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Ask HN: Sharing public footage of an event that was caught on your camera
Hey there,

I am currently researching public-facing outdoor cameras (CCTV, security, ring doorbells, webcams, etc), either personally owned OR used in small businesses (restaurants, gas stations, convenience stores, retail stores, etc). I have some questions about

- The frequency in which investigators ask you to export footage to aid in
investigations

- The amount of time it takes you to export footage

- Any difficulty associated with exporting footage

If you have been on the other side of this, eg you're an investigator who needs to access security footage from a small business or an individual, I'd be very interested in hearing your feedback as well.

Please let me know if you can spend 5 minutes chatting. I will gladly buy you a beverage for your time.

Thanks!
"The CFR of influenza..."

Case Fatality Rate, in case anyone else lost their acronyms.

According to worldometers.info, the US has reported 27,101,847 cases of COVID19 and 460,398 deaths, giving a CFR of about 1.70%, so that's about right.

I have reservations about your influenza mortality number of 0.8%. Most of the numbers I've seen have been significantly lower. If you look at [1], there were an estimated 29,000,000 symptomatic cases of influenza in the US in 2016 and an estimated 38,000 deaths, giving an estimated CFR of 0.1%, including any effects of vaccination. Correcting for vaccination and making the assumption that everyone were vaccinated, that would result in a unvaccinated CFR of around 0.2-0.3, right?

"If you disagree, please be so kind and educate me why."

We've been dealing with COVID19 for about a year, no? We've had 27,000,000 cases and 460,000 deaths, right? That's about the same number of cases and 10x the number of deaths.

You may not be trying to downplay COVID19, but I suspect you are doing it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_influenza_statis...
Which is odd, since the one of the other contemporary Trek shows, Lower Decks, is a love-letter to 90s-era Trek.
Woot. looks like Go might jump decades from the 70s all the way up to mid 2000s language design.
Show HN: X Minutes to Read – Get the read time of any article online
I'm from rural Texas, so I know all about it. The state of the art in denialism is that it's happening, but it's 1) not that bad 2) has some good sides 3) likely not (fully) due to human causes
Well, that doesn't seem to stop people from buying them faster than they can be produced.
Or Stargate Universe. So many squandered opportunities for a great TV.
I recently discovered R Markdown. Started doing the ISLR examples with it.

https://github.com/melling/ISLR/blob/main/chapter08/08_Lab02...

https://github.com/melling/ISLR/blob/main/chapter08/08_Lab02...

I need to figure out how to better fit images so I don’t have pages with large gaps

Also, you can now embed executable Python in the files.
Smart that it’s based on rbenv and the many spin-offs (pyenv, nodenv etc).

The name is off putting to me though, because it’s meaningless. Maybe I could alias it to something like xenv and pretend it didn’t bother me.
I think that could make sense. They could also bring back the electric trolleys that the buses killed off in the first place. Not sure which one would be lower for infrastructure and maintenance costs.
You pick a language because:

1) You can hire people that can use it effectively.

2) It is robust, production ready.

3) Emphasizes a set of traits that you are interested in, such as productivity, performance, high concurrency, low latency, binary size, compatibility, etc.

To the clueless this may seem like bikeshedding and cargo culting, but that is not necessarily the case.
I don't believe Google+ let you self-host, or fully control your data, which seems to be the primary value proposition here. Google+ also wasn't open source, so for example, you couldn't see that deleted posts were actually deleted on the server (they likely weren't)
> As a long time fan of a soccer club that endured a decade of humiliation followed by success

This screams Liverpool.
- Selective/lazy access (e.g. I have 100 columns but I want to quickly pull out/query just 2 of them).

- Improved compression (e.g. a column of timestamps).

- Flexible schemas being easy to manage (e.g. adding more columns, or optional columns).

- Vectorization/SIMD-friendly.
Ask HN: How to sync my files to my home server?
Is there a home storage solution with client software for windows, linux and android supporting live sync (like dropbox).

I tip my hat to Nextcloud which I am experimenting with at the moment but I am not really looking for a platform. I just want to sync my remote files to my home server.
I don't think it does damage to Apple, or at least not to a level that would sway the cost-benefit calculation. As others have pointed out, these scam apps make Apple a lot of money, while they get essentially none of the negatives from it. I believe that most people will not at all attribute a negative app experience with Apple, and the likelihood that many will discover that other reviewers will describe that they fell for a scam, will make people also feel insecure for having fallen for a confidence trick (the fake ratings), aka con job.
I run rss2email on a schedule on Github Actions and get feed right in my inbox.
One of my theories is that this (or similar virus-like mechanism) is how some memories are transferred to offspring. The reasons are:

* Prodigies which happen to be good in a field related to what their parents are good at. Often the wording used indicates a memory-like reason. For example, finding the rules of chess "familiar."

* Embeddings in machine learning, which allow encoding of high-dimensional information in a low-dimensional space. This would imply that humans have a somewhat-shared embedding space at some "layers". It's interesting to wonder how similar this space would be across various animals, as it would effectively be an evolved language.

* Other more subtle things, like the "cultural memory" of a society.

One question would be what types of time scales these memories survive across. Maybe some forms of instinct are deep memories that have been directly encoded in DNA.
Firefox really blew the early lead that they had. Fills me with immense sadness they went the Yahoo way.
Bintray Is Shutting Down:-(
You're welcome! I have to say they're also amazing to work with :) Special thanks to Alex and Kassie <3
Mind elaborating on how it manages the database? That sounds useful! Does it install and run the db for you or something?
I don't know why "having generics" is regarded as an end unto itself, or even a particularly important feature. The more experienced I've become as a developer, the more I realize that the things that matter tend to be tooling, ecosystem, learning curve, documentation, standards, performance, etc. The things that tend not to matter so much are type system particulars. If people can make crazy money with dynamically typed languages, having a type system that provides static guarantees for 95% of use cases (beyond which you have to opt into dynamic typing via interface{}) is honestly fine. It's not elegant, but it gets the job done for a huge swath of software. Generics are nice to have, but I think people blow them wildly out of proportion.

EDIT: My implicit criterion for programming languages is the extent to which they facilitate software development, not some pursuit of elegance unto itself (although I fully empathize with the latter). These two things are not particularly congruent, but I often get the vibe that much criticism of Go assumes that it exists to be elegant instead of practical.
No, the US government and media say there is. That is not necessarily the truth.
Thanks for sharing direnv, I didn’t know about that but I’ve wished for it before. Great find :)
Personally, I see this as an opportunity for Apple to actually invest heavily in Safari. But Apple's walled garden is no different than Chrome or Edge from a risk perspective and poor Mozilla is so captured by the search traffic payment they get that I really don't see any progress here for many years to come.
Don't know about that, but I do have good vocal control :-)
It was plotted and written in the era where a plot of the week had to carry an entire episode. Main characters can no longer be allowed to get entangled in a non-critical event for a full episode just to reveal something important about them for later. Writers have to be more clever than that. There's no room for "this time on B5, a rebellion/alien/telepath problem/encounter."

With 22-episode seasons like the original, I bet a good writing team could do something like this:

Season 1: building up the world, revealing the Shadows at the end

Season 2: Shadow war

Season 3: proxy wars

Season 4: Loose ends & Consequences, including Thirdspace and the telepath war. If there's enough material, maybe even move the telepath war to a 5th season. I always wanted to see what happened to the Vorlons' favorite telepath.

There should still be room, in seasons 1 and 2 especially, for some cute but essentially irrelevant subplots like Green vs Purple.
I still remember when lack of generics and other common stuff was one of their main selling points in the beginning.
One perhaps could argue to haven't seen it - not sure how that would hold in a court - but "magically disappearing" it sounds like a really bad idea to me. Mail server will either receive it or bounce it back, which is logged on both ends. When your client fetches it, it's logged on the imap/pop3 server. Your local mail client leaves traces on your hdd. You can get yourself in a lot of trouble unless you're really skillful in covering your steps.
While the Alphabet Union might want you to believe that Google was built by slaves, Google pays its SWEs enough that they can easily weather economic downturns. Their safety net is in the form of large bags of cash.
EW. Avoid. For the tenth time in these comments, use poetry.

It's a real shame PyPA endorsed this to be honest, I hope that can be reversed at some point in the future.
From a manufacturing perspective, the equipment was there because they've been working on it 20Y; whether the vaccine worked is a separate question.

By analogy, it's one thing to have a fab, a working fab can make 5nm chips as designed at some yield, however, the fab is not responsible for whether the chip designs work or are valid.

My point here really was that tech people, and especially people in the software industry, ignore that the bulk of the work isn't the equipment, it's the long tale of supply chain, manufacturing process and QA. All of the 5nm equipment exists today, it's the other parts that are the hold up.

Essentially, in our own domain we know better, and we should really understand this and stop making this mistake in other domains.
Well, maybe the idea is to fix your own house first?

I mean this is the whole reason we've got into the Brexit situation, by constantly casting blame on the EU for our own government's failings. But I guess that's the whole point in Democracy isn't it? Constantly blaming someone else, making up false accusations of someone else, and when they try to defend themselves, intensify the accusations.

I am also curious about where you think Huawei stolen the 5G IPs from? Or are you regurgitating false accusations without any evidence?
Isn’t this what pip freeze is for?
Now that I've been stuck actually working with agile in the field for 15-20 years, not sure I think we get to call that and Scrum cultish anymore. They're more just popular productivity footguns at this point.
We are talking about Yellen here because unlike Bill Clinton or whomever, she's the one in a position of power and she's the one "summoning regulators to discuss" Melvin (a hedge fund backed by Citadel) and Robinhood (whose number one PFOF client is Citadel).

The regulations currently protect market-makers like Citadel from having to adhere to many of the rules that other market participants have to follow. This includes the locate requirement of Reg SHO, as well as the buy-in procedure for failure to deliver. How are we supposed to trust Yellen to regulate one of her own biggest customers (maybe the biggest)?

It's an absolute joke to pay Yellen six figures to give a speech, and that's why people are thinking, "wait a sec, this is bribery right?" Are you suggesting that Yellen should get paid because she is "smart, accomplished, respected, and well known"? The impropriety of these lavish payments comes from the fact that she's a cabinet secretary expected to keep these very firms in line.

FINRA doesn't let vendors give their individual clients gifts of more than a hundred dollars per year. Yet the current TREASURY SECRETARY raked in $7mm in the past two years for giving bad speeches and somehow we're supposed to just be cool with that? Give me a break. She shouldn't be involved with this.
Has Go's interface{} single-handedly confused a generation of software developers, to the extent that they just couldn't understand the language? Is this what happens when languages reach an escape velocity of userbase?
Buddy we're way past the 500ms thing. I never said that I or anyone else has ever had a ping like that, it was just a hypothetical to illustrate how latency-tolerant most networked services are (to contrast with gaming).
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In a way you're right- Gundam was considered a "real robot" show in contrast to more magical shows like Ultraman.

But Planetes is on a different level, with accurate depictions of orbital dynamics and spacer life.
This sounds like a browser extension.
Yeah that’s a lot. Engineers could spend several hours a month on app size and it would still be cheaper.
God, Yahoo Pipes is a blast from the past. Yahoo did so many things that were new and interesting, but never seemed to be able to bring them altogether into a cohesive product.
The closest competitor would be HDF5, not Protobuf.
What's missing from ebook readers? My kindle paperwhite is probably my favourite piece of hardware
I like that pipenv also handles virtualenv creation, but I too moved my projects to Poetry after all of the various Pipenv-maintainer fiascos
Can someone explain why nobody seems to use the official Python installers from python.org?

In my experience they work great, you can install multiple versions, and even pip3 seems to just work with them.

I'm not a heavy Python user, but ever since I started using the official installers it just works.
Couldn't agree more.

We're proud of what we've built with Pairagraph v1, but the conversations are definitely limited by two things: (1) who is involved, and (2) the format: 2 authors, 4 installments, each 500 words, A-B-A-B.

I floated this idea in response to a different comment, but what if we allowed readers to vote on who they'd like to hear from in the future? Or what if we tweaked the format to allow more than 2 authors to participate in a conversation?
Article doesn't mention rendering engine, which I was most curious about.

The answer appears to be WebKit: https://startuparound.com/read/1603209607.9733047/Beam-is-bu...
Elevating Wikimedia: A Universal Code of Conduct for Free Knowledge
A lot of it is labor costs. There's also the fact that there are other, more lucrative industries for American industry to chase. Everything has tradeoffs. I don't know if I would say industry left the US due to a failure of any kind. This is kind of the definition of an economic comparative advantage.
If you sign your (verified) name, it's authentic.

Not to be confused with factual (truthiness).
Better just to flag language war comments, which otherwise strangle threads like kudzu.
asdf[1] mentioned in the article is similar to anyenv but instead of being a wrapper around *env, it implements its own simple framework for creating a version manager (e.g. [2]). Usually asdf plugin uses the same underlying installer as its *env equivalent (e.g. asdf-python uses python-build, asdf-ruby uses ruby-build, asdf-erlang uses kerl).

[1]: https://asdf-vm.com/

[1]: https://asdf-vm.com/#/plugins-all
> have detailed how memory is encoded by synaptic weights

Synaptic weights is our computational model of neural networks that seems to work pretty well. But this is a model. No one has discovered the biological mechanism by which synapses are "weighted". The actual computation going on in a cell is totally based on chemistry.

There are a lot of different specialized networks in human and animal brains that don't necessarily translate easily to "weighted synaptic networks" all that well. For example, networks that process audio information have been shown to recognize individual frequencies (in fact, they pretty much solely do this!) Such networks seem to be primarily based on the firing rate across a synapse. For such networks is seems more reasonable to think of neurons as signal processors whose internal computation is more based on the time domain, e.g. some kind of Fourier transform-equivalent.

In short, I think you should put less weight (pun intended) in our computational model of neurons (link weights) and look more at biology.
Try tweeting anything about sex/gender or crime statistics that doesn't fall within the socially acceptable window of discussion.
Correct, you must have them installed so the `cd` into the directory auto switches. But that's a simple `asdf install elixir 1.2.3` boom you're set
Not sure whether they will tackle Android as well, but I know there are strict limits on APK size to be eligible for Play Store features like Instant Apps.
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So Osso is a not only a potentially litigated piece of work but they are also easily misrepresenting some open source terms!!

This product reminded of your show HN quite honestly but I just couldn't remember the name.

Rooting for WorkOS.
Scrum exists to expand scrum.

The role of scrum master is about scrum indoctrination.

The authors of scrum created that role to make the methodology viral.

The methodology is also vague enough to blame you for anything that goes wrong with it.
It should be one, but you can't raise money as easily by pitching an extension.

I also doubt that the state of the art of ML can achieve his vision of taking meaningful notes from websites.
The point about the IRS auditing poor people more than rich people was in the news some months ago. The IRS confirmed that they don't prosecute the rich because they can't afford to go after them.

Source: https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-sorry-but-its-just-ea...
This is an english linguistic practice called metonymy. This practice involves referring to a whole entity by something that it is part of it. For example, Berlin is part (the capital) of Germany. This is a very common practice in discussing international politics, with other examples being Washington, Moscow, and Beijing to refer to the US, Russia and China respectively.

More info can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy
In my eyes, Jeff Bezos is constantly disappearing. I mean, he's only in the media spotlight once every few months right? I'd dread to think what happens to him while he's missing during those media lapses...
Pipes was radical. Loved it.
Examples:
Code Climate https://codeclimate.com/
SonarQube https://www.sonarqube.org/

There is plenty of tools like this. I find them not very useful. They do not provide more value than standard project CI/CD setup eslint/jest/typescript/dependabot. These create a lot of false positives and act as rubber stamp for incompetent managers. Look our code is great, but we just failed to release for 4 weeks because of bugs and infra.

Best code quality measure is rate of defects. Tracking these and properly labeling issues by component would give better indication where to invest time into refactors/rewrites. In current climate good QA are rare and companies believe that devs can do everything.
Here non-EU foreigners aren't eligible to receive social benefits like unemployment income until after we've been here and paying into the social safety system for 2 years. So the 2nd company should have known they were letting me go without any government support coming. And it's not so much the money that's the issue, I have another freelance/consulting job lined up starting soon. It's just the frustration of investing myself in the work to only get in return broken promises and being replaced despite very positive feedback.

As for the first company, they paid the invoices, just were incredibly unprofessional about it. Including insulting me for "daring" to invoice them for full time work at the agreed up on rates. I got my money but they irreparably damaged the relationship.
Redshift's explanation is pretty good. Among other things, if you only need a few columns there are entire blocks of data you don't need to touch at all. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/c_columnar_st...

It's truly magical when you scope down a SELECT to the columns you need and see a query go blazing fast. Or maybe I'm easily impressed.