skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not the algorithm, it's the accounts and people in there.

I actually tried reels for a good while, but the content is just tits&ass (a major part of instagram), "funny" videos reposted so many times they're grainy from all the recompression and crap like that. Very very few people I would like to follow do actual original content on Instagram Reels.
Trace amounts can possibly sweat out in specific conditions

Nah, it's pretty well documented heat and humidity will release formaldehyde. In paperwork filed with the EPA arguing against new limits, an insulation manufacturer trade group cited California's (OEHHA) exposure limits on formaldehyde as reasonable.

Those limits are:

recently manufactured products contribute no more than 9 µg/m3 of
formaldehyde into the indoor air

So the Prop 65 warning certainly seems reasonable from here.

https://downloads.regulations.gov/EPA-HQ-OPPT-2023-0613-0230...
In my career I changed jobs 3 times. I ended my career back as a happy coder, but never regretted the changes.

Every time I made the change within the company I worked for. One I resigned, but was asked to fill another role, next I said I was bored, last I was about to be fired. My experience was employers can be more flexible than you imagine. But maybe I was lucky.
Theorems for a Price: Tomorrow's Semi-Rigorous Mathematical Culture (1994) [pdf]
The app is part of the implementation. And they're apparently subsidizing the cost by charging separately for it.

Drop the fee and that's now baked into the camera's base price.
Where can I read more about this? What poison were they using?
Superglue 1.0: React Rails. A new era of thoughtfulness
It's the same experience on Windows, but you do you random internet rant guy.
That's not the model repository advertised in the post.
Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky's AT Protocol
Hurricane Ida in 2019 brought torrential rains which flooded the city, especially the subway.
So your argument is that Medicare spending might potentially approach the same proportion of the GDP as a European country that doesn't spend a lot on its healthcare?
> talking about "open kimono" leadership

That’s not a thing.
Sure Japan did it, so did Mexico. The latter is probably much more important as an example for the US.

https://www.preventionweb.net/news/not-drill-how-1985-disast...
Personally i would like a way to use TMP2 (with PIN) + password. (i.e. mode where PIN is derived from the password, but is also used to encrypt), so that i do not have to trust the TPM manufacturer.
I agreed with your first statement about competition and collaboration both being necessary. But if you extend that over time you see that those states in nature exist in a state of endless conflict, not in parallel. So in the realm of governing economies (democratically or otherwise), one of the most unfortunate but profitable outcomes of the human desire to oscillate between competition and collaboration is to be something like Argentina: Nationalize those things you want to be fair and accessible every 10 years and then privatize them again every other 10 years. This way, each new generation can lean capitalist or communist and make a killing by raiding whatever wealth was built by the previous generation in the name of fixing the system. Because after all, neither system is real. Both are just ways to paper over the fact that each new generation of young people are animals who kill their parents.
IIRC the PS3 Linux option existed because of this same tariff.
'Homeless people given free lunch' to attend Trump Jr event in Greenland
Stop quick context switching (social media, phone notifications, etc) and just read*.

That's it.

Your brain will eventually adapt to not jumping all over the place every 30 seconds. But you must train it to reach that point, it won't happen over night.

[*] preferably good literature*
Look at how insane twilio is.

I set up automatic recharge of $20. A small amount because not much traffic. A bad actor got ahold of our api that didn’t have rate limit yet and started spamming Africa.

Twilio had zero issue charging my credit card every second. Literally I was getting a hundred emails and bank notifications a minute. Brex didn’t stop anything.

Twilio responded that it was my fault. Yeah. I sure 100% probably should have put in that cloudflare rate limit first. But…

How easy would it be for twilio to prevent this on any level? I need rate limits? How about you rate limit credit card charges. Putting $20 recharge limit should mean $20/day or $20/hr not literal unmetered right to charge as much as possible in 20 increments.

Twilio support sent me all this info about protecting myself from African spammers who use the technique to make money from SMS charges. You know what’s more responsible than informing me of this? How about blocking sending sms to country codes known for this from the get-go and optin to send to them.

it was clear the perverse incentives that encourage twilio to massively benefit from being insecure and easily exploitable by spammers.

Ended up costing almost $3k after bill adjustment when our usual spend was $5/mo. not bankruptcy level so after fighting with support just took it as is and learned my lesson. But twilio made *50 years* of revenue in about 10minutes from their own negligence.
> My view is that probability is not an objective fixed thing, but that it is something relative to the observer of experiments.

This is basically the Bayesian view of probability - that probability is a measure of the knowledge of an agent, not a property of a system. There are even some interpretations of QM that try to find a way to apply this to the measurement problem.

However, for this particular case, I don't think there is anything all that mysterious. If a process is more or less equally likely to produce any of a huge number of outcomes, it stands to reason that you can't predict which outcome will happen, even while knowing some outcome is fully guaranteed.
I've found that a problem I've had is that a "2 minute task" is sometimes, for me, estimated to be a 20+ minute task.

When I actually got out a watch and timed it, I was like "oh shit, that was not even a fraction of my estimate".

So it's the estimation, not the actual task length/difficulty that is sometimes a problem for me.
Not sure which version was more popular, but I bought a red/blue switch on launch day. And anecdotally I'd say I've seen more of those than the grey one over the years.
"Long before the United States began accusing other countries of stealing ideas, the U.S. government encouraged intellectual piracy to catch up with England’s technological advances. According to historian Doron Ben-Atar, in his book, Trade Secrets, “the United States emerged as the world's industrial leader by illicitly appropriating mechanical and scientific innovations from Europe.”

Everyone is a thief.

https://www.history.com/news/industrial-revolution-spies-eur...
Rumors are rumors.

1. Positive rumors are profitable => they are targets for marketing activities, especially when huge money is at stake.

2. Humanity has a long history of false "fast technological success" rumors: thermonuclear fusion, a cryptocurrency that will disrupt the bank system, IoT that will revolutionize everything, AI boom at 80th, etc. They are almost always wrong.

3. Development cycles in IT are fast; on highly concurrent markets, they are extremely fast. The current public information in the AI industry describes almost the actual state of it. The risk "not to be the first one" is too high to hide or delay something. Such a delay may literally cost billions of investments.
As someone who is in the verge of being killed with no side in this entire reality it's cool that in addition to trade and economics we now get compute as a geopolitical indicator maybe it can really all be automated
Depends. 2 minutes with a context switch is very expensive. If it is just putting that cup in the dishwasher then sure!
Tell it to Jack Ma.

China's Huawei uses "dubious" tactics to try to reverse engineer technology from Apple and other competitors in the electronics market, a report charged on Monday.

In November, for example, a Huawei engineer heading up smartwatch development tracked down a supplier that helps build the Apple Watch's heart rate sensor, The Information said.

The person arranged a meeting with the claim he could offer a manufacturing contract, but instead probed for details about the Apple Watch, an anonymous executive at the supplier said.

from: https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/02/18/huawei-cloning-ap...
RoEx Teams Up with Ableton Live to Simplify Music Production
That is how it works. Apps on android and iOS can’t access data outside of their contsiner.
> I can envision an abstract of a paper, circa 2100, that reads: "We show in a certain precise sense that the Goldbach conjecture is true with probability larger than 0.99999 and that its complete truth could be determined with a budget of $10 billion." It would then be acceptable to rely on such a priced theorem, provided that the price is stated explicitly. Whenever statement A, whose price is p, and statement B, whose price is q, are used to deduce statement C, the latter becomes a priced theorem priced at p+q. If a whole chain of boring identities were to turn out to imply an interesting one, we might be tempted to redeem all these intermediate identities; however, we would not be able to buy out the whole store, and most identities would have to remain unclaimed. As absolute truth becomes more and more expensive, we would sooner or later come to grips with the fact that few nontrivial results could be known with old-fashioned certainty. Most likely, we will wind up abandoning the task of keeping track of price altogether and complete the metamorphosis to nonrigorous mathematics.

This seems quite a good prediction to me. Consider that today there exist many mathematical proofs based on heurestics and probabilities. Furthermore, while we don't assign prices to theorems, there is the fact that with the coming of Lean and Coq, we may start seeing some mathematical proofs become immensively expensive to produce and verify due to running costs. The four colour theorem is just one example.
It has certainly been locked down a bit. This makes easily backing up all your data using some techniques harder/impossible.

I can't include podcasts in the backup I do via rsync via termux anymore, unless I switch to an app that uses a shared storage area instead, as termux can not longer read app directories only its own and shared storage. You have to rely on each app that used app-local storage to have its own backup method. Not that I really care from the podcast PoV, hence I've done nothing about it, but it is a sign of apps being better sandboxed at the filesystem level than they used to be.
Reminds me of the Indian public discourse when the government wanted to tax caramel popcorn in movie theatres at 18% when the normal ones were taxed at 5%.
Countries that allow markets to control food prices have a far better track record of not starving, spiraling into hyperinflation, and losing wars than do countries which attempt to regulate food prices.
The NSA does not require permission from Congress, the White House or anyone else to retailiate. More often than not, these threats are responded to in kind.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-cy...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22291621

The US is still the only Tier 0 cyber power. Its capabilities in this area are unmatched.
> However, Canon is a hardware company, not a software company,

Canon is a company that is in the business of making profit (not just software or just hardware).

If they realize that they can charge you $1 for every time you chew gum while taking photos, and people will actually pay for that privilege $1-per-chewing-gum-session (disclaimer: chewing gum not provided) they would charge you!

Remember BMW and heating in the UK (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-62142208)??

Getting paid $6k for a camera once is good. Getting paid another $50 a year for doing nothing is even better.

I assume the great brain who came with the idea is: "we got 10 million cameras out there, if 0.5% of those camera owners pay $50 pa, then that's 10m x 0.5% x $50 = $2.5m pa. If I could get a 100k bonus for bringing $2.5m gross to my company I would also suggest this idea.
Do you need to sign an agreement to this effect before starting filming? I don't see how it can legally hold.
I didn't mean me I am one of the privileged kids after all I am posting on HN :) just musing out loud digitally about all the people that dont't have access to that for various reasons or the time to devote to it but such is the way of the world
I'm trying to understand how what you're suggesting is different from mandating everyone just get a personal savings account, where they must pay some specified minimum calculated to cover them in the event of a loss of their personal property?

Are you saying that we should only pool risk between people in the same risk bucket?

How do you aim to determine the resolution of that risk? Not to mention calculating it accurately?
> This process means that there is some error. For example, ideally, a color with L=50 looks twice as bright as a color with L=25. Except, with very strongly saturated colors like red, this isn’t actually the case in any of these color spaces.

A benefit of doing it this way is you account for color blindness and accessibility e.g. all colors at L=50 will have the same WCAG contrast ratio against all colors at L=25. This helps when finding colors with the contrast you want.

Related, I'm working on a color palette editor based around creating accessible palettes where I use the HSLuv color space which has the above property:

https://www.inclusivecolors.com/

You can try things like maxing out the saturation of each swatch to see how some some hues get more bold looking at the same lightness (the Helmholtz-Kohlrausch effect mentioned in the article I think). You can also explore examples of open source palettes (Tailwind, IBM Carbon, USWDS), where it's interesting to compare how they vary their saturation and lightness curves per swatch e.g. red-700 and green-700 in Tailwind v3 have different lightnesses but are the same in IBM Carbon (the "Contrast > View colors by luminance only" option is interesting to see this).
This model is not listed as supported, but generally gphoto2 can do the webcam thing for DSLRs.

http://gphoto.org/doc/remote/
> Why should the OP need to pay a subscription to enable a feature that is build into the camera

Getting video into your computer through USB is _not_ built into the camera. Else why is OP downloading an app to do it?

The app is part of the implementation, and it costs money. I have no problem with the manufacturer charging separately for that. The rest of us can use a video cable to get video into our computers.
> For everything ops and devops it looks like there are like islands of knowledge which are not shared at all

Very strongly disagree, if anything it's the opposite. Many people read the knowledge shared by others and jump to thinking it's suitable for them as well. Microservices and Kubernetes got adopted by everyone and their grandpa because big tech uses them, without any consideration if its suitable or not for each org.

> At least when coming with a newbie point of view. Like for example with telemetry: people who worked at Google or Meta all rave about the mythical tools they got to use in-house and how they cannot find anything equivalent outside... and yes when you check what is available "outside" it looks less powerful and all those solutions feel like the same. So you got the FAANG islands of tools and way to do things, the big box commercial offering and their armies of consultants and then the OpenSource and Freemium way of doing telemetry.

The latter two are converging with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus and related projects. Both ways are well documented, and there are a number of projects and vendors providing alternatives and various options. People can pick what works best for them (and it could very well be open source but hosted for you, cf. Grafana Cloud). I'm not sure how that's related to "islands of knowledge"... observability in general is one of the most widely discussed topics in the space.
In more than one team I've been on over the years, I was the only person with a deep understanding of Git. What I've found as a result of being the "oh shit git" guy is that

1) all UIs are completely missing at least some of Git CLI's functionality (shoutout to git's most neglected feature, git notes)

2) all UIs have at least a couple git features so tucked away that you'll only find them if you know to look for them (git checkout -- path > temp_file is a common culprit here, but I've seen UIs that hide git ammend)

3) the average time for a UI-exclusive user to need my help for one of those two reasons was about a month.
They absolutely have grabbed people to trade them. The OP article mentions the trade. Every ceasefire in the history of this conflict has had a hostage exchange, or disingenuously "hostages for prisoners". They know it was coming and they kidnapped people for it.

Also more generally, they hold hostages to compel Palestinians to obey and not resist.
I think you should study how well such professional posturing helps groups that have it (civil engineers, lawyers, etc).

In my experience it’s a symbolic political power that management has effective ways of limiting.
If this is indeed possible, then it must also be possible to create simple hydrocarbons (CO2 + H2O => CxHx + O2) using a similar process.
If you had to write software to run the chain saw, and write software to coordinate socializing with your friends, and write software to enjoy the warm luxury of the fireplace, I suspect you'd feel much the same about your software.

Sadly, modern software development (and the workplace in general) is not optimized around generating immediate, tangible outcomes that might be that rewarding.
My position is that climate change is an existential threat to civilization, but buildings are not at a risk that would make them uninsurable. We build cities both in very wet and very hot and dry climates without much trouble. Those are engineering problems we can solve without much trouble.
I think the point is that "the man behind" connotes direct responsibility, not indirect inspiration. It's misleading wording.

You might try "Dieter Rams inspired Apple's design philosophy."
Recently, I have been reading about system design, and as I work in the Web3 domain, I thought it would be nice if I used my learning to write about how system design can be done in the Web3 domain.
Funnily enough, I have actually used the 30 minute limit as a "feature" on my Panasonic Lumix G80 (the cousin to the unrestricted G85) as sometimes I would want to set up my camera and leave it recording for 20-30 minutes while I walked away to do things but wouldn't physically be able to return to switch it off. It would save me battery and SD card space because it automatically stops after 30 minutes.
Super interesting approach! We've been working on the opposite - always getting your Unit tests written with every PR. The idea is that you don't have to bother running or writing them, you just get them delivered in your Github repo. You can check it out here https://www.codebeaver.ai
Why a U.S. Federal Court Ruled That Marvel's X-Men Aren't Humans (2017)
I've been uhh.. suffering(?) a different perspective. A company may hire a human to talk for it or its owner may talk for it.. the server rack and the software are things it can own. I don't think others are nesasarly any longer talking for it.

It is an absurd leap we've made but companies are also legal persons.

The companies are still of human design full of human behaviour and human characteristics while the LLMs actively try to imitate humans.

The dictionary saying: anthropomorphized: attribute human characteristics or behaviour to (a god, animal, or object).

If it passes the Turing test surely anthropomorphizing is fair game?

(I have no stake in this)
Some years ago I contracted for a mega-big-global insurance company.

They would spread leaflets/internal publications on "Risk Profile for the Year 20##" every year. And they would issue updates every Q or H.

Insurance companies monitor every-little-thing. If it hasn't rained for X days in Z country, they KNOW IT, monitor it, and accordingly change policies, premiums, etc.

I always tell people that the most lucrative job (imho) is "Actuary" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actuary) so for anyone who is young enough to make a career change or have kids on the verge of picking directions/professions, "Actuary" for-the-win!!
It's a financial problem, ultimately. Living in Antarctica is difficult and expensive because of the conditions, but with enough money it's manageable.

California is not very hospitable on its own but with human intervention it was made liveable. But that is now running out, because e.g. the water supply is no longer adequate for what is used.

But this is the difficult situation we find ourselves in; due to climate change, hospitable areas are no longer hospitable, and while you can throw money at the problem, it becomes exponentially more expensive to continue to live there. If this continues, it will trigger a (mass) migration. This can be applied everywhere, and the phrase "climate change will trigger mass migrations" has been uttered many times already. It however feels like people only considered this to be a problem in e.g. the global south, affecting poor people because they don't have the financial means to shape the earth and their living conditions by throwing money at the problem.

I live in the Netherlands that for hundreds of years has thrown money and resources at the problem that it's below sea level and prone to flooding. We're still managing, but still get flooding in some places due to e.g. heavy rains deeper in Europe. But if the sea level goes up enough, either we'll have to spend billions in building higher sea walls... or abandon regions entirely. The worst case predictions mention a 2.5 meter sea level rise by 2100, that'll definitely test our infrastructure to put it mildly.

(this comment was a reply first but moved it to a top level one because I added my main article comment as well).
>anyone ever want to drop the guise of privacy and have the surveillance is out in the open?

No, because I have less than zero expectation that you all <points with middle fingers at HN comment section> won't happily be complicit in something that retroactively criminalizes me or otherwise screws me (and god knows how many other people, I'm fairly unremarkable) over on the basis that doing so is X% better for Y or where X is a small value and Y is a subject that is far from an existential issue for society. Society goes off on these boondoggles from time to time, eugenics, sticking the mentally ill in prisons but with pills, etc, etc and I don't want to see that sort of stuff cranked to 11 because the public tolerated a bunch of dragnet tech that serves as a force multiplier for unaccountable decision makers.
What's implemented wrongly is the idea that this kind of client side check somehow removes the need for server side verification.

And the idea that this kind of check can't be defeated.
This only reinforces my bias against AI agents. At this point, they are mostly just hype. I believe that for AI to replace a junior, we would need to achieve at least near-AGI, and we are far from that.
Newer Nikon and apparently also some Sony cameras simply support USB UVC ("the webcam protocol"), which makes this pure plug and play, but apparently Canon doesn't. For older cameras there's a Nikon webcam utility or something like that, which does exactly what you suggest: grab preview frames via PTP and stuff them into a video source. Or you get an HDMI/USB dongle for 10$.