skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This effect is extremely apparent in r/c aircraft especially at long range or high-speed passes.

Without some other contextual clues (perceived motion against clouds, etc) it's extremely difficult to determine whether the plane is rolled 180 degrees and how it's moving. And especially as it turns through the degrees of shadow etc it's very easy to have the plane appear visually different from what you expect.

I've definitely flown some sailplanes etc (up high!) or played around with long-duration gliding on my old electric flying wings. And the farther out you go the easier it is to lose perspective. Losing perspective down at ground level (eg you got way too far out for a landing attempt) is usually game over.

The other one is it's very difficult to pick off in snap-vision situations. You rolled the plane and lost it (my wing would do 3-4 a second) and have a snap second to pick up the reorientation etc and yoink upwards. And that's probably similar in principle to fast-pass snap recognition workloads for fighters.

I had some fairly fast electric wings for the day, they'd hit 50-70 mph with some of the early neodymium brushless motors from Mega (the 16/15/4 and 16/15/3) and high-discharge 50A NiMH packs. Those things cooked, I added extra spars to help avoid harmonic flapping from overspeed etc. I liked to do soaring (one of the wings was originally an unpowered cliff soaring design) so I definitely dressed my wings up in high-vis designs (contrasting top/bottom with reflective in some parts, distinctive pattern on each). That largely solved the problem especially as I gained experience etc. Just ask the enemy nicely to do that, I guess. ;)

(but honestly that might be a good way to train, use a rc model at extreme distance with a reflective pattern and have the instructor spin it and the student has to reorient themselves and recover it (or push a flight stick in the direction you'd respond for that orientation). Practice an extreme form of learning to ignore silhouettes and orient from the other cues, and then slow it down to what planes can actually do without the visual aid?)

But yes that orientation illusion is really disconcerting and easy to fall into. Is it right side up, or turned and now it's upside down, etc. If you can't visually track features accurately you lose one of the degrees of freedom in the model. And you can often brute-force it with concentration and will... but if you lose it, the movement is gonna confuse the hell out of you for a couple seconds until your mental model reorients. Literally a visual gimbal lock.
Its sad for two reasons:

1. Those without the means and who are uninformed have less privacy and
2. It’s a waste of resources to not use the computer built into the TV and have to by another one for the sake of privacy.
Is there a documented instance where this happened?

I've heard of this but I've never actually seen this in person. A google, ddg, and even a leddit search doesn't bring up anything.
Consider that those layers of abstraction exist for a reason? Let’s say you can’t see very well. This is what I hear when I enable VoiceOver on macOS and open Discord (either the web app or the desktop app):

1. “Discord, friends - Discord window, direct messages, selected cell”

2. “You are currently on a cell inside of a table. To navigate the cells within a table, press…”

3. (when navigating with the keyboard) “1 mention, $SERVER_NAME, cell” “$SERVER_NAME, cell” etc

And here’s when I do the same with a random Dear ImGui app I have installed:

1. “$APP_NAME, $APP_NAME window, $APP_NAME window”

2. “You are currently in a window”

3. (when navigating with the keyboard) [silence; no additional instructions]

So that Dear ImGui app is entirely unusable for anyone who needs a screen reader. This is something every React app — really every web app, period — gets basically for free.

And it’s not just screen readers, right? It’s different viewport sizes and alternate character sets and right-to-left text and user-defined fonts and searching through text on a page and the zillion-and-one other things that you either take for granted or don’t need at all but are crucial for millions of people.

Yes, if you could make a good UI by just filling a frame buffer with pixels, web browsers and React would all be hideously over-engineered. But we don’t live in that world.
Interstellar puzzle based on graph theory
> Do Americans not care about clubs, theatres, museums and restaurants?

That’s making a big assumption that these things don’t also exist in suburbia. I live in about as copy/paste suburbia as you could imagine and rarely need to go into downtown to do any of the things you listed. If I want to go to an NBA game then I’ll have to go downtown but otherwise there are good restaurants,theatre, concerts in suburbia.

> What do you do in your free time, just sit in your big McMansion in copypaste suburbia?

In my free time I do stuff with my family, read, and work on my hobbies. Probably not that much different from people in dense city centers.
Give me a GitHub action template that builds universal Qt binaries for Mac given an existing cmake-based build workflow and I'll consider it. Until then, it was already enough work piecing things together for a regular Intel app-bundle because every howto you'd find does things differently and none of them are a perfect match to your setup. Even windows was easy compared to that...
https://archive.ph/OlZ1N
> TV's are becoming intrusive and abusive; what to do about it?

What do do about it? Do not, under any circumstance, ever buy a smart TV.
I don’t think a web dev being unaware of Kubernetes is that rare, especially if we’re talking about a front end dev. Particularly in large companies jobs are very tightly segmented, the dev might just be given the URL for the backend API and not be expected to know much more about it than that.
The Heart of W. Edwards Deming
Yeah, Gitaly is GitLab's approach to scaling up the actual Git operations. It's certainly a major part of the equation, but the article suggests the Rails app still has a bit of work to go before it's possible to use SHA256 repos.
Population decline. Which in itself may not be a problem but has all sorts of interesting economical consequences.

You get an aging population requiring care, with less people to both physically and financially/economically fund them.

You also move from always having to build new houses and infrastructure to suddenly having excess housing and infrastructure that isn't needed. Not only does that eliminate a whole bunch of jobs and related economic activity but also drives prices down, etc.

I am sure this is an absolutely terrible summary but you can google population bomb, population decline, etc, for much more informed takes. But basically for the last 100 years the entire world and economy has run on an ever-inflating path and that could change at both a country and world level.
I cannot emphasize how much of a game changer SB-SIMD has been for writing performant numeric code in SBCL. Being able to experiment with AVX intrinsics in a REPL has been quite the experience for me.
I did not watch the video. I assumed the blog post was a transcription since it contains parentheticals like "(audience laughs)".

My takeaway from the transcript was that the author was chaining together webassembly programs like a pipeline in a Unix shell. Is the video about something else entirely?
Azure already has this, there's a literal checkbox that forces it to only answer questions it can cite from your internal documents.

The reality is chat is a terrible interface in the long run. Horrible discoverability, completely non-obvious edges, turns what you might think is an equally accessible tool into the worst case of "you're holding it wrong you've ever seen just judging by what people in these comments are complaining about.

But chat was/is brilliant at making this stuff accessible. I've gone back and learned of incredible things I could have been doing years ago if I had paid more attention to ML, but it wasn't until chat gave us this perfect interface to start from that I suddenly got the spark.

As chat models get more powerful, chat will be the least interesting thing you can do with them. If the model is intelligent enough to convert minimal instructions into complex workflows, why do I need to chat with it? To take it to its logical extreme, why not have one button that just does the right thing?

The more realistic version of that will be industry specific interfaces that focus on the 5 buttons you need to get your job done, along with the X decades of procedure that can guide the LLM to exactly what needs to be done.
I mentioned it in another comment, but it's to prevent the case where the TV might be connected with an ethernet cable in the future by someone other than me, giving it an opportunity to upload any collected historical data it might have.
I'm not actually very worried about that happening, but I already had the thing splayed open so I figured I might as well just gut anything I could get an iron to and didn't plan to use.
Intrusive? Just wait until NextGen TV standard becomes more adopted by the marketplace.
True, but software engineering sure seems to be more threatened by AI as a profession than, say, nursing or cutting hair, simply because it already happens in information space – no complicated and messy adapters required.

> I don't think GPT is taking the job of any engineer worth their salt anytime soon.

That probably depends entirely on their experience. As somebody fresh out of a bootcamp or a newgrad I‘d be somewhat concerned, especially if the company doesn’t want to invest in building up in-house talent because they know they probably won’t have enough retention to justify it.
If the model produces content that would be a copyright violation in any other context, it doesn't stop being a copyright violation regardless of any of these decisions. No one has ever disagreed with that; it's the functional abolition of copyright and if you're okay with that, then you're not arguing for this stuff, you're arguing for the abolition of copyright.

The argument is that if you trained the model with copyrighted data, and then you or someone else separately used the model to generate novel media which was not legally similar enough to any copyrighted work to make it a copyright violation, that that isn't violating copyright, it's fair use. Basically, using it to make your own original content is legal, and using it to create an unauthorised reproduction of a copyrighted work is illegal. Just like all other software.
Workers have very little input on releasing a product or the direction in which a product goes.
I didn't think of projectors because I don't have a good set-up for it, but that's another great option along side dumb TVs, TVs that work without internet, and monitors/digital signage. Starting with a mini PC or something similar unlocks plenty of good options for avoiding all of the smart TV issues.
Do one or both of the following.

1. Setup pihole on your home network

2. Disconnect smart tv from the Internet and get a Roku/Apple TV/Nvidia shield. While the former still have adds they seem to be better behaved.

This makes the experience much more manageable.
The best approach I've seen for hiring junior engineers
308.4 utopias needed to read the book to the end. no easter eggs or whales appear at the end of the book
The interesting bit of the article is the rise of specific forms of tinnitus as a result of using these devices, and some brain compensatory behaviour due to changes in auditory input.

Since I have acquired tinnitus anyway ("The Who", twice, glasgow 1970s) I can't say it's affected me.

Good noise cancelling phones made a 23 year longhaul flight requiring job much more tenable. Most of the business class carriers now provide very high quality ones, I still sometimes prefer my own (and of course need them in the cheap seats)
Install PiHole https://docs.pi-hole.net/
What is "GA clients"?
I assume Australia is not courting five year olds to apply for visas and are instead trying to plug a gap in a population older than that. Even if everyone started having kids tomorrow that gap would still exist.
Haven't seen a TV manufacturer implement it yet, but

> , Sidewalk can help simplify new device setup, extend the low-bandwidth working range of devices to help find pets or valuables with Tile trackers, and help devices stay online even if they are outside the range of their home wifi.

https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Sidewalk/b?ie=UTF8&node=213281...
It seems that media today is all about volume of content, which requires that controversy is created from virtually nothing to justify another pointless article.
Non-smart TVs exist.

https://www.dealnews.com/features/tv/smart-tv/

If you don't like Vizio? don't buy Vizio. Speak with your wallet.

IE: Best-Buy Non-Smart

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchpage.jsp?_dyncharset=UTF-...
What mesh networks are they going to connect to? Are there any mesh networks?

The only other options are cellular, which manufacturer is not going to pay for a modem and service, or LoRa, which is way too low bandwidth for leaking any data.
The junior engineers are spending 80% of their time wrestling with tools. The senior engineers are spending their 80% of the day stuck in meetings and group chats and ultimately doing the heavy lifting, often squeezing in this coding after business hours are over for everyone else.

We can get rid of junior engineers, but then there's no one to replace the senior engineers, not even the precious AI.

As it is, most businesses would love to hire more software engineers, not fewer. There's a shortage of money and talent, not work.
what?
now you tell me??!!
Which middle man do you use? What is their cut?
> Visual Studio is brilliant compared to anything else.

That's a bold statement. Clion and vs code are pretty great too, and last time i did a comparaison better than visual studio proper.
It is interesting and tragic how the business community absolutely refuses to let something just be. That would be leaving money on the table. And we can't have that, not at all.
It wasn't much effort at all, and I enjoyed doing it. And I've mentioned in another comment why "just don't connect it" isn't necessarily a foolproof plan, even if it's very likely to be sufficient.
Sam - I don't want to ban you, as you know, but you really can't do this here.
This is an interesting article. One aspect few might notice is that India is also where the largest group of Zoroastrians/Parsis live. This is relevant because parsis dispose their dead not by burial or cremation but by placing them on towers where vultures can consume their bodies.

The lack of vultures has been a huge problem for the community. It would be interesting to know if this contributed to that.
Sometimes I read nonsense in comment sections on places like teamblind where people say sv companies "hire the best and brightest", then I remember some PRs I reviewed the other day where the authors had no fucking clue what they were doing and I think to myself "best and brightest"
Yep. Some Android TVs even offer a “simple TV mode” that switches off the bells and whistles.

My Sony doesn’t have that mode but it works great totally offline hooked up to receiver and Apple TV nevertheless.
Canada’s Student Visa Strategy Takes Off, Nearly 1 in 48 People on Study Permit
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But how do junior engineers become senior engineers?

Who will be willing to pay junior engineers to learn the ropes when AI can do that part almost as well, with only a bit of senior engineer oversight?
No! It's a waste of resources to include stuff that's quickly outdated and only used to sell our info and serve ads.

I dont go as far is desoldering ports, but day 1 everything I can disable is, and they get a device I control in HDMI 1.
I'd rather buy a non-smart TV and connect an AppleTV or a Chromecast with it.
My smart TV is just a monitor for my living room PC. Problem solved.
I understand the frustration but this is like a problem for the 0.1% - but maybe I am wrong. How many people out there just want a "dumb" TV that can just do 2 things ON/OFF and "Show what's being sent to the Input port"? Probably not that many.

I also wonder, if a Pi-Hole or Firewall could help you deal with this - you could sniff what IPs the TV is trying to connect to and block them manually or even better block them all via MAC address?
Loved using Next.js.

Did not like using Django, needing to learn two DSL for templates and htmx, and a cumbersome React frontend integration.
Unmeasurable Costs and Benefits
They are just as likely to use telepathy to upload data via superintelligent owls.

There's no evidence of Smart TVs connecting in this way.
>they have it all anyway.

I hate that rationale just so very, very much.
I forwarded the email to oig@ftc.gov. They say it's the wrong way to complain about consumer issues, but I don't care.
Does any OS besides Windows not ship with Perl? Even on Windows, I'd assume anyone programming has WSL set up, which means you have Perl.
Hopefully it never has a genuine bug that requires a firmware update.
Is this what major news wires have devolved into? Copy/pasting a few blurbs from DownDetector?

"Thousands of users" on a system of hundreds of millions of users....AWS would still be reporting all systems green in such an outage.
You know why they don't. The people who have started the organization they're complaining about had more resources and opportunities than the person complaining.
That's why I said that it can do it, not that it does do it.

The point is that the "just don't connect it to the internet" response is neither sufficient nor correct.
If you re-syllabize the words and pronounce the last one like it rhymes with "tock" then it's obscene.

"Mike Hoch" -> "My Cock"
> The problem is that they now have clarity and don't like it.

Yes. Any hope for looser rules from Congress went away when Sam Bankman-Fried went to jail. (He's currently complaining about the jail food in Brooklyn.)

If you want to know if the SEC will allow something unusual, you can ask the SEC for a "no-action letter". Three token issuers have obtained such letters.[1] Those are for game tokens, not Make Money Fast schemes.

There's also the route of registering your new thing with the SEC as a security. A few companies did that.[2] The STX token is a registered security. Didn't do much, but it's legal.
Registration is no guarantee of success, but it forces enough disclosures and auditing that a "rug pull" is less likely. Enough is on record that the people ripped off know who to go after.

[1] https://www.kramerlevin.com/en/perspectives-search/the-secs-...

[2] https://www.axios.com/2023/03/06/crypto-register-sec-securit...
Carbon credits and offsets of all flavors are a scam.

I just searched Google[1] for "carbon credits scam" and the first several entries were from Vox[2] (it's complicated), WaPo[3] (it's a scam), GreenPeace[4] (it's a scam), the Guardian[5] (scam), and Center for American Progress[6] (we need new oversight to curb fraud).

These are hardly right-wing or climate skeptics. I am very inclined to believe them; I believe that con artists are gonna find a way to game any new financial system to their own advantage.

Personally, as the market is so abstract and as verification is often difficult, I don't see an effective way to remove the fraud from such systems. Granted, I am no expert in carbon trading, but the abstractness seems like a fraud magnet.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=carbon+credit+scam

[2] https://www.vox.com/23817575/carbon-offsets-credits-financia...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2023/04/17/carbon-offs...

[4] https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/50689/carbon-...

[5] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/23/australi...

[6] https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-cftc-should-rai...

[ed] added line feeds to fix run-ons
A built-in "service charge" is a scam: it just lets the restaurant advertise lower prices than what the meal truly costs. Same goes for not showing the after-tax prices. If they really wanted to "keep compensation as fair as possible to everyone", they'd simply pay them a proper hourly wage, and adjust their prices to suit, instead of making their pay dependent on that day's sales.

A lot of US business practices are all about scamming people with deception, and restaurants are the epitome of this.
Amazon Sidewalk uses BLE for short distances and LoRa for long distances. LoRa is seriously low bandwidth. The highest is 50 kb/s and that is for the shortest range and all users. BLE is higher bandwidth but requires having an Amazon device as gateway.
While it it might not fit for all or even most use cases is something like Flutter a possible solution for a cross platform
Binary?
Sounds like your beef is with specialization, big tech companies don’t use k8s, don’t burden their web devs with devops and the aforementioned devs delegate food and transit to professionals who do it better than them.
Amazon Sidewalk is LoRa.

It doesn't have data price but is capped 500MB per account per month.
> The delicate balance of Nature was upset.

Fascinating stuff. A subtle build on this that just struck me:
"The delicate balance of Nature moved to a new equilibrium point that involved a lot more human deaths"

I think it's interesting because it strikes me that Nature is actually a pretty resilient system, it's just that a lot of its stable-states are hostile to human life, to varying degrees. Then again, maybe I'm painting too much of an anthropocentric picture.
I have a friend who has worked remotely for Amazon for a few years. He now has to ride a bus to the nearest office (1.5 hours away), meanwhile the rest of the teammated are at different offices. What a waste.
I wanted it and couldn't find one. My parents wanted one, too, and they are not into technology like I am.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37284764
I can always solder the port back on if I really need to
I don't think the second point has any weight when people are shipping miniature computers in literally everything these days. Personally, I don't want these devices using all of their power.

The first point is indeed tragic. But I think some of the blame has to fall on the consumer for failing to keep abreast of changes, and for not forcing manufacturers to change their ways.

We're super quick to cancel companies for social justice stuff, but not for spying on us?
> Just like my friend who shut down his cabinetry business because he was paying his employees more than himself (doing the "right thing").

I've listened to almost all the How I Built This episodes, and paying your employees more than you are paying yourself is fairly common. You need to pay everyone market rates to retain them, and there often isn't enough left over to pay yourself well (if at all).
You mean making "while making monumental changes to the environment"
If you had $5000 that you wanted to use to fight climate change, and you wanted to have it have a bigger multiplying effect than your own personal consumption (install heat pumps, get electric car, etc.), where would you put that, given that most carbon credits seem to be scams?

That is, what's the least-scammy carbon credit, and/or place of concrete change?

Places I donate to, but wonder how much the effect of each is:

* Climate charities focused on legislation (EarthJustice, Clean Air Task Force, EDF, NRDC)

* Direct CO2 removal (Climeworks). Seems like a drop in the bucket, but feel like this tech needs to grow.

* Goldstandard.org Carbon Credits. May be just as scammy, but appears to be direct gifts to green energy projects in developing world. (Of course, maybe they would have gotten the money anyway.)

What are other people's thoughts?
Yes; worker-owned restaurant chain has been running successfully in India since 1958 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Coffee_House)