skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting that they chose to design a fully enclosed cargo airplane. There was a proposal a while back for a flying "flatbed truck" which could carry bulky cargo on an open platform behind a pressurized cockpit. It seems like a similar design might work here. Fuel consumption would be high due to the extra drag but cargo operations would be easier.

https://youtu.be/d-DM2eJIS9k?si=nN7gnJdyJ141UVpP
who's talking about being impressed? You are but that's all I see lol
Many people reuse passwords. Forcing SMS 2FA is something that they can feasibly do, because almost everyone can receive SMS and greatly raises the difficulty of credential stuffing (from just stuffing to needing to do a SIM swap). This solves a lot of problems for service providers.

Another benefit is that they can block duplicate accounts with the same phone number, this effectively adds a cost to account creation which can help to reduce spam.

And yes, some will then use it to spam or sell.

I don't think anyone ever thought that SMS 2FA was strong protection. It mostly benefits the service operators by reducing spam and stolen accounts.
Chess is decidable, it may be PSPACE-hard or EXPTIME-hard, but there are reductions.

Entscheidungsproblem and Halt are not decidable in the general case.

While you have to find reductions, decidable problems having access to both yes-instances and no-instances makes it easier to find them.
I, Robot by Issac Asimov (1940) [pdf]
Contains only Ch 1-3 (Robbie, Runaround, Reason)
In ~5 years, only one of them will still be around.
It literally reduces the price paid to commission. That will to either the seller as a saved cost or to the buyer as a reduced price.

How could it not increase their wealth?
Oh … I bought one kit for my hotel q for 2 weeks. The rule relaxed and hence no time for that. Should get it out to do after dust for 2+ years
Exactly, if you can't afford to pay a living wage you have a bad business model, which is exactly what the comment you responded to was pointing out.
Corporate likes the status quo since they get a kickback from the manufacturer for each repair

The more I read about franchises, the more I’m convinced that most people are just “buying a job” and not starting a business.

https://www.mashed.com/178309/how-much-mcdonalds-franchise-o...

The rate of return from starting a McDonald’s franchise is less than the average return of just throwing your money into an index fund and most owners work ungodly hours
I've been following Strange Loop on YT for so many years. That's really bad. Any idea what happened?
Its not like self driving cars where not going to take their jobs soon after anyway right? All this rush to push tech forwards isn't for that end?
Please don't call this "Christianity". American evangelicals are the most hypocritical, vile people of them all. No wonder they never quote Jesus.

The New Testament is a surprisingly liberal document. It effectively says "as long as you TRY to be a good human being, all will be forgiven".

This cohort, however, prides itself on being awful humans.
> grills, deep fryers, drive-thru comms systems, self-order kiosks, etc?

The key difference between all those things is there's almost no moving parts involved.

Grills are simply resistive heaters and a thermostat that will outlast everyone.

Deep fryers are exactly the same, but with a tub to put in oil.

Drive through comms systems are simply speakers/telephone systems with the only moving part being the speaker itself. (The rest is software).

And The kiosks are basically just giant touch screens with a small computer running everything.

Ice cream is different. It's a thick highly spoil-able product being pushed through tubes which need to be clean. It involves a refrigerant and often a mixing device to keep the ice cream from freezing solid. Mcdonalds isn't the only one with icecream machines that constantly break down. If you notice, everyone has this problem. It's simply a hard product to serve in a sanitary way using machinery.
Why doesn't it make sense? Taylor makes crap, Taylor sells crap to "Smallville Burgers, LLC", Taylor pays agonizing penalties & fines. Doesn't matter if the victim bought the Taylor equipment because McD's contract required it, or because their daughter is a Swiftie.
This is true in some fields and not at all in others.
Yeah it's unfortunate a corporate giant would rather throw them to the street rather than pay them a living wage. It's a good thing to root out exploitation like Uber and Lyft.
Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards
A starting point for exploration, as I said… You usually have to follow links to the online collections of the originating institution to find high resolution files. Some have them, some do not.
why is the title considered clickbaity?

Because it has no information and there is no way to know what the article is about.
> edit4: both submissions are completely gone now off any page.

Front page isn't what we vote for, it's manually curated by dang and other moderators.

For actual popular stuff go to /active.
Most websites with user submitted content would not be able to exist without DMCA safe harbor provisions. The status quo before the whole "DMCA takedown request" process became a thing was that websites were liable for any user submitted content that was in violation. If the DMCA was repealed today, and tomorrow someone posted copyright content here on HN, then HN would be liable for copyright infringement. A repeal of the DMCA would essentially be a death sentence for social media.
Probably about as often as if I cobbled something together from random blog posts except faster.

It's not like the script is running a nuclear power station.
Bolt take considering this is no different than what China has been doing to the west for decades.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/14/tech/china-reactions-tiktok-p...
Gatebox.ai sells "holograms" for $1300 and "marriage certificates" for $17k.

I can't decide if I should be amused or outraged.
In the short-term financial sense, yes.

McDonald's gave an exclusive contract for a particular ice cream machine. They then locked down those machines so only first-party repairers can fix them. It's a means of extracting wealth from the franchisees. The ice creame machine maker makes money on these service call outs so they have no incentive to make them reliable (the opposite, actually). And I'm sure McDonald's gets a piece of those service call outs.

Now does this do long-term damage to the McDonald's brand? Maybe. But nobody actually cares about that.
My favourite is TD Bank in Canada, who started supporting an authenticator app (but it had to be theirs) because it was more secure than SMS. Except...they also don't allow you to disable SMS as an option for 2FA. So whoever is logging in gets to choose whether to use the secure authenticator app, or SMS.
Or spend all your money on education and not profit by it. Still in fashion today.
It was a useful tool to better verify identity vs relying solely on email addresses, which were substantially easier to create at the time.

Kinda like SSNs though, I think it's way past the point when a better designed system should have been developed. Sadly, that costs a lot of money.
Where are the senior devs coming from?
Why is 25% set aside for taxes if the realtor is only getting 20%. This seems odd. Wouldn’t they only be taxed on income net of all expenses?
Unfortunately, Mozilla appears to have stopped development of Firefox Focus a few years ago.
If we assume code is shared in AST form, but people still end up editing a text representation of the AST (rather than directly editing the AST through a visual interface, as in Scratch et al), then you just wouldn't be able to share your syntax errors - realistically you'd put them in a comment or something, or exchange out-of-band.
yes. happened yesterday
You both explained it very succinctly. I don't get why people have to grasp at depictions of history that simply aren't true. They want to believe that Jeff Mills and Belleville 3 somehow created this new music from nothing and inspired the entire world.
Long queue to other fast food is not helping though.
I almost agree, but as other comment says, it's probaby better to use the StocFish points to generate a probability and then use Huffman encoding.
Ah my bad, Digital Adoption Platform :)
Huh, I suppose that will affect my trip in May. Guess I'll be taking taxis instead.

Hopefully the situation has a net positive outcome for the community.

Edit: clarification - I hope the situation is resolved in a way that benefits everyone as much as possible and hurts as few possible.
Your list includes a lot of things I wouldn't be proud to claim as accomplishments.
I meant “download the totp generator”. Correct me if I’m wrong but the totp generator has to linked with some account, the security of which is not managed by you, and is just as vulnerable as that account
That's great feedback, thanks!

This tool definitely comes from a place of personal need - beyond just handling large files, I've also never really gelled well with the Excel/Google Sheet model of changing data in place as if you were editing text. I'm a Data Scientist and always preferred the chained data transforms you see in things like dplyr (https://dplyr.tidyverse.org/) or Polars (https://pola.rs/) and I feel this tool maps very closely to the chained model.

Also, thank you for the feature requests! Those would all be very useful - we'll put them on the roadmap.
Its pretty hard to apply min wage intended for w2 to gig work when the laws are treating you as both.

So they have to let the drivers have complete freedom over what they do and what rides they take and when they do it. But also you have to follow min wage laws which apply when?

Im sure Uber and Lyft can redesign the system to work with this model and im sure the consumer will hate the new prices.
Indeed, but you can take it to the next level - in fact a more abstract description on top, similar to what the post shows.
That's exactly what the author seems to have done and describes in their subsequent post: https://mbuffett.com/posts/compressing-chess-moves-even-furt... (published yesterday)
Definitely not as big as Amazon or Microsoft, but big enough to do whatever they want regarding AI. I’d expect the private cloud they operate is top 20 in the world just to support all their Apple saas offerings.
Opening statement of README

This repository contains the source code for ML hardware architectures that
require nearly half the number of multiplier units to achieve the same
performance, by executing alternative inner-product algorithms that trade
nearly half the multiplications for cheap low-bitwidth additions, while still
producing identical output as the conventional inner product.
Look up "monopsony". Also, it's not at all transparent what cut Uber and Lyft are taking from a ride.
It's possible Apple isn't truly interested in typical VR/AR gameplay, or at least the way we (and Meta) have been thinking about it. The high price (as of now) and focus on utility leads me to think their long term game here is as a complement to macbooks, and AVP is a Display replacement, rather than a standalone unit. I can see them pushing this on Enterprise customers a lot.
Sometimes a contract is a bad contract, but it's not known how bad at first reading. There should absolutely be a mechanism for nullifying in whole or in part contracts that are this way. Especially if the contract forces you to purchase equipment that does not work. After all, a contract is just a piece of paper than can easily be torn up. You're trying to make it some magical binding spell type of thing instead
As the owner of an iPhone, I can legally do whatever I want with it. The restrictions are on developers who sign agreements with Apple. Nothing stops me legally from jailbreaking my own phone.
I feel this on a soul level. I wrote about it: https://renegadeotter.com/2023/11/12/your-database-skills-ar...
Well then what are you talking about? Why did you bother responding to my comment if you have nothing to say? What exactly was ignorant about it?
I was recently searching for something like this - the ability to write PRQL queries on mobile is my ideal usecase. As you note, PRQL is perfect for putting together queries with drop-downs, so I'm a huge fan of the UI that you've put together. Feature request: Exposing the PRQL would be great, and using tabs to switch between the query and results would make it possible to work on mobile. Lastly, bookmarking those queries for later use would be great too!
Show HN: AI-Powered Audio Transcription
Uses Whisper to transcribe audio from hosted/uploaded files and your mic.
Those workers often had no other choice other than to get exploited to scrape by, and now businesses who will refuse to pay a living wage have thrown them to the street. It's clearly economically viable for them to pay the bare minimum, but they will literally cease business than accept slightly lower profit margins.
I think they just edited out a big 'ol dick.
I replaced my iPhone X this year, with a 15 that I anticipate owning at least another 5-6 years.
I think I'm more angry about employers feeling so entitled to labor that they would rather close their doors and fire everyone than pay them even remotely fairly
last 4 digits of SSN are regularly found in data leaks.

what is worst is you CANNOT change it if your data is leaked from 3rd party site.

conclusion: NEVER use phone number as 2FA, Always assume your cell number will be swapped, always use other more secure factor, especially if it has anything to do with money $$$
And enjoying the dui fatalities.
> and this was without any Julia-specific optimizations other than adding types to the function arguments.

I know this wasn't the point of your post, but just noting that adding types to function arguments "usually" shouldn't impact performance at all :)
when it does, that might mean there is some type-instability being papered over (i.e. there is a better fix lurking around the corner)
I find it fascinating that this is using a process invented in 1968 and hasn't been used for this purpose until now!
I bought an HTC vive 7+ years ago and have middling opinions on its viability long-term as a major game platform. VR is fun and novel, but once the novelty wears off it can be tedious.

It's worth doing a vision pro demo in an Apple store if you can. I'm not planning to buy one in its current state, but it was immediately obvious that this was entirely new territory. It moved a piece of technology from fiction to reality in my mind. The eye tracking is hard to believe without having experienced it.

I'm not ready to say that this device will be responsible for such a large technology shift as the previous person, but I think it will play an large, perhaps pivotal role on our way to the next thing.

Disclaimer: I know a lot of people compare this to a device that I can surmise was meant to do a lot of similar things made by Meta; I have not tried this and may be attributing first-mover credit to Apple for things that Meta may have done similarly well. My comment is made from the perspective of somebody who has never experienced eye tracking in any capacity before.
Yeah, which actually makes him more dangerous to the company. Because all he needs to subpoena and unearth shit in discovery is a preponderance of evidence, not beyond a reasonable doubt. Anything found in that civil trial would be admissible evidence to any criminal charges brought by the Feds.

Which, surprise! Has recently been announced to have been opened!
The article seems to allege that Roth IRAs are being used as illegal tax shelters by using them to purchase assets at below-market value. It states:

"Thiel paid $0.001 per share — yes, just a tenth of a penny — for 1.7 million shares. At that price, he was able to buy a large stake for just $1,700.

In 1999, $2,000 was the maximum amount you could put into a Roth in a year.

Thiel’s unusual stock purchase risked running afoul of rules designed to prevent IRAs from becoming illegal tax shelters. Investors aren’t allowed to buy assets for less than their true value through an IRA. The practice is sometimes known as “stuffing” because it gets around the strict limits imposed by Congress on how much money can be put in a Roth."
I’ve been having colonoscopies since my mid-20s. It’s only a mild inconvenience to do it every 1~n years. There are risks that come with sedation, of course, and a non-zero risk of perforation.

But overall it’s barely a blip on my radar compared to what a cancer patient goes through.
All Eyes Turn to Nvidia in the AI Era
Chess is a bounded, non-moving target. Think about the difference between chess in the 1970s and today, and compare that to the same time period with programming. Chess is a single game whereas programming is a federation of tools, protocols, and standards that are ever evolving. They're not comparable in any sense.
A lot of the replies are pretty vague, like they’re just “good at product” or they just “understand this or that” as if it’s some kind of mysticism. But why, and how? What is the formula? I think this reply chain starts to get at why.

I’m imagining a typical business school 2-axis chart where one axis is “willingness to take and commit to risks vs unwillingness/noncommittal” and the other axis is “acts independently vs. reacts to commercial/competitive pressures”. I guess what I want to understand is why is Apple kind of all alone on that plot, where the rest of the industry are clustered together far away from them? What are the business processes that lead to their position? Can a company follow a playbook and change their culture and have similar results? Are there other examples?

A lot of our industry are so extremely risk averse, have tunnel vision trying to copy each others’ feature checkboxes, rush things to market to try to make money before they are fully baked, and then give up when they aren’t instant successes. Everyone seems to follow this playbook.
> Don't write custom operators. Just don't. Really.

Then how exactly am I supposed to pretend that I'm writing Haskell at my day job??
> When the screen is 50% better and it weighs 50% less, 20% of knowledge workers will be tuned in daily.

I don't believe that for a second. Even 50% lighter and it's still going to be more uncomfortable than not wearing one. All so you can have a blurrier screen?

If/when it gets to the weight/comfort of normal glasses then sure. But that's at least a decade away. Probably more.
Hey jannesan this is untrue. We pay for ZoomInfo which gives us emails on search engines results. No one is manually filtering on your GitHub. But it should have a link to unsubscribe. Let me know if it doesn’t work and happy to remove. We use a mailing list provider which manages the unsub for us.
VirtualBox KVM Back End Adds Support for SR-IOV Graphics
TOTP is a completely offline protocol. Basically you scan a QR code which is a signing key that is saved to your phone. Then all your phone needs is an accurate time source, and periodically signs the current time with that key to produce a 6-digit code.

As such, no, it's not associated with anything from the source account. It is not challenge/response, and you can scan the QR code with 10 different phones and they will all produce the same codes at the same time.
What I want is a dollar for every evangelist and every early adopter that has told me that the ?R explosion is right around the corner. I have worked in the game industry for 30 years and would be well retired by now, had I made my money by listening to people tell me how ?R would be mainstream in Just A Few Years Now. The tech industry NEVER tires of telling that story and hearing it. Yet it never, ever, EVER happens as a mainstream product.
Beyond vendor kickbacks, hotel brands do have legitimate reasons to ensure a consistent guest experience regardless of which franchisee owns a particular property. Frequent travelers can be surprisingly picky about little things like soft drinks and they don't like surprises.
This! Every team and product gets AWS account or two, this is all you need at a basic level.
I've always cooked morels, but eating raw white mushrooms seems pretty common in vegetable platters for example.
Its interesting how the VCs just want to apply AI to creative tasks/occupations rather than mundane/drudgery tasks.

AI should be applied to all those horrible tasks we wish we didn't have to do. Example, teachers using AI to mark tests, exams, preparing lesson plans, etc. Yet the mentality of VCs is to replace the teacher.

LSDs aren't just about replacing workers, they can be about enhancing worker productivity.
Suggestion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warship

Or, for large and highly valuable warships: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_ship
It's not unprofitable, it's them posturing that they will refuse to lower their profit margins. Do you honestly think they can't afford to pay their employees the bare minimum that literally every other business in the city is paying? No they can easily afford it but if they do pay their workers fairly it sets a precedent that would slightly lower profits the "growth at the expense of everything" mindset.
> After all, a contract is just a piece of paper than can easily be torn up.

The piece of paper just represents the contract, other forms of contracts exist (such as digital, verbal). I agree there should be an easier way to get out of shitty ones. But make it too easy and you make contracts too weak. It's a balancing act.
You're making my point. I was responding to this comment:

>Skyscrapers are not an indigenous lifestyle. I suppose that's not okay to bring up in this context?

If people are going to oppose this project, don't do it on the basis of some vaguely bigoted notion that "these skyscrapers don't match the indigenous lifestyle". As if that's the reason the project's opponents are opposing it. It's clearly a smokescreen being deployed because they actually dislike the project for NIMBY reasons (e.g., "it'll block my view", "it'll reduce the value of my nearby properties").

(Whether the commenter I'm responding to actually believes this is immaterial. The article quoted a local government official who basically said the same thing.)
I wonder if people who think like you are like the ones on 1986 who told others they still needed to learn how to use physical accounting books instead of Excel when it was becoming popular, or if perhaps the cheff/food analogy the other commenter made it's more accurate and learning both will be just as valuable, well, only time will tell.
Right? And now my message history is the occasional conversation littered with hundreds of "Your six digit code is _____"
Thanks for the feedback!

> Are you planning on supporting parquet files any time soon?

Yes. This is an oversight on our part - duckdb natively supports Parquet and Arrow files but we just haven't gotten around to adding upload support for those yet. It's a small change - landing in main tomorrow!

On the bug, yes, we've been trying to parse timestamps but it's just been very finicky. I'll try to fix this! Thanks for the report.
Then they would have required offering specific products. It would not require prohibiting other products.

Edit: to respond to tomnipotent:

I don’t see why a distributor is relevant. There are myriad to choose from. Hotel owners/operators can buy from the local Coke/Pepsi/whatever distributor, or Sam’s/Costco/grocery store, or Restaurant Depot/US Foods, etc.

Edit 2: note that IHG is not buying the beverages to sell in the franchised hotel, the IHG franchisees are. IHG does not suffer any costs from making an exclusive deal with Coke, or not making an exclusive deal with Coke.
nagware like Typescript have turned type bolt-ons into a religion almost. It has its place but really gets in the way in others. Hence, the reason untyped languages exist in the first place.