skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A drug sniffing dog is a violation of the confrontation clause in the sixth amendment. It provides that " in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right…to be confronted with the witnesses against him." You can't cross-examine a dog.
No, avatarism has nothing to do with Facebook. I helped start the Mozilla Hubs project to help ensure Facebook doesn’t own this.
That's a good point too.
I have very bad sleep quality because of my chronic disease it definitely shows; lack of concentration, I forget fast, bad cognition etc.
>"Is a software developer who makes a dating app doing one or the other? What about the designer?"

I'd look at this from a... step back.

"Software Developer" is all you need to know.

For example a Mechanical Engineer designing a product on a CAD-- Product A is a machine interface Product B is a car seat for young children. One could argue Product B is more people-oriented. But that's irrelevant. We're talking about the occupation, not the product. The occupation is making things primarily on a computer in this case.

Software Developer --> Spends XX% of time working with Things (computer) and XX% of time working with People

vs

<other occupation> --> Spends XX% of time working with Things (<occupation-pertinent inanimate object(s)>) and XX% of time working with People

...And sure, there are different types of Software Engineers ("SWE")-- Some SWEs are heads down programming 80% of time w/ 20% of meetings (for example). Solutions Engineers ("SE") are the reverse-- 20/80. The latter is more social. But to become a SE is dependent on SWE skills, therefore I consider it a variant of the primary category of SWE, whose main focus is working on a computer. Not working face-to-face with a human to participate with them in some social activity (such as sales, nursing, management, or a job with a lot of meetings).
You and I don’t get to choose anything. Don’t shoot the messenger.
> the Barrandov Bridge is one of the most crucial arteries. Designed by Karel Filsak, author of the similarly impressive Hotel Intercontinental on Pařížská Street

That hotel was also impressively filled with asbestos:

https://newsbeezer.com/czechrepubliceng/the-people-around-th...

Asbestos has been known to be a big health hazard since 1900s and has been heavily regulated since:

https://www.oracleasbestos.com/what-is-asbestos/asbestos-reg...

I personally can't appreciate or commend a building that was knowingly made with such a hazardous material.
This does not generally happen, at least full copy and paste. What usually gets used are the “details” which are the parts of the blue print modern terminology is Construction Drawings or CDs that show very zoomed in specifics which will be the same in many cases regardless of the global structure.

There are major incentives and reasons why full copy and paste doesn’t happen more often some are cultural and some are technical.

Culturally because construction projects tend to be very expensive architects sell the client by “building the client’s vision”. So the incentive is to keep making unique buildings every time. In this way architects earn their keep and along the way if they can make their current client happy it may turn into a bigger future project.

Technically speaking a new location introduces new variables which the old building design may not meet. For example there may be new risks of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, blizzards, high heat/moisture, poor soils (this is the big one). Additionally a new location may require new construction materials or ways of building/methods. Any one of these could lead to large design changes. When the risks might not change our understanding of them might so we may need a new design due to new building code updates. Also building codes and requirements are controlled at the local level so they may vary by legal jurisdiction so even though all else is equal the original design does not meet the code governing the new location.

Interestingly there was an open source house project a couple of years ago with the ambition of over designing it so that you could build it in any part of the US. I personally love the idea however I am very skeptical due to the way construction liability works. So say there was a collapse who does the owner sue? Is it the designers all 100 of the people who contributed to the project? What if some aren’t engineers but hobbyists? What if they don’t have engineering insurance? Do they sue the contractor who built it? As you can see it gets quite messy. Construction being an old and mature industry has a lot of regulations about legal responsibility which IMO don’t play well with the modern day tech ethos of “just build”.
Google Pixel 6 Pro vs. iPhone 13 Pro Max Speed Test
Why are we expected to train Google's NN for free?
Yes, prices are elevated, but nowhere near the point any median price to median income analysis suggests.

The flaw in the price to income ratio is the cost of borrowing (interest rates). Most home buyers consider what they can “afford” by comparing their monthly income against their monthly mortgage payment.

For this reason, a more accurate way to consider the cost of home ownership is through various affordability indices which take interest rates and other borrowing conditions into account. Calculated Risk [1] and First American [2] do an excellent job of this.

A rise in interest rates will likely stifle current home price appreciate unless wage growth offsets this increase at the same time.

[1] https://calculatedrisk.substack.com/p/real-house-prices-pric...

[2] https://www.firstam.com/economics/real-house-price-index/
This should be really easy to settle, like basic undergrad experimental design, double blind study. Hardly a thorough literature search, but I found this reference.

> On average, hidden drug samples were indicated by dogs after 64 s searching time, with 87.7% indications being correct and 5.3% being false. In 7.0% of trials dogs failed to find the drug sample within 10 min.
...
> Dogs were equally efficient at searching in well-known vs. unknown rooms with strange (i.e., non-target novelty) odors (83.2% correct indications), but they were less accurate when searching outside or inside cars (63.5% and 57.9% correct indications respectively).

So that tells me two rough indicators:

- There's a ~5% chance a sniffer dog/handler could put away an innocent person. This is a lower bound, the risk is higher with cues/confirmation bias

- There's only about ~60-80% sensitivity in unfamiliar situations, of what I presume are pretty fresh samples.

You don't have to bust out Bayes' theorem to realize that a cadaver dog accurately hitting scents in the woods months later, stretches credibility.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03790...
That's actually a really good point. I hadn't thought of that. I just wonder which parts would be broken? The good parts or the bad parts? I don't have a problem with advertising per se - in fact, I'm pretty much in favour of it. It does fund a heck of a lot of useful, good stuff. I just struggle with the 'in your face' kind of advertising. JavaScript, for some reason, lends itself to that.
Assuming you mean static code size, my Mu project currently supports an interpreted Lisp (macros, fewer parens, infix) implemented in a compiled memory-safe low-level language without _any_ C in 450KB. The "runtime library" (mostly in the safe low-level language) requires 120KB. Without unit tests, the binary sizes drop down to 200KB and 30KB respectively, which gives you some sense of the space devoted to tests in each case.

As the tests hint, Mu doesn't do anything to try to reduce code size. It's small just by focusing on the essentials. What's left is written for ease of comprehension.

(An example of "essentials": Mu still cannot free memory. I run my programs in Qemu with 2GB which seems to suffice.)

More details: https://github.com/akkartik/mu
I think firefox has cache management problems. I got to the point where even opening an nginx test page off localhost took 1-2 seconds, but clearing the cache seems to have fixed it back to tolerable levels again.
Relevant: "Always Bet on Text (2014)"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26164001
This is really interesting. I’ve been thinking of getting into a VR setup for productivity and collaboration. Would you mind sharing some details about your hardware/software setup? Any pitfalls or difficulties you’ve run into? Motion sickness?
In other words: it's old news that only the wealthy can afford to study the arts and be productive as an artist. But the country doesn't have a workforce development policy either. You have to be independently wealthy to take a few years off to train for a career in a field that's actually in demand!

That's not how it's supposed to be.
Fyt like the day in Glasgow?
OpenVDB 9.0.0
I thought the list of packages to uninstall was interesting: https://github.com/0x192/universal-android-debloater/blob/ma...
Joe Biden gets a win on global taxes at his first G20 as President
That's exactly how i managed to enhance the performance of my site. https://vashishthakapoor.com/
Keeping the features along with performance is a big challenge. Video is really explainatory to fix performance issues.
Every time I read something by Justine Tunney, I am continually reminded of my mediocrity.

I once reached out to them personally to tell them I hope I can be like them when I grow up ;^)

On a serious note, this is one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

The person mentioned that helped them go from 700 -> 500 bytes, the said "Assembly Heisenberg" appears to be entirely obscure on GH too.

Seems like the right set of eyes just happened to find their way to the project at the right time:

https://github.com/agreppin

I wish I was born like this.
Absolutely. Or do you hate dogs too?
Photonic override will shepherd in the final computing platform - so its more important than ever we make sure it is free and open, and not laugh it off and ignore it as Facebook walks in and just owns the whole thing.
I strongly suspect that these CDKs are not very well designed. In particular, what I want is something that lets me generate YAML/etc in a type-safe fashion. That YAML is then the input for an engine which reconciles the desired state with the actual state (a la Terraform or
cloudFormation). The idea is that the “real programming language” layer just allows us to DRY our YAML. For a use case like this, we don’t need inheritance or methods, but just structs, maps, arrays, and functions; however, these CDKs typically index pretty hard on inheritance and generally make things more complicated than necessary.
> More than 900,000 adult COVID-19 hospitalizations occurred in the United States between the beginning of the pandemic and November 18, 2020. Models estimate that 271,800 (30.2%) of these hospitalizations were attributed to obesity.6”

Hospitalization is a deceptive metric. What's more important is: long term hospitalizations, as well as higher use of treatment (e.g., ICU).

That's that data needed. This other stat - like so many Covid stats - is too high level. The Devil is in the details.
When I was in television, that area was used for time code and closed captioning data. I think also for transmitting the current local time. There were VCRs that could auto-set their clocks from the local PBS station.
It’s a belief. That everyone else is smarter than you.

Opposite of dunning-kruger, where you think you’re smarter than everyone else.
Medical residency was instituted by a cocaine addict. It doesn't make it less insane, but it explains a lot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stewart_Halsted
I don't think I have a need to use Tor but I have seen Gemini mentioned several times here on HN. I definitely need to look into it a bit more. Thanks for that.
If you're killing yourself with drugs in private, it's on you. Despicable choice for sure, and it sucks if a bad environment drove you down this road - but that's on you: don't make me pay for your healthcare.

Trafficking underage girls is obviously a crime against another human being, it's not a victimless crime like drugs and should be punished.
And that’s why text based games dominated the world and no one is playing 3D games?
Which makes "your device" a misnomer here. Roku clearly still owns it.
Houses/Condos are actually getting smaller in most cities to accommodate newer entrants and add density. Yet prices keep rising.

Honda and Toyota built an absolutely massive market building low cost, reliable cars that have sold by the millions. Low end cars get more complex, because we find ways to make them safer which requires more technology.

You won't find an argument from me on education. I'm a firm believer in public education and that education is a cornerstone to providing economic mobility in any society. I wish our public universities were the crown jewels of the country and provided a low cost tuition to any student.

My only push back on the first two, is that it's not just growth in terms of the absolute size or quantity. It's just growth in terms of the monetary system which results in "growth" of the asset price.
Not really on topic but I found myself looking around this website and this is easily the most interesting personal site I've seen on HN, and then from reading all the angry posts by the right people Justine also seems like the most interesting personality I've seen on here.
Solid explanation of the capthcha world and alternatives.
It's just because they had a massive head start and targeted an older generation. Also if that 37% includes smart tv's with "roku" built in that is artificially inflating the number.
C++20: Reaching for the Aims of C++ – Bjarne Stroustrup – CppCon 2021
It would be interesting to profile these sites and make PRs for Firefox to fix any possible issues, then see how long it takes for Google to find new ways to make them slow again.
> Performance is meaningless once it's good enough.

There is no level of performance that is "good enough".
One person's "good enough" is another person's "pain to use" and it's someone else's "I can't buy that computer that I would like because it will not run this software well".
Faster software means more options for the consumer, less energy usage and it will be easier to make computers because they don't have to be crazy fast.

I have a computer that is not one of the fastest in the world.
I love this computer.
It's tiny, beautiful and silent (no fans).
When using this computer I can clearly see how slow a lot of software is.
It's not the computer that is slow because it's definitely possible to write software that runs really fast on this computer.

One thing that programmers can do to make the situation better is to underclock your CPU when testing your software.
On Linux this is very easy; just write the value "800000" to the files that match "/sys/bus/cpu/devices/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq".
Now your CPU will run no faster than 800Mhz.
This will help you to notice when your program gets slow much earlier.
And if you then think the performance is "good enough", it's very likely that your users will think so too because most people have a CPU that runs faster than 800MHz.
Motivations Other Than Anxiety
Part of the value of the original was kids could see and feel how it worked. That made it a fascinating toy. It's all been lost.
Uh, while many places in SF are indeed bad, the “sensitive” place the BoS claims to be protecting - Mint Plaza - is surrounded by apartments that already rent for $5500-$6500 per month.
I was replying to something. Just read the comment I was replying to. Also, yes, many languages have more than two genders. That’s a non-binary gender system. But no particular word in those languages is “non-binary”.
Is it really horrific to sleep in a bed where someone had sex?
The Fall and Rise of Techno-Globalism
Yup HN is legacy at this point. A bunch of old people yelling at clouds. It’s the new Slashdot. So it goes.
I don't know, I own an Oculus Quest and some games are definitely amazing. Beat Sabre and I Expect You To Die for example. I love them.

But I still rarely use it. Even completely wireless it's still a hassle to get out, and not especially comfortable or easy to wear. And even shifting it slightly results in things going out of focus so you need it lines up just right.

Plus very few people have big empty dedicated VR rooms so you have to move furniture.

There's definitely potential but there's zero chance people are going to use this routinely for work even in a few tech generations. It would need to get to the weight and convenience of wearing sunglasses, with an angular resolution close to that of a real monitor.

We're probably 40 years away from that tech.

For gaming I think it will get more and more popular. For socialising and work? No chance.
Sure you mean 3.3KiloBytes per second. That would be about 30 kilobits per second.
I feel for this woman because it sounds like her situation was really hard. At the same time, I have a hard time believing she didn’t hear what literally everyone who wants to do a humanities PhD hears: do not pay for it. Do. Not. Pay for it.

She was paying £8,000 a year in fees! Nearly any professor in any humanities department will tell you that’s a terrible, terrible idea. Especially while trying to survive in London!

A PhD can be a good idea or a bad one depending on what you are studying and where, but paying to do a humanities PhD is never going to be a good idea unless you are independently (very) wealthy.
This is the start of a horror novel.
Along those lines, I don't care how interesting the title, I don't click links to YouTube vlogs posted on HN. If you can't be bothered to write down your thoughts, they must not be worth very much.
you're kind of agreeing with the parent. salespeople are clearly required by capitalism, but aren't directly responsible for extracting resources or converting them into something useful.
OK, so make that "the overwhelming majority of Eastern Europe", then.
I've been using nomad for smaller setups in AWS and it's been great.

The biggest issue I've encountered on it is when you move out of AWS (and you can't apply EC2-based IAM) but still have S3-hosted artifacts. Specifically it cannot receive Vault secrets for the artifact credentials because the nomad templates get applied at a much later stage.
As I understand it its bcs the military wants organizations that can function under long term stress and pressure. If personnel is always sleep deprived you will find the processes that doesn't work in that kind of environment, before you go in hot.
It's so bad here that you can work your ass off on the national AVERAGE income and the bank still won't lend you enough for a house...
Hope your parents have money!
How to help a programming student get unstuck
That similar question and this entire thread reminds me of xkcd 2173. [0] We obviously already let neural networks detect drugs and drive cars, though the former gets to wear a nice fluffy fur coat.

[0] https://xkcd.com/2173/
Where did you see these ads? I see no ads at all on my Apple TV so I’m curious.
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Agreed - As far site content that gets posted. I also like rachelbythebay.

But for commenters, there are lots of interesting people.
Typing this on a Nokia phone, and former employee.

The biggest blame lies on the Nokia management board and the bonus they promised Elop, when he managed to sell the Mobiles business unit.

Fully agree with the development experience though, with C++/CX and .NET Native, with the current state better not even bother, though.
As Twitter, YouTube, Facebook etc have become censorship platforms (with corporate journalists and legislators demanding more censorship) it is natural that other countries will follow suit and censor the censorship platforms.
I read/watched some long time ago that for the majority of farmers wanting to provide hay for their animals, it makes no economic sens to grow their own.

This means that most of the hay being consumed is purchased somewhere else.
And let me tell you, Redhat 6 did not like the Winmodem
I think the Roku Ultra is a great product, can't speak to the other levels, but it works really well in comparison to google's parade of stuff, amazon fire stick, apple tv, and smart tv apps on Samsung, LG, and Sony TVs. Also the remote finder is quite handy.

For me, the best aspect of it was their openness. All of the other competing products had their own streaming services, which meant problems with the other providers- why they spun this off from Netflix in the first place. This means the search will go across the different services to answer the pressing question of the day- which service is this content on and at what price? I was considering starting a company to offer this service until Roku met my need there.

Now though, the battle with Google over YouTube has me suspicious of this status. The temptation to chase recurring revenue streams is quite high.
I think it's pretty generally applicable. If you think about it, there couldn't be a controversy if one of the options was clearly and demonstrably better than the other.

Even manufactured controversies like 5G crackpots or snake oil cures seems to often revolve around these nebulous long term effects that hover like a mirage right on the precipice of what's testable, hinted at with a generous interpretation of the scientific literature, but never quite rigorously demonstrated.
> Sure it is, because the jobs are everywhere internet is.

How does an ICU nurse take care of a patient over the Internet? How does a cashier ring through groceries of a shopper over the Internet?
The trafficking of underage girls (and the trafficking of adults, for that matter) is a crime in and of itself, not because of what they are being trafficked to do, and it's a shockingly immoral misattribution of blame to say that the problem with trafficking is the crime of prostitution being "committed" by the victims of trafficking.

(Analogously, this is why law enforcement professionals and the like have been moving to the term "child sexual abuse material" instead of "child pornography": the problem with it is not that it's pornography, it's that it's sexual abuse.)

It is not only entirely possible to fight the crime of trafficking people and forcing them to do certain acts without criminalizing those acts, it is in fact significantly more effective. Imagine, for instance, if Abraham Lincoln had tried to eliminate slavery by declaring that picking cotton was illegal. Not only would it not have addressed the problem, it would have made the problem worse - slaves are in no position to refuse to do an act because it's illegal, and a fugitive slave would be liable for the crimes they committed as a slave.
I think libgen deserves even more respect!
IIRC, hypervisors have to preserve CPU registers and other processor-related state when switching between "worlds". This is why mitigations for CPU vulnerabilities affects hypervisors too.

Most compilers assume that emitting the code in certain modes (SSE/AVX etc.) have particular cost. That cost may drastically change depending on how the implementation of the hypervisors handles the registers in question.
Well, if any significant percentage of the existing mortgages are adjustable-rate mortgages, then as soon as rates begin to rise, a lot of them will go from affordable to unaffordable, all at the same time. Which ought to sound familiar...
Uhm yeah not everybody wants to live in the country side.
> Vaccines aren’t a magic bullet.

That's not what the narrative says. It's earier (and popular) to say "it's a pandemic of the unvaxinated" than to tell the truth. That is, diet, lifestyle and personal health matter. They impact day to day heatlth, and they impact your ability to recover from unplanned health challenges (e.g., car accident, Covid, etc.)

The idea that there is zero connection between diet + lifestyle and health is completely unscientific. To promote / deny that during a pandemic is insane.
I still have my USR Courier :)

It would be fun to test if it would still work but I have no landline anymore and I'm not sure where to dial too.