skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I may be misremembering this but I think ODBC does allow for more than one table to be returned at a time? But it has been nearly 30 years since I messed with that API. I think it has to do with stored procedures and that they sometimes can return more than one table. Maybe someone with more recent exp in it can chime in.
Importantly, this is largely a property of preloaded apps rather than GMS explicitly.
Never profitable isn't literally correct, but when the net income is floating just above zero, the point is made. Walmart for example normally makes 10-15x the profit of Amazon (outside of covid). Amazon even has years of negative net income.
This was for 58 customers though, so it sends a solid message I think
Elon Musk's Grok chatbot references OpenAI in its responses
Yes, everyone. Pretty bad in USA.
Not in Australia (population ~25M), they don't.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1036011/apac-annual-reve...

This is about 10% of their total annual APAC revenue. Not insignificant.
Because Elon's twitter friends claim to care about it so much, I guess.
https://archive.ph/inLcl
TBH I would have thought the best default would be 'what resolution did they choose last time, and get adequate performance?' and you'd only resort to guessing for users with no cookies.
Yes I have had computers since 1986 that I programmed and could because of their oneness. I’ve also had none open devices - my first being the Atari 5200.

I’ve also known since then that if I wanted an open device, I bought one and not complained about a device that I knew going in that I couldn’t program.
Why We Built Incremental Materialized Views
who will change your diapers when you need them again?

spoiler: if not your children, then someone else’s - the robots may not be sufficiently dexterous by that point.

it is fine to not want children. or to want them. to pretend either side is morally superior is rather foolish. practically speaking, you’re gonna need your diaper changed.
Mobile App, redesign, new dev, promotion build a bright future for PeerTube
PeerTube is a decentralized and federated alternative to YouTube. The goal of PeerTube is not to replace YouTube but to offer a viable alternative using the strength of ActivityPub and P2P protocols.

Being built on ActivityPub means PeerTube is able to be part of a bigger social network, the Fediverse (the Federated Universe). On the other hand, P2P technologies help PeerTube to solve the issue of money, inbound with all streaming platform : With PeerTube, you don't need to have a lot of bandwidth available on your server to host a PeerTube platform because all users (which didn't disable the feature) watching a video on PeerTube will be able to share this same video to other viewers.

If you are curious about PeerTube, I can't recommend you enough to check the official website (https://joinpeertube.org) to learn more about the project. If after that you want to try to use PeerTube as a content creator, you can try to find a platform available there to register or host yourself your own PeerTube platform on your own server.

The development of PeerTube is actually sponsored by Framasoft (https://framasoft.org), a french non-for-profit popular educational organization, a group of friends convinced that an emancipating digital world is possible, convinced that it will arise through actual actions on real world and online with and for you!

Framasoft is also involved in the development of Mobilizon, a decentralized and federated alternative to Facebook Events and Meetup.

If you want to contribute to PeerTube, feel free to:

* report bugs and give your feedback on Github or on our forums (https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/)

* submit your brillant ideas on our Feedback platform (https://ideas.joinpeertube.org/)

* Help to translate the software, following the contributing guide (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/contribute/getting-started)

* Make a donation to help to pay bills inbound in the development of PeerTube (https://support.framasoft.org)
Freesound Is Under Maintenance
re: replies, check out hnreplies.com (no affiliation), it works quite well.
Sure, trust in a third party that has a good reputation versus the company itself that says "trust us". Big difference.
Bloomberg have changed the headline now to "SBF’s Lawyer Says Client Was ‘Worst’ Witness He Has Ever Seen" which sums up the article better
Compatibility arises from standardization, which only comes after maturity. I don’t expect software industry to mature until another hundred years or so.
Interesting. Coming from a progressive european coutry, this sounds outrageously absurd. The idea of enacting laws based on the bible seems not just archaic but almost surreal. Are they stuck in the middle ages?
Honest question, does anybody ever consider that excluding non-iPhone users from a group chat is a dick move?

How hard it is to install a cross-platform app? Some of these apps also work in a web browser on any OS, which is a nice advantage over iMessage.
Compare this to a desktop. The desktop spyware will be even more capable than the mobile spyware.

And these sorts of child-tracking (and sadly, abused-partner-tracking) apps exist on both Android and iOS platforms.
Show HN: Personal Telegram Bot with ChatGPT, Stable Diff, Kandinsky and More
Personal Telegram bot with a wide range of capabilities:

- Access to most OpenAi models, such as GPT, DALL-E, Whisper, TTS

- Access to replicate models, such as Stable diffusion, Kandinsky, Blip, Llama, and others

- Ability to download videos from various video hosting platforms
Thank you so much for the feedback. This is an amazing idea.
I will probably be working on this next thing as a separate command :)
That's the nicest status page I ever seen, good job whoever built this
Not for every mitigation. There are plenty of cases where OpenBSD removed code and functionality because of security implications.
I appreciate the discussion but this does read a bit ridiculous to me. If we are speaking English and we say the best books of 2023 I cannot imagine any scenario that we would think the books are not written in English. I would immediately assume this includes translated books but again in English. Similar if it was the best book list in German or any other language I would assume all of the books are written in that language.

I don’t understand what there is to hate. If I was visiting a site written entirely in French I would have zero expectation that any book list would clarify that the books are French language. What game is being played?
Couldn’t they just add one at the end?
A very smooth, no-BS app that does handwritten text -> Markdown.

It should do headings, pictures (as local files), and other kinds of formatting as well.
Doesn’t Portland have a housing affordability problem? Why was the answer to “people are using drugs in public because they can’t afford a place to do it in private” to legalize public use? I swear we’ll do anything to address the consequences of lack of housing except actually build enough houses.
Isn't this more of a false advertising with risk of personal injury issue?

Why should they be able to call it Full Self Driving if it doesn't drive itself, fully.

Even if they do have fine print that says "The currently enabled features require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous."

Seems egregious to name something with a precise feature description and then completely contradict that description in fine print.
So is Apple the building that contains a Starbucks or the business known as Starbucks? It seems like it’s both — that is a problem. Is Starbucks charging its customers steep costs for entering the building? Where does the existing App Store with its large transaction fees and restrictions around billing fit into this analogy?
I started building a small hadron collider in my spare room but ran out of money and energy.
The answer is a community that cares about this person and is going to invest in them. Period

That’s it that’s the solution.

Until every person on earth has a supportive loving community - which mathematically works out very easily - we’ll never solve these problems.

There is absolutely no logistical or material reason that we can’t do this. It’s also not biologically determined - fear and greed are not inherit in humans, those are all learned behaviors. I fear however it’s going to take generations to undo how much we have invested in domination based systems rather than partnership based structures.
If you want to know the media decoding capabilities of a Web Browser, you can use the MediaCapabilities API. In Firefox, when flipping the "resist fingerprinting" flag, it's spoofed appropriately based on a study of what the most common results are. This is available on all engines, desktop and mobile.

Depending on the implementation, what it returns can be based on the presence of optimized software decoders for a platform, presence of hardware, resolution and other characteristics of the video, it can also be based on a decoding benchmark that the web browser runs, etc.

https://w3c.github.io/media-capabilities/

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Media_Capab...
I think Microsoft offered them the jobs because a large number signed a petition suggesting they were unhappy. Salesforce made a similar offer so I guess by that logic, Salesforce should receive similar scrutiny

https://m.economictimes.com/tech/technology/salesforce-ceo-o...
Hacking Epilepsy Out of Existence
No but it's not just going to a competitor's donut shop, it's losing your family group chat, cloud storage, apps you've paid for, integration with your laptop, tablet, earbuds, smart watch, etc, etc. Apple has on purpose (there are verified transcripts of execs talking about it) built a walled garden ecosystem that is incredibly hard to leave.
You can do what you want during a next event loop (timer, key press, …)
Sorry for the very late reply. I saw this and I forgot to ask.

I remember you posed a few good comments about GR. I never took that course, so I only know SR.

I have been dismissing this, thinking that it's too weird to combine the probabilistic approach with the quantum approach.

[Without evidence or knowledge] I think it's only a matter of time until someone figures a gravitational version of the experiment to measure the Bell inequality and then the experiment just give the result from the quantum theory. The problem is that using gravity to entangle photon / electrons looks very hard, so
I don't expect an experimental refutation soon.

[Without evidence or knowledge] It looks hard to keep the equivalence principle of gravity and acceleration, an mix the probabilistic and quantum approach.

So, after my long comment...

Do you think this is worth reading or I can just ignore it?
Supply Chain Poisoning of 7ZIP on the Microsoft App Store
Casual book scanning could benefit from stereo cameras, if there's a way for iPhone apps to access this data.

As a mathematician I've long wanted to figure out the code to match up several photographs for a 3D model of an open book, to correctly flatten out the image of each page. Bonus points to use AI to clean up the image, or convert to source that faithfully represents the page layout.

There are apps that take one photo and then guess how to correct the distortion. They don't do as good a job as one could do with the actual 3D data.

Many of us don't want to dedicate the space or money for a professional book scanner, and can't find an affordable flatbed scanner that scans all the way to one edge to better support books. I'll sometimes slice a second used copy of a cookbook, to scan every page using a sheetfed scanner. Grabbing one's phone should win ease-of-use over any other solution, if it could match the quality of these other approaches. 3D cameras would help that.
If you look at a company and assume that you can shut the whole thing down except the sales team, usually it'll be profitable in theory. The problems only arise if someone tries that and then they'll discover that there needs to be a bit of a moat around the sales team to make the whole thing work.

Amazon's profits prior to 2017 were laughable. Even now their income is inferior to Walmart - and they have AWS as a business that is a bit of a cheat. Fair enough from a maney making perspective, but it makes it hard to do an apples-to-apples on how well they are running their retail arm.

Retail is a particularly brutal business to turn a profit in and while Amazon looks like it can do it, the proof isn't in yet. Walmart still consistently makes more money than Amazon.

"Oh we could make money at any time!" is one of those claims that is false until the proof is solidly in the rear view mirror. High revenue and 0% margins is a lot easier than middling revenues and a respectable margin.
Stéphane von Gunten's watch runs 41 days without winding
>Plus, why jump straight to suing instead of telling us to stop?

"I know you shot five people but instead of arresting you we'll just ask you to not do it a sixth time, okay?"
Speech isn't entirely unlimited. Saying something that makes people over-trust your "autopilot" and kill other road users seems like a reasonable limit.
India's UPI posts 11.2B transactions in November
> But, IMO, knowing the time isn't something I need to be solved on my wrist anymore given everyone carries phones.

It varies; I like checking the time when my hands are full. Wristwatches got much more useful to me when my kid was born - with babies you almost never have a hand free to dip into your pocket just to check the time.

When I'm working on my car, or playing guitar, or just about anything interesting, my hands are full so it's nice to have the time on my wrist.
https://archive.ph/gy0qH
Well, that and also when you set "Desktop site" in mobile Chromium it will report a user-agent which matches that of desktop Linux on ARM. So it is most likely trying to target those devices as well.
False advertising is indeed what California is going after them for.
...but you do need to move them somewhere else ...

So, make them somebody else's problem? Great plan. :|
Idea: let's shut down the security theater at the airport and move on from 20 years ago.
> uniqueness of fingerprints is also disputed by many

But, who cares? Security at the scales the TSA operates at is not an absolute but probabilistic.

What they can do is lower the possibility of accidental mismatches to some acceptable level, and to increase the cost for an attacker. That is all they can do. And they have to do this at scale with acceptable externalities.

Yeah, finger prints are not 100% unique, neither are they 100% foolproof, so what?
When the charge is you should have truth in advertising, the rebuttal of freedom of speech sounds better than lies in advertising.
Why not both?

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

Advertised at +-15 seconds a month, but in reality it's much better than that.
Foundation scenes with weird focus turned out to be plot related in S2.
Show HN: SQL-Configurable Alerting and Ticketing – Beyond Zapier and Zendesk
Hey HN Community,

I'm excited to share something we have been working on for over the past few months: Locale.ai. Its heart and soul lie in its SQL-configurable nature. You can directly connect Locale to your databases, data warehouse, or any SaaS tool that you use internally and craft custom alerts and ticketing conditions with SQL queries. The issues also get resolved on their own as we can detect them through data.

Before starting Locale, we worked across companies and managed tons of cron jobs with email reports, slack alerts for customer success operations and product. It’s a tool born out of our problems of missing issues because of noisy slack channels, faulty cron jobs, airflow and constantly refreshing dashboards.

Locale identifies moments that need your attention based on the rules you set, and alerts the right people at the right time. These alerts then become tickets sent across Slack, WhatsApp, Jira or anywhere your team works so that you can track for resolution and enable escalation if not solved.

Whether you're in product, operations, sales, marketing, or any other team, Locale adapts to your unique workflows. It's designed to give you the power to define precisely what you want to monitor and how you want to be alerted across multiple channels, as long as you have the data captured for it.

Would love to hear your feedback, suggestions, or any cool ideas on the possible use cases for Locale. We're a small team determined to make this tool as user-centric as possible, so your input is invaluable to us.

Check it out here https://locale.ai.

Looking forward to your thoughts and discussions!
>I have no idea who it comes from

It was written by Thomas Jefferson.
I got mine already?
Not sure if ODBC supported it, but Microsoft added at some point MARS - multiple active results sets. I don't know anything about them though.
Glancing at Walter Bright's brief Wikipedia page - I'd say he worked for Boeing well before they succumbed to the McDonnell Douglas Brain Fungus.
> but it looks like vim really has undo/redo "solved"

Does it support restricting undo/redo to a selection? In Emacs you can select any region of text and just apply the undo history of the selection. That is extremely useful. Imagine working on to functions in the same file. You have are working on g() and realize you want to undo some change on f(), that you did before. Most editors don't support that. In Emacs you can just select the code of f() and press undo (C-_).

Several popular undo extension libraries break this feature.
Well it's not about freedom of speech. It's freedom to tell lies publicly and not be held accountable for it by confusing what class of entity is making the speech. This is just covered by freedom of speech legislation.

Telsa is acting in bad faith towards customers, the government and investors here.
Given that the distortion is always only going to be in the X dimension, unless the page is crumpled, could you just try to detect straight horizontal lines on the page, come up with the distortion to straighten them, and apply that to the whole page?
A “list of Sci-Fi” books is suspect with fantasy books in its mix. And if it’s meant to be a cross over, it should make that case. What am I to make from: “Award for Best Fantasy Novel… Winner of the British Fantasy Society Award…” uuhh? It’s a fox in the hen house! Get your dragon out of my spaceship!
Checkout the Terraform configuration I used to setup cloud resources on Azure, AWS and Google Cloud to enable OIDC-based auth for Actions on GitHub Enterprise Server.
Does the quality of coffee change something? I always wonder as usually better quality is..better
Cool article! I like the practical advice on managing schema changes. I hope you don't mind me sharing on other platforms. Thank you!

Disclaimer: I work at ClickHouse.
A million robotaxis on the road by 2020:

https://www.thedrive.com/news/38129/elon-musk-promised-1-mil...

Woo! Hardcore!
I think it is more lake the mayor allowing his son to open a Starbucks in the city but preventing everyone else from opening a Peet's because he is concerned about how that might negatively affect the image of the city in the eyes of coffee enthusiasts as he has no control over coffee prices and quality there.
Show HN: iPod Classic Bluetooth and USB-C DIY Kit
So, bespoke wheels and tires? Sounds expensive.
Yes, that's also how I parsed it.
I don't know what restaurants you frequent, but I can't think of anyone being okay with bringing outside meals or beverages. Probably you are just not kicked out because staff is not noticing or apathetic.

I only know of the concept of Corkage, where you pay the restaurant a fee if you bring your own wine to drink:

https://www.webstaurantstore.com/blog/2626/corkage-fee-guide...

> A corkage fee is the price charged to guests who choose to bring their own bottle of wine to a restaurant. Corkage fees usually exist at restaurants that already serve wine. The practice of allowing guests to bring their own wine is considered a courtesy to guests. … The average corkage fee ranges from $10 to $40 per bottle but may be as high as $100 or more.
This is a false portrayal of the conflict. Israel wants to finish ethnically cleansing the west bank (as they have been doing and continue to do until this day) and want to either keep Gaza as a concentration camp or ethnically cleanse it as well. Palestinians want implementation of international law and UN resolutions which require a return to 67 borders and a right for Palestinian return. There IS a right and wrong side here and portraying the conflict as both sides just wanting to kill each other is obfuscating with the intent of portraying both sides equally at fault and thus the conflict hopelessly unsolvable.
You're just wrong. You're defining "global" discussion boards to only include that which is in english. There are vast francophone sections of the internet, not to mention chinese, malay, hindi, spanish etc. You are fully welcome to go and look at these places as well; they are also global in the same sense that y combinator is.

hacker news is a discussion board attached to a startup accelerator based in silicon valley. it's only global because many people find the content that's *already here* valuable.
For me writing comment replies on YT is completely broken. Since about a week the text input field just doesn't appear. Everything else is there but no place for actually writing something.

It's in Firefox but it happens with Chrome user agent too and it just stopped working without an update inbetween.
Python Charting: Taming Big Data Without Crashing
Hey guys! I work at Taipy; we are a Python library designed to create web applications using only Python. Some users had problems displaying charts based on big data, e.g., line charts with 100,000 points. We worked on a feature to reduce the number of displayed points while retaining the shape of the curve as much as possible and wanted to share how we did it.
I have to tell you that I have quite a bit of experience on this and a little bit of compassion and love goes along way.

Maybe talking to people one on one asking who they are how their day is, can you help them? Can you get them anything?

This time last year I helped a man named John stop sleeping outside by supporting him and giving him the moral and ethical support that he needed to reconnect with his family and he was off the streets and a couple of months. When we reconnected, he said that it was because of my outreach that he was able to have what he needed to reach back out to his family. It cost me 50 dollars in groceries/medical kit and about an hour of my time.

So it’s eminently possible, you can do it every single day that you go out into the world.

You simply choose not to.
As I'm sure most of us know, the x86 lineage goes back nearly 50 years. Many ideas that went nowhere, were taken as design decisions, and are forever etched in silicon.

One of my favourite examples is the x86 task switching support. The 386 had everything needed to implement context-switching and multitasking -- in hardware. (That notion was in vogue, once. See the ICL 2900.) If you set up the right structure in memory, and turn on the hardware task switching, x86 processors will automatically context switch all of the registers in and out of that in-memory structure, at the appropriate privilege boundaries (interrupt, return from interrupt, etc.) So your kernel can switch between processes like this (more or less):

mov next_proc_ptr, tr
iret

It also provides IO port protection - there's another table that lets you specify which ports the process can access, which the processor will examine, when an IO instruction is executed in user mode, presumably for something microkernelish.

Now that's the good ol' CISC spirit. It's quite a complex feature and yet I'm not sure any OS ever used it.
The only censoring at Twitter happens because Musk does it. He’s imagining corporate and government forces arrayed against him because he can’t begin to contemplate the obvious: he ruined the platform.