skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one actually uses lasers for light shows any more. Far too dangerous. They're just LEDs and some theatre fog.
Shouldn't be hard to make opensource one. CSI capture under Linux is fairly simple with v4l2 API, SG2002 SoC has HW accelerated JPEG codec, and that's exposed as mem2mem v4l2 API too, usually. USB HID gadget emulation is fairly easy under Linux, too, via /dev/hidg# device. It's basically just shuffling some buffers around in userspace in video->net direction, and translating between browser input events and HID in the other direction.

It's probably 2-4 weekends worth of work for someone who already worked with all of this in the past to combine it together and add a basic web interface. (Assumming they will use sophgo's Linux kernel branch and will not try to mainline kernel support, first)
> The person doing this isn't in the "pinky promise" game, they built out a penny stock company from 2c a share to ~$28 a share over two decades to capture a large chunk of a billion tonne per annum raw iron ore market.

Yeah, swindling governments is a profitable business.
1. Ender printers are usually a good deal, but in many cases they come partially assembled, so you have to do at least some work to be able to use them. Some of these even include bed auto-leveling which is something nice to have. One important thing to consider is the size of the things you want to print, printing volume is part of the specs, for example 300mm x 300mm x 300mm, which is about 1 cubit foot, can be versatile enough to print plenty of different items, but do keep in mind the actual printer dimensions are a bit more that the printing volume, so you'll need to have some space where to place it, and also keep in mind that besides size, the weight can also be something to consider since these printers are made of aluminum for the most part. Highly recommend getting something that comes already assembled, Monoprice used to have small printers (100mm x 100mm x 100mm) for $150 or so, a bit slow but pretty much ready to get going, you only needed to level the bed and add the filament. Most printers include sample PLA filament that you can use to do test prints. You also should try to get a heated bed (most should have it these days) to ensure proper print adhesion, and ideally a removable printing surface that make it easy to remove prints once finished, like the Ender's flexible magnetic ones.

2. You can definitely use Blender, just make sure you're using the proper dimensions (e.g. millimeters), you can then export your model as STL, and then use Cura or any other slicer you may like to get a gcode file which you can then send to your printer or load into a microSD card that you can select from the printer menu. Quick tip: if you just want to do a quick test, make sure to select the draft profile on your slicer, this way the generated gcode file won't take as long to print, the quality may be rough, but you can make sure that what you want to print will be printed successfully without having to wait twice or three times as long.
Quick Blender starter: using the default cube shown on start, it measures 20mm per side, just go into edit mode, remove the top face, then select all the faces, use solidify tool, enter a thickness of at least 2mm, leave edit mode, export STL, slice in Cura, and you should have quick little test box to print. Scale appropriately for a different size, and use your design skills to make round corners in order to avoid sharp edges.

3. Thingiverse has plenty to choose from, look out for the dimensions of the objects, and for any material recommendations or printing notes.
A healthy chunk of that real estate and construction GDP is the result of oil and gas extraction. Most of Canada's largest exporting companies are oil, mining, or derivatives related.
I've always found those distinctions in legal code to have the (possibly deliberate) side effect of encouraging deliberate ignorance. It is not wilful or knowing if they make no effort to know or understand what the implications of their decisions were. I strongly believe this to be a wrong approach that does nothing to change MBA approach to decision making: It is all about a buck now and the less they know about consequences later the better (for them personally, not for the rest of us)
They do use them as storage, but more passively - When others sources of production are high BC slows their consumption, allowing them to build up greater reserves in their dams.
There's dexie.js & dexie sync/cloud that is much simpler than Meteor but as or more powerful.
Software, being free, is the extreme case of this.

"How is someone able to combine a few open source libraries, do a little hacking, and disrupt ______". Yet we all know it happens, and so it's worth funding.
Would drone harassment have similar criminal consequences?

Consider a fleet of much smaller drones “guarding” one’s airspace (putting aside that we do not own it, which IMO is a byproduct of past legislative lack of imagination), that simply get in the way of a large delivery drone. With some level of aggressiveness.
This.

Every time I come across the concept of a "bullshit" job, I remind myself that it's a self-reported metric, and many people who think that their jobs are bullshit are just wrong.
this may be true for screen, but what about printing?
It tastes like soap due to genetics, but one of the times this came up on reddit someone commented that they think it tastes like soap but they enjoy it anyway, so clearly there are at least a few people who taste soap and still enjoy it.
idk there are a lot of uses for it

let dx = {
let prev_x = x;
x = get_x();
x - prev_x
};

often, it's slightly better cpp style scoping blocks if nothing else? there are tons of other little QoL things it enables though, but they're all going to be little ergonomics things that only seem worth it if you've used the language for awhile
This restriction makes it impossible to determine if something is reasoning. An LLM may well intentionally make decisions; I have as much evidence for that as I have for anybody else doing so, ie. zilch. I'm not even sure that I make intentional decisions, I can only say that it feels like I do. But free will isn't really compliant with my model of physical reality.
Noticeably it doesn't export Wayland to applications running underneath unless you enable an experimental flag, and half the reason for its existence is that it can be entirely bypassed by related Vulkan layer extension.
Group B: When Rallying Got Too Fast [video]
https://99designs.com has contest-like feature for designers. I was satisfied with the results when I used them 10 years ago.
You mean there are people daily-driving KVM as a remote desktop solution? That seems like it would be remarkably painful; https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/07/08/20-nanokvm-is-a-tiny... says 100-160 ms latency, and I'm assuming that's over local network rather than trying to remote to it.
Isn’t this a bit like irresponsible disclosure? Since this may be considered a security vulnerability. Although it’s all client side, I’m sure there’s some basis for a lawsuit here.
Could have easily been some kind of maneater. The human-predation behavior of the Tsavo lions or the Sankebetsu/Tomamae brown bear are not at all common, but are know. The tsavo lions were also not taken seriously at first, because lions being motivated to make constant audacious attacks on humans is so wildly out of the norm.
Low energy state is always the goal.
Saw the 100W programmable, target-able, aim-able, pattern form-able laser and was whoa... 100. Seems like it might be 100:1 power though.

The "Ultra" Lasercube in another comment (https://www.laseros.com/) is 7W. "Normal", is 1.2W. People already say it's dangerous. The input spec says it's 65W wall. Hopefully that's what's going on here.

If that's actually 100W out, that's so far in "Severe" eye hazard. That's more like laser cut materials severe.

https://www.lasersafetyfacts.com/laserclasses.html
Benefiting others isn't the main metric of a job for the one doing the job. Benefiting himself is the only important metric all the others are accessories.
Sales and partnerships can be more about who you know and have access to though.
The house of the year 3000 might vent the waste heat into the water going into the water heater saving a little energy for your shower. It might time running the fridge compressor to when you make your coffee so it can use the waste heat to help heat up the water. Probably not cost effective until robots are building all the houses. Too many little pipes to run all over the place.
>Alberta is a complete aberration in North American democracy

Hmm, seems to me several US states have been the same: Vermont, Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska, Idaho...
I love how unapologetic Euler is with his belief in soul. Pretty striking to be connecting soil with the nervous system!
French elections: political cyber attacks and Internet traffic shifts
They’re also special in that the adverse outcome to powering them off accidentally is much more likely, though. Not many other devices are stored in our pockets and can be pressed accidentally.

Also, it probably would be best to call it a “sleep” button or “screen” button… or something like that. After all, that’s the primary single press function that is universal to all phones. It’s not actually a power button from a single press, it’s a button to toggle the screen on and off. The long press not resulting in a power off command is somewhat unusual, but also not ridiculous.
I don't know, isn't Aristotle credited with "predicting" the theory of the atom? Is this not an equivalent situation, in principle?

According to the article, it seems that his contribution was calculating a body size/density which would, according to newtonian physics, disallow light from escaping its gravity. So while the idea of a dark star existed at the time, the especially prescient part was connecting this to gravity.

It would have been truly extraordinary if Michell had predicted _all_ of the relevant properties of black holes.
> I’ve sometimes wondered whether somehow having the hot side go outside (like with a heat pump) would make sense during the summer, so it acts as part of the air conditioning.

It would, but then the house needs to be build around the fridge. No moving the fridge to clean behind it. No trading it in for a different model. When it breaks you have to get a technician out for a few hours labor - there is no option to go to home depot and bring home a new one.
FAA charges, presumably
We've been building same thing hope to share it soon.
Thought-terminating cliché is a similar idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A...
How are you getting 5kW?

NVIDIA claim 10.2kW for a DGX H100 pod. https://docs.nvidia.com/dgx/dgxh100-user-guide/introduction-....

Your point still stands though where power is a fraction of the cost.

The bigger issue is power + cooling and how many units are needed to train the better models.
I don't really ever hear that said in that scenario. There are many things people do that I don't understand. But there is also something people do that I do understand, and that thing is signalling.
LaserCube[1] makes entry level lasers and has an open core [2]. There are also libraries that people have made that can interface directly with its wifi/ethernet protocol. However, programming lasers is not nearly as simple as doing 2d raster operations.

If all you want to do is make fancy custom laser shows then buy a laser and some control software.

[1] https://www.laseros.com

[2] https://github.com/Wickedlasers/libLaserdockCore
Thanks for addressing this. However, I have concerns regarding NBT's interception of OAuth client secrets. This is a highly sensitive process, and any mishandling could result in unauthorized access and potential financial loss. Could you please explain how NBT ensures the security/integrity of this interception?
We don’t store color data in full precision usually. People aren’t sensitive to all colors equally, the less sensitive the eye is to a particular color the more efficiently you can store it.

You can also typically discard high frequency data in your color channels. So not only are you not storing full precision data, you also don’t need to store roughly a third of the frequency bins. You can think of this like cropping the image but in the frequency domain. The data saving are identical to cropping the image but visually imperceptible.
I use this instead of Chrome Remote Desktop and really appreciate the seamless window integration. It does, however, take some work to get it working smoothly.
While this project is probably a joke, the general usage of “a11y” is unfortunately not.
>That drives a lot of the empirical research in the book. He cites some surveys, which show that many workers ... don't believe their jobs are worth doing

>There are people right now who are miserable at work because they'd much rather be hiking

Yeah, but not worth doing and not fun are very much not the same thing are they?

This article is absolute trash. The author sets out to deliberately mislead with the same straw man that always seems to crop up when somebody attacks bullshit jobs.
Ah. To clarify, when I said "as much storage as production", I meant focus, not quantity.
Doesn't Ontario's IESO also do this?
That's a lot of uncharitable assumptions.

> The poster you are replying to is fundamentally anti-meritocratic, against equality of opportunity, and supportive of equality of outcome.

> there's only one type of mindset...

How could you possibly know these things? How would you even know if you're wrong?

Feelings indeed. There's no "medicine" here.
Weird, since the book is very curious about the notion and, being more extended essay than scientific paper, leaves plenty more to be curious about.
Those benefit the company, not the customer. Not buying it.
It reads as a fairly normal diagram to me; NetworkManager has an iwd backend component/plugin that talks over D-Bus to iwd, which in turn stands on top of ell which in turn stands on the kernel (which itself contains a bunch of components of interest).
MuMath-Code on ArXiv
So it's less that they have a bullshit job than they work in a bullshit economy, that treats people who do work as an extractive resource to be managed by the owner class.
Well we don't have an understanding of how the brain works so we can't be fully sure but it's clear why they have this intuition:

1) Many people have had to cram for some exam where they didn't have time to fully understand the material. So for those parts they memorized as much as they could and got through the exam by pattern matching. But they knew there was a difference because they knew what it was like to fully understand something where that they could reason about it and play with it in their mind.

2) Crucially, if they understand the key mechanism early then they often don't need to memorize anything (the opposite of LLM's which need millions of examples)

3) LLM's display attributes of someone who has crammed for an exam and when it is probed further [1] it starts to break down in exactly the same way a crammer does.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02061
It is my opinion that you do not need to responsibly disclose "security by obscurity"

Additionally, what is irresponsible here? Its not like this gives you the capability to clone tickets without first having a ticket in the first place.
Drones above a certain size are regulated by the FAA and are considered aircraft.

Shooting down aircraft means you'll face FAA-related charges, and they will be hefty.

Under federal law, willfully shooting down an aircraft (including drones) is a felony that may lead to imprisonment (18 U.S.C. § 32)—not to mention other potential liability tied to discharging a firearm into the sky.

see also: https://slate.com/technology/2016/04/faa-confirms-it-s-a-fed...
Right. I wish we had a better metric than GDP for capturing the downstream impacts of an industry.

Say a town grows up around a single manufacturing plant. That plant might only account for 30% of the town's GPD because people use their wages to buy food, housing, etc. But when that plant closes up and 90% of the towns income disappears, it's hard to argue that the plant only contributed 30% of the economy in that case.

GPD != economy. GPD describes how money is spent, not necessarily in what order it is generated.
> A healthy chunk of that real estate and construction GDP is the result of oil and gas extraction.

Is it? I'd be interested in numbers to qualify that claim.
How is this a security vulnerability? It's displaying the exact bits Ticketmaster uses and explaining what those bits are. They're not circumventing security systems, just the requirement to use the app.
Looks fine but I think it's not very popular there, right?
Identification of intensive economic growth in a Roman imperial province
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40887619
The app-based barcodes don’t seem to be solving a security problem for customers - they seem to be for the purpose of ensuring that traditional scalping doesn’t work, forcing ticket resale into a market that TicketMaster can profit from.

I would consider it unethical to publish details of an unpatched vulnerability that allowed ticket forgery, but I don’t think it’s unethical to bypass DRM-like controls for personal convenience rather than commercial purposes.

Of course opinions may differ on this.
Responsible disclosure is something you pay for, not something you are entitled to.
What is democracy for you? On my side, I would define it as a social structure that foster as many of its inhabitants, rising them as much as possible into well-balanced citizens able to work together harmoniously and efficiently at improving life of all people in its sphere of political influence.

"Representative democracy" is thus an oxymoron thrown at the poor plebeians that oligocrates loves as they see in it as the perfect jail of "bread and circuses" mediocrity loop. Perfect also to praising their ridiculous centralized social monstrosity that will devour them just as well into never ending chain of frustrations. All that while convincing them of their all-powerfulness when measurably they are not able to canalize much thought out of their narrow box of greediness.
If you remove the last sentence of each of these, I think they seem somewhat true.

Personal interest plays a role of course. To varying degrees?
Except you are really can't use Jupyter notebooks without browser. Because of widgets and interactive elements.
> isn't the main metric of a job

I'd appreciate it if you could make an argument for this opinion instead of merely stating it as fact.
Nice article.

I have done a somewhat similar experiment a while ago and achieved to fit quite a lot of particles with a basic physics simulation.

https://github.com/Seb-C/gravity
The separation of writing and publishing tools
Elon Musk bought Twitter and fired 80% of it's staff. Twitter is still perfectly functional (other than scaring off advertisers, but that has nothing to do with head count). Let's not pretend that bullshit jobs are very much real.
It requires sniffing your own session credentials first, which I don't see as a security vulnerability.

The only thing it allows you to do is sell your ticket, which is legal to do.
Though stealing the cursor is okay, having 2 cursors in the page without my own cursor was confusing.Also the lag is very apparent.
Computers Are Fast (2024)
It's really rare that this would be an issue, but the way to fix it would be to do what the tax system does and say it's free up to $235,000 and give $1 or 50¢ less for every dollar earned over that. The downside is that the administrative burden added by that probably costs similarly to any high earners intentionally taking a pay cut to mooch off them.
Agree. But I like the tendency to criticize celebrated thinkers. This article is just not doing a good job. You could say the writer of this article has done a bullshit job. In a way.
An Adaptive Stochastic Gradient Method with Non-Negative Gauss-Newton Stepsizes
As much as I admire the herculean efforts of the people involved to make these things work, my policy is to only ever use hardware where the drivers are actually supported/paid for by the hardware manufacturers.

I mean, even when using paid-for drivers we encounter a lot of trouble, I don't want to live in this world there the HW manufacturer doesn't care about my usage.

I'll stay with Intel Graphics. It works just fine. If I report bugs, someone who is getting paid to fix those bugs will read my report and try to address it.
I prefer a "USB Condom" for that, especially since USB-C uses active negotiation for the fast charging. These are devices that Man-In-The-Middle that negotiation and prevent other data activity. No need for remembering which cable is which.
Which Cloudflare can also do for you: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-always-online-and-th...
People are under no obligation to be curious about anything in particular.

Sure, there probably is some explanation to be found for why the 345th gear in the contraption improves the target production metric by 0.013% and some theory as to why that difference meaningfully impacts some member of society for 34 seconds on Tuesdays in May on odd numbered years. And sure, those who are curious to find that may be fascinated by it or may find some emotional grounding for the work they find themselves doing.

But it's not especially tragic, and can sometimes be personally and societally valuable, to step back and look at that whole situation from further away and just say "Fuck it, I/they/we must be able to do something more than whatever that is"

That's really all the antropoligic and oral history view of a "bullshit job" is
I explicitly say that LLMs could do it in my response. As a show of good faith you should try reading the entire comment.

Yes, I'm using simple examples to demonstrate a particular difference, because using "real" examples makes getting the point across a lot harder.

You're also just wrong. I did in fact test, and both GPT 3.5 Turbo and 4o failed. Not only with the rule change, but with the mere task of providing possible moves. I only included the admission that they may succeed as a matter of due diligence, in that I cannot conclusively rule out they can't get the right answer because of the randomization and API-specific pre-prompting involved.

> "For chess board r1bk3r/p2pBpNp/n4n2/1p1NP2P/6P1/3P4/P1P1K3/q5b1 (FEN notation), what are the available moves for pawn B5"
Ultimately a job needs to be creating value for somebody, or it wont provide value for yourself for long.
For me, it tastes like dish soap specifically, like if you swirled a little dish soap into a glass of water. I always assumed the local Mexican food place just had bad dish rinsing practices until I learned that cilantro was responsible for the flavor.
https://archive.md/sEZIL
That's why I said "closer to 50/50".

Also, that's awesome that you competed WC moguls. I probably saw you compete depending on when you were active, and we almost definitely know some of the same people.
Real estate is about 13% of Canada's GDP[1]. It's considerable, but hardly "wholly dependant". This number is very similar to the US.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Canada
The law tries to address this. If a defendant is aware that there is a significant risk of [X], but deliberately avoided information that might confirm [X], then knowledge that [X] can often be imported to them under the "willful blindness" doctrine. Though, as you can imagine, it can be difficult to apply this in practice since it is difficult to articulate the level of suspicion a defendant must have had in order to have been "willfully blind" rather than just ignorant.

https://scholarship.law.uci.edu/faculty_scholarship/803/