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Swiss police automated crime predictions but has little to show for it
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AlgorithmWatch
Swiss police automated crime predictions but has little to show for it - AlgorithmWatch
A review of 3 automated systems in use by the Swiss police and judiciary reveals serious issues. Real-world effects are impossible to assess due to a lack of transparency.
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Philadelphia's Top Prosecutor Is Prepared to Arrest Federal Agents
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Bloomberg.com
Philadelphia’s Top Prosecutor Is Prepared to Arrest Federal Agents
After Trump said he would send agents to more cities, Philly’s district attorney lays out how he might criminally charge federal officers.
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Ask HN: Cloudflare incorrectly banned me – can anyone help?
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XNect: Real-Time Multi-Person 3D Motion Capture with a Single RGB Camera
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vcai.mpi-inf.mpg.de
XNect: Real-time Multi-Person 3D Motion Capture with a Single RGB Camera, SIGGRAPH 2020
We present a real-time approach for multi-person 3D motion capture at over 30 fps using a single RGB camera. It operates successfully in generic scenes which may contain occlusions by objects and by other people. Our method operates in subsequent stages.…
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The History, Status, and Future of FPGAs
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queue.acm.org
The History, Status, and Future of FPGAs - ACM Queue
This article is a summary of a three-hour discussion at Stanford University in September 2019 among the authors. It has been written with combined experiences at and with organizations such as Zilog, Altera, Xilinx, Achronix, Intel, IBM, Stanford, MIT, Berkeley…
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How Inuit Parents Teach Kids to Control Their Anger
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Launch HN: Sidekick (YC S20) – A new hardware device to connect remote teams
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Facebook's employees reckon with the social network they've built
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BuzzFeed.News
“Facebook Is Hurting People At Scale”: Mark Zuckerberg’s Employees Reckon With The Social Network They’ve Built
As the US heads toward a crucial and contentious presidential election, the world's largest social network is facing an unprecedented cultural crisis.
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Amazon Met with Startups About Investing, Then Launched Competing Products
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WSJ
Amazon Met With Startups About Investing, Then Launched Competing Products
Some companies regret sharing information with the tech giant and its Alexa Fund. “We may have been naive in believing they weren’t competitive with us,” said one executive.
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Tor 0day: Stopping Tor Connections
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Why you should absolutely worry about the anti-privacy EARN IT Act
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Americans tune in to ‘cancel culture’ – and don't like what they see
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POLITICO
Americans tune in to ‘cancel culture’ — and don't like what they see
As Donald Trump seizes on it and elite journalists obsess over it, a POLITICO/Morning Consult poll shows significant concern about the practice.
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Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts
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Google Fonts
Recursive - Google Fonts
Recursive is typographic palette for UI & code. It draws inspiration from single-stroke casual, a style of brush writing used in signpainting that is stylistica
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Twitter: Hackers Accessed Private Messages for Elite Accounts
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Threat Post
Twitter: Hackers Accessed Private Messages for Elite Accounts
A Dutch elected official is among those whose DMs were hijacked, the company said.
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The Navy Says It's Not Recruiting on Twitch. This Handbook Shows It Is
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Vice
The Navy Says It's Not Recruiting on Twitch. This Handbook Shows It Is
'Ban trolls:' The U.S. Navy is using Twitch to recruit Sailors, here’s the handbook that shows how.
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A Random Sampling of Internet Service Prices Around the World
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Report: ARM is for sale and Nvidia’s interested, Apple isn’t
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Ars Technica
Report: ARM is for sale and Nvidia’s interested, Apple isn’t
Who will buy one of the world’s most widespread chip designers?
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GoodJob – a Postgres-based ActiveJob back end for Ruby on Rails
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island94.org
Introducing GoodJob 1.0, a new Postgres-based, multithreaded, ActiveJob backend for Ruby on Rails
GoodJob is a new Postgres-based, multithreaded, second-generation ActiveJob backend for Ruby on Rails.
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I am a model and I know that artificial intelligence will take my job
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Vogue
I Am a Model and I Know That Artificial Intelligence Will Eventually Take My Job
Sinead Bovell shares her firsthand insight into the future of technology in fashion.
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My thoughts in response to the lawsuit against the Internet Archive
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Internet Archive Blogs
Libraries have been bringing older books to digital learners: Four publishers sue to stop it - Internet Archive Blogs
Brewster Kahle shares his thoughts about how libraries have been bringing older books to digital learners and the lawsuit trying to stop it.
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UK and US say Russia fired a satellite weapon in space
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BBC News
UK and US say Russia fired a satellite weapon in space
The UK says the Russian satellite launched "a projectile with the characteristics of a weapon".
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