skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The technology exists but the false positive rate is high, most cameras don't actually implement these things and there is no convincing evidence that all cellphone cameras are secretly always on (though a compromised device could be).
First $100 = A shareware "Desk Accessory" for the Mac. (Early 1990s) It wasn't 100% online: some of the distribution was via BBS, but they still had to send me a paper check if they wanted to pay for it.

First $1,000 = A data editor for the Mac. (Late 1990s)
https://dm.hn, https://blogs.hn
We already have these standards. Binary ROM dump formats with headers. There's no need for NFT's.
I use chatblade, Obsidian, and git. I generate a diff, send it to GPT-4 which gives me a short description of what I changed and then I push to github. This makes maintenance easier.

You can do it automatigally, but that can get expensive rather quickly.

I use it as the means to understand things. I write as if I am explaining things to somebody else, that else is the future me, but in the process you can quickly understand what is not clear in your head, break it down to first principles, and build it back up again.

N=1, but writing has had an enormous impact on my growth.
It would break Lorentz symmetry, for one.
Yes, thank you. The OP analysis is terribly naive. Nameplate tuition has little relationship to what actual students pay. The net data from the college board is much better, and shows that actual tuition paid at many schools is flat over the past decade.

The OP also barely acknowledges the huge reductions in state funding for higher ed. In the 60s California paid 100% of educational costs for students. It's now down below 40%. Tuition has gone up to close the gap.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/fancy-dorms-arent-the-m...

> Long-term, controlling the underlying cost of higher ed itself is an imperative.

Nothing in the OPs analysis supports any increase in the underlying cost of higher ed. While there may be some, it's well well below the nameplate tuition increases. Here's the best data I have on expenditures by college on a per Full-Student basis, and they are nowhere near what the OP is claming: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d20/tables/dt20_334.10.a...

Lastly, while the argument for some student debt relief is a good one, and his points are well made, the correct policy is Biden's, a universal reduction in debt in the $20-30k range. This gives all students some relief, but doesn't give a regressive windfall relief to doctors, lawyers and other professional students with good career prospects and six-figure debt.
My tabs are a convenientish curated list. It is wasteful and I hate it. At worst (best?) I've taken to sending a tab to another device as a way of dismissing it for later.

I hope someone jumps on the language model hype and makes an extension that summarizes what I have read, seen, and done on the web. Perhaps with a choice screenshot or two.

I don't need a tree of pages, a spreadsheet, or a pie chart of time wasted on hn. I spent my time here on purpose, show me or tell me why. Remind me of the topics so I can close the tab and come back to it easily when needed.
Apple only releases Rapid Security Response updates for the latest versions of its operating systems [1]. So any devices running iOS 16.4.X or MacOS 13.3.X won't see one, and anything before that didn't support Rapid Security Response updates. Unfortunately there's not enough information available to know if older releases are vulnerable.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201224
How do you know that your direct reports are doing their jobs well if you never talk with the people they're managing? Just take their word for it?

"Yes boss, all my subordinates are happy and think I'm doing a stellar job at managing this team."
Why is macOS garbage now? I am considering buying a Mac, can I reliably use Linux on it without hitting hardware related issues all the time?
Exactly, it's QEMU that abstracts over the processor virtualization APIs of KVM, Microsoft WHPX, Apple Hypervisor.framework etc. Not Libvirt.
Ask HN: Minimum viable home lab for training LLama sized models?
I was talking about the "average cost of private school" data. Which part is a slam dunk on "neoclassical" econ? Or even the original article. I'm not disagreeing just curious how you came to that conclusion.

The data linked above suggests Catholic schools are the most affordable. Priors confirmed - theocracy is the only way forward.
As a freelancer on Upwork in 2018

First $100 = Writing scripts and doing the odd jobs

First $1k = Working on a web application.
yes. That's what I will probably try.
What lay people mostly mean by 'relative' is subjective; ie., they're committing the genetic fallacy of the form: since understanding X requires a perspective in which to evaluate it, X itself must be a (inter)subjective phenomenon.

ie., they're saying that since understanding is relative to a perspective so is what is understood. This is the irritating fallacy popular amongst those who go around abusing the term 'relative'.

I'm not sure if I find this particularly convincing. I think most lay people are actually talking about the thing itself rather than their understanding/perspective on the thing.

Maybe this is something that a study could shed light on, if we're able to construct a survey that can give us some insight into how lay people are using/abusing these terms.
Postmortem: Co-founding a Web3 startup as a crypto skeptic young dev
also loom fault detection was the first successful business of toyota, before they started automobiles. specifically Toyota invented a mechanism which would stop the loom if a single thread would rip anywhere.

and the intuition that halting production if a fault is detected in car manufacturing goes back to that experience.

and the offspring of that, the "Toyota production system" inspired lean. which inspired agile. and Kanban also is core of the TPS...
Oh wow, I didn't know there was a second series!
Considering how much effort your hypothetical writer put into writing several books w/o getting any compensation makes me doubt their motivation was money.

They would have long given up, if it was money.
You can also convert them to RSS feeds and read them whenever.
Is there? I scrolled through the readme 4 times looking for one and couldn't find it.
Request Tracker is an older ticket system that also does asset management and can associate tickets with assets.

It can be rather tedious to configure, as I recall, but it can do almost whatever you want. Hope you know some perl. Have not used it in at least 5 years.

https://bestpractical.com/request-tracker
True! There are no guarantees. But every effective protest movement that I'm aware of started with a handful of people doing things that get a lot of attention.

Without such groups, nothing would ever really happen. There's an enormous power differential here, and theatrics like this is one of the few ways available to help level the playing field.
Same question, but more focus on home electronics. I'd love to track my appliances and home lab setup better than I do today in just a spreadsheet. It'd be nice to get depreciation / warranty tracking, diagrams which show tags/position in the rack for my home lab. Basically similar to enterprise asset management just on a much smaller scale and without needing to operate a full ITIL shop + deploy enterprise scale.

I once, many moons ago, barcode asset tagged all my stuff and was scanning it into an app that could track where it was in your house on a basic 2d wireframe home, which let you report for insurance scheduling purposes. Besides just tracking generally, knowing what stuff you have that is valuable, depreciable, and could be stolen/destroyed is very useful data even for individuals.
Anyone have one for latest tips/tricks with ChatGPT?
It's quite possible.

Given that the author also seems to not understand what impressions are...

> I quickly learned that Google Ads has a minimum spend they’ll charge you just for impressions. So they put my ads on a bunch of websites no one ever goes to and charged me $50/day for it. Ugh.

(If nobody visits the website, you wouldn't be paying for impressions. The author's getting impressions, people are going to that website, people are seeing the ad, the website gets paid by Google for that ad space, it's just that none of them care about clicking on the ad.)

... I think this is more of an example of 'I've bought a $5,000 oscilloscope, and I'm using it to hammer screws.'

People definitely use oscilloscopes (and ad campaigns) to do profitable things, but as any non-trivial tool, it takes time, effort, and education to learn. For a tiny business, that time, effort, and money may or may not be worth it.

The author's other problem is that their business (A plugin for gmail) is kind of adjacent to a lot of really shady spyware/malware/etc. Ironically, when that spyware appears in ads, people on this forum then poo-poo the ad network for allowing harmful crap to be advertised...
That’s good to know! Still need to wait a few years before buying an EV makes any financial sense in my situation though.
> Why We Don’t Recommend Ring Cameras

> They’re affordable and ubiquitous, but homeowners shouldn’t be able to act as vigilantes.

> Ring owners [are allowed] to send videos they've captured with their Ring video doorbell cameras and outdoor security cameras to law enforcement.

Let's think about this one moment. A "security" camera provides security against what exactly? By definition, crime. Crime is handled by whom? Police.

And now homeowners are somehow labelled as "vigilantes" because they can send footage (presumably of crime) to the authorities? How does that even make sense? By definition, vigilantism is law enforcement undertaken without legal authority -- and the police are the very authorities tasked with law enforcement.

Labeling homeowners "vigilantes" along this line of thought is a very obvious oxymoron.

It is ridiculously absurd that any amount of circumstances should be used as a justification for an attack on such a feature. This Wired staff editor was so determined to write about police reform and social biases that they make an illogical argument that has nothing to do with the Ring cameras themselves.

I am not defending Ring, but rather pointing out that this article is both illogical and mistitled. It has nothing to do with Ring specifically and cites no evidence to suggest that the ability to send videos to police -- presumably, crime footage -- increases the likelihood of racial profiling.

An argument like this is analogous to an article titled "Why We Don't Recommend iPhones" where the author writes something along the lines of:

They're premium and ubiquitous, but people shouldn't be able to call 911... When you set up an iPhone, you're automatically enrolled into cellular service... But it also allows iPhone owners to call 911... We believe this feature should not exist. When we interviewed Apple CEO Tim Cook on steps that his company was doing to reduce racial profiling... et cetera.

This is absurd.
Agreed that PromQL and MetricsQL have limited querying capabilities comparing to SQL or InfluxQL. But they cover the most of use cases for analyzing time series measurements, and allow writing much simpler queries than InfluxQL or Flux for these particular cases [1].

[1] https://valyala.medium.com/promql-tutorial-for-beginners-9ab...
The internet isn't just competitive, it's a combat zone.
If I loaned out a ton of money to people that couldn't repay it, the system would rightfully tell me that I took on too much risk in lending the money out and that I earned the losses. To that end, the system works as designed and desired. People, by and large, are not capable of putting others in absurd debts that they are unable to get out of.

The way these loans are done, the "risk" is supposedly managed down to zero by some byzantine limits on how much people can take out. This is silly, at face value, as the limits on how much a family can take out are basically non-existent. Yes, we have limits on individuals, but those seem to be little more than token talking points.

That said, reading your post again, feels like we are in agreement?
As a consumer id just wait for indie games and smalltime books to become free. This ruins the demand and people have much less incentive to create.
In general taking money away and giving it to a government is not a productive solution and definitely hinders creativity
Good, the world doesn't need that many liberal arts graduates. Quality over quantity should be the focus in fields where there aren't that many employment opportunities and potential for successful entrepreneurship.

Besides, nothing prevents one from pursuing a career in most liberal arts without a degree, assuming you don't want to be a researcher. You can always be a nurse or an engineer with arts related side-job, but doing it the other way around is hard.
It's been happening to 4K now too.

I have some yt-dlp copies of videos that I grabbed a couple years ago.

If I go and download them again today from the same video URL, the quality is worse when I compare frames from them directly to each other.
>as they often avoid doing business with each other if possible.

That culture is actually starting to change, because that domestic rivalry/hostility has been the chief reason Japan lost the competition against American, South Korean, Taiwanese, and Chinese manufacturers in recent decades.

Can't fight on the world stage if you're busy fighting each other on home turf, y'know?
SVG feels like the neglected stepchild of the web universe for reasons that are not entirely clear.

While its obviously not the solution to any and all visualizations in the browser its a remarkable addition to html and the dom. It should not really be considered a foreign format but the natural native one.

SVG can go a long way on its own or together with server side templates (as this post nicely demonstrates) but imho its pairing with js libraries such as d3 or vega is (still) out of this world in terms of the user experience they create.
Instagram is probably their most important site. All the big names are there and using it. It damages the brand more if there is something unsuitable.
As a coder with a side hustle, I tried using FB ads a few years back. I had a niche product targeting a very specific demographic (K-12 teachers in the US). My business' page got tons of new followers from people not in education and not in the US. We spent hundreds of dollars and didn't get a single valid customer that I'm aware of.

I don't think FB is any better than Google, but I also think online ads mostly exist to keep marketers in business.
Ditto if you cross the road. I think this is fine. Arguably the AVs are the source of the disruption anyway, since a human piloted vehicle would cope.
Reminds me of our healthcare system.
And military contractors.
And..
You are not a lawyer.
Europe adopts US data adequacy decision
I assume you're mostly joking, but honestly that's a really good insight into how something like Vision Pro might appeal to people.

Your environment is super important to your mental/emotional state. If you can jump into different virtual environments for work or relaxation, that'd surely help your brain switch context and focus.

I've heard a ton of chat from Apple fans about how most people don't have rooms or work spaces with three meters of empty space in front of them, contrary to Apple's product demos. Environments like Mount Hood sound like a gimmick, but they're probably going to be a huge part of what makes this device work.
Honestly Apple should have considered something like this and supported it from day 1. It's only upside for them.
No, an artist absolutely should have a reasonable expectation that their improv at a coffee shop won't be ripped off next week by a billion dollar publisher.

> Don't share it with them until they sign.

Which would be possible in a situation where someone has the power to do so, but this isn't always the case. In industries where there are large negotiating power imbalances between creators and others they work with, you will typically find that creators have little to no negotiation power. There's a reason we have many legal protections in many parts of the law outside of contract law.

> If you don't trust your spouse then get a prenup. The other categories aren't special.

A spouse is the most formal of the examples I listed. And a spouse in many places is someone you've already entered into a formal legal agreement with. But to the contrary, I don't think it is reasonable to expect people bring NDAs to a first date.

> That said, if your work is so easy to copy it probably wasn't (or shouldn't have been) valuable to begin with. Implementation matters more than ideas. So most of these concerns are silly to me.

The concept of privacy isn't predicated on monetary value.
A work that's not publicly shared will not be copied and doesn't need protection against copying to begin with.
I think only huge advertisers who spend at least tens or hundreds of millions are treated well. Everyone else is just small fry to them.
I was interested to revisit the book, but when I tried, it says:

DOWNLOAD OPTIONS
download 1 file
ENCRYPTED ADOBE PDF download
High Quality Page Images

In order to access your downloaded book you will need LCP-compliant or Adobe-compliant software on your device. The Internet Archive will administer this loan, but Adobe may also collect some information.

That's a turnoff.
Nope, not for wifi calling. The moment your phone connects to cell towers, they siphon location information to what is known as a Gateway Mobile Location Center (GMLC) which collects and aggregates location data on phones connected to the cellular network.

Theoretically, you could perform wifi calling without any connection to a base station, which could then protect your location data (assuming you use an IP hiding service such as a VPN). But you can't just "turn off" cell tower associativity on your phone. They're on whether you want them to be or not--short of taking your battery out of your phone or physically disabling the baseband on your phone, there's nothing to stop it.
They do have protections in bankruptcy as student loans though so it isn't a normal unsecured risk for lenders. They're also not hard to get, which goes back to the point of easy money inflates tuition.
>Let alone that the entrenched, canonical, idiomatic coding styles of most modern oop languages encourage state, mutability, nulls, exceptions and god knows how many trivially preventable entire classes of errors. Granted, most have now started to come around and are adopting more fp features and ideas every year, but still.

State isn't a feature solely of OOP. It's very easy to see the FP craze as a similarly dogmatic insistence on pure everything as removing useful features instead of preventing errors.

If FP truly was the indisputable way of the future, Scala would be the CRUDspeak of choice by now.
There are people who'll flag anything suggesting San Francisco has any kind of problem, but please read this. This is one of those increasingly rare, truly deep dives that utterly demystifies something that seems inaccessible to the outside world.

No cartel wars, no kingpins, just efficiently distributed systems and networks of trust. Clever bits of business work tucked into the broader systematic cruelties, like dealers using homeless people as holders to distribute and deflect risk. The logistics of feeding the dealers. Heroin dealers invoking moral codes to explain why they don't sell fentanyl. Little things that show how this giant bogeyman is so much more of the banal kind of evil as everything else, growing out of wreckage as much as it leaves in its wake.
Tumblr’s core product strategy
My somewhat old Sony AV receiver has one RGB input and HDMI output and my PS/2 works fine with a LCD screen.
I cannot imagine a more sinister, callus, and destructive way to punch down on some of the most vulnerable people. 18 year olds did not elect any of the people making these laws, every adult before them parrots “go to college”, financial aid offices don’t care what people do as long as they pay tuition, etc.

But grants, you say! We can avoid loans. Not so fast. If your parents made a certain amount, they are fully expected to pay a certain amount for their now adult children to go to college. To qualify for any aid, you need your parents’ income, demanding that A middle class family may still be fully expected to pay multi-thousands of dollars. The student must then take out loans to pay for the rest, which might be the full amount.

This is certified, nonsensical, bullshit. No credit system in history has been given the grace to royally fuck over generations of students, saddling them with loans that cannot be discharged, whose amount is effectively dictated by the institution that is charging tuition. This is a scam at the highest level, sanctioned by the federal government, and perpetuated by every adult figure in the students’ life.
> So just add the cost of acquiring employer-specific hardware to the compensation package during salary negotiations, is it really a big deal?

It is a sign the company
will resist spending modest amounts to improve efficiency and morale. Including pay increases likely.
They didn't want an educated, unemployed proletariat (their words, not mine): https://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/student-loans-debt-reaga...
You could avoid those by getting rid of cars, rather than adding more cars controlled by unaccountable programs with OTA updates pushed by people saying YOLO.
Agreed that digital physics is far from obvious, but the use of real numbers as our default model of the continuum is at least in part historical accident. We could have for instance easily ended up with locale-theoretic foundations instead, though I doubt the finitist crowd would find that any more satisfying.
I 100% agree that universities are not incentivized to keep their costs low, and there are so many that could run on a much leaner funding.

> You're presuming a fact that's not in evidence.
I’m not so sure about that. How many executives get paid remarkably well, even though they fail miserably? Sometimes even with tax payer money.
The only thing Quest Pro lacks is lidar.
What if gravity is the creator’s v2? She finally managed to figure out an elegant solution without all the weird quantum edge cases but never got around to applying the pattern everywhere.
Do you know if Bohmian mechanics with a particle ontology (still with non-local "hidden" variables ofc) or GRWf has potential to save classical gravity as well?
44 miles EV range probably means they want the new 2023 Prius Prime, which is not readily available used. Previous generation only had 25 mile EV range.
Checking for Overflow in C#
"By default, integral values (such as int, uint, and long) do not throw an exception when they overflow. Instead, they "wrap" -- and this is probably not a value that we want. But we can change this behavior so that an exception is thrown instead."

URL to Video of the blog entry.
https://youtu.be/9mBZvDPyE0U
7x speed improvement for LLaMA in less than 10 lines of code
>a minor JavaScript performance advantage

Consider just how many layers of JavaShit webdevs want to slap down on their websites these days, that "minor" performance difference adds up. Death by a thousand cuts, basically.
> This is why I think technical solutions alone to privacy are mostly pointless.

Technical solutions to privacy are not required to be alone. They're required to be ubiquitous. If your country is an authoritarian hellhole, you encrypt everything to help you not get murdered by the secret police. If your country has strong privacy protections, you encrypt everything to help ensure that it never becomes an authoritarian hellhole, and protect you against bureaucratic failures as defense in depth.

To invade your privacy, an attacker should have to break the law and break the encryption.