skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who exactly is being surveiled here? How is their privacy being affected by this?

This device is not surveilling anyone as far as I can tell. It's logging music that's being played in public in its vicinity. It's not tracking individuals, it's not recording faces.

When someone does something in public, they sort of lose the claim/right to privacy, because they are doing it /in public/. If they wanted privacy they should have done their thing in private.

If you are not willing to grant consent to this thing listening to you, then maybe you should not walk around in public playing your music loudly. Or should everyone who is within earshot of you first get your consent, else they must stick their fingers in their ears?
i'd love to make a website with similar style. but i did not find any informations on the int10h website. anybody knows anything about it? (except of course just to make it myself)
There's nothing wrong with having a favorite. That's not the same as only being able to use that specific brand. A good guitarist can play any good instrument well, just as a good developer should be able to write good software in an IDE that isn't their preferred one. The favorite tool just makes them a bit better; it isn't required to do the job.
Patches welcome since you obviously know more than me about the code base. And I obviously meant only major versions when I said all versions. PostgreSQL releases one new major version per year so that adds up quickly.

> I don't expect PostgreSQL changing that significantly between major version the upgrade would be such a huge hassle…

PostgreSQL would need code which transforms between the old AST to the new AST for example to support views and check constraints so PostgreSQL would need to keep around a version of the AST for every major version of PostgreSQL plus the code to deparse it. It would also need to keep around the code to read every version of the catalog tables (it partially does this in pg_dump, but only partially since parts of pg_dump is implemented using server side functions).

There are also likely a bunch more complications caused by the pluggable nature of PostgreSQL: e.g. custom plan nodes which might make the whole project a non-starter.

So this would at least mean basically a total rewrite of pg_dump plus maintaining 5 to 10 versions of the AST. But likely much more work since I have likely forgot a bunch of stuff which needs to change. A huge project which increases the maintenance burden for a relatively small gain.

> TBH PostgreSQL seem to be the only tool/software that has such a bonkers upgrade path between major versions…

This is caused mostly by PostgreSQL being heavily extensible unlike its competitors.
AGI is a black swan. Even as a booster and techno-optimist I concede that getting there (rhetorically) requires a first principles assumptions-scaffolding that relies on at-least-in-part-untested hypotheses. Proving its impossibility is similarly fraught.

Thus we are left in this noisy, hype-addled discourse. I suspect these scientists are pushing against some perceived pathological thread of that discourse…without their particular context, I categorize it as more of this metaphysical noise.

Meanwhile, let’s keep chipping away at the next problem.
I'm working on MindPal - A platform to build AI Agents and Multi-agent workflow to automate tasks for business.

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The video is private (now). Sadly just got to the first 20 mins yesterday.
Here's my current setup, all running in docker on a mini PC I bought from ebay for $80. Everything here is managed and deployed from a series of `docker-compose.yml` files, so migrating this setup is just a matter of copying those files and a backup of my settings folder for each application.

* Radarr - Movie downloads
* Sonarr - TV downloads
* Bazarr - Subtitle downloads
* Overseerr - Interface to discover and add new media to the above downloaders
* Plex - For consuming all of this
* Tautulli - Notifies me when new content is added
* SABnzbd - Usenet downloader

I add a new show or movie in Overseer, it automatically gets downloaded and added to Plex, subtitles get added (if missing), and I get a notification on my phone. For TV series the above all happens automatically for new episodes once I've added the series.

No amount of paid services can offer me this level of convenience in addition to not having to worry that something I want to watch was removed over a licensing dispute. I was formerly a paying customer of streaming platforms but the enshittification drove me back to piracy, and now I don't see how they could possibly ever compete with this setup.

I'm also considering adding Lidarr for music and Readarr for audiobooks.
You're right, it's a subjective matter. While your point is valid, I'd also add that the tool's widespread popularity is largely due to the high-quality extensions, many of which are not open source.
We don't leak data about ourselves. Companies specifically collect data about us, and then do whatever they want with it.
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Honestly, it's obviously horrendously gag-worthy and everything, but also kind of funny that there is so much bullshit marketing copy out there that LLM's invariably converge on this inspirational Stanford application letter / upbeat linkedin influencer tone of voice, and just apply it to everything.
The 64bit issue is certainly an issue, but very much overblown.

First of all, in systemd, which is a heavy D-Bus user, we effectively IRL only send integers > 2^53 when we use UINT64_MAX as a special "niche" marker meaning "unlimited"/"unset"/"undefined". But the thing is that JSON has a proper concept for this: the "null" value (or simply not specifying a specific JSON field). Hence, in reasonably clean APIs this is mostly a non-issue.

That said, sd-varlink/sd-json (i.e. systemd's implementation of it), of course is 64bit signed and unsigned integer clean when it processes JSON. More-over it automatically handles if you do what the various specs on the internet suggest you do if you have an integer > 2^53: you encode it as decimal value as a string.

Would it be better if JSON would have been more precise on this, yes. Is it a big issue? No, not at all.
Any email provider can track you pretty successfully whether web based or using another protocol such as IMAP. Most email is at best protected by encryption only while in transit after all. For personal email you get to choose your email provider and whether you are ok with them tracking you or trust them not to track you.

But an example of a non web based email client which provides privacy protections regarding images in email is Apple Mail and its mail privacy protection features.
“Answer truthfully. You all believe that widely diverse points of view have merit, right?"

Nope.
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Ideally both. But there is a bit of a dichotomy here, if you focus too much on money it can become less fun. It try to focus on the fun and hope the money comes eventually.
The Privacy Dilemma
Well, an LLM doesn’t have the capability to like anything more than anything else. It doesn’t really matter to GPT if your diary excerpt is the worst piece of writing ever written, or the most brilliant - it’ll just tell you what you want to hear and that’s that.
How can it be possible that we are in 2024 a no one seems to be proposing the most obvious improvement to the web, which is to create a new standard designed for web applications and let the HTML alone serving it's original purpose, which was to serve documents? (H*T*ML the T goes for "TEXT"!). Instead of that, and make things complex and unmanageable to the extreme, to "improve" things now we dropped out completely the MVC philosophy and went completely ahead with an spaghetti mess of Javascript, HTML, CSS, and create-your-desired-tags-at-will everywhere, aka Components.

PS. And not even mentioning Madnesscript which deserves another chapter in this story of horror.
Mostly classification and object detection. Looks like segmentation and pose estimation as well.

Here's the page for the chip: https://developer.sony.com/imx500

And the model zoo: https://github.com/raspberrypi/imx500-models
Well, yes. Replace the various music and book publishing mills with LLMs for even more low quality drivel filling the marketplaces because now even the already low barrier of having to actually pay someone to produce it will be removed.

That's definitely going to be an improvement. Not.
I honestly don't know, but what are those?
And yet Clint Eastwood by the Gorillaz was a Casio demo track.

It isn't so black and white.

https://youtube.com/shorts/Wn0NtSNeQEQ
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I moved twice in the last few years. Immediately after moving I was completely unable to sleep. Too bright. Too loud. What are these noises? What is that vibration? For me, it fades after a few weeks. The train can be rumbling by with the horn going and I'll sleep right through it now. I think maybe for some, that filter never builds up. Not sure how to articulate it but it does seem a significant component of both autism and schizophrenia (which in some ways seem to be almost opposites) is a difficulty in developing that sort of filtering-out of the constant sensory bombardment we're all under.
But only a very miniscule fraction of carbon ends up as oil.

This paper made an attempt at a comparison of fossil fuel use versus agricultural biomass production: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Global-annual-production...

I think plants convert 120 GtC from the atmosphere into biomass every year (ref https://www.worldbioenergy.org/uploads/Factsheet_Biomass%20p...) - obviously this is very roughly balanced by how much CO2 is naturally returned to the atmosphere. The additional anthropogenic CO2 emissions are 37 GtC.

So there is theoretically enough biomass for us to sequester - if we could do all that work without dramatically increasing our CO2 emissions...
Tinder To Decide What To Eat Tonight [0].
Or: Meal Planner For Couples.

It started as a web app for us, but more ppl asked. So I turned it into an app. Basically a meal planner / recipe manager for families and couples.

[0] https://whatdinner.com/
> The reason so much writing, podcasting, and music is vulnerable to AI disruption is that quality has already become secondary.

I think that has always been the case, we just tend to compare today’s average stuff with the best stuff from earlier days.

For example, most furniture pictures from the 60s and 70s are from upper middle class homes. If we listen music, we listen to Queen and not some local band from Alabama (not that I’m against such bands at all; they can make great music too).
How is that ironic? Time travel doesn’t exist and - as far as we understand physics currently - isn’t possible.

I don’t think any serious man would suggest that AGI is impossible; the debate really centres around the time horizon for AGI and what it will look like (that is, how will we know when we’re finally there).

In this care it was merely a rhetorical device.
"In the long-term, the funding touted should, at minimum, allow Arch Linux to improve the security of its distribution and provide more structured releases compared to its current near-continuous update cycle."

Isn't rolling release one of the core ideas behind arch? Sounds like the usual gaming journalism...
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Localsend is excellent for all the use cases SyncThing doesn't cover well
> you were from a small shitty place that nobody ever heard of, but you had transcended those humble origins to become a being of pure information, sharing thoughts, philosophy and maybe code with other similar beings, and that physical location was irrelevant and really the whole idea of it was quite vulgar.

I truly think that postmodern (Facebook onwards) social media destroyed this ethereal, noncorporeal aspect of the internet by forcing users to identify as the social media profile. Bandwidth and compute on the early internet were not sufficient to exchange HD pictures and video at the volume we deal with today, and so the early internet was a primarily literate medium, with all the characteristics and benefits of literacy that entails: an affinity for autodidacticism, learning, information exchange, rationality. It seemed to exist on an ideal plane, where we dealt not with people but concepts, and characteristics such as geographical location, ethnicity, skin color, accents, and even sex simply were never even part of the picture to form a basis for discrimination - all one could see were your words and your pseudonym, and they could be judged on their own merits irrespective of whatever postmodern notion of "identity group" authored them.

The internet was not hi-fi enough to be confused with reality, and this detachment from the messy particulars of meatspace was well-suited for the exchange of ideas along the "information superhighway." It's only when people started posting pictures and videos of themselves that we saw the culture war heat up and begin to divide people along lines of identity, for the cold rationality of what was once a literate medium had now regressed to an audiovisual medium of spectacle, soundbytes, and shorts; no longer the meritocratic marketplace of ideas where all users were treated equally and ideas could be expanded upon at length, of words and concepts responding to other ideas and thoughts, the internet is now where talking heads spew 15-second invective at one another and people are judged on their appearance, accent, sex, or any number of other dimensions orthogonal to the quality of the ideas they express.

> Being from “the library” is maybe closest in spirit in terms of being infotropic and on an autodidactic mission

Illuminating, how you chose "the library" as the nearest neighbour and not "the cinema" or "the radio." I empathize very much with the OP and finding not only refuge from a chaotic living situation but also a way out towards gainful employment by drinking from the firehose of freely available information that was the early Internet; again being a primarily literate medium it was my library-from-home where I spent more time amongst documentation, or crawling through obscure technical fora just soaking up any and all information I could, than I did talking to my friends, family, or even people in general. There were innumerable days of my life (even still true to this day) where I spent more time writing bash and talking to a computer through a terminal than I did speaking English to another living soul.
This is really cool. Imagine a map of this across a city, being able to see what different areas tend to listen to. I imagine you'd find some surprising and not-so-surprising things.
Not going to defend Microsoft but they provided a massive codebase for free and yeah they have built a product on top, that is mostly free. If you fork you just don't have access to MS servers. Not fair enough?

Also Monaco is the best editor by a thousand miles, front-ends are just using this editor because it's the best. We used to install CodeMirror or Ace when they were the best options.

I'm not sure there was a massive master plan behind the creation of Monaco, on the contrary, they saw an opportunity to make it a standalone project that unlocked countless of web UI.
ESG sadly is pretty popular in my country, but at least they have dropped their racism and sexism grift. Perhaps their other ambitions can be useful, but their language manipulation seriously had to go and it will take time until it is gone completely. It simply caused more problems than it solved.

Also those responsible for ESG do not have any disciplinary power over other employees, which was different with DEI. PR of course has slightly different rules.

Still, it should be under scrutiny to not mutate into something more authoritarian again.

As a dev I can ignore ESG completely now and I don't believe I will ever become friends with it. I certainly do not change my language for them, they caused enough damage and I believe polite silence on certain topics on their part would be quite adequate.
Arguably, you are right. There are a few things that shouldn't be ignored:

- It used to operate very publicly, but now it is just as opaque black box - no one know who is behind it, operators barely communicate with the community.

- It used to be public enemy #1 of the (copyright-) world. Today it is barely a sidenote of the yearly notorious market report. Though the fight against pirate sites is stronger than ever, TPB seems to be silently tolerated.

People with certain mindset might wonder why that is.
I'm not saying that they don't exist anymore. I'm saying that you should do a yandex search now, and repeat the same search in January. If you compare the number of results, most probably you will see what I'm talking about.
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And who will do this 'authentofication'? We've had lies, coverups and collusions by 'fact checkers', authorities, Media and the scientific community alike on all sides of the politicaly spectra across the globe.

At this point, just have the debates in public about what is and is not true. The sweaty palms of those trying to shepherd the public reek of propaganda and corruption.

"I'm glad the media chose not to cover it"

Why? Because this time it served your own preferences? Will you br ate where you as glad when its the opposite side 'protecting' you?
In my quest to master Rust, I'm building a (toy) Soulseek client in Rust. Souleek is an old (2001) closed-source p2p network still used to share underground music.

For learning purposes, I'm imposing the following restrictions:

- I can't use external dependencies (crates)

- I have to reverse engineer the Soulseek protocol myself

So far it's been a lot of fun and rewarding as it touches upon low-level concepts I don't have to deal with normally as a web dev.
Thinking you can simply opt-out of the massive and pervasive data collection that companies engage in is extremely naive.

Let's not play games to make companies the innocent bystanders and states the evil antagonist.
> [moral relativism is] not that a difficult idea

Eg Aristotle (ca 300BC): Some people think that all rules of justice are merely conventional, because whereas a law of nature is immutable and has the same validity everywhere, as fire burns both here and in Persia, rules of justice are seen to vary.

I'd guess it was common over the last 10k years for educated and/or travelled people to be aware that their neighbours had different* dogmas, and in pre-colonial times (when it was far more likely that these neighbours were similarly located on the tech tree) the parochialism of colonialists ("Whatever happens, we have got / The Maxim gun, and they have not.") would not have been as facile.

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...

* Tacitus seems to have written De origine et situ Germanorum partly as an objective description of germans, and partly as a subjective reproach of his Roman compatriots; during the XIX (which established many of the tropes we've inherited as "common knowledge") the germans flipped this around: germans and french were in superpower conflict, and as the french —with a significant advantage in language— had laid claim to inheriting the (centralised) Roman tradition, the germans retorted by digging up all the old arguments the (decentralised) greeks had made along the lines of "maybe the Romans have all the money, but we've got all the culture".

(cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_Johst#Schlageter ; τὰ πάντα ῥεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει )
I'm working on a web-based Indesign file translation system: https://indesign-translator.com/ It extracts all text, translate them (manually or with google translate, up to the user), and re-download with styles and layouts kept.

I started it as I was making a booklet about meteorology for kids in Lao language. I tried an automatic transation tool and was amazed to see it was keeping the format, so I dived into the markup file for Indesign, called IDML. InDesign is such a great software.
When I was a child, my best friend and I were dreaming of making our own game. We got as far as writing (parts of) the story for a Lucasfilm Games-style point and click adventure, but my programming skills as a young teenager were too poor to actually make that game.

That idea has actually never left my mind though, and now, a few decades later, I've started to realize that if I don't get on it soon, I probably never will.

So I've started writing a game for the Commodore C64, 30 years after they stopped making them, and that's what I've been working on lately.
He tend to have strong opinions before he grasp something and the comment section have to correct him, he’s a special journalist.

I wouldn’t listen to him without a fist of salt.
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I think we need a summary here first. I'm not going to watch something with this title until I know what I'm about to get into...
Hamas used a lot of false flags and diversion tactics designed to fool Israel. Hezbollah did not (allegedly).
It's impressive, but it also feels like "slop". It somehow manages to make whatever content you give it feel more hollow. You can tell it doesn't "think" about the content. I am scared that this will be shoved in my face everywhere.
You and I will never agree on this. I do not share your empathy, either in its scope or its depth. It’s that simple. You think it’s the State’s job to protect certain people, whereas I would prefer that those people didn’t exist. While I wouldn’t necessarily promulgate any State proactively getting rid of its dumbest citizens (such as what the Nazis tried doing with Aktion T4), I do think the state should in many cases stay fully hands off and let natural selection do its thing. There’s no real debate to be had about that because neither of us are going to compromise on our views.

G’day.
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You have a point, but it still makes sense to report before tax performance. Before tax performance depends on model only, but after tax performance depends on model and the user. this website couldn't report that even if it wanted.
Extreme “I want to speak to your manager” energy.
Does it have a ui or is this cli? Any pictures or demo?
Have a look at the Internet Printing Protocol. I built a NodeJS app that pretended to be a printer and could receive real time transactional data from a legacy POS/software. No drivers required… supports HTTP auth… all OS’s have great support for it.
Creating a FPGA Expansion Module for a Processor
You surely are aware that systemd and dbus aren't only used on desktop, right?
Is there any place we can follow the development? I have soft spot for new games for old hardware.
Did gentoo have any similar collaborations with Google?

(Chromeos is based on gentoo)
It refers to a design commonly used in South America where a live wire is run to the shower head and used to heat water just before it is expelled