skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you believe that there is sufficient moral hazard for Ukrainians working in their domestic drone industry to dissuade them from doing that work? Why or why not?

What is different about that situation from the situation you described in your talk?

What factors would have to change in the global balance of power for you to consider building systems that kill for American companies?
By doing something good, do you mean buying a pile of synthesizers and vintage computers and gardening tools? Asking for a friend :-)

But seriously, I think there's a big difference between ad-tech in the strict sense of pre-"social media" ad tech and ad-tech now. When I was doing it, behavioural targeting was just getting started. One of the startups I worked at was trying to get knee deep into it (pretty incompetently, IMHO), but overall it was still "here's a stream of mostly undifferentiated impressions/bid-requests/clicks" and that was that...

Overall, it was hard to make a strong moral judgement at that point. Ads paid for the Internet as we knew it and most publishers could not survive without it.

But after about the Facebook IPO, we're talking about a very different thing, one that gets more much more morally grey-area, and sometimes outright just evil.

If the thing you're working on ends up with pushing even just one teenage girl into an eating disorder... How do you feel now about it now, even if you dumped your earnings into charity?
> DVDs were also region-locked

A lot of later players didn't care though and were region-free.

> DVDs also have less-than-stellar image quality by comparison to today

Some DVDs have less-than-stellar image quality even compared to other DVDs. The format doesn't mandate some fixed bitrate numbers, so it can be truly atrocious.
Do you think that's what I was getting at? That seems like an almost useless definition in this context. I can't see why I would use it or why you would suggest it.

I was assuming that I was speaking to more-or-less literate adults who can infer a reasonable meaning for words without me having to define them precisely.

In any case what I mean "exactly" is someone not a career politician or bureaucrat, nor with stated aspirations to become one.
Signal also adds random unwanted features, such as statuses.
The only way you can have this vapid take is if you're completely ignorant of the topic you're discussing. I'd say you should do research on the topic but you're clearly fine with needless suffering so I don't see much point.
Would be cool to see a front end for this in Mojo when the language matures a bit
Is there a way to take advantage of YT Premium when using yt-dlp? Like higher quality maybe?
Technically measurement devices are described by wavefunctions too.
Yeah, that self-policing guild discipline by doctors and lawyers has really worked out well, hasn't it?
Sounds like an interesting story. Too bad it's paywalled.
Ask HN: How can a software engineer with a broad skillset make money?
Hi fellows,

I've been pursuing my own projects for the past 5 years and dreaming about being an entrepreneur (aka the capitalist era Hercules) for the past 15.

I haven't succeeded, at least big time, yet. We also live in a very high cost of living location (mostly for the family/kid's sake if you wonder) so I can't really quit my job forever and continue my entrepreneurial journey full-time (I did a 1,5 year break previously and burnt through all savings though).

The question is, where do people like myself fit well in terms of full-time jobs and/or other ways of making money?

I am software engineer by training, but I've acquired business/marketing knowledge and skills over years, learnt accountability and people management, UI/UX and user interviews, bits of product thinking, analytics and decision making.

I feel like an entrepeneur, my skillset is very broad and, probably, quite shallow in some areas too. Perhaps it'd make a good CPO/CTO, in an early-stage company, but this comes with a tradeoff of being paid sometimes 2x less than a senior/staff at big tech and not much more than an engineer in a startup.

The reason I ask of course, is because while I'm experimenting, having fun and feeling good about myself, I feel like I am missing on lots of opportunities and probably being too risky about not buying a house while the clock is ticking.

Please share your experiences and thoughts, thanks!
The Pixel 9 runs many small proprietary Gemini models on the internal TPU.
For menus it makes sense. For compression schemes I see a lot of downside, mainly inefficiency of hardware.
==So what is the negative impact on society?==

Don't these scores sort of suggest a negative impact? We've been leaning further and further into charter schools in the US and I don't see where education is thriving.

If there are positive impacts on society, I would think you could very easily show us over the past 20 decades. We have more than 10x the number of charter school students today than in 2000.

==In fact, most studies show public schools having significantly higher per student budgets than the charters.==

I thought charter schools were public schools.
They probably already have a complete system. They're just looking for new revenue sources.
Your "interstellar species" should be "interplanetary species" as we have no way to get people to another star.

We totally lack the ability to make an independent biosphere, and without that the term "interplanetary" is rather meaningless.

The Trieste bathyscaphe made it to the bottom of the ocean but we do not have underwater colonies, nor seasteading.

Even our colonies on Antarctica are highly subsidized national prestige projects.

If "multiplanetary" is something like "can get to another planet and back" then the Manned Venus flyby proposal shows we could have done that with 1970s technology.

But there's a reason no one visited the Challenger Deep in the 52 years between Trieste and the Deepsea Challenge - remote exploration is cheaper and safer. We haven't even gotten someone out to the Moon's orbit since 1973.
That might or might not be true. If Infowars is _that_ worthless without Jones, then _any_ offer is a farce and the whole auction is pointless.
In the book Heat Monboit argues the stats show that when someone "greens" their consumption they also increase it. For example switching to "green" energy meant people stopped thinking about conserving.

In the specific case of electric vehicles (and many plug in hybrids) luckily they're such an immense improvement that my guess is that they still have a net benefit. But far from the simple efficiency math, and more likely the user will increase their consumption by some meaningful percent.
> Do you really think the DOJ forcing Chrome out of Google is out of context for this discussion?

That's not even related to what I said. I mentioned the issue here is less likely to be due to monopolistic causes.

Also see this reply from an eng that did work around firefox regressions:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42389526

It corroborates with what i said.
Corporate boards decide what I can or cannot use AI? Unless my wife is a member of this committee I’d say I am not covered by this :)
Musk is better advised that it's a foolish attempt to become the fourth one.

Instead he managed to pull off a trick that not even Capone and Scientology were bold enough to try.

He became the government.
> i don’t think they need to win the on device market.

The second Apple comes out with strong on-device AI - and it very much looks like they will - Google will have to respond on Android. They can't just sit and pray that e.g. Samsung makes a competitive chip for this purpose.
All the software engineers in places with mandatory conscription like South Korea, Singapore, Israel, Finland, Switzerland are in shambles.

Someone is complaining about writing software that could be used in implementations which kill people, whereas men in these countries straight-up don camouflage uniforms, helmets, and armour. They are given rifles, and are taught how to shoot and kill people, and sometimes even get to kill people.

Cut out the middlemen and all the abstraction, I suppose; program in C and assembly rather than in Python.
To play devil's advocate, the correct use of the word would be when multiple AIs are coordinating and handing off tasks to each other with limited context, such that the handoffs are dynamically decided at runtime by the AI, not by any routine code. I have yet to see a single example where this is required. Most problems can be solved with static workflows and simple rule based code. As such, I do believe that >95% of the usage of the word is marketing nonsense.
Then use git in sha2 mode. You just have to turn that on.
This naming is confusing...

Anyway, I'm glad that this Google release is actually available right away! I pay for Gemini Advanced and I see "Gemini Flash 2.0" as an option in the model selector.

I've been going through Advent of Code this year, and testing each problem with each model (GPT-4o, o1, o1 Pro, Claude Sonnet, Opus, Gemini Pro 1.5). Gemini has done decent, but is probably the weakest of the bunch. It failed (unexpectedly to me) on Day 10, but when I tried Flash 2.0 it got it! So at least in that one benchmark, the new Flash 2.0 edged out Pro 1.5.

I look forward to seeing how it handles upcoming problems!

I should say: Gemini Flash didn't quite get it out of the box. It actually had a syntax error in the for loop, which caused it to fail to compile, which is an unusual failure mode for these models. Maybe it was a different version of Java or something (I'm also trying to learn Java with AoC this year...). But when I gave Flash 2.0 the compilation error, it did fix it.

For the more Java proficient, can someone explain why it may have provided this code:

for (int[] current = queue.remove(0)) {

which was a compilation error for me? The corrected code it gave me afterwards was just

for (int[] current : queue) {

and with that one change the class ran and gave the right solution.
I watched some of his videos at the time and to me it seemed mostly like the exact same content that he always does. Very much not brazen claims of facts, just musing and speculating that it's all fake and the parents are smiling so they might be actors. That's it. And the entire time he was emphasizing that he doesn't know for sure and it's all theory.
These single-subject tests don't matter. I'm tired of hearing about them. IF any of these tests actually matters, it is the ones that test problem solving, not specific subjects.

Like this one https://hechingerreport.org/us-students-rank-better-internat...

Where the US is essentially outperformed by some of Western Europe (but only barely), plus Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, and China.

The US also outperforms some of Western Europe, including Norway, Ireland, Denmark, and Sweden.

Math isn't a thing 99% of people need to do well to succeed in life. Problem solving is.
Show HN: Lektor.lol, a free, hacky promptable writing assistant (no sign up)
> So much vehicle tech is at best unimpressive and at worst positively in my way as a driver.

Honestly, I'm not surprised that new cars aren't breathtakingly awesome. It's been a really rough 5 years for everybody and we're not seeing much genuine light at the end of the tunnel. Everyone's just trying to survive. Hard to do your best work under those circumstances.
Paul Krugman changed the public face of economics
How far are we with brain control interfaces though? I've seen some people playing games with off-the-shelf-ish non invasive eeg devices. Although there seemed to be some delay and crudeness to it.

If the signal to noise level is acceptable it has to be doable to improve it until you can type with it right?
Just followed the instructions on that post to install the extension that spoofs the user-agent and, believe or not, all the issues are gone... YouTube works completely fine now on Firefox if the user-agent is Windows + Chrome.
Show HN: Sub-Millisecond Motion Planner for Articulated Robots
I've developed an open-source motion planner that achieves sub-millisecond planning times for moderately complex problems with articulated robots. Initially developed as a general robotics programming framework including IK and trajectory optimization, in addition to motion planning, I ended up focusing on optimizing the motion planning component just for fun.
The performance improvements came through persistent tuning using perf profiling. While it doesn't match VAMP's performance (the world's undisputedly fastest motion planner as of 2024), I think it's interesting that persistent tuning without any groundbreaking innovations still achieved sub-millisecond planning times.
Russian lost many battles against Afghanistan against the very same government today "taliban".

Except they weren't "the same" parties at all.
Yes-- and if your enemies are making the same tech you don't want to fall behind. That's also why we created the atomic bomb, so I'm not sure how to feel about it.
I am not a website designer, nor do I do much UX.

However, I definitely disagree with at the very least the implementation here.

To me, the background can't be some significantly saturated color. It has to be very muted. Otherwise my brain says something is wrong with it. The only combinations I found more tolerable were those where the background became a near-grey and the color was limited to the elements. It's just too much. I'm not sure why, it is just is.

And even then, the contrast felt low, like the whole page was 'foggy' or out of focus.
I absolutely consider the EE discs to be the canonical version
Many societies covered their faces when outdoors all the time for practical reasons - to protect against the cold, the sun, dust, etc. Some for cultural or religious reasons.

Babies in as diverse of backgrounds as Alaskans to Arabians were raised for thousands of years with significant face-coverings donned before going outside as the norm.

Being worried about "facial expression in strangers in public" because people covered their mouths as a harm to your baby's development is... about 10 steps past absurd. This isn't even making mountain out of a mole hill, this is making a mountain out of a grain of sand.

And of course, compared to the risks of permanently-lowered IQ due to covid brain damage, or permanent lung damage or the various fatigue and other issues millions of people suffered from covid, the risk from the infection to a baby is literally millions of times worse.
And signal still won't stop bugging me to enable notifications.

I cannot understand why they have such a notification when I don't want notifications.

Am I costing them money for not having notifications on?
Look at Jupyter Notebooks. It has a bit different goal, but the end result is pretty much what you describe.

If you are not familiar with it: it's a special kind of IDE primarily for Python (though not exclusively), that allows embedding markdown documentation in the middle of the code. Also, code is split into steps that can be repeated... it's easier to try (or watch some videos), then explaining.

But it results in the output you just described.
Show HN: Bluesky firehose visualized in a Matrix-style rain
All of those systems, despite being based on unreliable hardware, were still able to compute useful results that could be checked with reality. Range tables, mostly.
The other day I was downvoted here for mentioning not being able to restore a local backup is bonkers. Many people like me lost years of chat history because they moved everything to Google Drive.

The "stories" feature is just plain stupid. It doesn't make any sense.

Also the "business" thing is you with an AI chatbot that just offers a crappy answer and you'll need to contact a human anyway.

One of the worst cases of software enshittification.
As far as I know, you should also look for older Blu-Ray drive if you want to get content off the disks.
Check your X Dm please
> and aren't afraid of spending money

What do you mean?
The right to roam is enshrined in the State Constitutions of New Hampshire and Vermont, and State law in Maine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam#United_States
No, and they haven't been for at least half a year. Utterly optimized for by the providers. Nowadays if a model would be SotA for general use but not #1 on any of these benchmarks, I doubt they'd even release it.
>> It's worth noting just how extreme the levels of crime against humanity committed by the Japanese were.

>> The Germans (and Swiss...) for the most part imprisoned / shot PoWs.

Not to take anything away from the Japanese, and the Soviets, who were also horrible to POWs, but I'm pretty sure that the WWII Germans are charter members of the Hall of Fame for crime against humanity. They just didn't do most of it specifically to POWs.
I didn't think about explaining the obvious right away, so putting a comment here. Having a 'regular' job of a manager or a software engineer is fine but feels like I am not using most of my skills and not developing as a person. So the question really is how to apply this broad skillset to the world without getting into the confines of typical SWE roles.
Yes, there is no such <label>. There is only such <td>. And Playwright isn't smart enough to understand that that is still the label for the <input> element. Helium is smart enough.

So if your script really did write that string into a what it thinks is 'username' then that's arguably one more thing to debug when its wizardry goes awry in some unknown way

I tested my script. It writes into the correct field. The logic is not hard: "Find an element to the right of the given label." If there are multiple, then Helium uses the one that's closest to the last element it interacted with. That's just how a human would do it. It works surprisingly well. In many years of using Helium, I barely recall this causing problems once.

Try it before judging. You will be surprised by how well it works.
The ElectricSQL concept of 'shapes' is interesting. Right now, a shape is just a single table with some column filters and a where clause. The shape is defined on the fly in the query string. Electric does single table sync of those 'shapes' a lot like Supabase realtime.

I work as part of the team building Ably LiveSync, a competitor in this space. Our postgres connector[0] works in the opposite way by taking rows from an 'outbox' table and fanning them out to subscribed clients over websockets in realtime.

Here's the thing; for any meaningfully complicated data in a relational database the data is likely to be normalised across tables with relations, and there are going to be joins. So I'm really curious how people are making single-table-sync work. (Maybe this is where Electric imagine the future of shapes, solving for joins).

In LiveSync we do it the other way around, instead of having a live-query style subscription to a table (like ElectricSQL), we listen for someone writing a row to the 'outbox' table and that row is automatically sent to subscribers. This means that you're writing your denormlised data directly to the outbox and it's being sent on to clients, rather than writing your normalised data to tables but being limited by single table sync. Or worse, your clients having to subscribe to multiple sync streams and trying and stitch the data back together. We opted to have the write-side insert the denormalised data, rather than having the read side have to stitch normalised data back together.

Electric will at some point try and solve multi table sync, which isn't easy given how the Postgres replication protocol works. It's also not easy to imagine how shapes (which are defined on the fly right now in the query string) will adapt to multiple tables. There's going to be a tradeoff between a complex query string trying to stitch the normalised tables back together, or a 'shape' becoming an entity in Electric which would define how to stitch the normalised tables back together (which you would have to CRUD manage, and update in Electric every time your schema changed).

[0]: https://ably.com/docs/livesync/postgres
The throughline is that we get caught up in long-arc status games ('did i do a good job learning all those things they taught us in school, do i look smart in front of my tribe / in front of all these other seemingly impressive engineers around me, am I demonstrating to my outside friends, family, future romantic interests that I'm a stable & effective member of society?') that fool us into blinding ourselves from looking at the bigger picture effect of our work.
I guess this means we'll have an openai release soon
The latest in poker cheats: Tiny cameras that can see cards as they're dealt
If "Police police police police" is a grammatically correct English sentence, surely "how it works" is also.
There are countless documents showing his contempt of court, failure to produce discovery, etc.
Experience matters, especially for consumer goods like media. Unskippable notices about piracy that are only shown to people who have pirated is silly and clunky. You can probably tell this by the fact that none of the streaming services show something similar.

This will sound very silly, but one of my favorite features of my Tesla Model 3 is that it doesn't stall the screen for 5-10 seconds every. single. time. you get in the car reminding you to drive safely and to pay attention to the road.
BERT and Gemma 2B were both some of the highest-performing edge models of their time. Google does really well - in terms of pushing efficiency in the community they're second to none. They also don't need to rely on inordinate amounts of compute because Google's differentiating factor is the products they own and how they integrate it. OpenAI is API-minded, Google is laser-focused on the big-picture experience.

For example; those little AI-generated YouTube summaries that have been rolling out are wonderful. They don't require heavyweight LLMs to generate, and can create pretty effective summaries using nothing but a transcript. It's not only more useful than the other AI "features" I interact with regularly, it doesn't demand AGI or chain-of-thought.
I don't think anything is more secure as such than ngrok. You can use TLS tunnels to end-to-end encrypt the requests. But I do not think your organization's IT will allow that either. You can still check out https://pinggy.io for that.

My suggestion is to host it in cloud and do your development there.
becoming the government has an expiration date (with post-expiration date consequences which for him will be severe).

boldness or foolishness to become government we shall see…
Ok, sure, if you don't think this is different from usual then that's that I guess. I do think it's different but I don't find much value in trying to convince people of this today. There are more serious irregularities to worry about anyway.
For someone who wrote such an overwrought analogy, you should know that when you make an analogy, you can't analogize something that bakes in a conclusion on the thing up for debate.

The problem with your analogy is that you chose something with serious undeniable consequences: STIs. The analogy doesn't work because the person above doesn't grant the severity of consequences of using JSON.

So if you like health analogies, replace STIs with the common cold and explain how scary it is even though we've had the common cold hundreds of times and are well aware of its severity.
I saw Blu-Ray region restriction bypassed just by skipping to the next "chapter" to initialize run the movie.