skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am trying to figure out a way to monetize disruptive traffic enforcement technology in exactly this method. Not only do I find mobile phones to be the #1 distraction, but people speed through my kid heavy neighborhood without a care in the world. Would love to Uber-ize traffic enforcement. My current thought is to just barrage police tips line with traffic infractions and force communities to reckon with the onslaught of data. I do know speed cameras in several cities do profit sharing with the camera operators, so this could be a minor change to crowdsourcing enforcement.

If you want to work on this with me, let me know!
FWIW, some religious/cult people do donate their kidneys: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/kidney-cult-en...
A Surprising Side of Carl Sagan
Can Cubernetes use the 4 GPUs for GPUPU?
> Depends on the country. In some, it's a certification that comes with responsibilities, in others it's just a job. In any case:

Yes, this was a rhetorical question.
Those countries that require a certification is not relevant to the discussion, because Elon Musk is operating out of America which does not require a certification to be a software engineer. In which case, by your definition, it's just a job or more specifically a job title. That's useless information because then people without a job title or don't care for one aren't engineers, and people who have the job title would automatically be an engineer. So if Elon Musk changes his job title to engineer instead of CEO, is he qualified now? Maybe he should prefix Senior to the title while he's at it.

> 1) he hasn't got anything that comes close to an engineering qualification (no, dropping off a Ph.D. after a a B.Sc. is not enough);

So people who don't have a Ph.D. aren't engineers?

> his job does not involve anything like an engineer's job, which is to "invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety and cost."

Yes, he's a CEO. Are the CEOs of Google and Facebook still engineers if they aren't writing code? And what kind of complex system? Are organizations not complex systems?

> there is no evidence that he did any of this at any point

The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. If you're an engineer, you should understand this.

How do you think someone gets accepted into an engineering PhD, drop out or not, if they've never did any of this at any point in their life?
It doesn't empower users when the final authority over what a computer does or refuses to do lies with anyone other than the computer's owner.
There are state actors other than the US Government, along with plenty of non-state actors who are willing to use illegal techniques on occasion, and this does increase people's protection against those actors.

If you're in a developing country and you engage in activism against some questionable project by the state owned mining company, you're probably not going to get the full force of the NSA directed against you. But your country's domestic intelligence agency may be interested, and they probably only have off the shelf spyware to work with.
Neil Gaiman’s Books Have Enchanted Millions. Finally, Hollywood Is on Board
I analyzed hospital price lists so you didn't have to
It’s the dilemma of cryptography, in that you cannot have a secure system that doesn’t also allow bad guys to use it too. The only victim of weakening a system to fight bad guys are the good guys, as the bad guys will just use the original secure version of the protocol, etc.

My point is that eventually the major cryptocurrencies will have some fungibility enhancement mechanisms to deal with the practical limitations of taint and chain analysis. Tornado cash, Coinjoin, MW, etc. Its not about normalization of crime. It’s the default ignorant status quo.
Discord and Slack let you hide inline images, it's nice when users don't have to worry about changes to third-party image hosts
https://archive.ph/xyxdM
I mean most wars happened before I the World Wars. Like the overwhelming majority of wars happened on a gold standard. Bitcoin would probably make us too poor for war though.
Creating an Aimbot
I have no idea why they're so hesitant to tell you the compensation. That has to come up sometime, and early filters are better at not wasting everyone's time.
It’s that or starve!
From what I can tell, the ML community is moving toward Julia. I don't think anyone predicted that they would end up locked into Python so heavily.
When I was a kid I had a nice cache of coverless books I'd retrieved from the trash bin behind the local Crown Books.
I hate these things. My father bought a new car with this nonsense and it's awful and refuses to turn off.

See a 130 sign for the train next to the road?

Haha, we're going to break really hard down to 30 now.

Literally no sign at all anywhere on a 120 road? Haha, we're going 60 now.

It doesn't even do it gently.

It's terrible. It's an Audi Etron something if anyone is wondering.
IIRC there were some ethical controversies around the primate research.
Not satisfied. Substances are fuel, not energy.
It seems to have a solution:

Only allow customers with high internal ratings to not bring back unwanted items. Customers with low trust could have their merchandise bid out to a third party that would deal with returns/inventory/etc.
One thing is for sure, ever since daimler and chrysler were joined at the hip, mercedes vehicle quality dropped like a stone.
You might like Ergo, which has a built-in bouncer that supports playback and channel relays out of the box: https://github.com/ergochat/ergo
I would just delete the branch after merge to the main and then create a new branch from main.
Done, let me know if it didn't go through
A small amount of inflation (1-2% per year) is required or else you'd get deflation. Deflation is an almost guarenteed death spiral for an economy as everything grindes to a halt because not spending makes you richer.
I'll take that in good faith, but I will say Facebook has been a particular pain for many tribal folks given its true name policy and banning people who it thinks are using a fake name. Yellow Horse was one that was wildly reported, but their are others. Mostly anything that takes the form Adjective Noun. Had a rather painful thread with someone claiming to be a Facebook employee that defended this practice. I haven't heard of anyone reaching out, and Lord knows we could of used the help because COVID has been a particular disaster for language preservation even with an extremely high vaccination rate.

I do admit I'm a bit bitter given another of the big silicon valley companies (Apple) claiming they specifically help the TCUs (Tribal Colleges and Universities) when I can find no one that knows about this help other than taking our money for product at the same price as other accredited educational institutions.
Suspicious juxtaposition of two separate stories (new unit established and concerns about growth), especially when considering that "Space Delta 18 (NSIC) is comprised of two units originally activated 15 April 2008 within the Air Force’s first Space and Missiles Analysis Group." [1]

[1] https://www.spoc.spaceforce.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display...
Building Better Developer Search: How Neeva Measures Search Quality
Thc vape cartridges. 2021 equivalent of taking a few too many hits off the bong
Buy a second phone, that's what some do in China due to an "anti-fraud" app with slightly softer enforcement
What is your company? And have you identified anything you could recommend to help “cultivate our healthy species”?
I could tolerate it on a phone, although I'd rather just have a rectangular screen with a bezel for the camera. The whole phone UI can be designed to accommodate it, and it's exceedingly rare that I fullscreen anything on a phone. On a monitor, it would drive me insane; I'm regularly running things full-screen.
Yeah, "full-stack" does front-end too. Though from my observation it's more like 80% BE, 20% FE. Generally they spend more time working on FE tasks than specialised ones as FE becomes so, so complicated.

I've personally seen many (junior) FE engineers decide to switch to BE, "full-stack", data or devops (or even design) because of how messy FE can get.

I know it's a lot of things (organization, management, people issues, expectations, etc) and this is basically just what I observe in Singapore. Could be different in other cities/countries.
With Javascript disabled, it doesn't work... they both look about the same
> However, it's also hard to see a compromise unless the United States exempts EU data subjects from the CLOUD Act, which seem unlikely. Hard to know where it'll go.

Bureaucrats are capable of breathtaking sophistry when it makes their jobs easier. If red was illegal but convenient they’d make a policy that red was actually green and argue it was until they were blue in the face.
Yet another proof that the advertising industry is a cancer on humanity.
Whatever happened to blameless root cause analysis?
Real talk, 360 degree cameras are a game changer. Especially on cars with 10” lcds. I upgraded my current camera system with the 360 one (and a Tesla style 12” lcd) and I never look around anymore. Zero blind spots. This is in addition to the blind spot monitoring and collision avoidance system (which really reacts later than I would like).

Honda integrates their mirror cameras into the dashboard for even less eye movement (the only car I’ve been in with factory mirror cameras). I, for one, welcome our newfangled technology overlords
> There is also a limit to what you can do in a browser.

While there are limits, the web and browsers are the most exciting they've ever been in my ~15 years of breaking things on the internet.

There are so many cool things being built right now. If you've got a varied enough skill set and an appetite for learning, now is an incredible time to be a senior full stack/front end engineer.
The model here is about using a challenge window with an illumination sequence specifically designed to change faster than can be incorporated into live deepfake models on the fly without creating telltale artifacts from improper approximation of the illumination effects on the subject. Correctly faking the effects of monitor illumination is a non trivial challenge for well-chosen illumination patterns.
Here are some of them:

https://www.opindia.com/2022/06/netizens-dig-up-old-posts-al...

https://www.opindia.com/2022/06/alt-news-mohammed-zubair-del...
From what I see, she's involved with Neuralink and OpenAI, where Musk doesn't hold direct management roles.

It's unlike Tesla, where he’s answerable to public investors about that kind of behaviour.

Just Musk running his fiefdom...
> A great example of this might be visiting a country like China while on business. Straight up going "off the grid" isn't really an option in that scenario.

Most corporations who know what they are doing (and some who don’t) send their execs with burner devices when traveling to certain countries on business trips.
I clicked "surprise me" and found a page that has a picture of astronauts on the ISS with SPHERES: http://www.madsci.org/

In high school my friends and I were on a team for a robotics/programming competition run by NASA and MIT that involved programming 3d models of these SPHERES to do some action in a virtual space against an opponent. But if you made it to the final round, you got to watch your code get executed by ACTUAL SPHERES on the INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. We won 2 years in a row, and made it to the final round 3 times (while I was on the team, I think they made it to the final round once the year before I joined). I doubt I'll ever do anything nearly that cool ever again in my actual career now.
Lol same here
Not money. Crypto.
The (current) title used on HN (“Google ML Compiler Inlining Achieves 3-7% Reduction in Size”) is confusing. It made me think Google is using ML (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_(programming_language))

It also is not the one of the referred page, which is “MLGO: A Machine Learning Framework for Compiler Optimization”.

This is about an LLVM extension that uses Machine Learning.

I think it would be better to change the title here.
Compilers have soooo many heuristics. And a lot of it looks like a chess or Go game: You have a list of 100s of AST optimization passes (possible moves) that preserve the semantics of the program but you have limited compute with which to run iterations of these passes. What order and combination of these should you use?
truly a great American tale
Thanks for sharing your writeup, I enjoyed reading that. It's nice you had printouts of the pages, old sites just don't render correctly on archive.org. I also think v6 was something special, that one really came together and has a magazine type feel. It's frustrating that the early web turned out to be so ephemeral. I was too young to think about websites not being around forever, and I have a lot of vague memories of interesting sites now lost.
Ever read Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon? The WW2 part shows a team going through elaborate measures to create a plausible way that the allies can find out what the Germans are up to without revealing that they can read all of their messages. They would tell a submarine to surface at a particular location at a particular time and report what they see, for instance, and the sub crew would have no idea why, to produce a plausible explanation of why some German action was discovered.

Parallel construction often means they hide how they got the original information from the court and from the defense.
Hello, someone calling?
Not a free market. An unregulated market.

"Free market" in the Smithian sense is not what we have here.
This seems oriented towards answering a question like “how do I…” where you expect an explanation, but I’d say most of the web searching I do is pretty specific.

Maybe half the time I know what I want (eg: the order of values in the animation CSS property), and from who (eg: MDN), so I just go to the relevant docs page via google with something like “MDN animation css”.

The other 50% of the time, I’m searching an exact error string, probably in quotes, on google. For that I also don’t really want a knowledge graph answer, I’d much rather see a GitHub issue or stack overflow post and I’ll derive the context I need.
My understanding is that the problem isn’t QA but rather that manufacturing to a tight tolerances costs more. Specifically because you can stack a bunch of sheets of fabric and cut them all at once, provided you are willing to accept slight differences in the measurements on each.
My teenage daughter also has a habit of beating me at Carcassonne.
I had to resort to using third party software to disable Intel's Turbo boost just so that I can have decent battery life doing mundane tasks.
> I think it's maths preventing e2e backup.

Maths and common sense. If you back up encrypted data and don’t back up the keys it’s not much of a backup.
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> In which case, by your definition, it's just a job or more specifically a job title.

Yes, a job title he bought, which is just as meaningful as the "Tesla founder" title he bought himself.

> So people who don't have a Ph.D. aren't engineers?

The issue is not the lack of a ph.D. It's the lack of anything beside a B.Sc.

> Are the CEOs of Google and Facebook still engineers if they aren't writing code?

Well, those who did an engineer's job are former engineers. If the status is tied to the job title as you imply, then no, a CEO is not an engineer.

> Are organizations not complex systems?

Not one you invent, design, analyze, build, or test. I mean, yes, you can stretch the meaning to the point that putting a motherboard in a PC case is engineering, but don't expect to be taken seriously. Same if you include all bureaucrats and politicians (and a country is vastly more complex than Tesla so they would have a better claim).
Reminds me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectilinear_Steiner_tree#Singl...

The best "trunk" to minimize total distance to all points is the median of their positions.
> Russia demanded payment on their terms only after they were kicked out of SWIFT and their reserves frozen by foreign banks.

If only there was something Russia could do to stay in SWIFT and not be hit by sanctions....
Except you know that time Ethereum forked because the core contract on Ethereum was stolen.
This is exactly what a lot of the current round of optimization work focuses on. Things like optimistic dispatch on hot loops that fall back to fully dynamic on a miss.
This is a preposterous position. It's clearly a hack. Keys cannot legally own anything. People and organizations own things and in this case the people were hacked and the funds stolen.
Is there no going back though? It doesn't take much to delete your social accounts and it seems like more and more people consider this. At some point you get tired of being a product. And when you create content, at some point you just want to do your thing instead of minmaxing the algorithm.

We don't have to compromise for the huge social platforms or to make money for them.
> but people speed through my kid heavy neighborhood without a care in the world. Would love to Uber-ize traffic enforcement

Same and my neighborhood doesn’t have side walks. I’ve started walking down the center of the street. For my friends and neighbors I step aside and we chat.

For “outsiders” I don’t move out of their way. If they’re very aggressive I start a conversation. In the end they know I know who they are and they and often slow down.

I would hate to have some independent entity enforcing traffic on my neighborhood. It would destroy the sense of community. Instead I do my part to claim the roads for my kids and family.
> Typically, "monolith" implies services - ie, the "backing services"

I don't know if that's a common interpretation - in the monolith-loving companies I've worked with it very much meant a single ball of code (e.g. huge Rails app), not separate services.
Center flow at a given pressure is also square the radius.
We had geothermal put in when we built new. Given a suburban MD lot and the large size of truck necessary to bore two 350' deep wells, it's far too messy a job to do without trashing the site due to all the water and resulting mud. It exchanges 55F year-round (closed loop with just water running through the tubing). It's been running quite reliably for 9 years now.

We nearly tripled the square footage but our total energy costs stayed almost exactly the same.

Went from gas heat/electric cooling to all electric geothermal. We still have natural gas for a backup generator, cooking and laundry dryer. We kept gas for kitchen/washing because there's a monthly minimum for gas service that we'd use for the generator. DC's Pepco power is notoriously unreliable.
> no, it should not be fast by default.

Maybe better to elaborate on what it should be, if not fast? Surely you aren’t advocating things should be intentionally slow by default, or carelessly inefficient?

There’s a valid tradeoff between perf and developer time, and it’s fair to want to prioritize developer time. There’s a valid reason to not care about fast if the process is fast enough that a human doesn’t notice.

That said, depends on what your work is, but defaulting to writing faster, more efficient code might benefit a lot of people indirectly. Lower power is valuable for server code and for electricity bills and at some level for air quality in places where power isn’t renewable. Faster benefits parallel processing, it leaves more room for other processes than yours. Faster means companies and users can buy cheaper hardware.
It doesn't matter. Some tiny minority of internet users are actively involved in OSS development and they're the ones that use IRC.
Off topic, how is the .dev domain hosted? Does anyone know? I bought a .dev to host my own website but found out Bluehost doesn't support hosting .dev websites.
The fandom creates such an incredible environment for creators to thrive in. I went to a con near me and a walk through the dealer's den showed the vast variety of creators. Of course, there were artists with prints and merch, but there were also furry musicians with CDs of albums and DJ sets, a woodworker with carvings and laser-cut journals where the pages were magnetic inserts, someone selling fursuit parts like eyes and horns made out of resin, even a small handful of adult businesses (behind a curtain and with staff checking ages, of course). Music, games, books, especially art, it's all by furries, for furries, with the exception of a few mass-market friendly franchises that furries happen to love like Beastars or Zootopia.
Did you manage to realize any insurance savings? Or do the BigCo's just not care if you monitor it right?
Good point about Houdini's integration with other systems.

Accessibility (web), interoperability (with existing systems), and community seem to be key.

I might add focus to that. Do something specific better than the existing players. I doubt a new general purpose system is viable, at least in the pro market.

Or find a new market.

AI is the wild horse. Unclear how it may affect things.
Awk is a functional language with a surprising number of features. Bash, not so much. Developers really do care about runtime performance of scripting languages: They often wait for scripts to finish running before doing other work, and if the sum of the time it takes to write and execute a script is too long, they will look for an alternative.

All of the libraries you have cited are from the ML and stats communities, and they are not core language features. From what I understand, ML folks like Python because it is fast to play with and get results. In other words, they like it because it is a scripting language.

Personally, I like that Python has kept the GIL so far because I would never run a 24/7 server in Python and I am happy to use it very frequently for single-threaded scripting tasks.

Edit: I didn't decide that Python was a scripting language. The Python maintainers did. The point is that the identity of a project doesn't flow down from its use cases.

Edit 2: I should have said "the identity of a project doesn't flow down from its users."
They should have at least put it as an option to not have it. It would be even be cheaper.
Yup, I sure did.

That…is seemingly a thing they should have done a long time ago…but it’s still smart, and I’m glad they’re doing it. Now they don’t have to rush the QA of a point release to vanquish yet another PDF parsing security threat.
I wish more people knew what it was like to never eat at any of those places
Using CLI OCR, I am getting a 100% match: `Name: Satoshi Nakamoto DOB: 1982-06-05 SSN: 958-20-3141 Cell Phone: 514-867-5309`
Yep. Even taking the most obvious approach, PDF -> PNG, PNG -> PDF, and running the PDF through Acrobat's "Optimize Scanned Pages" feature results in a PDF that is almost the exact same size as the original and has copyable text: https://0x0.st/oQvE.pdf

Even most of the columns scan correctly!
The M1 Pro was supposed to support dual monitors, so I wouldn't hold my breath.
AWS Console Alternatives / Wishlist
I've been seeing a lot of people asking for a "better AWS console". Curious if anyone has seen any good alternatives to the AWS console, or has a wishlist for what they'd want to see.

My wishlist:

- help me FIND resources across regions, so I don't have dangling / forgotten resources

- show me the cost of every resource when I create it, without having to open Cost Explorer and dig through my tags properly

- 1-click SSO setup, so I can add/remove people from GSuite without worrying about their IAM equivalent

- Show me all my resources (EC2 instances etc.) across all my regions, so I don't have to check every region when I'm looking for something or in a fire-fighting situation