skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree with you, but from my reading the article's definition is entirely impossible to reconcile with this:

> The reason is that nothing is puzzling about poverty. It is humanity's default state. Until very recently, everyone lived in what would now be regarded as shocking poverty. Even the elites—monarchs, aristocrats, and so on—lived in conditions that were appalling relative to the prosperity enjoyed by most people in affluent societies today.

This is what I meant by the author reframing the question to the point where it feels like they completely missed the point. Your definition would be totally compatible with the way I think a child asking "why is there poverty?" is using the word, but I don't see how anyone could argue that "the elites—monarchs, aristocrats, and so on" were completely unable to meet their needs at any point before between the years 1-1500 CE, which the author describes as this:

> The long, flat line that characterises most of human history? That is poverty: crushing, subsistence-level, Malthusian poverty.
What if you crash a kite, or another drone in to it?
I was hoping that mpv would work a bit better than vlc for sending video to chromecast, but unfortunately, another similarly amusing thread: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/177
I don't think there's anything about tcl that is inherently insecure, but it indicates that the code might be quite old and from a time where many vulnerabilities and ways to avoid them were not well understood.

Tcl and Rivet to me says the code is from the 1990s or 2000s. Does FlightAware go back that far? Otherwise I am surprised at those choices for anything newer.
Interesting you should choose insulin, as it's made by ~3 companies, and 2002-2013 the price went up 6x, while the price of the inputs dropped. ISTR that right after that it went up another 3x to over $300/vial. Thankfully, I only needed a vial once every few months, it was for my cat.

"Evergreening", a process where the drug manufacturers slightly change the formula or delivery when one patent is running out, to gain a new patent, then stop manufacturing the old formula.

Not saying I want to see AWS bandwidth prices regulated (though I think they could come down and still make a massive profit). But in the case of insulin, the industry has left little choice but government intervention.
The Granfluencers
How on Earth Did NASA Leave Two Astronauts in Space?
but what if you can't tell?

what if it was AI generated pornography?
My experience was L5 always seemed like the happiest engineers. It has often the most interesting technical work, still great pay, and low stress (compared to higher levels at least). It seemed like when people got promoted to L6 their overall quality of life would go down. I knew a lot of people sticking at L5 on purpose (I once even talked to a CTO at a small company who said they had wished they never were promoted above technical lead).
I was recently helping an acquaintance with a very suspect debt recovery judgment. I got in touch with the plaintiff (the lawyer who owned the debt) and tried to reason with him, but he ended up getting belligerent and said "From now on, I will only accept communications by FAX!" and hung up.

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.

Thanks free fax services that still somehow exist in 2024! Judgment was quashed.
250 dollars a month. ktm, nepal.
Ask HN: Website visitor data on Similarweb for entire Aug
Hello everyone,

I'm seeking insights from those who have used Similarweb for website traffic analysis. I recently launched two websites and noticed inconsistencies in the visitor data provided by Similarweb.

For the first website, which I launched in mid-July:

Similarweb showed 5 visitors from July 25th to July 30th

However, it has shown 0 visitors for the entire month of August so far

There are a small visitors amount from Google Analytics

In contrast, for my second website, which I launched on August 15th:

Similarweb has been updating the visitor data every 3 days

I'm curious if anyone else has encountered similar issues with Similarweb's data accuracy or consistency. If so, how did you address the problem? Are there any known solutions or workarounds?

Any advice or shared experiences would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your help!
L6 ICs are pretty rare - it already is a top tier of seniority in engineering

Is Google really different from other companies? I talk to a lot of Amazonians (AWS Hero, FreeBSD/EC2 maintainer) and my general impression is that developers below L7 ought to be classified as "Junior" -- my mapping is basically L4-L6 = Junior Developer, L7/L8 = Developer, and L10 = Senior Developer. Anything which doesn't have L7+ involvement gives me major "these kids need adult supervision" vibes for all the newbie mistakes they make.
This is what I see,

Are you smarter than a language model?

There are a lot of benchmarks that try to see how good language models are at human tasks. But how good are you at the quintessential language model task of predicting the next word?

And then a list of questions.

How am I supposed to know it has anything to do with HN?
I don't think so, in fact, now that I'm a little "older", I regret not chasing money earlier.
using microsoft authenticator I just ran into this recently and searched to find it's a known issue that microsoft has no announced plan of fixing. Strange to see it pop up here separately, I guess it's becoming more common. I knew to cancel the dialogue and manually add the account without the QR code to workaround it but I'm sure plenty of people will have their accounts locked because of this
They've spent so much on celebrity endorsements and so many of the Subways near me suffer from quality control issues. The one closest to my house cannot get a single order correct. Delivery drivers get frustrated waiting even when it's not busy. It's supposed to be 24 hours, but is closed at random times and is simply just unreliable all around.

It's like everything else, profits have been prioritized over everything else. There's simply no reason they have to be in trouble other than greed - overexpansion, advertising a ton but not enforcing quality (which is probably cheaper, but not useful)

I don't care who some famous sports players pretend to like, I want something I can depend on. Subway is the McDonald's of sub sandwiches. They've done so many menu changes and got rid of one of my favorite things, and their reshuffling and rebranding drives me nuts.
GoDaddy customer or hosted IP ranges "secure server" are usually pretty bad around port scanning other sites and general bad behavior. It's not a surprise the block would be nixed. If it's just to harvest content, then it's also not surprising.
Try taking a Loeb Library original Greek or Latin text and asking ChatGPT (4) to create a table with the original, the transliteration and the translation, with one row per phrase, trying to preserve word order and cognates.
Logistic Regression makes small LLMs strong "tens-of-shot" classifiers
You seem to envision a world in which one would have to physically travel outside the borders of your nation in order to hear what people outside the nation think. Do you also propose that foreign printed media be banned in your nation? What if a foreigner writes a letter to a citizen in your nation and attaches a clipping of a magazine article that criticizes your government? Should the letter be confiscated? Should all mail be opened and censored by your government? How would that be any different than life was in Soviet Russia and East Germany? Do you really propose regressing to that, now in the 21st century, after all the oppressive atrocities perpetrated in the 20th?
> I don’t get all the spring hate here.

It's popular to hate on Java. It's become a sad trend.

The funny thing is most people that hate it go on to re-invent or use something vastly similar eventually (even if they don't see it that way).

Spring does it for you right at the start. People hate to read the documentation or understand how things (including how Java) works and just blame it.
Yikes, this is a weird take.
Ok and? Some people work in "bad" orgs.
Rest assured FE developers are no different than artists

the end product, the UI, is limited in terms of edge cases

the backend however, there is no limit. business logic, automation, all of these are endless edge cases.

if any FE engineers thinking they should switch to BE, its too late. There is large generation of those that have been using PHP since early 2000s, have seen everything under the sun, and their experience is irreplaceable

Rest assured BE engineers, your golden era is coming. The era without FE engineers hounding you for API parameters and QA rejecting your tickets for some UI bug.

Same thing for devops and cybersecurity. Your golden era is coming.
I'm don't think you're being fair to Rawls.

Rawls does say we should optimize social and economic inequality for the worst-off. But he insists that equality of opportunity and equality under the law come first. Only when those liberal conditions are met are we to focus on helping the worst off.

So, in a society operating under Rawls' rules, you could see a lot of inequality...so long as that inequality is the result of everyone having the same rights. In my opinion that is usually the case, so I don't view Rawls as particularly radical.

That aside, I'm not convinced that Rawls addresses the kind of thought experiment you're talking about.
These look very similar to the ones used in New Zealand. I wonder what the regional differences are, particularly the barcode.
more hesitant to fire means they are more hesitant to hire. that 100% goes together.
> Well, if you don't care about the devs, on what base are you asking them to care about your specific problem ?

Caring about the user's requirements is part of the dev's job description. Caring about the dev's... anything is not in the user's job description. (one advantage commercial software has: it really does help when there's an interface between the dev and the user in the form of customer support. or a commercial incentive to actually work on what the user wants.)
> Nowadays we've got Boq/Pod, the P2020 suite, Rollouts, the automated job sizing technologies, even BCID

Could you elaborate on what these are for a non-googler? Ironically enough, Google isn't very helpful.
Android Auto developer settings allow access by "unknown sources".

https://technastic.com/android-auto-developer-settings/
In another comment the author wrote

> I made a little game/quiz where you try to guess the next word in a bunch of Hacker News comments

So I guess the correct answer comes from the HN user who wrote the comment?
Boq/PoD merely standardizes production deployments. You can choose to not do it, and end up having to redo everything yourself. The vast majority of all services uses it perfectly fine.

Unified rollouts, unified versioning, universal dashboards, security compliance, standardized quota management, standard alert configs. It's opinionated, but I can drop into any team and hit the ground running. I don't want to learn your custom dashboards doing the exact same thing with different names.

The issue with PoD is that it's a great concept and implementation that's tight on resources, and doesn't have much of a plan to expand beyond its current paradigm. The P2020 team deserves way more recognition for all the work they have done.
False. I can't get into details but testing is going to become the next copywriters.
Thank you!

Not sure if I'm normal stuck or if something is supposed to happen past the "Seriously, you need to go."

EDIT: It's the three dots in the top right that are "unbreakable", I guess.
And the fact that this is now pretty obvious seems
to make such continued use an astounding display of mass
negligence.
> The codes are short and human-pronounceable, using a phonetically-distinct wordlist. The receiving side offers tab-completion on the codewords, so usually only a few characters must be typed.

How does this work from a security perspective? Given the lack of apparent entropy can’t a malicious actor conceivably enter the correct phrase before the good actor?
Apple rug pulled on Apple Sign-in but later reversed the decision:

https://x.com/EpicGames/status/1303716447831707649
That's an interesting idea. One problem I see is that conventional query planners use statistics to choose the optimal plan, however the data presumably wouldn't be available at compile time. But if you built the database with this approach in mind you might find a different approach to planning.
There already was a civil war in the US, and that's not how it happened. What's strange is that anyone thinks that a second one would be a matter of the US Army vs. the People, irrelevant to the States. It's a non-sequitur. Anyway, let us pray that it never comes to that, as much as our enemies would like it to. Imagine how giddy the CCP would be.
Packaged and canned corporate speak already happens and will continue to happen. However, assuming you are meeting face to face, you can see their faces when they do it. Generally most people's bs-detector is good enough to catch such pretending and that is the point of the questions - not only what words are coming out of the interviewers mouth but whether those are believable based on the expression/body language etc. People overrate their ability to lie convincingly.
> Heh, my personal complaint about Spring comes from the other side of this.

What did your example have to do with Spring? It sounds like it'd have been the same if replaced with something else. It was the developers...
nope. you dont invest the same way in a 6 month contractor that you are not sure to renew down the road as you would for a full time employee. And this goes both ways. The contractor has not much incentive to perform well either.
All I know is whoever said it wasn’t a teacher.
> But I still feel that it is unnecessary

So did Go in the early days, which quickly proved to be problematic. Randomization was eventually added to try and call attention to buggy (in the typical case; yours may be an exception) code.
With all that, might want some good automatic anomaly detection. While at IBM's Watson lab, I worked out something new, gave an invited talk on the work at the NASDAQ server farm, and published it.

With a lot of monitoring someone might be interested.
I read an article that blamed the issue on the last 6 years of formal school. There was a time when kids would attend 6 or so years of school and then move on to the adult world. Childish tendencies were scolded out of the kids as they grew into adults and started interacting with adults. The current school system keeps all kids in school until they become adults. They learn from their peers in the same age range. So it's ok if they act a certain way since their other peers do the same. It's ok to keep the childhood toys until adulthood since there is no peer pressure to change. It's even encouraged. Given enough generations, what used to be childish behavior has become the norm in society.

A case in point, Disney was commenting that there are too many adults at Disneyland that attend without kids.
I can also invite you out for a coffee and your LLM can’t do that either–yet.
My bank introduced "usernames" at some point, breaking login with email addresses, but didn't document this fact, or enforce that usernames not be set to email addresses. For a few months, every time I went to login, I had to use the "find my account" function, and each time I would again set my username to my email address (and why wouldn't I, it had been my login credential for nearly a decade by that point). At no point did it ever enforce a restriction on the @ or . in the username, until I went to login. It took me literal months to figure out and set it to something else.

This is Capital One by the way. My account was originally ING Direct, then Capital One 360, before being fully incorporated into the rest of their nonsense, and I assume that's related to the username situation.
Either sonic or photonic attacks from every direction at once, resonating at the tumour site.

You'll also need to bolster the immune system to aid in recovery.
in South Korea you are required to enter your civil identity number. it was invented during the 60s to counter north korean espionage. almost all korean websites require this 8 digit number to gain access to walled off gardens.

are you suggesting the same thing?
Nice. I found you can beat this by picking the word least likely to be selected by a language model, because it seems like the alternative choices are generated by an LLM. “Pick the outlier” is the best strategy.

This is presumably also a simply strategy for detecting AI content in general - see how many “high temperature” choices it makes.
Not only that, but the Philippines has a tiny manufacturing sector compared to other major SEA economies. [1][2] I wonder if grandparent was thinking of a different country.

[1]

> In 2021, the economic mix of the Philippine economy was approximately 61% services, 17.6% manufacturing, and 10.1% agriculture. (https://www.trade.gov/country-commercial-guides/philippines-...)

[2]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_center_industry_in_the_...
It appears the solution is to fire people until the problem goes away. Musk’s favorite leadership strategy.
> Windows is a sinking ship.

I got a kick out of Windows' responses to me installing Chrome on some machines at work.

First, search (good) Bing for Chrome. Get a sponsored result from MS saying something like "Oh, really, no reason to install that, Edge is x, y, z marketing bs, you should just use it instead."

Second, go to Chrome download page. Windows then pops up a notification bubble or something in the top right again extolling Edge, finishing with "and it's Microsoft Trusted!"

Thanks for the laughs MS.
IMO, the best place to keep that rainy day savings is in gold coins that are well-hidden in your house. It'll keep up with inflation, easy to transport or grab in a pinch, cannot be taken by your bank, and are very quick to liquidate into cash for a single-digit percentage spread.
> They only know more because people are careless, providing them all the data. That is out of the scope. If you are careless, bad things can happen.

Anyone seriously interested in not providing any data likely isn't using the internet at all though they're already fine regardless of IP tracking. There are very few types of online service that don't require some kind of data to be useful, whether its a user login, email address, or search queries.

> As for censorship, thet already can do it easy. Block domain for example of site when you publish you. Just try it yourself, setup up VPS w/ web that is very out of align with your gov. :)

That's a single point of attack though. The government can censor my website by forcing infrastructure companies to block it. Unless I misunderstood your earlier message though, a central authority gate keeping IP data would almost certainly lead to a single entity having the power to block me from the internet entirely.
So it’s like a diuretic for the brain?
You wouldn't have to any more than you need 0 through N frames in memory to calculate frame N+1. Whatever your decoding state completes at frame N can be considered a key frame.
And the reason they have to say it nowadays is due to a court case where a pilot found out he was being investigated for a deviation that allegedly happened many months ago. It was ruled that without a timely warning no sanctions can be taken. So it’s a little bit like the “Miranda rights” of aviation - at least you know you might be in trouble and have time to prepare.
The term speech is very broadly defined because there are a lot of ways to convey meaning. Some of them then become ambiguous and you have to resolve those ambiguities and that gets messy. But only the messy cases are messy. Riots characteristically aren't a messy case, they're violence in the same way that publishing a newspaper article is speech.

Moreover, if you mess up the messy cases then you should try to do better but society will probably survive, whereas if you censor in the cases that are pure speech or don't punish the actions that are pure violence, you're the baddies.
> He mentions in the thread that he had to delete posts offensive to the developers. Maybe that's why?

Maybe. As those posts have (allegedly) been deleted, it is now impossible to say. It seems probable though. I do find it interesting that he didn't delete the post, spewing actual verbal abuse at the people who dared to propose possible solutions in good faith.

> It is interesting that nobody in the thread went to check in the code of mpv, smplayer, etc. to see how it's done there. Surely this would be the best response to his request for technical suggestions

He has flatly ignored and refused to address, that these other players can do this at all. He makes only mention of "video editors". Well, and YouTube -- cherry picking the easiest case to attack (on grounds of single file format).

At the end of the day, what he needs is an algorithm, which can then be applied against the VLC codebase. For example:

* track timestamp of latest keyframe

* track nframes since latest keyframe

* optionally, keep some sort of unique id to positively identify this keyframe

- now, scrub back to last keyframe (if time accounting is sloppy for this format, overscrub by some amount, the run forward to the keyframe. If overscrubbing is significant, this is where you could compare the keyframe against the reference, to ensure you aren't way far back and needing to run forward further)

- okay, you've found your keyframe; advance (nframes - 1)

- profit

If he comes back and says "that's not fully general", that's true --- but the people asking for this don't care if it's fully general; it's suitable for common use cases and that's what they want. Let it work where it will work. Give up where it won't.

If he comes back and says "sure, that could work, but I don't have time, send a patch", well, okay, that's understandable.

What's actually happening is he's coming back and saying that won't work at all, that it won't support the majority of cases, will take too much compute, etc. and that's just flat out not true. You can do it selectively for the common cases. He might not want to, but that's different from can't.

Like, consider a scenario where you're playing back realtime video over a network connection. You won't necessarily be able to seek forward in that scenario -- you might not have enough video buffered, or hell, the connection could be plain interrupted. Imagine if they just didn't implement forward seek because the solution could not be fully generalized...

And who is going to spend time coding such a thing up, knowing that it is likely to be rejected as "not fully general"?
I plan to pick up some AirGradient units and phase out my AirThings devices simply because I want to keep all my data local and open. However, I do wish 1) it could monitor Radon and 2) had a PoE powered sku.
Google that creates monopoly on top of the scraped data and uses third party content to do so?

LLM just places that ability at the ends of the user (local LLM strictly speaking)
In addition to what others have said, hardware decoding comes with other drawbacks. There’s occasionally decoding inaccuracies and there’s no support for most video filters (unless you’re using `auto-copy`)
True people learn and adapt but why wait until adulthood to learn? 18+ years was not enough? It can't be good for society to prolong the path to adulthood and its responsibilities.
Brain plasticity is amazing.
So all the politicians pat themselves on the back without fixing the real problem. Instead, they just add one problem on top of another.
Like states.
I think most of the world is aware that all electronics including things like iPhones are made in China, even when they are not. It is just assumed, except for a few Japanese brands people might assume are actually made in Japan because they were historically.