skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best thing about articles describing "technology that would be incredible except for the one obvious and insurmountable-with-current-technology problem that makes it absolutely useless and is the reason that nobody else did this" is the inevitable point where they admit that it's absolutely useless because of the obvious and insurmountable problem but that the team is totally working on solving it any day now.

In this case the problem is that it only carries 3kg and has almost no battery life, but the team is working on another drone that follows it around and changes the batteries when they run out, so eventually for the minimal cost of two of these and like a million batteries you can carry 3kg indefinitely. Or you could just carry it with your hands for free.
The only amount of profit that is acceptable is more profit. $5B in profit is utter failure if you made the same amount last year. For a long time now companies will do anything to be MORE profitable.

EDIT: Seems very appropriate https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fq...
http://web.archive.org/web/20240923053856/https://peabee.sub...
I tend to ignore positive reviews in general as they can be bought. Negative reviews are more reliable in identifying any common pattern of problems with a particular product. I guess this tool will be helpful in that case.
Sponsored content doesn't really bother me, I usually skip it, but I watch some of them depending on the creator.

One reason (other than just money in general) that it's useful for YouTubers is because it's pretty easy to get demonetized depending on what kind of content you make.

Ad situations like "the publisher payed me to play this game" is usually fine with me too if the game is interesting and the content is good.
> you cannot avoid all ads (for example, sponsored segments).

Look into SponsorBlock, as it allows the community to mark such segments, and your browser will automatically skip them.
> Why did the UK have to raise the maximum bid price for the Contract For Difference AR6?

Bidders have to sell the government the electricity at the strike price. They pushed up the strike price to £54.23/MWh from a previous of £37.35/MWh with a current market price of £70-£80/MWh.

Nobody was going to offer to sell electricity for £37.35 for the next 5 years in a market where you can currently sell it for £70 - £100 (and where you could sell it for £300-£500 when the crisis occurred in 2021 / 2022).
Better never navigate through AOSP source code.
This looks really cool!

A nitpick: the Verilog simulation seems to be handled by the open-source Verilator project, which is packaged as a binary WASM blob without any acknowledgement or source code. I don't think that's compliant with either of the licenses under which Verilator is distributed (LGPL-3.0 or Artistic License).

https://github.com/verilator/verilator
> What are the reasons behind believing prices will reduce further?

Economies of scale and room for technological/process innovation. The fact that solar reduced so significantly and battery costs too. This article seems a bit cherry picked about a specific project and not a global trend in costs. Offshore will naturally take time to become competitive since it requires complex installation and processes, but those seem like solvable problems for an admittedly laymen as myself.
Everyone has their "way", find your own. I learned that we should raise our further generations like this:

- the highest goal of child-rearing should be to accomplish a self responsible, capable adult. Preferably of good character and moral virtues, yet let us say these will be signs of our time (collectively influenced.) are you this?

- as an adult, know that the world wants to eat you and shit you. the more beautiful, intelligent, or pationate you are, the greater the lascivious appetites who would feed upon you. Averaging is a safe haven for freedom of will.

- you are both the master of your own destiny, and the tenant/debtor/employee of every external demand you take upon yourself. For some this is liberating, for others a life sentence.

- ultimately to be the fullest of your humanity, be your fullest self. GRIND until you are 30, pace yourself for a decade, and then invest everything in your own infrastructure, and keep it until you die.
Also very little weight can be moved with a drone as the more powerful it gets, the bigger the batteries need to be which decreases the amount additional of weight you can move.
They can apply for an approved key if they need to, that way that key can be revoked if they misbehave.

I know it sounds drastic but imagine the kind of person who would try to prevent encryption in the first place. We should expect drastic steps from them.
I think this course is also relevant for some deeper context.

https://gfxcourses.stanford.edu/cs149/fall23/lecture/datapar...
What I've read is: Income and (nuclear) family size are inversely correlated, and one explanation for this is that as income increases, the total cost of an additional child increases in relative terms. Put another way: phenomena like the preschool rat race mean each child takes a larger portion of your income than it does at lower levels of income.
I tried this but somehow my sensor got stuck at 500 ppm and never recovered. My Airgradient devices have not yet suffered from this problem.
> Because what is in a 9 volt is 6 AAAA

But then the question would shift to: Why wouldn’t a AAAA cell have the same energy density of a AA cell? Remember that the argument is about energy density, not total energy.

By the way, I think that fsh’s reply is a convincing answer: it’s the extra packaging that kills the density.
Is not fun talking with you. Say a parent hits his child of course the child can't hit the same way back but thats another story. The point is violence has different degrees and can escalate.

Eye for and eye and tooth for a tooth is to say that if you hit my eye black or if I lose a teeth, its not enough to apologise.

I mean on paper it sounds reasonable but in the context of this story its wrong to jail someone infinitelly for a brawl. If it was a serial killer I would agree with you. A murder? Idk maybe it was in self defense. Its complicated and there is no easy solution.
> Competing on hosting price or on maintenance/support contracts against Amazon generally is going to favor the smaller party because of the AWS tax.

This is exactly backwards, because of how corporate procurement works.

Large companies--the ones with money--have a whole process around working with new vendors. It can take months to setup. A security review, audit, and legal are likely to be involved.

Or, they all already have a contract with amazon and can start using the Amazon service providing X immediately.

From CTO to audit, risk, accounting, and compliance, everyone's life is easier if they use one vendor for everything, rather than 10.
There's a time delay between when an innovation is first adopted and when it has a real impact. You might spend anywhere from 2 months to 8 years [1] developing an application. I've seen numerous VC or bootstrapped companies that took 1.5 years to 2 years to launch, so I wouldn't expect AI to have had much an effect yet.

I'm also not sure about "better"; I find Copilot is a good wingman for writing things like shell scripts, CMD.EXE scripts, powershell scripts and python scripts that do simple things. Even there I find it confuses forward slashes and backslashes sometimes so I often have to do a little debugging. Copilot can help me figure out how to use obscure (to me) features of PostgreSQL in JooQ. It will also argue with me and take factually wrong positions such as telling me that there is no zero-argument version of Optional.orElseThrows() which there is.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_(video_game)
Because technology generally makes things faster, not better.
it maybe time to look into curiosity stream I guess.
> fine - that's now on them

Is that legally true? The legal risk of having published this without responsible disclosure vanishes if the conventional period of opportunity is ignored? That smells fishy.
This: https://github.com/srush/GPU-Puzzles/raw/main/GPU_puzzlers_f...
There is definitely a specific monetary threshold where the financial justification flips and its probably around about $1 million/year of cloud costs if you need two region equivalent. This isn't "build a data center" kind of money, this is "rent some controlled racks and hire staff". You'll have to eat a good chunk of that operational savings over the time window with a big upfront capital hardware purchase.

That being said, this reeks of making a anti-monopoly argument and seems wildly overstated.
Both impact accessibility.

If the device can only be repaired by having extremely specialist tools, skills, etc. then it's still repairable, you just need to invest in those things which costs $$$. But it's hardly worth doing, because by the time you've done so the next iphone rolls around and the skills/tools lose most of their value.

If the device can easily be repaired but the replacement components cost so much it's hardly worth doing the end result is the same: Devices won't be repaired because it's not financially attractive. Which is exactly what Apple wants, they're only doing this because the EU is practically forcing them to.
Because YouTube Music exists
Was this one stolen as well? Or did they find a way to transfer the funds safely this time?
YT competes with premium video content streamers like Netflix, music streamers like Spotify, live streaming like Twitch, and social media like TikTok.
I don't find them useful for coding much, but I do find them useful for searching through documentation and making suggestions. With Cursor, you can have it reference the docs for the library/framework you are using and then ask it questions about the docs. While this does not always work well, it can save a lot of time.
As much as I like Wayland (even if I'm currently on X11 because I'm using LXQt with the awesome window manager), not having Orca working is a massive issue. Accessibility only really works when we focus on it from the start and it's something everyone (well, near enough) will need at some point.
Because Youtube Music is included in the price. It has a much wider selection than the competitors since some YouTube videos are included in the music collection.
I shouldn't tell them this but I'd keep YT Premium at double the price. I'd give up every other video service first. That said, I don't love the idea of paying much more for an unchanged product - I'd expect new features, improved options in the client apps (subscription groups would be epic), and larger payments to the creators I watch, ideally.
It's because they bundle yt music with it.
My most used YouTube premium feature is pausing on my phone and picking up where I left off on my Apple TV. It's more than just ad free watching.
Youtube Music comes with Premium. I canceled my Spotify account when I joined YT Premium. Honestly it was part of how I justified paying for it (allowed me to "kill two birds" and drop another service).
100%. You can also see this with Moore's law. Hardware gains were converted to developer productivity gains.

Software is easier than ever to write, but now the average AAA video game is 100+ GB and most popular software is browser-based.
I had the special intro rate of 9.99 for Google Music Family which eventually extended to Youtube Premium and then became Youtube Music.

Last year google decided "fuck loyalty" and hiked the price to 22.99.

Same with Google Apps for Business. What used to be free now costs me $75+ per month and I can't get out of it because I have older family members with large amounts of data that I can't move to another platform. I also can't just upgrade one users account (as was possible before) but instead I need to pay for the more expensive package that has more storage for all users.
TinyDB might be easy-to-use NoSQL Prompt Database for Small Projects
Because YT Music is also bundled into the price, and in my opinion it's a decent music streaming service. The big advantage of YT Music is you can find a lot of covers or mashups if you are into that, thanks to Youtube videos.
Many people buy youtube premium because youtube music premium is included in the price and youtube music premium is a direct competitor to spotify and apple music.
Yeah, I don't think the author realizes that the main selling point of YouTube Premium is removal of ads. YouTube Music is thrown in as an extra, but I doubt many people (like you) even know it exists.
What would it take to have some p2p video streaming service to rival Youtube? Say that everyone reserves some space, compute and bandwidth on their phones and computers, what kind of figures are we talking about to make it work at Youtube scale?
this is wonderful.

can i ask how you went about arriving at this workflow?
It would be nice to see a standardised set of proprietary licenses that you can easily dual license a copyleft project with.

Given the way that SPDX is set up, I imagine the ideal way to do it would be to create some standard proprietary licenses and then add exceptions for "small" users that don't want to use the copyleft license and would eventually like to get big.

i.e.

- Commercial-Royalties-1pct

- Commercial-Royalties-5pct

- Commercial-Royalties-10pct

- Commercial-Royalties-Negotiable

- Commercial-Seats-Negotiable

with the following optional exceptions

- Under-100k-USD-Revenue

- Under-1M-USD-Revenue

- Under-5M-USD-Revenue

- Under-10M-USD-Revenue

There's a certain amount of inflexibility that comes from trying to standardise license terms in a way that's compatible with SPDX but maybe an extension to SPDX in the future might improve that and allow you to specify certain terms on licenses more than just basic exceptions.
Youtube Music is included with premium and is comparable to spotify/apple. It's a bundle.

So another way of looking at it is:

"If I pay Youtube instead of spotify/apple then I also get no ads if I pay just a bit more"

It's a bundle, just like amazon prime's video service is part of a bundle.
> Inigo Montoya reference

Huh? Who?
Why does JavaScript's fetch make me wait TWICE? [video]
Warriors from the South? Arrowheads from the Tollense Valley and Central Europe
> Working in a coffee shop? Sure, if you have nothing to do but read some email.

I loathe remote work, but support others in pursuing what works best for them.

With that being said, Coffitivity¹ exists for a reason. Some of us work much better in environments like that, myself included.

I did the majority of my studying at Rutgers in the student center on College Ave, as my ability to focus is much better when I'm around people, but not interacting with them. While not as impressive as if I had done so at an Ivy League institution, I believe this was essential to graduating from there summa cum laude.

[1] https://coffitivity.com/
I've been looking at this with the recent invidious blocking sadness.

Any pointers for your setup?
FTC has been extremely active since the administration booted up. Within the first 6 months of the administration they had expanded their compulsory orders (subpoena-like powers) in seven specific sectors. They launched their investigation into PBMs using these new powers by June of 2022. Do you actually think these things come together in the order of months?

Always useful to have cynics discard meaningful efforts toward improvement though! Nothing like lazy fatalism to get people motivated to fix big, complex problems.
YouTube Music is part of premium and it's a big selling point for many people.
For me it is the only way to enjoy YT because regular videos except streams use to freeze for me in browser from time to time recently even with enough number of frames cached.
Because Google Music was merged into YouTube. "YouTube Music" is in fact a Spotify competitor. My wife uses it and likes it well enough. It has some dumb restrictions though like children's music can't be added to a playlist as some sort of COPPA something. That makes making "go to sleep" playlists for our infant daughter difficult.
Yes I literally duplicated your approach for my driver stack last week and surprise surprise the FFI overhead into libc is too high.
"For if every instrument could accomplish its own work, obeying or anticipating the will of others, like the statues of Daedalus, or the tripods of Hephaestus, which, says the poet, 'of their own accord entered the assembly of the gods'; if, in like manner, the shuttle would weave and the plectrum touch the lyre without a hand to guide them, chief workmen would not want servants, nor masters slaves." (Aristotle, Politics, Book I, Part IV)

And here we are, with all these automatons, but still with a societies that prepare people for more slavery systems anyway.
Maybe you missed this article where a many of the replies say they are fine with facial scanning at airports. Digital rights removal is the slow boiling frog.

"Federal civil rights watchdog sounds alarm over Feds use of facial recognition"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41603698

The mentality of people in tech has drastically shifted into "o well... "
Qwen2.5 Better Than Llama3.1 and GPT4o
Tongyi Qianqian Qwen downloads exceeded 40 million, “spawning” more than 50,000 children Models.
Minio used to support this, but removed the feature a while back. It was called “gateway mode”. Sadly, I know that doesn’t help much now…

https://blog.min.io/deprecation-of-the-minio-gateway/amp/
compare functional style with written (coordinated and subordinated) english, and imperative style with spoken (and then, and then, ...) english?
I like the old 6-stroke engines better:

- Dyer/Crower engine = 5th stroke compresses air only, then inject cold water into the overheated cylinder and has another power stroke on 6th (from the generated steam)

- Ilmor/Schmitz = the exhaust stroke from two normal 4-stroke cylinders power the down-stroke of a 3rd larger cylinder, alternatively, then evacuates the gas on 6th up-stroke. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muq1xlF8Gu4

PS: For some reason, the Ilmor/Schmitz is call a 5-stroke engine.
What will be next? Introducing ads to premium users? I remember when I signed up to Amazon Prime and expected the movies to be ad-free. Haha, how naive I was.
Slightly offtopic, but any chance you could update or re-upload code for your https://github.com/harvardnlp/DeepLatentNLP tutorial? I found the NLP latent variable models discussed there really interesting, and notebooks were excellent. However, these seem gone and the only thing left are slides?

Alternatively, any other places that discuss the same topics, including some code? I could only find equivalent discussions with code in Pyro docs and Kevin Murphy's book, volume 2. But these are more sparse as they also cover many other topics.
Also love my aranet4. Would be killer if there was a zigbee version to couple to home assistant. I’d put one in every room if that was the case.
It's wild how greedy google has gotten with Pichai. Nearly all of my friends who worked on Kubernetes since 2014-2015 have left google with their RTO requirements since 2022-23 where they told everyone they could work remotely now they're actually checking attendance. Advertising over peoples paused videos now? I can't leave Youtube paused in one of my rooms and go to another room and use the internet without 1080p-4k advertisements stealing my bandwith when I'm specifically not using it?

I wanted to leave to go to twitter to work on distsys stuff prior to Elon..
Amazing! Define "Dollar": "The modern day deity, worshipped in temples of commerce and revered by devotees of capitalism. Its absence is feared more than death, its accumulation celebrated more than birth."
For music streaming, maybe. For all of the other content, you can't be serious.
That's like me saying, well who cares that movie prices are going up, I get all on the TPB. Not exactly something to brag about.
Is this cloud repatriation?
Three things:

- Read any books, fiction/non-fiction. but read and read often. read newspapers.

- Save $100 a month (never withdraw)

- Try many different jobs - helps you find your gritt!
Right. I was saying hypothetically if you had a big enough chain of exploits for all the various protections Apple has then this may let you use them without physically touching the device, only being really close.

But if you had that chain of exploits, who cares. You already won the game.

So I don’t think this matters to security.
There's a network to consider. Yes, a creator might wish to choose a platform that is less abusive (for example, that takes a smaller cut).

Well, Bandcamp exists, but it doesn't have the reach that Spotify has.

Creators need to be willing to jointly create the marketplace platform themselves, or they need to be ready to constantly struggle against the interests of the platform's owner.
I think there could be legit reasons for RTO, such as improved mentoring opportunities, and developing deeper productive relationships with co-workers. I'm in my 50's and have worked fully remote for 15 years, but most of my business comes from past coworkers with whom I formed close relationships via working late nights in the office, going to happy hours, grabbing a coffee at the break room, etc. So, while I agree the companies are pursuing their own agendas, I think workers (especially young workers) could benefit from RTO.
- You don’t know who you are yet. Be mindful when making one way door decisions when you don't yet know who you are. Find healthy opportunities to grow as a person and continue to learn who you are. Self awareness and security in who you are leads to decisions with more favorable outcomes and improves confidence in decision making.

- Only consider partners who complement you as a person, and who can support themselves without you. Teammate, not an obligation. When in doubt, wait. The most impactful decision in your life will be if and who you choose to partner with. When considering partners, seek signal if they will show up to the job each day and are willing to put the work into said partnership.

- Doors close as you get older, some opportunities will only be available to you when you are young, unpartnered, and have no obligations. Take them if you think they’ll bring you joy, be memories that will be life long, or help you grow as a person. You want as many cheap dice rolls as possible, personally and professionally. Be interesting to people who can provide you opportunities.

- Make an active effort to cultivate relationships with good people, but don’t keep people in your life who infringe on you or don't respect your boundaries consistently. Network is everything, personally and professionally. When you make interpersonal mistakes, recognize you have; apologize, commit to do better in the future, and then do better.

- Never stop learning. It is okay to make mistakes with regards to your understanding of the world, subjects, and domains; people worth learning from will not treat you poorly for recognizing and admitting to said mistakes. Find these people. Knowledge is power, being autodidact is a superpower. There is no speed limit. Go broad, dive deep, find gaps, fill gaps, increase context, repeat. Update priors as needed.

- Being healthy takes an active effort. Always live at or below your means. Start investing as soon as possible, your future self will thank you. Most success is showing up, working hard, and luck; you control two out of three. Comparison is the thief of joy; compete against yourself. Chase freedom, not status.

- Be kind, it's mostly free, and you'll regret when you could've shown grace if you had more emotional fortitude and composure in the moment. Life is hard, it doesn't get easier, the challenges simply change. Embrace the suck. If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.

- The days are long but the years are short. Don't forget to enjoy yourself, and spend time with those you love and care about. Happiness is not constant, nor assured. Live your life in a way you can cultivate opportunities to experience moments of happiness and joy.