<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: sib</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sib</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 05:34:32 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=sib" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sib in "I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cornell / Merlin / eBird publishes a global species frequency DB indexed by location and date (so, how likely is a species to appear in a place, on a day of the year)... In a project that I was working on, this helped a lot when used to influence the "raw" identification based on appearance alone.</p>
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<p>See current situation where the Carpenters' Union in California is pushing hard against an initiative that would make it much easier to build more housing in the state because it would also reduce requirements for union labor.<p>Unions are very much an in-group vs out-group phenomenon (and in many cases, the benefits are specifically to the more senior union members vis a vis the less senior ones.)</p>
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<p>I mean given that effectively all other ISPs delivered nothing under these programs, it's a lot better for folks living in rural areas to get Starlink than nothing...</p>
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<p><i>2 decades ago</i></p>
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<p>I'm sorry, but how does a business writer lead an article with garbage like this:<p>Amazon makes nearly a billion dollars in <i>profit</i> from search ads. <i>Every week</i>. <i>Each week</i>, they sell merchants and publishers enough search-distorting ads to capture a billion dollars in <i>revenue</i>.<p>Is it revenue or profit? They are not the same thing.</p>
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<p>>> And a detection system that works 50%-90% of the time is better in a lot of cases than no automated detection at all. For example, universities need to make cheating with chatgpt risky for students.<p>I would say that's not necessarily the case unless there are zero false positives. In fact, your university situation is exactly where a detection system that works 50-90% of the time would be a nightmare if a meaningful share of the 10-50% errors were false positives.</p>
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<p>A different but equally interesting book about extreme sailing (solo race around the world in the 1960's):<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6055.A_Voyage_for_Madmen" rel="nofollow">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6055.A_Voyage_for_Madmen</a></p>
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<p>"Not guilty" does not mean "did not do it" - it means "the state didn't prove that they did it beyond a reasonable doubt."</p>
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<p>"Disturbing" to be able to economically provide cooking, cleaning, laundry, yard maintenance, snow shoveling, etc., for an elderly parent who lives alone (by her choice)? Why is that disturbing?</p>
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<p>As a person in my 50's with a parent in her 80's, this would be incredibly useful right now. And I've got many, many friends in similar situations.</p>
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<p>>> Only one specific device can ever login<p>> That's entirely service dependent, and the standard doesn't mandate "Service must not allow multiple passkeys"<p>Unfortunately, given the laziness, incompetence, and cost-consciousness of organizations like traditional financial institutions, telcos, governments, etc., many of them have & will end up with that implementation.</p>
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<p>Yeah - and as a user, I don't want my device manufacturer to have that level of influence or control over the authentication that I use for unrelated services.</p>
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<p>Stronger than "don't care about" (at least if I and some friends I've discussed this with count as normal people): this is actively <i>what I don't want</i>! I want control over my authentication and I don't want it bound to device, browser, OS, etc.</p>
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<p>Yeah - for sure I found it a bit strange... I guess the use cases (and maybe target users) are different:<p>Merlin - Use lots of data, storage, and analysis to help me identify what bird this is
eBird - I can personally identify lots and lots of birds: keep track of all the ones that I and other have seen with maximum speed and efficiency</p>
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<p>And their eBird app! A masterpiece of design for a user base that they deeply understand. Something of a learning curve, but extremely efficient and useful for advanced / expert users.</p>
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<p>I spent around 20 minutes arguing with ChatGPT when I asked the question and we eventually came to this conclusion... It's a visa that's not a visa.</p>
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<p>There are many examples of important paper records (property, birth/death, etc) being lost in fires or floods, so it's not the case that "everything worked perfectly fine" in those days either.</p>
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<p>Podcast: <a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast/car-colors/" rel="nofollow">https://freakonomics.com/podcast/car-colors/</a></p>
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<p>>> The purpose of a college degree is NOT a job
>> If knowledge and prestige is all that matters<p>I disagree. The primary purpose of the college degree is the job. If you don't need a job (which derives from the signaling factor of the degree == the prestige), you can just study the same material and gain the knowledge by yourself without getting a degree.</p>
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<p>When all the "simple solutions" are "not that simple," maybe it's a problem with the regulations, not the solutions...</p>
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