skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also things that are private, but not necessarily deeply secret. There's also things that are completely legal, but morally questionable, at least in your social circles, and if that information was to leak out it would be harmful.

With the VW data leak I was pretty horrified that VW either doesn't understand or don't care that leaking location data isn't just privacy invading, it's potentially dangerous for victims of stalking and abuse. In the mildest cases these people may need to move, in the worst they die.

Car companies seem completely oblivious to the dangers of collecting driving data.
would you like to buy a flying car?
Same, i also got a "remote clicker" cable, and have modified the button to always stay pressed, so it does not switch off after MAX_TIME (camera model D3300)
Home delivery works perfectly well in less developed society. As wages are so much lower it is very much cheaper to deliver to door and possibly even get documentation for signature. Big issue in the end is cost of living. Which affects everyone and most of things in live.
I reject this view of the law completely at least in Portugal. The law was introduced to add a tax to every storage media one can purchase with the premise that a percentage of that storage media will be used for what they call piracy. This in effect means everyone is assumed to be breaking the law in advance and paying for it in advance.

As for your point about alternatives, if they add a tax on oxygen you breathe, will you also then say "it's not so bad if the alternative is you are not allowed to breathe at all"?
"React very much feels like programming using only side-effects" this absolutely nails it.
It's more a demonstration of how this rule can be used to protect views on the misogynistic side of the spectrum and quietly undermine women and girls. Perhaps, it's how much of this lobbying for male privilege was actually done.
Looks really cool! I look forward to reading your paper. Do you know if a recording of the talk is/will be posted somewhere?
The audience was hobbyist game developers and people generally interested in computers, so if they didn't use RSS then frankly I don't know who will (and clearly, speaking now in the future, noone has).
Yea this is what I was wondering as well. I have o1 not o1 pro but I am gathering from reddit/youtube o1 pro if used correctly is superior for coding tasks.
And when working with people it's fairly easy to intervene and improve when needed. I think the current working model with LLMs is definitely suboptimal when we cannot confine their solution space AND where they should apply a solution precisely, and timely.
This is a general issue with interpreting scientific papers: the people who specialize in the area will generally have a good idea about the plausibility of the result and the general reputation of the authors, but outsiders often lack that completely, and it's hard to think of a good way to really make that information accessible.

(And I think part of the general blowback against the credibility of science amongst the public is because there's been a big emphasis in popular communication that "peer reviewed paper == credible", which is an important distortion from the real message "peer reviewed paper is the minimum bar for credible", and high-profile cases of incorrect results or fraud are obvious problems with the first statement)
I think the problem is less the materials used, and more that urban sprawl has pushed cities to build out into areas they shouldn't be building.

Destroying the wetlands to build houses closer to the ocean has eliminated the natural hurricane protection (from storm surge, at least) that many low lying areas had.

Building into fire-prone hills outside of cities in Southern California was never going to end well.
You could try getting them to give you a physical security key, they used to supply them and I think still will if you can't use the app (just say it doesn't work on your phone). I have one and the website still works with it.
The fact that its a subscription is what really rubs me up the wrong way. Not everything deserves to be a subscription. Why is everything a subscription these days?
Anyone has advice for reading better and faster? I always seem to get distracted midway through sentences. By the time I get to the end I forgot what was there at the beginning.
Well you can read the book. The argument is quite nuanced (and important!) so I'm having a hard time to correctly put in into words in one comment.
Understanding the low inter-rater agreement on aggressiveness on the LKML
Screens are smooth and decidedly fragile compared to the rest of the chassis. You especially don't want to put much if any pressure on it, which you might need to do for a firm grip.

You also probably don't want to put too much handgrime on the screen, further incentivizing an unsecure grip.

Seriously, big bezels are great. I don't care how great something looks as decor if I can't handle it practically.
I just looked into OCSP and their planned sunsetting of their OCSP server, and it seems like they'd much rather scale this as their core activity than provide/maintain/scale other stuff like the OCSP service.
But is it a phone that records movies or a movie recorder that can make phone calls?

[I jest, but these were almost literally the questions being asked by various commissions]
Thanks, I was thinking of phoning and asking, but good to know there is some point in waiting in the queue to talk to someone!
I don't think you quite get how little money it is for these types of operations, 25m is essentially missing 2-3 zeros before it becomes anywhere near usable and even worth it to bother.
> But don't forget you also get a stable, mature project, excellent documentation, a pool of developers, etc.

You get all of that with any of Pyramid, Flask, FastAPI etc.

As for "pool of developers", I would expect any backend web developer to be able to pick up anything in a couple of days at most.
> I love the EU but it certainly has its idiosyncrasies.

This issue does not appear weird.

There is some legally technical difference between a video camera and a still photo camera. Probably different tariffs or something. Not weird at all and it is not uncommon anywhere in the world for different classes och products to be classified differently, infallibly because of industry lobbyism to reduce their costs or to reduce their prices for their specific product.

The manufacturer chose to limit the product for the consumer for their own economic benefit. Nothing is stopping them from playing ball except their own profit motive.
Interesting. What project are you working on? For me it's writing a library in Rust.
I’m not sure how this is different from what I’m saying?
> I find it disturbing that any app can examine your device in this much detail.

When I did a tiny bit of Android development a few years ago, I was astonished how free the app I made was to just examine the file system. I assumed it would be like the web, where each website can have its own little SQLite database and cookie store equivalent, but that's it. I don't know if it's changed, or if it was just because I was in a "dev mode" somehow, but that was very surprising.
In some countries that is allowed, but in others it has to actually be poisonous.
I think the .cursorrules and .cursorignore files might be useful here.

Especially the .cursorrules file, as you can include a brief overview of the project and ground rules for suggestions, which are applied to your chat sessions and Cmd/Ctrl K inline edits.
CHDK back then had quiet a few people from Canon helping - as far as I remember the floor gossip.
This was VW last month: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/customer-data...

Undisclosed data collection isn't unique to the US.
>Top row: mipmaps generated with premultiplied alpha.
Bottom row: mipmaps generated without premultiplied alpha.

I couldn't see a difference in this first comparison.
The Canterbury Puzzles
Is it different in the US to the UK? Surely you own the house and have a liability on the mortgage?
Write about productivity crap all you want, if your results are just plain bad compared to others then everyone with a clue will know it's bullshit, you are only fooling newbies, yourself and other kool-aid drinkers.

Obsidian is one thing, but forcing a bad programming methodology onto a problem can waste years of time. Focus on results rather than arguments. I've read beautiful arguments from people I consider insane after seeing their code. Metz is the Aristotle of our time.

Or at the very least define your problem rigorously if you want to apply human reasoning to it. And obviously if the problem changes your "system" for solving the problem should change too, otherwise you are just a dead man walking.
Every single one of these attacks from China should be treated as an act of war. America needs to be far more aggressive in its response and start retaliating with direct strikes on key assets of military and economic value, to serve as a deterrent. As long as the CCP rules China, it must be contained.
It's a joke, but it's also the truth. Many cameras won't even get to 30 minutes before overheating.
If history shows one thing- that is that a ton of political problems are just technological problems solvable with surplus bribery - and the fact that we have a ton of political problems indicates we have a misallocation of technological problem solving ability, away from what are the foundations of society, towards "luxury" perverted incentivized problems created by a wealth bubble.
A million thinkers working and thinking about block chains instead of energy or fertilizers or carbon capture. This bubble and its misallocation shadow has to die, for the system to reboot.
Hilarious. Reminds me of Pioneer CDJs as well, even on the flagship CDJ-3000 models. If you read the user manual it says:

> About using MP3 files

> This product has been licensed for nonprofit use. This product has not been licensed for commercial purposes (for profit-making use), […].
You need to acquire the corresponding licenses for such uses. For details, see […]

Best use an open audio codec instead.
Sounds insane. But what is more surprising to me - is why dolls were taxed differently than other toys. At first glance, it looks like stupid rules force to play silly games.
Second law of thermodynamics is the applicable one here.
Nikon has been killing it lately. Z8, Z9, Z6iii, lots of cool lenses! If you're in the market for a full frame body and "the holy trinity" (16-35, 24-70, 70-200 F/2.8), you can't go wrong with any of the major 3. They're all very competitive.

(but I would go with the Sony because I like their designs the most, Nikon would be my 2nd choice)

Nikon users are missing out on a 16-35 2.8 though, but I'm sure Nikon is working on it.
Still waiting for the water to flood New York...
The gym revenue model.

The indie / startup space has been so all in on subscription revenue that I guess it's not a huge surprise that the big companies eventually tried to get in on the act.
> What does it mean for climate change? ...think twice if you want a basement

Why is climate change a problem for basements? Is it to do with flooding? If floods are likely to affect basements, doesn't that suggest an opportunity for sacrificial basements?[0]

[0] "The construction of concrete ground structures or sacrificial basements is a recognised solution for construction in areas of high flood risk. The habitable spaces are raised a minimum of 600mm above the level of design flood risk, while the basement area can provide additional nonhabitable storage space." https://www.basements.org.uk/TBIC/Building-Legislation/Plann...
> professional body membership is becoming more important for programmers. People need to be able to say "I studied what you asked me to make, and refuse to work on this illegal, insecure, depressing cruft, and if you fire me for having professional ethics my lawyers will empty your company bank account."

I think this might be an interesting one to consider, other than the "depressing" bit of course. The problem is, I think, if you have the accreditation and you develop an insecure application, do you lose the accreditation? What's the tradeoff?
It does work there is just a bit more effort involved in setting it up
We are also very isolated from the people who benefit from our labour. We do not see anyone benefiting from what we do.

It is also now usual to pay less attention to doing good work; to produce cheap crap or to design systems to trap customers into subscriptions or otherwise do bad work for greater profit.
The whole real-camera-as-webcam field seems like a complete disaster. The few models that do work well in this scenario (clean HDMI output, no auto-shutoff, etc) became very expensive during the early pandemic days.
@tipiirai your measured and patient responses in this thread are impressive to witness. It's bloody hard to not come back fists swinging when you're dealing with this level of resistance, regardless of why. <Chapeau />
The logic should apply to both, there are no good guys here, just two armies of savages fighting each other and people getting killed, including innocents that just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I pointed out Palestine because Israel is in a dominant position, so it is unlikely that they would want to protest, peacefully or not. But it would be nice to see more "peace-and-love" movements like in the 60s that opposed the Vietnam war, among other things.
I really wanted to work with native SwiftUI, but the lack of hot reload and long waiting times for the preview to refreshes is just painful. React Native on the contrary, delivers good enough live feedback experience. I don’t enjoy React, but compared to waiting 10 seconds for preview changes and occasional “expressions too complex, break it down to smaller one” - I’d choose React. I do still trying to code natively on every XCode updates; just with the hope of it getting better somehow.
> any employers would survive long if it transpired they were disfavouring members of IEEE, ACM, IET or whatever.

I highly doubt most employers even know what those organisations are. Taking it even further, there is probably even a significant amount of devs that are unaware of them as well. I don't think devs have this much power. Unless you are a tech company, devs are likely highly replaceable and in my opinion the trend goes in that direction. Obviously, this excludes skilled FAANG devs
By default you can `ls` almost anything on an entire drive.
Not everything advances. We still have houses built in the 1800s/1900s that are usable in predictable/similar climates/circumstances. A changing climate changes that.

Sure, we could bulldoze everything and build new stuff that can handle a +2C, +3C, +4C, etc... world, but that's expensive.
> AI-upscaled to 4K resolution

oh man i can already hear the cinephiles crying.
Flights Diverted as SpaceX Starship Explodes over Caribbean
Again, insane that the president elect does not believe in climate change and chose to blame supposed DEI practices in California's firefighters while the fire was burning.

Nothing will change, houses will be rebuilt the same way in the same place.
Thats probably not a cross compile then, its an emulated compile. Cross compiling is basically the same speed.
There is a beginning of solution for popups in Firefox DevTools.

You can toggle `devtools.popups.debug` preference [1] to true in about:config
and DevTools should open on popups.

Unfortunately, there is some limitations, highlighted at the end of that bugzilla entry. It won't work for <a target="_blank">, while it should work for window.open usages.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1569859
In my mind all these productivity systems cook down to creating a list of tasks. The list can be between 4 and 10 items. You do one task at a time and when you are finished you can cross out the task. This is the extent of focus my brain is capable of. Creating giant backlogs and plans is just | /dev/null in my case.
So American and Asian consumers can pay the same price for the same device that can do more, but to protect me, the European, my device must do less?

It is I the customer who will pay the tariffs (they are always paid by the importer) - the manufacturer gets the same amount per unit.
Agreed! But it's hard for beginners and intermediate players to follow that kind of path without a culture of coach-directed learning. For best effect, a gruff, grizzled, Soviet coach.
Hilariously well written.

"But the problem with checking if the user is a god, is that the user is a god. They can just tell you what you want to hear."

NISUS: Good. Out of the door. Line on the left. One cross each. Next. Crucifixion?

MR. CHEEKY: Ah, no. Freedom.

JAILER: Hmm?

NISUS: What?

MR. CHEEKY: Eh, freedom for me. They said I hadn't done anything, so I could go free and live on an island somewhere.

NISUS: Oh. Oh, well, that's jolly good. Well, off you go, then.

MR. CHEEKY: Naa, I'm only pulling your leg. It's crucifixion, really.

The author earned a discount on his Big Mac.
They’re copying the same anti competitive move Google performed. By forcing a price increase through illegal bundling, they take revenue away from smaller competitors. After all, businesses won’t feel like spending twice on an AI product. It looks like Microsoft lets you opt out for now, but I bet that will change.
> And give many of Europe's house's a small rattle and they would fall down.

In areas where we don't have earthquakes, yeah, what's the problem?
Snuggies are "used" and not "worn" in their promotional materials, because it's better to be taxed as a blanket than a garment.

https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2017/02/snuggies-ar...
It's probably getting better but the amber-colored LEDs used to be rather inefficient. I've also heard that white lighting can slightly improve reaction times of those in traffic and leads to slightly clearer captures for security cameras. I personally think these benefits do not outweigh how extremely ugly and unwelcoming they are, but "city officials just don't care" is not what led to the adoption of white LED street lighting at all.
> For your "streamer" stuff, I'd expect them to use something appropiate to the job

They mostly don't, though. The standard "high-end" streaming setup is whatever second-hand mirrorless camera has a clear HDMI output, and an HDMI capture card.
TikTok but on the Fediverse
Loops is made by the same person who makes Pixelfed (ActivityPub-based Instagram-style app).

It's in early beta and it takes a few days until you get access after signing up, but the content is already super engaging.

I think this could a good way (and timing) to get more people introduced to the Fediverse.

Note: It looks like it's not federated yet, but it should come soon. Makes sense to start this way, I guess.
The key thing to understand is that you don't get to choose when the house gets destroyed or get advanced notice. Which means you might be in there, or your kids, or all your belongings. But yes, after you're dead in the rubble someone else can rebuild your house and it might be cheaper.
So, uh, has anybody noticed that the headline is false?

You can use your Canon camera as a webcam without having to pay for it. It even says so in the last image in the article! You plug it in via USB and you get a webcam. It's just that you can't use any feature other than reading the video feed. But you can get other software for that.

I guess "You can't use Canon's webcam software to adjust your video feed, or remote control the camera, or get 60fps video; that will be $5/month" would make a less catchy headline.
Yep. This is a sign that the meetings have already happened, and that the course has already been set. The idea was already sold, has picked some momentum, and possibly defines a few people's bonuses.
and sea level rises are slow enough that countries with more high ground than The Netherlands can just not rebuild/maintain old houses in vulnerable positions and build higher (often just a bit further in) instead.

Some buildings buy the coast (especially in port cities) and have steep rises anyway.

There is a huge threat of cultural loss - e.g. Venice.
I notice that the post is now gone. Looks like she locked her feed.

Probably because of this discussion.
Yeah its much easier to do things that actually have clear useful outcomes in the tangible world.
Rethinking fertility trends in developed countries
I firmly believe this is the branch digital cameras are dying on, and at this point, probably must die on.

If these opened up, at least to the level iPhone did in 2007, they'd have an ecosystem as people still used them. As-is, for most purposes, my Android phone is a better camera than my full frame interchangeable lens camera.
> there are things like helicopter tours to the top of Mt. Everest if you really just want to go to the top and see it

There are not, getting a helicopter to the top of everest is a major achievement in its own right, to the point that airbus brag about the models of their helicopters that have achieved it.

There are regular helicopter tours to the base camp, but to the summit? no, that's still a rare special event, and usually only done by a solo pilot since you're way out of the helicopter's maximum ceiling with load.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier_Delsalle
Streamline SME reporting with an easy to use multi-user multi-role platform
On a long-enough scale, this planet will die anyways. Let's first try to expand life and unlock the secrets of the Universe, as much as possible.
The LLMs are not just another tool for these folks, but for folks who should not be touching code at all. That's the scary part. In my field (industrial automation), I have had to correct issues three times now in the ladder logic on a PLC that drives an automation cell that can definitely kill or hurt someone in the right circumstances (think maintenance/repair). When asked where the logic came from, they showed me the tutorials they feed to their LLM of choice to "teach" it ladder logic, then had it spit out answers to their questions. Safety checks were missed, needless to say, which thankfully only broke the machines.

These are young controls engineers at big companies. I won't say who, but many of you probably use one of their products to go to your own job.

I am not against using LLMs as a sort of rubber duck to bounce ideas off of or maybe get you thinking in a different directions for the sake of problem solving, but letting them do the work for you and not understanding how to check the validity of that work is maddeningly dangerous in some situations.
>"maybe they just vanish into thin air tomorrow"

This is the exact platform of at least one political party on either side.

Over and above any underlying cultural or historical conflict.

It's when misguided political parties gain power that puts that kind of thing on steroids.
Community notes working really well, checking Musk’s weird attack on this person who is simply using staff to edit his YouTube videos.
Overwhelming fraction of comments focus on the "AI contributed code" while back to reality:

> Global belligerence will make itself felt in our community. The world as a whole does not appear to be headed in a peaceful direction

If the geopolitical landscape continues deteriorating the tech universe as we knew it will cease to exist. Fragmentation is already a reality in egregious cases but the dynamic could become much more prevalent.
Lockheed Certifies F-35 to Use Sustainable Fuels
I think he's getting at the pair of boots theory.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory
Yep, I'm on it. Thanks!!
Apple suspends AI-generated news alert service after BBC complaint
In Spain every device you buy that has some kind of storage is taxed for piracy, the money goes to the local equivalent of the RIIA or book editors associations.