skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cops dislike paperwork, but many of them also don't give a shit about their jobs except insofar as each day gets them one step closer to early retirement, with the payout based on whatever overtime they were able to rack up a few years prior.

Sure, people should just decline to share any information with police and many police won't push the point because it won't play out well. But some portion of the desirable assignments will flow toward those eager beavers who most assiduously supply the desires of the brass for more information. Legalities are one thing, the incentives and internal dynamics of the police department are something else, and they don't always line up neatly. Furthermore, not all police officers are rational utility maximizers who base their decision-making on optimizing their future wellbeing.

The gist of the article is not 'you're being passively victimized again, oh no' but nor is it, as you point out, 'they have nos uch right so don't be fooled.' The news here is that LAPD management have instituted a policy of maximizing data collection for pre-emptive surveillance purposes, which is something quite different from individual cops being overzealous or prosecutorial standards having shifted.

I think it's reasonable for the writer to be descriptive rather than prescriptive, and that it is not his job to act in loco parentis or in loco advocatus.
Agreed, but grid and storage technology that will completely solve the renewable intermittence is probably as far in the future as commercial fusion reactors.
the F number is calculated by f/D where f is the focal length and D is the diameter of entrance pupil.

For a F/1.0, 50mm lens, you need a 50mm front element.

In Opal's terms, this means their f/D ratio is 1.8. However, it doesn't mean it can capture equal number of photons with a full frame system with a f/1.8 lens, since their sensors' surface area is not equivalent.

Another difference will be in DoF. Since the sensor is smaller, there'll be a big crop factor, it'll multiply everything. Hence the resulting DoF will not be anything like a full frame system. In other words, almost everything will be in focus.

To add a cherry on top, they're not telling the T number of their lens, which defines how much light actually passes through it. F number and T number can be vastly different, intentionally or unintentionally, due to design parameters and features of a lens.
Ah this is a good step. I hadn't looked since the env var vulns earlier in the ~year. Add in GH runner domain/vpc safelisting and a lot of the basics get solved!
Haha yeah I probably messed something up. I should also check for dropped packets but my wifi-fu is not that good
One reason (of many) is that when the telescope was designed there was no way to know if we'd have capability to send anyone (or anything) to service it.

Even today we don't have a proven platform that could pull off a manned mission to L2, let alone a mission that would then fix an insanely complex telescope in-situ. (There are a few that could try, but no one's done it.)
would you mind sharing your template? This is such a great idea btw.
Fine, okay, but what's the eligibility criteria?

As far as I can tell you have to go through an Academic Licensing service, which would immediately tell me to go away since I'm not a school/university/whatever.

It's simply not available to most people.
That article mentioned Ai Weiwei spread misinformation doubted the result of the US election and was accused of spreading conspiracy theory on Twitter.

I have watched several documentaries produced by him in the past. Quite disappointed.
The chinese room and “true understanding” don’t matter anyway as long as the “room” produces economic value and material power.

AGI can be dumb as a rock by Searlean standards but still pose a severe threat to all of us.
That will become a level in an FPS game for sure.
My thinking is the solar shield gets stuck/torn on deployment. Among the numerous bad decisions, they have no cameras watching the deployment
> the crappy Bolt

Bolts are crappy? My wife drives one, and given the cost, I like it more than my Tesla. Before covid pricing, you could pick one up brand new for mid-20s. And they will get back to that level after the bubble pops, because GM is keeping the mediocre range and "fast" charging speeds. For someone who just wants a runabout that can handle pretty much any daily driver scenario, the ROI is unbeatable. That it makes me smile to drive it is a plus.
Picture some American saying there's no point in knowing languages other than English because 99.99% of the people you will encounter know it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Standard_Whitworth
Well the website is down, but from the cache, the primary selling point is…

”An ƒ1.8, six-element, glass lens brings in 2.4x more light than any other webcam…With a 7.8mm, 4K Sony sensor”

…which granted, is better than other webcams. Except for the one in my pocket, on my iPhone. Which also has advanced noise-filtering technology.

I guess there’s a market for a fancy standalone webcam, but it cannot be huge. Most people don’t care, people who moderately care can use their smartphones with a bevy of tethering software, and if you really care you are probably a streamer or YouTube producer who has a real camera, like perhaps this Sony:

https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sony-zv-e10-review
Broadly agreed. It's taken me a while to adjust to various different code review practices, styles, and environments, but in the end the opinion I've settled on is that no matter how frustrating it might seem to be to wait for review (especially if it takes a long time), it's always better to have at least one person review any change, even seemingly minor ones (with the possible, albeit not-always-simple, exception of reverts/rollbacks).

Why?

- It reduces the chance that you get into thoughtless fix-merge-fix-merge loops (it can still happen, but knowing that changes may take time for review has an incentive-correction effect)

- It shares knowledge about code changes with other people, so that if-and-when (usually when) bugs occur in that part of the codebase in future, you're not the only person somewhat familiar with them

- It provides training and learning opportunities for reviewer and reviewee alike; discussions, scenarios and opinions can all be shared and worked through, and can shift behaviours and improve system and process reliability

If there's some magical workflow that can allow shipping your own changes without losing any of those benefits, that will be impressive; for now I'm curious to learn more about this approach, although initially skeptical.
Is this strictly a physical thing or can it apply in software?
What is SWR for the uninitiated?
Venza is a much larger vehicle.
Yeah. I always make sure to hit a restroom before driving through a city. Few things suck as much as feeling the call of nature while you're stuck on surface streets in the middle of a big city. Where are you going to be able to temporarily park your car and where is the restroom.

In the less dense zones, it's just stop at the next gas station/mcdonalds/starbucks/whatever. Less dense than that, just run into the woods...
I don't agree with you, as italian we read for example in school a story I think is also famous in other parts of the world, "I promessi sposi" like it's translated as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Betrothed_(Manzoni_novel), and there are described at a certain point confinements for the plague, also I've read about confined city for epidemics of smallpox, so I don't think it is about modern society, I think it's more about the numbers and death rate of disease..
People are always feeling bad that they missed out on the hot new investment thing. At the time I bought, prices were already rising rapidly and people were complaining how they'd missed out, assuming the boom was about to end. The rise of cryptocurrency is probably creating a lot of unhappy missed-outers too. But these people somehow forget that they're still able to get in on the ground floor with the next hot new investment thing. I remember during the first couple of bitcoin bubbles, people complaining how early adopters were making so much and how they missed out. But then the next bubble would come, and the next, and the next. Some people are just too risk averse to ever win the bubble lottery.
Or alternatively, one can also use https://mapcomplete.osm.be/drinking_water and https://mapcomplete.osm.be/toilets to find and easily update them in OpenStreetMap
> Then they see the prices, where the Opal is in the "accessory" price range, and the A7 costs more than their laptop. And they're sold on the Opal.

The thing is, you can't buy a new A7 (MK-I) today, and if you can buy one, it'd be around the same price of a brand new Opal.

Or you can buy an Logitech Brio Ultra, and use that one. If you buy an even modestly priced Fuji APS-C camera, it'll blow Opal out of water.

I'm not telling that Opal is bad hardware. It's modestly good hardware, ruined by bad marketing and wrong claims.
I keep social media accounts around but I don't really post anything. I guess it's only a matter of time before some cop looks at that and decides I'm abnormal enough to be investigated.
Considering the choice is still essentially pay a sizeable sum of money or be physically monitored, I'd say the parent's point still stands.
How does this impact the job market for software engineers, new ones in particular?

I have constant intrusive thoughts and anxiety that tools like this will replace me from one of the few jobs I’m psychologically capable of performing well in.

I don’t want to make too negative of predictions since I always bias towards pessimism. What do the rest of you think?
>https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/04/politics/tik-tok-black-lives-...

This was the easiest to find although I support the cause. The point is that cause is somehow divisive in the USA and promotes discord and in-fighting, which is objectively in the interest of the CCP.
Better title:
Startup builds strong magnet that might be useful for a fusion plant.
Even more simply - Shadowstats consumer inflation calculator thinks we've had at least 7% inflation up until ~2010 and then 10+% since then. (http://www.shadowstats.com/imgs/sgs-cpi.gif?hl=ad&t=16286924...)

What in your life costs 500%+ more than it did in 1995 for the same product? No need for in-depth debunking when it's self-evidently nonsense.
They both challenge received wisdom. One bears a social penalty for making any arguments similar to either of these. Yep, checks out. Definitely in the same territory of climate change skeptics.
Of course. A recent Fuji will provide the same quality too. I'm bringing up A7-III and A7C, because Opal directly uses A7 as a comparative target.
A march 2019 talk by Dr. Dennis Whyte of MIT working on SPARC https://www.psfc.mit.edu/sparc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY6U4wB-oYM
This is a headline straight out of 2005 (or 1995): “The World Wide Web is Serving Up Sex and Drug Pictures to Minors”. Very much a moral panic headline.

I wonder what material impact seeing a video of boobs or people doing drugs actually has on minors. Like are they supposedly thinking, “I am going to go have unsafe sex now because I saw people do it on TikTok”?

Social media is so ephemeral and detached from the actual physical acts depicted in it that I don’t see how seeing “immoral” posts would materially affect a child’s behavior. If your kid is receiving and retaining subliminal moral instruction from browsing social media it means they are not getting it from elsewhere.
You know overtime is time and a half, right? Cops aren't worried about OKRs, if they're on patrol then whatever they do in a day is their job. If there's additional must-do work, hey, overtime hours.
I’ve been looking at porn since I was 11. I feel hypersexualized but there was no stopping me from going on Bangbros lol. Kids are going to expose themselves to this material out of curiosity and hormones.
Fusion is the Linux Desktop of energy projects.
I agree. We have a Bolt, and until recently a Tesla. If I were buying again right now, I'd get a Bolt (if there wasn't a stop-sale, at least). When we got ours, the brand-new price was $24K. For 258 miles of range, and basic 50kW fast charging, that's a ridiculous deal. For a Model 3, I'd be into it damn near twice that.
This is a great project! I was expecting a run-of-the-mill GPSDO, but this is way better.

I've been looking for more time sources to add to my own GPS clock: https://github.com/jrockway/beaglebone-gps-clock (which is one of those boring ones that everyone has).

I have been thinking about buying a rubidium oscillator from eBay for fun, but basically anticipated the problem the author had -- they have been mistreated for years before finally landing on eBay, and aren't any good. GPS is my only frequency reference, so I wouldn't really be able to fix it; I'm at the mercy of my very obstructed view of the sky.

I'd like to be able to measure how badly out of sync I get when I fall down from 16 satellites to 4 satellite throughout the day. I can sort of intuit that from the data I get right now (I send "chronyc sourcestats" to influxdb every 30 seconds, and you can see that when the GPS signal gets bad, the frequency error in my system clock also gets bad.), but I'd like to measure it conclusively. Will probably spend a bunch of money on the problem and become even more unsure which way is up ;)

The link to the "time to digital converter": https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/tdc7200.pdf is very interesting, and I totally forgot that I should be measuring AC powerline cycles to see how they're doing relative to GPS.

(In the past, I also incorporated a WWVB receiver, but get such a terrible signal in New York that I didn't get any usable data out of it. I then dropped the ceramic antenna and that was the end of that project. I have since realized that I can buy a phase-modulation receiver inside of a clock, throw away the clock, and try that, however. Ordering one right now, actually! Thanks HN!)
I guess you're unable to respond to the substance of what I'm saying. Nominal risk reduction of already insanely low risk is not compelling especially when confounders are present and cannot be accounted for.
> Police culture in America is based around disgust and disdain for the notion of "rights".

All American culture increasingly feels disgust and disdain for the notion of rights. The police culture is the result of that broader problem.
He's mentioned this before. He has multiple domains because they can go down sometimes.
Author of sqlc here. Just wanted to say thanks to everyone in this thread. It's been a really fun project to work on the last two years. Excited to get to work on adding support for more databases and programming languages.
Surprised there's no mention of the inability to view logs generated before the page was loaded until the job completes. This one drives me crazy when I have long running, silent activity.

My wishlist item would be more variants of Windows server versions so that we could build Windows containers for more versions of Windows. I realize the fault lies with Windows containers pinning the container base version to the host version, but I'm still stuck with the burden.

I think GitHub Actions got the model correct, using everything as events to trigger any number of workflows. This is far simpler to maintain than a single workflow with conditionals and wait states that you see with other systems.
The problem with making this work, IIRC, is that Docker Compose doesn't actually "compose" Docker commands, but instead _re-implements_ a bunch of functionality itself through its Python libraries. So you'd actually need to bring your own CLI-compatible Docker Compose implementation for Podman rather than just making your Docker replacement compatible.
The bias in BBC's reporting is well known. For example, anti-India bias. Lots of other examples here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC#Specific_...
I would say this is largely true for myself and my peers, but to older relatives Facebook is conflated with real life and actually keeping in touch.
It was like the early days of WoW, when nobody knew what they were doing, not even the developers!
> The Johnson and Johnson shot [...] is freely available

It may be more accurate to say was freely available. It has become hard to get in many places in the US.

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/once-all-the-rage-...
It's up to the user to secure their own memory
It's almost midnight in London - maybe post sometime during the day there?
There's plenty of non-trival code written in C as well. That's not a good argument for the benefit of a programming language. You can work around any limitation with enough work -- this article is a perfect example. It's an ugly solution to a simple problem but it works.
In the grid this would take role of coal or gas plants for base load, no?
Sending a manned mission to L2 for repair just doesn't make sense. You might as well just build a new telescope and send it out again, that probably would be cheaper. Just look at the massive effort that it took to go to the moon. Sure we are now more advanced, but if it was easy to go there now Elon would've already flown. As you said L2 is 4 times further, and you need to stop and restart at each point.
That would be assuming the machine is on 24/7 and only be used for Minecraft. A lot of Minecraft management systems allow the Minecraft server to be shut off when no players are on which would limit how many resources are being used on the machine 24/7 too.

Overall I personally prefer a VPS or dedicated server but I don't think comparing it like you are is 100% fair.
Use the API via the mobile app RIF (Reddit Is Fun) for Android and avoid the site's anti-usability-patterns like the plague.

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andrewshu....
Thanks! It's generally easiest to do for C/C++/Rust/AssemblyScript code (other languages often need to ship things like garbage collection or an interpreter alongside it). But even with those languages, it's not always trivial to support features in the browser like file systems, threads, SIMD, etc.
With the amount of glue holding the cells together, it's only practical to reuse the entire pack (or maybe individual modules).
> I guess there’s a market for a fancy standalone webcam, but it cannot be huge. Most people don’t care, people who moderately care can use their smartphones ...

I think I've seen a number of times on HN people complaining that there isn't a better camera solution, given how much remote work we've been doing since covid. This is usually followed by people saying that what's really important is sound, along with their personal setups.

Based on that alone I think this company has a reasonable chance at success, especially since stuff like this is often expensed. I'd say one risk to the company is when Apple simply makes better cameras in their MacBooks, but even then it'll be a while before company's replenish their supply of new MacBooks.
That's a neat, pretty small scale set of jobs there.
Ooh, the ZV-E10 looks nice! I already have some E-mount lenses for my NEX-5, but it's too old to work with the webcam software Sony released last year, so I was thinking about upgrading.
As I understand it, a larger sensor size will require longer focal lengths to match an "equivalent" view angle as a smaller sensor. As focal length increases, perceived depth of field becomes more shallow. Which is to say, a lens at f/4 on a 4x5 camera will will be much more shallow than an equivalent angle lens on a smaller film/sensor size.
Or you can just use a dynamic ip service and use that URL anyway. That would keep the IP up to date. That is what I have done for years and it has worked well.
There's an underserved market in SF, too. I'd pay cash money for a regularly updated restroom finder.

Best of luck!

EDIT: どうもありがとう!

Just saw the Hirigana on the landing page. My Japanese partner and I have been lamenting the failure of public restroom availability compared to JP.

Heck, even compared to the US 2 decades ago when gas stations allowed public access to their restrooms.
I also sleep on the side and I can use earplugs.. It took me a few days to get used to it though!
When you see news that say rent prices go trough roof, it usually means new leases.
If new leases go up 10% and only 5% of renters sign a new lease, that's only 0.5% increase to rent prices.
If we had "an inexhaustible, carbon-free source of energy that you can deploy anywhere and at any time" we'd wreck the planet faster than we already are... I guess at least a few could escape though.
Surely you mean Manshattan?
Two basic ways:

Computed:

NOT truly random. Way back in the late 70s, I had a BASIC program that used to output the very same set of 8-digit 'random' numbers every time the program was used.

(Unless you did a special thing the first time, to obtain a random seed to generate a different sequence of pseudo-random numbers. IIRC, it was the number of machine cycles since the last time the floppy disk was accessed.)

Hardware:

Truly random: The machine counts machine cycles with a small maximum number before it overflows and restarts at zero. The machine looks at the time difference between things like key presses, or disk-spins, or something else that varies in time.

No matter how good you are the variation in time between your key-presses is never the same at the very small time-flow level. That number is used as a seed to a pseudo-random generator.
It still works in that case, actually; you just have to pass through a singularity where the timeline is delayed infinitely many times, but the total amount of each of those infinite delays is finite. 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + 1/32 + ... = 1.

This is the answer to Zeno's paradox. A sports reporter gives an update every time Hercules catches up to where the tortoise was the last time he gave an update. All that happens is the sports reporter eventually needs to talk faster and faster and faster, and eventually try to give infinite updates right as Hercules passes the tortoise. Then the reporter's vocal chords explode, but otherwise the race proceeds as you would expect. (That is, just because a description of an event is infinitely long, does not mean the event itself is infinitely long in any sense.)
1. Rust doesnt let you safety-check bit-compressed stuff and instead relies on well-formed types during runtime (basically everything that union allows).

2. Graph memory patterns in Rust are completely unsafe.

3. Code might leak and you dont have tooling to check your dependencies. Trusting the test coverage does not help you there with Rust, because Rust tooling is infeasible for testing leaks.

4. CTFE is not easy to track in Rust, so you dont know if certain code may have run-time cost or not.

5. Not all UB during comptime or runtime is (planned to be) checked/checkable https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/3016-const-ub.html
I was mainly thinking of construction resulting from unilateral action. Obviously we aren't going to lazily get there building one at a time.

Forest building is great, but to sink similar amounts of carbon, you'd need to plant tens of billions of acres of new plants every year. Essentially, the same amount of plants that we're burning the ancient corpses of.
After using this mess of website reddit I am wondering why people didn’t like usenet and prefer centralised private and censored services.
That's a fair point. I guess any time you try to unofficially exploit a system's weaknesses to prove a point, and you fail, you should expect to be treated like any other person who was busted trying to exploit the system. Otherwise, the system still failed.

If that researcher actually got a change into millions of user's linux systems, he would look like a genius, new checks would be put in place to catch his techniques, and everyone would be auditing every past commit on various open projects looking for other similar attacks. But instead, the system worked as intended, and now you can't go back and say "lol just kidding, it's a social experiment bro!" It's a risk you'd better be willing to take.