skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get that Alexa skills weren't successful and aren't getting a lot of usage, but I am always surprised that these services are cited as being very expensive to maintain. For Amazon, what's the realistic cost in hosting these? Or is it that they have teams of people covering the security / oversight etc?

At this juncture, I have to be sceptical that the reason they now want to kill it is because they effectively want to Sherlock them all by shipping LLM based AI functionality instead, and they want to ensure that nobody else does it on their platform before they can.
I've nearly done this as well. Late night stop over in Singapore, went to the wrong gate, flight attendent waved me through despite the pass 'not scanning' and it was only a senior person who waved me down to check that stopped me - I was already strolling to the flight.
Run a bar for a few years.
A economic decline has been happening in the US since fall 2021 and there's no good way out of it. Reducing the key rate would worsen the inflation that is already high. Increasing the key rate would accelerate the decline in production that is already bad enough. That means the overall demand in the economy will keep falling and thus at some point the costs of running the existing grid at such a low level of congestion will put it way bellow its point of profitability. This whole situation would require building a completely different infrastructure for this new structure of economy.
What to do if Apple contacts you about malware or security
back in the 90s and early 2000s I knew plenty of non-technical users who were fine using IRC or "mIRC" cuz they didn't know the difference between the app and the protocol/servers.

Companies are capitalizing on this ignorance now and somehow convinces even us techies that our decentralized/open stuff is inferior to their lockin, and so the cycle just continues with a bit more shit at every step..
I don't get this. So apparently with this buddy pass thing you can pass the security, but how do you obtain a boarding pass so you can legally enter a plane? The possibility to pass security without a valid boarding pass seems like a weird loophole in the process to me
On all flights I have taken the flight attendants count the passengers on board before taxiing and check the lavatories. This method wouldn't have worked even with available free seats.
Q for Marker -

Could it semi-reliably parse a random store receipt?

(for me the pinnacle of LLM vision models goal)
You can semi-DIY it already with Rhasspy + your choice of home automation stack (HomeAssistant or what-have-you). Rhasspy is probably what you're looking for.

https://github.com/rhasspy/rhasspy

Was discussed last year:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33705938

My only real issue in setting it up and running it has been finding appropriate microphones.
Read, watch shows, programming, exercise, games, cleaning and organizing.
I don't think so.

As soon as the industry gets wind about this practice people or servers or companies will get sued (there is after all nothing else these companies can do) and as soon as this happens some people in the line will try to protect them.

Could be server hosting company, the server hosters, source code Providers etc etc.

Btw that doesn't change the law: dependimg on your country there are already clear legal rules regarding lending digital copies to your friends.

They might fake users and start collecting data through those etc.

But only if it becomes a thing.

I think the main reason I'm not seeing anythinguch about lawsuits today is due to streaming services and the amount of legal media traffic compared to things like torrent.
Or, you know, people use different programming languages for reasons and there isn't need to unify all the languages as one?
Remarkably similar to a story from 2020, regarding 3 men stranded on the same island, rescued because they laid out a large "SOS" on the beach.

https://www.nationalguard.mil/News/Article/2300808/kc-135-cr...
It's one of my great fascinations that assistants worked better in 2010 in my opinion than they do now. I remember setting timers, adding reminders and asking the weather back then and it was amazing, it could interpret very flexibly worded versions of my requests almost perfectly every time ("Add a reminder a week from now" etc). But steadily over the years this functionality seems to have degraded. It's got more and more hit and miss and finally I've just stopped using it. I don't really understand why ... I assume it's happened as they've tried to make the systems more flexible and accommodate wider inputs (different accents etc), it's made them worse at the more constrained use cases.
I'm sorry, but I don't consider in the bottom half of deaths per capita "objectively atrocious," merely "fairly bad."

Have you considered improving the precision of your vocabulary?
It is in the Netherlands, but only after they doxxed someone in the government.
It's highly relevant, if you breach the Message app on Android... well it's the same as breaching any other app.

That's why most of the exploits are targeting imessage
If that happens, it will come to resemble an Indian or Indonesian city.
> READ.ME just looks cool, same thing as with internet domains.

http://read.me/ I'm not interested, but it definitely looks cool
Ring: Simple and flexible programming language for applications development
The problem with that this is that this is the objectively "correct" recommendation. Some who just bought one obviously had an interest in one and people do return products to get different/better ones.

If it looks stupid but it works.... (Amazon has all the data to check that it indeed works)
Not really, the data oriented design movement in games programming that eschews OOP is driven by performance concerns of traditional OOP code on areas like rendering.

As a graphics programmer for many years I can also say that OOP is not really a good fit design wise for modern rendering engines, it mostly just gets in the way.
AFAIK Apple forbid apps from providing local programming capabilities. You can't even do a JS console in Safari without attaching to a Mac and using Apple's development tools.

Once we go beyond Apple ecosystem, there have been dozens of visual/graphical programming environments. Good examples are Blender 3D modelling, special effects in music and video production tools. The downside is that "diagrams" quickly become very complex and hard to navigate.

For a good overview of the space, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_programming_language
Fun with GMMs
Stealing 6% of a large country's GDP causes more aggregate harm than murdering ten individuals (which would be an obvious death penalty case).
Google One VPN will be discontinued
I'll always remember the fight with my ex after she found out how much I'd been paying for our fun little life (after getting her first career level role, she wanted to split the expenses).

"I never asked you to do any of that!"

I was floored. She had never realized that she never had to ask.
Show HN: Running TempleOS in user space without virtualization
TempleOS is an experimental OS designed to be simple and self-hosted with a JIT compiler. I was mesmerized by it but didn't like the hassle of using virtual machines to boot it up and move files around from the virtual drive.

My project lets you run TempleOS as an app of some sort instead of using a virtual machine to run it - this brings a lot of benefits like speed, seamless filesystem integration (virtual machine development with stock TempleOS is really a pain.), command-line mode where you can code in HolyC on the command line instead of TempleOS' GUI.

Its user-space nature lets it do networking quite easily with the FFI - it even features an IRC server, client and a wiki server!

I've also added a bunch of third-party games and software written for TempleOS on the Community folder, I hope you people take a look and enjoy!
The issue with most search engines is that on top of not showing the proper link, they push the malicious ones on top of the search page. Wikipedia can simply not link.
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There are still big upsets, and some fighters have quite unique styles.

I would say that what makes the sport less interesting is all the advertising, including the betting. Also, some commentators are so used to fighting, they often struggle to stay on topic. I get that they like the commentators to be personalities but it gets rather tiresome.
Ok wow this blog post was really illuminating. Thanks for pushing back on my preconceived idea that UUIDv7 is the 'official' version of ULID

https://blog.daveallie.com/ulid-primary-keys
Just had to go back to the gate the other day because the manifest didn’t match the count. I can see them overlooking this with flippant flight attendants, especially on smaller flights, but on my flight we were next in line for take off when they sent us back to the gate. So we almost made it to the sky. Also, I don’t know what happened, they checked one seat and then we were off. Missed connecting flight because of it.
OK, I'm starting to see where you're going with this - I also compare incident-affected logs with pre-incident logs, or HTTP requests that I want to debug with similar requests that are known good.

What tools are you using? For me it's often just grep and awk with temp files, maybe a touch of python occasionally.
Its the same thing as “flying standby.” The gate agent will issue boarding passes during or shortly after everyone else hasboarded based on remaining non revenue (“dead head”) seats being available.
Thanks for the tip! It's 83% off on GOG right now :-)
I want to try it today, with the book I initially bought. Since buying it I've downloaded it from a different place, and even if Libgourou works, will probably not go back to buying DRMed books.

Not that used to compiling stuff myself, wasn't able to get Libgourou working yesterday, but I'll try today :)
When everybody is naked, nobody will be.
"I wasn't that bothered by it."
- Andres Freund, 3 minutes 41 seconds into the podcast, about the NYTimes article. :-)
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This doesn't really make a difference. You just show ID & boarding pass instead of just a boarding pass. You already have your ID on you. It's literally just a case of taking an extra thing out of your pocket.

This is how it works in Europe and it never even crossed my mind that it could be annoying.
Here's a puzzle game. I call it Reverse the List of Integers
Start with a list of positive integers, (e.g. [7, 5, 3]) and your goal is to make the same list, in reverse ([3, 5, 7]).

Operations:

1) Split an integer into two smaller integers. (e.g. [7, 5, 3] → [6, 1, 5, 3])
2) Combine (add) two integers into a larger one. (e.g. reverse the last e.g.)

Restrictions:

1) You can never make an integer greater than the largest integer in the original list.
2) You can never make a move that results in the same integer appearing in the list more than once.
Always the same discussion about the TV series Quantum Leap, here.
(not my post)
the most interesting part is the last one -> hire me..
You can have polymorphism without inheritance and inheritance without polymorphism. The big problem with inheritance is that it is really tricky to write those base classes. Making class inheritable by default in programming language is often considered a big mistake, because only carefully designed and documented class can be safely extended.
Naw, the death penalty is much harsher penalty (seeing as how almost all death row inmates use every means possible to avoid it). Particularly so for white collar people who never thought they would be tied to a tree and shot 10 times in the heart. Just the thought of that happening can deter a lot of people, and even if it doesn't, it's what she deserves.
Don't know about the US, but some airports with a significant retail presence post-security allow non-passengers through to shop/eat etc. As a kid I remember my parents coming through security to send me off on a flight by myself in Australia.
I like the main idea behind it. Instead of arbitrary people registering and selling domain names in a first-wins manner, there is a collaborative/consensus process behind it, to decide which word should point to which website.

I think that in the long term, such a collaborative process to establish a <search-term> => <urls>[] mapping, would be more useful than search engines or domain names.
Dijkstra grappled with these issues. Two classic notes of his are:

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/E...

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD103...

There are several takeaways here, but three of my favorite highlights:

* Dijkstra actually did not like calling such errors "bugs", as it is a framing problem.

* Likewise, he believed that we should avoid anthropomorphizing software or identifying with it.

* Finally, he believed in building a formal specification of software and then proving that the software matched this specification. Part of this was to avoid "bug fixing" hunts in which the focus was on "debugging" instead of correctness. But also, this was to ensure that there was a proper system view of the software, which ties back into the conclusion of the article here.
I used to get my ID checked at the gate occasionally. But that was in the before times, when there was no id or boarding pass required to get through security.

I'm sure there's some nefarious thing you can do where two people collude to swap boarding passes after security, but I don't believe it's worth the effort for airlines to try to prevent that. Maybe something with discounts or mileage accumulation; but it'll be a big pain if there's anything out of the schedule.
In banning the death penalty for rape, the US Supreme Court explicitly... in black letter text... left open the possibility of executing major drug traffickers. We should use that door more often.
Waiting for PostgreSQL 17 – Invent Serialize Option for Explain
This book is really great, I very enjoyed the "do nothing" part.
Not the http level… at the level above, the user of your api.

Both of these are simple programming errors. You might as well have used the wrong host or protocol for that matter
> I hope they fire and prosecute him.

"He's a witch! Burn him!"
Append only files might be enough to be fair. And still very useful.

As then, you can dedup per block, even with a sliding window. Nicest is that you can do it fully asynchronously, so real time appends are not slowed down.
Right, because if someone else is running it, you can be sure you're getting served thinly veiled ads, something someone else wishes you'd want, rather than something you really like.
Seems to be another overhyped piece of crap… https://www.theverge.com/24126502/humane-ai-pin-review
In that case the original premise does not hold. If you only become an elite once you're in power, then it wasn't the elite who chose who gets to be in power... No circulation.
The do that so that you can't resell your ticket.
I would always treat the BMC authentication as an additional layer of defense. That is, don't expose it on untrusted networks in the first place.
If the system worked as you propose, but regularly glitches, it would show someone's picture when it glitched. The check-in staff wouldn't see anything weird about this particular person's photo: he's not otherwise noteworthy. Maybe it would be the person with the seat number from a previous flight.

The attendant assumed it was a glitch because it usually is a glitch. The official policy is that there are no glitches and that the staff member should have called security and investigated the plane. The actual policy from middle management is "if you do this you will end up calling security 30 times a day because our systems suck and half our flights would be delayed, so just use your judgment until the technical issue is fixed".

Here they really do need a technical solution to a technical problem. Improve the tech so it has false positives on less than say 0.1% of flights. Then you can enforce the official policy and discipline staff members and/or their managers if they don't follow it.
This part is about the Threads app. They do want to show you the 'For You' feed, but on Threads. Mastodon users aren't affected at all.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_...

https://foundation.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Controver...

If there is some official policy which links are allowed and which are not, I'll shut up.

Why are some links allowed and some not, what is the policy, if there is some.

I see

> Wikimedia projects are not censored. Some kinds of content, particularly that of a sexual, violent or religious nature, may be offensive to some viewers; and some viewers may feel such content is disrespectful or inappropriate for themselves, their families or their students, while others may find it acceptable.

which seems to me against link censorship.
Cisco ultimately met with a fair amount of success in the market. Their Internet Operating System was certainly a 10B application, perhaps worth 100B.
> For a week, the men lived off coconut meat, but they did have fresh water from a small well on the island, which is sometimes visited by fishers in the region, Coast Guard officials said.

What do you do if you don’t have a fresh water source? Come up with some sort of evaporative desalination method using coconut shells?
Long lived credentials are a security red flag.

We setup our AWS organization’s policies (SCPs) to prohibit long-lived tokens. Instead access goes through SSO or OIDC.

It’s difficult to track usage behind access tokens, prevent leaks, and effectively revoke them.
I wish, and PCBs, yes, but we are still far from "hardware like software (iterative, casual)".

We will be there if we can send off a design and get back a small quantity of reasonably priced fully assembled devices.

And this is not only about ability alone. Learning the skills to assemble a board is pretty realistically possible for almost anyone. It's just so annoyingly boring and tedious once the initial fascination and excitement has worn off. Contrary to when I learned it, it is already a pretty useless skill and will be comletely futile in the future.
This is what I used as a university student.
Pretty effective.
But I guess the author did not share his opinion about them.
>>The Navy jet dropped survival packs to the three men and relayed their location to the rescue center.

Ok, random question - looking at the pictures of a P-8A, I don't understand how it dropped anything while in flight, it's not like the pilot could chuck the packs out of their window. How does does that work? Are they equipped with a cargo door that can be opened in-flight?
Before India election, Instagram boosts Modi AI images that violate rules
Great story, and that's a killer logo!
Australian prosecutors drop billionaire Forrest's case against Meta
For soft goods, maybe. But for durable goods it is objectively the wrong decision. They ought to know if you have initiated a return, and act on it, but they don't.

What percentage of Amazon shoppers make repeated, back-to-back purchases of washing machines or kitchenaid mixers? I'm certain it's vanishingly small.

What percentage of people who just bought a kitchenaid mixer would be interested in baking pans, or whatever? Probably more. But if you buy a kitchenaid mixer, tHe AlGoRiThM just sends you ads for more kitchenaid mixers.
At this point street furniture should achieve a level of protection as a reflection of our technological past.
Ignoring the 10k-20k years part, which I agree it's a little iffy, by definition the first languages of North America originated in Siberia and in the present Russian Far-East, for the simple reason that there's from where the first populations of North Americans came from (I think that the Trans-Pacific theory is not widely accepted).

Unless those populations only started using language once they had set foot in North America, which would be an even greater thing to push.
Really? I'm Greek and that's the first time I hear about this. Do you have any more info, please?
Thank you for your hard work! Don't be let down by the negativity this author displays. Probably the result of his youth. Your work is still useful and even though imperfect, very much appreciated.
> Lots of half built buildings in middle India.

That's not usually what we mean by "Ghost cities". I just checked wikipedia to be sure, for both "ghost cities" and "under occupied developments in China"[1] which leads with:

Under-occupied developments in China are mostly unoccupied property developments in China, and frequently referred to as "ghost cities" or ghost towns.

Half-built structures aren't comparable to the common understanding of the term "ghost cities".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under-occupied_developments_in...
The logo is very cool I hope someone borrows this.
Apple HomePods are pretty half-baked with how shitty Siri, they have a very niche set of things they do but even that's not reliable because Siri likes to misinterpret
I’m convinced the Google treadmill of products that are created, shut down, and recreated is due to a promotion oriented culture. They must be getting rewarded for launches, not for building useful products or successful businesses.
Come on, IRC doesn’t even begin to address the needs of today. It sucks in many ways.

A better suggestion is to use Matrix/Element, Mattermost or RocketChat. Not IRC or XMPP.