skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 3. the automated tpm unlock fails, prompting for a password.

> 4. type in our password.

In a serious security conscious setup this should be a big red flag to investigate. Any unexpected boot password prompt.
> and they should—due to the lack of standards—provide software that allows you to use their cameras as intended.

There is a standard:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_video_device_class
No it's not called supply and demand, it's called price discrimination. The way things should be priced is based on the value it gives the market as a whole. Anything further is an anti-competitive attempt to vacuum up more of the buyer surplus.
taubek, yeah, it seems like Google is rolling it out by default for Workspace accounts. I’ve seen similar behavior with some of their other services where they enable features proactively, and you have to manually opt out if you don’t want it.

From the blog post, it looks like they’re positioning Gemini as a big AI upgrade, but the whole “auto-enabled” thing without explicit consent feels off, especially since it might lead to charges. I’d recommend double-checking your admin console and turning it off if you don’t plan on using it.
The cause is easy: the people specifying the problem to be solved don't ask for an independent set of tests that are human-readable and can be run automatically to verify the system.

If they did that, then the system would be verifiable and so would changes to it - the tests would simply need to be adapted to talk to the new version of the system.

Too late now, of course. But that's what should be done.
> just return hard coded strings that matched the expects of the tests

I have done literally this in test ping-pong. It's fine. It just means it's on the other half of the loop to make the tests more in-depth.
None of my stills cameras focused continuously out of the box, probably to save power (moving potentially heavy lens elements around requires energy). My Olympus mirrorless can be told to focus all the time, but it's not the default.
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> Even with the key, one must decrypt and re-encrypt.

That's not true, the unlock key will be regenerated, but the disk contents will not be re-encrypted, because it's encrypted with another immutable key.
That was actually the first way I squinted at it, and it doesn't have to be existential - the lack of ownership in the fourth dimension is stated well in most religions. But for some reason I doubt they meant it that way.
What blows my mind is that this is functionally a solved problem.

The big search crawlers have been around for years & manage to mostly avoid nuking sites into oblivion. Then AI gang shows up - supposedly smartest guys around - and suddenly we're re-inventing the wheel on crawling and causing carnage in the process.
It’s funny, when this article was submitted earlier today…

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/you-blamed-dei-for-hur...

Someone said that people would start blaming AI.

It’s not AI. There are too many people chasing too few jobs and the BigTech companies aside from Google are focusing on profitable segments.

The IPO market is dead and which caused the entire VC Ponzi scheme to collapse.

As far as upcoming CS graduates? They are screwed. Why would most companies want to hire new grads when there are proven experienced people looking for jobs?
The LA fires aren't a climate fire though.

For other disasters, while climate change is "global", the effects are pretty much localized and to various degrees. Some places have had adapted construction to those kinds of blue moon disasters since centuries, so why should they part with more money?
Isn't this like 'guys' including gals a generation earlier?
> The trouble is, brick isn't earthquake resistant. Not without steel reinforcement.

It's just a matter of throwing a couple hundreds $ of metal and cement every few rows of bricks, like this: https://www.pointp.fr/asset/27/07/AST212707-XL.jpg when you see how much american spend on houses it's a drop in the ocean.

FYI a two storey 10x10m house will run you less than 10k euros in bricks for the external walls, and that's with 30cm wide honeycomb bricks which probably provide enough thermal insulation as is for LA. Add 10k of rockwool insulation and you're good to go for most places.

You use wood for simple reasons: it's widely available, that's the only thing your workers are trained on, it's cheaper so builders make more money, it's faster and allow crazier design (mcmansions). Same thing for asphalt shingles, nobody uses that, it needs constant replacement, but it's cheaper, easier/faster to install.

In europe we mostly build rectangles with simple two pitch roofs, ceramic tiles that last 50+ years, most of them are made of bricks, even in seismically active countries like Italy.

Europe: https://www.philomag.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_...

US: https://www.reviewjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/950...
So is everyone else…
I had to look up MCST: it means Model-Centric Software Tools, as opposed to autonomous agents.

Devin is closer to a long-running process that you can interact with as it is processing tasks, whereas Cursor is closer to a function call: once you've made the call, the only think you can do is wait for the result.
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Yeah. He seemed pretty torn up about it. I believe he said he “died a death” over it.

Here’s more into for anyone interested.

https://www.cinedump.com/reviews/2021/6/3/dune-alan-smithee-...
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They have already implemented it, otherwise it wouldn't work.
The very raison-d'être of the EU is to remove all tarriffs between 20+ countries.

Without the EU, there would be a worse patchwork of rules and exceptions.
even if they were a beacon of truth, they were active market participant and would stand to benefit if the markets do react to their report.

how large businesses get away with things is true across markets and the precedence set let them be more fearless to keep committing them.

the reporting through the publication has an important place, but playing the market at the same time personally gets rid of any credibility.
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I'd argue that software is being written (either by humans or AI) in an order that it progressively adds less marginal value (if we define value in the capitalistic sense).

Most of the value that software will ever create has already been created.

The only truly valuable missing things are stuff whose value is not easy to translate to capitalists, or need some visionary work.
Agreed. The P95 and P99 in particular are likely to be over 1 second, possibly over 2. They chose P75 to be able to post a seemingly impressive number.

I personally wouldn't be very happy with a P75 of 500 ms. It's slow.
I think it’s a good thing to use such tools. But no amount of tooling can create quality.

It gives you an illusion of control. Rules are a cheap substitute for thinking.
The one metric that matters: Annual Recurring Revenue
That's not how the GDPR works
The problem with Tuya is that they don't manufacture the devices themselves. Instead, they provide a standardized interface for all those low-cost manufacturers and get paid by them. If it were easy to fake Tuya requests or set up your own account (trust me, I tried this to integrate a Fingerbot into Home Assistant, but you have to jump through countless hoops, and the developer account keeps expiring every few weeks), those manufacturers would simply automate this process through their own apps.
Yes and that's precisely why you're writing high-level code instead of ASM. It's your job.
That's unsettling :( My son is in second grade now, so I haven't been exposed to the middle school realities yet. Thanks for the warning!
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Oddities in German copyright or related law don't just have that effect on piracy, they make certain forms of “copyleft trolling” by third parties (who may be in no way linked to the content creator) possible, or at least far easier. This isn't the only route to copyleft trolling, of course.

Refs:

https://doctorow.medium.com/a-bug-in-early-creative-commons-...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Copyleft_trolling
Chess is such an interesting game wish more poor children had access resources to learn it without sthe stressors of poverty
No, because it'd be incredibly dangerous to me to have all these groups storing data about me and allowing them to determine my comings and goings.

You may think 'we're only using it for advertising', but I don't trust you and I can't. I don't want you to obtain information about my political views, or how they differ from what I say on the internet, or who I talk to about maths, or where I buy food.
Looks interesting. Would love to give it a spin.
Yeah, Anki is optimised for serious learners who ask "What is the most effective way to learn x"?, while duolingo optimises for fun and engagement.

A lot of people prefer having some fun and learning a bit as they go to going through some rather dull flashcards, even if the latter is technically a lot more time efficient.

I say as someone who's spent hundreds of hours in Anki. It's effective but it's miserable.
When I was younger (and reading things I wasn't interested in) I noticed I would often read a sentence but not absorb it, proceeding to the next regardless. I saw the words, I just wasn't actively focused on their meaning, and kept going. It became a reflex to just keep going, until the end of the paragraph and I had missed a lot.

I corrected it by not allowing myself to proceed until I had re-read the sentence and absorbed the meaning. It sometimes would take multiple shots, and it slowed my reading considerably. Eventually though, I lost the habit. Fwiw.
Same setup here, down to the brand.

For those who don't know, the dummy battery is a power cable with a battery-shaped adapter that plugs in where the battery would go to provide continuous power.
Thanks may be I didn't know the exact steps. It kept prompting key at every startup until I disabled and re-enabled bitlocker.
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A word of warning on capture cards: I first bought a no-name off Amazon, thinking to save money. The video quality was abysmal. Artifacts everywhere.

I returned it and got an Elgato, which has worked great from day one.
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I don't understand this reasoning. How does the presence of a single recent post on HN say anything about if the errors go in one direction or in both directions?
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Oracle Forms is a technology platform originally designed to develop and deploy database-driven applications, especially for Oracle Databases.

I have mostly seen organizations gradually move from Oracle Forms to Oracle Apex.

Is it a bad choice in moving to an Open-Source Tech Stack using React for UI and Java/Golang/others for Backend and PostgreSQL as the DB Engine.

If you ever used Oracle Forms, what approach have you considered in your case ?
What do you think is more apt?
any advice on how to get the first n posts from the /front page of hn as an rss feed? since it keeps on changing, a daily snapshot (at midnight UTC for example) could be handy.
Clickhouse has something similar called clickhouse-obfuscator [1]. It even works offline with data dumps so you can quickly prepare and send somewhat realistic example data to others.

According to its --help output, it is designed to retain the following properties of data:

- cardinalities of values (number of distinct values) for every column and for every tuple of columns;

- conditional cardinalities: number of distinct values of one column under condition on value of another column;

- probability distributions of absolute value of integers; sign of signed integers; exponent and sign for floats;

- probability distributions of length of strings;

- probability of zero values of numbers; empty strings and arrays, NULLs;

- data compression ratio when compressed with LZ77 and entropy family of codecs;

- continuity (magnitude of difference) of time values across table; continuity of floating point values.

- date component of DateTime values;

- UTF-8 validity of string values;

- string values continue to look somewhat natural

[1]: https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/operations/utilities/clickhou...
How would the global optimum be to abolish private property when you just stated that without it we live in a swarm of barely tribal actors?

The alternative to large-scale force is small-scale theft. Which is not so small-scale when you multiply it across every village and province. Ever been in the middle of a full social breakdown? Or a riot? Anyone who's seen what actual anarchy looks like would beg for some sort of order, even if it has to be imposed by force. It requires a very sheltered understanding of how the world actually works to think that anything good will come from unleashing chaos.
Search crawlers have the goal of directing people towards the websites they crawl. They have a symbiotic relationship, so they put in (some) effort not to blow websites out of the water with their crawling, because a website that's offline is useless for your search index.

AI crawlers don't care about directing people towards websites. They intend to replace websites, and are only interested in copying whatever information is on them. They are greedy crawlers that would only benefit from knocking a website offline after they're done, because then the competition can't crawl the same website.

The goals are different, so the crawlers behave differently, and websites need to deal with them differently. In my opinion the best approach is to ban any crawler that's not directly attached to a search engine through robots.txt, and to use offensive techniques to take out sites that ignore your preferences. Anything from randomly generated text to straight up ZIP bombs is fair game when it comes to malicious crawlers.
Thank you! Problem with porkbun is they stopped affiliate program, and others are much more expensive. But you are right, maybe I should change pricing to one-time
Of course. Below a selection of some user manuals, with the texts copied verbatim.

From Nikon D500 User Manual [0], page 22:

From Nikon Z6/Z7 User Manual [1], page 236:

Sony has a similar note for A9 [3], but can be grouped under here, which is almost the same:

AVC Patent Portfolio License:
THIS PRODUCT IS LICENSED UNDER THE AVC PATENT PORTFOLIO LICENSE FOR THE PERSONAL
AND NON - COMMERCIAL USE OF A CONSUMER TO (i) ENCODE VIDEO IN COMPLIANCE WITH
THE AVC STANDARD (“AVC VIDEO”) AND/ OR (ii) DECODE AVC VIDEO THAT WAS ENCODED
BY A CONSUMER ENGAGED IN A PERSONAL AND NON - COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY AND / OR WAS
OBTAINED FROM A VIDEO PROVIDER LICENSED TO PROVIDE AVC VIDEO. NO LICENSE IS
GRANTED OR SHALL BE IMPLIED FOR ANY OTHER USE. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION MAY BE
OBTAINED FROM MPEG LA, L.L.C. S EE http://www.mpegla.com

From Canon R5 User Manual [2], page 939:

“This product is licensed under AT&T patents for the MPEG-4 standard and may be used for
encoding MPEG-4 compliant video and/or decoding MPEG-4 compliant video that was
encoded only (1) for a personal and non-commercial purpose or (2) by a video provider
licensed under the AT&T patents to provide MPEG-4 compliant video. No license is granted
or implied for any other use for MPEG-4 standard.”

THIS PRODUCT IS LICENSED UNDER THE AVC PATENT PORTFOLIO LICENSE FOR
THE PERSONAL USE OF A CONSUMER OR OTHER USES IN WHICH IT DOES NOT
RECEIVE REMUNERATION TO (i) ENCODE VIDEO IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE AVC
STANDARD (''AVC VIDEO'') AND/OR (ii) DECODE AVC VIDEO THAT WAS ENCODED BY
A CONSUMER ENGAGED IN A PERSONAL ACTIVITY AND/OR WAS OBTAINED FROM
A VIDEO PROVIDER LICENSED TO PROVIDE AVC VIDEO. NO LICENSE IS GRANTED
OR SHALL BE IMPLIED FOR ANY OTHER USE. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION MAY BE
OBTAINED FROM MPEG LA, L.L.C. SEE HTTP://WWW.MPEGLA.COM

[0]: https://download.nikonimglib.com/archive3/4qUKV00WD5Bh04RdeC...

[1]:https://download.nikonimglib.com/archive5/8Yygr00R9Ojb058Kwq...

[2]: https://cam.start.canon/en/C003/manual/c003.pdf

[3]: https://helpguide.sony.net/ilc/1830/v1/en/contents/TP0002351...
(For those unfamiliar - $190000 New Zealand is roughly $106,000 US, and 800m2 is about 1/5 acre. I know neither Christchurch real estate nor its geology - but obviously that 1/5 acre carries a big "will it keep subsiding?" caveat.)
They are not CTAs but kind of addons. Currently everything is free and I didn't decide with monetization strategy yet.
https://lichess.org is an excellent open source chess server with plenty of learning resources for pure beginners.

As you progress learning resources sadly get more and more expensive indeed. Not to mention the cost of tournaments (travel and accomodation expenses add up very quickly).
Wasn't going fast enough to fully burn up. There'll be small pieces of debris scattered over quite a large area.
It seems like a lot of the productivity crap is that people feel that they're being productive when they're working on the stuff to make them productive, when in actuality while yes they're working, they're not working on what needs done.

An example to me is note taking, it seems like the productivity people seem to fixate on doing it perfectly and in the exact right way to maximise productivity, instead of just taking the notes in a good enough fashion and doing something else with the saved time.
It is already implemented, otherwise they wouldn't be able to enable it once the subscription is active.

Why should the OP need to pay a subscription to enable a feature that is build into the camera, that is a standard feature on other cameras and imposes no ongoing costs to the manufacturer¹? This is an example of gouging, pure and simple.

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[1] unless they are forcing the user to use their hosted service for steaming the webcam output, in which case there is some bandwidth and perhaps other processing cost, but that is on them for having not just implemented a standard that enables local-only recording
It's first time i am seeing these reports. I read through them. I don't have prior opinion about DeVault (don't know much about him) and i am not fighting for him. But the report seems to try to nail him for liking animated porn. I don't get much kick out of animated porn but the stuff i've seen has always been "enhanced" - everything is either too big, too small, too young, to old.
I am not sure how you can compare that to child pedophilia where just the creation of that material is an awful abuse.

Is it wierd to me? Sure i don't get how somebody can be excited about that. But people have wierd kinks and things like wierd real life extreme abuse porn seems to me to be worse and its legal.
Is there higher chance people that like animated porn like child pornography? For sure much higher. But it doesn't mean all of them are pedophiles. You know you become pedophile after you engage with that not just because of what your brain interprets as exciting.

I am all for canceling this guy after somebody has proof about him being pedophile but if that report was proof i think many people (especially extremely online people on hacker news) would be in exactly same water.
Yep some mistakes in domain detector algorithm. Parked domains or so. Will try to improve
I would not make that choice, but At least that has someone looking at it everyday. It’s not a device that gets left to do its job for 5 years.

Those early chromium devs had no idea the whole world would depend on them!
Yup, IME people repeat Google AI or Chatgpt output as fact.
I have that setup too. I was referring to this:

> it won't autofocus continuously or keep the exposure and white balance stable unless you're recording a video

That basically defeats our setup as now they're worrying about their recording time running out in the middle of a meeting.
Not everything is catering to the cloud. Still plenty of people who rock their own servers.
the Arabs who live in Israel today enjoy the same rights as the Jews.

the ones in the post 67 are under hybrid rule precisely because the Oct 7 attacks are the sort of things that happen when the people of Gaza and the West Bank are given freedom.
If only we could replace the real Elon
Your take seems much more positive than theirs. What do you think the key differences are between your experience and the one here?
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This doesn't fix the problems listed in the article, you'd still only get a 720p 30 fps feed out of a camera that shoots 4K at 60 fps. That thread helps with Zoom not finding the low quality feed to begin with.
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Why would jackets even be taxed differently than shirts. It's so silly.
> Same way you can't get a cert for some.name.in-an-internal-domain-we-use-internally

Sure you can, you just have to issue it yourself.
What you say about innovation has been true mostly in the distant past and mostly for technologies that are used in business-to-business products.

For consumer products from recent years, like smartphones or computers, the vast majority of innovative products are Chinese, even if the quality or documentation is frequently subpar.

Now I see very frequently cases when US companies or Japanese companies should better start to copy the Chinese if they want to stay competitive, but instead of doing that, they push for the same kind of tariff protections for which the US heavily criticized any other country in the past and blackmailed them in various ways to force them to remove the tariff protections against US companies.