skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone seems to be accepting at face value the government's claim that they were investigating a real crime in the neighborhood and not specifically targeting this guy and using this as a lame excuse to spy on him.

Given all the instances of government agencies abusing their power to target political enemies of the current administration; I wonder how reasonable such an assumption really is.
According to Wikipedia, after the End-Permian Extinction:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Triassic

> Early Triassic faunas lacked biodiversity and were relatively homogeneous due to the effects of the extinction. The ecological recovery on land took 30 million years.

I guess it eventually works out if you are willing to wait very, very long.
It seems like everyone is reading this article to be about public web search.

But what the article is really about is how products are using new AI tech to add shiny features instead of solving existing, core problems like search and information retrieval in new and innovative ways, especially for personal and private data.

The reason this is happening is pretty easy to explain: the generative AI and chat demos are a sufficient leap beyond what was previously possible that people are excited to be on the frontier of new applications, not just new implementation of previously known use cases.

Not to mention that some of the demos have people excited about the "singularity" being closer than they might have previously thought (though this can be debated...) and that VCs will shovel money to you if you want to play around with generative AI even without a proven use case (slight exaggeration but not much)

I personally believe that transformers and LLMs do unlock a ton of new applications, especially when applied in interesting ways to interesting data, like what is private-to-you or private-to-your company. For example, LLMs can be used to not just generate content, but plan sequences of actions including searches, summarizations, and even calculations (see LangChain agents https://langchain.readthedocs.io/en/latest/modules/agents.ht... for an example of how to do this). And this can have real value for existing, known problems like search.

People just have to choose to focus on these less-sexy but core problems

...

PS I'm currently working on a project towards this goal, and if anyone is interested I'd love to talk (see link in profile). I believe we can solve much of the author's desire by simply hooking up the right tech to the right data sources, and doing it in a privacy preserving way (for example we're running most of our ML including vector DB, summarization, etc on device) and then present that info at the right time (ie in your OS)
Their docs say (somewhat recently updated, I think) that even 0 is not perfectly deterministic in all cases (though it's very close). Some people had previously observed this and speculated that it was some kind of floating point roundoff issue, when two outputs have almost identical scores.
up until last year I was supporting a system for a client that would only run on Solaris 2.5.2 from 1996 or so. (finding working versions of the hardware was becoming _really_ hard). The system was retired last year, replaced by something that costs several million dollars, but until then I had no choice.

There are other things like that out there. I think I recall seeing something on HN fairly recently abut a controller for some CNC machine that was running an early version of MSDOS. Again, replacing with something more modern was very expensive. These things exist and the users aren't necessarily being wilfully malign in not upgrading
I have seen this once in the issues in sveltejs/svelte (couldn't find the link though.) It had been closed by moderators fairly soon, I wonder how long it will take for the amount of this thing to surpass the capacity of voluntary efforts.
I think services like Geek Squad fill this need
He doesn't seem to have the resources (or troops) just for Ukraine, so it would be surprising if he opened a new front in Georgia. Abandoning the Ukraine invasion seems very unlikely given the optics.

I think more likely scenarios are:

- allying with nearby dictators to boost his military and sphere of influence (already happening with China)

- starting to use tactical nukes

- "soft annexing" nearby territories by pushing pro-Putin candidates (similar to what the US did in Central/South America in the 20th century)

He really needs to find a cheap source of military hardware, because his biggest political liability at home is sending more Russians to die. China may end up helping with both.
Well, I already do that today. Probably won't help too much, though, cause AI will generate some legit looking posts/comments and you will have a hard time figuring out if they are written by a bot or person.
POE cameras paired with either an NVR or custom server. I prefer wired cameras and local storage.
Show HN: Saltie – a recipe app for people with diabetes
Last year, I left the startup I co-founded to build Saltie, an app to help my wife and I manage our son's Type 1 diabetes and food allergies. Before that, we were using paper logs to keep track of his diet and how much insulin we were giving him, however we were burning out from the cognitive overload and constant second-guessing. Saltie has made it easier for us to save recipes, plan meals, and make diabetes-related decisions.

I'm hopeful that Saltie could help other families living with T1D.

Bigger picture, if I can assemble a dataset of high-quality blood glucose, insulin, exercise, and nutritional data, I think it's possible to develop an AI that can predict what any particular meal will do to your glucose and recommend a bolus for it.

Technical notes: Saltie is a PWA built using a Svelte.js frontend, a Node.js backend, and a Postgres DB. The native iOS app was built using Capacitor.js, which allows you to connect a PWA webview to native APIs. So the entire stack is almost entirely JS based, which means I'm able to share and reuse a good amount of code across the entire stack. Very highly recommend Svelte if you're looking for a new frontend framework - it's been a lot of fun to work with.
I host my own on-site and have had my security footage requested by police 4 different times. It's never a subpoena or demanding. Just some detectives will stop by and say they want to know which direction a vehicle went. They come inside, give me a USB stick and we copy it over.

I'm sure I could tell them to kick rocks, and they would have to write up a subpoena but there's no reason to do that.
I have 2 MacBook Pros, both with FileVault enabled, one managed by my employer and the other personal. My USB-C dock also uses DisplayLink and I primarily use the machines in clamshell mode.

I don't have the issue you're referring to unless I completely shut off either machine, which I almost never do. Do you completely power off your machine at the end of each day? When the machine is just locked my external displays power up and display the login screen just fine.
One problem with "reliable solicitors" is that it's entirely possible for their firm to go out of business too, with few, if any, repercussions for the proprietors.

I'd prefer to trust something like a self-hosted Vaultwarden instance [1] with emergency access [2]. Maybe with redundancy even.

[1] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

[2] https://bitwarden.com/help/emergency-access/
Lisp-powered laptop with a battery life measured in years
If you use something like fpdart, you have the more functional Either type (called Result in Rust).

https://pub.dev/packages/fpdart#eitherlibsrceitherdart
Are these examples even comparable? A camera can provide direct evidence.
There are a couple interesting assumptions here:

1. There's such a thing as a true nation
2. That how long a person's family has lived in a region should entitle them to keep others out

The first one is bound to wander into circuitous philosophical debate, but I'm curious what the rationale is for the second.
Mostly a testament to how absurdly fast modern CPUs are despite Python itself being so slow.

/ Recent Python convert, in spite of the horrible general performance of the official implementation of the language. That sweet, sweet module library. Also, with Docker containers the deployment issues have been solved. It might be slow to execute but it's really efficient to develop with.
I get the sentiment, but I'm not sure that's true.
The other situation would be California's Prop 13, which locks down property tax rates to when you bought the house. It keeps long term residents in, but has had some unexpected consequences and its part in California's housing crisis is not to be ignored.

https://edsource.org/2022/californias-prop-13s-unjust-legacy...
> Anything they say, has already been better said elsewhere.

I don’t understand how someone can say this

There have probably never been poems written that explain the particular niche physical phenomenon that I’ve had GPT-3 generate for me.
I remember the feeling, back in 2005...
The first step would be to recognize the error bounds on epistemological error and redo one’s estimates, but the tl;dr is that one’s certainty on edge case predictions should drop by a lot.
It's not "general purpose computing" maintenance, but the service you're talking about does exist, though AFAIK mostly at the very high-end. It's typically for things like home theaters, whole-home audio systems, or smart-home type setups (predating and now merging with current consumer IoT/home automation platforms). Not sure how much that's "maintenance" in the typical sense so much as support for their custom install work, but I bet if you had a Sonos or Lutron system where your installer went out of business you'd be able to find a different guy to deal with it.
Yeah, like I said, it's usually within the limited scope of 2A issues, but could be expanded to other areas. The red flag laws are something that hasn't been addressed. The thing about that is you can effectively circumvent the 4th amendment by going through the civil court since the protections are so much more limited. That's why TX wanted that civil abortion law and CA wanted to copy it for guns. No reason that can't be expanded to immediately sieze other property without a crime unless the protections are expanded. There are some limits to it's application to civil assest forfeiture since most firearms generally have a paper trail to prove ownership.

One of the big problems is that many of the coverage of the cases focuses on 2A and the 4A part gets hidden. Of course that makes for a bigger headline for the involved groups. Or they can be in specific industries that a normal person doesn't care about (FFL blanket record copies).

Recent case with more prominent 4th amendment angle.
https://crescentcitytimes.com/supreme-court-sides-with-goa-i...

General stuff about searches.
https://jslawgroup.com/fourth-amendment-gun-rights/

ATF has been performing entire book copies when they're only supposed to copy data related to specific guns/individuals related to a crime or error.

https://fflconsultinggroup.com/firearms-record-books-atf-for...
> Reactions by 10 independent experts contacted by Quanta ranged from unbridled excitement to outright dismissal, with many of the experts expressing some version of cautious optimism.

This is exactly how an arbitrary group of scientists should react to extraordinary claims like this. Not 100% dismissal because of the history or provenance of the researchers, not 100% acceptance without independent replication.
For comparison two links for the (currently) last episode, first from BBC, the second from genmon

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001jkzg

https://genmon.github.io/braggoscope/2023/03/02/megaliths.ht...
I wonder how they deal with real estate pictures. Do most people get a license to reproduce the images of their house when they buy it?
Edge Config: first line of defense against script kiddies
No, ZFS identifies by finding superblocks. This drive was not securely erased if any superblocks could still be found.
I'm not sure that's necessarily true. For example when need maintenance on my heater, I have to call someone certified in support for my brand. Same with my washer, dishwasher, refrigerator, and stove.

If GE made a home security product for example, it would make sense for vendors to get certified on GE home security support. Even if the underlying tech changed a lot, if they had access to support docs and a support portal it could work.
oh god sorry I didn't even realize. Its a bit sad that nowadays a comment like that can even be mistaken for a serious one.
5+ years ago I participate on a project who started a community from the ground up using a self-hosted https://discourse.org.

The experience was pretty great, the user experience in general is good, onboarding is straight forward, is mobile friendly, it has email and in-app notifications for replies, weekly digests and more. And you own the data!

Later down the road, a chat platform was necessary too, and we use Telegram channels for that. I remember considering some OSS/Self-Hosted options for that but Telegram was really easy and the trade-off was worth it.
Show HN: Location based querying on your phone with almost any dataset
For any data source with latitude / longitude info, you can now run queries in a few taps and visualize results based on where your phone's current location (or another location you choose)

For instance:
* Logistics:
Which warehouses near me are sold out of a product and need to be restocked?

* Food Delivery:
Which orders out for delivery are more than one hour since order time?

* Maintenance:
What locations near me have high-priority maintenance tickets open?

It works with Google Sheets, bigquery, Snowflake, Presto, Trino Software Foundation, Starburst, Oracle MySQL, Postgres, Amazon Redshift, and Databricks.

If you create a location-based query and share it with colleagues, Zing will show the data closest to them dynamically.

Free tier.

If you want to get a bit weirded out next time you go out to eat, here's a good starter dataset to import as a google sheet: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/datasf/sf-restaurant-inspect...
macOS Network Metrics Using Sysctl()
I tried to look these up.

802.3cg seems to specify 10BASE-T1S and -T1L. T1S is short range and multidrop. T1L is longer range but point-to-point. 802.3bw is 100BASE-T1 and is (I think) point-to-point. 802.3da seems to be working on enhancements to the cg spec.

It seems reasonable to me to have three standards here. They support rather different use cases. Also, 100BASE-T1 seems to be getting a bit less traction — for automotive and industrial uses, 10Mbps seems like more than enough, and improved reliability on less fancy cable seems like a win.

The BeaglePlay is 10BASE-T1L, which seems like a fine choice to me. -T1S is a bit short range to use for a house-wide network depending on the size of a house and how straight the wires are. Of course, for -T1L to be of much use, we need cheap switches, preferably powered with PoDL.

edit: a better end game would be for all the gadgets to have internal switches and at least two ports.
Reading this is like reading early Renaissance alchemist arguing about how much mercury they need to combine with how much silver to create gold... This is so far gone I don't even know where to begin...

> It may be IO that gives AsyncIO its name, but Textual doesn't do any IO of its own.

So why on Earth are you using AsyncIO? You don't need it, if that's true...

> Those tasks are used to power message queues

How are your message queues not doing I/O? What on Earth are they doing then?

Needless to say that the whole benchmark is worthless because it never even initiates anything that would be involved when creating actual asynchronous I/O tasks...

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I mean, I know, in Pythonland this is just your average Wednesday, but dear lord, if you don't visit that land all that often it shocks you more every time you do.
USPS might be mired in fed scale problems. Maybe a Library is more appropriate? At least, more directly accessible at the local level. I’m just not sure how exactly that would work, or operate thru existing library organization…

I think the incentive of a trade/artisan economy would make more sense, and justify individualized labor (house calls for NAS reconfiguration, for instance). Like a plumbing contractor vs inspector… I like the socialized idea, but I don’t see how the implementation would work under current social service labor system and organization…
Now I’m interested in the Foucault reference :)
As I recall, Altavista and Lycos tended to prove the most useful for me in the pre-Google era. Yahoo was hit or miss and Excite was middling.

I’d bet that the things being searched for influenced which engines were best for a given individual. It’s too bad there’s no way to see what each excelled at.
Set theory is not going anywhere. It may be pushed to the sidelines by new developments in category theory but that is not the same as going extinct like the dodo.
People often live here _despite_ the government, not because of it.

Great weather. 4 hours away from skiing. 1 hour away from the beach.

These things aren't attributable to the quality of the govt (except I will say that govt does do a decent job of preserving natural ecosystems)
You single out only fossil fuels, but there are so many other ways in which we are damaging the environment that we also need to worry about - PFAS everywhere, noise and light pollution, pesticides and many other chemicals in rivers, expanses of monocultures, etc. It concerns me that there is so much fixation on one form of harm, which I fear may result in less attention to the many others that we are inflicting.
Last I heard, average American per-student public school spending was ~$10K per pupil per year. Do free school lunches and a few hours per week with a speech therapist (or whatever a kid needs) actually add $10K to the annual cost of a pupil?

(And if "yes", could the problem mostly be fixed by (say) changing "2x" to "3x"?)
They explained how to trick HP laptops with hard-coded EFI paths into booting Ubuntu anyway. This will overwrite the Windows EFI, so only try this at home if you know what you are doing.
your response presumes that lobbying / citizen action can only happen at the federal level, which is not true (in fact citizen movements are at a large disadvantage in big $$ federal politics). NORML and the marijuana effort shows that local/state can be very effective in actually get results in policy change.

I also believe that the "federalization" of all issues is bad for the country and bad for culture. It makes everything super high stakes, and doesn't allow for the country to have a range of options to match citizen policy preferences. There are very, very few issues 350M+ people have strong policy alignment on. The rest of the issues should be sorted out at the state & local level. Going federal on every issue just increases the concentration of power in our society.
Also maybe losing all scientists to America and half of the country to Russia for 30 years might have contributed here.

A cultural aspect may be that Americans are more willing to try and fail, which in software has almost zero cost. In engineering it's an advantage to be risk-averse. In software where "building" is automated, and barely a factor. Theory almost equals practice here. So it's cheaper to practice.
The biggest difference is that he was not the subject of the warrant, Ring was, so he didn't risk any issues about non-compliance with the warrant or anything.

Ring gave him a chance to challenge the warrant but decided not to. He might've just had to write Ring a letter, though he says in the article he thought he'd need a lawyer. If he was the subject of the warrant directly then he'd need to deal with the court directly, probably requiring the help of a lawyer. Ring deals with warrants all the time though, so they are probably a good resource for challenging these kinds of things.
Nobody ever likes somebody else’s promotion project.
Read-Only Docx solves pretty much all these issues.
Full screen triangle optimization
AMD also had trouble fabbing. They didnt spin out their fabs until 2009 and continued to use manufacturing from the spun out entity (Global Foundries) for many years after that despite their capabilities being behind Intel and TSMC. Ryzen manufacturing didnt move to TSMC until 2019 with Zen 2.
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As AlgorithmicTime (now dead) wrote, American home ownership rates peaked in 2004 at 69%, fell to 64% in 2016, and are back up to 66%. (https://www.statista.com/statistics/184902/homeownership-rat...)

In California, it's about 56%. You gave to get San Francisco proper to get a minority and then it's still 38% (https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/sanfranciscocou...)
It can scale just fine... Green certs for SSL have been able to scale just fine... why, you pay for it. Advertisers should have to pay for verification.. it doesn't have to be an excessive fee, and can be connected to a bank account in good standing. Holding an amount in escrow during the first year could help as well.

Why shouldn't advertisers have to clear the same hurdle as opening a bank account in most western countries?
No actual links, but ReoLink PoE cameras, a miniPC, PoE switch, Zoneminder, 2TB SSD, external enclosure, and backup UPS.
Is anyone else experiencing where they have a paid Google business subscription for Gmail, Drive, etc and receive emails about posts to their Google group but even as an admin you are unable to access the content in the links? I never setup Google groups for my company but I receive an alert every time a spammer posts something. There has been no response from Google support on this.
Real-time biodata tracking and feedback in breathwork app
Ask HN: What are the best resources for learning about CRDT's and OT's?
Seems you are right and I would have saved my criticism with that knowledge. Though I do think that information should have been in the submission title then.

Ah well, best wishes to her.
My thought process is the rich kids are already going to private school, where by your own admission various factors present advantages to them.

The poorer left competing at the public schools all have their various challenges and struggles. IMO the best we can do for them is afford them equality of OPPORTUNITY for use of numerical amount of public funds. Johnny gets 10k Billy gets 10k, maybe 20k at most. There's no guarantee you'll get equality of outcome, but at least you got equal shot at the public funds and one poor kid doesn't lose out a huge amount so the other kid gets 5x the money. At some point sure more money is almost always better than less, but we have to remember that comes at the cost of other poor kids.

As for lunches... I don't know why those aren't just given to all kids in public school by default. That would make it equal and satisfy the criteria.

>Quantifying that is difficult

This sounds accurate but I have to point out you've expressed the private schools are finding effective ways to identify disruptors.
Thanks for the spellcheck. By saying my argument was a strawman, you are implying that no one is actually saying that, when it’s truly one of the most common things that comes up when you talk to people in SF about homelessness.
However there is a certain kind of dissonance between deciding to publicly state "I don't care what you think" that sort of implies that they do care actually.

It seems to me that people who truly do not care would just not engage in the first place?