skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What happens if I buy the yearly plan, fill my account with photos, then don't renew my subscription? Can I still access my photos even when downgraded to a free account?
Your phone can detect the network signal strength. Flip the algorithm on its head: detect the network noise strength – how much radio noise is drowning out any signal. Then just keep walking in the direction of higher bars, and you'll find the jamming device.
Sometimes, I could not resist the temptation to post again one of my blog posts. That might be the reason of my shadow-banning.
I've been using VS Code Notebooks with F# - it's fantastic. Basically Jupyter Notebooks for VS Code.

Demo: https://youtu.be/_QnbV6CAWXc?t=1298
I’m working on a MEMS problem. I need to be able to 3D print micron (or even sub micron) scale features for a very high aspect ratio MEMS which uses electromagnets to actuate. Only problem is the leading candidate technology EFAB (electrochemical fabrication) only works with conductive materials.

Does anyone know of a technology which provides similar abilities to EFAB but can also print features with non conductive materials?
> Black compared the left thumb in the picture with the Hogmanay image and found matching details, including an unusually shaped lunule, the white area at the base of the nail. "This time, I was able to go back to my database and put statistics to the data."

> Once they have established the offender's features, they study images of the suspect, trying to establish a match.

The method as described by the article seems precarious.

There's a lot of room for human bias to sneak in when there's prior expectation of which thumbs should match. Easy to be lenient when matching features to the suspect's thumb, and strict when matching features to the dataset which you already know shouldn't match and would undermine your method if you found matches.

Deciding the features by comparing the suspect to the offender also introduces pitfalls. If randomly selected hands have 5 out of 20 matching features, then in most cases you'll be able to claim that a completely random hand matches the offender's hand in a way that 0% of images in the 500-image database do.

An improvement might be to have one person indiscriminately categorize features of the suspect's hand, and a separate person indiscriminately categorize features of the hand in the video. Neither person should see both images - especially not when deciding which features are relevant.

> The Oketch case presented her with two technical problems. First, he was black, "and all the people we had looked at previously had been white.

This has a lot of the smells of evidence analysis techniques that we find out in 20 years were ill-founded and lead to a bunch of false imprisonments.

> A suspect can be excluded with 100 per cent certainty, but a match can only carry a grade of "strong support" that the suspect and the offender are the same person. This equates to between a 1-in-1,000 to 1-in-10,000 chance that it could be someone else.

I worry that courts aren't properly equipped to understand that false positive rates aren't "the chance that it could be someone else".

As an extreme scenario, imagine it's 2050 and you're suspected of a crime based solely on a match from a comprehensive global facial recognition system (~10 billion faces). If the system has a has a 1-in-1,000,000,000 false positive rate, then that still means there's a 90% chance you're innocent (if given no other information).
It's not that it won't work; it's that the idioms Scala is written with are different than Java, so having Java-like code mixed in messes up the coherence of the project. Not such an obstacle that you wouldn't ever do it, but enough that you'd prefer one designed for Scala if it is available.
Satcom is banned in India : https://apollosat.com/intel/satellite-phone-ban-warning-to-v...
My personal record is 2 years for a text box to be added to a form. To be fair, that's harder than it may sound. The textbox must be in the web version, the app, the api. It needs to be localized, and data stored must be compliant with GDPR etc. The list goes on. It doesn't help task velocity if the PMs switch, the thing gets de-prioretized, re-prioretized and there still being ongoing discussions that question the purpose of the textbox (maybe we should do videos instead of text). After 2 years I'm happy to report the textbox launched... :-/
it depends what you mean by 'have'. any language in-principle probably has something describable as an AST but it's not necessarily something particularly well-specified. you can derive a CST from a presentation of the grammar, but it's not necessarily easy to work with in an editing context. in general, intermediary data structures are often left entirely to the discretion of the compiler implementer.

likely various tree-like structures exist implicitly or explicitly during compilation, which may or may not be ideally suited for editing interactions. for example, if they are heavily nested with intermediary productions or discard surface style choices.

sexps offer a simple (debatably too simple) shortcut here.
> In recent years, the average college graduate with a bachelor's degree earned $78,000, compared to $45,000 for those with only a high school diploma. This means a typical college graduate earns a premium of well over $30,000, or nearly 75 percent.

https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/06/10/study-finds-college...

You can argue that the effect isn’t causal, it’s just that people who are destined to be high-earners also are the type of people who go to college.

This doesn’t seem super unlikely to me, considering in many cases college is literally a socially-accepted 4 year long vacation from all responsibility on daddy’s dime (and subsidized by government loans). If you told me that people who had the means to afford that at 17 made more money in their lifetimes, I wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest.

But that’s just a theory and there is something to be said for the “college actually does increase your earning potential” hypothesis, and if it does by even half of that estimate I quoted above, the average in-state tuition would pay itself off in just 5-10 years. It’s not as bad of an investment as some would have you believe
>In 1975 McDonald's held a contest that allowed people to "enter as often as you wish."

Whoa! I had no idea Real Genius was based on true events.
I frequently mountain bike alone in areas without reception. I bought a PLB1 so I have an “oh shit” button if something goes wrong (or I run into someone else in a similar situation). No monthly fee was the huge selling point to me. I could care less if I can text or pair my phone.

I feel massively safer having this beacon in my pack. It also makes a great, albeit expensive, gift for friends who are similarly active.
Definitely. An iPhone is still a glass slab, after all. Drop it on a rock screen-down and the screen can still easily break. Plus, a dedicated device can have better battery life.
>>You can have unions without the government mandating anything.

Unions have no power in a free market, which is why unionization rates were so low until the unions successfully hoodwinked society into believing their victim narrative, and had the government pass laws in their favor.

>>Here's an example: I know I'm worth considerably more to my employer than they're paying me, but were I to ask for appropriate compensation they'd rather let me go than pay up - because it would set a bad precedent. Any other employer I could turn to would do the same.

Or they could pay you more and require that you to not disclose your pay raise to co-workers.

If they don't pay market wages, their employees will resign to work for companies that do. There's no trick that companies can use to avoid paying market wages.

Supply and demand are the dominant forces in determining wage levels, as centuries of empirical evidence shows. The free market is quite efficient, and as a consequence, laws that violate it typically reduce efficiency.

EDIT, being rate limited so will respond to the below here:

>>There's also no such thing as laws forcing employers to negotiate with unions

Collective bargaining laws do precisely this. In the US, if the majority of a work unit votes to unionize, the company employing them MUST engage in collective bargaining with the entire work unit, and cannot fire them and replace them with workers who are not unionized.

This basic violation of contract liberty is characterized by mainstream academia and so-called civil liberties organizations like the ACLU, in Orwellian fashion, as a human right, and has become institutionalized around the world.

>>Because I've got a history book full of examples that say otherwise - of unions/guilds mattering even when facing opposition from the government.

The power of guilds came entirely from government! The defining characteristic of a guild was an association of market providers who were granted, by government authorities, a market monopoly, to the exclusion of market providers not party to the guild.
it’s not the transit, but the severe restriction of other options which allows your brain to settle down and accept reading as the best option. it’s the converse of the paradox of choice.
Actually I'm really curious how you do this. If the photos aren't stored client side, then how do you search? Do you have a thumbnail of every photo client side? Is that enough? I mean ImageNet scores are still pretty low for small/fast neural nets. And ImageNet isn't even representative of real world photos. So obviously to be successful you're going to have to continue training. So how do you do this in a privacy preserving way? Even federated learning can have some issues because images can be reconstructed from gradients.
I still remember why I had to use iCloud Backup. It was the safest way to restore my data between iPhone upgrade.

I had seen more than a dozen iTunes Backup corruption where the backup is completely useless. And this problem exist even today. And it seems the chances of happening is higher on Windows PC. iCloud isn't without flaws I have seen three iCloud Backup suggesting it is corrupted. But there is often a backup from previous days as iCloud dont overwrite backup. Given the lower chances of happening I had to use iCloud.
You can now when using C++20 modules.
Hey, we do need some information to get the product to work well. You can see the bits of information we collect, along with the reasoning here: https://ente.io/privacy/#account-data
Starting a business is complicated, requires discipline, and then requires a decent amount of luck to even keep it afloat...

It can be used as a good tax harvesting vehicle but again this requires so much knowledge and ultimately I think running a business (even at a strategic loss) requires more depth of knowledge than the average saving/investing tips.

Would definitely agree that starting a business is a path to becoming RICH, but definitely not a path to being financial stable/above average
It's a sad state of things; current design trends frequently punish users and make people fearful to explore and learn on their own how programs and user interfaces work.

It hits me hardest too when I see older people frustrated by the ever changing design and functionality churn. It prevents them building confidence and feeling empowered. For me much of the current computing experience is the opposite of rewarding curiousity and it's deeply sad, IMHO
$40k? Lol. I’m poor and I’d have to think twice about disclosing it for that. How many government lists does having the ability to discover that type of exploit get you on?

I bet Microsoft would claim damages of $1+ billion if someone used that type of exploit maliciously by damaging data and undermining customer confidence in Azure.

What a joke. This should pay $1+ million.
That sounds like a weird interpretation of "to be present in the universe" to me. Also I was under the impression that it's unknown whether the universe contains an infinite number of electrons or not.
Also, there's already debian packaging stuff: https://github.com/smcameron/space-nerds-in-space/tree/maste...

But I'm not really too interested in distributing packages that will just get out of date.

"git pull; make" is easier anyway.
> Block based programming absolutely has its place, but it does not scale beyond the absolute basics.

A colleague of mine did last year's Advent of Code in Scratch. It's not a patronising language.
The concluding slide from this report:

> The Ada language is one of the factors which has helped to build, maintain and enhance the CFMU mission critical sophisticated applications.
As others have pointed out, though, while I used an extreme example, you can take your average, middle-of-the-road yet high-quality software engineer, and if they make the right decisions (select jobs that pay well, live well below their means, invest with a standard diversified portfolio), they could easily retire in their 40s. I'm not saying this route is available to everyone, but certainly available to plenty of folks to not be considered a rare outlier.
Facebook has a very big walled garden that will be protected and monetized. Go and ask to all your hoa members or old classmates for example to move to discord
Have you heard of Iridium?
Just like C++20 modules allow.

You only need to export the public parts of the templates.
The (too) many pitfalls of VLA in C
It depends, in a regulated industry if you fail to do stuff like install a commercial firewall, keep facilities secured with proper door locks, etc. you may very well face fines or loss of a license to operate.

I think when people talk about consequences, they’re not regarding these companies as victims of crimes, rather as negligent actors.
1. In the first sentence you talk about the Mahabharata war as it was real.

2. Then you discount Krishna being not real.

Do you see the obvious logical contradiction? Btw, unlike Christianity, Hinduism doesn't rely on Mahabharta being real. So this angle is a common attack from Christians.

Your previous comment:

> 666 is number of the beast. I wonder how many thiest scientists would have refused to work on it if they were to use 666

Why would a non-Christian believe that?

You are probably new to the site and don't know that people can see your past comments.

Your language perfectly mirrors the one used by missionaries in India (studied at one such school but didn't get baptized).
In my opinion, people who don’t trust google (like myself) would not trust every other company too. The perfect solution for me would be something that I can self host on my LAN with a clean and intuitive app like the google photos one, that would be a service that I would pay for.
Agree with this 100%. When I was still working in the office they introduced very basic flexible working. Only an extra hour each way, but I switched to 8-4 instead of 9-5 and it made all the difference.

It reduced a ~50 minute commute to ~20, so even though I was starting an hour earlier I only needed to get up about 30 mins earlier. Plus, having that extra time in the evening felt really good.

That said, we transitioned to full remote working and I can’t imagine myself going back to be honest.
You just described the thesis of one of the wisest books I've ever read, Albert O. Hirschman's 1970 classic "Exit, Voice, and Loyalty."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit%2C_Voice%2C_and_Loyalty
Hold onto it. I use my iPhone for pictures and GPS tracking (with paper maps as backup) when hiking but don’t trust the battery enough for emergency use.

The mini can last for days, or even weeks between charges and is extremely rugged.
"much less the former minister of a country"

An MP or elected official doesn't necessarily mean that much in many places. Even in wealthy nations, a lot of elected officials are basically just citizens who one way or another ran for office and found themselves elected.

MP's are often voted in on the basis of their party, not their personal stature. So the 'selection criteria' is really one of the party more than the voting public, and often filters are vague, often with write-in candidates in many ridings where a loss might be expected.

Even more so for a less developed country.

That said, I very much appreciate this man's attitude - a 'job is a job' and we should all be so lucky to have one, and there's nothing remotely demeaning about delivering food.

The real issue is one of appropriate compensation i.e. making sure that people are paid well enough for their contributions.

One thing about this kind of work is that it's definitely material: every delivered meal is a delivered meal. White collar workers, where there's a ton of slack and lack of efficiency cannot always say that their contributions have mattered, although it's a complicated story there as well.
It’s hard to stuff the box because fraud would be instantly detected when many voters submitted multiple ballots.
The Taliban's social media dilemma
What I mean is: if you imagine someone drawing up a requirements document for the team assigned to the task of axiomatising geometry, and somebody asked "Do we want our model of geometry to support cutting up a ball into five pieces, moving the pieces rigidly, and reassembling them into two copies?", I think their first idea would be to answer "no".

So it isn't parallel to the intermediate value theorem, but opposite to it.
It’s very much called the local universe not local space http://www.astro.wisc.edu/our-science/research-areas/extraga...

Space or outer space isn’t a term commonly used in cosmology which is the field of study of the chronology and evolution of the universe.

And in this context it makes perfect sense within 1b light years we can observe the universe as it is more or less in its current state, so looking at something 100 light years away or 1b isn’t that different. Once you go past that line you begin to go further and further in time so different stages within the evolution of the universe take precedence over local phenomena.

It doesn’t indicate that there are other universes out there just due to the speed of light what we can observe can be drastically different than what is around us as well as what is actually going anywhere else at the current age of the universe.
>After the recent debacle

The deal was made a year+ ago the then-current Afghan govt wasn't party to the agreement.
Am I the only one who never realized you can search "museum" and see your museum photos?

Now that you've mentioned it, yes, I'd like to try that. But as a counterpoint to your argument, I've never needed it, and I suspect that a lot of people may not actually be getting the same value propositions that you're getting.

On the other hand, Google Photos is Google Photos. But it's often a mistake to compete directly with an established product. New ideas tend to win by transcending the competition.

I propose that if this Show HN turns into a product, it will be because it does something people didn't realize they wanted. Maybe that's privacy. I don't know.
It wouldn't be useful in a case like that.

However, if heads answer yes, tails answer truthfully "Have you ever raped a woman"?

You get 52% saying yes, you can conclude that 2% actually did so. You need a considerably larger sample size for the same accuracy of data, though.
Yeah, having attempted to operate a service very similar to this (only more focused on general encrypted cloud storage) I will say there are no good economics in usage-based billing. You're much better off selling a license to use the software and give users the ability to use common cloud storage providers (minimally the s3-compatible ones but also things like Google Drive) as the backing for this. Even safer from a legal perspective would be not having accounts at all and allowing users to purchase a 1-year license based on license keys that are cryptographically validated but not stored anywhere. Then it's impossible to do anything user specific whether you are compelled to or not.
Unpoly – Unobtrusive JavaScript Framework
I can confirm this, I've seen this happen in a startup that has ~40 people. The cause seem to be that devs aren't sensitive to business needs, and product managers/owners don't fix this.
> Cars will not go.

I know.

> There are too many people for whom cycling is not an option, for various reasons.

Rubbish. Complete rubbish. 99% of adults are able bodied and capable of locomotion. Don't forget that most adults let their bodies regress back into a baby-like form. Weak and incapable. But it need not be the case.

> In general, I'd be in favor of making roads friendly to all alternative modes of transport

They shouldn't be considered "alternative modes of transport". That's the problem. Humans should have the right to move around safely.
Same here and our games run on every possible device with a screen.
it's OK. electrons don't "exist" discretely, either.

At best, when you "hand me 7 electrons", you're directing me towards the fat part of 7 probability distributions, so we're back to math again...
I am literally a crusader against ad-based business models, but this article seems very hand-wavey to me.

First off, Apple is in the privacy business as a product positioning stance, not as an actual guiding force for their business.

Second, Apple doesn't prevent anyone from using another search engine as a default, and the vast majority of people are quite comfortable using Google, even if it is completely shady on the privacy front.

Third, these giant tech companies work together by design- they all feed off each other due to the fundamental driver of "shareholder value." Instead of having any expectation that they will choose user safety and health over profit, we need to explore other avenues to address the rampant and destructive aspects of ad-driven tech economies.
Substack (YC W18) Is Hiring Engineering Managers
I don’t think it takes bad faith to come to GP’s conclusion. Further, it implies a great deal of superiority for you to assume that someone who does not like/enjoy the restrictions of a language does not ‘fully [appreciate]’ the supposed benefits of those restrictions. I, for one, do not enjoy or value the restrictions (or underlying semantic concept) of ownership in Rust. It just means that I don’t enjoy it, I understand the benefits which are claimed to exist for adopting the Rust-centric view of programming. I just don’t think they are worthwhile for me. I’m not really disagreeing with the point you make about language designers intention, I doubt they set out to inflict misery on users, but your assumption about not understanding some alleged benefit is a bridge too far.
There are other non-mainstream mobile platforms, not just iOS and Android.

Sure, they are not yet as polished as those where a cult like controll freak or a private data merchant dump a lot of money, but one has to start somewhere.
Interesting! I dug into this a bit and it seems this has been brewing in the 5G standard for the past few years and was specifically included in Release 17. Qualcomm seems to have been working closely with both Iridium and Globalstar. Iridium just finished launching it's Next constellation with 5G support to mobile phones one of the goals. Qualcomm had planned to include NTN (Non-Terrestrial-Networks) in the X65 5G modem with band n53 support. The frequency bands are in the s-band, putting it in the 1-2 GHz range. It's possible Qualcomm will be capable of connecting to multiple satellite providers. I see no mention of bandwidth, so it's probably terrible.

This doesn't seem to be Apple's tech specifically, but they could have some interesting things to add to the service bundling and what applications would actually benefit from this connection.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out, but I am expecting something on the order of text-only iMessages for a low monthly fee.