skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
simple local surveillance system powered by a 1.6B vision llm
That is a great question that gets to the root of it.

I have a rather anxious response to work, probably because of how much was at stake earlier in my career. I was an immigrant with a flimsy work permit that meant if I lost my job I would have to move to another country, with the added stress of being the only income in our family with no real prospect of my wife being able to find a job that would cover our expenses either. We couldn't count on anybody else helping us out either.

It was a lot of pressure, and my fear-driven response was to work as hard as possible and save as much as possible. I got lucky and ended up effectively retiring at the age of forty. Do I recommend it? No, it was a pretty miserable experience. But those were my circumstances and I did what I thought was best for us.
You're not alone - I've tried quite a few Pilots, Lamys, MBs, FCs, etc. and my TWSBI 580 EF is still the smoothest and easily the favourite. I now own two, in case I lose one.

Thanks for the paper recommendation. I'm really enjoying Midori MD at the moment.
Are you really gonna spew this line of reasoning dear crypto bro?

You know the answer and energy cost of both here. One serves an entire a nation at an energy cost that is less than this waste of computation.

The other causes a enegy cost equivalent to entire countries for a total of 250k transactions. Never mind the sheer monumental ewaste generated. Bitcoin is a trash currency and any advocates are garbage for the sheer environmental disaster they cause. It single handedly undoes renewable trends but le number goes up.

The fact this low hanging fruit hasn’t been banned from above is frankly shameful.
>Once a phone is reported lost or stolen, have it record everything and post that somewhere. To the cops would be nice, but also might be overwhelm them.

I believe you can track the device using the "Find My" app. It utilizes the Airtag network instead of cell towers so does not need cell reception but does need the phone to have battery charge.

>No problem, make a subreddit or something and post everything there, etc.

What are you ever talking about?

>Now I may be missing something from the above, but whatever I havent thought of, I'm certain Apple could. I'm certain Apple could come up with a protocol that would make a stolen iPhone 100% useless, to the point that it would be a near perfect deterrent and thefts would go to basically zero.

The protocol is the above. In the above scenario, the phone can't be unlocked meaning if someone tries to sell it all you need to do is power it on and see the "icloud LOCKED" message with no recourse other than to unlock it.

Furthermore the parts are useless since they are tied to that device. So the only value is the metal scrap or maybe you could resell the case and or parts that haven't been serialized yet (battery?). I know the screen, face/touch id sensor and a few other parts are serialized.

>But I'm also certain that Apple will not do that because $$$$$.

Pretty sure Samsung/Android does not have all of those security features above so I guess they are even more greedy? $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
'Slack' Is an Acronym
Personally I don't think I would have used the phrase "parse don't validate" for something like a username. It isn't clear to me what it would mean exactly. I generally only thing of this principle for data that has some structure, not as much a username or number from 1-100.

IP address would be about the minimum amount of structure. Something else would be like processing API requests. You can take the incoming JSON and fully parse it as much as possible, rather than just validate it is as expected (for example drop unknown fields)
It can indeed be argued that Roe v. Wade was likewise activist, and it’s a failure of the legislature that a similarly workable compromise couldn’t have been done through proper channels.

But two wrongs don’t make a right and legislating from the bench for a net decrease in individual liberty via overturning a previous ruling runs contrary to the whole premise of stare decis (that’s Latin for “precedent” in case anyone missed that). Ruling from precedent has a lot of good properties, but maybe the best one is that it puts downward pressure on unbounded, escalating bench legislating.

Brown v. Board of Education was arguably overturning Plessy, though that was attached to specific language in the 14th Amendment, which is light-years from endless, muddy, subjective arguments around states rights like with Roe v. Wade. That question was settled by a war fought to a decisive military conclusion: red states don’t get to make draconian laws around individual liberty because we conquered them with guns. States rights “freedom” is subordinate to individual rights and freedoms via the landmark ruling in Union v. Confederacy. When it’s one interpretation of the Combined and Annotated Federalist Papers on one side and the armament of the high-GDP states on the other, well the victors make the laws. It’s a “happy accident” that the victors were on the right side of history.

Citizen’s United is the worst kind of judicial activism: tortured doctrines around corporate personhood being used to overturn a good law with good outcomes with broad bipartisan support (it was called the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act for Christ’s sake) and it was a popular law that put downward pressure on the power of powerful institutions relative to the individual.

When the language of Locke and Rousseau is used to defend the life, liberty, and egalité of ruthless megacorps and and secessionist governors at the expense of the liberty of the common citizen: that’s Orwell hoss.
"Premature optimisation" refers to speed or size. Using the phrase to talk about those other things is a stretch. (Except maybe cost.)

You can design for modularity, readability etc., but optimising for them doesn't sound right. Something to do with them not having well-defined, agreed-upon definitions of where the optimum is.
Two lists one with keys and with values. The key list can be delta encoded and then compressed with the assumption that most of the deltas are small (even with adversarial keys this property must hold, as if there are too many big deltas then it would overflow the key type but we know all the keys are valid).
Disclaimer: I don't know shit, about anything.

> The Anglophone strategy led to greater internal inequality but seems to be better from an aggregate standpoint.

Let's see. I feel like whatever is brewing economically and socially may hurt the "service industry backed societies" harder, when the time has come.

> Germany still has an enviable roster of small, agile manufacturers, and the Bundesbank and others reject the notion that full-blown deindustrialization is anywhere close.

It's not all cars. It's a lot of things you haven't heard about, because they are highly specialized, niche industrial parts. I think, the German economy rests on the shoulders of Maschinenbau and, presumably, there is a whole lot less naked growth enabled "bullshit" products in that space.

Don't lie, don't you feel something is freaky with the economy? I don't just mean numbers and stock value... something more fundamental. Don't you feel overwhelmed by commerce, at times? Like, there is a lot of non-products produced. Almost violently pushed onto people, sickening amounts of "stuff" saturating all channels. How many mouths does marketing feed? There is so, so much marketing. Can this really be sustainable???

I don't know. I feel something is getting horribly out of balance and the service industry is a symptom. Rabid inequality is a symptom. Like core rot, it looks fine, until a little gust lays the tree onto your house.
Assigning is another deal (tested on 2012R2):

netsh interface ipv4>add add "4084" 200.0.0.1 255.255.255.0

netsh interface ipv4>add add "4084" 240.0.0.1 255.255.255.0
The parameter is incorrect.

netsh interface ipv4>sh add 4084

Configuration for interface "4084"
DHCP enabled: No
IP Address: 200.0.0.1
Subnet Prefix: 200.0.0.0/24 (mask 255.255.255.0)
InterfaceMetric: 10

The GUI interface explicitly tells to use 'from 1 to 223' for the first octet.
Wow! I sent off for a sample back in 1996 but IIRC I managed to kill it before baking a decent loaf - maybe I'll try again.

(Being a packrat I still have the original emails...)
A Puzzle in Voter Behavior
In most setups like this, it’s going to be spinning rust with mdadm, and MySQL dumps that get created via cron and sent to another location.
Because you didn't look at the globe.
I got a lot of value out of “Algorithms and Data Structures for Massive Datasets” (https://www.manning.com/books/algorithms-and-data-structures...)
Serial killer < Parallel killer
I agree. But it is critical to ensure that what one is improving is something worthwhile. 12% improvement in compute costs for a project with lots of compute spend = massive win. 12% improvement in compute costs for a hobby project running on a single VM = probably negligible. 12% improvement in function runtime some arbitrary place in the stack = possibly net negative, taking into account developer opportunity costs.
It is almost always useful to talk in terms of outcomes, ie benefits to customer/users/team/company.
Unbleached flour can work. It typically takes longer.

Whole meal, or other flours (rye and spelt notably) can really "juice" the process. Rye seems to strongly encourage starter activity.

Mixing even only 1/4 of an alternate (whole meal, rye, spelt) in with unbleached flour makes new starter development much faster, and can also help refresh an older starter.
I work a few weekends a year at a manual labor job in a rural-bordering area on the east coast. I have heard at least a dozen different co-workers talking about wanting to execute the gays and trans people. And not once or twice, I'm talking just about every single time there's time to talk. There will be days I hear someone bring up "the trans" as the punchline of a joke every single hour of an eight hour day. I'm sure you aren't the one making death threats, but I guarantee you the people living there receive them frequently.

These people are consuming Fox News like it's a daily religious rite, and are convinced their troubles are caused by gay or trans people. This lives rent free in their heads, it's sometimes obviously all they think about. I'd guess it's probably 80% of the people I work with. Of course they're also extremely racist, and will make similar comments about anyone not lily white.

It's pretty exhausting, I love the work especially because it's so different from my normal jobs, but holy hell being around such toxic rage and hate really makes it not worth it.
tbf enigma was marketed as unbreakable, but serious engineers know that such a "perfect" thing is very unlikely to be true.

also afaik it did hold up until a sizeable amount of corelated plain-chipher-text was available for analysis.
TL;DW: A video of a drone recharging itself from a power line.

My research group works on aerial robots and we recently demonstrated sustained autonomous operations by inductively recharging from overhead power lines. A radar-based perception system feeds into an MPC-based trajectory controller which steers the drone towards the target power line. As it approaches, a passive gripping mechanism grasps the cable. Holding force and energy harvesting is achieved by manipulating the current in the split core transformer embedded in the gripper.

For now, the prototype system is only being tested on high-current low-voltage power lines and the ratio between flight time and charging time is not yet great.

We are working on a pre-print, but in the meantime you can find our previous work here https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/persons/esme/publica... and related videos on our YouTube channel.
It is funny how much they are willing to spend on PR and articles supporting their stock value instead of focusing on R&D.
The world-changing bag of tricks forged by mammals
Can they let their business customers know that? Companies making their employees create new accounts for their org is not uncommon. I’m not talking about Enterprise instances.
Many of us here are aware of how bad the US immigration system is. It's expensive, time-consuming and arbitrarily capricious. What many may not realize is how UK immigration law has been transformed in the last decade to be much, much worse.

Before ~2010, if a UK citizen married a non-UK citizen and wanted to get them residency and ultimately citizenship, it would be relatively simple and not terribly expensive. It took (IIRC) ~1 year to get ILR (Indefinite Leave to Remain; basically a green card) for their spouse and 4-5 years to get citizenship. In the US that takes 4-5 years (1-2 years to get the green card then 3 years to get citizenship) generally.

Now that process typically takes ~10 years minimum, has all sorts of requirements and will cost you in excess of 10,000 pounds once you add up all the fees along the way. The requirements are things like a "Life in the UK" test but now also a hefty income requirement, going up to (IIRC) ~38,000 pounds per year from next year.

So I have to look at all moves the UK makes in this area through this lens of increasing isolationism post-Brexit. Physical residence cards do have advantages. You can use them as ID. They clearly have disadvantages too. For example, US LPRs are technically required to carry their green card on them at all times. If they lose it, a replacement costs ~$500 (last time I checked) and takes roughly ONE YEAR to replace. If you lose it while overseas, well that's going to be a huge problem. US citizens can get a passport within days if they try and within a day or two if lost while overseas from a US consulate or embassy.

At the same time, there's really no need for a physical card. Any government official or financial institution or employer should be able to verify your status electronically. I can't help but think that this is somehow designed to make life more difficult for legal migrants in some way though.
See also perhaps:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sad_clown_paradox
Much better than my spreadsheet! Thanks for sharing.
Incremental forward-only migrations (non-state based).
Then, for the How and When, it mostly depends of your constraints and sizes. There's no silver bullet, it's hard, it require constant thinking, it's a slow and often multi step process.

I never saw a successful fully automated one-way-of-doing process.
Hmmm .. as regards IT, early on in your career, learn a skill/programming language that's popular at the time but is solid and popular enough to still be useful when new alternatives come out. For me, I had a 1 week Perl course and then straight into the project. 35 years later I was still writing and maintaining Perl scripts some of which I'd written at the start. Great fun!
Interesting. Of course transporting gas across the Australian continent and selling it cheaply is a lot less lucrative than selling it abroad in lng form. So, I can see why they would focus on exports rather than a relatively small domestic market that is on the other side of the continent.

Anyway, Australia has no excuse for not using solar energy. Which is exactly what they are doing over there despite conservative governments trying to slow that down for the last decade or so. I doesn't need to depend on fossil fuels.
This is a regrettably shortsighted and myopic view of Russia and the EU.
Opening it in a new tab on FF on Android works fine on the first try.
Or rather, looking at photos of dark places and imagining where you'd look if you walked through them isn't the same for men and women.

I understand that it's much easier to give people photos and have them click on the parts that "draw their attention", but wouldn't it have been much more compelling for the study to have people actually walk somewhere at night with eye-tracking glasses on?
Only 10 steps; the other 10 aren't up yet. I'm sure they'll post them any decade now.
These cards are not a valid form of ID in the UK, you can’t open a bank account with a biometric permit. If you are a foreigner on a visa you have to use your passport to open a bank account, all the card does is prove that you have temporary or permanent leave to remain.

They currently have absolutely no use other than border control.

Source: I have one.
Mailbox.org as a mail provider has not been metioned here, so i will do it now.

That's it - i will not point out the features here as you can look it up yourself. Just the relevancy for this topic: berlin based company with a CEO that is highly skilled, involved in protocol standartization and very much into privacy topics and free software. i am also pretty much sure they will stay arou d for years to come, as they don't sell you into bs statements nobody can hold onto and are just rock solid business. fits my bill..

I do not like to do advertisement for anyone and really think calling out for some company is a no-go. Except one that has its product open source to full extend. But this does not apply here - its a central service you simply have to trust..
EMail is different. As you can, but shall but better not host that mess yourself. So that's the excuse for me doing advertisement here as a one-time exception..
It's not a false dichotomy. You either put your vulnerabilities in a few baskets, or you spread (and multiply) them in many more baskets. Neither is intrinsically better.

Why multiply?
If everyone rolls their own libs, you can expect different library makers to repeat similar mistakes (stuff like not sanitizing input, forgetting to cap anything that generates output from outside sources, etc.).

> Heartbleed and Log4Shell were serious vulnerabilities that were useful only for a minority of people

Minority of people need SSL and logging?!? Most applications need logging, and most of today's applications need the Internet to function. Could have they been omitted when possible? Perhaps, but you're not making a persuasive argument.
Show HN: FreshDash – Watch livefeeds of Mr Fresh (the meme cat) in your browser
A friend of mine hated the layout of the YouTube restream so much. That prompted me to make a dashboard for watching the stream in a browser, with camera switching and bunch of information from the cat house itself.

I hope to get some feedback from some of you guys, it's pretty much my first public project :)
From the images. The women are looking at places where threats can't be, it's a random scan over the entire field of view. The men are focused on areas threats can actually appear.
And: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38198417
“ A lot of time can be saved by printing stains directly on the page rather than adding them manually.” I love this humor.
Expert reaction to study suggesting Atlantic Ocean circulation tipping course
There is a hydrogen fueling station in Providence.
Thank you, will check it out
Your clipboard is all yours in Linux.

I get that no every use is supported on Linux but at this point most everyday uses are. I don't understand how people don't at least seriously consider using Multiboot and Windows only were it is absolutely necessary.

Modern Windows is little more than an appliance with all it's modern day adware. It's closer to one of those Amazon buttons designed solely to get you to buy more stuff than a real computer where the user is in control.

Must be some kind of mass learned helplessness or something.
It's a game too. Survival. It's pretty nice playing in VR with friends. Only pcvr though, there's no native quest version.

Or do you mean you don't like it?
Perhaps especially if they use "/s" often?
I went down the fountain pen rabbit hole a while back, at the same time I started improving my handwriting, especially cursive. It was a very nice combination of things. I was doing this with my daughter, often when she had to write her homework.

My improved handwriting has persisted (feels like I did a minor upgrade of myself) but I don’t write enough to actually continue to use fountain pens, because they’re most often dry when I want to use them. I never got expensive ones, but I did find some that I enjoyed a lot more than others. IIRC the Lamy Safari was one of my favorites.

Even though the obsession has worn off now, I still want to get a Kaweco Brass at some point.
When giving directions, simplicity is a feature not a bug and the locals don't need to ask for directions.

Anyway, for me paper maps give me the most control over my route and then I might use Google to navigate to "efficient" waypoints along it. But of course, that's a case of already knowing where I am going and having an idea about how to get there.
Sure, and I've had lags of days, weeks, or even months in using starter. Too long and you risk mould formation, which I've recently dealt with.

In that case, I ended up starting over from some dried starter which has been sitting in the freezer since April 2020. A tablespoon of that with an otherwise typical feed (100g flour, 100g water), and about six feeds before the starter was back up to desired activity.

"Discard" is a term that's relative to your starter batch itself. There are recipes for discard, one of the simplest is a "starter pancake", which I realised was pretty much a crumpet, and indeed adding about 1/2 tsp salt and 1 tsp baking soda gives the bubbly form of a familiar crumpet. Fry in butter or oil in a small frying pan or using crumpet rings, about 5 minutes per side. To prepare for eating, toast about 3--4 minutes.

These may be eaten sweet (butter and jam) or savory (onions, eggs, tomatoes, etc.), as desired.

There are collections of starter discard recipes.

If you're only baking a few times weekly, storing your starter in the fridge is fine. For longer downtimes, I strongly recommend drying and freezing your starter once established. As I wrote elsewhere in this thread, make backups.

It's also possible to feed daily and store the discard for a weekly batch of discard-friendly recipes (crumpets, English Muffins, sourdough pancakes, and numerous others).
I agree, but I also classify some of these as "learn them once and you're all set".

Maybe it takes you a month the first time around and a week the 10th time around. First product suffers, the other products not so much. Now it just takes a week of your time and does not require you to pay large AWS fees, which means you are not bleeding money

I like to set up scrappy products that do not rack up large monthly fees. This means I can let them run unprofitable for longer and I don't have to seek an investor early, which would light up a large fire under everyone's butts and start influencing timelines because now they have the money and want a return asap.

I'll launch a week later - no biggie usually. I could have come up with the idea a month later, so I'm still 3 weeks early ;)

It doesn't work for all projects, obviously, but I've seen plenty of SaaS start out with a shopping spree, then pay monthly fees and purchase licenses for stuff that they could have set up for free if they put some (usually not a lot) effort into it. When times get rough, the shorter runway becomes a hard fact of life. Maybe they wouldn't have needed a VC and could have bootstrapped and also survived for longer.
Nice summary, thank you. As a German who has spend significant time in the US, too, I could not put my finger on the missing part within all these pessimistic other comments. But it is there: Germany and the US are still very similar, if you leave some details aside. Just the timing is problematic at the moment. We will see. One big question is whether we can stop the AfD. The next big question is if we can channel all the energy from young people to do the necessary changes that the current old generation couldn't, for various reasons. Don't be blinded: Not just Germany is in a transition phase, the whole world is. One (of many) fragile moment(s) in the history of humans.
It smells like ZIRP is not over yet. VCs are still burning money in the AWS fire pit.
Memray – A Memory Profiler for Python
Isn't nix just for nixos?
News from December really,

Earlier discussion this week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39317424