skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I watched one of the Lumina videos, and they were complaining the $2,000 Sony camera took forever to setup and configure for their demo

Is that even a real problem? I started using my fuji mirrorless camera as a webcam during the pandemic and it was almost trivial to setup. All I needed to do was download some official software, plug the camera in and switch it on for it to start working as a webcam.
From my experience best cleaned with Elsterglanz Messing.
If you insist on leaving food regularly they will start eating it and coming near you. They do recognize you, they don't trust you yet. They love unsalted peanuts.
I've been visiting 3-4 neighboring groups of crows over the years. It took time but now they are confident and will follow me within their borders, some even eat from my hand. Nice way to relax, take a walk, and learn to observe. Can't recommend enough.
What do you mean by battery life? That's just usually a function of temperature, number of charge cycles, not overharging, etc. And the battery will last you for a long time. Ceratinly for a few years.
I would argue (and this is really just a semantic point) that it's more productive or instructive to think of biology as being literally a computational phenomenon. The substrate is different, the instruction sets are different, the rules are different... But ultimately it's just computing and iterating on a mind-bogglingly massive amount of information, on a time scale that is difficult for us to wrap our heads around.
Growing trend in a niche market I would suggest. I know people who have 2 laptops - one for gaming, one for work (with webcam etc). Because the gaming laptop is too bulky to carry around, it's effectively a desktop.
In most countries, they simply conscripted them. There was no "convincing". Australia is one of the exceptions, although certainly not because the government didn't want conscription.
Honestly if I were to buy another webcam beyond the cheapest "yeh that'll do" one I could find, the main thing I'd be looking for is microphone quality and features. Sure, I could and have brought a USB mic, but a webcam is pointed directly at you (like a shotgun mic, which seems ideal for this kind of thing), whereas the bulk of a USB mic can be harder to position in a way that doesn't block your forward monitor. If it had a configurable mute shortcut, with a little light on it to show its mute status, I'd buy one in a second.

In fact, saying all that I don't even think what I want is a webcam, I want a USB webcam-mounted microphone. I do remember seeing one once, but its very old now and has none of that mute functionality. Wish someone would make one again
Concepts of React Rendering
I recently came across the C4 model, I believe from a Hacker News comment responding to a request for architecture diagramming methods when I was performing a web search for the same. The talk I watched was another one, but I pretty quickly became sold on it. I am trying to implement it for a system that I am new to.

Really, the main struggle is tooling. So far, I am using PlantUML with a C4 model plugin. It's okay. I am thinking of switching to a visual diagramming tool, even though the author of the C4 model recommends against it, for some reason that I don't quite understand.

It seems this talk, which I'll have to watch later, is own the author's own tooling called Structurizr. While nice, the pricing is a bit strange. The on premise version is $50 minimum per month and is twice the cloud version. I feel like it's going to be hard enough selling the C4 model, and I don't think the pricing model works for something that will have a lot of work in the beginning and then become relatively static for mature products. I'd like to see a one-time purchase perpetual license.
Well, people would be looking for him, that’s for sure.
>Laptop mics are a different story, especially with fans on high

Switch off your own video - most of the work is video encoding, and unless you have dedicated hardware, it'd suck - sorry, blow hard, the fan that's it.
Alas, if you refer to Searle's Chinese Room, that hasn't shown anything, if you just bite the bullet and accept that the Room is conscious.
You may be interested in the LocalCDN extension [1] which tries to solve the privacy vs speed issue for common resources by intercepting known remote resource requests and returning a local copy.

1: https://www.localcdn.org/
I am a 53 years old C# developer by hart. I have been working in .net world since the first beta long time ago. I don't mind writing in dynamic languages. In my case that will be typescript / javascript but I wouldn't want to write dynamic language full time. It is not because of the dynamic nature of the language that I don't want to do it full time. It is the editor support especially when it comes to refactoring. I am so used to the amazing tool that Visual Studio (full, not code) is. Hit F2. Rename something and you can almost with absolute trust that the refactoring changed what needed to be changed in the correct places. I dont have the same level of confident in vs code / type script. Too often one needs to perform a risky search and replace.

Then there is the debugging support in Visual Studio Full. Yes, there is debugging in vs code / typescript, but it is far away from how easy it is to debug a C# application in Visual Studio. Too often I have to resort to printf type of debugging to gain insight into which code line was the last line to run before the error.

Yes, I like dynamic languages because some of your things you can do with them are freaking awesome, but at the end of the day I like the comfort feeling that Visual Studio and a static language provides.
There's a link in the article to a paper (N2023) proving this is not constant time. The issue is that as you delete elements, and the hash table becomes sparse, finding the next nonempty bucket is not so fast. However, I believe that the paper conveniently glosses over the fact that there will be rehashing into a smaller table which would fix this issue.
This is still commodity trading. There are rules and they apply. There are being investigated. I think you have a bit of an overestimation how swiftly Robinhood would be hit with anything. Recall it wasn't long ago when Robinhood received the ire of people, because they screwed their risk management (and by screwed I mean they didn't have any) and were unable to continue trading certain volatility securities. And thus, stopped the ability to buy said securities.

What was the punishment it received? A day in front of the Congress shifting blame? I would be a bit more cynic when dealing with these topics.
For me, Deluge is pretty much perfect. Altough, I don't really use any advanced features.
I think you are conscious, and so is the combination of iron bar and crazy complex mapping. In the latter case, the crazy complex mapping does all the work and in some sense _is_ conscious.
... they're not independent from the researcher in that case.
https://www.gsmarena.com/lg-phones-20.php
This has a nice list of their phones default sort is by release date which offers an interesting way of looking at how phones changed over time.

I had one of their phones in 2013, LG G2. I found it was decent for the time and had no complaints.
very interesting, love to get an update on this.

there is an incongruity that the theoretically more egalitarian the society, the less likely women are to enter STEM career path. I believe there is a much higher proportion of female engineers in India for example, than you might find a European country
Samsung (and the rest of the TV industry, Samsung is just the worst of the bunch) has fucked up trust in them extremely hard and they are not showing in any way that they have learned from the past or how they plan to re-gain consumer trust. Until that happens, it is foolish to assume they would never implement something like "connect to an open wifi".
Top Digital Calipers for Machinists (2021)
"Costs money" sounds nice - I would prefer a service where I am a customer rather than a commodity.
I think the argument is more that the electron and photon are subjective interpretations of the observable consequence of some computation, not that they are computing things in and of themselves.
Now I'm curious to know what's the state of the art for open addressing implementations in C++.
I have delay in audio when super tired. It’s so weird feeling you see people talking, moving they mouths but hear in mind after 3 seconds.
Really? You think Elon musk has problems attracting investors?

He tweets a back of the fag packet idea about hyperloops and suddenly we have multiple companies spring up to do just that.

It was only like 6(?) months ago that Tesla was more valuable than the next 3 car makers put together.

If Tesla wanted money to build something they'd get it.
Around 3,5 g of sodium per liter.
A growing number of websites support dark mode theming, but not all of them. When I open a page in reader mode and switch to dark theme, I don't expect logos in the text to fade into the background. Svg is also often much larger than a font file, especially one that's subset.

While it's not svg or on the open web, I have a particular hate for sborn.jpeg in ebooks, as I read my ebooks in dark mode at night and having occasional section break symbols (ornaments) white on black is particularly irritating. Other unnecessary images often found in ebooks include bullets, chapter titles flourishes, letters with accents, and even the chapter title itself.
> Only if you want to be trendchasing rather than letting backwards compatibility take care of itself...

> I'm a native Win32 developer, have been one for a few decades, and know quite a few others still using MSVC6 because it's fast and enough for what they do. Takes <250MB of disk space, and the self-contained binaries it generates will work on any version of Windows starting at Win95.

I share your view about the unmatched backwards compatibility of Win32 binaries, but I wouldn't let a 24-year old compiler like MSVC6 near any new project.
We are talking about a compiler here that doesn't even support the C++98 standard, let alone all the basic features for writing safe software (stack cookies, _s APIs, smart pointers - just to name a few).

When I needed reliable self-contained binaries and backwards compatibility, I switched to VS2019's clang-cl compiler and ported their libc++. Together with winpthreads from the mingw-w64 project, this enabled me to write software using even C++20 features, but still maintain compatibility down to Windows NT 4 from 1996.
If you're interested, it's all documented here: https://colinfinck.de/posts/targeting-25-years-of-windows-wi...
I've recently been enjoying thinking of GPT-3 utterances as creating short-lived consciousnesses for the length of an interaction. There's no consciousness during training (just filling in the blanks...) but when we interact with it in a generative fashion, there is - depending on your prompt - a somewhat coherent 'I' that is invoked, and maintained over the course of the conversation. Seeing as I have no strong claim on a strict definition of consciousness, Imma gonna go ahead and call it conscious.

the thing is, this is /commoditized/ consciousness, which can be spun up and discarded at will, a million times a minute. Totally incapable of coordination or planning, in contrast to, say, SkyNet. The future is usually weirder than we imagine.
Heh I would not be surprised if in the future TVs start shipping a DOCSIS modem in the cable TV backend and put up deals with major network operators to allow a low bandwidth back-signalling channel.
I REALLY like this!!
I occasionally use a torrent to simply move large files to a slow endpoint (essentially a 1:1 connection), so I don't have to keep the session alive for the whole file move. I know there are probably other, better, solutions for that, but it works for me.
Yeah, in my city I also stumble across these stones. One day, on my way of getting groceries, I was quite frankly shocked by the frequency of the stolpersteine.

I am thankful that these exists and getting reminded now and then is, at least for me, really important and outline in some kind of tiny fraction, how many families suffered the same fate.
My memory is that it just policed trolls and hatespeech.
I would love for Silero to support Arabic.

As a team that builds standalone smart glasses we often find ourselves paying outrageous license fees to companies for having Arabic and Hebrew TTS engines on our device. Google consistently refuses to add Arabic to their Google TTS engine and hence we'll have to rely on paying out of our pocket for this.
Arg. I think I'm the opposite, but worse. I cannot finish a project. I took a 6 month sabbatical, started 5 projects, didn't finish even one. My last project i tried to use tracking/productivity tools, it doesn't change anything. I have the 'well, good enough' mentality with my own projects, and once i stop having fun coding i just stop. And start another project.

My current project is boring (especially since i finished the code logic like 9 months ago), but since I'm paid to upgrade/deploy the stuff I'm not that disfranchised. (I won't lie and say I'm as productive, I'm clearly not)

I don't think I'm really able to work alone or unpaid. Which is weird, because I really, really enjoyed the two dozen school projects I've done, especially those who took 2+months
Docker Desktop for Mac requires location services to update
It's exciting, but dangerous because the US does not have a good recent history of unions, particularly not the kind you get in Germany which together work with the companies. If it doesn't look outside it will make mistakes which the large companies will take advantage of.
A loss function, perhaps?
It would be nice to have a few template graphs to help us understand the end result (and learn how to edit graphs).

I love how you can use the tools without first giving any information about you.
What a worse world that would have been!
"If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?"

I am because we are. We are all irrevocably linked, even more so in the hyperconnected digital age.
Bitcoin could easily recover, says Anthony Scaramucci
I've seen some that just name a family or couple that were taken away one night and "murdered", which hit me the hardest, personally.
Unfortunately a huge amount of crypto hinges on "disproving FUD", but so often it is true.

There is only one place where FUD is applied where it shouldn't: the FOMO of missing a bullish trend, and this FUD causes people to invest their entire life savings into crypto. I spent some time on a major crypto currency Discord, and the number of people I spoke to who have gone "all in" on crypto is actually astounding. Just no sense of risk aversion.

People fear missing an opportunity to make money far more than they fear losing their money. Guess which happens? Then afterwards they realise the mistake they've made, and the suicide hotline numbers come out...
Antivirus in Azure Using ClamAV
How to run ClamAV server in Azure and send files to it via Event Grid from Azure Storage
Wasn’t Atom based off the P5 (original Pentium) core and not a clean sheet, making Itanium the last clean sheet design?
We use it as a joke internally. It requires plain English, spoken slowly with a generic US accent (even fake) - anything else is proper bad. To be fair it has improved nontrivially, though.
For real? When thinking about it it is quite strange there are no snow dishes to my knowledge.
> nobody demanded that

European (and for that matter, Canadian[1]) courts wanting stuff gone internationally is well-documented[2]. It is not unconceivable that German enforcement agencies would use similar tactics. Once you give them the small finger, they will take the whole arm.

[1] https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/16701/inde...
[2] https://www.heise.de/news/Gericht-Facebook-muss-bei-Rechtsve...
No one is using this theoretical method to support surveillance capitalism let alone censorship.^1 However many entities are using SNI for such purposes. I am not going to send SNI when it is not required and I am not going to send cleartext SNI if I can use ESNI. Why make surveillance and censorship easier.

1. "The real-world inference will be slightly different from our closed-world assumption because a wider dataset will be available to the adversary. It can happen that a PLF signature that might seem unique in our study can actually belong to two different websites; it's optimistic but we have identified IP addresses that have mappings to unique domains and these can potentially be used to uniquely profile websites."

Sniffing SNI requires no such inferences nor assumptions. It works reliably in the real-world.
It's ungrammatical in English. If the title of a book isn't grammatical, what would a prospective buyer assume about the content of the book?

Congrats on launching.
Vizio product quality is so bad I don't expect mine to work 2 years past its ship date. The TV is truly disposable.
Why attribute conscious experiences to the iron bar, when we have a system composed of the iron bar and the interpreter? The bar functions as a very inefficient clock that allows the interpreter to go thru motions originally produced by the conscious program.

I bite the bullet and say that the system is conscious while it's playing the recorded states (with a caveat that it cannot interact with anything, unlike the program), and stop being conscious afterwards, unlike the program.
Maybe because it was not a common feature in the market. In Windows for example it's even more of a mess because there's a ton of places for autostarting software to run from. There this excellent tool from sysinternals called autostarts but it's not an OS feature despite sysinternals now being owned by Microsoft.

And in Linux? No great way of managing systemd via the GUI either afaik.

And Apple has always been one for hiding technical complexity from the user. It's only that security became prio #1 that they're doing this. 2010 Apple would not have presented the user with these popups for example.
There’s a bunch of advice on improving video calls here: https://www.benkuhn.net/vc/
It touches on webcams. Some other important things for video calls apart from webcam picture quality are:

- latency. This matters everywhere (webcam, webcam driver, codecs, network, graphics pipeline, monitor software, physically switching the pixels) but I would expect webcams to introduce higher latency due to generally not being good

- audio matters a lot (as does audio latency and slowing down audio to synchronise it with slow video)

- some lighting things

- to some extent eye contact will also be wrong with a webcam so maybe the FaceTime style thing where your eyes are ‘corrected’ to appear to be looking at the camera instead of your screen would help
Yeah, buy the dip! ;)
Yes, not a flowchart, but I like the concept implemented at https://sequencediagram.org/
Not sure how it works exactly (I'm sure someone else in this thread can fill in!), but that hasn't ever been possible on consoles. Not even the very first Playstation which used CDs would accept copies out of the box.
I'm curious what sort of offerings can realistically be made to opportunistic programmers. Some sort of visual languages?
China’s alien signal almost certainly came from humans, project researcher says
I agree with you mostly, but you're looking at a too individualistic picture in my opinion. Littr.me (or Brutalinks, what I want the software to be known as) encourages small communities which share interests, so ideally there will be no vastly off-topic discussions that you as a user need to tune out. So for an individual, all that is left is to find an instance where you share the interest(s) of the other people on it: cat pictures, tech news, gardening tips, etc. Basically each instance corresponds to a "subreddit", and at first all you will be interacting with is content from that niche.

However, due to federation, nothing will prevent you from participating in the discussions for other instances but you have to opt in specifically into those by either commenting yourself, following the author of the discussion, following the instance itself, etc.

PS. I am the dev behind littr.me
> It has a countdown timer showing how much time is left on the wash. The dryer does, too. They count down at different speeds. They can both be at “10 minutes left” and 10 minutes later the washer still has like 3 minutes left.

That is usually because modern laundry washing machines don't run on fixed-time schedules, they detect how much load they have and how much water is remaining in the clothing and adjust the cycle lengths for ecological reasons (when the clothes are already dry, no need to spin / dry them further). A fixed-time machine would never be able to hit energy efficiency requirements.
In Germany there has been a lot of resistance too. Including court cases etc.
They mean how long a battery lasts until depletion, not how long it lasts until it's no longer functional.
Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility [pdf]
Somebody had a very large amount of Solena. They took out some sort of loan (getting other cryptocurrencies) using their Solena as collateral. This would have been for less than the face value of the Solena. It was quite obvious that they then planned to default on this loan and they were using it to exit their position. This would mean that whoever lent the other cryptocurrencies would take control of that Solena and try and sell it. There was very low liquidity, soo much that if they tried to sell it, it would crash the price (which is based on recent-ish sales and isn't really accurate as a result) - hardly anybody was buying Solena, so the price as is didn't reflect what would happen if a large amount went up for sale.

Solend realised this, and took a vote on seizing this amount (effectively removing the tokens from the owner's ownership and preventing them from exiting their position) requiring only 1% of token holders to approve. The vote passed. Now they've backtracked.
It's their way of commemorating their victims and somehow in the process the second largest group slipped through. I don't want their way of commemorating their victims in my home Poland.
Right, if you were to compute the mapping in real time on a computer, that would be conscious but it's really got nothing to do with the actual iron bar.
This checks out. I miss the old Samsung. I'm watching one right now.
I'd really love to use ada for some real world application. Is there a gRPC implementation?
Good question, but what does that have to do with the topic at hand (the Holocaust and commemorating its victims), except maybe whataboutism?
on mobile it is a feature of the os, not the app, so kinda available to everyone.
Yeah the world would be so much better if we just lived in caves. Everybody would sit around and be so glad no rich people ever got access to better technology.
Checkout it's memory footprint on desktop. It is not using typical web tech (aka electron). It's just C++ & QT.

List of third-party tech in their desktop stack listed here:

https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop
In other words, the momentary state of the hot iron bar is just a piece of syntax that by coincidence looks like a momentary state of consciousness.exe.
But it lacks the semantics of continuing to the next state of consciousness.exe. Like Antognini says, syntax is not semantics!
Exactly this. You can encode a computer anywhere, given your own definition of "computer".

Getting your computer to compute, there's the rub.
Borderline Personality Disorder May Be Rooted in Trauma
thanks. I got confused between constant time relative to the number of elements in the table (as typically calculated) and constant time relative to the number of slots in the table.
Germany has a very interesting views on poles. While Germans living in Poland are officially recognized as a minority with all the rights (German schools, street names) the German government to this day refuses to recognize poles living in Germany as a minority.