skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least some such cameras were limited to less than 30 minutes, because EU tariffs classified something that could record for more than 30 minutes as a video camera, which had a higher import duty. Source: https://www.borrowlenses.com/blog/video-recording-limits-in-...

Having the camera overheat seems like a clumsy way to do it, though. The time limit would depend on ambient temperature and manufacturing variance in the heat sink.
Greenwald and Snowden discuss this issue 3 days ago re valley companies having intelligence contracts and opening themselves up to pressure:

https://youtu.be/5qEuKCS-czU
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It would be helpful for people who have previously come out against cancel culture and deplatforming to defend the principle for someone who is not a member of their political tribe. Independent of the content of the video and who it happened to offend, the deceptive practice of shadow banning is reprehensible.

Tar-pitting spammers is one thing, deceiving creators, especially ones who are politically engaged as to the impact of their work discredits the legitimacy of the platforms, and the agencies. Are the government agencies "persons," deserving protection in this case?

A major part of the problem is the language platforms use in their alerts, which is patronizing, gaslighting, and from what I have read in posts like these, basically enraging (which is what their business does best, so no surprises there).

If platforms would use language that made it clear they owned their role as referees it would go a lot more smoothly, and mitigate the effects of this "for your own good," deception bit. Of course I see it as the effect of platform employees who culturally reject the idea of binding principles in favour of exercising arbitrary power, but if that's not going to change, they can't reasonably complain about explosive reactions to their "dynamic choices" either.
I’m upvoting your comment. I hope I don’t get a visit from the secret police.
I’ve never seen these before. Sounds interesting but not the inspiration for Growl by any means. :)
It’s a good reminder to stop and smell the roses I guess. A little tone deaf though, if your biggest problem is getting bored right now then you are very blessed.
One section asks you to learn Jack (The high-level programming language) by writing a medium-complexity program. The goal of the exercise is not to get proficient in Jack (which is a Java-like-language), but to just learn it well enough to implement the compiler.

I wrote a Tic-Tac-Toe variant - but you could write anything, including Tetris.
Cooking recipes written by GPT-2 for Thanksgiving
I was having a conversation on HN a few days ago about how the mean of a set can be seen as minimizer of an optimization problem -- roughly, it can be interpreted as that location that minimizes the 'distance' to all other points in a set. By choosing the 'distance' appropriately one can get all sorts of fun generalizations that includes all mentioned in the post. The familiar squared Euclidean distance yields the familiar arithmetic mean.

One fruitful family of such 'distances' that lead to arithmetic mean, geometric mean, Holder's mean [1] and beyond etc is the Bregman divergence [0]. The sort of means that fall out from it have the form

f⁻¹ ( 1/n ∑ᵢ₌₁ⁿ f(xᵢ) ) where f is a smooth monotonically increasing function. By f⁻¹ I mean the inverse function, not the reciprocal.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bregman_divergence

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_mean

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25221587
Scott Klemmer’s HCI- and design-related courses: https://www.coursera.org/instructor/~1250
Well, you can make the backup, but then set the read-only flag on the tarball and never touch it again.
A couple of years ago, there was a discussion here in switzerland about the US embassy had antennas on the roof for spying. But of course, the swiss gouverment said, there is nothing.

Just first best Link:
https://www.20min.ch/story/spionage-verdacht-gegen-die-berne...
It's absolutely clear that Canon made the camera work like this deliberately, to not canibalize their line of cinema cameras with a body intended for stills that is half the price. So yeah, it's a nice hack to force the design to deliver more than the manufacturer allowed it, but don't expect them to be happy about it.
Interesting prior discussion from 2018

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16745042
there's just way more people too
I actually agree it's probably the most plausible explanation. I was mostly objecting to the no other explanation is even worth considering tone.
Nope, I came up with it and that didn’t happen.
Guns, Drugs and Viral Content: Welcome to Cartel TikTok
https://www.art-of-lockpicking.com/homemade-lock-pick-materi..., but I suspect you just want to focus on "lock pick doesn't work on a Tesla", that's okay too. You can probably break the glass for under a dollar.
Its such a hard comparision though.

You are running the newest of the newest.

My Lenovo Thinkpad X390 which i'm sitting on right now for a while, still has ~8h left to go.

Chrome with 30 tabs, intellij etc. open and running.

I do assume the M1 is doing a great job, don't get me wrong, but i would like to see a more objective comparison.

Personally speaking, the most interesting thing for me to see is that Apple now put a very strong SoC on all its models. From Air to Pro, with a relative good price point (as long as you don't upgrade anything...)
What exactly happens when Youtube shadowbans a video? The creator believes it's accessible, but no one else can access it?
Show HN: A simple programming language in python3 using llvmlite
This is horrific. I doubt the people who really need to hear this are on hn, but I hope something comes of it.
I wish my brain worked that way. I just get migraines when I walk into those stores. It’s really one of the most unpleasant experiences I’ve had.
I never used Mac OS until OS X because I wanted a terminal with Unix userland and also ms office. I don’t know what feature you’re talking about and it was not a consideration when coming up with Growl.
I think Dan Grossman's Programming Languages courses are amazing if you have slept through the subject in university: https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages
What more is there that justifies 30 percent cut other than a monopoly market dynamic?
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As expected, most of the features were rare on home computers at the time, but have become ubiquitous (or unnecessary) on modern computers. HOWEVER, the `Datatypes` feature is really cool and would actually be a nice feature that still doesn't exist in Windows, macOS, or Linux.

https://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/Datatypes_Library
You haven't heard of the European elections?
This limitation applies to my Sony A6000 too, thankfully there is a software hack to unlock an unlimited recording time.

https://github.com/ma1co/OpenMemories-Tweak
But I think it's "anti-American" to deliberately editorialize and misrepresent the police as illegally violent and biased, when the facts are otherwise:

- black people kill black people far more than police or white people kill black people, but the dominant story about it is, police violence is at fault

- police have to deal with 1000s of violent encounters with unstable and dangerous individuals every week, and aside from security guards, they're the only officers in civilian society authorized to use physical force, and each year dozens of uniformed officers are killed[0] and thousands are violently assaulted[1], but again, the dominant propaganda is the fake story about the "plague of police violence" against "poor innocent victims"

If some officers murdered people, and that's enough to produce this persistent propaganda about "police brutality", then the dozens of murders and thousands of assaults by people against police should be enough to create a greater story about "anti-police brutality" -- but it's not. The "police brutality" narrative is a lie that's trying to be born as truth through endless repetition, spread by corrupt and irresponsible media. It's obviously propaganda and a divisive tactic, but people lap it up. It's very, very sad, that it is used as an outlet for people, who twistedly see it as a way to vent their unrelated frustrations, with someone to incorrectly blame, a "cause" to disguise their anger about their other problems. The same tactics are used to recruit and radicalize terrorists.

One of the saddest thing's about these myths is how they are being used to whip up anti police sentiment, which funnels into anti police violence, which results in really bad outcomes for the perpetrators, who probably were otherwise OK people, but got deluded by this propaganda into making mistakes that ruined their lives, and the lives of others.

But, go on, keep spreading this delusion and apologizing for violence against police, like idiots, manipulated by forces you don't understand.

[0]: https://crime-data-explorer.fr.cloud.gov/officers/national/u...

[1]: https://ucr.fbi.gov/leoka/2019/topic-pages/officers-assaulte...
Cards on the table:

I am making this game because this game needs to be made. This is not made because this is fun game, but because it is NOT!
Ask HN: Crashed founders, what was the point of failure?
The recent PG essay on thinking received a lot of comments about survivor bias.

It seems the value of survivor bias awareness is realizing the need to compare crashed planes to the survivors.

There's clearly potential for mismatched incentives when VCs are talking to potential founders, just like there's a mismatched incentive for armchair analysts to justify their inaction.

So, founders who went for it and failed enough to quit, what happened?

What was the actual point of failure?
Indeed, that is the main issue that Khronos API advocates always miss.

OpenGL, and now Vulkan, are pretty bare bones, and just a tiny part of what means to have a proper game engine, so basically everyone that bets on their "portability" ends up writing a middleware engine anyway.

Because not only one has to deal with everything a game engine requires, it also needs to handle extensions, possible code paths to work around driver bugs, and to handle the various levels of support for those extensions.

I have done my degree thesis in OpenGL, back when writing a particles engine was still big enough to be worthy of a thesis, instead of a checkbox on game engine middleware, so I am beyond that now.

However it kind of irritates me to see it is still the rite of passage for what differentiates boys from men when dealing with Khronos APIs.
Who wouldn't want to take investment advice from the internet's top minds?
Practically speaking the US was founded because a political elite minority, concentrated in certain geographic regions, pushed war on a mostly indifferent population.
I quite liked "How to win a data science competition" (https://www.coursera.org/learn/competitive-data-science) where I learned a lot about validation strategies and machine learning on tabular data. The course has its own Kaggle competition.

I also really liked "Discrete optimization" (https://www.coursera.org/learn/discrete-optimization). At the time that I took it it also had a competitive element where you would solve optimization problems and there was a leader board comparing all the students in the current batch. That was when courses still started in batches and were free so the experience would probably no longer be the same, unfortunately.
Working from home on a friday is probably the biggest reason for a lot of people i guess.

Meetings, is another one.

Doing presentations.

Also for me at least: On-Call.

I would prefer a workstation at home and a lightweight laptop with company network access but hey my companie prefers to buy me a Laptop for 3k over a desktop for 1k and a light laptop for 1k.

What can i do? yeah nothing :)
bibliogram is not working. There is some critical bug.
A single data point, but my Model X (2018 75D) has averaged 326 Wh/mile over the last 2.5 years, vs a rated efficiency of 315 Wh/mile. It was at 321 before covid lockdowns started, which shifted my driving habits toward more less-efficient car trips.

Based on that I have a hard time believing that Tesla substantially exaggerates range. I reckon my single data point is probably worth at least as much as autocar.co.uk's single data point based on a couple orders of magnitude less driving.
I think it would. Any species we encounter is likely to be old and extraordinarily advanced. The idea that they stitch pieces of material together is absurd. Matter will be like software to them, the process of construction so advanced that objects will be constructed as they appear internally in the world of thoughts. Perfect geometric curves, down to the atomic level. No seams. They may even have a programmable matter and that for sure wont have seams.... and rivets! lol
Venezuela-sponsored Linux Distro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaima_(operating_system)
https://canaima.softwarelibre.gob.ve/
Of course raising capital is easy in America—exploiting people without shame is the only thing we do well.
> What value do pinned deployments add over that?

Not tacking on a service mesh middleware that I now have to manage and debug.
To use in construction one must have to answer some very difficult questions like how well does the material survive dust and the cleaning process? How long does it last by itself? How does it interact with the other constraints like fire resistance, allergies, etc?

And after all that, filtering low frequencies is still a hopeless task.
Netflix to Start Declaring True UK Revenue Amid Controversy over Low Tax Bill
I really enjoyed Tim Roughgarden's 'Algorithms' specialisation. The first half are actually on Stanford's online learning platform for free.

https://www.coursera.org/specializations/algorithms
Tony Hsieh, retired CEO of online shoe retailer Zappos, dead at 46
Which is why we split visual displays and actions in Growl 2. You could entirely disable visual displays and set actions for specific notifications.
Yikes, welcome to hacker news?
Good job!
Now start leetcoding. What is the TC for DevOps @ Airbus Defence & Space GmbH?
"Illegally violent" police isn't meaningful. They're legally violent; that's the problem.

Take your racism elsewhere, please. You're regurgitating state propaganda for no conversational benefit.
+1! This is a three-parter and it was such a fun hobby for a few weeks when quarantine was kicking up. I had played with plenty of languages before but didn't realize the gaps in my knowledge. Would recommend.
Thats crazy; Are you using it as your daily primarly work horse?

I can't imagine how you got used to the performance you have right now. Either you are not doing anything with your device or you would hugely benefit of upgrading at least every 3 years or so.
I'm pretty sure it also happens quite often, but of course instant automatic backups should be setup in that case, because companies are more important then people.
Isn't this a non-issue because they're measuring the proportion of reviews rather than the absolute amount? The selection bias effect that you mentioned still applies, but as long as the effect is consistent between months it shouldn't affect the conclusion.
Not coursera but I'd definitely recommend Helsinki university's Elements of AI course [0].

It's quite accessible and a good introduction to artifical intelligence.

[0]: https://www.elementsofai.com/
It s as if we rediscover liberalism in full circles
Most of our coal reserves were deposited as charcoal, after a firestorm.
It doesn't have to be the engineers who overlooked it, I am sure there were a lot of great cooling solutions thought of once the overheating issues were discovered.

However, the management did overlook it. Now the machine overheats and requires hours of cooling down to shoot continuously for more than 20-25 minutes. Is that an acceptable amount considering any kind of film work?
I really think the most "understandable" derivation of the arithmetic mean is that as a maximum-likelihood estimator of the mean of gaussian IID random variables. It literally requires a touch of calculus, and it pops out beautifully. Of course, proving it in general is a bit more involved, but...
I do agree 100% with your last sentence.

As for the other (non-default) cases, I think one have to make it very clear and be precise about why a backup is not needed or why the company decided against it.
The older I get, the more willing I am to use tools and accept that it will eventually wear it out. I put about a thousand miles around town in a year on it. The whole bike was $500 new with shipping. Never destined an heirloom.

The Nexus eight speed is the seven speed with a “granny” gear. The seven high gears have small steps relative to a five or three speed. I suspect this might make shifting under load less stressful on the components...note that under load shifts are always just one gear at a time unlike a derailer.

The Nexus 8 is a great piece of kit. Robust, inexpensive and stupid easy to tune.
This is beautiful, I hope this person goes on and actually implements what's they're talking about.

I really liked the part about simplifying networking, I really feel there should be a more general push towards both ipv6 and srv records.
Where do null-terminated strings come from
I built DeskPortal about 15 years ago but I had no business mind and had no way of letting it out the door.

https://deskportal.com/

I'd like to have some feedback though. Funny the mobile wasn't really there and it doesn't really support it but I liked how it can create various apps based on its framework.
"why isn't there as much outrage over the few dozen police killed every year as there is over the nearly 2k people killed by police?"

There are roughly 20k violent deaths in the US every year. Almost 10% of those are police related. That's completely unacceptable to me, having looked at the actual numbers.

https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2020/06/65309/ has the underlying sources and analysis here.
FWIW, I used to process contracts for such leases in 2010 and that’s a pretty low payment. Typically these things paid $2-4k/month (not inflation adjusted). That said, these were all in suburban or urban areas, and if it’s easy enough to move it to your neighbor’s pole you might not have much negotiating power, but you might be able to get more from them if the lease expires while you still own the house.
Yes it should be, but seems the reality is many sites and apps hardcode colors and don't have great separation of presentation from color. Many designers and product people have a hard time getting their head around views that might not look the same and to design for the content, not the picture, etc.
I've never seen any evidence that not censoring is worse than censoring. However there is strong evidence of those who instated censorship creating vast swathes of human destruction.

The most egregious I can think of is the Russian government after the Bolshevik revolution. It had the death penalty for being in possession of certain books. In the end these censorship loving people (for other people, not them) killed tens of millions of people they governed (gulags, deliberate starvation of masses of people for instance), yet it is hardly talked about.

These bad effects of not censoring that people talk about seem so pitiful and small compared to what has happened when people willing to censor other people have got into power. Seriously, people stating things like 'sunlight is the best disinfectant" does not seem to have much evidence going for it' are promoting things that totalitarian groups are very pleased to have, and despite asking for evidence, they provide no evidence that what they are trying to push is not far worse than what they are purportedly against. Along with the destruction of freedom that censorship brings to all the people that it applies to. Those that promote censorship can not be hypocritical and start with themselves first, but they won't, I'm sure they will scream loudest about how horrible censorship is if some other group got the power to censor what they may want to say.
And they are better off. Good point! :)
“Global Accelerator continuously monitors the health of all endpoints. When it determines that an active endpoint is unhealthy, Global Accelerator instantly begins directing traffic to another available endpoint. This allows you to create a high-availability architecture for your applications on AWS.”

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/latest/dg/dis...

Alternatively, global load balancing with Route 53 remains a viable, mature option as well. Health checks and failover are fully supported.
Ah, but the facts are not otherwise. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/07/data-police-racial-b... might be a good start.

Also, yes, welcome to hacker news
There is instaloader [1]

[1] https://instaloader.github.io/
the video uploader is promoting his own competitor to youtube, a streaming service. that is mentioned in the end of the video, and it should really be mentioned in the thread title.
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Programming Languages, Dan Grossman, UW.
https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages
It is a 3 part course and a bit more intensive than other courses on Coursera with challenging assignments. It helped me gain a deeper understanding of statically vs dynamically typed languages. Designing a tiny language in Part B is the best part of the course. Concludes with a nice comparison between OOP and functional languages.
One can do without calculus in this case. Using the fact that a squared expression is positive one can show that the arithmetic mean is indeed the maximum likelihood estimator. For the general case one cant avoid calculus.
People like yourself that constantly bring up the wrongs of the past and constantly remind people that things were less than perfect in the past constantly don't seem to understand that:

* Much like many things society progresses, generally in the western world that progression has tended towards greater liberty (in most respects) of its citizens e.g. Tom Holland (a documentary film maker in the UK) argues the separation of church and state can be traced back to the Bible and it been a steady progression to secularism from there (whether that is valid or not I have no idea).

* You cannot judge people of the past by the standards of today. Someone that would have been seen as progressive back then would be seen as some sort of ultra-traditionalist far-right fridge thinker. You have to judge them by the standards of the time. I am sure in 200-300 years people will see us as backwards, poorly educated and barbaric.

I don't know the history of the events or the characters that led to American indepedence (I am not an American) but what I do find when people feel the need to character assasinate important figures of the past is that they do massively over simplify events and the people involved.
When I find a issue that could be more practical do in C++ instead of Java or .NET, instead of throwing away my productivity out of the window and rewrite everything into something else, I just write a tiny wrapper for what is missing and write everything else in Java or .NET languages.

Just like I used to call Windows DLLs or COM libraries from TPW and Delphi.

Which incidently is how Google pushes everyone to write native code on Android, as little as possible, just tiny native libraries. Even the NativeActivity is just a regular Java Activity implementation with predefined native methods declarations that the shared object is expected to fill in, to be properly called from the framework.
Does anyone know of a downloader that works for private Facebook Groups? I'm a member of some local history groups and the material posted is amazing. I'd like to refer to it in the future, likely long after the posters are gone. I can't rely on Facebook being around then.

Copying and pasting into a personal archive is slow when you want to capture everything (posts and comments) since you don't know which history you'll want to refer to in the future.