skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm guessing "the edge" is doing inference work in the browser, etc. as opposed to somewhere in the backend of the web app.

Maybe your local machine can run, I don't know, a model to make suggestions as you're editing a Google Doc, which frees up the Big Machine in the Sky to do other things.

As this becomes more technically feasible, it reduces the effective cost of inference for a new service provider, since you, the client, are now running their code.

The Jevons paradox might kick in, causing more and more uses of LLMs for use cases that were too expensive before.
Creating sexually explicit deepfake images to be made offence in UK
I appreciated this one making the front page because I encountered the original article on HN and wondered if there’d be retaliation. I like having the follow-up, shame it was more than we could handle I guess.
I can replicate your benchmark when I get a moment, the data, is it free to share if I wanted to make an open browser?

I have a feeling general public has very limited access to weather data, and graphs in news that state "are we getting hotter on colder" are all sensational and hard to verify.
Neither X-ray nor x-ray fluorescence (XRF) is going to be able to scan large objects properly for gold from a distance. XRF machines only show the surface or slightly below the surface. If you put gold inside a lead pipe - no chance.

If there was ever a method to reliably detect gold from a distance without costing millions of dollars, it would start a new gold rush.

So, this was either discovered by a very careful inspection or more likely a tip-off.
I used to do this in Niagara Falls, but that would be enough to get you free parking.

Now they cut back on that, I park elsewhere and they don’t even get a chance at my $20 on red anymore.
Though I think it should be “for any given Y”. As X refers to the thing avoided, and Y (or any variable other than X) would refer to the excuse given.
You might want to ping HN admins (email works best in my experience) to reposition this post in HN since it has been nuked out of the atmosphere for some reason. It is nowhere to be seen in HN listing.

For example this other post is older (6 hours ago), with less points (70) and less comments (34), and yet it shows on top 12 of HN:

12. Show HN: a Rust based CLI tool 'imgcatr' for displaying images (github.com/silinmeng0510)
I didn't understand why these APIs existed until I used ESPHome. It can use the Web Serial API to flash an ESP32 board using Chrome + a USB cable.
NPR was been a constant presence in my life starting when I was young and continued in to middle age.

But around the time of the pandemic I stopped. I can't put my finger on any one thing but it's no longer a place I go to get information. I've found this is something common in my social circles too.

Not sure I agree with all of the original essay but something changed at NPR and I just don't listen anymore.
I agree with all of this but the reality is that it's somewhere inbetween because you need both.

Powerlifters are not doing one set and calling it a day.
I hope (but I doubt) that this will be more than a marketing stand to include something "AI" in their product line. Every vendor has their own hardware that is badly supported by tools, and even if it is supported, only a fraction of the available software uses it. In the meantime it takes precious die area and resources.
> In October, YouTube made it nearly impossible to watch its website while using an ad blocker.

Did they revert that? I saw those for maybe a week. After that, I assume uBlock Origin had already worked around that. Probably the same will happen with mobile clients.
The paywalls aren't the problem. Information leaks around paywalls. The facts have always been available. You might not be able to get the primary source, but people are always bad about primary sources. People who want to believe disinformation have never let that stop them.

If anything, a paywall suggests that somebody has put some effort into gathering that news. People peddling disinformation want to pay you to take it.

I believe the real issue is that the disinformation is so popular. It's crafted so that some people want to hear it. It's usually not difficult to refute, but there's so much of it that it that even if you're skeptical it's hard to swat away 100% of it.

Putting a paywall between you and the actual news source doesn't help, but even if it were free, it's just too much work. And those who don't want to believe it won't.
> Realistically there is no way to do news without a bias nowadays.

There never has been; there is no such thing as unbiased reporting.

There is only reporting that is open about it's assumptions, premises and biases, and reporting that purports to be "unbiased". The latter is insidious and dangerous. With the former, you can simply avoid it, if you want to live in a bubble; or you can consume it, and evaluate it based on the known proclivities of the source.
Where it is mixed, the derivative work would usually be expected to be made available under the terms of the GPL, because the copyright held by the creators of the original work includes the right to create and distribute derivative works.

The licensor of the derivative work can refuse to give you a licence unless you agree to some other terms (e.g., money, and/or the right to terminate the business relationship if you exercise your GPL rights), but those terms cannot directly prevent you from exercising your GPL rights, or the licensor would be in violation of the GPL.
Yeah but much less so than with hard drug addicts. When was the last time a roulette addict took a shit on your car or chasing people in the park? Or a roulette addict being even allowed in the casino having soiled himself?

Of course they could have externalities too, but their blast radius is mostly contained to their near circle of family instead of the entire society.
Totally agree, but the problem with this plan is there's never any dopamine hit. Just 30 years later you look at your accounts and feel like you have enough money to live a nice life without having to work anymore. That's not exciting at all, it's boring.

In this case, boring is the entire point, but it's hard to sell the average 20-something something boring that they won't get to use until 30+ years from now.
> Congress has avoided the responsibility of passing new harsher antitrust legislation that simply skips the lawsuits and goes straight to fines.

How would that work? Do you have some example of proposed legislation around this?
None of that actually proved to be true.

Tech was certainly not over after the dotcom bubble burst, which is what he's talking about.

People have lost jobs to offshoring, but the growth in software engineering demand in the US vastly outpaced the losses to offshoring. If anything, offshoring helped deal with the fact that demand vastly outpaced supply over the last few decades.

As for "we probably don't need this many programmers"... maybe? Or more accurately, we probably don't need this many programmers making as much money as they were making for the past few years. Corrections happen in every sector now and then.
Agreed, clickhouse is faster and has better features for this
Here's [1] a very relevant article from 2018 explaining what was probably going on in more detail.

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When [Japan's consumption tax] was last increased in 2014, to 8% from 5%, smuggling of [gold] jumped as criminal organizations quickly realized how to game the system for their own enrichment.

The scheme works like this: Procure gold in places like Hong Kong, which does not tax it. Have mules hide it in their luggage and blend in with tourists, traveling to Japan to sell to stores that buy gold from the public. The stores pay for both the gold itself and the consumption tax. The tax component becomes pure profit.

And with the consumption tax set to rise to 10% in October 2019, margins will grow even fatter. Japan has an unflattering reputation as a "go-to place" for gold smugglers.

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[1] - https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Japan-braces-for-gold-smuggl...
I am working towards quitting programming. Everyone in programming is insane. Managers, stakeholders, other programmers. I'd rather do construction and program on my off time.
I think the issue is actually bigger than this. The economy seems to continue to be white-hot despite everyone claiming its doing terrible and everything costs too much etc.

people are eating out more than ever before, getting delivery more than ever before, and vacations are also booming. consumption is up no matter how you slice it.

i think a lot of the younger generation have completely given up on the idea that they are ever going to own a house and instead of saving for that are just blowing it on food, booze, vacations etc.
I loved those image2text ever since I learned about libcaca
http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca
Yeah, there are increasingly more situations where the simple mnemonics no longer work and you now need to use the more advanced uniform syntax for specifying devices. The same is true, IIRC, of specifying sound card hardware: in the past it used to be one argument to enable Soundblaster emulation outputting to the default sound output on the host, now I'm pretty sure it's split in two. The more "advanced" options totally make sense, but dropping or limiting the simpler options feels like a shame given how handy the qemu CLI can be.

That said, while they can be annoying, there haven't been an enormous amount of these changes, which is why I liken it to FFmpeg, I still use the FFmpeg CLI all the time even though the CLI syntax for more advanced filtering has changed over time.
And even funnier for those of us that work in ag tech and know that the money in farming these days is in big business farming, run at scales far larger than traditional single family operations.
After the movies, I wanted to experience Dune 2 again (the pirate sites have it, along with patches to make it playable on modern OSes or Crossover). It was arguably the first mass-market real-time strategy game. There's also OpenRA for C&C, Red Alert, and Dune 2K: https://www.openra.net/

I understand Square is re-making FF7 in a multi-part release over several years (not sure why it takes so long)? https://ffvii-remake-intergrade.square-enix-games.com/en-us/ Once it's all out, I might play through that again just for nostalgia's sake (and for the soundtrack, of course! Twenty years later, I still have Aeris's Theme stuck in my head from time to time)
While I absolutely understand the point you're making....

At least in the United States, we also live in a society where the financial ramifications of getting shot could lead to equally bad financial outcomes (whether directly or indirectly).
I was in this same situation a few years ago.

Ultimately what it came down to was my own sanity of managing a rental, and I didn't want to be a leech on society. It is important for people to be able to buy houses. I sold it.

Money from the house went into some vanguard funds, a young family got their first house, and I have a lot less stress in my life.
Would also add, as a 100% math idiot, linear transformations, and how it performs them is not explained.

Entirely plausible this is intended for someone more "mathmatical" than myself but appreciate the work regardless.
I think it’s usually people that allow themselves to get burnt out though… Far too many programmers treat it like a hobby, and are severely taken advantage of by employers. 9-5, go home and don’t touch a computer, It’s just like any other job then.
I went through a similar phase with a process that started with global OSM and Whosonfirst to process a pipeline. Google costs kept going up (7k a month with airflow + bigquery) and I was able to replace it with a one time $7k hardware purchase. We were able to do it since the process was using H3 indices early on and the resulting intermediate datasets all fit on ram.

System is a Mac Studio with 128GB + Asahi Linux + mmapped parquet files and DuckDB, it also runs airflow for us and with Nix can be used to accelerate developer builds and run the airflow tasks for the data team.

GCP is nice when it is free/cheap but they keep tabs on what you are doing and may surprise you at any point in time with ever higher bills without higher usage.
This seems backwards.

If your friends can't find men that meet their standards by definition their standards aren't reasonable since they aren't being met.

Were they reasonable they would be met.

Let's not pretend that social media hasn't had a much worse impact on women than on men.
Anecdata #2, I was under the same impression until I learned that "saving money" for many of my peers meant day trading Robinhood stocks.
It handles better high temperatures than steel in the sense that it retains its strength at high temperatures, but which are still much lower than its melting point.

This does not imply that Inconel is more resistant at vaporisation than steel. It is possible and even probable that it is less resistant (Inconel X has less chromium than many stainless steels and pure nickel has higher vapor pressure than pure iron, so it evaporates more quickly, but the behavior of alloys may be different from their components).

Therefore it is not certain that more of the inconel will be left after the fall, it is quite likely that less will be left than from stainless steels with high chromium content.
> There are no well-established genetic predictors of IQ

Common misconception, sadly untrue. There are known genetic predictors of intelligence, they're just not simple genes that the layman can wrap his head around.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg.2017.104
Entrepreneurs, with passion for a vision, invent the future they want
If it buys happiness, what's the problem?
OK, that's quite clear. The article was less so.

> That doesn't mean they have to be on the board. You can easily bring cops in when needed.

The experience from Oakland/SF is that the review boards gets controlled by anti police activist who make policing near impossible.
Goldfinger (1964) was about a rich British guy who always travelled with his Rolls-Royce, taking it with him by plane and ship. As it turned out he was smuggling gold by replacing the bodywork of the car at each side of the trip, leaving no apparent external difference.

Of course the finale was about his plan to irradiate the gold in Fort Know with a dirty bomb; increasing the price of all his gold.
People who don't want to learn how to program can always find a reason why not to. This time it's AI, last time it was that tech was over because the Internet Bubble burst, the time before that it was that all the programming jobs were going to be outsourced to India.

[I purposely didn't mark that as a quote. Seeing the entirety as if it was written by a different Paul shows its emptiness.]
There's other fun hacks using print dialogs. When I was in jail the computers only ran one piece of legal software (on Windows Vista). But it would let you print. And the printer drivers from HP had a button to "Order more ink" which if you pressed it opened IE and tried to navigate to hp.com. From there you could just use IE as File Explorer and browse the hard drive and run explorer.exe.
I think those were meant to be 3 separate examples - so not related to right wing.
Oh my gosh. I did some downhole work analyzing the corrosion of casing and tubing. It boggles my mind that some wells produce enough to justify that. I should have known - it's "only" 5-10x more in material cost; just belies my typical rule-of-thumb intuition.
Learning AppleScript and (La)TeX as a graphic designer changed a lot of tedium into lengthy coffee breaks or, productive work on some more interesting aspect of the project at hand.
It was SO annoying when it turned out Crysis 3 does not respect this setting in the VTOL-flying sections.
Confronting pro-Kremlin troll on false claims Jewish student was Sydney killer
Very bold of you to assume that there will be enough married women by 2030 to start a movement.
There's just never been anywhere for the coordinated inflation to leak into before. Novel territory, just keeping an eye on the future. A dollar continues to buy less of everything, be it equities or commodities.
I want to make a Jefferson Airplane joke here but I don't know how.
Methane Emissions from the Oil and Gas Industry Are Triple Current Estimates
Eh, if I have issues watching Youtube, I'll just watch less Youtube. My time would be much better spent in other places anyway.
> Yet they don't seem to exist yet? Is this harder to do than it sounds?

It exists, but isn’t advertised much as it’s essentially a military technology. If you read about the homegrown attack drones Ukraine is building they use a variation of this tech. Various US platforms do something similar. You won’t see this in a consumer drone anytime soon, but a skilled hobbyist could rig something together.
Welcome to Pricing Hell
When you say "9+ hours", is this bed time or actual sleep time? (I've been instrumenting my sleep lately, and the difference can be surprising.)
Probably some sort of actual engineering in the physical world (like renewables). But I'm terrible at math, so probably would've washed out early lol. I'm actually trying to get into an engineering program now, but I don't think I can afford to spend another 6-7 years of my life chasing that =/ Might have to choose something else instead.
Does it show the same video adds as YouTube?
There is more to learn in life than you will have time before you die. That is just learn to the level of you can do something but are not very good, master takes a lot longer. You need to choose what to master, what you want to learn for other reasons, and what to let someone else do for you in life. If you decide that programming is not for you then I have no problem with that decision.

If you are asking for advice: nobody knows what the future will bring. AI sometimes looks really useful and sometimes horrible. There may be things coming I'm not aware of. You have to make your best guess, and if it turns out wrong adjust. That said, programming has been a useful thing for the past few decades and looks to continue to be. However medical jobs have also been good for even longer and that too looks to continue. Music and art can be good for a few, but most people who go into them have to do something else to survive.

Nothing stops you from mastering more than one thing. There is nothing wrong with being a master programmer for 8 boring hours at an insurance company, and then going home to create music with your friends. (I picked this example because I work with programmers who took a substantial pay cut to work where I do instead of the insurance company they worked with before)
GNU Taler v0.10 Released
I'm in the UK and just before the banking crisis you could get a decent house for £50k with a 120% self-certified mortgage. These are the same people who often resort to the coffee/netflix argument.

£50k is now a deposit.
Several of my friends left the IT sector to pursue some work related to farming and food production (farm, bakery, cake shop, bio foods, etc. are for some reason very popular choices). Anecdotally almost without exception the new job turned out to be just as much of a slog after some time, except with much lower financial reward, if any.

I think sometimes it's just easier to think the grass is greener elsewhere. Hobbies are often not as fun when they become a job, a necessity.

You can burn out just as easily with a hobby-turned-job if you're overdoing it. IT was probably a hobby before it became a job for many of today's engineers. The solution is to avoid overdoing it rather than to jump from one hobby-job to the next, maybe ruining them all in the process.
Farewell to HD Atlas [video]
Replace programing with anything else.
The amount of design that went in to this, and the fact that they override the scrolling logic, makes me curious what their intention actually is. They do a lot of telling what if "feels like".

Also... does this site... have motion blur?
Drowned land off Australia was an Aboriginal hotspot in last Ice Age
I've heard the term "financial nihilism":

* https://kyla.substack.com/p/gen-z-and-financial-nihilism

A lot of people don't see a bright (financial) future for themselves, and that working hard won't get them anything meaningful. So long shots are perceived the only way that you can improve your lot in life, as otherwise The System™ is stacked against you (student loans, housing costs, etc).
The sneaky thing about gambling at casinos and other professional outfits is that the career total of any given gambler is a random walk that can easily end up quite positive with significant probability (e.g. say around 50-50), so if you poll your friends you may well find people who are ahead, which is really great marketing. The house advantage is that of course these "around 50-50" odds are in the house's favor, and thanks to large numbers of visitors they can remove the variance and profit reliably.
I often joke about building a cabin in the woods where I don't even have an address, I'd have to send you coordinates.

I always hope the story is just far fetched enough nobody thinks it's an actual plan, but I'm not sure.

I have no intention of spending the rest of my life chopping firewood and hunting whatever I can find in these woods. It's an amazing fantasy (because it's short term) after dealing with a bunch of BS all week though.
Who’s to say the initial inflammation is excessive though?

Isn’t it possible that promotes healing? The body should know how to heal.
I wonder how many are attempting to smuggle gold that is dissolved in a liquid (I'm guessing that's a lot harder to detect)
If you're afraid of AI, I have bad news: it's just as capable of taking those jobs as it is of taking software engineering jobs, or any other white-collar job.
I'm also quite a big fan of NewPipe. I just wish you could sort videos by views.
The legal rule that computers are presumed to be operating correctly (2022) [pdf]
Seconding NewPipe. Though recently it's been unable to load comments and the error banner keeps popping up as a result (no comments may actually be a plus?)

I still use the regular Youtube app for shorts but NewPipe is definitely a better experience overall. My main gripes with the official Android Youtube client:
- They made it so annoying to choose your video resolution (Seriously, who tested this and found it better than the old method?)
- I can accept not being able to play in the background, but if you lock your screen while in fullscreen mode and then unlock it, there is a very noticeable lag before the app exits fullscreen mode, and in this period you cannot resume playback.
I envy those with a solid plan to get out. I feel age is going to start to count against me and my passion for programming is dead. But I can’t deny the compensation in this career is great, which makes me not want to move on, for now
So click house is a column db. Any thoughts on if the performance would be a wash if you just pivoted the timescale hypertable and indexed the time + column on timescale?
People are coming up with new methods and fancy terms for them, but essentially everything that works are variations of the same core ideas.

This in fact is not so different from the Listening-Reading method...