skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To the inevitable dismay of U.K. street racers who

> primarily partake in their favorite illegal motorsport

> after hours, the TruCam II also features night mode

> whereas the first TruCam, which has already reportedly

> been in use for the past six years, only worked during the

> daytime.

I think this really comes down to the letter of the law vs the spirit of it. To the spirit of the law, i.e. saving third-party lives, on a non-busy road doing 35 mph in a 30 mph really going to kill anybody? Is doing excessive speed on an empty well-lit motorway going to kill anybody?

Ultimately if you're only a danger to yourself then personally I think the responsibility is on the individual. For example, as I understand it, persons living in Scotland can drive back home drunk in rural areas as the only person they are ever likely to hurt its themselves.

As a free person I think you need to have the right to make bad decisions and accept their consequences, as long as those do not impact others. For a long time there has been an unwritten rule (at least where I live) where greater speed is generally more acceptable at night with fewer road users. It's not uncommon for the local police to overtake you at 90 mph for example.
What an awful idea and article. What is this doing on HN?
> The generator is curiosity.

> When I’ve listened the most effectively to people, it’s because I was intensely curious—I was trying to build a detailed, precise understanding of what was going on in their head.

And how does one get that kind of curiosity?
I think the people with BS jobs were the least likely to lose them in the pandemic.

All the paper pushers, software engineers (after years in the industry I can confidently say that many SE jobs are BS jobs - you may do something but that something is still BS) and useless managers just switched to WFH and tried to maintain a veneer of activity with BS Zoom meetings.

On the other hand plenty of cashiers, waiters, janitors... all lost their jobs.

I think a better sign that many jobs are BS jobs is that it seems many companies did not register a drop in productivity as a result of people working from home. Likely that these people weren't producing much value before.
What is your specific claim here?
Once upon a time I made a flash game named Proximity where players take turns being given a numbered tile from 1-20 to place on a hex grid, and it captures any tiles next to it of the opponent that is a lower number. It was pretty popular in its day (I'm actually working on a new version at the moment).

Anyway, the way the tiles were drawn was that it gave each player an array of tiles of the same numbers that was just enough for how many turns they'd end up having, but it shuffled the order of each array at random.

Even though that was the case, I often got players saying the game was cheating, and the computer always got high numbers and they always got low numbers, even on easy. I even had one player claim they counted the 20s and the opponent got more (although it's possible to increase the numbers on the tile by placing one of the same team's tile next to it, so I'm guessing they only counted at the end of the game and didn't reinforce the tiles as much).

But it's literally not possible according to the code. And it wasn't a bug either, I tested it pretty thoroughly, and played the game a ton myself. And plenty of other players never had an issue with it too.

That was when I learned that people in general tend to not be very good judges of randomness. And I've seen many examples since that reinforce that.

As a matter of fact, I was actually working on a dynamic draw mechanic for the new game, where the further behind in score you were, the more of a boost to the numbers it would draw from you, to give you more of a chance to get caught back up (and vice versa, if you were ahead). So basically like this dynamic difficulty thing.

I knew not everyone would enjoy that so I was planning on having it be something you could turn on or off in the Options menu. And it's not something to get more money off the player, just something that might improve their experience.

The game will probably be a paid for game to begin with, or on mobile it might be free but you have to deal with ads unless you pay $5 to get rid of them.
I have also seen this from time to time. We have a few engineers in my org and another on my wife's team at another company that have interests similar to yours.

I think people with your interests are really valuable. We've changed around what we index on for performance evals/promotions and what work we assign them so that we can better accommodate these sorts of work preferences and skills. If someone is happier working on an essential but unsexy, unloved corner of your systems or infrastructure, and they're also many times more productive in that area than other engineers who have no interest in it, then you might as well take advantage of it!

The key factor is making sure that the work those people are doing is truly high impact (for example, CI improvement might reduce deployment failures, improve team deployment velocity) and not simply maintenance for sake of abstract cleanliness.
Maybe what you need to do is post consulting fees on your Twitter, and then post something that just says, "Facebook, I've found a bug, I'm posting it in 90 days." Then it's up to Facebook to find it and fix it, or make you an offer you can't refuse.
In Washington State they go one step further: cameras can only take pictures from the rear. They're not allowed to actually take a picture of the driver.
You can still run into that budgeting conversation when you build, but this time it's with an internal team.
Wow, this feels like something out of the mid-2000s.

The problem with the semantic web is that the incentives are mostly wrong. People make websites to be viewed by people. Doing the semantic stuff is work that can be difficult to get right. If it doesn't bring you visitors, why would (most) people bother.

Sure you can get fancy tools that use the data (lets ignore the scaling issues that many of them have), but fancy tools separates the data from the context, further reducing incentives (for many content creators). If they ever did take off, we would have massive spam/quality problems, because we have now separated the data from the website, with all the visual indicators of how spammy it is, which is perfect for dark SEO and other spammers/phisers.

For that matter, just look at metadata on the web in general and what a mess that is. <meta name=description (or keywords) - spammers took over and nobody use them. <link rel="next" i think old opera is the only thing to ever do anything with that metadata.

The only metadata systems that have ever worked is when the site author gets something out of it: e.g. technocrati tags, <link> to rss feeds, facebook opengraph, various google things, etc. Or on the other side, when that is their whole reason for being, like https://wikidata.org and maybe some glam stuff. Everyone making arbitrary metadata out of the goodness of their heart, and having it be of consistent quality and meaning is a pipe dream.

Not to mention the negative incentive of obliterating the walled garden which as much as it sucks is something the corporate overlords like a lot.
All I can say now is Keep Houston Weird.
No, I think only those who try have any chance.

Is your rudeness caused by a disability?
Dream Investigation Results – Official Report by the Minecraft Speedrunning Team [pdf]
IDK about the UK, but in Germany street racers have killed many innocent bystanders, just for the crime of crossing the street at night. So yes please, enforce rules more strongly.

In fact, even ambulances crash into each other every now and then at night, because they usually drive without their horns (technically then they aren't allowed to run red lights, only if it's been sounding for at least 15 seconds, but people want to sleep).
> Driving fast doesn't necessarily mean unsafe.

In all studies I read or heard about, speed is a huge factor for increasing injuries and deaths.

> You can be driving the speed limit and be going at an unsafe speed.

Then you are driving too fast according to the law. At least in France or Norway.

> So the speed cameras make it more likely that people will be under the speed limit. But are the roads safer?

Yes. The numbers talk for themselves whenever a new speed camera is installed in a road.
In college I worked at a place that was spread out over a number of buildings on the edge of campus. A friend of mine was living across the street from the main building, and I was over one day trying to watch TV in their common room. I don’t recall why I was flipping channels up near 90 but I distinctly heard a crisp clear voice as I was flipping between two channels.

The wireless headsets the receptionists had were using the same modulation as TV, and you could hear it by holding the UHF dial on the TV between clicks. And my friend knew about this. Awkward.
If the gov't stops prosecuting the security experts for selling the vulnerability on the black market (but instead, only prosecute those who use it for illegal purposes), then the security expert can find out the true value of a vulnerability.

This makes the company with said vulnerability pay the true price for it - may be even just purchase it on the black market and outbid the "bad guys". Or pay someone to fix it asap before it's sold.
I found the image server, in the spirit of using your device for fun and interesting things (say nothing of privacy).. Why would you need the online converter, if you selfhost the image-server?

(potential customer here, but wanna use it not for pictures but for "daily status")
The content of this article doesn't support the point it looks like you intended to make.

The scandal isn't that the facilities exist. It's in how they're now being used: to indefinitely detain _children_ who, unlike before, have been separated from their families. To make matters worse, many of these kids are being abused by their captors, and many were never been reunited with their family members.
Although the author doesn't say it, he does come across as implying that books don't emphasize the curiosity aspect. While this is true for Nonviolent Communications (NVC), I have seen it in other books. Here is an example from Difficult Conversations (DC):

> There’s only one way to come to understand the other person’s story, and that’s by being curious. Instead of asking yourself, “How can they think that?!” ask yourself, “I wonder what information they have that I don’t?” Instead of asking, “How can they be so irrational?” ask, “How might they see the world such that their view makes sense?” Certainty locks us out of their story; curiosity lets us in.

The heading of that section is Move From Certainty To Curiosity

I've always said that the NVC book is great on teaching the how but not the why, and that DC is the exact opposite. The latter gives you a lot of insight, but with a lot less practical guidance.

Similarly, the book Crucial Conversations specifies the following 4 ingredients to listening:

- Be sincere

- Show curiosity

- Stay curious (i.e. don't react)

- Be patient
This is how Google's Project Zero works basically
Those things already exist but ultimately bugs and exploits are too niche. A trusted third party cannot rule by themselves but is always required to ask both sides about the bug's impact. Since both sides try to frame it as both high and low impact at the same time, you make both parties unhappy in the most cases and become untrusted.
Thank you! There are no plans for the time being as a bit hard to print and ship from my country. I'm still exploring print-on-demand services that might help.
I'd be interested in the write amplification since Redpanda went pretty low level in the IO layer. How do you guarantee atomic writes when virtually no disk provides guarantees other than on a page level which could result in destroying already written data if a write to the same page fails - at least in theory - and so one has to resort to writing data multiple times.
>978 deaths is equivalent to 1/18 of the entire year to date. The rate is increasing, and there's only one way to stop it.

Its still such a low number. There is no conclusive evidence that mask will reduce the death and even if wearing mask will avoid those 978 death, it still not worth it.

Don't get me wrong, reducing death is good and I will support it but not if it require forced mask/lockdown.

That being said, I can support voluntary mask recommendation though.
There's a huge amount of nudity on YouTube. Even explicitly sexual in nature. The "art" out is usually how these things slip by. Music videos, for instance, get a pass.
They could make an exception, for the larger benefits to their platform. Custom updaters are helping no one, and it seems like the spark has left Sparkle (the last I looked, sparkle 1 was for an era long past, and sparkle 2 was still incomplete).

On an alternate timeline, Apple could have allowed software vendors to hook into the old software update application, and pull in updates through that mechanism, in addition to the first party updates.
It isn't just Trump who gets special treatment. A lot of crazy people with blue check marks who get special privileges. After all, isn't that the kind of internet you want? Where certain people you agree with have privileges over everyone you disagree with?

Also, the president generally gets special privileges on media platforms because he is the president. That's just common sense.

Assuming you are american, I can't believe there are people actually advocating for big tech to censor the president. It just sounds insane to me that anyone would support such an idea.
You're not arguing against a statement I've made.
Part of it will be the Biden admin. rolling back Trump's trade wars. They've weighed on the economy.
Yes! This is a great browser extension. It's mentioned in the book, too.
This "inadvertently" limiting speech is becoming more of a habit for Twitter, than an accident.
No you're right, bug prospector was made up on the spot. I'm old too and I confused the conversation by hauling out my rusty trusty grinding axe about some miscreants I encountered along the way.

In general though I do think we diffuse the term 'research' a bit in this case by applying it to a very broad spectrum of actions and motivations. As a result I think we lose some of the nuances of incentive that emerge at opposite ends of that spectrum. I mean we do call them 'bug bounties' afterall and we don't call Duane Chapman 'Dog the Fugitive Reseacher'. :)
Our nation is built on open discourse. One could argue that rather than silence opposition, one could inform the population. The "mother and father know best" attitude helps no one and fosters doubt into the integrity of things
And the idea of a “hacker agent” was born.
It's almost as if the speed limit is the speed limit!
This is a go question but I thought go funcs took less than a thread. This assigns one go func per cpu. Can it be faster with more go funcs per cpu?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55254182

> A statement from the team said Hunter had "fought through difficult challenges, including the vicious personal attacks of recent months, only to emerge stronger".

> The 50-year-old said he had learned of the investigation on Tuesday. He did not disclose any further details.

> "I take this matter very seriously but I am confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately, including with the benefit of professional tax advisers," he said.
>That traffic is from mostly people people better off not being (a part of you engagement)

I disagree. Given that many of those folks have not only continued to engage with the soon-to-be ex-POTUS, even to the extent that they are happy to be suckers...err......donors to his grift[0]...err.."Election Defense Fund", I'd think that Twitter would want to keep those folks around -- the more gullible someone is, the more likely they'll click on ads and generate revenue.

And advertisers stand to make money on conversions, assuming those folks haven't already given all their money to the Trump "Election Defense" con...err...fundraising drive.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-fundra...
Because a vulnerability in FB's legal admin panel (and most other vulnerabilities) doesn't interest said state actors?

Anything mildly "interesting" being sold through such a program would be high treason. How do you know this "Russian website" isn't actually a CIA honeypot? Or maybe it's not a honeypot, but instead of paying you 250K you just die of heart attack in a couple of months? Or they sell your identity back to your govt. as part of some unrelated game.

Bad business.
The stock market is at an all time high...
Doppler Effect and Phase Shift
America, as well, even in broad daylight: https://www.fox13news.com/news/suspected-bayshore-street-rac...
Responding to tone : Criticizes the tone of the writing without addressing the substance of the argument.
I too miss those days...

That being said, I feel like back then a most vulnerabilities were so simple due to lack of foresight/security that quite a few 12-year olds with a decent understanding of computing could perform them:

I fondly remember an IIS bug which allowed you to basically 'cd' into any directory on the host machine and execute cmd.exe remotely. I believe it was as simple as the server not sanitising '..\' when written using unicode escape characters...
https://github.com/ttezel/anchor

https://webdeltasync.github.io/
And also safety! Power take-off injuries[0] can be really horrifying.

[0]http://farminjuryresource.com/atv-injuries/farming-injuries/...
It's a bad analogy because it's hard to imagine any kinds of thoughts/behaviors that we're absolutely sure we want to prevent. (Maybe some amount of nonviolent mischief is good for humanity, maybe the impulse for violent retribution is necessary when justice systems are flawed, maybe these kinds of thoughts are generally not acted on and actually make people more self-reflective, etc.) But it's at least a bit harder to come up with reasons that speed limits should be exceedable on public roads and a bit easier to think up solutions. Medical emergencies are one possible case, but having an override that records that the override happened and that you'll have to give a good reason for doing is a possible solution. Maybe there's sudden traffic situations where you have to speed up to avoid a crash, and the system could be made to allow limited bursts of speed.
I think if you intersect the set of people willing to take this risk and the set of people with the capability to find bugs like this, then remove all the black hats, you'd end up with the empty set.
Being right isn't enough. You need to be able to convince people of the fact that you're right.

Maybe as a junior engineer, or an intermediate one. But not beyond that. Seniority isn't just being right more often.
I haven't used DD logs personally but from what I've been told if you send the majority of your logs straight to archive to an S3 bucket and only rehydrate the logs when you need to access them their pricing is pretty reasonable. Because you're storing the logs in your S3 bucket you can keep them however long you want and rehydrate them when you need them (say 30 days later).

The bill will still be in the low thousands but paying 30-40k per year for a logging solution is probably worth the cost if it means you don't have to maintain it. Having logs and metrics (and the APM if you're using it) all in one place is _really_ nice.
> Feler expects the housing market to remain hot through at least 2023, with housing starts already at their highest levels since 2007.

I am skeptical of this. A lot of housing demand was pushed back during the first half of 2020. I don't think the pushed back demand was enough to last three years. Also there are many homeowners who are unable to service their mortgages now. Once assistance for these people expires, there will be a wave of foreclosures.

I think the latter half housing demand in 2020 was due to pent-up demand as well as extraordinary measures shoring up mortgage holders, thus preventing more supply coming onto the market. I don't see either trend continuing into 2023.
ippsec has some videos on it too:

https://youtu.be/hBjksyVmspY
Will this satisfy you? :D
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rorymackean/tertill-the...
Very cool! Also: might not absolute amplitude (volume) give away a lot of mass information relative to a control mass? "The bigger they are, the louder they fall" kinda deal?
In the US, there are 38,000 persons killed each year in car accidents -- and yet there are still those who think we do too much enforcement.
Coincidentally, Rachel By The Bay had a post just today that included listening in on cordless phone conversations by neighbors.

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/12/12/scan/
If you have UV camera you can see through the clouds, I think.
Digging into TSIC and ZACWire with the Saleae Logic Analyzer
I thought this project looked really cool. Maybe it'll give you some ideas!

https://onezero.medium.com/the-morning-paper-revisited-35b40...
Great example of why every regulation should have an implicit sunset.
I think all three of them have owned electric cars for a while. They’re all futuristic in some way.
That's a fascinating story.

I'm curious though -- since the rule no longer has any practical relevance, is it still enforced?

Since it's not particularly likely that Congress would ever get around to updating the law anytime soon... does the FCC still even care? If a hardware manufacturer openly tried to sell a receiver that could tune to those frequencies, would they still be stopped?
we could have..

vaccine flights and non-vaccine flights?

alternate day or week work arrangements? vaccine day/week n non-vaccine day/week at the office?
You have to survive as company long enough where paying 30k/month sounds reasonable for logging… esp if your revenue is nowhere near it, and are not VC funded… and you will always have to maintain your integrations at the very least.
I believe you are making a philosophical argument, but I can't ignore that in reality a city being destroyed - even partially, as we saw in various places with rioters burning down specific areas and looting businesses - doesn't cause any psychological stress. I live in Boston, and rioters lit many fireworks in my neighborhood and in front of my house (all fireworks are illegal in Massachusetts) late into the night, for months. I am familiar and friendly with many people in my community, including my neighbor who is a black woman, and she was very displeased with the actions she was observing and experiencing, especially given she is a front-line medical worker who needed sleep to battle COVID.

In summation, the protests and property destruction indeed had psychological effects, even if you want to believe they did not.
Likely not. Green threads concept (goroutines) makes a lot of sense if you block on I/O (such as reading DB, making RPCs), you can multiplex a thread. However, in this case, there is not a lot of I/O involved so regular CPU-bound parallel programming practices apply.
How well does "linear least squares to some nonlinear methods, simulated annealing, bayesian methods" work when you're doing speech to text, text generation or object detection? Deep learning is different in that it's a huge leap closer to human capabilities compared to the other methods you've listed.
Major Solid-State Battery Claims from Ford, BMW, Toyota, and Solid Power