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This is a previous project I decided to relaunch.

There's tons of directories that accept all submissions, but I feel like that just waters down the platform. It also isn't fair for the amazingly built tools and services.

I pivoted to a premium-only directory and feel like charging a small fee, while it might take longer to build the portfolio of listed tools, they'll be of much higher quality than other platforms.
The first time I went into an Amazon Go store, I was fairly impressed with how accurate it was, to the point that they knew that I had filled my cup with an Icee rather than a fountain beverage. This was notwithstanding the creepiness factor of feeling like you’re under constant surveillance.

The second time I went in, I tried to game it a little bit—putting items back on shelves after a while, taking two items and putting only one in my bag and the other on the shelf, that kind of thing. They still got my purchases 100% correct. I was still fairly impressed.

The most recent time I went there, I wasn’t even trying to be crafty, but they still only ended up charging me for three out of five of the things I got, and that’s when I realized that the whole thing was a facade, running on something akin to Amazon Mechanical Turk.

The problem as I see it is that the technology is working at cross-purposes with itself. On the one hand, it has to tend to err in favor of undercharging, because it won’t take many false charges that customers have to dispute to turn them off from ever wanting to come back to the store again. I suspect that’s why Amazon Go has an extremely liberal return policy—In essence, say you want to return anything and they just give you your money back, no questions asked, no need to even bring the product back. On the other hand, merchants obviously aren’t in the business of giving away free stuff, so unless this technology can have insane levels of accuracy, as in at least 99.9% accurate, there’s no way it makes financial sense for other businesses to adopt it.
And specifically, "HN: Paywalls with workarounds are OK; paywall complaints are off topic"

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989>

(Submitter is HN's moderator, for the uninitiated.)
Even C doesn't map any longer when taking into consideration -O3, UB, vector units, and compiler replaced standard library calls.

I miss the part of what a modern debug lacks.
I ran 'destroy anime' and among the great lines such as 'Osamu Tezuka's astral form screams silently as he fades into the darkness', and 'Eliminating sacred geometry of large expressive eyes, spiky colourful hair, small mouths' it ended with "Homo Otakus is now extinct"

'delete techbros' also generates some great banter. you get some very dated and incorrect references though "Mt Gox fade into fever dream of capital burnt for naught"

Also surprisingly there, grammatical errors[!]

10/10, i can see why everyone has been using claude for their, uh, creative writing use cases.
That requires iCloud, which is a privacy nightmare even if you opt in to their sometimes-kinda e2ee option (which nobody does). In the default config it is even worse.

If you want privacy don’t use iCloud.
Not really, only a tiny couple of them.
Try this guy. Its not Kagi, but the search results are pretty good. Host it yourself on Docker.

https://felladrin-minisearch.hf.space/
Did the journalist not successfully write about the events that transpired? The goal of the piece is to document the event, not the software.
Pretty easy in VC++ debugger.
I cannot think of a reason to prefer to help a neighbor over someone who is vastly more in need who is further away. I think that's the main thrust of the argument.
Alas, if you let the people with enough money pay for making the ads go away, your remaining ad audience will be poorer on average, and perhaps less interesting for ad space buyers.
Just saw something similar the other day but for images. Looks interesting. At this stage it would be a great tool to storyboard a video quickly. Who’s your target user persona?
Most people don't want an extra box or dongle? Everyone likes devices you can just plug in, push some remote buttons, and you're done. Even when the set top box works, something inevitably goes awry, such as audio issues non-HDMI sound output, or not seeing video because the soundbar isn't connected to the box or dongle, and so on and so on. Remember those households with the blinking 12 on the VCR? Yeah, folks just want to watch their movies, they don't need to know how this stuff works, even the basics. I know too many people who watch movies on Netflix on an iPad because it's easier to do that than to configure their smart projector every time. We really haven't made technology that much easier to use yet, but it's getting closer, maybe.
Did it get co-opted, or are you only exposed to the extremely online segment of EA that talks about AI and future generations and Roko's Basilisk?

From what I can tell, EA is still alive and well I the real world, donating bed nets to combat malaria and other very real, worldly tasks.
Ding-ding-ding.

I’ve worked with a manager at a customer that rarely turned up to even online meetings and even complained that this was taking time away from his personal business!

He was a full-time employee using business hours at his job to run a side-hussle.

After this experience I’ve learned to recognise the signs.
Machine Learning in Application Development
This is my recollection of the era as well. A quality PC like a Compaq was already a good alternative during the Motorola era. In a lot of ways the whole RISC thing was a dead end as all that happened was SGI, IBM, HP and Sun cannibalised each others sales.

ARM is the only one left standing from that era which with hindsight seemed so unlikely.
> “The absence of certain raw data files does not inherently indicate their non-existence ...” Dias wrote in response to the investigation findings.

Good line. I hope I can use that some day.
This reduces to a belief, which I also hold, that you have inherent worth.

It's like Bret Victor's story of Puddles. Imagine you adopt a puppy. You name him Puddles. You take puddles home and you give them a little snack and you stick puddles in the cage and you lock the door forever and never open it again. Most, although not all, would agree this is cruel.

We have a notion of what it means to live a full doggy life. Dogs have to run around. They sniff other dogs and they pee on things. That's kind of what it means to be a dog. Dogs have a set of capabilities and we recognize that a dog has to be allowed the full free expression of its entire range of capabilities in order to be a dog.

The same is true for people. Like a dog needs to hunt, people seek meaning. They wither away without it.

https://vimeo.com/115154289
I also like my Chromecast.

It's ok, I guess, if Google has all your data already anyway.
I wondered this too and found this in the docs[0]:

Transactions at all isolation levels are subject to lock contention, where a transaction attempts to lock a row that is already locked by a write or
locking read. In such cases, the later transaction is blocked until the earlier transaction commits or rolls back, thus releasing its lock on the row.
Lock contention that produces a deadlock between two transactions will result in a transaction abort and a 40001 error
(ABORT_REASON_ABORTED_RECORD_FOUND or ABORT_REASON_PUSHER_ABORTED) returned to the client.

So looks like you still get a good old 40001 error just like with SERIALIZABLE isolation.

[0] - https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/read-committed#rea...
> How’s the ink jet printer industry doing these days?

There's good competition from cheap laser printers.

> If everyone does it the only fix is a law.

What makes you think so? You could first try opening up the market more. You can lower barriers to market entry. Eg for new upstarts, for established companies in other industries trying to branch out, and for foreign would-be rivals, too.
It's just people coping with guilt about not giving to charity honestly. That, and ad hominem attacks on the people involved. You see people giving kidneys away and there are still articles talking about how its selfish or misguided.
I agree somewhat, but we were talking about maximising money without caring about the work; that, at least to me, means I am working as a company for a company, not in a traditional job. Contracting as a company means I can deduct almost everything I buy and/or charge it to the client which means more money. It also means multiple clients and work from ‘my office’ (which looks a lot like my home) has been allowed forever as if you are a company they cannot dictate where you work. Demotion does not exist; they can just tell me they don’t need my services anymore: I have too many clients so I have to say ‘in 6 months’ anyway and get offers all the time for more.

And yes you are right about the learning but that happens automatically when you are building ERP stuff. But that’s always the case: my point is: if you chase the newest tech crap, you are not focusing on making max money as you don’t need to update your tech knowledge. No one cares about that outside the tech realm. For both old and new tech, the business rules you learn by doing and you start to see patterns fairly fast so the next project will be similar to the current. I don’t want to think how many times I implemented almost identical employee benefits self service portals…
> Roughly twice per second, a Roku TV captures video “snapshots” in 4K resolution. These snapshots are scanned through a database of content and ads, which allows the exposure to be matched to what is airing. For example, if a streamer is watching an NFL football game and sees an ad for a hard seltzer, Roku’s ACR will know that the ad has appeared on the TV being watched at that time. In this way, the content on screen is automatically recognized, as the technology’s name indicates. The data then is paired with user profile data to link the account watching with the content they’re watching. (https://advertising.roku.com/learn/resources/acr-the-future-...)

Note that this isn't documentation of their data collection practices, this is ad copy providing one example intended to convince advertisers to pay them. They mention TV but my guess is that this applies to every type of roku device, exploiting your data is how they make their money after all, although a stick is probably not capturing the screenshots in 4K. I would also assume that this applies to all content viewed on the device regardless of the app being used and including personal content cast to the device.
Also, the screens spying on you and showing ads are often very subtle about it. They don't tell you every time they take a screenshot, they don't make a loud "click" sound, they don't advertise it. They're not even legally obligated to do anything other than tell you about it in buried legalese. LG will say you need to agree to new privacy terms so that you can use the "microphone" button on your remote control, for example. I persist in ignoring that one, but I'm sure others wouldn't and haven't. Amazon lately has been blatant with how much advertising is ruining their services and sticks, to the point where I don't go to Amazon to search for products now, they've just ruined it. Not every spying, advertising-laden service provider is as obvious as Amazon about it, though.
And then you put everything in the important/urgent cell and you're back with stuff piling in your inbox. Or, at least, that's me.
Why would I care about my manager not being in the office? We probably don't share a continent anyway.

On the other hand, sometimes it is culture. I had manager that had 100+ direct reports. He never had 1x1 and barely managed to get all of the payrol/timesheet/pto aprovals on time.
This is mostly re-reporting a longer report (Which they link to) from the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/05/top-israeli-sp...
Are you saying people will day en masse from fast food?
Sayali Ahirrao
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Technologies: Python, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Redux, Node, SQL, AWS.
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Software Engineer with 6 years working with backend development, distributed systems, and Agile methodologies. A few highlights from my career include:

• Led the design and deployment of complex distributed systems at Morgan Stanley, achieving a 45% increase in efficiency and a 30% improvement in system reliability through the adoption of microservices architecture and containerization technologies like Kubernetes and Docker
• Played a pivotal role in application development projects at LikeMinds Consulting Inc., where enhancing system functionalities through meticulous coding, testing, debugging, and documentation practices, contributing significantly to project success
• Directed multiple software development projects at IBM India Pvt Ltd, employing innovative technologies and methodologies to deliver exceptional results, which included providing mentorship and training to junior staff, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous improvement
• Developed and implemented a custom solution for real-time data monitoring and anomaly detection at VSLN International Inc., enhancing data accuracy and reliability, and automated the cleanup of unused data assets, leading to improved system performance

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We used to love to bring guests and friends from the US to have a look where my mother-in-law worked at the "agricultural high school" that sold wine and cheese they made. It was actually pretty good and was quite cheap

https://www.ducabruzzi.edu.it/pagine/azienda
> Every single inkjet printer is trash because they all adopted the same tactics.

Buy a laser printer, duh.
1.I cant find premium highy-quality tools on the site right now.Some of the directory are empty.

2.I understand the rationale to some extent about charging people for submiting tools but I doubt you bring much greater value(2x-4x) than existing similar platform to advertise your tools.Product hunt seems a similar usecase unless I am missing something.

3.https://fmhy.net/ I personally got involved in this redditcommunity as a user a while ago.This is highly curated although catered to free stuff.Maybe find some inspiration from this.

P.S I am trying to improve my writing so i might have misspelled some stuff.I congrat you on releasing something but In my humble opinion,I am having doubts on the success of your project given the exisiting state.Hopefully some educated HN-users can give a better feedback than me
Inform lawyers? They can cite this as credible doubt, or whatever the correct legal term is.
My site got a score of 2% and 43 "code changes" not sure what that means.
Even cheap projectors can be pretty good these days.

They still need a darker room than a TV, though.
Saying that detractors are upset with the idea of charity is reductive. I personally don't like it because it seems to attract self-aggrandizing navel gazers who don't have the nerve to have a lot of money without some justification as to why they need/deserve it, not because I disagree with the idea on paper. I imagine I'm not alone.
From what I'm seeing, Roku's ACR does not "take multiple screenshots of whatever is on your screen every second", as claimed.

Furthermore, I'm not seeing whether they do this on their non-TV devices.

Edit: Seems the question is answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39950370
How often does that change happen in practice?
I use infuse with jellyfin
What difference does it make?

Software has been 'sold' as a license since approximately forever, and I don't see things being better there.
If not for git, you could have to commit to Subversion! And then back up the whole thing with Duplicity.

I'm not a fan of such sense of humor, and prefer neutral monikers like rsync, or Xfce, or Linux, but the ship has sailed.

It just gets normalized and the edginess erased with time and daily use. Imagine that somebody would suggest that you have to wash your hair with some "sham poo". They would be laughed out of the room, had not this word existed for centuries.
That makes sense. Shame people don’t drop overly ad ridden platforms as there are no usable alternatives.
If a may, can I fact check a story conveyed to me through a mutual acquaintance of ours? The story was that SGI was trying to sell off MineSet, and needed the team to stick around long enough to sell them off -- so a bonus was to be given after a short period of time (a month maybe?). The bonus was significant enough to get people to at least defer a job search ($10K?), but SGI didn't manage to find a buyer. The check was to hit bank accounts on a particular day; the team waited to hear word that the literal money was in the bank -- and then all quit simultaneously.

Is there at least some truthiness to it? Or has this just become Silicon Valley urban legend in my head?
Can you guess why? Was it maybe outmoded or outdated sales models that didn’t take reasonable competition into account.

I’m so sick of dancing around this topic. Managers and business types destroy companies. It never stops. Company after company. How many times do we have to pretend this isn’t the case before we see the truth.

Innovators make things worth selling. Business types drop it on the floor.
Hey, I'm not sure you'll see this but I wanted to let you know that I added a color blind assist mode based on another comment's suggestion of adding patterns/textures to the tiles. In the top-right corner is a hamburger menu where the mode can be enabled.

I'm not 100% if this is the right solution for your needs but I'd be interested in hearing if the update helps at all.

Thanks again for the feedback!
I have to wonder what their end-game is. Eventually the word has to get out.
The redditor who noticed ads pushed to his LG gaming monitor said he connected it to wifi for updates. I think a lot of people assume that updates are really important and don't expect companies to screw them over with ads.
> I understand that they claim to store no user data or associations etc, but honestly, it's just their word.

My guess is that if they are found to do so, then they open themselves up to lawsuits. Not collecting data isn't merely a perk - it's practically the reason Kagi exists.
You can get delivery in some parts of the Balinese forest. Internet is Okay.
My manager's great. Their manager can't even be assed to tell my manager when they leave for vacation.
That might have been the US industrial peak. Since then the big industrial projects have been getting smaller and/or got outsourced to Asia. Nuclear could have powered the next big thing, but they slammed the abort button on the progress in that direction. Semiconductors maybe, but the US sort-of removed itself from that market.
I personally don’t really think Plex/Emby/Jellyfin are really “competing” with Apple. Jellyfin and the like require a geeky person to maintain and supply video files of their own, Apples products are easy and streamlined by design.

They’re superficially kind of similar but, like, depending on how abstract we wanted to get we could basically say that anything is competitive with anything e.g. “Your product has text, and we sell books that contain text, so it’s competitive”

Regardless, I guess what they said worked, because despite me not having worked for Apple for more than three years now, I still don’t want to open source I am still a bit worried about being sued (especially since I didn’t leave on the best of terms with them).

That said, my current job is much more reasonable about this stuff (and also much more domain-focused), so maybe I’ll be able to dust off my public GitHub again some day.

(Again, I am sure you can figure out which company I work at (I have public profiles) but I ask that you don’t post it here.)
You can't be serious with that question.

Because why would I watch things on my 6" smartphone or my 14" laptop, when I already have a 50" screen?

Because I can hook a controller to it and stream games from my Steam library despite owning zero devices running Windows?

Because I never watch cable TV, so why else would I even own a TV?
Peter Higgs (of the namesake Boson fame): "I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system" [1].

I entered academia later on in life to pursue a dream that I had when I was 21 and put off for too long. I get to work on what I think are the hardest problems in TCS/QIS, bar none, and that often feels incredible. But academia is just so damned rough with no two way around it. It crushes brilliant people who think slow and don't chase grants. While rewarding people who gleefully call science 'pain'. And worse still, the rewards are quite meager.

Easily the brightest mind I know (who is dutifully in the 'pain' camp) doesn't conform to the performative aspects of academia and is worse off for it, despite their bottomless capability and tenacity. The rope is so tight and it regularly feels like walking it is harder than the halting problem.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-...

(was going to post this on my main, but, well, my handle says it all)
The voltage of the powerline is not relevant since the charging principle is based on inductive coupling. So as long as you have a current above ~100A the harvester should work, irrespective of voltage. And high currents equal higher charging power.

To optimize charging time, the drone could perhaps analyze the magnetic fields to determine which line has the highest current to optimize charging time. But I would assume some sort of balancing is happening between the lines and phases.

The powerline used is a custom mockup with just 5V AC. But we have also landed on real powerlines. I think there's a video in the channel of the OP video.
I actually think we survived in communities/cities for longer. We lost our rough traits (ie: lots of hair, thick skin, etc...) compared to the rest of apes. So we must have been inside homes for a very long time.
I'm in my early 40s for reference, and it's always amaze me when i'm listening to an album that I really loved when I was an early adult (so not that far away) and making a comparaison like : "damn, that records is the equivalent of a Led Zeppelin album to me for a young adult of 2024". Suddendly, it appears a million years away as I put myself in the boots of a kid. I'm that old, to them.
As the hallucinated Euclid said to Ptolemy, there is no LLM for geometry?
misleading headline. It should read "Roku files patent to never do business with me again"