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Show HN: Open-Source ESP32 Camera
Hi all. We are finally at the project wrap up for the edge computing camera design based on esp32. It is fully open sourced (hardware and software) under permissible license.

The project is also posted on CrowdSupply.com, in case you would like to support https://www.crowdsupply.com/maxlab/tokay-lite.
A typical acquikill stretched in time. They might have integrated worthy EAGLE ideas into their own product though.

Reminds me Macromedia Fireworks vs Adobe Photoshop situation - Fireworks had been acquired, good parts transplanted to Photoshop, then killed.
How was the switch from managing students to managing employees? Any notable similarities or differences?
Un-googling, I found out, is easier than un-Microsofting or un-Facebooking. MS because of Office and FB because of WhatsApp.

Writing this from a yet to be un-googled Pixel phone...
The success of the newest GPT models relies on RL to refine the latent space inside the LLM. There's a bottleneck when using humans to refine that space. The next model or subsequent models will surely use RL techniques like self-play to break through that bottleneck.
I am curious on that. 500 million events per second sounds high. Even for games. That many calculations? Sure. I take "events" to mean user generated, though. And that sounds high.

Same for searches. Difficulty there is size of search space, not searches coming in. Right?
Cedric Chin is massively underrated on the topic of Deliberate Practice. He literally has a whole bunch of a gem of articles on the topic of Expertise, which Deliberate Practice falls under.

See: https://commoncog.com/expertise/

I wished more people knew about his writings – so much to benefit from!
Continuous Slack=>ChatGPT=>Google Sheets Pipeline
It's not that they shouldn't but that they won't because every government is skittish to kill their own golden calves.

It's easy to penalize foreign companies because it's not your country's income that's affected.
Heh... and take responsibility for all the porn and various "degeneracy" on there? It makes them a perfect political punching bag.
I wouldn't be surprised if ClosedAI closed yet another part of their product, in this case, the training data itself.
Satellites keep photobombing space images. Astronomers need a fix
South Korea Puts Its Food Scraps to Good Use
If one thousand of us read one page each we can be done in 15 minutes!

Then we just have to sync our knowledge.
Instead of appealing to authority, could you please try to refute some of the logical fallacies that you claim are being made in the comments?
Shit like this is why people mock programmer brain and they are right to.
Historically Jony Ive isn't involved in the user interface. Has he been in more recent years? I know that back during Scott Forstall's time and Apple's skeuomorphism phase that Ive stated in interviews that he wasn't involved in any of that. I thought his (direct) influence was limited to (hardware) product design.
The ad business supports android development.
Making shit up, and getting angry about it is the internet way I guess.

Anyway https://twitter.com/clothildegouj/status/1668561531435470850

European companies are also going to be regulated.

They don’t have many monopolies because they have a completely different way of approaching business and their position in society. Also when it happens, they get split apart way way before you hear about it.
The quickest way to get an answer online is to post a wrong answer and wait for the corrections.
this is not true in my experience. they are often 1 or 2 paygrades (literally) below engineers, controlled for ranks
Completely different device for a different set of use cases.
I would like to see an example of that. I dont remember a single time I found anything useful on reddit other than info copy pasted from some website that had actually usable UX.
I am exactly the same way, and it’s refreshing to run into a like-minded soul. I will admit to having always wanted to try a stenographer’s keyboard, though, just optimized for code.
One problem with your argument is that EU is not a country.
>I'd be happy to pay 250€ a year for an OS that I actually own and control.

That's cool. And do you think many people will also happily pay 250€ every year? Do you think enough people care so make this a profitable business? And if so, why isn't there one yet? If there is, why aren't you a happy paying customer?

>I'd be happy to also pay that amount to browse without being spied on.

Same question.

>These products not existing is just a failure of the market

Is it? Or is the market simply responding to (lack of) demand?

It seems to me that many people on HN forget that we're just part of a very small bubble, a niche. We're a tiny target segment, we're not very good at paying for things, and frankly we make pretty shitty customers for various of other reasons. Instead of admitting that we're not that valuable to businesses, we project our own desires onto others, and when we don't get what we want because it's not profitable, we expect the government to step in and force someone else pay for it.
In my experience, product management is an innate skill that is very hard to learn or teach. This is not to say that you can’t get better at it, just that it doesn’t involve the sorts of skills that are easy to teach in a classroom, it is more about real world experience. In order to be good at it, you need to be well organized, good at talking to people, have a good intuition for design, and a strong ability to understand the domain you are working in, as well as your users.

The best product managers I know seem to have a natural talent for it. And plenty of them found their way into it by accident. Maybe they were working in another part of the business, but realized that they had a knack for understanding how the product could be better. Maybe someone told them that they would be good at it.

My take on it is that yes, lots of people want to be involved in tech, but don’t know how to code. Product management is a Way to do that that’s accessible to non-engineers. Some people will try it out and find that they have strong abilities at it, and many will fail at it. But I think it is seen as a desirable job.

That said, I think it’s an incredibly hard job as well. You have to deal with people above you constantly pushing on deadlines, you have to stay super on top of things, and you won’t succeed, unless you earn the respect of the engineers you work with. It can be very demanding. Most people don’t seem to have the skill set for it. And if you are in a company with a bad culture, it can be a very thankless job.
These days polyfills are seen as a bad practice, and instead people recommend ‘ponyfills’ that export the relevant functions but don’t monkeypatch.
How is this better than markdown?
As if Melvil Dewey and William Gibson had a child...
In security we see the compliance crowd sucking out all the air of the room.
I think part of what makes you conscious might be your relationship with the passage of time. If you experience it you’re probably conscious. If you can relate to things that have happened or to things that will happen then you’re more conscious. This definition requires you to be able to communicate somehow, which even animals are able to do in some limited way.
I mean, why not? I think a lot of people under-20 will instinctively think of “erase this whole disk and put a new file system on it” as a very “settings” sort of thing, not something to be done in a separate application like Disk Manager. (Which is technically a hold over from when OSes did not ship with extensive disk management tools, so normally you would have some flavour of Norton Utilities installed after-market.)

If you’ve grown up with phones and tablets, anything that’s a change to the device, even if it’s an operation and not a setting, is in “settings”.

I get it, doesn’t mean I agree with it to be fair! I miss old system preferences as much as you.
So your point is after you read wikipedia, it's possible to ignore the information you learned there and find some other rationalisation to send your money away? Yes, that is possible, you got me.
Trying! I've been taking lessons for about 8 months. Unfortunately, due to work, my practice routine has been very hit and miss. I'm starting to try to find ways to work it in during breaks for work, using flash cards and such to just take a minute or two to review the knowledge specific bits. Then I have a plan for ways to utilize some of that knowledge and applying it on the guitar when I sit down.

Slowly but surely, I just need to really get a routine going. Thanks for the encouragement!
I would say the difference between "Minors in violation" (GP's comment) exactly reverses the meaning of "Minors employed in violation" (the actual term). I didn't click through to the linked source so wasn't aware this was a subtle misquote.
From a technical perspective, there is simply no comparison. SL's graphics are inferior to those games in every way.

Second life can look nice I'm specific scenes, but that's in spite of the dated graphics tech.
Game wikis are much better than this. Game reddits are incredible echo chambers where completely new players ask questions that should be typed into google and not an internet forum.
Hmm, im not advanced Excel user but 90% of the time I use web version
Well, look at hacker news. the content and audience is different but ultimately it lets you

1. browse topics
2. comment on topics
3. review your history of topics, like favorites, comment histories, etc.

So in an ideal world, you do that with no friction.

But inevitably, you need to introduce some friction in order to be profitable. be it ads, data mining (to sell to ad companies), or outright asking a user to pay to do the above features.

I don't know what route reddit will go, but it will inevitably need to introduce even more friction to be more profitable.
jQuery is the "just works" of Javascript. There's no build step required, it's plug 'n play.

jQuery and PHP's ease of integration was what helped get me from HTML + CSS to interactive websites.

Long may they continue.
The DVC 3.0 Stack: Beyond the Command Line
> I think it's better to start from a place of (unconditional!) self-love, and go from there, rather than beating yourself up because you're not meeting some blogger's expectations of how you should act.

It took me a while to realize this, but it's the only way I want to live my life. Terrorizing myself through my ego was a retardedly pointless mental preset, and I'm very grateful I changed it.
> that the rest of the Internet is elitist on the basis of being as nice as possible

I strongly disagree - tone policing isn't about being nice but about appearing nice. And lately even that pretense is not required when talking about the right groups.
I've seen this happen, and it can definitely work, but only if you've got someone really focused on training the PM skills. A PM who both has the core skillset and domain expertise is awesome, but trying to just drop someone in because they have domain expertise without the skills for the job itself generally turns out how you're describing.

In my view the most practical thing to do, if you can swing it, is to have a subject matter expert who's just a general resource for everybody. They help product make decisions about what to build, marketing with how to message and sales with closing the deals. We just brought somebody on in this capacity at my company, which is a startup in a highly regulated industry, and it's honestly just a dream setup for me as a PM. Things that would take me a lot of research or experimentation to figure out instead get answered in a 30 minute call.
There's also "Product Owner" and "Business Owner". And other overlapping titles too. Often driven by things like SAFe.
Yes, if you master one, then there is no conflict. But my son was a monolingual person learning another language. And he kept trying to apply Russian ideas to Chinese, and Chinese ideas to Russian. Therefore, even though he personally wanted to know Russian more, he chose Chinese instead because it met a school requirement for a second language. (And they couldn't teach him Russian.)

He still plans to learn Russian, though.
Input from the real world probably isn't enough. It seems to me a real threatening intelligence needs the ability to create feedback loops through the real world, just like humans do.
We really struggle to find good PMs. I've noticed a proliferation of low quality PMs (they don't really understand the product; they just act ask a secretary for technical leads and/or users). In particular, I wish we had more opinionated, less passive PMs.
I wish! I suspect I’d be good at it, but I have no idea how to get a PM job as a mid-career person with no useful network. I have 10 years experience in marketing, project/team management in nonprofits (good network in that industry) and a few years experience writing code too as a freelancer (but with some decent size projects and clients).

Admittedly, I haven’t tried too hard because the freelance work is very comfortable, but every time Ive applied for a PM role it’s been a total bust.
It's going to be good for EU in the long-term TBH. Please charge $$ for EU users.
US commercial medical insurers don't "get away with" pricing. They negotiate treatment prices with providers, who constantly try to raise prices. The most common way to handle pricing is as a multiple of whatever Medicare set. So if Medicare agreed to pay $20 (just making up a number) for CPT code 71045 (chest x-ray) then a commercial insurer might agree to pay 1.5× of that.

The out of pocket amounts paid by plan members for insurance premiums and co-pays on employer sponsored group plans are largely under employer control (within limits imposed by the Affordable Care Act). There's nothing stopping your employer from giving you free insurance with $0 co-pays.
Any tips for someone currently working to create one of these systems?
Except Google and Microsoft/Bing search engines have already cached lots of that data just to provide their service. Facebook has its own treasure trove. Apple less so but they're also the least competitive in the AI space (of the FAANG) atm.
Could OpenAI acquire Reddit as an alternative to their IPO? Let's say it's worth $10B - quite a sum especially if OpenAI is 'only' worth $40B - $50B. But a world in which compute isn't a moat, LLMs aren't a moat... but real human-generated content IS a moat... maybe it could make sense?
Surely this must just be a dumb WAF rule?
4chan general threads. /g/ for tech, /diy/ or /out/ for tools and gear, /ck/ for cooking and more.

If you need to actively find a review for some item you want to buy it's probably not that great of an item imho.
It doesn't necessarily eject hot air outside, right? It just "ejects" heat outside. It could easily have two tubes or something, sucking in warm air from the outside, heating it up, and ejecting it outside again. However, since you have to create a (temporary) opening to put part of the mobile ac outside, warm air will still get in.

You could just use a fan to blow air over water onto your body. The evaporation will cool it down a little.
They could claim remaining true to the original spirit or whatever excuse will fly.

How many billions will AI be worth in the future? What's the cost of the potential reputation damage for having a edgy brand? All that matters is the operation can be expected to be profitable.

Better: what would be the synergies between the xbox audience and the reddit audience? The "degenerates" are clients like any others, maybe also with more disposable income.
We're[0] building a tool that helps you do what you described. We mainly advertise our ability to do this over your data warehouse, like Snowflake, but we also use DuckDB to help people query CSVs.

3.5 has worked pretty well for us in most cases. It's also a good amount faster. GPT-4 seems to really stand out for our complex joins.

- 0 = https://www.definite.app
Tesla’s “Self-Driving” System Never Should Have Been Allowed on the Road
Such OSes do exist. You don't even have to pay.
One thing that I think makes System Settings much worse than it has to be is how indistinguishable its sidebar icons are. They all have the same shape, some share the same background color or have very similar background colors, their glyph shapes are thin, and the white glyph color has extremely bad contrast with some of the background colors.

If the icons were more akin to 10.6 Snow Leopard sidebar icons[0] it'd give the sidebar items much more substantial visual anchors. Heck even the more muted sidebar icons of 10.7 Lion[1] would be a substantial improvement.

[0]: https://www.versionmuseum.com/images/operating-systems/mac-o...
[1]: https://512pixels.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/10-8-Mounta...
I may be in the minority here, but if I want the opinion of Redditors on an issue, I will use a search engine to look for it specifically, thus knowing the provenance of the information I am receiving.

I don't really want the corpus of Reddit data influencing the output of a generative AI model...because it's Reddit, after all...

Even though I am pretty sure it is already included in the training dataset already...

I could be wrong, though...
"We recognize the value online communities provide in training the state of the art in generative AI. With that in mind, we have acquired Reddit and intend to operate it as a wholly owned subsidiary. After an exhaustive search, we've selected $adult_ceo_with_social_experience to lead the team as they work to ensure Reddit can continue to operate as both a safe and vibrant digital oasis, where people can come together to share their interests and passions."

One might argue these communities are too valuable to generative AI to allow them to flail under current substandard management.
Yes, that's where the saying "not your keys, not your coin" comes from. But that's another deep rabbit hole.

Since this thread is about Google (don't forget), what's the equivalent of "not your keys" for Google ads? That's why it's an apt comparison, and the subject of the EU's complaint.
I built something like this and it was so rad, but oh my god was it ever expensive. I definitely advise using the 3.5-turbo model if you find the results acceptable, because it is 20x cheaper than the "guru level" genius of GPT-4. Aside from that hangup, automating Slack summaries is insanely useful as a manager.
1. Neeva sounds like a hairspray brand. Not a search engine.

2. It's literally just a claim. I have no way of verifying the claim. Them asking me to pay for it makes it more sus.

3. I use searx already. Which I can confirm isn’t “spying” on me because it has nothing to tie me to my IRL identity.

4. It was a Bing reseller. I don’t care for Bing resellers.
I don't want to be marketed to. I want an open society built on open technology that I can use for free and modify without asking anyone else's permission.

I would rather go without something than to pay for it and give up my freedom. For example, I choose to live without a car or even a driver's license.

I am not a resource for you to exploit.
It sounds to me that pg had realised there wasn't a future in their web-based email, but thought they had good programming chops and would be able to produce something useful.
do you hire interns from EMEA?
I have another question: why does a PM make more than a dev? My wife made that jump and her salary went up 50%. She literally just goes to meetings and talks now, yet she makes more than her old job that required real skills. Am I the only person who finds this perverse?
Honestly, building and deploying any fullstack app is a valuable accomplishment. It almost doesn't matter what the app does. Build a front end and an API and get them talking. Use REST or GraphQL and try to really adhere to best practices. Lots of features are common across different types of apps, like users being able to log in and out.
I do work for an American corporation, but we're not large! Less than 100 people I think. I do care about what happens to you, but I assume you're saying GitHub doesn't. I don't work for GitHub.

I'm working incredibly hard to provide a better life for my family. For my two-year-old twins. Finishing projects is part of that work. It's not easy but I think it's worth it.

If you're curious about my story of working, side-hustling, and spending time with my family here's an hour of me talking about it: https://saas.transistor.fm/episodes/bootstrapping-with-kids.

It's full of nuance that you might be wishing was in the article.
I wonder how many Display engineers there are bouncing around in this thread… certainly catches our eye!
The big one is that we need to decarbonize building heating and cooling as soon as we possibly can (like, by 2030) in order to avoid disastrous climate scenarios. Heat pumps run off electricity, which is starting to be decarbonized rapidly, and heat pumps are also battle-tested solutions that many countries already use so they are the main technology to get off coal, oil, gas, etc for cooling and heating.

Last year, the US passed the Inflation Reduction Act which created a ton of consumer and industry incentives to manufacture and deploy heat pumps, which created a lot of interest. Additionally, Russia's war in Ukraine made it clear to many countries that they didn't want their energy security dependent on an aggressive nation, so lots of European nations rallied to install heat pumps amid a possible gas shortage from Russia.

One cool thing about heat pumps is that they run more than 100% efficient. This is because they move energy around instead of generating it. Working in good conditions, most units these days will run around 300% efficient. It really depends on your specific home, electricity prices, region, etc whether this efficiency results in savings on bills, though. Many older generation heat pumps didn't work as well in colder climates, but now that's not as much of an issue. I believe I saw that one of the US states with the fastest recent heat pump adoption is Maine, and Norway has a very high heat pump adoption as well.
I'm no expert on corporate law, but maybe them aquiring reddit data makes that data illegal to use for others to train their models on? Even if available, if it's not legal to use the big guys can't touch it.
Product owner/manager often works out fine as an informal position, where certain people in leadership roles are making decisions because they have an excellent aptitude for doing such; they especially have the ability to understand and empathize with their user base.

That works fine until it stops working, and then it works horribly, because engineers have asserted themselves as antagonistic product owners: I know what customers want! And they just plain don't. Things can go completely insane. It boggles my mind how badly some otherwise competent folks can botch this.

I didn't even realize how important this role was until I was working with people who clearly had no business asserting themselves into it, and I'd rather have someone less technical doing it than an engineer who is awful at it.
I remember a big selling point for web components was that it wouldn't matter which framework you were using because they would just give you a common interface. But this isn't that useful if you still have to import some giant framework as a dependency, maybe the main exception to this is something like Svelte. The claim certainly feels like it has been downsized over time. If I'm already using the same framework between projects I can share components without web components.

It just feels like a bait and switch when platform developers continue claiming things which never fully materialize. Maybe part of the blame goes to me as the reader for making assumptions. I've read through the HTML spec and try to keep up with web platform updates. That doesn't change the fact that React and friends _is_ the de facto web platform for tons of developers.
Wow, interesting. I guess all the more reason to reign in their behavior!
I'm also interested. They've posted about their reader before, but didn't leave any links then either.