skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You would be out of your mind to pick a Corolla or Civic over the Model 3 today

disagree. in Canada a model 3 base is still ~60k for delivery in 2 months. Civic is ~30k not sure how long for delivery tho.
I use it on Android with Firefox.
In the long term, a landlord can always take back possession from a tenant, sure. But in the short term, there are many ways tenants can retain possession of their home in spite of landlord wishes, backed up by valid public policy interests in having the financial details of people's homes not result in the elimination of people's rights.

You're talking about what is currently, I'm talking about the philosophical foundations of what could be. Analogous reasoning could be applied to SaaS (Software Augmented with Arbitrary Surveillance). Even if we were to consider individual private property sacrosanct, this doesn't need to extend to corporate property employed providing public-facing services.
> humans can learn to drive in a matter of hours with only two vision sensors

You use way more than two vision sensors in your head. But first, lets talk about those vision sensors. They are mounted on an articulated scanning platform with numerous degrees of freedom. The dynamic range is astounding, and that dynamic range can be easily augmented with shaded lenses that can be mounted and removed as needed via an extremely reliable pick-and-place mechanism. The vision sensors are really equipped with dual-sensing technology for day- and night-mode.

But, you also have extremely sensitive accelerometers in your ears. And force-sensing in your feet to measure applied acceleration/braking controls. And force-sensing in your hands to measure applied steering force, and measure road roughness. You also are sitting on a force sensor that serves as a back-up accelerometer. You have audio sensors that provide feedback about road surface, vehicle performance, and other agents sharing the road.
Maybe you already know it: you can filter ads by DNS on phones (manually configured or with pseudo VPN apps), and if you don't mind using other mobile browsers, on Android Firefox supports ad blockers and Brave (Android and IOS) has an integrated one.
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> Well then, since you're absolutely confident with the SEC integrity, please suggest how they acquired this quote?

This is an absolutely ridiculous demand, of course. I don't have any special access to the SEC, and yet I am very confident they are not fabricating quotations from Binance. First, because crypto operators really are dumb enough to commit this kind of thing to writing -- it is very plausible. And second, because the incentives are all wrong for the SEC to fabricate evidence. It would eventually come out, and then they would lose all credibility. There's just no upside in it for the SEC.

> Just to be clear, Binance is operating out of the US so it's very doubtful they provided much logs to the SEC, let alone compromising logs.

If they used a hosted chat service, like Slack, Teams, or iMessage, the US would have had access to that via subpoena. I expect it is something along those lines.
As long its not mandatory, I am 100% this. After all, it'd be great to have society that incarcerates more safety-obsessed white progressives
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre-optic_gyroscope ?
Part of it is because hardware properties are always changing. The instructions available, the relative speed of CPU to memory and the various caches, how big and numerous and fast the various caches are, etc etc.
TSMC's fate will indeed be at stake if China attacks Taiwan
Because we can see evidence of it right here on HN almost every day. Once upon a time hackers in general were at the forefront of the fight for privacy, nowadays we seem to be the vanguard of its wholesale destruction.
I don't understand this. How are tax breaks better than not having the cost at all?
Does the picture element make it easier to handle jxl files with a wasm polyfill? That seems like the ideal case— website maintainer only has to deal with, store, and serve a single file, old browsers get only a slightly degraded experience.
And for the hashing patch this is the commit to Abseil:
https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/commit/74eee2aff683cc7d...
> in all cases

No idea of course. I couldn't tell you any anything in ALL cases.

But the ad space is dominated by a few companies and all do that as far as I know.

The other dominating ad space is spliced into videos and they certainly know you will skip around if you can on YouTube.

> If a request is made

It won't be made that's what adblockers do. Or it won't land in the case of pihole/DNS level blockers.

Otherwise it wouldn't speed up browsing and tracking would continue unhindered.
What are the tax breaks? At least for SF, you'll end up paying more taxes: payroll and gross receipts.
It is astounding how tone deaf and authoritarian some CEOs feel they can be under the guise of "changing business conditions". I guess Farmers employees will have to put their jobs where their mouths are.
Still a fantastic discovery, because now there are more powerful automated algorithm improvement discovery pipelines. I wonder what will happen when those improvements are added to the processing that found the improvements. :D
Also bad for non Tesla ev owners because Tesla chargers captures more of the market
I recently setup basic monitoring using Telegraf + Influx + Grafana. Here are the alert triggers, in order of importance (imo):

* ZFS pool errors. Motivator: one of my HDDs failed and it took me a few days to notice. The pool (raidz1) kept chugging along of course.

* HDD and SSD SMART errors

* High HDD and SSD temperatures

* ZFS pool utilization

* High CPU temperature. Motivator: one of my case fans failed and it took a while for me to notice.

* High GPU temperatures. Motivator: I have two GPUs in my tower, one of which I don't really monitor (used for transcoding).

* High (sustained) CPU usage. I track this at the server level, rather than for individual VMs.
YouTube recommended has been great for me. Showing me relevant channels and videos to my interests -- woodworking, chemistry, engineering. Hasn't tried to sneak in any annoying viral videos, just good content I want to watch. I hope it stays that way -- I was always annoyed when I looked at "trending" and it's full of pop music and "we're pregnant!" videos.
They explicitly said they were disabling it because nobody cares and no industry players were behind in. Not some kind of conspiracy, an actual objective evaluation. With Apple behind it, perhaps the activation energy will exist.
They mention it was documented by the Greeks & Romans, but was dismissed at the time as politically motivated slander. Those records plus physical evidence give it more weight, so I say the former is more likely.
Clever is not sufficient. They also need to be informed.

From a practical point of view, they will be sleeping in that bed far longer than the older generations, so maybe “we should let them do their thing” and hope and pray that we won’t have to spend too much time in that bed. But then history and near-history call to remind that many instances of future generations almost cursing the lack of forethought of their predecessors when affecting fundamental changes. Those generations too have a claim in this sort of radical societal changes. Would a future generation trapped in a full-blown 1984 society think it “clever” of their grandparents that they have now put an end to “domestic violence”?

The overall red flag for me of this sort of remedy —- total surveillance to insure 100% compliance — are their absolute guarantees and promises of immediate results. Let’s take domestic violence as an example. Beyond pathological cases, in the main this is an area where we can aim for generational advancements in anger management, positive channeling of psychological stresses, and addressing other socio-economic conditions that contribute to engender this type of behavior. We won’t see immediate results but eradication seems in reach within a few generations. In the interim, there remains the possibility of social intervention via various legal and institutional channels.
This is why people use platforms like Squarespace, Substack, Medium, or if self hosting at least use a CMS. Just add it to the list of things you need to learn to run a website, along with... JS bundlers, CSS media queries, responsive design... now we need to pre process images too. All in the pursuit of quality, of course.
Holy crap. If I had Farmer's insurance, I'd fire 'em.
I agree with you in principle, but it's a fine line to walk. What about China's social credit score? It's all based on surveillance cameras that doc you points for breaking petty laws like jaywalking or littering. Yes, both are safety issues, but at what cost?
Most companies appear to be going back to 3 days a week in office and 2 as remote. I imagine this will be the most common approach going forward.
It wasn't and please don't believe a word Musk says unless you have some very hard evidence.
Super cool and I love that people are putting effort in this space, in 1-3 years language teachers might be a thing of the past.

I just tried this out (have tried some others as well) but currently the voice to text is just too finicky. My Spanish pronunciation is quite good, not great, but often the input just got completely messed up beyond recognition.
Why do people act like a passport is a magic document that is the only thing that allows people to cross borders? You don't need a passport to seek asylum. There are ways to leave Russia without boarding a commercial flight. He isn't Assange stuck in an embassy in which all entrances and exits could be easily monitored. There are ways he could have gotten himself smuggled out of Russia if that is what he truly wanted.

And I'm not saying that Snowden's life wouldn't be hard staying in the US, but it is notable that your example of Drake and my example of Manning are both now free. If those are the worst case scenarios for Snowden if he stayed in the US, he would also now be living life as a free man at this point. I understand if you think going through that ordeal is unfair, but that is the life one chooses when they decide to become a whistleblower. It is also the morally superior route compared to going to a country with an even worse surveillance record, being forced to swear allegiance to that country, and according to Greenwald continuing to leak things "out of self-preservation".
Those speed cameras take pictures of everyone's license plate to put into a behavior database (where you go, what time, etc).

Nor do they accomplish much that a speed bump doesn't accomplish more effectively.
U_u: Convert JPEG photos of diagrams into transparent SVG pictures
> Perhaps kids would be better socialized, and thus wouldn't become school shooters, if they got off their phones.

You sound just like the people who blamed Columbine on DOOM and Marilyn Manson CDs.
The cultural taboo against just gifting cash directly but somehow gift cards got a pass is just insane honestly.
All the brick and mortar stores you name don't play it quite like that (anymore). If there is a sale it was available for a higher price before, and probably will be for a higher price again. Of course stuff at the "regular price" is always in the back and nobody tries to sell it to you - there is almost the same thing up front with the big sale signs over it that the staff is trying to sell. If you really want the staff will be happy to ring up the regular priced goods for you, but there is no incentive for them to do so: the regular price exists only so they can lower the prices for the sale and not run afoul of the laws that require a sale price to be cheaper.
Because they are already in long term leases or own the buildings, so they are already committed. But now they lose their "butts in seats" tax breaks.
Sponge helps robot arms grasp delicate objects
You are saying that monetizing software is not particularly different than other things.

I"m saying one difference is that lots of other things have a bigger market in which to operate. It is easier in a big market to get a small slice of the pie and be okay.
(it may not be easy to get the slice, but once you do, it's enough).

In developer tools, getting that small slice will still not be enough to be okay.

In other words, it is different from other fields - you say "there is an endless supply of businesses/orgs for which for which it is almost an insurmountable obstacle to get them to acknowledge something that they could be doing to better serve their own self-interests and then get their approval to take appropriate action."

That's true, but in other fields, to have a viable business, you don't have to get as many of these folks + whoever is left, to be successful enough.

In developer tools, you do, because the overall market is worth a lot less, and so are individual customers.
> Yeah, uploading six versions of every image doesn't intersect with my definition of not caring.

You're not doing this manually though, and images encoded for distribution are small. The path to JPEG XL eventually mattering is by JPEG XL alternates being automatically created from a higher-quality source image by your CMS, or at build time, or via services like CloudFlare Images, etc.

Even once Safari 17 (and all iOS browsers via WebKit) makes JPEG XL worth making an alternate for, most sites are realistically 5+ years away from not having to have a JPEG fallback. And if you're doing that, you might as well support the far-more-popular WebP as well.
I think more than gaming porn is the current killer use of 360 VR tech. More on that later.

I’ve always believed VRs biggest use case in the end is work, but resolution and integration to the surrounding environment has been lacking. Have a 360 3D environment to work in, assuming resolution is high enough to read text, opens a lot of possibilities up. Ive done a fair amount of POC with various devices over the years and I stand by that. The gesture recognition of the new apple devices leads more in that direction IMO. For instance, it should be able to key (harhar) off a virtual keyboard being typed on. (Haptics will be an issue!)

I’d note also that VR has been successful in high end manufacturing design as well for these reasons.

I think gaming is what proves a tech and motivates people to engage. On the shadier side, porn even more so. But these technologies wend their ways into all aspects of our lives after being proven out in the game / porn use cases.
I'm already spending $3k for my laptop so that I can develop.

This means I won't _also_ have to spend several thousand dollars on a gaming PC in addition.
I'm confused- wouldn't a fully-remote org just move their HQ (on paper) to Delaware and get greater tax breaks? I'm also not seeing why a company would care for the health of the commercial real estate sector.

The orgs I'm familiar with that went fully remote just sublet their office leases through the end of their term.
These are good points, but I disagree somewhat about the ops burden issue of SaaS. The ops burden issue is due to problems that are all solvable, and if people paid for software there would be a strong incentive to solve them. Instead we've revived the technicians in white coats tending a mainframe model because that turns out to be what people will pay for, and I think this is mostly because the model doesn't give them other options.

Edit: also while there is a marketing distinction between B2C and B2B ultimately everything is B2C. B2B is just B2C at least one level removed.
I am curious why things can't just get better on a base that doesn't change, until the base changes because the improvements with the new base are just that much better...

Or is that why hardware properties change so much?
Computing? "Have some computing."
Why would company CEOs want to pay more rent?
In my university, only non computer science students used macs. At my work, I wasn't given a choice and was given a macbook because "we all use macbooks" which really just meant "we all work on the terminal", which mac is not good at, not anymore when we have WSL to compare it against.
I'm using the default camera on my phone. It's called "Camera". The phone is a Samsung Galaxy. I've tried it close, far, angled, straight, big, small. I haven't gotten any of them to work a single time.
In the version of the film being shown on the Criterion Channel and Apple TV, around four seconds of the film have been cut during a scene where Hackman heads out of the Narcotics Division office pursued by Scheider. The original scene, which starts at around 9mins and 42 seconds into the film, sees Scheider and Hackman’s characters having a conversation by the door during which two racial slurs are used. In the edited version, all but the last couple of ‘innocent’ exchanges of this conversation have been cut out - clearly to remove the slurs.
> Database engines are the last place you want to be playing in traffic if you are going to be on the hook for support.

This is a great line! I'm going to steal it if that's okay with you.
There's two main problems for exchanges.

1. The way they are doing something is criminal. (Stealing customer funds, comingling the books with their trading arm, operating while insolvent, failure to KYC/AML.)

2. They are doing something criminal. (They allow trading in illegal products.)

Coinbase is, per the allegations, in category #2. FTX was in #1 and #2. Binance looks to be in #1 to at least some extent (to an unclear degree), and #2.

#1 is a problem for any financial business. Every firm does it to some extent or another. They get punished and fined for it, and restructure operations to avoid repeating those mistakes. It's why compliance departments exist. That an exchange is doing #1 in a small way is not particularly newsworthy. (But if it's doing it in a big way, it is.)

It's just regulatory problem. You can fix it by doing the right thing.

But I'd be shocked if there are any exchanges that are not in category #2. You can't just fix it by tightening up your compliance controls - you have to exit most of you business to do so. But that's not a reason to crack down on them. Just because it's not the exchange's customers that get defrauded by the exchange in #2, doesn't mean that they aren't a ripe category for fraud, by the coin issuers, against the buyers.
Many cities offer "butts in seats" tax breaks. I'm not sure about SF to be honest, but I know Seattle has them.
If it's disk dependent, then the m2 ssds are half as fast as the m1 ssds because it's single lane, unless you upgrade
A remaster of an old game in 7 years. So yeah, "hardly shipped any game".

> why do you perceive this as a problem?

It's probably not a problem for him. It's not a problem for you either, if your studio can afford spending 7 years on a tool that doesn't generate cash flow.

Again I have nothing against Blow. But it's a very good example about how much time it takes to make your own tool chain, even for someone who's smart and experienced. For most of us, we'd better utilize boring techs to ship lowkey fun games.
That's great. Then what's the fuss about copyright if the pieces from the original training data are that tiny?

I saw mentions of companies being reluctant to use AI generated images because of potential copyright issues. What issues are they talking about?
I don't think that's what they meant (or I have misunderstood). Running the same algorithm on the same input still has variations because of OS/CPU idiosyncrasies. When measuring performance we usually run the algorithm on the same input multiple times and report the fastest performance.
> Thunderbolt? SuperReadyBoost? USB4 RAM Box?

If they are memory mapped into the processors address space them yes. Thunderbolt is some sort of hokey multiplexed DP+PCIe thing while USB 4 is more network like and can encapsulate USB3, PCIe, DP and other protocols in USB4 packets. Though honestly I'd rather deprecate USB and move to a more converged memory mapped Ethernet that carries USB3/DP/PCIe/etc packets.

PCI is a software configurable bus which lets you programmatically map the card into the machines address space. Historically the BIOS/firmware did the initial PCI mapping to get disk controllers running so you can load boot code, then the OS drivers take over. Before PCI in the PC we had jumpers to select memory adresses, IRQ and DMA lines followed by the less capable and flaky ISA PnP (Plug and Play) standard.
Thanks! Would love to get any feedback.
Homeboy just compared human sacrifice to [current social justice talking points]. Most who died of covid were overweight, old, and had preexisting medical conditions related to lifestyle. They contributed to their own "sacrifice".
Where's the revolt part? I see that there were a number of posts on the company's internal social network, and evidently some very angry emojis were included in that. But if people aren't quitting over this, it doesn't mean anything. You get this instead:

> The day after the outpouring of criticism, Vargas sent out another companywide email, according to employees. “It said: ‘We read all your comments. We understand and we appreciate them. But we’re still moving forward,’” one Farmers employee said.

I assume plenty will quit over this. Many will have to. I'm criticizing the article, not the employees.
And they were right then too. We also lacked wisdom.
First iphone didn't have gps, didn't have selfie camera it event didn't have a flashlight, gyroscope or compass.

Also only 2g and wifi g

Not to mention app store was launched 1 year later. Based on that first generation wasn't that much useful. Mass appeal was maybe starting with 3rd generation.

This is just first generation
how good is it compared to the non-light version for only ad blocking?
I learned Colemak in a long weekend "cold turkey". I wasn't quite as fast after that weekend, but I felt so much better and more comfortable after just the weekend. (I was in grad school and in pain and knew I was probably weeks or months from an RSI surgery if I didn't change something.)

The lesson plan I was using followed home row order and I knew I was "home" in Colemak in the first lessons because even in the first four "main finger" home row keys you start by typing entire, real English words, some of which can be quite long such as Tennessee. (That was always a problem for me in grade school QWERTY lessons was how much home row exercises were garbage and nonsense words.) I feel like that also added to the feeling that learning Colemak was fast and just took then one dedicated long weekend.
The replacement of external links with inferior in-house versions (the reddit video player is particularly egregious) makes sense if you're trying to maximize profit-per-user.

I think there's an alternate timeline where reddit just kept on being a low profit-per-user site, and didn't do the 'monetization-degradation-decline' cycle we've seen so often with other sites over the years. There's no reason why you have to make all the money at once, especially if it's a tried and true method of trashing your platform, just so whoever absorbs all your fleeing users can repeat your mistakes in a few years time.

Why not just stick with what works?
there's a reason why speed cameras are not very common in the US - they get vandalized by shotgun or arson if they're effective. doesn't matter if you like it or not, that's the reality of the situation.

they also ticket the owner of the car regardless of who is driving it, which is not very popular, to say the least.