skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a ring and loved it. I don't really understand most of the negative coverage of it.

The Vice article says Ring is "delivering footage to cops without your consent" but if you click through the links this refers to cases where Ring handed over the footage after police got warrants. I realize Ring can act faster than most companies - but if you set up your own security system and the police got a warrant you'd have to hand over footage too. You cannot choose to not consent to a warrant in any case. Ring notifies you so it's not like they are being deceitful.

I realize a lot of people on HN are super privacy minded and a Ring is not for them, but realistically if you buy a Ring you WANT to protect your home/family in which case you would happily hand over footage if police were investigating a robbery next door. That's going to protect your home/family too, which is the entire point. I understand if you are in the 1% of people that wants a home security system but doesn't want to help your neighbors then you shouldn't buy it, but that doesn't apply to the vast majority of people.
Non-Trivial Problem of Communication with Interstellar Probes [video]
def recognized the UX on low power (even / especially swiping) is way less smooth (iPhone 13 pro max

not worried about UX / just watching that “battery health” slowly trickling away & not happy
Yeah, I'd highly recommend doing a comparison to even getting online prints mailed. When I did the math on a number of prints including all material costs the savings per print from a lot of local printing services was only a few pennies per page. A few pennies per page versus a several hundred dollar upfront cost to get the same quality meant tons of prints before I broke even and even experienced any savings.
They're not, in fact, comic book villains. They have a pretty understandable mission, and then a set of organizational values that are sharply different than those of technologists.
There is no brake dust from EVs, they use regen to recapture energy.
Probably something to do with remembering when machines with double-digit MHz clocks would render a vaguely complex UI literally instantaneously and that feeling of irritation that comes from experiencing consistent and frustrating UI lag on a machine with literally 5000x the poke
but ty for all aspect of protips
I mean... me, since I'm speaking for myself.
Thanks, ollama
Flexible fuel?
This looks like self-supervised training to generate new videos, so it's unlikely to be annotated/labeled.
It wouldn't surprise me. No reason why a phone number is needed to use the app, and if people think their messages aren't monitored when using it, they're dreaming. It's not truly e2e encrypted, and I think it is just better than giving that data to the usual suspects (Facebook, Google, etc). That's why I use it, but I'm under no illusion that this free app isn't trying to get my data just as much as any other. Screen recording is a step further than I expected, but not toooo surprising.
I don’t see why it needs to be added to the water at all instead of only in toothpaste. I’d rather have lots of people with rotting teeth than lots of low IQ people. It really makes no sense why it’s been pushed so hard and mandated.
So, typical Monday morning.
If schools could afford it, they would probably get value from GitHub/GitLab/Gitea for all students. And then would they get value by provisioning containers to grade students' code with Kubernetes (k8s) and GitHub/GitLab/Gitea?

Internally, Google has a huge git monorepo and gn and IIRC gerrit for code review (?) and externally many repos in various orgs on GitHub (some now contributed to e.g. the Linux Foundation's CNCF).

A Google Colab JupyterLite-edition could optionally integrate with Google Classroom.

There's an issue in a repo re: a JupyterLite gdrive extension and fs abstraction so that it would work with other non-git cloud storage providers.

vscode.dev supports git commit and git push from the browser tab to GitHub, which can then run the code with GitHub Actions. vscode.dev can also connect to GitHub Codespaces (or devpod). GitHub Codespaces spawns a container in GitHub's k8s cloud for interactive use with {VScode, Jupyter, and IIRC SSH} instead of batch headless use with logs like GitHub Actions.

You can write a simple git post-receive hook script in .git/config that runs a script on every push to the repo, and then later realize why each execution of a post-receive hook needs to run the job in an isolated container to prevent state leakage between invocations of the script; there should be process and data storage isolation for safe and secure GitOps.

Research institutions like e.g. CERN and ORNL have e.g. GitLab with k8s; there, pushing to a Pull Requests branch can cause a build to run the tests in a container auto-provisioned somewhere in the private cloud and report the results back to the Pull Request thread. UCBerkeley developed ottergrader (to succeed nbgrader and okpy) to grade Jupyter notebooks in containers (optionally with k8s, or locally) and post the scores to e.g. Canvas LMS.

Can the students grade their own work with containers in Crostini/Crouton//ARC without homomorpohic encryption (like Confidential Computing) running potentially signed but unknown code on their local workstations?

JupyterLite and vscode.dev+jupyter+pyodide work in Chrome on Chromebooks today, but it's really suboptimal from a mainframe-era perspective.
This is amazing, lets crowd source the UFO movement.

Maybe it will be added to this list of unclaimed prizes...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prizes_for_evidence_of...
> intergalactic space travel

No amount of engineering will make that likely, outside of science fiction. Even in fiction, intergalactic travel is rare compared to mere interstellar travel.
agreed / the phone doesn’t work as magnificent in low power mode

think the main takeaway i get out of reading all of these as of rn is keep phone cool & it will be more healthy

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It works exceptionally well. Just today, I setup Ollama on my MacBook Pro, tunnel the Ollama service through Cloudflared Tunnel and make it accessible in a worker that scrapes blogs and summarizes them on https://devblogs.net . The llama:13b seems to work quite well for summarization, but the same can’t be said for the llama:7b. Anyhow, super easy to setup Ollama.
Sure, that's the logical analysis. But many people do give a damn about their short-term standard of living and vote on that basis.
Yes, I too have experienced this pain point. One thing to try is to embed using something other than OpenAI ada.
CinePI: Open-Source Cinema Camera Using Raspberry Pi
I was annoyed to find that a laser printer I've had for a decade used 30 watts just to keep the network link up, while the manual claimed it used 0.5 watts while on standby.

30 watts over 10 years is about $500 where I'm at...
Scanning is the only thing that Brother has let me down on the whole working without extra software idea. Scanning in Windows without their software stack just can't get the same quality scans. It's limited to 600dpi, it doesn't have as crisp quality, and it doesn't natively do PDF. Installing the drivers and software stack, it'll do multipage PDF at 1200dpi looking crisp no problem.
Just thinking about this gets me on the verge of a panic attack.
> The USG likes to pay for and own source code and weapon system designs.

Surprisingly, the contractors retain copyrights and trademarks somehow. For example, apparently you need a license to put an f-22 or an f-35 in a game (or movie etc?), I think those things necessarily belong to the taxpayers. Weird licensing.
Perl used to be a really popular language for cgi scripts. So much easier than writing them in C! I can't describe how amazing PHP was at the time of its inception. While I have trouble picturing somebody starting a big website in perl today, it's certainly plausible that momentum prevents a switch pretty much indefinitely.
> "WFH is unproductive. Everyone RTO!"

> "Hey everyone! The execs and I came up with this great idea. Let's shut the whole company down for a week, and during that time you all can take these totally relevant learning modules!"

mfw
Safari on iOS does have ads blocking, e.g., AdGuard, Wipr, 1Blocker. It doesn't work so well versus uBlock Origin, ofc.

Alternative browsers don't have that much control over what's rendered, so they are probably using the same content blocking functionality baked into Safari.
no because they've either only dealt with crappy software, or think a single mediocre piece of software is better if it's cross platform, and anyone who disagrees with them is wrong.

I've also seen plenty of people who talk about how great electron is while also complaining about modern software requiring more disk space, more ram, more cpu time, or their laptop batteries dying as if always on wasteful software isn't the bulk of the reason.

Seriously for most electron apps you could have a twenty+ year old machine capable of running all of them without breaking a sweat if they were native apps, that can't open them all at the same time as the crappy electron apps they are today.

If you find the UI tools from web tech easier for your business purposes then make a web app, but stop forcing shitty perennially out of date copies of chrome on everyone. I guarantee you aren't pushing out updates as rapidly as google is, and that means you're missing security fixes. This last point is something I'm serious on: if you cannot push out a chromium update for your app within within say 24 hours of google shipping a chrome update you should not be shipping an app built on it.
Distance Functions
from who's point of view? :D
> skyscraper-equivalent software

As far as I know, once skyscrapers are built, they tend to stay where they are. Spacecraft, on the other hand, move around, and do so at astonishing velocities, and need to have hyper-accurate navigation and control.

For skyscrapers, modeling the forces that act on the materials and the environment works on known quantities, based on thousands of years of building experience. The biggest failings with spacecraft involved the guidance and navigation systems: the ones that determine where it is, how fast it's moving and in what direction, and how and when to fire the engines to change velocity. The hard part is autonomous control, not static design.
I think the issue it’s that you don’t control the system so you never know when your video is accessed. With local systems or something like HomeKit, the video is inaccessible to anyone but the user. If the cops want the video, they have to come to that persons home and ask or bring a warrant. Meanwhile, Ring cameras have a freaking portal for cops to access video as long as they claim to have something resembling a warrant.
Twins born to Brazilian teen by two separate father's (2022)
Look into anarchism or graeber
> if police were investigating a robbery next door

Assuming they’re doing that. It’s not always the case that police are obtaining or using warrants for virtuous reasons (see the Marion County Record raid, for a recent possible example)
Do people really need to check in with their manager about doing some task work?
NACS still requires the CCS signalling and protocols. They are slow and unreliable.

For example, if your car has the wrong date and time set, then the TLS connection won't establish and you won't be able to charge.
Yes I use it only for simple utility work. It has nice advanced features that help sometimes.
What kind of "annoyed" can I ask?
Primitive Technology: Brick and Charcoal Production [video]
Did condensation not pose a problem? Not just immediate shorts, but perhaps corrosion and the laptop dying earlier than expected.
Oh? What’s modern?
Capacity lost during winter storm Uri was due to power infrastructure that wasn't sufficiently winterized, and that shortfall was broad across the energy mix.

Most of the unexpected capacity offline was actually natgas. This is unambiguous in even an analysis commissioned by the Texas Oil and Gas Association: https://docs.txoga.org/files/2644-4-22-21-enverus_txoga_wint...

Page/slide 21 is particularly instructive on this point. If you believe anything else, you need to take a pretty critical look at whoever's been disinforming you on this topic and why.
That's fine, but their point still stands. They find it economically similar and much higher on difficulty to cook at home. If they adapted a different system, this may change somewhat - although it's unlikely to have the same yield for a single in an apartment.
We use bluetooth thermal printer for a few of our out of internet travelling salesman.

Main problem is almost every other bluetooth printer type/brand need a little print layout adjustment.

If internet connection isn't an issue, you can try papercut.com or google cloud print or setup you own IPP and connect to normal printer.
There are also savapage.org but papercut already work for us so haven't try that one.
Just wait for elevated server roles where the pfp and account banner are ads
I mean do you feel the same way about using a library since it reduces the amount of code you have to write?

Like your position doesn't really make sense to me because you're saying you want to write all the code yourself, but you already don't write all the code yourself. Like what's the difference between using a library someone else wrote vs a LLM implementing that functionality for you?
Also, the actual Tor Browser, based on Firefox.
TBH, the studies we've found haven't been very well done (we come from a research background).

I was just discussing with my co-founder how we can do a quick study and measure effectiveness compared to other meditation devices.

Vagal nerve cannot be measured directly, so often it is measured through HRV, comparatively.

We have a background in EEG, so we're going to be looking at that compared to meditating brains.

Keen to hear thoughts on other methods of validating though.
Surveillance is inevitable as a result of technological advancement.

It will either be centralized or decentralized.

Individuals freely recording and sharing and collating their data can also be dystopian, of course.

But surveillance also means accountability. For both individuals and authorities.

Deepfakes mean that we will need ways to verify the authenticity and timestamp of recordings. And this will be solved as well.

This could lead to a world in which violent crime and abuse of authority is almost always recorded.

It also means no privacy, enabling digital lynch mobs, and enabling totalitarianism.

Fending off lynch mobs, preventing totalitarianism, and finding ways to carve out sensible levels of privacy are all open perennial questions.
ChatGPT-owner OpenAI is exploring making its own AI chips
We also have minimum wages, social safety nets, and broadly a high standard of living on most metrics compared to North America.
Microsoft Teams thinks my name is a profanity and censors it in the transcript
Do those remaining brands even sell any appreciable amount of EVs in the North American market? If they don’t get on board with NACS, they’re likely to be completely left behind.

It will be most interesting to see how the rising Chinese brands react to this.
No, but.... I found this while debugging this yesterday
https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/170z72o/macos_sonoma...
The prize can be won. It is not proven impossible for extraterrestrials to exist.
There are a few apps on the app store which use haptics to guide breathwork, though there is a HUGE opportunity for improvement.

I found the UX of them to be horrible, but I also think communicating the in-breath to the out breath is challenging to do with haptics, but I'm happy to be proven wrong, maybe that just hasn't been done well either.
I'm curious, why is this the goal rather than something like a decreased dependance on automobiles?

Any concerns that population growth may mean that a lifetime from now we have 50% electric vehicles but still a higher total number of ICE vehicles than we have today?
This argument seems to be trending towards a dangerous precedent - government actors are always good and you shouldn’t have a problem giving up your privacy.

The issue with warrants against Ring is you don’t own your data and law enforcement can go around you to get your video footage. If instead they had to issue a warrant against each household, it wouldn’t be as easy to invade your privacy.
>In a complaint, the FTC says Ring deceived its customers by failing to restrict employees’ and contractors’ access to its customers’ videos, using customer videos to train algorithms, among other purposes, without consent, and failing to implement security safeguards.

> According to the complaint, these failures amounted to egregious violations of users’ privacy. For example, one employee over several months viewed thousands of video recordings belonging to female users of Ring cameras that surveilled intimate spaces in their homes such as their bathrooms or bedrooms. The employee wasn’t stopped until another employee discovered the misconduct. Even after Ring imposed restrictions on who could access customers’ videos, the company wasn’t able to determine how many other employees inappropriately accessed private videos because Ring failed to implement basic measures to monitor and detect employees’ video access.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/05/...
Sure you can refuse providing images - if they involve you. It's a clear cut case of self incrimination. With Ring, you are inviting a stranger onto your property to record non stop footage, and they can never refuse any disclosure.

Why would you be cautious of that, if you have nothing to hide? Suppose police has an unsubstantiated theory about your actions on a certain date, perhaps after using illegal evidence or false witnesses. They can now use parallel construction to build a case against you by using surveillance data you can't control.

They can even go fishing around the neighborhood until they find a random somebody that was out of the house at that specific time of the night. With an extra bit of circumstantial evidence, your life is derailed.
I started building for Android, and it was just ok, but when I moved to iPhone, the haptics have much more fine-grained controls, and the haptic motors are consistent between devices.

I'm not sure how to handle that for Android atm, but I'm on Android, so I wish we did have one :)
If you threw it into nuclear, yes, we could have at least removed 90% of fossil fuels from our energy grid while making our energy grid far more resilient in the process and making the electric car revolution easier (energy too cheap to meter and all that jazz).

I don't think investing in more Hydro is a good option personally. Too much environmental consequence from flooding the massive areas required.

8T 20 years ago would not have accelerated the pace of solar/wind much and it's dubious if it would even be useful today, there are better solutions (nuclear).

Similar with moon/mars colony. We don't lack the money for a mars shot, we could do it pretty cheaply, we just lack the will to do it. At this point Musk will assuredly get there first and cheaper.
What occurred with the F35's logistics backend?
We don't know whether it can be won or not.
Writing a memory allocator is a standard homework assignment in any CS program. The solutions are mostly similar, and ChatGPT has probably learned hundreds of examples.
Interesting that Google isn’t particularly concerned about this antitrust trial. “They basically don’t feel the doj has a real case”:

>The DOJ filed its complaint against Google in this case on October 20, 2020. A couple days later, another Samsung employee suggested to Chang that the lawsuit might cause Google to loosen its interpretations of its contracts with Samsung.

>Chang responded: “Actually the COMPLETE opposite. Google just did a f*ck you to Samsung. After the doj filings, they submitted a new redline that went backwards om all negotiations with Samsung and was even more aggressive in being restrictive….They basically don’t feel the doj has a real case.”
They could just play the music from a marine theme park.
When my laptop was getting extremely overheated during certain intensive computation (not necessary having drive issues) I used to grab a bag of frozen peas from the freezer, put an extra ziplock around it to prevent moisture, and pop it under my computer. Worked like a charm to bring the temp down and get through the crunch.
The problem for all people is this. We all suck at being objective and rational on that which is most important to us. This makes it hard to have conversations across divides of belief. Not impossible, but hard.

You may find https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJX28l54YxE very enlightening on that. It shows Sean McDowell having a cordial conversation with an atheist about how to talk with people of different beliefs. How it is possible to have different beliefs, and still have a real conversation.

On this topic, I've worked hard at doing as well as I can in hard conversations. I've wound up on the science side of things. But with respect for those who believe otherwise. I, personally, have no choice but to believe the evidence that I have encountered. However I am also painfully aware that my views do not offer anything to replace major sources of emotional comfort that a lot of religious people have. I have no percentage in converting anyone else. But I do have a percentage in being very clear on what I believe, why I believe it, and what it would take for me to change my beliefs.

I feel that clarity on this is part of the ideals that make science possible. Richard Feynman did a pretty good job of stating the ideals of science in http://www.feynman.com/science/what-is-science/. The pithy version of it says, "Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." Therefore it is important not to quote what the experts said. But rather how the experts reasoned, so that you can check it for yourself and not trust what they said.

Feynman did an even better job of stating the ideals of science in https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm. Again, he stressed how knowing what was said is less important than knowing how to check it for yourself. Furthermore, it is important to know that it has been checked.

Nothing should be believed simply because some authority claimed it. Rather, we should know by what reasoning we ourselves are currently convinced. And we should stand ready to change our minds upon encountering the right evidence. Even if we think it extremely unlikely that we ever will encounter such evidence.
What's this about Boeing?
SQLite is undeniably open source yet the general public can't contribute code to it, so I'm not sure why that's meant to be the defining feature in the case of the book.

The earlier request for a .tex source file was on the mark, but accepting contributions has nothing to do with it.
Dynamic typing allows more dirty code, in the same way static typing allows for massive inheritance hell with factories and polymorphism.

You can write clean Python without much fuss that is easy and simple to read.
As far as I can tell, you're relying on Google, or Microsoft, etc to verify your identity. Lose your relationship with them, and you lose control of everything. You have to remain in their good graces, or lose your identity for a diverse set of transactions where those big players would otherwise have no sway.

Would much rather have a truly decentralized identity where you can change providers without losing continuity of your identity. Where your identity provider has to keep you happy, or you transparently move your identity to a new provider.
When I paste a link in Google Docs, the UI tells me that it's preserving the link I pasted. Now, if it converted http://example.com to a google redirect link in the doc, then I probably would not be surprised to see it show up the same way in my export.