skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The obvious solution is a camera mode in which it presents itself over USB as a webcam… As far as I know no "real" camera at any price does this.

There are! Fujifilm X-A7, Fujifilm X-T200, and Sigma fp are three mirrorless cameras that support UVC. And if you classify action cameras as "real" cameras too, the Insta360 ONE R also supports this.

Note that you may have to update the firmware and put the camera in webcam mode to get this to work.
I remember the IWH receiving more aggression pre neutering. His weight never exceeded 140 lbs but he was unusually tall.
HostsMan is a good utility for windows, which from what i recall lets you use lists and even add update URLs;
Apparently a less-fledged foss alternative is SwitchHosts! for linux, which also seem to have this crucial feature
Base 3 encoded messages are shorter because this base is closer to the number e (2.718). Binary is the next best approximation, but easier to understand. I want to believe that DNA is encoded in base 4 because it provides more redundancy.
You’re missing the point. The point is that the chain can fork at anytime. If the community doesn’t like the difficulty bomb, they fork it. Ethereum classic is an example of that happening.

It so happens that the consensus of the majority decided to stick with Ethereum rather than classic. But still no single person or entity gets to decide.
I recently read something that seemed almost nonsensical at first. "Action can precede motivation." In different words it means just start doing the task and the motivation to continue will come to you on it own. I'm sure it doesn't apply to every situation, but I'm finding that there is some truth to it.
I just don't buy it.

One way to make a system like this work is heavily proxy and strip rich media out of the network (Globalstar sells a device called the SatFi that does this for their MEO constellation, Opera Mini used to do it for featurephones), so you can support quality of service in a remote population.

There's a financial incentive for Facebook to provide access to a specially crafted 'walled garden' that's designed for lower bandwidth scenarios. Facebook has tried this shit before in India without touting special network hardware and it was not well received: https://www.cnet.com/news/facebooks-free-basics-internet-ser...
The analysis needs to be deeper to draw any conclusions. For example, ~7% of U.S. GDP in 2017 is "Digital Economy", which basically did not exist in 1975 and does not involve a lot of bottom incomers to produce.
"...and that's why capitalism works!"

Trash piece funded by the AEI.
Just generate /etc/hosts from a cron job...
Pretty easy to concat, sort, and filter however you like in a short script.
Hell or high water is a good movie about that.
This isn't a figure I normally track, so I looked it up to get a relative sense of scale during a "normal" year. The CDC says it was 2,839,205 in the USA for 2018.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db355.htm
> park illegally and let yourself think of the (expected value of the) fine as a parking fee

It seems that (in San Francisco) it can be cheaper to pay the ticket fines than pay for the parking upfront like one is supposed to do: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24796412
You could be right. The problem is to get there, you’ll need to endure a lengthy court process and enormous legal bills, plus you’ll live a long time in uncertainty.
Not saying that those 400K doesn't deserve to be saved, they are absolutely deserve the care but if you are doing it at the huge expense for other people then conversation is unavoidable.
The API looks fairly brittle, e.g. manually defining the loss and activation inside the pipeline instead of in the model itself. Have you or your customers used this in a large production environment?
Is that a major concern? Around me, the hospitals are at capacity for covid patients, but have reserved space for accidents, pregnancies, and other expected needs.
It would be interesting to train OpenCV on the different UPC / QR / etc. code formats, and have it capture whatever codes it sees (even multiple formats at the same time, which is pretty common in shipping) and send the images to a reader to be processed.

This would probably be a good Raspberry Pi project for someone thus inclined.

Edit: I found this project that says it can, so it's at least a 2-year old still-unanswered question of who will program it: https://www.pyimagesearch.com/2018/05/21/an-opencv-barcode-a...
1.7M premature deaths annually from air pollution in India
> Is it even possible to win this battle? Things like this keep coming up year after year

Most fights worth fighting are like this. Resistance doesn't guarantee success; indeed it usually loses. But that's no reason not to fight, and it makes you appreciate the precious wins when they do come.

“The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you're going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins.” - IF Stone
I linked this in another reply, but the most common ads now are native ads[0]. The point of these is to not appear as ads. With this in mind I believe that you can say that shows like Top Gear are partially ads (obviously not all ad). But like I said before, most car ads aren't actually trying to get you to buy their car. They are trying to get you to think a certain way about a brand (e.g. "A Lexis!!!! WOW! HIGH CLASS!). This should be obvious (post hoc) when you realize that luxury car brands advertise a lot to the general public (Superbowl, prime time TV, etc) and not just to the rich (you can actually find a lot of literature on this). People don't buy cars frequently and honestly when they do, they tend to do more research than most other purchases because it is one of the biggest expenses they'll have. You can also question Coke advertising. They could never spend a single dollar on advertising and you'd still know about them. Cars and Coke are just the obvious examples of advertising not just being about awareness, but other things as well (other things depends on the market).

So what I'm trying to say is that you think you see 5 minutes of advertising but I'm fairly confident you see substantially more (and if not, you're not just an outlier, but an extreme outlier). I'll give another example: the link from this post not only contains several ads on its page, but is an ad itself([0]). And I want to re-emphasize that many memes you see are also ads (again falling under the native category).

Ads have changed a lot in the last decade and if you think ads are just popups, the things on the side of your screen, or what plays between your favorite show, then you're not keeping up[1]. And more importantly, you have to think beyond products (I think this is our major disconnect).

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

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_marketing
3.2 million (the number from the article) is is 400k more than last year.

The latest Covid toll in the NYT tracker is 322,839, and all of those deaths were in 2020. So, there is a gap of 77-78k.

Obviously there could be some conceivable increase in other kinds of death for unrelated reasons, but not that much.
The exponential part ceases to be merit in any sense. It's quite arbitrary.
> Tape over annoying LED lights

Also yet another use for BluTac
Yes and no. A pop means that shares sold were at a discount to their true value. At the same time, it's usually benefital to a company to have a high stock price for various reasons, and that benefit likely outweighs the downside of having raised capital expensively at the IPO (including having the ability to raise more capital much more cheaply in the future).
Graphite – store and visualise time-series data
Gaffers tape is a very different kind of tape similar only in appearance. It’s got a soft cotton content and is used to keep wires taped to things like rugs seamlessly so that people walking around your studio/tv-station/theatre etc don’t accidentally trip on it, potentially damaging the extremely expensive attached equipment in the process. If you’ve ever tried using “duct tape” as gaffers tape, you’d have a bad time, as it wouldn’t be that great at keeping wires down AND it’s likely to leave a residual adhesive on the floor when you take it off.

Duck tape is the stuff developed for the US army to waterproof things closed. Post-war, they made it silver instead of green and marketed it for use with ducts (since being waterproof made it also SEEM like a good candidate for the job in heating systems), but its pretty terrible for this purpose since temperature changes degrade the adhesive rapidly.

The tape you actually want to use for ducts is foil-backed tape.

In short, it was and still is a great marketing gimmick, but Duck Tape was only ever “ok” at keeping things water proof and only looks like gaffers tape or the tape you want to use on ducts.
oh wow, i didn't realize this. i had figured that these structures would be forbidden on an energy based standing. clearly not the case!
An astonishing amount of this list amounts to “spend money”, so while these things may play well here I think it’s worth pointing out that a large majority of the population is not allowed to do those things because they can’t afford to.
> Actually turn the heat/AC on

I live in Texas, a good chunk of the year, it would be nuts to try to live without A/C (We're not quite Death Valley, but it can get pretty hot here ...). So, I'd amend that one to:

"Open the windows and turn off the A/C"

I really like the few months a year where I can do this and not get cooked!
> Plenty of people believe COVID is no threat to them.

and believing that this is reason enough to ignore it is precisely what's wrong with Western societies, the US leading the charge, Europe close behind. Individualised and atomised societies getting wrecked by a little strand of RNA because we cannot take responsibility for others and our communities.
Since LiveView is built on phoenix channels, it's the same story. Simply pass the `transport: LongPoll` option to the LiveSocket constructor and you're now using long polling with LV :)
I was under the impression this was obvious. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Combinator.
Working "for money" and "for the dreams of others" are not mutually exclusive. Every canonical non-tech immigrant success story involves either working crappy jobs, or starting a boring low-margin business like a grocery store or a dry-cleaner in order to provide better future for your family. It also applies in tech, although it's easier to find a job that still pays ok where you don't have to work too hard.
So to clarify that...the federal Assault Weapons Ban applied to semi-auto rifles with certain ergonomic features, including pistol grips, flash hiders, and folding stocks. (Semi-auto is one bullet per trigger pull, full-auto means you can hold the trigger down and spray bullets.)

The North Hollywood robbers had illegally modified their weapons to enable full-auto fire. Since well before 1997, modifying guns like this has been a federal felony that gets you a ten-year prison sentence. That's a prohibition that predates the Assault Weapon Ban, which had nothing to do with full-auto weapons.

The AWB has since expired, and doing your own full-auto conversion will still get you ten years in the slammer. You can buy a full-auto weapon, but only after an extensive background check and approval of your local sheriff, if your state allows it, and only if the weapon was manufactured before 1986.

The movie Heat, of course, also had its robbers using full-auto. Incidentally, the movie came out before the North Hollywood robbery; many people have actually blamed the movie for inspiring the real robbers, one of whom owned a copy of the movie!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_(1995_film)#Impact
California will never be like it was in the 90s again. The nature of the place is to keep changing.
Could this be a nature vs. nurture case? I don’t have much experience with dogs, but is it possible that the people who don’t neuter their dogs raise them differently?

In my social circle at least, neutering your dog is the social norm. If you don’t, and then break the law to take your dog to the park, most people would say you’re acting irresponsibly. Perhaps these sort of people aren’t compelled to train their dogs properly?

Or to be more charitable, since intact dogs can’t go to socialization classes, is it any wonder that they are aggressive?
I'd say audio-record everything if your state allows one-party consent.

https://www.mwl-law.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/RECORDING...
Yeah, I have to kind of echo this.

I've run into things like this in the past, and the legal stuff is expensive, depressing, and draining. It really weighs down on you. I'm confident making the claim that anyone in the thread screaming for blood has never dealt with this kind of thing before. It's not like you pay $500 and a week later your settlement is ready. No, it's in the tens of thousands, and it drags on. And on. And on. And on.

So, yes, please hire a lawyer and make sure they are well-versed in SV-type investment/startup bullshit. Have them review your contract and tell you where you stand. This will likely cost under $1000 and you won't spend two years fighting for a slice of a pie that has a 98% chance of being worthless.

This kind of stuff is horrible and can make you feel powerless, but it's important to know when to walk away. Not every hill is worth dying on.
"People Thought Covid-19 Was Relatively Harmless for Younger Adults. They Were Wrong."[1]

"New research shows that July may have been the deadliest month for young adults in modern American history."

The latest episode of This Week in Virology[2] covered this article and the Journal of the American Medial Association (JAMA) article it was based on.

"From March to July a total of 76,088 all-cause deaths occured in the US in adults from 25 to 44 years of age, which is about 12,000 more than you would expected (the expected number would be about 64,000) so 12,000 excess deaths. Among this age group there were 4,500 COVID-19 deaths recorded. That's 38% of the excess mortality. The idea is that that is due to COVID-19, and they go in to that further and say, yeah, that is probably what it was."

"The point is, as we're learning, anyone who says this group doesn't get infected, that group doesn't get sick, they're just wrong... the data shows that if you're between 25 and 44 you can die of COVID-19..."

"And that's only the deaths. There are a lot of people who got sick with this and still aren't quite well.. and that's not good either... you can get a mild infection and still get long-term COVID.. even if it's not mild or long-term, you could could still have a relatively short-term illness that puts you in the hospital, you don't die - you're really sick. And 4,500 people, that's more than we lost on 9/11. Just a little perspective. Just the deaths is still a huge number of people. And those are just the confirmed COVID deaths... that's 38% of the excess, and the article is basically - what's the rest of the excess? Because you don't expect that many people to die, and a significant portion of those are certainly going to be people who just didn't get a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 before they died."

Then they quote from the NYT article:

"In fact, July appears to have been the deadliest month among this age group in modern American history. Over the past 20 years, an average of 11,000 young American adults died each July. This year that number swelled to over 16,000."

"I don't think you can argue to us that that's not COVID-related. What else is going on? Nor can you say that "oh, it must be harmless in this age group", this is really having an effect."

"And this is not political, folks. This is the truth. This is science. This is the data. This is what we see."

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/opinion/covid-deaths-youn...

[2] - starting around 4'50" in episode 696: https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-696/
> 5Ghz has such terrible penetration power that it's almost useless.

To a degree, that is a good thing. High density living spaces (apartments) end up with so much interference on 2.4GHz that it becomes unusable.
> Buy goods/services from your friends

Certainly you are _allowed_ -- but if it's for an economically meaningful service, like renting an apartment, the follow-on suggestion that it's "only weird if you make it weird" really fails to capture how likely it is that it _will_ change the nature of your relationship as soon as someone decides not to pay, or whatever other irreconcilable issue comes up. Just be careful when going into business in any way with people you otherwise like.
Show HN: Shell script to retrieve Developer edition of top browsers on Mac
Why would we need document simulators for it? Isn't all we need good OCR systems?
> GDI+ is just way too slow (calculating text bounds is ~10 times slower than in V), and Apple's drawing API is not very nice to use, and it's also 2-3 times slower at rendering text.

Does V's text library support the kinds of shaping and nested bidirectional layout needed to render Arabic text? I've heard that's a cause of a lot of complexity and slowness in text rendering, so stripping it out would be an easy performance win for people like me who can't read Arabic anyway.
The ultra rich don't pay the current tax rate, why would raising a tax they don't pay have any effect?

Until there's an aggressive international agreement on closing tax loopholes, raising the taxes only impacts the barely-rich (doctors, lawyers, etc).
Fair enough :)

If I were to run a container that handled tcp connections, is there any sort of max connection duration?

One of the projects I have worked on involved accepting tcp connections from cellular connected race timing boxes, dealing with their protocol and sending the resulting data into another system.

I guess you could think along the lines of syslog or MQTT.

This isn't very bandwidth or CPU intensive, but does require keeping the sockets open for hours at a time.
> And homes were still affordable places to live in.

So does this mean the “crime paradise” was a better more prosperous time for people to live in than tech? If so, what does that say about modern society that our most depraved decade was actually better?
Genius. :D
Neither Gates, nor Jobs, nor Zuckerberg, nor Bezos, nor Musk inherited their billions. At best they inherited access to the social circles of their parents, and maybe paid-for education (too lazy to check). Knowing the right people is not something you can, or want, to limit or forbid.

Should anyone suggest to prevent passing as much as, say, $100k to your child (an approximate price of a university tuition), said anyone will see a massive push back from basically all strata of the society.
Expo Go – a new name for the Expo Client
I've heard this argument many times over. While it's certainly plausible, I've yet to see real statistics supporting the claim that there's been a significant rise in suicides / drug overdoses during the pandemic.

After doing some research on 2020 suicide rates, the only legitimate source I found suggested there was a decrease in suicide rate towards the beginning of the pandemic due to a "honeymoon pulling together" phase and no peer-reviewed data thereafter.

Source: https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4352
Thanks. Signed up, looking forward to Jan 21!
Ask HN: Do you practice online minimalism? How?
It occurs to me that you have to have a lot of online accounts for various things and purposes.
I am sure you have at least a couple of these accounts:

Gmail, Outlook, Protonmail, Tutanota, GitHub, Dropbox, Standard Notes, FC2, Amazon, iTunes, GOG.com, Steam, itch.io, Twitter, YouTube, FC2, HN, Stack Overflow, Discord, Linkedin, Netflix, Spotify, Mubi, Grammarly, eBay, Bitwarden, SimpleLogin.io, Firefox Relay, Firefox Lockwise, ...

Furthermore, the incentive to have even more accounts is growing as more and more services are entering the online market.

Here's a data point serving as a primer:

"In the U.S. the average email address is associated with 130 accounts."[1]

Having this many accounts is practically not maintainable. Why? If you are serious about security, you need to make sure that the provided data is up to date. Things like passwords, your registration email etc. are all things that need to be updated.
But why keep this large amount of accounts when you end up not using most of them at all?
It might be better for you to regularly delete accounts that you are not using. Doing this also helps you avoid potential data breaches.

So in my opinion, you should also practice the habit of getting rid of stuff in the online world. Minimalism apparently reduces stress after all[2]. And evidently, people are drawn to simplicity and minimalism. A popular example might be Apple and its products.

What is your approach? How do you go about this issue? Do you maintain 100+ accounts? Don't you think having 100+ accounts (even with a password manager) takes a mental toll on you?

The purpose of this "Ask HN" is to solicit interesting approaches from people with good heuristics.

Reference:
[1] https://digitalguardian.com/blog/uncovering-password-habits-are-users-password-security-habits-improving-infographic
[2] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anxiety-zen/201612/minimalism-when-living-less-means-more-mental-health
> Treat fines like payments. e.g. park illegally and let yourself think of the (expected value of the) fine as a parking fee

This is why all fine-based penalties should scale progressively with income.
States plead poverty, but they are flush with cash
Pitbulls are "especially bad" in a fight because they don't react to pain the way most dogs do (often, it does vary in individual dogs). They know something hurts but it's not a reason to stop doing what they wanted. The ones I've known often overcompensated for that, once they figure it out in puppyhood, and were especially gentle and considerate.

I had a bluetick / border collie hound that had the same oblivious reaction to pain; she got tangled in an electric fence once and chewed the wire through before i realized what was happening. Then went on to catch her rabbit.
There certainly is something weird about the relation of the title of the blog post to its content: the content is mostly about services, a lot of which seem quite costly. I'm not saying the post doesn't make sense, but it would be good if the author added a background/motivation to it. Or maybe just if they didn't use the word "allowed".
This combined with them intentionally breaking the mobile web experience has almost entirely stopped me from using Reddit.
The CEO had an incredible life story as well:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/former-pepsico-ceo-roger-enrico...

Made CEO at just 38 years old despite coming from a modest background, and engaged in marketing strategies that were very much ahead of their time and dramatically boosted growth.
I appreciate that you have positive intentions, but you seem to have a faith in the government controlling assets which is unsupported by the facts of every government in recorded history.

Look at the current covid stimulus bill in the US as an example of how money gets allocated under a "democratically disbursed" system. Depending on where and when in human history you go, the majority opinion might have been "kill all the X people" or "do Z because God commands it".

Basically, "the most moral thing to do" is completely unrelated to "what the government will do" even if that government is democratically elected.
You're allowed to save money for a future goal.
Surely Silicon Valley based the character on the real figure
Celebrities Who Look Beautiful Even Without Makeup
But encouraging rich people to hire grad students will probably help spread the money around more!
The Crazy Evolution of Earbuds