skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> > An alt-store stands to capture more value on iOS than Android, and spying on iOS users is probably a whole lot more lucrative than spying on Android users.

> How so?

What... part of this remains unclear? It's the same incentives that drive iOS-first development choices, with the added wrinkle that the App Store restricts the potential of certain monetization schemes (spying on users) more than the Play Store does. All that means the incentives to distribute apps outside the App Store, or to launch an alt-store, are stronger than on Android.

> I think American Apple users just don’t realise how insignificant Apple market share is outside the US.

I do realize. I think you may be overestimating how much all those Android users spend, and how much their eyeballs (and personal data) are worth to advertisers, compared with iOS users.

> Android was open from the start. Giant like Amazon tried to kick start all stores. What did happen? Nothing.

My entire point is that there are enough differences between the two that we can't assume they'll behave the same.
>And enough systems no longer ship with CSMs that people aren't using FreeDOS for firmware updates any more - it's either Linux or a UEFI executable

Is this only for OEM systems? I'm used to seeing these happen from inside of Windows, with the exception of motherboard firmware all happening inside of the setup program. It would make sense for much of that to be EFI applications nowadays, although there's not much in the way of context around these GUI wrappers to really indicate what's going on under the hood.
>but I want to be reminded how much I am paying, and what I am getting in exchange for that

Do that on your own time. Stop forcing the rest of us to pay Intuit $30 every year just so we "stay informed" or other nonsense.
Amen, I'm becoming an old grumpy engineer on my team for constantly asking why we need yet another <insert cloud technology here>. I'm not against new technology but I am against not considering what we have and how it may already solve the problem without adding wider breadth to our operational surface area. And it's every single damn year now because now cloud providers string their own cloud primitives together to form new cloud services.
Could it be that Google is pissing off Samsung with their garbage Android releases whose most visible effect is that of actively ruining the user experience?

I can imagine that creates work and headaches for Samsung, and other vendors.
Amex Green?
https://archive.is/vRWoT
The U.S should loan Elio Motors to produce their electric car and offer a $7500 tax credit. Then the cost of it would be $7500 after rebates. If the company can't deliver, The U.S could seize the company and sell the car themselves. They already sell a public-health option for insurance. Then they could copy the solar panels from Aptera and add those to the Elio's roof.
Yup. Nissan Leaf, chevy bolt and upcoming equinox EV are my preferred purchases. I will never buy another IC car again.
emacs. LSP (under editor such as emacs[0]) provides the context/way for being able to define a specific language parse specifics about where to add/define emacs hooks/jump points for a given language nodes/files/modules/functions)

[0] : https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/tree-sitter-complicat...
This is what always made me chuckle a bit. I have a half dozen friends who were sysadmins 20 years ago and today they're "DevOps".

Precisely zero have been put out of work.
A GPU crisis could be one reason why age of giant AI models is ending
The entire premise of entrepreneurship is picking up on opportunities that others have overlooked, or opportunities that are emerging due to changes.

So I'm always surprised when I encounter someone on HN that's not on the lookout for these opportunities.
My above comment may not be useful or interesting. I'm not complaining; rather, I'm seeking feedback. Is there a strong substantive argument against what I said? I'm happy to be proven wrong, or to be shown that I'm missing the point. Learning and seeing a new point of view is more enjoyable that pointing out weak argumentation. I push back to see if there is any there there.

To the substance: If one wants to argue that Semantic MathML ("SMML") will not be adopted, one would need to define a metric. Then we can model and forecast. I don't think the parent poster nor I have the time or interest to do this. I'll leave this heady analysis to the mysterious proprietary commercialized no-one-gets-fired wisdom of the Gartner Magic Quadrant [1].

Now we shift to utility. To argue SMML is not useful, you have to explain the costs and benefits of specific aspects.

* Of course markup has cost, but what are they specifically? It depends on many things, but the key ones seem to be the format/markup itself and tooling to help with it. Hopefully we can steer clear of holy wars here (aka the semantic analogue of the tabs versus spaces forever-war).

* And what are the benefits? I see three intertwined benefits: driving out ambiguity, easier categorization, and improved reasoning. Reasoning over mathematics can help find mistakes, prove theorems, connect previously disparate proofs and even fields, and lots more.

I haven't seen a convincing argument against the value of such benefits, other than arguing against their likelihood. But the latter seems hollow; such benefits can and do happen with human minds reasoning over mathematics. It is clear that computers can assist, at the very least, and perhaps even lead. I'm inclined to think that AI can scale up mathematical reasoning beyond human capabilities, even if the AI is quite far from human intelligence.

One might argue impossibility of one purported benefit of reasoning. Of course, this is downstream of the for what question, above. In sibling threads, I see what seems to be a false equivalence between formalization of mathematics and English. That argument seems to imply that formalization is "too costly" or "too difficult" or possibly even impossible. It offers shallow dismissals of the benefits at best. In summary, it doesn't make a convincing cost versus benefits argument.

[1] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/the-tech-tussle-over...
They would have import tariffs slapped on them, as with any other country. It's just that the tariffs are high
I also got middling results. I gave it a novel NASA picture of the moon passing in front of the earth, taken by the Deep Space Climate Observatory Satellite, so an unusual vantage point. First it was just wrong, and said that it was a picture of a crescent moon taken from a mountain top, or something like that. Not terrible at least it recognized the moon, but wrong. I tried to give it a chance and corrected it with the additional info that the picture was taken from space. It then did better, but on the last line it threw in that it was not a photograph, but a rendering of some sort, which again, is just wrong.

More and more I get the impression that people are so taken with the chat interface that they are grading these models more favorably than is warranted.
Are there any projects that are targeting enterprise/business use cases? I would love to have:

- a ChatGPT web ui (like chatbot-ui),
- but server side and (self-)hosted
- and with our own SSO auth.
- Bonus points for including Azure OpenAI endpoint connectivity + auditing/logging by user.

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Man I haven't used Google in 10 years yet I still say I "Googled it." It's just a saying at this point, not an endorsement.
I think the tip for 40 yr old FIRE is still gold. At 40 I'm mostly bored by work and just want more time for myself. My regret is that I messed up most of my time pre 35 so missed tons of chance. But still cherish what I have right now.
Some ideas behind ZKP scheme PLONK
Hitory, lax laws (esp. around consumer protection) etc.

On top of that the US is a rather homogenous market with a single language vs. 27 conuntries with 27 different languages (in reality more) and quite a difference in local laws (even if all are compliant with EU-wide laws). IIRC there's also an expectation in Europe that companies should actually turn a profit at one point (though with influx of American money this is starting to change, too).

You still get ASML and Infineon, SAP, Adyen, Amadeus etc.
I doubt the US wants to be in the business of selling cars. Definitely not its strong suit
Not my stuff but maybe in a few weeks as there's some additional concepts involved.

https://github.com/noizu-labs-ml/noizu-ops

https://github.com/noizu-labs/noizu-collab
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/best-esg-funds/

The biggest ones are of course Vanguard and Blackrock.

I don't really know what they gain from it. I don't think it's anything directly, but maybe it's part of the intertwining of state and corporation, where they scratch each others' backs and compensate for each others' weaknesses.
It's not clear what the value add of this is vs OSS DIY Spark + Iceberg?

Free option is already available through OSS Spark/super low cost EMR. What's your value add over those?
> Deconstructing societal norms is just too advanced material for young children. It also directly undermines parents who are trying to instill these very norms.

Kids crossdress in kindergarten; I don't know at what age discussion of why one does or does not do that is appropriate, but I can tell you that absent some rules it's just yet another fun game they play.

> Gender itself is not a plain fact about objective reality (like sex is).

That implies that when a boy picks up the feather boa in kindergarten the appropriate response from public education is to do nothing, right?

> Being racist doesn't stop you from judging what will secure or endanger your freedom, you may just reach different conclusions than other people.

Ah, but here's the rub: we had a whole fight about that topic specifically and decided to kick it out because of the damage we observed it doing. Separate but equal and its ilk didn't work; we have a cultural narrative of "all men created equal" (for temporally-expanding definitions of 'men') that is incompatible with racism.

On that issue, the nation (as a cultural construct) is pretty decided.

There are plenty who would love to reopen the question. The public education system is not obligated to give them a line-item on the SOLs. They can and will try to seize one, of course, via the democratic process (as is their right, and those who disagree with them must be aware that this is their intended design).
I hope they label it correctly but something to be aware of and avoid.
That may all be true, like I said I'm no expert in this domain, but none of that is obvious from just looking at the app. I think you'll need to find some way to convey the advantages that your app has to the kinds of people who would be interested in those features.

You must have put a great deal of work into this to create such a high-quality UI and handle all of those proprietary file formats. What was your goal when you started working on this ? I doubt you planned to just host it somewhere and hope the right people would find it.
My comprehensision is fine. For example, I comprehend you don't comprehend what propaganda is. And thus you're a sucker for it.
Bing Chat was better but after three months of very hard work Microsoft successfully managed to remove all the good parts.
> Service workers, which far outnumber tech workers, farmers, taxi drivers, etc are all better compensated in nearly every other European equivalent country than in the U.S.

No, they're not. The median income wouldn't be higher in the U.S. if the majority of its workers were not compensated more. In particular, with regards to commercial, full-time farming, farmers make far more in the U.S. (median commercial farm income was $186K in 2021 [1]).

Truck drivers in the U.S. earned a median income of $47K in 2019 [2] while truck drivers in France as of 2021 report around 25K EUR [3]. Many such examples.

> Well, for one thing, tech workers are not similarly compensated even within the US.

Sure, but we can compare tech hubs in France (are there any besides Paris?) to tech hubs in the U.S. or we can compare overall U.S. vs France. It doesn't matter how you slice the data: U.S. salaries come on top and by a large factor. This is also generally true across all engineering professions. As an example, take Civil Engineers (37K EUR vs $71K USD base) [4].

[1] https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-economy/farm-household-...
[2] https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/06/america-keeps...
[3] https://www.salary.com/research/fr-salary/benchmark/truck-dr...
[4] https://www.payscale.com/research/FR/Job=Civil_Engineer/Sala...
https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Civil_Engineer/Sala...
They really feel like they've reached a 'Microsoft of the late 90s' phase.
https://seekingalpha.com/news/3956715-reits-fall-this-week-e... (Apr. 15, 2023)

Be careful investing on things/markets you don't fully understand.
AWS doesn't even have a way to report a bug... what "on top of the list" are you talking about? Who else is on that list?

AWS support is atrocious, unless you cozy up to them somehow to get special treatment. If you are a "regular" customer, you get zilch. AWS offers best performance for the best price, that and they are the largest service provider is what makes them succeed. They don't need to spend anything on support -- it's not cost effective.

My personal experience: we provided a service through AWS marketplace related to storage. So, we are not your "regular" customer, had to pay them some for accreditation... and here's the thing: it's probably something about how we create EBS snapshots, but about every thousand or so snapshots creation stalls. Doesn't fail, doesn't succeed, just hangs forever. There's nobody to talk to in AWS about this. People who "certified" us (what a joke...) cannot do anything about this problem.

And there's more stuff like that. Sometimes some resources won't delete first 1-2-3 times you try. Some other resources are created, but don't work once in a blue moon. And all you can do about it is just curse and try again.
>Ops talent has really dumbed down over the last decade or so

Counterpoint, the ops required for your own infrastructure has greatly dumbed down.

It might surprise you, but OEM hardware solution have greatly evolved and simplified the same.

Now I can setup a core switch running 100 GBs with failovers by just plugging in some cables between them, setting a flag and they immediately start replicating config between themselves.

>Even for good ops people, it can be very hard to capacity-plan and understand what appropriate/affordable/useful hardware is. Most ops folks today have probably never purchased servers for production deployments.

I'll shock you once again, the same way AWS has sales and support departments that help spoonfeed what you need.

So do the hardware OEMs. I can get complete solution walkthroughs with Dell for example.
I don't understand why everyone doesn't do this. I'd buy a Tesla if I could get a $7500 credit (I'm income limited).
Is it better? It's flashy and interesting, but I don't think ChatGPT brings any actual value to the search use case. Other stuff, sure.
It makes perfect sense when you realize their world view was based in naivety and ignorance and belief. They quite literally believe that capitalism magically fixes everything.
I was half expecting some kind of 3d printable algorithm. Like a physical implementation of a sorting algo or something haha
> organized religion, self-help programs

Those are voluntary.

> the public education system

Yes and I do. That ought to be voluntary, but isn't.
Sure. I'm not saying their approach is bad or wrong, I'm supportive of it. I'm just observing that it results in far fewer people getting degrees. Agreed that this may be for the best.
Best i have found is https://www.macgpt.com/
> Any evidence in this area?

See danShumway's post below. People are regularly posting exploits on twitter, including getting the system to dump it's prompt.

May I ask politely, are you a programmer, and have you secured system's previously? It will change the way I approach trying to carry my message across.

For background, a finished LLM is a blackbox. You can't program the LLM in the box in the traditional sense, because we don't fully understand what happens in the box at a level where we can "code" it.

Judging the security of a filter by the cases where it works is a very bad way to judge security. Blocklists ARE NOT SAFE because it is impossible to account for the infinite variety of things that can be tried.

Here's a whitepaper on the difficulties. There's been lots of writing about this:

https://research.nccgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ncc...

Now, this has been shown to be difficult for really constrained scenarios, like SQL and so forth, but English has a million words, for starters.
This protocol/standard vs implementation is not uncommon. BIND was synonymous with DNS for a long time, to the point that I'd argue that some of the things specified in the DNS RFCs should have been considered BIND-specific implementation details. For example, RFC 1035 specifies the syntax of zone files used by BIND. I'd argue that even AXFR (zone transfers) as a replication mechanism should have been a BIND implementation detail.
We would implement it through the "4 freedoms" of software.

https://edtechbooks.org/openedreader/stallmans-four-freedom#....
Well, for many people, FIRE means Forced Into Retirement Early so the retire early with financial independence is really the only winning strategy.
A few weeks back helped someone move from EC2/ELB/RDS to Lightsail Vm/LB/Database The same app and stuff, but the price is now fixed[0]. So many apps can use something like Lightsail and cut costs. I am surprised AWS don't promote lightsail. They also have a weird OS selection and still have CentOS 8, which is no longer supported. They treat Lightsail as a second-class citizen.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/
MikroTik CRS504-4XQ-IN Review - Momentus 4x 100GbE and 25GbE Desktop Switch
GITHub is here [0], and this is under an MIT license - which I couldn't find on the documentation site.

[0] https://github.com/nmwsharp/geometry-central
Truly impressive stuff -- with Windows 11 being kind of terrible, I wonder if we'll soon reach an inflection point where Linux is the OS-of-choice for PC gaming.
> There is functionally no comparison

Yet. That is the goal, though.
Its still a 27k car. You get more with a gas car at that price range.

EVs are purely novelty item at this point. An EV vehicle is fundamentally simpler than a gas car in terms of parts required, and should be cheaper to make and way cheaper to buy new.

Also you would see way more functional tech in regards to EV, like for example, cheaper battery packs that don't offer as much range and are power limited, but keep the price low. Or trunk mounted gas generators with fuel tanks for longer trips.
Matamoros is.. not in Texas?

The Texas side of the border is way safer than Matamoros.
Elio can't still be around can it?
I was about to say that a lot of this is completely ignoring the few network vendors/chip vendors that have completely locked down hardware/chips that you're buying from them and effectively acting like a value added reseller for companies like broadcom.
I believe what they gain from it is investors.

... which ties back to the "It appears to be what the people want" problem. Granted, money may be a bad proxy for what the people want (and we could have an entire conversation on the caustic effect of financial inequality of the stability of a functioning democracy). But to the extent that capitalism likes to imagine we can conflate the two... If it pulls in the dollars, it's the thing that's wanted, right?
I can’t believe I’m arguing for this but why is this necessary. I’ve gotten comfortable with my walled garden…
> CPU is typically kept in reset until the clock is stable
> It is therefore able to start executing the microcode

At the very beginning, what is keeping it in 'reset' and initiating the execution of the microcode? Through what means?

From what I understand, in the first few hundred nanoseconds it's just an electrical current that's flowing through the CPU and nothing else.
no the rates can change at any time
Revenue is nice, but is Google Cloud profitable?

I can generate huge revenues selling $100 bills for $95.
The US has the best healthcare in the world, period. It's just not cheap. Brazil isn't even remotely comparable.
Over 40, very nervous about the coming layoff. Also worried by not being debt free, not being able to find a new job quuckly, not being able to improve health in general, etc. Basically worrying about everything but should be fine eventually.
It's not a GM product.
Not in CA, but where I live there is continuous work on covering canals. A lot of canals were dug a century or more ago and are just ditches, something like 60% of water is lost to evaporation and seepage. The issue is still the cost, the price of water delivery is not generating the revenue to do it all at once. If they can also do solar, they can recoup those costs faster.
This made me think, I'm 45 right now, and this week is 30 years working in IT for pay, not a hobby. If I'm still in tech (which I don't see that changing too much) I'll have a 40 year career at 55. If I retire at 65, that'll be 50 YEARS in tech. Wild how time both flies and stacks up.
I don't see any resemblance to the witch-scare. The most popular books back then were about finding witches:
https://theontarion.com/2020/02/28/witchcraft-and-the-magic-...

Which means it was mostly unplanned mass hysteria...

Classic Maoism is NOT unplanned. It's is all about taking advantage of the dumbest members of society to enforce arbitrary dogma that is pushed by the state.
> Monzo is the only one in the list that has a banking license

Starling also has a banking license.
>we've come full circle

Triangle, surely...
Any hope that we can replace the traditional family-based society with some sort of urban community thing has been dashed already by the ultra partisan libs versus cons divide and conquer tactics of the elites and their tools in the media
This is what people say but revealed preferences say otherwise.
Sorry to be the one who brings you up to speed, but this is just adding one more option for both the gov and civilians to track people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog_Reveal

As for randos tracking women, or anyone, this is already happening

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/18/1080944193/apple-airtags-thef...

https://www.komando.com/security-privacy/modified-airtags-us...

and trackers are a dime a dozen it seems, complete with cellular data plans

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=gps+tracker+for+vehicles
InfraCopilot is built on Klotho which is designed on top of an adaptive architectures[0] paradigm - meaning every element in the internal representations is interchangeable. However if you think of an architecture as a puzzle, changing one element to another doesn't always just 'click in' - so the Copilot engine propagates the changes into the adjacent puzzle pieces and continues to reshape them until everything clicks again, ensuring that the result is valid. If it doesn't know how, it'll let you know, and why.

Right now the architectural patterns are curated, but algorithmically tested. The next phase is to combine curation with patterns from the community.

[0] https://adaptive-architectures.tech/
To the average VC a computer switching on is secret sauce enough, the rest is really just an implementation detail.
Lightsail is heavily throttled, so I wouldn't use it for anything "serious".
I should say - 'did they forget to lead with'
Man, I remember arguing with so many people, who were on complete copium, regarding this decision.

It should have been obvious, for anyone who has following this whole saga, that eventually Apple was going to be forced to open up.

Sure, maybe it was the Epic lawsuit that did it, but there were a dozen different vulerabilities, and pathways to them being forced to open up. If it wasn't that lawsuit, then it was going to be a new law, if not in america, then instead in the EU.