skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Calls and texts are of course cheap on a per-unit basis, but they're still not free. So not only it means that in aggregate, telcos will lose maybe 10% of revenue if they do fight it, but most importantly that detail actually means every bit of traffic has a paper trail associated to it (since this traffic must be billed for) and thus all the information required to trace the source of the spam is there, just that everyone (including regulators) are financially incentivized to look away and pretend it isn't.
> Why are antitrust laws so reactive? Why not have proactive laws that break up companies if they grow beyond a certain size criteria?

I've skimmed past a number of comments that say that Apple isn't a monopoly because it doesn't have a large enough share of the market. So is the DoJ too early or too late on this one?

Anyway, it shouldn't be about the size of the company, just how they act.
Still iconic and I like it but the interesting thing about that is the face clearly shows the light source not coming from the torch.
Do you prefer not being able to send or recieve good quality images and videos to anyone using Android?
So? Do you think great engineers or engineering orgs are a dime a dozen? The US government is a many trillion dollar organization. Have you used a government website?
I don't get the sense that third party headphones don't work just fine with iPhone, other than a seeming indication that iPhone users seem to think normal Bluetooth doesn't work well, which might indicate Apple has either not invested in their standard Bluetooth stack or at worst, actively degraded it.

But I'm doubtful of this, it seems more likely that some Apple users have an outdated view of how reliable standard Bluetooth actually are, even when paired with their iPhones.
> and could fix a lot of the things iPhone users don't like about Android if they wanted to.

What are those? And even if they were fixed, how would people move if Apple makes it so difficult to leave the ecosystem?
vertical indoor farming , idk
You couldn't pay me to mod a big sub (again, I did it for a couple years). The mod queue of a large sub is soul-crushing (at least where large is >10M, idk about smaller ones). Humans can be real *******s. And the admins don't appear to care about it at all.
Woah! What an experience to go through, I'd find myself relieved and pissed at the same time.

> The dock apparently holds the mac address of the MacBook and retains the IP even when the MacBook isn’t docked. Thus when the MacBook is removed from the dock and connects to the Network via Wifi with the same Mac address it causes a conflict and worse, it locks the whole network.
I am very pro-users-owning-their-computers, which makes me highly critical of Apple's behavior. However, these sorts of lawsuits or regulations that seek to force Apple to change App Store policies feel so wrong-headed and out of touch. The problem with Apple is not that they take a 30% cut of app sales in their store, or that they don't allow alternative browser engines or wallets apps or superapps or whatever in their store. It's their store and they ought to be able to curate it however they like. The problem is that users cannot reasonably install software through any means other than that single store. The problem is that Apple reserves special permissions and system integrations for their own apps and denies them to anyone else. That is not an acceptable way for a computer to work.
I think you should change this to ShowHN since you are promoting a thing you built and are not genuinely Asking HN something.
Haha, I appreciate the heads-up. It's not a bug. That user just decided to comment there for some reason.
> They're not guesses. We know they use A100s and we know how fast an A100 goes.

And we don't know how many GPT-4 instances run on any single A100, or if it's the other way around and how many A100s are needed to run a single GPT-4 instance. We also don't know how many tokens/second any given instance produces, so multiple users may be (my guess is they are) queued on any given instance. We have a rough idea how many machines they have, but not how intensively they're being used.

> You can cut a brain open and see how many neurons it has and how often they fire. Kurzweil's 10 petaflops for the brain (100e9 neurons * 1000 connections * 200 calculations) is a bit high for me honestly. I don't think connections count as flops. If a neuron only fires 5-50 times a second then that'd put the human brain at .5 to 5 teraflops it seems to me.

You're double-counting. "If a neuron only fires 5-50 times a second" = maximum synapse firing rate * fraction of cells active at any given moment, and the 200 is what you get from assuming it could go at 1000/second (they can) but only 20% are active at any given moment (a bit on the high side, but not by much).

Total = neurons * synapses/neuron * maximum synapse firing rate * fraction of cells active at any given moment * operations per synapse firing

1e11 * 1e3 * 1e3 Hz * 10% (of your brain in use at any given moment, where the similarly phrased misconception comes from) * 1 floating point operation = 1e16/second = 10 PFLOP

It currently looks like we need more than 1 floating point operation to simulate a synapse firing.

> The other estimates like 1e28 are measuring different things.

Things which may turn out to be important for e.g. Hebbian learning. We don't know what we don't know. Our brains are much more sample-efficient than our ANNs.
I never root-caused it so thoroughly, but I have an Anker USB-C hub that causes exactly the same effect when it's unplugged from a machine while still connected to ethernet. Took me months to figure out wtf was happening.
> Why not have proactive laws that break up companies if they grow beyond a certain size criteria

That's not proactive, that's just reactive to different indicators.
It's been a very long time since I've used a Windows Phone, but the way I remember it they were just doing the same thing Apple and Google did with the Microsoft Store/whatever it was called. I don't remember if they allowed side loading, but if they did I bet it required you to enable "developer mode" or something like that, just like Google. I doubt an attempt to create anything that competes with them on their own platform would've survived.
That seems like an IMMENSE stretch. For a mentally healthy person PIs following you around could be weird, threatening, scary, etc - but enough to make you kill yourself? Celebrities face worse and longer harassment and attention from fans and paparazzi and don't seem to kill themselves that often.

Much more plausible to think Boeing killed him in my opinion.
Something exceptionally grim is happening on the Internet
Blackberry chugged along with record profits for a couple of years after the iphone had already made them irrelevant.
If they posted the bootloader keys to Twitter right now it wouldn't lose them any money. Nobody is going to stop buying their shit because of that, but rather they might start selling more because now they can use the hardware for applications that would have been previously impossible.

To put it differently, Skyrim would have died as a game within a few months of release if it didn't support mods, but instead they didn't try to restrict them and made a horrifying quantity of money as a result.
As far as I know the "pig" part is about fattening (increasing trust and and thus the payout) them up before butchering (scam exit). Really doesn't seem like victim shaming. If anything it makes me feel worse for the victim because its a long con involving trust and feelings.
This part caught my eye:

"Note that this information only applies to dormakaba Saflok systems; several other lock manufacturers use MIFARE Classic keycards and are not affected by the Unsaflok vulnerability"

So it is likely they way that Saflok implemented MIFARE Classic. Will start to read about this protocol more.
They are also useful for hacking in the reverse engineering sense: an object's vtable pointer usually leads to very strong hints about what the object is, which is very important information in the very common situation where the data and code don't make it super clear :)
We need to normalize the idea that if a company uses something open source they automatically get someone to contribute to the project. That couple be hiring people in house to maintain it, it could be paying a consultant, it could be donating to a charity that maintains it. Probably some other way as well. However if you are a company getting value from open source you really need to put some money into keeping it maintained.

The above applies to private people as well. You use how many different pieces of software, what are you doing to ensure they stay maintained. (if you are like most nothing...)
Rather surprised at how many are taking this at face value, given the track record.
Devika – open-source alternative to Devin
That depends on how deep you want to go with the result. I use the Nova editor which uses tree-sitter for syntax highlighting, and I've packaged several languages for it. Each time it goes like this:

1. Clone someone's tree-sitter grammar off GitHub.

2. Build it into a Mac .dylib.

3. Create a Nova extension that says "use this .dylib to highlight that language."

4. Use it.

I don't have to make any changes to Nova itself, and the amount of configuration I have to write is so tiny that Nova could have a DIY wizard if they wanted it to.

The source for Difftastic discussed here (at https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/blob/master/src/parse/...) is also very simple: for each of a list of supported languages, import the tree-sitter parser and wrap a teensy amount of configuration around it.
I recently purchased a second hand mb air M1. I put Asahi/Fedora/Cinnamon on it and I'm pretty happy so far.
Mainstream academic physics has completely eliminated the concept of non-rest, variable mass. Mass and energy are equivalent, so you CAN apply mass values to the kinetic energy of a particle, but it turns out to be more confusing than its worth.

To be clear, it's just a reformulation of the math involved. Both formulations of GR/SR with and without variable mass create the same predictions. It's just that it keeps the concept of mass more coherent to stick with "mass is the energy of a particle at rest".
Pro tip: If you want to know who is the king of AI chips, compare FLOPS (or TOPS) per chip area, not FLOPS/chip.

As long as the bottleneck is the fab capacity as wafers per hous, the number of operations per second per chip area determines who will produce more compute with best price. It's a good measure even between different technology nodes and superchips.

Nvidia is leader for a reason.

If manufacturing capacity increases to match the demand in the future, FLOPS or TOPS per Watt may become relevant, but now it's fab capacity.
Many victim are adamant that they are not actually a victim no matter what evidence is provided. Luckily anti-trust law doesn't care about your opinion.
The ferry between Helsingør in Denmark and Helsingborg in Sweden has a 10MW charger at each side, to charge for 4-9 minutes depending on the timetable. (It runs back and forth all day and all night, carrying people, cars and trucks.)

See the chapter "Robot Arm" in this video to see it coupling.

10MW is around the power for an electric freight train, so these kind of numbers aren't uncommon for a port.

https://youtu.be/rE_M1n-ClOA?t=498

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MF_Tycho_Brahe
the original post from a month ago may help you, depending on how much "blog" you're looking for from the experience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39304188
Is Macbook less secure because I can install whatever app I want, even my own app? No, it's not. I want to be able to do the same with my iPhone. It's as simple as that.
Reddit also made a special unique trophy for the top moderator of r/jailbait
I question whether AWS is depriving Redis of their revenue. You just can’t pay every single open source author for their work, too much overhead in maintaining all the contracts, especially if the software is offered as a service. You need the billing in place, certifications, support contracts, data sharing agreements, etc. As a company you want to optimize the number of business partners you have to deal with, and this is the value AWS offers, not Redis.
Hey! I can't see your links to the LEDs or the QT Py, but I'm assuming they're probably neopixels as you mentioned "IC" LEDs. Drag your parts into flux and just ask copilot how to connect them together properly. Just to speculate on your project, you probably want some sort of gate buffer for the neopixel signal. And just ensure whatever power source you are using (be it a 5V source or a battery or buck boost converter) can handle the total current draw of those LEDs. I believe they have a wide operating voltage, but also just double check that if you are using a constant voltage source (which you probably are), it isn't over the maximum forward voltage of the LEDs. You can ask in detail with copilot by the way!

Just wanted to echo some more resources to get you oriented. The second video shows actual examples of how to leverage copilot in your exact scenario.
Flux End to End tutorial: https://youtu.be/Nz-XvvlozK4
AI Architecture Exploration: https://youtu.be/iGJOzVf0o7o
So why were people considering these questions so long ago? It s not the modern world that is the only problem.

> And regarding your quote of the Christians: They don't live it either or never lived.

Lots of people have. Not everyone was perfect, but it was an aspiration, and there are whole traditions of monasticism and other service based on it. It is no accident that the word organisations that help others is derived from a Christian theological term, charity.

> The dark ages produced a lot of christian focused 'art' full of gold.

The dark ages were not dark.

Art is one of the things that contribute to the community, and its creation leads the artist to fulfilment. Public art (which is what religious art usually is) is the opposite of hoarding private art.

> A world with unlimited possibilities.

Very few people have access "unlimited possibilities". Financial constraints, legal constraints, personal constraints..
Reddit is kinda trash these days, more rubbish is added to it when all that matters is the core functionality.

However with growth, it's just full of idiots, you go to any subreddit for something that you are interested in and it's just a toxic mess. I've jumped into subreddits for a particular brand/person before that I hadn't heard about recently or that I enjoyed some output from them, only to find that the people on such subreddits spend there entire time ripping such thing apart 24/7, why even subscribe to that subreddit, if you hate that thing?

There are subreddits for a lot of things that I enjoy, but as I have gotten older, it's become an issue that most of the users are kids and therefore don't know what the hell they are talking about, I wouldn't have such conversations with such people in real life, but the issue with Reddit is I have no idea who these people are.

Reddit certainly has the potential to be one of the most interesting places on the internet to me, connecting you to all sorts of interesting things and ideas, but it's more and more just becoming a toxic cesspool.
My Dad is the most paranoid online person in the world, and still almost fell for a scam. He won't even open an online banking account because he assumes that means he can't get hacked.

But then he got an email from my mom (they're divorced but still friends) that was so obviously a hack, not addressing him by name, and asking him to "help me purchases some stuffs on Amazon," and he was about to go through with it. I got the same email, and almost didn't contact my dad because I thought no way he'd fall for it. But he was just about to offer to help her buy some "stuffs" on Amazon.

I'm not sure there's anything you can do, including the talk, to stop this.
You used my own point to "gotcha", so I guess that's Hackernews!
Quality over quantity. I often worry that I write too much on this blog. After all, the world has a lot of text. Does it need more? Shouldn’t I pick some small number of essays and really perfect them?

Arguably, no. You’ve perhaps heard of the pottery class where students graded on quantity produced more quality than those graded on quality. (It was actually a photography class.) For scientists, the best predictor of having a highly cited paper is just writing lots of papers. As I write these words, I have no idea if any of this is good and I try not to think about it.

Yeah, strong disagree with this. This is not subjective or a matter of personal opinion, but quantity does not always lead to success; not at all by a long shot. Quantity helps after you have already built a brand or reputation, but quantity alone won't do that. If you look at the most successful people at any endeavor, they often had a break-out hit or success of some sort, which led to additional acclaim. The author's blog became such a big hit the first place because his earlier articles went viral, not because he wrote a lot of articles. If the necessary ingredients for virality were missing, no amount of quantity would have helped.
if you like your prison, that's your thing, you have the right to stay in it, just don't force other people to live in misery under your preferences when they'd rather live in freedom. we also have rules and regulations which decide if something is lawful or not, so it's not just about what you personally like or not.
The complaint is outlined directly in the document

https://x.com/ericmigi/status/1770832870870827149
My experience: 95% of all network problems are dodgy cables. The other 5% is dodgy switches.

The switches one is a bear to debug. I just tossed out two old switches, because I wasn't sure which one was the one that polluted the network. I could have spent several hours, setting up little sandboxes, but it was easier just to toss them both, and get new ones.
Virtual function APIs have to be designed such that they don't suffer from lack of inlining.

E.g. if you're making a graphics display driver, don't have objref->putpixel(x, y) as your only virtual function, which has to be called thousands of times to draw a line or millions to fill an area.
Threads' Fediverse beta opens to share your posts on Mastodon, too
I work at Earthly. We build a pretty popular open source build tool. I've worked for several companies that build OSS before Earthly as well.

At Earthly, a few years ago, the founder and CEO had these same concerns about big cloud providers and switched to a source available license. There was backlash, and after around a year, we switched back to open source. We've discussed things like this a lot, and believe an open source license is best for our product, our users, and our business.

The way that we differ from Hashicorp, Redis, and others that have switched to source available licenses is that the service we offer and generate revenue from isn't just a hosted version of our OSS. It's several services that natively integrate with our OSS but are not open source. This seems like one of the only ways a company that maintains popular OSS can survive without switching licenses: build great OSS that users love, build non-OSS services that integrate with and augment your OSS (and/or open up new use cases), and charge for those services.

If the service a company sells is just a hosted version of their OSS, even if it has a bunch of non-OSS bells and whistles added on, that company is at risk of a cloud provider eating their lunch unless they switch to a non-OSS license.
Windows, Linux, Android. Literally every major computing platform has portable apps except iOS and macOS.
My personal go-to for mac is the Liberica JDK from Bellsoft.
Just recently from HN:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39685272
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33797623
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14526156
If someone fills out a web form looking for quotes, and that form pushes them into entering their phone number, and you use that number to call them instead of responding with an emailed quote, that is most certainly spam.
Yeah, I find myself beating this drum here. My grandparents were greatest/silent generation and half of them did the deer in the headlights thing when a computer came up. My grandfather on the other hand worked on PDP stuff back in that era and my grandmother made a point to learn it all. Perhaps they were exceptional, but it was learnable even for them.

My boomer dad brought home a 486 when I was a kid and told me not to tell my mom how much he paid for it. He probably didn't need it back then, but it was the start of the internet and he thought it was cool.
SBF repeatedly lied to get out of "supervillain" prison term, FTX CEO alleges
Yeah I don't mean to malign the contributions of Boomers who were scientists and engineers.

But there is an overwhelming cohort of Boomers who "got theirs" during the unprecedented decades of post-war prosperity who simply never bothered to learn modern technology. I started my career in IT support and even highly educated Boomers simply didn't see any reason for them to learn basic computing skills.

Literally professional office workers who flat out refused to adopt to a modern office environment. Calendars, emails, printers, website updates, no thank you.

The attitude I heard frequently is that they got this far without learning how to send an email, so why bother now? I think it was only when technology became a simple glass slab with no buttons (and their kids/grandkids photos) did you see them start to adopt it.

There is just no way anyone born after their generation could have that mindset.
> I don't have anyone in my family or friends group who wasn't already on an iPhone, and I thought this was coming already with RCS anyway, but sure let's go.

I'm skeptical that adding RCS will actually fix the problems because of how Apple is likely to implement it. Their malicious compliance in the EU strongly hints that they are going to hobble their RCS implementation just enough to maintain the status quo just like they are with the DMA requirements. Hopefully legal efforts like this push Apple more towards actual interoperability.
Right, but my question was how to handle the "oh shit!" case where you need to start from scratch, like getting your things stolen when in another country.

Today I can connect to my email server using a library computer (or hotel guest computer, or rental business desk), log in with my password, and be able to contact someone who can help, or download a copy of the ticket for printout.

If I switch to passkeys, will this recovery method still work? Do I keep a Yubikey on a keychain? And USB A/C adapter?

Proton Pass seems to require installing something on the machine, which would seem to reduce the number of options I have.
yep i get it, you can use data attributes if you want, but i've been told by high ups on both the chrome team and the edge team that it doesn't matter

i am not ideological about it
> We were all shocked he fell for this but then realized the techniques that they use prey upon individuals with inability to deal with stress or trigger anxiety/panic causing them to act irrationally.

It's a good thing politicians and politcal propaganda outlets don't make use of this. :/
26. Communism.

Nice.
Market manipulation in broad daylight. lol.