skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What the heck are you talking about, Tesla failed at Top Gear because when you drive the car hard on laps (which is what TG was mostly doing), just like any other electric car the theoretical range goes down significantly. Just like any other car running on any other source of energy.

It annoyed the hell out of them that after driving for few laps they have to wait for hours to charge the car to do few more laps.

Musk's ego simply couldn't swallow the fact that show which is being watched by 300 million people regularly slanted his baby. Luckily in this case, his enemy wasn't some lone expert diver but BBC with team of expensive lawyers, hence the result.
>I read a study that showed people consistently underestimated how likely they were to buy a product after seeing an ad. They would buy it at much higher rates than the control group yet still assert that they were aware of the ad and not allowing it to influence their decisions.

How frequently must these people be buying things for this to even be noticeable.

If I think about regular day to day purchases, I'm not sure how influence plays a part at all. There is no branding or advertising for fruit/vegetables/meat from the local store. Even with household goods, I don't speak the local language so brand names are not easily noticeable.

Maybe bigger purchases? But those are rarer and usually involve some kind of research. I'll happily buy from brands I have never heard of if they show good results in independent tests. It just never feels accurate when people tell me I'm being subconsciously manipulated by ads when I see so few and buy so little.
I wonder if MIT trademarked Kerberos.

https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/
Looks like it might meet my needs, thank you!
I didn’t say “real”, I said “real world value”

Just because DeFI exists, doesn’t mean it solves a problem that anyone actually has in a way that is measurably better than our existing systems.

I get that you’re passionate about this, but you’re simply not selling it. The least appealing thing in the world to me is to “be my own bank”. I hardly want to interact with a bank, let alone be one.
Okay. Is anyone surprised?
Frigate is another open-source object detection engine that works amazingly well with Home Assistant: https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate
nvALT app on Mac, synchronized with iOS in SimpleNotes app.

First line becomes the title. Full text search finds the notes I'm interested in later.
The ability to convert ASCII text into legible phonemes has always been such a trivial part of a voice actor's job it's the part that is considered "free". After all, for decades already, you've been able to go on Mechanical Turk or Fiverr and get someone to do a quite good voice conversion for 1/10th the price of a voice actor and yet that market has remained quite small.

The real skill of a voice actor is to collaborate with the writer on deciding the specific vocal choices to make during a performance to give it specific character and intentionality. There's been no work in this area and, indeed, it's hard to imagine how you would even design a system to annotate text with specific intonation cues that isn't many times slower than just saying the thing out loud.

eg: Imagine you had a WebMD page and you gave it to two different voice actors and you told one to try and make this drug sounds as promising as possible and another to make it sound as scary as possible. One piece of text can produce two vastly different audio products depending on intentionality. But with AI tools, there isn't even a setting for getting different audio from the same text and it's not even clear how you would build the setting that would allow you to convey what intentionality you want from the AI.

In short, there's a market for just handing a raw piece of text over to a human to convert into audio with no other interaction and that market is amenable to be taken over by AI but is already quite cheap and quite a small market. There's an entirely separate market where the voice actor sits down with the author and talks over what the intentions of the text are and how best to convert them to audio and nobody is thinking about building AIs that can understand intentionality any better than a human would.
What kind of hardware resource would this eat up? Maybe on non-linux where docker isn't as efficient?

There is next to zero extra memory overhead on Linux, as the static parts are shared. Computational overhead is also linear with work, which would mostly be the case regardless.
Mandatory cookie wall, wow. Does anyone know of friendlier sources?
Interesting! I was just setting up Shinobi but this looks really good too.

I don't like the idea of having one docker per camera though.. But I'll give it a try.
A better name for a multi-headed security system would be Cerberus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus
With an ROI of <10 years. That's cheap.
> Yeah. To be fair. The people who pirate were likely never going to buy it in the first place.

That's a tad bit too simplified. There have by now been several studies/reports [0] [1] that found people pirating a certain media, are also spending most of their disposable income on said media.

Sure, there's also the "I don't want to waste my money on possible garbage" curiosity/test-drive piracy.

But a very large chunk are just people who enjoy the medium so much that they can't get enough of it. So they will spend all their monthly disposable income on it, and when that's gone, they will pirate because of the FOMO created by marketing hype around the newest release getting thrown at them.

It's very much a manifestation of the consumerism that gets glorified in most modern societies.

[0] https://torrentfreak.com/0-more-on-content-than-honest-consu...

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/evkmz7/study-again-shows-pir...
In short. The HTTP client Instagram uses (Proxygen) is written in C++, which means it needs JNI bindings, which means those classes are necessarily excluded from obfuscation. I decompiled the dexes into human-readable bytecode (smali) using apktool, compiled my own class with additional code to strip ads, converted it to dex, decompiled that into smali, added that to instagram smali files, added calls into my class in the JNI classes, and, finally, put it all back together with apktool. I didn't want to touch the obfuscated parts because that would make the patch break with every version. Though I did have to touch them to enable the debug menu.

I should also probably make this in the form of an Xposed module. Do people even use Xposed any more?
Well, nothing is perfect and hardware is no exception. We'll have to admit that all projects have 3 primary constraints: time, resource and scope and one core yield: quality.
The nature of defects/bugs is really miss-map of expectations to implementations, it does not really matter it's software or hardware and hardware bugs are possibly more fatal than software bugs in some situations. There are lots of examples: Therac-25, Infinia Hawkeye 4, Boeing 737 Max, and almost all recent Intel/AMD CPUs, which are more relevant to this topic. You can see that it's really hard to tell whether it's should be software or hardware defects, either way there would be valid points to argue otherwise.

Nonetheless, I do agree your assertion that "Stakes are 100% the reason most tech is crap.". As a result of the limitation mentioned earlier, there must be some trade off or you can never wrap up the project. Stakes just make things worse and they tends to push engineers to cut corners in pursuing profits. The only thing looks better for hardware is that if you went too far cutting corners, it will not work stably at best or even does not work at all. For software, defects can easily be covered up and the end user might not have noticed it in the first place.
It’s a uniquely bad name as Kerberos is used by almost every working adult, but hardly anyone understands it.

Usurping a vaguely familiar and confusing thing that is prevalent seems to be a bad choice.
Suspect not because the post was too long with grammatical errors to be irony. Amusing thread nevertheless though.
docker pull kerberos/kerberos

Should I trust a whole image from docker hub with access to a security camera?

No. I'd rather trust a Linux distribution to do a reproducible build.
I don’t know what you think a delta is, but for example Mersa Matruh isn’t in it.
Webmentions, a Healthier Analytics
> I can't be bothered looking through 6 different streaming apps to see which one has Terminator 2 on it.

justwatch.com will solve that for you, and covers quite a few countries. Between Netflix, Hulu, and "Rent for $4 on Amazon" I can almost always find an option unless it's a Disney+ / Showtime / whatever exclusive.

$25-40/mo (depending on how often I have to invoke the "rent" option) seems pretty reasonable compared to cable.
6500 is a bunch of money, reason why you also don't see many high school violin students
What do you think a delta is?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile_Delta
As usual, this was done in a mouse model (i.e. "in mice") and not in humans but it is an interesting approach either way. Thanks for sharing!

The paper itself is open access and linked from the article but here it is for your convenience again:

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/28/eabd4595

I wonder if seeding the gut with appropriate bacteria would be of help here as well?
Sure, the author’s point is only that you should put Minecraft on a large screen you can see, not a small tablet which you cannot.

So maybe get the Xbox version of Minecraft—or the Raspberry Pi version—instead of the iOS one.
Likewise, your comment should have more upvotes. This is a very interesting approach.
The Spanish Civil war is a contentious topic en Spain today as the agreements reached by the politicians in the Democratic Transition has been called invalid by the left- leaning parties.

Instead of fighting for better conditions of workers and citizens in general, left-leaning parties have been worried about pushing propaganda.

Take in account that Franco died more than 45 years ago, and most of the governments since them (and the current one) have been left-leaning (PSOE mostly).

And now, in Spain, the COVID-19 crisis has shown the inefficiency of the government, people are paying more than ever for electricity consumption (in a heat wave), the unemployment is the highest in the last years, and the price of buying or renting a home is high as ever. Thus, the government wants to charge us for the use of highways (already paid by taxes), and reduce the pay for the retirees.

Ideological propaganda (left-leaning mostly) is very much alive in Spain.
I write video security software, and the support logic to manage a single camera is quite low. Whereas the supporting infrastructure for this conglomeration is quite large. I know this field of tech intimately, yet when I see projects like this I ask myself "what are they doing with all this infrastructure? why?"
Probably add VSCode and Spotify nowadays.
That might be something they would be willing to change their name to. It's also a commonly used name although probably nowhere near as bad to google as Kerberus.
The European powers really screwed over Africa. I think the general Western ignorance of the place is also a symptom of this.
> My comment was about what you attitude you teach them about sweets. Nothing in it implied they dont like it. They still should not be used as reward.

Sure, but it’s hardly the time and place to grandstand about healthy eating, is it? The point is to find an ethical and less confrontational alternative to something like hitting the child with a ruler. You’re welcome to suggest a better idea.

> You dont eat sweets as reward for being good either.

Sure, in an adult study it would probably make more sense to have a monetary reward, but with children it’s better to use something less abstract.

> The kids did as scientists asked them. That is compliance - there was no issue of kids ignoring doll or going to play chase.

The idea is to figure out whether the poor performance was because they weren’t motivated to make an effort or because they were just dumb. It’s only natural for humans to put in only the minimum effort on a pointless task with no reward or risk of punishment. I certainly can’t think instance in my child- or adulthood where I made effort for no reason.
I assume he meant code size as in how much a developer would need to read to understand.

Basically using code size as a proxy for code complexity

(which is not always the case of course)
Ask HN: How do you say no to your employer
It's 10 past midnight on a Sunday night and I'm trying to meet a Monday deadline.

This project is under resourced, had zero planning and delivery dates were promised without consulting the devs.

Tempted just leave it where it lies and go to bed. Tempted not to go in on Monday either.
Technically we’re about to officially launch the commercial space travel service that is not even in space.
Anyhow, what was the name of the second guy to stepped on the Moon ?
Just preschool children? Adults on HN rarely seek data when observation and testimony conflict.

The example I have observed over and over on HN is from people on the US/Canadian west coast and property prices versus availability. They shrug off any need for data by talking about high school economics. When you point out that this isn’t data others will chime in confusing apartment leases for property ownership.
If I understand correctly, eigengrau is what everyone sees at low light intensities; visual snow includes that but also daytime noise, floaters, streaks, afterimages.

I see wonky shit all the time, and have just put it down to individual differences in retina & processing sensitivity. But, I have the occasional migraine with aura, AND have used hallucinogens in the past.

So now I wonder how much my visual perception is caused by heredity, and how much by external influences...
I tried Shinobi but gave up, I even spent some time on bug reports/issues/with their community.

My major issue with Shinobi was each stream is processed by ffmpeg and I had 10+ cameras all requiring 10% cpu each to handle any object/motion detection. The cameras had object/motion detection functionality built in so I figured it made more sense to just do that work on the camera and not on CPU. I also tried offloading some jobs to GPU and that was not working properly, so I tried Nvidia Jetson and still no dice.
The benefits this data structure can give you sound kinda cool, even if I've got pretty much no idea how this data structure works based on the blog post. I've seen issues with fast set membership checks before that result from "Bloom filters having not the most pleasant API" - they can get annoying in practice.

As something related HN might find interesting: Ethereum uses Bloom filters internally within each block to allow users to easily watch for specific "events" that are fired off by transactions. So, for example, you can just look at the Bloom filter in a block and check if your address is in it, and this will tell you if certain types of tokens might have been transferred to your address within this block. As a user, this might allow you to not look at all the transactions in a block if you're just trying to watch for transactions relevant to you.

But the system is a bit broken. Because Bloom filters only do probabilistic checks of set membership (so it might say inclusion when there's nothing included), and because Bloom filters use hashing internally, you can pretty easily fill up the entire Bloom filter and potentially minorly DOS a few clients. A friend and I have a write-up about our attack (here.)[1] We ended up deciding it wasn't high severity, but it was still pretty fun.

[1] https://medium.com/@naterush1997/eth-goes-bloom-filling-up-e...)
How did you calculate that ROI
It is, kind of, but less so if you view instagram as a "tool".

I personally only use IG to follow my fellow figure skaters, but I do use YouTube like GP does: Curating, heavily, and clicking only with purpose.

I'm rewarded with superb recommendations. A seemingly endless treasure trove of high quality content. Educational content, as that's the main stuff I'm interested in.

I see youtube's algorithm as a tool: I learned how to use it to my own benefit. On paper it should "do its own thing", but AI isn't there yet and I don't know that I want it to be. What I know is that doing things this way has allowed youtube to have a profoundly positive impact on my life. In exchange, I bought youtube premium. So, win win.
Liquid Metal Battery
>> Maintain (a low waist circumference) and (muscle mass)
How many people are on the team?
Buzz Aldrin but I guess you knew that already ;)
Its a vomit comet on steroids.

Nasa Vomit Comet:

- 25 seconds 0-G at a time, dont know the number or repeats

- $5K per person or $160K for the whole plane

https://www.gozerog.com:

- 15x ~30 seconds

- ~$7K per person

Bezos flight:

- four minutes in zero gravity

- $28 million per person?

Branson:

- no idea, probably even shorter

- $250K?
Guillotina: The Python AsyncIO REST API Framework
I had a very similar moment a few months ago when I found out there is some kind of docker management UI named Heimdall, which is the name of another Kerberos implementation.
>routinely the purpose of colonisation was to establish such thing as a functioning state -- for the sake of enabling trade and commerce to be conducted reliably.

That's just a polite way to describe looting a colony.

Consider the situation here, where the British got together with... a British colony... to claim near-exclusive water rights to the Nile. This is important enough almost 100 years later that Egypt is threatening war over it.
I think Siemans has that under the Cerberus Pyrotronics brand.
1 internal, 2 external contractors.

I'm internal the contractors were meant to complete this and I was just going to handle deployment. Changes kept coming and the contractors had other commitments.
Doesn’t compiling the code into an executable inherently obfuscate it?
> The commercial internet never did. Don't forget about Torrents [...]

When you see the internet's "promise" as providing unlimited free content, it's a bit hard for the commercial internet to meet that expectation.
I would easily pay 50eur/month if it meant I could easily select any movie or tv show I wanted as it's released.

Right now there doesn't seem to be such experience provided anywhere and my Netflix subscription is basically running without me using it, because I rarely find anything worth watching where I live.

So if I want to watch something I really want to watch I have no choice, but to select the piracy approach.
build from source then https://github.com/kerberos-io/opensource
Another interesting phenomenon is seeing white blood cells swishing through the capillaries in front of the retina[1]. They are most noticeable looking at the blue sky on a sunny day.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_field_entoptic_phenomenon
The other cool thing, to me, is you can keep adding cameras and do not have to replace hardware, just add more.
Mentioning the Sample’s Country in the Article’s Title Leads to Bias
The History of Standard ML [audio]
>Build. More. Houses.

so I can buy them all and safely park all of my capital while maybe offering some for rent if I feel like it. Yes please do!
Only if it’s single player and survival mode where you are forced to make decisions about resource limitations.

Multiplayer Minecraft just looks like crack for ADHD children.
This has been my argument for a while now: people pirate content because they wouldn’t be customers if they had to pay for it. In other words while RIAA/MPAA can argue that by torrenting the latest blockbuster you cost them $20 in rental fees or a movie ticket in reality you wouldn’t have bought those things, to a first approximation.
That will be Jeff’s position as well ;)
How does USB device discovery work? [video]
I suspect they just refer to "black box practicality" here. As in they have a nice library for FB developers and the API is simple enough. And if something goes wrong the FB person can contact the author and they will fix it for them. I guess that's practicable enough for them.

I was looking more for "I can understand/implement/debug it myself" practicability, avoiding black boxes.

Even in the FB case there is the bus factor of course. When the author at some point moves on to greener pastures they can only hope that it still fits into the brain of whoever replaces him.
I would suggest lower per user pricing but have a higher minimum number of users and have a free tier for single users.
Fun fact: "Eigen-" is the same word part as in "eigenvalue", "eigenvector" or "eigenfrequency", meaning intrinsic/inherent to.
The Law of Net Design Costs
How to Build an AI Team as a Startup (While Developing Your Product)
Have you ever run such a business?
> Is there a way I can give away my novels as "pirated ebooks" to a German audience without having to seed a torrent and without making this easily traceable back to me as the author?

A few well regarded authors (Charlie Stross, Cory Doctrow and Peter Watts spring to mind, I'm sure there are others) have been commercially successful despite (or because of) releasing some of their work for free download. Might be worth looking into how they approached it?
Jeff Who? ^^

After the recent tweets of Blue Origin [0], I would have answered "Salty Jeff" but they turned the corner with [1].

[0] https://twitter.com/blueorigin/status/1413521631717122059

[1] https://twitter.com/blueorigin/status/1413942794943598594
When I was a teenager I pirated every single song and PC video game. And yet, I haven’t pirated one ever since I got my own bank account, Steam, and Spotify.

It’s really a convenience and accessibility issue.
Predictions for the Future of Computing
What lessons are you saying have been forgotten?

The history of the world between 1800 and 1950 is so vast that unless you articulate what lessons you have in mind, it's not possible to follow your conversation.

Nevertheless, it is possible to reply to one aspect of your commentary, which is your use of the term "scary", or "more scary".

Would you say electricity is scary? Exposure to only 110 volts from the wall can kill even the bravest, strongest human. But most people, and virtually all electricians, are not "scared" of mains electricity, because they have learned a few basics about how it works, and what precautions can be taken.

Likewise with automobiles. A collision at 60mph can kill the bravest, strongest human. And yet, the freedom to drive at that speed and higher across the world's highways is responsible for vast amounts of goodness and communities.

Perhaps we can take the political issues you are concerned about and find some similar insights, or ways of thinking about them that take us to a level higher than just "scary". But first, can you say what these issues are?
There's a linked paper at the bottom which presumably would help you learn how it works if you are interested

That being said, I haven't read it. Even parts of the blog post's implementation summary were over my head. That paper would be surely more of a "study" than a "read" for me