skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would these fires really not have started without PG&E as the most proximate source? The Mendocino Fire Complex, the largest in CA history, was sparked by lightning. Another fire was started by someone sparking it by hitting a metal spike trying to seal a wasp nest. If it wasn't PG&E, it surely would have been something else. The forest was/is a tinder keg waiting for a spark of any sort.
I feel very septic about this assertion.
Today the "Smart-overlay" display market is only enterprise :
-> helping people understanding a complex machine with an overlay explanation.

Doesn't this mean people use it only when the are "forced" to do it ?
AR-glasses indeed will soon reach the masses but I don't look forward to it. Millions of people walking around with glasses that can facially identify passers-by... it's going to be the privacy-abuse singularity.
thank you for this. looking to launch some project soon and ive been enjoying reading indiehackers abd producthunt lately.
Just a question of priority, based on number of asks for it. We do plan to support it.

In the meantime, we introduced a way to turn off typo tolerance and prefix-search on a per-field basis. This has helped some users search for fields containing model numbers for eg.
One interesting answer is that the whole concept of an employment contract is inherently immoral, so an employee can never be fairly compensated.
https://www.abolishhumanrentals.org/
>"Diffraction refers to various phenomena that occur when a wave encounters an obstacle or opening."

>In a vacuum.

Read more.
> More types of bad images or other files will be scanned since now apple does not have plausible deniablity to defend any of ghe government’x requests.

The mechanism doesn’t scan anything except images, and won’t trigger on a single bad image - only a set.

Yes, that set could be something other than child porn, assuming Apple and NCMEC conspire, but this is not a general purpose backdoor.
I would say it depends. Never say never.

Personally mortgage software sounds complex but boring to me.

Game developer sounded interesting and complex before I knew more about it. Now it's more boring as in after knowing the death march culture I don't want to know more. I guess your parent meant that too by 'boring'. If you work for yourself or with like minded indie developers that sounds more interesting to me.

It can definitely be complex.
As long as they keep innovating to stay number 1, they will do just fine, even against AWS fork or new competitors.
The Wikipedia entry for Slippery Slope even has a whole section on non-fallacious uses, and I think the definition on this other list of fallacies provides another reasonable explanation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope

http://www.csun.edu/%7Edgw61315/fallacies.html#Slippery%20sl...
Have some compassion for the poor corrupted consciousnesses running in a loop. You can speculate on the conditions the suicidal machines have left them in. Remember, they are only there to remind others about the futility of existence.
Oh right, I forgot about those. They're really so straight-forward though that they barely count, in my opinion.
It's ok to be white was another smart one. I think the difference between the two sides was that the Trump side was a bit more tongue in cheek whereas the woke side is very sincere
and joyless. Another issue is that the woke side tries to force people to use certain terms, something that doesn't exist much on the Trump side.
FWIW I'm not defending this, but it's important to get the facts correct.

1) Someone can't just randomly review one of your images. The implementation is built on threshold secret sharing, so the visual derivative can't be reviewed (is cryptographically secure) unless you hit the threshold of matched content.

2) You're uploading these files to iCloud, which is currently not end-to-end encrypted. So these photos can be reviewed in the current iCloud regime.
... "local LAN" is a tad redundant. :)
I’ve bought so many products from Amazon over the last year that were damaged, incomplete, or which never showed up after “shipping” that Amazon has been seriously tarnished as a brand at this stage. What happened?
Something like this? https://emilk.github.io/egui/index.html
For physics, Physical Review Letters is pretty good.
There seems to be all kinds of limits in macOS that break things in weird ways they shouldn't. For example, calling the read() or write() syscalls with a count parameter of greater than 2^31-1 will fail with EINVAL, rather than doing something sane like a partial write. (This is not excused by the sentence in POSIX "If the value of nbyte is greater than {SSIZE_MAX}, the result is implementation-defined", as SSIZE_MAX is 2^63-1, not 2^31-1.) See https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/17414 for details.
What about SQL makes your eyes bleed?
That’s why fair use is a thing. Which this obviously is. But most people don’t have a couple hundred k to drop on counsel.
Are those stats based on the alpha variant (COVID-classic) or the delta variant (new and improved)? Also worth considering that rural areas are underserved wrt to healthcare, and typically experience worse outcomes under the same disease burden.

Your risk of catastrophic illness from COVID may be low - keeping in mind that population level statistics are not very good predictors of individual outcomes - but significantly higher than zero. Vaccination would reduce catastrophic risk to just about zero, with very little cost to you both in terms of risk and time/money. I guess what I am failing to understand is what possible benefit you are getting out of not getting vaccinated.

The way I see it, you can eliminate catastrophic risk to yourself (and reduce it for others) at very little personal cost, but are choosing not to for seemingly no benefit.
My guess is to establish the approximate amount of collaboration. He didn't work there full time for years, that collaboration has been small and limited.
Can you share this story?
Curious, if you knew the seller was gaming the system then why did you play along? I take it you're not hard out for $15.
this comment section is one of the worst cesspits of oldbrain i have seen on this hell site.
Global crop failures is pretty far fetched. Even the IPCC lowers the projections every year. Not a denier in the least, but we have over-estimated the impact in a huge way.
You cannot say that unvaccinated people endanger others to an unacceptably high level when we don't even know what that level is!

Also, calling people unvaccinated agency COVID anti-vaxxers, when most are not, is likely to lead to some becoming that.
I had this... a third-party seller started harassing me via email to submit feedback

so I did... I gave them a two star review with something along the lines of "kept pestering me to leave feedback"

then they started emailing me demanding that I remove it, which I ignored

then they started phoning the number for the delivery, which happened to be an elderly relative (as they were the order recipient)

contacted Amazon, who responded with "we'll deal with the issue and get back to you within 48 hours", which never happened

my prime subscription will now lapse (having been a prime member for more than a decade)
BirdNET
The thread parent stated:

> If the people had their way, those suspected of child sex crimes wouldn’t even get trials.

Emphasis on suspected.

I agree that the question, as phrased, would be interesting and you'd probably be right that a lot of people would condone or even engage in mob justice. Given this thread, however, it seems that the actual question posed is the one I formulated.

As a side note, my formulation would also be the one to find out how likely people are to presume guilt, as the original formulation confirms guilt directly in the prompt.
Companies with 6 billions dollars in revenue don't really pivot. They are diversifying.

I guess they have determined it makes sense strategically. If I had to guess, podcasts and music listening are rival goods for a lot of their most valuable segments and they were worried about moves some of the new entrants in the market could have made. Might allow them to target new customers too. Hopefully more than the move will lose them in existing customers jumping ship.
Thanks for mentioning it. What the top comment said probably would apply more to skywriting.
thanks, i hate it. haha.
Build or buy a few GPSDOs, put a couple of antennas outside (up and in the clear), distribute the 1PPS to a few of your servers, put NICs that support hardware timestamping in them, and make them your time servers (they'll run your NTP and PTP daemons).

A dedicated VLAN for PTP will be helpful, by the way.

Anything "critical" can run the PTP client in order to get time sync via PTP (on that dedicated VLAN). Everything else can run an NTP client.

(That Raspberry Pi with a cheap GPS module probably isn't nearly as accurate as you think. In particular, its PPS is likely full of jitter. If it's "good enough" for you, well, that's all that matters.)
I didn’t downvote, but it comes across as a nitpick on a thoughtful and reasonable piece.
The pushing of podcasts too much is what got me to leave Spotify too. I tried YouTube music for a while but I wasn't a fan of how my YouTube likes would get mixed up with the YouTube music. Disabling the setting would often get rid of songs too.

So I ended up buying a cheap Android phone ($190 USD for a very good phone - 8GB ram, 12gb space):

https://www.amazon.com/UMIDIGI-Unlocked-4150mAh-Capacity-Sma...

I use Firefox for YouTube with the following add-ons:

1. uBlock Origin

2. Video Background Play Fix add-on

This allows me to use YouTube as a background playback music player. And if needed, I use YouTube-dl to get the audio files and put them on the phone.

I have basically gone back to how I used to use MP3 players back in 2000s before streaming became a thing.
The big difference is that if a competent plumber looks at a sink, it will take them 30 seconds to figure out. If a competent programmer looks at a new codebase with 30000 lines of code, it will take them 6 months to understand it, and then still be missing 80% of the details.
Indeed. The PinePhone is my current plan for ditching my iPhone. I had planned to upgrade to the new 13 this fall, so thank goodness this happened now. Apple just saved me a lot of money!
This is called content spinning.
The laws regarding CSAM/CSA are not the problem, they are fine. The problem is that we are expected to give up our rights in the vague notion of 'protecting children' while the same authorities actively ignore ongoing CSA. The Sophie Long case is an excellent example where the police has no interest in investigating allegations of CSA. Why is it that resources are spent policing CSAM but not CSA? It is because it is about control and eroding our right to privacy.
Sellers frequently contact me asking me to change my review in return for some gift card. Pro tip: Change the review, take the gift card, spend the gift card, and then change the review back.

That should disincentivize this behavior.

Oh and of course, don't use your real phone number.
Research does confirm though, that if politicians can stick to holding global temperature increase down to 1.5C, on pre-industrial times, the worst catastrophes can still be avoided.

Politicians don't seem to be equipped with the mental facilities to address this issue.

I hate to say it, but I feel that if it's left up to politicians, we're doomed.
Law school doesn’t make laws, but this is also taught in law school: https://hls.harvard.edu/academics/curriculum/catalog/index.h...
"the special function of certain Newspeak words, of which OLDTHINK was one, was not so much to express meanings as to destroy them. These words, necessarily few in number, had had their meanings extended until they contained within themselves whole batteries of words which, as they were sufficiently covered by a single comprehensive term, could now be scrapped and forgotten"
A huge amount of carbon is emitted by sources that can't be profitably replaced in the near future: coal (especially in China), concrete, and cars come to mind.

The only entities that can accelerate the switch is the government. Those sources of carbon are still too cheap in most places for consumers or businesses to want to stop using them entirely.

I'll also point out that OP asked what a software dev can do, not what a physicist or engineer can do.
> Advertise medical cures that the government doesn't approve of

There is nothing wrong with advertising the truth that certain medical treatments exist which are not government approved in the US, or, legal in the US, but are defintely viable, and are actively used in other parts of the world, or, could be by physicians for off-label use.

domperidone [1] is a drug that is used for a few indications overseas. There is an active discussion around it on a number of social media sites, but the FDA warns against importing it, for violating an FDA Act. It is possible to get an exception for one indication in the US, potentially...... But, many women want it because it helps with lactation, and for a woman with a hungry infant, this is a big issue. You get a screaming baby that wants 8 oz more of milk a day, and lemme tell you, can't negotiate with a screaming baby! Off Label uses of medications also, is common among Physicians. Viagra is one drug that has a number of utilities in off-label use.

BigTech squelching the conversation around Domperidone is fairly similar to BigTech squelching the standard COVID treatment protocols [2], from Zelenko [3] & McCullough [4], which will likely become standard of care fairly shortly, and are now in evidence on CDC websites too [5], but significantly trailing the most updated protocols. But they don't squelch Domperidone talk, and the reason is simple. Pushing vaxxes are a big priority for the govt, while going after the discussion of secrets for increasing breastmilk outputs would probably be bad optics.

> actual violations of the law, at least in the United States.

Covid protocols have nothing to do with actual violations of Law, and, they will be standard of care shortly, as the CDC website writing [5] is on the wall.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30000430/

[2] https://www.wired.com/story/stop-ignoring-the-evidence-on-co...

[3] https://vladimirzelenkomd.com/zelenko-prophylaxis-protocol/

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAHi3lX3oGM

[5] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/clinical-guida...
I remember as a kid MTV being entirely music videos and I could watch until they looped to the one song I liked again. Then I remember as a teenager still being mostly music videos, or shows about music, but there were a few others like road rules and real world. And then by the time I was in college it was a channel almost completely devoid of music and that mostly played weird fake dating shows.
The reality shows, and internet clip shows are brilliant on a business level though.

All that mindless footage is basically free. You pay a handful of very replaceable hosts, and rake in the viewers.

(I watch that show with Rob Dierdrik. (He is not talented enough for a spell check--sorry.) Yes--I find the videos amusing. The commentary is tiring, but I still like looking at Chanel West Coast. I don't think that woman has ever wore the same outfit? Her wardrobe closet must be huge, or they are donated clothes? Yes---I need a life.)
Vlc is quite good
Aside from the educational value, they're showing they can get 10% of the VLA's image quality with 0.0001% of the budget. That's not an inconsiderable achievement.
and nuclear hopefully if we have any chance at all.
Developer friend not contributing to side project
Looking for some advice here -

I'm a non-technical jack-of-all-trades who can handle marketing, design, sales, etc. A few months ago, I approached a friend who's quite strong as a developer to collaborate on a side project that has positive feedback from the early user research I've done. We agreed to split equity evenly.

However, they have not contributed over the last few months (no line of code started), despite me checking in and reporting my progress. When I ask, they say they are busy with work, which is understandable as we both have full-time jobs in tech. However, last week when I ask them if they were still interested continuing at all, they insisted that they were but simply couldn't find the time.

What gives? I'd rather them tell me upfront if they weren't interested in continuing, instead of dragging out for who knows how long. I'm also tired of checking in every few weeks with no updates.

Any advice for how I should handle this situation?

(Background: We both work in Silicon Valley for FANGA)
May I refer you to https://www.edmundoptics.com/knowledge-center/application-no... ? Pay particular attention to the last paragraph:

> Achieving a truly collimated beam where the divergence is 0 is not possible, but achieving an approximately collimated beam by either minimizing the divergence or maximizing the distance between the point of observation and the nearest beam waist is possible.
Is soulseek available for mobile? (either iOS or android?)
Customers want solutions, not software. Timescale is one vendor that figured this out and is having great success without any other enterprise licenses on the software itself. Others have at least started amplifying their cloud/support/managed offerings.

Elastic didn't, and AWS stepped to give customers what they wanted. And in case anyone wants to argue that it's impossible to compete with AWS, please go ask Snowflake how they built a better product on top of AWS itself and became one of the best SaaS success stories so far.
Hopefully the fire quintuples in size
"PDP" being an initialism of "Programmed Data Processor" should also be capitalized along with the acronym BASIC...
The third party sellers shouldn't get access to your contact information. On DoorDash, calls go through DoorDash's system. Same with text messages. No one gets the other person's real number. I've had one restaurant that always calls me right after I place the order to ask me for my phone number to put into their system for future orders. I always tell them no, I prefer to go through DoorDash instead. A similar system should be in place at Amazon.
CS definitely isn't the only field where Master's degrees don't really confer any additional trust.
Windows can be very pushy about resetting the default every now and then. One update a year or two ago opened a full-screen ad for an Edge tutorial that could only be skipped by going into the task manager and force closing the process, and even then unset the default browser and added an Edge icon to both the taskbar and desktop. I wouldn't be a surprised if a lot of people have been bulldozed into taking the path of least resistance.
Is it true that for TV shows a lot of the actual animation team is outsourced to countries with low income?
This is so right on. If you care about the remuneration, then you'd best do something highly valued. If you care about doing something you "love" instead, that's manifestly not highly valued, then don't complain about the money.
Which science do you mean? Found a redacted study from Germany and doctors saying there's no effect on blood O2 or CO2 levels https://uihc.org/health-topics/do-face-masks-make-you-retain...
> Many work environments are similar to each other: there's no written contract and they have almost no unemployment insurance, etc. I don't understand how those anime lovers turn blind eyes to this and still somehow "enjoy" anime. It's horrible, horrible stuff.

do you only "enjoy" art from artists who have good corporate jobs, or live in countries with UBI?

no? hmm.
I have an online video game and it has been making a few thousand bucks a year for over 10 years. I'm not really ready for all its art to become public domain just yet.
Nobody claimed there is currently "scientific consensus" (but there is currently a lot of scientific evidence). What we're taking issue with is the unfounded claim that 'natural immunity' must be better than vaccine induced immunity.
Yes. As far as I understand, "corn row colleges" wasn't originally a reference to branch campuses of state schools. "corn row college" referred exactly to those tiny private places.

I agree with your assessment that most of Wisconsin's land grants are quite good, btw. YMMV in other states, unfortunately.
One social drawback of the smartphone is that I usually feel guilty to check notifications while I'm having a conversation with someone. Ever-so-occasionally I'll miss an important contact and not get back to someone in a timely manner because I'm having a real face-to-face conversation.

Smart-glasses (not even AR) could allow me the guilty pleasure of checking that notification without leaving the conversation. Though I suspect that someone could notice my gaze even briefly leaving eye contact.

But wasn't that among the very things that gave people the creeps about Google Glass? "Are you recording me?" "Are you engaging with a social network while we are spending time together?"
Given the price of these systems and the current value proposition, I think it's more likely that they only do it when someone else is paying for it. Think business class. You wouldn't exactly say you were "forced" into business class.
Decades, perhaps. I don’t think there have even been an ML model that generate vector drawings, only patchworks of existing bitmaps from training data.
> Wow, coastal elitism much?

I didn't say anything about geographic regions.

I said rural.

The coasts of plenty of rural areas, and plenty of institutions that fit the "corn row college" mould.
I'm not so sure, I think it may be a lose-lose scenario, with both the government and the companies who's products have become compromised taking a big hit.

The people merely avoiding the tainted products aren't on blast here.
Just to be clear, you're saying that it's unreasonable to prefer everyone having private bedroom conversations over the elimination of spontaneous house fires?

That it's worth having a random human being able to listen to all said conversations?

To me at least it's incredibly reasonable to make that tradeoff. As a society we make tradeoffs all the time and people die as a result. Some of those tradeoffs are arguably unreasonable but this hypothetical seems very clear...
Ironically this is exactly what I would have expected from machine translation 15 (edit: 20?) years ago. My friends and I used to get a kick out of running phrases through several rounds of machine translation in different languages and finally back into English, and then playing them with the Mac OS 9 text-to-speech system.
If this is the only answer to climate change, we are fucked. Except for #5 I would be miserable if I had to live like this, and I expect most people in developed countries would be as well.
The police already have an incentive to not investigate rape because it makes their numbers look bad which affects funding. Now extend that to children who can't file a police report and you can get an idea of how little the 'think of the children' crowd actually cares about stopping CSA. Pure hypocrisy. They expect us to surrender our fundamental rights while they look the other way (Sophie Long)on CSA.
It's like a bloody product launch - an announcement designed to create the maximum amount of anxiety and fear and lower the resistance to new rules and taxes. Pathetic.

Can't wait to find out how it's too late to save the world unless I pay even more in taxes and stop eating burgers.

Where can I sign up? Take all my income, please!
which is what makes it more poignant - it's not dramatic, but as-a-matter-of-factly.
Long time Amazon Seller here

It's against Amazon TOS to contact Amazon's customers outside the Amazon messaging system, and they are really heavy handed against sellers breaching this.

If you complain to Amazon that the seller is contacting you outside the Amazon messaging platform and harrassing you, then Amazon will close their seller account.

Alternatively you can threaten to report them to Amazon for this and they will go away.