skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm actually a little excited by the prospect of a large company (in this case Apple) having a battle with other big tech firms that might revolve around User-Agent, or at least the concept of identifying users and treating them differently based on the software/technology they are using to connect to your services.

I genuinely prefer the user experience of linux and firefox -- I'm not religiously opposed to Windows^, Chrome, MacOS, etc. I also don't generally complain when websites don't work well for me, or the experience isn't perfect, I know that kinda comes as a package deal.

But, I often know that package deal is unnecessary. Netflix might not want me to watch 4K because of requirements from copyright holders, or some website might not have tested on Firefox so they throw up an error page (even though standards are standards...). But if I lie about who I am sometimes things work perfectly -- and those are the moments when I feel the unfairness sitting just adjacent to me, resting it's hand on my arm.

In this case, I wonder how well Apple can make the web.spotify (and netflix etc) sites work on their hardware, and how much they will have to lie about who they are when they're connecting to those services. I'm absolutely confident that the hardware and software will be capable of correctly and capably displaying movies, playing music, etc. It's more a question of trust, truth, and power.

For me, in my little home on my little street, while I don't usually fight that battle I'm still aware of the potential injustice. But when the big dogs fight over it? I feel it's good for me, shining a light on these kinds of issue. Netflix doesn't want to spend money and put dev work in to making things work perfectly on Apple's headset? That makes perfect sense, no problem. But attempting to block it, if Apple has spent the time and money to make it work? That strikes me as unfair.

You might argue it's not a 100% clear cut issue - should platforms have some say in how their content is presented? - but I feel very comfortable disagreeing when a website says "must be viewed using ACME OS™", or even worse, "can be viewed everywhere except COMPETITOR OS™".
In which case the app still does not bring any benefit.
Absolutely AI will change the market nobody is denying that.

Calling it theft or wanting to ban it is absolutely ridiculous though.

Technology changes markets. Photography changed the art market. The internet changed the art market. The printing press changed the art market.

Notice people still paint, do caligraphy, do linoleum block printing etc.

AI will not destroy art and im sure it will change the art market but thats just how things are.
Could ask GPT4 chatgpt to review some code. Tell it to review kindly if you want (but shouldn't need to).
Without any changes, I've had great results with openhermes 7b chat. It covers 90% of my GPT-4 usecases, and runs fast. Highly recommend.
It takes orders of magnitude more power to capture the carbon from the atmosphere than was gained putting it there in the first place.

It requires sucking in and processing inconceivable quantities of air requiring inconceivable amounts of land for the facilities, because the carbon we need to capture has been released and distributed into the earths atmosphere.

The engineering required to scale out any existing or envisioned technology to put a meaningful dent just on our yearly emissions is more than simply replacing the worlds energy production with zero emissions generation and storage.
Oh my gosh, this is the bane of my shopping existence. Fred Meyer (Kroger) self scan registers are absolutely henpecking, pushy nannies. Did you put a bag on the scale? Did you put another bag on the scale? Please put your item in the bagging area. Please take all your purchased items. Over and over.
The most shocking and hurtful letter I ever got ( which makes me laugh now looking back it) was from Spotify a few years ago. I was like wtf

It was particularly hurtful as it somehow re-enacted a scene from highschool. Which in retrospect now comes across as a brilliant troll.

It officially read ( and I paraphrase the important part ) :

Dear ionwake,

Thank you for your application. But we dont want you in our band.

Regards,
xxxx Spotify
I heard this was the real reason the US took out Saddam Hussein. Basically, Saddam had been saying for years that he wanted Iraq to abandon the dollar for trading its oil. If he was successful at this, other Arab Nations would most likely do the same. This wasn't acceptable to the powers in the US, so the US tax payers funded the war in Iraq to send a message to other nations: Don't even think of abandoning the dollar.

Not sure if there's any truth to that at all, but it's at least believable.
Unfortunately this is unlikely to work, so long as limited liability companies exist.

After all, it's a simple enough matter to start a new company, trade for 3-5 years, pay yourself some big dividends then declare bankruptcy and start a new company with a very similar name and set of employees.

Furthermore, the construction of larger buildings often allows for a merry-go-round of blame shifting. The architect specifies fireproof material 'or equivalent', the main contractor outsources parts of the design to specialist suppliers, the specialist suppliers trust marketing materials, the material manufacturers had small print saying people should run their own tests, the specialist fire consultant didn't raise the alarm about a change but he stopped getting paid a third of the way through the project, the contractors thought the building inspectors were checking for safety, the building inspectors thought they were a secondary safety net and responsibility lay with the designers... and so on.
> This narrative imagines a future where everything is controlled by a single uber-AI

No it doesn’t

> It feels like everyone's worried about the runaway AI

Not the threat vector I just mentioned
Im not sure OP is violating their ToS

since they're not selling the model access to compete with chatgpt they're two different products.
> Thus you can write a C23 detector

Can't you just check `__STDC_VERSION__` ?

(Or, is your way a "But, where's the fun in that?" exercise? Actually, if you're an ioccc entrant, "where's the fun in that?" does suddenly become a leading hypothesis ;-)
When they say "products" they mean the specific licenses available to purchase. The original announcement linked on that page has all the details:

> For customers seeking an HCI solution, we offer VMware vSAN as an add-on to vSphere Foundation, which includes all the capabilities of vSAN including vSAN Max.
I'm going to guess that within hamas you have people who commit violence and people who provide community services, and these aren't the same people. If you want to provide for your community then the ruling organisation might be the only game in town to do that.

On a very much larger scale, one might disprove of the actions of the US military but would work for the local council, and you wouldn't feel culpable because of the distance.
Really depends on what you mean by green, but here's one methodology: https://epi.yale.edu/epi-results/2022/component/epi
I will update when everything will be in the air
It’s fine if they’re happy with it, but you then go on to again state that there’s some sort of objective failure here. There’s not. If you think that there is, you’re living in a bubble.
They're literally rhetorical questions. So, yes, you can set /defaults/, but you can't /force/ the configuration globally. Which means you still need to examine every single configuration file to understand the behavior of your system as a whole.

Hence.. why I called it a fragile mechanism.
Wow very interesting! This is what I come to Hacker News for
Particularly when the website is working quite well already.
Why can't they say which company made it?
Hi! I'm the Chrome dev that's been working on WebGPU's Android support. As jsheard said the older exynos devices will work because they're Mali-based. The newer RDNA3-based devices aren't enabled by default simply because our team hasn't been able to sufficiently test on them yet. Same goes for Tegra or PowerVR GPUs.

It's entirely a question of spending the time to ensure they're performing as expected (and probably implementing a few workarounds) and not a comment on the quality of the GPUs themselves.

That said, we know that these GPUs are in an increasing number of flagship devices, which makes them a higher priority for official support in future releases.
It's universally know that this means whatever the speaker wants it to mean, whenever the speaker wants to mean it.
We have some people who are convinced that Google is punishing us for 429 responses. If that's true, then it sucks the big one.
> but it's been several decades now at least since the US overthrow a democracy in that region.

Isn't because it takes several decades for the secret documents being declassified? Of course the official discourse of USA is that they did nothing. However, we have several accusations of interference in Latin America in a lot of soft coups and more direct attacks like in Bolivia (2019) and Venezuela (a coup in 2002 and a mercenary attack in 2020).
chips, household products....what you're saying is manufacturing has left the US.

fungible shitty unnecessary goods have rock bottom prices. costs of things human beings need to live like education/training, health care, food housing have skyrocketed.

I completely agree with you that getting off the gold standard and letting a leprechaun like Yellen skyrocket inflation to cover for bad political mistakes, is a terrible idea and 1971 is a huge inflection point in United States on numerous economic graphs and indicators, as we've both seen the website.

Keep in mind the late 60s were also when immigration started it's upward trajectory as well with the 1965 immigration act, and now we're letting in the equivalent of an entire new U.S. state every year.
>It's bidirectional so photos you take or files you add will show up on all devices.

My camera devices are set to send only and while my receving devices are a tight knit send/receive group they're all set to the advanced option of "ignore deletes".

Makes it a bit of a pain to delete the file off of 3 servers, but now my laptop and my smartphone don't sync with each other and someone can't delete media off of my portable device in an attempt to destroy it if it's already been synced.
I'm sorry but could you explain how this is a violation of OpenAI's Terms of Use? Which term does it violate exactly?
> social networking is just a bad business model

I think Meta is doing pretty well...
It discourages sovereign law-based state actor DOS.
We did a similar migration (somewhat larger database) with ~20 seconds of downtime and much less work... using the magic of AWS RDS Blue-Green Deployments [1]. Surprised they aren't mentioned in the thread yet.

Basically, you spin up a new Blue Green deployment with any desired changes (in our case, we were upgrading Postgres major from 13 to 15). While your blue configuration continues to serve traffic, AWS uses logical replication to keep the "green" deployment in-sync. You can keep modifying (or testing) the "green" deployment (eg you could load test it if you wanted to), as long as you don't do any writes to it (writes still have to go to your live, blue configuration, and are replicated to green).

When you're ready, you run the "switch" command, and AWS does a few things for you: run checks to ensure blue/green are in sync, stops writes and connections, waits a few seconds to ensure replication is caught up, renames your database, then allows connections/writes again. We had less than 20 seconds of downtime, by our count. And, we had a primary and several read replicas and AWS successfully switched the full configuration over with no hiccups. You don't even need to switch your configuration because AWS swaps the database URLs for you. Green becomes blue, blue becomes old blue, and when you're ready, you delete "old blue".

Highly recommend! They do have some restrictions (for instance, not sure if it would work if you're switching accounts, etc).

1. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/blue-...
I think you unintentionally insult those who “habitually practiced poor executive function.” Why would they do that, if it’s harmful to them? Many medical professionals would say these choices are strong indicators of a “hardware problem.”

It’s possible there is severity factor you’re ignoring; do less severe sufferers of ADHD not have ADHD, because they’re not hurting “enough” to satisfy your criteria of disease?
Hi @pitah1, thanks for the comment! I'm Jon, the guy who built the feature :)

You're spot on here. Unique identifiers within a flow shouldn't necessarily be replaced with a randomly generated string. We've attacked this problem from two different angles.

1. If an API request has a JSON response, we'll generate JS load test code for that request that begins with `const responseA = await axios[...];`. You can edit the load test to use the response data in subsequent requests.

2. We also attempt to intelligently replace UUIDs (or predictable identifiers) with a placeholder like `{fieldName}`. This highlights the values that need user intervention.

We use the Swagger schema to determine the available API endpoints, if each endpoint has a request body vs query string params vs none, and so on. We sprinkle in AI to help decide how to best saturate request bodies with realistic data via faker.js.
Home Assistant Integration for Haier Hon
Postgres + containers + package management for extensions + stacks

For example re: extensions, you can add postgres extensions to your spec and the operator will handle getting the extensions installing extensions from pgt.dev into your Postgres instance.
“In 1990, the estimated value of the stolen collection amounted to $200,000, but thirty years later, it exceeded half a billion”

Feels implausible. Maybe a typo.
Oh when monopolies clash the result is hilarity!

If Apple would stop boning people over app payments, stop using MFI as a weapon, and implement RCS some people would probably come over and play.

I 100% would steer very clear of any new Apple marketplace. The once friendly and open platform literally considers things you buy from them ‘theirs’ (Tim Cook’s words).
I can't think of a worse thing than having YouTube ads beamed into my eyes, but you'd imagine the ROI on that would be pretty decent as a company that's mainly built around selling ads.
In the same provocative vein, is nonce reuse that big of a deal without an associated cleartext leak of some kind? Or is it more like reducing cracking time from thousands of years to hundreds of years?

Not that I'm saying people should do obviously bad things, I'm just wondering how bad it is if some nonces get reused for a particular short-lived session key.
Depends. Is your goal to not show up on lists, or to show up on lists above and beyond the ones that are "true"?

Asking for a list of smokers? You'll pop up. Ask for a list of pregnant women? There you are. Likely gun owners? You're on that list too.

None of the people requesting these lists are checking the rest of that person's profile to look for conflicts. They just feed all the profiles into the data machine and run everything en masse.

So does this prevent the data brokers from having an accurate profile on you? Sure. But it is absolutely not equal to them having no data on you.
just to confirm I when i say small(ish) enterprise - i'm referring to company with around 500+ people and a IT dept of over 20+ people

seriously??!? you think you need thousands of people to to improve your effeciency and performance I would strongly suggest employing a few good infrastructure engineers/ architects who know what they're talking about - there really is no secret sauce!! just lots of kool aid on cloud

the whole cloud thing only looks wonderful and magical if your inexperienced.

re: the whole up time x9 thing is fairly useless in the real world, since the architecture of the application is really the king here!! christ on a stick i got an application running 100% for 3+ years on NT 4 because of good design (the clue is active - active - active)

also to add... availibilty zones are a very very poor mans DR
Yeah, I don't get it.

Be a marketplace, and charge commission.
Don't forget the Incas!
This seems very promising, although it only measures a small region. Are there other caveats? (EDIT: also requires surgery to insert the electrodes, so its not as futuristic, but still impressive)

There are studies on using fMRIs and machine learning for mind-reading (image and text generation), but fMRIs are very inaccurate, with millions of neurons in each voxel. fMRIs are also very bulky and expensive.

This is a light cap which you wear on your head over the course of a month, and it's suggested future versions of the electrodes could possibly "write" (stimulate the neuron they are recording?)
This is wrong in physics terms.

Lifting things requires power, there is a formula for work done. Keeping things up does not require power, a chair does not collapse under you when it runs out of battery.

A ‘normal’ wind turbine generates a huge force on its foundations when it operates - that’s why they have to be so heavy. It’s not moving so no work is done.

That force does not care what is opposing it - whether it is fighting the strength of the tower holding up the turbine, or if it’s fighting gravity and a steel cable holding the kite. As long as the forces and their directions cancel out, it’s all the same.

Lastly, waste does not matter, wind power is available for many kilometres vertically.

If a kite is flying 500 meters above ground, it can suddenly access the power a turbine could not.

So if it accesses power that was inaccessible before, it’s a win even if half of it is wasted.

Lastly, none of this discussing has any relevance, only economics matters.

You care about cost of equipment, how long it lasts, how hard it is to repair, how many people are required to operate it and therefore salaries, where can you build it - a system could be 100% efficient but unprofitable.
Don't forget that the evidence shows that how much marijuana smells is directly impacted by skin color[1]

[1] https://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/local/black-drivers-..., https://www.ppic.org/publication/racial-disparities-in-law-e..., https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/dc-marijua..., etc
How many terms of service did OpenAI break to gather their initial training set? Turnabout is fair play, this is justifiable piracy.
It's a statement of opinion. I think attempting to use a language without a standard causes problems that can be avoided by using one with a standard. As evidenced in this exact post, the author spent a fair amount of time trying to figure out if the nightly, devel or production versions of the complier were implicated.

He wasn't even able to fully test a theory because he relied on a feature that wasn't even available in older compilers in a completely unrelated system.

So, if you want to ignore these costs, that's fine, I'm not prescribing your actions for you, just sharing an opinion. Do you follow?
Double stair Vs single stair is totally a safety issue
I don't know about the OSI's open source definition [1] in general, but specific licenses might consider makefiles and build scripts to be part of the source code. (For what it's worth, the free software definition from the FSF does consider makefiles and build scripts to be part of the source code [2].)

[1] https://opensource.org/osd/

[2] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
Even easier: Brave Browser. ad-free YouTube for $0/month
> The founders themselves could also lose interest over the years if the website isn't as popular as they hoped, and it's still a slog.

Rather: the founders are lying and deceiving if they talk about their great vision and its importance for mankind, if in reality they are just looking for popularity, and are eschewing the slog.
In many cities, the second staircase is used as an amenity.

Chicago is chock-full of old houses converted to three-flats. Most of those flats have large balconies on the back... with a staircase. These balconies provide fresh air and nice views at a price point where both of those things are otherwise impossible to find.

So yes, my counterpoint is "but I like the second staircase." But, I really do - a lot of people do, and I don't see why landlords would build those things if they weren't required to.
Also know as the Google search license.
I can imagine it's hard to convince a BA that they should invest in responding to requests from non-customers.
> I guarantee the best Vision Pro experience will be exclusive to their own apps

Apple must know they need third party apps at launch and that those apps have to be good, so I expect they’ve worked with/pampered quite a few companies in the last year, helping them build a good Vision Pro app.

Because of that, I expect to see more third-party apps than Apple ones at launch, and I expect all of them to be good or at least very impressive to demo.

> and nearly everything third party will be second class at best.

If we interpret “nearly everything” as “the overwhelming majority”: that is the case on any App Store, so that’s not surprising.
Apple can buy Netflix for 10% of their market cap. It'd be worth it just to watch the total freakout of Amazon and Google.
>the home theater experience is one of the only things that VR indisputably

You can't watch unless you are alone, the surround sound is reduced to stereo and the resolution is sub-4k once the rendering is done.

Home theater VR is indisputably better than a phone/tablet/laptop and headphones.
To be fair, there's plenty of government orgs at the bottom and web agencies at the top.
Why?

I've worked on a number of UK government projects, including some with particularly sensitive security and data requirements.

Having some knowledge of their on-prem data centres and UK Cloud offering they have also used moving to AWS has so many operational, security and resilience benefits that aren't available elsewhere. It's not a free-lunch by any means and needs thought and governance certainly but the procurement simplification benefits alone make going to the public cloud a no brainer for a lot of government services.

It is worth knowing that even the on-prem data centres are usually operated by 3rd parties such as HP, BT and IBM. There was an initiative to have "Crown-managed" data-centers but it's not particularly scalable.
> The second change was to create a DNS record in AWS Route53 for `database.notifications.service.gov.uk` with a 1 second TTL (time to live) [..] our migration script just needed to update the DNS weighting in AWS to 100% of results being sent to the target database location and wait 1 second for the TTL to expire. Then, when our apps next try to query our database they will be querying our target database.

Wait. Their (or Python's default?) db orm blocks while it performs a DNS lookup for each and every query!? It doesn't cache resolved addresses for any length of time? No connections are pooled and reused?
That’s not what you were talking about though. You were talking about having a billion-dollar company. There are plenty of bootstrapped companies that make a nice profit delivering something that people want. Literally look around you. By chasing a billion dollars you are just swapping one largely pointless ladder for another one.
Please elaborate. How does the runaway AI 'enlist the work of millions of average intelligences without having to convince them of anything' to do something dangerous?
Perhaps it is effectively radar that cooks stuff, and which can thus theoretically beamform and read directional reflections to detect where the food is.

Because it is mostly-enclosed, it can theoretically additionally detect how much energy isn't going back into the closed loop, and thus went into the food.

Disclaimer: I am not a radiologist.
I've heard Disney is cooking some new 3D movie releases