skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
May I ask what the biggest changes/ deal breakers were?
It is difficult to understand the whys without knowing about the usage-pattern was broken.
I'm genuinely curious.
FWIW, HN has settings to limit how much time you spend here.
If 0 would act as a terminator, then 1.203 would be equal to 1.2.

The thing that is actually special about the digit 0 is that it is implied for all positions for which no digit is given. That is, when we write

1.2

we really mean

…00000001.20000000…
hm, odd that they are not locale-locked, but maybe it's impossible to be sure of the origin of the activation request.
I searched 1337x and TPB. I see something like this but without “project v2022” and the torrent is from 2015. It’s 159.5 GB. How do in find the more recent one you mention?

EDIT: I found a link to it on Reddit r/looney tunes pointing to bt4g.org. 411.93 GB so much larger than the 2015 version. Comments say it has and more and more blu-ray and restored content over older versions.
Presumably there is stronger talent in NJ given the existing tv productions in the state. It’s not all a race to the bottom, particularly in industries with outsider winners.
I would recommend a local CPA, who can keep your details private and give you accurate tax advice.
I wouldn't describe those 9/10 things as useless--only as a less effective path for finding something better. If the definition of 1x is average, then there's nothing wrong with that. I'm sure I've made lots of those 9/10 things during my career to get to where I am now. And now I try to share my thought processes and learnings to shorten the time it takes others to doing less of those 9/10 things as well as continue learning how to make better bets.

I don't know why software development has to be clamped to less than an order of magnitude difference, or why there's such a stigma to it. In other areas like sports or chess/go etc, it's very clear that orders of magnitude exist and there's nothing wrong with that. Everyone can still play, enjoy, get better up to wherever they aspire and put effort into or physical limits allow--no shame.
Kind similar is this demonstration on a record player:

https://youtu.be/mRi23ueU7Zk
What a coincidence!
Just right now. Definitely I don't consider this as a normal situation. However, the crisis in progress leave no other way to find a root cause of production database sudden degradation. So here am I.
Outdexed, clearly.
hmm as a user I really don't like downloading binaries that are almost twice the size needed and of which I won't use half of
The post provides one data point that it did: Little Snitch started reporting traffic from mediaanalysisd. It's not very extensive evidence, but not quite none, either.
This submission should be flagged, as there is no evidence to support the claim in the article. The information provided only shows that a system process called "medianalysisd" attempts to open a TCP connection to "api.smooth.apple.com."
I don't know, I am not an expert on this topic. But this could be a nice topic for a blog article that will hit the frontpage on HN :)
Location: America/Europe

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Madrid, Spain only at the moment or Mexico City for the right opportunity

Technologies: MATLAB, Python with Pandas, SQL, Microsoft
Products (Excel, VBA), HTML / CSS, Figma, SAP

Resume/CV: Currently a Master's Student in Data Science at DePaul with accounting experience

Phone Number: +1 (802) 962-0517

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Looking for location flexibility
I LOVED KDE 3.5. Holy smokes that was a good experience for me growing up. 4 made me switch, and years later, I tried KDE 5 (last year). And eh, I really tried for two weeks. That was super annoying, and coming back to i3 just felt like finally getting air.

It was slow, things didn't work, and weird. I totally understand that people would use gnome or kde and call it a day, because it is much easier to get going with. But if you think you should invest time into your interface I would say try other things as well.

Still lots of other good things from the kde project though!
- Drastically improved user interface.

- Massive free storage for the time (1GB IIRC).

- Google caliber fast, powerful search across your personal emails.

- Either invented or popularized the modern conversation view for email threads. Most clients would still do one email per reply.

Hotmail and yahoo were pretty much destroyed overnight.
Its not a claw back per-se. Under the Irish pensions laws an employee does not have the right to retain the employers contributions to a pension if they leave the position with the company within the first 2 years of contributions to the pension (does not mean 2 years of service. If you have a 6 month probation for example, the employer will not contribute for that time. The period is 2 years from the first employers contribution). Any employee contribution is fully retained by the employee. In this case, because they are being made redundant, the employers share of the pension is refunded (through no fault of the employee).
Nope, definitely not that but thanks for trying. It covers world news, like actual news, unrelated to the brand "Sephora" (also I'm sure I don't recall the name correctly).
KDE doesn't assume I'm an idiot who needs all options hidden away, yadda, yadda.

Have you read KDE's new Human Interface Guidelines? Because that is exactly what they are doing, now.

Make it easy to focus on what matters --- Remove or minimize elements not crucial to the primary or main task. Use spacing to keep things organized. Use color to draw attention. Reveal additional information or optional functions only when needed.
I know how to do that! --- Make things easier to learn by reusing design patterns from other applications. Other applications that use good design are a precedent to follow.
Do the heavy lifting for me --- Make complex tasks simple. Make novices feel like experts. Create ways in which your users can naturally feel empowered by your software.

It looks like they are moving more and more toward a iphone/android like, dumbed-down experience. https://develop.kde.org/hig/
My dad had an ischemic stroke a few years shy of social security eligibility. I set up a checking account he's an authorized user on, and I top it up to a few hundred dollars a month. He has a debit card and knows it'll have a balance of $x00.00 on the first of every month.
resources:

awk: the power and promis of a 40 yr old language (2021) : https://www.fosslife.org/awk-power-and-promise-40-year-old-l...

Gawk: Effective AWK programming https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/

gawk-psql : pgsql extension of GNU awk : https://gawkextlib.sourceforge.net/pgsql/pgsql.html

gawkextlib : http://shouce.jb51.net/gawk/gawkextlib.html

gawk libraries for XML, PostgreSQL : https://osdn.net/projects/sfnet_gawkextlib/

psql : https://www.tutorialspoint.com/unix_commands/psql.htm

postgresql copy from program : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62254888/using-awk-and-p...

user-defined modules to postgres : https://www.highgo.ca/2019/10/01/a-guide-to-create-user-defi...
I love that this project provides a torrent download. Nice and fast for me and I feel like I'm less of a burden on their mirrors.
You just blew my mind. What a great comparison. I love it. Thanks for that thought. What a clear way to describe the problem.
> Its file manager in particular is a thing of beauty, unique in its ability to display large directories without slowing down and uniquely flexible and powerful.

I've found PCManFM to be just as performant as Dolphin with very large (100k+ file) directories. I stopped using Dolphin because Dolphin can't sort a directory of symlinks correctly (it uses the dates of the target files, rather than the dates of the symlinks, with no apparent way to configure this.)
This is brilliant and spot on.
Apple has confirmed to the media that as of December 2022 that they are not pursuing on-device CSAM scanning:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/9/23500838/apple-csam-plans...

macOS Ventura exposes new object and scene recognition features for images, including background removal in Preview (analogous to "Copy Subject" in Photos but without requiring the use of that app):

https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/how-to-remove-image-backgro...

You can also use Spotlight search with keywords such as "flower" or "cow" to find images on your local storage that have those subjects; I don't recall if that is new to macOS Ventura or has been possible for several versions of the OS.

mediaanalysisd is a daemon which has for years been responsible for, well, media analysis and would perform any network tasks required to support features such as the above when previewing an image. It would not surprise me if not all image recognition tasks are done exclusively locally, although I haven't found documentation of how much exactly is or isn't. It has long been the case for speech recognition, for example, that not all of it could be done offline (although more of it can be on Apple Silicon machines).

The only way to opt out of OS-level features that send any data to Apple at all is to opt out of using macOS; even then, as I recall, the Asahi Linux installer has to pull certain bits from Apple servers for copyright reasons.
> Ubuntu is known to break things, quite often,

Indeed.

Try and install 22.04 on a server that has two exactly identical NVME drives, you're very likely going to be in for a very interesting adventure involving a strange beast called 'multipath' devices.

It was so bad I had to switch back to the legacy text installer for 20.04.
Last time I wrote an extension (which is a while ago) the changes between the Chrome and Firefox version were minimal. And Edge takes unmodified Chrome extensions.

Obviously depends on the APIs you want, but a typical extension should be trivial to make compatible and package for both Chrome and Firefox.
Awesome! It reminds me of time-lapse movies in developmental biology, showing, for example, the various shapes an organism has as it develops.
Tell HN: Repurposing old iPads as home security cameras
Last month I asked[0] what could be done with an old iPad; the responses led me to discover Alfred Home Security[0] and It's exactly what I was looking for. The winning feature being, you can repurpose any old iOS device as a camera.

I have since used the app with 2 old iPads, and an iPhone 7 Plus. Works better than I expect, really nicely done app.

The motion detection is spot-on. I've been mostly using this to see what our new very shy kitten is up to since we've only seen him twice in 5 weeks; basically he's impossible to find during the day and only comes out to play after we're asleep. The videos are super fun / cute, and it's nice to see he's having fun and in good health! [3]

Alfred Security also make a impressive, very inexpensive camera ($34 US, 1080P, night vision, 130 degree viewing angle and easy to mount). I just received 3 of the 4.

TLDR: last month I wanted to know what was the best use for old iPads /iOS devices, and I've since discovered Alfred Home Security[1].

Supported Devices[2]:

Android: Android 4.4 or above (For a better experience, operating systems above Android 5 are highly recommended)

iOS: iOS 10 or above

Original post:

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34165418

[1] https://alfred.camera/

[2] https://alfredcamera.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360039755...

[3] https://alfred.camera/tv/9IHo74Mj5

* I have nothing to do, nor any affiliation with Alfred other than pay for and use their products.
* Original Post is locked; I couldn't post this information there.
* Updated with devices / link, and kitty video link (this is off an old iPad, not the Alfred Camera), and formatting.
I do something kind of like this, but all of my scripts break when the underlying env is suddenly broken when e.g. brew updates python without asking me and breaks all existing environments.

I'm sure I could come up with solutions that are very robust for my particular machine, but I would like something that allows me to share it as a gist and a teammate could just as easily use it, or I can use it myself on another machine without hassle. In other words, a solution contained within the script iteself and maybe one or two binaries outside that make it possible.
One piece to consider is where to store data and how it may be leveraged for counts of things, over time. For basic analytics, a simple dashboard may be created independently of the data store.

FeatureBase is a super fast, highly efficient, in-memory analytical data store which may be queried using SQL. We have customers handling 10s of billions of events with it. It's free, Open Source and available here: https://featurebase.com/. The technology is based on Roaring Bitmaps: https://roaringbitmap.org/

There are reference Docker containers which may be used for development or reference for building a deployment: https://github.com/FeaturebaseDb/featurebase-examples

We have a Discord here if you'd like to discuss what can be done with the product: https://discord.com/invite/featurefirstai
And specifically because they can skip entire components.

Controller -> Stadia device -> router -> Stadia

is a helluva lot slower than

Controller -> router -> Stadia

And also drastically simplified the "Stadia runs on all kinds of devices" requirements.

It seems like a smart architectural decision.
"Warming Europe" is not a result any sane assessment of weather modification could suggest is possible.
Thank you, this is the epitome of a helpful comment and it helped me.
Haha! I figured!
I think it's actually quite cheap for what it is
Yes, I agree with everything you wrote here. I was a bit sloppy above.

I believe the wood elf you’re thinking of is Thranduil.
They weren't "locked down" really, they just weren't bluetooth controllers; they connected over wifi directly to Stadia. This isn't removing shackles, it's adding new functionality.
Hah did we even pretend to have a sandbox at CME? Outside like Saturday testing parties.
That's kind of you, and an excellent approach, kudos.
I send my parents $500 a month with Venmo. Really ought to send more.
What do you mean by M's and Z's?
If you’re asking for help in de-confusing the tax aspects (even casually), you pretty much have to give the country.
On the calendar front, Kalendar [1] has picked up KOrganizer's tab and is doing a great job at it:

[1] https://apps.kde.org/kalendar/
When the solution to basic problem like this is "use Docker", you realise how deeply flawed modern software development (in Python, at least) is.
https://weightlessbooks.com/

Distributes a lot of small press sf/fantasy books and magazines, all drm free.
Courts have ruled against Google caching and displaying content in search timelines before. Google vs NewsCorp ultimately ended with Google paying NewsCorp license fees to index its content! But most people haven't sued because they actually want to be indexed by Google (and Googlebot respects robots.txt if they don't)

But Google search does not use images for the same purpose, and does not sell access to the images, and at present most AI models don't offer an opt-out, so the copyright implications are different (most logically, indexing and displaying an image with tacit permission and a backlink on an ad-supported web page is not the same as selling derivative works based on an image). By extension, they are not necessarily the same for StableDiffusion as they are for DALL-E, or for LLM models as they are for generative image models or licensed codebases, and copyright law has never been and probably never will be applied evenly across different jurisdictions, mediums and even individual cases.
Why do companies tell users to “trust them” without any proof they are trustworthy?

You know the answer here, they are not to be trusted.

Samsung phones, for example, have a gpsd, which phones home at random times. This runs as root, ignores vpn settings (so no netguard for you!), and if it is just getting updated agps info, it sure seems to send a lot of data for that.

So no, they don't want a legitly auditable device. Too many questions, you see.
I guess if you really want to get technical, they aren’t explicitly drawing that conclusion. They’re simply saying that Apple announced they’d scan files for CSAM, and now Apple is scanning files for “some reason.” Draw your own conclusion.

I think sending a one-way encrypted hash of a file, a la PhotoDNA [0], is a fair compromise. But if Apple is outright uploading your entire photo library for “analysis” without an explicit opt-in, that’s a different beast altogether. And if Apple today isn’t using this for surveillance, Apple tomorrow may be.

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/photodna
It falsely identifies CSAM all the time. That's one of the issues. You have to be careful when taking pictures of your kids in the bath on your iPhone for this reason.
My Y is showing about 93% of rated range after 19k miles, FWIW.

> The range drops if [...] you gain elevation

That's true, but unless you're driving inexorably up into the Himalayas, you're going to come down that hill. EVs have a magic trick they can play in that situation. :)

In point of fact regenerative braking makes EV's equivalent range penalty in hilly terrain much (MUCH) better than any fuel-burning vehicle.
> The other major issue is as you alluded to: the need to trust vendors and hardware. Without protection and monitoring at the physical level, the user has no way to verify the operation of the giant stack of technology designed to “protect them”. Without the ability to verify operations, how is the user to trust anything? Why do companies tell users to “trust them” without any proof they are trustworthy?

At the end of the day you need to trust Qualcomm or MediaTek. The Oracle of the hardware world, with more lawyers than engineers, or... MediaTek.

That's a NOPE for me.
Cool, so now if you put that image on a t-shirt and sell it online you, and only you, are liable.

Are you trying to put the blame on Stable Diffusion for making you choose to publish an image with a trademark?
What the eff Is Gemini?
I made one too!

HTTPS://HeadlampTest.com
It would be like banning Bittorrent at this point.

Stable Diffusion - or something functionally identical - is here to stay.
Ultimately it needs to be "Python.org" that endorses the tool, not PyPA, no one in the scheme of things know who PyPA are and if it's the "one true way".

If you go to Python.org and follow through to the beginners guide [0] this is what's suggested:

> There are several methods to install additional Python packages:

> Packages can be installed via the standard Python distutils mode (python setup.py install).

> Many packages can also be installed via the setuptools extension or pip wrapper, see https://pip.pypa.io/.

That is so out of date and fundamentally confuses people coming to Python for the first time. How is pip secondary, and no mention of venv?

The PyPA need to get buy in from Python Core to put one tool front and centre first. It needs to be like Rust with Cargo, literally the first thing you learn to use and core to all beginners guides.

That's not to diminish the work of PyPA, you are all amazing I just want your work to be more obvious!

0: https://docs.python.org/3/using/mac.html#installing-addition...
Does software development as a service work?
> validate his code

> by Naomi Liu
Tried it recently to kick the tires on fedora and wayland as well. Pretty good and better than before but still so goddamn cluttered. Wish most stuff was plugins that I could remove.

All I want is a desktop as good as Win 2k with a modern terminal. Cinnamon seems to be the closest to that today, finally gave up on mate as it has been rotting from beneath.
KDE 5 is much better than KDE 4 was, but I agree that KDE still hasn't reacquired the heights they had in the 3.5 days. Things are still less configurable than they used to be. And Plasma is still buggy for me, whenever I try to use Plasma I end up having to manually restart plasma-shell several times a month because it crashes and KDE doesn't manage to start it again, leaving me with no task bar until I restart it manually...

Kwin is generally great though, and many of the KDE applications are top-tier.
where is the

install .[dev]

format/syntax defined ? I was trying to find what was possible and how to make sense of it in setup.cfg tools

I found one mention in the docs but no more.
It makes me wonder if the higherups are using this to counteract the worries that google will shut things down. I'd be less hesitant to invest in their services for fear of them shutting down if I thought I'd get my money back if they did.
Millenials and Zoomers, I assume
Or you know, they could just avoid a whole class of compatibility issues due to not having to connect to a local device (which could be any of the mobile phones, Chromecasts, Android tvs or PCs with any of the four major OSes).

But sure, tell us more with your expertise.
Agreed.

a lot of product sun-setting from Google and other corp in this tech winter. Stadia is definitely handled in the best way one could hope for, IMHO it should be a text book example:

- refund the purchase

- listen to the user community, and act on it to avoid creating e-waste

- respect the employees and give them an opportunity to express their love of their work openly and officially
This is pretty much wrong because it misses an important point, which is that this is only discussing the annual gift tax limits.

The lifetime limits are currently 11 million, which means that the first 11 million you give will not be taxed.
I do use it for other sites as well, like news sites. You can freeze any site for a specified period of time. It definitely makes me use the sites less frequently.
We do generate the protobuf from a different repo which gets published on npm, and we could generate it for different versions of TS. I suppose all of this work is part of the overhead I am not so happy about using TypeScript.
In Ireland there is quite a few companies that have waived this type of clause when they are doing redundancies. Let's not say the company didn't have a choice
This is a plug for an extension I didn't write, and have no stake in:

https://free.law/recap

it's a browser extension that defeats the Pacer monopoly on (many) legal filings.

If you do have Pacer and download something, it automatically uploads it to a free server. Thus, it becomes free to everyone else. I think some Big Law firms must use it, because a surprisingly large number of docs are available free.

Legalities of this? They seem to be getting away with it.
"Having engineering problems to solve is proof that you shouldn't try to do anything."

Why can't we just appreciate a creative solution to a problem?
Rendering like it's 1996 – Baby's first pixel
Porting complex applications (especially those written in C) from x86 to ARM can be pretty non-trivial.

I can't speak to the GIMP code in particular, but I've done several x86->ARM source ports of other complex software, and each time there are things which work on x86 and don't work on ARM, resulting in nasty crashes, or worse.

See here for one of those (not AArch64, but ARM nonetheless): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22176285
It's taking wins of open source, and handing them to closed platforms.
The Stadia controller is/was my favorite controller of any recent consoles (with my next-fave being maybe a PS1 variant). I've been using it wired with looong cords on other platforms because it just feels so good in hand. Very, very happy to hear this news. It'll be nice to go back to wireless.
Definitely, but only if it's consistent and predictable.