skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something I was wondering about in this case ... They tracked the killer through his use of burner phones 10 years ago.

And I obviously know phones continuously ping cell towers.

So that means somewhere out there, there's a database of all cell phones and their locations for all time, with fine-grained resolution? They don't ever delete it, at least not in the last 10 years?

Or it's 1 database per cell provider ? I guess phones ping towers that are not owned by the company that provided the phone

I'd be curious if anyone has a link to a good summary of how this works, and the location tracking implications. Do they have to do a subpoena, or is it just a big database everyone's doing joins against? What's the resolution of the data?

I knew that people obviously get caught due to cell phone tracking -- it comes up in every one of these cases, like the Idaho killer recently. But I'm slightly surprised they reached back 10 years and did it
https://archive.today/EFeEG
Wedding photographers had a hard time with dark-skinned subjects. Color film was fine-tuned for specific matter back in the day, and the two common varieties available were (1) optimized to make light-skinned people look nice, and (2) optimized to make vivid colors. These two approaches were at odds, because anything which made vivid colors would exaggerate skin blemishes.

Films in category #2 sometimes worked better with dark-skinned subjects, because these films tended to be more neutral overall, but this was a bit of a crapshoot. Anyone shooting light-skinned subjects had an easier time, because they had films which were purpose-built to make their job easier.

Examples of film pairs in category #1/#2: Kodak 160NC / 160VC, Fuji NPS 160 / NPC 160. Maybe Fuji Astia/Provia. Velvia 50 fell solidly in category #2. There are also films that don’t really fit in either category, like Kodak 100UC. Digital cameras contain processing that makes many of the same tradeoffs as film, it’s just that you have a lot more flexibility to make adjustments on the digital side of things.

Designing cameras to be “neutral” or “accurate” is not really an option, when it comes to color, due to the sheer complexity of the problem. This is a lot more complicated than just thinking about RGB or XYZ. You get to choose between different inaccurate options, which are each optimized for some specific set of use cases.
Show HN: My (Brain) Operating System
Man Jose is pretty tragic.
It doesn't imply that it's matching black people to white perpetrators. The claim is that A) the model itself is worse at matching for black faces and B) the database being searched against is often disproportionately made up of black faces.

Give it a photo of a black person to search on and you're probably getting a black person as a match, but the likelihood that it's actually the same person is lower than it would be if you were searching for a white person.

The quote doesn't say it's increasing arrest rates for black people, but arrest rates for innocent black people. If you use facial recognition and it's 99% accurate for white people and 75% accurate for black people (numbers chosen arbitrarily), you're going to target a lot more black people incorrectly even if you're never incorrectly matching photos of white criminals to black people.
There are plenty of Google Chrome extensions available if you want to block them on your feed for the rare occasions you do use it.
The kind of people who are out at night; the kind of activities that are available; the kind of places that are open.
Hmmm. I feel guilty for seeing such a cool thing and asking for:

Surface tension, viscosity, air bubbles, foam, loss of energy, 3D liquid (matching the depth of my phone), sound, momentum haptic feedback, and orientation appropriate light beams.

Also, choice of water, beer, wine or whiskey.

Exceedingly exceptionally cool things raise requests for far more features than they deliver!
Simple, use services providing a fixed price like DigitalOcean, with services with variable cost like Github Actions, we just set a monthly limit. I avoid services where this isn't possible unless I'm confident that there is no way to get into a huge bill.
Verification that online communication is a human and not a bot. In short order it will not be possible to know if the person on the other side even exists unless there is a highly reliable "humanness" indicator. We are almost there for live text and audio communication, and video is advancing swiftly.

The FBI has already put out alerts about scammers and other evildoers calling people using the voice of their family members.
In hindsight I should have used UE instead of SceneKit.
Java’s floating-point hurts everyone everywhere (1998) [pdf]
Stalking the LinkedIn, it seems he quit, switched to a PhD in CS and has been working at Google for the last 12 years.
Sorry to hear about that, hope you get better.
Pretty much yes, holding your brush at 45 degrees and following your gum line. I found I could feel and follow my gum line except on my back upper outside molars where I had to turn the brush about 30 degrees up (in the front to back direction). For some reason I can't feel that part of my gums very well. I'm pretty sure your mileage may very.

It's also helpful to have a reliable hygienist check how you're going until you get it right. I'll probably end up going about every six months in any case, with healthy gums. Which is much better than "I would hate to see you lose all your teeth." which is what my hygienist said before I got serious.

Finally, I've only been brush once a day, before bed for two reasons. First to check how well things were going and second, to avoid too much wear and tear on the gums in case it wasn't necessary. As it turned out I'm fine with once a day. The primary way I check between check ups is to floss about once every two weeks. If my gums bleed then it's a sign I'm off track. Before I started this technique my gums would almost always bleed.
The HP-48 certainly could do infix style calculations and formulas (the solvers work with these).

But from the prompt it’s not particularly natural. Algebraic entry is a second class citizen.

But do look at RPL. Anything that lets you push anonymous functions onto the stack can’t be all bad.
You would only rotate a node when it becomes un-balanced (i.e. so the only case you would deal with is the instance where a new child-node is added to another child within the tree). There are no cases where you would need to re-balance when you add a 2nd child - the balance factor would be larger than 1 in the instance of adding the 1st child element to the node and thus you could never find cases like this (unless I'm misunderstanding what you're asking).
AWS SES works nicely and the costs for personal usage will likely be close to 0.
>instead, it seems to be finding the closest match in an existing dataset under the assumption that anybody who's ever been photographed by the police is permanently a criminal suspect.

So is a witness, for the most part, they're just logistically challenged. Which is why photo lineups are, in my alternate universe where everybody understands probability and causal inference (because we require 4-year degrees in the science of criminology), a specific tool to discover specific things rather than an instantaneous indictment. There are myriad things wrong with using them, and if the detective doesn't understand that or worse wants to exploit that, the detective should be regarded no differently than the beat cop shooting their gun into the crowd to scare it off.

https://lawcomic.net/guide/?page_id=5

Similarly: A detective's hunch about whether the person being interrogated committed a crime is a powerful tool. We just don't throw people in prison based on that alone. We're getting to the point that we could train an AI to develop such hunches, and that could be valuable. But we can't just throw people in prison based on that alone. We need to confirm such things with external evidence.

Just like we need to confirm a single-eyewitness recollection or a rough photo, rather than just measure that recollection & numerically characterize that photo without any indication (or more commonly, with a 100% fraudulent indication) of probability of matching.
In case this is meant to imply that perhaps my business and your business are both part of the same "You", they are not. They are each a party to a separate contract with Jitsi; we are not all party to one huge contract with each other (which would hypothetically allow Jitsi to do anything with our content for the purpose of helping them serve all of us).
There’s an LE chart floating around out there, slightly different than this[1] that shows how long carriers keep records.

AT&T in particular keeps records forever. I suspect all the other carriers do as well despite their claims.

1. https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_nbcnews-ux...
I moved from the U.K. to the US and the situation is even worse in the UK. Unless you’re bleeding or have cancer it’s basically “please go away”.
Come on, we know that there is variation, sometimes drastic, between populations on all different facets of life. But this one? No. It would be racist to even broach the subject. That’s why we know White people are to blame for it.
The author didn’t assert that sex work is the only job where women get to call the shots. The author suggested that could be a reason why it’s marginalized. Because if it was legitimized, then women would call the shots.
Requires 4gb of ram to run inference so iPhone14, iPadPro or Mac only. We don’t call them “small language models”.
I've seen a couple of these keyboards that I assume are mechanical in the last couple days or weeks here.

Serious question - do they not have function keys because that's just the models shown? Or is it normal for keyboards like this to not have them and if so why?
What if there was a localized adaptive contrast enhancing step performed before anything hits any neural networks?
I've often been struck dumb by the passive nature of so many people when facing health problems. My dad had multiple myeloma and was satisfied with local hosp. Nope. Made him go to Yale and the Dana Farber. He got the best care possible.

I struggled with back pain and told to go to a neurologist and informed my GP where I would and wouldn't go. The doc I was referred to was a no-go since I know him personally and he's a lying piece of shit in his personal life, I'm not trusting him with my back! Docs could NOT understand. "But he's so nice." Screw that.

Time and again, family and friends settle. I understand the insurance component, but even then, can you not find better?

And thank you for your work. It's very cool.
If you want good Mexican food in the Bay area go to Richmond, not SF
i had to read your comment three times before i realized what you meant: /..org, of course.
I'd put a lot of everybody into that category, to be fair to boomers.

Age isn't a reasonable excuse at this point. Common access to the Internet has been with us for ~30 years.
Sorry, *16 additional states. The total is 19 (including DC).

29 have some age restrictions, where people under a certain age must wear helmets while riding, and only 3 have no laws requiring riders to wear helmets. I think Puerto Rico has a pretty strict helmet wearing law since 2007[1]. I haven’t found any data about the other territories.

1: https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/documents/812397...
I can assure you Middle Eastern doesn’t quite qualify as White in the racist parts of the country. Even if that’s what the US Census Bureau would have you select.
Does there have to be "abuse"?

If there was a company that controlled 100% of a market, but was committing no "abuse", that's still a problem.

We want competition. If there is no competition, then evidently conditions that prevent competition exist.
Contrast helps. But running a convolution model on a single video frame, or aggregate of frames, is not how human vision works either. Give a human a glob of pixels with no context and they will struggle to identify it too. Identification involves motion and knowledge of the scene.
For general purpose computing I consider floats with base-2 exponents harmful and that's worse than the little things Java does wrong.
You know this isn’t true. They do tests on this gear (particularly the helmets), and they are required to pass a number of these tests and fulfill a certain standard. If this gear provided no additional safety, then these tests would show it.

This is unless you believe the tests don’t really reflect reality, but then you are objecting science accepted by several regulatory bodies. You’ll have to give me more evidence than your word against decades of experiments and expert opinions.
> Why is fluid dynamics considered to be an effective model when we haven't even proven the soundness of the navier-stokes equations?

Fluid dynamics is a field of study, not any kind of model. Navier-Stokes is just what you get when you apply F=ma to Newtonian fluids.
Don't toss those- they belong in a museum
Sure, greater-than-dwarf-sized stars are actually the minority. But among greater-than-dwarf-sized stars the sun is fairly typical.
Any chance of magnetically repelling a person from a ceiling, and/or attracting them from the floor, to create artificial gravity in space?
I loved the Bay Area when we lived there for the outdoors, the food, and the varied terrain, like this article outlines.

But I hated the Bay Area for the people. Not that anyone was particularly nasty or mean, they were just flaky. The number of cancelled plans, far, far outnumbered the kept ones.

I'm open to the idea it was just me, but I know we weren't the only people experiencing this – and I have a much easier time of it in other cities where I've lived – Amsterdam, London, and NYC.
What makes you think mugshots were used as the training data?
Not just the cameras themselves, you take low contrast footage then throw Video Compression on top of that, and you're not left with much to work with.
What's the point of this comment?
Are you worried that someone wouldn't know that it doesn't look realistic? And might get sick by drinking something with fluid dynamics that resemble the simulation?
Distance makes the heart grow fonder?
Precisely. I couldn’t have said it better myself.

I can cook, I just loathe it.
As someone raise on LA Mexican food, there is great Mexican food in deep East Bay and in South City (South San Francisco).

But Tacos, not burritos. Burritos are their own thing in the bay area so they cater to the local taste.
If you're worried about these things (I am not), simply restrict the private method to be called only from other class methods. Wait, that's how private methods work already...
This is bs, I didn't go anywhere in SF that was $25+ per plate when I lived in the mission and went out a lot. There's a ton of places in the mission and the tenderloin and I never once made a reservation anywhere.
Yikes. The peak rate here in Ontario is CAD$0.157/kWh, but our delivery charges are ~$0.05/kWh on top of that (Hydro One is the worst in that regard).
They did this in Australia.

It all seemed like it was to prop up Murdoch owned media.

The Australian Gov must have cut an acceptable deal with Google and Facebook though, as both threatened to do what FB has done in Canada.

There are more details to it all, I'm sure. I'd have to go research more as I dont recall them all :-)
No, like someone requests a URL, scrape it with scrapy (replace my URL with reddit.com and scrape that) and then return that to the user.
The Canadian ballot box isn't super effective though, since there's not really much competition for the Liberals given they cover the center pretty well and many people don't align with the Conservatives and NDP hasn't been very viable...
Yes but I mean our sun is not at the low end of that spectrum. As you say, most stars are smaller than the sun. So rewriting the system would mean that the majority of stars are no longer stars.
IANAL, but I did health tech for 10 years and had my fair share of interactions with lawyers asking questions about stuff I built.

HIPAA applies to the provider. Patient have no responsibility to ensure the tech used by their care provider is secure or that their medical records don't wind up on Twitter. HIPAA dictates that the care providers ensure that happens by placing both civil and sometimes criminal liability on the provider for not going to great lengths here.

In practice, this means lawyers working with the care providers have companies sign legal contracts ensuring the business associate is in compliance with HIPAA, and are following all of the same rules as HIPAA (search: HIPAA BAA).

Additionally, you can be in compliance with HIPAA and still fax someone's medical records.
What is politics if not "biases" in action? I am biased against politicians because of their beliefs on certain issues. So what?
Todays mass killers go for their whole body count up front with a machine gun instead of racking up kills slowly over a long serial killing career.

Instant gratification culture man… even the killers don’t have any attention span or patience anymore.
I have lived in both, SF food is amateur hour and its expensive in comparison to NYC. $4.50 for a slice of "pizza" that is really a panini open faced sandwich GTFOH.
Maybe I could also turn it into an API with FastAPI.
The peninsula and San Jose is terrible but the city and East Bay are good. Silicon valley is full of guts who have inflated egos because of their pay checks, but they have not much else going for them.
Take a look at Ghost of Tsushima (PlayStation only sadly) - especially the fields of grass, absolutely breathtaking.

Also Unreal Engine 5 is to me at the leading edge of graphics engines right now: https://youtu.be/-lkEOEEKYD0
This is really cool. Thanks for building it.
Sometimes you just have to swallow your pride and watch a couple walkthroughs and character build videos to get into a game from someone who has mastered it; just to get over that hump.
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18735023

Related, "Why Doctors Hate Their Computers" (2018), https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-ha...
Neil Young!
It cites its claims or else it gets the hose again.
or get said victim on a bicycle, then run them down in your car and say "I didn't see them"
This is how I feel coming from the trades into the offices, my colleagues are often surprised when I say the work we do is easy.
My wife and I are both good cooks, but have been pressed for time. However, 3-4 years ago we basically stopped eating out, largely because of just how expensive it is.

I changed my perspective around that time from "food is a chore" to "food is a luxury", and started trying to "go the extra inch" and try to make some nicer meals.

Tonight was extra special, being our 5 year anniversary, so I: Grilled a couple steaks, caramelized 3 onions and used the fond with some wine, tamarind, miso paste and beef stock to make a pan sauce, baked some potatoes and roasted some carrots. The left over onions and pan sauce I turned into a salad dressing for the week.

It takes some work, but once you dial in the basic chemistry of cooking, things start to become second nature.
A subset of the keyboard hackers aim to imitate the happy hacker keyboard, which was sized to fit inside a 19 in rack slide out.

This is one of them. Function keys are reached vi a modifier.

There are others: https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/product/classic-style-f122-m...

F24 for life!
You don't need to write a software stack for that, just install something like netbsd.

I'm sympathetic to your argument, but I think also many problems (or popular implementations) turned out to be quadratic. For example, the resolution of windows 95 applications vs today.
Gettin' it done whatever it takes.
You have to make a conscious effort to avoid douchebags.
Extremely beautiful
My primary care in a c tier american city usually takes over 1 month to schedule an apt. Its been as bad as 2.5 months.

What even is the point?

The only thing they do for me is gatekeep medications that Ive been on since I was a child. Its a joke.
> The problem comes when those recommendations become regulations which get enforced without context or nuance, because then people chafe, and it becomes a political issue, and then people resist for the sake of resisting. Which makes everything worse, and that doesn't work.

The core issue was fearmongering and misinformation. We had people on TV, on the internet, reaching a wide audience, just making up lies about the pandemic or "just asking questions" in a way that is identical to making up and spreading lies. They did this for power, for ratings, for fun, whatever. It is also true that the implementation was not great and that Americans have a cultural tendency to petulance when "told" to do something, but I expect most of that could have been worked through if there wasn't such an active opposition.
You get some insight into it if you carefully read Mahoun’s blog about looking for Bill Ewasko.
SpaceX conducts a mostly successful test of its Super Heavy booster
Add to that list, some version of the lab leak theory is plausible, but there was an attempt to make it sound like a conspiracy theory.
I spent a fair bit of my youth where there's been legalised brothels (or at least I assume they were through most of my childhood) and sex work. And on the other hand there's also physiotherapists and actual massages. I don't particularly like massages that much, personally, but if needing one I go in and tap my health card and that helps cover it.

So presumably there was no need to hide the business behind the euphemism/front, everyone just knew that if you wanted sex/porn, you went to a brothel in suburb X. Even where I am now, i know there's brothels and presumably private sex workers and if i want a massage I go and I book a massage.
US lab behind fusion breakthrough reaches ignition again
Yes, but I think that is because investors rationally realize that the future is extremely uncertain and complex so it is better to weight towards shorter term more predictable outcomes.
Yes, I do that with phone spam, at least the calls that aren't blocked. I always press the “speak with a human” key, and then keep talking to the person until they hang up on me (they always do). I'm retired, so my time doesn't cost anything, and doing this makes their day's work a little less productive. Seems like a good trade-off to me.
I've found that some of the highest reviewed Chinese food by my Chinese neighbors is barely recognizable and somewhat unapproachable to my western but somewhat adventurous pallet.

It is good, but you have to go in looking for an adventure and expect to not actually know what is in anything you are served. Do not go if you have any food allergies or strong preferences.
>The term Zombie Economy has been used for a lot of years, when will it actually manifest?

Around 30% of the economy is linked to real estate, seems pretty zombified. Export economy is being strangled by increased labour costs/shortages and carefully rolled sanctions. Consumption economy has difficulties to grow due to a lack of "hope in better times" from consumers. But the elephant in the room is the CCP, which is looking more concerned with "political stability" at the expense of everything else.

Things are bad since Xi Jimping first years with first wave of delocalization of
(textile) industries, politicization of society, political infightings that target the economy, etc...
Musk promises to pay legal costs if users' employers take action over tweets
Got rabbit holed... I love this ad - https://www.os2museum.com/wp/os2-history/os2-beginnings/1987... - it is a sort of weird mixture of Steve Job's Apple smooth talking and desperate street seller at the same time.
Das Keyboard, yep.