skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because if the Raspberry Pi camera can not take photographs that support the current iPhone coolness (live photo, or depth, or on-viewing selectable dynamic range, or I don't know what else) because the latest codec is not licensed, then the camera will not sell. So the quality Raspberry Pi camera makers don't even sell a model that doesn't respect the copy protection.
At one point the HOA I was in had to hire a parliamentarian for the meetings because things had gotten so contentious.
It’s going to very interesting when billionaires have access to AI and also live multiples longer than normal people.
I live in Texas, where we had 43+ consecutive days of weather over 40C this summer.

I actually don't think the weather is even the limiting factor here in Texas. It's that it's literally unsafe to ride a bike on the vast majority of streets here under fear of serious injury or death.
There will never be a switch to DC in the home. The advantage is small, and it would involve changing everything. Would have to replace every outlet and switch, every appliance, every light socket and light bulbs. The only way that would happen is if building in new place, like on Mars.

There aren't any standards for DC in the home, no plugs, and no voltage. The voltage would be pretty high, 480V is likely, that would have to step down for USB and lights. It is telling that boats and RVs, which use 12V and 48V, just have inverters and AC plugs.

The only place where DC in home makes sense is between battery backup and solar panels. That way can have one, large, efficient inverter instead of inverters on the batteries and each panel. There isn't much difference between AC inverter and DC power converter. Although, I think will still need DC converters between solar panel, which varies, battery, and inverter/DC wiring.
There’s absolutely no way a multi-trillion stimulus bill was passing in 2008–2010. I don’t think it’s fair to place blame on one party or the other.
The perceived hypocrisy sort of goes away when you stop thinking about it as a collaboration or a community of equals, and instead think of it as a competition, which is what it is. You would not say of a football team "oh, it's okay for you to try to score a goal on me, but if I try to score a goal on you, suddenly you're blocking the ball?!"

Naturally, they're going to say "web scraping uses resources, stop it!" but then keep web scraping in the background.

To be clear, it's bad behavior, it's just not hypocritical behavior, as it's completely in keeping with what amoral corporations locked in constant battle would be expected to do: maximize benefits to themselves while minimizing benefits to others.
Global risk of heat stress to cattle from climate change
My most complex train system had every train carry a single item type, and a large central trainyard. trains won't leave without an active destination. so all of the destinations for dropping off a type had the same name, and similarly the pick ups and would be disabled by circuits if their dropoffs were more than a quarter or so full. so if something needed green electronics, it would activate its DropOffGreenElectronics, the train would leave the yard, or sometimes 2-3 as at the time I didn't have any way of limiting it and one train wasn't enough to service all of the delivery points with my single car trains. the thundering herd problem[1] was real. the first train would get there, rest would go home. everything refueled at the home terminal, which had a stop for the coal train on it. each train had (dropoff(X) -> pickup(X) -> rest(X)) for their instructions. it worked pretty well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundering_herd_problem
What is the problem with BSL? Is it that the code is still available but you have to run their binaries? Honest question.
Last time I saw one of those was back when AOL was a big shot ISP. They had to buy high power SGI systems to feed the things because nothing else had the bus bandwidth to support one. I was told that the full rack sized SGI system (Origin 2000) was the cheapest part of the entire rig.
I personally wouldn't dare run any BSD on a daily laptop. I've been down that road with a ThinkPad T410 and all 3 of the major ones. OpenBSD wouldn't support my network card, FreeBSD was easiest but I remember X11 would lag, resorting in having to turn off some hardware accel stuff (thanks to their helpful forum), NetBSD experience was brief but I simply felt like I was in no mans land, maybe i was wrong...

Mouse gestures wouldn't work, I think some media buttons, all these annoying little things I had to hunt down and tweak myself. Mind you again, this was on a damn Thinkpad, what better laptop to run FreeBSD!

That's probably the use case for what HelloSystem is for, a BSD you don't have to muck around with on a laptop. But I knew damn well when I was 20 I wasn't going to swallow my pride and install some kiddieBSD, at that rate I'd say why BSD at all and go back to Ubuntu where everything is safe. I did and have no regrets lol.

I don't remember where, but someone once said FreeBSD is best for computers that you don't have to look at. That and of course as a starting point for companies like Nintendo, Sony, and Apple to derive from with their ACTUAL development teams.
I quite liked the fact they he didn't, it was fun to construct a location in my head. But then I know the area fairly well.

It's a good location for this as it's quite flat, very few hill, and those that exist are more like a hump.
> OpenAI cannot tell you if a message is spam, sorry, unless your prompt engineering skills are much better than mine.

Sometimes an e-mail message itself does not even contain enough information to accurately classify it as spam or phish.
To a degree, spam is subjective. And classifying a phish may not be trivial at all (e.g. message may include legit marketing links, open redirects and server side logic to serve certain pages only to targets, etc.).
A lot of these have scary warnings like "If you ask us not to stalk you, YOU WILL NEVER QUALIFY FOR ANYTHING AGAIN!!!!!!11111one"

That sounds like puffery. Has anyone ever suffered a documented consequence along those lines?
> and it doesn't account of the increased cost of several major spending categories.

Inflation adjustment does cover some of that.

> It's from 2018, but this shows what's going on more clearly:

That's cost of employer healthcare benefits, isn't it? Which causes wages to be an increasingly smaller % of total compensation.
single node though, so you have to add distribution in some manner. For some situations, whether its the "right" way or not, redis ends up being an easier way to go.

ETA:
As another couple of comments pointed out, ETS also dies with the node so you've got to handle that also when rolling it.

ETS is cool, but its not a panacea.
I’ll take a stab at it:

After two or three development cycles, LLMs will still be a curiosity, but nothing more. They might be used for some non critical business cases where output doesn’t need to be perfect, but for all other cases the burden of verification will be unmanageable.

The use of LLMs in academia will be nearly eliminated as professors opt for more verifiable ways of ensuring students aren’t using ChatGPT: no more writing long form essays in the comfort of your own home and with access to the internet.
Adding payments would just make sybil attacking tor profitable. And the same parties that install software to collect payments would probably be willing to run versions that double their income by reporting all their traffic to a third party attacker in exchange for payment.
But, that is an argument that another AI-Winter is not coming. If a company is confident enough to lay people off, and GPT is that good, then it is not the end of GPT.

You are saying "GPT is Simply too good" (which I agree with).

But earlier today, entire thread that "AI isn't good enough"

Responding to this post
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37256577#37260717

People, HN, Industry, everyone is all over the place.

This is Disruption, another Winter is not coming.
This is why I hated standardized tests. There's no room for outliers or edge cases that make the answer to a question not really 100%.
SF needs more housing, and is facing a problem because they went all-in on tech, and most people aren't returning to those expensive SF offices. Those problems are all manageable, but there will be pain in the short term.

The big win by moving out of CA is affordable housing. However, most of the cool alternatives like Austin and Portland have also gentrified (and they hate Californians, at least in Oregon)
That seems to be almost certain now. I'll admit I'd followed the debate fairly closely for a while and was convinced by the arguments that an oil supply crunch was going to have a fairly dramatic effect on civilisation as we knew it. It may still happen, but it seems a fairly minor risk compared to many of the others.
But I never really considered prepping - if some sort of dramatic collapse does occur I'd rather just ride it out as best as I can with family and friends and local communities going through the same thing. I don't expect it to be at all pretty but nor do I think it'll be all bad.
There's a rare ascomycete fungus, Nectrioposis violacea, that parasitises Fuligo septica and turns it from yellow to blue in color. There seem to be various color morphs, one I found was a really spectacular deep violet-blue. The ecology of these specialized fungal parasites whose hosts are themselves rare or very patchily distributed really fascinates me.
Check out Optery (YC Alum) removes ~250 data brokers (continuously). https://www.optery.com
I prefer reasonable business decisions that support open source software over companies baiting and switching.

If Hashicorp didn’t have a business plan that made money off terraform being OSS then the time for that was years ago.

If you release as OSS then your competitors will use it to. This is predictable and all plans should account for it.

This competition didn’t hurt Hashicorps chances of profitability, they were factored in from the beginning.
But, they do have some solar, they have a good greenhouse, access to hunting, a private airfield, access to a river for both fishing and water, in an area with mild(ish) winters...

Sounds great, I'll go round up the boys and it'll be ours by sundown. I think a lot of the "it can be done" commenters didn't read to the end: it can be done when you're the only one doing it. Not so much when 8 billion people are doing it. See also: roving gangs from any Fallout game.
Keep alive too big to die was bad idea. Fed should do nothing especially it shouldn't keep low interest rates for many years.
True, but there could still be an overinflated bubble that collapses in the meantime. In fact that's exactly what happened with the web: it sure was revolutionary (and we still haven't reached its full potential IMHO) but that fact didn't prevent the dotcom bubble burst.
I have a dumb BUSL question- if you don't compete with Terraform, but you do with something else, like Boundary, can you still use TF? If Hashi releases a new product that competes with you do you have to stop/license TF?
If you do some digging you'll find multiple different computer and finance-related crimes spanning over a decade and the one from a couple years ago was a sustained, obviously illegal operation. Definitely not changing a single curl request. Not hard to see why the offers are being rescinded and I don't think it's in his best interest to downplay it here, necessarily, to a bunch of strangers trying to help. I wonder if he's downplaying it to potential employers and then background searches + googling reveals the truth?
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2020/01/09/crlite-part-1-a...
Needlessly snarky… it adds a lot of value if you want to enhance HTML with dynamic behaviors that would be cumbersome to write in plain JavaScript.
I think you're confusing my statement that "it could be done well" with "your team did it well"
I do not live or vote in the US, I am not an US citizen, I am actually barely aware of US politics.

A few years ago my GMail mailbox started to be flooded by US politics related SPAM or SCAM (hard to know sometimes), my guess is 90% of those were democrats (a lot from from "Nancy Pelosi").

Despite flagging those emails as SPAM in GMail they wouldn't go away and I had to create rules get rid of those.
Original commenter might be a bit behind on many things but this is actually my day job.

Do you have a source for the reliability claim? There are so many good old transformers deployed around the world. Many of them working for 10s of years without a replacement. I'd be suspicious that a buck converter will have longer MTBF than oil submerged transformer.

Also, I don't see why it is mentioned here but NREL estimates the cost of grid scale inverters (for installations of 100 MW) to be 5-10x more than what was mentioned. [1]

[1] https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy22osti/83586.pdf
It worked very well for LibreOffice. Best of luck!
I’m trying to setup my own domain for my email address since yesterday and this really hit the spot.
So much effort goes into badly cloning another desktop these days.

I like macOS for the attention to detail, not for the rounded corners.

I like X11 for the flexibility, not for the ability to poorly imitate another system.

I will give credit to GNOME for trying to be their own thing, but it seems like they have no real vision, except trying to be "simpler" at all costs.
Ask HN: How to write blogs that attract SWE hires?
The video referenced armored catfish. There are multiple species known as armored catfish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armored_catfish
If you ever feel comfortable sharing that story, I’m interested in hearing it.

For me, I came across John Todd’s work from the podcast, Permaculture for the Future. It was part of a much larger toolkit and solutions we already have for healing our land and our home. Since deep diving into all of that, I don’t feel like I am drowning in what looks like the slow destruction of Earth, even as we are seeing more and more extreme weather events.
So the business model for these companies goes like this:

- New startup, cool idea, not much budget to hire engineers

- Make it open source, piggy back on the free exposure that will get you, no marketing is needed because everyone loves open source!

- Your project gets to have top tier programmers as maintainers, make all the nifty features, fix all bugs etc. for free or at minimum cost

- Few months later, change license and/or close source it.

- Rinse and repeat!

Sometimes you get the community to fork it and maintain it by themselves, unfortunately, that’s not always the case.
But why not include the thumb? If you count using the thumb it makes sense, but if you use the other hand why would you skip it?
yeah sadly.. though i don't mind bias; it's only natural to lean towards narratives that are more in line with one's worldview. and i'm quite happy to read well-researched and -sourced stories from various points of the political spectrum.

the idea was more to have a handy list of sources to consult when e.g. my local news covers some story of political intrigue in some far away part of the world. then i'd rather skip the middleman (AP / AFP / Reuters generally) and find out what their local media is saying.

either way, thank you for the allsides.com suggestion, i'll check it out!
All I want is my friends and colleagues to say "I care about my privacy and it bothers me that the government is trying to destroy my right to private communication with others" - not "meh, what are you going to do" or worse "what, you've got something to hide?".
In the _most common_ case (with nvidia), your graphics stops working entirely and you spend (at least) an hour in a virtual console trying to undo what you did. Fun times.
A lot of them let you look up the info they already have on you.

I don't see the harm in pasting in the info I can see they already have, in a request to remove it.
Put some regular paper into water and see how long it lasts. Clearly, paper straws had a bunch of nasty shit in them to prevent the paper from just dissolving. What did people think?!

It’s like how when I was a kid they moved from paper bags to plastic at checkout to “save trees” and now we realize plastic isn’t the perfect material.

There will be many more cases of this because there’s no motivation to spend time studying miracle materials, it’s always about immediately finding several ways to extract profit from it in every use case possible.
> their UX is so terrible that they'd be eaten alive by anybody with a decent app

LastPass, Amazon, Prime Video, Quora, Zoom, Facebook, WhatsApp, Apple Music, Outlook, Steam... that can be said of a dozen other popular apps, but unfortunately it's not that simple.
The standard list from people who want to big it up: being the 5th largest economy, Trident, the permanent seat on the UN, and the commonwealth.

And if you point out how small "5th largest economy" is, or that last time trident missiles (which aren't even British) got in the news was them going the wrong way when test-fired, or that the UN criticism of the UK (Assange and Austerity come to mind) is so important that it has resulted in zero changes, or that the commonwealth isn't very influential or powerful and that's why the UK needed to join the EU…

…they don't take it well.
Cloudflare

In case anyone is wondering how highly performant / scalable LuaJIT is - Cloudflare was built on top of LuaJIT for the first ~10 years of it's existence and it's only been in the last couples of years they have begun to use Rust.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/tag/lua/
CIS Benchmarks – How to Apply on Operating Systems?
Related:

Data Broker Opt-Out List - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24388803 - Sept 2020 (162 comments)
As with all (and especially self-identified) doomer literature, this piece stops just before the important realization: you can't do it yourself, but you can do it with your community.

The article mentions it, and it calls "community" a grid. I mean, what do we think a "grid" is? A collective effort to more efficiently bring $GOOD_STUFF to...you knew it was coming...a community of people.
Give the benefit of doubt and read the surrounding context more carefully.

Not only did they mention (rephrasing) for unlimited money / resources AC / AC transformers could be far more efficient, but the part you are critiquing is simultaneously comparing COST for SAME efficiency parts (I assume typical) and resulting efficiency for similar COST.
AI scores in the top percentile of creative thinking
Granted, it's a UBC promo piece.
And the water pipes that run to most peoples taps are made of… Plastic!
DirectByteBuffer would allow direct pointer access to the backing memory. When used with allocateDirect, you can rely on Java's GC to manage the memory. Not sure if it's a perfect fitnfor the use case but it's simpler to reason about.
> one cannot deny some level of true popular will

I have never even heard anyone suggest such a thing. Whether a fringe grassroots privacy politics effort existed in Sweden at the time is not up for debate. It absolutely did, but it was not "popular" by any stretch of the imagination. Average voters simply don't care about privacy, no matter which country you're in.

The EU was explicitly formed to compete with the US economically. Nobody should be surprised if their most flagship legislation to date is motivated by the same intent.

Furthermore, it is being generous to say the EU is a pseudo-democratic institution. If an actually popular privacy movement did exist in Sweden at some point, the chances of it penetrating the EU are slim to none, and the chances of it having any political influence in the EU are even lower.
For me the main point of bsd or small linuxes over debians/redhats is that running htop fills just one third of the screen and I can understand what each program does right away. It fills me with a sense of control and tranquility that just isn't there in more complex setups.
Meh...?

My ex's father thought that was the best book over. I read it and found warmed over Freud.

Every single "real man" in that family became real men by somehow symbolically having sex with his mother and killing his father. It didn't have to be an actual death, just somehow destroying the father. It didn't have to be the real mother and father, but it was always a real mother figure and father figure.

No, I'm not kidding. Every. Last. One. Did. This. Even the wimpy protagonist followed this recipe by the end and therefore grew up into a Real Man.

Don't believe me? Read it again. It's there, I promise.
A Crisis of Confidence Is Gripping China’s Economy
Release engineer here. I believe you have hit on some of the ideas we've certainly discussed way down the road (or sooner than you'd think?). For example, can we inform the AI about your existing infrastructure patterns, tooling, configs, etc. and then ask it to "suggest best practices", "compare to security and compliance policies", "improve" it, "analyse optimisations", "identify unused/overprovisioned pieces", etc. etc.!
> You seem to be criticising some fantasy scenario that has never happened in the real world, and likely never will.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37258203

> Parts avaliability bites all the time... You are not if there are no repair parts avaliable

well, apple has better parts availability and supply lifetimes than any other brand on the market, so sleep easy. You are getting 8+ years more parts availability than most android vendors. That's great for the planet.

> As they should, it is my phone after all. Imagine your car manufacturer shows up in your garage at night and removes something because it's "legacy"

your car manufacturer is under no legal or moral obligation to support your modifications to the car.

practical example: if you replace the head unit (which ties into the rest of the control electronics nowadays) with a third-party model, and the car manufacturer does an OTA software update which changes the way the car interacts with the head unit, and it breaks the third-party integration: wow, sucks to be you.

they don't have to keep supporting legacy cruft forever just so that a third-party modification doesn't break, just like anything in the software world. if it's not advertised as being a publicly-exposed interface then it's subject to breakage at any time. Carplay is a supported interface, swapping in a new head unit and a CAN interface to try and mimic the OEM head unit's CANbus traffic is not.

if you use sun.misc.unsafe, you're gonna have a bad time, period. That's on you. Tinker all you want but don't cry and sue when the unstable ABI is changed. Linux kernel explicitly formalizes this philosophy. You're approved (in-tree), or you're subject to breakage and we don't care about the consequences, you brought it on yourself.

again, you can say that's software and it's different because we need to keep phones out of landfills, but apple is providing long-life availability guarantees of OEM parts at OEM rates for 3-4x the total lifecycle of their competitors' products.

If apple advertises somewhere that you can use older phone screens then fine, sue, but otherwise they’re under absolutely no obligation to support them when misused on other models. The fact that it worked for a while is irrelevant - you touched com.sun.unsafe.
I think you should look at it in terms of lifetime calories burned per unit of body mass. Most mammals have very similar lifespan measured in this manner. With the exception of bats. Because they really needed to burn way more calories, so they figured it out how to do it without accumulating damage to their bodies that eventually leads to death at the same lousy rate that all other mammals can get away with.