skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Yes, people can't just leave work to rescue an incompetent spouse at a moments notice because they didn't prepare appropriately for their 24*7 on-call job.
Currently it seems to be intended for sharing a physical screen only
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Most cloud providers are "secure" in the sense that they lock up your data and leave the key in the door so you can access it easily. A salesman will swear, hand on heart, that they'd never abuse this. An auditor has also certified that they meet the highest standard of the check clearing.

This is enough to meet the legal requirements, as I understand things.

Some people are not credulous enough to take the salesman at his word.
I was astonished to find that all of my configurations were entirely inaccessible as soon as I upgraded. I was being forced to create an account. And I assume once I do, all of my configs would be pushed to the cloud. I don't want that. I want my records local. Especially since it contains important private information not owned by me.

Thankfully I was able to download an older version here https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/releases before the 8.x release.

This is unacceptable. Enshittification indeed.
Duh. It is pretty wrong that the accuser could stay anonymous.
Redundant? Smart watches exist and camera (phones) exist. They're both worse off today in the repair department _by design_, not coincidence or necessity. I still have both (non smart versions) I use specifically because of their repairability.

Planned obsolescence is baked into the marketing strategy. Fairphone realizes this but capitulated to sell peripherals, toeing Apple's talking points.

Companies taking a principled stance on repair is how repairs actually get done not the random customer finding an out-of-band way to increase the longevity of their hardware by trawling iFix it.
"Does the merchant who accepts your chip n pin payment receive the funds in their account immediately after they accept your payment?"

Yes they do. I also get notified about a Chip n PIN transaction or an account to account transfer before I've turned around and walked off (I hear my phone beep).

The advert is for onions ... OK for a mobile phone company.
More than that; ALGOL-68, for instance, allowed for translating keywords into different national languages, IIRC.
>>> Can we agree that solving problems = good? If you grant that, the rest should follow.

>> My solution might be the source of your problem, and why should I care if it is?

> How to 'make you care' about you creating a problem for me is itself a problem that we can create knowledge to solve, perhaps e.g. by creating a legal system that discourages you from doing the thing that made my life worse.

I think your use of "we" presumes some value of universalist cooperation (I'm no philosopher, so I'm just throwing around words to express what I'm feeling), which I don't think can be assumed. I think the more accurate statement is: "how to 'make you care' about you creating a problem for me" is a problem for you.

My gut feel is the only way to really to prioritize concern for others is a moral framework that says so (and offers a compelling reason to follow it), or some kind of finely-balanced anarchy where no person or group really has the power or opportunity to force problems on others (which seems impossible to maintain in practice).

Also another reason I think I can't agree that "solving problems = good" is there once was a problem labeled "the Jewish Problem" and the "final" solution to it is literally the epitome of evil.
Its wifi. You both just pick up the same frame when it is broadcast, then it sees two stations (a level below IP) with the same MAC. Most routers just don't care about that. (it's technically a valid edge case that two stations have the same mac address. It should be vanishingly rare in the wild ... but this is a practical example of why it isn't).
Its not going to do anything to the commercial driver, factory/warehouse, and food service industries.

Those are physical labour based industries, and dexterity robots are very, very expensive and not cost competitive with humans.

Low end, phone/chat only customer service will be replaced very soon. But what's next in line is millions of white collar jobs, from medicine to law to accountancy to teachers.

You are like 2 years behind, the 'truck drivers will be replaced first' narrative has long been flipped on its head.
Nice. There are a lot of obscure and wonderful options in there, but that is the funniest.
I like that the article actually used the word "embiggen" in context. Looks like it's officially cromulent now.

Supermicro has always been a solid choice in my opinion
> virtual staging in real estate media
If you can make this work with exteriors, Landscaping design is huge.
Maybe start with something simple like desert landscaping (which is really just rocks, turf, Pavers, maybe small palm trees)
Show HN: Lethelink – MVP for an interface to soothe people with Alzheimer's
> “This product is X, but open source.”

Mastodon.
We Spent 72 Hours Coding in the Woods [video]
Instantaneous response but also buggy. Shows some juicy tlds as available whilst they are not
I have not missed the point.

Background notifications can and do carry arbitrary application data, and are used to update the application state in the background.

This is their intended purpose, it’s what they’re documented to do, it’s how Apple intends them to be used, and it’s common application behavior.

This is literally a plainly documented feature of the platform. It’s not clever or unique or unusual — it’s a simple feature that Apple specifically documents.

I cannot even begin to fathom why people are confused about this, and it’s truly mind-boggling that this has required a thread at all.

Slack/Discord/Teams are non-native applications that do not leverage the platform’s support for updating application state via notifications. That does not mean the use of background notifications is unusual or rare. It is not.
> They are only able to influence your behavior if you use them.

Yes, companies cannot influence behavior of people or businesses that have no business relationship with them, direct or indirect. In other words, you are saying that indeed, the only anti-competitive action is sending armed thugs to sabotage your competition. Everything else, every contractual condition, is fair game.
It also means tens of millions of losses when the data pipeline falls over silently.

My first job out of university was to work on a compliance tool after someone used yahoo finance for exchange rates in a business critical spreadsheet. The losses were large enough to threaten the viability of the company.

Picking pennies in front of steamrolles is a pretty good description of putting no code in production.
And that's a perfectly valid rebuttal. Over time, she occasionally asked for more features, and I obliged as time permitted. The requests were always reasonable, and I checked the source into our generic "Tools" repository in case someone else ever took it over.

The bigger problem I saw was the shortsightedness of the organization. The software group had a history of writing small test tools for other groups, but no one ever considered listening to what she was asking for and checking if there was another way of getting the data besides changing the Product itself. It's always easier to just say No, even when there's a clear benefit to someone else.
Seconding Excalidraw! A feature I really like: you can export diagrams in PNG with the scene data embedded in the image metadata. This lets you modify the diagram by opening the PNG image directly.
> The background is either a white or black void, so they removed the entire "metaverse" from it, which I'm sure fixes most performance issues.

I doubt it's a performance issue: the 3D model of a rectilinear room has fewer vertices than used to represent a single earlobe. It most likely is just an unimplemented feature; they also could have "cheated" by chroma-keying a 2D-texture background or rotoscoped the avatars onto a another 3D room scene, but what's the point when its just talking heads?
It may have more to do with the alignment of incentives shown in this Microsoft org structure tree [1]

[1] https://ritholtz.com/2013/07/organizational-charts-of-amazon...
If Insomnia decides to move forward with this model, is there another simple CRUD app the community recommends that isn't Insomnia nor Postman?
New California law raises minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 per hour
While it may not be pleasant, NTSB investigations are generally meant to be blameless, no? Punishment is considered the lowest priority, reserved for specific intentional violations.
What a pity. A wanton act of vandalism. Sycamore trees live up to about 400 years so the tree would have had at least a couple of hundred years more giving pleasure to those visiting the area and providing a home for wildlife.

Hopefully this vandal will be immortalised by the Internet for the next couple of hundred years too.
Show HN: Automated competitor tracking tool for startups
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China Uses ‘Deceptive’ Methods to Sow Disinformation, U.S. Says
I checked and found that the Pixel 4 is 162 grams. That's already too heavy for me. It's becoming common to have 200 grams phones. My current phone weighs 140 grams. I couldn't find any lighter Android phone.
> A peaceful world is one where war is too risky for the decision makers, not the soldiers.

My point is that drones and autonomous weapons make it less risky for decision makers to engage in war, hence making it less peaceful.
Usually doesn't matter... The other person will get frustrated and disconnect and reconnect a few times, and finally give up and read a book...
Irony Alert: The bleeping computer website consumes 700MB+ RAM on the page of an article that talks about malicious ads.

https://twitter.com/cmgriffing/status/1707511082947158445
They didn't, people just haven't been paying attention. They've been working on these avatars for almost a decade in parallel waiting for the hardware to catch up. The cartoon avatars are a function of hardware limitations.
It's nearly universal parlance in the USA to call MMS and SMS 'texts'. They are shown and treated as the same thing by the phone OS. I wouldn't expect the average layperson to even know there's a difference.

I'm honestly surprised that's not the case everywhere. Do you distinguish SMS and MMS in casual conversation?
This is a great resource, but I wish data structures & algorithms courses would focus more on applications. I'm more interested in knowing why a data structure is useful and in what context I should reach for one, vs. simply knowing what it is.
You're assuming a logical system, but these "axioms" aren't like math, trying to find a contradiction is itself a moral judgement.

So you're just arguing in circles. None of the grounding in reality is actually connected to moral judgements in the sense of proving them wrong or right.
You need to try a better autorouter.

My experience with PADS/Mentor "blaze router" and "Specctra" (now Allegro PCB router) was very good. Altium on the other hand... no (I mention Altium because I think most people's bad experience is coming from this).

Specctra and blaze worked fine in 1998-era PC hardware. I used them for high speed designs (even then we had ECL and PECL).
It was via the UI, I'll do that tomorrow when I'm back on my work laptop.
Why are we talking about Foucault anyway? Anything written about ethics before 1859 was missing a piece so crucial, it's garbage.
Your TLS (HTTPS) certificate is misconfigured, so I get a browser security warning when I attempt to click the link. The certificate is for firebaseapp.com and *.firebaseapp.com but needs to be for scavinge.com.
https://dvc.org/
https://huggingface.co/
Maybe I just work with good people but I feel the same. Often we will verify things together but I’d say they never they just make things up.
> comparing yaml use to murdering people?

Where do you see me comparing YAML to murdering people? Please read that place again. I compare murdering people to the inconvenience of having to wait in a queue.
Cameras designed for covert recording are sold without public outcry.
I tried the demo, it seems to be buggy and it seems to only allow you to choose existing items from a predefined db.
I don't think Bandcamp will be the same again. (I don't mean this in a positive way)
Dropbox dark pattern offers fake discount the company won't honor
When signing up for a Dropbox plan, the site pops up an offer of a 25% "exclusive special discount", seen here:

https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/40...

In reality the offer just silently switches the selected monthly plan to the annual plan, or does nothing if you're already on the annual plan.

Several users have complained on their forum about this deceptive practice, and the company refuses to honor the advertised discount.

(They removed my post when I shared a link to the FTC Report Fraud website.)
Government babies? Raised by the state, to serve the state.
I share your vector

However the point/problem is that our position has exactly the same epistemic grounding as to what is “right” as “my philosophy is to Kill all but 10 humans” does.
Thats correct! Right now, we're using the Blenderkit dialog, but we can expand beyond it. When you type a prompt and search though, that's actually doing a multi-modal search (so you can ask for a 'red painting' and it'll actually find a red painting), so it's insanely more accurate than a regular search. AI everywhere!
That the one
I've used DVC in the past and generally liked its approach. That said, I wholeheartedly agree that it's clunky. It does a lot of things implicitly, which can make it hard to reason about. It was also extremely slow for medium-sized datasets (low 10s of GBs).

In response, I created a command-line tool that addresses these issues[0]. To reduce the comparison to an analogy: Dud : DVC :: Flask : Django. I have a longer comparison in the README[1].

[0]: https://github.com/kevin-hanselman/dud

[1]: https://github.com/kevin-hanselman/dud/blob/main/README.md#m...
Flash storage like USB sticks is a crude comparison to an SSD or NVMe with cache and a controller capable of parallel operations.

A USB flash drive is like a dumpster. Big bandwidth when the lid is open but it’s got poor performance for fetching and storing lots of things all the time.

An SSD or NVMe is more like a rolling auto tool chest. Same big metal box, but much more performant for complex and numerous read and write loads.

Or to use a computer analogy: SSD is like a hard disk, USB flash is like a tape drive.
The hidden meaning behind E3.

Embrace. Extend. Extinguish.
11 hours of active driving and dealing with traffic, then gotta catch up on energy after the drive, which means crashing out for the night, so you are really down for 24 hours.

17 hours of napping and relaxing, don't have to deal with parking at your destination, and can hit the ground running.

It is all a question of perspective.
I feel that your reference was missed by too many. Bravo. Will risk the downvotes to say I appreciated it.
The reason is because "open source" is a vague enough concept anyone can project what they want onto it. Being able to fully replicate the construction of the model is one lens on it, but being able to modify it to suit your own needs is another.

Given that a released base model allows things like fine tuning, generating your own training sets, and so on, it's not obviously closed source in the way the poster is acting like it is. Releasing the full training data and reproduction pipeline would be "more" open source, but having the raw, non RLHF'ed model is extremely open compared to most alternatives beyond that.
Epic Games cuts around 830 jobs
Very curious to learn more, how can I reach you? Or, shoot me an email: yusuf@fill3d.ai
If there's multiple hotspots behind the same controller, you may well get switch port fighting.
This kind of stuff is the future of film making.

Imagine adding "yourself" into a scene like this, moving around as you were/are from a video you just created of yourself. As in: film yourself walking around your bedroom with your phone. Then use an app like this to add you and your movement (cropped from the video) to a different background scene.

Goodbye, Hollywood elites!
The Empire Builder is actually kind of a weird one. It is both an important interurban between Chicago and Minneapolis (and possible as far as Fargo) as well as between Seattle and Spokane (and Portland and Spokane), but also a very popular tourist route.

The fact that it is serving both these purposes is kind of a determent to both. It runs to infrequently (and at weird hours) to serve as a nice interurban, and it gets too overbooked to serve a tourist route. To fix this the state of Washington (and Minnesota) need to operate more frequent interurbans that only services the end portions of the route (like 4 trains a day at least), and then Amtrak could operate the whole Empire builder in a more sane manner.
I wonder if they have any good random numbers I could use for my encryption algorithm?
It all depends

If the people that sold needed the money, they are for sure better off, even if they got less money than waiting

Additionally, it’s impossible to know if they invested it in something that gave them better returns than waiting

Fortress might know what they are doing, but for sure they can’t exactly predict the price of BTC or that there would be a pandemic and the behavior of the markets during the pandemic

Potentially someone that sold in late 2019 and put their money into TSLA, NVIDIA or even Moderna, might have made more money than and unknown figure they could get when the bankruptcy proceedings finally pay out. If they exit(ed) the market at the right time

I think it’s a good trade for both sides, no need to have a winner and a loser
Kong pulls a Postman, causing exodus from Insomnia
In some senses it is a bit of an indictment on Google's cloud offering that their teams don't build it on those.
Counterpoint: It took only one of me (sitting on my butt) to not create Teams, which, despite a small principality's worth of better minds than I, Microsoft has historically struggled to do
US v. Google, LLC (D.D.C. 2020) Plaintiffs' Proposed Witness List [pdf]
> overwhelming and complex AWS

Any other systems a "20 something person" would cobble together for an app of any complexity from "toys" of today would be a complex web of half solutions. They'd be trying to do the same stuff that can be done within AWS, and often what they cobble together would be worse off having it made of disparate components from maybe dozens of different vendors. I can't see how it's any easier to connect all those dots than it is to do it within AWS. If you're new and doing simple stuff on simple systems that's all well and good, but don't expect it to scale easily or at all, and if you try you're in for a whole lot of dev-ops and networking and other bullshit just to get things to talk to each other. There's a lot less of that in AWS. Usually you just copy an ARN and paste it into another box, and the things are connected.

>Barriers to entry are something you have to consider.

There's no barrier to entry for AWS, unless you can't afford $0 per month. Anyone can sign up and use free services, and they are very well documented. There's tutorials galore, probably more than any other current toy platform(s). There's tools and tooling and all kinds of support out there for it. But sure, some toy platform might be more fun to use for your hello-world task tracking app if you aren't building anything serious.
Maybe said another way: there are textbook failures and then there are real world failures. Usually the real world failures are problems that go far beyond the immediate technical failure and stretch into incentive structures, human fallibility, deeper physics, and unluckiness. Those failures are worth sharing and you won’t get help solving them from ChatGPT.