skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I'm unusual -- the AI-generated images stand out to me as what they are, but they don't upset me or give me a negative impression of the product.

Since the pricing model is so uncommon, it would be good to get more clarity on how that works in practice. For example, if I work at a company with 25 devs with about 100 tasks going into each two-week sprint, does the pricing mean I need to spend maybe $6 per month to buy 250 tasks? That seems unsustainably affordable.
The term of art in the writing/editing business is "throat-clearing". A lot of words that don't say much before the action really starts.
Are people still using Balsamiq?!

I haven't heard that name in literally forever. I used to use it and love it like fifteen years ago when I fancied myself a designer and not just a backend dev.
It felt somewhat like that to me too, I had just thought "categorized under dude posting their W".
The problem of denying animators necessary fundamental experiences by automating the opportunities to learn that experience away with AI is the same problem either way. You can't just arbitrarily remove human skill and effort from the creative process and expect the end result to be more efficient and of equal or greater quality, anymore than you can expect the quality of a codebase to always improve by removing lines of code. The problem here isn't explicitly that inbetweeners exist, it's that animators aren't being paid commensurate to their Abilities.

AI isn't simply a tool like Photoshop or Blender, which augment an artist's existing skill. AI is designed to simulate and replace human creativity in the same way automation replaced physical human labor elsewhere. That's a fundamental difference. Replace physical animation with cel animation and the skill and talent of the animators still matter, even translated to another paradigm. Replace a human artist with AI, and the value of their talent is just gone. Even if the AI is trained on that specific artist's work, it can't grow and expand its horizons the way that human artist can, it can only iterate on what data the model already makes available, and express generalities based on that.

And why bother have human beings involved at all when you can just train an AI to do the whole thing? The whole business case for AI is devaluing the market value of human creative/knowledge based labor or automating it away altogether.
Yup, if the dissemination of advice is gated behind passing some judgement test of purity, that's just gatekeeping and a toxic attitude. Just share the knowledge (or other worthwhile discussion points) or scroll past. "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it".
Well I spent ~3 years working portside it was just the one time I got to go into the ship that repulsed me.

Well that and seeing the dead woman rolled out + (much) later learning that she had died of a drug overdose during an orgy.
Anime is traditionally done frame by frame. Mostly America focused on the 3D craze or puppets/Flash-style.
If this resonated with you, consider reading Nonviolent Communication by Rosenberg, the ultimate guide in thermostat-speak. You focus on stating unmet needs. Good stuff.
I recommend Ondsel as well, which is free without restrictions (they have paid tiers that have cloud features, but those aren't necessary). They should include the FreeCAD 1.0 fixes in a few days. HUGE improvement to the FreeCAD GUI, and it saves in FreeCAD format so you're not stuck.
Ondsel helps a lot with that. FreeCAD 1.0 I think also now has a default Assembly bench.
They are unrealistic in a consistently stylized way, unlike AI-generated images which are simply broken.
You don’t even need self driving cars for cabin surveillance. Modern cars are already being equipped with data harvesting suites and selling your data. What’s one step further for 24/7 audio video surveillance?
13bln$ gets you a 35 mile tunnel thru the swiss alps.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel
I'm a Business Analyst, so I find your tool quite interesting. I'll definitely give it a try. However, I would like to ask if your product includes sufficient notation to draw according to BPMN standards.
I literally went inside a place and found it disgusting.

But yeah also, as above, I worked portside for years too. Its just the memories of going aboard that still haunt me.
Yeah, it's very ugly(•) and a kind of SUV to boot. Much less like that please!

(•) A knockoff of that also horrible Land Rover Range Rover design with the narrow and rising window line
I'd do "ChromeOS minus Google". Simple for the vast majority of users, immutable, and still able to execute software from almost every platform.
It's software emulated though. The actual speed is equivalent to around 1MHz.

Intrestingly the tiny Cortex M0+ is has about 4x the coremark per MHz of 386 (and twice 486).

See https://www.eembc.org/coremark/scores.php and https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/coremark-mhz
That’s a massive valuation.

Are they preparing for a potential down turn, else at this level they might be setting themselves for a down round. Unless people believe that OpenAI could be the first $1T valuation startup

Unicorns are $1B valuation startups. What’s a good name for a $1T valuation startup? God Statup?
trademark refers to the name a product is sold as, not what the product is, and also has a local jurisdiction. What they do in Asia has nothing to do with trademarks in the US, and since not very much of Asia has spoken English for literally hundreds of years, I doubt they were calling it chili crunch sauce.

I'm not defending Chang nor trademarks, just pointing out how they work legally and the flaws in the argument you're making.

Remember, people called windows "windows", but they didn't sell products called Windows till Microsoft started and trademarked it.
> I basically grew to wonder why SQL was the only language

You were well ahead of the pack simply by realizing that other options are possible. It is only within the last year or two that the HN crowd has finally come to accept that SQL and relational calculus are not the same thing. If you want a good laugh, check out the older posts on HN where the comments are adamant that there cannot be anything other than SQL for relational querying because it is some kind of fundamental mathematical truth.

> There are what, 1000 programming languages, but only one SQL? Why?

There are the family of languages that get lumped together under the ORM umbrella. They are quite popular – maybe even more popular than SQL. There are plenty of other languages that are less popular, but they are often impractical to use in any real-world scenario which maintains their unpopular status.

> but not json friendly.

Not standard SQL, but if we're counting extensions duality views are JSON friendly. The Oracle tax may be a tough pill to swallow, though.
Wow you weren't kidding. These are vulns that would have been embarrassing a decade ago.
Libraries and highways are very mainstream and are not commercial.

One possible version of the internet/web is a global library.

Another is as a ubiquitous information utility.

In any case, my vision of a superhighway doesn't include video billboards every 3m in every non-toll lane.
Ubiquity sure does make some pretty gear, but I will never trust them with my firewall. Makes me sad that so many homelabbers do. Can't quite put my finger on why that saddens me.
When they shut down Wharf 8 in sydney, where I was working, they moved the ships to a temporary location without an onshore power connection for the ships.

Diesel exhaust fume complaints came from suburbs around the wharf.
I think the best example of pseudo CGI are the user interfaces from Star Trek the Next Generation in the late 80s, early 90s.

In the show, every display is supposed to be an interactive digital display, but because such displays didn't exist at the time, they actually faked it using exacto knives and cellophane.

For the 2023 Star Trek Picard show, they actually recreated the Enterprise Bridge, but replaced most of the fake LCARS cutouts with actual OLED screens!

The artist who created the LCARS design talks about it in this video:

https://youtu.be/iRlSQiYnDLI?si=pN6OvmvNeaOO_OmI&t=62

He talks about how actors in the late 90s had no conception of pushing digital buttons, and had to be coaxed into the idea that you could touch a screen rather than a physical control!
> You’re being a thermometer. When they’re subtly giving off weird vibes—they’re frowning, answering your questions with fewer words than normal, etc.—you’ve noticed that their temperature is different.

And if you are doing this as a coping mechanism from having an unstable parent and you are like me (also maybe a bit of adhd): you internalize the person's chilled behavior and often assume it is your fault.

In case you need to hear it: You are not responsible for other's emotions (though you are responsible for your actions)
They have to be cheap because no one serious about astro photography is going to buy this. Their target audience is the people who don't know much about astro photography and would be fascinated by something like this.
Fibre to each room?! Nice, is that a common thing to do these days? I've been starting to plan wiring cat6 (or cat7 or whatever) around my place, but I didn't even know fibre is something people use throughout the home (I always thought of it as "you get fibre to the home and then ethernet within"). Interesting... I imagine there is quite the price difference though, among other differences. More to research I guess!
Why not do UUIDs as a string or blob? And dates as strings, or integer / real timestamps?

It conceptually simplifies things in so many ways that benefit the app developer, not just the sqlite devs and low-spec hardware. Simpler documentation, shorter learning curve, smaller surface area for bugs, smaller binary size, etc.

There's a trend to add bloat and complexity to everything in software these days, but I'm so glad that a few projects like SQLite are pushing against that.
People worried about surveillance but it didn't stop surveillance from happening.

I'm not saying to be naive to possibilities, especially as they begin to move from the "possibilities" bucket to the "realities" bucket, but isn't it better to focus on making progress against stuff that's already happening? If Amazon are preventing drivers from singing, I think those drivers might be able to change that.
That explains why I've sometimes weighed myself, peed, and then found that I gained weight
> They could make it half the size and remove $10k from the price, but they don’t seem to want that.

People keep bringing this up.

The massive size of American-market cars is thanks to regulations introduced by the Obama administration.

They effectively outlawed small cars.

Plenty of people would love to be buy a modernized take on an 80s or 90s car, but they literally can't be made or sold in the US.

I live in Japan, and have a Kei from maybe the early 2000s? My only complaint is that the A/C is like being coughed on by an asthmatic penguin, because otherwise, I absolutely love that car, precisely because it's like driving a Honda from the 1980s. Lots of glass, low beltline, all the rest.
Love it!

I always liked Balsamiq, it really forces you not to obsess about the pixels too much, but it was so slow/bloated/buggy, like something from the Java on desktop era. This is much smoother!
Hi there! I happen to be in Uruguay (from the US) right now, congrats on your amazing country!
It is difficult to do long term strategic planning when the American people don’t want to provide long term budget stability for the agency.
Plates not matching is a major red flag, no?
Self-driving vehicles can be symbiotic with mass transit. Autonomous taxis can make rail work better at low to moderate densities by shuttling people to stations. They can also ease the path to higher density development in car-centric suburbs by dropping people off at their destinations and then going to serve other riders or park out of the way, eliminating the need for density-killing parking lots immediately adjacent to businesses. As density rises in these areas, building mass transit will become more viable.

Nor does autonomy have to be limited to car-sized vehicles. It could be used for larger vehicles, perhaps intermediate between car and bus size — once you don't have to pay for a driver, operating a larger number of smaller vehicles is much more viable. These could be dynamically dispatched and routed, eliminating many drawbacks of existing bus service.
Also M33 vs M0 and higher clock - should be 2-3x faster. And maybe you can do something with the second core.

Im super impressed you got this to work! The memories of the SAMD clocks... Shudders.
Roads are 24x7 and outside every building.
Can’t they just send large control characters as three separate key presses?
Ten years ago Ubiquiti offered commercial grade hardware at consumer prices. Now I understand it’s the inverse.

At least according to the disgruntled former employees that left sometime between the lifelogging wearable camera acquisition and the forced cloud/updates and the “massive” data breach.

What would be the 2024 version of how great UI was in 2014? Or what are your fellow hacker setups? Ideally something that does local first management, connection bonding, 10gbs, tailscale level of simplicity? I have the same setup as the author and uncomfortable with the Apple-ification of the product to something that looks pretty without meaningful root privileges.
Yep, Apple has made a lot of marketing around the concept of updates and all that jazz but the reality is that the primary beneficiary are them.

Even when you are potentially interested by features update there is always a weighting to be made about slowdowns or things that change that you wish didn't.

In the end I don't think updates should be much of a thing, apart from security updates. You should buy a device with a set of capabilities and it should stay mostly the same all its life.

And then we should make laws about the minimum amount of time a device has to be supported with its original software.
The problem with computer technology is that we always go with updates, just because we could even though we need to ask if we should. In some ways it's a problem the internet created, the expectation of always being connected to bring in new stuff.
Anyone can pick up a pen and draw. But animation/cartoon/anime are both a product and art, and require time for those who draw to grow from amateur to master. Some will get there in no time, and some will take time to get there. There are no one size fit all equation.
I am the only upvote to this? Shameful!
I actually don't care about "protecting people." I just think this is a market failure in the same vein as hidden fees. It obscures the real price of the game— a particularly egregious example is that For Honor actually costs $700+, and it creates a race to the bottom where now everyone tries to offer a low cost buy-in while the game is secretly expensive. If you make it so that avenue is closed to everyone then it keeps the playing field level.

I have no desire to prevent anyone from playing those kinds of games except as a collective action to change what the market rewards and that's what government is good at. I don't care if you want to spend your money on Genshin, but I do want a games market that fixes the "people say that micro transactions make games worse but they make more money for the company" problem.
I happen to be in Uruguay right now (from the US). I rented a car -- didn't see an EV option. I've driven from Montevideo to Punta Del Diablo and I haven't seen a charging station :-( I wasn't looking for one, and checking the map just now, they do exist.

Also: Uruguay is awesome.
Really great info, thank you.

I'll also add that NPR's argument is "this water is used to grow crops which feed beef/dairy, therefore if we reduce beef/dairy cows, these crops and the corresponding water will be reduced proportionately".

Their conclusion is not grounded in microeconomic logic. If the demand for alfalfa and hay decrease, that will affect only the marginal farmer/seller, not all alfalfa/hay farmers/sellers equally. In other words, the most expensive seller of cattle feed in the market may no longer have a buyer, but other less expensive sellers will be totally unaffected.

Imperial Valley farmers are likely not the the marginal seller in the cattle feed market (ie the most expensive sellers who still have buyers), so this argument that reducing beef/dairy consumption is flawed.
That's part of the problem, if you are a reviewer you'll see the changes that other reviewers asked for on code that you did not want to review.

I guess this might be a problem mostly on large projects on monorepos, where different systems that interact end in the same codebase, but there's a cost to be paid too if each system has their own repo, build/test/deploy infra and independent ownership.
You read what you wanted to read. The article was not clear on that.
Android Memory Management and Process Death (2018)
Wow I’ve always felt much more comfortable in 1:1 situations than group situations, but I never framed it the way you have here. Your comment really resonates, thank you!
This could've been an informative, info-dense post but the choice of parameters used to display the data and the colors for the maps and the data make it unusable.

At least there is a link to the USDA data so that anyone can recreate a map and set display parms to something with higher interpretability.
I'm not entirely clear about the concept of your website. Could you please explain its purpose?
That's the other way around (and also SuSE, Ubuntu LTS and even Debian stable): here are the things you can get security backports for vs here are the security backports for things you need.
Absolutely! Will be letting lots of folks in tomorrow.
More details in the original article here

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/09/sextortion-scams-now-inc...
Author here. Thank you for sharing. I'll be happy to answer any questions.
> I suspect the primary issue is that there are simply way less people willing to work as letter carriers.

A family member of mine works for the post office in their city. They don't have trouble hiring for any positions. There is a long waiting list that takes months to get through to be given a chance at the bottom of the totem pole. The various postal unions give the jobs good benefits, pay, hours, etc. Carriers specifically are highly sought-after positions that can set you up for life.

It's not a matter of not being able to find people. it's not willing to hire more people. I would be very surprised if the post office in your town is trying to hire people, but nobody is willing to work. It's a great job, and people line up to work there.
You know, it's been so long since I've used it, I completely forgot that fact. Alright, you win the battle of best correct bad sql to bash pipeline :).
I have not read your links, but I can only assume from watching events unfold elsewhere that what is happening in Australia is a subset of the global situation.
They are living, they reproduce. Damaged ones die off.

That's why you're told to take yogurt/other fermented foods after taking antibiotics, to provide a reproductive environment for them to grow.

However it's still a risk you could kill off a whole species and lose their function, so probably best not to take antibiotics unless you really have to.

It's an easy analysis process though, you try to recover for a couple days, if you cannot and no virus is detected, you take antibiotics.

If it's a bacterial infection and it's spreading you have to take antibiotics, otherwise you die and all of your microbes die with you.
Just means that you're getting shit done.

If I see cable management, it just tells me that they spent more time doing that than labbing.
What companies don’t do this?
New Internet Thing, Chapter 18
He also tried to sue all the other small businesses using the chili crunch name. I stopped buying his after that.
> driving habits to deny warranty claims

Most companies, Tesla included, will do this. Hell, Tesla will happily use your vehicle's telemetry at a press conference to say "look, it was the driver, not the car".

It's hard to argue that driving habits and warranty claims are "abusing your privacy". If you took a TV back to Best Buy that was covered in mud, would you expect them to honor a warranty replacement without asking about the dirt and mud? Or would that be "abusing your privacy" to do so?

The example I found of this was Kia denying a warranty claim because it showed that that specific econobox model was consistently being driven at 100mph, and spent a lot of time at or near redline.

My Audi (an RS, so expected to be considered for performance) will track how many times the ECU has been flashed, so even if you remove the tuning, it is noticeable. It also does a thing called GFF which will capture any time the vehicle ran outside of the stock ECU parameters, and will flag your vehicle with the factory that you may be potentially liable for any drivetrain issues.

Data brokers? I don't know about that, but yes, it is more of a privacy concern.
NASA's Hubble, Chandra Find Supermassive Black Hole Duo
I think the timeline is the more damaging part too. Not only was their design woefully inadequate, they don't seem to care.
interesting read - anyone have pointers to other app pentesting walk throughs like this?
I don't get your point. There are many other companies using the name chili crunch. He was not the first. But he tried to trademark it to stop all the others.
Well, yes, it was from the Flash era. It started in Flash/Flex. I love it and used it for a very long time. Huge respect for Peldi (Balsamiq founder).
> But the word you said there: "choose"... I don't think people have "chosen" this.

I certainly did. I _love_ games that give me the option to buy things in game. Especially QOL things like removed ads. But also, I have played some gacha games where I've spend some real money; usually in the 10-30$ range, because I get enough fun out of them that I like to throw the developers some money.

> There are games out there that use 22 different in-game currencies [1]. The way these are interlinked with in game mechanics would make Machiavelli sweat.

There exist games that use a predatory pattern when it comes to in-game purchases, and we should find a way to stop them. I don't think anyone disagrees with that. But I don't think it's fair to say that all in-game purchase ability is bad, or that nobody would choose such a thing; the former being an opinion, the later being a definite falsehood.
Coq apparently renamed since professors have to introduce it to 18 year olds each year.
They have very heavy rate limits on their 1st party api now. I can't even delete my own content, nevermind scrape.
Traditionally doesn't mean squat for someone trying to break into the industry today as the original comment proposed. Mostly America is also a bizarre comment as well. Just look at all of the animated content from Disney, WB, etc to see all of the hand drawn/painted frame-by-frame. So I'm really not sure of your point
No, you're seeing a surge in interest for SQLite because people like relational databases, but the n-tier architecture is sometimes not the right solution for the problems people have. And again: many of your arguments have been applied to MySQL, but nobody can with a straight face say it's not a "real" backend database.

(To a first approximation ~nobody is interested in SQLite because it lacks correctness or rigid typing features; what's interesting about SQLite is not what was interesting about schemaless databases, but rather the ability to ship backend apps without a separate database tier.)

Again: I think you need to snap out of the idea that n-tier architectures are axiomatically optimal for all backend applications. They often are! But not all the time.