skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple is pushing PCM (private click measurement) as a middle safe ground, but nobody would adopt it if more invasive and accurate measures continued working.

They're probably hoping that advertisers will retreat to PCM instead of continuing the cat and mouse game.

PCM is an in-progress standard that, at a high level, allows measuring ad campaign success without tracking individual users. No such restrictions apply to query parameters, of course - so PCM is inherently more private.
That kind of UI makes sense if the interface has a specific purpose, and that's most of them. (Consider a web form.)

Some interfaces are more open-ended than that: command lines, search engines, programming languages, chatbots. There needs to be a lot of varied functionality for the more difficult learning curve to make sense.
Our company is trialing/thinking about going fully remote, but then having a few big "meetups/workations" every year. Maybe rent a nice cabin (big cabin) for a month, and people are free to show up for a week or more.

You get a little socialization going, you give people the freedom to choose, you still save money in total AND because the "hybrid" isnt randomly distributed, you might actually get all those "useful" communications happening.
Like this? https://gugenheimer.com/?portfolio=facetouch-enabling-touch-...
For the ones who don't live in Germany: it's just for regional trains. So for instance if you would like to travel from Dusseldorf to Frankfurt (~200 km) people usually take ICE trains (direct, around 1h 45min. and 90 euros if you don't buy the ticket in advance).

On the other hand, if you are planning to use the 49 euro ticket... well, you either can't make it for the time slot you want, or you'll spend 4h-5h (best case scenario) with multiple changes in between. Also, regional trains are not like the ones one see in the movies: they are usually crowded, noisy, not that clean, and they are not always on time... which is rather critical if you are changing trains many times (ICE trains are more like the ones you see in the movies).
Well for one thing the US has proven they are willing to come to your aid. You know, something called WW2 that you guys started. So maybe, I dunno, get a clue about history and who your allies are? It's kind of insulting to say that you see no difference to be honest. Next time maybe we won't show up when ya'll start shooting each other and doing genocide.
They already were. Before the pandemic, the compensation for commute was part of the salary. And you were expected to come to the office every day.

It was your choice to move 2 hours away from the office instead of having 15min commute.
> LLM are not intelligence because they're just statistical models

This is exactly it for me.
Train drivers are also called engineers, and much software development can be seen as engineering in this general sense.
A temperature of 1 just means using the probabilities directly from the model, you're looking for temperatures above 1 (which increase the probability of more unlikely tokens).

As someone who just implemented an LLM token sampler: `probabilities[token] = logits[token] ^ (1 / temperature)`.
Right... but Google and Microsoft already let you customise the names of query parameters containing tracking information - I can call the Google Click ID parameter "dave" if I want to.
It doesn't blanket-remove query parameters
In this case, I don't think the revolving debt goes to governments because it's typically serviced by private entities. Rather, it's how people maintain an inflated lifestyle predicated on inflated home values.
This is the south pole, near the center of the continent. Penguins are coastal.
They are still asking suppliers to solve the technology, yes.
Ask HN: Any dataset of threaded conversations of everyday work?
I want to get hold of threaded communication that happens at work.

I have taken a look at,

Mailing lists, but mails are elaborate and I want to specifically train a model on shorter day to day conversations.
IRC archives don't contain information about the message replied to.

Any open platforms/data sets you have come across where I can find the information containing regular day to day chats?
> After two months of daily ingestion of nanoplastics at the estimated human consumption dose

What is this said estimated human consumption dose anyways?
Or what Australians call "UTEs"[0]. Which is a class of vehicle regaining popularity in the US with the Ford Maverick and Hyundai Santa Cruz (which incidentally has a very similar shape/problems).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ute_(vehicle)
AWS DMS Serverless: Provisions and Scales Capacity for Migration and Replication
It is - EKS had fewer features.
Not a dentist, but I think it's the acid that causes tooth decay. Microbes create the acid from dissolved sugar in your mouth.

The question is whether coffee is acidic enough to do damage even without the sugar.
Ooh, that's a good idea. I'm a huge fan of co-ops (not for any principled reason, I just think they're cool). They aren't common for startups of the type we're writing about, but I think it does make sense to discuss that topic. Thank you for the suggestion!
Not one day. Facebook started this practice a year ago.
Is marketing getting good results from its research?

As always, with private, closed-down research, you can't tell. The instances I notice do clearly lead to bad outcomes, but that's a highly biased sample.

But anyway, I disagree that you can point to it as a counter-example. Not until you get some public data.
They cut headphone jacks to save space. No reason you can't cut a pointless outer display to save space too!
To be clear, it got the first question right for the wrong reasons, and the second question wrong for the wrong reasons. Its math is nonsense and doesn't resemble linear algebra at all. I would guess it's just saying "yes" without understanding and then regurgitates some stuff that resembles math, but is not recognizable linear algebra.

I've relied on GPT4 a lot while learning math, it has been very precise and has not lead me astray. I do use a text book as well.

I shared my story about it being wrong, but it was wrong in a very open minded manner. It knew C(A) = C(AA^T) might be true for special cases, but it couldn't see that it was true for all cases until I explained the proof. Even when wrong it still made compelling arguments that made sense. (Of course, arguments that are wrong but make sense are the most dangerous kind.)

GPT4 is still state-of-the-art. Claude has a ways to go.
Maybe someone put the wrong IV in?
Just curious - why is it so hard?
It "sees" something it "believes" is true, how is hallucination not an accurate term?
> and thus allows you to be tracked

While true, something to note is that german train and metro stations, in general, have no ticket barriers. Tickets are only checked by staff on trains, on a (very) random basis for local / metro trains.

I've had months in which my ticket wasn't checked at all while using it every single day.
> The old-skool approach is depending on a team of SREs or sysadmins to provision hardware for you

This assumes that K8s won't require a "team of SREs". My experience is you need the same amount of SREs to maintain Kubernetes, probably more, because now you have a complicated control plane, a networking nightmare, then you layer that on top of resource-contention issues, security issues, cloud provider compatibility issues, buggy controllers, the list goes on.

The only thing K8s is great for is the maintainers, the consultants, and highly experienced SREs that inevitably have to be hired to clean up the mess that was created. This is my experience working in two similar sized environments, one with >1M containers, and another with an equivalent scale of bare metal servers.
Maybe that particular proof wasn't in its training data, and presenting it in the input added it to the model's corpus for your session?

These models seem to work similarly with code. If you ask them to recreate something that appears in hundreds of GitHub repositories, no problem, a little bit of rubber-ducky debugging and you'll have a working solution. If you ask it for something novel, without many publicly-available implementations, the quality of its output appears to drop off a cliff.
The Next Generation of Serverless Is Happening
This is already available in Orion [1] which installs any site (PWA or otherwise) as .app

[1]: https://browser.kagi.com/
It can't be used to track citizens as there is no need scan the ticket when boarding a bus / train / light rail / underground and it rarely is checked manually by a ticket inspector.
For people down voting this comment, LastPass was hacked bigly late last year:

https://www.wired.com/story/lastpass-engineer-breach-securit...
We've seen what happens when laws require a supermajority from the senate. The government moves incredibly slowly and new laws are rarely passed.
Yes, but...

I know it is an early developer beta, and I haven't even begun to debug it, but Slack running in this method does not perform well. My sent messages frequently show and then get stuck in the grey "sending" text indefinitely after they appear as sent on other devices, and I often don't receive messages in the web app until I force a refresh.
Successful debugging session euphoria.
The net effect of this Apple "privacy" stuff is to make it very hard for small niche businesses with a limited budget to advertise effectively. There were tons of startup CPG brands like Dollar Shave Club that popped up during the great Facebook Ad banaza of the mid 2010s when tracking worked. This privacy crusade has just essentially cemented the big brands who can afford to do poorly targeted ad campaigns like TV advertising.
The WEB site is giving me a 404
Most startups are at least going to want to be able to deploy, scale up or down, and restart an app without downtime. I wouldn't say that's overkill.

While it's not impossible to do with a single instance, you can spend a lot of time shaving that yak. It's reasonable to pay a bit more to have that stuff handled for you in a robust way.
it's called "clear" gas around here. there's a website that tracks places to buy it in all 50 states: https://www.pure-gas.org - but I've noticed that it doesn't track every location and is often wrong about prices, at least in my area.

I've never seen "REC-90" and had never heard of it before your posting. clear gas in my area is 92 octane, with up to 110 available in select locations.

most everyone I know who drives a performance vehicle, or a motorcycle can tell you where their closest gas station that sells clear gas is.

> I doubt you have performed the experiment you described, for the simple reason that it's hard to find gasoline that's not mixed with ethanol.

I've performed it many times over the last 17 years I've owned my current car. the results are always the same: 25% better gas mileage with the clear gas.

I keep track of my mpg, and am able to quickly see any difference between gasoline grades. I typically drive in my car's "power band", staying between 5000 and 6700 RPM.
(Caveat: I don't know a lot about pass-through HMD AR, and I assume you're incredibly smart and that the patent is innovative.)

> …it's a little bit refreshing to know that Apple recognized pass-through HMD AR as too hard and decided to invest in compensatory technology…

I understand the framing as "compensatory technology", but is it possible that what Apple's doing is the simpler and better way to solve the problem? Pass-through AR strikes me as an old-school analog approach, like optical printing for special effects. But a 100% digital vision pipeline seems like it could unlock interesting capabilities like "night vision", new ways of highlighting interesting objects, etc.
Won't work with unique links like reddit or Instagram for content. Maybe just the share ID or device params might go
So long as it isn't modern US made Pyrex which is just soda glass not borosilicate.
I literally do not know whether I have one. I switched my plan for my local provider some time ago, but I still have no indication, digital or physical, whether I actually have such a ticket...

As usual a complete technical disaster.
Serverless Is the Future of PostgreSQL
> Suburbs don’t exist because of some big oil and auto company conspiracy. They exist because they give people an option they find more appealing vs urban areas.

No, modern car-dependent suburbs actually do exist because of oil and auto conspiracies. There exist options between high density and car-dependency. Surburbs can be walkable, and cities can have walkable low-density areas.
Per HN's Guidelines[1]:

"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously..."

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. "

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There’s the issue of building virtue and good character, which I suspect are ancient and long obsoleted concepts.

This pragmatism is understandable, but I don’t think it’s a nice way to live. Of course to each its own.
Laugh to hide the discomfort.
As someone who sat in on the product development discussions at aws about EKS the internal view was K8S was:
* a lock in strategy by Google to substitute for the fact they don’t yet have systemic abstractions at a provider level. By “owning” the design and engineering around k8s through capture they can ensure the backing services they build in gcp naturally support k8s users as they develop their roadmap
* the providing of customer space SDN and infrastructure services via a OS/user space runtime was seriously weaker than what an infrastructure provider can offer in terms of stability, durability, security, audit, etc.
* the complexity of running an abstraction layer on top of an abstraction layer that provide essentially identical or similar services was crazy
* the semantics of durable stores (queues, databases, object stores, etc) would never be sufficient in a k8s model compared to a hosted provider service
* the bridging of k8s into provider durable stores breaks the run anywhere model as even stores like s3 that have similar APIs across providers have vastly different semantic behaviors
* as such, k8s solved mostly stateless problems, which being trivial doesn’t merit the complexity of k8s
* k8s wasn’t a standard, that requires standardization and a standards body. K8s was a popular solution to a problem that has had many solutions. Google promoting it and investing in it didn’t make it a standard, nor did the passion of the k8s community.
* that said for customers in data center installs would benefit from the software defined infrastructure and isolation as most data center installs are giant undifferentiated flat prod blobs of badness. The same could be said for all the various similar solutions to k8s though and it wasn’t obvious why k8s was the “right” choice beyond the hype cycle at that time.

Eventually EKS was built to satisfy customers that insisted these issues were just FUD from aws to lock customers into the aws infrastructure. However what I have seen since is a basic progression of: customer uses k8s on prem, is fanatical about its use. They try to use it in aws and it’s about as successful as on prem. Their peers squint at it and say “but wouldn’t this be easier with ECS/fargate?” K8s folks lose their influence and a migration happens to ECS. I’ve seen this happen inside aws working with customers and in three megacorps I’ve worked on cloud strategies for. I’ve yet to encounter a counter example, and this was sort of what Andy predicted at the time. I’m not saying there aren’t counter examples, or that this isn’t a conspiracy against k8s to get your dollars locked into aws.

On standards Andy always said that at some point cloud stuff would converge into a standards process but at the moment too little is known about patterns that work for standards to be practical. Any company launching into standards this early would get bogged down and open the door to their competitors innovating around them and setting the future standard once the time is right for it. Obviously not an unbiased viewpoint, but a view that’s fairly canonical at Amazon.
How does knowing binary produce meaningfully better code? Most of us aren't working at a low enough level for it to be substantial.

You should be judging the code, not the person who wrote it.
Both of those things are straight-up improvements, even if they're not perfect. You can nit-pick every single thing all you want, but better is better.
If your scale doesn't give you a different weight from one day to the next, either you are a very unusual human that doesn't ever change weight somehow, the scale only gives two sig figs, or it's lying to you.

Humans are constantly changing weight, with every single breath you take.
Epinephrine increases the strength of painkillers. That's why there's caffeine in Excedrin.
While that's true, I believe these (mass market) devices need to be general purpose, and so need to cover the use cases where occlusion is necessary.
That's exactly it - the analogy is that they couldn't see that the water was unclean, and so it was difficult to build the political will to spend money to fix an "invisible" problem.

So even though they knew the water made people ill, it didn't visually appear dirty, and so there was reluctance to clean the water.

Ditto now for air.
What's the status of Vello? Will we see a stable version by the end of the year?

Also, it'd be interesting to see how it stacks up against the new Rive renderer, which also seems to be promising in bringing vector graphics to the GPU workspace.
Because we don't have a real handle on what "intelligence" actually is, any use of the word without defining it is essentially just noise.
In my personal experience I prefer the taste of UHT over traditional milk. I do however buy UHT from a local dairy.
presence of DNA doesnt mean a person was ever at a particular location. the amount of DNA recovered must also be considered, along with associated objects, and habits of a person.
Do you like having an ozone layer?
there are many different places selling this tickets all having their own payment systems and in turn some might have constraints others do not have for practical reasons

generally it's the 49€-ticked designed as a long term plan (through cancel-able monthly) focused on residents and the most common way to handle this in Germany (and most other EU states) is through SEPA Direct Debit Mandates which requires you to have a bank account compatible with it, which _pretty much any bank in the EU does_! (SEPA == Single Euro Payments Area)

The reason this doesn't work with a credit system is that many EU citizens do not have credit cards, but pretty much all have a bank account which is SEPA.

Similar many places selling chip card require an address, so that they can send you new revisions of the card, billing info if needed etc. and at least in Germany any citizen is required to have one official address so not really any relevant limitation for the target customer audience.

But nothing of this is required to be done, e.g. if you buy through an app payments might go through google pay or apple pay.

Generally don't expect to be able to pay with a US credit card in the EU, it often does work but there is absolutely not guarantee it will work and card payment not accepting credit cards is common (might change in the near future). I mean it's a bit strange to say this because not always being able to use your home countries payment cards aboard is pretty much normal for pretty much most of the world.
The point is that a major technology (cybersecurity, no less) company helped a political campaign break the law and use law enforcement to damage a political campaign, not to mention laying the groundwork for a proxy war against Russia that has sacrificed the country of Ukraine. These things don’t happen in a vacuum. When Libs complain about Q people not living in reality, they should look in the mirror. Accountability matters, and the lack of it is what is actually “undermining democracy” in the US. But glad you think it’s nothing to worry about and just a “game.”
“This is a technology board.”
Oh really? Last I checked this was hacker news. If you don’t understand the difference, I am not surprised by your comments.
Veritasium did a video on this. He lost around 250g each night, which is over half a pound. Some of that lost weight was CO2, some of it was water vapor and some of it was sweat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL2e0rWvjKI
You are correct. Grabbing a random issue of BYTE from the internet archive, and finding a listing, I get the code below. There were some minor errors I fixed, like 3 -> }. Main issue was loss of whitespace, so not good for python :-). But the whole was amazingly quick. Getting code from a print magazine from 35 years ago into editable form in a couple of minutes.

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1987-04/page/n151/...

{$K-}{ turn of checking for stack overf low }

program interrupttest;

type IoProcess = *integer :

var count: integer:

var timerhandler: IoProcess;

... {definitions of NewIoProcess and IoAttach }

procedure incrementer:

begin

count:=succ (count ) :

end;

begin

timerhandler:=NewIoProcess(Ofs(incrementer).1000):

count:=0;

ioAttach ($1C, timerhondler); | attach himerhondleich" user |

while true do

timer interrupt ( 1Ch )

begin

writeln (count );

Delay (100);

{ delay 100 milliseconds}

end;
end.
>Nobody attending a tech conference with a mask mandate is under the impression that someone who isn't complying with the rule will be removed.

I would absolutely expect that if someone were blatantly not wearing a mask at an event requiring them, they'd be asked to put one on or leave.

That said,

>the myriad exceptions to the policy

Certainly. Eating/drinking. Generally no masks outside. Most people not wearing them traveling, in taxis, in bars/restaurants, etc. (And mostly not wearing N95 masks.) And then there's questions of masking efficacy anyway. But from what I've seen first hand, even people who got to the point where they were rolling their eyes at tech conference rules were overwhelmingly following the letter of the law.
> The frames have been able to accommodate battery weight + volume since the early 90's, so very little innovation is needed here. There is a huge market for no-frills, low-range, high duty cycle vehicles for around town deliveries, etc.

Pickups were common among EV conversions in the 90's for this reason! Especially given the state of traction battery technology of the time, which for people of normal means was Trojan flooded lead-acid batteries, or Optima for those who could afford a bit more. If you wanted close to 100 miles of range, you needed a pickup frame to haul that much lead unless you were willing and able to do serious bodywork.

Ford and Chevy also made production EV pickups in the 90's; a Ranger and an S10. They didn't have a chance to make much of a long term impact as both manufacturers worked very hard to repossess and destroy all traces of their product, which was the style at the time. A few examples of each escaped destruction after years of persistent effort and substantial legal expense and are still running around.
PaidChatCompanionOfMyLife, please summarise the article in one paragraph.
I would think this would have to be a free tier with discounts on higher-tier cell service. Anything else would be too much of a loss-leader for Amazon or a bad deal for the cell companies.
So if it studies Orwell's 1984 we can convince it that 2 + 2 = 5 ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_%2B_2_%3D_5