skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I Tried to Play VR with Friends on Quest and It Was a Nightmare (Again)
I might miss out on a feature, but I appreciate EU regulations being a deterrent from handing around my private data like a pack of gummibears.
I suspect there are at least a few major confounding variables when comparing Swedish to US schools. You know, like... almost everything about how the society works?
The difference is any time the .env config is updated, all engineers have to update their .env file.

So with .env file:

- developer adds to .env

- pushes code

- all developers see failures in dev env due to missing env var

- all developers search slack/email to figure out what went wrong

- all developers update their .env file and things are working again

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In gp’s comment
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- one person works on feature that introduces new config

- failure happens in their local environment

- they update config backend and push code

- all other developers get updates with no changes needed
>We can't scale this. We can't hire enough teachers to work with students 1 on 1

1 on 1 is not necessary. Even one on ten is probably not necessary. One on twenty for the average case is effective, while "trouble kids" get smaller class sizes. School boards never approve that though.
They also send their previous customer's accounts in debt collection even if they have paid in full when closing the account. Happened with me. Got a debt collector's letter a few years later. I had the proof of payment but still ended up paying again to prevent damage to my credit. Later on found on reddit that they have done this with many people, some of whom didn't have means to pay again, so ended up taking a credit hit.
IoT was always a bad vision for the future. 20 years from now I don't want a million devices in my home running software. Either they'll all constantly be pestering me with updates that break functionality I rely on, or they'll be out of date with bugs and security holes that last forever.

My vision of a good future is one where I have exactly one smart device: a robot butler which will operate all my other devices. I don't need smart switches if my butler turns off all the lights for me. I don't need a smart lock if the butler unlocks the door for me. I don't need a security webcam if the butler monitors the house while I'm away. I don't need a smart thermostat if the butler sets it for me. Etc.
You know what would save more lives? better public transit. Electric cars don't solve for car accidents and pedestrian strikes.

Yes, this is a bit of a non-sequitur, but electric cars continue to feel like an incremental improvement at best; as someone else mentioned - we're exchanging where the carbon production happens unless we dramatically reduce our fossil fuel usage for power generation. And that doesn't solve the accessibility and affordability problems of car-based transit.
The film Metropolis is the first thing this brings to mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q030WNZvXrA
The jury is still out if their response was better, worse, or just different.

They had lower excess deaths from 2020-2022, which is good. But they also had significantly higher COVID deaths in vulnerable populations in 2020, mostly the elderly, which could have lead to the lower excess deaths in 2021-2022, because those elderly people were expected to die in those years anyway, leaving headroom for other excess deaths that wouldn't show up.

Economically and educationally they seemed to fare about the same as their neighboring nordic countries with stricter policies.

So right now it looks like they had about the same results as their neigbors, but sacrificed some of their elderly a few years earlier than they would have died anyway.
Ah yes because sounding like you're casting a Harry Potter spell is a good rebuttal. You could have just admitted you got caught swimming in cognitive dissonance.
Mainline WiFi drivers will easily let you break the law by just pretending to be in a place with different regulations. Assuming this ever gets implemented in Linux, there's no reason to believe you won't be able to just pretend to be in Uzbekistan or whatever where this EU law doesn't apply.

If literally every jurisdiction on Earth makes it a crime, then I guess this option would go away, but that seems unlikely to me.
Final straw for me.

Just called and canceled after 15+ years—shockingly, they were loath to actually provide the unlock code to port my number out. Switched to an MVNO on the same network that’s >50% cheaper.
Usually after a sports event is over, it's worth a lot less than when it's being played live, too. E.g. The Super Bowl's value is only worth something when people don't know what's going to happen. After the game everyone pretty much knows what has happened.
Some say she is still scanning the court room to this very day.
I don't think I'm ignoring the harm. I am accepting it. We can get into the utilitarian calculus, but before even considering that I don't think it's acceptable to force students who want to succeed into classrooms with those that don't. And really that's the end of the story for me. Maybe the total outcome is worse because the kicked out students cause much bigger problems than they would otherwise but that doesn't mean we should force the other students to suffer. I don't feel right dooming those kids to a poor education.

The public schools do deserve blame for putting all the under privileged kids together. The charters deserve credit for allowing them to separate themselves. I don't think that's intrinsic to public schooling, it's just the circumstance we are in.
oh, I read wrong I though you were talking about the opengl software implementation.

Dunno if lava pipe is clean C and not pulling some horrible c++ stuff like llvm.
Their data retention policy on their APIs is 30 days, and it's not used for training [0]. In addition, qualifying use cases (likely the ones you mentioned) qualify for zero data retention for most endpoints.

[0] - https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/how-we-use-your-data
You pay for the system not the gpu with AWS.

It's absolutely worth the money when you look at the whole picture. Also lambda labs never has availability. I actually can schedule a distributed cluster on AWS.
So -- there's a file, that's created by some something in a container emitting a string of bytes. A file must go through a parsing and serialization phase to be useful to a logging infrastructure. Just because you decorate the contents of that file with { and } and other punctuation doesn't make that file a string of json records, until something's read and verified it.

I'm supposed to just load it into memory hoping it's json or avro or whatever? Nope, errors happen; there's a limit to the number of bytes that can be sent from one place to another before the kernel may interrupt it (you're writing an application log and your runtime emits it's own debugging message; they get intermingled because they're both being written to a fifo).

Maybe this is fine (usually it's fine) but eventually it isn't fine. Use a logging library, categories your logs, maybe start off with stdout but eventually put on some big person pants and use a logging api and use the stderr/stdout for high cardinality exceptions, not "all my logs"
A top end gpu now to make you competitive cost 20-50k per gpu.

To train a top model you need hundreds of them in a very advanced datacenter.

You can't just plug gpus into standard systems and train, everything is custom.

The technical talent required for these systems is rare to say the least. The technical talent to make a model is also rare.

I trained a few foundation models with images, and I would NEVER buy any of them. These guys are on a wildly different scale than basically everyone.
Adding ingredients like salt, which are a naturally occurring substance that can positively affect the taste of a food (as well as acting as a natural preservative in some cases) is completely different than adding an artificial chemical that is designed to make the food look fresher but has no actual health or taste benefits.

Also, of course we want food to taste good, that's half the point of eating and why people enjoy eating. Adding a coloring dye doesn't affect taste.
How did you ask them to do it?
What about the right to be forgotten and similar laws?

Is it legal to run a service like this when laws exist about providing the original author or a person present in a photo with a way to remove content or personally identifiable information? There are also copyright trolls and GDPR trolls, isn’t a service like this an opportunity for them?
2D Game Development: From Zero to Hero (Open Source E-Book)
The date of the market delisting, which was not announced previously.
Sure, but it does give you the lion's share, whereas Red Zone is really just one show, six hours on Sundays (and occasionally Saturday)
I wonder if you could send the embeddings or some higher level compressed latent vector across the cloud you couldn't get the best of both worlds.

GPS, phone orientation, last 5 apps you were in, etc. --> embedding

you might even have like "what time is it?" compressed as it's own embedding.
TVs in bars is a billion dollar industry.
Okay.. so what if they skipped gasoline and built electric from the start? That's "sustainable" according to some modern definition. What should we have done then?

Meanwhile.. take a look at the way life was 120 years ago. Are you eager to go back to the rural life of farm labor that implied for the majority of Americans?
The automatic pagination is really clever. I usually take a lazier route with something like a page var and call it a day, but this is nice abstraction.
I'll defend the waiting people: If I don't know the city or country that well, then I'm more careful.
I'm not sure if you realize it, but you're demonstrating exactly the thing described in the blog post.

Why the hell do I need a backup for my light switch?

The first time I installed HomeAssistant (on a Raspberry Pi), it worked great for a couple of months, then it bricked itself because it ran out of log space. I re-installed it. A couple of months later, it auto-updated itself and decided to lock me out because apparently it now required that you log in where it previously didn't. At around the same time, Apple locked out their HomeKit HA integration so I could no longer tell Siri to flip the lights. At that point I just gave up.

Recently I tried reinstalling it again, and let's just say I don't recommend it if you value your sanity.

Every time I look into HA, I face this kind of cognitive dissonance between my experience and people condescendingly telling me that I'm obviously doing something wrong.

I just want a zwave hub for my light switches. I don't want any of this crap.
I was there '94->'98
What about my right to remember?
Good luck getting that lol
Because of this incident:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/california-cops-scrutiny-teens-jay...
Businesses still have landline telephones too, but I feel like they're just less agile, not that they'll never catch up with the times.
What, they're going to prosecute the WHOLE polycule?
Friend and I built https://druthers.app, and we use it all the time to solve our own interpersonal disputes, as well as with family and friends. It hasn't got any quality-of-life chrome or meta-features such as logins, or bookmarks. We were reluctant, even, to add the sharing button, since obviously a person is already well-equipped to share a browser tab! (I kid! Of course users cannot be presumed to know the power of the device in their hands.)

It's fun, and works great for our purposes. Nothing can compete with it, in my book. Unfortunately, we haven't found a customer worth pleasing and, since we are well-pleased ourselves, we haven't found a reason to approach full-baked.

Edit: for demonstration purposes, "Who is the greatest band of all time?" https://druthers.app/#/de7ef4ea-35e6-4d0f-9b10-2945129eba2e
BTW, I can't reply to the other two comments, I guess the authors banned me.

But my grand-grandparents are from Ukraine. Am I Russian or Ukrainian? I guess there are hundreds of thousands of people like me fighting on Russian side (as I said, we were one country for centuries). This is more a civil war, nothing like a genocide. Here many people consider it a civil war for sure. In Ukraine also, but they have no voice.

Also, if it is a genocide, why "bloodthirsty" Russians haven't killed all population of Crimea since 2014 - it would be so much easier. On the contrary, nobody was killed in Crimea.

It's a weird genocide. But only a "Russian troll" would understand.
This is kind of like saying the bullet didn't kill you, the loss of blood did. It's a distinction without a difference.
Like an earring?
The skin typically forms a fistula-like sheath around the metal.
Why does a city need ~100 L3 chargers per km2? People don't need to drive as far within a city, so even home L1 chargers should handle most city residents needs. The L3 chargers seem most useful on highways exiting the city.
What's a simple example use case for this software? I understand "scheduling assistant" but what does it actually do?

Also, what's the AI component?
Pedestrians are second class in most crossings though (at least in the UK).

For traffic lights that are always green except when a pedestrian wants to cross we do have the “beg button” but the problem is that there is usually a reasonable delay before the lights turn red to stop the cars.

Obviously there needs to be some sort of delay between sets of red lights otherwise someone could just spend the day pressing the button and crossing all day whilst the traffic backs up. But the delay is front loaded. There doesn’t need to be such a long delay before the lights turn red if the lights have been green for a long enough period prior to that. Poor implementation.

I’m sure there’s a study somewhere where they decided to go with the pre-delay for some reason, but I’ve never found anything.
Eh, it's not exactly that... its more of

"Lets design a spec that anyone can use"

Premium brand that uses spec is $30 dollars a light, but works...

UNGADONG brand made in China is $10 dollars and has a 30% chance of catching on fire.

Premium brand goes out of business and market is taken over by crap.

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Also, vendor lock in by the premium brand allows them to jack up prices even more.
Not as much as Russia's. Goodbye Bear! (and sadly more misery for its population who deserve better).
If you're not organically growing, you need to change your business plan to extract money as if you were growing organically. That means ads, ads, ads. Which will help ensure no more organic growth occurs, which means more ads. Ads. Ads. Ads.

Then yahoo.
Come on man, you have to realize that the dems want to reform immigration as badly as the republicans want to crack down on illegal immigration. If you work together, it's a win win where both sides get what they ostensibly want.

I suspect the truth of the matter is republican politicians are terrified of being seen as pro any immigration.
Can you expand on how the death threats were linked to the protests?

I tend to think focusing on the threats themselves would be the better approach. Having trouble seeing how shutting down protest would help.
MediaTek Dimensity 9300: new leak confirms 12-core GPU and Cortex-X4 clock speed
Ask HN: Guidance starting an infosec careeer from scratch
Would love some direction on how to get an infosec (purposefully vague) job with no degree or training(Skills of an advanced "script kiddie"). I don't mind starting from the very bottom, but don't even know where that is, other than going back to school. Are any of the bootcamps available worth it?

Brief background- 36 years old, barely worked since 2020 due to having been the main caregiver for a sick parent that recently passed. Located in SF Bay Area. Formally trained commercial electrician, but hate the work/people. Can survive about two years without any additional income.

Any nudge in the right direction is greatly appreciated, thank you for your time!
Who Will Benefit from AI?
I got a ticket in Prague for crossing “wrong”, so it’s not a US only issue.
The amount they raised is meaningless to an option holder, only the valuation. If the employee joined at the 1.5B valuation, they got nothing
Ask HN: How to find part-time tech jobs (in a different timezone)?
Hi HN!

I was wondering if there are any good portals to find part-time tech jobs (hopefully remote) on a separate timezone so that I can work on the side of my main job (also tech-related). I specialize in backend and web technologies, and some devops.

The last few years have been a bit difficult and I have made a few not very financially sound decisions (including helping family) which means that after all my expenses I am living paycheck-to-paycheck even after reducing my costs. I live in Sweden and the cost of living has gone up considerably as well as the value of the currency going down to record levels causing a lot of financial stress verging on depression.

I would really appreciate it anyone has some suggestions, advice or leads. Thanks!
Did you also include the network required to make the A100s talk to each other? Both the datacenter network (so the CPUs can load data) and the fabric (so the A100s can talk?)

You also left out the data tech costs- probably at least $50K/individual-year in KC (although I guess I'd just work for free ribs).

If you're putting A100s into celeron motherboards... I don't know what to say. You're not saving money by putting a ferrari engine in a prius.
Didn’t Brookfield buy Westinghouse? How do they plan on avoiding those same risks? Brookfield doesn’t strike me as the kind of company to repeat that sort of error.
I agree! I think it’s super doable to annotate a real game with modern image segmentation running on a video feed paired with rock-solid modern TTS as dice are read, turns are declared, etc. From there, it’s just a hop skip and jump to a virtual tabletop, AR set pieces, and (IMO the holy grail) non-local AR games using real pieces. It’s such a procedural, probabilistic, simplified-spatially game; seems perfect for simulation.

I really don’t think games workshop has the corporate culture to catch this wave though, which makes the prospect of a IP lawsuit a big deterrent to even OS work.

Msg me if you want a link to my last pass at it as a react app. Got slowed down figuring out how to offload work onto the server efficiently, and also daunted at the prospect of translating all the simpler unit rules into JSON. Of course, with LLMs, that task just became about 1000x easier :)
> Isn't it quite obvious that productivity does not scale linearly with time worked?

Irrelevant, and reads as a non-sequitur. OP expressed his personal assertion on laziness, not productivity.
I'm going to be cynical and make the following observation:

Given that there's this correspondence between Math and Programming Languages, what it says is just that if you understand types in programming language, there's no point in understanding the notations in math.

And this is especially true if you take a cynical attitude towards theorem provers in the sense that real proofs are in the minds of the thinker, not in the formalism.

The fact that the Curry-Howard correspondence is was proposed in the 1930s suggests that it was a relatively "primitive" analogy that might be restated in some obvious way in today's language of computation. Maybe... "you can write programs to be automated theorem provers for formal systems"?

I wonder what CS people would have to say about the efforts "to prove a program correct". If a program is equivalent to a proof, "proving a program correct" seems to be "proving a proof correct".

I don't really know what I'm talking about though.
Google Voice, which is free.
Yeah same with NGINX. Atleast the OSS version. You need the commercial NGINX version to get support for re-resolving names IIRC.
It appears this Mastodon user's imagination leapt ahead of the facts.
Stop excusing shitty work from trillion-dollar companies. It makes the world a worse place.
I love VR and I think Meta is ahead of the crowd if anything.

To some extent this is the "UX is hard" story all over again. But there's some awful cruft accumulation and not enough forceful direction to remove it.

Does anyone remember the "billg tries to install Microsoft Movie Maker" email?
How does one move with the mouse? I could only find gestures for rotation and zoom; for movement I had to resort to manually entering coordinates in the settings.
Yeah, big companies (tech or otherwise) now have their ears up to prevent anything from becoming a success without them, and so nothing becomes a success because there’s no room for the users and startups around them to evolve to what the products really should be.

We need more things that are complete in themselves but causally work with other things. (Y’know, like the web.) Things that can perform tasks without an installation page, but readily extensible using MQTT or HTTP. That’s the kind of thing my company tries to build. That’s a very useful thing about Shelly, or any of the polished devices that expose an open protocol.
The EU is speed running totalitarianism with good PR. What happened to the free market only and the absolutely swearing up and down it would stay that.
Celebrating the slaughter of innocents is bad, actually.
Not GP, but here's an example I've seen. Kubernetes files are generated by Jsonnet. It is invoked from makefiles. Makefiles are spread across different git modules. The scripts require various Go binaries. Most are installed through a command, some have to be installed manually. If the version is wrong, mysterious errors happen.

I once had a problem with the generated files so I deleted the generated directory and regenerated everything. Turns out you can't do that. The generated files are edited, and if you generate from scratch you've wiped out the manual edits.

Note that I'm not criticizing Kubernetes here. But when you have a non-simple system with some missing aspects, some people take the opportunity to make it even more complex.
Have kids. It'll put things in a different perspective what it means to work 40 hrs./week.
Michael Lewis Is Buying What Sam Bankman-Fried Is Selling
It'd be nice to have more compact search results as an option. Currently only one result per page on this 13" mac screen.
And people tune out even faster if you say to put more time in.
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There are a bunch of YouTubers making Desmos animations. I haven’t played with it myself, but always find it fascinating with what people come up with.

https://youtu.be/4_8eY_Ij-5k
Mind sharing which device that is so I can have one for my house?
The difference is ridiculous laws in the EU actually get passed and implemented.
Djb warns NSA may be weakening next-gen encryption
The US has major issues with the state as landlord but other counties pull it off fairly well. That suggests me it’s the US that has the problem not the approach of having the government involved that’s at issue.

The US seems to default to doing the worst possible solution. Take long term rent control and private ownership, because like seriously WTF??? That’s literally combining the worst aspects of communism and capitalism.
Good idea, terrible implementation.
What I understand of US law is that there's very little in the way of filing a patent. It's not really tested until someone challenges it.
> including right in front of cops

Was the journalist white?
Unfortunately, when you post ANYTHING online... one must assume it's like a tattoo... that is to say permanent. Not saying it's right or wrong (because believe me I have my own privacy/trust issues), just saying it is reality.