skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Asking GPT-4 to make you an entire application as a complete amateur is absurd and shows you don't understand the context window.
The HP-25 was a hand-held programmable scientific/engineering calculator made by Hewlett-Packard between early January 1975 and 1978.

Wirelessly charged battery pack. Whhhhhatttttt
The full pdf is actually quite short. I don't know what supply management means, but I assume it is something similar to this:

https://modernfarmer.com/2022/05/cheese-caves-missouri/
The forked Android version is using it already for the last two years.

Any Android 12 and later has a little bit of Rust taking care of the bluetooth communications driver.
Check out https://www.learndatalogtoday.org/

From the link:
“Datalog is a declarative database query language with roots in logic programming. Datalog has similar expressive power as SQL.”
That's his whole point. It's possible to consider it technically correct, but it's a red herring.
Puerto Rico is a resource of developers that are within US jurisdiction.
I used this one: https://lodev.org/cgtutor/raycasting.html (note this is just chapter 1 of 4 related chapters)

It's decent. In some cases it's a bit clumsy when they try to explain mathematics in natural language, but we can't always have pretty Latex-rendered math functions and graphics. =)
The percentage of end-users who care about which language their OS is written in rounds to zero. Rust may add additional stability to the OS, but modern OS's feel pretty stable to the mom and pop users and "additional stability" is pretty far down the list of demands.
(dev here) We're using GitHub as an issue tracker because it's easy and familiar to developers, that's all.

We do also have some core components (mainly GPL) open-source on GitHub though: https://github.com/orbstack

The only reason pricing isn't solidified yet is because it's a complicated market (Docker Desktop, Colima, etc.) and frankly, I think it'll be pretty hard to get this right without losing a lot of users. Hearing everyone's thoughts on this has been really insightful.
Depends on turnover of inventory. If you get new styles every single week because you are into fast fashion, photos are already a big burden so imagine having very precise measurements. Especially when you know customers typically don't read. It's just not good ROI for a product that might just last a few weeks online. You'd have to show that products with very precise measurements have a substantial lower return rate, which I don't think you can.
my parents and their friends are in their 80s and are ALL on ipads now, and this is by their own choice, not their kids pushing it on them

nothing to "administer"

the platform is curated

it does what they need

it runs on battery for a long time
I urge you to research how much cash and investments Apple currently holds. Last year it was around 200B.

Yes, Apple Silicon is innovation. But is a drop in the bucket. A sense of scale is very important.
> The tool cannot spit out entire applications yet,

Yesterday I had a ticket at my job to extend some functionality in a code base that was probably 200 files and 100+ lines of code in each file, and that's before any `import` references to other libraries.

How can you feed all of these tokens to GPT-4 in a cost effective way so that it knows about your application well enough to recommend/pull off code completion at a human-like level?
You're right, this is a job for the government... but the government isn't solving the problem. "Let's just" have the government do their job. Call me when that happens.

While we sit around waiting, the private sector stepped in with a (interim?) solution. What's wrong with that?
Check this out: https://juba.github.io/pyobsplot/
Pretty anecdotally but I have a friend on an H1B1, and he's actively going though the green card process now.
If all that matter to you is RAM and HD space, you can as well buy a cheap desktop tower. As for "similarly spec'd" laptops if you put good perf and low consumption in the equation, they just do not exist. Yes Intel Mac were not extremely interesting at least on the CPU + GPU + RAM + HD + power side of the equation. The M1/M2 is - esp if you also value a decent screen. And the M1 + 8GB is reasonable depending what you are doing with it.
US officials lead urgent rescue talks for First Republic
Definitely counts. Very cool.
Loki is open source. OP should take some of that frustrated energy and create a PR to improve the docs. I don't think this is a matter of Grafana Inc not wanting people to run Loki themselves but rather a resource constraints issue.
Something is going on with Xeon-W. Intel started "shipping" Ice Lake Xeon-W in June 2021 [0], yet today in April 2023 major PC OEM vendors such as Lenovo, [1] Dell, [2] HP [3] and Apple [4] are still shipping workstations with the older Skylake Xeons in them and none of them offer a workstation with Ice Lake Xeon-W. Either the chips are not available in volume or a large segment of the PC industry decided not to update their computers to use the new chips.

[0] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-ice-lake-xeon-w-to-c...
[1] https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/workstations/thinkstation-p-s...
[2] https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/workstations-isv-certified/p...
[3] https://www.hp.com/us-en/workstations/z4.html
[4] https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/
And indeed in most Romance languages (with the notable exception of Hispanic languages). English is showing its weirdness again.
You probably need to rebase that for usage stats (install base)
Cloned implies that it is 1:1 identical, but the syncopation and inflection very clearly isn't.

A parrot mimicks and doesn't quite sound like the original. E.g., if a parrot mimicks me on the phone, someone can probably tell it isn't me even if it does sound similar.

It's fascinating nonetheless. The potential for crime is huge, and people already fall for crappily written emails and broken English phone calls. They call enough people, they'll eventually find an appropriate mark.
That's really addicting! :D

If this is mobile responsive I will probably use it a lot.

EDIT: Works flawlessly on my phone. Wonder if I can host it locally on my Android, so that I don't even need an internet connection...
> If you start with flaws of any kind

I asked it to start and it provided me the flaws :D I can share the prompt if you'd like.
Yeah why not? Just replace the thoughtfulness of creating something for a loved one and the human ingenuity to do it (however simple) with an AI. I do not yearn for a future where everything is replaced by AI.
This is fascinating and bizarre. Any idea what those people expect or would prefer to see? Ancient wooden tubs, and people in quaint medieval costumes stomping grapes with their bare feet?
I'm not so sure, I remember being unable to sleep after watching 'The Mummy' in my early teens because I found the idea of scarabs crawling under my skin particularly horrific, but haven't really noticed an effect since. I imagine horror movies may actually be better than more cheerful movies because they tend to involve dark scenes that probably don't mess with melatonin production as much.

I would like to see that study happen, I think the outcome might surprise (especially if they compare several different genres).
“installing Windows XP on reasonably fast modern systems is very amusing, the setup wizard will say that it has 30 minutes remaining and then proceed to blow through the entire installation in less than 15 seconds”
Yes, many proprietary software developers who don't respect the freedoms of users make money piggybacking (some might say parasitically) on open source software releases.

I'm not sure what this has to do with open source, however. These people aren't even part of the free software community, as they obviously don't care about software freedom.
(Dev here) If you're interested in what makes it possible: https://docs.orbstack.dev/architecture

Happy to go over a specific feature — obviously can't share too many internal details though.
Yeah, definitely worth looking into. I think Stripe has their Connect feature which might facilitate payments between people. Could be fun to tinker with. Thanks for the feedback!
I understand it could be Russia detected the device and was trying to disable it, or was getting intel on it, before it was triggered.

But in the case that _they_ planted the sabotage device, what does this do for them politically?
> The milk most people drink is proceeded in facilities that look much the same, because whole batches of it are ruined by a single germ, since it has no immune system either.

But you're not growing milk in those facilities, only storing and processing it. That's an important distinction, because it means with milk it's totally fine to deal with those "single germs" with long-understood sterilization techniques.

If you try to sterilize your "lab grown meat" cultures to deal with the germs, you're going to destroy your "meat" too.
> or they could just hire people in the US, there's plenty of good US labor to go around.

the business of those companies is to bring some person, pay him $50/h while charge client $300/h. Good US labor wouldn't agree to work for $50/h.
> USA opens about 500,000 new software development positions per year.

I absolutely do not buy that number. The citation you've given is "GoRemotely" who a) only cite that for one year, 2017 and b) are obviously biased towards inflating numbers.
As someone that has enjoyed Minneapolis St Pauls heavily interconnected bike path system, and then goes to uber-car-centric southern areas (not even shoulders on the roads to support bikes), it blows my mind, especially some place like Houston.

You don't even have "real winter"! It is far easier on a bike dealing with rain than dealing with six inches of snow and packed ice. Four seasons of bike trips! Don't they know what they are missing?

And with e-bikes and the like, you don't even need to worry about getting sweaty in the 100 degree heat. Instead it is an awesome breezy trip.

Houston for example has the beginnings of this: a big path down some stream/water transport that splits down the middle of the city (Macgregor or something like it. A built in ebike crosscity-thoroughfare, you just need to urban plan some extension bike lanes and boom the city is 10x more bikeable.

But Houston is, for example, forbidden by the Texas legislature from funding any mass transportation, because the Texas GOP is ... insane. Well, everything in Texas is insane.
The good thing about consent in this case is they can just "return" the gift by paying you their portion of the bill, and if they don't consent isn't really violated. You went from owing the restaurant to owing them.

But why take the joys of life and make them difficult? Let your friend enjoy himself by being generous.
Why doesn't Russia give advance warning when using hypersonic missiles?

The goal of war is to make your enemies surrender and to take their resources. If they are destroying infrastructure then they want control of the land. They can't control the land if it is occupied. Their perceived enemies must flee, surrender or die fighting. They may likely rinse and repeat with Poland, Iceland and then others based on their troop and vessel positioning.

Obligatory, "War never changes." [1] not to belittle a war with a game intro but it holds true

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM3Y6uw6FtU [video][3 mins]
I use Typhoeus which uses Ethon depends on ffi. Crash happens.
Sorry English is not my mother language.
The (a) scams and (b) insane volatility.

The folks you are alluding to who fall into this category are the least sophisticated and most desperate. This makes them easy marks. They shouldn't be buying into unregistered securities to resolve their banking problems. That's how we got the Great Depression and why we not have an SEC.

Further, these folks are disproportionately affected by the insane volatility and high fees of the crypto space.

These so-called financial products are just proxies for US dollar liquidity in the global financial system. If we had to write a prospectus I don't know anyone who isn't a money manager who could figure out how to actually deploy this sensibly. Let alone a homeless person without an address. How are they to 'do their own research'?

Something that makes the problem worse isn't a substitute for a proper solution.

In the US you generally need an account at an AML/KYC exchange to buy crypto for dollars and a bank account, so already we're off to a bad start. Or you can use a bitcoin ATM, which costs like 20%, dramatically worse than predatory lenders.
What a funny hoax.
Ah yes I remember being surprised at those chicanes that are so prone to issues between cyclists and pedestrians. I took it in not too busy times/days so it was ok in that regards but it must really be annoying during rush hours.
My wife and I lived on a Sailboat for a few years. The boat had a 20 year old SeaTalk bus connected to the sensors (depth, wind speed/direction, water speed). I bought a newer radio with an AIS receiver. Of course I wanted to hook it all to my computer & phone.

So I built some hardware to interface with the SeaTalk network, the AIS radio (and a modern GPS)
https://github.com/johnboiles/Helm-hardware
https://github.com/johnboiles/Helm-firmware

And a Python proxy running on a Pi to pass messages back and forth across the network.
https://github.com/johnboiles/NMEAProxy

And an iOS app that could drive my autopilot
https://github.com/johnboiles/helm-ios

Since my proxy spoke the NMEA standard, you could also hook up with other apps like iSailor and get all the sensor data + gps + AIS data.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wärtsilä-isailor/id398456162

To my knowledge, 0 other people have ever used any of this but I've always been proud of it :)
Oh you're absolutely right, the notion that you can own information is absurd. Maybe it was necessary at one time as a kind of training-wheels for innovation, but we've long since outgrown it. It'll only ever get more and more absurd.

But if somebody you don't know is doing something that's benefiting you, and you're not contributing to their ability to continue doing that thing in some way, then you might be shooting yourself in the foot. In any future worth pursuing, they'd be free to stop contributing if they felt like it, but wouldn't it be a shame if they did so without even knowing that their contributions were considered incredibly valuable by somebody?

Like, imagine if Pythagoras couldn't afford food and had to give up geometry club and get a "real job". That would be to everybody's detriment. So while I think that "property" is the wrong tool here--we shouldn't be witholding access to our contributions for any reason--I do think we need something that's a little more impactful than an upvote for saying "more like this please".
I agree! When memory became a commodity --- there are periods in markets when nobody confers distinction --- then maybe you keep your hand in to break even or small profit. But keep your eye on the next evolutionary step. Compute co-located with memory (non von Neumann) is that step. With the hw, there'd be an opening for a next gen OS to run it.
Deciding to give Intel massive subsidies would require congress to agree and enact legislation, and that isn't happening with it being a politically fractured senate and house. It also isn't exactly sustainable to just keep funneling truckloads of money into Intel to be competitive and kind of pokes a giant hole in the idea that the free market is supreme at solving all problems. In the end subsidies just contribute to rising inflation (it's printing money). The fundamental problems have to be fixed.
I built an emulator for HUB75 LED matrix panels.
https://github.com/ty-porter/RGBMatrixEmulator

One of the side projects I work on is a scoreboard that displays MLB scores. It's highly configurable -- you buy the size panel you want and a Raspberry Pi, install the software, and you can configure it to display games, standings, and news headlines for your favorite team or division.

The problem is that the hardware is purchased by the end user, so it can come in many different sizes. I think we officially support 6 or 7 sizes right now, and each panel can be a chunk of change if you get a nice one. If we wanted to test on every device that means I need to shell out 50 bucks x 7 sizes, plus Raspberry Pi and wiring adapter, so not insignificant for a hobby project. Instead, I wrote a drop-in replacement emulator that makes it super simple to emulate any size panel across a variety of display types.

The most advanced display adapter spins up a minimal webserver and serves emulated images over a websocket, meaning you can display your panel over the network on pretty much any device with a web browser.

I write about it quite a bit, if further interested: https://blog.ty-porter.dev/categories.html#emulation-ref
Exactly. H1B hires don't have the same freedom to look for another job, because a new employer has to hire a lawyer to transfer the H1B, and not many companies have the resources or are willing to do that. Even if a company offers market wages when hiring a H1B, it's arguably a better investment because they have far lower mobility. That isn't good for anyone except the big tech firms.
Be careful with expectations though. "If I help my friend, he'll help me in turn" is magical thinking. There is no such deal in place. Ungratefulness is very common.
Why? To both statements.
It's extra bitter to see Intel exit NAND because they largely invented & drove NVMe. The p3700 was the first mainstream NVMe drive, July 2014, & is still a beast, still pleasantly fast with stable & high iops, albeit lacking in raw bandwidth.

The before times were so awful. A sea of proprietary interfaces, dubious drivers. Intel identified a huge weak point in the ecosystem & created radical change where it was needed, taking something exotic & astronomically priced & building a stable better future, around what has always made PC so exceptional: standards. The flash industry was a mess, & Intel more than anyone made it real.
Huh, interesting. Apparently, Marathi is the 13th largest language in the world by population of native speakers, yet I've never heard of it. TIL.

Is there anything you know of that's linguistically interesting about it besides what I can learn from Wikipedia?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi_language
I was told that in the early stages of dementia, it's good to challenge their unrealistic beliefs, but in the later stages its best to go along with them.

Middle and late stage dementia patients are basically in a constant state of confusion. The human mind can't handle being confused all the time, so it will make up stories that make their world make sense. Once they're at that stage, it's kinder to just let them live in that world, rather than pulling them back into confusion.

When my mom used to take my grandfather with dementia out to lunch, he would always insist that he'd been to that restaurant before, even if he hadn't. It was his way of convincing himself something was familiar, limiting that perpetual confusion.
We should. That's what the E1/E2 categories are for; H1B was designed to address labor shortages, not necessarily/specifically for attracting highly skilled workers.
> return fraud

Is it actually fraud if it's a 'no questions asked returns' policy, and does not specify anywhere you aren't allow to wear it for an extended period of time before returning?
Ask HN: Messenger for Grandparents?
Hi,

I want to somehow add my grandmother (88) to our family group chat on Facebook Messenger. She is living alone and needs contact with people. She is really smart for her age but has never used a computer.

I'm looking for some wrapper for Messenger to make it dead simple for her to use (big font, no accidental clicks, no closing, always on).

Do you have any recommendations?
Show HN: Nekton – Automate your workflows with AI
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Hi HN,

I'm Alex, founder of Nekton. You can use this service to automate your workflows. First, you can describe your workflow as text steps, and then Nekton AI will convert them to code and run it in the cloud.

The code can make network calls and integrate with different external APIs and services.

Nekton is in early access, but you already can create step-by-step checklists, mix together manual and automated tasks in a single workflow, collect user input with forms, and share the workflow with your teammates.

We have a sample workflow that you can play around with after signup.

Let me know what you think!
There you go, have fun.

https://reactos.org/
> Though there's other sides to it too, like the local youths who apparently find cycling inherently amusing and worth an attempt to intentionally run me off the road.

I second that, this winter I was cycling in the night, and local youths found it would be funny to scare me while they overtake me. One night I had 3 cars who did this "joke".
Yes, this is a major unsolved problem to my eye. The cost of living in Columbus - while nowhere near the craziness of coastal cities - is steadily rising. Real estate in surrounding cities is also going up, and it's hard for me to imagine how all those working the jobs that will supposedly be created by the fabs will afford to live near them.

One development in Ohio has been a proposal for a passenger rail line that would connect Cincinnati, Columbus, and Cleveland. I'm originally from Crestline - a small town which sits right on the rail line between Columbus and Cleveland, and which used to be a big railroad town. It's interesting to think of how my hometown might change if passenger rail were to actually happen (though I'm skeptical, as versions of this plan have been proposed for decades).

That said, there are some major problems to overcome if we wanted to start doing "state-scale" transportation like that - Columbus is a very car-centric city, and in the scenario where I would move home and ride the train to Columbus when I needed to go to the office, it's very unclear how I'd get from the station to wherever I'm going.

Furthermore, there was just a very public and catastrophic train derailment in Ohio, which can't do much good for public confidence in commuter trains.

Either way, the next decade or so in Ohio will certainly be interesting. Columbus has a burgeoning tech community with lots of VC investment, and while I'm not sure where I'd put the odds, it's not impossible that our little flyover state could become the proverbial "heartland tech hub".
https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/cmov.html
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obviously, for Linux to ever see mass adoption it would need a drastic reformulation like Android

my point is, once Windows passes the event horizon, Intel needs SOMETHING or they are going to see 2/3 of their revenue stream go away...cloud vendors are busy pushing ARM in the datacenter now too...Intel is running out of markets

btw AMD is also screwed by all the same logic...x86 is on the endangered species list
Show HN: Artifice - Making Machine Learning Transparent and Accessible
U.S. Rep. Angie Craig drops college requirement for staffers
I wouldn’t be so sure that most of the population could relate to the horrors of factory farms and slaughter houses—where basically all meat they’re buying comes from no matter how many alleged free roam grass fed consumers claim to exist on social media.

That’s why there are laws to keep them from seeing it. Which might be why so many HNers think animals grow up in sunshine and rainbows and it’s the sterile lab that's icky.