skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Police cars with ANPR presumably have a camera with a slightly more zoomed-in view.

Sixteen+ years ago when making demo plate recognition systems for mobile use, the "cameras" were good lenses onto industrial machine vision processing arrays.

Light sensor cells backed by neighbourhood array processing hardware that was uploaded with a series of filters -

anti jiggle filter to reduce vibration effects so that successive frames "stacked" correctly and the ROI (region of interest) didn't wobble,

Then a ROI search to best guess "back end" of vehicle and licence plate location

sharpness filters to enhance letter against plate contrast

letter + digit "trained" filters that were primed to do the best match

The output was dejiggled "smoothed" images (ie nearly raw made up of rolling average of a few successive frames == good clear slighly processed image) + "best match" image (previous smoothed image + sharpened + overlaid best guess letter shapes) + text output of guessed licence plate.

All that worked pretty well - that was my last contact with that specific job, I was doing a lot of speculative contract work for a machine vision specialist supplier at the time.
You can send your backups to backblaze and S3 and it still would be cheaper
Since you're not increasing the number of variables, it seems to me that the problem of finding the initial Boolean formula (or an even simpler version of it) is fairly straightforward. Have you done any tests along these lines?
Currying is just a poor man's dependency injection, just as closure is a poor man's object (and vice versa).
Not always. It is not necessary to have a BAA to look up diagnosis information using patient data, so long as the data used maintains the patient’s anonymity.

For example, a doctor googling your symptoms doesn’t require a BAA with google.
Ah, yes, Digital UNIX, whose shells would conveniently clip command output to the terminal column width, even when invoked in a script.

That one took a while to puzzle out, had to set COLUMMS to a ridiculously high number when running on DEC.

(I was responsible for an install script that worked on pretty much all UNIXes of the time. The first few hundred or thousand lines were just figuring out which expcetional platform was in play and tweaking various parameters to get consistent results from sh, awk/gawk/nawk, ps, grep, etc. The good old days…)
I wrote a good reply, then closed the tab on it. Just watch the video and decide for yourself. The culprit is fructose (a toxin almost as strong as ethanol, only consumable by the liver), the energy source it glucose and sugar is half parts each of them. The guy explains it down to very metabolismic reactions.
I'm also @cmg on Twitter, which used to get plenty of Instagram mentions of this type, as well as people thinking I'm CheckMate Gaming, Canadian Media Guild, Cocaine Muzik Group, Chipotle Mexican Grill and all sorts of wild stuff.
I love the initiative, of course. How could I not? The idea of folks casually taking a dip in this city is really nice. I spend a lot of time beside the Seine - writing code on my laptop, even! - and being able to dangle my legs in sounds nice.

But... No matter what they say about bacteria measurements and other high quality quantitative indicators, there will still be swimming bags of potato chips and cigarette cartons and beer cans and receipts, and all the other junk Parisians tend to toss in there, even the occasional Vélib' bicycle. The thought of going for a nice swim only to whack my foot on a rusted underwater bicycle gear and then leave the water with a sandwich wrapper clinging to my back isn't very appealing. So I wonder how this will be managed, and how separated the three proposed swimming spots will be.

With that said, I went swimming in the Ohio River as a child, and I guess I'm still alive, so ¯ \ _ ( ツ ) _ / ¯
Pretty sure his brother works on tarsnap too.

They should take separate buses to ______.
Waymo puts the brakes on self-driving trucks program
Federal legislation doesn't need to be passed to restore states rights, it merely has to be wiped from the books.
Try phind.com, it's pretty much what you described. It's an AI search engine for programmers which is able to annotate its results with SO links for every paragraph it generates in case you don't trust the generated text.
There are companies (won’t endorse any in particular) that will let you buy data eSIMs for virtually any country. They can be downloaded before you leave or using airport WiFi, and usually activate automatically when you arrive.
> We should limit the opportunities people have

Riiight. See you at the voting booth.
these days, most of my tools autosave
I would never consider a backup provider to be more reliable than that, because if you depend on it, it will fail you at the hardest time.

Better to have multiple layers of backup, of which tarsnap and friends are only one, and verify regularly.
True, which is why it should be a considered a fun activity. Not everything is a hobby but a tool to exercised when needed or wanted.

I mentioned in a different comment how Github's policy and terms of service has no mention of changing an account's username with or without notice. Unless they can prove that they are "squatting" by holding an username considered "inactively held for future use." It is inappropriate behavior for Github to do this to OP.

I also mentioned to talk to support first but I failed to mention why. Instead my comment made it seem as though OP should immediately sue them. I do not condone that kind of behavior and would have edited my earlier comment to reflect this after some of the comments made it clear I made a mistake.(I can not edit it now)

Thank you for bringing this to my attention and grateful for your understanding. Hopefully I can leave this comment behind me as it seems to have run its course.
Modern functional Typescript is the best mainstream language I've ever worked with. The only thing I'm ready to trade it for is Haskell.
Information Information – a poem on information overload in the 21st century
I'm very sorry that you had a bad experience homeschooling, but there's little evidence overall that homeschooling damages children's social skills more than a traditional school environment. Many homeschoolers lead very vibrant, active social lives in inclusive communities.

Again, I'm very sorry you've met some people who were weird and happened to homeschool, but it's unfair to pass judgement on a large group of people, just because you met a few who didn't fit your own standards for normalcy.

I've met hundreds of articulate, friendly, intelligent and confident homeschooling families.

I think the myth that homeschooling leads to lack of socialization is largely untrue and a treat to those families who want to create an education that honors their child's unique academic AND social needs.

I could write a lot more on this and I have, in this blog, if you're curious to learn about the real lives of highly social homeschoolers.
https://joinmodulo.substack.com/p/but-what-about-socializati...
Peak SV techbro moment.
Forget about technology for a second and think about how bureaucracy works in a big corporation. Getting all of their teams onboard, and then convincing the business people to go ahead and pay for something that in their eyes already works in an era of cost-cutting isn't a trivial thing, and isn't going to be accomplished right away unless they made it a big company priority.
The important word "TikTok" is missing from the title, which might lead people to believe this was about real trends rather than whatever the heck is going on over there at any particular time.
we can't rule out time travel forward on Earth.
There is geological evidence of civilization destroying events 12k years ago, possibly more. I've often thought about why it took 300-400k years to go from fire to agricultural-civilization, then tech takes off in under 5k years from that point. What if the time from fire to civilization was faster, but those civilizations were wiped out (by geological, astrological or self-inflicted reasons)?
For every scientific achievement, someone in India discovered it decades before.
>S3 is the most reliable data storage mechanism in the world

S3 is not the problem here. The problem is building a database on top of S3, and having to reimplement all the consistency, atomicity, transactions etc. on top.

>no thought to a schema, no migrations to manage

There is, in fact, always a schema. Some people choose to ignore it's there, to their detriment.

>Always avoid the fancy option when it makes sense.

It's not the 1980s. Postgres is not fancy, and Greenspunning it is a mistake.

>Almost guaranteed it's cheaper.

Cheaper than a 26-hour outage?
No need to fake 'non-human biologics' when a bird can poop on the wreckage and viola "'Non-human biologics' were found on crashed craft." Vague wording can be used to justify almost anything for people who are predisposed to believe it.
Fancy would be writing an application to talk to RDS, creating an RDS instance, creating a database, creating whatever IAM link is needed for auth into the db so you don't need a second set of credentials, creating a schema, creating columns with different data types, and then modifying the application to handle edge cases for the different data types, logic to insert, update, delete rows, select items, yadda yadda yadda.

Dumb is `aws s3 cp` and being done in 5 minutes.
First it was an "army" to go against crypto, now it is building a whole new agency against technology? Really lost a lot of respect for Warren. She's gone a bit off the rails and is a bad look for democrats.
back in my day, i thought a WHERE clause on the "RANGE OF alias IS RELATION" would be useful. nowadays, a session level VIEW is the way to go.
they don't have to update their policies, it's their website and they can do what they want with it

unless you've paid them (which @usernamex doesn't seem to), then there's not even a contract with them

they will call your bluff, you'll go to court, then you'll lose and you'll have their legal fees to pay
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I only partly agree with your comment, because the dilemma is false. All living organisms reproduce and humans as mammals are no exception. At the same time, you can almost feel it's not all.

If you stop to think about the original cause, things get very complicated (if you adopt Penrose's thesis regarding Big Bangs, there is no original cause). If you start to analyse the macro- (dark energy and maybe dark matter) and especially microcosm (all things quantum), suddenly ordinary perception collapses. Even plain old relativity with time-space curvature seems at odds with what we are used to perceive. So maybe, just maybe, it's not so far-stretched to think the so-called objective reality is a kind of hologram or whatever we call it. I'd say it's far more probable than just believing everything is accidental and has little purpose (e.g. just reproducing and that's all).
Wheelwrighting: A Modern Introduction
McDonald’s is an interesting company to mention. McDonalds corporate isn’t even really in the fast food business, they’re a real estate company. Franchisees have to rent land from corporate, that’s how they make almost all their money.

Individual McDonald’s Restaurants are barely profitable, most stores bringing in less than $100k profit per year. For how widespread they are, the restaurants themselves really aren’t a great business to be in.
Maybe there is simply not enough medical data to properly train a 500B model.
“People who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those who are doing it”
― George Bernard Shaw
> Playful

That is a bad choice of words.

I will see you in court.

(See- joking about going to court is playful. Actually going to court is not)
Automakers try to scuttle Massachusetts ‘right to repair’ law
Nothing beats NCIS in abusing lack of knowledge around computer and software in the general public: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bwUdjeu4C6A (getting hacked through a power cable and fighting with 4 hands on a keyboard)
Love testing with chrome personally, all the extensions make it so easy to use
Show HN: Open-Source SDXL UI – Invoke AI 3.0.1
If we manage to phase out meat consumption, and with it the need to raise farm animals, switching to a full plant-based diet, and improved public transportation to the point car use become an exception, I bet the planet could hold twice the current population without significantly raising environmental impact. We waste a lot of resources feeding and sheltering cattle and automobiles instead of people.
Otaku refers to men who prefer computers, games, anime, manga over forming real relationships. It includes obsession with cartoon or fictional girls, but includes more antisocial obsessions than anime girls.

Anime features prominently in Japanese and other Asian cultures. Nothing wrong with that, but not healthy (or creepy, if you prefer) to fixate on fictional females rather than forming relationships with real people.

The problem lies in the behavior of the anime consumer, in other words.

Not a fan myself. I live in Asia and see these characters, and the anime style, everywhere. It strikes me as juvenile and sometimes fun in a marketing context. Would strike me as creepy if someone told me they were in love with an anime girl.
I had an Asus tablet with the Nvidia Tegra 3 chip and 1GB RAM in 2011, it ran Flash sites fine, though obviously not at desktop-level quality. Flash games on on Newgrounds were hit or miss, but mostly because they weren't touch-friendly.

You probably recall that mobile internet in general was far from fluid in those days; Browsers couldn't handle multiple tabs well, and iOS would show an annoying mosaic if you scrolled web pages too fast (before the browser could render the page). I would rather have the option of having something imperfect available, than have the OS vendor lock them out entirely.
If GPT3 was trained on WebMD, 9 out of the 10 would have been a cancer diag.
iOS 17 beta code reveals “Action” button offering quick access to features
Then your garden wall is older than most
I use tarsnap because the asymmetric crypto means I can give my cron job authorization to create backups, but it doesn't have authorization to read or delete(!) backups.

This ability is critical to prevent a compromised system from having its data wiped and having all backups wiped as well.

I haven't been able to figure out how to do this in any other system. But if someone has a tutorial, I am all ears.
Locally it may be pre-history: nobody wrote down that the beads traveled across the Bering strait to the New World.
Then I'd like to know what they think of the benefit of spending $25/mo for just 100GB.
Yes, the transactions is tripartite.

Direct API access to the Central Bank's internal system is only given to participating banks. Your bank might make available a separate API through which you can generate temporary QR Codes with a value attached, for instance. This is very common. These QR codes aren't requests for payment in the strictest sense, because they aren't targeted at an user specifically: anyone that scans the QR code can pay.

To popularize the system, the central bank forbid the banks from charging for transactions in the first 12 months. That was very contentious because before we had a system called TED which allowed transactions only in business days and within a 1~24h window. Most (not all) banks charged a fixed fee of 1 to 15 BRL per transaction. This revenue source was cut all of a sudden.

Now, they allow banks to charge fees for businesses, if they wish. Some banks have fixed fees, some charge up to 1% per transaction (half the fee for debit card transactions in Brazil), sometimes also defining a ceiling (max 130 BRL fee per single transaction).
Personally, I got 90/100, I also have experience with TeX and I've designed a few fonts
A nearly 20-year ban on human spaceflight regulations is set to expire
To be fair, any backup service should probably best have model of "pay per length of backup stored".

If I want to store my 100GB of data now, and I want to have it stored for a year, I want to pay for that year's worth of storage of 100GB of data now and not worry about any money or account problems for that bit of data.
> Now apply your logic the other way (parents having many children) and see how meaningless your conclusion is.

That the unicorns known as children in large families still see all the other families around them who have just one kid, and internalize that as the norm too, or maybe their own family does influence them slightly and they bump their ceiling up to 2 or 3, and within a few generations that's right back to the mean again?

After age 5, what percentage of waking hours do children spend away from their family anyway? What percentage of adults that they are familiar with (at least to the degree that they know how many children those adults have) are their own parents? Are the people (in the US, they'd be mostly women) that teach them also parents to some high number of children?

Even the Duggars must have grown up internalizing a number far lower than the 20+ their own parents had.
There are two types of emergencies - checklist ones, and panic ones. You need to have both, but realize that in the panic ones people do NOT operate rationally.

This is why house doors open in but business doors have to open out - if there’s a crush against a fire door it opens.

You even see this in aviation, where everything is checkisted; the pilots will first stabilize the plane in an emergency and then run the checklist. And small plane that operate unexpectedly are always higher in crash rates.
Thanks for the showing off your cultural erudition. No bubble burst for me.
How is that job adding value? Why does it exist?
Also, Google is always and constantly making announcements that Bard or whatever IA tech (Music-LM, etc) is supposedly beating all the competitors, but nobody can use or see such models, only very inferiors ones, curious, right ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ?
She should get a government job she would fit right in.
I was doing the same thing with physical SIMs for over a decade before eSIMs even existed. I even could use SIM trays to make the same one fit in different form factors.
It seems weird because it's a big leap but big leaps do happen.

If it is a misrepresentation I'd be curious about the back story. I mean, even if it's not been knowingly done it will presumably seriously hurt the careers of the people involved; if it is knowingly I assume it will be "find a job in another field" kind of thing.

How could you suspect it wouldn't come out if it's knowingly? If un-knowingly how could you make an amazing claim like this without being absolutely sure of what's going on? If it's a "rush to publish" type thing - why wouldn't you make a big point of that in the paper (i.e. load it with caveats to the brim)? Plus this comment makes it sounds like it's been sat on for at least what seems to me like a fair amount of time.

All the options seem implausible but at the end of the day one of them must be the case. For the sake of everyone I'm pulling that it is what it says on the tin.
> Sure you can. Class constructors are still a thing.

Definitely. I do 99% of my dependency injection as constructor "injection".

Injection frameworks and Whitebox testing just introduce layers of complexity that can be very difficult to debug
> All kinds of people could have claims on it.

That is not necessarily true. Often, one or more of the closing documents addresses this very issue, attesting that there are no such known claims and/or assigning any unknown ones to you as the new owner. Liability is part of ownership, after all, and all ownership is "just a legal filing" unless it's backed by force. While it's true that a real estate transaction is not the same as a transfer of a physical thing, dismissing such transactions as fictional is a bit sophist.
Good points.

I think Bill Bruford is another exception, matched grip, but IMO he also qualifies as being exceptional and not a yawner! :D
Used to like notebooks but it becomes messy if not checked. I think they are good for some use cases such as short analysis.
Switched back to file and folder organization along with Make file. Tedious yes but prevents me from messing my analysis from ad-hoc variables or calculation.
Having said that, notebooks are good way to experiment.
A Chinese Alternative to Bloomberg Terminals Quietly Limits Information Overseas
Where does the extra money come from? Out of thin air?
and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36882654
An in-depth look at homeschooling and socialization; plus, how to make friends and build community in any learning environment.
Dr. Arif Patel Says, in Dubai, Preston, London, UK Discusses in Dentistry
People tend to know the basics of dentistry and most common dental issues, but there are so many topics that are overlooked that people go through before visiting their dentist. And dentists as well as well as patients feel it, says Dr Arif Patel of Preston. For example, when patients say, they fear visiting their dentist, notes Dr Patel, some dentists might assume they mean something like they are just avoiding the visit because of the pain. But there are some things that are deeper than just the scare.

Arif Patel Says, In Dubai, Preston, London, UK where he practices, Just like that, in dentistry, there are several topics that are often overlooked or not widely discussed, even though they can be important for dental health and overall well-being. Some of these less-talked-about topics include:
> “A lazy girl job is basically something you can just quiet quit,” she says in the two-and-a-half minute video. “There’s lots of jobs out there where you could make, like, 60 to 80 K and not do that much work and be remote.” As an example, she zeroes in on non-technical roles, where she feels the hours fall within a 9-to-5 schedule, and believes the pay is enough to allow for some financial freedom.

This influencer branded it “lazy girl job” but this concept is wildly popular among young people of all genders right now.

I was invited to be a mentor in a career-focused program for college students. The number of students who wanted advice about how to get easy remote jobs where they didn’t have to do any work was depressing.

The ideas they got from social media were wild. It was usually more Reddit than TikTok, but the concepts were the same: Overly confident internet posts had convinced them that most people don’t actually do much work at work and that it was all one big game. They thought remote work was the final piece of the puzzle that would turn these jobs into easy paychecks so they could have near total freedom without having to give up more than a couple hours per day to send some emails.

The weirdest part for me was how much they wanted to believe these internet influencers over the mentors in the group. It was hard to get some people to understand that the influencers were selling them a dream as a way to increase their follower count. I guess people will always have an appetite for hearing what they want to hear.
There's someone on Twitter with the handle covid, and he was on there long before the pandemic. At the peak of the pandemic, loads of people would tweet stuff and add @covid every day. I always wondered what kind of response they were expecting. (I speculated that they were confused with tagging, but some of them had tags in their tweets.)
Maybe I'm not understanding the objective or the constraints. I thought the goal is to disable autofocus on mobile devices in order to prevent the appearance of the virtual keyboard from unexpectedly disturbing the layout.

In order to achieve this why not use @media to identify a device which uses touch input (I'm sure there are some edge cases, but this seems like a good proxy for a mobile device) and javascript or jquery to disable autofocus?