skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One of the funny/sad consequences of watching Silicon Valley, is that a lot of my friends (in my African country where only 4% has electricity) think that the startup need to expand no matter what, even if it has no viable business model, you can run a "budgetivore" business for many years like Linkedin/Amazon and in the end you will find a business model.

> So imagine. Instead of building good and sound startups that can be champions in the country/region, they waste the meager resources available in the country on fake startups/crypto-scams.

So is the problem here just that your country has fewer resources?

There are plenty of rich people in developed countries who could be champions of the country/region but waste the resource available on sociopathic business models which are absolutely as predatory as crypto scams, all while dodging taxes, drawing on corporate welfare, and creating lower-paying jobs that displace higher-paying jobs.

Nobody likes a crypto scammer, but I'd argue that the average large-scale landlord in the US does far more damage.
Apple hasn’t been flawless with naming, but does seem less clumsy on average.

Intel’s latest move is just absurd.
> Standards are good for everyone, even when very old and seemingly outdated.

This is definitely not the case. As an example, the Official Standard way to encode data structures in the 90s was ASN.1 from the ITU. Problem is, ASN.1 kinda sucked and so nobody uses it anymore outside of cryptography. Then the Official Standard became XML. Eventually people decided that also wasn't that great and switched to JSON, which is a totally unofficial standard defined by one guy.

Your approach / the EU approach would mean REST APIs would all need to be encoded with ASN.1 or XML.
GPT!

We are in a transformative moment right now with GPT3 onwards, as great as anything in the computer era.
An attempt at a roguelike engine over the weekend: https://creator.voiceflow.com/prototype/644c47e2d0125e2d5e52...

The idea is I wanted a game where you could just make any concept and the game plays that accordingly. You could play as a Marionette Master, a tourist from the future, a Man-Bat. You could search for secret passages using your elf vision, echolocation, or a spell. You could fight monsters with acid breath or Hamon. The game does handle balance though.

What works: Character generation engine, primitive inventory, conflict resolution, injury tracking.

It is incomplete at two challenges though. I'll add more if anyone gets past the second. It's also quite railroaded for balance, but I've been removing some of the rails gradually and it's turning out far better than expected.

There is an easter egg I tried to hack in within an hour. It worked so extremely well that I'd actually like to make it the main feature. You can type whatever you want at char creation (and only there). Feel free to experiment with prompt injections too.
If you start that cheap, you'll get xyz's problem with domain reputation though
You can get MLX90640 based devices for under $50, but the resolution is 32x24 instead of 160x120

https://www.melexis.com/en/product/MLX90640/Far-Infrared-The...
Her son talks about the paradox of how she raised him abusively, and yet it was only through her books that he was able to heal himself many years later.

The timeline here is important -- her son was born in 1950, and her first book wasn't written until 29 years later.

I think it's much fairer to view her work as a heroic attempt to atone for her own sins. She was abused by her own parents, did the same to her children in turn, and then dedicated her entire professional life to figuring out how to break that cycle. It was too late for her own kids, but she was able to help others instead.

So it's unfair to judge her by saying she didn't practice what she preached, because they came at different times. What she wrote about was sadly informed by her own personal experience.

The Body Keeps the Score (by Bessel van der Kolk) is another great book, but it's about trauma generally, and especially things like PTSD. It doesn't focus much on specifically parental abuse the way the blog post, and Alice Miller, do.
I think you can make a legal arguement that the way the standards are enshrined in law and there are legal consequences for straying from agreed upon standards, that it is indeed standardized by force of law.
Most scientific research has no practical applications (or at least, not within the lifetime of the people doing it). Consider e.g. cosmology. The quality of research in cosmology varies, as in any other discipline, but even the very best research in cosmology has few if any immediate practical applications.
Same. I decided to go solo.

It's more stressful, more difficult, but working for yourself, on things you care about, is the difference between being engaged and burning out. It satisfies me deep in my soul. These days I work harder than I have ever have in my life, and I feel more free than I have ever felt before.

We are not made to slave for someone else. Let alone 8 hours a day, sitting in a cubicle, preparing TPS reports, for 50 years. I still have post-traumatic guilt when I take an afternoon off or I take a longer lunch break.

Go build something you care about, with your hands and sweat.
If you remove the infrared blocking filter (hot mirror) from many digital cameras, they can see very shortwave near infra red. Forward looking infrared (FLIR)[0] cameras detect long wave infrared, which is what you need for a "thermal" camera.

[0] quite what is "forward looking" about them I don't know
My High-School Haters
The era of Free Money couldn’t end fast enough. We’re likely in for some hard times, but it wasn’t sustainable, and we had a 10 year period with almost zero innovation.

I hope it works out, because seriously the last decade plus shouldn’t have gone down the way it did.
There's an uncanny SEO-optimizing style to this article. Reminds me of this scene from Return of the Killer Tomatoes

https://youtu.be/pXzsYIBVUB0?t=3841
Tried this but it stopped generating descriptions after I killed the sorcerer and tried to collect loot
Am i missing something ?

Basically Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript, once said something along the lines that his initial inspiration for the langauge was Scheme, but with a Java-like syntax. People have then taken that quote and run with it until you've reached a point where some people claim JavaScript has "lisp roots"
Mostly because Apple refuses to license anything that has to do with Lightning to the USB Consortium.
I'm sorry but as an AI model, I'm not allowed to do that.
Camp 3. Software engineers who want to implement a business requirement, do so in a way which is cost effective, will not be embarrassing to them and is easy to maintain, and have a life.
The author really believes that everyone around knows what FaaS and WASI are. It's a bit frustrating.
> (... I have become allergic to corporate life.)

Reading your post it reminded me of a dark year that I had some years ago, where I couldn't do any work at all, and similar to you, there's a before and after for me as well.

I saw in your profile that you're building a website monitoring application. There's a ton of them out there, and I also had one myself although I scraped it some years ago. What does your app do (will do) that the other ones don't?

Basic curiosity from an internet stranger! I too would like to have a small application that could provide me with enough money to live my own life (no big aspirations, no employees, just me, the product, the clients and added value).

Wish you the best :)
I think people who think ChatGPT is good at role playing just don’t know what really good role playing is.
Java was the Go of its time, specially when compared with the chaos of commercial C and C++ compilers.

Java predates ISO C++, and the UNIX world was a mess of K&R C, and half backed ISO C89.

Design patterns were invented for Smalltalk and C++, as much as people like to blame Java for them.
The DIY-Thermocam also works with the FLIR Lepton2.5, which is slightly cheaper (but has a lower resolution): https://store.groupgets.com/products/flir-lepton-2-5

But I agree that the price might be too steep for the curious maker who does not have a serious use-case that satisfies the investment on the long run
Reminders are the reminder part without an event. They don't have a fixed time/duration, they have a start time and duration, and they float until marked completed or deletes.
Additional warning, these app links seem very shady

https://resd.oss-cn-shenzhen.aliyuncs.com/jpghd/<.....>

requiring an off Play store APK download. Would highly not recommend
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After reading the archive.org article, I’m now hoping other professions never learn of the indignity of having to bathe your dog yourself.
QEMU emulates UEFI Secure Boot and a software TPM just fine. No need to dual boot.
>If wanting to do something the regulations disallow is definitionally unethical...

Here's what they actually said:

"Wanting to do early experimentation, that is currently only allowed to occur on animals due to safety concerns, on humans is definitionally unethical..."

I don't know why, but you are just persistently misreading or misinterpreting the OP's comments.

If you actually read the rest of the OP's comments, it's completely obvious that they don't think that the current regulations define what's ethical. They very explicitly say that what's ethical and what's in accord with the regulations are two separate things, and even give a hypothetical example to illustrate this.
> tracking users across the web like GA does

What does this mean?
Come on, there can't be that much better of a cable in the future. You already have speeds that are instantaneous on one file and I bet the transfer time to transfer all your pictures an videos from your phone is under an hour, for an operation you are maybe doing once a year ? Time for a full charge is also probably under an hour, that's not unreasonable.
Being standard is a better feature than speed.

Event if they double the speed, it can wait ten years and who knows in the speed may have quadruple by that next window.
Honestly, this just creates opportunities for people to try out new products when they rage quit because some deeply buried feature in Google’s to-do feature makes their personal workflow crash.
Because they moved the features to Gmail and the app hub.
Meta should preemptively leave the UK until this disgrace of a bill is no longer being considered.
You need to learn how to use it.

This isn't as obvious as it sounds: it's very tempting to assume that ChatGPT is trivial to use, and hence if you're not getting great results from it the technology must be all hype and no substance.
IMO, absolutely.

I just don’t know who exactly to blame for that. It seems to be a competition between gov spending, “quantitative easing” (brrrrrrrrrt), and the Fed’s insistence that near zero percent rates forever would work. It seems to me that all of those cause the other though.
While possible, I'm not ready to put all my chips on that particular bet yet.
For anyone who wants to see how crazy it can get, there's a documentary called Riot On! from 2004 that follows a company that "needed to grow" because of hot money - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427783/

Highly recommend.
An alternative implementation of Golang specs, written in Rust
Also, consider that many psychiatrists and psychologists believed that the 45th president had this disorder. Some who worked with him (Paul Ryan, for example) were convinced as well.

Of course, diagnosis from afar is fraught, as is diagnosis by non professionals. But I think the former president provides a good frame of reference for how people with NPD behave, but taken to an almost surreal extreme.
Hmm, the RPi isn't exactly open source, it requires a proprietary bootloader. The LibreRPi folks had to do a lot of reverse engineering to get an experimental replacement.

https://github.com/librerpi/lk-overlay/
What are slot props?
Try this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35851677
By adding a whole separate app to juggle?
> That’s what makes my day: AGI folks have to rely on myth-making and speculation.
> The here and now incarnation of GPT-4 is what it is.

I like how Robert Miles puts it (he's speaking about Safety in the sense of AI not taking over and/or killing everyone):

"I guess my question for people who don't think AI Safety research should be prioritised is:
What observation would convince you that this is a major problem, which wouldn't also be too late if it in fact was a major problem?"
users can still be anonymous while search able?
Acute stress messes with your ability to prioritize well. When you're burnt out, that effect can linger even when you've no reason to be stressed. It can frequently manifest as worrying about small stuff in the presence of a much bigger problem.
> The ones who write the code make the rules…

Any code I didn’t write myself, from the ground up using no third party components, in a language I developed, ‘could’ possibly be abused in this way. Even then, do I have to also write the microcode in the chip as well, and supervise the fab? This extreme absolutist stance is completely non viable. I certainly don’t see how I could live life taking that level of extreme paranoid seriously, or how anyone could in an advanced technological society.

The whole point of laws and government is to outsource such concerns. That’s why free speech, the rule of law and democracy matter so much. Those are the essential freedoms he was talking about. Everything else is based on those, because with those you don’t need to trust the vendor, because your legal rights will be protected.

So sure, essential freedoms are exactly that, essential, but extending that to absurd lengths is fuzzy thinking that obscures what’s actually important by confusing it with things that aren’t practically attainable generally anyway.
The problem of hardware neurons/synapses: it seems we still miss significant stuff on biological neurons/synapses for instance biological neurons/synapse are much less "locality" constrained, and to give this level of freedom to hardware "neurons/synapses" (and with the right "rules") will waiste a lot of hardware real estate. And I don't even start on 3D space.

What I mean is you will need probably a lot more hardware neurons/synapses in order to break free from the hardware 2D locality limitations towards a 3D space with much less locality constraints.

I dare to presume that 3D + much less locality constraints (with the right "rules") would give more "efficient" cognitive functions. Yeah, that's probably way to much to presume.
Businessman (American) vs Fisherman (European), if we try to assign cultural values to these characters.
Was curious and found this (somehow both terrible and amazing) video, of various everyday human activities, viewed through a good high resolution thermal camera: https://youtube.com/watch?v=48bwQVa0AQc

(Note, there are a couple of moments that are very NSFW.)
This would not happen. HN users love to dream up scenarios that are confusingly out of touch with reality..
Any data on it being more resistant to damage? From my anecdotal experience lighting connectors break more often.
It's pretty cool. But note that from an end-user perspective you're getting a Flir Lepton 3.5 thermal camera for $522.99. A Flir TG165-X does mostly the same stuff for a much lower price (and half the horizontal and vertical resolution due to the lower end lepton). But the TG doesn't allow you to hack it, and this project does.

A Flir ONE (2nd Gen) does almost the same, for about half the price. But again, not as hackable.

So while a bunch of people here might suggest that the price is very high, or the capabilities can easily be matched, it's a bit of a mixed bag. If you just want to see some thermal images, and you already have a smartphone, a Flir ONE might be for you. If you need a dedicated ruggedised hand-held cameras, get one of the ones from Flir. Anything beyond that is probably either too expensive or not as easy to integrate with what you need, and that's where this DIY comes in; easy to do whatever you want to, and good enough to outperform whatever else is on the market, but it will still cost money.

Edit: There is a PURETHERMAL-M which apparently is a USB interface board for the lepton module, so if someone wanted to hack around with a slightly less useful kit, but for a lower price, that's an option too. It does require a host system to control it, so it's not like you can use it as a 'handheld' like this DIY project.
Yeah the desaturated text on HN is confusing. It is for example, applied to flagged posts, so I first associated the lower contrast with being flagged, but then I noticed it is also applied to self posts like Ask HN or Show HN, and I kept wondering why are all these people getting flagged? Turns out it is just the way it is.

Not to mention it's also hard to read. While this website works well and has a great community, it is kind of the embodiment of this meme:
https://twitter.com/TheProgrammerMe/status/16528824903596810...
It’s partially about people entering tech from other fields as a way into the middle class and home ownership.
My mistake. They're simply required to do the same thing the do to ensure their enriched breads do not cross contaminate unenriched breads with milk and eggs, or that gluten free breads aren't contaminated with wheat flour.

> This is a counter-intuitive, and presumably unintended consequence of the regulation that sucks if you're allergic, but fining or jailing executives for complying with it is silly.

They're not complying, they're skirting. People who play these kinds of games are a weight around society's neck. The purposefulness and agency over their actions is what should see them in jail. See the attempts of past Uber executives to obstruct the investigation of their illegal activities for an egregious, and relatively well known example of people who need a stern lesson on how to behave in society.
One of the worst offenders is Obsidian. Users on hn keep praising the UI, but by default the menu text is borderline unreadable under less than ideal lighting conditions.
they hold a resource (prestige) that they do nothing to improve, transform or grow

That's absolutely untrue. A journals prestige is not a given. It has to be maintained and I know of at a couple journals that have fallen out of favor.

The editorial board makes decisions on which papers to publish, and it's that track record that maintains the level of prestige. They also have to get peer reviewers (nobody will waste their time reviewing for a no-name journal) of a certain caliber to review.

it better to think of the journals as more similar to a luxury good - the value is not in the work done or how much it costs, but the perceived value of other people.

That has real value, and it's clearly apparent people are willing to pay for it.
you could make your own thermal sensor, which is what i thought the article was going to be about from the title

this is a bit like 'i made a working, drivable car from scratch using only basic hand tools, raw materials, and a 2005 honda civic' or 'i built my own operating system around the linux kernel'
> instead of letting countries compete for the best policies.

The way we have let manufacturers compete to create the best standard for power adaptors?
It's great until you hit the "safety rails" with a taboo topic like violence at which point chatgpt breaks character no matter what your initial prompt was and starts giving you a canned lecture
I've run Vicuna 7B directly in my web browser - https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/16/web-llm/ - and on my iPhone: https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/1/lets-be-bear-or-bunny/
Only available to us old timers really, as newer devs on the ecosystem don't even know what to search for.

I don't get it how they messed this up.
I don’t get it, how can they stop you from recording this on your own server?

Are you talking about CNAME cloaking? Pretty sure Apple only cares if one specific server gets all the CNAMEs. It doesn’t block CNAMEs in general.
I can’t comment on C++ — haven’t used it in like a decade, hope never to work with it again.
Exactly how much was that new grad SWE was making at Block to pay off their student loans, save $500K, buy a car with cash and splurge on things at the same time
Love your joke. Sad nobody caught it yet
We must also normalize the ability to TAKE THE TIME, not just normalize acknowledging the need.
We had a JX when I was young, it was quite good, it even came with an infrared wireless keyboard!
> pushing the voice assistant

By doing so, they are putting lots of things at risk. Up until the last year Android Auto has been so good that I think most people would rather use it than the in-built system in their car. The last UI update made it kind of frustrating. So frustrating that car companies will get the misguided notion they can do it better.
This website is off to a bad start when the first item says

> Because it does not use cookies there is no need to show cookie banner for this service.

which is a blatant lie/misinformation. The ‘cookie law’ has nothing to do with the actual use of cookies.
You forgot the springs. Lighting has the springs in the device, while USB-C has them on the cable. That is why Apple stopped improving Lighting and developed USB-C. The stem can break, but it is far more rare than a tired spring, which is an inevitability.
There is so much software work (bugfixes and features) that we can't afford to do today. AI will create bugs at a faster rate than ever, and they will be harder to fix.

We are nowhere near a demand collapse.
Your parts list is missing the actual Lepton imager, https://www.diy-thermocam.net/docs/partlist/ I know it is on the other group gets page. I was not able to find the BOM in the GH repo. This would be a useful addition.

It looks like in an earlier version you had a visible camera as well, what was the choice in removing it?

I take it the device does not present itself as a web cam?
Check the companies involved in any standardised connector/protocol currently used. For example USB implementers forum includes HP, NEC, Microsoft, Intel and... Apple. HDMI forum includes... Apple. NVMe contributors includes... Apple. The times of one company doing their own proprietary thing are close to gone.
While on the one hand the EU as a collective has more power than member states, it's a stark contrast to the US for example where companies and people move around to states whose laws suit them. I for one am all for apple's hardware, so if California banned lightning port for example I can happily avoid them and they do ban and regulate a lot of things yet they are the richest and most populous state even with people preferring other states for nicer laws. "Everybody gets a place and united we will prosper" should be the motto of any union of states.
> Display names are an entirely separate concept; they exist on a per-server basis. The same discord account can have many different display names at once. When you join a server, your display name on that server defaults to the part of your username before the numeric tag. But you're free to set it to whatever you want.

Yes, but you have to manually set those. You default to your proper username. My understanding from the blog post is that now it will default to your display name, and that the username will be for identification scenarios.
This is a huge failure. Google Keep was really, really good.
For anyone else like me who doesn't know without looking it up, FaaS is Function as a Service.
99% of my charging is overnight with the magnetic wireless charger and I love it. But it's slow. If you need to recharge more quickly, wired is significantly faster.