skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>...notified Woodbridge police they had a “high profile” match to the photo,...

That's weird. You would think a facial recognition system would return hundreds of matches in a case where it was searching through a whole lot of images. What does "high profile" mean in this case?
I'm not sure what "anti-drone tech" could mean other than RF jamming, which is already very illegal.
Wow, this is some really high quality piece of software that I did not knew it existed until now. Thank you for sharing it!

I don't really have a good, productive, use case for it right now but I really can't wait to try it out. It looks really user friendly, fast, responsive, has a CLI, and it produces some easy to version in git latex files.

A while ago I wanted to create my CV in latex from scratch and gave up after days of trying to get FontAwesome to work (I wanted brand icons and other nice things), so I switched to a setup where I have a HTML webpage that looks like a paper page, and using chromium headless to "print" it to PDF (only works properly with chrome as other browsers have CSS incompatibilities on PDF generation, never mind the bit fart Firefox is doing on android lol). I guess I could try to replace that setup with this tool, it seems to have a export to PDF/HTML and a CLI interface for exports. Fingers crossed all goes well and hopefully it's customizable enough for the job. This will keep me busy/entertained for a while :).
Mushrooms are a protein dense food that can be grown indoors with little energy needs.
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Counter point from Digital Foundry doing a break down of all the Ray Tracing features available in Cyberpunk 2077: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bqA8F6B6NQ .
Most of the people who know that are Architecture and/or Landscape people. Yeah, landscaping. You plant trees which have shade in the summer and lose their leaves in the winter. As such, it cools the house in the summer, and heats up the house in the winter.

Talk to a few architecture / landscaping experts. They got plenty of ideas of how to optimize homes.

EDIT: And then a technologist comes in, wonders who put this big tree in front of their roof. They cut down the tree, install 20% efficient solar panels and overall have to spend more energy cooling down their house in the summer... completely ignoring the thought and effort the architect and landscapers put towards the home.
What kind of changes do you expect more of? It seems to me like renewable energy is progressing at a very rapid pace so home solar is cheaper and better every year.
I never said otherwise? I was responding to the specific of the parent comment.

Regardless of how the communication is flowing (or not), candidates shouldn't perform their job search as a serial process. Parallelize as much as possible and don't stop searching until you've been given a start date somewhere.
From what I can see, the iPhone timer app is rounding to the nearest second. For positive numbers that can be accomplished with either Math.round(t) or Math.floor(t+0.5).
There are a lot of monetary theories, policies, and histories. But are any of them meaningfully predictive? I can’t grok it precisely because of the lack of concrete formulation, compare to say physical laws. Is there even a way to distill it down to tractable mathematics?
I mean... They're both black guys with facial hair and short haircuts. Beyond that, not really... Face shape is completely different, eyes and nose are very obviously different. I don't see how the two could be confused.
Does the broadcast ID include location like ADS-B? Also, is it in the clear? If so, I see both fun and trouble ahead.
LabVIEW has this, so you might check it out in LabVIEW Community if you're interested in this. Data flows across wires, and so you can probe the data in a running program to inspect it, which uses default displays for the probes. You can create custom probes for the data, which allows custom user interface interactions that takes in data from the probes (custom displays, additional calculations, etc.).

I am in general interested in this as well, and have found debugging in most text-based IDEs to be a step backwards.
Add a 4th item: long shelf life

Healthy, delicious and cheap exists (at home at least). But it is very labour intensive and it will go bad in a couple of days.
Show HN: A modern tool to execute healthchecks
Hello,

I released today a new version of Cabourotte, a monitoring tool I worked on this year.

I started to work on this project because I wasn't satisfied with the on-premise tools available to execute infrastructure healthchecks. Here are some features I implemented

- DNS, TCP, HTTP(s), TLS healthchecks, with tons of options available for each type, including labels per healthchecks (which are added to the logs/metrics).

- Fully controllable using the API (but you can still configure healthchecks using the conf file)

- Exposes a lot of metrics in Prometheus format

- Exporters to export healthchecks results to external systems (only HTTP available today)

- Hot Reload on SIGHUP

- The latest result for healthchecks are available in the API (they expire after a while), and a small frontend also shows them.

- "One Off" healthchecks to execute arbitrary healthchecks: you send an healthcheck definition to the API, Cabourotte executes it and returns the result.

Now my goal is to work on the ecosystem. I would really like to have a Kubernetes Operator to automatically configure Cabourotte instances everytime a new pod/service with some annotations is deployed.

Don't hesitate to give me feedbacks.
What do you think that is (or can be) the reality quantum mechanics is shielding you from?
Seems like an easy enough solution, though in an environment of plunging rents developers very quickly seem to put projects on hold and shift gears to other sorts of things. I've witnessed this first hand in my city whenever there's bumps in the road (eg. global financial crisis, recent introduction of various foreign buyer/speculation taxes).

This should intrinsically make sense. Private developers don't have to build and there's other ways for them to invest their money.

Now if the developer was a public entity with a mandate that they had to build now that would be different.
On the topic of improving reviews, I wish I could get reviews from people I know. That way I could trust the reviews as much as I trust the person.

If the person gave a good review to a bad product then I could contact them directly and say "Why'd you say that product was good?!" and/or remove them from my "trusted reviewers".

It's something Facebook could do that would work well, but of course Facebook isn't trying to be useful to consumers.
I'm not saying its helping the individuals, but if you look purely at the problem of overpopulation, its helping.
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These requirements won't affect a DJI Spark for at least another 2.5 years, by which point hopefully DJI will have a retrofit solution.
I dislike Apple News because there is no way to follow the article to the publisher site.
ITER has been making some headway in the fusion reactor space.
https://www.iter.org/
The two posters on this website look similar to the provided description: http://biochemical-pathways.com/#/map/1
“massively reduce quality in order to meet caloric needs”?

Please define “massively” for us. It sounds like you were eating larks tongue in aspic and are now buying year-old potatoes at the Latvian coop. Remember, some in an international audience may have done just that at some point. Is that what happened?

Wonder if a functional kitchen should be thought of as an expense-management device. No matter what the financial situation, in the US without a kitchen you can always find something to eat to keep body and soul together, but with a functional kitchen you can always eat something both tasty and healthy (if you can cook). You can choose to cook if you have the cash; you may need to do that if you don’t. The fact that you always can is a very consoling fact in rough economic times.
I don't know why people still think that overpopulation is a genuine threat. If anything, there's a genuine threat to industrial societies in that their birth rates are almost all sub-replacement. This is true for countries in North America, South America, East Asia, and Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate
Unfortunately, shelters use that loose definition idea and try to pass them off as other breeds to unsuspecting families.

https://www.toledoblade.com/local/2012/03/18/Many-shelter-do...
> I’m using macOS Y and you use macOS Z which is a pain for me to set up a VM for, if at all possible

If Apple should be sued for anti-consumer behavior this is why... It costs time and money to fix software with every MacOS release and I'm getting close to suggesting we add a 50% Apple tax on products to pay for the additional support it entails.
Your interpretation is correct. He describes things that you shouldn't try to imitate in C++ (like appending an element to a vector by creating a copy and then appending to that). But also describes other situations where having a pure (or near-pure) functional version can be greatly beneficial. Like a method on vectors (math sense) that return a normalized version, or adding string methods which return a copy rather than mutate in place (think: upcased versus upcase).
There was a great comment on Reddit who is familiar with the commercial real estate industry. These loans are combined and split up among thousands of investors. Its basically the same thing that happened back in the last recession with residential loans.
Non-fast food restaurants spend a lot on locations (for nice views, people watching, etc.) interior build-out (fancy design, murals, furniture, music systems, etc.), and staff (attractive young hosts, servers, etc.). They also market themselves in particular ways to bring in specific groups of clientele.

None of that has to do with the food in any way. I assume this is what the parent poster means by “entertainment”: all the reasons you would go to a restaurant other than food.
I have found that managing dotfiles is not enough. The dotfiles serve no purpose without the software that uses them. My method is to write small scripts, I call them setuplets, that install the software and then symlink the dotfile to its master that I manage in git. In the simplest case, it is just a two line script in a directory, but I have one for each program, and a tool to select which I run when setting up a new linux machine. The more complex ones may install a number of tools and set up environment variables etc. For environment variables, the script drops a script file in a directory, where my bashrc sources it.
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Making sense of sky-high stock prices
In Shenzhen, starting in the last couple years if you jaywalk your face is automatically recognized and the fine is automatically deducted from your bank account. It's extremely accurate due to full access to corroborating location/transit/payment data. This happens within 20 seconds, and even includes expats. Your face was permanently indexed during the passport check.

Such an automated system at first glance may seem like it reduces on-the-ground human flaws and bias, but it actually enables far deeper corruption. Those with administrative control would be able to selectively highlight or concoct any sort of offense to undermine their personal or political opponents.

"Show me the man and I'll show you the crime" - Lavrentiy Beria, Stalin's Chief of Secret Police
NFS, The Network is the Computer (TM).

It's a bit strange that now it's a Cloudflare trademark.
IO at the edges also gives your program the Functional core, imperative shell[1] design by default.

[1]: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/funct...
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I would hope it's unlikely these officers would suffer from a similar bias, but "they all look alike" is true in the limited sense that people who don't have much experience with particular ethnic groups do find individuals in those groups harder to distinguish than groups they do have experience with: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/life-in-the-intersec...
For news? I want an OS and browser integrate single payment system. I don't want to have to give my credit card details to everyone. I want a digital wallet that's an open standard and that's integrated with every form of online payment.

Where I can cut off subscriptions easily and with no hassle, maybe one time payments, etc.

For news, shopping, any kind of subscription (Netflix, AWS, etc.).

I want banking-as-a-service. I already trust my bank with my money, I want them to be the middle man between me and the online payment jungle.
Yes, that's what he also says, but this works best for very simple parameters. If things get interesting and you have bigger data structures there is (too much) performance penalty. I am a bit cherry picking here, but let me just cite "Actual functional languages are implemented in ways that make this not as disastrous as it sounds, but if you do this with typical C++ containers you will die."
You're absolutely right - a property tax is a type of wealth tax. I completely agree, which is why I attempted to differentiate between a general-purpose tax on all wealth in any form and a tax on real property. Please accept my humble apologies for my failures to be less clear than I could have been - my communication skills are a work in progress.

With that said, I have been under the impression that countries that have attempted to levy general-purposes taxes on all forms of wealth have in many cases run into practical difficulties. This requires things like finding a fair way to value and re-value an art collection or shares in a company not traded or liquid. In several cases - like France - these difficulties and others have led to dropping general-purpose wealth taxes.

Have I been laboring under a misapprehension? Can you help me understand what I've missed?
Not quite. You can restore your entire wallet and all the bitcoin with your 12 to 24 word backup phrase.
In Germany official inflation was 1.5% in 2019 but the price of newly built houses and flats increased by 7-9%. This is missing completely in the official inflation numbers of the eurozone: https://www.faz.net/aktuell/finanzen/der-inflation-fehlen-di...
Isn't the real problem these days fertilizer drainage going into rivers and oceans, etc.?
Love this! Would be amazing as a Chrome Extension for web pages.
I don't believe that's going to happen in the foreseeable future. Just like in film CGI the hardware is always going to continue to chase the best images content creators would like to create.

Hybrid render pipelines and AI enhanced RT passes is the future.
Just the main notes iOS/Mac app but my notes are mostly just lists.
I've been logging each install as a markdown document with directions, and manually symlinking my dotfiles, but tiny scripts that do both are a great idea!
Better software for growth engineering teams (experimentation, analysis, etc). Existing products in this space are limited, expensive, and still pale in comparison to in-house solutions at top tech companies.
Perhaps "passion" is a more precise word for the thing which should be negatively-scored then, rather than "commitment"?
His SAT or ACT score would have been high enough that schools would have been offering him scholarships to attend. It doesn't take Hawking level intelligence to get a full ride scholarship.
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It's past infections. Humanity and the virus are assumed not to have evolved very much in the past year.

You give fifty thousand people injections, 25k get the vaccine and 25k get placebo, but noone knows, because there are two layers of indirection between the person's name and the actual content of the vial. Then you wait until 250 people have fallen ill. If 247 of the 250 were people who got the placebo and 3 got the vaccine, then you assume that actually 247 vaccine recipients would have fallen ill, but only three did, therefore the vaccine protected 244, for an efficiency of 244/247 = 98.7%.

All numbers pulled from a virtual hat, of course.
Node is a lot smaller than Chromium. Even if the app does want some of the other things you list, it's possible to do all of them from the server, and it'll remain a fraction of the size of Electron.
D's pure doesn't work very well at all.

Because there's no ecosystem of pure functions, a single impure function in the transitive closure of your dependencies can ruin your day. (Unless you depend on no code written by other people.)

Compare with haskell, where effects are enumerated and purity is the default: most functions are pure.
Answer: it rounds to the nearest second.
Not necessarily true. An upzoning will likely increase the value of the land, which will result in higher property taxes (assuming this is a normal city with no prop13 nonsense).

The higher taxes could effectively force a land owner to sell their property.

Often part of what existing land owners are fighting for is preferential zoning which artificially keeps the "highest and best use of land" a low density detached house, which keeps land values relatively low.
... or they just round the time to the nearest second instead of taking the floor
No, it's crazy to say that a very specific behavior in response to a very particular situation will just end up harassment and abuse. If that logic were true, then the fact that sites like Yelp exist would've led to us burning the world down.

Creating public, negative consequences for people isn't inherently bad. Some kinds of it are, but it's not reasonable to say that in any form it will lead to abuse.
He's specifically referring to one thing that shouldn't be done in a functional style in C++, not saying "you can't really do that" as you originally post. The rest of the article is advocating a move towards pure-r functions in C++ (at least in addition to impure, mutating functions).
I think "rounds to closest" is a simpler way to put it than "adds 500 ms before truncating".
We never got desktop Linux, but 2021 will be the year of open source kinkware.
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I had a neighbor hover a large, very noisy drone over my wife who was working in her backyard garden, out of sight from said neighbors, who were piloting from the house across from me. She was terrified. There easily could have been a large escalation. After my intervention it hasn't happened again, but the sort of judgement that leads to the stupidity in the first place, in my experience, cannot resist the lure to offend again, especially if the bad judger has been drinking.

I read the blithe attitude in comments like these, and I am sure there will be large escalations in the future. FWIW, in AZ, this behaviour appears to be legal.
And yet, the official platform of the Texas GOP used to (and still may for all I know) have a plank opposing any schools teaching "critical thinking skills". Because, that's just liberal indoctrination leading children away from authoritarian structures of "whatever I say is true is true".

All that to say - it's not a bug, it's a feature to many Americans.
I think this is overly cynical - the vast majority of people, particularly those interviewing for high-skill tech jobs, understand that the recruiter is the messenger when it comes to the actual decision.
The stds committee is similar to a regulatory capture situation: all the people who really cared gave the fuck up.
some people are just learning that while repairing own car - e.g. my friend basically took his Audi A4's (B8) engine apart and put it back together as it had multiple recurring issues that nobody was able to fix - he fixed all of them by himself and now he knows almost everything about his car.
s/20 years ago/36 years ago/

s/Windows 2000/the first Macintoshes/

ftfy
> Milliseconds are converted to seconds by dividing by 1000 and rounding down like so

It seems like the simpler explanation is that the iPhone actually rounds to the closest integer rather than rounding down. (Whether they do this invisibly by adding 0.5s and rounding down is an implementation detail.)
Thanks for explaining

I would have appreciated working with you/people who gave some critical thoughts to third party dependencies.

I hope that each time you go to a new employer, you try again and see if they're happy with getting such warnings
What if it chips or scratches?
These LibreText textbooks are high quality
Apple was actually considering designing their own CPUs as early in the mid/late 80s. As far as I'm aware, they never got to the point of fabrication, but the architecture and ISA was pretty fully fleshed out:

https://archive.org/details/scorpius_architecture
Great, so when can I buy one and how much will the tape drive cost?

The largest issue with tape is that the drives themselves cost absurd amounts, and you better not cheap out because failure is both time consuming and scary.

Swapping tapes continues to be human intensive and restore times long. But the tapes themselves are so cheap that at this scale it becomes worthwhile again.
I wish drones could, at least optionally, transmit on ADS-B, with some "drone" flag. That could help pilots with ADS-B IN a lot, as long as it was clearly indicated as a drone.
Genuinely curious, in what fields would reversible computing be helpful?
> When it became evident to a recruiter I didn't like the initial compensation package offered, they immediately de-prioritized me.

Sounds like the process was working as intended?

> We were so close to a deal, but my recruiter didn't want to go that extra mile. So, they made $0 since no conversion.

I think you're assuming malice or laziness where the simpler explanation is that the company simply had a firm salary range for the position.

It's more likely that the recruiter simply kept searching to find the client what they ordered: Someone who fit within their explicit compensation budget.

There is a lot of good online job seeking and negotiating advice available these days, but I'm afraid that some of it has become a little too optimistic about how easy it is to squeeze more money out of every employer under the sun. There are many times where the budget is the budget, and the upper limit really is the upper limit.
This is a problem that Google tackled themselves, but it had too many problems[0]. Recent attempts use Chrome Dev Tools[1] to cache the results. So this may alleviate problems Google had. Memex had attempted this, but deprecated it:

> We realized although its a valuable feature to search your browsing history, its not solving a super frequent and painful problem for users

...

> We spent so much time on building the search and with it also 30-50% more time on every new feature because of interdependencies with the amount of data produced. End2End encrypted sync, backup, search performance, search filters, all were directly or indirectly necessary to work much better than we can afford. We're just 2.5 devs.

Another developer attempted this, too. But didn't have many users:

> I'll also point out that I did collect usage stats for a time, and they were horrific. At my peak I had ~5000 installs and out of those 5k something like 3-5 searches/day was the norm.[2]

One user does point out the reason why this may not have took off:

> about once every two months, I am looking for something that I swear I came across on the Internet at some point. However, the rest of the time, I'm able to re-find it just by doing another search, whether on search-engine-of-choice, or a search box on particular-website (e.g. socnet, stackoverflow, reddit, github, hacker news...).[3]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17745931

[1] https://github.com/c9fe/22120

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13427464

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17744785