skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a fair critique for the context of this thread. There's no linear regression currently. I didn't take the thread title to mean "explicitly attempting to have my product devoid of any AI," as opposed to "building a product, and it doesn't have AI", which is my current case.
Means they don't have much, otherwise would not have run the clock....
Care to elaborate on other approaches? I am curious.
Can you be explicit about the last part?
I like the clickbait thumbnails and capitalised titles, it is a useful signal for what videos to avoid.
There are time periods when layoffs happen a lot.

From spring 2000 to late 2001 there were many layoffs.

From 2008 to 2010 there were a lot of layoffs.

In early 2020 there were layoffs in the economy, not too many in tech.

From late 2022 to now there have been many layoffs in tech.

So in the last 25 years there have been three periods in tech with many layoffs. The last two lasted about two years, but hiring did not pick up right after. We're not two years out from the late 2022 FAANG layoffs yet.

Some jobs are also safer than others. Recruiters tend to be the first to go. Senior SWEs tend to be a bit safer.

Also things vary by industries, companies and company sizes - a small startup with some angel funding that will need to raise venture capital in a few months is risky. A Fortune 500 company would tend to be safer than that.

It can also vary - Bay Area tech companies seemed to be hit harder than other companies in 2000 and the current period. Whereas in 2008 the problems were throughout the economy.

At my current company I have been here longer than my manager and his manager and his manager. My greater team is about 150 people, and only 5 of them have been here longer than me, and most of them not by much. Longevity isn't a guarantee, but I think management is confident I can fix most problems that can come up in my area, or get whatever feature needs to be done.

Despite all that, if the tech market gets rosier in the next year or two I could see jumping ship, if the salary boost was large enough.

Also - I have enough money saved up to live off my savings for years without changing my spending, so that lowers my worries too.
Is FSD running red lights with no lateral traffic and running people walking across the street over?
Both. It's a technical failure that the system is running red lights, and a cultural failure for it to be pushed out to production.
> In Europe, the raccoon has been included on the list of Invasive Alien Species of Union Concern since 2016.[4] This implies that this species cannot be imported, bred, transported, commercialized, or intentionally released into the environment in the whole of the European Union.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raccoon
One is designed to cover your mouth and the other is designed to... cover your whole face.
oculus with a $20 bluetooth keyboard would be a better field computer
US SEC threatens to sue NFT marketplace OpenSea, CEO says
You can also notice in the first part of the video the ammo numbers fluctuate a bit randomly.
he means more than one phone; which isn't supported
This is a weird way of thinking. Turn it around and think as a hiring manager. There’s only one best programmer in the world, but I’ve got five open slots for software engineers so I clearly can’t hire the number one five times. I don’t even want the best programmer in the world. I want 5 stable, sensible people who can do the job. That’s how the whole economy works. You don’t want the best head of cabbage in the world, you want a head of cabbage meeting your criteria and at an affordable price.
Selling good cabbage makes money. Growing the best cabbage in the world gets you a blue ribbon worth exactly nothing.

Best is a hollow and worthless title. If you want to make money you get good at doing the job. Do it better every day and in every way. That’s where there’s economic value. The only time best matters is for the Olympic gold, and even that’s not made of gold. Olympic athletes are poor as shit. If you want actual gold learn to do a job well and forget best.
This is great for folks who need to proxy and/or log for compliance and regulatory purposes.
I agree with you, print statements or just simply reading the code (or modifying the code and then testing) can do wonders.
Hacking someone's brain to mine cryptocoins in the background may not ever be possible, but if it is, this is how it all starts.
Flat roofs also bend a lot more under snow load. This bending opens up cracks in the roofing material - i.e. leaks.

I had a garage with a flat roof once. There was a big snowstorm. So much snow landed on the roof that it bent so the doors wouldn't open. After I got on it and shoveled for a couple hours, the doors would then open.

Triangular shapes are very resistant to bending.
> The push to ban masks in some public settings began in June after some pro-Palestinian demonstrators covered their faces during protests. They said that they had done so to avoid online harassment, though some activists used the anonymity provided by their masks to harass people or to engage in acts of vandalism.

> The man arrested on Sunday, Wesslin Omar Ramirez Castillo, 18, the first to face charges under a mask ban passed this month in Nassau County, N.Y., was not engaged in protest. He was walking down Spindle Road, a residential street of tidy lawns and single-family homes in Hicksville, wearing dark clothes and a ski mask in August, the county police said in a statement.

Emphasis mine.

Unrelated, did the NYTimes do something to their website to break copy and paste? It doesn’t work, you can just take a screenshot and copy the text from that, but seriously?
Ask HN: How do you download encrypted videos?
There is this fitness website that I am subscribed to. They use vimeo embedded content for their workouts. Until recently I was able to download their videos with one click using the ant firefox video downloader. Now I am only able to save videos in "bits" of a few second, separated from audio as they are, I assume, put in some kind of containers as a part of their encryption. I have tried ytd and it doesn't work, as well as countless other video downloader extensions. It's a bummer because I don't own a smart TV and putting them on USB drive and playing them as a mp4 was the only way I could work out.
Any asset level over $100mm you mean.
Conjectured to be normal.
To read barcodes
> If corporation x uses my thing to cut labor costs and doesn't pay me anything while actual employees get to sit around and make six figures adding fields to jsons, that's a shitty arrangement for me

Then perhaps FOSS isn't for you.

There seems to be a large segment of the community these days that doesn't fall into the MIT/BSD or GPL camps and I'm not sure why they care about FOSS if they don't agree with one or both of those philosophies.

Not to say that those are the only true FOSS philosophies- I just don't understand why this third contingent isn't making their software closed source.
I very much doubt that the CCP has a backdoor into Signal the app; but it is worth keeping in mind that if an actor can observe traffic, e.g. cellular traffic records or network flow logs, they may be able to correlate senders and receivers through ordinary time-stamps. Person A sends 200 bytes at time T, Person B receives 200 bytes at time T + 300ms. It doesn't take much analysis to build up a picture of a weighted network of communicators.

There are "Military Grade" message and voice encryption technologies that avoid these issues by always sending a fixed amount of traffic to all parties, but that tends to be impractical for mobile apps.
Probably a fair number of document, media, or small part inventory tasks where the laptop would be on cart. Sometimes easier to bring the barcode to the scanner than bring the scanner to the barcode.
That's right. See my comment on height restrictions :-)
Chain retraction: how to stop bad science propagating through the literature
how is this opening it? i am getting cors errors on my tool, are you doing some server side processing?
Isn't that what I said?

State is dangerous - it's an entropy multiplier, so keep it within reason and for gods sake don't ignore it or pretend it doesn't exist.

We like to think that we have it all under control, but the time dimension multiplies everything, and has a tendency to ratchet them until suddenly you find that you actually don't have it under control anymore.

The less state you have, the less your brain gets turned into a pretzel trying to keep track of it all over the time dimension.
This is a (2023) post, it was locked then, there's nothing new.. I guess from the 'still' there's an outage currently and this is just a way to moan about it & create a sympathetic discussion?

Title should be the original + date at least:

Reliability: it's not great (2023)
Another plus for it then. Still a no go for at least the first few rounds though.
New Vercel Storage Marketplace
I've encountered a few of these over the years. On the one hand, they are impressively rugged. And easy to repair. But the ones I have laid hands on had terrible displays, terrible keyboards, and terrible touchpads. And this was back when ALL laptop keyboards and touchpads where far inferior to what they are now.

I'm sure some use them because they like the aesthetic, it would not be most people's first choice as a daily driver.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17519001
I remember similar news about ML services that generate mnusic: they are able to reproduce melodies and lyric from copyrighted songs (if you find a way around filters on song or artist title) and even producer tags in Hip-Hop tracks.

All this latest ML growth is built on massive copyright violations.
Curious who gets a ticket when FSD runs a red light?
Guess microsoft paid them off
"Tongue Disease Prediction Based on Machine Learning Algorithms" (2024) https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7080/12/7/97 :

> This study proposes a new imaging system to analyze and extract tongue color features at different color saturations and under different light conditions from five color space models (RGB, YcbCr, HSV, LAB, and YIQ). The proposed imaging system trained 5260 images classified with seven classes (red, yellow, green, blue, gray, white, and pink) using six machine learning algorithms, namely, the naïve Bayes (NB), support vector machine (SVM), k-nearest neighbors (KNN), decision trees (DTs), random forest (RF), and Extreme Gradient Boost (XGBoost) methods, to predict tongue color under any lighting conditions. The obtained results from the machine learning algorithms illustrated that XGBoost had the highest accuracy at 98.71%, while the NB algorithm had the lowest accuracy, with 91.43%
I'd like avoiding the flea market, but all the reputable vendors either only sell via flee market or have egregious policies like "fax in your request in triplicate, wait three weeks, we'll ship something, you can't return it".

The problem here is a near-monopoly enabling a flea market that skirts just this site of legality. Sure, it's a lookalike, not a counterfeit, but with misleading copy to make sure people fall for it.
Only 7.4 lbs! Surprising but also awesome.
A few years back Joni Mitchell was asked to participate in a project to create a tribute to her in downtown Saskatoon, and she suggested that it have a First Nations component.

It escalated pretty quickly. She got so frustrated that she comparted the flyover provinces to the Deep South in the US. The situation took five years to resolve.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/joni-mitchell-wants...
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/15259/worst-cas...

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=chrome+exte...

It's not that I'll never install an extension (I currently use two, one ad blocker and one to filter Pinterest out of search results), but it's certainly not something I'm going to do casually.
Yeah - I've used toughbooks in the past, and honestly they're 6x more likely to survive being dropped, but also 3x more likely to get dropped in the first place because they're so heavy.
They call it "Brutalism" for a reason. Soviet buildings often look like flak towers.
Going through security, a TSA agent inspected my Toughbook and was really impressed by how cool it looked. I didn't have the heart to break it to him that the laptop was outdated at the time. It was just a laptop that you could drop, nothing special about it.
Escaping from Anaconda (Python)
Artificial Agents Click Here
You chose wisely. I got FSD in 2019 and it was frankly terrifying.
KDE and KFrameworks already provides such an ability. Either way, great to see more options!
Packaging meant to emulate a brand’s design without using its logo can be a violation of copyright laws. HP actually won a federal court case in March against a Chinese manufacturing company called Ejet, which HP accused of infringing upon its “trade dress,” the technical term for packaging design.

The linked court case says nothing about copyright. And as far as I can tell, 'trade dress' protection isn't rooted in copyright law at all. IANAL.
Port knocking is a simple and effective addition to a defense-in-depth strategy.

Whatever layers of defense you already have in front of your ssh server, port knocking makes it (very slightly) safer.

If knock/knockd were fragile or complex then you’d need to carefully weigh that benefit against increased fragility.

But it’s not. You get the benefit at no real cost.

(I speak of the knock binary in FreeBSD ports - I have no experience with this weird python one …)
Partners with reasonable expectations and willing to put effort in stay married. A lasting marriage is a byproduct of emotionally healthy and resilient people who want to show up to the job each day together.
Meanwhile Waymo just yesterday went the wrong way on the street.

https://abc7.com/post/wrong-waymo-driverless-car-goes-oncomi...

Waymo hits stationary pole.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAZP-RNSr0s

If Waymo is as good as you claim, then why don't they release data on the number of manual interventions>

It's just the Waymo's missteps are unlikely to show up on HN unlike Tesla's.

FSD can navigate crowds too.
Yes, the case against Facebook was filed in December of 2020, less than a month before Biden was sworn in.

The Facebook case was then refiled by Biden's FTC pick Lina Khan in 2021, and made "more robust and detailed than before". [0]

Khan (who was fast-tracked to the position) also went after Microsoft and Google during the same period. [0] And Twitter. Some of those cases could have begun earlier too - what's important is that all those cases were active while Biden's admin was making "requests".

The Biden admin had a massive stick to wave at the tech giants, regardless of who started each lawsuit and when, and demonstrated both the power to make judgments and to easily make problems go away [1]:

> “You are now 0 for 4 in merger trials. Why are you losing so much?” demanded California Republican Rep. Kevin Kiley at a House oversight hearing this summer. “Are you losing on purpose?”

> ...

> In her interview with CNN, Khan said she was “quite happy” with the FTC’s merger work

All the leverage was sitting right there for any request from Biden to have a lot of implied 'stick' behind it.

Companies consented to remove content without looking too deeply at it, and a lot of problems went away. I guess that could be a coincidence, but the giant 9+ figure lawsuits would certainly be worth a mention, no?

* * *

0 - https://www.vox.com/2021/8/19/22632826/facebook-ftc-lawsuit-...

1 - https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/16/tech/lina-khan-risk-taker...
UAE Freezes $20B Jet Deal with France After Telegram CEO Arrest
Government procurement contracts for these probably wanted it since they need a way to inventory assets and this gives an all-in-one solution. Military and law enforcement are probably the main purchasers of these.
I'm increasingly building entire functional prototypes from start to finish using Claude 3.5 Sonnet. It's an amazing productivity boost. Here are a few recent examples:

https://tools.simonwillison.net/image-resize-quality is a tool for dropping in an image and instantly seeing resized versions of that image at different JPEG qualities, each of which can be downloaded. I used to use the (much better) https://squoosh.app/ for this, but my cut-down version is optimized for my workflow (pick the smallest JPEG version that remains legible). Notes and prompts on how I built that here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/26/image-resize-and-quali...

django-http-debug - https://github.com/simonw/django-http-debug - is an actual open source Python package I released that was mostly written for me by Claude. It's a webhooks debugger - you can set up a URL and it will log all incoming requests to a database table for you. Notes on how I built that here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/8/django-http-debug/

datasette-checkbox is a Datasette plugin adding toggle checkboxes to any table with is_ or has_ columns. Animated demo and prompts showing how I built the initial prototype here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/16/datasette-checkbox/

https://tools.simonwillison.net/gemini-bbox is a tool for trying out Gemini 1.5 Pro's ability to return bounding boxes for items it identifies. You'll need a Gemini API key for this one, or take a look at the demo and notes here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/26/gemini-bounding-box-vi...

https://tools.simonwillison.net/gemini-chat is a similar tool for trying out different Gemini models (Google released three more yesterday) with a streaming chat interface. Notes on how I built that here: https://tools.simonwillison.net/gemini-chat

I still see some people arguing that LLM-assisted development like this is a waste of time, and they spend more effort correcting mistakes in the code than if they had written it from scratch themselves.

I couldn't disagree more. My development process has always started with prototypes, and the speed at which I can get a proof-of-concept prototype up and running with these tools is quite frankly absurd.
AMA, I led the eng team that built Project Zero (named in the article) and also designed or helped design most of Amazon's automated detection systems for Brands.

Disclaimer: I haven't worked at Amazon for 3 years - my info is likely stale.
One possible use case would be for police officers to scan driver licenses when pulling people over. When I worked for a city IT department, they had to have separate barcode readers installed in the cars for that, so I imagine it'd be nice to have it integrated into the laptop.
So, Fly users, how are things now? I gave the platform a shot a long while back and found that the reliability fell far short of what I needed (probably a few months before this post). They still have some desirable features and I wouldn't mind giving it another look if the platform is (vastly) improved.
It seems he was jailed for being in France, really.
Gotta respect Panasonic for identifying an underserved market and crushing it for almost 30 years.
Geeze, starts at $4500ish...
The main thing I find with articles that are anti-React is that they are saying React is bad when all you need is a pretty simple site with some dynamic elements. That's 100% true, it never hasn't been true, and any react evangelical will tell you the same thing.

I would love to hear this authors take on if they would choose HTMX for a web app that is constrained to be highly-interactive, with multiple contributors/teams, and a dynamic user interface that requires heaps of internal state.

I would assume the counter-argument would be, "something like that should not be on the web!", but unfortunately we are in a world where that is what customers expect for certain classes of application.
What year was this? Signal has been blocked by the GFW for several years now. Here’s an article from 2021: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/encrypted-messaging-a...
> I'm sure some use them because they like the aesthetic, it would not be most people's first choice as a daily driver.

Almost anyone who uses one does it because they work in an environment where nothing else would survive. Construction sites, mining, dusty or wet places, etc.
The driver, as it should be
Interesting to consider it might be cultural. If Tesla is using training data from their other cars, maybe this is something the car has just figured out that human drivers do?

They already allow the cruise control's automatic speed limit adjustment to have an offset applied, so that everywhere you go you're speeding by 10% or 15% over the legal limit.

On the low-speed roads mentioned in the article, people ignore unoccupied stop signs and red lights all the time. It was literally 6 days ago that I was biking home from work, stopped at a stop sign (I know some cyclists campaign for Idaho Stops, but they're not legal in my state yet and I'm out there as much for advocacy as I am for anything else), when someone blew through the 35mph 4-way stop without even putting their phone down. There were no cars, just me on my bike, so I guess she felt she didn't have to stop?
Yes, it is also only possible to kill with a knife if the seller sells you one.

It is only possible to smash a car against a showcase and commit a robbery if you get the car from the seller.

It is also...

No, it is not a good argument in my opinion. By this measure, we could be deriving criminal responsibility from almost any action.

Imagine that you sell forks and someone stabs a fork into the eye of another person. Would you be guilty? People can make bad use of anything. That does not makes us guilty.

It is just absurd.
Inventory / part tracking comes to mind.

The barcode scanner drops the likelihood of typos in part and serial numbers

I've heard it said that an airplane is ten thousand parts flying in formation: keeping track of maintenance and replacement parts is important in many (safety-critical) industries, and so having a scanner that one doesn't have to remember, lug around, and fumble with [0] could be useful.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/s?k=barcode+scanner
I see this is old but I still want to comment. It’s sorta weird they are blaming Hashicorp products that they are clearly using poorly. Oh, you have connectivity problems to the US-based Vault cluster from other regions? Why did you decide to just run a single Vault cluster? Even if you don’t want to pay for Enterprise, there are plenty of ways to sync data, etc.

I have to assume they made similarly confused choices with their Consul and Nomad setups as well. No wonder they are having issues.
In SF, at least, the Waymo vehicles are nigh perfect. I happily occupy the street with them as a pedestrian and bicyclist.
With v12.5.1.1 My Tesla ran into a curb, I had to get 2 wheels and tires replaced

https://twitter.com/gourneau/status/1821005220190798038
USA brings back measles with unvaccinated, 211 cases in 2024 so far
The driver is responsible for maintaining control of the car at all times, so they will get the ticket even if they're using FSD.

There is an argument that Tesla is releasing products that are fundamentally unsafe, and they may be open to some torts there. Of course, Tesla itself would likely point to some language in some agreement that basically amounts to "you're an absolute fool for thinking that our FSD product is any good, and have no ability to sue us for releasing dangerous products;" they've historically been very aggressive in arguing that they bear no responsibility in any FSD or Autopilot crashes.
Right, but none of those have anything to do with Hugo being written in go.