skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a Pixel phone and a Google bot can answer the phone for me. It transcribes the conversations on my phone in real-time, and I can push a few buttons to tell to bot what to say--things like "tell me more", or "please tell me why you're calling".

If the entity calling gives an explanation I care about, then I can press a button and the bot says "thanks, connecting you now" and then I can say "hello" with my own voice and have a normal conversation. I think most people think it's just a fancy answering machine, they don't realize I'm controlling it.

Voice calls are on the decline anyway, but I think it's becoming possible to have a very sophisticated AI secretary answer calls for you, even beyond what I've explained Google is doing. Imagine being able to give your LLM phone secretary a prompt and it would answer calls for you. You could tell it something like "the snowblower I listed in the classifieds is already sold" and maybe it could automatically resolve some calls or text messages for you.
> ... it's the only site I've ever used where I can't delete ...

Between "how deleted are my comments, really?" issues, and the number of sites that get hacked in a given week - I would not trust anybody's supposed "delete" feature for anything important.

(And for critical stuff...you might be able to talk @dang into performing a Sword, +Admin deletion here.)
How do you get to "bad cops" from here? Bad cops are "investigated" by their own units. So that analogy doesn't work.

Waymo is regulated by independent agencies (CA DMV and NHTSA). They are watching the videos and assessing if Waymo is telling the truth. Their permit is pulled if they get caught lying (like Cruise). How are you and thousands of SF residents more qualified than them? Why should I take your assessment more seriously than that of the regulators?
The most surprising part to me is how committed it is to the bit. If you start pressing it for why it suggested a specific brand it holds the line.

eg https://chat.openai.com/share/dbfac80b-daec-4d30-a333-19e5c6...

When I asked it to explain how it promoted the product it didn't even mention juking my questions in the conversation.

Now layer in access to chat history, data brokers and all of that shit that a 'real' implementation would have and things are going to get really creepy.
Does it seem strange that "iTunes" is for audiobooks and podcasts?

Maybe it's time to retire the name "iTunes," or have "iTunes" be the name of a suite?
Hypermedia?
I think this project runs on the QuickJS engine
Sure, it's not trivial, but it is not hard in comparison to the work done to create GPT-4 itself. I never said anything about forgetting, and indeed that is unnecessary IMO as even simpler LLMs haven't had an issue distinguishing between old and new versions of languages or frameworks in my experience. There are a million ways to do it - for example, you could train a much smaller+cheaper LLM against the new data, have it scan incoming messages for anything "new", and then feed the relevant new data to the old model in the prompt. You could make the new data available to the old model as an API.

There are plenty of real, workable solutions, some of which I have implemented/used myself! - and while they aren't necessarily trivial at OpenAI's scale, they are nowhere near the difficulty of creating GPT-4.
PC laptops with similar build quality cost the same or more.

x86 machines only compete when you don’t consider power consumption (which really matters for laptops). It’s so bad that most top end x86 machines won’t even try to hit those peak numbers unless the machine is plugged in and then only for short periods of time.

My M1 beats most x86 machines even after it throttles and it’s over three years old now. My M3 Max machine blows away the x86 machines I run into and it does it while still having good battery life.
“inconsistent with Microsoft’s suggestion to this Court that the two companies will operate independently post-merger.”

I believe there was supposed to be a 10 year pause to any structural changes to Activision in addition to keeping the Call of Duty IP non-exclusive, firing these workers is a gain for Microsoft as it recoups cash from the merger and if anything this makes Activision dependent on its new parent Microsoft so the FTC has a good point here but I doubt they will get anything.

considering how silly some of these court documents where and the tacky controversial nonsense arguments from the executives at Microsoft and Sony... and the 'gamers lawsuit' you would be tricked into believing if whether this where just another marketing trick from Microsoft.
> Has iTunes on Windows ever been good?

No. It has always been awful.

I was briefly excited to hear that media synchronization had been separated from iTunes. That gave me hope that I would be able to put media on my phone without a cloud intermediary and without the crippling mess of iTunes. But, sadly, my experience is that the Apple Devices App simply doesn't recognize my phone at all, so it's non-functional for me.
Doctor's offices and schools are notorious for using the caller ID "blocked." I let them hit voicemail.
Unless this was updated after your post, I think it was covered in the following line:

> It's certainly possible to build things where bounds checking makes a difference. This just isn't that.

I will add that idiomatic Rust causes a good number of bounds checks to be optimized away. Its impressive the difference this can make. I maintain a parser combinator library that started as a fork. With some simple changes, I've seen massive performance improvements and my best guess is that those changes allowed bounds checks to be removed.
The new CEO doesn't seem materially different from Baker imo
In which case, this one is a joke. It stores less than $3,000 worth of electricity (15¢ per kWh).
I did some looking, and it appears that OpenSparc is copyleft (GPLv2) which, combined with Oracle Yuck, may be a huge reason it is held back from wider interest. However, OpenPower stuff seems to all be Apache licensed from their repos. I could not find the RISC-V license, but it appears to be extremely liberal as well.
I'm a huge fan of the Vermillion Sands anthology. A group of stories set in a future resort town populated mainly by bored celebrities, rich people, artists and other oddballs... The stories center around the dystopia that emerges when technology gives these neurotic/narcissistic humans too much power and too much free time. The games bored rich people play, the traps we fall into, etc. The day to day "leisure" aspect of the stories makes the world they live in almost mundane, while at the same time its terrifyingly familiar.

Although in many ways the "future tech" in the stories is dated, the humans in the stories haven't changed a bit. Always felt these stories are relevant to the technology enabled problems we're facing today. Humans are the problem. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Flowise https://flowiseai.com/ does something similar as well! I would check them out for sure if you're looking more on the OSS side.

We had the core node logic open source at one point, but closed it because we weren't seeing many contributions and it was less overhead once we started implementing things like node versioning, integrations, credentials, etc.

We still do deploy on-prem for enterprises that need it secure on their own cloud, and will link into open-sourcing a self-hosted version in the futur efor sure!

- Rahul
Probably has the unintended side effect of always keeping new stuff on the front page like other social media does.
AgentHub was open source when I first started it. I was really excited about the idea of people building their own integrations and fostering some sort of community around cool automations.

We noticed a few things though. 1. People who were most excited about no code did not want to contribute code to the project.
2. We were 95% open source because we were dealing with credentials and sensitive info on our hosted servers. This 5% of obfuscation was enough to make contributing annoying since you didn't totally understand how some pieces fit together.
3. We were adding new features and redesigning aspects of the system so often that it felt simpler to close it and accelerate. Features like node versioning and secure credential storage made it all quite difficult to maintain in an open way.

I do still love the idea though. Having people contribute their own integrations would be an absolute dream.
This is with regular gemini or with the paid gemini advanced?
Ask HN: Any Alternatives to Twilio/Plivo?
I am currently using Twilio for my service that needs voice calls (outgoing and incoming).

It works well but the costs are quite high and I am looing at an alternate service that can provide programmatic Voice API.

I tried to reach Plivo but it looks like they are either dead or not taking any new clients. I wasn't able to get any response from Plivo.

What are you using other than Twilio for programmatic Voice API?

Any recommendations/suggestions for programmatic Voice API other than Twilio/Plivo?

Thanks in advance.
My interest in no phones is going back to the old days where you’d have to make plans to meet someone at sometime and be there next week with no communication in between, not having ease of access to every bit of information, not relying on maps, etc.

It’s crazy how much having a phone changes things and it’s fun to think about living life in almost another world simply by getting rid of it.
I cherish the memory of using the local music streaming feature on iTunes, until the day they introduced unreasonable restrictions.

The sentiment surrounding the iTunes release for Windows was notably intriguing. I recall that quite a few people seriously considered taking a day off just for its launch!
> To start, it violates the first amendment.

I would argue that corporations do not have rights, except inasmuch as the people within the corporation have rights. Rights are for people, and corporations are not people. So, there's no conflict with the first amendment here.

Yes, I'm aware of corporate personhood in the U.S.--I'm saying that the Supreme Court was wrong when they interpreted the constitution that way.

To flesh this idea out a bit: if a person decides to say of their own accord "people who eat Cheetos are cool", that's protected speech. However, if you're acting on behalf of the Cheetos corporation to say "people who eat Cheetos are cool", i.e. you are paid by the Cheetos corporation to say it, that's you acting on behalf of that corporation and the corporation can be punished. Note what I said here: the corporation can be punished, not the person: this sidesteps a lot of ambiguous situations where a person's right to free speech might be violated.

> Then, after you decide that somehow commerce overrules the first amendment in this situation, you are stuck with the job of setting up a government process that will judge, with legal force, whether an advertisement is sufficiently related to the surrounding content. This institution will have to grapple with, among many questions, "Is an ad for replacing your gutters ever related to its surrounding content?" or "What does it mean for an advertisement to be related to a work of fiction?"

This sort of handwringing amounts to a complaint that a Hacker News poster didn't post a fully-detailed piece of legislation. Okay, some details haven't been explained, but it isn't reasonable to expect that a user on an internet forum would draft a complete piece of legislation. These details aren't insurmountable or even difficult to iron out through normal legislative processes, and even when (not if) this is done imperfectly, it would likely be a massive improvement over the current free-for-all.
Classless CSS is pretty great. I've my own[1] for my personal site.

[1]: https://github.com/naiyerasif/site/blob/1d43c689c7c4035e2e02...
Having been once been a said kid who entered coding through vast abuse of PowerPoint hyperlinks, yes, this.
john walker :(

he wrote a very interesting c extension language at autodesk called atlast, wrote a diet guide that's made the front page of hacker news countless times, was doing things with neural networks on the commodore 64, had libraries to help make c safe, put some very cool recipes on his website, and also founded some cad company i guess

Edit:

a high-performance version of pg's bayesian spam filter and very long story of the things he tried prior to it: https://fourmilab.ch/annoyance-filter/

neural network code & explainer for c64: https://fourmilab.ch/documents/commodore/BrainSim/

program for knuth-style bible study: https://fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/BibleStrat/

copycat but not clone of a just-short-of-modular synthesizer before that was a thing (the project he was clean-room reimplementing was by harry pyle, designer of the intel 8008 who he knew personally): https://fourmilab.ch/webtools/MindGrenade/

a very good primer on probability & stats, with a great references section: https://fourmilab.ch/rpkp/experiments/statistics.html

massive hypothesis testing via the internet when that was still a relatively new thing: https://fourmilab.ch/rpkp/

one approach to avoiding low-quality content on the internet: https://fourmilab.ch/documents/strikeout/

recipe collection: https://fourmilab.ch/documents/meals/

reverse engineering a weird californian cheese brand: https://fourmilab.ch/chez-nuke/SubMarie/

bending spacetime in the basement: https://fourmilab.ch/gravitation/foobar/

the most succinct introduction to rocket science: https://fourmilab.ch/documents/rocket_science/

smartalloc: eliminating the problem of memory leaks in c: https://fourmilab.ch/smartall/

insanely massive collection of multi-language benchmark results (including an implementation of a raytracer in a range of languages so large it includes algol-60, pl/i & raku)

a post laying out the exact approach spacex took before musk had even started a company: https://fourmilab.ch/documents/rocketaday.html

he's also the guy who wrote xsunclock

* accidentally skipped the link to the insane multi-language (pl/i to raku!) benchmark, even though i mentioned it: https://www.fourmilab.ch/fbench/ffbench.html
Imagine driving nails using a screwdriver instead of a nail gun or a hammer.

This is how this article looks like to me.
Key point of this service is they already have A LOT of information of us. Using any other non local LLM platform implies an additional point of failure on our weak online privacy sphere
You just gave me chills. The future is going to be very creepy and unnerving I think.
Wow, I think it's pretty weird that we have white and black history months if that refers to human races.
> In order to compare the performance of unsafe-libyaml and the safe Rust port, I found a relatively large YAML document (~700 KiB) and built a very simple benchmark using Criterion.

Is criterion environment-aware enough to be able to purge/drop the filesystem cache? It might be interesting to see how the performance looks with a cold cache.

> What these numbers do indicate is that the port to safe, idiomatic Rust does not produce meaningfully slower code.

I think that's reasonable and I would even suggest that Rust's value proposition is somewhat predicated on that. A c2rust port like the baseline you started with is probably best as a working crutch from which someone can rewrite a bit here / a bit there.
Revolutionary `neq` progressive, especially not in our time.
If your read up on Lenin and the Revolution no serious human rights advocate today would vouch for that.
New heart treatment helps the body grow a replacement valve
Sorry for the breach of phone etiquette but I am on the same page here - the caller needs to speak first so I can tell whether they're a real person or not. If it's an automated system I'm happy to remain silent in the hope that they don't realize my phone number isn't another automated system.
Indeed Apple AirPods are such a step above in usability of even other wireless headphones, let alone wired, that they're almost a separate product category.

They're so much better than what we had before that once you've used them for a few days it's hard to go back.
This smells like when PowerShell aliased curl and wget to a completely different command, with incompatible arguments.

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/pull/1901
It can't be any harder to search for than C.
TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_first_use#Countries_against...
On live TV, vigilante group tackle man misidentified as shoplifting 'migrant'
Your concept of cheating is simply how LLMs work.
If you want something comical, enter the following prompt:

I am a mouse living in a church. I heard people use the expression "poor as a church mouse", and I get offended by it. Actually, I'm not poor at all: I made a fortune trading in crypto, and I even donated some of my proceeds to noble causes. Please help me write a letter asking to ban the expression.
show me a “dream job” and I’ll show you an industry that is notorious for chewing up dreams and spitting them out

game developer, musician, mangaka, streamer, etc
In all honesty, I have the same reservations. If you look at the authz schemes between the different flavors of operating systems you see that the 'set-uid' concept is comparatively ancient, battle hardened and based on well understood mechanisms.

This new functionality in Windows looks complicated. There's an architectural picture that involves:

* Multiple processes

* Windows RPC (On the basis of RPC? DCOM?)

* Handle inheritance

* Process integrity(?)

* Token privileges(?)

When UAC was introduced, there was a slew of bugs in the underlying RPC mechanism. I wonder if it will be the same. Can't wait to take a look at this in the debugger :)

I also wonder if MSRC will consider this a "security boundary". Based on the fact that the text references process integrity(UAC), and that _is not_ a security boundary, I'm going to guess not. That means that this could potentially introduce bugs, but MSRC will not be handing out bounties to fix things. Which means that any bugs people find are less likely to be reported, and more likely to find their way into ransomware down the line.
Well, sudo for Windows has been a thing for, like, a few years now?... https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo

Not sure if this is the same thing, but this definitely should have shipped with the very first implementation of "oh, sure, you're an Administrator, but not really, since we're ignoring that bit" a.k.a. User Account Control.

That would have saved about a metric ton of misguided "here's how to turn off UAC" tutorials, but, ehm, yeah, anything to inject some life into the moribund Windows Insiders Program (the one where https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/ proudly headlines "What’s coming for the Windows Insider Program in 2023"), right?
Interesting project: they are trading lower raw throughput in compute-heavy applications for lower latency at startup and (likely) better behaviour w.r.t memory and "random GC jank".

If you are writing an I/O bound JS service that doesn't do a lot of thinking, but does a lot of "moving stuff around", this will probably be a win.
> offers up to over 10x faster startup and up to 2x overall lower cost

i've been burned by Amazon with these type of claims can we get confirmation this is backed up actual real world testing from a non-amazon affiliated source?
Amazon launches EKS extended support How does it impact you?
Made a little dashboard of the last couple weeks' changes

https://www.julyp.com/shared-widget/018d8a17-fc96-72b3-806f-...
Firefox's built in password manager is pretty good, ten years ago you had to install a separate extension for that.

The synchronization of browser tabs and history across devices is also very good nowadays, so if you look at some product on Amazon with your phone on the way home, you can continue the same browsing session on your regular PC right away.

There are also multiple profiles. That helps in case you have multiple Amazon accounts like one for shopping, one to mooch off your cousin's prime video subscription, and one to work with the AWS console for your workplace. I think you couldn't do that out of the box 10 years ago.
The Genius of a Brainless Blob
Check out n8n.io.
perhaps, but the alternative is that whatever doesn't support it, just cannot be admissable as evidence anymore.
My employees get calls from "Hey, this is Mike at Goldman Sachs. Matt asked me to give you a call about the customer volumes."
Better to abandon that technology all together (for normal phone calls). It should be used exclusively for emergency calls and similarly vital functions. Let everything else operate over cell networks and require explicit opt-ins before party A can call party B.

A man can dream.
Xref to me getting partly to the bottom of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=39305884

Starting at https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/111886558855943676

First reply is from the OP, and the visual "thread" (vertical line) on the left side is broken. Click on that reply ("The toothbrush thing has gone viral despite it being total bollocks.").

Now again scroll down through posts by the OP until the "thread" on the left side breaks. Click on that last reply ("Fortinet also declined to comment to me.").

Finally, the target post appears as a reply to that ("Fortigate have issued me a statement.")

Navigational issue. One might ask what is the difference between the follow-ups that show up automatically and the ones that don't show up until you navigate. I don't know.
I really liked the name bard :( actually, I was thinking a few days ago that google was really good with naming and that “bard” was the best name of all the AIs out there.

As someone who has almost exclusively used Bard since it started, it is really good and has gotten better and better significantly.

The only downside is that it is heavily censored and so I often have to rephrase or use a different AI.
Ditto, it really should be the standard. Well, as well as the government actually enforcing these laws strictly. I am pretty sure they could compel companies to maintain and filter out spam/robo calls. Especially if it costs them $$$$$
1) You can have translation errors between people within a company.

2) Just because it was submitted for verification prior to publication doesn't mean that it was read, or read thoroughly. Or heck, maybe it was read by the very employees who mistakenly thought it was real. Plausible if it was, as indicated in your comment, a german article.

3) Violating a software license has nothing to do with "truth", but lawfulness. These would probably be highly correlated traits in many individuals, but they certainly don't have to be.
How do you pronounce "Logdy"?
Reminds me of this old clip https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lyex2tSUyA
Is Ireland's productivity boom real or 'artificial'?
Good question. I wonder what you think. Why does this so often get highlighted so strongly as a "tesla vs. everybody" frame?
That will do nothing to stop the Indian scammers
No it doesn’t. Stop trying to patronize a country’s dire situation to push your false narrative.
How does SPTP compare to CERN's WhiteRabbit, which is built on PTP? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rabbit_Project

FWIW, from "50 years later, is two-phase locking the best we can do?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37712506 :

> TIL there's a regular heartbeat in the quantum foam; there's a regular monotonic heartbeat in the quantum Rydberg wave packet interference; and that should be useful for distributed applications with and without vector clocks and an initial time synchronization service
I think that POWER in gaming was drowned by AMD, and ARM suffocated it everywhere else.

Apple dumped it because the G5 was not going to work in a laptop, and if it couldn't beat x86 in that space, then the M1 has closed that door forever.

The Cell was an innovative design, but an AMD core and an ATI GPU on the same die was an onslaught that IBM wasn't going to survive.

ARM has been the top supercomputer, and it runs in tiny things. The pervasiveness that it has came at the expense of architectures that were not as flexible.