skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couldn’t they still get a location from the user’s IP address?

One example I saw is that a user was near panicking because when asked if the AI had access to their location, the AI said it didn’t. However, it was able to tell them the nearest McDonalds. Just thinking, if I had your IP (e.g. the source IP of a request to my server), I could find a “nearest” McDonalds.
> I would indeed wave my wand at fashion, as well as vehicle racing; all forms of movies, video, YouTube, etc; the music “industry” (not musicians!); motorized watercraft; Internet advertising; fast-food restaurants; celebrities…

It's funny because I have a similar list but fashion would not be something I would want to disappear. Fashion is culture and art. Fast fashion and production that harms people and the planet is not good, but fashion designers can be very much like musicians.
It's probably just IP-address based location, which is not very precise.
But every socmed site/app does this. You'll never find user research that says "I want to see more strangers I don't follow on my feed". It's not for the user, it's for advertisers that need users to spend more time in the app.
I want to repeat this in USB2 version and use it for reading books. What kind of moving sensor might be a good choice? I want something like a stylophone with tongue-controlled five buttons (traditional joystick approach) plus tooth-controlled ctrl as a regular button. Buttons might be sensed like licking AG4 battery (the least 1.5V battery I ever seen) - but I do not understand an electronic design which is going to sense the tongue.

5 hours of active use with no ability to change the battery is a shit, let's be honest. It will be 4 hours after 100 full recharges, you know this process. Also Bluetooth HID devices will never be acceptable for shooters while non-Bluetooth tongue controller may be a pivot point in cyber-sport industry because of less lag between the brain and the HID.
It's amazing how much better teams are at remote work now than in 2018. However... It's still just not as efficient as in-person fact-to-face ad-hoc meetings. The "water cooler discussion forum" is very real. Informational cross-pollination between teams and between levels of the org structure simply aren't happening as much with remote work. The siloing has locked companies into rigid plans that cannot respond to change.
Hey — I work at Stripe. Sorry you got hit by card testing. Could you email me at edwin@stripe.com and we can take a closer look?
Look up the median on BLS and tell me if this is all it’s made out to be.

Wow. $45k/year…
Recent discussion (3 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35652434
The Power of Brief Mental Health Therapies
Spring is still awful. Play, Javalin, and other frameworks are leagues better. Even Spring boot isn't a great framework which has way too much annotation soup. Worst thing with Spring/Spring Boot is that the framework and ecosystem breaks extremely often with updates.
IP is not used for user geolocation (or at least it shouldn't be) because it can be spoofed, e.g. via VPN connections.
I'm an older professional now working in a hybrid arrangement, but I very much concur with the parent comment. I can't imagine how my early career would have gone without being able to put in the time in the office. Its a cliche, but work culture really does exist, and it's about social cues and rules of courtesy. These mores are not taught in school but are absolutely essential to working effectively in an office. I would suspect this socialization is even more important for people who perhaps come from families where no parent was a white-collar office worker. I was lucky to start out at places where it was common for teams to eat lunch together. These unofficial interactions were just as important as regular work interactions in helping me to understand the psychology of my more experienced colleagues, what was polite, and what was taboo.
Power Labs
How do I cascade delete or update specific in one to many relation in typeorm?
You're making the claim, so you should price it out and show it.
The weird thing is - Microsoft doesn't seem to expect to piss anyone off with stuff like this. They seem quite surprised every single time.

I really have to wonder about the process the Windows team follows.
I've certainly heard of such things. If there's a tool to prove that my 135,000 lines of C++ are formally correct, I'm up for it. :-)
To use many of the snapchat filters (specifically ones that have info about the weather, the city you're in, etc.) you have to have your location services enabled, at least while using the app. These are pretty popular, so most people have their location services enabled.

There's also the "snap map" which for some reason doesn't freak normies out, and they have location services enabled for that as well.
https://archive.is/5QUeb
If the pay (At the lower/upper/both certification levels) were better, people would justify it.
These small animations in the task bar look very Linux-ish to me, and not in a good way. They're too playful IMO, and will probably start feeling annoying quite quickly.
> Imagine you try to find your way in an unknown city and the only maps available are the sketchy freebies handed out at hotels, choke full of commercial ads, spam and fake entries

Kinda is like that already
And those that don’t probably just don’t know how or only ever open one window at a time.
Gambling ads usually are quite aggressive and TV, websites, bus stops, everywhere there were gambling ads.

As are ads for just about everything.

It isn't just the products they push. The ads themselves are toxic and are pervasively blighting our lives (and probably shortening our physical lifespans as well).

Seriously these should all be drastically curbed all across the public (physical) sphere, as has already happened in some places (e.g. São Paulo).

Some day, very far from now, when humanity finally realizes this -- we'll look at the saturation of advertisements in the 19th-21st centuries like we do on the haze of rampant air polution, pervasively contaminated water, horse manure (and dead horses clogging the streets) of bygone eras, today.
Just remember that Rene Descartes coined the term Imaginary Numbers, and he also believed in ghosts.

Stop calling them imaginary.
For Snap users, it's a distinction without a difference. All they see is some feature they don't want that contains the label "AI".
Any guesses on what GPUs will be used for after AI?
California IBEW seems to start an apprentice at $27 and goes up to $54. Seems eminently reasonable?
>Getting software updates for a car AT ALL is _really_ impressive.

It doesn't sound impressive so much as excessive and dangerous. I would not want to purchase a car, which drives at high speeds on the road, the functionality of which depends on regular software updates from a company. I want a car that runs, won't kill me, and is easily and cheaply repairable. As far as I can tell, Teslas don't satisfy any of those concerns even if you spend a lot of money to service them.

Even the juicero couldn't kill you because of a software error...Tesla increasingly seems to me to be a piece of Silicon Valley fluff, and a dangerous one at that.
I am blessed to be able to say I saw Sun Ra live at the Caravan of Dreams in Ft. Worth, back in the day.
I'm not so sure now is the time to congratulate the guy at the wheel for Red Hat's first major layoff.
Speaking of detectives and half-stories, my bully of a stepdaughter indirectly taught me the corollary to this:

Only ever tell the end of any story, i.e. "I'm being sexually harassed by a lesbian girl at school!"

Throw yourself a pity party and guests will never question you. Nobody will discover the reason for the "harassment" was because she solicited the "offender."
Did you create a second account? Send a message to the mods to get some official advice hn@ycombinator.com

Some unofficial advice meanwhile:

I like your post (I'm a mathematician too), but I think that you are posting to often. Posting every day will cause fatigue to the community and your post will not get traction. My advice is to post the new stuff when it's published, and post the old stuff only once a week.

Also, the first and second posts of your site got a lot of upvotes and comments. We somewhat expect that the author replies some of the questions in the comments. (Not every single one. Some are bad, some are repeated, ..., just the ones that you like and think that are interesting.) It's not mandatory, but it buys a lot of goodwill from the community.
"A Short Stay in Hell" by Steven L. Peck
That's the entire stock market. It's what you're willing to pay for a "piece" of a company.
Microsoft Bob was a commercial failure, so they introduced Clippy to Word for free. Surprise surprise, people still didn't want it.
> but in shaping our interests.

The more educated you are, the more you realize people don't know that much. If everyone could see the consequences of their beliefs and actions, governments wouldn't need to exist. Public education/shaping interests can be a good thing.

Shaping someone's opinion of sugary food or smoking cigarettes, or the negative effects of various drugs or any other number of things can be good. Informing the public of foreign adversaries fomenting and supporting fascism via bot networks promoting hatred and division is a national security issue. Good faith information from places of intellectual authority is positive for society.

The problem is not the government shaping interests, the problem is who is the government shaping interests for.

In a democracy supposedly the government acts on behalf of the people, but we do not live in a democracy, the west is largely plutocratic. Governments represent billionaires (not literally billionaires, but the wealthy). That's why our government promotes socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor. Because the government works on behalf of those with money.

This is not a casual statement. This is the product of our voting system. Before anyone gets to vote on any candidates, candidates must fund raise to win a primary. Before any person votes on candidates, money votes on candidates. So our government is responsive to money, because money votes first.

So it is not the government shaping interests, but the government using force on behalf of the wealthy that is problematic.

All political roads lead to a central problem: The rich are too rich and therefore cannot be bound by law and are able to coerce the government to act on their behalf.
I remember stumbling across Sam's site in 2004 or so when he was a grad student and I a lowly undergrad in awe of his Gauss gun and rail gun(s).

He's a diligent and intelligent person to not have electrocuted himself after all these years.
computing power
If the title doesn't count then we need to question what it even means for a quantum theory to 'use' imaginary numbers.

Because if real skew symmetric matrices count, then a harmonic oscillator also inescapably uses imaginary numbers.
Another interesting exploration of this is The Fabric of Civilization by Virginia Postrel (https://vpostrel.com/the-fabric-of-civilization). Her first chapter talks about how one of the overlooked innovations of the Stone Age was that twine needed to be created to actually secure the stone tool head to a wooden shaft.

After that she discusses the enormous amounts of labor required to turn raw materials into threads and how the development of different tools was an important part of developing civilization. This book mostly talks about cloth, which is an entire other chapter owing to how that is its own step up in complexity from producing thread.
I wish we could just set up a universal basic income, once and for all, and squelch all this tedious fretting over nickels and dimes.
I've used some of his ansible stuff and was very surprised when he showed up in my youtube feed.
Egypt builds worlds largest man-made river
I think its a different setting. On snap chat, you can choose to share your location on a map, for your friends to see. You can turn this off, but the app may still be able to see your location (they are pretty aggressive about getting it)
Show HN: Build GPT-powered apps with just GPT4 prompting
Hi everyone,

We built a quick experiment this weekend that allows you to use GPT4 to quickly generate shareable web apps that use the ChatGPT API.

Here’s a video of me building an app similar to https://whatdoesthiscodedo.com/:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpvGd21V0u0

"What does this code do?" went to #1 on Hacker News a couple of months ago. The app takes a piece of code, asks GPT4 to analyze it and returns a simple, English description of the code. An app like this is super simple to build with MetaGPT.

What other kinds of things can you build with this?

* Birthday card poem generator

* Paul Graham advice app, where he gives you feedback on your startup idea

* Proofreader

* Children’s story generator

*…anything else ChatGPT is good at!

The app is free to use after sign up (for up to 4 creations). I would love to hear your feedback and see what you build with MetaGPT. Here's the app URL: https://picoapps.xyz/metagpt
Neuromorphic learning, working memory, and metaplasticity in nanowire networks
> as currently perpetrated in the large by Apple, and spun even by people here as a worthwhile tradeoff for "security"

See this misses the more nuanced point. I bet my last cent that everyone who doesn't want Apple's ability to meaningfully control their platform eroded would change their tune immediately if we had a regulatory environment that had any teeth whatsoever when it comes to policing malicious software.

People are currently backed into a corner where the only not incompetent regulatory body for software is Apple right now. I would love for iOS to be completely open but maligned actors who would use that against my interests need to be stopped and Apple being closed doesn't get in the way all that much.

* You must be able to cancel subscriptions in one click with no human interaction and users must be able to choose an immediate cancel for a pro-rated refund even if they paid "yearly."

* You must allow opt-out of all tracking and data collection without providing any disincentive for doing so.

* All free trails must not require a CC and can only be continued after explicitly done so by the user.

* Delete the concept of implied consent. By existing you consent to.. fuck off.

* Establish a legal definition of dark pattern and make them illegal and reportable by users for a cut of the fine.

* You must be allowed to purchase a completely ad free experience.

* You cannot sell OS features like notifications or running in the background.

* All digital goods must be able to be returned within x days of purchase.

My wishlist could go on.
The stock price isn't going to pump itself!
Like the good old times with Windows ME and 2000!
I've done the same and I'd say that it didn't produce a great result. I did it for my father as a gift and while I liked the project because of the novelty of 7 color eInk tech, the image was low res, dithered, and tinted yellow. My father was grateful but he probably would've liked a normal LCD display lol
I've heard of Saas Pegadad [0], not a Django developer so haven't tried it

[0] https://www.saaspegasus.com/
MuAnalysis LED Teardown Reports
I wonder where their revenue comes from, affiliate links, consulting, some eventual hiring at prestigious big Co?
Local First Meetup: James Arthur CEO of ElectricSQL – Tuesday 2PM ET
Meetup: Tuesday April 25, 2023 @2PM ET

Community Discord Link: https://discord.gg/lfwdev

Talk Details:

At https://electric-sql.com/ we're working on a local-first software platform that syncs between Postgres in the cloud and SQLite on local devices. As part of this, we've dug into different models for controlling what data syncs on and off device, from pinned queries to whole database sync and various options in between. Through this we've explored a bunch of interesting challenges, like how to do discovery queries when you don't have the whole dataset and the integrity challenges with partial replication boundaries.

In this talk, I'm proposing to:

o Introduce the types of application patterns/architecture we've been looking into

o walk through the range of different sync models we've explored;

o discuss their implementation challenges

o discuss their impact on user experience and data integrity
Findings suggest that Deimos may not be a captured asteroid
This is insightful.

> Open source always requires self-interest to fuel it.

That self-interest doesn't necessarily have to be profit motivated either. As one of the replies to your comment suggest, probably the majority of open source is maintained as a hobby by an invested/interested user. Open source does not have to have a profit motive to make sense.

But likewise, a profit motive is also congruent with open source. It greases a lot of axles, to put it nicely. There's definitely some disparity in open source contributors in terms of money being made, almost like the income gap between wealth and poverty in general. I wish we could do better at fixing that and helping the "little guy" that is contributing their soul into a project.

Still though, open source is driven by "selfish" means, in whatever form that takes.
Presumably, you couldn't sell them or offer third party facial recognition services or deploy facial recognition systems in your stores. You could probably try and be coy and "well, actually" your way out of it, but the courts generally don't like that.
Making mushroom logs!

I cut down a few invasive trees recently (Norway Maples). If you inoculate the branches and logs with spores of a mushroom that you want (in my case, shiitake) during the first few weeks after cutting, it will fruit with that for a few years. It's a fun DIY project, and a way to reuse trees.

To prevent unwanted mushrooms from the environment from colonizing, you seal the holes you drill, as well as the end the ends of the logs, with cheese wax - which I had heated in a crock pot, hence the need for cleaning that up.
Yes, the risk is very, very low. Probably in the same ballpark as being struck by lightning. (Though I do know someone who was stalked by a cougar while they were hiking alone. So there's at least something to feel nervous about.)
Middlemen and managers are pocketing the difference. When you hear about tradespeople pulling in mid-six figures, they generally aren't in the trenches, laying down pipes or wiring cables.
It's just an effect of the market right? Why become an electrician when you can become a programmer (with no license requirements whatsoever) and make double.

All while working from home, or in a nice office.
And ordinary differential equations.
- https://geometricdeeplearning.com/ -- group of researchers presenting the paradigm

- https://petar-v.com/ - Petar's homepage

- https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=kcTK_FAAAAAJ&hl=... - Petar's Google Scholar

- https://www.linkedin.com/in/petarvelickovic/ - Petar's LI
$27 in a HCOL state like California in 2023 is ... not great, even for an entry-level position.
It bothers me so much with these big companies laying people off. When you have over $80 billion in yearly revenue, in Disney's case, it's just pathetic that you treat your people as your main cost and liability.
It depends on your goal. If your server is just a tool you use, you can ignore lot of concepts. There is no local timeline, there are no users, all follows belong to a single user, etc.

I can't find the link but a while back there was a post on the front page about how to get a findable, read only ActivityPub profile by just uploading some static JSON files. Not exactly a Twitter competitor, but you don't need much to start exchanging messages.
...For as long as Musk allows people to ignore those who have paid him to shove their words in front of as many eyeballs as possible. I really don't expect the "Following" view to remain safe from this for long.
I think you mean loss function, not process. And I'm failing to make any connection between intelligence and polynomial approximations to loss functions.
Seems like we live inside a self-cleaning oven.

I only read the abstract and conclusions so maybe this is covered in the paper - but based on some reasonable estimates of the damage done to organic matter by these x-ray bursts (and similar events) and of the time taken for life to evolve, I assume we could significantly improve on the Drake equation by updating terms which represent "probability of not being scoured from existence".
Things break? I use a similar bookmarklet, but I only ever use it for reading articles which have zero need for any dynamic features. Give me the text, images, and get out of my way.
My hack was to offer two months of free work to a local electrician (I was fortunate to be able to do that). He took me up on it, and it worked out. He and I now have an arrangement where I can do my own electrical (solar) projects under his license (with his availability for questions) for a flat per-project fee. ...This pays much better than the hourly rate as an employed apprentice.
Obviously you haven’t seen > 100 line makefiles. They are a mess to understand and I have no interest in wasting my time to understand what they are doing.
The context of the grandparent comment implies that they date their letter of resignation as being submitted in the future.
May be the enterprise developers don't like convention over configuration[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_over_configuration
This has been on my list of next blog posts for so long. But unfortunately no, not yet.
I'm a huge proponent of WFH, but I do know where there are challenges.

New employee onboarding is challenging. It can be done, but it has to be very deliberate.

Any large team moves/merges are harder. Again, it can be done but there has to be a lot of deliberate work.

Interpersonal relationships are important for working. They are the lubricant that helps prevent communication friction. It used to be those relationships happened naturally in the office, but now they have to be deliberately nurtured. And that's part of WFH, not something ignore.
It all depends how the leases are written and who's responsible for the solar panels. Since the panels could potentially be the landlord's, warehouse tenant's, or a third party roof tenant's, it could be written up in a variety of ways. The Landloard is going to be the most concerned about it as A) it could potentially effect the base building, and/or B) tenants may take issue with a leak. Chances are the repair would be rolled up into CAM (Common Area Maintenace) charges, which are generally dispersed to the tenant based on an arrangement in the lease (typically % of cost based on % of sq ft of the property).

The best chance for it to be handled some other way is if the warehouse tenant and the solar tenant are one in the same. The landlord will still likely be involved, but chances are the tenant will do the repair.
A link would be useful: there are rumours eu shopping centers are tracking (anonymously!) cell-phone routes through shopping centers; some places have sensors outside there windows to track foot tracffic and window shoppers but I've never heard of actual tracking of customers via facials: I rather suspect that would be a PR disaster.
Nb - I alwaysys turn off my phone when going into shopping centers.
Devo's first live show was in 1975 opening for Sun Ra and things were chaotic:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/15k9kf/devo_hired_as...
Varies a lot by state. I have a friend (was ringbearer at my wedding when he was a wee lad), and he did a lot of research on which state to go through this in (he chose Colorado, btw).

The journeyman/apprentice system, for all its problems, is probably a net bonus to the lifetime wages, since it prevents a huge surge of new entrants in a short time. Also, although it may not be all we would want, it does probably prevent the worst safety/incompetence concerns that we would have if it were left to the market (since people hiring electricians often don't have the knowledge to tell if they are competent or not).