skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It goes that way with furniture too. I wanted to make a super basic thing that doubled as a raiser for my TV and space to store a few books. Basically 3 pieces of wood. The cost of the wood was as much as some mass produced junk you can get on Amazon from a knock off factory in Asia.
> it supports SMS!

and isn't RCS support coming too?
The two I know of are IREE and Kompute[1]. I'm not sure how much momentum the latter has, I don't see it referenced much. There's also a growing body of work that uses Vulkan indirectly through WebGPU. This is currently lagging in performance due to lack of subgroups and cooperative matrix mult, but I see that gap closing. There I think wonnx[2] has the most momentum, but I am aware of other efforts.

[1]: https://kompute.cc/

[2]: https://github.com/webonnx/wonnx
Aren't they just trading their income for those benefits though?
Network effect? The whole value of it is that it lets you use existing networks (iMessage and SMS). Otherwise people could just switch to WhatsApp or any of twenty Google messaging services.
True, but as mentioned in the thread, this is how it works. That also makes it super fast and it only needs to analyze the manifest for your build instead of scanning or uploading all your code.
It’s standard big corp parlance for a role that has no direct reports. Obvious terminology for anyone who has worked in an org with a moderate size HR or higher, but anyone else has probably never heard of it. I knew immediately that it meant Individual Contributor but I can easily see someone not knowing it if have never worked in BigCorp
@dang is this off-topic or was this taken off frontpage due to high flags? seems like it was.
Can anyone recommend an extension that can be used to limit the total number of tabs in Firefox for Android? "Limit Tabs"[0] works great on the desktop and I was hoping it would become available on mobile now, but sadly it didn't.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rudolf-fernan...
It’s better than a message app that no one knows about.
Discord excels particularly in group communications involving more than a dozen people. Its ability to organize access levels through roles and topics is a standout feature, offering significant advantages over other platforms. However, these features may not be as crucial in casual conversations among friends.
I don't have issue with screenshots in docs except for one small caveat: too many screenshots.

Don't screenshot Every. Single. Step. Doing so makes the documents harder to read as every paragraph ends up seperated by one or more screenshots.

Make sure that "the point" of the screenshot is clear. If required, crop or highlight the important bits.

Granted, screenshots will go out of date but so will any other documentation. This is also why having bit less screenshots will help you keeping docs up to date.

If you still think that screenshoting every step is a better idea, consider screen recording instead.
That's great to know. Thanks!
IMO Intel has over-engineered Core Ultra. The packaging is very advanced but what if that complexity isn't needed? Never send a bunch of chiplets to do a single die's job.
For that matter, graphics in computer games are informed by physics in the sense that many methods like rendering, raytracing, NeRF, Gaussian Splatting try to simulate light fields.
First off, that is a really faulty assumption. Enterprise laptops make almost nothing for most laptop manufacturers. When I bought Dell laptops at a F500, they were selling us laptops at cost and only making money on support / software contracts. HP/Dell/Lenovo are all making between 2-8% on their profit margin vs 25% with Apple.

Compared to 10 or 15 years ago, mac laptop adoption is increasing. It feels like most tech companies or software engineers are using macs.

Dell, HP and Lenovo all ship massive amounts more laptops, but make a fraction of the margin that apple does on their hardware. IIRC apple made more profit than all 3 combined. And each one of those has software arms of their companies that help their bottom line.
How to say you don't have kids without saying you don't have kids.

Unless you're the perfect kid, did you forgot what you did when you were a kid that you parent didn't agree on?

Kids are full of life and as the saying goes, life finds a way.
FF gets crapped on all the time, BUT... it's still the best mainstream browser out there IMHO. I've been using FF since day one, when it was code named Phoenix. As the spiritual successor to Netscape Navigator, I have super fond memories of using NN, as it was the only decent browser we could install on the Sun Sparc workstations we had in college before I could afford my own computer. I still toy around with SeaMonkey once or twice a year for the memories.

Sadly, the browser world has almost become something of a mono culture with the majority of offerings using Chromium as their base. I liked Opera for years. Original engine. Tabbed. Now Vivaldi is the Opera successor, but sadly uses Chromium as the base. Vivaldi have said they are not going to allow the changes to affect them.

Again, sadly, I doubt that in the near term, anyone will try and offer up a new browser. Even Edge is nothing more than Chromium with MS's tech-nasty Kabuki makeup and overly-complicated proprietary plumbing. Is it too much to ask for a browser that just browses the web without all the garbage tie-ins? Tabs, ad blocking that I control, not add-ins. Like a Pi-hole, where I can add lists. I realize some browsers do this, but the tie-ins, notes, skins, email, political activism, it's all too much.
So true. NASA's achievements are the highest of human accomplishments, imo. Sometimes I picture being on the team that built these triumphs, I think I would be overtaken with pride forever.
Adium was a very well-designed mac app that I used for many years. All of its messaging connectivity was due to its use of libpurple (formerly libgaim).
Wow, it's cool to see this idea trending on HN! Full disclosure, I'm one of the co-founders at https://www.marmalade.co. Speaking from personal experience, it’s been a long road getting from the universe of all Shopify products to a curated inventory that’s easy for people to shop on. While ChatGPT isn't going to replace human curation anytime soon, the AI tailwind has made it much easier to build search and recommendation systems. On our end, we've definitely caught the semantic search bug. Watch out for it - you’ll wake up one day with a cross-modal hybrid search index on pinecone and any number of models on huggingface :). However, as you rightly point out, user growth is still the key. We're working toward launching a community aspect of the platform in the coming months as a solution.
I stopped using DO App Services for Node when their Node version fell far behind LTS to the point that my dependencies stopped working. I migrated to Heroku.
I cancelled all company subscriptions to Adobe after going through their cancellation process and realizing they were just straight up scamming me. Just no. Love me in don’t lock me in you fools.

We just stopped doing business with them. Then they bought figma. And we had to figure out how to divest ourselves of Figma, which we are doing slowly. I really think they control too much of the market.

Adobe needs to stop behaving badly.
Right. This is much more similar to MS and Internet Explorer back in 98.

Interestingly enough, one of the outcomes of that case was IE for the Mac.
Understanding Change Data Capture (CDC)
Intel has to do it by themselves. NVIDIA just lets Meta/OpenAI/Google engineers do it for them. Such a handicapped fight.
You're right, but Wikipedia says that Cox Enterprises (which owns the ISP) retains a 29% stake in CMG.
Battery status was disabled in Firefox in 2016.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/01/firefox-d...
Here comes the quips about how Pope Francis is seeking to regulatory capture AI so his own company can succeed...
So the biggest impediment to competition is the status of a blue text box in one messaging app?

If so, create your “status symbol” message app and you can go buy apple or google after, lol
> because Apple was very much in favor of client-side scanning until they encountered a popular uproar about it.

I always find it curious when I see "company changes plans due to consumer feedback" framed as a bad thing rather than a good thing, especially when they are one of a field of companies that are largely already doing the thing people were upset about. Personally, I think it's great when a company has a pragmatic motive to act in the consumer's interest rather than (or possibly in addition to) an idealistic motive, because a pragmatic motive is much more likely to stand the test of time.

So, I disagree with you that it's not a good example. In fact, I think it's a great example of one of these big platforms being materially better wrt. consumer privacy than their competition. Frankly, I think your "impression of Apple [...] that they're very sensitive to privacy intrusions by anyone who isn't named 'Apple'" is exactly what I was talking about in my first comment in this thread: a cynical, unsubstantiated implication that all these platforms are equally as bad as each other, and that we've already lost the battle in the consumer space.
Have a look at the node code. It's biblically simple. I would say it's much simpler than any comparable solution. You can forget about reducers, thunks, computed, even useState, useContext, useEffect and props are rare. I've stuck with graph terminology: nodes, predecessors etc, but you don't need to grok that stuff to use this. Once you've understood that a node is a value, some methods and a reup() function, that's it.
pretty cool, main thing is you really want to do all your drawing above your shoulders. Below your shoulders you start rotating your hand and it loses track.
You are confusing with Digital Markets Act.

https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/about-dma_en
In case anyone was curious

Both Voyager probes power themselves with radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs), which convert heat from decaying plutonium into electricity. The continual decay process means the generator produces slightly less power each year

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-will-do-more-sci...
> iMessage is not the leading messaging app in any market.

Really? I haven't seen anything approaching it in the US, except maybe Facebook Messenger? But iMessage is definitely ubiquitous enough across the US (I've lived on both coasts and in between) that it's surprising (and annoying) when someone doesn't have it.
There are certainly time frames where change in global m2 money supply and change in bitcoin's price over say 12mo would have a positive R value. That isn't the point I am making. If the amount of money available goes up, then one would expect that the price of other things, all else held equal would also go up. It would be quite strange for bitcoin or any other commodity to behave differently consistently and over a long period.
This doesn't necessarily mean that the whole principle of unquestioning obedience when it comes to being asked to do immoral/unethical acts is false. Also, we've probably all had bosses who were a bit too drunk with power. And unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), due to new ethics regulations, no such experiment could ever be conducted again- Except in real life, as happens every day in repressive countries around the world.
> Migicovsky previously denied to Ars that Beeper used "fake credentials"

As far as I know (I could be wrong), in order to log in + auth to Apple's various protocols that are involved to make iMessage work, you need a valid Apple ID and some sort of valid hardware ID.

If you don't have either of those, how would you be talking to Apple's services?

If their POST /login requires email + password + valid registered serial # of device sold that isn't flagged stolen and not shared across 100 accounts... how does Beeper Mini expect to work?
I had a lot more fun with that than I expected great work! I found my finger maneuvers not crisp enough to do anything with real detail.

One idea I immediately had was to use a key on the keyboard (if not on mobile of course) as triggers for draw, hover, erase, etc. You could also control different colors that way, possibly even draw generated shapes like circles and rectangles (press 'c' to start a circle, then use your finger to drag out the size, stop with 'c' again).

and if you want to get really advanced, allow rotation of the drawn object and then choose a new plane to draw on.
You're also not buying your equipment from Amazon either. I do some very very laughable to even calling chemistry, but I don't trust the crap on Amazon. At. All. I'm only working with sodium hydroxide and some oils, but I was even hesitant about buying stainless still from fear of knock off aluminum coated crap sold as stainless.

For anyone wanting to play the home game thinking they can just have their supplies same day from Amazon, just don't
So long as it isn't impossible, the improbable becomes inevitable at scales as vast as the universe.
Organizations always react to incentives and all of the above and more are probably at play.

The funding incentives are probably such that failure means leadership is hauled before political theatre and accused of wasting people's taxes Vs say SpaceX where it's let's blow up one more rocket.

The political situation also probably makes it infeasible to ask for or rely on long term program commitments (which is tied to scientist & engineer employment) but once the hardware is already in place, getting extensions is probably quite cheap and non controversial

All these probably incentivize a risk averse and over engineering culture. Of course that benefits science fans, so I'd say more power to them :-)
No raw sendmail.cf? :)
Bad quality printers are also a big issue. It's a lot easier to read a low-quality printout if you know it comes from a tightly limited character set. And some of these (such as dot matrix printers in "quick, low quality" mode) are still among the cheapest options if you have to print a lot.
> Generating random numbers is a bit complicated!

I know! I just wrote a whole paper and published a library on this!

But really, perhaps not as much as many from outside might think. The core of a Philox implementation can be around 50 lines of C++ [1], with all the bells and whistles maybe around 300-400. That implementation's performance equals CuRAND's , sometimes even surpasses it! (the API is designed to avoid maintaining any rng states on device memory, something curand forces you to do).

> running the same PRNG with the same seed on all your cores will produce the same result

You're right. Solution here is to utilize multiple generator objects, one per thread, ensuring each produces statistically independent random streams. Some good algorithms (Philox for example), allow you to use any set of unique values as seeds for your threads (e.g. thread id).

[1] https://github.com/msu-sparta/OpenRAND/blob/main/include/ope...
Developers need to write tests so they understand how to structure the application in a manner that can be tested. The test engineer brings a fresh set of eyes and different expectations about how the application should work. That's valuable too.
I did?
Where did I say anything about not going out?
Every American I know primarily uses texts and every non-American primarily uses Whatsapp. People also use Instagram and Discord but for other purposes, not when they just want to send one or two people a simple message.
Trick I learned from an old wrench: overestimate time and cost, then when you deliver something in half the time and half the cost they'll think you're twice the mechanic.

I'm not sure that's what NASA does, but it certainly doesn't hurt their PR.
Mandatory smbc: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/zimbardo
Is the grocery store stealing profits from the other grocery store next door? This is a ridiculous concept. Maybe that was your point?
ok sorry mr pedant, text message to me means the default tied to your number way of communicating on your phone
My bigger question is how are any Beeper Mini users getting through (aka how is Beeper Mini's backend getting around the fact that... I thought you needed a valid serial # to an Apple device specific to you to log in + use iMessage)
Although the final determination is not yet locked in, the word is that Bing and iMessage have been found to not be popular enough in the EU to fall under the DMA.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-06/apple-ime...
I don’t use Bitcoin because it’s too slow and expensive. Other people do find value in it.

Carrying more than $10k in cash is dangerous, and likely to be seized during international travel.

That’s a list of things people use crypto for. Obviously, if they preferred the non crypto version of those services, they would use them instead.
Yes, these two are AWS terms, but other clouds have nearly the same services, and often called the same, too.
This seems a useful way to imagine framing qualities about an entity to see what you know about them, be it a profile, survey, etc, which may come from many different perspectives.
Trillian was a fantastic piece of software
> the software incompatibilities mean you'll spend a ton of time getting it to work compared to an Nvidia GPU.

Leverage LLMs to port the SW
makes perfect sense. ellison would probably try to blast him from lānaʻi if shtf. no wait, it’s because the locals hate him, this is his safe vacation house, like a safe room but billions.

more realistically, a hurricane hitting at the wrong spot could be enough to take out one of the richest humans alive. not even from a direct hit, fires are also a concern. lots of concerns, really. should his security detail even allow that risk? insurers, investors, etc?

unless you put in something that looks a lot like a doomsday bunker.

plus, that way when shtf you have a doomsday bunker in paradise.
It's only sad they dont sell paper version of their archives
Oh, you were clear, I just missed it. Cool service :-)
What does that have to do with this thread? You know the ivory tower one?
Someone has to glue AI APIs onto all of the existing apps, right?
Performance of Google Gemini Pro on text classification
Throw that iPhone into the river!
I feel that's not right either. Apple did not physically build the phone network and nobody is piggybacking on their network, Apple isn't hosting anyone's photos or videos afaict and the user pays for bandwidth, they maybe pay for notification relay to their own users.

It's more like phone manufacturer X that accesses Ma Bell's network creates phone with slightly better call quality that only works with other X phones and is worse with anyone else's phones. And they start doing that once they have >50% market share.
I've tried a few things in ChatGPT, it's going to be a real uphill battle to get a story >1,000 words that's not bizarrely generic. What you can get now is more like madlibs 2.0 than actual story generation.
They aren't blocking Firefox, it's one of your add-ons
Macs are an Apple product and have the very nearly the same hardware protections.
You can see full list of current decisions here without paywall:

https://digital-markets-act-cases.ec.europa.eu/gatekeepers
> It's desirable for there to be only one system

What gets a bit lost in the conversation for iMessage is that the protocol/infra and implementation get merged into one. This is approached in many countries for telcos by splitting the companies providing the lines from the companies providing service on top of them. It's not perfect, but it's better than previous approaches.
> Literally, every single announcement (and action) coming out of AMD these days is that they are serious about the software. I don't see any reason at this point to doubt them.

They're having to announce it so much because people are rightly sceptical. Talk is cheap, and their software has sucked for years. Have they given concrete proof of their commitment, e.g. they've spent X dollars or hired Y people to work on it (or big names Z and W)?
How feasible would it be to target Vulkan 1.3 or such from standard SYCL (as first seen in Sylkan, for earlier Vulkan Compute)? Is it still lacking the numerical properties for some math functions that OpenCL and SYCL seem to expect?
"Humankind" by Rutger Bregman also makes a counterpoint to the assumption that all humans are bad. It has a chapter about the Stanford Prison Experiment.
Wow you could have said that without being incredibly condescending.
To quote S.R. Hadden from Contact: "First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?"
DATE: 14 DEC 2023

SUBJECT: UPPER CASE

SALUTATIONS:

PERHAPS EVERY SYSTEM SELLER ASPIRED TO BUSINESS AND CAPABILITY SIGNALS WITH FORMALITY AND AUTHORITARIANISM LIKE "WE BEGIN BOMBING IN FIVE MINUTES". HOW WEAK AND TIMID WOULD IT APPEAR IN LOWER CASE? THAT IS THE REASON. IT DEFINITELY WAS NOT THE FACT THAT MOST 50'S AND 60'S SYSTEMS LACKED LOWER CASE, SO THERE WAS ONLY ONE CASE. OR THAT EARLY OCR NEEDED TO USE AN ALPHABET AS DISTINGUISHABLE AS POSSIBLE.

ARGUE WITH ME, BUT I THINK AFTER LOWER CASE BECAME A THING, WE FORGOT AND LEFT CAPS LOCK ON SO WE COULD SHOUT LIKE GRANDPA WHO FORGOT TO CHANGE HIS HEARING AID BATTERIES RATHER THAN IT WAS TOO MUCH EFFORT TO HOLD SHIFT ON KEYBOARDS AND SCREENS.

BUT WORRY NOT YOUNGSTERS, IN 50 YEARS, WE WILL BE WRITING IN STREET GRAFFITI EMOJI SLANG WITHOUT SPACES OR PUNCTUATION.

SINCERELY,

SOME RANDO GUY ON THE INTERNET

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Intelligent_Machi...
Yeah, let's burn through $500 worth of glassware for every single freshmen's weekly lab class. We occasionally used flasks worth $300. Let's also make computers single use as well.
I don't really care about being "fair" to the applicant, I care about getting the most competent doctor I can. Being a doctor is position of grave responsibility, it shouldn't be a reward that we give to people who deserve it because they tried really hard and had a tough life.
That looks interesting, and totally new to me. Thanks.
legendary, ty
Brilliant idea, but I could see this being a pain if your mobile network is down. I suppose if you have both wifi and mobile data it's pretty unlikely that you won't be able to respond to the nudge in time
For me, the scrolling ruins the Oracle games. It’s so core to the experience of LA that you can only see one screen. Scrolling would ruin it.
It misses at least one editing tool, which happens to be the one I prefer: xournal. https://xournalpp.github.io/guide/pdfs/

LibreOffice's apps and Inkscape also do the job as they say, but they re-render the existing content which often changes it's look. In particular of it don't have a close matching font installed the result can be a mess. xournal doesn't have that problem but it only lets you add, not delete or modify.

No mention of digital (x509) signing. LibreOffice can do it - but see above. Okula can do it reasonably well, if you are prepared to pollute your Firefox certs with your personal ones. I haven't found a command line tool (like pdftk) that does it, which is sad.