skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel this sentiment deeply. I wonder how much of it is due to lack of good options, and how much is due to a hostile information space - that is, there are bandits out there who want your money and attention, and they are willing to say anything to get it.
This is probably for an audience less enamoured with the Pi than the HN crowd. Someone that's more interested in getting to a working result than having to yak shave for a couple days or more to do the same.

For someone who doesn't have a Linux background, "just put it on a Raspberry Pi" is kind of like saying "You write a distributed map reduce function in Erlang". Ie: it's easy if they know it, but if they don't then that "just" is doing a lot of work there.

Pre-installed is almost certainly the way to go for such a person.
no true scotsman is all agile advocates have

don't get me wrong agile is an improvement in the sense that iterating on small deliverables is better than a single giant waterfall process, no disagreement there

but yeah if your tool never delivers in the alleged benefits, ever, anywhere, then it's not good enough to say the problem is the people

tools are welded by people

if your tool doesn't take that into account and assumes and requires its users to be perfect, well, then it's not a very good tool
With respect, I'd urge you to think about what you are saying.

Most people who visit this cabin do want to turn off their devices. That's the goal. When the cabin was built, we lived in a reasonable world where being un-contactable for a week was common. That world is dead.

We need reliable connectivity because without it many people could not travel to the cabin at all. They don't have the power to change the world they live in or their position in it. They may need to take a zoom meeting or respond to an email.

Instead of impertinently implying I am not aware of the downsides of this state of affairs I encourage you to articulate what you mean in a way that doesn't talk down to people.

P.s. The Uk does indeed have "off grid" cabins![1]

[1]https://romneymarshshepherdshuts.co.uk/stay
Same with many (most?) rodents. Growing up, we raised pairs female guinea pigs and mice. It made a huge difference in the temperance of the guinea pigs from the solo male we had, not sure if this was due more to socialization or gender.

(Ironically, both guinea pigs and mice immediately had litters. We had to have the vet re-confirm their sex, as guinea pigs can be difficult to tell apart. Both were indeed female, they were pregnant from the store... 1 baby guinea pig, 15 baby mice.)
But you purchased a property at value X and likely have a mortgage to cover the majority of that purchase. The lender takes a risk, sure, but if you want to sell the property, you still owe the lender whatever the principal balance on the mortgage happens to be, regardless of the sell price of the property. If you sell the property for 50% of what you paid, you still owe the full amount. If you default, the lender takes a loss, but you also take a loss in your credit and won't be able to get a new loan. (And they will continue to try to collect.)
I mean that's why the ad revenue goes down over time. People get used to clicking the right X's and ignoring the garbage on the sides and in the margins, and between the actual content. Less attention. The sites respond by making the ads more egregious, more numerous and even more aggressively placed but that just trains users to click out of the new ads. Just in my lifetime I've seen the amount of ads on television increase dramatically as TV dies it's own similar death.

Techy people will just install blockers which is arguably better for the advertisers, since they're at least stating outright (forcefully) that they don't want ads. That means we don't download the ads and the ads don't register an impression for us because most good adblockers also block trackers. But these people who just raw dog the internet and just walk right by? They're the ones truly decimating the value of advertising, and bless em for it.

There is no win condition for the advertisers in this. None. And that's shown by how aggressive and desperate they've become for even an ounce of attention. The entire pivot to video fiasco happened because advertisers wanted video ads, because making loud, stupid, brightly colored bullshit is the only tried and true way to get attention anymore.

And I'm sorry but anyone still paying for television at this point, YouTube or otherwise, is a sucker. You are paying for (probably) the largest display available in your home to at best, 2/5 of the time bombard your senses with an assault of garbage, between entertainment. Entertainment that can be had much cheaper, without the assault elsewhere with basic technology. And if that's fine with you then by all means, it ain't my money, enjoy yourself but I cannot put myself in your shoes and make it make sense to me.
Home Assistant is awesome, but not ready for the mass-market. It's a fun tech project to setup and one that will require your attention regularly forever-- but on the bright side, it isn't constantly annoying, it works consistently, and it can all work locally so when some Chinese vendor shuts down their servers you aren't left sitting in a dark room.

It's improving at a rapid pace and I can see it being ready for your aunt to use in a couple of years. Not this year, not next.

I set all my relatives up with Apple HomePod Minis and HomeKit, which has expensive hardware (matter is supposed to fix that...) but is largely local and relatively private.
I looked into Canadian tech jobs a couple of years ago and they were even lower than what's in the article. Senior developer roles for ~$65,000/year. I made this much money my first year out of college.

This was also near Toronto. With real-state prices sky-high, I don't know how anyone could live there on this salary.
FDBuild 0.1 Released
i think you're right.

i'd say the phenomenon here is the recurring "bandwagons" thing, where folks feel lonely if not on a bandwagon, and will join one before contemplating if it's sensible.
> But still, real estate prices have fallen in every major city bar one.

"In September 2023, Boston home prices were up 2.7% compared to last year, selling for a median price of $770K." [0]

"In September 2023, Naples home prices were up 11.4% compared to last year, selling for a median price of $702K." [1]

I stopped at 2 (the 2 that affect me) because that was enough to falsify your statement, but I probably could've gone on for another 150 cities.

[0] https://www.redfin.com/city/1826/MA/Boston/housing-market

[1] https://www.redfin.com/city/12171/FL/Naples/housing-market
Did you consider your own bare-metal?
I don't think "entry level" here implies the entry level model for the entire marque. That's not particularly useful when talking about Lucid Motors which only makes one car that happens to be an electric luxury executive car.
Yeah we're definitely seeing a slow return to "this is on-demand cable". And all I see is that independent content (like YT videos) will continue to grow. I can definitely say that I watch probably one tenth as many shows and movies now as I did 7 or 8 years ago, simply due to how fragmented streaming services have become.

I keep a Netflix subscription running for my parents, get the free few months of Apple TV every year or so from buying a new device, and beyond that I just watch more and more YouTube in my free time and go to the cinema maybe twice a year.

Sure, YouTube doesn't really have any blockbuster/high-budget/studio-level content, but there's simply so much and so many niches that it keeps me entertained just as well as anything else, so I subscribe to YT premium and that's it.
In the UK all providers allow it, except for a few specialist ones. I know of people in some continental Europe countries that have done it, too.
If I worked at a place where I was penalized for "only" putting in 40 hours of solid work per week, I'd be energetically looking for a job elsewhere.
Thought node:latest was safe?
> ... not a replacement for running it 72 bits wide

Agreed, but is it better than no ECC at all?
Sorry, I'm just cranky this morning.
https://whenwillirunoutofmoney.com/

I thought it’d be cool to have a small textual language where you could describe “this payment goes out every quarter” and “this one goes out monthly from date X to Y” and so on. As a freelancer it can be difficult to know how much cash you have available given taxes go out at weird times, and it’s useful to simulate “let’s delete this row where the customer pays” to stress test your finances and so on.

I also wanted it to be “privacy-first” because I figured I wouldn’t trust my financial data to a random person on the internet, so neither would I expect anyone else to.

So I created this site and put it online but I’m a developer, not a marketer. I did a “Show HN”, it got some nice comments but not much traction.

Not sure if I should spend effort marketing it. It’s just a free site so I’m only doing this for fun. Or maybe the product is wrong and needs changes e.g. more features.

Difficult to know what to do. Advice appreciated!
the breaking up has been going on for a while, e.g. Canon bought their medical line of business back in 2016.
Ask HN: Is Intelligent CRM a Need?
I make B2B SaaS apps. I don't have time to add all of my users into CRMs - they just don't support database as a source channel.

I want to create an intelligent CRM that gets users from your database automatically, and categorizes each user with behaviors (or $ value) and give custom actions, based on their category (for example: give %20 discounts who is not visiting the SaaS anymore).

Do you think it is a good idea? I talked with some users but they are choosing traditional CRMs over mine. Is this a wrong positioning or just the idea doesn't solve any problems? Thanks!
I skimmed this.

I had to look up "wiper".

TL;DR the GRU first find a vulnerability, and break in; then they consolidate their bridgehead; then they create havoc, either by destroying static data, or by sending bogus information using bogus personas.

This doesn't sound like something I didn't already know.
The issue is that you are unlikely to own your property outright. In that scenario it doesn't matter if the property you want to purchase is also depressed in price, you are very likely stuck with an upside-down mortgage.
There is one thing that is bullshit about the rabies vaccine/license set up and its that the shots are good for 3 years, but some places require that the shots be given every year.

Some vets will even give pet owners the choice between a "3 year shot" or a "one year shot". These are both identical. Same doses. Same drug. The "every year" shot just takes more of your money.

If you live somewhere that demands annual rabies vaccines you should try to get that changed or try to move somewhere more reasonable. If you have the option to get one shot every three years do it and save your money and spare your pet the unnecessary puncture wounds. In any case this is no excuse for not getting the vaccine at all
I honestly never understood why people even bothered using the official Hue bridge when Zigbee light link is an open standard with tons of both open and proprietary alternatives available.

Just take your existing hue bulbs elsewhere
https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/171246193042463149...

This guy has been doing amazing work of live blogging the trial if you want to follow along.

The biggest revelation that I found out that wasn't in Michael Lewis' book is that alameda got preferential trading treatment from FTX the exchange.

Molly White has also been doing great work of doing daily summaries.

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/the-ftx-trial-day-six

The winners of the FTX bankruptcy may end up to be those of us who bought up FTX bankruptcy claims for 20 cents on the dollar after it came out that FTX invested $500M in Anthropic back in 2021.

That investment alone could be worth atleast 4x that value now.
My side project, Teaminal, lets you do agile meetings like standup, sprint planning, and retro asynchronously. Stuff like status updates or planning poker aboslutely doesn't need to be done on a call.

Link: https://www.teaminal.com
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch (TANSTAAFL)
Yes but my point is that for an equally valuable house the property tax contributes equally to those resources whether they live there or not, but I can’t imagine the burden of someone living full time in a house of that value is very high on such resources. I understand what you are suggesting conceptually, but I disagree on the impact. If there are any numbers on such a resource burden maybe I’ll change my mind! I’m not sure if there is data out there for this kind of thing.

Unless you are suggesting replacing such a home with higher numbers of lower value homes. Obviously that would be a different story.
DoD schools person here, a major point left out of this article is that if you do something bad enough in school your parent's CO will be notified and this can have real career results. In a foreign country you can get deported if you do something stupid enough to warrant it.

I went to several DoD and civilian schools, NC (dod), NJ (civ), Erie PA (civ), Okinawa (dod), NJ (civ). I would say the standards are higher in DoD, mostly because of standardized curriculum. In civilian world, the variance is very high. In South NJ things were more rigid, in Erie more lax.

As for "not having social groups" this can be a plus, looking at my civilian counterparts in high school. It has pluses and minuses, but being an outgroup in high school let me leave that stuff behind much easier on my way to college. It makes me an alien to most of civilian world, but many benefits.

Housing is provided in the military.

AMA. I am anecdotal, but I have seen both sides at all three levels split down the middle.

Edit: I definitely received an education way above my parents earning level, I am first to go to college in my family. I went to a very good engineering school.
I also hate it! But we live in a world where people are expected to have connectivity so right now those people simply cannot visit the cabin. If you are in the position to wind the connectivity clock back 50 years, please do.
Just do https://xkcd.com/927/, happened once and it was okay.
Exact same thought here but with their Caseta lineup. It is one of the most easy to configure and reliable smart home things I have in the house.

I still use HA on a RPi4 for other things, typically via Zigbee, but the Casetas always work like you'd expect from a light switch while also enabling smart stuff like voice control or automations.
The #1 issue I've had with online VTTs is getting the VTT's grid aligned with the map's grid. I tried this with your solution and the problem was the same; it creates a grid and assumes the grid starts at the very edge of the image and goes to the other edge, meaning that if I want those grids to actually line up then I have to crop the image carefully, which is a huge hassle.

Two things that would make this tool easier to use:

1. Let me manually tune the grid in the VTT to the size of the grid in the image, either by selecting one square and having the system adjust the size and position of the grid to that, or by selecting some number of squares and specifying how many squares I selected, which would give a more accurate measurement.

2. Let me draw rooms with a box tool as well as walls with the wall tool, and let those rooms (by default) snap to the grid. Extra points if I can create a box and then add new vertices to drag out a less boxy shape (i.e. to add alcoves, cutouts, etc).

I haven't yet seen a VTT that can handle grids and boxes and rooms automatically, but as soon as someone figures out how to do AI or machine learning-powered map analysis to turn an image of a map into a (mostly? partly?) usable setup (with tweaks to be done afterwards) is going to get a lot of attention.
The mugger has a lapel pin denoting himself as a deontological agent. Lapel pins in these fantasies cannot be forged, I guess.
> I rarely meet a carpenter IRL who won't single-ply that backboard.

Yeah, that's the point. Do you want to be one of the millions of craftspeople who doesn't sweat the details? Or do you want to be exceptional?
Why, by the way, do nonhumans get vaccinated, but humans don't?

(and particularly considering we're very similar across species in these ways)
There's no way even the smartest hard working expert engineer will be competent in AI in 6 months.

I've been in industry and now I do research at a top university. I hand pick the best people from all over the world to be part of my group. They need years under expert guidance, with a lot of reading that's largely unproductive, while being surrounded by others doing the same, in order to become competent.

Writing code is easy. You can learn to use any API in a weekend. That's not what is hard.

What's hard is, what do you do when things don't work. Fine, you tried the top 5 models. They're all ok, but your business requirements need much higher reliability. What do you do now?

This isn't research. But you need a huge amount of experience to understand what you can and cannot do, how to define a problem in a way that is tractable, what problems to avoid and how to avoid them, what approaches cannot possibly work, how to tweak and endless list of parameters, how to know if your model could work if you spent another 100k of compute on it or 100k of data collection, etc.

This is like saying you can learn to give people medical advice in 6 months. Sure, when things are going well, you could handle many patients with a Google search. But the problem is what happens when things go badly.
I'm ~40 and was inundated with ads most of my life, but I still hate seeing ads. I'm more tolerant on a sports game or something for some reason, but still hate it with a passion. I pay for lots of things so I don't have to see ads. Paramount Plus started showing me ads when I paid for premium, so I cut them off. Meanwhile many people younger are a lot more tolerant. I think it really comes down to your personality and personal mental state, and maybe what you're used to already (which can change in the short term).
Absolutely. Tech as a whole has almost zero sense of collective aesthetic. And that harms the work we do, makes it harder for people to get into the field, and promotes very shallow, formulaic approaches.

You just got it barely working? Great, now make it beautiful while you have the context. It’s done when it is tight, fielded, and you can forget about it.

On tech “culture”: My worst-rated comment on HN was when I suggested devs should spend 15m less on Twitter/HN and put them toward writing more unit tests so they’d understand and enjoy their work more.

To me, that sums up where we are now.
This horse or any other horse. I read this and I think "this is good advice, we should follow it." You read it and you think "this is good advice, we should follow it." And then we both do, but our interpretations conflict completely so we end up arguing about the true definition of "implicit existence of system-wide packages".
GM now has its own API for software developers to make cool apps for its cars
Google to defend generative AI users from copyright claims
One interesting statistic is

When asked if "American democracy only serves the interest of the wealthy
and powerful," 36% of the participants agreed strongly or very strongly.

which is a left-leaning belief but I suspect you will find some Trump supporters believe it too (e.g. isn't that implicit in something like the QAnon theory?)

and also the near consensus that

large percentage of the survey participants—81.7%—said they felt the
country was generally headed in the wrong direction.

I am very much interested in the detailed beliefs that add up to a general perception of illegitimacy and the possibility that those can be reversed.

As for Hamas I cannot support what they do, but I cannot support Israel wholeheartedly as I see politicians like Benjamin Netanyahu and Ariel Sharon are playing a very long game towards the end of "getting rid" of the Palestinians and every event like this is an opportunity to expel some of them and over the course the next 100 years or so shape the population of the region. If you look at how genociders think they fundamentally are thinking about centuries and not the next election.

If the Palestinians were to develop a realistic plan it may be to do what the Jewish people did when they were kicked out by the Romans, to develop a strong diaspora that will find strength in exile whereas without a threat the Israelis might very well follow the cycle of getting fat and lazy and losing their path.
> Charter schools kicking out problematic students isn't some loophole, it's the main point, and it absolutely can improve the education for those that remain.

If you kick out the problematic students, the only students you have left are easy to teach non-problematic students.

> and it absolutely can improve the education for those that remain.

It isn't mysterious: you selected the best students, so your results will be the best. It is a direct application of selection bias. Public schools will be left with whatever students are not accepted into charter schools...those "problematic students", and will...again...due to selection bias have worse results.

> It's not like they're only accepting kids with two parents, in fact they're doing a much better job of helping poor families in my district than the public school system

That's great for your district, but parent pointed out ending school at noon on Wednesday are going to apply selection bias. Perhaps your district does it better.
That’s mostly true for LLMs due to their training goal but not for all kinds of machine learning
> If you can't copyright a dress then they had no grounds under copyright law.

Copyright is automatic and they may have just been hoping/assuming it replies. I should have said they may have thought they had grounds under copyright law.
As someone who really feels the effect of dry air in the winter and has tried all the commonly available types of humidifier, I'll just say skip everything and get the big, wicking type aka evaporative humidifiers. They are the only thing that works well with tap water and the only type that has the kind of output you need for even a small apartment.
HA is similar to self-managed Kubernetes: easy to install, a bitch to maintain. Updates seem to constantly break services and configurations.
> or you have k8s configmaps [...] those things are all broadly fine; they keep the configuration state separate from the app deploy state

Why are they fine? This seems to be an argument grounded in "it's a newer norm therefore it's better" but I don't see the justification. I've never used Heroku but ConfigMaps are a bane to manage. Even as a general programming principle within application code, colocality is a well-known, long-discussed topic around improving maintainability. If you're not using monorepos, that's currently not a reasonable option with current orchestration conventions.

Even if you are using monorepos, you're highly likely to either get into writing & automating DSLs to feed into your configmaps or do weird things like using Jinja to do file includes in your mounts. That's all before you run into the etcd 1MB size limit & realise that actually this whole system is a hack.

TL;DR newer ain't intrinsically better
I don't expect them to break even. All I'm saying is that if the company is in a situation where the more car they sell, the more money they lose (because of manufacturing cost alone), and can't fix that soon, they are in trouble.
Has test 'content' changed over the years.

Hard to measure both the drift in the test, and the drift in what the students learn. Maybe there is a mismatch.