skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Go back and read basic woodworking texts because these are the sorts of things people have been solving for many years in a physics engine isn’t really going to speed up the process
Nobody could include more individual photos in the how to.

This one has how many gazillion photos?
these are public spaces because members of the public congregate there. If you think these are private spaces, who do they belong to? Hopefully the business owners, not the government. In that case this order is even more troubling since it prohibits certain actions in private spaces, which is equivalent to prohibiting certain actions altogether, which makes this equivalent to making it illegal to be unvaccinated.
It was an ex-employee who said those things so “they” being honest about it is a little generous.
> Looking forward to the vaccinated only water fountains next.

This feels a touch melodramatic. I understand the point you want to make, but maybe a 1984 reference would work better.
Vaccination is (barring some relatively uncommon exceptions) a choice, and not something that you have no control over.
Cool project. How much does this setup cost you?
We have tinkered with the idea of a native module solely responsible for screen scrape + encode + send, which would further improve performance.

Also worth noting is that there's a setting to "reduce power when idle", which throttles screen scraping frame rate when relative CPU utilization is high. Additionally, you can disable "Use full resolution" to turn off Retina support, which should further improve performance for you. We'll work on surfacing these settings better, since it's not obvious that they're buried inside the settings page.
Why switch the OS instead of just removing snaps?
Asked it when Keith landed on the Moon to see how it juggled those inputs, and to be fair it gave me a beautiful excerpt about an Apollo engineer called Keith who worked on some of the scientific equipment left there!
I agree and disagree. One hand it’s free to signup and post whatever to my personal account and like a few pages. However the “reach” argument breaks down when the social media company starts filtering what a I do and don’t see. If I decide I want public reach too then I have to buy an ad space from the social media company for that reach. So if that’s true then the reach you get is a lie and you have to pay for membership anyways.
Or maybe the sad state is that there are still people dying every day from a pandemic THAT WE HAVE A SAFE AND EFFECTIVE VACCINE FOR.
FYI it’s not the sign itself, but the NORTH I5 shield on the far left of the Pasadena sign.
Well I have been shouting at the heavens about how this was overreach since March of 2020. Good to see many more people on HN realizing what is playing out. Moved the frickin whole family out of LA cause I knew they weren't gonna stop. Now it is a contest between CA and NY of who can be the most authoritarian. Meanwhile, down here in the south, everyone is fairly over this charade.
How long until thishashcollisionisnotporn.com is a thing?
I don’t think those two are a good example of the trend. Especially Lynch. While he leaves a lot of small details for interpretation, he does it from the beginning and doesn’t ask the viewers to decide between a story-changing yes/no answer like Inception. It’s like Hitchcock’s McGuffin: would be fun to know but it doesn’t detract from the story.

Even Twin Peaks second season famous cliffhanger leaves no doubt about what happened to Bob and Agent Cooper.
NIST’s Emberometer Could Gauge Threat of Wildfire-Spreading Embers
I really love the ones that redirect you from the Control Panel to Settings, but then are somehow still missing the old functionality, so it then bounces you back to the Control Panel.
Here is a better article, based off the video and the 99PI episode referenced elsewhere in this thread:

https://gizmodo.com/how-one-fed-up-dude-fixed-an-awful-highw...
it’s no different then not allowing minor in a strip club
github: https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions

meta: https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/categories/di...

cuelang: https://github.com/cue-lang/cue/discussions
Looks like those people joined FAANG to work with people like you. So be the person you wanted to work with yourself.
If you really believe your users won't understand this is a ~4K object and might foolishly copy it when they didn't mean to, implement Clone instead so that they can have another one if that's what they really meant.

If you're exaggerating and the object is really 64 bytes, just suck it up and derive Copy, your estimate of how "expensive" it is may well be so wrong that you're defeating your own objectives.

I've never seen any indication that unneeded PartialEq or Debug for example aren't elided by the compiler. In contrast if I need Debug it sure is a pain in the backside to implement it manually in a wrapper type because the owner of the type decided unilaterally that nobody would need that.
I am a bit surprised this was passed but I do think that public sentiment in NYC has reached a point of it being acceptable. I think the real challenge through this pandemic has been juggling public opinion and trying to encourage high levels of vaccination while also avoiding large riots in the streets that will only further the spread of the pandemic.

The disease is a challenge at this time - but managing the public's reaction seems to be the more difficult issue. We've solved the technical problems of this pandemic (we have a vaccine) now we just need to solve the social side of it - distributing it globally and making sure everyone gets vaccinated.

To this end NYC seems a pretty good test bed due to the strong liberal leanings there and high vaccination rates.
I think depth cameras haven't really taken off.

One issue is that, with neural networks, you can accomplish many things a depth camera can do without the depth camera.

For instance you can train a neural network to guess at a depth field for a scene. It's not going to deal with

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

but it is good enough for many purposes. Similarly you can train a neural network to separate the speaker on a video call from the background, so you just don't need a depth camera.

On top of that people just haven't found applications for depth cameras that are all that compelling. I guess "Windows Hello" uses something like a depth camera but that creates a strong incentive for the camera's functionality not be exposed to the end user because if you can see what the camera sees you are in a much better place to abuse it.

The other thing is that depth cameras just haven't gotten better from a practical point of view. On paper the XBOX One Kinect is a lot better than the original Kinect but in practice it doesn't perform any better.
Works. Because it uses the compiler to figure out what calls what, and so the compiler has already selected the right overload.
how is "sufficient overall immunity" aka herd immunity going to be reached? a combination of vaccines and infections. How will we get there if 40% refuse vaccines and we also prevent them from being infected?
When all of thay stuff between her and the black swan bloke (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) happened, I was amazed with how he sought to bully her with his opinion, how he tried to drum up hate towards her, and his utter contempt for field other than statistics. I realised then that this was exactly why she had to write 'Women and Power' etc.
This is all about value to the company… they have to pay the 60 year old the actual value of their work, because it is established and known. The 22 year old they can pay at an entry level rate, and then in a few years be getting intermediate value for that same entry level rate.
> I think it is time for a big rethink.

I'm in. Where's the convention, and how do we get our idiot representatives to play along?
Well, I just said it was less effective, not that it would reduce our reliance :D
> 90s games were more advanced than 80s by a lot but still immediately competitive, no long story to get into, quick play, simple menu, no config, just straight into the game, same settings for everyone and 100% ability comparison. The high score thing grew into profiles with badges now and no one cares anymore.

> The creativity put into the games made them a cult too, I mean we are talking about a 1995 game in 2021. I think it is unique to its time, games like these define that 90s futuristic grunge subculture that lingered to show up in The Matrix although a bit modernized.

We're in a different era, different technology and culture conditions, etc. agreed—however I'll say that there are games which hit on these points, they're just not going to be in the same sentence as Mario Kart or Smash

e.g. Cruelty Squad [1], released this year: experimental art game, excellent mechanics—behind somewhat intentionally deceiving (postinternet?) aesthetics—maybe best described as quake-hitman-immersive-sim, building cult fanbase, suprisingly high reviews from mainstream for what it is [2][3]. (goty for me so far, actually)

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1388770/Cruelty_Squad/

[2] https://www.polygon.com/reviews/22596014/cruelty-squad-immer...

[3] https://www.nme.com/reviews/game-reviews/cruelty-squad-revie...
I'm on the other side of this; I don't use my phone for anything more than messaging, light browsing/videos, and social feeds, so what I really want is more battery life.

Last I checked, both purism and pine64 are struggling with this.
depending on which country, Europeans are not neutral on American politics, so I take your disclaimer for a grain of salt.

For one, it was 100% related to the original comment, as it opined on 'but social media was considered good in 2014'. This is not a 'hem vs us fallacy' example. I wasn't saying either you have to agree with me, or you are the enemy, although hacker news is thinking that way now. I got flagged for that comment, which had no business being flagged.

Downvote me all you want, flag me all you want. you will not silence me, I will no longer hide my silence and I will speak freely.
> Some merely use spaces to separate bytes visually, others actually group the bytes and parse them as integers, swapping them as needed to read like human writing.

In other words, your problem is that your hex editor is incorrectly assuming that the numbers are little-endian. If it interpreted them as big-endian then nothing would be swapped since the order of the bytes matches the standard conventions for numbers in most European writing systems. This is not a big-endian problem, it's a little-endian problem. A decent hex editor will allow you to set the byte order to match your file. (And as the article points out, the issue would be reversed if the bytes were displayed right-to-left following the same conventions that we use for numbers… but then all your strings would be reversed.)

Both representations have strengths and weaknesses depending on what you want to do. Most arbitrary-precision math works better with LE. On the other hand, hexadecimal string formatting works better with the BE encoding, where LE would require either the input or output to be reversed.
This was a really nice read.

I've made a habit lately of "checking out" on having any opinion about anything I can't truly analyze. And this is a great example of why.

I'm surrounded in content telling me why Bezos is a monster, and they make a good argument. But for all that hatred, I've never once heard a single mention of him being smart, let alone intimidatingly smart, let alone "a first class genius" or "better regarded as hyper-intelligent aliens with a tangential interest in human affairs."

This seems like an important character detail to have been left out.
You can have their vaccine. I'll take my chances with my immune system, thanks.
I think this has become a modern trend especially in long-form art (television, book series), where it's been noticed that mystery plots are a good way of attracting and maintaining an audience with much less effort than crafting a satisfying narrative takes. That's how we get things like Lost, Battlestar Galactica, or the Game of Thrones TV show (perhaps the ASOIAF books as well, but time will tell), as two prime examples of captivating the audience without a clear plan.
Maybe they could install malware that makes all camera images taken using a technique like stenography to cause false positive matches for all the photos taken by the device. Maybe they could share one photo album where all the images are hash collisions.
I had a look at the lists (hosted on Github, sourced from another post here). On the surface, the lists for China, HK, and TW are longer. But if we consider that these lists contain both English filters and their counterparts in Asian languages, by design they will be much longer.

For example, US is listed as 170 filters. You can see the majority of them in the HK list + their translations in Cantonese + specific terms for HK.

In China, where at least 5 "languages" are covered, including traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese, Japanese, rhymes, and pinyin, the 1,045 (6 times more than US' 170) does not seem excessive at all.

(Edit: corrected filter counts)
At least we can stop pretending SSNs are secrets now. Right?
I created a proof of concept showing how OpenAI's CLIP model can function as a "sanity check" similar to how Apple says their server-side model works.

In order for a collision to get through to the human checkers, the same image would have to fool both networks independently:

https://blog.roboflow.com/apples-csam-neuralhash-collision/
Well, now it's down to 9 years. Progress! :)
I suppose I agree, I lost track of Python and C# recently myself.
I've seen it at a couple places. One is Lowell observatory in Flagstaff AZ. They have pretty good light conditions despite being in a city. Second is in certain national parks which tend to be away from any big city. Third was on a plane flight over the pacific ocean.
How about we get some rope and some lime.

It is about time.
There's evidence to suggest that sugar is not a unique risk factor and it's problematic to focus on sugar as such. The main threat is simply overconsumption, which sugar can help but is not a major factor. From the conclusions of a meta-analysis [1]:

> For now, we would agree with the assertion in the Dietary Guidelines for American (2010) that overconsumption of calories represents the single greatest health threat to individuals in the United States and elsewhere. This may, in part, be linked to the overall consumption patterns in what has been called the “Western” diet. Certainly, added sugars may be considered as components of this overall diet and, therefore, targets for reduction as are other energy dense components of this nutrition pattern. Singling out added sugars as major or unique culprits for metabolically based diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease appears inconsistent with modern high quality evidence and is very unlikely to yield health benefits. The reduction of these components of the diet without other reductions seems very unlikely to achieve any meaningful results.

> a reasonable recommended upper limit of sugar may reside at consuming no more than 20% of calories from added sugars and then only in a hypercaloric situation.

An upper limit of 20% isn't high but it's not something I'd characterize as "rare" either.

I admit that I didn't read the whole paper nor do I have a strong scientific background to judge it, but I've seen this kind of finding before and it makes sense to me: sugar is not uniquely terrible but rather a cultural staple of obesity which is the real threat. Sugar as a major bogeyman is an appealing narrative concrete enough to address (eg. with a sugar tax) but is probably not the magic bullet we want it to be.

It used to be fats, now it's sugars. They can both contribute significantly to obesity which is a complex factor that has consistently been found to be bad.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5133084/
High-speed camera captures a water jet’s splashy impact as it pierces a droplet
I really wish someone would come along and kick googles ass on search, it's embarrassingly bad. It's wild how I used to look up to the FAANG folks, but it has become a real emperor has no clothes situation.
DeBlasio should lose his citizenship.

In fact let's ship him to a country of his choice: Afghanistan or China.
Often you don't need to reimplement 100% of functionality of a library but just a 1% of it. Then, a talented team can usually make that 1% higher quality just because they are not limited by the complexity and tradeoffs added by the remaining 99%.

Also many "battle-tested" libraries are not really very high quality - they all have bugs, unnecessary complexity and technical debt. Higher degree of testing they get is often offset by the higher number of feature requests, and more features means more complexity and more bugs.

And in reality I saw it many times when a niche library written by a solo developer is of a higher quality than a super popular behemoth written by hundreds of developers over 10 years.
It's not proof of anything much less identity, and not auth either. More like a simple account number.
Please provide a way to voluntarily downgrade stream quality. I understand if people with poor vision require it, but I really don't need everything in hi def and definitely don't need 3D.

A serious issue I've had lately is Teams consuming 90%+ of my total Internet usage. The fact that it is consuming massively more bandwidth even than Netflix doesn't seem at all justified. My ISP is throttling me now and again and preventing me from being able to work at all. I understand it isn't the place of your company to fix the problem of crappy residential network infrastructure in the United States, but if you want broad adoption from people working from home in the United States, you really have no choice but to accommodate this.

Note that the only reason I'm using Teams is because I'm required to while working on government contracts because it's the only service right now certified to transmit controlled unclassified information.
Programmers are generally unhappy with fuzziness or else they wouldn't be good programmers.
> Section 1. I hereby order that a covered entity shall not permit a patron, full- or part-time employee, intern, volunteer, or contractor to enter a covered premises without displaying proof of vaccination and identification bearing the same identifying information as the proof of vaccination.

While people in other countries may be used to always having to carry identification, this is rather provocative in a city and state which does not require identification, among other situations, when you register to vote or vote. It is also deputizing museum workers, gym owners, restaurant waitstaff as identity checkers. This will presumably drive all those business to install identity check solutions used by bars but expand their used to a whole range of activities. It is an amazing amount of extra tracking/surveillance that is being introduced to everyone's everyday activities and is an intrusion into the lives of all, vaccinated and unvaccinated alike.
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Please don't post snarky comments or shallow dismissals. If you know more than other people, that's great, but then please share some of what you know so the rest of us can learn. That's more in the intended spirit of this site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

(Btw - re Lynch - I watched Blue Velvet after many years and was surprised at how satisfyingly the plot did line up. I'm not saying that's true of his other work. But I had had the impression that BV was in the fashionably-ambiguous style and when I saw it again I realized I got that wrong.)
> Are you using any kind of app for 2FA like Google Authenticator?

I'd love to go feature phone, but would be missing two essentials for work purposes:

- A 2FA application (eg Google Authenticator, Authy)

- A password manager (eg BitWarden, KeePass, etc)

I can do without emails etc but not those two, yet whenever feature phones try and be more feature-some they do the same old emails, FB, WhatsApp etc instead.
For everyone upset about Apple's CSAM scanning, I think we all forgot about the EARN IT Act. It was nearly passed last year but Congress was finished before it could be voted on. It had Bipartisan support and would've virtually banned E2E of any kind. And it would have required scanning everywhere according to the recommendations of a 19-member board of NGOs and unelected experts. The reason for this mandatory backdoor was child safety... even though AG Barr admitted that reducing the use of encryption had useful side effects.

If you are Apple, even though EARN IT failed... you know where Washington's heart lies. Is CSAM scanning a "better alternative", a concession, an appeasement, a lesser evil, in the hope this prevents EARN IT from coming back?

Also, many people forgot about the Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act of 2020, or LAED, which would unilaterally banned E2E encryption in entirety and required that all devices featuring encryption must be unlockable by the manufacturer. That also was on the table.
This isn't how pandemics work - and this is a large part of why I emigrated from America. There is this insane conflation of liberty and personal freedoms.

You aren't getting vaccinated for yourself - you're getting vaccinated to help create a safe environment where this pandemic can be stamped out. We've lived with this for more than a year now - it isn't just going to magically disappear and, if we haven't done anything by winter, it's going to get worse again.
There is significant growth in what are call GWAC and IDIQ contacts (these are basically avenues to sell to any agency in the government under the guise that the government doesn’t know what it wants to buy [yet] but that it is going to buy a lot of it) and we agree with you that they lend themselves to a protectionism mentality because they are generally 10 year contracts with only a small subset of companies that are allowed in (they are awarded the contract- a kind of ‘hunting license’). We are trying to combat this protectionism mentality with our tool Today by bringing transparency and visibility to an arena that is previously unseen.

For the foreseeable future, there is no way of getting around primes. They are the ones on the hook with the government should anything go wrong with delivery of the goods and service. Govly provides network effect of being able to find new subcontractors or more importantly, for would-be contractors to find prime that can submit bids to opportunities they are working on with government customers (they just need an avenue to actually sell to the government). Govly doesn’t submit bids nor will it - We just facilitate the conversation and development of a bid between prime and sub in a singular place and provide both sides of the transaction a place to clearly see, find, track and analyze the massive amount of opportunities that exist (both the public and private ones [that primes grant access to]).
> Similarly you can train a neural network to separate the speaker on a video call from the background, so you just don't need a depth camera.

These still look so fake, and they tend to blur out objects that you're trying to hold up in the video, that I actually created my own virtual camera that blurs progressively more over depths based on RealSense measured depth and looks far more realistic.

https://github.com/dheera/bokeh-camera
I got interested in the topic a few years ago and wrote an implementation in Python[0] for myself. It's just a toy but the funny thing is that I regularly get waves of students staring the repository, probably when a teacher gives a similar assignment.

[0] https://github.com/NicolasLM/bplustree
Hard to outcompete such dramatic cost savings. An engineer India is going to cost a tiny fraction of one in the Bay Area. Not sure that's a winnable competition unless you accept a massive pay cut.