skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was trying to mirror my Android smartphone to my Samsung TV to show a webpage to someone. This feature is called "Smart View" in the TV's menu, but I didn't know how to connect, so I searched that name in the Google Play store. There are dozens of results, only one of them is the official app that has any chance of working. There are two apps[1][2] that actually appear to be the same app just with slightly different names presumably so they appear twice in the search results. One app[3] has some very suspicious ratings and I can't help but notice that the publisher's name is "SmartThings.net" which appears to add more credibility until you see the domain has nothing to do with the app. I understand it can be hard for Google to vet these apps but some of these failures (like verifying you actually own the domain you are pretending to be affiliated with) seem like they could be automated.

Edit: spelling

1. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.screenmirror.forvizio.smarttv.screenshare
2. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smartview.castto.screenmirror.appfor.miracast
3. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smartview.screen.mirroring
> These cloud providers are, by definition, charging you more than it would cost you to run it yourself

That's pretty obvious but years ago you would have been downvoted into oblivion for writing that.
While all of these things are possible on a tiny PC, many of them are very sub-optimal - like how many languages are Turing-complete but not of equivalent use (e.g. assembly is not as useful as Rust in the vast majority of programming domains).

Things like "writing PHP/Python programs" and "document editing", while things that you can do on a pocket-sized laptop, are much better to do on a real laptop or desktop. A tiny PC will strain your eyes, decrease your reading, typing and interaction speed, hurt your neck, and react slowly relative to a full computer - regardless of whether you're using a soft-keyboard or a physical (but tiny) hardware keyboard.

Although ElCheapo may have thrown a lot of unnecessary junk into their comments, their point "The medium is the message, the form is the functionality." is still true - you don't want to use C# for tiny (kilobytes RAM) embedded devices and you don't want to use this pocket PC for writing code, even though you can.
> There is no way this figure is accurate.

You've got the FUD covered, but you also need to add at least some substance to your claim. How do you know this figure would not be accurate? Why is your (hypothetical, not offered) estimate better than the author's?
For those unaware of the subtle wit above:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
Does anyone know how Google Image Search (or Bing Image Search[1]) identify images as creative commons or public domain in the first place?

If I'm a content provider that wants to maximize the chances that an image search will flag my images as CC or public domain, what should I do? Are there open graph or other meta tags? Or what?

[1]: https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=dogs&qft=+filterui:lice...
There was a small era of intense debate over this called the Feminist Sex Wars, that basically split the movement and ended the second wave: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_sex_wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_views_on_pornography
Is anyone else worried about how Cloudflare keeps putting out great solutions day after day? They're getting too big because people are too satisfied with them. That's a bad thing, because one day in the future they might take away or change these offerings.

We need shittier solutions. That way we never feel the pain of once having a good solution to a problem and then losing it.
Nothing immediately, but they have the cash on hand to fund competitors now that could replace them in say 10 years or so.
If you're pitching a managed platform for documentation, then the documentation for the product itself has to look and behave brilliantly. It's the showcase for your product. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to do that. The website seems to have a confused mix of styles and it quite hard to read somehow. Also, grammar is super-important in this domain - I see SaaS has already been picked up, but it's also super-weird to see the plural of Documentation being Documentations. Reading the terms and privacy is also hard work - there's lots more work on grammar required here, too.

The focus seems a bit blurred, too. The claim is that it's for Support, User Guides, Knowledge Bases, Documentation and Change Logs. But the features list also talks about multuple Blogs. It's not at all clear where they fit in.

Also, being misled is a massive turn-off. First you say
"User Guides + Knowledge Bases + Documentations + Changelogs",
but then caveat it with
"Currently offering User Guides only".
But then later on the same page you say
"Apps like Intercom, Crisp, and Helpscout, offer only one aspect of support pages and that is Knowledge Bases. Subsection covers all four: User Guides, Knowledge Bases, Documentations, and Changelogs"

You don't cover all four, you _plan_ to cover all four in the future.
I've had tons of greenfield web apps with thousands of users (not millions) and setting up a server was a problem I didn't need help solving. I'm versed in AWS now but, I don't see any benefit. The only big headache I had with server admin was running email services/deliverability.
When desperate people aren’t allowed to take the kind of jobs they would have chosen, they end up even more desperate.

Such rules are not made for the benefit of these powerless people.
>If it bothers you so much

Literally what made you believe I was bothered at all? Was just noticing something, then commenting on it. Isn't that exactly what a forum is for?
But why now? There is no wavering at the moment. They could have waited a month or two, to see if it's actually needed, because the downside of discovery is so high. And why does the CIA warn about attacks then? False flag?

Another option is that somebody wanted to plant explosive devices for future use, and something went wrong. Hard to see how both pipelines would blow up then, but maybe a possibility.
They do but they also buy other chips from competitors sometimes, like they have some phone models that use Qualcomm and even Mediatek SOC/modem chips fabbed at TSMC.
With regard to the charge back problem, it seems that this could be addressed by using cash or maybe Bitcoin. Something that cannot be charged back, and maybe can't be traced.
> Physics is an empirical science with a rather neutral language to communicate its content. Arguments (much more 'findings') can be translated to this language and be understood on their own.

I agree, but it should be taken into account that much of philosophy is based on science (namely psychology/sociology) and a lot of ideas are discarded if they're missing some morsel of empirical evidence.
> First, the phenomenon you're referring to is "natural monopolies" which is a well understood situation which appears in every freshman-level Economics 101 class, but that only applies to certain industries. For instance, utilities are natural monopolies because it's far more efficient to run one set of wires to every house rather than try to have 10 competing companies all run their own power lines. But most products & services don't fall into this category.

I'm not referring to natural monopolies. While I concede many of the cases people would immediately think of in my description of the early internet (Google, Facebook, et al) could readily be classified as natural monopolies, we've seen plenty of consolidation in areas that most economists wouldn't classify as such - Amazon for instance, a bookstore or e-commerce site is not a natural monopoly. And we've seen the same consolidation off the internet everywhere. There are few significant verticals, at this point, that aren't dominated by a handful of giant consolidated players. Independent of how much regulation there is or isn't in that vertical.

> Second, "free market" is a specific economic term which means markets which are free from governmental intervention in terms of price controls or subsidies, but are also free from monopolies, cartels or other anti-competitive behavior by any participant. Using the government to break up a monopoly or cartel moves the system towards a "free market". Having zero regulation which allows one or two participants to distort the market moves the system away from a "free market".

And this is where economists trip over their own feet and fall face first into the mud of religion. This is a self-referential, recursive definition that allows you to pretend a major consequence of a system is not, in fact, an issue.

You realize that you just defined a "free market" to be a market that is free of regulation, but requires regulation to maintain its state as a free market?
You would guess wrong then.
I use Borg and Rclone together, to cover both aspects. One unexpectedly nice thing about that is a Borg repo consists of far fewer files than the thing it backs up, so Google is unlikely to rate limit you as described in the article.
I have to mention, that what you described is not what ML guy is supposed to be doing.
> From that perspective, any difference between "type of work" and "working conditions" is wholly artificial.

It only looks artificial because you cited an example of working conditions, not type of work. The right to refuse certain kinds of work is a perfectly cogent concept and does not require artificially restricting other people's choices.
Lex here, not bad for remote work, low cost of living, access to surrounding metro areas (Lou, Cinci), and Lex usually has something going on. Just got access to gigabit fiber so you're not disconnected from the rest of the world either.
Isn’t all pay mutually agreed upon? No one ever forced me to take a job. In the USA that is known as slavery.
The relevant meta-meme is the "programming sock". A humorous screenshot of an Amazon recommendation that said one of those knee-high socks with pink stripes was often bought together with a nerdy book like "The C Programming Language". People started referring to those kinds of socks ironically as "programming socks".

I don't know if the screenshot was doctored, or if the Amazon recommendation engine found a real cluster of customers who are interested in both programming books and programming socks. In any case, I suppose it doesn't really matter because when people spread funny memes ironically it's only a matter of time before people join in sincerely without the irony.

In short the answer to your question is "both".
Thanks for digging-up and posting that; an interesting historical artifact.
> especially considering the potential of undiagnosed mental illness.

Not a popular statement to make, but the reality is that the majority of amateur sex workers (e.g. OF models) have diagnosed or undiagnosed mental illnesses, many have been prior victims of sexual abuse. There's a strong correlation between hypersexuality and involvement in sex work, and hypersexuality is often the result of childhood sexual trauma or mental illnesses like bipolar that can result in hypersexuality as a symptom of manic episodes.

So, the question you are putting forward isn't completely limited to the most extreme possibilities. That said, I generally have taken the stance that if someone is able to turn a condition of their existence into something which makes them money and they do so consensually, it is not my business to stop them from doing so. There are definitely deeper and complicated moral and philosophical questions about that though, dealing with the nature of consent and self-actualization. Is it /really/ consensual if someone engages in sex work due to hypersexuality, which was directly caused due to prior sexual trauma? What is consent, and how does it intersect with mental state and competence?

Unfortunately, I don't think society is in a place to wrestle with these deeper questions. Mental illness is relatively commonplace, and we have created a condition of existence in the West which encourages neurosis, and often becomes clinical depression or anxiety, at minimum. Our distraction/attention economy fundamentally messes with people's minds... intentionally... to sell us more crap we don't need. It is against the nature of society to consider what the nature of consent is when you exist surrounded by various layers of coercion and depredation.
This is a curious paper, as it seems to come at a time when the philosophical postulate of meliorism has been problematized precisely by the trajectory of historical development, which had previously its own criteria of success.
It might interest the author to know that this was basically the prediction of Vico, one of the most valuable (and misunderstood) philosophers of the not-so-distant past.
Stable Diffusion Based Image Compression
Yes. So many things in math, in science, in programming, only make sense if you understand where they came from and in what context. Otherwise things just seem weird and arbitrary and hard to understand.
I don't see how "the money still comes in" if tech companies shrug and disable moderation. Most advertisers are not going to want their brands on an unmoderated platform where their ads can be shown next to ISIS propaganda, neo-nazi propaganda, or pornography.
Ah, thanks. Missed that one.
Yes. If you use and manage AWS resources as you would your own on-prem resources then you're not going to have a good time. As soon as you think you need EC2 instances you need to re-think your architecture. You're probably not using AWS most effectively.
Ah one judges decision on one piece out of how many?
Ask HN: What's with all the Expert Network companies?
Over the past year or so, I've gotten cold requests from a half-dozen or so different "Expert Network" companies, offering to pay me to have a 30-90 minute meeting with their client to answer questions about domain I have experience in. I accepted the first time, and was paid $200 rather promptly, but the whole thing feels weird and borderline scammy. I assume some of these companies are scams! Many are caught by gmail's spam filter.

Is this a recent proliferation, or did responding to the first one put me on a shared list? Have you had good or bad experiences with them? Are any of them particularly reputable?
If there is one thing modern Apple is famous for, it is to dislike any situation where they depend on one single external vendor for anything. Apple wants either a somewhat healthy competition (e.g. with batteries, screens or assembly where misbehaving suppliers can be replaced rapidly) or vertical integration - and their acquisition of Intel's mobile modem business shows they think in long terms anyway.

In any case, Apple investing into their own fab also makes sense from a geopolitical point. Apple is already beginning to diversify from China because of their shoddy covid policies causing delays all the time, and everyone can see the writing on the wall that says China is very high on the sanctions priority list of the West. Additionally, the threat of China invading Taiwan and TSMCs fabs getting blown up in a scorched-earth action or damaged by war is only growing bigger every day.
I think you're replying to the wrong person.
> what would be accomplished by geoblocking a states's tourism site?

Avoiding GDPR compliance problems?
I don't know anything about Native American fire mitigation practices, but wildfires did in fact occur during their lifetimes:
https://journalistsresource.org/environment/long-term-perspe...

I also don't think its at all offensive to suggest someone should move. Native American tribes moved about the continent seasonally at a minimum. Most of our college students are asked to move to pursue opportunity, with the expectation that they'll be moving again for the same reason. Fleeing dangerous areas and flocking to safe ones happens in all kinds of populations for all kinds of reasons, and if this is the first time your family has been displaced across multiple generations of ties to what have been some of the most desireable locations avaliable it seems like you've been an outlier in the best way for generations.
Use? No, math is a tool.

Extend? Yes. Math is a tool that came from a context, so there might be implicit assumptions made on choosing that particular notation and definition that might or might not be justified. Appreciating where and idea comes from lets you work with the idea. I also think it helps learning and generalising.

A competent programmer with no knowledge of history can deal with things like e.g. non-monotonicity in time by just writing robust code. But it helps to know where it comes from: clock drift, user modification, error, leap seconds etc. If you know one of these, you can leverage different assumptions.
And whatever the site did disabled ublock's "block element". Luckily umatrix still works and I was able to block images from the site
I'm not sure it is this. Instead, I think it is that conservatives think that sex work is fundamentally immoral and that therefore it cannot be accepted by society, regardless of any harm or benefit created by this policy. It isn't "hey we believe that sex workers fundamentally cannot be protected from abuse" like something like child labor but is instead "sex work is moral degeneracy and must be stopped."
AMD was quite angry that they were shut out of TSMC's 3nm.

I wonder how they would react if they were offered 25% of Apple's 3nm capacity at the higher price.

This could be a good lesson for everybody.
Even that blogstatic "guide" is just one page.

It seems to me you're throwing a bunch of barely-built stuff at the wall to see what has traction to then actually build out. I don't think HN is a good way to do that. This now feels like a waste of everyone's time.
When Welch was CEO at GE, one of his commandments was that there had to be profit centers everywhere. If the "service department" could not figure out how to become a profit center, then he got rid of it. Because Wall Street and all the business journals worshipped Welch, his ideas spread like cancer throughout the corporate world.
Fact. "for their own safety" is just the sales pitch / cover story.
“ChromeBook for your face” VR headsets are coming.
> This is by far the most popular and active right now: https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui

While technically the most popular, I wouldn't call it "by far". This one is a very close second (500 vs 580 forks): https://github.com/sd-webui/stable-diffusion-webui/tree/dev
I would much rather have a centralized database to take the heat from me in all those scenarios!

The advantage crypto has is that noone will set up that centralized database (because it would be stupid too!).
Thank you so much for your well founded critique. I will take all your comments and improve these areas you have mentioned.

Your feedback is gold!
Well, it's either that or tuning/training/trimming a model to fit your intended use case...
Thanks for the reply! Indeed it brings something to the table that I have not paid enough attention in my previous comment.

I acknowledge that more often there are updated versions of previous arguments that hold their content 'better' and put them in meaningful context. I wonder where the line is wether we call that 'history of philosophy' or not. Nevertheless this is how students at universities spent most of their time learning philosophy. They rarely read whole original works, mostly just relevant paragraphs and summaries.

You already touched on this in your last sentences, but it's a stronger point that you seem to make out of it. 'Truth' doesn't really exist in this space. There is no 'right' and 'wrong' that hasn't been proven opposite. What you propose here can, if not cautious, lead to 'philosophy on rails'. People will turn into 'intellectuals' (whatever this is), but not into 'philosophers' (whatever this is). So even though I agree with you, this can't be the only approach to philosophy.

Important here is the differentiation between 'doing philosophy' and the 'content of philosophy'. Regarding the second one, this might be a somewhat viable approach. But I highly disagree with phrases like: "philosophy should not be presented/ offered [in a certain way]". This leads to dogmatism. Sure, strong point shall be emphasized and weak spots visible, but implying there is something absolute here surely is to be avoided. But you touched on that in your last sentences anyways.
From TSMCs marketing material

> N3 technology will offer up to 70% logic density gain, up to 15% speed improvement at the same power and up to 30% power reduction at the same speed as compared with N5 technology.

That is a more modest bump than some previous nodes, but still seems worth a 6% increase in price depending on how yields shake out.
> The cruel irony of it all is that the electric vehicle’s ecological impact is only marginally better than internal combustion cars, and its implementation does not solve the atomisation and alienation emerging from car-centric infrastructure.

Why do people need to do this? It's incredibly common across a range of domains to attack alternative solutions as not being perfect and magnify their flaws. From small things like tech decisions in companies, up to very important things, it seems it's very hard to talk about multiple competing options as if they all have compromises and drawbacks. Instead, one must be perfect and all others must be flawed. Which clearly doesn't reflect reality, but perhaps reflects some inner human psychology instead.

It's entirely logical to say "EVs are much better than ICE, but we should also be getting more people onto bikes or making cities livable or x, or y or z" but seems very difficult, both for people trying to attract eyeballs and views (who have a reason to seek conflict and drama) and for people trying to genuinely solve small problems, like what programming language to use.

Like Fuel Cell cars are better than ICE. But not as good as EVs. Does this make EVs worse somehow to admit that? Or is it just some tribal impulse because "there can only be one replacement for ICE", so EVs have to battle FCEVs almost as strongly, if not more so than ICE, and electric cars need to battle electric busses and electric bikes? I honestly don't get it.
even for us youngsters thats still considered pretty weird and nobody normal is involved with it. unfortunately, it seems like it has a tendency to pollute technical circles since when i run across it it's usually there.
There is not quite enough information here to be sure, but this article highlights transmission costs. This particular business model involves throwing around big chunks of data just in case they end up being needed and then handing them back out in response to potentially large numbers of requests. That would make this particular usage pattern fit to exactly what AWS is charging the most for. Also many alternative AWS services that can be used to speed up or simplify services are not really going to help with this case.

So an alternative way of interpreting this is more along the lines of: We may have saved up to 80% of server costs by moving from AWS, but you almost certainly won't save that much even if a bunch gets spent on developing operations and tools.
Individualism is big ... so be like everyone else and have an anime avatar.

The loop continues.
> no two people are paid differently on the basis of certain characteristics we might deem irrelevant

Who is the “we” deeming those characteristics as relevant? This entails legislators creating a central list of job characteristics, doesn’t it?
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Using Karpenter for AWS has been a game changer. Set your instance family designations, set up a compute savings plan, and let it ride.
You'll wanna check out https://bootstrappable.org/ for making sure

Then again, perhaps he also infected all those fancy PCB & IC supply toolchains…