skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ray-Ban's Meta sunglasses can now identify and describe landmarks
The European commission has you covered on the oligopolies side.

It's not killing user experience at all, if the user want, they can use the App store, because few if any app will ever make a complete move away from the App store, it would cost them way too much. The only ones that could pull such a trick are DMA's “gatekeeper” apps and they are under scrutiny from the EC, so you're safe here.

(Well, Fortnite doesn't fall under DMA's 10 “gateway services” that deserve scrutiny from the DMA, but their alternative store will!)
Merged, thank you! :)
DOS won because IBM PCs and PC compatibles won. Most of the popular earlier 8 bitters had a merged REPL that did both BASIC and 'operating system' interaction. So, for instance, on an Apple ][, the default prompt put you in the BASIC REPL from which you could also run the Apple DOS (later ProDOS, neither related to MS DOS) commands.
Well, who would thought, acquired a few months ago and poof
And vice versa.

The French Border Police are quite different in attitude to the UK Border Force.
True. There's https://chezmoi.io/ for this, but no commercial market for it.
I remember reading in The Signal and The Noise* that people _think_ that forecasts are bad if it rains, but the chance of rain was reported as below 50%. Getting rain when the forecast told you there would probably not be rain is annoying; getting a sunny day when the forecast predicted likely rain is a pleasant surprise.

To get what people judge to be a ‘good forecast’, the chance of rain has to be adjusted to be wildly too high - so that’s what consumer-focused forecasters do.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Signal_and_the_Noise
Luster Lost: Pondering the way that physical objects degrade over time
hmm yeah that's not a lot... maybe it is more about control than anything else
I know the national review is a geezer ragebait rag but this is low-hanging fruit even for them...
> Why do you write 'cooperation' with an umlaut?

I grew up speaking French, English and a variant of German and have trouble not reading the double-o as a long vowel. After that autocorrect picked up on it and it doesn't bother me enough to change it.
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Game distribution
Steam 30% (25% after $10M, 20% after $50M)
Epic 12%
Humble 25% (15% to Humble, 10% to charity)
GOG 30%

Console
Microsoft 30%
Playstation 30%
Xbox 30%
Nintendo 30%

Mobile
Apple 30%
Google 30%

Physical
Gamestop 30%
Amazon 30%
Best Buy 30%
Walmart 30%

Source: https://oyster.ignimgs.com/wordpress/stg.ign.com/2019/09/Gam...

Note that this is from 2019 before Apple and Google changed their rates for small developers in 2020.

Question: will this also prevent GameStop from buying something for $20 from the distributor and marking it up to $26?
Ema, a "Universal AI employee", emerges from stealth with $25M
> But I do wonder how this type of thing will actually compete against a billion headless CMSes and a million PaaSes already on the market...

They won't. I, for one, hate that runtimes like Deno and frameworks like Astro start offering paid infrastructure. This smells like lock-in from a million years away.
If you blur out the details, this is a very familiar story about artisrs (here: performers) getting harassed by fans for changing their style. Fans often don't like it when things change, and for pertormers, their appearance is part of their style. Fans railing over change is a well worn truism.

What the details do is try to attribute that everyday story to the hot cultural debate over obesity epidemic and the related normalization of obesity.

But is the story really about that? Or are the fans just doing what fans do?
Start with phone lines. Or IP addresses.

Even without looking into the encrypted payload there is so much you can learn from graphs connecting and the metadata.
Parachute saves plane occupants in Northern California crash
Alaska Airlines Flight Was Scheduled for Safety Check on Day Panel Blew Off
Show HN: GIF-to-GIF transformations using animatediff workflow
I'm using an animatediff workflow running on fal.ai to do gif2gif conversion in the style of a text prompt. It's fairly consistent in keeping text and structure while allowing for character/style swaps.

I'm pretty happy with the quality - I've added a bunch of examples, some are good, some have clear AI-weirdness. They're reflective of the quality generally and not cherry-picked much. I really like the Mario and Pope variations of the gifs.

The site is next.js with tailwindcss hosted on netlify, and the backend is a node express server running on a digital ocean droplet. Gif resizing and conversion is done with ffmpeg.wasm on the client side.

It takes about 60s per gif, depending on dimensions and duration - this is long, but could be dropped quite a bit by reducing steps/fps. I think quality>speed in this case though.

This was a solo project for a (paid) interview take-home. Would love any feedback and happy to answer questions.
Because DOS is a disk OS and BASIC is an interpreted programming language.

The point of DOS isn't just the command line. It provides a set of standard abstracted system calls that can be used by any developer working in any language with a compatible compiler, including assembler, to create any application.

A command line interpreter sits on top of the library for immediate use, but that's just the part the user sees. The meat of DOS is the function library.

BASIC doesn't work like that. It is an application, and other software can't access its commands from outside. It was never designed to allow that, and extending to it to make it possible would have created a confusing, slow, inefficient, and unreliable mess.
> they've become far far worse

Where are your data to back this claim up? And over what time horizon?
Lots of enterprise apps like ERP and that type of shit may STILL require Silverlight for older versions. It was huge in that market.
Show HN: Try the New Google Text to Image Generator API, Imagen, on Hugging Face
You can view a youtube tutorial on how to build with the Imagen API here: https://youtu.be/f0igz-skLUY
It needs more "Democratic" in it to make it clear it's definitely not authoritarian. Maybe "The Democratic People's Temporary Cyber Act for Freedom"
> a years-long Astro user that loves it

Have you tried Eleventy? If you have, how, in your opinion, does Astro compare?
There's also the generic currency symbol, ¤, which I think is on some keyboard layouts pre-Euro.
> That said I also don’t think it’s a reasonable expectation for old binaries to continue to work indefinitely. Maintenance is a reality of life of a software developer, and personally speaking

There is a fine difference between keeping old binaries running and maintaining your application. I don't expect certain applications to be maintained, but I expect them to run on newer versions of OS for many years. If you think this is impossible, Apple can learn a lot from Microsoft and Linux. And IMHO, Microsoft didn't make unrealistic standards. One of the reasons why Windows has been the most dominant OS for years is exceptional backward compatibility.
Aren't all governments tapping connectivity the occurs within their borders (whether it be in internet exchanges, sea cables that come onto their shores, etc - kinda doesn't matter where it physically happens)?

I assume this is going on routinely already.
AI is a tool to augment thinking.

Anyone who endeavors to backdoor manipulate your thinking should be scorned and rejected.

When will some kickstrart a crowdfunded open ai in Japan?
I mean, "unlocked" iPhones can be worth more money than regular ones, at least in theory. In practice, Apple can probably raise prices by 50% even if they would release the same phone just with an incremented number and people will still buy their stuff.
This sounds a bit like this issue:

https://www.aviationtoday.com/2015/05/05/boeing-787-power-is...

Which was an issue where the 787's Generator Control Units went into failsafe mode after being powered on for 248 days...
Pathological cases are never difficult to find for any app.
I keep hearing (from abroad) about the "militarisation of the police" in the US. Unless the NYPD took this as far as SAM batteries, what could they do against another 9/11, given the original four planes didn't take off from NY state let alone city?
Running My IPv6 Only Home Email Server with IPv6rs' IPv4 Reverse Proxy
Show HN: DBOS – Transactional Serverless for TypeScript Apps
Hello HN! We’re excited to show you DBOS, a transactional serverless SDK and platform that makes it easy to write fault-tolerant, observable, and scalable TypeScript applications.

We’re a startup commercializing research we did at Stanford and MIT. (https://dbos-project.github.io/). The main idea behind DBOS is to store EVERYTHING about your application in the database. This gives you some unique features:

* Reliable execution – Your program’s execution state is stored in the database, so if it’s ever interrupted, it automatically resumes from where it left off without repeating any work already performed.

* Time travel – Every change to your program’s state is recorded in the database, so you can “rewind” time and restore the state of your application to what it was at any point in the past. For example, time travel debugging–take a tricky bug in production, rewind time, and reproduce it locally on your laptop.

Today, we released our open-source SDK (https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-ts) and our free-to-try serverless platform (https://www.dbos.dev/dbos-cloud). We’d love for you to try them out and let us know what you think!

Here’s a quick guide to get you started: https://docs.dbos.dev/getting-started/

We’re here to answer any questions!
A related question I've wondered is, can you rearrange the formulae to reduce precision loss, without having to actually use more bits of precision in the data type?
Federal courts move against 'judge-shopping'
Not sure I want to post my domain but a bit of research will get you there if you want to confirm it. An Austrian news outlet wrote about the threat when I was involved.

And, I just had a look, here’s an article by someone (not me) who seemed to experience the exact same threat: https://killdozer.medium.com/facebooks-shame-o-gram-8e71106c...
Ah good ol' Curtis! Definitely a good watch if you like watching engineering with large machines (and Homeless!).
Are you demonstrating Cunningham's law because the internet is for porn
Could you explain some more about how they were good administrators? I always had the impression that they were good conquerors but bad administrators. They'd conquer you then leave you alone as long as you paid your taxes.

If you tell me that the Romans or Persians were good administrators, that makes sense. We know they implemented laws, tax systems, roads, construction projects, etc. Do we have evidence that the Mongols did the same and did it as effectively?
(This comment was originally a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39682698 but we merged that thread hither. So when it says "this article" it means https://www.npr.org/2024/03/12/1238033573/boeing-whistleblow..., not the link at the top of the current thread.)
> The problem with this entire space is that we have VC hype for work that should ultimately still be being done in research labs.

I also have two crypto-bro friends that are hyping it up without having anything to show for it. Which is why I'm sort of complaining about they hype surrounding it. I agree with your post to a large extent. This is not production ready technology. Maybe tomorrow.
That is like saying C++ and Objective-C aren't successor languages to C, because their original implementations compiled to C.
Everything on the computer is fake, it's just ones and zeros. It means nothing until it interfaces with the real world. Geeks like to make computers and other devices operate with no real meaning, for their own amusement. But that can and will get in the way for people wanting to use their devices as tools for real world tasks.

You can make the same comparison for any machine. If your hobby is off-roading or dirt biking, you might want to be able to adjust fuel injection exactly as you see fit. But making every car or motorcycle owner have to adjust their gas/air mixture is not what normal people want. They want a safe vehicle that they can rely on for their commute.
Fig was one of the first dev tools that I have been so happy to be able to use every day and would gladly pay for. I’m very sad about this.
Congressman Mike Turner, R-Ohio.
Yes, but AGI will first emerge from keeping state between calls to multiple models and assessing how closely they resemble humans intelligence, and using a loop to keep it going and updating the state. Which is what they are basically doing here
Enlighten how Solvory can help you build products more easily and why it's a smart choice for your next development endeavour.
Some EVs also tie in the same detection devices used for adaptive cruise control to adjust regenerative braking. It can be configured to 'coast' in a manner similar to old-school automatic transmissions, but will apply regen braking when other vehicles are detected ahead. This lets me drive it sort of like a regular automatic when on the highway but get the added return of wattage when traffic gets heavier.

There's also one-pedal operation, akin to driving a golf cart. Where you feather the accelerator pedal to slow, and it will engage much more aggressive regen braking if you let off the accelerator pedal. Some folks like this. I do not. I still drive other ICE vehicles and find the transition between them too jarring for my liking.
Firstly when I say a kind of aristocracy, I mean exactly that a kind of one.

I mean I'm not really finding anything I disagree with here. I'm familiar with right to roam laws, but to say they allow "access" is in someone passing through, is still, for practical purposes "exclusive use."

When you say it isn't "technically" inherited, I mean only that it is de facto inherited, again, a kind of aristocracy.

I cannot say I am super familiar with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, as that is from nearly two centuries ago, and was the result of war. But I generally agree with your point about Native American nations. I see the argument that Native American nations as generally more reasonable in that, they are treated as at least quasi-independent states, but I wish that that independence were either more fully recognized or eventually sunset, because, yes, I see having a special class of people within a nation as inherently problematic, and while I wish the circumstances that brought us to a the place we are were different, we are born into the world that we are born into.

When a system of de facto privileges, especially when heritable, is set in place in a society, I'm not going to in support of it, especially when, those privileges make life more challenging for those who weren't in a place to take advantages of them when they were conferred.
> But do you think the hiring manager isn't going to pick the identical applicant who went to Riverside instead

Yes. The SLO grad will always get the leg up Dallas westwards.

Cal Poly SLO is one of the oldest universities in California (older than UCLA and CalTech) and the Western US and has a massive alumni network (C-Suite at Apple, Raytheon, Yahoo, etc back in the day as well as most of the Central California Republican Congressional contingent).

UCR and UCM are both amazing schools, but are brand new and don't have as strong an alumni network yet.
Why DOS?
1) Gary Killdall thought too high and mighty of CP/M (maybe rightly) while 2) Bill Gates had nothing to lose from selling IBM what they needed to the new PC. Gates told them what they wanted to hear, and he won. That dweeb was smart and his dad being a lawyer taught him about contracts. He then sold DOS to all the clones with a forced per CPU license, even if MSDos wasn't sold with the Clone. Gates made bank early.

Interesting side note. It took years for PC users to gain multi-user capabilities, mostly when with Novell connected machines and brought file/record locking etc. And before the PC multiuser was already in MP/M and Unix on machines like Altos and Molecular Computer. Killdall would have probably got eht market back if he hadn't died.

And fast forward today, deep down Windows still runs much DOS code. Like Veeger it's morphed into Windows whatever.
Dark sky used to be accurate almost to the minute for me.

Apple Weather will tell me it won't rain today or all week.

Meanwhile NOAA will tell me I'm currently in a thunderstorm and that it will rain all week - And it was right.

Carrot is nice because you can switch between several providers.
https://github.com/ElMassimo/iles
Just want to point out that most electric and hybrid vehicles use regenerative braking most of the time and only use real brakes at very slow speeds or in emergencies. So it might be totally misleading to say that electric vehicles are the problem, when they are probably the solution.
Suppose there's a dragon that comes out of its cave and eats a villager every seven years. A knight passes through the village, sees the dragon carry off someone's wife, and calls the villagers to arms: only for calm reason to prevail, as the village elder points out that the incidence of dragon attacks in that locale has not, when adjusted for the expanding population, and increasingly frequent human-dragon contacts, and the inherent unreliability of wooden house door-plugs, risen above historically expected levels.
Yes, billions in GPU cap ex.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/09/nobel-prize-winning-economis...

"The criticisms are just a failure of the imagination," said Tyler Winklevoss. <--- Not a Nobel Prize winner
Id bet $50 the inference is more expensive
I mean...is the situation on Android you describe anything to do with third-party app stores and sideloading? Because my understanding was that, despite there being very few hoops to jump through, the only time the vast majority of users even consider stepping out of the Play Store is to install apps to let them stream pirated movies.

Moreover, Apple's App Store is already filled with race-to-the-bottom, shady shit. Apps with bait weekly subscriptions and bald-faced knock-offs are highlighted in tech news and on social media all the time. That's what makes their attitude and arguments all the more galling here: they are doing a really lousy job keeping their own store a safe and reputable place.

The only thing they seem to do a good job with is legitimate malware, and I suspect that's mostly because the OS is so locked down and because they scan for use of non-public APIs.
Reader mode does not show the code listings for me

Here’s a version you should be able to read without JS and still have the code listings: https://archive.is/nvZZq
> Here is the thing, I don't feel like I am being restricted. I never said the words I like being restricted. Want to know who is? The developers... the people pushing for this.

You can spin it again and again, it won't change the facts: it's the user that are being restricted.

Sure it has the side effect of restricting the developers, because they can't reach the restricted user without Apple giving them access. But it's only a pretty recent side effect, when Apple decided to pivot their branding on “privacy”: before that Facebook and al. spent almost a decade harvesting user data for free on iPhone without any complaints from Apple.

Oh, and this is not just me making the argument: that's actually European Commission's argument too. And the fact is, EC won the case and Apple is caving.

And if you need some help grasping this fact, you can think about how the European regulation is not about freedom for European developers (targeting every user in the world) but about freedom for European users no matter where the developer comes from.
Code suggests that TikTok could be building an app for photos
Unfortunely Intel and AMD keep shoting themselves in regards to memory tagging implementations.
And it just not flexibility without a reason. At least in B2B web apps, some customers always need to have something that's not in the core of the product but in order to get them on board business people push for a long tail of infrequently used features. More features and code is a liability - not an asset
Mandelbrot specifically, or computations in general? For the latter, absolutely yes. See Herbie for automated tool for doing it https://herbie.uwplse.org/
Considering they exchange technology with the USA and other states, I am pretty sure that you can find some malware to install on specific actors's devices (routers/phones/etc.) to have traffic decrypted.

I am decently sure that some state agencies help design routers.... if you know what I mean :)
I used to be so optimistic and less cynical.

Now I look at this and all that comes to mind is that actions like this would provide a basis for tapping people closer to source.

All the p2p and e2e encryption in the world won't help if someone is reading every key you type, or in the near future, every thought that crosses your mind.

Still, I applaud your spirit.
I read that as: if Apple wants to allow installation of programs ("apps") on IOS, it must allow, free of charge, others to do the same. Free of charge to everyone. Free of charge to alternative app stores, free of charge to developers, free of charge to apple customers, ... free of charge to anyone. As I said, I'm no lawyer, but that is definitely a valid interpretation to me.

What exactly is unreasonable about that reading?
> your original argument about "just go use an android" is equally wrong

Uh, no it's not? I'm sorry but you're not making sense. If users want more freedom, they can just use Android. Some users like the walled garden; they can choose Apple. If they want something else, Android is right there.

> Apple's market power and decisions

Is exactly how and why they managed to have a curated environment.

It seems like you have this idea in your head about what I mean, and I don't think it's accurate, and I don't think it's being updated. I'm not going to engage anymore; all you've done is attempt cheap shots, and miss.
Chinese also splits numbers differently than English. In Chinese it's every 4 digits, instead of every 3 digits as in English. There is a word for 1e4 (萬), 1e5 is 10萬, 1e6 is 100萬, 1e7 is 1000萬, and there is a word again for 1e8 (億).
Nolan tried to avoid pure CGI shots in the movie. Since modern Los Alamos looks almost nothing like it did then, he built a fake Los Alamos at Ghost Ranch and filmed there. I'm guessing he didn't have the budget for 1000 buildings so he took some artistic license.
Devin, the First AI Software Engineer [video]
What's also really annoying is that copying non-image files to your phone is extremely limited. Apple's hardware is amazing and iOS is generally good and well maintained, but all these little ways they dictate what you can do with your own device make it unbearable.
Yeah, and RoCE isn't single vendor. I'm not sure IB scales to the relevant cluster sizes, either.
Don't worry, as long as we don't militarise ourselves anymore....

oh shoot, that's also happening!
Full-Stack-FastAPI-Template
> What kind of prompts are you using?

I hack on them till I get something sort of satisfying.

> You'd be surprised how much better your output is using prompting techniques tailored for your goal.

The biggest problem I encounter is context length, not necessarily the output for small inputs. It starts forgetting very fast, whether it's Claude, GPT+ or other self hosted models I've tried.
> unless the NYPD took this as far as SAM batteries, what could they do against another 9/11

Notify the Feds.

(Though I guess we can shoot down planes now? [1])

[1] https://nationalpost.com/news/nypd-able-to-shoot-down-planes...
Dutch government doesn't have a good reputation there, shepherding control over security infrastructure. First, it's primary CA lost is signing key to Iran, and recently they meant to outsource control over their ".nl" TLD to AWS.