skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are rethinking events, events activities, on-stage presentations and attendance tracking management. (https://kirgawa.com/).

Currently starting small with the basics as we scale and grow the features.

We use cutting-end technology like NFC, QR, FINGER PRINT, and BLUETOOTH app that allows event organizers to track attendance at the event whether the attendees are registered or not. and the great thing is that attendees don't need to install the app, just the organizer.

Even though we are currently in development, we want customers to start using it and give us their honest feedback.

Basic features currently available

Ticket sales

Stage timers

Attendance tracking by QR code.

Calendar Integrations

Guest Invites

Third party integration

Activity schedule

Check it out for your next event and gathering.

Spread the word, drop your feedback and suggestions.

Nothing is too weird or too nice to share, just say tell us how you feel about the product, so we can make it better

https://kirgawa.com/
WSGI (same for ASGI) is a level above FastCGI (or CGI or whatever) in the stack; it exists so each Python web framework does not need implement ways to talk to CGI, FastCGI or whatever. Instead the framework implements a Python function, and the user can choose a WSGI server to wrap this Python function into whatever is needed to talk to any kind of language-agnostic gateways, including CGI, FastCGI, or even mod_python.
> I do not feel a whole lot of empathy towards lawyers that are actively suing the venue

Even if they just happen to work on that case and have nothing to do with the specific action against MSG?
Probably closer to 3 if they are following the cars oil life monitoring system
Can we please stop with this copypasta in every EV thread? None of that is genuinely sustained by numbers, it's all just FUD. Batteries are, and have been for decades, among the most productively recycled materials. The number you see thrown around that Electric Vehicle batteries are not often recycled is down to the overwhelming majority of EV batteries still being productively used in their original installation.

There are better arguments, FWIW, about "EVs as personal transportation" that point out that battery production is going to be constrained as the industry evolves and that the comparatively few batteries we have should be prioritizing transit and grid storage vs. more Model S's. And I think there's a reasonable argument there (though the response will be that high margin luxury products are a much more effective way to grow that market than boring stuff).

But no, there's no one serious out there claiming that batteries are a bad environmental tradeoff.
There is an N in that formula, though, so burning ammonia is going to result in nitrous/nictric oxide. NOx is also a greenhouse gas (indirectly, apparently), and the hazy brown component of smog. One of the oxides is laughing gas. On the whole, I think pumping CO2 into the atmosphere is better than pumping smog and laughing gas.
Also the opposite.

this can be used for tremendous evil if it hasnt already.
I’ve been using Octal pretty successfully
>However, that is the problem inherent in using facial recognition in this way.

Would it have all been a-okay if an employee "manually" spotted her face on a CCTV feed and matched to a physical binder with lawyers' photos? No? Then this has nothing whatsoever to do with facial recognition itself.
I wouldn't expect a 368 word article go to deep into all EV lifecycle issues or studies.
EV maintenance items should only involve tires, air filters, and wiper blades and fluid. My friends with Teslas have reported that these are the only things they've done in 50,000+ miles.
Wonderful article about overcoming Earth's gravity well available here

https://what-if.xkcd.com/7/
Show HN: Experimental Support for Kotlin in Pulumi
Hello everyone :)

Recently, my team (at VirtusLab) released an experimental support for Kotlin in Pulumi.

This means you can use a convenient DSL to deploy stuff to your cloud (see examples in the repository).

Getting started guide should be enough for you to use this in a toy project :).

This is a proof of concept, so we would really love to hear your feedback before moving on. Please have a look at the "Giving feedback" section of the README.md.
Rethinking buffer mapping for modern hardware architectures
Traditional buffer mapping was designed decades ago and, despite all of the low-level optimizations, it can’t scale on modern hardware. In addition, in-memory engines limit the database size to the size of the main memory. In contrast, OrioleDB’s dual pointer approach allows removing the buffer mapping overhead while saving the ability to automatically evict the least recently used pages from main memory.

PostgreSQL is an excellent DBMS, which has shown to be very scalable over decades. Nonetheless, the traditional buffer mapping design limits PostgreSQL scalability on modern hardware. Thankfully, the OrioleDB engine provides a solution within an extension and minimal patch to the core.
> IMO if someone served time their record should be expunged

For all crimes? If not, then what's your criteria for which ones should and which ones shouldn't? If so, then would we have to stop keeping sex offenders away from children?
I’m confused why you think production and disposal aren’t part of the data going into that statement. Every comparison I’ve seen includes battery production in the life cycle analysis.

Do you have an example of a full - ”cradle-to-grave” - life cycle analysis that shows EVs to have higher total emissions over their life span?
In a sense, there are no small acts of kindness. They are all great.
For our house, a ground loop heat pump would be best. A long slit trench, with the slinky style of coolant loop, in the back yard (away from utilities) could easily handle all our waste heat in the summer and source heat in the winter.
Looking and acting are different. I'm always looking and seeing everything in my field of view. I read without actively reading. I don't ignore anything. I don't ACT upon everything.
> Record high profits occur when record high sales occur even if the profit margin is constant.

Sure, but why would anyone call such a situation profiteering?

Furthermore it seems unlikely that the amount of food canadians have eaten has changed significantly over the last few years. Its not like the population increased significantly.
The good news is that the process of running your fridge moves the heat from the fridge into your home, which in the winter is not such a big problem. Your fridge is just another heat pump. It's a bigger problem in the summer when you are maybe trying to cool your house using air-conditioning and your fridge adds heat to your house to keep the fridge cool. Much less desirable.
From personal experience, "new" Flickr makes it difficult to signup when you use a personal domain versus one of the top 10 known email providers.
Ask HN: What is/are your non-Google web analytics alternatives?
> Is the video reviewer lying or mistaken when he says 2 biggest differences that make up for most of the power draw between x86 and ARM are not in the ISA?

Naive is a better word. The question is really, why don't designers (who have a vested interest in making a feature like battery life better to improve sales) take these "obvious" actions to improve their products? The answer is usually because they're not sound optimizations, or at least come with some heavy tradeoffs.
Lots of ML workloads on GPU and Vulkan stuff.

Edit - Apple's lockdown is getting worse when it comes to APIs and there's definitely no guarantee macOS won't become as locked down as iOS...
Why do we have so many of these overhyped personalities in the programming community? Guessing it's because half of the community have less than 5 years experience and younger people are more online but these personality cults are very offputting.
Im curious what mistake could be made by one person to bring down the internet. You can definitely bring down a lot if you take out an AWS data centre or screw up DNS like incident at Facebook last year. But the internet even in its current chaotic form would seem a good example of having many redundancies to me. Closest thing I could think of is screw up a big DNS provider but even that would be partial.
It's widely known that maintenance costs way less on EVs than on gas-powered cars. There are plenty of data points everywhere to confirm this. EVs are much simpler with way fewer moving parts and fluids to worry about.
I always joke that in winter all appliances are 100% efficient (I know they're not). Some look at me funny but the ones who pay the gas bill get usually get it.
> the natural environment will select...What do you mean by this?

The initial group of settlers will self-select themselves; not many of us are willing to live in such harsh conditions.

Kids that grow up in this environment are likely to develop grit and cooperative spirit, and they will see first-hand how it is necessary just to survive.
Not sure why, but watching this makes me very anxious. Especially when the second hand is bending,just before it springs loose. Neat idea though.
The Power of Small Talk (2019)
So in other words, this is analog computation on a digital hardware on analog substrate - the analog-to-digital step eliminates the noise of our physical reality, and the subsequent digital-to-analog reintroduces a certain flexibility of design thinking.

I wonder, is there ever a case analog-on-digital is better to work with as an abstraction layer, or is it always easier to work with digital signals directly?
They do use Blink (Chromium) internally, but it's my understanding that it is just bundled inside. I've run qutebrowser both as compiled and from source and not had any issues updating.

Qutebrowser includes its own adblocker, which must be activated once after install and works well enough.

It also supports both userscripts and python scripting. Although that takes more fiddling, there's a pretty healthy support community for it.
Newspapers had the 'society pages.'
Maybe after arresting their customer base they decided to revert back to doing actual legitimate forms of business?
> There's nothing illegal about doing that

Depends where you are. Insofar as a concert is deemed a “public accommodation” that would probably be illegal under the DC Human Rights Act, which covers political affiliation along with a bunch of other things.

The federal government is narrowly circumscribed in how it can address these things but the state governments have general police powers and are not so limited.
You haven't been to La Guardia recently. It's by far the nicest airport in the tristate and one of the better ones in the country after the remodel. JFK is the one new yorkers avoid now (or EWR if you don't live in Manhattan).
So same as a gas car minus oil changes.
I am still using my iPod classic 6th gen 160 GB. Almost everyday. It is wonderful to have a single purpose device for listing to music, podcasts, or audiobooks.
On MacOS Apple doesn't prevent you from, say, shoving a grenade up your butt by turning their protections off.

https://news.yahoo.com/surgery-under-sappers-supervision-doc...

And it's darwin-based, and there's a linux implementation.

Welcome to 2023!
If you sued your utility company, should they be able to shut off the water to your house?
Detective Dog
Uhhh - I think you're overgeneralizing here in a big way.
Why work with recruiters at all?

They’ll charge 30-50% over your rate. They provide zero value besides the initial contact.

Their overhead impacts your negotiation leverage for a higher rate.
I think the main issue is how people drive these cars. If you have a lot of short trips, or overrevving, or just in general abusing it (because rental), is much more common on ICE cars compared to electric ones?
> Thinking a bit about this though, say Microsoft could argue that the toolshed isn't really yours. That you're merely renting/"licensing" it and they reserve the right to rearrange their tools at a whim, and they usually won't touch tools you own. I don't know how to counter-argue this though.

This is exactly the case, and why I don't use their toolshed anymore.
Sure, I just couldn’t discern the point behind the absurd (and if someone could I’d appreciate being told).

My tirade had a point as well, though: post 20th century our collective intuitions have become wildly miscalibrated regarding which things in humanity’s understanding of the world are recent or obscure. It seems that the barrier of “advanced” mostly hasn’t shifted at all since high school became compulsory in most parts of the world, and as decades go by I can see this going from “a goddamn shame” to “existential threat to human culture”. I’m not even sure that hasn’t happened yet—already a high school teacher can rarely, if ever, thoroughly explain a recent development of their choice in their subject.
Check out terraform industries if you find this interesting.

They just released an interesting white paper detailing a lot of good progress:

https://terraformindustries.wordpress.com/2023/01/09/terrafo...

I think it’s interesting because they’re focusing on the cheapest and easily manufactured technologies instead of efficiency.
In your gun analogy, there's some rationale about the end goal of owning the weapon. A handgun can plausibly be owned for personal self defence, a howitzer cannot. What is the analogous argument with facial recognition? Only that it works better than the non-automated method (more accurate, but especially more cost effective).

It is either okay to pick undesirable customers out of a crowd after (or perhaps in the process) of granting them entry, and kicking them out. Or it's not okay. Whether I use a room full of employees, a bigger room full of underpaid "interns", or a computer algorithm in a small box to do the matching is a detail of implementation.
> 20,000 miles is what, 4-6 oil changes?

Most new cars have a 10,000 mile factory oil change interval. PHEVs usually go for 20,000.

Rental cars sometimes have a hard service life, but I'd put that range at maybe 1-2 changes. Which isn't much at all.

More likely there's a usage difference; if you're puttering around from the airport to the hotel and back, you might pick an EV, but if you're renting a car to drive a longer distance one-way trip, it's mostly going to be an ICE, and you're gonna put some miles on it at high speed, etc.
+1 for ruff! the creator seems like a cool dude too
How many years experience did you have? :)
> I'd wager you need at least some army experience in order to be familiar with army ranks.

I would wager against that. I am pretty sure almost all of the army ranks can be found fairly easy online, and the information that is classified is something a minister of defense has access to read up on.

As with almost everything else this is about priority. How much votes/internal party power will they get by spending time on etikett vs doing other aspects of the job. Politicians rarely get rewarded simply for doing a good job where their department are effective in budget spending and produce long term results in 10-20 years.
So important. Here’s a prediction. Work like this on model explainability will continue and eventually will reveal patterns in the input that reliably produce features in the resulting models. That knowledge will tell us about nature, in addition to ML.
There are heat pump water heaters (I have one; AO Smith HPTU-50N). More expensive up front vs tankless but a lot more efficient.
I left full time work for consulting after I did a project and discovered my bill rate was so high I could replicate my salary income while being less than 40% utilized. I wasn't doing something especially specialized; that's just what the market clearing rate for that contracting work was. I would not have guessed that rate before discovering it.

So my somewhat tangential advice is: figure out your rate, and start with a rate that doesn't require you to constantly hustle for clients to make your nut. It's easier to figure out the right (high) rate when you've still got a salary to fall back on, and much harder when you're grinding it out as a full time contractor.
Rental cars are prime candidates for EVs as they get driven a lot more than the average car. I don't own a car, but whenever I rent one I'm putting a lot more miles on it per day than any car I ever owned in the past. I only rent cars when I know I'll be doing a lot of driving, so it makes sense (otherwise I'd just take a few taxis/Ubers).
Why do you need an app? It seems to work fine in the browser.
I’m a fan of EVs, and drive them. But this is a horrible article. Throwing together few unrelated facts, without any context and making bold claims about how they connect together.
The best part about exponential curves:

By the time the battery needs to be replaced batteries will be 90% cheaper.
First just a disclaimer that I am not a proponent of facial recognition technology (I think it has a number of significant faults).

That being said, it does not seem like facial recognition technology is the issue here, at all.

The crux of the matter appears to be this:

> Businesses generally have the right to decide whom they want to do business with, as long as they are not discriminating by ethnicity, sex, religion, disability or another protected class.

This seems to be the issue that people are fundamentally disagreeing with. Facial recognition technology is one way of achieving that. If the venue just had all security guards carry a list of the lawyers' photographs, instead of using automated technology, would people be fine with the venue barring access?

Essentially it seems to me like people are disagreeing with the fact that businesses can choose to not to business with unprotected classes. If so, that's fine, but I don't understand why people are just couching this as an attack on facial recognition technology, which seems like in this instance is actually doing its job well.

The article ends with:

> Lawyers may not be the most sympathetic victims and their need to be entertained may not be the most compelling of causes. But their plight, Mr. Greenberg said, should raise alarms about how the use of this technology could spread. Businesses, for instance, might turn people away based on their political ideology, comments they’d made online or whom they work for.

But again...."Businesses, for instance, might turn people away based on their political ideology, comments they’d made online or whom they work for" with or without the use of facial recognition technology, so the fundamental issue appears to be that businesses _shouldn't_ be allowed to turn away unprotected classes?
I think it remains to be seen, as batteries wear out. That could take years.
Using magnets would definitely make for a cooler look, but this effect can be done using nails of varying heights.
> After an unsatisfactory attempt at using Bullet, Godot 4.0 returns to its own physics engine which, despite not being a high end physics engine like PhysX, aims to offer a lot more flexibility and “just works” capabilities to users.

This is a bit of a red flag if one of their goals is for the engine to be used on AAA games.
Servo has always been easy to embed. Basically the host needs to provide a GL surface and input events, and gets some callbacks from Servo.

Maybe I should revive the Gonk port[0]...

[0] https://github.com/fabricedesre/servonk/
I think there will be research on that.

People need programming tools to generate correct code so I'd think there needs to be something that couples the creative ability of neutral networks to logical tools such as theorem provers.

AlphaGo uses a strategy like this in that it is based on Markov Chain Monte Carlo search, a basically "old AI" method that simulates a vast number of games played out to the end. You could play Go pretty well using random playouts, but AlphaGo plays much better because it generates playouts with a neural network that picks better than average moves by a flat analysis of the board.

The MCMC + network plays better than either the MCMC or the network because the MCMC supplies the deep analysis that the network can't do.

I see a lot of papers too where people are doing some modelling (say of proteins) or optimization (energy transport and storage grid, creating new materials including proteins) where there is a similar combination of a neural net with other software architectures and I'd expect to see it in software eng too.
Perhaps you've heard of this country called China. A country that was as poor as the places in West Africa that you've written off. In 4 decades, they pulled hundreds of millions out of poverty. As a result, they are now facing a demographic crash that will shrink their population nearly in half:

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/12/05/key-facts-a...

This isn't exactly going to be a nice situation for them, or for us. You misunderstand my position as being wildly optimistic. You simply don't understand contemporary human societies, so your assumptions about their trajectories miss the mark completely.
Reading this I got the impression that the person is a professional writer and fictionalized for emotional effect. Indeed, this is from an author. I'm all but immune to sentimentalism on the internet, and this story came across like a facebook chain letter.
Oil changes probably explains the difference. We have 70,000 miles on my wife's Tesla and it's never gone in for any maintenance. We've replaced the tires on it twice now (Tesla's do eat tires) and I've replaced the cabin air filter a couple of times and fill up the windshield washer fluid about once a year.
No, impossible task for now. Because in enterprise world, even adding a simple if then else clause is impossible for current sprint. The worst part is, the code is hard to understand enough that the task could be deprioritized until later, undefined future.
> I think they were not "happy" for a healthy definition of happy

Being happy with what you accomplish and do instead of trying to be happy through consumption and excess seems very healthy to me.

What do you think is wrong with that?
This is somewhat of a bullshit argument. Not on your part! But on those who typically use it as justification.

Because there are two independent components to such a system: {increase cost of identity} + {protect privacy of identity}

When it's offered/justified to combat spam... the implication is that the solution will deliver both promises.

In reality, the first (concept of identity) gets built, marketing/sales realizes they can abuse the hell out of it for their ends, the second (privacy protection) gets overruled at the VP/C* level, and any privacy protections are quietly never implemented.

This happens again. And again. And again.

Google is probably the best case ethical scenario here, in regards to having standards around privacy data stewardship, and even they abuse it frequently when the profit is too large to ignore.

The only reasonable takeaway is that any system that permits mass tracking is too dangerous to privacy to allow to exist, and all should be opposed.

Or, as GDPR does, render companies liable for omissions from a privacy perspective.
Why would you not expect these exact same challenges to develop almost immediately on Mars? It's not like one country will own Mars and even if it did, one country generally cannot agree on environmental policy even internally. I fully expect Mars, at best, to be a terrible version of Earth with all the same problems and way fewer benefits.

When has "This is too hard, let's do a full rewrite" ever worked?
> moving parts and fluids

That's where most of the problems come from.

A lot of mechanics are probably not ready to deal with the issues EVs face, though.
If all a nation can provide are civil engineers who are given a crash course in transportation studies, what do we get?
If MSG isn't generating more than $1M a month in lift to NYC + NY tourism and other revenue I'd be stunned.

This article sheds no light on that, however:

https://gothamist.com/news/madison-square-garden-property-ta...