skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not apologia. It's pointing out that this "planet ending doom and gloom" meme driven attitude is not well aligned to the problem being discussed.

I would personally attempt to avoid using language that people could interpret as moral bullying.
I really like my Wyze cameras, especially their night sensors and SD card support. They are cheap, the optional cloud sub is cheap, their nighttime/low-light imagery is really good (both in color, with their special sensor, and in black/white with built-in infrared lighting).

Each camera is only $26 and works great. In fact I prefer their ecosystem to the super-bloated Ring and Nest ones that I used to have.

They have sound-activated recording and some basic AI features (package dropped off, I see a pet, your wife is home, etc.) but not specific sound detection.
Agreed:

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>I started Sidebar in the fall of 2012. At the time my vision was to create a “Hacker News for design”, a place where designers could come to showcase their work and discover new resources.
"betrays" means to expose, to be evidence of, particularly unintentionally.

i.e. "poor grammar unintentionally exposed unclear thinking"
wow, I just realized you're the same dwheeler from the work on diverse double-compilation!

Thanks for the improvements on POSIX, I've read many issues and discussions raised by you in the past couple of years.

If fact, I think it was one of yoir comments on make(1)'s dynamic dependency graph that reassured me I had a correct grasp on its execution model!
Or maybe they have to figure out how to actually make it work
And how does the script-reading, process-following, zero-power custech employee change what they can do based on customer rage?
If anyone's interested, here are some example cases published by the Financial Modeling World Cup:

https://fmworldcup.com/product-category/case-studies/excel-e...

Most are behind a paywall, unfortunately.
> we've spend 200 years in this country establishing that the written word is sacrosanct and not to be censored. All of a sudden, ASCII text just became "dangerous" in the last year. I simply refused to accept that any written text (regardless of who wrote it) needs to be censored. The written is just the embodiment of a thought, or notion - and we cannot go around tricking people into thinking that "thoughts" need to be regulated and that there are certain thoughts that are "dangerous". This is a toxic 1984 mindset.

1. The US isn't the whole world, your Overton Window won't include even the UK's attitude to freedom of speech, and there's a huge gap from even the UK to 1984.

2. Despite the 1st Amendment, the US does have a lot of rules about what you are and aren't allowed to say. All of copyright law, for example (which is a huge question for LLMs, because it's not clear where the cut-off line is between models reproducing copyrighted works vs writing in a non-copyrightable style with non-copyrightable facts). The fact NDAs and non-disparagement agreements are enforceable. What Manning was imprisoned for. Musk may have won some (all?) of the defamation cases, but they are real cases to be defended, they're not dismissed before reaching a court due to "this is not even an offence".

3. Does the AI have thoughts, such that they should be protected?
In American English, "defense" is commonly understood as "the military-industrial complex".

Your opinion can be logical, but everyone has their own opinion.

If you want suggestions, I'd recommend taking an approach of "What are you including in your comment that would interest or inform someone, versus the other millions of opinions on the internet?"

Or, 'Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.' https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Also, while we're at it, 'Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put *asterisks* around it and it will get italicized.'
Oh NVIDIA released an open weights 340 billion parameter LLM!

It should be the biggest open weights to date I think (Grok 314b).

It's trained on 8 trillion tokens, and some benchmarks show it does better than or equal to GPT-4o!

They released 3 checkpoints - the base, the instruct and a reward aligned model.

See https://huggingface.co/collections/nvidia/nemotron-4-340b-66... for all the checkpoints
Laughably bad advice.

What's the failure rate of startups - 90%? This is less risky than a slightly crowded job market where there's still millions of jobs?
And why the corporate speak? They messed up and that’s the end of it.

Where is the acknowledgement of getting owned two days after announcement? Where is the acknowledgment of having an understanding of the issues this poses and how they are going to address them?

Make no mistake that this feature was in development for a long time, with resources allocated to it. And throughout all that process, Microsoft thought this is a great and safe feature for the users.

And yet here we are.
This is very helpful! Would some of the metrics this device can track be attributable to when this pollution occurs? Specifically thinking rapid ph change, and and a deployment of these devices in a sensor fabric across vulnerable bodies of moving water.

Perhaps also an opportunity for a distributed network of water sensors on private water wells still in use.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/georgetown-scientific-llc/nectar...
Unlike other kinds of marketing, though, you can get a lot of bad press for cutting the budget for this one.
What a dumb feature. They had to get all that backlash to understand why everyone wouldn't want it. Is someone at Microsoft taking crazy pills to think consumers would be into that?

They pulled the exact same shit 11 years ago when they launched the Xbox One as a "home media center" instead of a gaming console and it came with mandatory always-on internet connection, disc games DRM tied to a single console unable to lend them to a friend, and with Kinect camera, and just like this time, it took community backlash to get them to roll back on this shit while Sony was having the time of their lives seeing how the succes of the PS4 was already in the bag from the start before they evens started.

What is wrong with them? Does Microsoft think consumers are stupid masochists who enjoy being shit on by megacorporations while paying for the privilege? Does Nadella not look into the stupid decisions his execs are making and make necessary organizational adjustments to prevent stuff like this?

People shit on Steve Balmer but I don't remember Microsoft's products having that level of anti-consumer disrespect during his tenure. Sure Microsoft Zune and Window Phone 7-10 eventually flopped, by not because they had anti-consumer features but because they were too late and not very popular. And the Xbox 360, despite the Red ring of death was still smash hit. Now, Microsoft is an even richer company that during Balmer's tenure but it's products seem way more anti-consumer.

Edit: sorry for the overuse of the word shit, I'm just angry
Well everything is relative of course, but from a human perspective, an environment can be "unhealthy", and that is what we ultimately care about, right?
There's no shortage of Java people, but somehow no shortage of Java projects either. It's the mass-employment stack.
> It also did not allow Flash in 2010, and this was during the height of its popularity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_Flash

They deserve every penny they get just for this.
> Or a chrome extension that takes HN comments and transforms them all to be kinder

I was about to start working on something like this. I would like to try browsing the internet for a day, where all comments that I read are rewritten after passing through a sentiment filter. If someone says something mean, I would pass the comment through an LLM with the prompt: "rewrite this comment as if you were a therapist, who was reframing the commenter's statement from the perspective that they are expressing personal pain, and are projecting it through their mean comment"

I find 19 times out of 20, that really mean comments come from a place of personal insecurity. So if someone says: "this chrome extension is a dumb idea, anti-free speech, blah blah blah" , I would read: "commentor wrote something mean. They might be upset about their own perceived insignificance in the world, and are projecting this pain through their comment <click here to reveal original text>"
>GPU support requires a CUDA-capable NVIDIA GPU and driver (minimum GeForce GTX 9xx).

Very tactful from nvidia. I have a lovely AMD gpu and this library is worthless for it.
> Moderation is non-negotiable.

Typically, yes, it is.
I think those things the article is advising are the same things Andrew Harris wanted to advise customers to do 3 years prior, but Microsoft didn't want to, because it would make the default configuration sound insecure (it kind of was), jeopardizing government contracts, especially since various government systems would break if those config changes were made.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40682000
Overpomise first, underdeliver second
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Sounds great. I wasn't aware he has a reputation as a stock picker. All I know about him is that he had some shenanigans with Pharma price gauging and that's both how he made his money and ended up in jail.

The trolling is uninteresting except maybe the Wu Tang thing.

I'm only after pure Excel-fu here. It is actually weird for me that people use it to analyze stocks instead of Python but I probably don't know what I'm missing.

Edit: The first few minutes seem neat, I'm biting the bullet
> why does it have to have so many other muscles, and when are those used?

Elephants aren't just controlling the direction of the trunk, but the diameter of the interior tube in several "chambers" up and down, tho. They pump water, they must be.

Tapir tools are worth study for much the same reasons. Harder to write a research grant proposal there.
By the way, they also had an interesting article last year about Koo in Nigeria:
restofworld.org/2023/nigeria-koo-twitter-rival-flop/.
Accessible, as long as you purchase their very contested hardware.
What do you use it for? What problems does it solve?
These absolute statements are always interesting.

Not disputing he is likely to push for anti-woke AI. He went bigtime anti-woke with Twitter and laid off a ton of staff particularly in DEI areas and a lot of the brand marketing on twitter left as a result.

Long term the outcome is a bit less clear - twitters demise was widely expected and it still seems to operate despite the layoffs though I'm not sure if users are still using it anymore or all went to bluesky etc.

At Tesla - if anti-woke drives a ton of engineers to leave that will certainly be a problem.

In terms of getting allocations of things like NVidia hardware, is it possible that some of these allocations come because of Elon being in the mix in the first place?

I think the fact that there are related party activities between his companies (including Elon himself) are pretty well known. I thought the solarcity deal was a TERRIBLE deal for Tesla, but Tesla energy has been doing pretty well generally - so again, waters a bit muddied, and executives are able to make bad decisions along with good ones.
Sentry is technically self-hostable, but they provide no deployment guidance beyond running the giant blob of services/microservices (including instances of postgres, redis, memcache, clickhouse, and kafka) as a single docker-compose thing. I get why they do this and think it's totally reasonable of them, but Sentry is a very complicated piece of software and takes substantially more work IME to both get up and running and maintain compared to other open-source self-hosted observability/monitoring/telemetry software I've had the pleasure of working with.
How much do you think the lives of Walmart’s employees would change if Suresh Kumar would forego those 4.5 million and distribute it among them instead? When you have 2.1 million people working under you, you don’t need to skim much from each of their individual output to make a lot of money.
That isn't quite how it works - you don't ask your manager what accommodations are available, your doctor writes it out and send the formal documentation in a letter. If they refuse to give you the needed accommodations, contact an attorney. And you absolutely tell HR so that you avoid exactly what you are describing, of it becoming an informal thing that one manager has negotiated with you. HR should be helpful because this protects the company as much as yourself because there is a formal agreement in place of how to work with a disability.

If you can't do the job, disability compensation comes in two forms - SSI, which is granted if you can not hold any job (after tons of paperwork), and disability insurance, which may or may not exist depending on your benefits package. Both are a hassle and not easy to get, but again, contact an attorney. Just submitting forms and saying, "gimme my money" won't work, almost everyone needs assistance to drive those processes.

Actually, that is really the answer overall - contact an attorney. They'll give you better answers than I will anyway because despite my own struggles, I'm still just a rando guy on the internet, not an expert.
In summary: the only customers that matter --corporations paying site licenses-- declared this to be an unacceptable business risk.

Anyone who is still using windows in 2024 and isnt a multinational business or llc gets what they deserve.
Lol "work 2 jobs". Great advice.

My advice is work for a big company and put in your 40 and no more if possible. Ride that to retirement.

Or grind your ass off for a decade with minimal returns and possible ruin.
All humans are nude under the clothes. The only safe way is to kill them all. Thus begins the AI apocalypse...
I received the email for maglit.me yesterday. It's sad to see it ending as my project has proven itself to be useful to people and open source community.

I'm thinking of applying to Netlify's sponsorship program or just hosting the website using Coolify on VPS, it'll cost money which would mean I'd have to ask the users for donations to make the project sustainable.
Don't know much about video encoding, but I imagine there are some clever tricks google can pull to embed the ads with keyframes, since when you upload your video to youtube they already do re-encodes. I'm imagining there's some hand wavey stuff that would allow you to sorta concat the ad with different parts of the video.

I'd also imagine that the newer video codecs were explicitly designed to make stuff like this possible without a ton of computational resources.
I really value youtube, but as long as google owns it I will never pay, never ever. Nor will I watch ads. But if youtube broke off one day and became independent like paypal did, i would gladly pay for it.
Not yet, but the the human population has more than doubled since 1970, while the number of other vertebrates has halved. It's like biomass is conserved, and human growth (both in number and in waistlines) is us systematically converting biomass into ourselves.

In 100 more years when the only vertebrates that aren't extinct or endangered are humans and our livestock and pets, will that be Grey Goo-like enough for you? Or does it only count if we manage to exterminate the insects and lower-order species too?

Because an "unstoppable apex predator" could never become 100% Grey Goo, as it still needs something to eat!

https://xkcd.com/1338/
Yes, great works of art can and should be preserved by making images and data freely available. How much of that is being done? Quite frankly, I don't know, but there are a number of museums that make their collections available to view online. Check out some of the links below.

https://www.louvre.fr/en/online-tours#virtual-tours

https://www.si.edu/exhibitions/online

https://artsandculture.google.com/
Well OK, but what about H.265? It's one louder, isn't it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding
11PM to 6AM is very different from 1AM to 5AM.
Parents of little children who need you to wake up multiple times per night have it worse, IMO. And they often report memory problems and overall mental decline.
If at first your accountability fails, blame your suppliers.
Netlify or Cloudflare perhaps. I would think most platforms could handle that by now. Both Cloudflare and Netlify work for me in that scenario.
Pro tip, if you have a VPN provider and set it to Ukraine, YouTube Premium comes out to only ~$2.7x/month. Makes it way more enjoyable for a fraction of the price.

Once you buy it, you dont have to keep your VPN or anything, it will always rebill at the $2.xx price each month.
Also, this is helium from the propulsion system.

>> Helium is used in the spacecraft’s thruster systems to allow the thrusters to fire without being combustible or toxic.

I'm assuming it's used to backfill tanks as they're emptied?
What is calm and angry exactly though? Can you share a sample video?
> the namespace clashes might have a positive unintended consequence of making you realize you don't actually need that other library after all.
That's only part of the equation though.

If lower income means you qualify for subsidized housing, subsidized childcare, etc then that can be a big incentive.

I have two sisters with very similar lifestyles despite grossly different incomes. My low-income sister gets her housing, groceries, utilities, childcare and even phone paid for by government programs. My other sister (near median income) lives in an apartment of similar size and quality, buys similar groceries, etc but pays for all of it from her wages.

My low-income sister has no real incentive to increase her official income (although she does value informal economy "hustles" and side-gigs which directly give her disposable income).
Maybe it will all be good when there's an AI assistant that I can command to "Call the Foobar Company and cancel my subscription" and it can figure out the deeply hidden customer service phone number, navigate the phone tree menu, and then talk to their AI service agent to get my subscription canceled. It could be marketed as the subscription terminator. "It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear! And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until your subscription is canceled!
Raptor's big selling point is open source firmware. There's not a single bit of closed source software anywhere on their system. It's why they don't have any POWER 10 systems.
A market mystery: Why do capers come in such tiny jars?
Wow, so many comments just do not get the point of your question, even when you asked to be concrete. “Start your side gig”, “know how to work well across teams”, “specialise in a domain”.. amazing.

Anyway. My current contracts are set to end dec 2024, so to start warming up I had a talk with a recruiter just yesterday, and basically asked the same as you “what is in high demand currently? Are there some specific skills that everybody is asking for?”

She said:

- Always a need for architects, esp with integrations focus. Public sector clients ask for TOGAF sigh

- Data infrastructure people is apparently in high demand. Not my thing so didn’t probe further into that

- Infosec and cybersec, clients take all they can find. For infosec she mentioned ISO27001 and NIS2 is highly requested. For cybersec “practical experience” was primarily requested, but I know the respected certs like OSCP sells.

I’m in EU which is probably some of the reason for the demand for *sec people atm. Infosec due to new regulations like NIS2 etc, and cybersec due to Ukraine war and elevated threat level from Russia (but also generally elevated activity).

What she said fits pretty well into what I hear from other contacts as well. She also confirmed what you are saying that many clients are reluctant to hire at the moment, and when they do it’s specialists not generalists.

So for 5-10 years I’d say architecture (more to the technical side, not the EA side). And security. I don’t think security is going away any time soon. Edit: to be more specific on security - it’s a very big field and my understanding is that most subfields are in high demand and will continue to be. This site [1] has a very good overview and shows what’s in the different subfields. Too much to write about here but it should enable you to find more specifics.

Where are you based just out of curiosity?

[1] https://pauljerimy.com/security-certification-roadmap/
This seems to cause playback failures in ublock from what ive seen. MPV doesn't appear affected though.
My takeaway is that Microsoft has been trying to boil the frog, but slipped and turned the temperature up too quickly. They're retreating for now, but make no mistake that Recall will slowly trickle back into Windows under another name. Every major power broker wants something like Recall to become the norm - bosses to spy on their employees, governments to spy on their citizens/enemies, and tech CEO's to collect training data for AI and target more ads at end users.
Oh you're right - whoops
What is recall ai?
This is nothing but just TaskEither that has existed (among others incredibly useful things for years) in fp-ts.
Is there any alternative right now that blocks these ads?
301 is "Moved Permanently". The content in question wasn't (necessarily) moved. If you control and know for sure that old URL was renamed to something else, then yes - 301 redirect is appropriate. But guessing and redirecting isn't that.
That's just syntax. Once you get past the syntax, the structure and flow of the language feels like a highly evolved C.

Zig has a high degree of mechanical sympathy with C programmer brains.
Databases. SQL isn’t going anywhere, and neither is Postgres. Plus the various NoSQL offerings.

DBA has been reinvented as DBRE. It’s essentially still the same job, except you also have to know how to wrestle YAML, HA/DR, and create meaningful SLIs / SLOs. But if you like getting your hands dirty with the internals of DBs, hoo boy are there jobs. My last interview run, I had a 50% callback rate (n=10), plus some extras where the recruiter hit me up on LinkedIn.

The job can and should entail Linux ops knowledge, so if you aren’t great at that, learn it to a great detail. Somewhat obscure things like filesystem and kernel tuning are helpful.

I say can and should because yes, if all you deal with are managed DBs, you can pretend Linux doesn’t exist – but it does, and it’s enormously helpful to have a good handle on concepts like IOPS (including how latency affects it, and how ops requests can be batched by the kernel [and EBS FWIW], etc.).
Understood - I have that problem too which unfortunately limits the heavy stuff sometimes.
This is what I always expected platforms would do if blockers became ubiquitous enough – make it impossible to easily separate first party and third-party content.

Podcast platforms already have to do this – dynamic ad insertion is done within the file itself.

I suspect we'll start to see sites use proxy server solutions to mask third-party ads on the web as well.
If you're going to switch careers (and it might not be a bad idea) why switch to something where there aren't a lot of jobs? I doubt there are a lot of outdoor recreation jobs - sure, there are going to be some, but it seems like a small niche and very geographically-specific.

If I was still in my 30s or younger I'd probably look into becoming an electrician or a plumber - the pay is good, lots of demand as older generation is retiring now, and it's going to be difficult to automate those jobs at least for the next ~20 years especially for older construction where things are often not very standard. That would get you into your late 50s at least.
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