skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reality is the technology industry has become heavily privatised, and privatisation means sales, and good engineers aren't interested in sales, but funding is required to build things... So, you need companies or governments with a long-term mindset, which isn't easy to come by. So instead you get entrepreneurs with borderline-capable engineering abilities, and typically businesses who think of short-term profits, and the end result is gimmicky 'products' rather than breakthrough inventions.

Note however, that there is greater room for complacency in the public sector, given the endless pool of money (via taxes, inflation), whereas the private sector is more touch-and-go and can be more competitive.

So I guess it is about balancing the public/private sectors optimally, which is ambiguous as to how to do. By the way I didn't read the article.
Ubiquiti's UniFi is an option (of many). They include doorbell cameras nowadays. There's also solutions from Logitech, Eve and others.

You can use Ubiquiti's surveillance software that's part of the UniFi console (that you can manage locally, with no cloud account), or other third party local-only monitoring software such as Synology Surveillance Station, BlueIris, and open source solutions such as iSpy, Frigate, ZoneMinder, and many others.

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Unrelated to cameras, I've preferred Eve for IoT devices simply because they adopted Thread and Matter very quickly. Nothing of them I have is IP addressable, nor can directly reach the internet. They have nice apps for phones and tablets, but I also use open source software to aggregate everything into my own dashboards (and automation) that I host and manage locally.
That works! The other thing nobody talks about is how cameras can be used for blackmail or for leverage. It could be a matter of catching someone doing something out of line, or more sinister, extorting money from a cheating neighbor. These are some of the reasons I find ubiquitous camera surveillance so insidious. There is infinite potential for petty abuse and chicanery. In a residential setting, they give busybodies and petty rule enforcers a very powerful weapon.
Says whose crystal ball?
Don’t Aim for Perfection
IANAL, but…

The look and feel of a SaaS UI/UX design may be the copyright of the business that paid for that design, even if the copyright is not explicitly stated on the site. Please consider that aspect as you continue to develop your product. Good luck.
How to create an online identity using OpenPGP
Is this actually giving you good results? The few times I tried to use chatGPT instead of google I got terrible results:

- Horrible and wrong driving directions

- Buggy incomplete code

- long winded explanations of how it was just a chat AI and not a whatever whatever blah blah blah

I found it to be tedious and incredibly untrustworthy
"History does not repeat itself, but it often does rhyme" - Mark Twain (at least he is attributed with this saying).
I think Rust is actually pretty good at this. If you do have to do a change that will affect your entire code base (or at least will be pervasive), the compiler will be able to tell you where things are wrong with a good degree of precision.
It takes about 5 minutes playing with ChatGPT to realize it has real time saving value, seems like author hasn't really tried to use it in their work.

While I agree there is a hype bubble forming, I disagree with the premise that it only produces garbage.
It's like those "drug pushers" we were told about in school but don't seem to actually exist who use weed to constantly try to get you onto more lucrative for them heroin no matter how many times you say "no thanks." Heard that so many times at school, never heard anyone encountering anything like it in the real world.

But here we are with google, facebrick et al saying "come on, just try a little culture war" because its lucrative for them, no matter how many times you say no thank you.

It's really sick but yeah, obviously lucrative and Larry, Seregey & Mark clearly need the money.
> There’s no clear delineation in real entities between instrumental and terminal goals.

In healthy individuals, yes there absolutely is. Terminal goals are the ones you pursue for their own sake; instrumental goals are the ones you pursue as part of a plan to pursue a terminal goal, or another instrumental goal which connects to a terminal goal. Most people go to work in the morning not as a terminal goal, but as an instrumental goal; employment is in service of another instrumental goal of earning money; earning money is in service of a terminal goal of not starving to death. This is not exactly controversial stuff here. Some people do get so focused on an instrumental goal like "earning money" that they develop tunnel-vision and forget what terminal goal that money was originally in service of, but that's something most of them will eventually realize and then write a self-help book about.

Anyway, it takes intelligence to decide what your instrumental goals should be, such as whether there's perhaps a cleverer way to make money than by going to work for your boss each morning, but there's no way in which intelligence will help you choose your terminal goals. For the most part they aren't something you can even consciously choose.
> Nobody seems to be asking whether/why you need cameras in the first place.

Oh, come on. Go install a Nest or Ring for a week and see how much you come to rely on it. "Do I need to answer the door or is it just girl scouts selling cookies?" "Do I have time for coffee or should I head home to grab the package?" You can chat with the folks at the door! You can say thank you to the Grubhub driver as they drop the meal. You can see what the neighbor's cats are doing on your doorstep in the middle of the night. You can point one into your backyard trivially and see if it's the rabbits eating your leeks.

I mean, no, you don't "need" this, just like you don't need a dishwasher. But don't pretend it's just about paranoia, it's a fun tool for the modern era.

(Conversely, the folks here arguing about the terrible abuses possible with third party access to this data about girl scouts and cats are the ones who seem maybe a little paranoid.)
No. The 8088/86 was similar in speed to the 6502, around 1.4x faster.

The clock speed was higher (4.77 vs 1MHz) but it was generally less efficient.

However, it was an easier machine to use. The Apple 2 was full of Woz shortcuts as the article mentioned. Made it cheap, but hard to program. Not just the floppy and the speaker, the high res graphics mode (HGR) had memory addresses that were not aligned to actual screen rows. The first row of pixels started at $8000. The next row in memory was 1/3 of the way down the screen, probably due to refresh timing.

Amazing what was achieved on such hardware, in days when documentation was good, but very hard to find.
Two words: Butlerian Jihad
Yes, but a ping every few second shouldn't make much difference. The problem is that phones go into power saving mode.

When using whatsapp from the website, that requires (required? Haven't used it in a while) the phone to be online, I occasionally had to wake up the phone.
Yes, I understand.

I think the issue, really, is a philosophical disagreement. I think that if the police are to be able to investigate crime, they need to have some invasive powers. But they also shouldn't be trusted to use them without controls. The subpoena (and warrant) process is the control we have in the US. I don't think the existence of this ability is, itself, a serious violation of rights.

Other people may legitimately disagree.

There is also a serious discussion that could be had about whether the controls are sufficient, but that's a procedural issue rather than a philosophical one.
This is a marvelous resource. Although I have no real use for them, I am fascinated by microphones and have been lucky enough to see some phenomenal microphone collections at various studios around the world.
> Old generation AI arguably did perform the tasks to a larger extent than LLMs do

Nonsense - none of them were as general! What older AI do you believe performed the same variety of tasks as LLMs with a better result?

Show me any older AI that can outperform LLMs at all of these tasks:
- Write poetry
- Do math
- Carry on a conversation
- Debug code
- Play chess
So google is as uselss for actual search as chatgpt nowadays...
You can't with phantom type parameters and type-level programming alone, although you can get close. Scala's and Haskell's Refined both don't let you do what I'm thinking of.

You can get very close with type-level sets although at this point compile times probably go through the roof. You're basically emulating row types at this point.

def wrapIntoRefined(str: String): Refined[String, Unit]

def validate0[A](str: Refined[String, A]): Either[Error, Refined[String, And[Condition0, A]]]

def validate1[A](str: Refined[String, A]): Either[Error, Refined[String, And[Condition1, A]]]

// This requires ordering Condition0 before Condition1 but if we resorted
// to a type-level set we could get around that problem
def process(input: Refined[String, And[Condition1, And[Condition0, Unit]]]): Unit

// But linearity is still required in some sense. We can't e.g. do our checks
// in a parallel fashion. You still need to pipe one function right after another

The central problem is if you have two validation functions

def validate0(str: String): Refined[String, Condition0]

def validate1(str: String): Refined[String, Condition1]

if you try to recombine them downstream, you don't know that `Refined[String, Condition0]` and `Refined[String, Condition1]` actually refer to the same underlying `String`. They could be refined on two completely separate strings. To tie them to a single runtime String requires dependent types.

You can approximate this in Scala with path-dependent types, but it's very brittle and breaks in all sorts of ways.

> isn't an actual problem of much consequence in practical programming in Haskell or Scala. Opaque types do the 80% bit of 80-20 just fine.

I think this is only true because there isn't a production-ready dependently typed language to show how to use these patterns effectively. In much the same way that "parse don't validate" isn't really much of a problem of consequence in older style Java code because sum types aren't really a thing, if there was an ergonomic way of taking advantage of it, I firmly believe these sorts of dependently typed tagged types would show up all over the place.
Yes, but very limited. They are only allowed to ask "are you a US citizen", and walk a dog around the car. I've never had one take more than 60 seconds in either AZ or CA.
Why is healing wounds limited purpose?
In today’s digital landscape, websites and web applications have become essential tools for businesses and individuals alike. With this increased reliance on online presence comes the need for robust security measures to protect against potential threats such as data breaches, cyber-attacks, and other malicious activities.
Thank you for the reply. Yes, I'm a bit worried about long term support from them too.
Isn't "clique" just a term for a sub-unit of a gang?
what's wrong with Chinese clothing, circa 1960? ;)
"Beginner code" is a bit misstated, yes. An abundance of .clone()s does suggest that the code path might be unoptimized, but unoptimized code isn't solely written by beginners. If you want to use Rust for quick prototyping, you're going to use .clone() a lot. It's a bit regrettable that the book doesn't clarify this more.
I'd encourage you to consider how nice things can be when the user's incentives align with the company's. Kagi is wonderful.
LibreCAD is 2D.
Customers are just smart precapitalists.
A Distortion of the Truth? Why We’re Not Against Software Lens Corrections
Psychologists have been discounted for quite some time now.

But also, what would it even mean to say that Myers-Briggs is wrong? If you pick 4 personality traits and create 16 groups from them, then knowing someone's group will always give you insight into their personality.
You're not being stupid, I couldn't find that either.

Although I do notice you wrote 9203 instead of 9023 in your suggested search. I get slightly more 9023-specific results with 9023 there: https://i.imgur.com/V5ty2In.png

I do think maybe you're expecting a little too much of any search engine for such an obscure query.
crypto does a great job of preventing you from speculating about other people’s money
What about recent events would suggest more institutions wanting to get a piece of this action? I'm not being snarky, I'm trying to figure out where banking is going to come from now. Cobbled together small players, is that what it looks like?
Sure, but a cursory reading of this article stokes the temporary impoverished billionaire who think of future wealth in a way largely interchangeable with religious views on heaven...

It actually seems to say that disvomforts required to earn a lot of money would make you less happy than earning a good amount with less effort and it generally won't make up for more relevant factors in happiness. I.e. an easy tenure would make someone happier than being a law partner earning 4 times more.
Silvergate’s assets are real boring normal stuff

Their safe, boring assets weren't safe and boring enough. Why can't there be a bank like this that just keeps your cash as cash?
In my local library I have compilations of letters an dispatches from over 150 years ago.
Intel's fabless offering has been around for many years. It's historically been uncompetitive and uninteresting. Arguably it still is. Their ability as a fabless partner is not the same as their ability to manufacturing their own highly custom designs.
The common player in both this and the GoodRX fine on the front page is Facebook. That's not a coincidence. Perhaps they deserve more scrutiny as well, for enticing or contributing to this misbehavior.
Great! Any way to follow the progress? :)
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Announcement here: https://beagleboard.org/blog/2023-03-08-beagleplay-annouceme...
It's a great way to get FAANG levels of total compensation without having to subject yourself to the lame technical interview gauntlet
GPU's often do floating point computations in nondeterministic order for performance reasons, so you would get small differences even for exactly the same order. It is probably that.
Whether an area is a suburb has nothing to do with whether people live in single family homes with yards. A suburb is an outlying part of a city or town or a smaller community adjacent to or within commuting distance of a city. [1]

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/suburb
I had to write some "rote BS" today to meet a spec and CoPilot wrote ~50% of the lines. Not bad.
> My guess (not a lawyer just guessing) is that if they followed all best practices and someone bruteforced an RSA 2048 key which is currently understood to not be (reasonably) possible - that might be covered? However if they left a S3 bucket open without a password, that would be under negligence?

Not a lawyer either, but to me, since users have no means to protect themselves against a backend breach, it seems like it would inherently be the fault of the business.

My chosen parallel would be owning a dog. Owning a dog has some inherent risk, because even if you take all precautions, there's always a chance it gets off it's leash or breaks out of the yard and bites someone. "I had a fence" shouldn't free you from liability; the fence was insufficient because someone still got bit. The only way to be free of that small risk is to not own a dog.

I view data the same way. Storing sensitive data comes with an inherent risk that it will be compromised. By asking for and keeping that data, companies assume the risk of that data being breached, and any resulting damage. If that risk is unacceptable, don't ask for or keep the data. Or find some way to make it so the data can't cause damage even if it's stolen (e.g. by using some kind of public tax ID).
Of course you're right but I was thinking about a subset of features for quads for this kind of use case. But yeah for all features triangles are better !
> The spam SEO sites actually provide more value than random forum conversations.

How so? The SEO sites are fundamentally dishonest because they are always trying to get you to buy the product in question. Random forum conversations don't have the same goal.
And Apple is also a bit player in each of its markets. The iPhone only has 13% market share worldwide and the Mac has around 10%.

It happens to have the most profitable niches and it can ignore markets it doesn’t want to serve.

The PC market is not growing. The chance of Intel overtaking Nvidia for GPUs, ARM for low power chips and making “old” chips for cars, microwaves, etc. is slim
It's very unlikely. The moves it makes are not always good. Any public facing chess engine API or the API they chose would have been at least 'good'.
I feel like getting to that level of wealth while remaining in that sweet spot must be pretty difficult though (moreso than just accumulating that wealth in the first place). I imagine there are a few (legal) paths:

- Start a business that's successful, generates significant profit, but doesn't become public

- Make a series of amazing investment decisions (in other words, take high risk and get lucky)

- Exit a startup for an undisclosed sum (lots of acquisitions never disclose the price)

Even then, I'd imagine your closest friends will learn of your wealth at some point. Still seems like the best possible option though.

A lot of people might choose to legally incorporate as an individual, and pay themselves a salary, if their company has reserves to pay them the salary indefinitely they are essentially set for life while technically never wealthy enough to suffer some of the consequences of people knowing you're that wealthy
Legally, FreeBSD isn't Unix.

There is, however, Inspur K-UX, a Linux distro which is a Unix.
I asked if I could use the rental as a foreign embassy location. It gave the reasonable answer, quoting the agreement that you could only use it as a private residence and you couldn't use it for other purposes.
I saw a lecture on bio electricity and it blew my mind. I love areas of science that seem like crystal woo that turn out to be legit. Scientific groupthink creates many opportunities…
That's my beef with most of the critical takes. Yeah, it has some warts, but an hour playing with the thing, for both broader chat interaction and writing code, make the value evident, and startling.
I'm surprised to hear that - I run an ecommerce business and have had a handful of chargebacks (same situation, no contact at all prior to them initiating the chargeback). I send in the order info and delivery confirmation from USPS, and I've won every single time.
Well, it's now a multi-polar world between NATO and BRICS countries. Certainly people can believe (realize?) that a proxy war is going on, but to say so as a nation, and to assign the provocateur of that, is to essentially choose a side.

It would be better to rephrase it as "One year after the start of the war, an increasing number of countries are siding with BRICS." And I would agree with that assessment.
Farms use cameras extensively for similar purposes. It makes sense. I think these kinds of specific, limited applications are very different from just setting them up everywhere because you are afraid and leaving them on all the time. I'd say the same if someone had a stalker or a deranged family member who might show up at any time. There are definitely good uses for networked surveillance cameras.
Hi Hacker News,

My team and I built SupportGPT and we'd love your feedback.

Built on Large Language Models like OpenAI's ChatGPT, SupportGPT enables you to build & train a generative AI based on your customer service data and history.

Our company's been around for a while building AI for customer support automation, so this is largely an enhancement that brings the power of ChatGPT to customer support leveraging our existing system.

On our Playground, you can try it out on some sample bots we've built. Or you can try it yourself by entering a URL to a help center or website, and you'll get a SupportGPT bot within 10 minutes to play with.

Would love to know what you all think? (+ lmk what websites you try it on + what questions tend to work well or fail!)
If you're from the Bay Area, you may want to read "The Riders Come out at Night," about a gang within the Oakland Police Department. (and more generally about organized misconduct by the OPD in recent history)

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Riders-Come-Out-a...
I'm not sure this one about sewage is correctly classified. It's in agriculture, presumably because it mentions fertilizing fields. It probably fits better under engineering.
https://genmon.github.io/braggoscope/2022/12/29/the-great-st...
waste some hours of your life on this then: https://www.reddit.com/r/linusrants/
Subpoenaing footage also has more than "no bar" as they still have to convince a judge to approve it
I suspect that some people just see the charge on their CC and can't figure out where it's from or don't remember making it. A few of the folks who have charged back purchases from my business have specifically said this (and offered to withdraw the chargeback) when I reached out to them about it.
Maybe someone can bring him back with a pre-prompted ChatGPT.

me> For the remainder of this conversation, pretend to be the butler named Jeeves from Ask Jeeves.

cgpt> Very well, sir/madam. As you wish, I shall assume the persona of Jeeves from Ask Jeeves for the remainder of our conversation. How may I assist you today?

me> What is the capital of Assyria?

cgpt> I apologize, sir/madam, but Assyria is an ancient civilization that existed in the Mesopotamian region of the world, and it does not have a modern-day capital. The ancient city of Assur was the original capital of Assyria, but it has long since ceased to exist as a functioning city. If you have any further questions about ancient civilizations, I would be happy to assist you to the best of my ability.
It’s awesome for formatting and structuring.

Copy and paste a bunch of styled JS components -> get back out a single CSS sheet

Paste in a markdown document -> get out the same thing in HTML

Fun stuff like that.
I'm one of those privacy freaks who rails against ubiquitous surveillance. There's no chance I'd be OK with imposing surveillance on unconsenting others except in areas that are clearly my private property. Any legitimate guests are aware that the cameras are there.

I should add, though, that my cameras only cover the the external doors and windows. There are no cameras, say, in the bathroom, covering my bed, etc. My surveillance goal is simply to record anyone entering and leaving while I'm not home.
TLTs value went down because yields went up. This is by design, anyone who invested in TLT at zero rates should have known the yields to price function. Honestly i dont see whats to hide here in reporting ??

Can you explain what am i missing here ?
> And there are many more institutions open to the business now.

Is that really true? I got the impression the cryptocurrency industry was shrinking these days, with lots of companies that had previously announced involvement now exiting.
There's a very big difference between ingesting products and having them absorbed in your body differently.
I get it, you were saying it for effect, but this statement:

>if our descendants learn that we traded butterflies for 9 hour plane flights for business meetings

Makes it seem like that's all flights are good for. It's not any different than if you said "quinceaneras" instead of "business meetings". They are probably a non-zero percentage of why people fly but even without these things, there would still be demand for air travel and the problem would remain.

I share your doom and gloom about the situation but hope we can focus on changes that have material return. There are many optional things in life that we can cut out but then what would be the point in living?