skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is this a value judgement ... sounds like negative framing at least.

Yes it is a negative value judgement. I am not trolling or being
unnecessarily provocative. I think that, on balance, some technologies
are likely to make things worse. Not in general, but to specifically
counter the very aim they set out to solve.

> the human weakness, insecurity and disconnection is already there

I disagree with this. On several levels. Some people have different
abilities and personality for sure. But the insecurity and weakness I
speak of is societal (weak interpersonal relations in a single-serving
microwave meal culture), and is caused by precisely such
disconnecting technologies. This kind of technology creates less
incentives to develop human interpersonal skills and ultimately saps
confidence. The user learns to simulate confidence.

> I think it's good to be skeptical of instances of this kind of work
in terms of the details like how it respects the users privacy and
treats their data sensitively, and whether or not it's selling an
effective method,

I think it's important to be sceptical generally. That makes one a
good technologist and not merely an implementor of random ideas that
we do "because we can". All the things you mention are hot topics, and
I agree they need scrutiny. But there are wider and more complex
factors to remain sceptical of, such as the social impact of
technologies.

> but at least it's sort of aimed towards good.

I have great faith and optimism in human beings, these things are
always "aimed toward good". I make no judgements about the motives of
the developers (which I think is already a few steps more charitable
than some of the insinuations I've seen in comments). I'm getting
down-voted because I dare to commit a heresy of asking deeper questions.

> Also ad tech is the epitome of AI applications that ride on human
weakness ;)

That's true.
The term "slug" is in the list. Quoting from the glossary page:

> slug

> title of a script; used for reference purposes; wire-service stories are each given one
Some people really don't understand the concept of pursuing a hobby for the sake of having a hobby, do they?
pffff a lot of routers dont even come with ssl on by default. So yeah getting into your network is a big thing. =)
Open source is not a business model.

How many articles do we need decrying the lack of OSS devs making money? Like anything, one must market a product for it to have customers, regardless of being OSS or not. A great example is Plausible analytics (MIT licensed so not even copyleft, many might say they're just giving their software away for free) which reached 1.2 million dollars in annual recurring revenue in around 2 years with only a couple of founders. They posted an article where it shows how when it was just the solo developer, they were making a small, somewhat insignificant amount of money, but when they got a marketing co-founder, their growth exploded [0]. They literally went from $400 MRR to $100k MRR, an increase of 2500x in 2 years, all due to having someone market a product they built.

I think it's mostly developers who don't really want to (or even understand the value of) marketing for their product who then cry about not making money. Well, are you actually trying to make money? Instead we get articles like these asking for some sort of fund for OSS (which do exist, but again, need to be competed for), asking for some collective solution to their individual problem rather than actually doing something about it themselves while other devs make money hand over fist, or at least enough to not get another job.

[0] https://plausible.io/blog/open-source-saas#february-looking-...
This seems like a relatively easy problem to mitigate: just put some local storage in the camera (even 1TB microSD cards cost very little). When the Wi-Fi is out, simply record to local storage. When it's restored, upload the recorded footage.

Indeed a quick search shows that newer Google Nest cameras support recording for an hour during Wi-Fi outage: https://store.google.com/magazine/compare_cameras?hl=en-US I'm surprised that Ring doesn't have something equivalent.
Colleges attract big fish from small ponds, but most small ponds have small fish. Realistically, only big fish will have the attitude and aptitude to become something as advanced as rocket designer.
Na, FreeBSD is not catching up/down to Linux..absolutely no interest..with one exception..drivers.

But if you work with Illumos or *BSD's for a extended time, Linux feels dirty and bloated..just not right anymore, if you like linux good...i am happy for you but i try to avoid linux if i can (obviously not always the case...OracleDB, DB2, k8s and so on).

>ZFS case though where they were the pioneers

No that was OpenSolaris...and i am still sad about it.

But Jails? I would say that was a real pioneering, whereas Solaris came a bit later with Zones and then a decade later Linux, you probably call that containers "a pure linux invention" today ;)
My girlfriend pretty consistently gives me grief about it, as it goes against what she's been taught/knew. But I've always felt better doing physical or mental effort fasted, at least for a few hours in the morning!
It is Spinoza's God. The one Einstein believed in.
This works like this for uncommitted files, because `git reset --hard` would try to remove any files it knows about. After staging the file, even if you just do it with `git add --intent-to-add`, git would already _know_ about this file.

And then, it seems you expected to be able to run a command which would undo your previous command of staging the file. However, git-reset was never meant to do that. You might argue, it's not aptly named.

git-reset tries to reset the files it knows about to the state in the supplied ref or HEAD. After you told git about a file, it tries to control it even if it's not persisted in its internal objects.

This is true in git for various plumbing and porcelain commands.

On whether that's surprising or not - _it might be_ to people new to git, but as a whole git CLI is not that welcoming to newcomers.
Your first case doesn't have any relation to diversity officers, that's a matter for the courts. The outcome would have been the same regardless.

The US has bad healthcare outcomes for a lot of reasons unrelated to their health care system, like obesity - a problem for the UK too. It's not due to basic, fixable stuff like "the hospital has no appointments" or "doctors aren't under any obligation to actually serve patients".

"That guy could have got emergency health care - he could have walked into an MIU, or an ED, or he could have called 999."

The 999 service that's also in collapse? He'd have been told to piss off and stop wasting NHS time because it wasn't an "emergency", as it'd already been mis-diagnosed as something trivial. He didn't realize how serious it was until it was already far too late. Why are you trying to defend this outcome? It's a terrible, atrocious end for a man who did nothing wrong, and no, this sort of thing is not an outlier. We can see it in the millions of mission cancer diagnoses.

Your last points seem to be continuing the previous confusion. You can abolish the NHS and still have healthcare regulations, although the act of abolishing the NHS is itself an act of de-regulation. It means you have fewer of them, not none.
Good point. Still, this could have been caught by fuzzing, which is a term coined in 1988.
I wish people stopped using YAML. It is a terrible, ambiguous, error-prone data format, particularly not suitable for data exchange purposes.
You cannot disprove a Deist God.
If you want to make lists

- you have to

- skip a line

- between each bullet

- item
But in the Californian case, it's not printing money. The state government doesn't have the ability to make US dollars. The state must balance its budget, and cannot rely on debt the way the federal government does. The inflation checks are only possible because of a giant, historic budget surplus from 2021. Had inflation not gotten this bad, the checks would have still gone out in some other form (earlier in 2022 we were talking about it as a "tax rebate").

Though this action is redistributive, it is explicitly not about printing money. It is about spending excess tax dollars. You may have opinions about taxes in the state, and you may have opinions about redistribution, but overall if the state temporarily has a surplus (ie it shouldn't put this money towards increasing long running programs that will become a burden in future years), shouldn't it give that money back to the citizens in some form?
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33083413.

Edit: I've been told that this article is the better one so am going to merge the thread hither.
I just put a network of wired AI driven cameras around the house. It was a hassle to lay PEO all over the house, but well worth it.

Remebert to put them on a VLAN because they can still get rippred right of the wall they are mounted on and an attacker would have easy acces to all other systems.
This is so much bullshit.
Just because there are problems right now doesn't mean they couldn't possibly be fixed.
In fact they can be for the good reason that Open Source is very cheap.
Think about the price/benefits ratio of Wikipedia.
What has ever been so close?
We know it's cheap, we know it's valuable, we know it's an important good.

The real reason is: why are we not investing more money in it?
"She had gotten into two other houses that night. She was also tripped out on meth and couldn't have operated a WiFi jammer if she wanted to."

You left out the dramatic details.
So you stopped and confronted her directly yourself, or called the police who caught her(later)?

(In general, it is not advisable to confront meth addicts, they might be armed and not restrained in any way.)
> All gyms and pools

I've seen one or two pools without, so it's not quite that widespread.
Note that "bake*" in Japanese also means "monster/ghost". I am not sure if intended or not, but can def see this being a magnific pun in the language, since that alt translation would be "character monster".

* Note: not sure if this is actually an official alt meaning in Japanese, an intended pun, or none of the above, just my notes thinking this could be a magnific pun. It uses a different kanji so would only be possible if this was regularly written in katakana or only spoken of.
So why can't they use calculators for that?
> Cars without radar still aren't at parity with the car that have it

Tesla Vision outperformed Tesla with Radar in the official tests.
If only one camera sees an object, then they can’t use parallax to estimate depths.
I wish HTML and not just JS had supported for consuming templates.
That is I wish we could do variants of:

1. Define Template using <template id="card-template">...</template>
2. Consume Template using <use-template id="card1" refid="card-template">..</use-template>

With substitution variables/text, this feature could be amazing.
So they were able to target an antenna located at 36m
(i presume in a clear day). Now they shall try the same from 10km (or 36km) in a foggy day.
Are you suggesting the "starving artists" don't have a more lucrative alternative?

Most anyone with decent technical skill can make money by selling commissions on DeviantArt or similar. It takes effort to make a living that way, but it's an extremely available option. Far more than for software developers, who work on long term projects.

Most any artist can make some quick bucks in a day or so. It's far harder for me as a software developer to prove my level of skill and find somebody willing to pay me for work.
I actually do a lot of discrete math (numerical analysis) and statistical analysis for work, and completely agree that there is too much emphasis on symbolic manipulation in school-math. That said, I’m trying to address the reality of what exists in high schools, and the current reality is that a little extra discrete statistics, and a lot less continuous calculus seems like a good trade-off to me.
It's only your fault. You need to embrace reality, stop begging and start demanding money from the powerful that are exploiting your work.

You will end up with less entitled ungrateful users, more money, and I might end up developing more interesting software at work instead of being forced to glue together some open source components maintained by idealistic kids beyond the poverty line.
How is being concerned about fake user numbers irrational? It's rational to be concerned that the stats a company is being sold to you are correct.
> The two car following distance constantly leads to cars cutting in-between you and the car in front of you because the gap is so large.

stop caring about this.

its like a neon sign saying that you're an unsafe driver.
Marc Andreessen Compares California to Rome Circa 250 A.D
This depends on where in europe. The various sea powers that were over history stripped plenty of islands and coastal Mediterranean areas bare of their forests for the sake of building ships that went on to rot in the sea. Roman sources tell of crops that were harvested to the point of extinction:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silphium
the zero still has to get some input somehow. its not like it can see through the table from below =)
> can we please stop calling people "consumers"? It's such a weird and patronising term, not to mention completely unnecessary when "people" does a better job.

"Consumer" IS the technically more accurate term, as outside of the consumption of tech/services as designed for them, they do not venture beyond that realm & try to understand how the tech works.

Similar analogies include:

- Not caring about how a car works internally, & leaving its repair & maintenance to a mechanic.

- Not caring about how their dishes were made, & leaving that to cooks/chefs.

- Not caring about the minutiae of the law, & leaving that to the legal system & its lawyers & judges.

- Not caring about sewer maintenance, & leaving that for sewage workers.

- Not caring about recyclables processing, & leaving that for recycling plants.

- Not caring about Y, and leaving that for (workers/entities that work with Y).

All of us are consumers in some form or another: We require the services of others that require the services of others that require the services of others ad infinitum.
> I think that open source / free software is the greatest trick

I'd argue the greatest trick was to have people believe that open source and free software are the same thing, when in actual fact free software addresses pretty much the points you raise. Nothing stops a dev from providing a commercial license for a gpl library (if they hold the copyright or have a corresponding cla of course) and I can tell from experience that companies are happy to pay non negligible amounts for these if they're useful.
My partial theory is oil production grew exponentially up till a bit after 1970. And before that the US had outstripped domestic supply and started having to import oil.

And you are right boomers household formation increased demand for stuff.
What would Karl Marx says to open source developers?
I think consumer/customer is the right term in this situation. Even though I could build an isolated network with ethernet cables and security camera's, we're usually left with the other people, myself included, that wouldn't always be able to do research and come up with the best solution. That's why I want to outsource that by purchasing something. Which is why we're left with this freemarket of vulnerable devices and practises. People setting up security camera's usually do a good job. Consumers do not.
"Exploit" has so many connotations. Think of it more like a technical description than a moral one and it fits better here IMHO.
Yes however I looked into with a psychologist, a lot of research and decided to not.

Was based on looking back on my life with a new understanding and then working via therapy on aspects of being.
Correct! It was created out of the ZoL project (because most people worked there instead of the illumos base) and now it transformed into OpenZFS with the Goal:

>brings together developers from the Linux, FreeBSD, illumos, MacOS, and Windows platforms. OpenZFS is supported by a wide range of companies.

https://openzfs.org/wiki/Main_Page
I'd recommend Podlove instead, which is paid for by the European/German podcasting community instead of an advertising company: https://podlove.org/
> where JS considerations have come to dominate

Not JS. Chrome, and their decade-old crusade to make web components happen, no matter the cost or common sense
>That doesn't make sense though. You can't create energy by printing money.

Think again. You can't create energy by cutting taxes either. The tax cut can only be spent on energy, exacerbating the problem by making wasting energy much cheaper.

A check on the other hand discourages people to buy expensive energy because they could be spending the subsidy on something else that isn't energy constrained.
I can’t imagine many companies would allow this to be installed on company hardware.
Libelous/defamatory content is not illegal in the same vein as pirated movies or CSAM, in that the Internet Archive would be criminally liable for hosting it. I wouldn’t imagine it’s illegal for IA to host a snapshot of a defamatory news article, for example.
I can see this narrative replacing the "it's a private company, they can do whatever they want" one
This article completely misses the point, IMO.

I've contributed to multiple open source projects, to the point I'd wager millions of people per day use some code I've written.

It's not for money, it's for giving. The model works best when you can give and take in equal parts. To me at least, it's almost a Wiki, where people can learn and also contribute what they know. Plus, it's great resume fodder, to the point it's paid itself off in dividends.

Some people are lucky enough to actually get paid to do full time open source...kudos to them.

But not being able to survive off expectations of making money to write open source does not mean open source is not sustainable. The past few decades have shown us just the opposite.
Most calculators have poor UX either way, as they don't support RPN.
The easy test would be to see if it's the caffeine having this affect by using switching between caf and decaf.

Something I wonder about though is that if blood glucose is rising after black coffee, that energy must becoming from somewhere. i.e. stored fat, stored glycogen or stored protein.

Given that she's about do some fasted exercise that will burn that blood glucose as its fuel source, is this a bad thing if the energy is coming from stored fat?
I'm going to leave this in-depth report here by Nadia Eghbal about funding in Open Source:
"Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure", commissioned by the Ford Foundation. [1]

Her conclusions go beyond "it's a money issue". They touch on the nature of open source as a public good and the skewed relationship between those who use open source and those who maintain it.

To my mind, there's a third component, and that's the notion that open source developers themselves are willing to risk poverty to achieve their own particular vision. In a way, that makes them not all to different from other artists who have struggled historically with the same type of tension.

What makes all the difference is how code - or art - is valued by those who use it. That is: real or perceived value. While Babel has become a bedrock of frontend development, I can't help but wonder if it would have held a similar spot if it was sold under a closed source license. And if a closed source solution would have sparked someone to build an open source alternative in their free time.

[1] https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/learning/research-report...
That in and of itself is a problem worth solving.
Why?

Why not have my videostream analyzed and the coach synthesize a better communicating videostream?

Cut out the feeble middle men and let the machines negotiate with a shopping list of interests ?

I dont want to be socially ept, cunning and able, if a machine can do that for me.
But that’s the thing. Tesla wasn’t able to tell when the radar was “uncertain”. So when do you trust one data source more than the other? If it was so easy to label misinformation as such, the misinformation would probably not have been communicated in the first place. Tesla explained this at AI day 1.
These files are all about persistent storage for many many decades, not sub second processing.

It's not that hard to pre process prior to feeding into whatever the latest processing architecture of the decade is .. but it's hell week when you're tasked with decoding some decades old non standard "only used for 18 months" "best practice at the time" obscure compression format data.

Field seperated line orientated ASCII data doesn't require extensive out of band notes to understand or decipher years after you've passed on.
Tbh this scandal only reminds me there is no point in playing a game like chess or go online for fun.
> not sure that telling unconfident people that they re weak and have
no friends helps

You're right. That would just be mean and rude. But I'm not doing
that. I'm telling confident people (like the developers and fans of
this software) that they ought not to mislead people who lack
confidenve into beleiving a web application can substitute for real
friends.
This is exactly the problem. And we're all suffering for it.
The problem is not in OSS, but that people now want to live from it. Open source development is primarily a hobby, something that you do for free because you enjoy it, or maybe for self-promotion or something. Obviously some projects get popular and the authors can then afford to dedicate their full time to them, but IMHO it's an unrealistic (and un-needed really) goal for every side-project one comes up with.
Some companies strictly forbid using their logos in this form (I worked for one). A takedown notice is sent at first sight.

It works, but makes sponsoring open source, events, etc a lot more painful due to the approvals needed.
Am not a statistician, but at least in an online analysis I saw, seems like correlation can effectively identify players who are playing too much like a computer. Because they don't just run correlations on Niemann, but on all the top players, and do comparisons (and for certain long stretches of tournaments, Niemann's is playing way, way above how anyone else has ever played).

This is video explains it pretty well, and seems like a very compelling argument (at least to me): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjtbXxA8Fcc - and just know that the woman talking is a bit hard to understand because of her accent.

... oh, and to address your point about 100's of engines, my first thought was that are only a handful that everyone uses (Stockfish?) (and also, just guessing, but I get the impression that most top engines recommend similar moves, but again, just a guess!).
We humans optimized for everything related to our body movement.

Of course we have no intuition for how planes behave.

And with Ski and co. I would argue it is somewhat intuitive, it is just a new tool that needs learning. But I do not remember learning ski or snowboard felt unintuitive. It was just hard coordinating it, but this is not unlearning to me.
Let them learn the hard way. I mean the really, really hard way.
Yes - it is a daycare. However - maybe we improve it from a daycare to a place of learning. That’s why we could make high school more intensive and less daycare like.
Because we are told to move fast and import things

https://www.davidhaney.io/npm-left-pad-have-we-forgotten-how...
iRacing Defeats Meritless Patent Lawsuit
At least a computer is a lot higher effort to use. Much harder to start browsing due to a compulsion when you weren't already using it. I agree it's just as easy to slip into doomscrolling on a computer browser but only if you are already at the computer (for me, at least)
Metaverse has negative value too, but at least it has novelty...