skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For the purposes of privacy, all connections numbering more than 0 are functionally identical.

Even a browser that launches zero connections upon first startup could start doing so after a random delay and/or while you're connecting to a legitimate website. And if you visit any website from any entity that produces the browser, it can smuggle out data without opening any new connections, e.g. Chrome could backchannel data up to the mothership when you access any Google-owned website. And on desktop, who's to say that the installer itself didn't already send up data, or otherwise install a separate binary that will? And on mobile, Google and Apple already have half the world's data, because they own the OS!

So in effect, this benchmark shows nothing at all. It's a web browser, at some point you're going to access the web with it or else you wouldn't have installed it, so demonstrating that it has network connectivity is not particularly interesting.
University of Waterloo Recipie Collection, 2023 edition
And yet Europeans have vastly higher life quality than Americans ... I wonder why that is ...
> does anyone learn assembly these days?

Yes. It's not "old language" as you see it. It's just close to the hardware. Stop letting advertising convince you of such nonsense. Same thing with C; people still learn it and it's still useful to learn.

This is like thinking hammers are obsolete because we have power tools now.

I also think everyone's being far too generous in calling LLMs "AI". Makes it sound like it's actually intelligent or something, which it's not. It's good at mathematically predicting next-text that looks like a human wrote it, not correctness or creativity.
It really wasn't so much ogg and mp3. But the fact that systems got powerful enough to run both games alone rather complex task and also decode the music. We often forget just how slow systems in early nineties were.
If this is true, then that would imply some geographic skew towards >30°N (as opposed to the tropics or >30°S), which I suppose isn't too surprising.
CVE-2023-28197: inputcontrol
> No indicators that the message was actually received (2023 and SMS is still flaky on deliveries)

Long time ago when I was actually sending SMS messages to real people, then-current phones had a "delivery notifications" setting you had to turn on. Then you would receive a notification when your message has been delivered.
Thinking whether they inspired their name on the New Vegas character:

https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Fantastic
My Outback has adaptive headlights but it doesn't seem to actually stop my car from blinding oncoming drivers.
It's not a total scam IMO but the game is really boring and nothing like what was promised in the trailers. An early access game should still be fun even if it's unfinished.
It really comes down to the “large amounts”.

If you’re using the asset store for some things, that’s fine, that’s the point.

If 100% of your game is asset store assets that’s a problem.

So, it really comes down to how much you lean on the asset store, and how much you do internally.
Looks interesting! We're in the middle of building something similar right now for ourselves. We may look at this as an alternative for ourselves.

By the way, I saw this after a quick glance poking through the code. This isn't encryption, it is hashing. Not sure where or how it is used but it is worth a rename at least: https://github.com/bricks-cloud/BricksLLM/blob/main/internal...
Can you cite some specifics?

I’ve travelled to quite a few places in Europe and coming from the American Midwest, we are beating much of Europe in most/all QoL metrics by a mile.

Much larger and nicer homes, larger properties, mincer automobiles, more variety of all consumer goods, higher incomes, more wealth and social mobility to name a few and I live in “flyover” country.
It's hilariously buggy too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRS-ilp_Sf4
Does this unorganized corner of economy really need to be digitalized?

I assume that it is organized well enough, maybe just not in a conventional western way.
> In the product itself, the brand name is reversed for the shopkeeper

but it is not reversed for the client, who may be a potential future buyer of this product.
Maybe I'm not understanding what the original user was testing here, but it seems like the finding is that different inputs result in a statistically significant difference in output length? Seems pretty unsurprising?
The article suggests heavily that, the way things are going, that's not going to be the case in the future. Right now, Europeans are still living off past prosperity, but if they don't build a real technology industry and innovate, then future Europeans will be much worse off.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoarding_disorder
Why US Fails to Distribute Wealth?
AIs use too much energy, is expensive, created pollution, hallucinates and causes human poverty.
There is for angle and minimum brightness, however enforcement is rare.

I've only seen or heard of it comeing up twice. The first time, my ex wife got a 'fix it' ticket because the body shop replaced a headlight but angled it wronger than wrong.

The second time, a coworker had a busted headlight cover, got a fix-it ticket, and replaced it with a gatorade bottle creatively ziptied. He did intimate that it took a couple tries to get it right (due to the form of repair, they tried to use as much of the statue as possible to deny it was fixed.)
>Both crashes could have been easily averted if the crews had followed well-known procedures.

I thought that the majority of the problems was that Boeing wanted the same type-rating, so that airlines could avoid paying for training. This resulted in crews not getting proper training and so not knowing the proper procedures ... which was by decision.

Both the airlines and Boeing should take the blame; I don't really see how it would be the pilots fault, if you lie and say "it's the same plane, it flies the same, you don't need conversion training".

I am not in aviation, most of this is from YouTube sources, so y'know ...
In the UK we paid £90/month for a 32Kg dog. If you have the money it's worth every penny.
Yet 3x more Europeans immigrate to the US than Americans going the other direction. People vote with their feet and I feel like the EU vs US online discource is mainly based on vibes rather than facts.
Surely this is more related to the fact that "May" has multiple meanings, but "December" is quite clearly just the name of a month.

Does it happen with April and June? Does the response length trend downward as the months approach December? Does it change its behavior if it believes its in a hemisphere where May is snowy?

If it were performing better on standardized testing then I would find the results compelling, but generating longer responses isn't even necessarily desirable.
Cars. Americans spend a ton of money on having cars and building car-centric infrastructure. Most European countries could not afford to do this.
I like the writing style there. For feature listings, "You get ..." =D
The statements about providerism and europe not producing anything of value purely focusses on computer technology and not on any other type of technology. Take the agriculture sector; europe's not only produces tons of vegatables/fruits and meat, but it also has strong R&D programs such as seed enrichment, dna modification, etc. There are many other sectors out there
> Look, if its fraud of some sort, sure, get mad.

I mean, it has the smell of fraud to me. I’m not sure it is, but it seems like it should be investigated.
Which QoL metrics?
And it's worth every penny. I like cars and single family homes.
Just checked, you are totally right, I straight up cannot see anything aside from the title background picture they have for the article.

Ironically, reader mode on iOS safari lets me see a good chunk of the article including the title.
I'm assuming you're American and on this basis, it's safe to point out this expenditure is primarily defensive, funding the iron dome. You don't hear about the iron dome in the news much as it would get boring reading day in, day out of the same defences against "exploratory" missiles fired into Israel. These defensive missiles are really expensive.
Let's imagine it is an engineering problem; how do they solve it? Give a disclaimer that "your communications are not encrypted" and turn the bubbles maybe light green?
December in Melbourne (and most of Australia) is a wind-down month. Over the week between Christmas and New Years many jobs essentially stop as we have three public holidays (which will always fall on week-days) across six days and people tend to take the opportunity to travel and enjoy the nicer part of summer. People just don't put in the work in December.
Yeah it knows it's printing A4, but it can't print edge-to-edge, if you print a black rectangle the white borders are not a uniform size.

If you created a document using an A4 template and measured objects within this document using millimetres, when printed the objects would not be printed at exactly that size.

I know this because I've tried to do exactly that, and tried various permutations - on my specific printer I found that the warping was sometimes non-linear along the vertical axis! Maybe I've just got a particularly crap printer... Oh, Brother!
Oh gosh, can we please not do national/regional bickering here? That's not curious conversation (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

As a first step in a better direction, I've changed the baity title to a less baity, or at least more obscure, phrase from the article itself.
Whaaa... You don't find the only uncovered text "What Can You Do" enthralling? I want to know what I can do!

//On a side note:
https://archive.is/fp84g
I’ve noticed that Wi-Fi 7 routers are already out for sale:

[1]: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/asus-wifi-7-gaming-routers

[2]: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/netgears-orbi-970-wi-fi-7-...

[3]: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/linksys-mesh-wifi-7-router...

[4]: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amazon-eero-max-7-wi-fi...

Is it typical for products to be released before the standard is finalized?
Who said anything about superior or inferior.

The deciding factor is whatever device makes it easier for me to talk to my relatives will be my next device.

I currently have an iPhone XR, and I have been so frustrated with it for the past five years.

Why I've not changed device because it cost me a heck amount of money and minus my gripes is usable.
To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use
> Or is tax evasion generally not an issue among smaller merchants in India?

I've read income tax evasion is nearly endemic there, but don't know how reliable that was. In retail the more likely problem is avoiding collecting sales taxes etc, but India has a goods and services tax which means most of that is baked in by the time you hit retail.
No where have I argued for antitrust. I'm just saying iMessage is probably the most used messaging app in the US, others are claiming it's not without any data.
This sort of snarky comment adds nothing to the discussion.

In many ways, European countries are coasting along on wealth exploitation resulting from centuries of colonialism. North America is similar but the US in particular is absolutely dominant at the modern knowledge economy. This is where Europe in general lags behind.

Europe’s glory days are behind it. The glory days of the US are ahead of it.

Europeans have a higher quality of life, for now. Wait until the bill for the welfare state comes due and we shall see how sustainable that model is without the ability to create wealth.
Why would anybody want to copy US car infrastructure? I want to ride my bicycle.
Earth's crust is moving. Maybe the sand layers moved after the wood was placed there... and maybe the derived age is all wrong...
Slight correction - you can't (or rather, shouldn't) override the SMS handling on an android phone.

Instead what an app like Signal does is request all the permissions it can from the SMS/MMS handling service of the phone - to read and send SMS entries, and to get events on an incoming SMS, and then request to be the default handler of the `sms` custom URI scheme.

But you can have any number of SMS clients at once. It is likely if Apple Messages ever came to Android, it would do the same thing - otherwise, the fallback behavior (when talking to an android user without the app installed, for example) would be sub-par.
Calculus really should be thought of as dependent on linear algebra (the derivative of a function is the best linear function that approximates it; it just happens that in 1D the only linear functions are multiplication by a single number). Linear algebra seems like it would be far more useful than algebra 2 (things like conic sections?), trigonometry, and "pre-calc".

It's possible that you could do something like algebra (middle school)->geometry (maybe introduce the notion of a group here and focus more on symmetry and not so much on figuring out the missing angle/length in a complicated diagram)->linear algebra->probability/statistics. Concurrent with linear algebra, have kids learn calculus in physics class. After physics 1, they can do chemistry and/or e&m. Do vector calculus in e&m. Basically trim all the useless stuff out of high school and add the first couple semesters of college instead. Offer analysis as an elective after linear algebra/physics 1, and put a proper account of the n-D derivative and things like the Newton–Raphson method there.

Obviously that's a STEM bound curriculum, but at least in my school growing up, you only needed algebra 1 and geometry to graduate, which the honors kids did in middle school. So I assume any curriculum more advanced than that is for STEM bound kids.
This applies for literally every country except the US and China.

It's not like any of the other G20 countries (not to mention the entire rest of the world) have anything close to "a US tech sector" or anything approaching the level of engineering/science/product/manufacturing capability of the US.

California is where the entire world population goes to when they wanna make stuff.
Alternative to keto if you can afford it: exo-ketones.

Ketone salts are ok but ketone esters are fantastic.

People that understand how ketosis effects the brain will understand why this works.
I wonder if we'll see something like this to replace soldered flash chips too
Still a long way until clients will be able to play "pixel peeping" and "what's wrong with this shot" games with AI. Chores like matte/roto and matchmove are closer to danger. Distant mattes, procedural fill (even textures) will be supercharged with it though.
Ha! I took a phone call back when I was in the shiny round disc business that said based on the prices we were quoting, that we'd be out of business in a year because Apple released DVD Studio Pro. Instead, we gained even more business from people that tried to have their projects done in DVDSP, but then ran into road blocks making it impossible to do the job. They'd then come back to us, and receive an even higher quote since now there is even less time before their deadlines. cie la vie.

You say out of business. I say, mediocrity all the way down from here.
Agree, personally I don't see any reason for more than 100 Mb/s.
Teams limits screen sharing to 3-5fps, at 1080p that's 0.4 Mb/s according to their stats. Yeah, gigabit won't help my sufferings at all.
Ask HN: Live Agent Chat Recommendation
Can you guys recommend some live agent chat bots that can also ingest data from a wiki and serve it up as relevant search results ?

Right now we use Zendesk Chat but it's severely limited. It doesn't have webhooks/complex triggers and no option to link it with our Confluence wiki.

Ideally I'm looking for a chatbot that:

- if no agent has picked up the request yet, can try to find an answer in our wiki/kb

- if an agent did pick up the request, it will offer suggestions to the agent as to ways it can help with the request

We also need webhooks/triggers so that certain events are fired on certain conditions.
What is Pepperfish?
"If they can’t ban products, then it’s not consumer protection: it’s just wealth extraction." Couldn't have said it better myself
Beeper isn’t using Apple services (at least not in Beeper Mini, their new e2ee iMessage client), and thus is not subject to any Terms of Service from Apple.

They’re publishing client software, which is protected expression provided it’s original and doesn’t infringe any trademarks or copyrights.

The end users are the ones potentially violating the ToS by connecting to Apple APIs.

Apple has no basis to tell Beeper to cease and desist from the publication of software that it is legal to publish.
> most quality of life metrics

This is what we refer to as "europoor". Sure they have taxpayer funded "healthcare", council "housing", public "transportation" but it's not really what i would want for myself. Those things only exist because the middle class in europe is foced to give up a lifestyle of freedom/autonomy to average it out so the folks below them can get (1 + 0)/2. It won't stand on its own otherwise.

Thankfully the decision isn't being made for me by making those things prohibitively expensive to force me to live in urbania.
It doesn’t really succeed in making that case though, there’s a lot of invective but few facts. If you used the same criteria as the author for the US outside of SV how does it compare?

And as for AI DeepMind is HQ’d in Europe!
If it was obviously bogus (think SLAPP territory) then that would make sense, but I don't think it is as likely to get their attention if the offending behavior can reasonably be classified as a potential violation of the CFAA.

(Whether it is a violation or not, I certainly couldn't say, but my point being that there is a reasonable good faith interpretation of the behavior that would not raise eyebrows.)
I feel like if they did that the whole videogames industry might topple like a house of cards. There was a pinball prohibition in America where lawmakers decided all pinball looked like gambling whether gambling was involved or not and so they just banned all pinball machines and it took decades to undo the damage those laws did. I fear that if lawmakers started trying to pin down what in videogames was gambling and what wasn't, especially to crack down on "loot crates", who knows where they'd stop. A lot game mechanics look like loot crates.

(On top of that, so much of the videogames industry is funded by things like loot crates today. The big budget games don't have their big budgets in 2023 without their parent companies out whale hunting with some terrible mobile game or another. There are more players on mobile devices spending more money than anywhere else in videogames.)

Publishing odds and making sure that "real money can go in, but real money can't come out" were the contest laws that in part came out of compromises when pinball prohibition ended. They seem to be the best regulations we've come up with so far. They definitely don't feel sufficient to stop some of the worst offenders, but I would imagine any intelligent attempt to "tackle" loot crates would have to start with enforcing and beefing up those regulations rather than to start with bans.
It wouldn’t break the game, it just probably wouldn’t render correctly since a boss works with certain graphics.

Having a one off actor is really limiting. You can create several boss components and build entire permutations of bosses just by mixing and matching them up, without writing specialized code. Designers can put together the entities without developer input.
Backlash isn't probably that much of a problem, the orignal movement has a locking "pall" that stops backlash: https://youtu.be/CPS7aNCAwAA?t=161

scaling it up you'd get something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u48n-jvo5N0

to make it practical on a tuning fork, that movement of the forks would need to correspond to the tooth size of the wheel. For a large tuning fork, its probably in the order of mm, so not beyond home shop manufacture
That does not seem like it follow from the person you are replying to's examples. Pretty much nothing is about removing functionality?
MS Windows was also included in the price at the time of the legal action over pre-install refunds. I'm struggling to see a difference in the situations -- perhaps I'm overlooking something obvious?
Not all content comes associated with a date. I reckon enough does, that a signal is embedded in the model.
I think you misunderstand that quote. Prior versions of Beeper Cloud hosted Mac Minis in data centers and used genuine Apple hardware and software to automate iMessage in order to function.

This quote simply says that Beeper Cloud is using the same direct implementation of iMessage that Beeper Mini does. It does not indicate that Beeper Cloud & Mini do not communicate with Apple's servers (they do).
Agreed and thank you for also posting. I haven't incurred any cloud costs and my home server upgrades have been done for cheap, if you really look. I laughed because my "pipe" is as you put it, "Unix pipes with standard text processing". Hey, it works.
a lot of these examples look like bad photoshop examples to me though.
https://archive.ph/4No7C
Take life expectancy https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/world-life-expectancy-ma... or take how we treat the elderly and you will know the difference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhlIiMgDxm4
Thankfully, I rather take public transport when possible.
They certainly have vastly greater smugness about their current situation warranted or not.
Warcraft II was the one I discovered this on! It was extreme joy finding that!
I really like HN: the posts are on deeply interesting topics, & the userbase rarely fails to follow up with in depth technical analysis & insightful context in the comments.

It's a pity that every once in a while a post like this comes along & slaps you back to reality by reminding you that there's still a significant contingent that fit the stereotype of brain-dead growth-hacker valley types.

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Reluctant as I am to get into debating this, the essential flaw in this thesis is that consumerism is inherently positive, & that by extension production of a wide range of consumer products is self-evidently proves the utility of such innovations.

A side feature is survivorship bias whereby US products will tend to dominate a globalist borderless market by virtue of that international market being constructed to serve the model pursued by US companies. This is less about European individuals being subject to Providerism & more about EU companies being subject to "competition" within a biased arena that extends beyond their borders.
http://web.archive.org/web/20231211110223/https://www.nytime...
> Google requires you to register an application and get it approved to log in with OAuth, you can't just use it with arbitrary callback URLs. Why should I need to ask Google permission to use my own data, or ask for Google's permission to allow other apps to use my data?

I specifically mentioned the other approach; if your email client doesn't implement the OAuth style approach, you can generate an app password. https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en
Sounds like htmx.

https://htmx.org/essays/right-click-view-source/
They defined losses as the money originally invested, not the fake profits. So people have gotten back almost the money they put in decades ago; they've still lost massively compared to a scenario where they invested that money in something other than Madoff.