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> > This technology is particularly applicable for passports and ID verification

> What if you take a picture of a fake passport?

This technology blocks 50 % of the possibilities of counterfeiting (before or after taking the picture); this is an infinite amount better than the 0 % that other camera vendors deliver.

;-)
>turbokinetic agrees modern refrigerators are more energy efficient but at the expense of longevity and not worth it

Without numbers to back up that claim, that's just their opinion, as is mine. I my experience the energy savings have been significant enough for that to not be a big concern.

There may be an environmental argument here of course, but that's a separate argument than what consumers feel in their pocketbook.
> I called the Bosch service hotline, they told me that the whole body is one "part" that I can buy for ~80% of the original price.

It's eight months old. They *have* to replace it under warranty.
You'll never remove aliasing artifacts.
Yeh I often go solo and after a few experiences, particularly if its unfamiliar, I try to make sure to have a charged backup device with routes etc loaded.

Similiarly I am not arguing against people using a map and compass, but I think the current advice which is entirely focused on map and compass with little guidance for phone users (which if it exists, is always caveated) has a lot more to do with outdoors peoples notions of technological purity and less to do with public health
Ah, I see what you mean, as in digital creation is just another in a long line of technologies used for art creation, and at some point will just be mundane? I agree completely with that.
It will be very hard to extract those keys while hiding evidence of tempering. Yes that leaves the threat of state actors, but they will probably have they keys anyway and still the technology will be good 99.99% of the time which means good enough for most intent and purposes.
thats fine, but then why do I get the same problems when i pay $200?
> I'm not sure how Win devs actually work these days on non-Win applications in any productive capacity.

WSL. It's trivial to drop into Linux for development these days.

That said, I generally haven't had issues with Node on native Windows.
I think a lot of this ends up behind how you learn navigation. I love GPS as a way to build up heuristics of how to get places in a new city/from a new location. I find I mostly learn routes by visual memory and not by street names/distances/number of blocks. I know to turn at a specific building/business, and not because it's 5th street or a specific train station.

If you're someone who learns your routes in terms of facts/numbers, then I can see GPS hurting your memory, but in my case, the GPS won't tell me to turn at the Walmart, or get off at the train station with the green tile. So after a few GPS trips, I've learned the route in the way my brain will remember. This especially helps when I don't know the traffic patterns or alternate routes that a navigation app does.

These days, for routes I don't know really well, or have high traffic variance, I'll check GPS to verify a route, and then use the route without using the app directly.
American manufacturing looks like low-wage workers making $12 an hour (a few years ago) making windshields. A real American manufacturing renaissance would be German, with high skilled trained professionals designing, building, and operating advanced machines to create complex products. Basically what the Chinese are continually getting better at.

There is no hope. America can’t even agree on giving community college to poor kids, let alone training a generation of toolmakers, electronic engineers, programmers, and every other profession involved in making things out of atoms more complex than a handtool or a radiator. This country is dying and wildly unstable politically.
My moral framework is be happy and do no harm, and that extends to preserving others from receiving harm.

I’m the guy who will rescue ants from drowning in the pool (do no harm) and make life decisions that equate to increased happiness. I manage my own time and never let those take it from me.

I believe that others should be free to be happy as well. I also will go out of my way to take on bullies, legally of course. Everyone deserves to be happy and that’s what makes me happy.

The end. :-)
So an art training will become more like pro sports training where “success” means to be top 100 or so in the world. Note it does not prevent one to do arts (or sports) as a hobby. People didn’t stop playing chess after Kasparov lost to Deep Blue.
> I mean even at Google (on a different team) I was a "technical lead" in my 20s, and let me tell you, I had noooo business leading anything technical of any importance. But this is very common! We would never accept this in other fields. Would you live in a house built entirely by junior carpenters in their late 20s who built one or two houses that barely stood up? Would you drive cars designed and built by junior engineers?

I find this kind of funny, because this is what happens right? I was under the assumption that architects typically design the building plans and do all the engineering, and a construction crew (which can consist of people mainly in their 20s) will build those plans under the supervision of the lead engineers/architects.

So, in the same way that many senior software engineers don't write much code, don't architects/civil engineers typically refrain from using power tools to build the actual building? If this is the case, then software engineering is very akin to other engineering disciplines in this regard.

I feel like the author of this tweet is conflating craftsmen with senior leads. A craftsmen is somebody I would expect to have been working with the medium for 10+ years, and continues honing their craft throughout the years. Whereas engineers and architects are typically more concerned with the abstract ideas and overall outcome. An engineer/architect can be a craftsman, but I don't believe they need to be synonymous.
Yes, this pretty clearly establishes there's bounds: the search has to be tailored in scope to address a reasonable suspicion of a violation of school policy.

Can a school have a policy about cyberbullying outside of school, and pursue a search in that case? This is untested.

As I said:

"The exact limits of a public school's authority to search mobile devices, to handle events that have partially occurred outside school, has not been established."
Planned obsolescence went so far that often appliances has a higher TCO than 10 years ago.

The cheap ones by lasting very little. The reliable ones by being very expensive.
Then you have a signed picture of a modified picture which can't be altered further. Cryptographic signatures only ensures data integrity and authenticity after the cryptographic signature was made.
Def learned this skill in the army. Still count my steps as a habit. I can tell you how many kilometers I walk, and it is usually almost what my watch says I walked.

I’m still not sure which one is more correct.
> respectful mockery of Thatcher

There is no need to do anything "respectfully" of Thatcher. She should have been hanged.

I wouldn't piss on her grave for fear the warmth would comfort her.
LeapDB: Incrementally refreshable materialized views / column store for MySQL 8
LeapDB is a distribution of MySQL hosted on the Amazon AWS marketplace as an AMI appliance. It includes the WARP storage engine, a columnar storage engine with parallel join optimization for star schemas. WARP executes the star schema benchmark at 100X faster than InnoDB on average.

Also included are LeapDB materialized views, incrementally refreshable materialized views that can take queries from hours to seconds. The materialized views support most join and aggregation functions. Materialized views are first class objects that appear as tables to MySQL.

The LeapDB team also provides consulting and support services for other MySQL distributions.
Is TI really regarded better than search? Do they typically promote faster?
For development speed my vote would be on Ruby, along with Rails it is still unsurpassed by any newfangled stacks
Modern Vitamix benders (roughly within the last 8 years) have the same declining quality issues.

Newer models are typically much lighter. This means they now have far less internal material to reduce noise. I can't use mine without ear protection since it's about chainsaw level of noise. The reduced weight means I also need to hold onto it during use otherwise it will vibrate itself off the counter.

The company seems to be most interested in selling smoothie recipe subscriptions for their blender companion phone app. Aside from subscription selling the app is pretty much useless -- who wants a phone app to remotely control a blender?
"S.F. population fell 6.3% to lowest level since 2010" - SF Chronical
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-population-fell-6...
Not all fake images are images taken from cameras (e.g. CGI, AI)
Webcash: High performance, minimalist e-cash
"To bolster the case, a law enforcement officer asked a court to order Facebook to turn over private messages between the women. In his application, the officer said the women had told investigators that they had texted back and forth on Messenger about Celeste’s pregnancy."
> From a technical point of view, the app deletes the attachment by inserting a new email (the one without the attachment) into your Gmail, and then deleting the original email (the one with the attachments).

I hope there is a big warning when using the app, because this makes these emails (maybe even the whole conversation chain?) wortheless should they be needed as some kind of legal evidence.
I wasn't talking about how to orient a map, I was speaking about traversing mountains where being metres off route is potentially fatal with little to no visibility. Saying that is difficult is not exagerating.
I read that in Spanish! (Música en la Sangre/Blood Music[0]). Also, I remember a short adaptation of the same story (maybe in the Twilight zone?)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Music_(novel)
It would be extremely hard for almost anyone to do so, and they can use signatures with per camera tokens as well as global ones. That way compromising one camera doesn't compromise all.

And there is a lot more stuff they can do to prevent such naive attacks.

By your simple reasoning, all iphones would be cracked, yet even the USA govt hasn't been able to crack into them.

And what they propose is vastly better than doing nothing.
I developed a web app that allowed my friends and me to watch the same video synchronously during the lock-downs / curfew after Summer 2020. The video would be served by my server, and anybody could control the playback. Pausing or seeking would do it for everyone. We would all connect to a Jitsi Meet room so we could hear people laugh or react to the video.

I called this "Meet Anyway", it was my first Svelte app, and never released it for several reasons, among them:

- I had to do some manual video upload and provide the exact video URL to the app to make things work

- the thing had some glitches even if it mostly worked and did the job

- I had other things to do, in particular taking care of an open source network implementation of a popular letter-based game that I started in 2016 and then forgot (ran all this time on my server without maintenance at all, not appearing in top) and which suddenly attracted people during the lock-down.

- and now I'm interested in other things, especially that the lock-downs are over. It would be nice to finish it and publish it though, but I'm more interested in the other things, and there are major issues: the videos need to live under the same domain as the app if I remember correctly because of browser security, so either people have to host the tool themselves or we would need to offer a service that would host people's videos while they are watching it, or at least to proxy them. I did not want to set up such a service and so the tool does not solve the issue for many people, only those who are technically inclined.

This was my second shot at this issue, I had first put together a Python program which allowed two users to watch the same video locally with a regular Linux video player, so I could watch stuff with a relative, using MPRIS, a unified Linux / Free Desktop D-Bus interface to control music and video players. This one I actually released it, but there's actually a mature project that does this better, is actually maintained and is cross-platform: https://syncplay.pl/
Libertarians would argue that wealth inequality is the natural outcome of consumers exercising their agency. I recall one asking why progressives are obsessed with income equality but not trying to address inequality in number of sex partners.
Because if they don't have to pay for it, theyll do it because it's what interests them and we will get more interacademic crossover ideas. Which is where innovation thrives! As it stands, people who persue their dreams are forced to go into debt which is, I assume, a shitty thing to have to do and probably doesn't promote creative problem solving (beyond how to get a higher paying job to pay off the debt).

Also, because an eclectically educated mix of people is likely more pleasant to live amongst than an uneducated group. And since it would benefit everyone to have everyone educated it should be paid for with taxes.

Plus it's simply good to leave the world better than you came into it.
How does it compare to F5bot in terms of reaction time? Asking because the latter is nearly instanteneous and it's coverage is similar. It is also free.
Are collections copyrightable? Knowing that recipes aren't I've wondered before why (sufficiently popular to make it worthwhile) recipe books aren't a race to the bottom with cheaper clones.

The smart move of course (employed e.g. by Delia Smith) is to publish them for free online too. I own one of hers but for convenience sometimes check a recipe I've found in it on my phone, so far they've all been there so I think it's complete.
Your best bet is to keep the ingredients secret. But like with all things, the Simpsons already did it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaming_Moe%27s
Commercial grade devices are often not suitable for home use - for example commercial dishwashers are a totally different beast, their cycles are like 10 minutes and they are meant for disinfection nore than cleaning. They need frequent maintenance, dont come with a pump, dont tolerate long periods of non use, etc.
I mean I think python's module's are kind of stupid, but even as someone who literally doesn't every use python's module system, my very first thought here was "I bet strict mode is requiring explicit exports in __all__"

And indeed[0] that's the case. It makes perfect sense that the abstract machine of typed python does not allow everything that the abstract machine of untyped python does, and java would error on trying to use a private class or method just the same.

[0]: https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_line.html#cmdo...
Dear Annonomous HackerNews Misinformation Committee,

Myth Busted.

Sincerely,

SF Chronical and Myself.

"S.F. population fell 6.3% to lowest level since 2010"
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-population-fell-6...
The last time any CSS—for a CSS framework—was changed was April 2021.
Navigating is looking and matching up landmarks to a map to identify your current position, and then determining the route you will follow. (Orientation) From there, you use a compass to follow that route, counting your steps. You have to know how many steps it takes you to walk a km/mile, then you can reorient every so often to adjust your route based on your real position.

Just following a route is easy, in comparison.
You don't need a new hardware interface. You only need a sensible API for write barriers. In particular, you want "semi-permeable" barriers, which is just another way of saying tagged commands, or grouped writes.

1) An fcntl() to set a numerical tag ID on an fd. All subsequent writes on the fd belong to this ID group.
2) No writes in a tagged group are allowed to proceed until all writes from a preceding group are completed.
3) Any untagged writes can complete at any time in any order, as usual.

Done. That's all you need to implement safe filesystem transactions, while eliminating the bottleneck of fsync().
Pi-Hole vs. DNS Privacy
Even a 10-20 year old fridge is very inefficient compared to a modern fridge. It's as easy as looking at energy star ratings.

Do you think the manufacturers aren't gaming those ratings either?

The energy efficiency of fridges over time has definitely not been monotonic either. The ones that use the most were the late 60s-80s models that sacrificed insulation thickness for more interior volume.
Following a trail means you have some reference of a foot path to stay on and follow. Navigating could mean anything--it might be reading a vague description like "follow the trail to a cairn at mile 5, then bushwhack up hill 1500 vertical feet to a ridge, follow the ridge as it ascends the mountain choosing an obvious class 3 scramble on the east side that avoids serious exposure (if you encounter class 5 terrain you are off route)". With navigation you have to use a lot more senses and tools and knowledge, the path isn't immediately obvious.
TSMC is sending recent American college graduates to Taiwan for 12-18 months of internship/training, in preparation for work at the TSMC fab in Phoenix, AZ, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29676073
> A continuity test is your friend.

Also a spray can of freeze (e.g. CRC Freeze Spray) is useful, and a jeweller's loupe (x20 magnification or so). If your phone takes good macro video, that can be really useful to look at several times (in the absence of a stereoscopic microscope).

Contacts are the first thing to suspect with any fault. Check inside the plugs on the cables.

For intermitttently disappearing and reappearing bass, though: probably the contacts are OK. Inspect (and if possible, re-make) solder joints in this part of the circuit - you may have a hidden dry joint somewhere. Then old electrolytic capacitors, especially tantalum ones, are sources of trouble.

Of course if the amp has been in a house that's been hit by lightning, or where an arc welder has been used regularly, then the possibilities widen.
Seniority doesn't mean "senior", it's a product of expertise. Obviously there is a strong age correlation because generally going up seniority ladder is going to correlate with time at company, and domain knowledge/expertise is going to be correlated with time spent work in that field.

But I know plenty of people my age (my vintage? :D) with higher and lower seniority, similarly I know people older, and people with more time at the company in the industry with substantially lower seniority, and vice versa.

But also the companies I've worked at (FAANGs, so obviously large) don't treat "seniority" at the IC level as giving some kind of priority over lower seniority ICs. Obviously seniority factors into "how reasonable/accurate is their opinion" but that has never, in my experience, been a blanket override of lower "seniority".

The primary real difference is compensation, which is why companies like to get rid of senior engineers. I assume for a competent company they're doing a trade off "how much do they cost vs. how much value do they add", but obviously where we see this is always poorly managed "get rid of all the expensive people, WCGW" policies.
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Email: a100 /@/ serendipia.email

Technologies: crytpo/blockchains; Elixir, Haskell, Rust, Ruby, Python, C, JS, web (full-stack, mostly backend)

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For the last 2 years I've been working with cryptocurrencies and blockchains.

Outreach to me and let's talk about your project.
this is just your opinion.

People have no way to know longevity of the product they are buying
In France, yes. You can apply to get the money you would receive in unemployment benefits as an initial capital in your startup (for paying yourself or for other expenses).
I do not consider the St. Lawrence divide to be a "continental" divide, nor do I know of anyone who considers it to be so. It's just a watershed divide, and those are a dime a dozen.

I can see that some people would consider the Eastern divide to be a continental divide, though I do not.
i wonder if samsung products in Korea are better? How did they get so big outside of phones?
Location: Latin America

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Technologies: crytpo/blockchains; Elixir, Haskell, Rust, Ruby, Python, C, JS, web (full-stack, mostly backend)

CV: https://gildedhonour.xyz

Email: alex @ serendipia.email

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I'm an expert of nothing, a problem creator as well as a solver. I've been in IT for a decade or so.

For the last 2 years I've been working with cryptocurrencies and blockchains.

Outreach to me and let's talk about your project.
If they did things correctly (and I assume a company like Sony did) then each camera will have its own signed certificates attributed to it. Yes you can sign fake pictures, but the signature won't be from the same camera, which is a pretty good mitigation against this.
Most Taiwanese tools are pretty good in my experience. The best deals at harbor freight IMO are the Taiwanese tools that aren’t branded “icon”
Yeah, I'd add that in both NY and DC, the train station is a much shorter distance between where you're likely to be and where you probably want to go. Penn Station and Union Station are pretty convenient.
As others have pointed out, the Blub analogy fails miserably because there's not one universal scale on which to grade programming languages.

Wanna do concurrent and parallel programming in a mostly seamless manner, not thinking about deadlocks and being isolated from most dumb mistakes that we all make? Go use Erlang/Elixir, Rust, Golang, OCaml 5.0 and a few others. You can't convince me -- or most practical programmers out there for that matter -- that you can use "most" programming languages "easily" for concurrent and parallel programming. That's bullshit coming from people who are either too idealistic or are stuck deep into their sunk cost fallacy aftermath.

Wanna do scientific number-crunching? I hate Python but I know its attached ecosystem excels at this. (Maybe Polars and a few other alternatives as well.)

Examples abound.

So as far as we can even accept the proposition that "Blub programmers" exist then yes I'd say most of us are kinda sorta "Blub programmers" indeed. It's inevitable; we have limited time and energy and on top of that our brain can burn out. I learned 8 languages and I haven't learned and used a new one ever since I learned Elixir and Rust 5-6 years ago. I am pretty sure I'll learn one or two more and that's going to be it.

It's normal. But it still doesn't justify the people who are like "Python everything!". Feels like they didn't even try to find the right tools for the separate jobs. Those people I can't respect.
Sub Zero fridges are terrible. The people I’ve known that had them rued the day they bought them.

They are a status symbols, that’s why they cost so much, not because they are top quality.
Have all iphones been broken by state actors? It sure seems not given the resources they pay yo try and crack cases.

Why would sony cameras not leverage knowledge gained from iphone security features?
Quantifying the change, relative to the base or the new value.
This is something I’m interested in. There are strong plastics, but a lot of stuff nowadays seems to be the cheapest plastic imaginable. Anyway to know if what you’re getting?