skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha! A friend sent me this comment when he recognized this project. Unless there happens to be another firm who did the exact same thing we did, I was a part of this project (see this blog post https://www.svds.com/introduction-to-trainspotting/).

You misunderstood the point of the presentation. The company was a consulting firm that specialized in data science and engineering. Our clients wanted to kick the tires and see what our technical chops were before hiring us but they didn't want to let us use their proprietary and confidential data for our own tech demos.

We didn't want to just use the same open source datasets everyone else did, so we got to thinking about novel datasets we could create that might have applications for industries we sold our services to. From this, the Trainspotting project was born.

Many of us commuted via the Caltrain, which was right next to our office, and we were frequently frustrated with the unreliability (this was in ~2016 or so when car and pedestrian strikes were happening seemingly every week), so we made an app that tried to provide more accurate scheduling.

We used the official API for station:train arrival times, but we found that it was unreliable, so we wanted some ground truth data on whether a train was passing. Since our office was right next to the Castro MTV station, I had the idea to use a microphone (attached to a raspberry pi) to just listen for when the train went by. In addition to ground-truth data for validating arrival times, this gave us a chance to show off some IoT applications. It actually worked pretty well, but it had false positives (e.g. the garbage truck would set it off). So we added a camera.

We pointed it at the tracks and started streaming data off of it. At first we used very simple techniques, processing the raw stream on-device with classic computer vision algos (e.g. Haar cascades) in openCV. We discovered that the VTA, which had a track parallel to the Caltrain and was "behind" the Caltrain in our camera's shot, could cause false positives. Gradually we used more and more complex techniques like deep learning, but the raspberry pi couldn't handle it (IIRC it could only process a single frame in like 6 seconds). So we used a two-stage validation whereby the simpler, faster detectors that could run on the raw stream in real time detected a positive and then we'd send a single frame to run deep learning.

TL,DR: The whole point was to be a tech demo, not to gauge the speed. The trains were either stopping or pulling out of the station, so speed would have been useless.
Add to that the added benefit of "as long as I make my payments, this place is mine forever" - which is certainly not the case with renting.

There's a whole slew of intangibles that come with "owning" your home that I think have made my quality of life significantly better (and certainly worth every penny): being able to make whatever changes I want, knowing that what I do to the property could outlive me (in the sense of taking care of the planet), and having a sense of accomplishment when I fix or upgrade odds and ends.
The site owner has since fixed the issues that were making the search form get hidden on smaller screens. :) (The issue was fixed screen elements.)
> It's disabled on phones in western markets, but can be enabled remotely by the manufacturer

Well, I think everything can be enabled remotely by your manufacturer, no matter which... it is what we call "software upgrades".

But for me, a western, it's actually good to have a phone controlled by the Chinese. I would be concerned if it were controlled by my government, though.
Isolation probably.

edit: or if it's anything like signal, the mobile app has some extra functionality that is omitted from the desktop/web client...
Haute western food is all about gimmicky ingredients, presentation and “letting the food speak for itself”. I think this is nonsensical considering the tremendous range of flavor and delicious cuisine that Asia and the Mediterranean regions offer with the correct application of spices and flavor compliments. Food really is all about taste.
Yes, Hacker News and Reddit are both social media.
I mean, if you're making a fork, don't use the name of the project you're forking. If you fork Firefox and call it Firefox+ for example, Mozilla's legal department will email you, and ask you to stop violating their trademark.
It's also in Chinese, so if it is activated typing it in English doesn't do anything. But that's not to say that it can't be also updated to be other languages
My understanding from having a few friends / family members in the field is that no on believes amyloid plaques are the cause anymore -- as you said -- but also that there isn't actually much controversy about this. So it's not that alternative theories are being suppressed, really, but that that's a media spin you might have picked up somewhere.
I was raised by fundamentalists, and that was not my experience. Wrong kind of opinions got me surrounded by elders who would attempt to brow beat me in to submission. Towards my late teens I'd spend the entire hour and a half of every Sunday hiding out in the kitchen/dining hall in the back of the building, tending to the pot of coffee, until I was old enough to leave and strike out on my own. I still get panic attacks at the idea of stepping foot in to a religious building. Basically, your experience is far from universal, in my experience.
Maybe even cooler, in the sense of being interesting, is a European startup which is in the process of getting the first neural net certified by the FAA.

https://daedalean.ai/
Use Magisk, your banking apps will work fine.
> is safe and taken by a quarter billion people every year.

Usually yearly or bi-yearly. Not bi-weekly. There is much less safety data on doses that frequent.
Pixel with GrapheneOS
I think their evaluation method and need for repeat visits means they can't have very good coverage anywhere (there are what, 20-30k in NYC alone?). I doubt any region/city has more than a handful of reviewers.

If they were uniformly sampling this would be a disaster, but presumably they have a (probably opaque) system for funnelling down to a manageable number.
> The other thing to bear in mind is that mortgage payments, including interest, can be half as much as the rent on a similar property.

It can also be twice as much. It can also be the same amount. It can be anywhere between negative a lot & positive a lot.

The point is to do the maths and not just parrot the bullshit line 'renting is wasting money' because it may or may not be true.
You could just use a PinePhone, you'd probably get similar performance in a much more convenient form factor.
Responsible Machine Learning: From Product to Production
> Anyone familiar with iDevices knows that every piece of the simple, standard workflow I just described is totally impossible.

I believe VOX Music Player allows you to upload your music without using iTunes - although it is using their cloud sync instead. Flacbox also seems to let you download and play local files from Dropbox, OneDrive, Box, SMB servers, DLNA servers, ...

It doesn't seem "totally impossible"?
I basically agree with Bruenig. To put what I said in a couple of comments in one place:

The idea is that if renting is cheaper than owning in your city, you pocket the difference you would've spent on owning and put it in the market. So your total market gains will exceed (home appreciation minus repairs minus taxes/insurance/water&sewer minus real estate commissions and taxes to sell)

Over a long enough time span, 90+% of the building has to be replaced- everything from the roof down to the basement is essentially on a clock to obsolence from the moment you sign the deed. So even calculating what your expenses are in a given year doesn't cover every 5 or 10 year expenses (a new bathroom, say), or the tail risk of a new roof or new heating system.

Over multiple decades of ownership, you have to renovate the house- just to stay at the same level of quality. So yes you could theoretically sell your home you've owned for 30 years for a profit- but if you didn't replace the kitchen, bathroom, repaint, redo the roof, etc. etc.- the value's going to be pretty low. No one wants your kitchen from 30-40 years ago! So you probably renovated the house at least once- so subtract $50-200k renovation cost from your profit & loss.

Once you want to sell your house, you encounter even more expenses- even without a real estate agent, you say a few % just to the city/state/attorneys!

Yes, a landlord can make money on rent (and if you consider all the risks of being a landlord in a blue state, I'd argue that's an excessively risky business). But, they're paying income taxes on the rent, while my gains in the market are tax free
Snake game – first time using React
I feel like that's a silly claim though. If you have no networking, wireless, interface for loading code, or really any code at all, then of course it's more secure.

You're not doing the same tasks as a digital computer though.

Paper is more secure than digital computing.
Not everyone has a shitty family.
Pretty much the same thing, if you ask me.
Reminds me of the nuisance at San Francisco airport. Where a guy with a jet pack caused f16s to dispatch. They never caught him. Had they, I don't think their first question would be why are you driving a jet pack. But rather how does it work for so long.
Robots replace humans as labour shortages bite
Social media is not fundamentally different from other ways of connecting with people online, like blogs and forums.

The happiness you can enjoy from meeting people online is the same whether on a forum, on an online videogame, or on twitter.
plenty of therapies only treat symptoms
Using FaaS to build serverless e-commerce platforms
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court has my canonical Merlin. Something of a jealous Rasputin.
Agreed. Being a parent means deflect, defend and distract for 23 hours a day…
>>that the USA would cower and wouldn't support Taiwan at all.

At most that would only last 1 election cycle, so they would have to unify and hold it fast, very fast. Any Administration that would allow China to take over Taiwan would surrender (rightfully) all their political power and be ousted by a landslid the next election
More people means more human error, which means that not only do you have to invest more in communication overhead, but you have to invest more in sanity checks to keep your state machine in bounds.

The original author always knows not to push buttons in this order. Two people who are communicating badly will find a way to do so sooner or later, and if the system doesn't slap you on the wrist for doing so, it's gonna be a bad day.

On the plus side, systems with these sorts of guard rails are better opportunities for self-directed mid-level developers to pull themselves up to a senior role. One man bands are notoriously awful at affordances for discoverability.

I think I do better than most but any time I want to shed a responsibility I always have to first add more docs and a handful of extra exceptions and/or exception handlers to the code to make sure the new person doesn't immediately have a bad experience and toss it back to me. I call it sweetening the pot but others might use a different description.
One big thing I often see missing in these comparisons of renting versus owning a home is the difference of the housing stock. Sure, I could rent an apartment less than my mortgage + insurance + taxes + maintenance savings, but then I'm most likely living in much less square footage, I probably don't have a private garage, I don't have private outdoor spaces, and I get much less say over the features of the space. My mortgage + escrow amount is a roughly $200 more per month than the last apartment I rented at, but with that I gained over twice the square footage, a two car garage, a pool, and a good bit of private yard. I can run cables in my wall for whatever I want, I can put amateur radio antennas throughout my attic and in my yard, I can install an electric vehicle charger in my garage, I can mount speakers and WiFi AP's on my ceiling, I can do practically whatever with my home without having to get approval from people. For a few hundred dollars a month more, I get significantly more. The apartment and my home are pretty much the same market, they're about 2mi away from each other.

The other aspect is home ownership helps hedge against housing inflation. That rent I paid a couple years ago at the apartment is now more than my mortgage + escrow. True, you still feel the effects of housing inflation through higher taxes and insurance premiums, but even MB's numbers show that to only be 30% of the overall costs of the house. You're going to feel the effects of housing inflation much more being a renter signing new leases every year rather than having a significant chunk of your costs completely fixed (P&I), and maintenance costs when truly budgeted right can be somewhat fixed.

Other than that I really do agree with MB in this. It always amazes me how people don't quite get the idea that your home price going up doesn't really mean great things for you unless you're planning on trading down. A house is worth what a house is worth, you're going to have a hard time really realizing those gains unless you plan on living under a bridge with your pile of money.

Finally, if all you're wanting to do is maximize returns on every dollar that passes through your hands, owning a home isn't necessarily the best choice. The best choice is to rent the cheapest, crappiest apartment with absolutely no amenities in the crappiest part of town and invest everything. But then you're choosing a vastly different lifestyle, so its really a question of what you value in life. Personally, I enjoy floating in my pool after a stressful day of work and find a lot of value in that but maybe you find looking at your Coinbase wallet more relaxing.
That page directly answers your question? It says "To become recognised as an NPO, the organisation must self-certify that they meet the criteria below, aimed at ensuring they meet the standards of openness expected in the PostgreSQL Community". The Fundación refuses to meet the standards outlined in this document, for example the standard that "The board of directors MUST be elected by the membership, and all members including any corporate members MUST have an equal vote."

(The page in question then also goes on to say "The PostgreSQL Core Team may recognise, not recognise, or rescind a previous recognition of any organisation without justification, regardless of whether or not the criteria above are met.", but that's irrelevant here because the baseline requirements are not even met)
Very nice! But that's exactly what makes the question legitimate: why don't smartphones have this functionality, or at least the hardware to enable apps that would offer it?
My mistake; my comment was extremely US-centric.

In the US, there isn't a taboo against taking it because it's generally animal-prescribed; it's used as a human anti-parasitic here too. The issue is that people are self-medicating with veterinary-supply doses because it isn't prescribed for COVID-19 (as it's not indicated for treating it).
That's an interesting and long awaited update. But there's no mention of a new desktop app, or new web app. I wonder how users in the beta will be able to test this.
New optical 'transistor' speeds up computation up to 1k times
Groing from Cloud PBX to CCaaS
What the hell is happening where we have McD stories on the front page

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28596178
> Thinking about it, I don't even know where I am on the 1-100x scale.

Where you are is dependent on the rest of the team, and the structure of the process. The notion of "X" times as a measurement implies a comparison to others. Posted elsewhere... I've been the slowest/least-productive on some teams, and I've been the 'rockstar/ninja/10x' on others - in one case, during the same time frame, just different teams.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Xiaomi/comments/pgk8y3/xiaomi_camer...

Related, in this thread the OP discovered that he couldn’t take photos of an election ballot - they were being overwritten with a big green block.
I don't understand what you're saying or intending with your comments. There are 32 pages in the report. I'm curious about steps to replicate as well, generally for stuff like this.
> (I would never consume a medicine made for animals)

Why not?

I either pay $150+ all up for a doctor visit, prescription, etc for antibiotics, or $20 for a bottle of "fish antibiotics" at the feed store. Either way I get amoxicillin; but from the feed store I get 3x the amount and in smaller capsules which makes adjusting dose easier.

We stock the "horse paste" ivermectin for our half dozen hounds, I've been known to have a lick of it myself when ive been out barefoot in the mud, just in case. we have whipworm out here and they're not likely to take in humans but when they do its nasty.
Apple Has Sold 2B iPhones, Silencing Critics and Keeping Jobs' Legacy Alive
> They call people who are against vaccines vaxers

No, "anti-vaxxer" is the whole term. It means "person who is against vaccination".

"-er" does not dehumanize, it characterizes. Your own example demonstrates this: "baller".
Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio
How do logic gates work? Does that just use a threshold for T/F, then turn it "digital" with a high and low value?
Microsoft Surface Duo 2
Very nice project... but why does the third paragraph has a contenteditable tag set to true?
I think part of the problem today with individuals trying to figure out how to moderate their social media usage is that it's not clear what specifically within social media constitutes harm.

Is it the like/upvote mechanism? Hacker News would constitute harmful social media in that case. But what might be lost is a powerful lever for democratic input in terms of content curation and moderation.

My vote for what's more harmful is the scroll. I have a web extension that just removes the scroll on my Facebook feed. A few months after setting it up I all but stopped using Facebook, checking in once maybe every two months to visit folks individually. I haven't done this for Twitter or IG, but then the quality of my main feed is such that I don't want to remove it outright and want that aggregation of content, somehow.

I think that scrolling in general is harmful as a UX pattern, but the obvious alternative of pagination could create all kinds of complexities around deep-linking and fragmentation of content. All the same I'd love to see more platforms adopt this intentional cap on content associated with a given URL. It turns my engagement with content online from scanning to actual reading.
From the guidelines link at the bottom of the page:

"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data."
In my experience in the recent market (in a HCOL city in the U.K.) rent is only marginally less than the interest on the equivalent mortgage.

All the cost calculations should be based off interest only. The principle repayment is a cashflow issue - and a signifcant one at that.
They absolutely invented machine guns in the Civil War, as well as metal ships.

"In 1862, Richard Jordan Gatling invented a multi-barreled, rotating gun operated by a hand crank that could fire up to 200 rounds a minute."

https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/gatling-gu...

I'm not sure what war you're thinking of.
As the western world secularizes, we need a replacement for the community fulfillment role that organized religion used to take. As someone who was raised religious, but no longer identifies as such, I find my self missing the wonderful sense of community that my church facilitated by bringing broad spectrums of different people together to achieve a higher purpose. I know people's mileage will vary depending on their specific church, and I don't intend to whitewash the toxic actions, or the rejection of certain groups in some churches. But many elements of my church were positive. The sense of community, the volunteering, the people genuinely caring for each other, and even just as a place for people to hangout. I consider being raised in that environment to be a net good, despite later being turned off the actual theology. Is there away we can move to a secular alternative that has the same level of social penetration as the church once did?
In my career so far, I've most enjoyed working on kanban-esque teams. Just a bunch of tickets, maybe sorted by priority, for anybody to jump on. A wireframe to reference and quick slack updates once a day. Ironically, this was my least favorite job, but the working style has turned out to be my favorite.

Since then I've worked on agile teams and found it to be less useful. I'm sure there are reasons for why, but strictly from a personal point of view, it's much more fun and relaxing to just do kanban.
Depends on the location. In the UK IIRC mortgage payments are typically lower than rent payments, assuming you can find the initial deposit.
A New Way to Cook Pasta?
It's been necessary where I live (Oregon) for more than a decade. I assumed it was that way everywhere already.
I would like to meet you in a casino. Type "Invermectin side effects" into any search engine, read the links. These are "bad effects".

The fraudulent studies (y'know, including dead patients, patients that never existed, drugs that weren't administered and so on) have shown a good effect.

The real studies unfortunately showed no effect.

My advice to you; don't gamble. Ever.
This makes me wonder how many of the craigslist (or other channel) posts all in Asian language characters are actually secret messages?
But where does system() come in to play then? If you're not dealing with privileged/setuid programs, then a program which calls system() isn't doing anything that you couldn't do yourself. A well crafted sudoers file can help control what gets run with sudo, but that happens regardless of how sudo is invoked.
Off the top of my head, theu can censor at the keyboard level, at the SMS level, and at the camera level:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Xiaomi/comments/pgk8y3/xiaomi_camer...
> If the TV tells you something, you do not have to believe it.

Where do you think most of the people taking ivermectin heard about it? They probably have no idea how ivermectin would actually work, but heard it from some conservative talk show host that they trust more than scientists backing the actual COVID vaccine. I'm astonished by how totally backwards all of this is.
This is not the atitude an open source developer should have toward the community: publish the standards, specify them. Open source software's, or more clearly, libre software's (although I understand that Apache 2.0 License is a lesser general license, not those copyleft ones.) purpose is to make things open and reproducible, not just irresponsibly marking all unofficial builds unsupported and even trying to build a barrier to stop any other people packaging unofficial versions of the software. The developer is violating the core values of open source.
A friend of mine found a doctor to prescribe it but his pharmacy won't fill it. He is so pissed.

He was only planning to take small doses here or there as he's a teacher and around sick kids all the time, as if it were like Zinc to hopefully help reduce the severity of Covid-19 if he does get it, but despite going through the effort and succeeding in finding a doctor willing to prescribe it (and my friend even signed a document saying he understands it's an experimental treatment and will assume any risks), his local CVS is refusing to fill it.

My opinion is if you can get a proper doctor to prescribe it (by proper doctor I mean none of this "I got a medical exemption for wearing a mask from my Chiropractor" bullshit like is going on in Florida), a pharmacy shouldn't be allowed to decide not to fill it, as if they know better than your doctor.