skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reposting this to counter the narrative that they don't sell your information: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40636844#40642672

First-hand account from me that this is not factual at all.

I worked at a major media buyer agency “big 5” in advanced analytics; we were a team of 5-10 data scientists. We got a firehose on behalf of our client, a major movie studio, of search of their titles by zip code from “G”.

On top of that we had clean roomed audience data from “F” of viewers of the ads/trailers who also viewed ads on their set top boxes.

I can go on and on, and yeah, we didn’t see “Joe Smith” level of granularity, it was at Zip code levels, but to say FAANG doesn’t sell user data is naive at best.
How big is the raw data set you're backing up? :)
My mistake, good correction
I don't need it either. Also, take my filthy lucre, you beasts.
I lost my dog recently. Nearly everyone knew enough to just say, "I'm so sorry,"

Your "therapy" ideas are over-intellectual BS. There is nothing you can possibly say that helps in the slightest.
I think you are right but even being obvious the questions it doesn't mean your answers were good or what they were expecting.
This problem comes from CrowdStrike's agent kernel subsystem itself, and not Windows.

While I agree that Windows, as a client focused operating system, is a hot mess, but I would also compare Windows NT Kernel as much better than Linux Kernel, in terms of code quality and organization. FreeBSD kernel is still my favourite though.

At least Windows NT Kernel have a stable ABI, and Rust for Linux have to bindgen the glue layer for each Linux Kernel build.
John Chowning, Computer Music, DX7 and FM Discovery [video]
I used to price track when I moved to a new area, but now I find it way easier to just shop at 2 markets or big box stores that consistently have low prices.

In Europe, that would probably be Aldi/Lidl.

In the U.S., maybe Costco/Trader Joe's.

For online, CamelCamelCamel/Amazon. (for health/beauty/some electronics but not food)

If you can buy direct from the manufacturer, sometimes that's even better. For example, I got a particular brand of soap I love at the soap's wholesaler site in bulk for less than half the retail price. For shampoo, buying the gallon size direct was way cheaper than buying from any retailer.
Show me where suicide by firearm is described as "gun violence" rather than "death by firearm".

I totally agree with you. Suicide by firearm is not gun violence.

What I see is people seeing statistics that say counting suicide in firearm deaths is inappropriate. This is why the CDC has to call it out separately, to avoid the furore. (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-...).

The big challenge with my comment, I admit, is that it very quickly gets into a debate about suicide rather that the right to bear arms or decide what you put into your own body. It is a good comparison, I believe, because both are effective at enabling suicide, but have legitimate - and illegitimate - uses.
Too small to be practical for me. I can feel my RSI kicking in right away with this form factor.

But I will say the MNT Reform stuff is pretty amazing all-around! I just can't anymore with most keyboards after a good 34 years keyboarding.

To the younger crowd out there - stretch... Play guitar or something. It helps!
I already scheduled a meeting with pg for late December 2999
I wonder if something like arrow's custom extension types mechanism would streamline building novel data representations without full forks? It may highlight gaps in the extension mechanism

For similar reasons, we've been curious about new compression modes on indexes
No, otherwise Chrome usage would drop
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39725445 - U.S. is investigating Meta for role in drug sales (March 2024; 196 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41121237 - Meta has run hundreds of ads for cocaine, opioids and other drugs (July 2024; 223 comments)
The hilarity of this conspiracy is the simple fact that smart dust wouldn't offer any more surveillance benefit than the much easier task of just backdooring our devices.
Could I suggest this piece from the director of Hope Not Hate? It sounds like you've been reading people repeating the claims that there is somehow a justification for the violence.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/0...
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The lenses you can get for an SLR tho are much better than what rPi cameras usually come with. If you use film era fully manual lenses you can get amazing quality for next to nothing. If your shooting objects that are still, taking longer exposures or exposure brackets is trivial. I wish there was an GUI program for tethered cameras that still had an option to capture multiple frames each time you trigger it and average them for an output frame. It's strange that feature was removed, in the SD video era there were lots of options for that.
> “The code worked in our original monolithic system but was not implemented properly when we moved to our micro-services systems.”

This could happen to anyone, but imagine being the developer or development team that made this mistake.
While both technically wrong and true of every computer, many Chromebooks can run non-Googled Linux distros and far outlive their support term… $50 might get you a very nice, lightweight, and portable “netbook” on the used market that you can use another 5 years for basic tasks.

ChromeOS, outside of being Googled, is quite capable (crostini is really nice), well secured (minus Google privacy concerns), and generally a nice user experience. You can even run Firefox and avoid browsing with Chrome.
Always happy to chat!

You can ping me at {username}@gmail.com
You can call us just "Americans". The US is unnecessary, thank you.
I'm not angry, I'm Australian and that's an extremely amused response without a wit of anger to a vapid comment that rolled in on a fog of barely baked assumptions.

I have no preconceptions re: the other party (although they clearly had a picture of who I was and where I was coming from), I merely responded to the factual basis of what was said .. which was largely, as we say here, bollocks.

As for

> why topics like these get stripped from the front page within minutes of showing up.

that had already long happened by the time I came back to look at the responses to my hot take on the article .. a Saudi funded media outlet riding on the back of recent reports of AMOC instability to wedge in a "fossil fuels are still great" message under the guise of climate concern.
Microcredit Pioneer Muhammad Yunus to Lead Caretaker Bangladesh Government
AMP for starters. If I got going on a comprehensive list of why Google is from Hell, I'd be here for hours and go to bed tonight in a depressive funk.
Carta puts out good data on this:

https://carta.com/blog/state-of-pre-seed-q1-2024/
He is not claiming it to be a best device and clearly says it is deficient in most everyway but the complete package results in something so useful and handy and easy to carry around that it makes up for all of its faults. A favorite is generally not the best, the word implies being colored by emotion and lacking in logical reasoning.
Well, actually, your entire comment is a giant "well, actually" comment.

> this article is advocating a very particular and almost ideological approach.

No, it really isn't. It's talking about what not to do. As it says in the title. It's not instructing anyone to dump.

Your analysis of the proper motivations for creating a robust theory of behavior just isn't relevant here, in a discussion of that theory. It's kind of an example of going the wrong direction in a related sort of ring. At least the way I read it, you seemed to be talking about your personal disapproval, which isn't very relevant to other readers of the article. At least not by itself.
Ha, I love that the templating is similar to that of actual wars in Wiki.
Body temperature variation controls transcription of SARS-CoV-2 replication
> I've tried to feed screenshots to ffmpeg and other tools, and it's just... unusable. It works, but consumes way too much resources.

Did you try to use the hardware encoder? Modern computers have chips to accelerate/offload video encode/decode. Your 2019 Mac has Intel GPU for H.264 and HEVC hw encoder, also it has an T2 co-processor that can also encode HEVC video.
If you don't supply specific encoders (with _videotoolbox suffix on Mac) via -c:v then ffmpeg will default to sw encoder, which consumes CPU.

> how to scan the screen and send only parts of the screen that have been updated

You'll be reinventing video codecs with interframe compression.

> Also, curious to hear about video encoding efficiency vs 60x JPEG creation. Is it comparable?

I see that you are comparing pixel by pixel for each image to dedupe and also resizing the image to 1280px. Also the image has to be encoded to JPEG. All of the above are done in CPU. In essense you implemented Motion JPEG. Below is a command to allow you to evaluate a more effecient ffmpeg setup.

ffmpeg \

-f avfoundation -i "<screen device index>:<audio device index>" \ # specific to mac

-an \ # no audio

-c:v h264_videotoolbox \ # macos h.264 hardware encoder
-r 1 \ # 1fps

-vf scale=1920:-1 \ # 1920px wide

-b:v 2M \ # 2Mbps bitrate for clear and legible text

out.mp4 # you may want to setup a RTMP server so that ffmpeg can transmit the encoded video stream to and allow visitors to view the video
Yes, it's a biased sample - those who were caught. Except for Raymond Stansel who lived the last four decades of his life as a free man.
See updated docs for Windows users: https://github.com/1fpsvideo/1fps?tab=readme-ov-file#windows...

Please understand the Windows toolchain is often broken, and binaries are preferable. I will roll out binaries soon for all platforms. I also noticed some cursor coordinates issues on Windows machine (I have high resolution). I'm wondering if you have any issues with that as well.

Good news is that there are steps to workaround and we're aware of these issues :) I guess check back later, I hope we gonna fix it soon!
Schrödinger's Hubris, actually.

The claim that a codebase of 420k lines contains "only one error" is of course absurd, and the members of this forum would laugh anyone out of the room who made such a claim about any other project, pointing out how they cannot possibly know, actual logical contradictions in the claims as described by GP, or just plain ridiculing it without further elaboration.

But since the code in question cannot meaningfully be tested by the public, and people have been indoctrinated to believe the myth that aerospace engineers are an entirely different species that doesn't make mistakes in the sense that the rest of the workforce does, the hubris is accepted until disproven, which it probably won't be for various practical reasons.

Nevermind that the Space Shuttle was a death trap that killed two crews, and that the associated investigations (especially for Challenger) revealed numerous serious issues in quality and safety management. People will continue to just nod their head when they hear nonsense like this, because that's what they have seen others do, and so Schrödinger's Hubris can live on.
In China some able-bodied people have started riding electric wheelchairs to get around licensing and usage laws restricting scooters. Some of the wheelchairs are pretty quick now, basically the same drivetrain in a different package.
It's not a different harm when someone else interferes maliciously. The difference in whether you can sue is a difference in to what degree the other person was entitled to act as they did, not a difference in the harm you suffer.
We bailed for seattle because we could get a bigger house and have a better school situation. We did enjoy living on the border between the mission and noe valley before that though.
Time is fun to think about. It seems that the smallest unit of time measures the smallest unit of detectable change in a phenomenon. If awareness is needed for time that hints to me that awareness and time are the same thing, dependently arisen like two sides of a coin. Space is also needed for time as a phenomenon exists in some form of space for it to be observed to change, so it seem that space = time = awareness.
I assume they mean most of the catchy .com domains are crazy expensive nowadays, if they are even available.
The analytical part is what usually makes the Elasticsearch (or opensearch) the choice - it's not that you have to search just the text, its that with that text you need to show 5 different categories some of the top values and the number of occurrences and permutations thereof if the user decides to clicky clicky and filter it more.
Thanks for the tip - I'll look him up.
That's sorta become Teenage's brand these days. I can't decide about how I feel about it but I'm defaulting to digging it.
Same exists in VScode, probably need some GitHub extension for it.
Book looks really interesting - thanks. I've just ordered a copy.
That is why Free(dom) software is better than "open source".

Free software is committed to sharing values.
> It's very interesting that those events seem to coincide with the earliest signs of human civilization.

I think migration is a much easier argument to make than "civilization", especially when it gobekli tepi predates domesticated civilization by thousands of years, and cultivation of seeds began around twelve to fifteen thousand years before concrete evidence of settled civilization.

Still, if you're determined to link migrations to a single disaster, look no further than the link between the Toba eruption and the introduction of humans to Australia for the first time around ~70kya.
Yes this will be the case.
im probably an outlier but i love being able to walk to work as a middle aged city dweller.
Thank you! This confirms my intuition!

Structured generation seems counter to every other signal we have that chain of thought etc improves performance.
Gizmondo was designed by Sir Clive Sinclair. First rule of a Producers-like scheme is to have the thing designed by a famous designer.
Thanks for defending my original design choices! The change is something I've been thinking about for awhile, it didn't take much to tip me.
Here is a thought, don't f'ing capture, store, or retain the information in the first place.
I think there is more to this story. You don’t unwind 12% and up 9% without someone loosing their shirt and someone else bailing out for great profit
It's required by law in Australia, which is nice
Cgal: A Powerful Open-Source Computational Geometry Library
SF public funds are horribly miss-managed.

Hopefully events like this contribute to speeding up the reform that the city needs.

Unfortunately the necessary austerity is going to cause more near-term pain, but hopefully results in some longer term prosperity for the city.
Input was my #1 issue with any tiny portables. Apart from getting a "good feeling" keyboard, losing the ability to properly touch type really rains on the parade of how you can run a "real" OS on the devices. The Pocket Reform does slightly better than some in that you can try to act like it's a normal keyboard experience if you have a solid surface and can ignore the tiny and non standard layout. The other half of the input story is of course mouse input. Touch controls are just a no go for using a "real" OS on a tiny screen, trackpoints style nubs are mid tier, and (surprisingly) I found ones which reuse the built in gamepad buttons and sticks (E.g. the Ally) are best. It probably has more to do with having the extra physical buttons to both control the mouse and modify the control behavior.

My #2 issue was always in realizing how disappointing it was to trade so much performance on top of the things still always being too large to comfortable fit in your actual pocket anyways. If you're already the type that enjoys carrying a portable game console with you then you might enjoy carrying one of the gaming focused mini portables since you can trade some minor clunkiness for more game library flexibility and raw power isn't a huge requirement to have a decent portable game library. If you're wanting to actually use it as a traditional computer... I just don't think I could ever see the device class being more than a novelty which ends up on a shelf after 7 uses for 95% of people that go and buy one.

It's cool this one is open hardware and focused on trying to provide a good open software experience but it does make all of the above even a bit rougher (can't help but recoil that every post about the Pocket Reform has a picture of the user at a text terminal).
Hey I wanted you guys to know I picked up and read the book just from the curiosity you guys sparked in me from the descriptions in this thread!

I just finished reading it. The book was excellent! Definitely glad I read it!

Also I’m glad you guys were careful not to spoil what happens. It was very memorable!
You can use something and still hate it. Have you flown commercial?
> I was quite amazed to realize that the Golden Horde was way more sophisticated and powerful than most other empires of its time, and still it did not had cities, nor farming, and left really few traces.

This is a pretty common theme for steppe horsemen, right? You can link this to the fall of probably dozens of empires.
No, there are two kinds of trackpads in the world: Apple trackpads and shitty trackpads.
jeremy rowley has been C level at digi cert for over 7 years and is/was CISO. if anyone should have a completely overview of the entire system. it’s him

accountability at the top is a good thing
This seems to be the same as the EP-133 K.O. II with a difference:

- 128MB memory including 96MB ROM sounds and 32MB user sample memory on the Medieval

vs

- 64 MB memory, or 999 sample slots on the K.O. II.
> I am honestly surprised at the hostile response to this from HN. The right to associate freely is not what is being debated here - the article clearly says this is about anti trust.

Ads say that if I change a few shopping decisions I’ll be at the popular shows surrounded by attractive people who are totally into me, but it’s worth entertaining the possibility that’s not true. They are presenting an argument they think is going to do best but the fact that they had to shop for the most sympathetic judge in the country suggests a certain lack of confidence in the merits. In the absence of involvement by an actual competitor it’s hard to see a successful antitrust case especially when anyone who dislikes their current ad agency has many alternatives, including simply buying ads directly – it’s hardly like there’s some law requiring Twitter to refuse payment from anyone who doesn’t go through one of these groups.
True! How about, 'it's a flat hierarchy now, but you're also all managers'. That would be a nice consensus of the previous nonsense into new nonsense.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41170859
What ever you do, never ever say "free software"!

The VC's will send a black escalade to raid your house in the middle of the night! 8-)

What's in question here is the origin of the "free software" vs "open source" argument.

"Open source" was from the beginning a tactic to seize the development model of "free software" and bend it to a coprporate profit motive. What could be better than getting a bunch of idealistic geks to write your s/w for you for free?

A very real and practical thing that has been lost in the vilification of "free software" is the idea that a group of user's develop s/w that they need to use. As opposed to s/w that is developed to serve as a corporate product for sale.

Thee are so many examples where "free software" could serve: such as a standards based word processor. Who would have thought the corp drones would be in the process of being drug into a subscription based version of M$ word in the new millenium 8-) Even after M$ being sued for anti-trust over the proprietary doc format.

Don't worry, it's only going to get worse for here on out...
If your webcam requires drivers, there’s a nontrivial likelihood the problem is the webcam. Typically webcams have been plug and play for quite some time. And software bundled with most (but not all) webcams is typically sludgeware.

Based on your description, it doesnt sound like a clean install of windows. So that’s a whole nother vector of broken system components.

My advice is clean install Windows, plug the webcam in, and see what happens. Good luck.
But with GPL you are warranted the freedom to fork and even build your own company on top of that.

Look at MariaDB. It was forked from MySQL once oracle decided they didn't want to invest heavily on a competitor from their product.

In the same vein Percona built a succesful product and company on top of MySQL
After about 2020 Google pledged to support Chromebooks for 10 years.
It's also becoming increasingly difficult to get a remote job with a bay area salary.
Yeah Instagram's algorithm is garbage. I get repetitive generic content no matter what. It doesn't seem responsive at all.
Twitch and Cruise are other household name ones but it seems there are quite a few others that aren’t: https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/exits

Am surprised not to see Airbnb on the list tbh.
If you've never heard of bardcore it's well worth a google
Isn't that what a moped is?
All SNES enhancement chips and what they did
I'm probably in the minority, but I actually really liked the scrappy, you-can-trust-us-because-I'm-not-wearing-a-tie vibe :D
My favorite device used to be a Chromebook. I got a maxed out Pixelbook in 2018 and I loved it, especially as Crostini got better and better over the years. It was my primary dev laptop and I loved using it.

I think we know where this is going... Like many other things Google over the past decade, it died on the vine - IIRC Google killed their Chromebook devices group a couple years ago. I would have loved a Pixelbook 2. I'm back on a Macbook because I was just never able to find a Chromebook that had sufficient processing power and memory after the Pixelbook.
S.F. police are using drones to arrest bipping suspects, officials say
A few that haven’t been mentioned:

Red Plenty by Francis Spufford is a historical fiction story about the mathematicians and engineers who tried to optimize the Soviet economy.

The Neverending Story by Michael Ende is much deeper and more interesting than any of the theatrical versions. Reminiscent of the Matrix sequels, the Childlike Empress threatens to crash Fantastica with a stack overflow (via infinite recursion) to force Bastian to give her a name.

American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin goes into much more detail than the film (Oppenheimer).
> SOMA, where you see a majority of those modern apartments, is going to have some of the worst problems

I dont think thats true once you get east of 4th and for sure 3rd street.
Good question. That was from a very old version of pg_bm25 (since renamed to pg_search). BM25 indexes are now strongly consistent.
Yes exactly, core cycle times were ~1uS so around 1Mhz clock for our old B6700
Travel is one use case. I loved the form factor of MBA 11 for ssh and local use of Mutt.

I've been keeping an eye on MNT Pocket as a substitute. Reviews look great.

The MBA 11 was nice because it fitted in an airplane tray really well.
Not really. SSDs are silent, and have greater storage density. Both very attractive attributes for a home NAS. Even if the SSDs only do 250MB/s, four of them will saturate a 10GbE link.
And this guy is the gold standard for accountability based on these comments. Whoever pressured him to resign I think is making a mistake.

Bugs happen, and he's doing exactly what's expected of a leader in this situation. Anyone who thinks "this incident is personally my fault because I didn't read every line of code the devs who work for me wrote, and for this dishonor I am now unfit to lead" is a sane reaction to these events is not living the blameless postmortem life.