skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like Starchase Guardian system

StarChase technology has been reviewed and approved by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

https://www.starchase.com/

Added:

Air powered, range of 10-40 ft. AR lower receiver for user familiarity. Tags use glue maybe? Tags are non-permanent and contain a proprietary attachment technology
Putin needs to remain in power as long as possible, because there is no exit other than death or jail.

Ukraine was a gamble. It hasn’t gone the way he had hoped, but he can’t pull out of the war. Pulling out would show weakness. And his political enemies would jump on the opportunity. He doesn’t even need to win. As long as the war is ongoing his situation remains perilous, but stable. Putin only loses if he decides to end the war. Ukraine can’t actively take the fight to Russia. They don’t have the manpower for that.
The EPA reported the runoff into local creeks and damage to aquatic wildlife.. and further testing found at minimum ethyl hexyl acrylate in a creek that directly drains into the Ohio River.. not sure how much more "proof" you'd need for that..

> Responding crews discovered contaminated runoff on two surface water streams: Sulphur Run and Leslie Run. Under Ohio EPA oversight, Norfolk Southern emergency response contractors installed booms and underflow dams to restrict the flow of contaminated water as well as contain and collect floating product.

> U.S. EPA took water samples at the streams and has sent them to a laboratory for analysis. Emergency response staff noticed impacted aquatic life and notified the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Department of Interior. Ohio DNR is on site and is assessing the situation and the impacts to aquatic life. Downstream water utilities were also notified.

(https://response.epa.gov/site/site_profile.aspx?site_id=1593...)

> Water quality sampling taken Feb. 10 shows very low levels of two contaminants, butyl acrylate and ethyl hexyl acrylate, in Leslie Run which dissipates quickly, and no detects of butyl acrylate in North Fork Little Beaver Creek or Little Beaver Creek. There was a much lower level of ethyl hexyl acrylate found in North Fork Little Beaver Creek. Little Beaver Creek did not have any ethyl hexyl acrylate. No vinyl chloride has been detected in any of these waterways. Sulfur Run flows into Leslie Run, which flows into North Fork Little Beaver Creek, which flows into Little Beaver Creek, which discharges into the Ohio River.

(https://epa.ohio.gov/monitor-pollution/pollution-issues/east...)

I don't even disagree that this is being slightly overblown if you look solely at the nature of the leaked chemicals -- but a bit of artistic license in service of fewer derailments and chemical leaks seems fair enough.
Was curious how they attached. One of the more popular systems is darts with foam heads and some kind of glue that heats up on impact to adhere.

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/StarC...
Or git push if you are using GitHub pages?
I spent the past 2 years working in AutoCAD and was surprised to find that it really hasn't changed much in the past 20+ years, other than some simple UI changes. I ported over 100,000+ lines of Lisp from the mid 90s and it worked almost without modification though I did rewrite it for other reasons.

That project has come to an end prematurely. Is there a real future in CAD programming? I feel like I've wasted a good chunk of my life on a dead language in a dead product. Is any of this knowledge portable?
Which is a terrible solution no firewall manager would support
Tasers were supposed to eliminate the need for fatal shootings too.

Here's hoping.
> Not the parent, but one significant impediment to seeking redress for defective takedown notices is that there is only liability and attorneys fees recovery (at least under the DMCA; perhaps not under other areas of law) for knowing misrepresentations.

Schemes (including those pre-existing under the common law, as was the case for defamation) giving strict liability for false statements have generally been found to conflict with the First Amendment, and in any case, I’ve literally never heard anyone suggest that the main, or even a major, problem with the DMCA safe harbor was too many takedown notices made with reasonable, good-faith belief in their accuracy that were nonetheless wrong.

So, to me, this seems like an probably-unconstitutional solution to a non-problem.
I also love CouchDB/PouchDB, but it’s quite clunky to configure the security settings on a per user basis, and many times I want to additionally transform the data before bringing it to the client. I also don’t like to be locked into directly blasting a database with requests (sometimes it’s better to use caching). So for those reasons I keep it behind an API layer.
> This eliminates the need for possible high-speed chases, worries about police jurisdiction issues, and any concerns about danger on the roads.

I thought high-speed chases were often about getting a dangerous driver off the road. And by definition since it's high speed it's probably dangerous. GPS darts wouldn't do anything about that, you'd need some sci-fi EMP/hacker darts.

> "The reality is that everyone runs from the police nowadays," said Oak Brook police Chief Brian Strockis.

Well yeah—trust cuts both ways.

> "[Police can] get up next to the vehicle in an undercover car, roll down the window and tag that vehicle without the bad guy even knowing."

These GPS darts must transmit to be useful, so that signal should be detectable. Just another box for criminals to have next to a police scanner and radar trap detector.
Run of the mill hn contrarian post but:

I think this op-ed is premature, China has a number of structural advantages wrt. AI and some fairly obvious use-cases that justify enormous investment and large scale deployment.

It's no harder to make LLMs aligned with CCP ideology than it is to make them "safe" in the way ChatGPT is. In both cases the AI is trained to understand what are undesirable responses that will get it "cancelled".

Censorship and social monitoring are killer use-cases for LLMs.

Structurally the huge advantage China has over the west is that it is politically feasible to get all public and private communications fed into AI, with the dual purpose of monitoring communications and providing training data.

The long-term questions around what this does to society and is that good or bad - that is harder. Is the "great firewall" a net plus for Chinese citizens or just a tool the CCP use to maintain order and control? A "great AI" seems inevitable but what will the 2nd and 3rd order effects be?

Even if you think China will manage this poorly there is no reason to be smug about that; we will need to confront the question of the "AI police state" in the west before long. The pretexts here will of course be CSAM and terrorism.
> 2. It states that subject prefixes like “Re:” have no technical relevance. That’s not entirely true, because email clients recognize existing prefixes when replying/forwarding, in order to not add a redundant one.

Sort of. That can just be a clever regex. There is a In-Reply-To header that may actually give some suggestion on if this is a reply to something by telling you what it's a reply of.
Google has understood English queries for years. Lately it has even been highlighting the answers you are looking for in the websites it shows. chatGPT is diferente but not far off.
I am sure all they have to do is follow the performance improvement plan and then everything will be alright /s
At this point, if you want a quiet, high-performance ARM system for home, Apple is worth a look, even if that means your "server" storage is plugged into Thunderbolt (and keeping in mind the Apple premium for RAM and internal storage).
There were some tradeoffs that caused heavy computations to be a concern for many years. Elixir Nx recently tackled the problem and is probably a worthwhile read if you're curious.

https://github.com/elixir-nx

https://dashbit.co/blog/elixir-and-machine-learning-nx-v0.1
Wrap around porches are quite the status in some places.
I'll note, for the purpose of discussion, that this is put forth as part of an example engineering strategy document. The author does not recommend _the reader_ do this, at least not here.

With that said, yeah, I think "a static ratio" vs "a flat count based on desired features" vs something else is an interesting discussion! My experience is that more product means more usage of the breadth of infrastructure, and requires both more infra development and more support, but I haven't worked in large orgs, so I don't know how this nets out as size grows.
In Poland they are already more expensive than cab. It makes zero sense to me that scooter that I ride on without needing to be driven by other people, and which only needs to have battery switched daily, can cost even close to cab.
yes, but if you're in the position described in this article - a misclassified contractor who no longer has a job, then you've got nothing to lose by reporting that misclassification. if the labour board has enough reports of it to develop a pattern, it can help prevent it from happening in the future.
>Even in the 2010s they mostly launched Russian rockets developed in the 1960s.

Is that correct? Are/were Arianespace designs based on Russian rockets? I know that the US used Russian engines for years.
Anyone who thinks they need to move ssh to a different port likely doesn’t have their ssh security configuration setup optimally.
Maybe they are grading on a bell curve like they did in my youth?

10% get excellent reviews, 10% get poor reviews and everyone else falls somewhere in the middle.
A agree with this 100%, I have used OpenCascade and Parasolid in the past. With the recent OCCT development trajectory, I'd hesitate to recommend one over the other on the geometry kernel alone. Also people often forget OpenCascade includes an entire visualisation module that FreeCAD doesn't even make use of...
The easiest way is to live with someone (without being married). They have credit and you don’t even exist.
> How many Ukranian lives do you think it’s worth spending to retake the occupied territories of Donbas and Crimea?

I think that’s up to the Ukrainians.
Because we've polluted the ground so much that it's hard for one company alone to really pollute significantly more.

But polluting space around Earth is brand new, so a few companies are rushing to leave their mark there.
Embryo risk screening is already here. What are the ethical risks? Essays
We were talking about Reagan and he did use death squads.
>Where did we die?

Funnily enough I was saying the same thing tonight. Here in the UK I think it became all out screw people over when Margret Thatcher and the City of London had their 1980's yuppie boom.

I under stand why the older generation in the former Soviet Union harp back to the good old days of the soviet union, life was simpler and more stable for many people.

Now we have to navigate recessions about about 7-10years, have so many financial products in order to not get screwed over because the state is no longer up to the job. Life has become a bit of a free for all, and the extent and deviousness of some people to get money or manipulate people is off the scale imo.

I also understand why we had to come off the gold standard, if we were every really on it, because it was/is arguably holding back the economy and innovation, so with fiat its easier to print money and keep the plates spinning, but in a global world, 3rd world country's have the cost advantage which is why so much is offshored to 3rd world countrys. When looking at central bank digital currency, the fact that digital money can be expired unless its spent, I think is a poor attempt to reduce the risk of boom and bust, good times and recessions. It also shows how money is being used by govt's and central banks to manipulate people like holding a carrot out in front of a donkey.

Its a legal insult in some ways.
How does using Google search on WebKit with its Intelligent Tracking Protection compromise your privacy?
> fall behind or paint themselves into a luddite corner because of it

I am not too concerned about that. It was easy to dismiss the blockchain/nft/web3 hype because there really is nothing there. No matter how hard the snake-oil salesmen tried, they were unable to create a killer app over the course of more than a decade.

I am likewise on the skeptical end of the AI hype, but I am using ChatGPT daily to do tedious stuff for me. The utility is so obvious and AI will become so ubiquitous that it will be impossible to ignore.
I'm conflicted about school meals. Ideally people should be feeding and raising their own kids- not leave it up to the education system.
Also you just know that schools are going to start serving crap. The infamous American "pizza is a vegetable" debacle. Governments love to penny pinch on these things and find the cheapest caterer they can find.
That's a bad assumption.
> I thought high-speed chases were often about getting a dangerous driver off the road.

Generally you need to prove that a particular person was driving the vehicle and that can be hard if you find the vehicle at its registered address 3 days later -- "You can't prove it was me driving". It's a lot easier to charge the driver if you remove them from the drivers seat.

However, it's very commonly accepted that police chasing dangerous drivers causes the criminal to drive beyond their abilities and often get into accidents that are fatal to both the criminal and bystanders.

Many jurisdictions have rules/guidelines spelling out when to abort a chase in the interests of public safety.

This GPS dart would allow them to tail the car from a distance beyond visual range so that the driver doesn't drive nearly as insanely, increasing their chances of reaching their destination in one piece, but still allow police to be close behind so that they can prove who was driving.
The app frontend is open source while the backend is closed source, at least for now. Noya should run without the backend, but some things like sharing projects won't work. I'm planning to publish the individual frontend packages to npm as an "SDK for building design tools", so anybody can import "noya-canvas", "noya-renderer", etc, to build their own design tool.

As for the license, I still need to sort that out. It will very likely all be Apache 2.0, but perhaps dual licensed MIT or something else. Licensing/docs/contribution guidelines/etc are lacking right now, so I don't recommend using the source code for anything yet - but may be interesting to poke around on GitHub.
I am European and I hate Musk, but that's not the reason why I wouldn't use Starlink.

I just don't want commercial companies to send hundreds of thousands of satellites and pollute my sky, just to enable more consumption in a world that has passed its limits.
It’s not that black and white, most of these things are a mix. Some verification up front, and the normal ongoing monitoring of behavior. Putting it all up front usually presents too large a barrier to users, and causes conversion to suffer (and it’s harder to be sure than just catching bad behavior once they start using the service). Taking money makes getting banned a much larger penalty for bad actors. And that makes a lot of bad behavior unprofitable, and that subset will stop, and reduce load on their spam fighting efforts.
As if only money counts. There is also somrthing like the fun part of work. Maybe i am spoiled by living in a country where money is not really an issue.
Not the ones who are being conscripted and sent to the frontline to be slaughtered. I wouldn’t really say it was “up to them.”
I've found Calva for VS Code to be excellent, what do you think is missing there?
I know the basics.

But manually managing memory lifetimes you only learn from a lot of exposure to C/asm.

In my first 3 months of Rust, I spent an equal amount of time with the type-checker and the borrow-checker. A year in and I don’t really have a separate phase of resolving borrow-check errors before I can compile.

People with more C exposure tend to think that way already.
You don't have to lie about it. If you want to give more bad reviews of employees, you can genuinely raise expectations so they won't be met instead of lying about missing expectations that were met. Especially if the new expectations are low enough that some employees meet them.
There’s no evidence that “all the top tech companies” are trying to push down salaries. I’ve neither seen nor heard any evidence of this at Netflix or Apple. Google?

Salary ranges for open positions in California are public.
While UPNP port forwarding works well for IPv4 (once you make sure to allow it in your local router config), I didn't find find it working yet for IPv6 and had to make custom port forwarding rules for the IPv6 address. Also, while I couldn't use port 80 I was happy that Caddy has working Let's Encrypt cert generation for 443-only usage. These "small" issues are the largest hinderence in self hosting at home, from my point of view.
that’s a surprisingly short list of Apps to Try. i am a fan of the promise of local first, but one doubt in my mind is always that the Notions of the world dont embrace it. if the UX was so desirable then why havent they been replaced by something local first?
A lot of people cruise, even in my scale-up, there's a mentality sometimes of 'I'll get to it later' or 'meh bug, I'll fix it next week', hustle is hard to maintain.

I have no doubt that there are thousands of people at Meta doing jack-all and FB won't feel the loss - if at all - and probably gain a lot of operational efficiency not having to manage the dead weight.
Seconded, especially re RFCs. I built/am building on the client/personal user side, and agree they're really accessible. Of course what I've done is still riddled with bugs, and my hours spent on it are few and far between, but it's fun to build something to such a common protocol; have it work and interact with others.

I was finally pushed into getting it off the ground when Fastmail stopped working the way I relied on it (niche/awkward/not documented as explicitly working) a week before my renewal - so I spent long nights getting something usable off the ground with that as a deadline. Extremely satisfying. (Then Fastmail started working as it had again, a day or so before my time was up! >_<)
Technically not under MIT, but x264 and x265 are being developed despite the underlying technologies under it have patents.
Where is this magical country where money is not really an issue?
Welp, they've done it before ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Speaking of new-ish "police tech" - I've been really into this grappler thing, for some reason I think it's super cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_mRRJHUZrc
All of this is just this month's iteration of large corporations using trendy buzzwords to stay relevant.

Anyone remember "IBM Blockchain Platform: Hyperledger Fabric Support Edition"? Or "Watson Assistant"? Or "IBM Quantum Systems"?
> some countries, particularly in continental Europe, including Germany, have fallen behind the United States in their willingness and ability to implement enterprise software systems that challenge existing habits and modes of operation.

This is brilliant marketing, positing the USA as a champion leading the vanguard, and the EU as a laggard in the inevitable progress towards Utopia. The reverse is in some ways true; the EU has developed much better data privacy laws, and the USA has significant catching up to do.
I think this maps roughly to the idea of some people being "introverts" and others "extroverts".

Extroverts are good at selling themselves, they enjoy that activity. Introverts are interested in how to do good work, not in selling themselves. They don't like to go to job interviews, because that to them is not solving the interesting problems they are working on.
So what we need is a dart with suction legs, a camera and an AI, which crawls over the outside of the car to the windshield and takes pictures of the driver :-)
This is the main reason that Western society is radicalizing. Workers are fish in a smaller and smaller pond. Long term it is unsustainable, but like bubbles it is very difficult to predict when it will melt down.

A healthy society needs to be fair. To work hard just to continue being poor, a part from cruel, will have long lasting political consequences. Some people will go to Communism, other to Fascism as left or right authoritarian regimes grow with people desperation.

Things can get better, there are many good know ways of redistributing wealth and creating opportunity for younger generations. People deserves better.
Are you implying that tasers have never been deployed when a firearm otherwise would have been?
There will always be idiotic compliance departments that don’t understand it also doesn’t help when SAM teams don’t differentiate between open source software and commercial software either in practice or logistically e.g. you have to register a vendor in some ERP/CRM system for every software even if it’s open source.

It still doesn’t change the fact that companies big and small can’t donate money to projects easily unless those projects are well organized behind an incorporated entity.
When did you check last? This release is from before the HN story was submitted:

Google abandoned Fastlane, it has no maintainers currently (mastodon.social)
93 points by prof18 4 hours ago | flag | hide | past | favorite | 36 comments

https://github.com/fastlane/fastlane/releases/tag/2.212.0

joshdholtz released this 9 hours ago

Does software need to be released every week? Would calc.exe on Windows be better for 52 releases a year vs. making it add two numbers together and then stopping?
This is nice! In Matano, we take a similar approach but with Rust + serverless for pulling SaaS logs (https://github.com/matanolabs/matano/tree/main/lib/rust/log_...) and storing them in a data lake.
Facebook had their Real Names policy since the beginning. Google had it but later apologized: https://slate.com/technology/2014/07/google-plus-finally-dit...

I remember when Facebook was a private network until they saw Twitter was getting the numbers with public tweets. And they made posts public by default.

Now they are copying Twitter again!
And btw. This isn't actually very meta at all!

But seriously... I know why they all need to do this now. And it has to with the coming botpocalypse. Soon your identity will be tied to your reputation. Which is fine and everything, except it will be on CENTRALIZED BIG TECH SITES. Enjoy your social credit score, plebs!
New Heat Circuits Can Move Temperature Like Current
> I’ve literally never heard anyone suggest that the main, or even a major, problem with the DMCA safe harbor was too many takedown notices made with reasonable, good-faith belief in their accuracy that were nonetheless wrong.

I have seen the subject come up regarding organizations that carelessly bulk-send DMCA notices based on quick searches for possibly infringing material with little, or sometimes any, effort to confirm. Though I suppose that wouldn't be "good faith". But wouldn't that be a negligence standard? The law says "knowing".

> So, to me, this seems like an probably-unconstitutional solution to a non-problem.

As for the constitutional impediment, that may well be the case, but this is not a non-problem. If the DMCA regime shifts all the costs for a false statement (even if not a "knowingly" false statement) to the recipient (and/or their hosting provider), that's a problem. Maybe not a problem worth upending first amendment precedent over, but a problem nevertheless.
Or they could just let some people go. Police are obsessed with domination and not with safety.
Tiny PCs are a good option, too - especially ones based on mobile processors. I just built up a barebone Asus PN50 (Ryzen 7 4700U equipped) and I'm quite impressed at what this little box can do. The 4700U is kind of weird - it has SMT disabled, so it kind of slots between the usual Ryzen 5s and 7s. No matter though - builds on it are quite fast. But it's still x86...