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Show HN: SenseThing, sensor logging and remote monitoring for Linux
SenseThing provides simple tools for sensors on Linux systems. Its key features are:

- Continuous logging of system temperature, voltage, power, and clock speed data.
- Remote monitoring of the same data.

I upgraded my PC recently, and wanted to run some tests to make sure everything was running smoothly. Initially, I was running a bash script that called lm-sensors every couple of seconds while some benchmark was running. That was problematic for a few reasons:

1. lm-sensors's output is a bit annoying to turn into a machine-friendly CSV format.
2. Nvidia GPUs don't expose their sensor data in a way that's supported by lm-sensors, so I actually had to invoke nvidia-smi in addition to lm-sensors to get all the data I needed.
3. Calling "sleep" periodically inside a loop resulted in inconsistent time intervals between measurements.

These problems resulted in me writing a very early version of SenseThing. The first iteration just took sensor readings from sysfs and nvidia-smi, and dumped them into a CSV file.

Then, about a week later, I was setting up a little server that's now living under my couch. This isn't a machine I can readily access, and I'd rather not set up an SSH session every time I want to check on it. So, I decided to add a simple HTTP server to SenseThing that lets me check the server's temperature sensors from any other device on my LAN.

With that out of the way, I decided I might as well tidy it up so that other people might want to use. So, here it is!
Terrific stuff. I always enjoy using Phind for dev related questions.

Is it possible the chat history gets some product love? I would like to organize my conversations with tags, and folders. Make it easier to go back to what was said in the past instead of asking the question again.

Thanks!
Any chances of an API?

And are there plans to release any more weights? Perhaps one or two revisions behind your latest ones?
The nonsense (thank you for your valuable contributions) makes me nauseous. I'm so sick of that shit. We as a society need to stop sugarcoating (denial, rationalization) and be more candid. Otherwise the words just become more and more meaningless and nobody can trust anything anybody says.

So I know which I would choose, is what I'm trying to say. Like a band-aid.
It's a big question. You could also argue that the poor student has an unfair advantage for being born with better intelligence, and the money is helping even that out.
US American white people. Anything else would be a ridiculous overgeneralization, like "Asian culture", even if you set some arbitary benchmark for teint and only look at those European countries it's still too much diversity to pool together.
> If every company could automate every function and there were no employees anywhere, this would obviously not be sustainable in the long run

Perhaps not, but I'm not sure it would be for the reason you are implying.

What is this hypothetical company that automates every function and has no employess anywhere producing? And what price can that thing fetch in the market? If the marginal cost of producing additional units is basically zero, which is what the hypothetical implies, then the products should be basically free, since standard microeconomics says that price = marginal cost. Which means nobody would need jobs to afford these products. Which means this condition would be sustainable in the hypothetical as you state it: sure, there would be no employees, but there would also be no need for the jobs that no longer exist.

Of course in the real world there are plenty of ways this could go sideways, but they all basically boil down to: in the real world, governments mess with markets in ways that prevent price from being driven down to marginal cost. That means many things (food, for example) cost more than they should, which means people need more income than they should need if the market were truly free. So what is really not sustainable is governments trying to mess with markets. If that stopped, we could make the necessities of life basically free. That would be a good use of technology.
Ask phind to make you one that screen scrapes
What about a comparison to the west's response of Gonzalo Lira's death in Ukrainian custody then?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Subtle_Knife

And censorship via threatened or actual legal action, which Mr. Musk has a history of.

And if you're not familiar with the old joke - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dewey,_Cheatem_and_Howe
They are labeled "fake" and there's a pretty obvious call to action to replace them with human testimonials when we have them. It certainly seems better to call them out as not real than have them try to pass as real. What they're trying to convey though is valid and hopefully helpful to the reader. It's a good question though and I'd certainly be willing to learn from it if there's an obvious violation.
It was going to get scraped and used by AI anyway? Given that I'm not sure I care that much if reddit makes a bit of cash off it. Honestly, this is the future, if it's publically available on the internet it's going to be scraped and used by AI. The inevitable consequence of which is probably more conversation moves into private places like Discord.

But that's the future we're in, it's not gonna get rolled back.
Woz debunks the started in a garage story[0]

> Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says that the notion the great company started in a garage is "a bit of a myth."

[0] https://www.cnet.com/culture/woz-no-apple-was-not-started-in...
Except all tech giants do just that, yet they fire people. Google has an amount of cash in the bank comparable to all the help that has been sent to Ukraine (though there are also many things that Ukraine gets that are not really measurable in money). Sent, not "promised" or whatever else some states do to make themselves look better.
What's unrealistic about AMD using Intel foundries?
That they can do more than simplfy recall is easily demonstrated.

Simply ask a GPT to explain a write a pleading to the Supreme Court for the constitutional recognition that the environment is a common owned inheritance and so any citizen can sue any polluter, in the prose of Dr. Seuss.

Likewise, imagines of knights in space demonstrate the same kind of creativity.

Being able to combine previously uncorrelated/unrelated topics, is an important type of creativity. And GPT4 does this all the time. It would be interesting to list the types of creativity and rate GPT on each one.

So it is not that these models are not creative. It is just that their creative abilities are not universal yet.

Similarly for the depth of their logic. They often reason, but their reasoning depth is limited.

And they often incorporate relevant facts without explicit mention, but not always. Etc.
> why are executives who set the company priorities not also axed? They are the ones that ultimately messed up as they had poor strategic vision.

Are you fired for any mistake you make in your job? Generally not.

And managing staff size is like 1% of their job. They're also busy running their divisions, managing roadmaps and objectives and all sorts of non-staff resource planning, etc.

It's entirely reasonable to think economic and competitive conditions will probably be such that we should hire more, and then your competitive situation changes and you have to have some layoffs.

That doesn't mean anybody made mistakes or the executives should be fired as well. It just means that nobody has a crystal ball. Very little future estimation that is done in the business world turns out to be perfectly correct.

Sometimes executives do mess up in big ways and get fired just like anybody at any level. But that has nothing to do with layoffs in any special way.
Nvidia stock is extraordinarily stretched, even by it's own historical standards and it has been really stretched twice before (2017, 2021).

It's a consensus Wall Street favorite. Retail traders who barely know what they do are now being lured in. I think the stock is close to a major top.

Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. Judging by general consensus I follow here, on Twitter, and in the financial press, I'd say we are basically at euphoria. Euphoria can last for a bit but not for long. Not only do I not see a ton of upside in the share price here, I think it's a fantastic short opportunity, as when the tide goes out on a stock like this that is totally driven by the idea that it is supply-constrained, if that looks to be in doubt for any reason whatsoever, it is going to fall very far. I'm talking back to the double digits given the amount of supply they are currently producing.

Keep in mind that there are only a handful of companies that can afford these chips at scale and the business model for what they are doing is far from proven. At some point, likely soon given where interest rates are, they are going to need to show a ROI or they are going to be forced to cut spending.

It's a very unique positive feedback loop. Here you have the wealthiest most profitable companies in history that all have a vested interest in not being viewed as waving off the AI hype train. Therefore they basically have to show the street that they're investing which drives up demand for the chips and consequently the price. But you must understand that this process can play out in reverse at 10x the speed. All you need is consensus that spending on AI is suddenly not such a great investment.

I suspect that what you might see happen is earnings for Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon start to suffer. This will require them to cut spending on data center development (unless they are able to show profit growth coming from that investment- unlikely on a short time scale). At that point Nvidia is going to have to cut costs and likely cut back on supply. This is the identical cycle that played out during the last hype cycle, which hilariously, centered on the Metaverse.
And the 90s and 2000s
Just laying off 10% of your employees is easy. If a company can identify the 10% of their workforce that isn't contributing anything, that would speak very highly of their management processes. And in any sufficiently large company, there are always 10% that are either adding nothing or are creating negative value.
Looks like Copilot may use GPT4 or GPT3.5 depending on as of yet unpublished criteria: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-copilot-release/issues/6...

For code review, I tend to engage Copilot Chat which probably uses GPT4 more often? https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/58059#discussi...
Or course! Same way we get paid by for the ideas we discuss here
What's the point of a town without any industry, filled with inhumanly scaled sculptures? It's like a tomb, only dead people would want to live there. They seemed to think that it would be populated by the a segment of the independently wealthy that they're referring to as "artists," but those people don't want to live in the middle of nowhere without adequate luxury services and servants. And then the income of the town was meant to come from tourists wanting to stare at the "artist's" work. For free. There's no door charge, and there's no luxury infrastructure for the visitors to spend money on during their bicycle trips between massive concrete paperweights.

Pretty sure the goal of this project was to funnel somebody's, probably the state's, funds into the contractors who covered an acre of ground in a thick concrete slab, and similar, admittedly stunning, feats. I wonder if the concrete in those sculptures is of the same quality as the concrete of Genoese bridges.
I started driving across the US at 3am, didn't notice for the first few minutes until I tried pulling up the address in Apple Maps. Sure was strange following interstate signs for ~10 hours!
> the machine you mentioned is not sold in the US anymore

That's bizarre, because it was on sale in the US last year when I was picking between it, a KitchenAid, and a Breville.
Fair point that a lot of Reddit is already astroturfed, but this is definitely the final nail in the coffin. Now SEO is coming for the forums, too. Wonderful.
Interesting, it says 36% of software developers are Asian but only 9% of web developers.
aligns with my experience too. My wife's newer phone was sos but my older one was fine. Both ATT.
> You fool me once shame on you. You fool me twice shame on me.

Dude. You watched the first six.
The value of branding. An interesting concept. What value does branding provide? Does it make you smarter? More competent? Or does it just convince people to give you more money for no reason?

Interesting that you place such a high value on branding compared to actually being able to do your job.
The King Biscuit Flour Hour certainly did come to my mind when I saw the headline for TFA:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Biscuit_Flower_Hour
I knew about aphid farming, did not know some ants grow fungi!

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/did-you-know/farmer-ants-a...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungus-growing_ants
That table gives “or” statistics. You can get the percent males (80%) and the percent whites (55%) but you can’t get the percentage of white males.

In fact given that 45% are not white, if only 6% of software developers are white women that would put white men in the minority.
How is BlueSky centralized? I could see that argument before this feature shipped, but "BlueSky is trying to be the federated, centralized option" goes counter to what the team has said directly.

I could maybe see an argument not based on technical premises, but instead something like "it will defacto become one because running a relay is too expensive" or such. Is that what you're going for?
Yeah. The Google Graveyard really shows how far this can go.

https://killedbygoogle.com

The punchline is that in addition to hundreds of failed hobby projects, their stock is doing great. Monopoly rents are a helluva drug.
In addition to my comment about Google Image Search, regular Web Search results are equally biased and censored. There was once a race-related topic trending on X/Twitter that I wanted to read more about to figure out why it was trending. It was a trend started and continuing to be discussed by Black Twitter, so it's not like some Neo-Nazis managed to start trending something terrible.

Upon searching Google with the Hashtag and topic, the only results returned not only had no relevancy to the topic, but it returned results discussing racial bias and the importance of diversity. All I wanted to do was learn what people on Twitter were discussing, but I couldn't search anything being discussed.

This is censorship.
I'm surprised Vice managed to stay in business as long as it did considering their only competition were outlets reporting the truth.
Delayed impact is rarely taken into account. You fire people who's impact is going to show up 2-3-6 months from now. Same goes to maintenance. Stop doing maintenance you can save money in the short term. Should you stop doing maintenance? Should you fire this many people?

Probably not.
> Load a GB sized mbox into mail(1) and then say that again.

In other words, use mbox with an application that doesn't have its own message metadata database and you get problems. But if you're designing your own email client in the 21st century, then you're going to want to build your own message metadata database.
“Succeeding downwards”
In general, most of mastodon is too cliquey and over-dramatic to tolerate any sort of bridging. I see so many reports on block trackers of various kinds of bridging daily. Back when Threads had just been announced and merely mentioned eventually bridging with ActivityPub, the tracker was flooded with preemptive blocks of the domain.
“It is difficult to get a man[ager] to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

(With apologies to Upton Sinclair.)
Funny you should say that because H1B's have shot back up to pre-pandemic rates.

I've never understood why people would believe this overhired narrative, have you ever worked for a company that correctly understood it's own hiring capabilities or measurements? I haven't 15 years in.
I have no real qualms with this under one wishful condition. My condition is that I think if schools are going to start selecting for this type of individual again, it would be quite beneficial to start heavily screening children for learning disabilities and other disorders that can impact educational attainment.

I had an undiagnosed learning disability, and had I known at the time, I could have received proper accommodations and treatments that I believe would have greatly improved my abilities to better perform on standardized tests and academics in general.

However, screening children for such disabilities was not common in the public education system of the South East, US during my time. Based on my academic achievements, GPA, etc. the standardized test I took (ACT) was by no means an accurate reflection of my abilities. In fact, the ACT actively harmed my educational opportunities.

While these tests may help children with poorer socioeconomic status, I think the tests currently discriminate against neurodivergent people, and are probably significantly worse for neurodivergent people with poorer socioeconomic backgrounds.
I think the last extended deadline of PSD2 was end of 2020, so after Brexit.

And it's not unheard of, that some countries just ignore EU regulations. Especially if they are going to exit the EU before they can be fined ;)
Video is also prohibitively expensive outside of Google-scale endeavors and will likely crush both third-party BGSes and PDSes. Everyone doing video is either selling you ads (whether it's in that video or around it), selling you the video itself, or is losing money. Possibly all three.

As it is, og-embeds do work for video and audio from a few different providers.
>> there is a LOT of manual human labor

same reaction. someone bring power shovel diggers.

Also it should be combined with the other Great Green Wall projects, the most successful being "just plant trees" to shade the crops and keep the area cool and humid.
It does make sense though. Accurate global illumination is very strongly represented in nearly all training data (except illustrations) so it makes sense that the model learned an approximation of it.
Hence my point about a calm response opposed to escalation to a honest mistake.
It isn't the latency which is the problem, it's the bandwidth. A memory socket with that much bandwidth would need a lot of pins. In principle you could just have more memory slots where each slot has its own channel. 16 channels of DDR5-8000 would have more bandwidth than the RTX 4090. But an ordinary desktop board with 16 memory channels is probably not happening. You could plausibly see that on servers however.

What's more likely is hybrid systems. Your basic desktop CPU gets e.g. 8GB of HBM, but then also has 16GB of DRAM in slots. Another CPU/APU model that fits into the same socket has 32GB of HBM (and so costs more), which you could then combine with 128GB of DRAM. Or none, by leaving the slots empty, if you want entirely HBM. A server or HEDT CPU might have 256GB of HBM and support 4TB of DRAM.
Fair enough. Personally, I like to watch both sides, and it has been interesting to see conservatives becoming more favorable toward Twitter/X. If I were working on a social network (like Bluesky, the topic of this discussion), I would be watching Twitter/X closely right now to try to understand the effects that certain tweaks (such as moderation policy) may have.
We’re here.
my wife's phone was SOS when she woke up at about 6AM central and finally become operational around 1:30PM central.
"even chatGPT says chatGPT is racially biased" https://web.archive.org/web/20240209051937/https://www.scien...
Like the ones that would have prevented Google's racist, sexist, ahistorical, anti-West misadventure that this thread is all about?

The strawman meme you cite is designed to keep people afraid and quiet, that's all.
> Again, that's a symptom of shitty manufacturer firmware, it's a burden on streaming services to support these devices because they are the ones that have to maintain software packages for hundreds of different TV models.

That's exactly my point.

I operate under the assumption that my TV will have shitty firmware. Always has been shitty, always will be shitty.

So rather than relegate the shittiness to a $1500+ device that will be very expensive to replace if/when the software becomes obsolete, I'd put the burden of shittiness to a $50 device that I don't mind upgrading as necessary.
Another example: Olives
I watched a bit of your first video, and it looks amazing! You've done a great job, and I feel like your videos deserve more views.
> And why make this claim about consciousness alone, out of all the functions that things in the world have?

Because consciousness is fundamental in a way none of those things in the world are. It is only through our own consciousness that we can know those other things exist, indeed that we can ever know anything at all. Treating consciousness as just a thing among things ignores that it is essential, foundational, to all other things as we know them, as we can know them.
I am so confused by your position. It seems to be that you believe x86 PC hardware is garbage, but that for most companies garbage is just perfectly fine and the only people who shouldn't use garbage are companies that can make their own CPU? And anybody that tries to improve the status-quo shouldn't even try. That's quite a line of argument.
I didn't. *edit: I know now.
There's a third option - no warning at all, your laptop is remotely disabled, and you have to figure it out yourself.
So you think Intel's foundry business is DOA? If AMD cannot trust Intel, why would anyone else?
I thought you could cap(limit) your spending e.g. "if I reach $1000 in costs, abort/pause operations".
> People will run pods on cheapest VPS and they will get hacked, run out of money, get bored, go broke etc.

> Imagine as fractions of content goes missing for a while or is just deleted.

All of your complaints apply for the internet. Would you say the internet was a bad idea?
That’s one interpretation.

Another is that that 10% of work is distributed to the remaining 90%, who now work harder and are more stressed, but well aware that they were lucky to keep their jobs and therefore willing to absorb an extra hour a day.

Which, free market and all that, may just be smart business. But I don’t think it’s necessarily good management in the long term.
> Unsure about Visa/Mastercard debit transactions.

AIUI, the debit card itself enforces online confirmation, even if the transaction goes through the credit card rail.
Also a Geoff Lawton video called something like greening the desert.

A lot of his stuff (including that desert video) can be found here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39472378
Should private for-profit companies employ people just because they can?
In their business-plan post, they stated: “We set out to build a protocol where users can own their data and always have the freedom to leave, and this approach means that advertising couldn’t be our dominant business model.” Which reads like advertising could still be a possibility, but not as a dominant factor.
They do need to fix the quick-add feature. There shouldn't be a world where minors are suggested to adults
Transportation might be an issue. That's why a lot of natural gas is flared and not sold – selling it is often uneconomical.
If I went into your body and deleted all your DNA, you'd feel fine too. Chugging along. For a while.

Here's another thing: the productivity that's being tracked isn't aligned with the value that the consumer is paying for. You can see this in government contracting a lot, where the consumer doesn't even see the product - they just see the paperwork. If you're really good at "producing" paperwork, you don't need anything else for a very, very, very long time.