skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They've had a Leica partnership for a while in the form of the Insta360 One R (and RS) 1-inch lenses, plus with their 1-inch 360 module. There's still some fundamental physics limitations with gathering light on a small sensor, but I enjoy using the 1-inch lens on my One RS when I can over the "normal" action lens.
Intriguing, but has this been tested in the wild alongside a control eMail address in plaintext?
> Let's say your brother worked 10 times more than you (80 hrs) and smarter than you while you stayed in bed and watched TV all day on his dime.

And you accuse me of moving goalposts? You're not worth my time at any hourly rate.
Airline deregulation may be why flying is miserable
Why are you assuming employees are incentivized by $$$ here, and why do you think the board's reason is related to safety or that employees don't care about safety? It just looks like you're spreading FUD at this point.
I switched over to IceRaven due to the extension lock out. The only extension I really needed outside of the Mozilla walled garden was to help getting past pay walls.
That's only a problem if you want it to be a problem.
Use it or lose it is a good base policy. Just because it isn’t perfect does not change that.
Two years(!) is a long time to be sitting idly on a name and is squatting regardless of intent or circumstance.
lol no, I got into a big argument having to explain recursion, tail call recursion, etc.

The dude asked me a leetcode hard (that I hadn't seen before!) that I was actually able to code up, and he didn't understand that memoization and bottom up dp are equivalent with the exception of stack space.

But at that point I was so annoyed in general at the experience.

My recruiter quit the day I had an interview, my first interview rescheduled the time and no one told me, etc.

It was a fucking joke.

Also, I interviewed at Netflix as well, and I didn't get the job (passed technical interview but didn't get selected after Director level interview. Just wasn't a good fit in terms of interests) and I can't say enough good things about netflix, everyone I met there, and the overall interview process.

So I'm not just annoyed at Azure folks because I didn't get the job. I'm annoyed cause they're mostly morons.
Not sure I’d characterize YouTube as a diversification from ads.
If these super pigs are anything like superman or even spider pig I doubt a wall will stop them.

Maybe a picket line of apple sauce jars will scare them off.
How do those two things not correlate? The first sentence of the article explains how MS security is being bypassed.
Indeed there isn't. I bought an OEM license for gaming and decided to unplug my ethernet just in case. Wasn't asked to create an account. Not sure if this is the only way to avoid it short of installing one of those cool corporate builds.

I read things will improve next year thanks to the EU, though: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/europeans-can-soon-s...
I am continually surprised by how many people struggle to operate in uncertainty; I am further surprised by how many people seem to delude themselves into thinking that… podcasts… can provide a level of certainty that an LLM cannot.

In life, you exceptionally rarely have “enough” information to make a decision at the critical moment. You would rather know nothing than know some things? That’s not how the world works, not how discovery works, and not even how knowledge works. The things you think are certain are a lot less so than you apparently believe.
Consider that your display can only do 0-100 brightness (not really but for sake of argument)

In SDR, you map the full SDR range (also 0-100) to that 0-100.

When you add HDR, you’re now adding levels above 100 (let’s say 0-200).

If your display can only do upto 100, you now need to put all the 0-100 stuff in 0-50. Or you get a display that can also display 0-200.

Very few computer displays can do over a standard SDR range of 500 nits.
How did you get there? The board did fire him, they exercised their right.
The same goes for the Microsoft account. That's the whole point. I have been happily running Windows without a Microsoft accounts for years. You can just skip the step during installation.
I'd imagine outputs along the lines of 'I cannot comply with that request' or stating ethical issues with continuing onwards in the conversation. This seems to want to catch what most would consider to be publically perceived harmful responses
Yeah, I take exception to the painting of Android as inherently "unhealthy" and not "solving real problems for users." Also with lumping it in with the unmitigated disaster that was the Social/G+ effort. I attribute much of Android's success to Larry & Eric being very supportive, shielding the team from constant interference from the rest of the company, and letting us get shit done and ship.

I came aboard during the Android acquisition, some months before he started at Google, so of course I may be a bit biased here. I was pretty skeptical about landing at Google and didn't think I'd be there for more than a couple years, but spent 14 years there in the end.

Android had plenty of issues, but shipping consumer electronics successfully really does not happen without dealing with external partners and schedules that you can't fully control.

No idea what the laundry bins thing is about -- never saw that.
That is one of the greatest lines of all time. Classic
I have a long list of ways to improve processes and when I was young, energetic, and didn’t know any better, I got very, very lucky getting many or most of them through. As I’ve gotten older I’ve found more things that I “need” to improve and there’s been more time for me to forget how I need to justify things I consider “the right way” and so I don’t always win those arguments.

But the bigger thing I’m coming to grips with is that I have to stop entertaining offers from companies that give me an “I can fix them” vibe because I will only be able to fix half the things I know to fix before everyone else decides they’ve changed “enough” and would I kindly shut up now. Hello ossification.

Eventually having half good, half bad is going to drive me nuts and take other people with me. I need a higher bar where they are already doing at least half and I can settle for reaching 2/3 or 3/4 instead of fighting uphill to get to 50%, only to give up and start the cycle earlier. If this were dating I was talking about, someone would have sat me down by now for an intervention.
> the need for regulation is already there.

We need regulation that holds people accountable. I see too many 1%ers claiming they were not responsible for something their algorithm did.

In old sci-fi, a computer was the legal agent of its operator/owner and anything that computer did was 100% the fault of its owner/operator.

If we simply say "you are responsible for what your AI does," then the problem is solved.

We could solve the problem if not being able to bring corporations to justice at the same time. Forxe them to beck e proprietorships. Every owner/partner is culpable for crimes committed by that proprietorship.

Did a cop arrest an obviously innocent person? It's the cop's fault.

Did my web site plagiarize a painting? Then it's my fault.

Did a startup release venerable software? Then the crook that exploited the bug is responsible but so it the entity that released the software.

If we get back to common sense and stop blaming the Twinkie for the murder, things get a lot simpler.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkie_defense
The USB Cart of Death: Plug and Pray
I’d argue they are a monopoly in the traditonal sense too. They control the whole stack like standard oil. They probably do overcharge their actual users/customers (the advertisers, not you, the product they sell access to). The more you read about places like standard oil the more they reflect these modern companies.
> The point is that if there is even a 0.01% chance that AGI could threaten the existence of humanity then it's worth spending time and thought addressing it.

The disconnect I see is that if there is even a 0.01% chance that is could threaten the existence of humanity, then why in the world would anyone actively pursue making it happen before figuring out a way to mitigate that risk?
I have used a keyed email address scheme since the mid 1990s (me_context@domain.org). 99% of the email I get now is sent to the same 5 addresses, in particular me_boingboing, me_linkedin. Those addresses were never on a web page. The keyed addresses I used for my company occasionally get spam, but it's generally on topic (offering relevant services, though still imo spam). I also have a gmail address that is a common first/last name but I don't send from that address, I get a lot of presumably guessed address spam there. This suggests quite a bit of organization in how spam works these days.
Work on a laptop if you must. But don't encode/render etc. on a laptop.
Isn't the scale proportional though as Elon has 6 companies and Taylor has only 1?

Fascinatingly Taylor Swift has convinced her fans to rebuy re-recorded versions of all of her earlier albums. Not just one album either. So far it has been 4 of them with 6 in total. Her justification of this is purely capitalistic. This is kind of unprecedented, and the success of this for her has been quite spectacular.

See:

https://time.com/5949979/why-taylor-swift-is-rerecording-old...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/06/arts/music/taylor-swift-1...

https://www.billboard.com/lists/taylor-swift-taylors-version...
Completely accurate IMO.

He wasn't the snake in the garden of Eden-- google completed rather than began its transition with his ascension-- but he would definitely have been Team Snake once he saw the fig leaf sales figures.
Not github, but I signed up for a service with the username 'duplicate_user_id'. It seems someone there didn't find that as amusing as I did, locked the account, and refused service.

I can only guess they thought it was setup for some sort of scam, but I can't imagine what.
It's an interesting claim that defeating xor requires a JS interpreter but defeating the others (e.g., concatenation, rot18, etc.) does not. I mean, if a bot author wanted to scrape a site or sites where all obfuscation used the same xor routine, the author (not the bot!) could just read (not execute) the JS and customize the bot accordingly. Granted it restricts things to more targeted attacks rather than a bot that just crawls arbitrarily across the web, which is noteworthy.
You don't need to show a "cookie warning" to store a cookie. You only need to show a warning if you're tracking a user, regardless of the technology used (cookie, local storage...) But if you want to store someone's language choice, username, or credentials in a cookie, no banner is needed. In fact, this website is the perfect example.
As someone with a Chompi on the way, thank you for giving me some perspective to keep me from smashing that buy button.
I have interacted with him a few times and when he decides to help, he will help you all the way with an almost maniacal focus and drive. For what it's worth I have never heard bad things about him from individual interactions.
WOS is on pace to process over 1.1M Lightning payments in November
Modern C++ has obviated almost all use cases for pointers. Smart pointers handle 90% of the cases where I would use a ptr. Raw ptrs are just for transient weak ptrs.
Hah, a friend of mine was swearing it wouldn't work. How's performance and latency?
Well said. I think this happens very naturally with every growing / successful company. Comparing my company of 30 or so with Google is like comparing a bacterium with a race horse, but even at our size being disruptive / staying innovative gets harder every month. Do you assign your best resources to the product that gets the money in? Or can you afford having capable people taking bets on new products, even when you know that such a product (if successful) is possibly years from making a dent in your revenue stream.

That decision is never easy and finding a product that creates a "dent in the revenue stream" at a company like Google with a once-in-a-lifetime product like Ads is probably not realistic even with their resources.
$4k is a little or a lot depending on your circumstance. Assume three individuals that make the same income.

- One of them supports a family of 3 on one income.
- One of them is single and supports only themselves.
- One of them is married with dual-income and no kids.

This has nothing to do with wealth.
You missed writing stopping between murdering and agency
A long presentation and demo of the EP-133 is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjW6_BuXN_4
Weird not to notify the original owner and give him a chance to respond though.
It doesn’t actually work that way, but the net result is the same. Windows is a Trojan horse that manifests itself as an OS but is really just a delivery mechanism for crap from Microsoft. One drive. Cortana. Edge. It’s all so invasive.
The microfreak is a marvel. Buy it now. Take the time to understand it. You won’t regret it.
Moving home dir from /usr/home to /home after upgrading from FreeBSD 12/13 to 14
How did Atari lose money on home computers?
I wish more people understood this. You can't go full communist top-down economy because it will inevitably lead to sub-optimal and inefficient solution. But full-blown competition will inevitably lead to a "mega" winner, because over time he can use his superior efficiency/technology (whatever advantage makes him better) to buy or starve the competition. In the end when the market is finally dominated by a few players you tend to lose the benefits of efficiency of scale because they abuse their position to raise prices, collude and whatnot.
So, something needs to be done eventually.

I think there are 2 "solutions" to try:
- breaking up a company once it becomes too big; separating the various business it operates, so that they cannot have unfair advantage of consolidation and competitors have a better chance (it's easy to "win" when you can subsidize one branch losses with another high margins...)
- preventing them from becoming so big in the first place by forbidding them to buy any other business. If they have to grow organically it would take lots more time, require more ressource from the main business and take years to be competitive. I never understood why we let some companies swallow another just because it has the money. Companies with too much cash on hand are pointing at an economic inefficiency and it just means they should be taxe more because they are stealing too much ressources from the world.

Anyway, we end up in those situations because we assume a lot of things that are just plain wrong, in the first place the notion that the pie just gets bigger. It's fundamentally false because ressource are limited (natural ressources, numbers of humans, total available time, etc).
When you make runners compete, you give all of them a single, similar lane; you don't just let a single runner push everyone out of a single lane...
But the second case is exactly how our economy works...
I honestly don't understand how macOS and Linux are better with respect to OS updates. With Ubuntu I always have to update and reboot, almost weekly. And with macOS if there's an update, you can at least schedule it, but not without this big bright red notification badge that's always in your face and can't be dismissed.
And the degree to having some level of org structure ossification is to have lots of people sort of going off and doing their own thing. Which probably worked at Google for a longer time than is often the case just because they were printing money. So what if they were doing projects and then just killing them, living with duplication, or having a bunch of random activities that led to nowhere.

Even if it's a bit frustrating it can also be more fun to be in an environment where it's more of a make your own adventure sort of thing. Mature companies though mostly have to be very structured about how they operate.
If we only look at the outcomes (dismantling of board), Microsoft and Sam seem to have the most motive.
Maybe because if all you want to do is to support things like that, there is no need for something like the EA movement in the first place?
I admit that I am hard pressed to have sympathy for people who won't even get themselves 5 dollars to scrap together for something as essential as medicine and that may cloud my judgement, but in your example there is still a filter that prevents hoarding, as somebody has to first go to a doctor to get the prescription and the medicine will only be given to people who have some need for it.

In this case essentially everybody could benefit from getting a government paid laptop, if only to resell it, which I think means that there is a big difference between the two cases.
OpenAI: The Battle of the Board
FYI you seem to be shadowbanned, I vouched for this comment but you should probably reach out to hn@ycombinator.com
Are the Android app store and GCP loss leaders? I assumed those two would be profitable at least.
Sure, that's a reasonable idea but it isn't as easy as "la de da, add augmentation". I see this effect in models that already use noise injection btw. I should also add that certain resizing operations have led to my model collapsing rather than fixing it. It is not uncommon to see additional augmentation __HURT__ models rather than help them.

But I think what you're missing is that these effects are not well known. How many works do you see use PIL based resizing? How many use noise injection? Any augmentation? Are people considering that CUDA FMA is different than CPU FMA? That you get different results on different chipsets? I have no idea about TPUs, but I bet you there are differences. The rabbit hole I'm discussing is about more than the resizing operation, they exist everywhere.

What happens is that different works end up with different measurements and it becomes non-trivial to compare them. Remember, in the paper you only see benchmarks, you don't see the code and you just have to trust. But I can tell you that this particular mistake is the norm rather than the exception, and not in a consistent way. So say you write a generative model in tensorflow and the same one in pytorch, you get different results when measuring FID even if the model weights are identical. It's rather reasonable for a researcher/user to believe that the underlying libraries are implementing things in the best way. That's the point of these libraries in the first place. It's also not unreasonable for users to think that these effects constitute noise and that an iterative converging algorithm will find a signal through that noise. Remember, these are effects that can cause changes in leaderboard positions and thus, cause your work get rejected. It's the same work and has the same value, but if you only look at leaderboards you aren't comparing properly. It wouldn't be a big deal 4-5 years ago when our models were much worse, but now that we're pushing the limits of any metric, these types of effects can dominate.

The point is that there are extremely subtle effects going on that any reasonable person would not assume are happening. I'm willing to be that you didn't know these resizing differences existed until my previous comment. Brushing it off with the obviousness of hindsight is a terrible way to measure a priori understanding. It is the whole problem of not knowing what you don't know. We live in a specialized world, it is not expected that a ML researcher knows all the nuances of a specific library, cuda versions, compiler versions, and so on. Similarly it's not expected for programming language people to even know ML. You'd have to do like 5 PhDs before getting anywhere!

The tldr is just be cautious and take to heart that evaluation is hard and nefarious. A callous approach to evaluation, assuming everything is "obvious" or "simple," will quickly lead you to making errors.
of course the employees are motivated by $$$ - is that even a question?
Fourier GR-1 General-Purpose Humanoid Robot
https://youtu.be/BvFxD-8AhJA
Yes, I misspoke - I meant nonprofit
https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/fine-tuning

Yes, they have.
I literally came in here to say I'll probably stop using it given all the people at Google who Flutter depends on.

I suspect a few high level departures more and it'd be dead.

Do you mean he's going to continue working on it or just that he had been for the past 8 or 9 years?
Not really.

At this stage the weaponization/enshittification of FOSS by abstracting its original goals, and making it about the equivalent of leverage for larger firms to use for cheap labor/R&D will only likely change if people only use reciprocal licenses with clauses for SaaS firms to straighten up (e.g. AGPL v3) AND legally enforce them in the courts.
Why are we even discussing F-Droid here? The topic at hand is whether Google has a monopoly on the Android app market, not whether anyone can put their app on F-Droid, and there are plenty of alternative app stores besides F-Droid.
CO2 does not naturally push up from large underground pockets, at least not very often.
> Teenage Engineering Syndrome, oppressive proprietary products with undeniably appealing designs

Kind of comes with the sector/industry, not a lot high-quality, standalone gear that wouldn't be considered "oppressive proprietary products".
It is done to signal solidarity with sama.

Some people wear flags as lapel pins to show their solidarity with a cause, some wave flags in the street, some post black images on social media.

Others remove the captials and punctuation from auto correct and post in lowercase.
Remember BillG sold an OS to IBM for the Intel 8086 that was not even owned or written by Microsoft at the time.
> Talking about conflicts of interest in the attention economy is like talking about conflicts of interest in the money economy. If the introduction of the concept doesn’t clarify anything functionally then it’s a giveaway that you’re broadening the discussion to avoid losing the point.

It's a well established concept and was supported with a concrete example. If you don't feel inclined to address my points, I'm certainly not obligated to dance to your tune.
In my experience, the more programming languages and frameworks you know, the easier it is to learn a new one. So it depends on how much you know already and how much you want to learn.
I was about to correct you about GCP profitability, but I just looked it up, and TIL that GCP became profitable for the first time in 2023 Q2. Interesting.
I once noted that several of my coworkers and I had created a silent conspiracy to get a certain manager to clearly and concisely state her very bad ideas in front of the entire staff.

This was not news to one of the other two people. He confessed he was doing it “for sport” and thought we were in on it. Only sort of.

I think this statement might have been his little way to entertain himself.
I hope for a future where we are not trapped between Windows, MacOS, and Linux. They are all very complicated, and have much state. They're great for general-purpose computing, but it would be cool if you could use the same hardware in these GP computers with lightweight firmware that doesn't get in the way, and can be tuned to a specific task better. Simple, responsive GUI, could run your specialty software etc with direct hardware interaction.
Sikh separatist is a bit light, the man (pannu) doesn't even wear a turban and has made videos calling that could be taken as threats to airliners. More of an extremist.
malware is probably the best known case of this

Today the profile just 404s

https://github.com/malware

edit: yep this is his account
DoD Announces Pursuit of B61 Gravity Bomb Variant