skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clam down. No one is making an accusation of guilt, they’re just keeping an eye on an individual the way you might keep an eye on someone pacing around erratically. In most cases, they know it could mean nothing.
But it's not a search of the citizen. Presumably the owner of the database consents.
It is getting clearer by the day that humans will use AI for laws written for humans. And this will cause a lot of grief for the people on whom these laws are imposed.
Learn what's the deal with the Fourier Transform and the Z transform. Then learn how to design some digital FIR filters. Oh and do learn about the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem, it's very important. And that's about it...just joking, there's tons more. But that would be a good start.
Do you happen to be familiar with audio classification? There's been a ton of research on text classification and prediction but not many good papers I've seen for general audio classification. I'm talking more feature extraction, not speech recognition. There are a lot of speech recognition papers. So far I've been stuck on fft - image processing pipeline but I haven't gotten great results in real world tests, only on nice teat datasets.

Personally I don't have much experience working beyond mlp/rnn/lstm/cnn models.
I just 'doomscrolled' through a few hundred of your pictures, incredible what you've done with that building, that must have been a pretty costly undertaking. I've done some work like that but on much smaller buildings and it gives me a bit more perspective on the magnitude of what you're doing and what you've accomplished already in a relatively short time. Best of luck with this whole project, I really wished I still lived in .ca.
Maybe it is a regional thing, but I (German) can't remember to have ever seen this and as a child I was very interested in the sweeter goods offered by local bakeries.
Because most job descriptions have something that says, "other duties as assigned"
Non paywall: http://archive.today/jTDk3
> ... were absolutely not that common in the average 90s car.

Yes, but we're not talking about what's more common, but about how recent regulatory changes affected car design.

You can look up luxury models of mid or late 90s cars, and they had all those features. Now look at the same models today.

> car dimensions are generally larger because we ourselves have become larger and taller.

This is mostly due to changed regulations. Look at e.g. a 1980 model of a Toyota Corolla:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Corolla_(E70)

If you wanted to make a car with the same outside dimensions today you could barely cram two people in it, due to all the mandatory crumple zones etc.

Of course consumer demand is also part of it, but in some cases car manufacturers are still making 1980s design cars today (e.g. the 79 series Toyota land cruiser), they're just outlawed in Europe due to safety, pollution etc. regulations.

> In fact, there are plenty of videos out there of crash tests between sedans and trucks.

I'm talking about official safety ratings, e.g. this in the Euro NCAP:

https://www.euroncap.com/en/vehicle-safety/the-ratings-expla...

Although as that page explains the particular bias I had in mind was "fixed" in 2020, now it's a 1400 kg mobile trolley, so heavier cars are tested somewhat more realistically.
Is this because the camera sensors leak more in the IR spectrum, and the tint doesnt block IR.
It's quite relaxing, but I get the impression that's because your mind is filled with "Count to 4"/"Blarg my nose is stuffy"/"Jesus why is holding my breath for 4 seconds so hard"/"Wow I actually have to push to empty my lungs in 4 seconds"/etc
Ask HN: Whatever happened to the “coming wave” of delivery drones?
I feel like a few years ago all the rage was that Amazon and other retailers were going to deliver things via drones, straight to your doorstep

Food delivery companies as well seemed to be testing out robots that would bring your food to you albeit in a more sidewalk bound way

Its been a few years and I have yet to have a single thing drone delivered to my house

What happened to that alternate future? Are companies still working on it? Or did we move on from that idea for some reasons we discovered?
No, the ruling goes out of it's way to say that putting something on the front seat of a car doesn't provide an expectation of privacy. Your home is very different in the eyes of the law. You can't use IR cameras to see into a home already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyllo_v._United_States

Edit: After re-reading, I think you may have a point that Wifi is a commonly-used technology and might technically be allowed. It might depend on whether your phone or wifi router could be used as a detector with the right software. I'd imagine the supreme court might change the standard if that happened though. They generally treat the home as more sacred.
Aside from the massive performance penalty, cache thrashing and context switching, this code will also leak a goroutine (and so, memory) if you don't finish receiving from `ch`. It's more brittle, longer to write, less local and in every other way worse than a for loop. Why would you ever do it?
Kind of ironic to see a Salon journalist write a shrill, insane rant accusing everyone else of being mentally ill because they're surrounded by yes men.
It's a good reminder that until relatively recently, board games were considered major topics of AI research. And it was considered a major event when Deep Blue beat Kasparov in 1997. But now we just don't consider this AI for some reason.
> Allowing anonymous users to read posts, vs Twitter which requires a log in these days.

Now it allows you to read the linked tweet, but not the response/thread, so it's basically useless for stuff that interested me still on Twitter (and tbh, Nitter was 10 times better than Twitter UI for stuff that interest me)
In this case, they searched a person's car after the software system highlighted their behavior as suspicious. The constitutional issue would be whether the resulting search was reasonable or not.

We can agree that if the system was very poorly made and flagged 90% of drivers, then the flagging wouldn't constitute "probable cause" in a legal sense... so how good does the system have to be before we're willing to accept searches based solely on the system's recommendation?
Besides what everyone else said, the obvious advantage is the latter builds in the logic for exiting the loop once getNext has run out of elements in the slice/map. Your former example will need a final step that's like:

...
if getNext() == nil {
break
}
...

This isn't a huge boon, and is mostly a matter of style. But I prefer the latter because it's logic that gets handled with the range builtin, so my code can be more about application logic, rather than muddling in breaking out of loop logic.
ActivityPub is inherently web because it's a recommendation by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium):

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
Nobody would argue that because if they did control the servers an ISP change would be effortless.

Which is the point, the move to a higher level of autonomy is not going to happen later. It's far too much effort once they've already settled in.

We should praise organizations that actually seek to normalize control over servers, not praise relying on yet another "fully managed" service. We can do that while also recognizing that them being on fediverse is nice in general. All of these are possible without stating falsehoods like "They control the servers".
No, I disagree. It's the fact that they do check everyone. The same logic can be applied to automated speed traps and red light cameras. (Which do assume guilt)

The only difference here is a ticket isn't sent in the mail or an officer showing up at the door.
> The police have no repercussions for sending warrants to Google

Yes, because judges, who are also human beings, love when cops flood them with stacks of bullshit requests.
Imagine a world (populated by a human species) where this would be the norm…
Would shining a flashlight have the same effect?

Also, I don't like police overreach but I wouldn't think getting tinted windows gives you any legal right to people not being able to see inside your car, just that it won't be easy for them to casually look over and see inside your car.
Same goes for biking. If there is a bike lane, you still have two ton vehicles buzzing sometimes inches away from you at twice or three times your speed. The smallest intersection scares me. Turning left requires me to come to a complete stop and wait for a chance to change lanes and turn. It's equivalent to crossing the street on foot. When I arrive, I have to search for a bike rack. My nearest grocery store has one rack for five bicycles tucked in the far corner of the plaza (I have never seen a bike parked there, however). My favorite coffee shop has no bike racks anywhere on the street, so I lock up to a sign in the parking lot.

There's no way to escape this as my house is flanked by two stroads. I hear constant traffic sounds well into the night. I live in a beautiful old neighborhood that predates the Ford Model T. I've seen pictures of ox-driven carriages rolling by historical downtown buildings. We had a cable car that ran down one of the current stroads. My city could drastically drop car dependency if we had the will.
"The Boy and the Heron" couldn't be considered inflammatory to Western audiences plagued by guilt as opposed to presenting them with a question loosely meaning, "how do you live with yourself?".
At the time I bought my Framework, I paid $1,200 for a DIY edition including 3rd party purchase of 32GB RAM and 1TB SSD (Samsung 980 Pro). The cheapest Apple laptop that can be configured to those RAM and storage specs is the 14" Macbook Pro at $2,600. The 15" MBA cannot even be configured with 32GB RAM, is heavier than the 13" Framework, and I believe still only supports a single external monitor compared to Framework's 4.

I guess it comes down to personal preference, but for me the Framework was plenty good enough and definitely worth the >2x cost savings.
This is one of the reasons why a conservative Texas politician spent tremendous amounts of political capital shoveling money to California.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/inside-nasas-daring-...
Does it define "sense enhancing"? X-Rays could enhance vision by converting x-rays in to visible light.
Anyone know if this exists for Firefox?
As a European from a country that lived under foreign rule (with varying levels of self-governance) from about 900 AD to 1991 ... lol. Self-inflicted existential catastrophes just don't quite hit the same.
> This is a case that arises at the intersection of the Fourth Amendment [unreasonable search and seizure] and the
technological capabilities of an Apple iPhone. The defendant Christopher Poller allegedly
stashed two guns and illegal drugs on the front seat of his car. He parked the car on a road in
front of his apartment and then went inside. Because the windows of the car were heavily tinted,
he probably thought no one could see inside. But he was mistaken. The police came along and —
by holding up an iPhone to the window of the car and activating the iPhone’s camera viewfinder
function — they could clearly see the guns and drugs inside the car.

The police officers just used iPhone's camera capability to look through the tinted window and see the firearms and drugs in the car.
5k is not a lot of traffic if you help people solve popular problems. The baseline traffic on my personal blog exceeds that. It's mostly Google traffic to various "how to fix X" posts.
Public Issue Tracker Behaviors
This is just normal market dynamics.

How will that change, once AI will help devs become much more productive?
Will there be an increase in pay, or a decrease?
Minority report was a great prediction
For anyone interested, I first came across it in Unbeatable Mind by Mark Divine. If I remember right it also goes into the OODA loop and other mental models, tips and tricks plus some info on physical fitness and flexibility. Good book.
Most new cars come with telematics, some have always-on cellular connectivity for data collection (and supposedly for automatic crash notifications).

It's only a matter of time until that becomes required (like the backup cameras became required in 2018 for example), and then it's only a matter of time before accurate / GPS positioning becomes part of the "required telematics" that get automatically shared with authorities (in addition to data brokers, advertisers and so on).
It won't quench your thirst. But it exists, here you go: https://www.xyte.ch/mods/x230/
They did search his car (based on his driving patterns) and found cocaine.

The question isn't whether it was legal to observe the driving, but whether it was legal to search the car based on the observed patterns.
> You're not gonna get rid of the need to commute.

Higher density enables mass transit.

Moreover, work from home is a thing now. One person lives near their job, the other works from home, no commute.

> build more transit

This is putting the cart before the horse. The suburbs aren't dense enough to justify a transit route and if you install one there it will just go unused.

First you have to rezone all the low density areas to allow higher density. Then you look where people are starting to build once they're allowed to and install transit routes to the places that now justify them.
Genuine idiots and racists have grossly misinterpreted and twisted studies of IQ to justify completely fallacious political positions of discriminating against minority groups. The effects of which are still felt today.

For comparison, the field of computing hasn't even been around as long.
Victimless crime? Smoking causes 8 millions death per year, 1 million for non-smokers around smokers. Alcohols causes 3 million deaths per year. They kill more people than COVID. That's not counting the disease and other crimes caused by these so-called recreational substances.

If your argument is that you have absolute freedom to consume whatever pleasures you, then all drugs should be legalized like fentanyl and when the society crumbles with drug addicts dying on every street, it is already too late to stop.
If I have my documents folded/crumbled up, stuffed into pockets... such that someone standing near me can see them sticking out, do they get to ignore warrant requirements to my person and papers because of that?

I'm not a lawyer either, but I'm pretty sure the answer is no.

Paper's not magical. If my behavior is sticking out of my pockets for everyone to see, they're not allowed to search through those unless they've got a fucking warrant. The amendment wasn't written with the express (or even covert) purpose of giving them ludicrous excuses to bypass its requirements. Reading it as if it were is wrong and deceitful.
I would sign up if you allowed me to ping a 2nd “check status” endpoint then send the results in the POST.
The courts in the US have been pretty specific about car vs home. They don’t seem to treat them as the same.
Maybe it would break a lot of things, but my gut instinct is I wish it were illegal for an app to slurp up, even with the user's consent, all of the user's contacts. Any such entries should be manual.

I don't use $SERVICE. I never want to use $SERVICE. I certainly don't consent to $SERVICE having my contact info because some acquaintance/friend/family member who doesn't know any better tapped "allow" on a button. But because it's allowed, any number of immoral companies like Facebook have my info, even though I've made a conscious decision never to use them due to their privacy violations.
Yeah, I read the headline and was briefly completely mystified until I opened the article.

This reads like the title of s ‘Beautiful journey… chosen to join [company]’ post.
I haven't seen any, yet. All the celltowers around me have the gas-filled heliax running up the tower, one for each panel up top. I know that it exists as i have outdoor 802.11 and LTE panels that only need POE, but compared to the 4g/5g antenna sizes they're miniscule.
Am I crazy to think that I don't need a "community" to edit text?
This is a very intriguing study as it would appear the fact that LLMs need public data to train on, its incentive on the marketplace of ideas is to reduce the very thing that gives it its power. It contains the seeds of its own destruction, destroying the web and open data ethos, and yet another data point pointing at another AI winter.
Source? I've wondered about that but had the opposite impression.
"peeng", "pee-pee-df" what is going on on HN the past few days?
Wasn't optane a pretty noticeable leap in voltage stability? They could've eventually pivoted to high density packing if they hadn't given up.
What judge? Like ~third paragraph states system operates with no judicial oversight.
Ugh. Their model will guaranteed to be borked: PR(is criminal | visited locations) != PR(visited locations | is criminal).

In other words, drug traffickers probably follow patterns typical for a larger subset of the population, which in of itself is not an indicator of guilt.
Hasn't this been out for a while? There are reviews going back to Jan 2021.
I don't use it much but I picked up a 16" MBP as I expected to use it as a not-Mac. Use as a Mac is far better on an M1/M2. I already have too many machines inside the house and when I go out, I tend to use my Surface Go m3.
i haven't used a lanuage with this feature before so i don't know anything, but i don't understand the problem. how is the return value before the pipe being the first argument any different than normally putting it into the argument list in the first position.

or is there an implementation where a pipe takes a vector and applies it to the next function as multiple arguments?
Shaka. When the tables fell.
> if they did control the servers an ISP change would be effortless.

I don't know where in the world you are, but I want to live there. Changing my ISP is far more intimidating to me than migrating a database and a few DNS records.

> We should praise organizations that actually seek to normalize control over servers, not praise relying on yet another "fully managed" service.

What would be enough to satisfy you? A VPS on AWS? A VPS on a smaller provider? A dedicated box at Hetzner? Or would it have to be a machine that they built from scratch and can physically access?
That's interesting, I've been running a Nano Gen1 for over a year now with no issues whatsoever (running both Linux and Windows).

What I have had happen is my work Dell machine (Windows) shutting off if it overheats. I have to make sure it's on a surface that does not heat up and lets air flow freely. Resting it on the couch will kill it within 10-20 minutes.

I use the Nano from the couch/bed for hours with no issues.
To put things in perspective, a typical certificate is a few kilobytes. Let’s say 10KB of network traffic to process one certificate.

This is just 3.5 Mbps, and we’re all “very impressed” that it’s being provided for free.

A Raspberry Pi could serve this.

Certificate Authorities have convinced everyone that their service is so onerously difficult to provide that they deserve billions of dollars… annually.

The reality is that they are pure rent-seekers, charging $50 for something that can be provided for free from a fanless hobby computer.

I just want everyone to have some perspective next time you go buy a wildcard certificate for a thousand dollars, which differs from a normal certificate by just four bytes.

Count the dollars per byte.
I'm using the Arduino RP2040 in a project. This is also in the same form factor as the Nano and is truly remarkable in terms of value for money. Really impressed with Arduino
There is a woman in another state that must have a gmail address very close to my wife’s. We know when this woman gets Botox, how much she pays for her kids dance lessons (a lot!), and so much more. You would think she would realize at some point, but it has been years and my wife still gets so much of her mail.

I used to get email for a guy in California when he would buy something from Harbor Freight, rent a movie from Redbox, or order a pizza. Those started tapering off about a year ago, so he must have figured it out.

The strangest one was I was receiving email for a colonel in the US Army! For a few years I kept getting these group emails to all these army officers about upcoming training exercises. I thought about replying to let them know they shouldn’t be sending them to me, but was worried about getting in trouble, so never did. They continued for years, but finally stopped. I always wondered if the guy had a .mil address and accidentally used gmail.com.
Yeah it does seem a little bit more complex than necessary. Simple methods, simple life
Ohhhh, now that is interesting. I think I'd say you don't have an expectation of privacy when you park your car on a public street, people can look into the windows and if they are tinted then using a device to "see" through the tint doesn't go over the line to circumvent your expectation of privacy - if items were in the trunk....maybe that elevates the expectation of privacy but leaving something on the seat or something that can be seen looking into the windows of a car parked out in public seems like you should not expect a high level of privacy.

Your house/apartment on the other hand...you should expect a high/higher level of privacy there, even looking into the windows - if something is found looking into the windows it should not be admissible as evidence without a warrant.

I do not know if the law actually distinguishes privacy if it's a car vs a residence.
Chase bank has a similar issue. Getting confused about business vs personal vs joint and sending the wrong notice to the wrong address.
> The police have no repercussions for sending warrants to Google

Those warrants.
But getting bought by facebook was the only business plan they ever had, so it was facebook that made all that possible.
As a somewhat reluctant user of Python for scientific computing, the main thing that keeps me from trying Julia is that it seems to have a severe case of featuritis. I never wanted or needed my convenience language to try to be a C++ replacement, and the hodgepodge of syntax I see when I look at Julia samples is nauseating.

Replacing Python is not practical right now because it is more comfortable to use a language that doesn't try to be everything to everyone, and that means that it will be built on a base language — in Python's case, C. That ground is shifting, and nobody is sure if the new base will be Rust, Zig, something else, or if it will all blow over and C will come back. So the space isn't being targeted very much.
Most of these new data surveillance tools don't have a judge in the loop.
Live looping. I've played in cover bands for 20 years, but haven't done much solo gigging in a long time. I also have been pretty technophobic as a musician.

Well, I got a full featured looper and drum machine and a bunch of other equipment and I'm trying to adapt my cover band repertoire into a solo one-man-band kind of thing. It's going well and I'm actually really inspired.
Too bad for the unhoused I guess?
Those were WiFi routers inside the room. They didn't see through walls.

Unfortunately, I don't see how the logic wouldn't basically be sound based on the existing criteria that, if technology existed and was in widespread public use that allowed ordinary people to routinely see through walls, then yes, being behind a wall would not give you a reasonable expectation of privacy.

Assuming we ever reach that point, the Supreme Court would either need to come up with a new test of what constitutes a search or we'd need to ban such devices so people could still expect privacy in their own homes.