skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not Apple's fault that the carriers/RCS/Google don't know how to make messaging work. RCS sucks, it pales in comparison to anything but SMS.
That may be a slight oversimplification? I think there's whole fields dedicated to these questions, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_law?wprov=sfla1 or the overarching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics?wprov=sfla1, with overlaps into sociology and anthropology.

Not all societies are so law-heavy, especially the ones that are more shame-driven: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilt%E2%80%93shame%E2%80%93fe.... As a random example, Japan during the pandemic had a really high mask wearing rate despite it not being a legal requirement; there was just a strong social expectation for it.

That's not to say that their approach was better or worse than the West's, just that different societies will naturally evolve different means to regulate group behavior.

Families, villages, cities, states, nations, cults, religions, companies, departments, teams... every community has their own framework for defining and moderating acceptable behavior, and sometimes they can be more important than the national laws, or may be just one variable in a complex algorithm of behavior.

It just depends.
I am sorry for the stupid question, but aren't "singletons", "global variables" and "classes with a static pimpl" basically the same things from a design-perspective and their main difference is personal preference (and maybe runtime performance)?
It's a genetic mutation per article. So it's possibly a beneficial mutation in evolutionary terms despite side effects because it persisted. Similar to sickle cell disease (which is also a genetic mutation) in people of African descent which protects from malaria.
I can not find a "Hello World!" example. How to write something to the screen?
Great question! Each individual photon carries more energy, so I'd assume they do indeed consume more overall power. But maybe eye sensitivity compensates for that?
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39378235 (400+ comments)
> It's like saying severe anxiety is linked to evolutionary success because anxious people pay more attention to the things around them.

And? That could be true...
Stop computerizing vehicles. Computerized vehicles are so bad in so many ways.
Plsstic's diff tool is also centered around syntactic units of the programming language rather than stupidly scanning for line breaks, if it recognizes the language.
> "Air Canada argues it cannot be held liable for information provided by one of its agents, servants, or representatives—including a chatbot," Rivers wrote. "It does not explain why it believes that is the case" or "why the webpage titled 'Bereavement travel' was inherently more trustworthy than its chatbot."

This is very reasonable-- AI or not, companies can't expect consumers to know which parts of their digital experience are accurate and which aren't.
> Phone thieves will watch over peoples shoulders for them to input a passcode, which isn't that dissimilar to a lot of the replay/signal extension attacks.

You have any reference regarding how prevalent that is? Everyone I know switched to biometrics a decade ago.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. I would have thought HN of all places would recognize the power and value of OSI licensing and the danger of the proliferation of these source available but definitely not Open Source licenses.
This actually makes perfect sense
“Cloud: Visible mass of liquid droplets or frozen crystals suspended in the atmosphere“

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud
why does it even have a camera?

> Amazon spokesperson Alisa Carroll said a malfunction caused the camera to take photos.

wonder if a malfunction will make the security cameras "without microphones" start recording audio too
The study they performed is utter garbage. They saw the result they wanted to see.

They produced a unique game where players were given eight minutes to collect as many berries as possible by hovering a mouse pointer over a bush. Each time they foraged from the same bush a player’s harvest would slightly decline but if they moved to a new bush they would suffer a time penalty.

So what would most players do? Stick to the same reliable berry-supplying bush? Or risk wasting time by trying another bush to see if it had more fruit? Explore or exploit?

Around 450 people participated in the experiment, and all were simultaneously screened for ADHD symptoms. Unsurprisingly, the researchers found those with higher ADHD scores moved on to new bushes sooner than others but more importantly, those with ADHD also tended to collect higher volumes of berries overall.

Writing in the newly published study, Barack and colleagues noted that participants without ADHD characteristics tended to over-harvest single patches. Looking at what would be an optimal harvest strategy for the game it was discovered that players with high ADHD scores were more successful overall.

The outcome of this game is 100% dependent on the parameters: the decline in the harvest from a given bush, and the time penalty. If you change the parameters to favor persistence, then guess what, persistence wins.
I hope it lasts also. I am wondering if these particles will continue on to the ort cloud ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oort_cloud
My immediate answer is to say something like "we need more ethical education" but that's obviously kind of a weak response. The long, slow answer might be that society may re-organize itself into sub-units that do enforce ethical behaviors, and those sub-units eventually prevail over those that don't.
Very interesting. Another Next victim here.
One of my anecdotes is the bonkers caching / fetch deduplication. Yes, set cache: no-store. But that only works for fetch requests. If you have a 3rd party lib doing the fetching (say, Google Firestore), then you have to declare export const dynamic = 'force-dynamic' at the top of your route segment: https://nextjs.org/docs/app/api-reference/file-conventions/r...

That behaviour wasn't documented when I got started with NextJS 13...imagine the fun I had trying to work out why I can't get updated data from the server. It was nuts.
Maybe because it's some messy custom Android setup that was put together by an intern in 3 months and it piggybacks on the existing camera functionality.
"Large Observation Model" has a nice ring to it
You see the exact same thing in programming, where tooling is made to enforce everything because somehow we can't trust devs to do anything right so we need to hard-wire as many restraints in as possible.

And yet, somehow, that hasn't solved the Software Problem at all.
In early days of computerization, companies tried to dodge liability due to "computer errors". That didn't work, and I hope the "It was the AI, not us" never gets allowed either.
The top 7 phones sold last year were all iPhones.

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/02/21/iphones-top-7-best-sell...

Too bad the other vendors don’t bother keeping up.
I find it curious why people advocating for WFH aren’t also advocating to keep schools, kids and teachers learning at home.

If WFH is truly the future, we should be teaching our kids how to operate in a virtual environment rather than in person.
I honestly think it would be better if they didn't have the option to "forgive the debt" — at least without following up by eliminating the trap that created said debt.

How often is one of these accidental debts created? How often do customers just pay up because it's small enough that it's not worth fighting? How often does AWS (or Google or whoever) decide whether to forgive the debt based on PR damage control rather than the legitimacy of the debt? Jeez I hope someone leaks those numbers one day.

It reminds me of all those horror stories of hospital visits in the USA, where the first bill you receive is just a test to see if they can squeeze that much out of you, but if you know what you're doing or just can't pay then the actual bill is way lower. It's all just yucky.

If big cloud providers couldn't selectively choose which of these debts to enforce, I bet there would be a media shitstorm and then they would suddenly discover that it's not all thaaaaat hard to implement real time billing and hard caps after all.
Managers surveilling employees is also known as management. It's a fairly long standing and widely accepted practice. Is it really very different when done with a webcam compared to a Mark I eyeball?
I'm not sure if this was mentioned in the paper somewhere, but how much does the super large 265k tokenizer vocabulary influence inference speed and how much higher is the average text compression compared to llama's usual 30k? In short, is it really worth going beyond GPT 4's 100k?
Well, quite an ambitious and impressive piece of work. And as I mentioned elsewhere here, reading your history made me
feel a lot better about not having a ton to show after 3-4 years, haha.
Nautobot or NetBox
Even considering I adopted YAML as an easy format to manage append-only tabular data (all the tables in my site are written in YAML), I have to agree with this and would second the vote for that media type.
which has a software problem, totally non portable
> No level of technology will stop this.

Why does no one steal Teslas?
This is done by organized crime with engineers on staff. Sure it’s drug addicts stealing cars but the people shipping them are smart and have access to capital.
That's because we aren't lobe-finned fish... But birds are a type of dinosaur
https://t.me/my_form_bot/forms

This is a simple form constructor to create polls, surveys or other simple mini-apps in Telegram.

Some kind of Google Forms inside of the Telegram infrastructure (bot + mini-app) with different field types (text, numbers, checkboxes, radio-buttons, etc), answers exporting, basic statistics.
For those wondering why an interview with Maxime is interesting: Maxime coinvented the Basic Block Versioning approach to JITs[0] during her studies.

It's the basis for YJIT, which has landed big speedups for the C Ruby implementation over the past few years.

Disclosure: I used to work in a team adjacent to Maxime's.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.0352
In the United States its always legal to carry lockpicks if you have no criminal intent. But there are a few states where you can be arrested and must prove your lack of criminal intent to avoid a conviction (carrying lockpicks in those states is prima facie evidence of criminal intent so the ordinary burden of proof is reversed).
True, but that's still going to consume more energy - not to mention the boost circuit probably taking up more space than the additional battery.
I specifically addressed some of these topics in this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzo7GIoDgAo
Yes I think the shame and guilt discussion is probably relevant here. Although Japan has a shame culture, and the West supposedly has a guilt-based one, I'm not convinced that guilt is all that widespread anymore.
In the US, the Trump tax changes pretty much killed the federal tax deduction for interest/taxes due to the greater standard deduction. (unless you have a million dollar house and/or high interest rate).

However, even if one sells their house after a decade for exactly the purchase price, they come out way ahead.

Maintenance, property tax, interest, and insurance are still much cheaper than renting!

If they weren’t, why would anyone bother being a landlord? Landlords want to make money, not break even!!

And with modest appreciation, it becomes an even better deal.
Target demographic: raver girls
Yeah I like how society so “sincerely” talks about fixing problems with therapy and exercise when the main problem in most people’s lives is the requirement that they work hard day in and day out. As a society we have no solution to this problem so we invent various ways to “fix” the problem without talking about the source. I realize people have to work, I just wish society would actually talk about the elephant in the room.
The EU already decided that under the DMA, iMessage is too small to qualify for the interoperability requirement. Apple is however adding (unencrypted) RCS support to comply with Chinese government law, which requires that all 5G phones support RCS.
> religions have been the foundation of pretty much all ethical behavior since the beginning of civilization

I reject this statement wholeheartedly, and find it a pretty disgusting stance. The idea that the only reason not to kill someone (or otherwise act ethically) is due to religion is horrendous, especially given most religions historical track record on murdering others and other ethical violations.
5 gallon bucket and a plunger. Drill hole in the lid for plunger.
Sounds like the idea of "obedience to the unenforceable" - the unwritten rules of society that we comply by personal choice. This Econtalk episode has a nice discussion about it - https://www.econtalk.org/michael-munger-on-obedience-to-the-...
Yes, because your Mark I eyeball can't record and reproduces images to post to social media or as evidence in a labor lawsuit.
Well, it's the standard human behavior.

On the other hand, you have the possibility of not lying and getting an useful answer. The difficulty of doing that varies, and the more objective the questions, the easier it is.
Google could have continued to support XMPP. If wishes were knishes doggies would eat.
> but a weapon can't be in any imaginable circumstance reachable by anyone untrained.

I agree with your main point that the FZ is easily reproduced. I think you miss the mark with this one. Firearms are easily made at home with simple tools and off-the-shelf materials. For example, the United States has a rich tradition of home-made firearms. To provide a concrete example, a shotgun can be made with a length of steel plumbing pipe, electrical tape, a nail, and a cap. Yes, it's that simple.
What limitations? You mean like not being able to use the full node API in your middleware that's being run by the node server that you control in your own infrastructure?

And how about that dev rel... no response since August of last year.

https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/46722
> They aren’t even going to use the developed encrypted RCS protocol.

End-to-end RCS encryption is via proprietary Google extension and not even available to other Android RCS messaging apps.
At this stage bitcoin's main use case is storing large amounts of value for long periods of time.

Think of it as an alternative to investing in a house to let out to tenants, but without the inconvenience, risk and cost of buying/selling and owning it.
I think instead of making excuses we should harden the security and regulation should enforce such things. There is always a hole in security, but we gotta choose the best option we have.
You can extrapolate this argument to almost anything about a vehicle in North America. I've been working on them for decades. The way manufacturers make money is by half-assing things. Where a chain should be used, a belt is used. Where a 10 cent switch should be used, a touchscreen replaces it. Where a shifter should be, some knob is used to replace which actually kills a guy because he didn't realize his SUV was in gear.

I had to replace part of the engine on my personal truck recently because it was made of plastic and obviously failed. The replacement parts were metal because all I did was order the previous generations part number which works perfectly fine but costs more.

What you call "half assed" is what everyone in the industry calls a profit margin.
I was thinking saying "first time" made it clickbait.
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Are there any cool highlights you can give us about gemma.cpp? Does it have any technical advantages over llama.cpp? It looks like it introduces its own quantization format, is there a speed or accuracy gain over llama.cpp's 8-bit quantization?
Really sorry you went through this. Your experience reminds me of mine, which left me to contend with a lifetime of challenges.

> Just like you can't out-train a bad diet, you can't out-live a shitty childhood.

I think I’d challenge this slightly. Out training a bad diet probably doesn’t work, but is better than a bad diet with no training. And when you fix your diet, the training can start working wonders.

My childhood left deep and unhealthy imprints, but I’m no longer in that environment. I think you can out-live a shitty childhood, by changing your diet so to speak. This is grueling work, painful, slow, and often frustrating. But replacing old patterns can really transform living in the same way changing a bad diet can transform the process of training.

Over time I’ve come to believe strongly that the only thing harder than dealing with the past is not dealing with it. And over time, this gradually transforms the present. I very much prefer the late 30s version of me to all of the preceding iterations.

Best of luck on your own journey. Send me an email if you ever want to chat. (Not selling anything, just someone who cares about this topic a lot).
I don't think there's anything more guaranteed to turn a 12 or 13 year old into a lifelong criminal than what I think you're implying by "real correction in behaviour"; aka a multi-year prison sentence.
https://twitter.com/zackbshapiro/status/1759723309883617308
> That didn't work

It worked in the British Post Office Scandal: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
I… what? Lead deficient? I know some people are iron deficient, but I have never heard of iron poisoning or suffering from lead deficiency.
Uhhh, if you work an office job at a company of any significant size, your work laptop is loaded with monitoring software. Might be labeled “antivirus” or “threat detection” but it can and does watch everything you do. Perhaps there are union rules against that somewhere, but I doubt it.
ADHD doesn't need to be free of negatives as long as it improves survival and reproductive chances.

The inability to focus and lack of memory recall, for example, may either not matter or just be negligible compared to other factors.

While ADHD does lead to focus problems, people with ADHD are usually just as good at focusing as anyone else when their life depends on it.
but hardly conclusive
This is like saying "bank transactions have been getting MITMed and peoples money has been stolen. All crypto protocols are insecure I can hook a supercomputer up to any transaction and decrypt it given enough time

The solution is to identify, arrest, and prosecute criminals"

Do you see why this is not a coherent idea? Aside from the fact that locking people in cages is disgusting and wrong and something no reasonable adult should do to another person the entire premise of this argument is nonsensical and a little weird when you actually think about it.
Email is easier to recover and unlike a phone number you can actually own and control your email. There is no way of actually owning a phone number.
> The outcome of this game is 100% dependent on the parameters: the decline in the harvest from a given bush, and the time penalty. If you change the parameters to favor persistence, then guess what, persistence wins.

I think that's by design. In situations where exploratory behaviours pay off, ADHD-like behaviours prove beneficial. In settler roles, they do not. The study's hypothesis is to hint that explorer-types could tend to push evolution forward, and that ADHDers could tend to being explorer-types.

I don't think there's any contention that ADHD is necessarily advantageous today - at least not from this study. It would be too complicated to make such a point.
To be fair, they had to make money somehow. I'm happy that they're trying to be financially sustainable.
If you can go visit their factory. Wonderful meeting of old craft with new motors
modern numerical programming in fortran is great (and can vbe very fast)
No idea where you are at but I wouldn't think twice about someone towing a car. If someone was hotwiring a neighbor's vehicle I think I'd definitely at least start videoing them as a deterrent.
Unless circumstances never change, there's always value to a population in having a spectrum for any trait. It's also likely that the specific characteristics that best position individuals for success as modern white collar workers were optimal for 99% of the evolutionary timeline of human existence.

If mild to moderate ADHD offers an advantage in a high mortality setting, the loss of individuals with more extreme symptoms isn't going to make much of a difference in selection pressure. (sickle cell anemia is an extreme example of this)
I mean - an arrest, even if wrongful, is not the same as an assault. I don’t think I have the ability to judge what is a wrongful arrest simply from the video.

This video does not really vindicate the people attacking the cops imo.
you got foreground thinking and then you got pertinent thinking.
Do you remember the guy who took hostages at the Discovery Channel offices in Washington DC, and tried to force them to promote his Ishmael-based manifesto on television? He was part of a MySpace group that I frequented where we discussed Quinn’s work. I remember having pretty strong disagreements with him in the forums, before he took up arms anyway…
yeah it kinda is
Has perplexity fallen out of favor? I didn't see it mentioned anywhere. I tried using lm-eval for the 2B model but the results seem wrong (46.1288).
> the developed encrypted RCS protocol

Google's proprietary closed source fork of RCS?

> Google's version of RCS... is definitely proprietary, by the way. If this is supposed to be a standard, there's no way for a third-party to use Google's RCS APIs right now. Some messaging apps, like Beeper, have asked Google about integrating RCS and were told there's no public RCS API and no plans to build one.

If you want to implement RCS, you'll need to run the messages through some kind of service, and who provides that server? It will probably be Google... So the pitch for Apple to adopt RCS isn't just this public-good nonsense about making texts with Android users better; it's also about running Apple's messages through Google servers. Google profits in both server fees and data acquisition.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/new-google-site-begs...
What an absolutely awful program name, completely undiscoverable and ungoogable. It even requires regex knowledge to be able to find it in a package manager thanks to 'rr' being in thousands upon thousands of package names.