skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I realize I'm going to get dumped on, flagged, and disallowed to speak. But I need to say it anyway. According to polling, the clear front runner who may win the next federal election here in Canada has a clear defund the CBC stance. When he says 'defund the CBC' he gets standing applauses.

I think this is a great example for why I think the CBC should be defunded.
Section 230 is the bill that makes it so you can't sue Internet services for defamation that their users do. The reason why it exists is because the Wolf of Wall Street tried to censor people pointing out that he was selling garbage. He sued Compuserve and Prodigy[0] for hosting the forums that people were posting the speech he didn't like on. Now, under existing case law, you can't sue a newsstand for having defamatory news on it, you have to sue the newspaper. The courts decided that Compuserve was not liable for defamation, but Prodigy was, purely on the basis that Prodigy had moderation while Compuserve did not. Compuserve is a newsstand, Prodigy is a newspaper. This is stupid, so Section 230 overturns this specific case by saying that moderation does not make you liable for defamation.

[0] Neither of these services are technically "Internet" in the sense of forwarding IP packets, but they are morally "Internet" because they are public forums.
>Absolutely 10/10 company to work with.

EPB's customer support is 24/7/365.25 (i.e. no holidays off). And the people working there, dealing with typically-grateful customer, aren't all burnt-TF-out. The rare call for support is thus pleasant and provides immediate resolution.

If your house-mounted fiber/copper modem ever "burns out," a technician will typically respond within a few hours to replace the device (it is mounted outside, they don't even call first, they just fix it). I'm a retired electrician, and even when you "call in" a panel replacement, an ISP tech usually shows up to "fix" the "problem" (went offline because consumer meter/unit/main panel was being upgraded). It's actually kind of cute =P
Crucial info, thank you.
I really don't see how this changes the threat model. If anything, I'm less worried about someone on the other side of the globe.
You won't necessarily go to jail, but you will have to pay compensation to your employer for the damage you caused if there's proof it was intentional malice on your part, sometimes even if it was accidental.

There are loads of cases like that in the EU. Going to prison I never heard of, but depending on jurisdiction, I assume it's also a possibility if the damage is large enough and affected other parties not just the business of your employer.

Better workers' rights protect you from employer abuse, but don't absolve you from responsibilities of your own actions at work.
I can't trust CBC News' reporting of anything having to do with this subject after the incident/controversy earlier this year where CBC itself halted its own use of Twitter.

This is CBC News' own article about that earlier situation:

"CBC pauses Twitter activity after being labelled 'government-funded media"

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cbc-twitter-government-funded-...

We should keep in mind that CBC has been receiving well over a billion dollars of taxpayer money each year lately, so them being labeled "government-funded media" does seem quite reasonable to me.

That situation will always make me question CBC News' impartiality regarding topics like Twitter, X, and Musk.
“Not responsible for black eye if something falls from your vehicle and damages my vehicle.”
Yeah, 2 years is too long. Something is fishy there. Sorry about that :(
I've occasionally thought about getting into RC planes, but the piloting of them always seemed too hard. I'd love some links to what you're talking about if you have some to recommend?
In some ways, the ultimate loot box.
nobody wants "innovation risks" when it comes to truth and ethics in journalism.
You seem to argue for ultimate freedom for others as some abstract goal while ignoring how you take from others by existing

You generate waste and increase costs by reducing resources for others

You get in the way of others free agency due to management of your mess

Just by existing you impose yourself on others. Stop pretending physical reality doesn’t apply to you an vacuous political poetry about rights waves away externalized burdens your elder self will foist on the next generation to preserve your perception of rights at the cost of them to perceive what they value for themselves

I’ve been in pain from surgery multiple times, it’s awful. You’d leave dying people in pain to suffer through it versus violate spoken tradition of the dead. Our own experiences mean nothing to you, just adherence to philosophy.
> How is that possible? It takes over a week just to get a new employee configured. Laptop, IDE, permissions to the hundred needed things, etc. Let alone opening up an unfamiliar codebase.

When I started at FB in 2013, I had all the laptop/permissions things done by end of the first day.

At the time, the presumption was that you'd push a really small change by the end of the week, but all of the tasks available tended to be pretty easy (note I wasn't in eng then, so all my info is second hand here).
I wish we could get a setup like that going where I live, but sadly I live in the flyover states and this would NEVER play with our voter base, they'd be screaming socialism at the top of their lungs until they turned blue in the face.

At least we got fiber, finally. It isn't state-run but it is a local telecom, the price is reasonable, the service is incredible and the uptime is great. I still get letters occasionally from Spectrum begging me to come back and their PROMOTIONAL PRICE is $10 more per month than my 600 parallel, for slower service. Absolutely brain-dead, I'm not entirely sure the marketing people for cable companies are still living in our reality. Why would you even bother sending these out? Who in their right mind is going to pay more money for worse service to possibly the single greatest and most widely known avatar for corporate avarice, the cable company?

I don't know a single person in my area who still has cable internet if fiber is available to them. Spectrum must be hemorrhaging customers.

Edit: and if it isn't obvious, yeah I'm a cord cutter too, though tbh there was never a cord in my life to cut. I haven't had cable since I moved out of my parents house, and if not for semi-frequent hotel stays for work, I'd not be exposed to television at all. And said minimal exposure lets me verify that I'm missing absolutely nothing by not having the idiot box in my home. I cannot comprehend people who pay up to the range of hundreds of dollars a month to have a firehose of ads and mediocre bullshit pointed at their faces as a recreational activity. Not gonna yuck someones yum, you like what you like, but it ain't for me and I truly cannot understand why anyone wants it at all, certainly not enough to spend that kind of money on it.
There is a symbiotic relationship between HR and IT.

In my orgs, when HR TELLS US, in advance, we nuke the creds while they are discussing the term with HR. If HR doesn't tell us, then we have zero way of knowing to kill their account.

When they don't tell us, then termed users continue to have access... again... because we have no way of knowing to term the access.
Not really. I have decent quality when connecting my headphones to my phone or Windows laptop. It's just my Apple laptop that suffers.

And if you read the article, it is an Apple problem since macOs chooses the wrong bluetooth profile.
I'm curious how widespread this is. Is this a coincidence or maybe is it caused by on coordinated pressure from activist investors?
Interesting! Per your Wikipedia link… there was an early ‘00s proposal for a dedicated sleep symbol: line through a crescent moon. Same proposal would have defined line-through-circle as the generic power symbol. Though, this was superseded with standard for using only a crescent moon to indicate standby.

“Standby symbol ambiguity

Because the exact meaning of the standby symbol on a given device may be unclear until the control is tried, it has been proposed that a separate sleep symbol, a crescent moon, instead be used to indicate a low power state. Proponents include the California Energy Commission and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Under this proposal, the older standby symbol would be redefined as a generic "power" indication, in cases where the difference between it and the other power symbols would not present a safety concern. This alternative symbolism was published as IEEE standard 1621 on December 8, 2004.”

Edit: formatting, verbosity.
Yeah but if someone purposely drives into that car with the intention of killing the driver, I'd hope they went to prison even if the victim wasn't wearing a seatbelt
But Apple aren’t making this for other devices, they’re making it for their own ecosystem.

That it can play elsewhere is not a consideration.
This is so meta. Here we are trying to verbalize our tacit knowledge of "tacit knowledge" :)

While I agree with the distinction you made (Last paragraph is excellent), there is this grey area : Because in the digital era almost everything is recorded (oral meetings/written chitchat...), there is a huge quantity of information that is neither in the "Guts" nor in the "docs". To join others in this thread, I guess LLMs will play a big part in making this grey area usefull and in a certain way bridge the gap (partially) between what is tacit and what is formally documented.
AI made from living human brain cells performs speech recognition
The scammer in this case is YouTube because they are taking money and promoting the scam. Now you can even say they are knowingly participating because the scam was reported to them and they claim to have reviewed the content.
Yeah, I figured that someone would respond stating something like that. It's nowhere near the dollar, but it is a strong number 2 (because people buy lots of stuff from the Eurozone).
I was shocked as well because on Linux this just works. It remembers what device you last selected and prefers it.
yup,thats my goal. Currently, I want to try to get into Standford as my top pick as I live close to it.
It's a definition. I suppose definitions are tautologies by definition though :)

And yeah, the real insight is not the definition but the fact that tacit knowledge is inevitable and important, and that trying to eliminate it will be actively counterproductive.
When will the FBI catch the notorious hacker grok?!

Ugh, it could be anyone of us!
It is a false label when there are no conservatives in Portland's government. That yields to two things:

- This is just a common American tactic

- There are other, less nefarious, reasons this happens

Including conservatives in a context where they don't exist and shifting the goal posts outside of American politics on a whim is both entirely inappropriate and distracting if your goal is to discuss how Portland can be better. Nobody in Portland is sabotaging our committees is my point; at the very least they're not doing so intentionally.

What you do get here is what some people call "everything bagel style liberalism" where we do everything, but nothing particularly well, and there is really no North Star when it comes to ethos.
I guess I'm not sure why the video should need to be higher resolution for super-sampling than the pixel space it will be rendered on.

Why it would need to be higher resolution than the native pixel space that the virtual screen will be rendered over? Changing the angle or rotation of your head to the virtual screen only makes the virtual screen technically even lower resolution, and would make it so that you would notice an even lesser difference between higher and lower resolution videos being played on that virtual screen.

I chose 50 FOV because I think it's reasonable near upper-bound. I am heavily into home theater, and I have tried various VR headsets to replicated a home theater projector setup. Personally I am a fan of sitting to my projector (or TV) screens where the width of the screen is equal to my viewing distance. This results in a horizontal FOV of 53.1 degrees.

Now I often invite people over to my theater, or travel around and visit other people's HTs and I have found that most HT enthusiasts have no problems with this rough screen width-to-distance FOV for viewing movies.

However maybe HT enthusiasts are not very representative of the masses, but anyway I was only using it as more of an upper-bound and what I have been looking for in a headset.

If I want a virtual HT screen that has the native resolution of at least 1080p, and the headset has over 100 degree FOV (which most do), then I see that I need a headset to have more than 4000 pixels wide per eye, which sadly just doesn't exist yet.

But, at least in my experience, I don't think the resolution of the video itself needs to be substantially higher than the pixel space of the virtual screen. I think that regular real-time machine learning video up-scaling techniques are sufficient enough these days to render the video in a way that wont cause bad artifacts when the virtual screen pixels are skewed because the headset wearer is tilting or turning their head in relation to the position of the virtual screen.

Now I am fully aware that VR signal input also needs to be a higher resolution source than the native headset pixels, because there is some warping done to the image to make it look correct through the lenses, but that should only need to be applied to the 3D environment space the user is seeing. That means that the video being imposed into the virtual screen simply needs to be stretched via up-scale to a higher resolution and then this will be downscaled via the headset warp more or less back to its native resolution.

But what you are saying does make sense and I am sure is somewhat of a factor.

But then also, lower resolution video can still look quite fine once there is enough pixels to get good detail.
video quality and UX
Why on earth would completely fictional images even be considered CSAM? There isn't even a child involved.
Ouch. I'm sorry about this. I've had users on Sonoma report this. It seems they made it harder to make Gatekeeper happy. I'll reach out to your email directly to figure out how to fix it.

Again, sorry about that.
Yeah, you'd think if he had a legitimate need for USB storage then work would issue it to him right? And then in that case, if he was using a work USB storage device with his personal computer for personal data storage, then that's an issue in its own right, regardless of what the data is, but it seems it would be more straightforward to just say that.
Product reviews are useless these days. Every single one they give a glowing review because there is this fear of alienating the manufacturer and not getting future product to review. I haven’t seen an actual critical review in years probably. They are all these ads with a layer of separation to fool you.
Why would you be angry at someone that didn't do anything that negatively affects you? Do you get mad at people that eat unhealthy food?
> You may really need to know about the whizbang service, but it’s been 4 years since anyone last worked on it and no-one remembers how it works. You’ve now fallen into the trap of tacit knowledge.

This article is bad. What it describes - as others have pointed out - is not "tacit knowledge". It merely describes a problem with lack of documentation.

"Whizbang service" can be documented. You can write a diagram laying out the main components, write a small readme on how to build and run locally on against some staging environment, perhaps even having some internal wiki with a internal runbook of what to do when the service goes tits up.

None of this would touch on "tacit knowledge". Tacit knowledge is there when I get a stack trace, and I already sort of suspect what happened without having to spend hours digging too deep on why. Or when I see some latency metrics for my service, and my first instinct is checking on Slack for deployments on dependencies. You can try to document those things, but it is a fool's errand - you'll end up with a huge mess of text that will work against the purpose of documentation.
Too bad it does not work without a Netflix account.
I also have a positive impression of him, from past interviews. Seems relatively humble. I’ve never tried the product.
It’s funny, because your response highlights the problem:

For a native speaker, it’s obvious. For the rest of the world that speaks English as a second language, there is no such implication; most content we consume and platforms we visit online is in English, and the language also serves as a common denominator between speakers of several foreign languages, where the only shared one is English. Hence, we absolutely use English platforms to discuss non-English content.
Pilots still fight turbulence today, usually by changing altitude. If this system allows the plane to stay at optimal (but turbulent) altitude, it could save fuel.
2.7B size with better performance than Mistral 7B is impressive!!
Ironically a lot of banks and big corps are moving to "cloud dev environments" so it's possible that Brody could have deleted all the dev containers too...
I think it's also used in high speed rail.
Maybe, but USB drives are a common attack vector and had there been an AD policy or similar, in place, that flashdrive would have been moot.

My interest is in what kind of grand mal idiot thinks throwing pr0n on a work computer is a good idea!?!?
Yup! We offer two ways of interacting with Salesforce: polling and streaming. The benefits of streaming are faster syncs and optimized Salesforce API usage.

Right now, we're focusing on use cases that require changes to be synced within a minute. Fivetran and its ilk are generally more focused on large data batches at less frequent intervals (e.g., to unlock 1-minute syncs at Fivetran, you must be on the Enterprise plan, whereas we offer that out of the gate with the Starter plan).
The one I REALLY HATE is the paper orientation icon on printer paper trays. Ones like these:

https://static.thenounproject.com/png/4256363-200.png

Do the lines on the paper mean

"insert the side that already has writing face up, and the side that is blank face down"

OR

"these lines represent what will happen after you print but they're just being represented here for your imagination purposes even though they aren't there yet so you should really put the blank side up even though we are drawing lines on the up side"
Isn't that delta partially based on the last keyframe? I guess it would be codec dependent, but my understanding is that keyframes are like a synchronization mechanism where the decoder catches up to where it should be in time.
There's a difference between "they could, theoretically" and "they do."

How much effort are these bottom feeders going to put in, when there's so many hapless imbeciles to exploit with no effort?
Visualizing your AAARRP priorities as a way to manage up in your DevRel team
That explains the WorldCoin but not 23andme, people voluntarily paid for that so they couldn't have been that poor.
I’m not angry so much as just annoyed with the glibness of “well you can just do this if you ignore the actual use as a product”

Like, sure you can do any number of things if you don’t consider how it’s used at all or what the user experience is.
Thanks I appreciate this. I know I co-inflated different concepts. I should update my blog post once the comments here dry up and I can go through them.
I probably played mostly though never voraciously in my 20s--I was never really much of a console gamer and PCs didn't really exist earlier to any great degree. I sometimes still dabble--like I was into the Wii sports games for a while--but I basically grew out of it more than not. I think that's a pretty common pattern for a lot of people. What I do still play is mostly on mobile when I travel.
Glad to see avisynth style editors still developed.
If you were smart enough to hack 23andMe to get genetic data to find a specific person, you'd be smart enough to reconstruct identities from publicly available data. You'd just have to cross-reference public anonymous databases with public non-anonymous ones. Both of which exist, and are free.

So far, the only real use-case for doing this is people trying to identify criminals from just DNA.
Absolutely.

Their metrics generating and promoting departments will have field day with this. Endless reports, case studies etc, a whole industry will pop up gorging on tax payer dollars for this "metrics" task.
At least it's not ANOTHER League of Legends ad.
Thanks for that. Looking at that list, I wonder if the reason that I've felt underwhelmed is because of my backlog. For example I actually kind of forgot about Sea of Stars and OT 2 (both games I do want to play), because I have so many JRPGs in my backlog already that I can't throw more onto the pile.
...in this case, multi-threading. In other cases; AI workflows that others commercialize, a new type system in a language that already exists in another, a new sampling algorithm that has already existed by another name for decades, a permaculture innovation that farmers have been using for aeons, the list goes on...
ChatGPT does not have seasonal affective disorder
I'm surprised banks even allow USB based storage devices to be connected. There are tools you can run on managed systems to block these devices from being able to be used.
Where is that from? $4k for that kind of HW is a steal.
Hmmm... what if I added functionality that uses the webcam to read your lips?

Just kidding. Text seem to be the most requested addition, and it wasn't on my own list :) Will see if I add it, should be fairly easy to make it configurable and render a text input window with a button instead of triggering the microphone.

Won't make any promises, but might do it.
Post date is 1970-01-01. Interesting.
You would think that, but it's rarely true. Getting issued a $10 USB drive could take a ton of paperwork and red tape, and eventually end with a "yeah that use case seems inconvenient but not worth us doing stuff". When you have one sitting on your desk or in your pocket already, that's a tempting one
It’s not impossible at all, just hire more people. That may not be as profitable, though.
Why bring up assumptions/suppositions about Netflix's encoding process?

Their tech blog and tech presentations discuss many of the requirements and steps involved for encoding source media to stream to all the devices that Netflix supports.

The Netflix tech blog: https://netflixtechblog.com/ or https://netflixtechblog.medium.com/

Netflix seems to use AWS CPU+GPU for encoding, whereas YouTube has gone to the expense of producing an ASIC to do much of their encoding.

2015 blog entry about their video encoding pipeline: https://netflixtechblog.com/high-quality-video-encoding-at-s...

2021 presentation of their media encoding pipeline: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/video-encoding-netflix/

An example of their FFmpeg usage - a neural-net video frame downscaler: https://netflixtechblog.com/for-your-eyes-only-improving-net...

Their dynamic optimization encoding framework - allocating more bits for complex scenes and fewer bits for simpler, quieter scenes: https://netflixtechblog.com/dynamic-optimizer-a-perceptual-v... and https://netflixtechblog.com/optimized-shot-based-encodes-now...

Netflix developed an algorithm for determining video quality - VMAF, which helps determine their encoding decisions: https://netflixtechblog.com/toward-a-practical-perceptual-vi..., https://netflixtechblog.com/vmaf-the-journey-continues-44b51..., https://netflixtechblog.com/toward-a-better-quality-metric-f...
I am curious as to why. They should be represented like joins, right?
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>One bill a month, and my bill is ~300/mo for all services including 1Gb/s fiber.

Send some of that to the Tulsa area, please! Here, it's the land of Cox Cable, reliable, but $$$.