skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like Apple is only testing the waters with AI right now, but perhaps if they get involved enough they'll spend money on their own compute infrastructure? Nvidia is kind of the king at GPU compute right now, and developing comparable hardware is no small or cheap task, but I think Apple is in a very good position to be able to make it work---if they decide to invest in it. But honestly, as far as corporate feud goes, I feel like companies will happily suck it up if it makes some process cheaper and/or easier
It means that they are willing to claim to the public that there is a business case for their technology providing billions in value in that year. They do not have the bookings.
Most GMT games still take me at least two shots, unless it's something in a familiar line e.g. another COIN game. (But sometimes even then.) SpaceCorp took me at least three but maybe it's three games so that doesn't count. I consider myself above-average at learning games but I doubt I could front-load all of Mr. President.

But I agree that for the median or even p90 game demoing at Essen, even if there's "a lot" going on, you can get it easily in one game if you have any experience with hobbyist games.

I don't think there's as big of a difference as you're drawing between "knowing the rules" and "knowing the tactics". To take one of Amabel's games as an example, I recall the rules for Aurelian being easy to understand in a literal sense (esp. having played Charlemagne), but I also recall it taking three games before I didn't wipe out disastrously just a few rounds in.

I also think if you rule any of these out you miss a lot of really interesting games.
Yes, most condemn ALL violence.
I tried logseq and obsidian and I'd argue the opposite, obsidian does everything while logseq is good at structuring your text and querying it.

The thing i missed the most is the outline style, where every block can be queried and nested bloxks inherit tags from parent blocks. Huge for note taking
I say, you have to go back.
Whatever the merits of the piece, the purpose of writing can be something beside the delivery of 'points'. It's perfectly fine if you don't like that but there's not much conversation to be had about the fact that you don't.
I'm just inferring myself, but I believe it's referring to discussing things in the foreground / background or in a specific location in the provided image (such as top right, behind the tree, etc) in user queries.
No, they don't build compute clusters either.
An incomplete list of other similar tools: https://github.com/dkogan/vnlog/#description
Wow! This looks a really complete set of operations and extremely useful.
Rumble turns off access in Brazil because of government's censorship demands
no all employees are solving for max pay though (whether through salary or profits). for many, maximizing utility is maximizing leisure... ie if you pay more / give folks more profits, they may very well choose to work less.
Well yes, but what if they support the initial terror attacks?

Massacring dance festival attendants and people in their homes is not self defence, it is terrorism.
I am against one sided propaganda. The same I don't ask you to believe everything or even anything IDF says.
I used both an Atari 8-bit and ST and wasn't aware of GFA Basic (or Turbo-Basic XL found on Wiki page). They would have been cool to have. On the ST I was using Megamax C compiler on one diskette and programs on another.
“Sounds like a subdural hematoma to me…” https://youtu.be/7-a2QBfFQeA?si=ApJLjBOf27ovN2kH
The Joy of Cats
It would be consistent with motivating the confused cognition (e.g.: her rambling and contradictory statements in the article linked by OP), and producing false or disingenuous allegations. However so could lots of other things. My point wasn't to diagnose this person, but to make clear "it seems pretty clear something terrible happened to her and was invalidated" is a dubious rationale for believing any kind of allegation.
In Germany they’ve been developing headlight arrays that can very specifically track the road. But it wouldn’t fly in the U.S. because people aren’t required to keep their cars to the same level of maintenance as over there.
How do you know that? I know that many people fall into this pattern, but like I said, we lack the concrete examples in this case.
I hope this isn't seen as stealing thunder from the linked app, but I made a self-hosted viewer for Strava's bulk-download data format. The idea is there are things I have in Strava that I want to keep forever.
https://github.com/zsteinkamp/esstraba
I made it just for me, but it's open source so let's make it really good!

Example: https://esstraba.steinkamp.us/activity/629380522 (ctrl-drag to orbit/tilt)
Typically, there's some issue that management has found intractable by their usual methods. Not the usual methods, but their usual methods. This is always local. They do not trust the peons. Management beyond them does not want to change anything.

The consultants come in, talk to everyone, get a list of what needs to be done from the peons, reframes that list and presents it to the middle managers, essentially laundering the peon's opinions. "Wow! Great!"

Middle management says to their boss, "Well, the consultant said ..."

It's essentially a ritual in which time is consumed and a sacrifice of cash is made to purify the unclean words of the lowers so that the high priests might hear them.
Indeed, when I took statistics in college, nearly 40 years ago, we proved Bayes theorem, and worked through several applications, so it could hardly have been regarded as controversial.
If only San Francisco was as dense as Hong Kong, they would be as cheap as Hong Kong?

I don’t think densification has ever led to cheaper cities, because it has also led to nicer more desirable ones that more people want to live in.
> But no one is training these kinds of models on their personal device

on-device transfer learning/fine tuning is def a thing for privacy and data federation reasons. Part of the reason why model distillation was so hot a few years ago.
For simple analyses (i.e. what most people do most of the time) doing this on the commandline gets you there faster. I use vnlog (https://github.com/dkogan/vnlog/). By the time you fired up your editor to write your Python code, I already have analyses and plots ready.
Apple is reportedly looking to team up with news publishers to train its AI
Show HN: Open-source superhuman like email client
Hey Hacker news,

Over the last couple months, I've been hacking with a friend on an email client for gmail that is similar to superhuman.

A little backstory, we think that superhuman, in it's current implementation is vim-like. We hope to mostly match the performance and usability there and expand it into something more vscode-like.

Looking for feedback and suggestions!
> one has to say it everytime, when critizing deaths of children.

One should propose plan to solve problem without those deaths, or his words just become propaganda.
Those older apartments become prime targets for redevelopment as long as the money from high income tenants keeps rolling in.
Don’t kick yourself. Platts lists like eleven other words I’ve never heard in my life.
Sure! I’ve learned that lesson the hard way a couple of times myself.
We had plenty of Palestinian protests in my area before and after recent Hamas attack. I never seen them condemning Hamas, only Israel.
A couple years ago I created a new gmail, with a very long address. Didn't tell anybody, sign up with ANYTHING. Just parked it and let it sit dormant. Within a DAY I had my first spam.

Google is an ad company and it's entirely reasonable to assume they are simply selling lists of their own email addresses. Same with Yahoo! Mail! Which! I! Ran! The! Same! Experiment! From! With! The! Same! Results!
> But if you make the effort to plan things and coordinate properly to begin with

That assumes something like this is even possible, won't be completely wrong immediately after the plan is finished, and won't take weeks / months to finish. This is what we used to do in waterfall - architects created a detailed specification which was obsolete / wrong / pipe dreams the moment they hit the Send/Publish button.
OP's complaint was about the color.
Microsoft 365 specifically. Asking for a friend.
They are implying that even though Apple is a wealthy consumer hardware company that has major spats with nVidia and Samsung, it doesn't always make economic sense to make tools they might need in-house when they can simply buy them from a rival.

So rather than invest engineering resources to re-imagine the fridge, they can simply buy them from established manufacturers that make household appliances like Samsung, Sony etc.
Pretty much 2Q without the LRU.
Read the username. I am not the whatsapp user lol.

Btw, Poe's law, and you are absolutely right about Europe lol. Thank you for making my point.
Giant baleen whales emerged from a cold southern cradle
Wow, that is some amazingly terrible legal reporting. A complaint surviving a motion to dismiss is a very low bar and does nothing to prove how the final ruling will go.
Weird. In the same year (1999), I did pretty much the same thing (because strtok really made it easy to split a string) also for client input fields.

Only, I used the ASCII FS character (the Field Separator character) and everything worked brilliantly.
Siri is really quite dumb. I am confident that a 7B model would be able to provide better responses in over 90% of user queries. I can't even get Siri to reliably set a timer.
California and Nevada. From the first sentence of the article:

> Mercedes-Benz is the first automaker to gain approval to sell a Level 3 automated driving system in the United States; the first customer-owned S-Class and EQS sedans in California and Nevada equipped with the Drive Pilot system hit dealer lots this month.
Whoa, I never realized that's what those were. I thought it was just a blue and yellow knot.
I read through a bit of that thread+screenshots, and from what I can gather Paris never actually interacted with Elon, and is basing his retelling on an uncharitable interpretation of someone else’s account.
The Village Where Everyone Has Dementia
If you have the talent to write a discord client, then may I suggest to you writing client and server software to bring discord features to Mumble? Just an idea.

Easy image embedding in messages, camera and screen sharing, namely.
This is a very binary view. Every person is to a degree an ideologue, and to a degree believes evidence. Shifting the scale from "videographic evidence is pretty trustworthy" to "any video can be a fake and you have no chance to detect a difference" will make a big dent.
Even more waste with the added bonus of making tracking you easier. I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
"Replace one letter in a technology concept to ruin it."
> 39. Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

How does this need to be rewritten in the sight of Dall-E, Midjourney and friends?
One of my favorite things about the IOCCC is that Larry Wall won it twice and then went on to design Perl, which explains a lot.
That this comment is being so heavily downvoted is a damning indictment of HN. I didn’t realize moral confusion was so rampant here.
When I visited the ancient city of Ostia ("Ostia Antiqua"), I saw several murals, some on the ground with instructions on how to walk on them, and some stacked vertically with chips that had fallen into the soil.

The discovery on the Palatine is impressive, but far from unique.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostia_Antica
Well apple was a prime Intel client for years until they released M1, and ARM on the cloud isn't really a thing for now... Ultimately it's all about what makes the most sense for what will make the most money, and on a datacenter that means x86 with Linux/Unix
Apple had a falling out with Nvidia a number of years ago. I believe they were using chips from Nvidia in their MacBook Pros, the first to come with both integrated and discrete graphics, but the solder between the chips and the motherboard kept cracking and a rather large number of MacBooks needed to be repaired.

https://techcrunch.com/2008/12/09/scientists-nvidia-put-faul...
They're plenty capable of delivering garbage. Certain year models of the MacBook pro were inherently faulty. I've had the displeasure of having two of them bought for me at work.

All of Apple's windows software (iTunes, Safari, etc) has been, at best, a barely working port.

I'm assuming they are putting a lot more thought and care into it than the touchbar, crappy keyboards and the rest, but I'm also not holding out much hope either.
this is awesome. just curious... how much does it cost to host a game like this, especially with a telephone tie-in (not an engineer... know what twilio is, but nothing more than that)...
Eh, I don't think the .wasm file is intended to be an in memory format. For an on wire/storage format, variable length integers like protobuf uses is a perfectly valid choice.
Sure but the consultant is getting alot a scratched back for not a lot of scratching himself.

But maybe I am looking at this wrong. I.e. the buying manager is fine with getting a future favour or some wine and dine since it is not his money he is using anyways?

Like money loundering. You expect a bad conversation rate.
https://www.oit.va.gov/Services/TRM/StandardPage.aspx?tid=64...
Everybody's still on X but they have their Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, and whatever other garbage I forget in their bios, linked. But they're still on X because that's where the people are.
I'm testing the web version in the phone and I can't create tags, not sure how's the testing of this
Erm, no?

A mother whose childs have just been killed and who never supported Hamas in any way absolutely has the right to critize the bombings that killed her family, without having to present a working geopolitical plan.
Stocktwits is to twitter what fnchart is to Reddit.

Stock twits is basically: Stock Chart + Twitter.
fnchart is basically: Stock Chart + Reddit.

We then build on top of that a whole new way to navigate historical posts, so that you can actually look and interact with a stock chart by pulling up news & discussion from any time in the history of the stock.

Here's a scenario:
You're interested in stock AAA, but you notice on the chart that it fell 30% 2 years ago, and hasn't begun recovering yet. But today you read that they are embarking on a big turn around plan. So you click on the time period on the chart 2 years ago to find out what the cause of the drop was. You find out it was a critical supplier that went bankrupt, and they have only now found a replacement.

Now you can decide whether to buy their stock or not, and you are informed about the context.
For a long time Go did not expose their super efficient internal map hashing algorithm that, if possible, would use AES instructions from the processor to hash even faster. That is, they did not expose it as an official API. People usually did some "unsafe" usage to link to that internal hashing function for their own super-fast map implementations.

That was changed some time ago. They released official maphash package: https://pkg.go.dev/hash/maphash

Otter author could probably look into replacing their 3rd party hashing dependency (https://github.com/dolthub/maphash) with the official one and knock off an unneeded dependency :)
Pretty sure they were referring to LLMs here.
Native apps are restricted for backend tasks as well. Only on very rare exception native apps are allowed to run processes in the background. Now you have service workers in PWA land. They can wake up apps for i.e push notications. So all in all there is not a difference. Location changes are available in web for a long time. Just like camera and other sensor data.
Just be aware, these discs are expected to last more than 60 years, but we sure don’t have a single surviving example of a 60+ year old DVD yet!
Wait until you learn that it's incredibly common to look candidates up on Facebook to learn more about their personal life during the recruitment process.
The irritating thing is that the software I want to run works perfectly fine on my mac mini. That's in the Apple ecosystem and yet respects enough of my freedoms to not be a problem. But the iOS devices are entirely locked down.

The ad blocker thing one tiny example; what I actually want to run is Real(tm) Firefox and its rich extension ecosystem. There are dozens of little accessibility enhancements I run on top of just the content blocker. The iOS versions of Firefox are heavily gimped, aren't allowed to run the Gecko rendering engine (purely because Apple said so) and can't do the things I need. My iPad basically doesn't have a good browser, just a cheap plastic imitation of the Amulet of Mozilla. All of my other devices do, so it's the odd one out.

It's not just Firefox, but that's the example everyone's heard of, so it's what I tend to lead with. I'd also like to be able to run weird media software, background file syncing services that aren't iCloud, and (gasp!) retro game emulators on the devices I own. All disallowed by app store policy, and unlike Android which supports sideloading and alternate app stores, on iOS I have no recourse as an end user. So I choose not to be an end user; I won't purchase hardware that refuses to respect my wishes.
I understand there's lots of consultants who are paid for giving an opinion in a fancy way, preferrably with slides or on a white board, but there's lots of different kinds of consulting. I've done a lot of it, and for me it usually consists of building a product for the customer, either on-site or remote, usually in close cooperation with the company's own employees. It is a job that is mostly interesting and often challenging, because you're thrown into a completely different project every so often, and are expected to get up to speed asap.
Year in Review 2023 Explore worldwide trends that shaped our Internet this year
"Otherwise the examples mention 122 characters per line."
I'm pretty sure that should be 132 not 122.
GFA was fantastic. I used it for various telecommunications programs back in the day. The only thing I really wanted as an addition was data structures.
Proto-buzzfeed? I guess this is like other forms of candy: it's great that it exists and you still shouldn't eat it.
Love the documentary; fond memories from those days of 2400bps. It has been posted here many times before; this is the one with most comments [1], 9 years ago.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9521867
We don't know that Apple isn't supporting encryption. The rumors are that they're working with the GSM Association on an encryption spec for RCS.

Google has been pushing RCS as an open standard. In some ways it is. However, the encryption isn't. That's just Google Messages.

Google's strategy with RCS is to look like they're honestly trying to support an open standard - after trying to create a walled-garden with a half dozen proprietary messengers. However, I have a hard time trusting Google on this one. I remember Google pushing XMPP and federation with Google Talk. Lots of us gave them positive word of mouth because Google was offering us the open chat network we'd wanted. Once they got people to migrate off AIM and others, they closed it off.

In this case, is Google's RCS support even open? Can I create an RCS client? It looks like the answer is "no" (but I might be wrong). Reddit users are suggesting that you can only use Google Messages (or Samsung Messages on their devices). XDA Developers notes that Google made a special permission only available to Samsung for RCS. Even then, it looks like support for Samsung Messages might be dropped with Bell Mobility telling customers they'll have to use Google Messages for RCS.

Google has a history of shouting "we're the good guy with openness," while they plot how to close things off. Android was trumpeted as open and once Android was the only non-Apple option Google started putting everything into Google Play Services and using their essential apps to force phone makers into proprietary licensing agreements. They pushed XMPP just to burn it down. With RCS, it looks like they haven't even created something that works with third party apps from the start.

Plus, Google is controlling the RCS servers for a lot of carriers. The messages might be encrypted, but Google knows who is texting who with RCS.

If someone has better information on third-party access to RCS, I'd love to learn more. It seems like even Android fans are lamenting that RCS is restricted to the Google Messages app on Android. Maybe I'm missing something, but RCS seems like something Google co-opted because it was a "standard" and then decided that only they could build for that standard (at least on Android).

https://www.reddit.com/r/UniversalProfile/comments/znsrkz/an...

https://www.xda-developers.com/google-messages-rcs-api-third...

https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/what-is-rcs-messaging/
I think you’re completely correct, but if they were caught off guard by the AI train, they shouldn’t be testing the waters now. It should be treated as an existential threat.
> Calling the 1973 CIA-led coup ordered by Nixon against Salvador Allende in Chile as a "response to Marxist economic mismanagement" tells you all you need to know about neoliberalism and its supporters

Nixon's presidency pre-dates neoliberalism. As does American animosity to Marxism.

Arguably, Nixon was the final New Deal president, bringing us the Clean Air Act and attempting to give all Americans socialized medicine. His rise to power was really through his involvement with HUAC (the House Unamerican Activities Committee, seeking to rid the US of communists) as a Congressman.
I would be exceptionally cautious about any report coming out of the Daily Mail. It long ago ceased to be a serious newspaper (it is not alone in this btw: the UK press is notoriously wild).

In this case, the Mail is reporting on a claim that NIH and DoD were involved, via the EcoHealth Alliance org, in bio research that led to shady goings on in Wuhan. But it turns out that this wasnt the case because the grant application was denied. Maybe Covid escaped from a lab in Wuhan, maybe it escaped from a wet market, who knows. But this article is solidly in keeping with the Daily Mail's general anti-science, anti-vax tenor and should not be considered gospel truth by itself.
You’re not wrong, but as a parent I would be very pleased to pay that bill. Best bargain in education I could ask for.
Fair, edited to make it less judgemental. Honestly I don't care what people do with their time, anything is better than reality TV.

I just deeply regret my mis-spent youth expecting a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow that was not there
As long as the inference can be done locally on their chips I don't at all think it's a big deal to train models on Nvidia/other hardware.

Are all the iCloud servers running on Apple silicon? I assumed they were running on standard rack mounted hardware.
I suspect a lot is determined by presentation. Explaining arrays using physical dimensions breaks down after the 3rd dimension (and even the “cube of elements” examples tend to be a bit contrived). Expressing them as categories/levels of a nested loop would have been a lot more understandable for even my 16-year-old brain. Pointers weren’t completely inaccessible for me, but the syntax was so alien that nothing felt intuitive anymore after a certain point in the book. Most of the C operators I had learned to that point looked familiar to a lot of the math ones I already knew. Modulo made sense immediately. The Boolean ones were sensible enough. The bit-wise ones were okay once you at least know to convert to base 2 and back. Pointers just didn’t intuit the same way.
Yes, but her critics is happily used by Hamas on propaganda channels becomes propaganda, and doesn't make anything better and doesn't solve anything.