skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Computer, show me a table.

> There are 5047 classifications of tables on file. Specify design parameters.

Interestingly enough, it seems existing AI models are already better than the Star Trek computer at dealing with ambiguity. Stable Diffusion would just generate a "normal" table and let you go from there.
What do you anticipate they would do with this information? To me, it seems analogous to searching news stories or encyclopedia articles since we pull it from already public data sources.
If Tesla didn't bail out SolarCity, it would have impacted Space X since Space X had bailed out SolarCity in a way that left them vulnerable to further failure of it (buying their bonds in a show of self-dealing).
Good point, I guess we are proving why the resorted to using numbers in the first place. Unless you have a verification point that includes a "charge". Indirect or direct, your platform gets flooded with spam/bots. Does anyone have ideas of how this problem can be solved while also preserving privacy?

Problem: A system that enforces a monetary penalty to prevent sign up abuse while also not tying a users identity to said system.

Without doing some pain in the a crypto stuff it seems like there are no easy solutions other than the #
really depends on your paranoia level and the consequences for failure. soft to hard realtime is a bit of a spectrum in terms of how hard of a failure missing a deadline actually is, and therefore how much you try to verify that you will actually meet that deadline.
> whether you’ve been required to pay WhatsApp’s annual fee depends very much on when you joined the service, and even on what country you live in.

Source: https://venturebeat.com/mobile/whatsapp-subscription/
the engines don't put out a lot of radiant heat, especially at altitude where it is -50 outside. the lights on the other hand are putting out a metric fuck ton of heat directly at the illuminated area.

heat from an engine is directed straight out the back by nature of the turbines.

modern engines are also what are called "high bypass ratio" engines, where the outer ring of the engine (closest to the cladding) is really just air flowing by. the combustion area is smaller, in the center.
I think the age does make a big difference. I'm about 40, and I've rarely heard this IRL among people near or older either. The people I've heard it from were mostly in their teens or early 20s. Some 30s and 40s have admitted to leaving friends or family out of group chats because they were on Android though.

But that said, how do you know nobody stopped talking to you because of it? One of my friends (who is early 40s) said his family started leaving one of their family members out of the group chats because it "degraded the whole experience" and I doubt he ever told the person he was being left out, let alone why. I would imagine it's kind of like telling somebody that you aren't going to date them anymore because they're not attractive enough. Not something you want to admit, and even though it obviously happens, I've never heard of somebody actually being told this.
While I do have fond memories of this aesthetic (although more for old Mac OS X than Windows), and do prefer it over the flat design, I'm curious what will come next. Looking at this site's other pages, it seems that it's about once a decade that these trends tend to change, and we're about due.
I still don't understand why people are building things on top of OpenAI's APIs.

It's obvious that in the early days, they'll operate at a loss, with many free features and cheap premium features. It's a good time to try it out and see what it can do, but you can't build anything that relies on it, it's a rugpull waiting to happen.

They'll add moderation, raise prices, and you'll have to do the same, your users will leave and the ones who stay will hate you. This is only the beginning.

Use self-hostable open source alternatives even if they're less easy to use or require infrastructure, and plan for high electricity and storage bills. Whatever you build will last, as long as you respect your users and don't peek at the cleartext logs of users who didn't opt-in to that. It won't be easy.

If OpenAI keeps a monopoly on LLMs, they're gonna become like Microsoft did with Windows, but the enshittification process will be a thousand times faster.
The artist is their customer, not you. If Ticketmaster didn't gouge you, give most of the gouging proceeds to the artist, and take the flak like a lightning-rod, they would quickly be replaced by a service that did.
If you're looking for a general solution to that specific type of problem, then dateutils¹ is really useful. It deals with conversions, durations, matching, repeats, etc. It also has a clear and well defined date input format, and being a collection of command line tools it is easy to mangle it in to other tools.

¹ http://www.fresse.org/dateutils
The era when "debugging in production" wasn't standard.
Has anyone else the problem that they get endless captchas and no way to use archive.ph? Or maybe knows a solution.

Edit: This is on Firefox and with uBlock Origin only. It works with the same setup in my VM however.

Edit2: Changing DNS (to NextDNS in my case) worked.
This just reads like a long-winded version of Mr. Gotcha. https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
I think the parent comment was referring to messaging, ie iMessage vs the others. Ie, in Taiwan and Japan the dominant solution is Line, not iMessage or SMS.
> They aren't. VW is.

A private company. From whom a person decided to buy a car. Hyundai, Kia, Mazda and Nissan make cars without trackers or even GPS. That's obviously not most consumers' preference.

> best version of such a system is if it is owned by the government

I strongly disagree. That said, if someone wants to install a government tracking device on their car, I suppose I'm not against it. (Didn't you start by arguing against mandated surveillance?)
Shouldn't there be an emergency landing somewhere in the middle there?
> RFC - Proposed Standard (July 2023)

Proposed.

And it's both ridiculous and sad that in 2023 we are going to see a messaging standard without E2EE built into the spec.
I think as far as tipping goes Software vendors are working overtime with business owners that customer tip nonetheless even if there is no human in sight in whole establishment. Maybe a poor robot needs screws tightened, or joints lubricated with money in tip jar by generous patrons like you.
Unless workers are more coordinated than management, yes.
Or a $0 pixel shader?
This is not allowed to be retro. I forbid it.
It seems like you should be able to extract statements of fact from competing sources, say Fox and CNN. The overlap of facts would likely be true enough. The distinct sets then become color as to why those facts were included/excluded and the bias is then it's own set of news.
I think many people do, but not everyone. Wife and I use iPhones because we prefer iOS and for us the experience is better
You don't have to convert to scalars. Numbers have a type of 1 (= Scalar).

You can just call exp(3), for example: https://numbat.dev/?q=exp%283%29%E2%8F%8E

Or you could pass an angle quantity, which is convertible to a Scalar. Like cos(30 deg): https://numbat.dev/?q=exp%283%29%E2%8F%8Ecos%2830+deg%29%E2%...
Image inference faster than you can type
https://twitter.com/gorkemyurt/status/1724485367892709526
They didn't pick it for that:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/277597847631822848/11...
It explicitly says it's not for actual use.

The point (I think) was as an exercise to demonstrate it was possible to implement in 'userland' and how they did so.
I don't, but getting even as little as 80% of 2 articles in the time required to read one is a 60% gain.
Gonna need you guys to read CFR 61 and 141 real quick or this discussion is going to languish. More or less: scheduled commercial airline service like American Airlines 587 which crashed into NYC shortly after 9/11 falls under part 141 and crashes are extremely rare.

However, certain commercial operations like air taxis and flight instruction fall under the much less restrictive part 61 and there are tons of incidents all the time.

Original poster meant to say part 141 has been very good at making airline safely profoundly good lately.
Yeah, I would expect Fedora to be more aggressive about it than RHEL. IIRC SUSE was also talking about doing something similar. And sure, it's likely to be more common with time, but I expect some of the major distros to hold out for quite a long time - Debian and Slackware, in particular - but even if the big players all start requiring newer hardware there will be a long tail of distros like puppy linux to support old machines so long as the kernel and core software keep working.
I am fairly certain that it's illegal to sell the content of SMS messages in the United States at least. The metadata like who is messaging who and timestamps and best guess locations maybe is sold though. But the contents can be obtained by law enforcement. However, I think the contents are purged after some expiration time.
Using WhatsApp means Facebook/Meta knows the timestamp, sender and recipient of every message sent.
Git-Based CMS: Definition, Features, Best Practices
realtime just means execution time is bounded. It doesn't necessarily mean the latency is low. Though, in this sense RT-linux should probably be mostly thought of as low-latency linux, and the improvement in realtime guarantees is mostly in reducing the amount of things that can cause you to miss a deadline as opposed to allowing you to guarantee any particular deadline, even a long one.
I wasn't disagreeing, just adding some more context to this thread.
I wouldn't want to find a customer

An LLC won’t protect you when you work with customers you can’t trust.

An LLC won’t make finding good customers any easier either.

And it won’t save you any legal fees if you get sued or make collecting what you are due when someone doesn’t pay any more likely.

But sure an LLC is easier than finding customers and then you can set up bank accounts and design a website and avoid the hard problem with those too.
You can still find a complete Pentium computer for even less.
I looked at Frink quite a bit and I agree that it looks cool. But as far as I can tell, it does not have a static type system. At least it's not based on physical dimensions.

And it is not open source.
I really hope Apple allows us to disable many of RCS's features like read receipts and previews.

I really don't want spammy users to start seeing read receipts, etc.
Boox eink tablets can automatically copy notebooks directly to Dropbox or Google Drive in PDF format. It's a very useful feature.

https://help.boox.com/hc/en-us/articles/10701398359572-Integ...
Yes, I think I got my first iPhone around 2010, and at the time I was still on limited text message plan. I don't think I got unlimited texts until 2014 or something.
It would be nice if more modern tech branding / marketing used the nature aesthetic that Frutiger Aero had. There's something so warm and optimistic about it, even if it was greenwashing. The most solarpunk aesthetic.
Back in my day, you used to pay per minute for calls. Then they moved to a few hundred minutes free and the new SMS system cost a few cents per text. Then it was like 1500min/100sms free. Eventually it became unlimited minutes and texts but data cost some cents per kb or mb, then eventually that ratcheted up to “unlimited” everything with some “reasonable limits”.

As a kid I used to make a collect call to my mom and when they asked who was calling I’d say, “pick me up” and hang up. Free short messages even in the 90’s!
But that's not the case when functions are inlined.
Hacker, polymath, programmer, amateur scientist, geek, ham, nerd, grumpy old man, citizen, machinist.. I answer to all of those and more.

One who does the "impossible" is my favorite mode of being.

I fix things, sometimes without authorization, for others and myself.

I bend technology to my will, for myself and others. I try to teach those skills and spread that attitude as well.
Federated finetuning of Whisper on Raspberry Pi 5
A significant amount of Ticketmaster's fees go to the artist. It lets the artist make more money while fans get mad at Ticketmaster instead of the artist.
Show HN: A noisy flashing timer app for productivity
The same can be said of those that reject everything they're told.
Another thing unmentioned here is the impracticality of contacting the existing webpage owners. And figuring out who knows what. Yet it’s not the web owners fault
I don't doubt that SMS were not always unlimited in the US.

But the question here is: Were there any (reasonably popular) plans that provided data for smartphones, but not unlimited texting? If not, that couldn't have been a factor in the adoption of iMessage in the US.
Show HN: PostgresML – Run open-source ML/LLM models in a Postgres extension
We've been hard at work improving PostgresML, and thought it was time for an update now that our cloud offering is generally available.

In case you missed our first posts, I built the open-source ML platform at Instacart way back in 2017. I learned a ton, but primarily that it's better to bring your ML workload to the database rather than bringing the data to the codebase. That's why we made PostgresML.

Fundamentally, it enables Postgres to act as a GPU-powered AI application database — where you can both save models and index data. That eliminates the need for the myriad of separate services you have to tie together for your ML workflow. Pgml + pgvector create a complete ML platform (vector DB, model store, inference service, open-source LLMs) all within open-source extensions for PostgreSQL. That takes a lot of the complexity out of your infra, and it's ultimately faster for your users.

We wanted to give folks a way to tinker with it easily, so we've added a few interactive demos to our site.

At the top of the homepage, you can test out a few models right on our site. If you scroll down, you can actually try out our Python, JavaScript, Rust and SQL SDKs locally and for free. Just copy the example code and you can play around with open-source models in your favorite database.

Let us know what you think.
Airliner safety boggles my mind. It's sort of banal, but mastering of such a complex system in a safe way is also one of the greatest achievements of human kind. So many things which can go wrong, yet it works.
As someone who has worked for two carriers Apple, Google etc have little clout.

Governments and their intelligence organisations are what matters.

And countries like UK will be pushing as hard as possible to make E2EE optional.
The latest 7nm phone from Huawei lets you choose between using the second sim card tray for a sim card or removable storage up to 256GB (albeit their proprietary storage medium). From my experience, plenty of Chinese phones offer what geeks in the US want (expandable storage and removable batteries).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei_Mate_60

Removable storage NM card 256GB

SIM

Card slot 1: NANO-SIM

Card slot 2: Choose one of the two NANO-SIM or NM memory card"
Thank you!! Good to know.
Don't use 1.1.1.1 from Cloudflare, disable the Cloudflare resolver in Firefox, or turn off Private Relay on Apple+/iOS. Those are the usual suspects.
I can't add cellular service for my Apple Watch, at all.

Enabling MMS requires a somewhat convoluted set of changes to the phone's cellular settings, and despite having done them correctly I periodically get a "we couldn't send you all your texts, fix your settings" warning SMS from Google.
Thank you! Yeah I've tried to make it as no-nonsense as possible. I'm planning to add some other handy bits around it (eg a txt/JSON file giving the last update time) that might be useful for some types of project.
Right? I honestly don't yet understand why ARM designed BE mode into their shiny new architecture, but it's sweet that we have easily-available hardware that supports it.
The answer is that the carriers worked out a specification and both infra-vendors and device-vendors were left to develop the server/client based on that spec.

So each major device-vendor developed his client-app, and ended up with interoperability issues not only with the RCS-servers used by a given carrier, but also with devices of OTHER vendors. And that doesn't even begin to cover the issues on inter-carrier messaging...

The situation was only resolved after Google acquired Jibe Mobile (the biggest player in developing RCS server/client applications for carriers) and basically created a single RCS-client/server implementation using their Android Messages app and a Google-owned server.

But when you were working on RCS back in 2012, you may remember that at that time, RCS didn't even support store&forward (!!).

So if the receiving device was not available when a message was delivered (because it had no network or client wasn't running on a device, which happened alot especially on iOS because the client was in a constant fight with the OS), the message wasn't queued anywhere.

Apart from the obvious issue of missing messages, it caused the even worse UX-impact that the entire conversation looked different on sender/receiver.

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Ah yes, and: RCS was originally designed with per-message billing in mind (of course). At the time it was launched it was finally clear to the carriers that those times are over, but the whole architecture had quite a chunk of billing architecture in it as well...
Yes... this has been a problem for a while now for a lot of people.
I'm mostly just talking about the noxious white-on-green color they chose for cross-platform chat bubbles. It's a great example of hostile architecture. RCS fixes the cost / reliability problems of SMS, so that annoying color choice will be the only thing they have left to make imessage users feel superior.
Logging to `mmap`ed files is resilient to service crashes, just not hardware crashes.
I don't think that's true. I think the fees are why Whatsapp won outside of the US.

US users quickly had access to unlimited SMS and calling on most phone plans, which is why Whatsapp never took root.
Ask HN: Why aren't there any trillion dollar tech companies in the UK?
I was reading the other day for my research on tech companies by impact and location, I know that the US has trillion dollar companies (mostly tech companies) in the near double digits and growing fast.

Other locations for example the UK has top universities such as oxbridge, but I was very surprised to not see any trillion dollar companies from the UK, despite the rich computer science history the UK has.

I don't think I've even seen any UK tech company that is over $100BN.

Why is this? and what happened to the UK?
This reminds me of the real preemption to "West World". They had discovered cognitive machines and had them for some time, but printing "bodies" was the true break through that connected everything together. Pun intended.
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I mean, it's true - the most disruptive and destructive part of fracking is the work on the surface, like the clearing for drill pads and access roads and water works. That said, you can't frack without these.
I'm not necessarily denying that there are good people who chose to go kill people in iraq, I'm lucky enough to know a few. Many were brainwashed into thinking their choice would be heroic, perhaps some sort of revenge for 9/11, or a mission to find WMDs, instead of a cost to their country.

I'm just saying there are a decent amount of soldiers who aren't providing more of a value to society than those who chose to go into teaching and medicine (you keep conveniently leaving medicine out. Curious.) Especially when you consider what their presence in iraq cost society.

But hey, Cletus wants to shoot guns! Pew pew! So little Johnny must suffer reduced education to fund Cletus's overseas armed escapades.
dry and boring can really be a good thing, though.
$0.1 tax per barrel of oil for anyone interested.

It's about a ~0.15% revenue tax at current oil prices.

I would put this in the category of almost entirely benefiting whoever has the right connections to the right politicians - with a meaningless tax to make it appear otherwise.
While its true that SMS used to cost per message (and outrageously at that) unlimited SMS/MMS (AKA, unlimited text) plans were cheaper (and on some carriers, predate) than unlimited data, often being only $10 a month or so as an add-on. Unlimited talk & text plans were relatively common as well.

In the EU for instance, the reverse was true. Particularly, unlimited data was cheap and affordable, where as SMS was quite costly (even more than in the US in some cases) so data heavy apps were easier to adopt. Hence, WhatsApp, Telegram etc. gaining so much popularity. iMessage was introduced much later to the rich messaging market than these apps in those countries (because mobile messaging apps were cheap to adopt in markets where mobile data is cheap).

There is much more competition in those countries with cheap mobile data in the rich messaging services space. In the US, unlimited data has had a more sordid history, and SMS / MMS had a much bigger adoption rate early on
Strictly speaking, criminal gains are taxable and you are technically required to declare any illegal income on your taxes.

As for racketeering, it never left. It's just a government institution now.
> I just spend all of my time on HN and youtube on my unmedicated days.

The first times I tried stimulants, after 2-3 hours of euphoric productivity, the effects would wear off but the residual stimulation would be enough to make me continue working and I would always think "hey, I can do this no problem without the stimulants, I just need to push over the hump", but never seemed to work.

A few years in, and yes, I can do without stimulants on easy tasks, but not really on complex stuff.

I also can drive wile not on stimulants and not be a complete nervous mess afterwards, which is a big permanent gain for me.

Also the "OMG, OMG, I'm so screwed by this messup at work, they're going to find me, things are going to crash because of it" changed to "it's going to be ok, things always work out in the end"
You should not be using Chrome anyway but if you still do, its time to switch and advocate for different browsers. Brave has a uBlock Origin based adblocker build in, written in Rust. Firefox is the best browser for uBlock Origin.
IMHO this is industrialized automated abuse of lonely people and especially those with mental health issues. It's really truly gross.

At least Joi in Bladerunner 2024 was a local model the user could apparently download onto their own portable device. She also never presented an upgrade dialog requiring payment.
It's definitely not been an easy year for me. I know things will be alright eventually, but sometimes it's easy to forget that fact.

I'm not claiming I am some hyper-honest-hyper-ethical person, but I absolutely despise the level of dishonesty you're expected to perform when looking for a job. I don't think I'm built to bullshit people every day, and it depresses me a lot. When I have to give some bullshit reason for "why did you apply for this job?" other than "I need money", it's exhausting. I just want to sit on my ass and write code, not spend so much time building my own personal brand.
for context, 3M is got sued extra hard, along with a few other orgs, for PFAS chems

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/3m-pfa-forever-chemicals-lawsu...

> 3M to pay at least $10.3B to settle 'forever chemical' drinking water lawsuits in U.S.
Did they at least get some good footage out of it?
the most common desktop end-user that might benefit from this is those doing audio work: latency and especially jitter can be quite a pain there.
I have that problem but it probably some something to do with some combination of browser addons I have installed. When I launch the link in a Private Firefox window they seem to work.