skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The SCALE of the surveillance is really the important thing.

Many comments here correctly point out that you don't have an expectation of privacy in public. But that rule was really created envisioning the occasional person observing the occasional person/act/event. Even a cop tailing you is so expensive that its not deployed everywhere. The rule did not anticipate a system where every person is observed all the time. This is a situation where "quantity has a quality all of it's own".

Mass surveillance needs to be held to higher standard than regular public observation.
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As someone who always keeps a carafe of ice water at my desk, I really appreciate the output of properly-maintained chilling water fountains.
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OP for sharing this on hackernews (and I talked to Tyler Dukes a bit about this). I think ALPR's are good investments, but having more rigorous standards in place for when people can do searches is necessary. There are rules for when you can run a criminal history background in states I am familiar with (that are policy set, so less rigorous than a warrant), that I think should be applied the same for searching license plates without too much friction for law enforcement.

I think Flock has a good product (and ditto I think Dolt is neat!) But that said, this 10% metric is so ridiculous it rises to the level I need to make a comment. Imagine I did something to decrease crime by 10% in two cities, and then went and made a claim like "I decreased crime 10% in the US" -- this is Flock's claim. (The study to get the 10% clearance estimate is crazy bad as well, but this 10% of solved crimes in US is such a bizarro projection to the entire US it is inarguable as to its absurdity).
> but there isn't something higher-level that offers enough of those features yet

I think Swift would tick most of those boxes, it’s a shame it hasn’t really picked up outside Apple-land.

It can be a horribly complex language, but day-to-day it’s very nice to write.
Sure, if its LEO. That's not the threat model for most organisations encrypting their data at rest though. :)

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> should absolutely not do things that can be construed as destroying evidence.

It'd be a very long stretch to successfully argue "removing access to the key" is destroying evidence. The data would still be intact, and available, to anyone with the key.

Just not to whoever physically grabbed the server. ;)
There's even a version for the Nintendo Switch. https://www.petc4.smilebasic.com/?lang=en
this is exactly why i reject all take homes. There is no way to compete against cheaters.
Russia was absolutely NOT a major tech hub for anything but locals, come on. Warsaw was and is the only one out East.
You can certainly ask a model what happens if we keep present rates what will the future look like? Are you suggesting that this sort of question is not relevant?
Conservatives ignorantly tend to refer to everything to the left of them as "liberals" even to behavior that is quite illiberal, so the distinction is important. But you're welcome to believe whatever you wish; it's a free country.
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My theory is that WFH will mostly contribute to creating secondary markets for more industries. Professionals will still want the services a city affords you but not want to pay SF or even Seattle prices. So they’ll end up somewhere under two hours from the nearest metropolis.

But if you get enough people in one place, you’ll get entrepreneurship.
Consider all of the shoe tread debris you create by walking or riding bicycles. Consider only walking barefoot, or just stay in one place and stop moving your body around. Judgemental strangers on the internet will thank you.
Russian GPS jamming threatens air disaster, warn Baltic ministers
A lot of distributed systems innovations came out of the High Energy Physics space.

Nvidia itself was basically bankrolled by DoE labs for much of it's early existence, MPI was a HPC project driven by Oak Ridge, the WWW was a side project at CERN to simplify information retrieval, etc.

High Energy Physics is a very data and computationally heavy problem that lends itself nicely to HPC, and a lot of the innovations in CS subfields like Bioinformatics, Machine Learning, and Theory was enabled by this research.
I'm fine with chilling water fountains, I just wish they were designed so that they'd still dispense water without power.
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My read of the rural broadband decision is that terrestrial broadband providers lobbied hard to get Starlink thrown out on a technically (not enough bandwidth).
No: it knows what "Jesus" "feet" "washing" "disciple" etc. look like but it doesn't know what they mean. If it understood what they meant it wouldn't have any trouble parsing an unambiguous prompt.

The system will "assemble them in the way the author is requesting" if you use an extremely detailed prompt: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40217685 But the reason this prompt is necessary is that the system does not understand human language with the same depth as a toddler: AI needs way too much extra help. The problem is not that these things are poorly drawn: they are semantically incorrect.

It is like the "horse riding an astronaut" example which art generators still routinely screw up[1]. AI knows what "astronaut" and "person riding a horse" look like, so it can draw "astronaut riding a horse" just fine, using shallow reasoning. But since they don't understand what "horse" "riding" or "astronaut" mean, and no clue what "horse rides a person" looks like, their shallow reasoning fails.

But a child who actually understands human language would probably be able to draw a horse riding an astronaut - I know I could and I suck at drawing. It wouldn't be nearly as clean or detailed as DALL-E 3, but it would be semantically correct. The difference is that children understand what horses and astronauts are, and can use physical reasoning to imagine how a horse might ride an astronaut piggyback/etc. Art generators do not understand what horses are and are incapable of physical reasoning.

[1] https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/horse-rides-astronaut-redu...
> It's invite-only at the moment to protect the community from an influx of new users (sorry!)

Then why did you post it here as a Show HN...?

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out

> On topic: things people can run on their computers or hold in their hands. For hardware, you can post a video or detailed article. For books, a sample chapter is ok.

> Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead.
So essentially, HTMX is not suitable for complex web apps with complex state, but it may be suitable for a simple web page that is only handling simple data. This is also, from what I know, what the creator of HTMX explicitly endorses.

The main problem it's trying to solve is not that React is bad, but that people are using React to build simple pages which is unnecessary, like taking a private jet out to the suburbs.
> FWIW those are all third generation "structured BASIC" languages, not what I understand the upthread commenter to be asking about.

They weren't. Many minicomputer BASICs of the 1970s and early 1980s, such as Wang's, lacked those structured programming features you are talking about, at least originally. They were classic GOTO/GOSUB line number spaghetti code. And huge amounts of business software was written in them.

Some of those apps still run today, because the languages have been ported to Windows/Linux/etc. And eventually, just like Microsoft did, they added a lot of those structured programming features. But sometimes you'll find pre-structured spaghetti-style code surviving long after the dialect gained the ability to do better.
> It was like a CD but it was as big as a vinyl record

Vinyl records are just black laserdiscs that are audio only :P Well, some records are jell-o colored, but you know.
There's a billionaire in the city where I in live. AIUI she (or the family) has hardly any cash, the billion is all one company, where voters work.

I suspect that if any political party were to suggest taking 2% of that company per year as tax, the voters here would rebel.

Corollary A: if anyone is going to propose this in earnest, their definition of billionaire is going to be constrained to a lot less than those 2971.
Pro users can change the default model in settings. We're working on surfacing this a bit better when starting new conversations too.
Also looking at C++ every day isn't a very fetching proposition.
Possibly an instance of the California effect?

National manufacturers have to design toilets for western states where conservation is a huge issue - might just be cheaper to sell those toilets nationwide than to have a different product line for wetter states.
Oregon-Washington-California?
But the fact that developers often need to be able to cover any one (or even multiple) of these areas, and that language proficiency (with platform APIs and various quirks) is quite hard to achieve - makes me think that the actual alternative is the elephant in the room, the one not even listed here: JavaScript.
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With Go, I can easily cross-compile a statically linked binary for each of the major platforms.

You cannot do that with C#.
Our service is metered over on the other side of the lake (Grand Rapids, MI), but I can only remember a couple of times we've had to restrict water usage (odd-even sprinkling was the worst of it) in the almost 40 years I can remember. Lake Michigan is a hell of a reservoir.
Breaches by attackers will continue until it becomes prohibitively expensive or dangerous for the attackers to do what they do. This isn't something companies can do; it takes a government to do that.

Until then, it's a great way to squeeze crypto out of some company to make up for the fact that your country is under sanctions tied to the US Dollar, and since it's hard to prove to the bean counters that an attack will happen with reasonable certainty on a given system in the next quarter, good luck getting resources and priority for mitigations beyond the usual.
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In every major project I've been involved in (and it's not terribly many, to be fair) things keeping us on previous versions were almost always libraries or other support software, rarely if ever was it the devs.
This is always a red flag for me
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Show HN: 3D Illustrations
Related:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39909110 (April 2024)
>> Netflix not only had technology no one else had (at that time), but an innovative business model that hinted that it might provide something to its customers that no one else had ever offered to anyone outside of science fiction: the world's entire video library, on demand.

What tech was that? Netflix was not the first to stream professionally-produced video content (or even that content in high-quality / HD video) over the internet. Are you referring to recommendation algorithms?

And, as far as the library goes, Netflix streaming video never had, and never intended on having, all content. In fact, their library was quite small, precisely because of their subscription business model. The cost structure and licensing regimes would never support it.

Agree that Starlink is something else. Hopefully the meddling doesn't mess it up.
Not the OP, but I pay for Bonsai because it does a better job of competitors of bringing a variety of tools together in a way that saves me time.

- Scheduling/calendar for client intros and meetings.

- Client info is then available to create a project.

- I track time to a project as I work on it.

- I invoice monthly or at the end of the project.

- Forms for collecting feedback and testimonials.

- Tax tracking for knowing how much I owe the IRS every 3 months.

It doesn't do any one thing outstandingly, but having a single point of reference for all my clients and my business interactions with them is really valuable. I looked at a few similar options (https://www.withmoxie.com/, https://www.waveapps.com/) but Bonsai beat them on functionality and usability.

The main part of Bonsai that I don't use is project management - that always happens in email/slack/asana/monday.
This one actually makes a lot of sense to me.

Just from a pure marketing perspective, look at all the insane hype they were able to generate due to possibility of a new physical form factor.

There’s no way in hell they could have generated $10M in pre-orders and potentially hundreds of millions in earned media coverage for the 700th app that’s basically a chatgpt api wrapper.
And it's not. Messages don't automatically read, the text field is weirdly duplicated, like there's one field that's not able to be opened, and then an unlabeled field that is usable. So I'll stick with ChatGPT. Might even cancel my subscription since all I use is the API, and only through OpenRouter with the OpenAI NVDA addon (screen reader for Windows).
This would be a good idea, because weight is the major factor in vehicle safety... if everyone else has a 6,000lb vehicle, you need one as well to be safe when they hit you. If vehicles on average got lighter, this would solve this problem. Unfortunately, EVs and modern crash tech have made cars much heavier. A 1970 small economy car like a VW Rabbit was ~1800lbs, that same car now (VW Golf) is now ~3200lbs.
C++ is a big language compared to Python. Many those of us with years of C++ experience don't fully understand the power and complexity of modules, partially because so few libraries and compilers support them as shown by TFA.

I'd recommend becoming an expert in Python modules. How they're packaged, how they're referenced and installed by pip, etc. Then learn how headers and translation units work in C++. How templates operate is an important concept to understand. Jumping right to C++ modules without a deeper understanding of the C++ compiler or without a reference point for other languages' module concepts will only lead to confusion.

If you're totally new to C++, I'd actually recommend reading "The C++ Programming Language" cover to cover just to "know what you don't know" and then roll up your sleeves and get some experience with a hobby project.
Belarus is defacto under occupation ever since 2020.

In any case, OP said "basically every neighbor" and you're doing a victory lap because only about half of their neighbors have been invaded.
Found Ideogram to be amazing at prompt adherence. This is what it made with the base prompt "jesus washing feet of his disciples". https://ideogram.ai/g/Kiwf4Wm1S9aqqEEhrJHixQ/0 (login walled probably)

It got it right in the first attempt. Ideogram isn't nerfed but it does have filters in place which stop giving you back the final nsfw image. And because its not nerfed, the people and their limbs (hands specially) are not like pasta.
Which were created decades after the original versions and are only identifiable as "BASIC" in that they share a few keywords like PRINT and FOR...NEXT.

The later "structured BASIC" dialects resemble more COMAL than traditional BASIC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMAL
C# is much better at doing systems-programming adjacent tasks than either Java or Go, as it actually exposes all the necessary features for this: C structs, actual, proper generics, fast FFI, etc.
For me, it's more nuanced than this. Most mistakes that are made by human drivers around me make intuitive sense to me based on how they are driving. They are often somewhat predictable. In those cases, I can partially mitigate those ahead of time (not always - I've been broadsided where I didn't see the other car until the last moment). The wide adoption of cell phones required a significant update to my mental model, but you can spot things like lane drift, uneven speed, etc. that tell you to give space to someone because they are probably distracted. Both chemically-impaired and sleep-deprived drivers tend to give even more clues to stay clear.

I find predictions informed by observation much more difficult with automated driving systems. In many cases, such cars will appear to be driving perfectly, right up until a severe mistake is made. Instead of having observable clues, it requires an understanding of what sensor suite and what version of software is in which vehicle in order to understand the tendencies of that vehicle. Something we can't possibly keep up with, especially given that the developers of the machine learning models being deployed can't deeply characterize each deployment's failure modes.

Given all that, I feel more able to defend myself against human mistakes than automated mistakes.
MAI Basic Four was one of the business software platforms for small businesses in the 1970s. MAI sold it as a turnkey solution including the computer which was a rebadged Microdata 1600. It was almost a BASIC machine the way Lisp machines were Lisp machines: all application level code, including that used for system maintenance, was written in BASIC.

The dialect was one of many called "Business BASIC", which basically extended normal BASIC with COBOL-like capabilities like better string handling, decimal math for currency handling, and ISAM-like file manipulation. It allowed for developing the same kinds of applications as COBOL while having a nicer development environment than COBOL.

The major accounting suites for small business of the 1970s, MAS 90 and MAS 200, were written in Basic Four BASIC. A lot of applications were. Other dialects, like Pick BASIC, supported business applications as well. All of these were much more fully featured than like Microsoft BASIC on Commodore/Apple/Tandy machines. Those were toys in comparison to minicomputer BASICs.

Basic Four itself shipped on some microcomputers like the Tandy 2000. Compatible environments came out for PC, including AB86 for DOS, Thoroughbred/OS, BASIS BBj, and ProvideX. Keeping those old systems running on newer hardware was an enticing business, just like for COBOL programs.
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