skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Framonial was built entirely with Framer, making it closely aligned with the needs of the Framer community. It’s been a learning experience, especially in understanding how to structure a SaaS around user needs.

If you’ve worked on similar projects or are familiar with building niche tools, I’d appreciate your advice on scaling features, managing feedback, or any gaps you think Framonial could address. Happy to answer any questions.
The result is minor AND Google spent a (relative) lot of money to achieve it (especially in the eyes of the new CFO). Jeff Dean is desperately trying to save the prestige of the research (in a very insular, Google-y way) because he wants to save the 2017-era economically-not-viable blue sky culture where Tensorflow & the TPU flourished and the transformer was born. But the reality is that Google’s core businesses are under attack (anti-trust, Jedi Blue etc), the TPU now has zero chance versus NVidia, and Google is literally no longer growing ads. His financing is about to pop in the next 1-2 years.

https://sparktoro.com/blog/is-google-losing-search-market-sh...
You can do all the testing in the world, but clicking deploy on that update must have been nerve wracking.
Maybe I skipped something, but the article went on about sleep efficiency without touching on sleep quality.

Things like apnea and even a bad pillow/mattress combination can make someone's sleeping hours pretty miserable, and that's much easier to control and spread awareness than promoting gene therapy
That’s because you’re comparing a search engine with an assistant… again go gemini.google.com that’s where you have your battle, the incredible thing is that responses are grounding with the entire google ecosystem (search, maps, workspace and even YouTube), that’s something you can’t easily get with ChatGPT…
The article's link to sip2sip.info usefully led to a SIP Settings page, which in turn discussed NAT traversal & linked to how to 'Turn off SIP ALG support in your router' on another helpful site.
> React performance concerns in the real world are typically measured in, at worst, hundreds of milliseconds.

Many years ago I worked at a wonderful company that made the terrible decision to rebuild the frontend in React. We had a performance dashboard permanently displayed on a TV in the office, prominently showing the p99 time-to-interactive of our home page. It sat at TWENTY SECONDS for at least 2 years. No progress was ever made, to the best of my knowledge.

This was an e-commerce site, more or less. As per the author's reasoning, it absolutely should not have been an SPA.
Fix: `.site-header { z-index: 2 }` - 1 is used by the header's text.
Good point, "the slow blade penetrates the shield" would imply to me that the kind of big downward swing at the shoulders that you would want pauldrons to protect against is just not possible.
Reolink have not disappointed me so far. I am using a duo 2 cam watching over the front of the property and a collection of their bullet cams. There's a lot of recommendations on frigate github discussions. Some models indeed have quirks.

On top of decent cameras they also have pretty well-documented API.
>peer reviewed research published in journals

Peer review doesn't mean as much as Elsevier would like you to believe. Plenty of peer-reviewed research is absolute trash.
A third option is to set up a Wireguard service and expose the web UI only through the VPN. I use the Wireguard app to connect my phone to my VPN. This solution seems very safe to me. Are there risks I'm not thinking of?
Haha that’s absolutely crazy you can’t get any response with David Mayer in it
Somewhat related: I find the concept of "pivoting" pretty ridiculous: "Here's our start-up, our idea doesn't work. Let's do something completely different before our funding runs out!"
Multiple times daily I encounter sites that are brutally slow not just on my beefy Android phone, but on my 3GHz+ 8-core 64GB desktop machine.

You need to take performance seriously or it will just be bad. Most of the industry has chosen to be bad.
And do you believe that that is what's happening in this case?

If you have personal experience with Jeff Dean et al that you're willing to share, I'd be interested in hearing about it.

From where I'm sitting it looks like, "Google spent a fortune on deep learning, and got a small but real win. People who don't like Google failed to follow Google's recipe and got a large and easily replicated loss."

It's not even clear that Google's approach is feasible right now for companies not named Google. It is not clear that it works on other classes of chip. It is not clear that the technique will grow beyond what Google already got. It is really not clear that anyone should be jumping on this.

But there is a world of difference between that, and concluding that Google is lying.
Well without going totally offtopic I’ll just say the other article has a typical “Western” slant, is replete with stereotypes and little things blown way out of proportions to fit the narrative, it’s clear the author has no first hand experience and is retelling a source (which is not even a somewhat neutral academic work but something released to fit a narrative), but they have no problem going into a confident meta-analysis of their own.

Since the typical “Western” view of El Salvador, AFAIK, is/was murderous shithole and not much else, I don’t know how that slant(?) could have tilted this piece.
Yep that was the original idea, from way back, although I'm sure somebody in the 1960s thought of it too.

I've had a tree-based block-editor CMS (as my side project) for well over a decade and when Jupyter came out they copied most of my design, except for the tree part, because trees are just hard. That was good, because now when people ask me what my app "is" or "does" I can just say it's mostly like Jupyter, which is easier than starting from scratch with "Imagine if a paragraph was an actual standalone thing...yadda yadda."
Just because some tech investors got caught up in the hype doesn’t mean it was a real technical risk.

Finger capillary blood is fundamentally unrepresentative of blood samples taken from veins with few exceptions. Doctors and scientists have known this for a long time. Theranos’ technology was never going to work the way they sold it, and if they sold it as a faster on-site diagnostic device with standard blood draws they would have been just another in a sea of diagnostics startups that few care about.
> GPS and eSIM that comes with most (all?) new cars and that in most (all?) new cars cannot be disabled.

I believe the name of that module is DCM

You can disable some models, but I have my doubts.

In rentals you can forget about it.
This is also known as hormesis, a biological phenomenon where exposure to a low dose of a potentially harmful stressor (toxin, radiation, or environmental factor) leads to a beneficial adaptive response in an organism.

Examples include exercise, vaccination, caloric restriction. Many would argue that exposure to germs, stimulating the immune system, works the same way. Cognitively, examples would be desirable difficulty and deliberate practice in learning, and exposure therapy for phobias.

Ofc this is what Nietzsche meant when he said the thing about “what doesn’t kill you…”

The best way to “grow” or get better in most dimensions of strength and skill is to seek discomfort. The trick is get to get just the right amount for where you’re at, since too much is discouraging, and too little is boring. We seek out coaches and teachers in the hopes that they can trace the growth path for us.
Only on Hacker News will you get CPU validation fanfiction.
A fully isolated setup on a dedicated network can certainly provide good privacy. A key benefit of Privastead is that it can send the videos to your smartphone remotely using a strong (MLS-based) end-to-end encryption.

And I share your excitement about Rust. :-)
Wait!

Lexisnexis has access to the GPS information?
We're aiming to be somewhere between Whoop and Oura on pricing.
What you're stating is exactly the opposite of what's happening. I am the one who's saying that people should be free to express any opinion they want on this issue. You're the one who's saying that if you state your opinion that there are two genders, you should be banned from the platform. And now you're projecting your own characteristics, which is that of a censorious person, onto me to justify your censorship.

You say that these people create nothing positive for the forum, but that's just because they disagree with you. You're perfectly fine disagreeing with them, and you wouldn't want your voice to be banned from a platform for that. So it's really just a total lack of any kind of integrity in how you conduct yourself vis-a-vis those you disagree with.

And yes, both of these platforms are or strive to be public squares where a large cross-section of people can interact to create a global discourse.
Silenced and erased, Hong Kong's decade of protest is now a defiant memory
We're talking 16 GPUs for ~6 hrs for inference, and 48 hrs for pre-training. This is not an exorbitant amount of compute.

A GPU costs $1-2/hr on the cloud market. So, ~$100-200 for inference, and ~$800-1600 for pre-training, which amortizes across chips. Cloud prices are an upper bound -- most CS labs will have way more than this available on premises.

In an industry context, these costs are completely dwarfed by the rest of the chip design process. (For context, the licensing costs alone for most commercial EDA software are in the millions of dollars.)
No it's not. They ran it longer instead.
My comment is not about how all work should stop during US holidays.

What I’m attempting to refer to, is that _if_ this was done with malicious intent, then maybe the hope was that doing it during a holiday would reduce response time or allow it to fly under the radar. Of course, as you say, just because it was a holiday does not inherently mean it’s malicious, it has plausible deniability.
To be clear, this is bog standard in all mega-corps now. They have a vendor product that provides HTTP Internet proxy, then they perform MitM to decrypt HTTPS traffic and re-sign/encrypt with in-house issued cert. Then, this cert is auto-trusted as part of all base OS installations. To be honest, how else can mega-corps spy on HTTPS traffic without this MitM tactic? I don't know any other way.
It's not openwrt even though they pretend it is in their marketing. It's based on openwrt and might be "compatible" to some level with other openwrt packages.

When asked for full source code they seem transparent about it:

https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/source-code-for-gl-firmware-and-...

You can't reproduce their images and they don't share the improvements.

Of course not GPL compliant but not a concern in China I believe.
I think the magnet reference is just a misleading mixup on the dealers side who was probably not familiar with iButton specifically. Very old immobiliser systems used simple reed switches and magnets - basically just pure security by obscurity.

The purpose of the switch is also unconfirmed by the article, but this exact combination of cheap chinese button + ibutton reader were an extremly common retrofit into Opels in Hungary.
Today 80% of that is garbage, it’s like trusting 100% on ChatGPT and its hallucinations, we’re still in an age where we as humans needs to curate the information, or at least has an algorithm that is grounded with truth only coming from books and years of research… we’ll get there eventually but today we’re not yet, social media has other big problems besides crapsourcing, they create knuckleheads with superficial feelings and existencial problems… And still is our way to communicate today.
> I am more interested in developing the mechanism and knowledge it would take to avoid making those kind of mistakes.

Step #1: do your due diligence. Usually that means hiring experts to do it for you if it’s outside your field of expertise. Biotech VCs have a stable of expert consultants in many subfields of science and medicine to do the reviews for them, as well as accountants to go to for financials.

That’s it. There are no more steps. Doesn’t matter whether its a founder asking for capital or a nigerian prince asking for a wire transfer.

Theranos’ investors did not do their due diligence and paid the price.
Day 1 – Advent of Code 2024
The application can ensure that its assumptions hold without asserting the exact state of the database.

Almost all migrations are idempotent and backwards-compatible, and almost all of the rest of them can be made to be by splitting into multiple changes and waiting for old versions of the application to be shut down.
Histograms in Decision Making
> I'm going to keep trying to find uses for these garbage generators

Is it really worth your time? Sometimes the simplest explanation is the right one. If you've already mastered your craft past a certain point and care about the quality of your work, this will only drag you down.
Buying one million when only ~20 million are in circulation is shocking, to put it mildly. It would be 5% of global supply just owned by the US government. Assuming prices didn't go up much after they started buying it would be 100 billion dollars worth
The paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10053
I see your point.

Maybe if I was in government I would think the same. Catch criminals before they act, stuff like that (I'm just being the devil's advocate here).

This is a dillema, and the worst kind. The kind citizens know nothing about, so the only possible way to talk about it is to speculate. I am, however, too old to speculate about these things anymore.
A fully isolated setup can certainly provide good privacy. A key benefit of Privastead is that it can send the videos to your smartphone remotely using a strong (MLS-based) end-to-end encryption.

Privastead does not currently send thumbnails as part of the notifications. Performing proper end-to-end encryption on data in push notifications is a bit tricky and I haven't solved that yet. I do have some ideas on how to make that happen though. Once I do, I plan to add thumbnails to push notifications as well.

And thanks for the pointer on Pushover. I'll check it out to see if it can be a replacement for Google FCM.
I will never recover from this psychologically or financially. My life will be neatly divided into before this comment, and after this comment, and ever shall I long for the former to no avail.
#Barely_Coping

I skim headlines, etc. A growing list of keywords makes me go ... skip!

Of course, there is that gnawing feeling that I'm missing interesting stuff. But that is the price of clinging onto my sanity.

I'm hoping for: it too will pass. We've had AI winters before, and perhaps this winter we'll pull the plug on the data-barns in order to keep the lights on and stay warm. Even EVs need more charging since the cold reduces their effective range.
>"The way forward lies in open-source initiatives, crowdfunded projects, and collaborative efforts that prioritize human outcomes over institutional metrics."

Is it me, or does it feel like developing software for BigCorp sucks for at least these reasons too?

That said, there's also the Baumol cost disease: in certain service industries, productivity increases are difficult to make (or even measure, really). We've tried to automate teaching and healthcare (&art!), but the results are mixed..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect
There are _many_ ways that all of this doesn't apply. Nevermind the fact that people that but things have the expectation of using the device with out interference.
I never saw anyone on this thread deny that JS CAN be used without frameworks. As a developer since before the internet even existed I've written probably at least two to four million lines of JS in my life, so I'm well aware.

What people are saying is that for LARGE projects you NEED a framework. And your app is tiny. It's got like two source files. So it's just an example of a tiny project getting by without a framework. I have a couple of those currently myself, because I don't need a framework for them. They're just HTML+CSS+JS.
I rely on lemonsqueezy.com mainly for payment processing. Easy to setup and it includes other features, but its checkout page delivers a sleek, Stripe-like experience.
I have talked about it here a couple times before but my last couple doctors have generally spent more time typing than talking to me. They've become more stenographer than physician. I have lamented how the need for record keeping has seemingly interfered with actual … listening and empathy. They're just typing away on the computer, and I have even had one Google my symptoms and pull up WebMD.

The new piece to this story and in stark contrast - my wife and I recently had a child and our pediatrician is genuinely fantastic. Friendly, helpful, and actively listens to our concerns. It frankly gives me hope that such physician-ing is still possible in today's system.

I don't know what it's going to take to get us back to a reasonable place, but I am frankly kind of hopeful for like some sort of AI note taker so that the doctor could be the human in the room again.
I tried that on a system in 2020 and it just corrupted my new FS. Cool idea though.
CAs are in the business of being a trusted third party that, among other things, verifies the identity of things. In this case someone seems to have scammed/hacked/whatever the CA into issuing a certificate for google.com, which is clearly bogus. So the result is that we should not trust this CA anymore.
I can give you a concrete example of why I have my inverters connected to a network. And I'm pretty damned hostile to network connected things in the first place...

I built my solar array myself - a big ground mount array, string inverters[0]. This went fine, and then a few years later, I started getting arc fault warnings. These were intermittent, but the inverter would respond by shutting down entirely, then gradually ramping power back up. In the heat of summer, it would often then arc fault again and shut down. However, it ran fine for the morning, and most of the afternoon. The power cuts were sometimes dramatic, sometimes less than noticeable. But it was faulting out.

Because I'd set up monitoring, I started getting emails about these events, and was able to run them down. Had I just been monitoring aggregate power use, I may very well have not noticed these. The inverters were somewhat less than helpful ("Arc Fault String A" means "Arc fault somewhere on the DC side"), and it took more than a bit of troubleshooting to run this down[1]. Eventually, thermal imaging made the problems clear - and, yes, there were real problems I was able to resolve[2]. Turns out, the panels I got cheap were a weird little niche of panels for a reason.

Without monitoring, I have no idea how long it would have taken for me to find this problem. I found another problem in my system (a bad connection in another panel leading to 1/3rd of the panel not producing any output) through thermal imaging, so that was useful.

But "Ensuring your solar inverters are doing what you want, without errors," is worth a good bit in a complicated system that may have 50 or 100 distinct connections, if not more, each one prone to potential problems.

[0]: https://www.sevarg.net/tag/solar2020/
[1]: https://www.sevarg.net/2022/07/16/sma-sunny-boy-arc-fault-tr...
[2]: https://www.sevarg.net/2022/07/31/journey-to-the-center-of-t...
>It's not openwrt

This isn't entirely accurate. It absolutely is running a full OpenWRT instance. In addition to that, they have produced their own UI/shell, which is the default that you'll land on, but it's not difficult to get into LuCI.

That said, I'm not stating that it's only running OpenWRT, or that the OpenWRT instance it is running is unmodified, or trustworthy.

That said, I have struggled to get gigabit wireguard VPN throughput on other devices that support OpenWRT.

I love FOSS, I love self-hosting, I love DIY-friendly tinkerer-friendly, and I love high levels of user control, I just wish the ecosystem that prioritized these things had a stronger emphasis on high-end hardware that offers high performance.
Good question. I'm not really familiar with insurance requirements. Privastead simply records videos from an IP camera and sends it to your phone. It does not modify the videos and hopefully that should be adequate for insurance companies.
If I never hear a manager utter “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it” again, it’ll be too soon.

It’s one thing to suffer from a blinkered, reductive view of the world. It’s another thing to be proud of it.
The remote access part can be solved by wireguard or tailscale for less hands-on approach. Ntfy.sh/telegram/whatever cool kids use these days for notifications.

This and my previous comment probably amount to a full Dropbox comment now :)

Can you elaborate on the sending video part -- do you transfer the whole file or a link to the file on the server? Curious about the replication piece I mentioned
OpenWRT was born from WiFi... That's the valuable stuff for most of the market. The "router" aspect was the bundled part.

If you don't want wifi aspect, perhaps look at Mikrotik stuff?
I have a gigabit connection from my ISP but I run a 2.5Gbe home network. Works perfectly for me.
> Microsoft seems to be casual about trusting CAs

Woah, that is a bold statement. Classic HN overreach. I am not here to shill for MSFT, but, in terms of OS sales to gov'ts, no one else has nearly the same level of experience. I am sure that MSFT carefully vets all CA additions.

Are you aware of the big hack on Netherlands govt-approved CA? Read about: DigiNotar. My point: That was a widely trusted CA that was hacked after the root CA cert was added to most browsers / OSes trust stores. So would you say that MSFT was "casual" about trusting DigiNotar root CA? How about Mozilla Firefox? I doubt it.
This is really spot on. I realized how soul sucking it was after I got a teaching job. It was low pay English teaching in Japan but I felt a kind of joy, playfulness, humanity and a stress-free life I never experienced in working in tech. I've since gone back to tech and miss my students so much. Don't think I'll ever get that feeling at my current corporate job. I also ended up making way more side projects since my programming brain wasn't being used all day.
yes, it's a form of double-entry bookkeeping - that's the base. If it weren't double-entry then indeed it would be a pretty poor choice. This design enforces double-entry at a fundamental level, it's never possible to create a record that doesn't affect 2 accounts - and that's actually the whole point of it :)

You have a single USD (or other) value - so in the simplest form it just looks like this:

From: Alice
To: Bob
Amount: 10
Currency: USD

And the balances are simply sum(transactions where account is receiver) - sum(transactions where account is sender)
It looks like they disabled a feature flag. I didn't expect to see such things in CPUs.
PayPal famously raised money then immediately pivoted. It sometimes works out.
I mean, would you rather continue doing what isn't working?

Most pivots are to a related idea though.
> In Europe, it’s also common for you to buy a place, and then when you move in, you find the vendor has taken all of the wiring and plumbing with them. Sometimes they’ll even take things like doors, staircases, floors, you name it.

LOL!

No. This is not common at all.

I've seen it from disgruntled former renters, but that's it.

It's also illegal.