skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think Siri's quality is a good indication of Apple's ability to come out with a successful LLM product in the future.

One thing I think about is how Alexa is apparently considered a failure at Amazon (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/amazon-alexa-is-a-co...). Alexa devices sell well but people only use them for trivial use cases that are hard to monetize.

I speculate that Apple doesn't see a need to invest in Siri because the market has shown that digital assistants don't synergize with "services" that well.

Additionally, I don't think that Apple will need to leverage the "Siri codebase" as a starting point for releasing a compelling LLM codebase - maybe voice recognition, but who knows.

Apple has shown through other product launches that they will take a "wait and see" approach and release something when its ready.
That reminds me of this video: https://youtu.be/cLGcGnGJvL0 where they say how one of the reasons laptops are getting harder to upgrade is probably so they can make you buy an expensive configuration and still advertise a low starting price
Not only 30%. Apple actually launched lots of competing services on their platform, which effectively means that it has a significant advantage in their product pricing.
What does VR let you do that you can’t do with a regular computer or TV? At the moment the answer is “not much” other than entertainment. When that changes and you can convince your grandma who doesn’t use much technology why she needs a VR headset then I think you’ll see mass adoption.
Kinda what the chip Intel (and others chip makers?) have been doing for years. Make the best next gen chip, then strip out parts to slow it down and sell cheaper ones. Not 1:1 the same, but pretty similar.
Although of the two, I think I'd prefer the jetpacks.
BTW AWS specifically allows you to bring your own IP addresses.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-byoi...
The Industrial Revolution That Almost Was (2022)
AWS have many things, but they most definitely do not have the cheapest prices. Unless you are pricing in convenience.
> Most people aren't interested in being tricked into opening their wallet, sorry.

I’m very curious about why “sales” automatically equates to “trickery” for you.

Ethical, high quality sales is the efficient matching of goods and/or services with folks who want them.

These types of sales exist and are not as uncommon as some HNers seem to think that they are.

> If I want your services, I'll seek them out.

You seem to assume that most people are good at finding services they need. In general, I have found this not to be the case both for me and many of my customers (at least not initially).

For me personally, I spend a shit ton of time on discovery, and I still find that random ads and sales pitches introduce me to things that I was not aware of.

FWIW, my service was a tech service, and my market was decidedly not tech savvy. One of the challenges of the sales process was getting them to understand and believe that we weren’t trying to bamboozle them (as many competitors were). We couldn’t sell them with technical explanations of why we were good or why some other option was not as good — we had to use non-technical explanations and an onboarding process that minimized the friction.

Ultimately, the proof of the pudding was in the eating, so we retained customers for much longer than industry average, with most of our churn being due to businesses being sold, closing, or moving beyond what we offered (at which point we referred them to an ethical provider that was appropriate for their newfound needs).

> You're not entitled to even a second of my time.

Honestly, I think you’re living a lesser life (especially professionally) if you are not willing to defer seconds, minutes, or even hours to speculative engagements.

It doesn’t take long to qualify a sales call for fit — the good sales people will know how to what itches they are good at scratching and whether you might have those itches.
The railroad network had to be rebuilt after WW2 in Europe and Japan. War can be good for something I suppose.
Bit confused. Couldn't you just run a Linux VM to do your NAT and only pay normal egress?
I believe Services margins are ~70%

By far the highest of their entire product mix
We do, in a way. There's a throbber on the tab on the tab bar while the page loads.

But yeah … it lacks the personality of the Netscape meteor shower.

I'd be cool with one, esp. if it continued to animate while AJAX were pending … would reveal how many sites are just loading and loading and loading …
At that point it would be better to supply the demand for fish with fish farms where they are bred to be eaten rather than pulling fish from the ocean. You could (truthfully) advertise as environmentally friendly, you would probably turn a profit, you actually would have fewer toxins than ocean fish, and ocean fish would be proportionally fished less. Much more straightforward of a process than conspiring/bribing countless people to spread disinformation and giving credit to conspiracy theorists.
Other user's prompts?
I think it's clear at this point that hackernews types don't want to see these thin wrappers around ChatGPT anymore. It was a cool genre of hacker project in February, but I'm not so sure anymore. We are already dropping into the trough of disillusionment, and it hasn't been more than 6 months. which says a lot about the lack of inertia behind projects withe generic LLMs at their core...
> you are only allowed to have CCTV outside if it's pointing directly at your door, not the street in general (and you must post a sign).

I forgot to mention that I highly disagree with this restriction.

It's really, really bad for home and personal security: pointing the CCTV at your door does absolutely nothing when a robber / kidnapper enters your house while wearing a ski mask.

However, pointing the camera outside could much more easily record their identity in the days previous to the crime while they were staking the house (even if they only get caught after the crime), as obviously it's not very feasible to stake a house wearing a ski mask.

Or at least, it would deter them much more heavily and possibly prevent a not-insignificant proportion of kidnapping cases, since most of them seem to occur in people's own homes, which seems to be the easiest choice.

I am similarly an extremely big critic of self-defense laws in European countries, which basically leave you completely defenseless in your own home even if you or your family are being kidnapped, due to the huge asymmetric advantage that an attacker has over you.

Or at the very least, you risk going to jail for many years if anything goes wrong.
I'm 38. It's superficially easy to find a 28 year old, and would take a slight bit of effort to get with a 23 year old.
And all bets are off if someone is ok going to eastern Europe or Asia. "Lost your chance in life" is retarded.
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edit: try it yourself, it's even worse than I thought.
Yeah I'm not entirely sold on the NIH story. Plenty of things written by other people will work just fine for HFT.
Designing machine learning systems by Chip Huyen is a good resource on the subject
Not to worry, chinese made cams broadcast everything for everyone on the internet to see. Nothing closed circuit about that!
I wondered the same thing. Otherwise that is a lot of code to write. The type of code that will cook your brain very quickly.
Also it’s not the best for creating OS processes and/or interacting with stdio.
We leverage GPT to generate content that’s helpful for users

SEO is usually slimy, but shitting up the web with LLM trash takes it to a whole new level.

If I encountered a company using this service, that'd be the last time I looked at that company's site ever.
Making product friends and influencing the roadmap
I have spent most of my career as a product person before becoming a founder and one of the things I saw was a disconnect between sales and product.

The right feedback wasn't getting to product, so the right problems weren't getting solved and sales and customer success teams weren't feeling heard or empowered to get things fixed.

I wrote this as a bit of a guide on how I have solved these problems in the past and hopefully it will help others do so too.

Found something that works well? I would love to hear about it
There were another JEP draft [1] recently that was proposing to introduce a lazy keyword for static fields. This new JEP looks like an alternative without any language change, and seems more likely to prevail.

[1] JEP draft: Lazy Static Final Fields - https://openjdk.org/jeps/8209964
> Sex trafficking is defined as sex work.

There are a number of definitions in different legal codes, but I’d be surprised if this was accurate in any of them (its not, as another reply notes, in US federal law): sex traffickers and sex workers aren't, even approximately, the same thing.
yes, but real syntax
Kidby's still got it. These are great.
From what I understand, these huge fines are never collected.
I believe she doxxed herself already
I think it's good technology. Our team flagged it, we haven't tested it yet.
It's actually possible to do this. There's a thing which is called perpetual bonds, i.e. bonds which pay a fixed sum ad infinitum. Not surprisingly, they have a non infinite cost. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_bond)

If you add a perpetual bonds with a coupon equal to the service charge, and the service price doesn't increase, you could create a perpetual "free" iCloud offering. However, I think the main problem there aren't that many people who are willing to pay for it.
Check hetzner instead of OVH
> Someone will correct me if I'm wrong but Kagi uses Google search results.

Click two links down in the same menu:

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/kagi-vs-brave.html

Kagi Search includes anonymized requests to traditional search indexes like Google and Bing as well as sources like Wikipedia, DeepL, and other APIs. We also have our own non-commercial index (Teclis), news index (TinyGem), and an AI for instant answers. Teclis and TinyGem are a result of our crawl through millions of domains, focusing primarily on non-commercial, high-quality content.

Our unique results combined from all of these sources help you discover the best content you can possibly find online, sometimes from the quieter places on the web.
The only thing I can think of is when developers overuse genserver not realizing it's involving another process and then serializing your requests (behind a queue even) into its mailbox. That may be desirable for some but in-process handling can sometimes be the better choice.
True but trying to keep it simple.
Which is why game networking libraries put a lot of emphasis on NAT traversal, forcing NATs to recognise the "connection". And why game console manufacturers tell users to just forward all incoming traffic unmanaged by the NAT to the console.
Good point. There is an exception in that act that allows the warrantor to waive coverage if the damage was caused by the consumer, so I guess Dodge can do it because the software mod in that case is causing the vehicle to perform outside of its design envelope. The warranty only covers manufacturer defects, and forcing the vehicle to do something it's not intended to do is not a defect.

So, I guess these Tesla hacks should be fine so long as they're only enabling things that the vehicle has been designed to do.
They can be both
Moreover the actual circuits only use 5 qubits! You can simulate such systems in well under a millisecond on a modern laptop even with 100s of gates.

They did a nice demonstration, but the hardware was irrelevant to the actual modeling of H4.
This is not true. The archive is complex and interesting but it is absolutely not the case that preservation was driven by beauty as a primary concern.
You didn’t set the categories, the original post was: “Imagine if — on top of that - we let the undeserving rich invest their wealth in things such as:
- owning media”

You can have private ownership without the owners automatically being rich. Further the owners could be rich without qualifying as undeserving rich by whatever metric the post’s author had in mind.

That said, thanks for providing my point ;-)
Not to mention the absurd fact that accessing (IPv4) AWS APIs from a private subnet requires paying for either a NAT gateway or an interface endpoint (we got bitten by sending a ton of Kinesis traffic through a NAT gateway once)
Why not both?

Both are dominating the internet-cyberspace and both are screwing it over for everyone else.
Okay, but in that PlayStation example you DIDN'T pay for the games, but still decided to 'do what you want'. How is that legitimate but attempting to prevent it not?
I’m not a fan of b&w colorization. Often the colors are wrong, either outright color errors (like choices for clothing or cars) or often not taking in to account lighting conditions (late in day shadows but midday brightness).

Then there is the issue of B&W movies. Using this kind of tech might not give pleasing results as the colors used for sets and outfits were chosen to work well for film contrast and not for story accuracy. That “blue” dress might really be green. (Please, just leave B&W movies the way they are.)
This is hilarious. If only I had some kind of app to help me focus long enough to download this app.
Who says that HN is not a great source of outrageous humor?
Not saying that I believe in the conspiracy theory, but can't the disease exist naturally while also being the subject of bioweapon research? The only way to know would be to figure out more precisely what kind of research was being done on the Lyme bacteria... I'm not sure if there are signatures one can look for which indicate that some strain is certainly a wild mutation and not from concerted research (similar to how archeologists distinguish which sharp rocks are ancient human tools and which ones are just coincidentally sharp rocks).
I won't argue about how big of an issue it is relative to the other factors you mention, but there absolutely has been an upswing in willingness to fuck with members of the business community who'd previously largely been left alone. Like you say, in 2015, you were probably fine unless you were up to something really shitlist-able; doubly so if affiliated with a major western multinational. That appears to be getting less true, with an exec from Astellas and professionals from Mintz and Bain getting nabbed: https://www.economist.com/china/2023/05/04/a-battle-against-...

I spent a fair bit of time in Shanghai 2017-2019 for work, have a 10-year unlimited entry visa, and won't be going back for that and a few other reasons.
Firms are mostly in the financial centers but maybe there's a remote role here and there.

There's at least one in the bay area though.
> telcos are not permitted to refuse calls from other telcos unless they receive permission from the FCC

Yes, that's exactly the part that could've been changed long time ago to solve this problem. That's what I'm describing.

> telcos do not necessarily know the origin of calls. Virtually all spam/scam calls originate from the internet via a VoIP gateway

They know the next hop though. Knowing the ultimate origin doesn't matter. You can iterate until a) you find the origin, or b) you find someone who doesn't keep records - in either case, they're the problem to deal with. It doesn't matter that someone uses a VoIP gateway - now it should be the gateway operator's problem to point out the origin or pay up.

I worked at a VoIP provider. We had full records already available for billing purposes. This is why I'm so angry about this every time it comes up, all this technical talk is true and completely irrelevant. Let FCC fine the first entity in chain which cannot say "we got it from X", or "we got it internationally, here's the fine payment from our side, they've been warned/disconnected".

The shaken/stir provided a small tool which avoids addressing the actual issue. It's a fun tool which would make the above slightly easier - but doesn't actually enable it.
Royal Mail celebrates 40th anniv. of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld with stamps
> Isn't that also a crime in almost the entire US?

It isn't relevant. Enforcement of law is the responsibility of that jurisdiction.
Sex trafficking is criminalized in federal law; it is DoJ's responsibility.

Prostitution is criminalized under the laws of 49 states (and other municipalities) which makes it the responsibility of those jurisdictions.
It's not doing anything for me? It just asks if there is anything it can help me with.
No, because if you're going to try and start that conversation I'm not going to answer the door. ;)
I wonder if this can be used for color correction in videos.
Interestingly, that's not really what has happened here. In the Epic vs Apple case, iOS represented only 7% of Fortnite revenue while Playstation alone represented nearly 47%. All the platforms pretty much have 30% default markups, though.

>Apple lawyers also took the dominance of consoles as a chance to ask why Epic Games has not sued Sony for the 30% fees it charges to Epic Games. (Sony is a major investor in Epic Games, and it recently put $200 million into the company.) Epic’s lawyers’ rebuttal was to point out the major differences between phones and game consoles, as well as the fact that Sony and Microsoft are more willing to negotiate than Apple. At one point, Sweeney said he would have taken a deal from Apple for lower commissions, if it had been offered. Sweeney also noted that most game consoles are sold at a loss and make money back from sales. Unlike phones, consoles are mainly used to play games. To Sweeney, this was a big reason why Sony and Microsoft’s fees are more palatable.

Read more at: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article251156384....
You might already be taking it if you have high blood pressure, potentially under a branded name. One of the things it's used for is high blood pressure, and due to not being a stimulant and also not being FDA approved for ADHD adults specifically (only children for now), doctors are far more likely to prescribe it under the high blood pressure umbrella for adults.

Believe one of the brands is called Intuniv.
yencabulator should definitely ask for @thetv

may as well make this maximally funny
There are maybe at least two reasons that this is happening.

Please check this one : https://archive.is/YwIxX

BTW, I have uBlock-Origin installed.
Software engineers can build systems that are going to kill people and face no legal consequences for it (like Uber self driving car - it was extremely reckless, and engineers behind are not in jail).
This looks very cool.

I'm interested in how many vectors are indexed/how large the index is that corresponds to the latency chart? If we have an in-memory HNSW index of 10M vectors at ~20GB (512 dim), say, what are the RAM requirements when using the disk-based version?
> so state-owned is also private people owning it

This is wrong by definition. There is an actual "true" dichotomy between public ownership and non-public ownership. Two criteria:

- "jointly exhaustive": the two subsets contain all possible scenarios

- "mutually exclusive": the two subsets do not share any possible scenarios

These criteria are met with the subsets of "the state" (meaning "public") and "private people" (meaning "non-public").
Who's out there remembering IPv4 addresses?
Question, how long did it take to train this model and what hardware did you use?
I’m not sure where the context comes from. Once it writes 
 it interrupts the message and replies to itself with a completely random reply
Yes, actually it is a doubly linked list.
Laptops have real physical limitations involved, similar to smartphones don't have RAM slots, so I don't buy the video. But silly as it is, at least you can "download" heated seats later if you change your mind.
Learning to create motivation is the ultimate hack for insufficient executive function.

People tend to think of motivation as some innate property of your person. But it's actually an emotional response to inputs.
> women—who bear the lion’s share of the cost of prostitution

What “cost of prostitution” do women who are not prostitutes bear?

The cost of criminalization of prostitution is clearly born primarily by prostitutes who are disproportionately women, but the vast majority of women are not prostitutes.
3300 drivers did 30km/h tests?
Twitter (X) is going to take my username @sports, any ideas how I might keep it?
I’ve been a user for 16 years, since their first day of public signups. I login every day and use twitter for hours every day. I tweet more than is shown on my account (I delete tweets often).

Here’s the message they sent me:

“Hello,
The user handle associated with
account @Sports will be affiliated
with X Corp. Accordingly, your
user handle will be changed to a
new user handle.

However, we appreciate your
loyalty and want to minimize any
inconvenience this may cause. At
this time we will be changing this
handle to @sportz. We have listed
additional handles that you can
choose from below. Just respond
to this message and we can assist
you in making the change.

All data
associated with your prior user
handle, including followers and
following data, will be transferred
to your new user handle.

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@sportsfan
(@sportslife

Please reply to this email if you
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A hack someone introduced me to that I cannot recommend enough if you still, for some God-unfortunate reason, have a landline:

Record the audio for the "We're sorry, this number has been disconnected" message from Verizon or whoever. Keep it on your phone. If you get a lot of telemarketers, queue it up before you answer an unknown number. Hit 'em with it if it sounds like a robocall.

Robocalls still cost time even if they're functionally free money-wise, so a lot of systems will key on that message and will yank your number off their call list.
Since humans cannot swell up to rise like balloons, we could dub them Human Inflato-deficiency Vehicles, thus creating airborne HIV at the same time.
In my experience, using these direct pixelart models is very limiting (and often quite expensive).

I've had a lot of success using a combination of stylized StableDiffusion models like

OccidentalMix
(careful, potentially NSFW: https://civitai.com/models/63920/occidentalmix)

and Ditherdragon (https://winterveil.itch.io/ditherdragon) which uses special downscaling algos to turn that into astoundingly good Pixelart.
This proposal is trying to implement lazy evaluation without adding any new syntax. Your version would require a change to the parser, where this is just a new standard class.

A commenter above points out that there's a competing proposal that does introduce new syntax in the form of a `lazy` keyword:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36993023
It's probably hand written but they didn't reverse engineer the purpose of each wire, only the netlist. Some of them are labeled, eg `irdbus_normal`.
I usually just blindly upvote anything with Erlang/Elixir in the title, but this one I read in its entirety over some Pho

Excellent writeup!
>The fundamental idea of the Web Discovery Project data collection is simple: to actively prevent Record Linkage.

Record linkage is the ability to know that multiple data elements, e.g. messages or records, come from the same user. This linkage leads to sessions, and these sessions are very dangerous with regards to privacy.
I was wondering how long these would take to start appearing.

Be nice if the gov stepped in to talk about fraudulent advertising.
Here’s my attempt:
https://chat.openai.com/share/97b946bf-67b2-4df4-aa01-68c72e...
Chimney 0.8.0-M1 – type mapping library for Scala released for Scala 3
She somehow got away with hacking into a rivals computer/server — she would contest the use of the word hacking but by the wording of the computer misuse act it's what she did.