skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Security cameras that record audio are illegal in California.

Security cameras that are not clearly visible (i.e., with a sign pointing them out) are also illegal in CA.

The penalties for operating such a camera are low, but enough to prevent evidence from holding up in court.

Anyway, the ruling that hidden recording of police is OK is great news, IMHO.
"banking" is the right word as this assertion is used to induce VCs to disgorge huge globs of their customers' money.
Speaking of self-Flanderzing...
There will never be an iphone moment because its not a product useful to literally every person. Gaming consoles and PCs have not had an "iphone moment" after decades because their market is and always will be limited.

I don't see why people are so obsessed with instant and explosive growth. Almost no recreational product has seen this kind of growth and they have all continued to exist just fine.

VR is ready today if its something you want. Its fun, cheap enough and has loads of games. If you hold out for something better you will always be waiting because there will always be something much better in 5 years.
That's a result of viscious relationships: media needs ad views, ad views are best harvested via outrage, and politicians need ongoing and widespread exposure.

Subtlety and nuance just makes a politician vulnerable to outrage and doesn't itself easily generate views and exposure. Outrageous and definitive statements, and outrageous and damning accusations generate ad views and exposure.

Politicians cannot afford to be complicated.
What do you mean “PDF can‘t do that either”?
I read a lot in my teens, but was never good at it. Computers have always held my attention better. I've gotten much more into reading _after_ having a kid because I wanted them to love books and be better at reading then I am.

Started by reading to my kid before bed. Even at a really young age when the book didn't mean anything, it still seemed to calm them. It allowed me the opportunity to A) read anything I wanted, B) build a foundational hobby over time, and C) spend time with my child. They now bring me books (usually whatever story we're reading at the time, but occasionally a short kids book) and I make a point to take a break and read to them. Because of that and other events this year, I've been able to complete dozens of books.
Sqlite devs have funded their development decades into the future by selling licenses to public domain software. It may not have made them a billion dollar multinational corporation, but must every company have such conqueror aspiration?
If people just don't test because they don't want to give info to the government, that's not an information gain for the government, it's just a loss for everybody else.
It is an optimization process of sorts, no?
Same thing but in his own handwriting:

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd10xx/EWD1036.PDF

I know it’s silly, but it just made him seem more human to me.
For me the kinds of games I mostly play do not translate well to VR. Or at least yet. But for stuff that does translate like shooters, its unreal how much better they are in VR.
Not even that: a culture where you are expected to meet your goals, deadlines and performance criteria can lead to shortcuts and ethical breaches when the company is relying on you "making it happen".

For an engineer the end justifies the means when it involves putting food on the table and ensuring there's a roof over your families head - whistle-blowing is not an option, and quitting mid-project is never a good look either.
The edge-seals can be externally lubricated in this engine; that will at least improve maintenance.
Then maybe people who don't like that shouldn't take jobs working for the public in public while enforcing public laws to uphold public standards of public safety and public order.

Just a thought.
Jumping Out of a Rocket Ship
The Supreme Court decided Tanzin v Tanzir a few days ago. They held federal agents personally liable for putting innocent Muslims on the no-fly list because they wouldn't inform on their community.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/19-71_qol1.pdf

The courts are getting closer to what you ask.
If I get arrested recording the police in public, do I have any recourse? Can I sue the police department for false arrest?
> the vast majority of cars today simply don't work for a family of five

Yes, but only if you count by unique line items. If you count by market share, the large family market is well served.

“S.U.V.s made up 47.4 percent of U.S. sales in 2019 with sedans at 22.1 percent,” said Tom Libby, automotive analyst at IHS Markit. “By 2025, we see the light-truck segment that includes S.U.V.s, vans and pickups to make up 78 percent of sales compared to 72 percent now.”[1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/business/suv-sales-best-s...
Σέφιλντ vs. Μάντσεστερ Γιουνάιτεντ, με γκολ οι δύο Γιουναϊτεντ
Η Σέφιλντ Γιουνάιτεντ καλωσορίζει τη Μάντσεστερ Γιουνάιτεντ στο Μπράμαλ Λέιν, αναζητώντας τη νίκη της πρώτης σεζόν, βρισκόμενη στην τελευταία θέση της βαθμολογίας με μόνο έναν βαθμό. Η Μάντσεστερ Γιουναϊτεντ, έρχεται από θετικό σερί και θέλει να συνεχίσει με τον ίδιο ρυθμό. Πάμε κατευθείαν στα σημερινά Σεφιλντ – Μαντσεστερ στοιχημα προγνωστικα.
> Well, if they make most of their profit on financing, a cash purchase would be lower.

Er, no. They need to make a profit. If they don't get some profit kicked back from the bank as part of the financing package they need to raise the purchase price in order to preserve that level of profit.

You can't buy a car for the "financed price" without financing. You have to pay the higher "cash price". The whole "bargaining and negotiating" dance that car dealers do is simply to hide the fact that there are two different prices.
Very good points and it's ridiculous to require other login providers to be hidden away.

Note that though that I do prefer Apple sign-in to other providers, but mostly prefer not having to create an account/login unless I need my data to be available on other devices/platforms (synced). I mostly uninstall apps immediately that require signup to start using them.
Cumulative Layout Shift in 12 seconds
In cash accounting there’s no A/R at all, right? In the context of their #7 description I think they’re talking accrual based.
How is this not an ad hominem attack? Take your typical software job, can we not identify clearly what percentage requires formal computer science? You’re debasing his claim with a passive aggressive attack on ‘maybe you just didn’t learn shit in college’.
Disrupt it, then disrupt it again, then again, until you get to where you want to be.

How do you open your web browser? If it's an icon, delete it off your desktop. If it's a keyboard shortcut, disable it.

Whenever you hit this minor friction with opening your browser, take a moment to assess where you are and what you're doing. Become aware of your intentions.

For example, my browser supports accelerators for opening websites. I can replace an accelerator for the site which eats my time (e.g. reddit) with one which makes me more productive (the write new post page of my own blog)

It will never be a "set it and forget it" strategy, however. You are only setting yourself up for it to be easier to make better choices, as well as habituating making better choices, but you have to continue making them one at a time, day in, day out.

I hope this helps you get on your creative path and self-actualize in the way you find most suitable.
This article explains it thoroughly, Mickey Mouse is protected by copyright, but it also is protected by trademark, which doesn’t has a time limit. There is a comparison with a Peter Rabbit, which entered public domain in 1979 and Zorro. The corporation that owns the brand, successfully used trademark law to stop a third party.

https://www.gandb.com/2019/08/steamboat-willie-mickey-mouse-...
Anyone else find this video funny?
It is time for sex bots. Developing sex bots could be the first meaningful step towards tackling the horrors of sexual abuse, trafficking and child victimization.
Taking a step back, mathematics just happens to be our most developed tool/perspective for understanding patterns. So, to the extent that programming languages are concerned with modeling certain patterns in programs or domains or computing devices, at one extreme they might end up looking like (applied) mathematics. I consider category theory to be an exercise in this spirit (and this approach is broadly quite valuable precisely because math is often our best modeling framework for phenomena!)

At the other extreme for detecting patterns is simplistic empirical study of the kind that you allude to. It might be difficult to reproduce or generalize from these datasets, but it's hard to do much better without a better framework to operate in.

In between these two extremes is one of the most interesting threads of PL research, where it is treated as a design problem. For this to be possible, the researcher uses a hunch based on their human intuition of a domain or a problem-solving technique, and then tries to reify it into a programming language to provide it as an affordance to users of that system. It is strongly influenced by the taste of the researcher and the reviewers, and often needs to be iterated on to explore an interesting space.

What is the distribution between these three in academic PL research -- I have no idea. But I have seen many interesting demonstrations of the last kind, especially in conference talks at Strange Loop.
The road deaths are also very large in those countries (though a fair amount of that is also people going high speeds on roads that would not be rated for that speed in a developed country)
Epiousios
I think there also needs to another metric like Alexa rank (or something more reliable) which shows the traffic/popularity of the website wrt to its size.

That would be more interesting to me.
WOW!! So I wasted all this time try add my website and clients website as AMP for this B... What shame Google!!!
People complain because the file chooser is broken for most of their GTK-based apps and not for any of their other apps. Expecting them to link the problem to an invisible factor (API call) is ridiculous and silly, but such is open-source.
If it's compact enough to compete with 2-strokes, it's likely way quieter than that. In theory a rotary would be quieter than a similarly powerful spoark-ignited engine due to reduced vibrations, but I don't suspect it's a huge difference.
So, streaming your dashcam video off-site the whole time you're in the car isn't practical given bandwidth constraints. But what if it's only when you're being pulled over? What if that happened automatically?

Police lights have distinctive flashing. It should be possible to analyze the images from a rear-facing camera, pick out the flashing, and start up a stream.

Bonus points if your lawyer automatically gets an email with a link to view it live, in case they happen to be in the office...

Seriously, this should be an app.
> And sickness

Your average person doesn't fear flu-like sicknesses. It's an inconvenience, yes, but that's about it.

> long term side effects

Again... according to CDC/WHO the average person completely recovers in 2 weeks. Yes, there are cases where permanent lung scarring was observed, but AFAIK that's super rare and has to do with the type of pneumonia synergizing with covid, not covid itself. I'm sure you can dig up other cases where long term negative effects are observed... but it seems rare compared to the normal recovery scenario. Do you have a source showing that the average person should fear developing long term side effects?
I was trying avoid library incompatibilities. Pulled everything from the repository and recompile with the latest libraries. I also tried a couple of different libraries. I gave up after a week or so. (What I did not do was to compile the libraries from the source as well.)

I really like mupdf so it was a big nuisance for me to lose that.
Well, this was a surprise to me. I had been under the impression that police had better salaries than what appears to be the case. A quick web search suggests that the average salary is roughly $60-65k. I had thought they were more around $80-120k, depending on position and seniority. I don’t recall where I got that impression.

As mentioned by others, cashiers are monitored by security cameras constantly. It’s just that footage of them stealing from the till doesn’t go viral. Police brutality does.
I prefer to punch up with my self-flanderizing.
Banking on computers to automate all of human reasoning? Sure. Preparing for computers to automate some disproportionately impactful subset of human reasoning, on the other hand, is very reasonable.
Stadia on iOS Runs Like a Gem
I really can't wait until this problem is solved. High volume training will become much easier.
If you use system tray icons, they've been stripped out. You're expected to use another GUI library like QT to use those.
Found this awhile ago when researching if there were any diesel wankel engines. Glad to see it's got some updates.

On a related note, does anybody know of DARPA-funded projects that eventually become consumer-grade? It seems that cool stuff like this never makes it out of the military due to the classified nature, which is sad.
There are lots of good ideas floating around for a second CL standard. The problem is, either such a language has a CL compatibility environment, in which case it is probably implemented in CL using the features already in the language, meaning that it's really just another Quicklisp package; or it doesn't, in which case it has to fill some need that couldn't be filled the first way in order to attract a critical mass of interest. Julia is the closest thing I'm aware of to the latter.

It's hard to get people to switch from something they find good enough for their needs, if the new thing is incompatible. See: Perl 6.
We don't know anything about the home test data. We don't even know if sharing it will be mandatory. If it were mandatory, I find it a little unlikely that it'll be treated massively differently than the existing COVID test data that is shared from current test sites such that DHS will start labeling people as terrorists for testing positive or that law enforcement will start kicking down people's doors if their test doesn't report back (I mean, imagine if the WiFi went out, or they ran out of data on their data plan?). Given how the lockdowns have been policed on private citizens — that is to say, extremely lightly if at all — I find it a bit far-fetched that at-home COVID tests are what will push us over the brink into fascist dystopia.
The short answer, they were too late.
I replaced my 3-series BMW with a Honda Odyssey, and I've spent two years singing its praises. Part of the problem is that we have created a culture that uses cars as a form of self expression, and many early parents aren't ready to "be" a minivan. But the minivan is what you actually want as a parent: room for six people of any size, or four people and at least twice as much cargo as an SUV, with safe, remote control doors that can be operated by kids. It's a living room on wheels, including the TV.

Honda is trying to bridge the identify gap a little with paddle shifting, ventilated seats, and almost 300hp, but really we should try to step back from seeing the car as an expression of who we are, and try to optimize for the functionality that we use every day. As much fun as it was to drive the BMW, finding a way to fit my growing family into it was a stressful mess and I'm happy to have found, perhaps unintentionally, a much better situation.

Some of this insight came to me from Steve Kaufer of TripAdvisor, who at the time I was there was running a $4B company and driving an old minivan, because that's what his family fit in. He never cared for a fancy new car because fancy meant small and he wasn't out to impress anyone on the road anyway.

But I also can't pretend that Honda's naturally aspirated 6-cylinder and perfectly matched 10-speed (domestic!) paddle shifter didn't help seal the deal in my garage.
Two strokes don't meet emissions because they use the fuel as a lubricant, which means they have to add oil to the fuel and obviously that doesn't burn cleanly.

Does this design require oil in the fuel? Certainly in the case of burning diesel I would expect that alone is a good enough lubricant.
> YouTube, as far as I'm aware, is offered at a price that doesn't meet its full cost of production, and as such should constitute illegal dumping in any country that has or wants to have a tech industry of its own.

This an big misconception that I've seen before of HN. I don't know why that is.

Youtube standalone revenue is $15B/year[1]. Netflix is around $20B/year, but Netflix spends about $15B/year producing professional content and yet still produces around $1B/quarter in profit[2].

There's nothing at all to indicate that Youtube isn't actually highly profitable.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/3/21121207/youtube-google-al...

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/20/heres-why-netflix-shares-a...
Control the water supply and you control everything. Now you get tribute like the Qing did.

It's not like TSMC can be picked up and moved somewhere else. The world economy has become addicted to TSMC, and it will pay the dealer's price.

Certainly China can't run Taiwan any better. But the CCP has learned how not to "kill the golden goose" of capitalism as they crush democracy. They are the world experts at doing this. They will mangle Taiwanese society completely, but without significantly damaging its economy. Hong Kong is the practice round.
I think they own pocket, which you can pay for.
Had a similar issue with an image I tried.

qemu: uncaught target signal 4 (Illegal instruction) - core dumped
Virgin?! Everybody from the Pope to Richard Branson is going to wonder WTF was the reasoning behind that rule.
Isn’t gaming a larger industry than the movies, driven largely by consoles? Seems like gaming had its iPhone moment a generation ago.

Edit: gaming is larger than the movie and music industries combined
If you think globally, the population still appears to be on the rise.

https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth

{Edited for typo}
I read this as a trope that described a metonym for synecdoche, which by itself was impressive, but not sure if it was entirely intentional.
It’s driven by the nature of jokes in a long-running medium. Jokes both require and create context; this joke’s punchline is that joke’s setup. If the setup isn’t rooted in the current context, it’s nonsensical. If the punchline is in current context, it’s boring.

It’s easy for this process to feed back, especially with large casts of characters. I heard a writer once talk about “protecting” characters from some jokes, I believe to prevent a process like this.
App Icon Creator for Multiplatform
Iconify is a handy and powerful application providing icons creating support for multiplatform(iOS, Android, Flutter, React Native, Cordova, Web APP, macOS, iWatch, Windows Phone, Quasar). It allows app developers to create a whole set of icons in various sizes with just one click, extremely time-saving and convenient.
No, I just cobbled it together with standard Linux routing tools.

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/forwarding

The trickiest part is making sure that the VPS answers NDP requests for the routed addresses:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/proxy_ndp
for i in `seq 0x0010 0x001f`; do
ip=2001:1111:2222:3333::$(printf '%x' $i)
ip neigh add proxy $ip dev ens3
done

Assign the routed address range to the wireguard interface:

ip addr add 2001:1111:2222:3333::10/124 dev wg0

That's the gist of it. I might do a proper writeup next week if I can find time.
Covid-19 has politicians treating the public like children
Even if Firefox does well on feature phones like you suggest they should, how would that give Mozilla a source of revenue other than the money from Google's search deal?
Speaking of tropes, It's probably because I'm old and jaded but I find it gets harder and harder to enjoy many movies and TV shows because having watched so many I see the tropes.

I think the most obvious pattern in many modern TV shows/movies is the musical interlude. You insert some famous pop song as 3 minutes of filler and try to transfer the affection for the song to the show.

A recent example is in The Umbrella Academy one of the characters dances to "I Think We're Alone Now" by Tiffany. It is entirely superfluous. It's not a new technique. I recently watched Love Actually for the first time and it had at least 3 of these types of scenes. When they happen though I just tune out as my brain screams "you're being manipulated". They're filler. They're like "design by committee" or "marketing checklist".

Related is the downbeat 3 minute musical interlude montage. Something disappointing to the character happens and then there's a downbeat montage of them brooding etc. IIRC Angel had 1 or 2 per episode but they're all over in modern shows.
Jumping from dependency to dependency forever hoping that someone else is always going to do the right thing is not a viable option long term, even moreso if you want to build a large application that lasts a while.

Realistically, most people who decide to ditch GTK seem to switch to Qt and either start contributing there or pay for consulting/LTS/commercial licenses eventually, because that is the only comparably modern option for native widgets on Linux/BSD.
Joey is my go-to example of this.
Most of it is already tire particulate matter. The only upside is that it makes the roads quieter... but I think the main problem with noise is that most vehicles are misaligned and out of balance.
How did we let this happen?
Insane power

1000+Hp Turbo 4rotor AWD [All-Wheel-Drive]

https://m.youtube.com/results?search_query=4rotor+turbo+1200...
There's definitely a market for rotary engines, time will tell how this new form takes shape.
Change Covid rules so that parents abroad can see their kids in NL
Sorry - Just realized I accidentally marked it “hidden” :(
No, if they wanted to deny the case on its merits they could have done so. They chose to deny standing instead, probably to avoid pissing a lot of people off. They did not say it was impossible to grant relief, they said they would not grant relief. What this means is open to interpretation, for example, they could rule that the elections were conducted in violation of the Elections Clause but that it is up to the state legislatures to decide which electors to appoint, which would actually be a good outcome for the Trump campaign.

In order to say whether the case is good or not you would have to point to something specific that makes it legally weak. E.g. controlling precedent. Standing has no bearing on the merits of the case, so everyone using standing as an argument is not making a real argument but is just playing a shell game.