skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Working of Twillio
Can somebody tell about the inner workings of twillio like how does it sends text messages, also can somebody share an opensource alternative to it.
It can, that's why you didn't say "re-add jxl", but had to mention the flag, 're-add' has no flag implication, that pedantic attempt to constraint is somehing you've made up, that's not what people want, just read those linked issues
So, DisplayPort it is then..
K8s Service Meshes: The Bill Comes Due
The difference is 1.3x more tyre wear vs 10x less brake wear…
It sounds like you're not aware of the reason. I personally believe that the reson is that there are many entities pushing against open standards since they would make copying easier and DRM harder.
Yeah I found DignifAI to be hilarious when I found out, who comes up with something like that.
it's still leaking information. let's say there are 5-6 companies that all work in the mystical cloud-painting sector, you lump them together and publish data about the sector. before there was nothing available now there's an average.

and obviously partial information is very useful for exactly those with some other partial information.

this is why OSINT is very effective. it's possible to piece together enough constraints on these datasets that in the end the likelihood of a successful deanonymization is unexpectedly high.
Would be 11-months where they would be now "cloud native" or something

Of course running their DB was a bit challenging as they forgot to set proper K8S storage configs and saw their data disappear after their pod was suddenly migrated
I agree. But at the same time, insisting on 100% certainty/safety would mean to not do anything at all and stick to the status quo forever. It boils down to cost-benefit-calculations.

While I agree that it is unacceptable to use customer data without consent (as suggested by OP's post), I disagree with the implicit assumption behind the comment that I responded to:

Namely the implicit assumption that human/biological intelligence/agents are somehow superior to artificial intelligence/agents in face of secrecy/confidentiality.

It boils down to the question whether it's possible or not to create algorithms that outperform humans in tasks involving secrecy and confidentiality.

While I can't think of any reason why that should not be possible in general, I agree that the current SOTA of generative LLMs is not sufficient for that.

Is throwing lots and lots of data and RLHF training on an LLM enough in order to make the probability of customer data leaks small enough to be acceptable?

I don't know. But I don't trust MBAs who salivate with dollar signs in their eyes to know either. And I fear that their lack of technical understanding will lead to bad decisions. And I fear those might lead to scandals that make Gemini's weird biases in image generation pale in comparison.
Or make one you don't understand the purpose of, rewriting GNU Autoconf in GNU make would serve no purpose since what Autoconf does has nothing to do with building, but rather finding out details about the running system.

Maybe you were thinking of GNU Automake ...
Well it is human error after all. By the programmers. Oe those who invented the complicated calendar
Lossless webp is actually quite good, especially on text heavy images, e.g. screenshots of a terminal with `cwebp -z9` are usually smaller than `jxl -d 0 -e 9` in my experience.
Woke trash.
365.2421 is more correct.

Nasa explains:

365 +0.25 - 0.01 + 0.0025 - 0.00025 = 365.24225

https://pumas.nasa.gov/examples/how-many-days-are-year
Denpok? I swear it reads like a skit from the Silicon Valley satire TV show. I thought Mike Judge was exaggerating but now I see he's just imitating the SV reality.

I think execs and managers at Google are just high on their own farts at this point.
Images of me are not me. Getting mad because someone is thinking of me seems like a fruitless endeavor.

Distributing porn of people is quite emotional and a different story. But changing people’s clothes and adding babies seems like something that should bother no one.

But I think some people have their image linked to their identity and it’s a big deal for them.

When I first got a scanner and laser printer in the late 80s, my brother and I scanned a photo of my mom and edited her face onto a Griffin battlemech from the FASA miniature game Battletech (a 55-ton giant robot with guns and missles and stuff basically copied from Robotech).

I printed it out and gave it to her and was pretty proud of how cool it looked. But she burst into tears and was so upset the we would “do that to her.”

Totally different from my intent and expectation and how I would react. This is the first time I realized that people have very different associations of images of them and self identity.
This is a legal issue due to Australia forcing Facebook to pay news companies for links to their websites.

I wouldn't call this censorship since the news companies are just trying to use the law to squeeze revenue for their dying business model. (Hardly anyone subscribes to newspapers anymore)
Is Buffett too old for the job?
I haven’t heard anyone calling for Buffett to step down from running Berkshire Hathaway and he’s 93. As has BRK, succession plans and a strong “bench” are institutional insurance.
Generally a secret society is a society with secrets. Denying your own existance is optional.
Every morning I wake up in my legacy bed, before taking breakfast using a legacy coffee cup.
I then take a shower using - you guessed it - legacy shower taps (after all, I do live in a legacy building).

I then sit on my legacy chair to browse the Internet and read about brand new programming things (through a legacy monitor).
I think it would be useful to include a direct link to what has changed between now and the previous version of LFS.
I wouldn't characterise the history of the internet as having started with "everything decentralised". if I'm not missing something, it was completely the other way around.

introduction of general populous to the internet was through internet gatekeepers like aol or msn, with unimaginable convenience (and centralisation). that convenience lost, in the end, to the world wide web, where a ton of single individuals could set up a website and reach other people across the internet. some of the big central giants of today got born out of this transition (and some were instrumental to it, namely google).

something similar happened to smartphones. ios was intended to be a closed off gatekeeper. people jailbroke it, and apple caved in and opened the system up, allowing anyone to provide services (apps) on it. similar to the www transition, we had a period were you could easily find popular apps made by a single programmer. this decentralisation also basically enabled most centralised social and messaging services of today.

so I see it more as a cycle: in stable times, convenience causes a drift towards further centralisation. when there is a platform shift, established players lose their defensive power, some essential operational costs drop drastically, resulting in a sudden decentralisation: tons of small (mostly individual) players can now enter the market and gain prominence through it. the market then stabilises, thriving players shrink in number and grow in size, and become the convenient, centralised corps of the future, only to be similarly shaken by market forces that allowed them to exist in the first place.

are we close to such a shift now? I think so. current version of the internet is clearly starting to rot and drown in noise, while we are the cusp of new heights of information processing and accessibility through LLMs, while also thriving to push the boundaries of the information we circulate (AR/VR). but who knows.
Fine but we’re not talking about piping random stuff from the Internet here; we’re just using curl as a convenience not to use an intermediary file.
As sibling comment says, you'll be disappointed - and worse, unlike on Windows or Linux there will be no way to change things you don't like. With Apple, it's their way or the highway. For example, they just don't do themes at all, and have slowly deprecated or removed even the basic customization features they used to do well (like changing the icon for a folder).
But that’s the point, if current HUDs are reflective then you’re constrained by viewing angles, the need for a projector, a sufficiently reflective surface, etc…

A composite screen might have the opportunity for a much better HUD experience.
This is correct. That's also why there is an ongoing trend to push users into walled gardens and onto hardware they do not control. Or as Cory Doctorow calls it the "war on general-purpose computing"
Vic Gundotra?
Excuse me for probing further.

Can you share some of the books that can help with this? Which algorithms were used, how etc.

Thank in advance, I am using Row Zero since yesterday and loving it thoroughly.
By the time my team finishes the Kubernetes migration, it will be time to migrate to the next tool. This industry sucks.
1. OpenAI and the whole baggage of training on company data should be optional. Titles and summaries might not be that important and could be provided by the user.

2. Never ever will I buy anything from a company that looks like it's hiding where it's from and who's behind it. No, your profile pictures and a bunch of names do not count. This whole website could be scam for all I know.

This might be my European (German in particular) point of view, but here, every non-private website must have a full imprint with the company's name, registration number, address, and the Terms of Privacy need to have the full address of the responsible entities (usually the company plus a data protection officer). This is a good thing! We need transparency in businesses who collects money and since GDPR is very relevant for my own business, I want to evaluate how easy it is to get the necessary paperwork (data processing agreement) between your company and mine. Right now, you're hiding behind a hey@whatever email address, zero transparency.
>But why did forums die?

register, make a thread, 50% of the time it will get shut down for violating rules #7, #15 and #52.

and if you did stick around, there were cliques and resident dweebs with >9000 posts with join date in the 90's. get into an argument with one of those fucks, and you might very well get banned.

modern forums are completely impersonal. I've been on HN for 10+ years, and I don't recognize anyone by name.

I don't miss the old forums at all.
sorry - I should have clarified that gen-x kids were a 70s/80s thing, so by the 90s it was even more common.

Its late and I'm going to bed, but a quick search did turn up a bit more concrete data [0], it appears by 1988, 40+% of families were 'dual worker families'. It appears to be about 65% currently[1]. I'm guessing that would put it around 50% of families in the mid/late 1990s, so about a 15% change in ~30 years. I'd say 50+ percent counts as 'pervasive' in both cases.

edit: I guess the point I was trying to make is that both parents having to work is a pretty old trend, with the majority of families needing dual incomes going back decades - and really doesn't seem to be getting any better.

0: https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1990/03/art2full.pdf chart 1 page 16

1: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/famee.pdf page 2, "families with children"
Adobe also has an order of magnitude lower number of installed software than Chrome or Firefox which makes patent fees much cheaper. And their software is actually paid for by users.
The ports are blocked by default for new customers. After a few billing cycles, a request can be made to have it lifted.
Many stone walls ~1/5th this age are still roughly intact. Surprisingly long sections of Hadrian’s wall would still be useful defensive fortifications.

This is a field of rubble but you can roughly figure height from the stones that remain.
A Love Letter to Keyboards
Here I share my unconditional love for keyboards. While switching keyboard this morning, I used an amazing keyboard that felt so great I had to write a small essai.

This made me think about keyboard, what they are for us software develeopers and entrepreneurs and what they say about the people that use them.

Have a nice Friday!
My Casio F-91W thought it was March the first and got me confused for a moment. But other than that I saw no other bugs.
Decoding speed is important for battery time.

If a new format drains battery twice as fast, users don't want it.
IMO there is absolutely no reason to enable warnings in CI without -Werror. Nobody reads the logs of a successful build.

If some warnings are flaky then disable them specifically. In my experience most warnings in -Wall are OK and you can suppress the rare false positives in code. Don't suppress without a comment.

edit:

Having said that there are entirely valid reasons to not have -Werror outside of CI. It should be absolutely disabled by default if you distribute source.
okay fair, the actual ui is improved then on the screenshots, so i will be updating them asap
Thou shalst not make a machine in the likenes of the mind
If the goal is to repel and frustrate any support requests, you might as well use a torture bot instead of people. Support requests go down because users learn it has become futile. Pop the champagne corks, the strategy works. Then users jump ship because they aren't getting any support. Champagne, anyone?
April Fools joke accidentally released a month early?
This is not how people want it though. The want to be able to install any version of any software old or new irrespectively of the base system. Flatpack is close though.
Thank you, USA (c)
The first forums did branch, like usenet. Some software I
Used in the late 90s would even sync with a usenet group in some fashion (I never used it)

The single thread ones one because they were more popular
That is a more fundamental and better criticism that I'm embarrassed I overlooked.
Apple had a full-size DVI connector on their PowerBook G4 series of laptops.
Pretty lame.

If you already use docker, it shouldn't take nearly that long.
If you don't, then kube isn't the problem for any migration similar
True, but Lazarus is not widely used alas.
Meaning restored: selling yak jumpers from finely shaved and gathered yak wool.
This is some of the most wonderful news I have heard in 2024.

I have been complaining in probably a not to effectual way over the past 15 years about this. I'd like to think in some small part, I helped in this endeavor, but I am no butterfly.

It is intellectually honest, that everyone on earth should have access to this material. The garden is available to all.

Thank you ACM!
One thing I like about AI is that at least we don't hear about Kubernetes and blockchain that much anymore. AI has now its NFT moment so hopefully will be over soon.
So the article is satire and the company non-existant, but what is it alluring to exactly. What is it trying to say?
Well in the famous Sony vs Bleem case in which Bleem won, Bleem was a fully commercial company selling their emulators. It's just that they created it in such a way that you still needed to own the ps1 game disk and insert it into your dreamcast.
This takes google chat ahead.
Google did a half hearted job with Google chat to be honest.
It's a battle for the control of the device. The ideal setup for the big corpos is that we do not own our devices, but we rent them, and they can then charge arbitrarily for different uses of them. This was what AT&T did with phones back in the day.
I was also thinking of the show.. it was a great one.. need to rewatch in a few months. Also I always remember the Hotdog classification app when some CEO says AI these days :)
Specific to the early decades of radio in North America, a good example might be the Mid-Atlantic Accent or Canadian Dainty, both falling out of favor around the early 1950's, about the same time the last nail was hammered into the radio drama coffin, by my listening. These are accents though (not dialects) and consciously learned ones at that, but widely used during their short existence, then fizzled out quickly as broadcast media became more widespread.
I have a small hobby project that scrapes concerts on various venues websites.

Many of the websites don't write out which the year the concert takes place, so in python I will:
try the current year and see if the date has already passed, and in that case I try the next year.

Of course feb 29th is an issue in this case, so some of my scrapers modules crashed.
Which usually include your most valuable data.

Nobody cares about losing a system. This is the data it is hosting that is valuable and takes the most time to recover from a backup.
Trademarks are there to protect consumers from dishonestly represented goods. If I buy some display tech marketed as "HDMI-compatible" but unlicensed, and it works with my other HDMI equipment (say, its maker reverse-engineered the HDMI spec), no one has been defrauded.
Point to point wireless is an underappreciated tool. Building a tower half a mile away and pointing a hundred small dishes individually at various customers with their own dishes pointed at the tower, might be cheaper than running fiber to a hundred spread-out houses. Assuming no coordination problems.

You just need a lot of extra signal slack built into the system if you want it resilient to weather.
I know it’s a joke but if you did a post-mortem the reason for failure would probably be:

> Many at the company thought it's a good chance to upgrade software dependencies and libraries as well. A large part of a PostgreSQL database running on a single machine could as well be transformed into a distributed KV storage, leveraging the tremendous power of flexibility of AWS.

Stick to the scope.
I have been fighting day and night for four months to move 500000 blobs to managed blob storage from self-hosted MinIO, and of that actual productive work that was not about politics or bureaucracy is less than 1 week, so an 11-week migration to K8S sounds like a great success.
The problem isn't about inflation/deflation: the problem is real wages have been dropping for (say) the lowest 25%.
Yes the answer is always ports when this topic comes up. Unfortunately one can only pass some basic types through ports. Passing a RegExp or an Intl.DateTimeFormat is not possible. It needs a wrapper on the Elm side, and the Elm people decided I can't be trusted to write this wrapper for me.

Back then if I wanted to search a list of strings for entries that match a regex supplied at run-time, I'd have to pass the whole list through a port, filter it outside, then pass it back in. Rather than just using the filter function. Ports are asynchronous messaging which means I have to restructure the whole code and wait for a state change when the filtered list is returned.

Let me cite the Elm docs on ports[1]: "Definitely do not try to make a port for every JS function you need."

So! Where does that leave me? Unsupported, that's where. Because I need a JS function. In 0.18 unsupported was fine. They broke it for 0.19 and the project died. Maybe it was dying of other causes anyway, but that one action sure drove people away.

[1] https://guide.elm-lang.org/interop/ports
> and even under that model, `mut1` is created before `mut2` and gets dropped after `mut2`

I think what you're calling "holes" are what I'd just consider to be "lazy" borrowing, where the reference doesn't really matter until the first time it's dereferenced. The only use of mut1 that happens before the end of mut2's lifetime is to assign a reference mut2 to a value that is never used. In other words, mut1 is never actually dereferenced while mut2 exists. I don't consider `&mut *` as dereferencing because it's just syntax for saying "make a new mutable reference to the same thing", which is necessary because mutable references don't implement Copy or Clone. If you instead used `let mut2 = &mut s;`, it would be abundantly clear; they don't really overlap in any way that matters because nothing would change if mut1 didn't exist at all until after mut2 no longer needed to.
I don't know the current status of web browsers, ut hardware encoding and decoding for image formats is alive and well. Not really relevant for showing a 32x32 GIF arrow like on HN, but very important when browsing high resolution images with any kind of smoothness.

If you don't really care about your users' battery life you can opt to disable hardware acceleration within your applications, but it's usually enabled by default, and for good reason.
Just because my ex wife might incorrectly sue me doesn't mean it's not an incredible pain in the ass. Just because someone incorrectly got a contract that hilariously includes all the private details of my employment doesn't mean I won't be royally pissed. The risk is "I don't fucking want this to happen". So no, it's not zero.
Mastodon particularly is a format that I cannot get into. Same problem with Twitter for me. Sure I could go mining the depths for that one person who posts something I like, but in my few superficial attempts, it just feels like I'm walking around catching fragments of conversations, most that don't really interest me.
I wasn't aware that nokia was a german company.
It's all a US ploy to make you spend money. In europe nobody changes their oil every year it's absolutely bonkers when I read that. My new BMW X5 manufacturer first service is set at 18000 miles that's likely 2+ years of ownership! I also have a petrol Z3 and I change the oil every 5 years maybe. It still is 24 years old and goes like clappers. And last time I changed the oil, the old one looked absolutely fine.
> The german car industry killed itself by being complacent and ignoring the writing on the wall.

"Killed itself"? Do you know VW is the largest car company in the world?
> Is there a reason the button is hidden by default?

Because GNOME developers mindlessly pursue "minimalism" with religious zealotry, finding an outlet for their frustration of not being good enough to work for the Church of Apple.
As much as we can talk about HDMI here, as it's a name in the public domain, wouldn't someone else be able to use that kind of speech to make a "HDMI-compatible" implementation? "IBM compatible" seemed to be a designation, in the day, that didn't run up against legal trouble?

Maybe that's what you already meant by "calling it different than".
I have an Epson ecotank printer, it is pretty good and it works well. No cloud crap is required to use it and the ink refills are pretty cheap as well.
> The EU is a massive failure and it's going to fall into oblivion versus the US and China: especially now that the EU voted to kill its main economy, Germany, by destroying german automakers (with the mandatory shift to EVs).

German auto makers did that all by themselves. The first Tesla Roadster was released in 2011, it took a whole goddamn decade for the German industry to react.

And now the Chinese are churning out cars at a ridiculous speed.
"Should" is perhaps disguising the fact that these projects normally do take a lot longer than 11 weeks. I know of multiple tech companies that are years into an unfinished k8s migration. Everyone on the project will have a ton of good reasons why that project was uniquely challenged and therefore took so long.