skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ace of 9.

Adulthood ADHD diagnosis. Came from a dirt poor abusive background. Declared gifted, but dropped out of school.

Now an engineering manager / lead developer making over £250k a year.

Rough lad done good. Could've done better.
I don’t know about police but most reports to 112/911/999 call centers are real. Probably 95-99% of callers believe they are reporting a real incident and that their report is accurate. Deliberately misleading calls constitute maybe 1-5% depending on the region. So when information is reported, it is assumed that it is reported with best intentions.

There is a cost to false arrests in most situations. At the minimum, police resources are wasted. People also write complaints to the police, which are taken seriously in some countries, and sue the police in others. There are many costs. You are basing your conclusion on an untrue premise.

Probably 9/10 police departments in the developed world know what swatting is. There just isn’t justification to forgo normal procedure when there is a possibility of swatting. The raids are very “choreographed” and much research has gone into how to carry them out safely. So no one deviates until they are 99.99…% certain it’s a swatting.

It’s not so black and white. There are many reasons why police respond to swattings the way they do.
> I find it completely disproportionate that the police go out with such a number of devices and personnel to a registered company registered as a GmbH and not first Google the name and company in order to presumably find my YouTube (and Twitch) activities directly.

What purpose would this serve? If you receive an emergency tip like this, extensive research on what might be registered on that address and then check whether someone happens to be active on social media right now doesn't seem to be that good of a call. I don't mean to blame the developer - if I just had a few guns pointed at me, I would not be calm about this, either. But this isn't reasonable research given the time constraints.
I'm assuming the parent is making a 1.21 Gigawatts joke, a reference to Back to the Future.
+1
I read the whole comment and still have no idea what point they’re making or even what side they’re on.

To the grandparent: if you put in the effort to make yourself more clear, you might get the quality responses you wish for.
What I find even more tedious is the viewpoint that imagines itself "confronting to a consensus worldview" while echoing mainline meritocratic commercialism.

Shades of "What You Can't Say"[0].

0. https://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
idk what the ground truth is but what we are talking about here is called "fruit from the poisoned tree" in the field of ethics. This means you get a fruit "good thing" but it was pick from the poison tree "bad thing". And the ethical principle is that's not ethical, because bad thing
I spend 1 hour a day learning python -- i am non-technical manager in a startup. I normally do it every morning before work and sometimes at night before sleep. I dont actually know where I am going at it but having a special 1 hour to learn something i dont quite understanding is a bliss.

I do the same on weekends. 1 hour, every day learning grind.
How is this any of this relevant to the IT team deciding to send their old stuff to be destroyed, activation lock or not?
I agree. We have to raise our personal standards to raise our community standards. The nihilism here is a self fulfilling prophecy and sad to see.
It might be interesting to contrast MrBeast’s management approach with that of Marques Brownlee (MKBHD). He is also a successful YouTuber who leads a team that puts out videos on several channels. While his videos don’t have the huge production scale of MrBeast’s, they seem to be produced on short deadlines and must require close coordination among his team.

If I were young and wanted to work in online media production, I would much rather work for Marques Brownlee than for MrBeast.
Maybe we could cut down on carbon emissions by drastically cutting down on junk mail sent
Chromium doesn't document this but they support hardware video decode on Linux. Works best on Intel iGPU. AMD needed some patches to get it working using Vulkan IIRC and Nvidia is Nvidia.
+1 just installed this yesterday. Still kicking the tires
Show HN: CAD with AI
Also, go get counselling or therapy with a professional (none of this life coach quackery). It made me a better human.
So I commented (Bounce CEO) with some explanations, and posted a sample video of the thermal that I quickly put on youtube while my team can access our official account. Posting here too: https://youtube.com/shorts/PlmG9HdzltU?feature=share

Domestically (not on exported cameras that are restricted to 9FPS), you can actually hit ~27FPS reasonably easily and with our built-in IMU this is in fact usable in flight. However, thermal is hard enough to interpret when stationary so the main use case for the THERMAL variant is once it is in the middle of a room or on a pole to search attics etc. However our visual cameras are super easy to work with in flight - if you download our app (Bounce Viewer) and go to the demo videos in History you can see it working on the back of a dog or thrown in the air.

And I mean thousands of these systems are in use around the world (of the visual, the thermal Pit Viper we just announced) and have been thrown through windows, down stairs, on ropes, poles, vehicles, dogs....
This is totally pedantic, but LSP stands for “Language Server Protocol”. I think they mean LS (or Language Server)
As others have noted, the Xjack was neat, but a bit fragile. I really liked my Xircom Realport[0] card - it had durable Ethernet and modem jacks, but did take up two card slots. It was great for field work.

0 - https://ia802803.us.archive.org/22/items/xircomrealportcredi...
We indeed do drop them from drones :-) (Francisco, Bounce CEO, new to posting here so sorry if I'm being incompetent)
Welcome to a brave new world of digital fascism and mass surveillance.

Why does every message have to be scanned with AI? Since when WeChat behaviour has become an example for the Western social media?

You don't scan all user private messages with AI, you give your users a report button which they can press if they don't like a message. Only then you can take any other measures. That's is.
If you unplug the network you can't send messages, correct.

Other people upthread have already gone over how you can't separate delivery from message processing and how TCP's attempt to do so makes it defective (unless you layer a whole additional system on top of it rendering most of TCP's design irrelevant)

If you were trying to make a new, non-broken system on top of TCP or otherwise, allowing multiple delivery doesn't add any correctness/robustness benefits -- it just makes messages cheaper to send and receive. There is no "at most once or at least once" choice except in the pickwickian sense that if you don't require delivery or delivery confirmation you can save the effort of even trying.
Nantucket Tech Ecosystem
Trying to start a tech ecosystem on nantucket

Looking for advice

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I use ledger for all bookkeeping and accounting for personal and many LLCs. If you’re a terminal rat and cli master, use vim or emacs, sed/awk know the basics, script in bash/python/perl/ruby regularly then just learn ledger and double entry accounting and switch to it and I suspect you will be much happier than whatever you are doing today.

A few basic tips:

- reckon is helpful for importing transactions quickly. https://github.com/cantino/reckon

- use “include” to break up the problem.

- bal —-dc is something US accountants might recognize a bit. but more likely than not they are incapable of understanding negatives correctly in the way ledger uses them, so easier to just write a few scripts to convert it to DR CR style for them. I’ve been shocked at how little abstraction accountants I’ve dealt with are capable of.
18 Months with a Framework 13
We have both visual (already in service) and thermal (just announced) cameras - video of the latter is here: https://youtube.com/shorts/PlmG9HdzltU?feature=share (Francisco, Bounce CEO)
Peru?
Gardener's World has been giving arboreal advice for decades in the UK on mainstream TV, along with what to stuff in your herbaceous borders.

I also have rather more than a passing interest in bonsai (for 30+ years). You can't wire a full sized tree as you might with bonsai. Nor can you pinch growth in pines as you do in bonsai. Jins and saris etc would be butchery in full sized trees - to be honest I'm not keen on them in bonsai.

When it comes to full sized trees, look a little closer. Notice all the insects, tiny mammals (if you can spot them), fungi etc. Trees become an environment of their own within the larger environment.

There is nothing wrong with turning an environment into sculpture. At least you care about it! However, I recommend that you do not use bonsai rules to guide your full sized tree management.
Heck I’m not a subscriber to him and I read the whole document
This is a specific type of general algorithm/research area called Bernoulli Factories if anyone wants to go deep.
Yeah in retrospect no one has seemed to find Bounce Imaging the easiest name to remember (Francisco, Bounce CEO)
This is good I also had worked on something similar in optillm - https://github.com/codelion/optillm. You can do this with any LLM and several optimization techniques (including cot_reflection) like mcts, plansearch, moa etc.
Oil Net Short for First Time in History
I've always wondered about this. What happens if one of the big tech companies makes a mistake and closes your account? LinkedIn is pretty important nowadays when searching for work. Would you be able to make a new account? If not, that seems like a pretty big deal. Same concern with your email, or any of the other big services that we usually depend on. If I just suddenly lost my gmail, I would probably lose access to external accounts and other important data, which could be crippling.
Get plastic surgery if your desire to find a partner is this great.
Highly gifted here (ACE 7), skipped two grades. Burnt out young before career really took off. Still did well enough to be comfortable - worked in research for a while. Spent decades trying to find answers from doctors who were all useless. Found out much later it’s ME/CFS from hEDS (TNXB) and it’s a lot more frequent that people realize, especially in cohorts selected for intelligence. When I was young I was warned by the gifted program coordinators that skipping multiple grades was bad for kids because they always burnt out, I think they noticed a direct link between the extent of giftedness and the likelihood of burnout but missed the causation.

So I agree there is a strong link between such household behaviors and giftedness but it’s because genetic predisposition to anxiety issues, dopamine disregulation, chronic fatigue in a world that can’t identify it or manage it. So these people get sick and not only can’t get help but the whole world gaslights them. I don’t blame my parents for who they are. And as tough as it has been for me I wouldn’t trade it back for my IQ especially in an era where intelligence is at such a premium. I just try to get the message out in the hope that it helps others, hence posts like this.
YES! That's the neat trick. Clever of you to get that without prompting! So I figure you must have some imaging background. We're hundreds to thousands of times more efficient than traditional SIFT/SURF or other feature detection methods, which is the only way we can do this at the edge on the camera itself (without melting it or running out of battery in five minutes).
Regarding 3... I disagree with this one. I like games with stories and cutscenes, and 30Hz feels a lot more cinematic to me. I don't mind 60Hz/120Hz but I actually prefer 30Hz for most games I play. Also, whenever there is a choice between 30Hz+Better Quality and 60Hz, I always pick 30Hz.
People send each other porn on LinkedIn?
Yah. My first reaction was “$555? That’s not bad compared to current glasses prices.” Especially when online retailers won’t sell certain prescriptions.
Yep, omnidirectional. But most people don't get that so we say 360
That would mean, essentially, launching in a bit over two years. Absolutely not gonna happen, not even for a suicide mission.
A 10 year old Ford Focus weighs 2900lb empty. I'd be impressed if this truck weighs less than 5k empty.
After working on a big entertainment time waster social site all week (not so much a crud app) I spent all today running first aid at special Olympics which I think provided value which the crud app let me do. Does that count?
Very stylish they are
Yeah I've experienced a fair number crashes with 6.10 (multiple point releases) on my 680M. Earlier kernels were fine in my recollection although I didn't bother downgrading, and Windows remains rock solid on the same system.
The idea is to throw this in instead of sending a person or a dog, reducing the odds they get hurt or civilians are unnecessarily hurt. And we keep costs as low as possible to reduce the tears (but honestly the camera is usually ok - pretty tough)
How to Succeed at MrBeast Production
I found one of these Drexel 128K in the trash in Lansdowne, PA, sometime around 2007. It still sits on my desk.

I decided to bring it into my summer internship thinking my co-workers would find it interesting.

My boss, Steve Weintraut (vice president of DUsers, as mentioned in the article), was pretty surprised to see it.

Thanks Steve, for a great start to my career, introducing me to a fun culture of learning and probably trusting me with too much access to the production database.
If a program has a messaging system, it will be used to send porn.
Talking about “the algorithm” always feels a bit foolhardy to me because it’s undocumented and constantly changing.

Given that, it’s pretty clear to me from the full PDF that MrBeast is “gaming” it to the best effect possible given no perfect information.

The thing he cares about is if YouTube is going to recommend his video for people to watch, even beyond his own subscribers.

He believes that the key to this recommendation mechanism is having a high AVD and AVP (defined on page 5). Given that he has the highest rated account on all of YouTube now I’m inclined to defer to his expertise.
Worked with the Stolen Generation. Trying to fix the massive gaping problems that Australia's racist policies have caused in the past. I'm the last to deny that there are racist problems.

However, the money laundering problems have primarily come from China. That's what the history shows, and why there's the focus there. The country itself isn't being blamed. The absence of protections between Australia and China, across regulatory borders, is what is being blamed.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41548382
Your acute observation that a large number of people find MrBeast content boring suggests part of the reason why there isn't more cultural pushback to it - because lots of people simply don't care about it.
SO we looked at this and it adds so much weight and battery drain. There are a million micro-robots - believe it or not this form factor and simplicity is what makes us a go-to tool (contrary to what you might think, under a lot of stress first responders may not want to drive something around given the additional cognitive load)
Yes, they did. Portuguese engagement jumped big time on Mastodon.
Why did you start this project? What do you hope to build?
Based on the number of guys who think LinkedIn is a dating site I don't see why there wouldn't be people who think it's a porn sharing site.
Related: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/15/how-to-succeed-in-mrbe...
everyone has my permission ;)
This is very cool, I had worked on something similar back at https://securade.ai using a Nvidia Jetson as the edge device. I am now excited about reCamera - https://www.seeedstudio.com/blog/recamera/
> What happens if one of the big tech companies makes a mistake and closes your account? LinkedIn is pretty important nowadays when searching for work. Would you be able to make a new account? If not, that seems like a pretty big deal.

You are screwed, and it is a big deal.

However, until some ambulance chaser manages to corral the affected people into a class action lawsuit and win, there will be no change.

> Same concern with your email

This one is straightforward--have your own domain. Download everything such that you can change provider if they stomp you.
It might be interesting to see if this sustains across multiple quarters and then becomes necessary risk reporting to investors. The brief article says its time for opportunistic shorting for high risk players, but I am more interested in a longer term trend to the dynamics. Tar sands don't look very compelling if the price sinks. That said, perverse things happen, like dumping, or differently, extracting the most expensive stuff now, to make more money when demand rises from the cheaper stocks.

Mainly, I just hope this trend is indicative of a decline in the NEED for oil but thats a bit further off. I bet Norway is glad it banked the funds, and Scotland is livid it wasn't allowed to.

Australia prices off Singapore. Brent informs the northern hemisphere more? We have a dreadfully cyclical local market price at the pump, its a giant con. Currently $161 at discount fuel stores, was $220 a couple of weeks ago. Every EV driver I know says they don't miss the game at all, and not all of them have their own solar to charge from: They all say they're miles ahead (sorry)
> What are the good channels that create creative and stimulating videos that are a benefit to humanity.

Kurzgesagt doesn't have daily videos, but it fits that bill.
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I've been doing backend work for the past 13 years, with Python, Django, and Django REST Framework. I'm intimately familiar with schema and data migrations, including migrations between Django projects. I've done a lot of full-stack work as well, with HTML, CSS, JavaScript/jQuery, and React.js. I've worked extensively with startups and I've worked with Twitter. I have a lot of experience working with distributed teams and am open to occasional travel. Available full (~30hrs) or part time. Interested in Python work or full-stack with Python.

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> Wouldn’t it be even much better to do none of this? In Ruby `100.times do puts 'cause implies consequence' end` is valid code that will do that without any painful effort to make the aimed page.

Presumably it won’t be the only content on the page, the statements are going to be inside various other statements. Also I’m not sure how you’d execute Ruby code on a Blackboard.

> Using terse scriptural symbols per se doesn’t prevent to go into esoteric non-sense.

Who said you’d have to “go into esoteric non-sense”, whatever that means?

> And anything that can be expressed in graphical symbols can just as well and as clearly expressed in any spontaneous language if given the same careful attention.

Okay, but why woutd you want to use a word if a simple symbol does the trick? You have to define what it means either way and symbols have the advantage that you don’t need to translate them between languages.
Are you telling me this sucker is nuclear?

No no no no, this sucker is electrical. But I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity I need. C'mon I'll show you how it works!
Race conditions in Linux Kernel perf events
Many people are so uncomfortable with risk that they publicly advocate (and personally live by) a policy of taking zero risk. Of course they also throw away the very real benefits that come packaged with many risks.
I wish someone would tell Candela that playing jazzy music over every video prevents us from hearing how quiet the boats are. I tried five of their videos and gave up.
This happens regularly (perhaps not frequently) to people with their Gmail account. Google's AI says no, and there are very few people reporting successfully navigating the system to get their account back. This is one of the anti-google arguments, the other main one being they kill big projects all the time.

You are right though, it can be crippling, and this thinking part of your personal (and business) risk profile. Ideally your email is at least tied to a domain name you separately own. That way, if your Google/MSFT/Apple/whatever account gets blocked, you can switch over the email to another provider and still get access.

* edit to add: I don't know if this is more a Google thing than other companies, I was just heavily invested in the Google ecosystem and have researched these issues specifically with Google, leading to me ensuring I'm not as reliant on them as I used to be. I figure now I have about a full days worth of hassle if all my google stuff gets blocked, but otherwise I'm recoverable.
> What changed your worldview

They’re not saying it changed their worldview. Their point is that if a person is just immediately nitpicking it and dismissing it, then there’s probably something in it that can change their worldview. That person’s project management and storytelling skills probably suck (because most people’s project management and storytelling skills suck).
Whoever solved it left a rather intriguing, albeit slightly mocking, message:

TX input:
Code:
1FuckUmT5yBAvozf6gT8GRQVbJ7iBDUnrH

TX outputs:
Code:
1Jvv4yWkE9MhbuwGU66666666669sugEF 0.00000001
1YouAreSoDumbLoL666666666667K5aR4 0.00000002
1WhatWereUThinking6666666662wkqq1 0.00000003
1YouDeserveNothing6666666665sbbBC 0.00000004
1YouEpicFaiLure66666666666688GSDA 0.00000005
1BitchAssLoser66666666666669dBUVg 0.00000006
1AndEveryoneELse666666666669Vnc8C 0.00000007
1ThisisALosingGame6666666667HAZdf 0.00000008
1JustGetAReaLJob666666666665vGKVD 0.00000009
1YoureWastingTimeAndMoney664CVExC 0.00000010
1AndCausingCLimateChange6666HK8Qc 0.00000011
13zb1hQbWVsc2S7ZTZnP2G4undNNpdh5so 0.00000012
1Jvv4yWkE9MhbuwGUoqFYzDjRVQHaLWuJd 0.00000013
1FK5PjPNARQmg94n2cNHTo9417kWfXUDBQ 0.00002125
It’s not porn, it’s mixed use technology. The persons decentralized LORA radio messaging platform, is another persons disaster resilience platform, is another persons hobby project, is another persons anti censorship tool, is another persons improvised frontline communications tool, is another persons counter-terrorism ai ban hammer trigger.
Speaking as an engineering manager, this is wish-fulfillment. According to his own LinkedIn, the author has never been a first-level engineering manager. His blog is accordingly heavy on cliches and mostly free of actual work experience.

Taken at face value, the article is a recipe for burning out first-level managers, while the building is burning down. It neglects to focus on stopping the fire, because the author would rather his reports hustle around the fire instead.
>pickup trucks, SUVs, and minivans.

Are minivans really comparable to SUVs and pickup trucks in this problem? They never give off the "angry wall of death" vibe to me, like the other two...
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I've been doing backend work for the past 13 years, with Python, Django, and Django REST Framework. I'm intimately familiar with schema and data migrations, including migrations between Django projects. I've done a lot of full-stack work as well, with HTML, CSS, JavaScript/jQuery, and React.js. I've worked extensively with startups and I've worked with Twitter. I have a lot of experience working with distributed teams and am open to occasional travel. Available full (~30hrs) or part time. Interested in Python work or full-stack with Python.

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Technologies: Python, Django, Django REST Framework, migrations, JavaScript, React

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