skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Game of Life is a 2-dimensional cellular automata (CA), so given the 1-dimensional rule 110 has been proven to be universal / Turing-complete [1], it becomes less mysterious. Albeit the complexity of the system required to set it up to do anything "useful" would be prohibitive.

I'm currently finishing up my OU MSc and the project I picked was specifically around cellular automata - only in this case relating to them calculating any arbitary automatic sequence - which are sequences you can create from finite state machines - that really opened my eyes to the fact these sorts of very, very simple machines can, with the right (and rather complex) setup, be made to do pretty much whatever you want from a computational PoV. In that paper by Rowland and Yassawi they give a constructive proof to calculate the required update rules for a CA that outputs any particular automatic sequence. That itself gives some hints at some ways of deriving the input and rules for these systems to do some particular job. [2]

I know Wolfram often gets dunked on for ego/hubris but in Chapter 11 of a New Kind Of Science he goes into how the Rule 110 CA can be setup to "calculate" (output) other CAs. From there it starts to become a little less mysterious that these systems can generate behaviour you could imagine running on a CPU of some sort.[3]

[1] https://mirror.explodie.org/universality_in_elementary_cellu...

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.6008

[3] https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/chap-11--the-notion-of-co...
I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty sure you're correct. Interestingly though, I have an PC I got from a college that has Win 3.11 and has a network card in it and TCP/IP isn't enabled or on it. I was trying to figure out how to use the network card, but all I can find are a bunch of other communication standards.
Its not robbery if you never had the rights to it? You misused that word.
synergy with Red Hat if this acquisition is done well
that's a much more reasonable take

If I can be annoying about language a bit- insisting on calling trans women "trans identifying males" makes you sound anti-trans rights as a whole instead of trying to add nuance to a complicated subject.

I agree there are complications and there's plenty of situations where one oppressed group opresses another and that those are hard to sort out on a purely "support the oppressed" ideology. But when someone starts talking purely about a specific nuance that's been made into a right wing talking point, its hard not to feel like the goal is to deliberately distract from the big picture.

In general though, I think you mischaracterize the left as not having nuance, instead of not wanting to debate nuance with people who are staunchly opposed and just trying to score points. I'm not saying that's what you're going for, but your first comment came off as combatative to me and I think you'll find people are more willing to share nuance and work through uncomfortable contradictions if you start by emphasizing what you do agree with. Talking IRL is much better with this too
There's an interesting gap when discussing carplay/aa.

Cars from the 90s up until about 2013 can be easily fitted with a $500 head unit upgrade, and support carplay quite well. With the right tools, it can be done in about two hours right in your driveway.

Cars from 2018 and up pretty universally support carplay, and it's generally quite well integrated into the car's infotainment system.

But, between 2013 and 2017, things were a complete mess. In-car systems were too integrated to be replaceable with a third party 2-DIN unit, but too primitive to run carplay/AA. People who have cars from this era either sell them (for less than they're worth, since only 21% of people will buy a car without carplay!) or put up with it for another 8 years or so until the car's wound out.

For example, my rustbucket '06 Toyota has a great sounding stereo with carplay but my sibling's 2017 Nissan is stuck with flaky and poorly integrated bluetooth.

Or, if you do want to upgrade your 2013-2017 car, you end up replacing half of the in-dash components with ones from a couple model years up, tapping into the car's CAN bus to recognize the new controller, and then running some sketchy scripts to patch the firmware to remove component protection since the VIN's don't match up anymore. Not for the faint of heart.
> It's very well known that Chinese grammar is super close to English for whatever reasons.

They are both felt to have gone through a lot of simplification. It isn't well known that they have similar grammars, for the fairly straightforward reason that they don't have similar grammars.
World’s chocolate supply threatened by devastating virus
I wonder how many bought one just to blog or make a video about it to gain on the hype, only to not use it further (possibly even returning it).
Top 20 Countries and Territories with the Highest iPhone Market Share (2022 full year):

North Korea 99.49%
Tokelau 94.44%
Bermuda 92.32%
Faroe Islands 92.23%
American Samoa 85.85%
Niue 79.86%
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 70.6%
Monaco 69.42%
Jersey 67.65%
Guernsey 67.51%

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/iphone-ma...
I was prepared to really dislike this based on other commenters. If you are just reacting to others comments without reading the article, you are doing yourself a major disservice.

This reminded me very much - unpleasantly - about literature of the the McDonnell Douglas merger with Boeing.
I really wanted to like that Mozilla report, but their methods only looked at the privacy policies of cars, not actual software/hardware capabilities in the wild. Let's say I own a Honda C-HR, but don't use the Honda Link app or connect the onboard wifi to a phone hotspot. Does Honda still get remote telematic information from me? Is there a live always-on 4G/5G connection in the car itself? It's unclear.
Beyond a certain size corporations shouldn't be allowed to acquire companies.
Not sure if there's any more to it than this, but the Toyota Yaris is a rebadged Mazda 2. I suspect you won't find Mazda infotainment in other Toyota models, though.
When and Why PostgreSQL Indexes Are Ignored
If you tried to rip out Android Automotive you car probably wouldn't work anymore. But, you would have a dumb car that just wouldn't start.
That's a bit of an unusual way of looking at iPhones. They seem to do much the same as Android phones and very different from 90s TVs especially when if comes to taking photos, doing banking, making calls and the like.
Wasn't on my bingo card, that's for sure.

Say what you will about big blue, they repeatedly seem to know who to acquire in order to buy themselves another 10 years of relevance.
Meanwhile I rented a car last week and experienced Android Auto for the first time (vs just having my phone precariously balanced somewhere in the car, and using it for navigation), and now I never want to go back or buy a car without Android Auto.

This isn't meant to be a dig of Apple vs Android - I think I would feel the same about CarPlay if i was on iOS.

I think we just value different things. As someone who wants to be able to drive, navigate with google maps, listen to a podcast, and handle incoming messages, but do it safely, these integrations are incredible.
>> In the end, consumers don't give a shit about the in-vehicle infotainment.

Drivers don't car, but I think car buyers actually do. Remember that many people are not buying cars for themselves but for other people, usually family. They fall into the trap of thinking that those other people might want such features, if not now then in the future. Look at automatic transmissions. I know many people who much prefer manuals, but they always end up buying an automatic because they believe that other people will want the automatic. And a few years later, all the cars are automatics. The same is happening with in-car entertainment systems. We buy them not because we ant them but because we think other people do.
The vertical layout is simple to implement. Horizontal is much harder, and more useful for media like images and videos, see Flickr. None need CSS. And, if you are going to do it in CSS, you better handle both, not just the easy less useful variant.
I thought about that as well. At the moment, CarPlay can't take over every function so carmakers still have to make their own. But in the long term, there is an opportunity for Apple to make the whole thing and monetize it as a cost-saver to carmakers
Does it come with a fruit logo sticker?
A Linker in the Wild [video]
Anybody have a better title? 'Better' here means (1) less baity; (2) more accurate and neutral; and (3) preferably a representative phrase from the article itself.

"The man who killed Google Search" is too baity. See the 'unless' in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait"

Edit (since there are objections): I'm not taking a position for or against the article; I haven't read it. This is just bog-standard HN moderation regarding titles. I skimmed the article looking for a representative phrase and couldn't find one on first pass. That is rather unusual and when it happens I sometimes ask the community for help.

Edit 2: since there's no consensus on this I'm just going to reify that fact via the trailing-question-mark trick and call it a day.
Heck simple bluetooth audio playback has degraded year over year in my car. After an android update a few years back I don't get to see the track name any more, pause/play sort of works, and thankfully audio still comes through and I can go to the previous/next track.

Without constant updates, software that is part a a larger ecosystem will eventually breakdown.
Wait until you find out about Postman
Everytime I need to make a search on Google, I start to feel anxious, already convinced I'm not going to find anything useful about the problem I'm trying to solve. This often means I already tried everything else. It's a sad situation.a product shouldn't make you feel anxious.
This article could really use a tl;dr. I tapped out about a third of the way through after I got bored with slogging through so much windup in search of a “risky bet.”
My car is from between 2013-2017 and it supports a standard 2-DIN replacement with Apple CarPlay.
> I've never had a case where I didn't know the reason or mechanism by which an element would be hidden.

Unfortunately, I usually don't keep the whole codebase in my head (including libraries), so I often don't know the reason.

The more general point is that I don't want to have to know, because the mechanism of how it is hidden is not what I care about.

> It's not quite as succint as your jquery, but you also could have written this.

Yes, it's more than three times as long as the jQuery variant.
Regarding KU, what is your opinion about the numbers here? https://www.reddit.com/r/litrpg/comments/15o4f5d/ku_payouts_...

I think web novel and similar channel revenue is hard to estimate, since Patreon revenue and so on flies below the radar.

It is of course still a niche, but I don't think it will stay that way. And I assume publishers see the effects already in consumer behavior. Just look at the Chinese web novel market.
Congratulations, to us, we've added some more filters including Congratulations!
And they know exactly what’s happening. In 2006 they said,

“we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.”

http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-advertising-and-search-e...
I thought the answer was 'no'? After all of the discovery and testimony, despite the supposed smoking gun of entire copied chips, the endless vilification of Uber and the FUD and rumors, they came up with next to nothing. Lewandowski had copied files from Google, but there was nowhere in the Uber cars that was just a bunch of Waymo stuff like the hyperventilating Google lawsuit had charged. (IIRC, Google even lost some patents during the case.) Seemed like a gigantic boondoggle for Google, and it wasn't even what killed Uber's self-driving car program.
I've been trying this app but haven't had any luck getting it to actually generate text yet:

https://github.com/Mobile-Artificial-Intelligence/maid

The UI looks nice and includes a native compilation of llama.cpp.

My main phone's screen broke so I'm on an old Pixel 4 until it's repaired but I've had no luck getting 2-3GB models to run so far.
To be clear, it is not "poorly written" but malicious and hiding itself.
The paper makes a similar point like this:

Every definition and theorem in mathlib and this project have been checked by Lean’s trusted kernel, which computationally verifies that the proofs we have constructed are indeed correct. However, Lean cannot check that the statements of the definitions and theorems match their intended English equivalents, so when drawing conclusions from the code in this project, translation to and from English must be done with care.
Android Auto: I use the Motorola wireless dongle in a VW. It's great when only 1 phone is paired, but my wife and I share the vehicle in question. It allows multiple pairings (despite the instruction manual hardly mentioning that ability, if at all) but it's finicky as hell. Half of all attempts at swapping phones end in unplugging the thing and using a cable, to the point where I'm thinking I keep wireless AA for myself (driver 90% of the time) and have her use a vent mount with only BT audio (driver 10% of the time). Connection handshake delay before visible feedback is about 30 seconds, which makes troubleshooting an extremely latency-riddled nightmare. But the other half of the time, it's as simple as selecting the desired phone in the Bluetooth menu of the car. Once connected, the experience is identical to wired AA.

This problem didn't exist at all before going wireless.
I'm sure you could go back to the launch of the Apple Watch and find comments saying it was more like the Apple Newton.
It's April 23rd, 2024, and I am still looking for a good, reliable, honest and simple search engine.

All I want to do is search.

No AI.

No ads.

No shopping.

Please don't "Answer my question." I enjoy doing my own original research, thanks.

I'm entirely willing - wanting even - to pay for it.

Currently Kagi has my $, but I'm saddened and frustrated that they're not even focused on Search, they're focused on AI[1] and t-shirts.

Amazingly, in 2024, there is still a market opportunity for a good search engine.

It can't really just be me, can it?

[1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22kagi%22+%22ai%22
I owe so much of my cooking to that book!
I used to have a co worker who always wanted to discuss his conspiracy theories at work. From "the moon landing didn't happen", "vaccination causes autism" to the "earth is flat" it just wouldn't end.

It was exhausting because I just wanted to show up and do my work and stay professional. I didn't even judge him for having those opinions. For all I cared he could do what he likes in private but it was infuriating that he did not realize that he was actively bothering by wanting to discuss controversial opinions at the workplace. I also remembered this guy as not really a very interested or efficient worker. He came to work to talk basically.

Years later, the guy now has 1K+ linked in connections, every bs certification imaginable and calls himself an "AI and futurism consultant". He may have learned that if he just talked about some other bs than before, he could make a lot of money.
> the delay 1-2 seconds is expected

This user disagrees.

> Gmail is not encrypted

Don't know where you heard that but Gmail uses client-side encryption too: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/13317990?hl=en

They also use all the industry-standard encryption for requests. Proton may use different encryption techniques than Gmail, and because Proton doesn't run an ad business on my inbox like Google does, there are probably generally less crawlers in Proton messages than in Gmail, but wouldn't that make Proton faster?

I'm surprised the several seconds long splash screen doesn't get reported often - it's glaringly the only thing wrong with the service.
> I got my comparatively-cheaper 2-year-old iPhone 12 Pro Max stolen from me about a year ago in a mugging

That is just a dumb mugger since those phones can only be sold for parts given the way Apple locks them down with your password/Pin/Face. The only place those phones can go is on a ship container to China to be recycled for spare parts, and even that's dubious.
Some people want to go systematically over the items when exploring. I certainly tend to operate that way, and it’s infuriating when the UI is making it difficult for no good reason.
Not really. The relevant parts of those programs are basically buildable based on a list of their features.

The technology that one would get in an open source situation isn't very usable outside of Google's ecosystem because Google builds software on top of Google's stack. Like, without the monitoring infrastructure they've built or the Borg scaling infrastructure, their software is actually kind of fragile because the ethos is " If it starts to malfunction break it quickly so it can cause a monitoring event and to get replaced by auto restart."

The Google way of doing things is actually not a great way to architect most software that isn't running on a giant data center structure.
Well, not who I was hoping would acquire and not for the price. Still down 30% on my $HCP investment.
An Analysis of the DHEat DoS Against SSH in Cloud Environments
Their passion and energy used to go into organizing the world's information and presenting it to google users at an unprecedented cost.

Their passion and energy now goes into designing the most comfortable super jet for their free time.

[is OP's implication, i have no idea if it's true]
Yes, this information or a link to where to find this information should ideally be in the readme. If it requires you "own" a copy of the official version to be purchased from Steam or GOG, what benefit does this version add on top to make the extra effort worth it? The only information I can get from the readme is that it supports more platforms.
Not sure how one could reclaim driving privacy in an age where we have license plate scanners and E-ZPass scanners at places not on toll roads all while you and everyone else drives around with multiple Bluetooth devices turned on. Nothing stopping your car from recording everything anyway and having the dealer just download it each time you have an oil change. This mirrors privacy everywhere else. Think this ship already sailed.
If you want some much more old-school Tao Teh Ching samples from GPT-2: https://gwern.net/gpt-2#tao-te-ching
Those glide bombs have a range of about 40 miles. If a target has good air defence with a range of more than 40 miles, it's safe, and if it doesn't, it's not. Air defences with that sort of range include, first and foremost, fighters, and also long-range SAMs like Patriot, SAMP/T, and S-300. Ukraine used to have stuff like that, and so wasn't getting glide-bombed, but now doesn't, so it is.

If their air defence was even weaker, yes, the Russians could just gravity bomb them. But they haven't reached that point yet.
Re: Tesla - at least in the early days, they did the same thing a lot of boutique manufacturers did: https://www.theautopian.com/how-tesla-engineers-saved-millio...

Re: "global manufacturing" - yeah, but there's also a choice being made there. I own an older BMW, and there's been a very clear shift away from what was once a differentiated product to a kind of blah middle-object, which is almost certainly in pursuit of a larger market share, but again, that's a choice. I could tell you what the value prop of a BMW made between 1975 and 2005 was, I can't really tell you what it is now, and that's a choice it seems like a lot of manufacturers are making.
I can imagine this happening in many places: 1) Idealist phase. 2) Hype phase. 3) Novelty wears off = Leave. 4) Bean counter phase. 5) ???
I have impression they just enjoy their billioners lives, and do not have ambitions anymore. Also Larry has some sickness, so, maybe he has other life issues depending on his current condition.
I agree. Same with Go. When I started with Go, I quickly forgave it all little rough edges in the language itself because they were offset by a tooling that was just miles ahead the state if the art of the time.
Yeah it's CarPlay or whatever Android uses, or I want nothing to do with it.

Every time I rent a car it's a HELLSCAPE of figuring out whatever crappy UI this brand of car created for that year ... until I get my phone hooked up. Man I just want to get to my hotel not futz with some garbage UI in the garage forever.
SalesPush: Automate SMB Lead Gen via Google Maps
Hey HN,

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Our a tool is aimed at helping early-stage SaaS companies generate leads for SMBs using Google Maps and manage calls through sheets with a link to Google Voice, all without the complex setup
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We're in the early stages and I would really appreciate any feedback on whether this might be useful for your team or any improvements you can suggest.

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Yes functors would be the way in OCaml, but there's no implicit context resolution that implicitly resolves such symbols within a Functor the way you can in Rust or Haskell. This missing implicit context resolution makes for bad ergonomics, particularly for any kind of numerical code, which tend to be the very first kinds of things that new programmers try in a new language. "Hey, why do I need to use + in one case and +. in another? This is dumb, OCaml is not a serious language."
That's what the article is arguing though. That a certain individual is 'killing' (not killed yet) Google Search. A different title would be misleading.
i don't think so, if it looks like the new state is going to trend blue then the red states are not going to admit it to the union. If it looks like it's going to go red then the blue states are not going to admit it either. If it goes perfectly "purple" or in between then neither side will vote to allow it because it dilutes funding. I don't see a new state joining the union ever.. same goes for one state splitting into multiple or multiple states consolidating into one.
That is a great point and you are absolutely right! It really shows how tricky the UI part of this is and how quickly you run into scaling issues
Women leave more book reviews at Goodreads.
As context, I offer the engineer oath used by some countries for certified engineers:

>> I am an Engineer. In my profession, I take deep pride. To it, I owe solemn obligations.

>> As an engineer, I pledge to practice integrity and fair dealing, tolerance and respect, and to uphold devotion to the standards and dignity of my profession. I will always be conscious that my skill carries with it the obligation to serve humanity by making the best use of the Earth's precious wealth.

>> As an engineer, I shall participate in none but honest enterprises. When needed, my skill and knowledge shall be given, without reservation, for the public good. In the performance of duty, and in fidelity to my profession, I shall give my utmost.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Engineer#Oath
I am also a software engineer, so wouldn't this still be true for my work?
Conclusion

"The DHEat attack remains viable against most SSH installations, as default settings are inadequate at deflecting it. Very little bandwidth is needed to cause a dramatic effect on targets, including those with a high degree of resources. Hence, SSH services should be blocked from external access whenever possible. Furthermore, connection rate limiting should always be applied regardless of network segmentation, as per the central principles of Zero Trust."