skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another weird experience I had with this company is when I deactivated my FB account. A few months later a friend texted me and asked if I was going to an event. Apparently he had invited me to it on FB and FB didn't tell him my account is deactivated... So I never saw the invite and the system didn't tell him I didn't see it. I tested this with my wife, you still show up in invitable people and probably invite suggestions even when your account is deactivated. That makes no sense to me.
Without any evidence to suggest otherwise, it's just baseless conspiracy theory to think some "shadow figure" was secretly pulling the strings to make their preferred evil-capitalist-ideal version of BG3 (lol).

BG3 is indie because they financed the game with money they raised themselves and self-published. It's that simple.
In this case the aliexpress implementation would have worked, but not in cases where the aircraft is literally pulverized on impact, like in the 737 MAX crashes of 2018 and 2019 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_302 - "The aircraft impacted the ground at nearly 700 miles per hour (610 kn; 1,100 km/h) [...] Both the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder were recovered from the crash site on 11 March.")
Two comments up in this thread GPT cannot reproduce copyrighted text.

Now GPT can reproduce copyrighted text, but only under some circumstances that are totally cheating so they don't count?
Terminal velocity of an iphone should be around 110mph according to this https://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/6813341/T...
So you're just going to ignore the fact that we require humans to provide citations when they include someone else's writing or research in their own?
All of the media clouds that did not include telephony, were always bad business cases, sometimes got repeatedly sold and resold like a proverbial hot potato, see TokBox.

Twilio did include telephony and was originally built as telephony-only provider, so it really stood out and was a lot more sustainable as a business than anybody else.

But, importance of telephony is falling. When was the last time you dialed-in to a Zoom conference? Without that, what's left of telephony? Just the 2FA SMSes.

I believe long term, providers like Twilio will become very thin layers of indirection to aggregate together underlying phone operator services, and will be mostly owner by those phone operators themselves, like Vonage now owns Nexmo, Twilio's direct competitor. Nexmo's API makes a lot more sense than Twilio's by the way, and is a true pleasure to use.
The decline of Twilio's position has been as pretty clear for the last 18 months now, and has been a topic of conversation longer than that. Twilio never had the margins or control of their environment to nearly the degree you need to have in order to maintain software monopoly levels of growth over time.

Most of Twilio's business has been built on reselling network access purchased via SMS consolidators. These are companies who, decades ago, got their hardware installed inside the networks of the major phone carriers. This allows them direct access to send/receive SMSs. Twilio never really tried to own the network layer and these companies continued to demand higher and higher tolls for access. Short codes are a very good example of this. Twilio spent a lot of time and money trying to sew up access to those short codes.

On top of all that, high volume customers would move directly to these consolidators. Sometimes Twilio would keep some portion of the business if the sender used a round robin model to distribute sends, but often they didn't. OpenMarket and a handful of others were the goto providers at scale.

Add on to this the overall decline of the utility of SMS. Even as SMS volumes increased, they have not increased at the same rate as messaging overall. ie: other channels like iMessage and WhatsApp continue to pull volumes.

Cue Twilio's attempt to go up market. Flex and the purchase of Sendgrid were the best examples of this. Could CPaaS work for Twilio as a business model? I think we've seen so many fits and starts with the Flex product line and the integration of Sendgrid that it seemed like perhaps buying their way in to that market wasn't panning out.

Finally, as seen in the last year, the culture just seems to have gone off the rails at some point. [1] I don't know Jeff, but my respect for him is sky high. I've read all his writing over the years and he's been hugely influential for an entire generation of founders.

Unfortunately this seems like a bit of a hasty departure. I hope it isn't, but the choice of replacement CEO screams caretaker-CEO rather than shrewd strategic move.

Another commenter mentioned Stripe [2] and how they get a lot of credit for advancing DevTools. I agree that Twilio did it first and I think paved the way. Jeff Lawson and Twilio deserve more credit. "Ask your developer" was not a small thing at all.

I also think Stripe very likely is in a very similar position, but they are earlier in their cycle and they've avoided the scrutiny of being a public company. Credit card processors are gatekeepers and fully dominate in their markets. Stripe serves a purpose for them and dramatically improves access to their networks via great tooling and abstractions, but there is still a fixed cost toll to pay and what that toll is cannot be static for interminable time. Is Stripe in the "Commerce" market like Twilio is in the "Communications" market, or are they in the "payments" market, like Twilio is in the "SMS" market? (or somesuch)

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36382361
2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38913134
Think of it as a wave. Right now, the EU is getting a slightly smaller version of the hiring peak of 2 years ago in the US. EU wages are considerably less but the quality is nearly the same. Productivity is a bit lower, but the cost is still advantageous. The goal is to find the cream of the crop before the competition, so a ton of hiring, then assessment and in a year or so reducing the workforce and the wave moves on the next frontier to find the most valuable employees.
Also, how it lands (corner-first or not) and what it lands on (concrete or tile vs. dirt with ground cover) makes a huge difference.
What remained of the charging cable was not much of a cable — it was barely the connector that remained.

https://nitter.net/SeanSafyre/status/1744247194448961725#m
Yep, I actually don't even do server side checks in my app I am building, I just hx-boost on my html element and then server side I redirect back to the page that should have the updated content, just like you would a traditional server rendered app, and htmx then swaps out the body, but if I use target and that I can tell it to only return say the `<main>` tag and maybe another part of the page, the rest doesn't change.
Yay. I have enough astigmatism that the docs told me contacts is a no go and can't use off the shelf lenses. But those are Zeiss!
Anything outside the App Store.
> No, mask work, period.

...on a mannequin, in a lab, or when used as a filter between two hamster cages. Perhaps. But there have now been plenty of negative studies in hospitals, which really starts to beg the question: if you can't get effective compliance in a hospital, where are you going to get it?

Just to be clear, I was with you right up until the part I quoted. It's fine to say that mechanistic studies show something to be true, but it's totally wrong to leap to the conclusion that these mean anything. If I tell you that you're 100% certain to lose weight if you stop eating, that's True ("Starving works. Period."), but it's not meaningful.

Every failed drug ever tested worked in a laboratory before it went to clinical trials.
The only constraint is that each process (or maybe each thread, I'm not sure off the top of my head) has at most one tracer. That constraint is not violated here.

In the case of strace -> strace -> date, the middle strace has one parent and one child. That's fine.

You can even have mutually recursive ptracing (occasionally used as an anti-debug strategy), since that doesn't violate the constraint either.
I think to most people, twitter is fine and was fine with only its core product.
I worked at a company that was doing this, but the candidates I interviewed were all below [what had been] the bar. Recruiters asked me why no one was passing the interviews; I told them I ran the interview the same way I had been doing for 3 years. I stopped being scheduled for interviews.
/waves
With the OLED model the lowest you'll get is maybe 1.5h on heavy games. That seems .. okay to me. It's not super great, but it's more than enough to play a more demanding game during a break or something.

I played nontrivial portions of the Dead Space and Resident Evil IV remakes on the Deck over the past year and I didn't mind it, once I got used to the low frame rates, anyway. BG3 was similarly fine until act 3, though it admittedly falls apart then.
> DECEMBER 20, 2023
The whole point of PWAs is to provide cross platforms apps so if a feature isn't available on all/most platforms, I don't think it's fair to say that it's really usable at all in your PWA.

You should be delivering the best possible experience for the user based on what their device can do, not the lowest common denominator of some arbitrary set of features. Progressive enhancement, API detection, and polyfilling are all common strategies that can be used to mitigate almost all device differences.
Ask HN: Temporal or Its Alternative?
My current startup has some promising use case to be solved by Temporal as a workflow orchestration engine. However, my prior experience with it in a previous startup was so so, and its usage seems to be stagnating (according to a former colleague).

A friend who worked at Temporal also seemed to be not fully confident about the company. Have they lost category position?

Is there a better tool recommendation by the great HN community?
The iPhone Pro Max I referenced above is 10x as expensive as the cheaper good enough Android phone.

Even the high end iPads are about 10x as expensive as a Fire Tablet.

The original iPhone was unsubsidized at $700 compared to “free” phones and was laughed at by Balmer for that very reason.
Hats off to a legend. Twilio was The Beatles to the devtools space. They defined modern devrel and the bottom-up/PLG GTM motion. He also disproved would-be investors who said developers would never pay for an API; in fact they’d prefer that to building something only to get rug-pulled when a company decided their free API was no longer strategic for them.

And while you hear a lot about ruthless but effective asshole CEOs, Jeff happens to be a brilliant executive and a great human all at the same time.

True visionary and 1 of 1.
> This is what Israel has begun to do - we cut the supply of energy, water and diesel to the Strip ... But it’s not enough. In order to make the siege effective, we have to prevent others from giving assistance to Gaza ... The people should be told that they have two choices; to stay and to starve, or to leave. If Egypt and other countries prefer that these people will perish in Gaza, this is their choice.

-- Giora Eiland

> If we act strategically correctly, there will be immigration and we will live in the Gaza Strip. We will not allow a situation where 2 million people live there.

-- Smotrich

Two of dozens and dozens such statements, with rather tame language compared to others. Under the Geneva Convention the Israeli government is required to prohibit and prosecute such speech, not engage in it. And then there are is the actual murder, which in turn unrolls into hundreds of things, including soldiers incriminating themselves with a sort of "humor" that reminds of the cruelty of Abu Ghraib, plus "the Temple will be built soon" and all that.

Even outright targeting of journalists. https://rsf.org/en/israeli-politicians-call-journalists-gaza...
> Local, app embedded, and purpose-built targeted experts is clearly the future in my mind for a variety of reasons. Looking at TPUs in Android devices and neural engine in Apple hardware it's pretty clear.

I think that’s only true for delay-intolerant or privacy-focused features. For most situations, a remote model running on an external server will outperform a local model. There is no thermal, battery or memory headroom for the local model to ever do better. The cost being a mere hundred milliseconds delay at most.

I expect most models triggered on consumer devices to run remotely, with a degraded local service option in case of connection problems.
I'm sure it varies widely between teams, but yes almost entirely GoF in my experience.
I am fairly certain NTSB flight incident investigators understand fully well the safety implication of integrating an AliExpress recorder in the avionics suite of an aircraft. And wouod hence oppose such an idea quite strongly.
The blocking was 100% not Twilio’s fault it was 100% bad actors and pressure from congress. Also we have three major carriers now in the US they needed to act fast in August since congress was going to go back I session in September to force this. So the carriers wanted to be able to say to congress see we are already taking care of the spam issue … see https://www.campaignregistry.com/. The single monopoly in charge of the regulations
thanks for the insight! - yes absolutely this is not a list of validated ideas by any means, more so a feed of inspiration and hints towards market interest (if you find 5-6 reddit posts complaining about a similar thing it has higher likely hood of validation then random idea you think of in the shower). I'm working on a free plan which gives 10 a day to scroll through so currently looking at ways of increasing the value here beyond just the static list
Yes. Finding out the nature of a PRNG and its initial state would allow one to predict next values, at least theoretically, that is, if it can be computed faster than the values are generated by the process we're looking at.

But the presence or absence of such a function for a naturally occurring process is, again, an epistemological question. That is, whether we can reverse-engineer the universe deeply enough. Unless we find its source code, we're stuck with retrofitting some formulas, and a "random process" is such for which we can't retrofit any better description than a statistical one.
> By doing what they did, they showed what’s possible and how excited users are.

I agree.

> Now there’s a balance of power and both sides can come to a compromise.

The only side that needs to compromise is OpenAI (et al). They used someone else's property without permission or compensation for commercial benefit.
If you can't pick a side between mass murderers and rapists building torture camps where dead kids once sat to learn in a language and culture the invaders are trying to erase that is a substantial moral error. Even jesus said love the sinner not ignore his sin.

The fact that they have themselves fled the war zone if anything makes it worse. They are hypocrites as well as cowards.
Quest 3 screens are lower res, just barely enough to make text somewhat workable for me. It is also missing the eye tracking. Latency with hand tracking is not as good I hear and the passthrough is also lower res.

Also the software is much more restrictive. Barely any “flat” apps and doesn’t support the hybrid 2d apps with depth. Also can’t pin apps around a physical space. Some of that is coming but it’s clearly way behind in terms of software features. Which I’ll add lower latency streaming from other devices to as well
> Sidenote, but imagine in 20 years when everyone's wearing miniaturized versions of AR/VR glasses: https://vimeo.com/166807261

I have a lot of sensory sensitivities and this is what real life already feels like to me. I look forward to VR glasses I can walk around with something that actively filters this shit out. No more billboards, blaring building lights, blinding headlights, and logos everywhere. Real life ublock origin with annoyance filters on.
Octopus-inspired deception and signaling systems
As an Indian-American, I'm weirdly elated that Indian-Americans can now be thought of as "generic businessmen" (at least in tech).
Facebook abuses XFS realtime mode to do this. Omar discusses it some here: https://lwn.net/Articles/943693/
>You can't just say that Apple is "a single company" like any other company. Apple is the largest platform vendor in the world.

The world is HUUUUGE (even limiting by language), so not only can I say "a single company", I can raise it to the level of "a single tiny company", especially when it comes to such a small scale issue

> How many other single companies have platforms ... bespoke programming languages

How does it matter? There are gazillions of educated people in the world with all the skills for a couple of order of magnitudes more languages than just 2! And it's especially preposterous making this arguments after waves of layoffs in the tech sector

And you can't reject a simple solution "just pay more" with "companies don't value doc writers": that explains why they don't hire enough people/don't care about the quality of their output, not that there are some inherent talent pool limitations
> The vast majority of people who know the constant of gravity never measured it for example, they just work with what someone told them

In the U.S., at least, this is not true. Middle school and high school physics curricula include experiments to measure gravitational acceleration, so in theory (to the extent curricula are followed and students are present), almost everyone has measured it at least once.
I don't think that's correct; raising your kids - and potentially involvement with grandkids! - impacts long term results.
> In the sciences, "someone says" is the lowest form of evidence there is.

Actually, it really depends on:
- who says it
- is the statement within their field of expertise
- do they have known or likely personal incentives
- does the topic carry significant political, religious or ideological implications
- is the topic politicized
- is the field itself heavily ideological or activism oriented, hard science or somewhere in the middle
- is the statement consistent with statements from most other trusted experts
Not going to downvote you because I appreciate your position. It seems really unlikely that tuna consumption is driving obesity or detrimental health effects though.
Sushi lovers (and meat eaters) such as myself do need to make educated choices about their consumption though, I agree. Which is why basically any tuna species is (and has been) at the bottom of my list.
Very similar story in Zajdel's Limes Inferior
This isn't recursion. "strace strace foo" first runs the "strace" binary (PID X), which attaches one ptrace to "foo" (PID Y) and runs an I/O loop printing retrieved trace data. The outer "strace" call launches as PID Z, and attaches a ptrace to PID Y: the inner strace. The inner strace is not itself being ptraced until that happens, so there's no special case needed to allow "stracing strace".

However, you may be referring to a different scenario: multiple ptrace calls do hit the same process if you (for example) run "strace -p PID" for the same PID more than once simultaneously. In that case, strace invocations after the first one will fail with an error like 'strace: attach: ptrace(PTRACE_SEIZE, PID): Operation not permitted'.
I'd say this kind of highlights the limits of economic rationality as a decision-making rule.

Yes, that's rational. But being careless with other people's lives is something many people (including me, an economist) are morally not OK with.
Oh interesting. Time for an update to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowfin_tuna

That article's IUCN description is now wrong. I'll do it later today if someone doesn't get to it first.
If you're chitchatting in the cockpit and that causes things to get missed, that's very pertinent to the investigation. I don't care if that chitchat is about some sportsball banter, some personal info about relationships/work/etc, or anything. If you can't focus on the job while you're on the job, that's something that needs to be understood. So I'm very much in agreement that this privacy claim is nonsense when these "private" conversations directly affect the lives of 150+ passengers/crew. It's not like a couple of coders chatting away. Lives are not on the line.
The Fate of the Largest ETF Is Tied to 11 Random Millennials (2019)
Also see SEC article for no ads, but also only mentioning this fact in passing: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1222333/000119312515...
AIs demonstrably do not “learn like a human”. This is why AI companies vehemently curate their inputs and actively, and aggressively avoid refeeds (or output generated by AI). Because if you feed an AI its own output, the result is universally a dumber AI that continuously gets dumber and dumber as you allow it to consume its own output.
Will wait for the next version of the website:
whatpwacandosafely.never
I assume the built in one that OP has? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Barcode_Det...
Could it be encrypted with a key only the NTSB has?
Avoiding AI-capable PCs will be impossible by 2027
> We shouldn’t destroy the oceans.

That's why this isn't great. Because this is not "we went vegan to save the oceans". It is "the oceans look like they are already destroyed".

Besides that, I haven't seen any studies that show a vegan or vegetarian diet makes someone healthier.
PID 1 as the first user-space program/process (historically the 'init' program), has always been "the process management process".

In other words, it has historically been the program/process used to manage other programs/processes.

Consider the simplest possible Unix/Linux system with only two user-space processes. For a Kiosk, let's say.

The first user-space process/program is 'init'.

The second (and last!) user-space process/program is the kiosk software itself. Call it KIOSK.EXE (or /usr/bin/kiosk -- since this is Unix/Linux, or what-have-you)

OK, so now here's the problem!

What should happen if KIOSK.EXE or /usr/bin/kiosk -- should fail for some unexpected reason?

Some stack-heap collision, some segmentation fault, some core dump, some "blue screen of death", some abort, some failure...

OK, so now how do we:

a) Monitor that kiosk software to know if its up and running;

b) Bring it back up and running if it has crashed?

Well, if there's only 'init', aka the PID 1 program/process in the system (other than the kiosk software, and the kiosk software is crashed, no longer functional) -- then it must be 'init' (or PID 1's) responsibility to bring 'kiosk' back up!

To get 'kiosk' back up and running!

That's WHY the "process management stuff" functionality -- historically has been placed into 'init' (PID 1) -- simply because there was no other easy/simple/straightforward/obvious/user-friendly place to put it!

But 'init' ultimately is just a user-space program.

It could be programmed to do nothing, it could be programmed to do everything (its code could in theory be fused with the kiosk program, although then it becomes the OS's responsibility to restart that program if it crashes!)

But ultimately 'init' -- is just a program!

It could, if programmed to, do whatever any other user-space program could do.

It could also be programmed not to do anything -- or offer the barest minimal functionality.

What 'init' does or does not do, or is supposed to do or not supposed to do -- is truly at the behest of any programmer who wish to work with the source code of 'init', in whatever form that may take...

Nothing "HAS to" be any particular way for any OS or user program if you have the source code, if you know what it does, and if you know what you are doing...

There are no "HAS to's" -- for those that have source code and understand it.