skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The newest episode of CSI: Vegas included a segment highlighing "gait analysis" as a technique used to identify a suspect from camera footage. To their credit, one of the characters mentions that it's too new of an approach to hold up in court on its own, but as per other error-prone identification techniques investigators have used and abused in the past, I imagine that data as in TFA throws a wrench into the chances of it ever seeing primetime.
There are a lot of really interesting things on Neocities. Check out their Browse section, enter a tag of anything you're interested in, set the filter, and check out what's there:

https://neocities.org/browse

I've also been having a lot of fun on minus which is a minimal social network that gives each user a lifespan of 100 posts max:

https://minus.social/
do you have a falsifiable prediction about this bubble?
Excerpt from my reMarkable → settings → Help → Copyrights and licenses → General information:

> The General Public License version 3 and the Lesser General Public License version 3 also requires you as an end-user to be able to access your device to be able to modify the copyrighted software licensed under these licenses running on it.

> To do so, this device acts as an USB ethernet device, and you can connect using the SSH protocol using the username 'root' and the password 'hunter2'.

(Incidentally, “an USB”—are they pronouncing “usb” as one syllable or something?)

So COGlory is actually roughly right. They could disable SSH, but would need to replace it with something at least vaguely similar for GPLv3 and LGPLv3 compliance for other parts of the software.
Bugs in our pockets: the risks of client-side scanning
Picking a Wedge to Win a Market
Breakthrough or bust? Claim of room-temperature superconductivity draws fire
Though dependency management is quite easy to manage in rust (as with many high level languages) whereas I would argue dependency management isn't as simple in C/C++ which should boost library consumption and creation.

I know depending on boost or qt might be really easy, but the amount of different toolsets you must know to depend on randomlib is too damn high. I wish though that it doesn't end up like npm, I also hope there'll be some kind of "meta standard library" which integrates different mainstream building block libraries into something that's easy to consume coherently.
My parents installed Geothermal a few years ago, which was expensive, like 30k I think, and it's helped, but not a ton as the line is still going under a frozen river in the winter, so the prices I quoted above are after geothermal. I think I saw a comment thread a few months back about how a lot of people got taken by the promises of geothermal and how they don't really do much for people in cold areas. It's great in the summer mind you. My buddy who works for Hydro One said a lot of folks end up paying the same or more after the install of geothermal because of how cold it is, which is really unfortunate. I looked at a big, nicer house in Nova Scotia that had dual geothermal and I was just drooling until I got my hands on the heating bills and was so confused why it was still so expensive.

They don't have wood burning and they are too old to be able to handle it anyway, you'd die from all the wood you'd have to cut and move and deal with. They said oil wasn't viable, and I don't think their house is setup for it anyway. They are worried about snow removal where they live as it's just too much for them now and it's so easy to get stranded for days, even though the city does eventually plow that road.

Where they live it's regularly -30 to -40c in the winter. They were snowbirds until Covid hit.
Baloney.

Why is it hard to add server-side detection for line-of-sight when a player shoots at another player? The client should not be telling the server "I shot Player 2 and did X damage". Instead, the client should be saying "I shot in X direction at Y time" and the server should be reconstructing the world at Y time (As described in the Lag Compensation page of the article) to determine a hit. The server should be performing line-of-sight checks.

In a game like PUBG, there's no reason a player should be popping headshots against players a mile away when there's a hill and/or several buildings between them. But the game allows clients to decide when they score a hit. At least, it did in the past.
I got "minitel"
GIMP is an acronym (GNU Image Manipulation Program).
The Pango dynamic nomenclature is a system for identifying SARS-CoV-2
I don't buy the slippery slope argument here, but I'll take it at face value. Good. Taxes have been declining for decades -- in the 1950s the highest marginal tax rate was like 95%. Now, even with a progressive tax system, in practice when all the dimes are counted it comes out to basically a flat tax[1][2] except for the billionaires who pay less than the rest of us -- now even lower than working class workers[2]. If increasing taxation reduces wealth inequality, so be it, even if it affects me. We all pay a price to reap the benefits of our society.

[1] from the book Triumph of Injustice. If I recall correctly, all taxes added up comes out to about a 30% flat tax for everyone except billionaires. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45894166-the-triumph-of-...

[2] https://sven-giegold.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/europe-ca...
that wasn't the question asked.

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, and assume you're genuinely trying to describe Onavo's value exchange from your perspective.

But it demonstrates the dissonance between a growing proportion of the public and fb. For example:

1. Facebook's use of "Integrity" is duplicitous. I'd wager strongly that the general public would assume the word to have its common-language meaning: that Facebook is operating 'with integrity'. That OP's comment is necessary evidences that the meaning is not as would be expected. To your earlier question, that is the "accusation".

2. "looks like your morals are that products that are free in exchange for anonymously analyzing your data are immoral". This is also duplicitous. It is increasingly clear that the cost of Facebook's products is very much more than "anonymously analyzing your data". Impacting teenage mental health[0] or polarizing political opinion[1] as just two examples.

I suggest you re-read @tedivm's post:

> Most of society is against spyware. It's not a controversial topic- spyware is pretty frowned upon. Spying on people does, to most people, show a lack of integrity. So does much of the other actions Facebook has taken and which are now coming out in these leaks.

Your comments about Onavo might be factually correct, but you're missing the point. The reality of the surveillance economy is slowly seeping into societal consciousness, and it's not landing well. That Google/Apple/whomever also engage in it doesn't legitimise the behaviour.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/14/facebook-...

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-vortex-political-polari...
Honestly, kind of boring results.

- Volume wins out: there are lots of teachers and nurses

- Like-marries-like: most marry someone in their own profession

Not that boring is bad. Just interesting that the trends overshadow any kind of special results.
the problem is Search engines suck really really badly at finding good sites. I think the war between SEO spammers and search engines has been won by the SEO spammers. And the search engine filters are now so exclusive that 99% of the good content gets filtered out. this has been a growing problem over the last 15 years but it's getting so bad that even technical searches are starting to suck.

Just as an example: in the last few days all i wanted to find was a single Dockerfile setup that worked out of the box. and nearly every single example I could find in the top 20 results was broken.

I mean, try looking up subjects that many people have written about. For example: "Why does climate change matter?" Nearly every single top 20 search result sucks really bad with barely 3 to 5 paragraphs not even going into depth. We know for a fact there are hundreds of extremely in-depth articles that cover this subject with great depth and examples, and explanations.
They do a lot more than that. A lot of the symptoms (coughing, sneezing, etc.) increase infectivity. The vaccines reduce not only the likelihood you'll get symptoms at all but if you do they reduce both the longevity and severity.

Saying "well you're just less likely to go to the hospital" underplays their importance and gives unnecessary credence to the completely false notion that if you don't get vaccinated the only person you're potentially hurting is yourself.
This took about 8 seconds to come back. A little longer and I'd think this was just a mechanical turk front-end with especially witty workers taking the jobs:

https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/LdrP
Could it be that your over 30?

There is a problem known as the multi-armed bandit problem[0]. The problem deals with situations where you have to chose between different options you could take, but you don't start off with full knowledge of the options. You can spend time learning the options (exploring) or you can spend time using the best option you already know of (exploit). Importantly, you can't do both at the same time.

In general, good strategies start with a phase of exploring followed by exploiting.

Humans follow this pattern as well. For us, it seems we spend our late childhood, thru our teens, and into our early 20's in a heavily explore-biased state then switch to exploit biased for our 30's and later.

So the thing that happened to "exploring the internet" is you got older. Exploring for the sake of exploring is no longer as innately desirable to you know as it was when you were younger. You can still do it now. In many ways there are new tools that make it easier (see other posts) but it will likely feel more like work in a way which wasn't true when you were younger.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit
I worded it poorly (and it wasn't really anything worth saying in the context of COVID), but:

A population with 5% naturally-induced/80% vaccine-induced immunity might see more spread of a new variant than a population with 25%/60%, however the total outcomes would still be better in the first population; so "less protected" was definitely the wrong thing to say.

Naturally-induced immunity for COVID is stronger because it targets more than just the spike protein, and it presumably[0] grants better mucosal immunity than our current vaccines induce, but of course the risk/cost of natural infection is very high.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8358136/
Anyone have counter examples to this? Companies that seemingly won the market without clearly defining a narrow wedge?
I got "minitel" for the word that does not exists which is kind of weird on HN...
I kind of assumed this came with an HTTP api, woops :) I've been using Airtable with Workers for tiny side projects. This seemed like a nice alternative to Airtable's lack of support for vanilla SQL.
Wiley has an e-book version here: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Informed+Company%3A+How+to+B...
China First to Exascale–On Two Separate Supercomputers
I also have an interesting one, 'f.head'

https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/XB2q
TFA: "Oftentimes, people marry someone in the same industry or with the same job."
MPA Wants Cryptocurrency Exchanges to Help Identify Online Pirates
Pax had much better APIs for payment integration and was much more friendly to developers than Verifone, Ingenico and other merchant processing hardware manufacturers.

They were the equivalent of Ubiquiti in the pinpad space, when they entered the US market small and medium businesses had little choice besides them (or a much more expensive solution like Square where you do not get to choose your payment processor and pay dearly in fees) if they wanted to have a pinpad that showed custom promotions as a wallpaper, asked for email/phone #, stored cards for recurring payments, could change processors with a hands off remote key injection.

For Point of Sale developers you either get to integrate with a godawful middleware like Datacap or do a direct integration with Ingenico or Verifone and a single payment processor, which creates significant vendor lockin. Your only alternatives were Pax and later Dejavoo offering simple APIs for semi-integrated payments.
I have to say that as a rails dev I've never found there to be a lack of documentation. Not if there's even a little bit of a PR process in place.
Rails in general is a huge proponent of test, then code. The tests are the documentation. They tell you what params methods take, and what the output should be.

I'll admit I've never worked on a team over 100, but I have worked on older code bases.

When we found bugs, we wrote new tests to cover the edge case.

Also if someone had "input" as a variable name for a public method, and that made it into main, that's a failing of the PR process.

Most of the complaints here could be replicated in almost any language. In a c++ project I worked on in the 2000's I had a dev create a function void rct(int data). I (as lead) made him rename both the function and the param.
Maybe if you just have a flat world where you move in any direction with a max speed, but this sort of anti-cheat becomes incredibly difficult once you add features like terrain, physics, vehicles, things like gliders (in BR games), speed boosts, etc. It's possible, but takes a lot more effort.

For example, in Fortnite, if you toggle a lagswitch (as in, block Fortnite UDP for some time), then reconnecting to the server will return you to the same position you were at when you disconnected, assuming you were just trying to run on the ground. However, if you toggle a lagswitch in a vehicle, the servers don't want to do expensive, complicated physics server-sided, so your client becomes authoritative to your position and the sanity checks are simply making sure you're not teleporting around large chunks of the map in seconds. If you were to hack your client and give your vehicle moon gravity, the server generally wouldn't care about that.
Comment A2 is pure gold

"Commented [A2]: Whoever wrote this sentence might
be the same person who writes patents. It would be
helpful in the future to write and speak in plain English.
You are dealing with an ordinary court, not a patent
examiner.
The Apothio's Initial Litigation Offering
Maybe computers aren't creative, but imo there's a stronger argument to discount creativity in the first place then: https://www.markfayngersh.com/post/the-thinking-placebo
I asked myself this question about a year ago. There are a lot of sites similar to Stumbleupon, but all of them were exhausted quite fast or had the same sites listed. That's why I built my own internet discovery website based on what I remembered from Stumbleupon.
https://stumbled.to
Douglas Adams

Good call! Many of these do seem to have an Adams tone to them.
Maybe but from the way they violate the GPL license and keep distributing binary blobs for their hardware I'd go out on a limb and say the money angle is more likely.
Both the Android and web clients are promising, it's clear there's been a lot of work put into it, but they're also way too buggy and unpolished to recommend. As such, I'm really not eager to use this feature.

I would pay/donate just for them to improve the clients, regardless of this "Element One" service. It's an extremely important project.
55% of degrees from for-profit schools have a negative ROI, compared to 24% from public schools.

Further,

"Attending a very elite school and choosing the right field often has a significant payoff. The best program anywhere in the United States is the computer science major at the California Institute of Technology. Graduates of this well-regarded program can expect an ROI of $4.41 million over the course of their careers. Not far behind is the finance major at the University of Pennsylvania’s famous Wharton School, where lifetime ROI is $4.35 million."
14th Amendment violations are only in play when a government tries to advantage or disadvantage based on sexual orientation and thus we have fully resolved the issue of if you have to make a cake for a gay wedding. You don't since you're not a government. Nice, simple easy, see my point?
A friend of mine uses an Onyxbook (not sure what model) extensively for note taking and he seems pretty happy with it. Software developer with a bit of math thrown in, to get an idea of what he writes on it.
I tried supabase and went with another solution because it didn't have a good dev/stage/prod system
Energy squeeze will trigger social unrest, Blackstone's Schwarzman says
Allwinner? Maybe, but I highly doubt it. They're one of the worst offenders when it comes to releasing sources.[0]

[0] https://linux-sunxi.org/GPL_Violations
Sounds like the hiker didn't think they were lost, and had no reason to expect that anyone would be looking for them.
Make it discontinued?
Okay, but you presented it as a whole statement and I clarified multiple times what I was contradicting in your posr? I also presented a nuanced argument based in real world usage, whereas you went off on projecting your uninformed opinions as fact.

Maybe get off the high horse.
Hey there! Co-Founder and CEO of Vantage here.

We're listening. Happy to get this added as an option :)
Yes it’s very bad and it doesn’t have to be that way. The mass chemical use must be profitable but there is a great cost to the land and the environment to do so.

This is why it is so upsetting that Bill Gates is pushing this kind of chemical intensive farming all over Africa and positioning himself to profit off the transition too. Once again harming the continent and its people for profit while telling them it’s good for them.

EDIT: He's also buying up all the farm land with water rights in the USA. He is the single largest holder of US farmland. So when drought inevitably comes and swaths of farmland become too dry to use, he will profit. If you apply to one of their foundation grants for agriculture, you will see a big emphasis on "bundled services", so they seem to want to build a "farm as a service" system where farmers don't own anything. It's a new enclosure movement where the lords own everything and everyone else pays them to use the land. We have enough in this world we can live pretty cheaply if we work together and share in the right ways. But control of the land is vital or we will all die in poverty from rents.
What problem are you solving? I don't get it.
Yeah, I really don't think you should (and neither should I), since we're never as smart as we think we are.

The author did not mean tortious, but instead tortuous. But one immediately gathers this from the context anyway. Who cares what the spelling is?
I drive long distances through Europe every now and then since 2009-ish. That's only 12 years and much of my drive is through farmland and forests, no lights other than the cars for at least 1000km in aggregate. In 2009 the windshield and lights would need a solid scrub every couple hundred km. Now I don't bother cleaning when refuelling.
What the global statement means in Python – Luca Chiodini
Dozens a day? Sheesh. That’s a ridiculous amount.

I got I think three in two days so I started answering, after holding the “business loan purveyor” on the line for three minutes he called me a fucker, hung up, and I stopped getting calls.

Every now and again I get them again so I answer, try to get the warranty extended on my 1992 Honda registered under Jack Mehoff’s name and then they go back away for another few months.

It’s like getting the opportunity to do improv every couple months and seeing how far you can get.

My phone ends up being much quieter than most people’s as far as I can tell.
Why not just update the vaccine with the corresponding sequence from the Delta variant? Isn't the Delta variant today a better baseline than the ancestral virus?

Or do a mix - first shot ancestral, second shot Delta.
Sigh

I gave tons of examples and an entire decade with bipartisan deregulation as the norm. It seems that you're ignoring what I actually wrote, all while demanding more evidence I already gave and offering none of your own. I'm forced to conclude that you're not really acting in good faith, and that there's no point in continuing.
> because they're stealing the purchasing power that I worked hard to obtain...

"Purchasing power" is exactly CPI inflation, not monetary inflation.

> And I would say my personal CPI seems to track money supply inflation pretty closely.

This I can buy. If the CPI figures are wrong, then we need to get ones that are right. But CPI inflation is still the one we actually care about.

Why should we not care about monetary inflation? Well, say the population doubles. Either the monetary supply has to double, or each dollar is worth twice as much. (In case you think "that sounds good": it stinks if, say, you owe a mortgage and each dollar you pay back is twice as valuable.)

Yes, I know that's not why the monetary supply inflated over the last 15 years. The point stands: CPI inflation is the one that actually affects us.