skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess,
1 He found/was given an off the shelf fungal sensor designed to detect pneumonia
2 He hooked it up to a raspi
3 He trained a small tensorflow model to give true/false signals based on the input

All in all, not that bad of a little hack.

What I'm most disappointed by these science fare projects is that its often found that the parents of the child are top engineers in the specific field of the projects. In this case, perhaps his mom is a Sr Engineer at a company producing artificial noses aimed at detecting pneumonia where she is in charge of developing dev-kits and SDKs that happen to include sample tensor flow models.

What annoys me is that the story is often one of a kid, against all odds, learning all of this tech out of their own gumption. Where in the same science fare, there probably was a kid who had no help from their parents, who hacked together a 'are the lights on' circuit, using hand-me-down tech components, who's getting no notice.
But now your password manager (notebook) is vulnerable to fire and water damage, with no backup or recovery options.
> - he works A LOT (usually not shown on screen, but sometimes mentionned by him, and you can infer that a given piece of information took a lot of time to discover)

One episode where they actually showed some of that is the one where the murderer was the architect of a high-rise building. He needed the plans or some time with the building authority to have something explained to him, and he was shown waiting in line for a whole day with all the people applying for building permits, getting pushed from office to office, etc.
Zoning and local vetocracy (aka NIMBYism) ruined people's ability to afford home.

The horror here is that we have artificially limited house building and at the same time encouraged the population to treat it as an asset class.

We treat residential real estate like crypto-bros treat their NFTs.
You are clearly biased and there's no possible way we can have a discussion. Enjoy your day.
> Companies like 1Password have all your passwords in their cloud.

But they are end-to-end encrypted, so if someone broke into their database they would be useless unless they also had access to your device.
"2. A wealth tax would be hard / impossible to implement."

This is the standard excuse for stopping any thoughts of changes in the US. Let's not even think about improvements because they are impossible anyway. A sane health care system is impossible, doing something about rising wealth inequality isn't possible, reducing opioid deaths is impossible. The only things that seem possible are things to move even more money into the hands of wealthy people. I still remember how in 2008 Congress quickly was able to produce 750 billion when the banks and the banker's money was threatened.
"Coolness" is not in what I use inside my product but how "cool" customers think it is because of features, robustness, price etc. It feels very "cool" to me when my products work and serve customers.

>"Now, I am a maker of the new development tools."

This is a part where I spend money. Good tools are very valuable as they directly save me time / money.

>"The point is that many new tools and technologies bring a very limited value to the finished working products."

Even for new ones. For example my servers are modern C++. In theory I should be using Rust / Go for new ones if I listen to a chorus. Guess what modern C++ works just fine for me and produces stellar results hence no reason for me to switch. I do some toy projects with new languages / tech to get a grip and be aware just in case.
> It should be noted that there has been some confusion over the past few years because people think that the first amendment protects people’s freedom of speech anywhere. It actually only protects your freedom of speech from the government

Yes, many people believe the first amendment protects and creates consequences free free speech between individuals and private sector businesses. Some even double down on this misunderstanding by saying it should, and that there is a philosophical free speech they want to employ. I consider this a fan fiction.

I’m pretty content using people’s fan fiction version of private sector free speech against them.

It just means I have a better grip on reality than they do. It means they are divorced from the processes of consensus in our reality, and I can leverage the existing system more cunningly. Despite the popularity of their misunderstanding of free speech, their fan fiction version of it has no consensus and cannot reach any threshold to alter reality in their favor.
if you needed a recommendation for legal representation:

https://www.torekeland.com/
Leveraging machine learning to find security vulnerabilities
That is a great idea. I feel like the disorganization could even be a feature because then people won't feel like they are breaking something with adding to it.
>The complaint this time isn't about the police using unnecessary force to brutalize the public. Our complaint is that they haven't upheld the law, and are acting like 'buddies' with the people that they are supposed to be ticketing/incarcerating.

What law have they not upheld? Some microscopic municipal bylaws? Can a municipal government create bylaws to criminalize peaceful assembly? I guess I have my answer, the Ottawa police says no.

>We just want the police to do their fucking job.

They have been so far. Great job Ottawa police.
Japan price to income ratio is bad but that speaks more to horrifically low wages.

They've also been more aggressive about taxing real estate investment (they leaned their lesson in the 80s) and their zoning laws aren't captured by local busybodies.
> last year you could have bought a $300k home for $15k in cash and pay around $2k in mortgage/taxes/insurance.

How do I find these loans? My partner and I are looking to buy our first home soon and have been agonizing over whether or not to go for a lower down payment % at the cost of higher monthly payments, or a higher down payment % at the cost of not being able to afford much for our area (where 500k is about the minimum for a house)
Google does apparently know of some.
Current monetary policy is literally a massive transfer of purchasing power from currency holders (poor and middle-class people who keep their savings in cash or low-interest bank accounts) to the first people to spend the money, which is the people and institutions working in the financial system. If I counterfeit a billion dollars and go out and spend it all, I've got more stuff and everyone else is a little bit poorer. If the central bank prints a bunch of money and lends it to its buddies in the finance industry for near-zero interest rates, they get more stuff and everyone else gets a little poorer.

Now this argument wouldn't apply if it was possible for the average person to borrow money directly from the central bank at the same near-zero interest rate the banks pay, but that isn't the case.
Your traffic is incredible. I would work to understand the business use cases better and create a B2B niche service tailored specifically to one or more of those (API, more detailed info, custom solution, etc.). I don't know that growing your traffic overall needs to be a target. Rather, catering to an existing segment and/or growing that segment may be a better use of time and resources.
Possibly. For some, substance abuse is one escape—one way of dealing with inner demons. There are other destructive, occupying things than substances that can stop talent and productive potential from yielding much at all
Why not? both cars will last roughly twice as long. Meaning if you can live with owning your cars twice as long there should be no extra embedded energy needed. (And one of the cars could even be an electric one you charge using ample solar powet
There's a large gradient between "custom" and custom. Modifying an already designed home is so much cheaper than something from the ground up. As in, thousands vs tens of thousands. Depending on where you live and what you're building, that's a decent % of the total cost of a house.
How to Think Less About Data Visualization
Is the headline being a straight-up lie a valid reason for flagging? The kid did not diagnose pneumonia. He came up with an idea for a design that might hypothetically detect pneumonia.
And then there's Civil Forfeiture here in the US that is just a legal form of highway robbery.
that seems impossible by definition? we're talking about factors that the market doesn't account for (externalities), which can't have a value because they aren't traded. what units are you going to use for magnitude?
This is the only one I use. I've used it for like 5 years and have hundreds of passwords stored. Everything is offline and encrypted with GPG along with being command line driven. It's the ultimate tool for someone who primarily uses a workstation or laptop.
If your colleagues are leveraging substantial undocumented overtime, you're going to find out eventually. If you know someone is in the office 40 hours a week and they submit massive pull requests first thing in the morning, even Monday mornings, for problems you know they hadn't solved or started the night or week before, you should suspect something's up. Sooner or later, if someone's breaking their neck, they will resent team members who aren't putting in the same effort, and they'll slip and admit to the amount of time they're putting in, directly or indirectly.

Granted, it's easier to hide this now when everyone's working from home.

> I’ve worked with people who could accomplish as much in two hours as I did in two days. Would it be “toxic” to work in such an environment?

No, why would that be toxic?
> The success rate doesn't need to be 100% for my point to be valid.

Yes it does. You were arguing that Apple can prevent competition from ever arising. This isn't the case, clearly.

Yes of course there is inefficiency, I never said there wasn't. It would take a long time and a lot of money to build a mobile device as capable as an iPhone. That amount of time/money basically dictates how Apple can behave in the marketplace. If Apple triples its prices, for instance, competitors will become much more appealing both to users and investors.

All of this profit is Apple's return on the initial investment of developing the iPhone and App Store. This was an existentially risky thing for them to do, and we should not hinder the profits brought about by its success, lest we discourage others from attempting the same.

It's not at all clear that these regulations will create a more innovation-oriented market. It could well be that they will hinder innovation. Do you have any ideas on how we can tell for sure? I think we should be pretty confident before using regulation, don't you?
I can't imagine this "working."

As a Disney fan-- someone who went to the parks weekly for a decade -- they've managed to do the unthinkable, ruin their brand through raising prices while cutting the quality of the experience and pissing on their fans.

Disney isn't a premium experience anymore but it's still a premium-priced. There might be a market for a Disney city, I don't know-- there's more money than common sense as the saying goes-- but Disney is failing on every level. They've ruined their entertainment business, ruined Marvel, ruined Star Wars, ruined their resorts, and every venture they step into is failing-- look no further than the Star Cruiser resort which is incredibly lame.
The former secretary of labor Alex Acosta, who prosecuted Epstein back in 2008, made a remark that he was told that Epstein "belonged to intelligence" and that the matter was "above his pay grade", which is why he offered him such a lenient plea deal.

It's not even concealed
What in the world do you mean by the communism/collectivism thing?

This was a move by the Trump administration, was it not? And especially the "no ability to track" part of the handout to big business.
Code scanning finds more vulnerabilities using machine learning
The hand-wavy hypotheticals were there in both of our posts.

And where you said "It's none of your business what 10% of people are doing. I don't know how it degrades quality of life" you were also explicitly hand-waving away the costs that these businesses impose on those not directly involved in the transactions.

So yes, in my post I was at least considering these costs. In your post, you were choosing to wave them away as inconsequential. I certainly do see the difference.
No. I have a free app (100% free) on the app store for a few years now. No issues with Apple.
I've known several people that were exceptionally talented and provided a product that couldn't otherwise be had...They were also really bad at business. Paying on time, Billing on time, TRACKING DOWN outstanding bills...pricing their services at a fair and competitive rate and doing so in a way that keeps them fed.

It's not the magic trick, it's the marketing that makes or breaks a business.
"So you had a strong incentive to increase salaries, hire more workers, invest in more machinery, diversify, etc. simply because getting more cash out of a business wasn't worth it"

Unfortunately they focused on increasing executive salaries and forgot about the rest.
This mission architecture is kinda cool
It could fit in neatly with Starship
Facebook cannot read the content of messages sent in WhatsApp.

You really don't *know* this.

The app is not open source so they can send anything they want to their servers --- including the decryption key.

Any executable connecting with Facebook has the potential to facilitate privacy invasion in any number of different ways.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/17/chrome_meta_token/
And, what's your point? Why this isn't an automatic update - I thought that the premise of ChromeOS is escape from Windows' update nightmare.
I lived in the Museum District/Third Ward in Houston for almost 2 decades now. Houston definitely has zoning. We just don't call it zoning. In fact, in addition to stealth zoning, we have neighborhood based facility also where even people in a neighborhood can tell you to piss off.

I'm not familiar with the ordinances in Dallas, but I think this may not be as much of an apples to apples comparison as you imagine if the thesis of that comparison is that "Houston has no zoning".

You have to find an actual free city to do the comparison.
If you're a Mac Web Developer, check out Nova by Panic. https://nova.app/
A brief summary of proposed methods and their feasibility and a link to further literature may do a bit better at getting your point across than the name of a youtube channel that close to 0% of the people reading this are going to seek out at your say-so.
So you mean "Business Secrets Of The Pharaohs" isn't actually a good book to buy?
That statement in particular isn't what's crazy, of course various people of the elite strata will work and socialize and collaborate together to various extents.

The craziness is the specifics of certain conspiracy theories. For example the idea that covid itself is a conspiracy, or the there is a conspiracy to suppress ivermectin.

I have to agree with the view that outlandish conspiracy thinking isn't only wrong, it is actively dangerous and should be argued against strenuously. It was a large part of Nazi propaganda that motivated a genocide, so that is an existence proof of a danger associated with such unhinged thinking if it's allowed to go unchallenged in public discourse.
> Now this argument wouldn't apply if it was possible for the average person to borrow money directly from the central bank at the same near-zero interest rate the banks pay, but that isn't the case.

Any time you take out a mortgage (at well below inflation by the way) you are obtaining new money "from the printer." The same is true any time you take out a loan.

This whole cantillon effect business is trotted out and flogged each time we mention economics on here but as far as I can tell, nobody has ever even attempted to quantify the impact of the cantillon effect.

> If I counterfeit a billion dollars and go out and spend it all, I've got more stuff and everyone else is a little bit poorer. If the central bank prints a bunch of money and lends it to its buddies in the finance industry for near-zero interest rates, they get more stuff and everyone else gets a little poorer.

This isn't actually true. Japan tripled its M2 money supply since 1990 but both CPI and housing CPI remain dead-ass flat. This model is way too simplistic. Which is why it was thrown out alongside the rest of Austrian economics.

Things that seem intuitive aren't always right.
> Audible and Amazon are the same thing.

I'm acutely aware of this having worked there. They're the same thing to you, but not to most authors. Seeing their [audio]book come up in an Amazon search is distinctly different, even if it all leads you to the same place.

> iTunes: Can't everyone get his/her audiobook on iTunes?

No. At least not when I worked there. Audible was the only way to get into the audiobooks section of iTunes. That may have changed.
A tracked user is anyone who opens your app. Yeah with people who are familiar with survey tools we've heard similar feedback as what you said. The reason we're currently pricing it based on MTUs is because we actually track what users do (i.e. events and sessions) in the background, and give you the option of targeting any specific user cohort anywhere in their user flow to get the most relevant and contextual feedback in the moment. So our vision is to give you qualitative + quantitative insights in one wholistic view. A second reason is that our product's goal isn't to give you some static reports, but rather we'd want to help you GROW your user base with insights - build features users care about, address the issues they had in your conversion funnel, so you can grow. That said, we are staying flexible and open-minded so some situations we do have custom pricing with our customers based on their needs if that's more special.
But how do you prevent the users from thinking the problem was the non-App Store content instead of an update? They ARE going to contact support anyway
Piketty’s empirical research has been thoroughly refuted and found to have major gaps that it’s not even funny anymore. This is why he hasn’t won the Nobel, for research that if actually accurate would have otherwise been a shoe in for the prize.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/05/wh...
Thank you! I am very glad you are enjoying it.
Good article that gets into the details of leveraging Home Assistant (HA) to glue together various types of sensors and switches, etc.

I think categorizing HA users into 2 groups of either technical or non-technical is too coarse. You have to add another dimension that captures how much a user is willing to automate their home (making it "smart").

I'm technical, but my goal is to make things as seamless as possible. For example, my Z-Wave wall switches are the type that allow the original switch to override what the remote command sent. These in-wall Z-Wave switches are embedded in the switch box and the existing switch is then low voltage.

The same for my thermostat. Any household member can override locally. I detect the change and make sure I hold that new value over any automations that run that day.

In the end, my HA setup is pretty minimal with no HA add-ons and a few integrations, such as Z-WaveJS2MQTT and MQTT being the most used. This way I rarely hit any issues upgrading HA.
I'm disappointed to see a story like this getting traction here on HN with such shaky information and reasoning.
> They could have ended QE overnight in January, for example. Why not?

Probably because no one has confidence enough in any model of the effects of such a large change to base policy on it short of a much more glaring problem than any the Fed is actually facing. The combination of unwinding QE over the period between the last meeting and mid-March and the predicted 25-50 basis point rate hike in mid-March is actually the Fed pumping the brakes on the economy really hard.
Banks pretty well everywhere have long had the ability to freeze funds for a variety of offenses without due process.

It's usually sold as a benefit to the consumer (it protects against fraud is the usual claim) but this isn't new. All kinds of transactions can trip automated detection systems leading to account freezes.

I agree that without a court order it's shady but it's not as though this is really that new. The primary change in the legislation is pushing banks to freeze and report the accounts to the agency responsible for dealing with money laundering.

Do I agree with it? Not entirely. However it's not a new thing and exists in widespread use in most of the world in one form or other.
Yeah, I didn't mean it was necessarily too big. I just meant that, due to the architecture of an app where React controls all the client-side routing and interactivity, you need a significant about of JS just to bootstrap the app even if you've only got a very small amount of client interactivity.
True, although if you've fixed the "atmosphere gets stripped away" problem, you've achieved the hard part.
I have a few devices so I store the passwords as a git repo and periodically push/pull between them -- super seamless.
Land is a finite natural resource. Owning more homes than you can live in should get exponentially more expensive the more you purchase. Imagine if we sold chunks of the sea or of the sky off like we sell chunks of land.
I have a mid-price gadget for measuring inside air quality - it detects VOC and formaldehyde, along with PM2.5 / PM 10.

It also detects alcohol from drinking a couple of beers as a dangerous increase in formaldehyde...
In fact, they don’t even guarantee a positive return:

“As detailed in your account agreements, Seashell is not FDIC insured and like any investment product, there is a risk that your investment may lose value.”

https://www.seashell.com/frequently-asked-questions
The Last Days of Myspace
Japan is in decline as a whole, but Tokyo is still growing robustly (at a faster pace than NYC or London in fact) because of urbanization.
That's certainly do-able and given that any spacecraft meant to leave the solar system would almost certainly use a Jupiter gravity assist it wouldn't be any more difficult to steer it into the planet itself.

However, if we were truly determined to get radioactive waste off of Earth and into space we could put it into an Earth escape trajectory and leave it in an orbit high enough so that it doesn't encounter the Earth again. That would save a ton of fuel.

We also have the option of impacting it into the Lunar surface. Radioactive waste is primarily a problem for us here on Earth because we have an atmosphere and a water cycle that causes particles to spread all around the ecosystem. But any waste left on the moon will stay put for billions of years because there's nothing to disturb it.
source code is not open source so end-to-end encryption might not be there when you expect it.
It hurts the traditional character of the neighborhood, too, though: as the people that historically lived there move out (cashing out or just pushed out by rents or property taxes), and an entirely different demographic replaces them at a new price-point.
> Education is not just about earnings potential; it's also an investment in society as a whole. A society with a well-educated population is better off than one without.

Citation needed. The prosperous America you live in was built by generations where the vast majority of people hadn't gone to college. When Intel was founded in 1968, only about 10% of the population had four or more years of post-high school education. When Apple was founded in 1976, that number was still under 15%.

Since then it seems we've hit diminishing returns. 35% of the population has a college degree, but that just means your receptionist has a college degree, where previously they would have been a high school graduate. Waiters and bartenders are more likely to have a bachelors degree today (about 15%) than the general population was back when Intel was founded. Does that make us better off?