skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep change in two (usually) unlocked cars as bait. If the change is gone, someone has been going through the cars. A while back the change was gone. If I had video footage of that, would the cops pursue the case? Hell no. If I received a notification from a camera/sensor, would I confront or possibly shoot (legal in this jurisdiction) a petty thief? Hell no. Anyone who is stealing loose change out of cars is desperate to the point that they do not care anymore.

Around the time the bait disappeared, the police were pursuing a suspect from house to house at 2am. If it was the same person, and I had proof, stealing from parked cars would be the least of anyone's concern.

What are the odds your local police are going to take your package theft footage and actually pursue the thief? Even for more serious crimes, it's questionable whether they will seek (or use) camera evidence, or be successful if they do. I know of an armed robbery attempt that occurred close to home, and to my knowledge no inquiries were made regarding camera evidence (I was a witness).

I can think of plenty of concrete uses for surveillance cameras, sure, but I'd say the costs vastly outweigh the benefits for most people using them today.

Check out some online social (fearmongering) sites like Nextdoor some time - it's nothing but busybodies speculating that the person parked on the street is casing their house or stealing packages. Quick, report them to the cops.

Oops. The local cops no longer accept 'suspicious person or vehicle' reports unless there is a crime in progress.
The Posse Comitatus Act bars federal military forces from participating in civilian law enforcement (except in unusual circumstances that don't apply here). And the military doesn't even have the skills to root out police corruption; it's just not their job.

The appropriate response would be for the county or state government to request assistance from the California Highway Patrol and/or Department of Justice.
the reason steering wheels are attached so securely is they also contain an airbag..

you do not want your steering wheel flying into your face when your airbag goes off into a collision. so securing it with a press fit secures that.
Didn’t know that. Don’t suppose you’ve got any links that describe the physical process that results in the correlation between write quality and erase-to-program delay?
Neat! I'm a heavy Airtable user (for personal things) that has been toying with moving to SQLite for some things, mostly to gain understanding around SQL topics. But losing Airtable's UI would be a pain, so I'll definitely bookmark this.

Good luck!
Its called a tax lien. Basically, if you can’t pay your property taxes, you still get to stay in your home, but the unpaid taxes must be paid (with interest) before the home can sold or otherwise transferred (with some rare exceptions for like death of a spouse, etc.)
The user you're trying to connect with might not be configured in your DB. Want to shoot us a message over Intercom (in the bottom-right)? We can help debug.
At $10 a piece and ~90-key keyboard you can have chargable batteries for years.

https://eu.mouser.com/ProductDetail/ZF/AFIG-0007

> on that one, a little capacitor in the parenthesis keys would probably make that solar panel unnecessary.

... ye, you probably can get it with $20 only.
What I don't understand, is on most if not all my webapps, I offer 100% refund. It is clearly listed, and they don't even have to be logged in, just put in your reciept. It is clear on every single part of the page as well, even the contact form has it. Yet I still get chargebacks
> mental illness that used to only affect child stars and the hollywood famous.

There is no such illness. Like, literally none of them. (And in child stars case, massive amount of their issues can be explained by pervasive abusive situations and exploitation they found themselves in. Which is something that happens to poor unknown kids too.)
I saw a youtube short like this. It was a video demonstrating the "perfect" guy. It started reasonable, with him saying "oh can you check this on my phone? the passcode is XYZ"

Yeah, I would have trusted my current-wife then-girlfriend with my phone passcode pretty early on, no big deal. She didn't feel the need to know it, but casually telling it to her so she could do something with it is probably a thing that happened.

But it started to veer completely weird after that, about abandoning all his friends and stuff. It turned into a giant WTF for me.
The only solution is the death of exponential growth and easy investment money.

Probably ultimately the technical solution will be some sort of variation on PGP key signing parties. No way to get 10k users per financial period with that real world friction though.
> This whole camera craze is built on a bunch of hot air. Ditch the cameras and stop living in fear.

Living in the inner city where property crime is rampant might make you change your mind. A dashcam was the star of a legal case I was in, and our outdoor cameras have caught multiple yard prowlers. Police don't do anything about it, of course, but at least I can notify my neighbors with actual evidence.
> There are tons of chess game transcripts online -- next token prediction with attention and rules/strategy discussions should be enough to get moderate skill in the Chess domain.

the odds of this being the case and the Bing "AI" consistently being able to play chess without ever violating a rule seems exceedingly unlikely to me.

> It would be exceptionally unlikely that Bing would wire up a chess engine of all things into their production stack.

why? pragmatically it makes the most sense. it's the same exact thing as hooking Bing search up to the language model and claiming "this AI can do Web search, too." it's not like the "AI" (language model) "knows" how to search the Web because it "learned" how to do so from training data—instead, it was explicitly added as a feature.

Microsoft is making a user-facing "AI" first and foremost, not an LLM. all that matters is how the user perceives the interaction with the service. the underlying LLM is useful only insofar as how it can make the user/computer interaction seem more magical and/or "natural".
I can confidently say the majority of fliers are not traveling for work. This is a strawman.
> Linux has been pretty stable for decades now

Really? I installed Ubuntu after a 5 year holiday from it - Now you have some kind of Snaps, and flatpak. There is whatever is happening in wayland. To install handbrake, you need to install flatpack.

There used to be 4 different drivers for intel GPU, now there are 7, and I still can't get Quicksync to work in Handbrake. There seems to be some kind of plugin you can download from their website, but that doesn't install.

After tinkering, I realised that Quicksync works in ffmpeg and in Jellyfin, but not in Handbrake

Mind you, I have a home server that runs 20 docker contsiner for things like home assistant. I deploy applications to kubernetes in my say job.

But this shit is still frustrating

Who do I call to fix this for less than $500 an hour?
Even then, there are contractors who will not work on systems installed by contractors not adhering to certain standards of workmanship.
This is a real pity.
Yes, specifically ZF AFIG-0007 energy harvesting switch

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3411839 p. 12

https://eu.mouser.com/ProductDetail/ZF/AFIG-0007
How far down the rabbit hole do we need to go?

Because at some point your function call is manipulating registers on the CPU. If we go even further, the CPU needs to load its next instructions and then the data required.

Point being, we abstract and encapsulate complexity and provide a simpler API around it. It’s the only feasible way to manage the inherent complexity.

React builds up a virtual description of UI. react-dom and react native take that description and synchronise it to the UI layer.

If you need to do something extra, that they don’t handle like managing a map widget (ie mapbox) in React that only has an imperative API, it sure would be nice to do that yourself.

You can build a UI without useEffect. You can hide messy implementation details inside a well tested component, and contain where useEffect is being used.

And, you can understand how useEffect works so that you can use it without it having a negative effect on you.
You can challenge a subpoena right? Like, he could hire a lawyer and contest the scope of this?

Not saying it's not wildly inconvenient, but he could if he wanted to.
i really believe one of the most fundamental task for human specie now is to create some kind of backup for all the knowledge of human civilisation. A book you can always open and read, but how are you going to ensure wikipedia remains accessible in case of a true collapse ?
Ryzen 7950X3D review: An expensive but efficient 16-core CPU
Indeed. A good question is why aren't there any security camera providers that store data in the cloud with only you having the encryption key?

My PC's cloud backup is like this: It is stored in their cloud, but the provider cannot decrypt the data. Only I have the key.

Why should Ring or other such companies actually require access to the video? Only I should have access to the contents.
Yes, as I said if you have the money (a big if and whether you win or lose, you can’t recover that money ) you can fight it, but can you really say you “own” your data if you can be forced to give it up?
Hilariously, adding retries to applications can make them “bi-stable”, where they can get stuck in a faulty overload state.

This isn’t for writing reliable web apps, it’s compensating for Azure’s slow database offerings.

In an era where I can buy 1 million IOPS for a few hundred dollars, I have to write code to compensate for the few hundred IOPS that I can buy from Azure for thousands a month.

“But, but, cloud storage is different and not at all comparable to an NVMe drive” — you’re about to say.

Yes. I know. That’s my point.
250k/s is roughly the same speed as context switching, so while slow for pure computation, it is a reasonable amount of "waste" for switching between concurrent tasks.

If you didn't prevent preemptive context switches during your benchmarking, it's entirely possible the only thing you measured was the context switch time.

This is a fun experiment, but to get a rigorous idea of the overhead involved takes more work than what anyone in the post or comments has done.
The indoor camera thing is pretty freaky. Setting them up to keep an eye on things when you are gone would probably be a good idea - but all the time?
He specifically mentioned street facing cameras, so I don't think it's just indoor cameras.
I think you're misunderstanding what Textual is. It's not a GUI terminal emulator: it's a library for building interactive terminal applications.
Keith Jarrett on Piano Jazz
It's not you or the male typed things you follow.

My wife used to use instagram just to look at cat videos and wedding dresses. She wasnt into cars or gym workouts or whiskey or whatever. She's also surprisingly female. Her suggested posts and ads were always just girls with onlyfans accounts. I thinks it's just a matter of what most of the platform offers at this point.
Yeah, this aspect of credit card billing is the worst, and this new change is quite shocking really.
Does it come with one of those magnefying glasses in front of the screen?

You know, like in the moview Brazil?
The requirement that you have a public IP for your database and a third party system is sucking in our data are giant red flags for industries with any sort of confidential or proprietary data.

A huge strength of NocoDB is that it is run as just another service accessible your DB that you own.

I can see Virtual Columns being interesting for reporting-type purposes. The mentioned use case of “notations” on data owned by someone else is also interesting. But again - do I really want someone else hosting my data? I don’t know.

Is the target here then basically shadow IT adding onto other people’s data sources that they can’t get the devs to change directly?
Heh, cstross even has a "conspiracy" theory about that sudden shift:

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/02/place-y...

(Which I don't buy)
That's high quality anarchy chess if I ever saw it. Knights making random moves, pawns popping out of others pieces like chest bursters, stuff zipping all over the board.
First, this $57.60 is a VERY pessimistic upper limit. Remember, that's based on having to transcribe every working hour of every day. The number of hours/month required for transcription is probably pareto-distributed among the workforce. I'd bet 90% of people would need to transcribe up to ~4 hours (1 important 1-hour meeting per week), corresponding to an API cost of USD$1.44 per month.

Second, don't underestimate the business value of a nice interface. IMO, the value of excellent UI/UX is part of why ChatGPT took off the way it did. The number of people willing to pay a few dollars per month in order to never have to see a command line is quite a bit larger than the number of people willing to host their own `whisper-large` inference.

Speaking of hosting, do you already own hardware that supports sufficiently fast inference? If not, how much would a good enough cloud instance cost you per month? It depends on how fast is fast enough, but more than $0, that's for sure.
I don't know that it would have been better, but an option would have been to use one of the less ambiguous but less familiar terms, and define it in terms of the more familiar term early on. Something like, "diatype (register, in the sociological sense)".
> Bing chat has no access to a Stockfish or other chess API.

is there any evidence to back this claim?
The main advantage to having this data yourself rather than being held by a third party is that you have a chance to push back if you have it yourself.

If you get a subpoena that you believe is overly broad, you can take the matter before a judge and argue your case. As I understand it, this can be quite effective in narrowing the scope. It's not perfect, of course, but it's better than having no say whatsoever.
Catchpoint Suffering Complex DDoS
May be triggering false outage alarms

But the latest update says:

Update - We continue to experience intermittent outages to the Catchpoint Portal, API, WebPageTest.org and Support due to a highly complex Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. The entire Catchpoint team is actively working with DDoS mitigation experts to deflect the attack. Your test data, RUM and test alerts are not impacted.

We’ll post updates here as they become available.
Mar 08, 2023 - 09:37 EST
Wouldn't work. You'd have "SEO professionals" selling automated upvote, downvote, and labelling botnet services almost immediately. Nothing that can be gamed is reliable at scale.
To give them some credit, they did create SAP, which is currently the largest non-American software company. It's just that Enterprise Resource Planning software is 'not sexy' so your average person probably has not heard of them, or they have and don't know what they do.
Sure- I didn't read your comment that way, my point was primarily just that there is no clear path to such a language yet. It's an open question of whether it is possible and how to accomplish it, and TFA is already another very small step toward answering that question.

(I suspect their reason for avoiding the word "monad" was that it is totally alien and obfuscatory to a significant part of the target audience, and it's relatively easy for those who are familiar to connect the dots themselves, as you clearly did.)
LOL. Perhaps you don't understand this because you don't dive yourself, but there's a very big difference between your PADI Open Water diver buddy's dives and the 70-90 meter depth estimated for the blasts.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/30/nord-stream...
It might sound a little 'out there', but I can recommend keeping a couple of geese (if you have space in the city). They go absolutely nuts and honk like a car alarm if strangers come around.
>If you’re on Android Facebook and Instagram can be installed by manufacturers with no option to delete.

Which OEMs do that? I haven't seen that from HTC, Motorola or Google.

Not being snarky here. I'd like to know who actually does so. Allowing me to avoid them in the future[0].

[0] I'd note that LineageOS[1] doesn't do that either. I highly recommend it!

[1] https://lineageos.org/
Did you read the HN Guidelines [1]? It's literally saying not to do what you did:

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Certainly not in my slice of America, even in the 1990s or early 2000s. I don’t think I saw one in person until after college.
Spammers would submit fake tags faster than everyday users. Since this is a social problem rather than a technical one, maybe old-school trust networks are worth considering instead.
Overinspired?
Good context by Matt Levine a few days ago [1]. Basically Silvergate did a lot of business with crypto firms and got burned not by crypto speculation but just by holding long maturity safe assets when too many of their customers wanted to withdraw money on a short term basis. The result was falling below the line of being "well capitalised" as a bank. Bank regulation seems to be working here: there is no indication of wrongdoing or losses to depositors...

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-03-02/silver...
Twitter’s privacy-preserving Tor service goes dark
Hmmm... thanks for the update and link to eternal september. The way things are these days, I think I'm pretty much ready to try a return to usenet.

Ironically although not a student or AOL user back then, my usage of usenet was after eternal september....
> This kind of outcome is precisely why I removed all cameras and other smart capabilities from my home on the day I moved in.

I have a cat. Someone needs to take care of it when I travel. A smart camera and smart lock let me know if someone came to my house to give the cat food. Before that, twice, my cat went 24-48 hours without food because the designated caregiver dropped the ball.
It wasn’t so obvious a few years ago. You couldn’t have Intel fab your design for any price. x86 was as strategic for them as their fabing expertise.

Now it’s a different story.
The first one was actually a surprise since often you don't see that. Most random stuff are really really bad crap antenna's.

The second one is pretty simple. The voltage regulator has a internal circuit to detect over current and turn off the regulator. So if current is too high or the part gets too hot it turns it off preventing the regulator from letting the smoke out. In this case somehow the RF was tripping that circuit for about 50ms.
Salesforce – Einstein GPT (Integrate ChatGPT)
2A zealots tend to be very protective of their property being unlawfully searched or seized. The whole Sovereign Citizen movement is emblematic of the extremes in this regard, but it's absolutely true overall.

As someone else said, though, the 4A doesn't really give companies and people much to sell to one another in that section of society. They would seriously benefit from password safety products, better choice of hardware, and full-disk encryption, but this group doesn't tend to have a lot of electronics technical chops.

I say this as someone who recreationally shoots long arms and works in a tech/science field. The Venn diagram hardly overlaps. Which is a shame for both sides, I think.
I think a springloaded center punch to each of the chips would do a pretty good job of it.

https://www.harborfreight.com/spring-loaded-center-punch-621...
Of course. Just like I own my car but if I violate certain laws it may be confiscated.

If "can't be forced to give it up by normal legal processes" is your standard for what it means to own something, there is very little in the world that you do actually own. So little, in fact that the concept doesn't mean much at all.
I prefer ownership at a Task/Artifact level.

A Role-level definition severely limits one's ability to grow, get holistic/big picture view and leading to "That's not my job" mentality, all because someone arbitrarily put a line, not dissimilar to culture or standard of living differences between arbitrary political lines.
> the GIL does not come into play at all with async.

In the sense that the GIL is still held and you can have at most one path of Python code executing at a time regardless of whether you use async or threads, sure. Most blocking I/O was already releasing the GIL so the difference is purely in how you can design your modules; for any reasoning about performance the GIL behaves the same way whether you use asyncio or not.
> Because no one understands how those features they're paying for work.

Everyone I know who owns a Ring does. They don't care. Convenience always wins. People who put privacy and related rights above convenience are the exception.
It's a fallacy whenever someone argues from it. Like the GP, they are literally arguing from a SSF and no one believes that's what it is. Beyond the pale.
> It is ultimately going to force a complete reinvention of the written assignment.

If by complete reinvention you mean returning to what we used to do, which is write essays with a pencil during class without using a computer.

> This is just the beginning, even if the tool appears to be a mostly-useless toy for any real-world applications.

It is not possible to tell on this side where LLMs (or any invention) fall on the spectrum of 3D tv to the smartphone. It will become apparent in the future and 50% of us will have been wrong but anyone who claims to know is just BSing.
I use ring cameras. I gave some initial consideration to the privacy concerns before going all in. I decided I'm fine with it. I positioned the cameras specifically knowing that whatever they record could be made public at some point. I consent to Amazon or Ring sharing the footage with police and 70% or so of my neighbors all do the same.

If my footage can help catch a burglar or vandal in my neighborhood I've made the whole community a bit better. But I already live in a very safe area. All I've caught so far are some possums, cats, squirrels, and wasps.

But I also see when packages get delivered, etc.

If I'm ever not OK with it I can just replace the cameras with any PoE alternative. My house is wired to be flexible.
Yes, it works on most printers. My Brother laser printer has a menu option to print out it's network settings, which gives ~20 different protocols with ports which can be used. I don't think you can control the print settings with netcat, but I'm probably wrong. Mostly I use lpr, but the netcat trick is very useful sometimes.
Depends on the depth of the pipeline. Your average scuba enthusiast is certainly not going to pull it off. And acquiring/transporting that quantity of explosives to the sites is also well beyond the means of the amateurs currently being offered up as a distraction.
Been using Brother printers for years, never had any issues. Surprisingly, in our times, they just keep making printers that work. I don't know how long this would last, but I am planning on staying with them while it does.
Saw one in South Florida on multiple nights during Super Bowl weekend.
It’s basically a bully kicking someone less powerful for fun (and when you’re one of the richest people in the world almost everyone is less powerful).

It’s only when he realises the victim wasn’t as powerless as he thought and there might actually be some expensive consequences for his actions did he change his tune. Still no proper apology though.

What an idiot.