crap' but the ways in which it sucks have changed.

I've worked on 'revamp' or 'refresh' projects and it's all about stripping out features with the misguided idea that somehow one particular piece of functionality is a vastly more important value proposition to the user than all the other features.
The inability to maintain a public fork is another strike against the Timescale License. If the company were to shut down or move in a different direction, a community could not form to maintain a fork that meets that communities needs.

If these terms are acceptable to you, that is great, but I find the unpalatable for core infrastructure I would be investing substantially to build on top of.
Do a bit more lurking and pattern recognition on highly voted HN posts, then it will become clearer.
Why do you consider it to be the worst program that you use?
You state that "unless" as if it weren't generally the common state of "competitor with more bugs."

No, users pick a finished product.
> The app is no longer available on the App Store, but it keeps working because the iPhone is too old to connect to the App Store and be told that the app no longer exists.

Nice! But also sad that this is the only way one can keep running a desired app in this day where an external corporation controls what one is allowed to use.
I wouldn’t want that. If there was a switch on my phone where I disconnected from the AppStore and could side load what I wanted I wouldn’t switch it. I quite like the service the App Store provides for the apps themselves. But I just want them to charge a cut for apps.
I've been coming at this from the other side and writing typed Python for my little experiments. You can add just enough type hints to make life easier, but not go obsessive over it. Then vim with Python ale tells me if I've done the right thing in a deeply nested loop without having to actually execute it.
Unfortunately Wikimedia can't really "steer clear" of it, because it is affected by the draconian copyright laws that come out of it.

And I don't find it surprising that a body for intellectual property rights self-servingly pushes for more intellectual property rights.
I find Bing considerably closer to Google than a horse-and-buggy to an automobile. In some ways, Google is more like a horse-and-buggy, since, like an aging horse, Google Search increasingly ignores the user's instructions, and does its own thing instead.
Anyone have an idea of what the size of that bill actually is?

I'm not convinced at all that it's noteworthy for one of the most profitable companies in the world.
I think this spec tries to do two things, only one of which fits in with the purpose of TLA+. I think this is caused by some ambiguity regarding the source of the bug: is it due to a difficulty writing a subtle algorithm, or is it due to a difficulty understanding the Go language's semantics.

If it's the latter, then TLA+ isn't the right tool, and neither is SPIN. There are other tools for verifying language semantics. If it's the former -- i.e. the author of the spec knows the meaning of each line and its intent -- then TLA+ is a very good tool, but then a simpler spec could suffice, perhaps something like this: https://pron.github.io/files/Channels.pdf
I think that that may no longer be enough. The elephant in the room is the Web taking over non-Web apps. If Electron is part of your deployment surface, you can't escape Chromium. If Cordova is part of your deployment surface, it's Chromium or WebKit. A nice UI on the dev tools is nice, but I imagine most people would take an acceptable UI over a nice one if the acceptable one is how you get a development environment that is more comparable to what life will be like in production.

FFOS was a moonshot that burned a lot of resources, but I also suspect it's one of the few things that, had it been successful, could have guaranteed Firefox's long-term survival.
Ah I was hoping this meant the rewrite had landed.

Should be soon, judging by the discourse. Looking forward to it.
and probably less than a total of 5 deaths?

why does the number of infections matter?

a focus on the number of infections rather than suffering, illness or death implies a goal of slowing or preventing herd immunity and, by extension, prolonging Covid regulations.
Actually, the sugar was sweeter when you were younger, because as you age your taste buds become less sensitive:

https://www.comfortkeepers.com/info-center/category/senior-h...

"Between the ages of 40 and 50, the number of taste buds decreases, and the rest begin to shrink, losing mass vital to their operation. After age 60, you may begin to lose the ability to distinguish the taste of sweet, salty, sour, and bitter foods. The sense of smell does not begin to fade until after the age of 70; its decrease exacerbates the loss of taste for those affected."
I think GP was objecting to your somewhat casual "[that money] could be government money" and then drawing a link from there to "effectively have more power in the government" which isn't at all obvious to me nor the GP how charitable giving gives you that special government (monopoly on the use of force) power. It did not strike me that they lacked an understanding of the mechanics of taxation.
If you write Python, look up Anthony Sotille (youtube, twitch, github, twitter).

He does multi-hour streams as well as 10-minute explainers. Great stuff.
Do you have a source for them not needing a warrant?

Is it just in the Ring terms of service or something?
inoculum - a substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease

The idea is w/o the mask, inoculum dose probably puts the D in COVID.

With the mask, you might get SARS-CoV-2–specific T-cell immunity without getting COVID.
"none of it sounds that hard, and yet in the 15 years since, it hasn’t been close to replicated."

^ That right there is the definition of luck and timing. If it's not that hard, tons have tried, and nobody has replicated, then luck and/or timing must have been a huge factor. This doesn't seem to cross Sam's mind.