skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sure, but you skipped a beat there .. you setup the context of device companies (agree btw), then skip right to a particular instance of security video use with a giant emotional content. But that usecase is "keep me safe from random unsafe other humans" .. when talking about the intentions and actions of companies you, the customer, are trying to use to keep you safe, you miss the part about trivial betrayal of trust as a company. The betrayal of trust by the company you partner with, due to low-cost, convenience and attractive tech, is what a third of YNews headlines are about today.

Random predatory individuals are bad, so are zombie apocolypse denizens.. but the subject of lawful-in-name-only betrayal, in very large commercial markets, seems much more to the point today, here.
I'd love to grow tomatoes, but I live where it's too hot and they'll stop flowering sometime in June.

But I'm wondering if you're not growing your tomatoes right, or the cultivars you have are not great? One of the biggest issues I run into when I lived somewhere I could grow is the plants getting so large they uproot the posts I have them staked up with if it gets windy.

Good soil goes a long way, you'll want it to be mostly a decomposed manure. Then you'll really want to get the biggest plant you can find at the store as early as weather allows, then bury most of the plant you buy. If you're just planting it like a normal plant, you've wasted a ton of its potential.

In one of the best years I've had my plants grew nearly 8 feet tall and with only 4 bushes I had to have the kids load up a wagon with tomatoes and give away them to the neighbors I had so many.
The reason I got to know my grandmother and that she lived until I was 26 is that in the 70s she took part in such a trial when she was terminally ill.
Thank you for wording that so well, that’s exactly how I feel about the situation.

Unfortunately we’re having our own problems here in Scotland (i.e. poverty, economy, low births, alcohol/drugs deaths). But I do now feel like we should drop our anchor that is England. The population is too polite to revolt and voluntarily mind controlled by a rotten press.

It’s a shame, being from the EU, I always looked up to Britain. Now while living here, I’m just astonished that people just accept or don’t care that Britain is going backwards. Westminster is a clown show.

We’re speed running towards a bleak future.
I’ve written a lot of react apps (first used it in a hackathon in 2014) and this list is really just fluff. hooks + context make all of these libraries pretty much unnecessary for most react apps as they are not that complex

I think the more glaring criticism is the lack of any unified component library. The amount of different Button implementations alone is astounding
>> Africans wouldn't be heading to japan anyway.

Why not? Poor people go wherever they can/where they are allowed if the host country is rich.
I did a startup making a mp3 player that was attached to whole house audio distribution systems.
We got an angry email from a customer saying he woke up to ABBA playing full blast at 3:00am. While it was likely an integration/timer issue, he was wondering 'why ABBA? what is the player trying to tell me?"

The control system was sending 'play' with nothing else, which was more of an edge case based on our UI, and so it started at the beginning of the list of artists, and ABBA was at the beginning of that list.

Other players might have started at the beginning of the list of songs, but for some reason (25 years ago) we chose the beginning of the list of artists.
Later on it was configurable - random, favorite playlist, etc.
Mac doesn't have seccomp so no. The functionality could be implemented but it would have to use a completely different mechanism.
cloud camera's aren't that either, most require the download of an app, signing up, configuring the camera, etc.

You could just as easily give local camera's the "printer" treatment, and most people are somehow able to successfully setup printers on their PC's.
I could, however, imagine you buying a "$BRAND hub" for your "$BRAND camera" and other $BRAND IoT that ostensibly set-ups a tailscale kinda thing you can access via the $BRAND App, all while not touching the cloud.

It's ostensibly the same UX as the current cloud set-up, only without the operational costs of running a cloud service.
> And those voters are voting!

That's why it's even more important to go vote this time, and for a party that will likely make the cut. For all intents and purposes, votes for the everybody-knows-they-will-be-<5% parties are lost votes, with the only difference to "not voting" that there's a buck or so per voter for those parties' piggy-banks.

The rumor that invalidating the ballot makes any difference makes a reappearance every few years, so for clarity: The same applies to invalid votes, which end up being just a line-item in some statistic nobody cares about.
Sure, my issue is with the culture and idea of what is needed that has driven the structure of the workforce and the way many orgs treat the role.
Xe is just an enthusiastic engineer at Tailscale.
One night while in the computer science lab doing a Java assignment, my professor for that class happened to walk by the lab and quipped to me, "oh, good luck on _that_ machine."

He explained: once upon a time, the machine refused to run _any_ Java programs, and would spectacularly crash and burn instead. C++ fine, python fine, anything Java was a hard nope. He didn't believe this at first until his program also started crashing the machine.

It took a tech, him, and another professor about two weeks to work out that the JVM happened to allocate the same RAM address to the integer 12 on that particular machine every time the JVM started. The actual chip of RAM that contained that hardware address was faulty, so whenever the machine tried to allocate to that address, it would crash.

Swapping out the bad RAM stick immediately solved the problem.
Is a server required for exaquOS functionality? Beyond serving it of course, I'm excited to run all this stuff locally and requiring a server normally defeats the point of something running in a browser.
I highly doubt the minimum wage is the cause of these issues. In places like urban Pennsylvania, where the minimum wage is still 7.25 USD, there's hardly any jobs that start at $7.25. The real issue with labor participation is no one can survive on $7.25/hr, so it becomes more realistic to sit at home and collect disability. The government should be subsidizing labor at the low end -- maybe paying workers an additional $5/hr under a certain wage -- to incentivize work
Audits are IMO worthwhile, but end users should be aware of the scope of an audit. In the context of commercial VPN providers, it's usually just a code security audit -- are there any memory leaks? Is sensitive data being passed around a little bit too loosely? Is there some way for unprivileged users to gain privilege escalation by crafting a malicious request against one of your services?

In this sense, they're valuable. As someone working in software, I can figure out if the bugs were subtle or blatant, which is often a good proxy metric for the competence of the team behind the product. Are the same bugs cropping up year after year, even if they've already been previously fixed in other parts of the code? Again, a good red flag to use there.

Audits do not and often cannot cover things like "is the company reselling connection/user metadata to other companies," though, and in most cases consumers will care that there is an audit rather than caring what's in the audit.
Yes. Let's burn fossil fuels to make sure we don't waste anything.
Their body, their choice.

Steve Jobs probably killed himself by his medical choices but that’s what he wanted to do.

Should we have strapped him in and forced him to get conventional medicine?
Yep, "504 Gateway Time-out" for me too. Ah well.
Revert Slack Interface
Revert Slack back to the way it was, before the unified UI crap.
I also don't like how the rich get away with things - but is that the case here? Zipline's drones are probably better for the environment than ground vehicles because they are small, light, and electric. They're also supposed to operate at 55 dB for people on the ground - similar to how noisy a delivery van is.
It's a good question, and I'll have to do some more research to "show my work." If you look at the opportunities available, these all look likes roles that would already exist in various federal agencies (Dept of Energy, USDA, Forest Service, Army Corp of Engineers, FEMA) so I would not run right to "this are 20k net new open roles" but rather a reconfiguration of work distribution and candidate funnel (similar to how US Digital Service ingests technologists and associated folks, weighs and measures, and then distributes throughout government agencies in need of exceptional, motivated talent).
There's no thermodynamic reason that my house (in the north east US) should be 68°F/20°C in December either. It's not natural, is because of financial incentives that it's possible, and creates a lot of waste as a by-product.
that's not bad, upspeak is a great way to label the phonetic dancing being done. For that guy he always talks like that, something in the strong direction of salesman like. Sometimes you can go far back enough in the video history to sample their persona developing over time, eg ChrisFix videos on YouTube have undergone a more muted and normal speech pattern to the more ebullient stuff you find later.
YES. God what a nightmare. Can you imagine all of the arguments and threats of lawsuits that bug caused for small and medium businesses? You changed the contract after we had a verbal agreement and tricked me into signing!

I wonder if any executive assistants got fired over that. Surely.
Noob question: Is it possible to stream video to a device outside your WiFi without needing a third party server in the middle? How does one do that?
If they work, are easy to setup and configure, and are reliable, I have no problem paying a hefty premium. I'm tired of trying to get cheap garbage to work (I'm currently struggling with Hikvision cameras and a QNAP NAS).
> Border cops are the worst.

They are just a symptom of what happens when you give people power and no accountability.
I mean, was your pedantry that they are responding to fun? I found theirs a bit more amusing as well.
By reading reports of the research which has been done on the subject for many years.
> the populations reduced by ~90%.

Specifically in the Americas, not the whole world. Also I don’t see how climate change was the cause.

European population had already recovered to its pre black death peak by the 1400s and had significantly surpassed it by 1500 (78 vs 90 million).
Fun fact: I can't legally call myself an "Engineer" in Canada because I don't have the ring/haven't passed an engineering course in college. My official job title is "Archmage of Infrastructure", but overall I'd call myself an artist/philosopher more than an engineer. I explore what is possible and turn it into what is practical.
How does this scale? For example, can you shard user DB's across multiple PGSQL clusters?
That'll still be poor outcomes for brain tumors whose position makes surgery impossible.

If I'm not mistaken, also there are even a few that are just nearly impossible to cut... remember reading an account of one such that dulled a few dozen scalpels. The introduction of some new cutting tool at the time was encouraging.
*owned mostly by ~3 companies. if not owned, then controlled via their non-competitive contracts they have with the very small number of farmers who span the entire country.
If you've ever seen fruit on sale, you've seen a coarse version of this.
Be the change you want in the world. Start your own community kitchen :)
If you'd like to play around with MNIST yourself, I wrote a PyTorch training implementation that gets ~99.45%+ val accuracy in <13.6 seconds on a V100, est. < 6.5 seconds on an A100. Made to be edited/run in Colab: https://github.com/tysam-code/hlb-CIFAR10

It's originally kitted for CIFAR10, but I've found the parameters to be quite general. The code is very easy to read and well-commented, and is a great starting place for exploration.

Min-cut deltas to run MNIST:

.datasets.CIFAR10(' -> .datasets.MNIST(' (both occurences)

'whiten': Conv(3, -> 'whiten': Conv(1,

crop_size = 28 - > `crop_size = 28

Compute for the project funded by Carter Brown and Daniel Gross, my appreciation to them both for helping make this possible. Their support via encouragement has been very helpful as well. <3 :)
Both human nature and the legal system can be very hostile to "we didn't investigate anomaly A, B, C, D, E, ... in the patient's scans and test results, because none of them seemed likely to be worth the costs of doing so".
Not necessarily. Pure noise has high entropy.
SpaceX breaks another booster reuse record, but did anyone see it?
Hey, very cool :)

We don't recommend production use right now. There's a roadmap page here https://electric-sql.com/docs/reference/roadmap -- we particularly need to flesh out shapes, permissions and validation.

Happy to chat (e.g. on our Discord) if you'd like a bit more detail / looking at whether Electric could fit into your tech pans.
yes, we should go to a decentralized system where the community or workers own the farm.
What makes you say that development in Rust is Java-esque? Genuinely curious!
Right now, most of its target audience already knows exactly what terraform is and why they're abandoning it, although I agree that pivoting to explaining independently of that is a good idea
I use obsidian.md to keep track of todos, ideas, gotchas etc.
No need to guess, you requested a summary:

> you’ve missed the most important hyperlink: what the fuck is a MNIST?
To your point, you're talking about processes that while impressive in many respects are HIGHLY labor intensive. The benefits from modern agriculture are the low levels or required human labor and the low prices, both of which free up most people to do other things and to spend far less on food. In the not distant past most Americans spent 30+% of their income on food, which I doubt is a world many of us want to return to.
Your stack is entirely data, why do you think a CPU couldn't predict access patterns on stack?

Prefetchers can predict negative offset/decrements since 1980s
Very uncanny valley!
How about we simply fund more real medical research so we can cure all those diseases that you might eventually get?
> It is quite bizarre to imply that pre-colonial India was a haven for human rights but that Britain, the country with the most advanced legal system and which had recognised the notion of human rights nearly 900 years earlier, did not.

Pop quiz: How long did it take the United States to recognize the human rights of those born into slavery?

People are selectively blind about who the human rights apply to all the time, it's nothing new whatsoever.
Last I heard it cost ~$5000 to make a Toyota Camry.
Must be a dark mode plugin thanks will fix!
My son's laptop screen kept shutting off while he was playing American Truck Simulator. His truck would drive off the road while the screen was black.

Every time I played on his laptop, this did not happen. He swore he was cursed.

This went on for many days, with many instances where it would happen for him but not for me. Then one day I just sat and observed him while he played, looking for any difference. That's when I noticed his watch band is metal with a magnetic clasp. The position of his wrist on the laptop was tripping the hall sensor, making the laptop think the lid was closed.

Him and I (and his mother) were glad to find out he is not cursed. :-D
You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, tanks, fighters, and helicopters are not obsolete by any stretch of the imagination.
Frigate, Coral TPU, and Tailscale/Headscale form a reasonable local solution for those who want to explore setting up their own system.

NTFY and Node-Red, with a dash of MQTT, can be bolted on for remote alerting.
Reolink has hardcoded backdoor creds.

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-21-019-...
Related company that's doing similar work: Talyn! They're a great team, and really excited about the work they are doing.

https://www.talyn.com/
I guess by your definition native americans were not replaced either. Genetically, culturally or bullshitically....
The route that we went with for PowerSync (disclosure: co-founder) is to allow to define your own function for handling writes, where you would use your (presumably existing) backend application API to persist the writes to Postgres. Therefore you can handle any validation/authZ/business logic for writes in your backend layer.

The PowerSync client SDK still handles the queueing and retrying of writes so that they can be automatically retried if network connectivity is not available — whenever there is a retry, your callback function is called. (As a result of this approach, your write function should be idempotent; we commend using GUIDs or UUIDs generate client-side for primary keys)

Similar to Electric, PowerSync also uses JWT for auth against your backend.

There are some architecture diagrams explaining this on our docs root here: https://docs.powersync.co/
Earth Observation Satellites
Numbat: Programming Language for Scientific Computations
Amazon Rolls Out Generative AI Alexa, Launches New Speakers
Prototype of a Panamization of the NetworkInterface Class
Well no, the selling point is the license not the name
Honestly the water retention alone is more than worth the soil costs with the potting mix. Many herbs can be very sensitive to water/heat and good control here allows the plants to grow much larger and more resilient.
Intel's Chip Factory, I Saw the Future. It's Plain Old Glass
> I suspect one could do the same thing in any memory unsafe language. Granted, Java might make this somewhat easier by not having the concept of modifiable pointers, but discipline and static analysis could likely achieve the same.

You can theoretically, but nobody has shown persuasively how to do it. The problem is when anything can be unsafe, everything can. Small safe abstractions using unsafe primitives "under the hood" in a safe language are king.
Do you think that this will all function as one giant homogenizing force at the societal level? The AIs will all be trained on the same data, and so will have the same opinions, beliefs, persuasions, etc. It seems like everyone having AIs which are mostly the same will maximize exploitation, and minimize exploration, of ideas.
A VPN tunnel into your home network is one way, or a VPS you control that has a similar connection into your home network is another.
UFC fighters test antitrust law to escape ‘perpetual’ contracts
I don’t disagree, but the fact we allow titles to get out of wack with reality speaks at how we don’t have very high standards in our profession compared to many others (medicine, law, other kinds of engineering)
Neat, this is the pattern I've been thinking about for a while now. Also glad to see this is Elixir based and that Jose is involved.

I've been using https://github.com/cpursley/walex (basically a fork of cainophile via a fork for subabase) to listen to Postgres changes in Elixir.

Sequin is also doing some neat stuff in this space as well: https://blog.sequin.io/all-the-ways-to-capture-changes-in-po...
PS. Love the username btw. Clever (:
"...isn't quite right — it would break _all_ your existing code that wasn't in .svelte files."

What if it is opt-out reactivity in .svelte files and opt-in reactivity in .ts/.js files? Yeah I know it would be a bit more combersome to copy code from .svelte to .js/.ts files but I think it would be worth it
The fuck is a GZIP? ;)
Lots of vendors sell something like that you just need to look for an NVR. Ubiquiti, Synology, Reolink, Amcrest etc all sell products like this to varying extents, but other companies have realized you can make better money selling outrageous cloud subscriptions for subsidized hardware.
How does throwing more money at the problem help? How you spend it matters. Otherwise you're just setting it on fire.
What is the difference between $derived/computed and $effect/watch?
And zeta' can not be expressed by any state of the visible Universe.

The GP question was not about encoding, and thus is not subject to compression. The largest number we can measure of anything is a pretty well defined concept.
Amcrest cameras feeding into Frigate.
Hydra Pausable Compute on Postgres
What data is stored about an employee's justification for viewing a customer account? Is there an enumerated set of justifications such as "direct customer inquiry" versus "to be used for upselling other banking products" versus "IT debugging" etc. or is it free-form text? Is the justification process more complex if the bank knows that the customer is a public figure, celebrity, or maybe anyone who meets Wikipedia'a notability requirements?
Well someone saw it because you wrote the article!

I'm kind of surprised how many of the reuses were Starlink.
AMD Completes Epyc Arc with Siena Launch – In Less Than 12 Months
I use raspberry pi zeros and the little "arducam" CSI boards. It's incredibly cheap and works great, you can make them talk to whatever you like.
Unless I misunderstood, Svelte 5 'runes' appears to be just 'markers' making explicit what used to be implicit with two noteworthy benefits:

- simpler compiler implementation
- easier to identify moving parts

If so then the intro article needs a rewrite to be simpler without unnecessary districting details.
> In the not distant past most Americans spent 30+% of their income on food, which I doubt is a world many of us want to return to.

Not only that, but as recently as like 100 years ago, 30% of people in the US were farmers (ish).
There's a huge amount of work on model pruning, especially with an eye towards model reduction for on-device deployments. I've done a bunch of work in this space focused on getting speech synthesis working in real time on phones. It works and can be automated.

There's a lot of nuance though. What has typically worked best are variants on iterative magnitude weight pruning rather than activation pruning.

This can often get rid of 90% of the weights with minimal impact on quality. Structured pruning lets you remove blocks of weights while retaining good SIMD utilization... and so on.
Yes I do, a daily rough journal and a formal weekly report to my managers. I use https://five.today/ for the rough journals and tasks as it tags everything automatically for me.
Anker (Eufy) has some now. I haven't used them but if anyone has would love to hear about their experience here. https://us.eufy.com/collections/security
The "resurgence" has been going on for 20 years! Not sure what to call it these days other than a fun expensive hobby...
Last time I used paint in Windows 7 and, boy, was it crippled beyond recognition! Palette management - terrible, tool switching - horrendous, working with 8-bit images - plain impossible (it ruins BMP palette no matter what you do)! The only remaining use for mspaint for me was occasional math/dev schematic sketch. Shame on you, M$!

(no, I didn't move to paint.net. LodePaint, Wally and pure old PS (before CS))
I recently upgraded my USG for a dream machine, glad it seems the upgrade was worth it.
You mean the way the US/UK is slowly assassinating Julian via the torture of extended solitary confinement (and only because it was too hard for them to do it in one fell swoop)?