skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Going to link this here: https://www.reddit.com/r/alexa/comments/11f6vuv/alex_app_not...

Date: 1 March 2023

Title: Alex app not opening on iOS?

Author: kprecor

Body: This morning, I notice my Alexa app on my iPhone 13 is not opening. App Store doesn’t show any newer version. Anyone else having this issue?

Comments:

dalmarnock: "Delete the app, reboot your phone and re install it. A few have reported this. Runs fine on my iPad though"

> kprecor: "Thanks. That worked. Started asking me all kinds of initiation type questions about the users in my family and freaked me out. But looks like all my lists and devices are still there. Phew. Thanks for the quick response"

>> dalmarnock: "Yeah recent versions go thru all that on login. However, on the plus side, it looks like they might be starting to make some inroads into proper user profiles - in the USA version, different profiles can have their own default music service, profanity and Autoplay settings under music&podcasts. Supposedly they can link their own Pandora accounts as well, but surprisingly not amazon music or other services yet. At least it looks like they may be developing a framework for that - at last."

>> Muted_Sorts: "Because it is going to individually identify your family members and build profiles of them, even if they are underage?"

Drivingmecrazeh: "Yep bug has been filed with Amazon. No one should have to delete an app and reboot the device to reinstall it. I'll await a fix before doing this step. This clearly missed a QA unit test. The reviews on the app (sorted by most recent) are echoing what this thread is saying, too."

> kprecor: "It was definitely poorly rolled out. But if you really need to get into your Alexa App and can’t right now, I will say that deleting and reinstalling worked fine and caused no harm. It does ask you for some more info on yourself and members in your 'family', but it’s minimal and once done the rest works fine. You can always lie about the questions too if you are worried about what they are asking."

Looks like Amazon knowingly released updates to Alexa App (mobile app) that targeted children. Amazon would then create child profiles linked to the parent account. Amazon does this without ever providing clear disclosure of this by the person using the updated version of Alexa App. In addition, this means Amazon could in theory create profiles of ANYONE speaking near someone who makes use of Alexa App. Because Alexa is spyware.

From the linked article:

"Alongside the $25 million civil penalty, if approved by the court, Amazon will be prohibited from using children’s voice information and geolocation data subject to deletion requests for creating or improving any data product. Amazon will also be required to delete inactive child accounts on Alexa, notify users about the government action against the company and of its retention and deletion practices. Amazon will also have to implement a privacy program to govern its use of geolocation information."
> To me, this why AVX didn't get widespread use.

This is flat out false. The rest of the comment is therefore superfluous.
This Tapatalk by chance? I only remember it because it would sign your posts with a little ad.
Peter Thiel literally already sells this. He calls it "Palentir" because he is an ass
> every user using Apollo instead of their own first party apps is lost revenue

That's maybe true as a first-order effect.

But, for the ads that everyone else sees to be worth anything, the site has to be worth visiting at all. If your most dedicated/prolific users mainly post/comment using third party apps, then making their experience worse will reduce the quality of the site overall (even if you start getting revenue on behalf of those dedicated users).

It strikes me as a very shortsighted move.
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1. https://www.getmonero.org/downloads/

2. https://www.getmonero.org/resources/developer-guides/

Or just join libera.chat (IRC) and hang in #monero-dev
It can be rational and still be BS.
Ask HN: Severe brain fog and scattered thinking – tips on fixing?
Hit my limit today when I was on a call with a new colleague and found myself rambling in circles unable to put together a clear and coherent thought. This is an issue I’ve long struggled with. Every psychiatrist I have seen has blamed anxiety and yet none of the anxiety medications I’ve been prescribed have moved the needle in mending my cognition.

I’m at wit’s end and fed up with the runaround by doctors who aren’t interested in getting to the root issue.
Is the math that the dev did broadly accurate? If it is, it seems they could safely charge 10-19x less and get more revenue per-user than they do from ads alone... assuming that even a 10x lower cost would be affordable for third-party clients, which isn't a given.
Nah I grew up in a different part of southern WV...and a few decades too late to be responsible!
> > As a German citizen I don't agree that I have to sell my freedom to American companies

> I mean your government already sells it to the USA government; why would you expect it to go any other way?

Citation needed to show that German gov't sells data to US gov't. They may provide it for free, but I never heard of payments between gov'ts.
on the bright side, it looks like it will be cheaper to make your own platform

there's plenty of areas you can improve upon functionally for a modern forum
Nope, that is “Celebrity What-Ifs” on the Midjourney Reddit…

The source linked from the tweet is https://bjoernkarmann.dk/project/paragraphica, but it seems to be not responding.
> 3. We have not built superhuman AGI. But superhuman AGI is probably possible.

"Dumb" AGI is yet to be proven theoretically possible let alone superhuman.
> Is client_id something you have to register with reddit?

Yes.
If an LLM can magically invent a way to kill someone with plausible deniability, that is just as dangerous for a private company or citizen to have as a government.

I would argue worse actually, because most CEOs seem to believe if you can murder someone and get away with it and it would benefit your business, you are legally required to do it.
There was a 15 year period where many websites were only compatible with Internet Explorer. The dream of clients in control is worth fighting for, but it’s never been reality.
You could always co-opt Dread ;)
I think wild real quick might be a bit extreme but cyclomatic complexity[1] is a source of unnecessary complexity in software. While not a problem per se, all unnecessary complexity adds up. Leading to the eventual death of the project[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Peter_principle
If it matters that much that your tests are in a real browser environment what you are writing are likely integration tests, rather than unit tests. jsdom is great for unit tests that need to test a bare minimum of side effects.

I know the distinction between unit tests and integration tests doesn't matter to some, but I still see a huge usefulness in distinguishing because unit tests should run in the "inner loop" every time a developer is touching code (so must be fast to avoid sapping productivity) and integration tests can be delayed until the "outer loop" (CI processes and UAT processes) so are allowed to be slower. Booting up a "real" browser is definitely on my slow things list and not something I think belongs in unit tests.
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I don't doubt it.

But being cleaner than your perfect car isn't the requirement.
> Indie game studios use some of the same engines (Unity, Unreal) as AAA, and those engines definitely require GPUs.

That's funny, because I have no GPU on any of my machines, yet I can run games using Unity, Unreal, etc. I can even run at least some AAA games, albeit poorly.

Most people I know don't have a GPU, but most do play modern games on their computers.

Edit: I think I should clarify what I'm saying, since someone downvoted me and the only reason I can think for why that is is because of this confusion. I'm talking about dedicated GPUs here, not integrated ones. The topic of conversation was around dedicated GPUs.
Is there an actual S3 protocol definition/RFC anywhere? How does one go about implementing an SDK or do most people just use AWS's SDKs?
Link to some discussion without context. Apparently this is about Apollo which is some alternative Reddit app.

https://apolloapp.io/
It's really hard, maybe impossible to come up to a new place and instantly take a good shot.

You need to stay there, move around, explore the space, the light, the interaction with the living.

Eventually you find a good way to tell the story of the place. You get lucky. Sometimes it's fast, sometimes it isn't.
Thanks! Looks great, bookmarked.
A lot of time, money, and effort. It is fairly infeasible.

And even if you build it, it will start out empty.
I had a few model rockets, but I also made some completely custom ones out of index cards wrapped around a small motor. I added curved fins so one would spin. THAT was interesting! One of my (normal estes) rockets was hanging from a tree over a bike path by the park for like a week until I finally brought a ladder and some poles to get it down. Honestly I'm surprised nobody ever tried to grab it lol.

Edit: The very first estes rocket was from a kit - our teacher had a "rocket week" and we all made and launched rockets. Mine went up, a fin fell off, then it u-turned, and then went straight for the math teacher.
It's hard to parse this marketing speak, you are better at specific frameworks than the mono-framework tools, and a better general tool than general tools? But specifically, how?
Some things go up over a thousand percent in just six months:

https://secure.runescape.com/m=itemdb_rs/top100?list=2&scale...
SpaceX's Dragon splashdown with Ax-2 astronauts looks at nighttime
Have to love that SpaceX news is now so routine that it isn't making it to the HN front page.
Prompt engineering tutorial
Fun thing is that inverter is the clock in this case. The time keeping device. The wall clock is just a display.
Another StarFive JH7110 board, eh? It's shaping up to be a popular chip. I wonder how hard it would be for a different chip vendor to produce a pin-compatible clone? Please, overwhelm me with cheap interchangeable RISC-V SoC's... my body is ready.
AFAIK, ADO came about because of the "clone GH" proposal having died, but somebody wanting to revive it. Microsoft is a big company, there's a lot of moving parts and a lot of recycled ideas.

Also, AFAIK, the Microsoft monorepo in git did not originally live in ADO. I'm not sure if it does now, either, although it'd make sense for it to as the ADO dogfooder.
pathResponses:
notFound:
status: 404
contentType: application/http-problem
apiResponses:
serverError:
status: 5XX
contentType: application/http-problem

Can't stuff like this be implicit rather than needing to be defined? Or, to say it another way, we're building this over HTTP, which already defines these things and many others.
Narcisse Pelletier
Smart watches and mobile apps could transform life for Type 1 diabetics
One thing I noticed is that they have a table in the appendix where they show that some of the datasets used for finetuning were already included in the pretraining.

Is this the first time they have published that there was synthetic data in the GPT-4 pretraining dataset? Maybe that's part of the secret sauce behind why no one can catch GPT-4? I don't recall anyone else mentioning synthetic data.

It certainly explains why there are so many people on the data team at OpenAI.
Kirkpatrick's slide notes of those UAP's typical characteristics:
round, 1-4 meters diameter, white/silver/translucent, at 10K-30K feet altitude, up to Mach 2, no thermal exhaust

That is quite revealing in my book. Those are no conventionally powered "drones".
Discussed at the time:

Notes apps are where ideas go to die, and that’s good - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30344237 - Feb 2022 (158 comments)
I have to admit that I really dislike using ~12V batteries for high power applications like this. I say this having built a ~400A ~14V system. It’s miserable.

1 kW at 100V or 250V or similar uses a nice, small, flexible wire. It can be quite safe because it can be fused or otherwise protected at low currents, which mitigates the risk of welding things, starting fires, or arcing. Ground fault protection, arc fault protection, and general loss-of-isolation protection are available. It’s easy to rework (lever nuts! screw terminals!).

400A (or even 80A or so like in this article) is a whole different ball game. Sure, you have to work hard to electrocute yourself. But you can easily set things on fire or weld things together without coming close to blowing a fuse. And you need to protect both ends of wires in a parallel arrangement. And the wires are enormous, expensive, and hard to terminate.

I would much prefer one of three alternative designs to become popular:

1A: a series arrangement of batteries at a civilized 48V or so. You can do this with an aftermarket BMS, but they tend to be janky.

1B: same but actually high voltage (a few hundred V, like an EV)

2: batteries with microinverters and a civilized way to share current. A manufacturer could make a single package with a 1kWh battery, a BMS, a low voltage, low current DC auxiliary output, and a ground-fault and overcurrent-protected 110-250V AC input/output. And an RS485 or 10BASE-T1S or CAN connection so that they can coordinate their I-V characteristics to appropriate distribute charge or discharge current.

Now you can connect as many microinverter-batteries as you like in parallel, using #14 wire, to one ordinary circuit breaker per battery plus (depending on the overall arrangement) one big breaker to protect the common bus.

edit: Also, with this design, no one, not even the manufacturer, needs to touch a heavy-gauge wire. Everything in the battery would use cheap, painless busbars or small wires, depending on the internal voltage, and the manufacturer could set the voltage however they like. Although 12V internally might be entirely reasonable if the end user also wants to consume 12V at very low currents through the aux output.
Rarbg was also notable because it was public, you didn't need an account, and it was a lot more accessible (and safer) than other sites. Even TPB eventually required a bunch of JS just to see anything and they'd use that JS for shady things like crypto mining.
I believe the guy occasionally posts here, or has done, under the name BeeOnRope, also on StackOverflow. I printed out some of his posts here about memory bandwidth. The guy really, really knows his stuff.
> That kind of ignored what I wrote earlier.

No, I didn't. Someone who is indoctrinated to "foster critical thinking and show proper scientific methodology" and does so is simply following their indoctrination.

There's always ideology that goes so unquestioned that it's hard to see it for what it really is, an ideology.
This "require licensing to own and/or operate GPUs beyond hobbyist capabilities" policy is exactly what Sam Altman asked Congress for last week, and what a bipartisan congressional committee seemed to agree with.
I don't know maybe you would maybe you wouldn't.

All I know that huge numbers of employees of both large and small companies regularly use company provided Macs and Iphones for work. Are you actually disputing that? Really?
It's only BS because you have to pay more.
Olfactory problems? What's your sense of smell like?
I feel like this is Conway's Law at play. People would create high quality paid apps if the users that want to pay for them could find them, but if somebody makes something that's perfect for you, how do you discover that it even exists? The organizational structure of the web is the problem.

Google and social media platforms have shaped the web to be entirely advertisement driven. If they were capable of showing you things you wanted to buy, without the creators paying to be seen, they'd never make any money.

Almost anything you ever want to do, someone else has already done well, but despite that, it's hard to find snippets of code you can include in your projects. It's easier to just write it all yourself. If the usefulness of ChatGPT is an indicator of anything, it should be an indicator of how much is out there that you never get to see. The sad part is realizing that that's intentional.
It would be really interesting to hear what the founders think about the current state of Reddit, given that we know they're HN users as well.
> will likely cut more than an ideal ratio for nutrition

or likely will not

> That also doesn't consider the fact that the effects of excess sugars/carbs is worse than excess calories from fat.

this is offtopic, I never stated that excess cabrs/sugars better than fat
Hey, co-author of Lance here. Lance is faster in random access because the layout / encodings were designed to be fast in both scan and random access case. We borrowed many ideas from Google's Procella paper, and Arrow's in-memory layout. Also we added a bunch of I/O exec plan optimizations with the assumption that it has large-blob columns (i.e., image, lidar point cloud) during scanning, which do not exist in traditional OLAP systems, because their workloads are different than ML training.

Re-implementing Lance in Java should have very similar I/O characteristics. There are actually some efforts to support Lance in JVM / Spark data sources.
20um x 20um is still a bit impractical -- it gets close to the practical limits of wafer dicing, and you need support circuitry. That said, we've made useful payloads in as little as 100um x 100um; here's an example of our (published) work in 200um x 200um:

A 200µm x 200µm x 100µm, 63nW, 2.4GHz Injectable Fully-Monolithic Wireless Bio-Sensing System

http://www.travisdeyle.com/publications/pdf/2017_rfic_implan...
> Purely anti-competitive behavior here

An app that uses reddit is not a competitor to reddit, it's a client of reddit. No definition of "anti-competitive" applies here.
My guess is that keeping API access behind a paywall is a money maker for a few specific client sets; the ones that immediately come to mind are Trading Companies (both traditional and crypto,) marketing companies (analyze trends/etc,) as well as large orgs with some form of reputation to uphold (i.e. large enough where just one person manning the account is not feasible.)
You're very welcome!

I wish you all the health and well being. Work shouldn't be a bad stress, it should be play, a good stress.

There's lots of good info on getting started with exercize, intuitive and non, here on HN and elsewhere.
What's the power draw of your clock? 50Hz is within the range of most LFO circuits (Low Frequency Oscillators) of the kind used for modular synthesisers and guitar effect pedals. You could combine one of those circuits with a simple voltage follower (consisting of a power op-amp or BJT transistor plus a couple of resisters) to keep the frequency at a stable 50Hz under load, and finally a transformer to convert the signal up to 110V.

All in all, I would estimate that this could be done with a single IC providing a few op-amps, a handful of passive components and a transformer; probably under US$30 or $50 with a nice case and plug.
Smell seems fine
More than the anime production is that anime-fans are database animals — they catalogue anime to ridiculous degrees. Some of the best image training datasets were always the boorus; anime fans have basically been prepping for ML/AI since the 80s
Or the British suspiciously inventing nuclear weapons/power relatively quickly after the occupation of India. Or even when they began trading. Nor the Greeks. But maybe the British were just playing the long con. Well played British... well played. Waiting a hundred years, giving the technology to the Americans, and letting Germany bomb your cities and almost occupy your country. Very crafty.
You tell them that this is the greatest danger to humanity of all time and that they are uniquely suited to averting that danger and they don't have to change or sacrifice or risk anything in their life while fighting this danger.

It's a very compelling combination of ego and convenience.
I didn’t create the meme of a neckbeard wearing a fedora. Know you meme entry [1] is 9 years old at this point.

Just like I didn’t create the trope of a scientist wearing a white lab coat. But if someone is doing a 2 min video sketch of a scientist, it is a good visual aid to include a white lab coat to communicate to an audience the role of a character.

And in the same way, a top hat would communicate a certain kind of character in a movie.

In the same way, there is a communication of a particular kind of character with other hat choices.

1. https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/tips-fedora
You're allowed to disagree with that, I stated it as my opinion. It's what works best for me for the type of work I do (programming, design, photography, video).

By "desk work" I mean the type of work where the physical distance between your eyes and the display is ~50cm. Mobile devices like phones have higher pixel density because they are held closer to the eyes (~25cm) than a computer monitor on a desk. Angular pixel density is the important factor here.

As kitsunesoba mentioned, I find >200 PPI much easier on the eyes when reading and writing text, my eyes don't get nearly as fatigued as they do on low PPI displays.

I think it's one of those things that once you get used to high PPI displays, it's really hard to go back to low PPI. Have you looked at a pre-Retina iPhone or iPad recently? Would you take that over the high PPI display common on every mobile device today?
Anthropic's Claude is said to be very good.

Instruction tuned LLaMA 65B/Falcon 40B are good, especially with an embeddings database.

...But OpenAI has all the name recognition and ease of use now, so it might not even matter if others ambiguously surpass OpenAI models.
reminds me of when Snap-On tools had a nice bump in stock price prior to Snapchat IPO
The argument in favor of self-sufficiency/independence lasts as long as there's virgin land and resources available.

As soon as things turn into a zero sum game, consumption by definition deprives another, and there needs to be a better method of allocation than first/strongest.

To me, that's what restraints on direct democracy are -- ensuring that even those without numbers/power/pathos can get a fair shake. Because the best for everyone doesn't always come attached to the most of any of those.

E.g. I fail to be able to describe a scenario where raising taxes would ever win a straight democratic vote, even if it were a blatantly existential crisis for a nation.
I'm willing to believe that the best electronic switches can last longer than the best mechanical switches, but there's so many more ways for an electronic switch to fail that it's a lot easier for me to trust an off-the-shelf mechanical switch than an off-the-shelf electronic one, especially if the cost of failure of the mechanical switch is just an easy swap in of another one.
The main problem with Reddit is the moderation. It all hit the wall when Trump was elected and the Reddit directors decided to run around like chickens and clamp down on half the community. The website has become a far-left US-centric mass market echochamber.
And? Companies can target multiple markets simultaneously? I mean basically every other phone or PC manufacturer has tried to become a lifestyle product Apple has just been way more successful at it...

> especially in American business.

Well more American business can afford spending an extra $1000-2000 on superior hardware* for their employees without thinking about it that much. What's wrong with that?

*comparable laptops for Dell, Lenovo, HP etc. cost not that much less for Macs. What's the difference between a Dell XPS and a Macbook in that regard? Or Dell is also a lifestyle brand?
> I didn’t create the meme of a neckbeard wearing a fedora.

But why should he not be allowed to wear one? Again, you're policing. It's a discriminatory dick move.