skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So, here’s an honest question: which approach is actually easier, more cost-effective, and energy-efficient?

Really it's more like three questions.

1. Easier? I guess that depends how you define ease, but it largely depends on what resources you have available to you. If I'm Meta and I already have a ton of compute and AI training expertise but don't have relationships with all of the airports, stadiums, etc., their approach is probably easier. You'd have to spin up new teams of people all over the world to get beacons everywhere you want them.

2. Cost-effective? I don't know enough about the costs of your solution to give an accurate answer here, but again it just seems like they're probably already spending resources training models on a huge number of images of the world, so maybe not a lot of incremental cost here.

3. Cost efficient? I would assume your approach wins here.
Can't disagree with that. If it's still fulfilling it's purpose, why change?

Smart TVs really aren't very smart and a nicely ripped 1080p Blu-ray often looks better than what the streaming services will stream you anyway.

I don't think I'd even have a TV if it were just me. Wife and kids seem to need one though, so simplicity counts. What would they do if they couldn't watch people who watch people play games?
That was my biggest criticism. Maybe I could have suspended my disbelief back when I was single, but now I'm thinking "my wife would be holding an intervention for me after the first day, if not sooner".
It just got unflagged? I didn't know an article could get unflagged.
I'll agree with you on that, but I think there's a really important thing that we have to also say about their business model: they developed and launched a product they knew couldn't live up to its billing or its price point. It shouldn't ever have made it beyond its conceptual investigation. Put it on the back burner, try again in five or ten years.
Fun fact: one of these was adapted into a first person action RPG for Nintendo DS. Balance is pretty wonky, but it controls well, and there's something novel about seeing a game that looks somewhere between Daggerfall and Morrowind on such an underpowered system.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=QvLxVnWpQhs
I just refreshed HN. This story is #10 when I'm logged in and gone when viewing from a private window.
I had a similar experience but with simple Marijuana.
I was getting migraines every week for months. Specifically my eye would catch light at some strange angle and it would almost burn itself onto my retina (massive light sensitivity). I was also highly stressed at the time.

I was laying in bed with a migraine on a Saturday early afternoon. Smoked some pot (I am not a day smoker, generally pretty sober during the day) and then sat down. I just told myself that this was stupid, I live an incredible life, have a family that loves me and its all self induced and I was done with it. Forced myself to get out of bed and just started moving. Trudged my way through it that day and have not really had a migraine since. This was years ago.

I have occasionally had that initial flash of light that tells me a migraine is coming (always while sitting down to work so I know its stress related). As soon as it hits, I close my eyes and just will it to go away. Has been pretty successful. A couple of times I have had to sit there for 10 minutes for the lens flare (for lack of a better word) to go away. This has happened maybe twice a year for the last ~4 years.

Not saying its self induced / stress for everyone but this worked for me.
In isolation, no - but this is not about an isolated topic: a transparent public call to tender, with due process, would be necessary if a government wanted to overhaul their ATC systems.

I personally view the action of giving a task to a company (SpaceX) that is legally under the oversight of the regulator (FAA) whose inner systems are to be overhauled - without contest - as problematic.

But maybe that's just cultural...
You can list lots of people who haven't suffered his wrath. But that's not evidence, that's lack of evidence. I can provide you with someone who does have his phone number and does know him and says something quite different[1]. There's a litany of examples of Musk deliberately endangering people he's decided to go to war with - whether that's spurious accusations of pedophilia or forcing a former employee to go into hiding.

[1]:https://samharris.substack.com/p/the-trouble-with-elon
Few days ago, in Poland died a journalist, historian and former Auschwitz concentration camp prisoner. He was known for speaking every year there. His last speech was - remain vigilant.

I think that speaks for itself and I need not to comment on this.

Americans, why? Why are you so keen on dabbling with a homegrown fascism of yours? Why are you so keen on setting the world aflame?
Not to mention the Xbox iterations...
Is the idea here to basically transform the almost unlimited degrees of freedom an AI has in manipulating rastered image properties from one frame to another in a limited set of known things it can change?

I mean, unless its a wild magic sci-fi movie, it makes sense that once a character is known in separation to its background, that the background doesn't change with a hands movement of the character. And the character cannot move beyond earthy physics?

Is that what this is?
The glasses aren't recording non stop
none of this has anything to do with air traffic control. and it's about NASA's agreement with contractors like SpaceX, not SpaceX's relationship with the FAA.
You don't have a network to maintain. If you have a server, it's already on a network.

And you don't have to do any more maintenance on Postgres/MySQL than you have to do on SQLite. You can leave them running for years without touching them. Maybe you want to upgrade them, but maybe you want to upgrade SQLite too.
Some people collect failures.
What's a few orders of magnitude among friends, eh?
If you can change it with your environment, you were misdiagnosed
> What signs do you expect so it can be called fascism?

I think some people just know a few images from the Nazis at the height of their power. Or the death camps, that were only discovered because the Nazis lost the war (the plan was to erase all traces, after all). No concept of the 1920s, not even "Mein Kampf", nothing.
Today there is a one woman campaign against lead in consumer products by Tamara Rubin. [1] Unfortunately she doesn't know how to make a professional looking website and doesn't have a degree as a doctor (which would be of no value in her endeavor- operating an XRF tester and posting the results). She is however trained and certified in performing XRF tests and has probably done more XRF testing of consumer products than any other human being. Her testing has been verified independently when the CPI initiated recalls of for example baby bottles after her initial reporting.

I found her information after one of my children tested high for lead levels even though there are no lead paint issues in our neighborhood.

The highest risk for severe lead contamination is still things from our past. Painting can still be dangerous- some houses still have original lead paint that has been painted on top of or they could have a deck that was painted with marine paint (which is still allowed to have lead). Another higher risk level is antique dishware.

In modern products lead and other heavy metal contamination issues are still somewhat widespread, but thankful at much lower levels than in the past- to the point that most people won't test high for heavy metals. But unfortunately it's possible to accidentally buy the wrong products and get unsafe exposure levels.

We only really have safety standards for products marketed to kids (e.g. baby bottles). If the same level of contamination exists on a small plate that is used by a child, it won't be recalled. For consumers it is often impossible to know if there is heavy metal contamination in a product. California's Prop 65 warning often indicates an issue with lead, but the issue could just be that the company didn't want to bother testing for lead in their product.

I think it is worthwhile to try to transition cookware and drinkware towards materials that are known to almost always be lead and heavy metal free- Stainless steel, cast iron, and clear glass. Additionally, this becomes another reason to eat whole foods since the manufacturing processes can also cause low levels of contamination.

[1] https://tamararubin.com/
> ... in the coming weeks and months, I and other progressives will be holding grassroots events from coast to coast.

> Why, at this moment, are we doing town meetings ...?

> Trumpism will not be defeated by politicians inside the DC beltway. It will only be defeated by millions of Americans, in every state in this country, coming together in a strong, grassroots movement which says no to oligarchy, no to authoritarianism, no to kleptocracy, no to massive cuts in programs that working people desperately need, no to huge tax breaks for the richest people in our country. And that’s what these events are about.

Meh. I'd say that the "progressives" had 4 year with Biden, to convince America that they were better than Trump. I never got the sense that they tried to do that, or even cared much about it. On the inside of their Shiny Progressive Bubbleverse - they were right, and Trump was wrong, and scoring "I'm even more Shiny & Progressive than you" points was all that mattered.

Vs. making sure that >50% of the voters really did prefer them? Lip service & pretend.

Or Politics 101 basics, like doing even the most basic opposition research on a certain Mr. Santos? Bah! - grunt work is for insecure wanna-be's and little people.
Sure. Pay me a million dollars and I'll take a punch. It would still be a terrible job, though.
There are explanations to the Flynn effect that go beyond isolated intelligence. How does one isolate intelligence test when society, nutrition, religions, educational systems, and the very IQ standard itself has changed?
1) Is a $1-$20M business requiring "humans in the loop" deploying, monitoring, and maintaining beacons with a single purpose, getting past lots of "humans with opinions" on "aesthetics" and "not in my back yard".

2) Is a $1-??? business requiring a few dedicated nerds working on CV with inf more applications and doesn't require "invading" physical buildings you dont own.
It will hit neither of these countries. It may hit India though.

We know where it may hit within a relatively narrow band. But we don't know where within that band. Because the Earth and the asteroid are moving so fast, we need to have the timing precise to minutes or less to have an idea of where it will hit (if at all).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_YR4#Impact_effect
It goes to [flagged][dead], people vouch because it’s [dead] until it’s no longer [flagged] or [dead], then flagged back to [flagged] and it can’t be vouched anymore.
At a certain point in terms of points you get the ability to vouch for flagged stuff. Altough, I think that privilege can be taken away if abused
What large entities do Musk and his crew have experience with auditing? None? Musk and his crew have no clue what they're doing, and they have no experience doing it. Only a fool would believe anything they say on the matter.
> I imagine soon you'll be able to ask it what the world is talking about today and get some interesting responses.

You'll get exactly what Elon wants it to say.
I have just one of the early SSDs still functional, the original Intel 80GB SSD, its too small for anything now so its retired with about 60% of its life remaining. Everything else of that era of early SSDs died.

The oldest SSD I have still in use is an Crucial M4-CT512 (https://www.crucial.com/support/ssd-support/m4-25-inch-suppo...) and that was likely bought in 2013. It still works OK but its always had an issue with some writes taking a very long time. The younger ones like the Samsung 970 Pros still work as new as do the cheap chinese PCI-E 4.0 drives.

I think the early SSDs weren't reliable at all but most of the recent stuff seems to be a lot better than the HDDs in the NAS which have a failure or so every 3 years.
I do not agree that others are exposed in a way that can be compared with how they are exposed to hidden spy cameras.

Whenever you are in a place where there are other humans around, you are exposed, regardless if they have cameras or not.

Just counting on the fact that most humans have poor photographic memory, so they might forget what they have seen at you, cannot be claimed to be enough to consider that you are not exposed.

Whatever you do not want to be remembered, you should not do in the presence of humans. Wherever in your home or at your business there is something that you would not want remembered by others, you should not bring any guests, regardless if they carry cameras or not. If there exists any "protected personal, health, financial, or corporate information" that you do not consider public, you should not show that to your guests, regardless if they carry cameras or not.

I agree however that any cameras hidden wherever you believe that nobody sees you, are an assault on privacy, unlike cameras carried by humans, who you must expect to be able to see and remember you (or any of your private information that is visible), even without cameras.

Therefore I believe that in the majority of situations, restrictions on the carrying of cameras, including such as the Meta glasses, do not make sense. Either the presence of the untrusted humans must be completely forbidden, or wherever they are allowed they should be able to carry their cameras or glasses with them. One of the acceptable exceptions is for preventing the recording of shows, where even if I consider that it is an abuse to forbid recording for personal use, I agree that otherwise it would be difficult to discover later whether such recordings are in fact distributed commercially.

For a visit in a company however, camera restrictions are useless, because usually far less of the private information of a company is valuable than its management or its lawyers believe. The really valuable information is usually small enough to be easily remembered by a competent human who has seen it, with no need to record it with a camera. Information leaks must be prevented by allowing guest access only in selected areas and by showing them only the information that must be shared with them, not by frisking them for cameras.
I can't answer for the File Pilot author but I've spent many years on writing a file manager.
* It's fun to write and to use. It's like craftmanship.
* Hopefully some companies/people will realize how many hours they waste using the default OS file manager
* It's less risky than developing a game full time (I think)
* Sure, I lost a lot of money to not having a normal job but my bills are low and my priority is more happiness
I think this was an honest mistake. But it demonstrates exactly why it’s so dangerous for Elon Musk and our president to make sweeping accusations before understanding the situation.

Lives are being ruined right now - federal employees, citizens who rely on the programs being cut, and people around the world who benefited from US generosity.

The sad part about all of this is that clearly in a system as large as the federal government, there is waste. Elon has the opportunity to make a real impact, but he’s demonstrated that he just cares about optics and will not put in the effort required.
A tsunami would be around 10-30 meters high and could reach several kilometers into the land. When assuming it’s around 44-100 meters wide.
True, but you might confuse people if you use a nonstandard construct like this.
She was really busy and left it too late to go to the card company by the time she had finished arguing with them.
With China spying around, you probably don't want to reveal the full potential of your technologies before you are sure that you will have permanent lead.
Managing multiple SSH hosts using inventory files in Sparrowdo
Less process creates transparency gaps which become opportunities for more corruption.
This is how you're playing this argument out??
From what I can tell it wasn't as prominent as it has been recently, with being a popular pick for random projects that weren't just gluing things together. The big companies that used it were perfectly happy specializing the interpreter to their use case instead of upstreaming general improvements
With a 1980's technology out of Xerox PARC, it is called IDE.
I was talking about prediction markets, not fusion.
Even in this case, you need to be careful with how you use HDDs. I say this only because you mentioned size. If you’re using big drives in a RAID setup, you’ll want to consider how long it takes to replace a failed drive. With large drives, it can take quite a long time to recover an array with a failed drive. Simply because copying 12+TB of data to an even a hot spare takes time.

Yes there are ways to mitigate this, particularly with ZFS DRAID, but it’s still a concern that’s more a large HDD thing. For raw storage, HDDs aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. But, there are still some barriers with efficient usage with very large drives.
You've got me hoping for a massive market correction now.
> They're both becoming increasingly "extremist" in their respective viewpoints, and unwilling to move toward "the middle" even a tiny bit to allow for any productive discussion or compromise that could benefit everyone involved.

In 2024, Republicans and Democrats in Congress made a lot of compromises to come up with a bipartisan bill to fix the situation at the southern border. Trump told the Republicans to vote against the bill that they had helped craft, because he didn’t want Biden to get the credit. They listened. The parties are not the same.
Saving My Table Tennis League's Hard Drive–and Finding Lost BTC
It depends on scale need to achieve. 1000 beacons easier for one town scale, but train model for each airfield is Earth scale(in 1990 in US was ~6000 airfields, whole Europe have less number of airfields).

Also exist some nuances, as some cities are flat but others have large hills, so need to place few beacons on sides of hill (rough surface need much more beacons).

Practically, I have experience in project to deploy LoraWan network in large city Kiev, and one concurrent bought research from cellular network planners and for first look they drawn ~300 access points to have more than 99% coverage.
Python code rarely breaks between minor version releases in my experience. Python 3.5 introduced the `async` keyword (PEP 492), and Python 3.7 changed `StopIteration` handling in generators (PEP 479).
Respectfully, I don't see how that comment relates to this discussion, can you help me better understand what you're going for?

In this case, DOGE confused 8M for 8B. That's 3 orders of magnitude of difference.

I don't see how having payments labeled differently would change that.
Can you clarify what you're implying the problem was here?
This is precisely the reason to not just shut shit down willy-nilly.
Here, adding more axes to consider:

In enterprise settings, what you are likely to be interested in is how easy it is to recover a RAID with a failing member. Now, here's an interesting part: the larger the disk participating in the RAID, the more is recovery susceptible to failures of the disk controller. It's possible that the failure rate on the controller is so high that whenever you are trying to recover the data, you will have a very high (>50%) chance of introducing an error... and so a RAID virtually becomes unrecoverable. SATA controllers are in that later category (and that's partially why enterprise users preferred SAS before NVMe + PCIe became a thing).
And yet every story mentioning Doge, musk, or Trump are instantly flagged.

Almost like most of the HN readership disagree with their actions, but a minority still manages to get the stories removed?
Yep. I'm confident the large cloud providers (Google, Amazon, etc) run enough SSDs that it's worth them having this data internally, but there's probably no motivation to share it, or maybe they see having the data as some sort of competitive advantage.
Yeah, that’s pretty much the idea. AI has a lot of freedom when generating each frame independently, which often leads to inconsistencies. By using a 3D base, we’re constraining that freedom. Locking in composition, lighting, and perspective so AI doesn’t hallucinate unintended changes. The goal is to have a stable structure where AI can still add detail and style but without breaking spatial or physical consistency.
It doesn't actually matter if they 'save' any money, it's a systematic use of smoke and mirrors to dismantle checks and balances to on the one side give free reign to capitalism and on the other to concentrate power. But this wasn't a secret, and 77 million people voted in favor of it despite knowing this was the plan.
Ukraine, duh. /s
Good question! When we say '3D' here, we mean using 3D models and scenes as a base to guide AI video generation. The AI isn’t just making things up from scratch—it follows the structure of a 3D-rendered scene to keep things consistent across frames. It’s not a product, just an approach to solving the problem of AI-generated video drifting too much between frames.
Musk is exagerrating as usual; everything is auditable, but not everything is always easy and instantaneous. He has unrealistic expectations and he's not really improving things. DOGE could have set up a better system but they instead seem hell bent on trashing everything (and getting write access on these systems they pretend to audit - meaning they can plant false data against the previous administration to try them Soviet-style).
Serious question, where do they post to?

As far as I can tell, Mastodon was briefly hyped on HN but nobody actually uses it. Bluesky seems to have a few people within a fairly narrow political range. Truth social is just for Trump. Reddit is pseudoanonymous as is HN. Instagram is for sharing photos not ideas or links. TikTok is a Skinner box.

I ask this as someone who genuinely doesn't know how to use the internet anymore. Reddit used to be useful but is now a cesspool. LinkedIn is a weird place where we all post like Stepford wives for our employers. The twitter-clones all feel a bit like using a paper straw to fight climate change.

I know there are semi-private slack groups and discord channels out there, but I don't know how to find or join them and it seems like a hassle to follow.

Basically, for me, no one I pay attention to posts anywhere any more.
The solution is to fix congress, rather than further consolidate executive branch. Later leads to very predictable outcomes, and they aren’t exactly democratic.

I’ll choose stale democracy over striving autocracy each day every day.
How are these "audits" going to uncover anything when the team moves on from them declaring great success in 2-3 days?
That’s not what I see. Usually it’s posts making factual claims that aren’t backed by evidence or which are otherwise breaking guidelines. The former seems to be a more widespread problem from what I’ve seen.
We will never know, but I wonder if it could be a power/signaling or VRM issue - the CPU non getting hot doesn't mean something else on the board has gone out of spec and into catastrophic failure.

Motherboard issues around power/signaling are a pain to diagnose, they will emerge as all sort of problems apparently related to other components (ram failing to initialize and random restarts are very common in my experience) and you end up swapping everything before actually replacing the MB...
Negligible is definitely not in the 3% range, that's a 1/33 odd, the odds of a professional bowler doing a perfect game are 1/460 and those games happen quite often.

I don't think you understand statistics.
If there’s clearly one right answer then why is it being asked? It’s so the questioner can either criticize you for being willing to misgender people, or for prioritizing words over lives, or for equivocating.