skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the thoughtful response! I really appreciate it. I'm doing my best to be as transparent as possible, so here's a very long reply.

This is not a change motivated by short-term needs.

The problem statement is not that we need to fund the costs of delivering push notifications. We need to fund the costs of building Zulip -- the server, apps for every platform, support for a vast range of different self-hosted configurations, etc.

Yes, we are extremely capital-efficient with a small core team who have taken some very big pay cuts to work on 100% open-source software. But even so, we need a business model that makes sense. A business model based on charging a small markup on top of the marginal costs of delivering notifications can't fund investments in the Zulip main experience or the self-hosted Zulip experience.

The main revenue source for Zulip thus far has been Zulip Cloud, and it's proven hard to grow that business, largely due to competition with the $0 price of self-hosting Zulip, which gets you most of the features of Slack Plus ($12.50/user/month).

Zulip needs a healthy model where businesses that self-host Zulip (and rely on the SaaS push notifications service) contribute to its development, just like those that use the SaaS Zulip Cloud service. This doesn't specifically require the same pricing for the two products. But it does preclude a model where Zulip Business only includes push notifications and is extremely cheap.

On the specifics of pricing, we of course have had a lot of conversations with users prior to this announcement. Most of the objections we heard were from system administrators who told us they would struggle to convince their company to pay even $1/user/month -- either because it was a big company whose bureaucracy had "already bought Microsoft Teams", or because they were a startup that had a very very high bar for paying for software at all.

Meanwhile when we talked to leaders who make purchasing decisions for their company, they tend to think about budgets in comparison with other applications that their business relies on, or else compare with fully-loaded costs per employee, which are along the lines of 1000x the price of Zulip Business. Reactions tend to be: "$6.67/employee/month? That's nothing, I pay several times that for X, Y, and Z, which we use way less than our primary team collaboration tool."

If you think it's priced too high, I'd really appreciate it if you chat with whoever at your business would approve spending money on your Zulip installation, get their feedback, and send us an email. There may well be some categories of customers that we missed in those conversations, and specific examples are very helpful for considering whether there's a gap in our pricing model that we can patch.
SD-card capable with Opus support, that's all I ever want frankly, and this has it.

Will certainly be interested to see what price this launches at.
Disappointingly, this hasn't been fixed on the prior versions iOS 16 / macOS 13.
Yeah, Google wants to be the only one to spy on you :)
The word "calculate" is from Latin. It refers to using stones. That's why "calculate" and "calcium" are related, and "calculus" refers to branches of mathematics, as well as tartar on the teeth.
Apple's "Magic Keyboard" is supposed to exchange Bluetooth keys with a MacOS host over its USB/Lightning cable the first time it gets plugged in.

Perhaps default pairing is left open to allow smoother pairing with iOS/iPadOS, as pairing otherwise would have required a cable with Lightning connector in both ends — which I don't think exists.
Opening a new front against DNS-based threats
I am not sure what is exactly "new" here, but a nice discussion about TXT records.
nah doing the same exact thing in CSS is like different every other year because someone invents a new attribute to solve the old friction

and its like what

and its like how is everything so compatible so quickly now

and why do I have to do it this way

and why does the interviewer expect this answer instead of last years solution to the same problem

I currently like tailwinds.

but dont ask me to set it up from scratch in a typescript project, but fortunately the bun runtime makes that simpler now, for now
A lot of the researchers who worked at Yorktown and Hawthorne now work at google’s office in the city. They were mostly living in the city anyways, or wanted to live in the city, and the whole big tech campus in leafy WestChester county didn’t really appeal to them anyways.
The bluetooth connection is for phone calls. The rest of functionality works over the wire. As for the why does it need bluetooth at all, no idea.
Please cite a URL for this Nate Silver quote.
In other words it had zero significant impact.
The article is presenting a Scheme interpreter running in Scheme, compiled to WASM, not a Scheme compiler, but your idea is also cool. The WASM API apparently doesn't need a pre-made file as its input: you can pass raw bytes generated during runtime into the Module constructor, so it would be totally feasible.
I appreciate very much the push notifications for emails and IMs. For one, they rid the email and IM apps from having to periodically wake up and poll their servers.

AFAICT the way push notifications (and SMS) work allows them to be received just by the baseband processor which listens to the radio transmissions at a very low power. So, until a notification comes, the whole app processor may safely sleep, saving a ton of power.
(I had searched for other more detailed obituaries but didn't find any at the time of posting; since I'm very well aware of the DailyMail's poor reputation.)

If you or anyone else find a better obituary please post it.
It's really amazing that we've gone full 180 on "see something, say something" being good and not a horribly dystopian reaction to 9/11. These kinds of laws are the human equivalent of recruiting every Amazon Ring to detect and report crimes. The intent might be noble and it might even be in response to a epidemic of break-ins but turning all eyes into a tool of the state is not a can of worms we should be opening.

Even worse is this, making everyone not just the eyes but the prosecutors themselves.

> The new bill also empowers tenants to sue landlords to force owners to open up vacant apartments for inspection.

Literally using citizens to do something the state is legally not allowed to do. It was bad when the abortion law did it and it's bad here. Throwing away our principles as long as the right people get hurt makes us no better than those far-right nutjobs.
Here's a breakdown of large tech company donations for the 2020 election: https://observer.com/2020/11/big-tech-2020-presidential-elec...
The original plan was obviously a bad idea (for all the reasons the article points out, again, four years later). Now he's calling for preserving existing forests.

Maybe in another decade or two, he'll catch up with the consensus from a decade or two ago: Planting natives and encouraging native forests to spread is a clear win for biodiversity, and needs to happen, but won't make much of a dent in CO2.
Schedule Chicken (2007)
They’re making fun of your typo, but you’re right. Pretty much every software job in 5 years will be an AI job. This rustles a lot of feathers, but ignoring the truth will only hurt your career.

I think the era of big tech paying fat stacks to a rather larger number of technical staff will start to wane as well. Better hope you have top AI paper publications and deep experience with all parts of using LLMs/whatever future models there are, because if not, you’ll be in for a world of pain if you got used to cushy tech work and think it’s inevitable in a world where AI is advancing so fast.
> why … do they need to move it at all?

Because they’re owned by Microsoft and it looks bad if Microsoft doesn’t dogfood its own cloud infrastructure. Plus it’d be more economical long term if they didn’t invest in a parallel cloud infrastructure. They will migrate eventually, just apparently it’s not ready for them yet.
Because the browser login cookies would transfer to the web app, why would they have to log in again when they open the web app?
Good god. Anyone else who is curious about the human centipede, please don't Google it. Trust me on this one.
Good article, aim for clarity instead of simplicity!
Biggest solar flare in years temporarily disrupts some radio communications
So why not train them more? Is it to save costs?
Ah. So your position is "a pox on both their houses" and implying moral equivalence between the entire state of Israel (which includes plenty of Jewish peace activists, Arab citizens with the right to vote, Druze and Bedouin citizens who serve in the IDF, and much other complexity) and a terrorist organization that deliberately targets civilians by preference while using their own civilian population as a human shield.

Pardon me if I don't accept that premise.

It isn't that Israel doesn't have any genocidal extremists, because they do. They tend to end up in jail, though.
> I mean, IBM does actually sell hardware and software ...that's a lot more than you can say about some of the other big names out there.

The other big names do, they just rent it instead of selling it. All the data centers/custom processors in cloud services are hardware and software, not to mention Apple’s hardware for consumers, and Microsoft’s surface tablets and Xbox, and Alphabet’s phones, Meta’s headsets, Nvidia’s GPUs, etc.
The tail end of a long death of China reporting.
Here is the thing.

In declarative languages, you generally specify what you want, rather than how you want it calculated.

Not so in CSS! It's thoroughly declarative, but in a way where you're fiddling with a whole lot of "how", whereby the "what" disappears in the fray.

Differential equations are declarative too, but likely a bad way for most users to be asked to specify how something should move across the screen.
Thank you! The team here gives us a lot to work with. Also: people dunking on us aren't wrong! We've made bets that represent particular spots on all sorts of reliability/predictability/performance/complexity axes. They are what they are, and it would be freaky if all of them paid off. We're wrong about some of this stuff. All we can do is be honest about what we're going for, and how that's going.
Wait, I have so many questions. So will this data still be exportable? Will it be stored with the OS or with Maps? If with Maps, what happens if someone clears the app data? If with the OS, what happens to people without the most recent Android versions? How do you prevent accidentally losing the data just because you moved phones or lost yours or cleared the app data?
Reading a three page document to understand how to format questions for model should not lead it to be referred to as Engineering

> Language is not mathematics and constantly evolves. All you need to do is look up the etymology of the word to understand why your dissaproval is ultimately a waste of effort.

I have noticed from replies that term is already enjoyed by all stakeholders, so I have no energy, time or interest to show my worthless disapproval anywhere else. You should though look up how it came to be referred to as prompt engineering. You will be surprised
> I would respectfully suggest that people reporting code violations their landlord is abetting is not the same as authoritiarian military rule.

There are two orthogonal concerns:

authoritarian vs. democratic: whether ordinary citizens have a say in which laws are passed

Centralized vs decentralized reporting: whether primary responsibility for discovering whether the law has been broken lies with the police (e.g. conducting patrols), or with citizens making reports (e.g. 911 calls).

To be fair, neither extreme is desirable - 911 is a life-saving measure in the case of violent crime. But turning everyone into their neighbor's spy is deeply detrimental to social cohesion. We see that deep social divide here, turning tenants against landlords, the continuation of American class warfare. Of course, enabling tenants to report on their landlords is not the cause of that social divide - it is simply a step in the wrong direction.
Great comment. IBM is as IBM wants to be. I don't think there's a mystery to it and they've ended up on an evolutionary path that can't be reversed.

To wit, I just watched a long form video [1] on the passion that goes into IBM mainframes including some interesting clips of various physical robustness tests of the assembled systems. It reminded me of watching clips from various space programs where a largely full-up untested rocket had to put humans into orbit without blowing up.

Another revolution that's occurred, but IBM chose not to really follow (asterisk) is the idea that you assume some percentage of your hardware will fail (instead of trying to make it never die) -- then you engineer around that. I'm not sure what will win in the end, but right now the entire industry is telling us to have failover into different availability zones in Amazon, or even across clouds -- one of which IBM offers.

1 - https://youtu.be/ouAG4vXFORc
(asterisk) - IBM does sort of have an understanding of this of course, they have a cloud after all.
Thats because FAANGMULA is mostly composed of media companies pretending to be tech companies. The business model is 100% a media and entertainment buisness model for most of the companies on that list.

I don't think it is even controversial to argue this so long as we can agree that a company cannot call itself a tech company simply because they hired a lot of programmers and are paying them decent salaries.

A tech company is a company that makes most of their money selling computer hardware and software products (and to a lesser extent, services and support for software and hardware products although it could be argued that is a different classification but with substantial overlap).

Notably, it has to be computers, not entertainment delivered via computers, or ads delivered through computers, and not industrials or pharmaceuticals or any number of other "technical but not 'tech' as in computers" industries. Tech is and has always meant IT, as in companies that are in the information and computers businesses. Where programmers happen to work, make the highest salary, or be the most highly concentrated has never mattered.
iPhone 17 Pro to feature in-house Wi-Fi 7 chip as Apple delays 5G modem plans
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You will not have time to reach into your pocket when getting arrested. Just turn the biometrics off.
It's really not that bad.
I'm not a fan either but if you set a goal you want to reach by using exercise then it's much easier to show up at the gym.

Example, I have certain weight lifting goals that I want to meet so I go to the gym to work toward them.

Bottom line, decide on a goal for some activity that you like that involves going to the gym. That will be your motivation. Lifting weights over and over seems pretty stupid to me but once i add a goal it changes everything.

Look into joining a triathlon competition. It really gets you motivated to at least get in shape to complete it.
Not sure if the comparison is valid because most of the questions being asked to GPT-4 will in this article be referred to online Bing search with RAG and then correctly answer the questions with updated info, thus it is becoming non-issue for the users.
Anecdotally, that iPhone 4 issue effected everyone I knew that got one. Hearing that song felt like gaslighting (not really). Weird. Strange times.
Something Dreadful Happened with the heat this Year. And it can Happen Again
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_mathematics
Discovery is subject to oversight. The court signs off on the subpoena and your lawyer gets to argue why it's not valid before it does. No, "because I dislike you" isn't going to fly. But if you're in a legitimate feud with someone and they can make a real case that your location information is important evidence for the court to see, sure.
Show HN: DynamiCrafter: Animating open-domain images with video diffusion priors
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DynamiCrafter can animate open-domain still images based on text prompt by leveraging the pre-trained video diffusion priors.
It supports:

- Image-to-video generation

- Storytelling video generation

- Looping video generation

- Generative frame interpolation

We have released source code at https://github.com/Doubiiu/DynamiCrafter and deployed a demo at https://huggingface.co/spaces/Doubiiu/DynamiCrafter

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What, "the West" meaning everything from Bulgaria to Canada to Estonia? That's way overly broad claim.

This ruling isn't even for all of the US, currently only at the Utah state Supreme Court level, it hasn't gone to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals or Supreme Court. This is not necessarily the last word on the topic, not even just for the US.

Another of many factors is whether the person was being detained or merely questioned, whether they had been formally notified of their right to remain silent, etc.
Likely stainless steel. That’s what they made other tools for working with it out of https://youtu.be/myEFGcyInIQ?si=HmJS2kma_skWyKJ8
Or we could've had other power management designs by now.
> fact a very tiny percentage of the budgets for these new "tech companies" are put into research and development of new products

Have you read how much cash Meta has burned on VR? Apple on its R&D? Nvidia? Amazon and Microsoft and the rest on cloud (that requires R&D too, they can’t just go out and buy it).

> The business model is 100% a media and entertainment buisness model for most of the companies on that list.

Nonsense if you read any of the financial statements, except for Netflix.
I want to see it come out with a cure for a disease that is tough to cure first. Singularity itself is pointless unless it benefits humans which is mainly in health/lower suffering
Workers in Paris want pay raises to return to the office
Fakes: Not an internet thing, a human thing
Mitochondria are just a hack to integrate efficient oxygen metabolism into archaean cells, and I wish people wouldn't worship them so much. Mitochondria started as free living cells that had that metabolism. There's no reason life on a different world couldn't develop it directly in the same lineage as cells destined for multicellularity.
Yes! That’s it! Thank you for finding it! I remember this popping up on HN a few months ago but couldn’t remember what exactly the command was.
So, no true highly intelligent, highly motivated, skilled retail investor will lose money?

The point I'm making is that good, safe gun ownership and gun storage practices only mitigate very specific parts (and not even the largest parts) of the statistical observation that people who live in a home with guns are considerably more likely to be killed or injured by gun violence. A person can very carefully follow the basic rules of gun safety (treat every gun as if it's loaded, don't point it at something you're not prepared to shoot, etc) and still use it on themself. Or their kids. Or their spouse. Or their roommate. These are not mutually exclusive. That person can very conscientiously store their (unloaded) firearm in an appropriate locked cabinet, with trigger locks, away from their ammunition, and still do any of those things. So I reject completely your initial claim that being a "safe" gun owner makes you somehow an exception to the observed phenomenon.
Map location data stored at, what, 1 minute granularity for the entire population of the world is...

You know, I'm not going to bother to flip over an envelope on this one. That's at least a million times smaller than Youtube daily traffic. And I might be short a few orders of magnitude.
It is interesting how persistently dominant GPT-4 is: https://twitter.com/lmsysorg/status/1735729398672716114

Off the top of my head, I can think for at least five foundation models (Llama, Claude, Gemini, Falcon, Mistral) that are all trading blows, but GPT is still a head above them and has been for a year now. Transformer LLMs are simple enough that, demonstrably, anyone with a million bucks of GPU time can make one, but they can't quite catch up with OpenAI. What's their special sauce?
The system is run by the rich, for the rich. The unfair advantage is the entire point. You will run face-first into a titanic wall of money if you try to deprive capital of the various rent-seeking advantages it grants itself.

Sometimes naïvety is a superpower, so godspeed on the Georgism but I will not hold my breath and I will enjoy my wins where I can find them, thank you very much.
Our landlord lives downstairs from us, and we have two preschoolers. He is a saint.
Good technique!
I just bought a new sealed 5th gen a few weeks ago. It’s still a great looking device and it still sounds good.
I give it two years. Salaries will drop like a rock.
Tenants are already against landlords, that's how it works.

"Allowing workers to report their employers for labor violations is only deepening the social divide between labor and management."
Yeah, my humorous (but still technically valid!) example was probably ill-advised in this forum.

Separately, although I am not a lawyer, I have decades of business experience which often involved working closely with lawyers and my circle of friends happens to include several attorneys, prosecutors and judges, so I'd say I have an unusually broad understanding of legal matters for a non-lawyer (especially contract, IP and business law). I also just find legal stuff interesting to learn about and I'm one of those oddballs who looks forward to June because I find well-written SCOTUS rulings (and dissents!) fun to read.

Yet, I'm still surprised at the lack of even high-school civics-level knowledge of basic legal principles I come across in otherwise intelligent, well-educated professionals including doctors, MBAs, engineers, etc. It's kind of sad because the latent engineer in me finds the system architecture of the U.S. legal framework to be fascinating. Yes, it's imperfect in many ways, yet it's still a brilliant, iterative, collection of attempts to solve a 'wicked' bundle of thorny problems through successive approximation. Despite its flaws it still ends up eventually getting things pretty close to as "right" as they probably can be with remarkable frequency.
How does this handle frequent network/tower changes (think high-speed train) and such?

There are also the privacy implications, if you have separate connections to a server for every single app, every single app knows exactly when you get home and go to work (by monitoring when you're connected to WiFi and connecting from a broadband operator and when you're on mobile.)
> In theory Symbian had huge potential as a vendor-independent smartphone OS.

Did you try to develop for Symbian? It's a very painful memory of mine.

It seemed to be highly optimised for a very memory constrained environment. Granted the phones it ran on were very memory constrained, but ... shudder. Worse, in a few years it memory would not be so much of an issue and all those optimisations would turn into shackles.
The big questions is why clippy (standard linter) didn't catch this. It will complain about expensive expressions in a `.then_some()` because it's eager, why not unsafe?