skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi,
I am a developer, born and raised in Ottawa. Post-Covid, I've noticed a decline in overall social interactions and human-to-human connections. So, I challenged myself to create an app that enables people to connect in RealTime, with chats that disappear after you leave every location.
Once you enter a location such as a restaurant, house, gym, cafe, or university, TapIn automatically detects your presence and adds you to a group chat with everyone nearby or allows you to start a private conversation. The beauty of it is that after you leave, chats automatically delete from your past chat history within 48 hours so you don't have to manage your chats. Additionally, our intuitive design ensures user-friendliness for everyone.

Apple/IOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tapin/id6469473366
Google/Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tapin.secu...

We have released our Beta and are looking to onboard/test with users. Looking forward to connecting with everyone :)
This looks a lot like Swift. To me, that's a good thing :)
Building more machines isn't sufficient. The limiting factor is expert human healthcare providers to operate the machines, and do the other things necessary to keep the patient alive.
Building a physical product, launching, getting feedback. They’re in the arena and regardless of how bad the initial offering is it’s more than sitting on the sidelines demanding Skunk Works from others.
Discussion [0] (19 points, 14 days ago, 50 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40061731
> In a hot path it’s often beneficial to not have lots of branches for error handling.

This is true but the branch isn't taken unless there's an error in Go.

Given that the Go compiler emits the equivalent of `if (__unlikely(err != nil)) {...}` and that any modern CPUs are decently good at branch prediction (especially in a hot path that repeats), I find it hard to believe that the cost would be greater than exceptions.
The issue isn’t “is there a fallback” it’s “there is incredible bias in who has to use those fallbacks, who has to schedule trips allowing for that fallback, and who gets erroneously subjected to false imprisonment”.

If all people regardless of race, gender, or appearance were equally subject to the need to use the fallback then there would be less of an issue. But so far every commercial facial recognition program has demonstrated bias such that false positives and false negatives are much more common for PoC.
Closed source is enough reason in my book.
> Unfortunately for them, both products launched half-baked

A.I. itself is amazing... but still kind of half baked
Article title: TapIn

Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No instead they will need to pay far more for Marketing and PR.

And end up producing their own custom interface which has been universally panned.
yeah that was my shocked first thought.
Perhaps you don't understand the definition of "random"?
Right, but this makes me wonder why I can’t just do: ssh user@host “echo ‘Hello World’”

All these kinds of tools essentially just executing commands over SSH… I could just SSH.
Mint is one of those distros that have walked the middle way between ease and power remarkably well. They have proven that they can be restrained in a manner that makes for great results.

To fork these things and make them fit in more with the entire Mint ecosystem could be a good thing, lets just hope they aren't biting off too much.

Mint is one of those distros that basically took the usability essence of Windows XP and just continued that into the future. No whacky concepts or bold plans for radical change based on a hunch, just subtle and measured improvements one after another. Arguably they took the hardest path forward and nailed it.
I wonder whether the result would be closer to n-gate if the prompt left out "humorous and mocking".
What about the File Provider API?
The general theme is that you need to be using approved ciphers and you need to have your key management code certified by some external entity. It is an exhausting process ;)
I just ran into this earlier today - it makes navigating code with grep more difficult.

I had a YAML file using `some_property_name`, which was turned into `SomePropertyName`, and it's a small annoyance. It's not a huge deal, but it adds friction where some languages have none. (Or alternately, getting reordered in a separate system like `property_name_some`.)
I would highly recommend DigitalOcean (https://www.digitalocean.com/) - they started with a simple VPS offering but have expanded over time. I've been using them since 2013 for hosting personal site/small projects and they are highly reliable, communicative about any maintenance requiring downtime and transparent about pricing.

Feel free to check them out. If you want I can send you my referral link.
Seeing exporting as a mistake and doing something about it are different things. Will be interesting to see what happens.

Generative AI may help with the export or deprecation of service jobs.
In that case, they can use human review before accusing anyone.
Of course there is an incentive. You get to reap social capital and get high on your own perceived holiness. Do you think someone like Norman Finkelstein would be so popular if he wasn't a Jew? Or Candace Owens black?
Very true but “bad” is always subjective so at least they came up with an evaluation that is binary — either you have capitalization in your language or you don’t, either the analogy fits or it doesn’t.

(Some linguist will point out that Bongo-Bongo has half-capitalization, or half has capitalization).
Programs such as those offered by Xfinity are only available in select areas. That's why the ACP is necessary: to force the larger carriers to offer subsidized service equally available to all.
Who is being punished for following the rules?
Cars are a luxury item for most in NYC. Tolling roads is as old as cars themselves. There’s nothing new here.
Probably not a lot. It needs to have a fixed length on the wire, and having 100 updates to the radio firmware for any given model of handset... not likely?
Droplets on digital ocean running docker containers. That’s as portable as it gets, but it’s also very DIY. A lot of the reasons you might use a cloud provider is the wide host of services that are meant to make your life easier.
But @sambazi's comment talks about ISPs doing the blocking.

Yes of course, internet appliances are capable of DNS-blocking whatever their operators tell them to block. This is not news to me, nor to anybody else reading Hacker News.

Also the vendor of this appliance does not classify things as "Extremism". The owner/operator of the appliance does those things. Claiming that "SonicWall is classifying it as Extremism" is like claiming that "Intel marked your email as spam" because your SMTP server uses an Intel CPU.
We here at the legal and regulatory affairs department at Boeing prefer the nomenclature "profit enhancers".
Because the city officials don’t want to draw attention to the racial demographics of fare evaders.

If they actually arrest them, then there would be official numbers that align with the anecdata that anyone who has ridden that system is already familiar with.
Sounds like an incorrectly scoped WHERE (or maybe even JOIN?) on a SQL query.

Plus inadequate (automatic) testing, that should have caught the problem before it was committed to the main development tree.
no, not to my eyes. you said,

> at some point we decided all that was ok

> At some point we decided to elect people who would turn against us

> At some point we decided we don’t care about right and wrong,

All of those things are about no longer being in control, and they are not even necessarily true statements. Who is "we", exactly?
So this is just Level-of-Detail (LoD) implemented for Gaussian splats? Impressive results, but I would have figured this is an obvious next-step...

Also, is it bad that the first thing I thought of was that commanders in the Ukraine war could use this? E.g.: stitch together the video streams from thousands of drones to build up an up-to-date view of the battlefield?
No hate for any part of this: it's just amusing.
Can anyone familiar with 3d graphics speculate what would be required to implement this into a game engine?

I'm guessing that adding physics, collision-detection etc. on top of this is non-trivial compared to using a mesh?

But I feel like for stuff like tree foliage (where maybe you don't care about collisions?), this would be really awesome, given the limitations of polygons. + also just any like background scenery, stuff out of the player's reach.
13% of subway riders and 45% of bus riders don't pay the fare.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-31/nyc-s-tra...

Also, turnstiles are not barbaric, what are you talking about?

Also since when is the rule that "the 'best' way has to be free"?
So in your world the idea is to launch alpha quality products as early as possible.

Ovens that leak gas, cars where the wheel comes off, games where you only get 10 minutes in etc.

Personally, I prefer how the world actually works where you have user testing sessions, beta programs, quality management etc.
https://Netwrck.com among many chat apps like character AI etc
Checked the definition. An enum is defined as a set of named constants. Id argue that a set by definition needs to be constrained. If it lacks the constraints/grouping id argue it no longer is a set.
This isn’t really a data breach, it’s a bug in the app. And it didn’t “allow people to access strangers details” it showed each person the wrong details after they logged in. Like you couldn’t then pick another person and view their details you were just logged into the wrong account. Still pretty dumb, but also pretty dumb reporting. But then it’s 7 news so …
Could this be used in Windows by exposing a Samba file share from WSL or Docker?
I don't like calling the dual contracts "the era of private subways". The history of the subway is such that every time it starts to look like it fits an ideological narrative (be it pro-capitalism or pro-socialism), you learn some detail that completely pulls the rug out.

Yes the price of a subway fare was originally fixed at 5 cents. But that wasn't some top down "regulation" imposed on otherwise successful private ventures by lefty city government. The reality is the subway was never wholly public or private. In modern terms it was built as a P3.

The city contracted to have the subway built, but it did not have all the funds it needed for this project, so part of the payment was that the contractors would be granted a monopoly to also run the service and collect the fares for 50 years. The 5 cent fare cap was one of the stipulations which the city put into the contracts so that the private companies couldn't turn around and gouge the public using their monopoly on something built with large public subsidy in the first place.
Yeah that's not going to go down well with first nations Australians. They're sensitive about cultural appropriation, with some justification. I don't think the argument of the Latin origin would be given much heed. Then again, likely no-one will notice a small software project.
Seems extremely conservative/boring/not useful.
Democrats will dangle the possibility of marijuana legalization to entice voters to turn out for the election. But I doubt legalization will actually happen; I'd be delighted to be proven wrong. I'm just too jaded, I guess.
1.6-nanometer (nm) chips by 2026?
Mother: We already have sudo at home

HN: But, Mom!
The civilized solution is making it free and paying for it from taxing the companies and stores that benefit from it(practically all of them).
OK fine, this might be one of the best use cases for LLMs that I've seen. The output is pretty witty and impressive for the low cost of some basic scraping infra and a really short but effective prompt (https://github.com/dfeldman/quackernews/blob/38893fdfbc047ac...)

Well done OP
So is Aboriginal: https://github.com/landley/aboriginal/commit/cfb7977cc32a80b...
This is a thing in certain environments. I don’t mind it.
There's honestly something uncanny about how well they do.

In the "early days" of GPT-4 I tried testing it as a way to get around poor transcription for an in-car voice assistant. It managed: "I'm how dew yew say... Freud?" => Turn up the temperature... which was nonsense most people would stare at for a long time before making any sense of.
> Apple is testing a version of its Safari web browser that includes UI tweaks, advanced content blocking features, and a new AI-powered tool dubbed Intelligent Search, AppleInsider has learned.

Intelligent search? I wonder if Apple will drop their Google Search deal
There was a guy that ran a kind of parody summary of HN manually for a few years.

It was mildly entertaining at times.

However, ever since a couple of years ago now there has not been any further posts on said site.

Not even a “goodbye” note.

I wonder what happened. Maybe (hopefully) the guy that ran it got tired of posting and moved on to something else.
To that last note, it is always astounding just how costly subway systems are. I am amazed any of them make it to completion simply because the up front cost is so high. But once they are in, the improvement to transport standards in the system is wonderful.

for example , in my home town we are currently spending $9-11 billion to make a 9KM - 5 station tunnel link. A big investment but a good long term solution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_Tunnel
> mean-spirited

Of whom? The person who made Quacker News?

I don't think "AI" can be mean-spirited. Surely it's analogous to standing in front of those Crazy Mirrors at sideshows that distort your appearance. The mirror takes your input and returns an unflattering output, that's its job. Quacker News is the crazy mirror.
Are there any competitors expected to match SpaceX's launch costs or capacity in the next few years?
Same. It's ugly, it breaks acronyms, it doesn't work in all (spoken) languages, it doesn't work well with serialization, etc.

Frankly if they insisted on visibility being part of the name, I would have preferred they go with the age-old C++/ancientPHP tradition of using a _ prefix for private members.
Related. Others?

Don't ask to ask, just ask - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39762546 - March 2024 (37 comments)

Please don't say just hello in chat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36623348 - July 2023 (126 comments)

No Hello: A New Wave - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33906174 - Dec 2022 (57 comments)

How to gently enforce “nohello” to a coworker? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31578259 - June 2022 (1 comment)

Please Don't Say Just Hello in Chat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31088433 - April 2022 (43 comments)

No hello – please don't just say hello in chat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30642052 - March 2022 (77 comments)

Don't ask to ask, just ask (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30639225 - March 2022 (366 comments)

A better way to say Hello - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30094833 - Jan 2022 (1 comment)

No Hello (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29978860 - Jan 2022 (67 comments)

Don't Ask to Ask - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29603250 - Dec 2021 (2 comments)

No-Hello - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28682658 - Sept 2021 (8 comments)

Please don't say just hello in chat (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25881800 - Jan 2021 (350 comments)

Don't ask to ask, just ask - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24259156 - Aug 2020 (101 comments)

No Hello (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24239880 - Aug 2020 (210 comments)

Please Don't Say Just Hello In Chat (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19648415 - April 2019 (265 comments)

Please Don't Say Just Hello in Chat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14868294 - July 2017 (46 comments)
People that want to steal from the MTA but can afford to pay and are too scared to jump the turnstile. Just them.
I guess you could say I don't know RWP from Adam! :D

My og comment wasn't to accurately explain gradient optimization, I was just expressing a sentiment not especially aimed at experts and not especially requiring details.

Though I'm afraid I subjected you to the same "cringe" I experience when I read pop sci/tech articles describe deep learning optimization as "the algorithm" being "rewarded" or "punished," haha.
A Web Variant for Applications
My favorite part of having something featured on hn was seeing it on n-gate the next week.
If it ran Debian would we have the same complaint? I am surprised by the poor battery life if it’s running Android and using push to talk. They need to do something about that rabbit animation because that’s where this thing spends most of its time.
No, that’s why I said almost nothing :)
A CSS framework for recreating Windows 7 UI
Article title: TSMC Celebrates 30th North America Technology Symposium with Innovations Powering AI with Silicon Leadership
Where does this version of express put it against its competitors (Koa, Fastify, Hono etc)?
Does anyone have any info on if saltstack is going to be enshittified? That is the situation that would get me to go looking for a replacement such as this
That's a lot of pedantry you've got there for someone who claims it is not welcome. Rules for thee, not for me?

But, if you'd kindly come back to the topic at hand:

> That is what the discussion here is about - the way errors are handled in a language in practice, not in theory.

While I'm not entirely convinced that is accurate, I will accept it. Now, how does:

- "That said, suggesting adding exceptions to Go is about as reasonable as adding a GC to Zig."

Relate to that assertion? What does "suggesting adding exceptions to Go" have to do with a common pattern that has emerged?
How does this compare to https://www.newnode.com/ ?

I think there are tons of interesting things that can happen in this space... I think it's ripe for all sorts of interesting social engagement that isnt just chat.

Curious if you have OTHER plans for this?
Attacking other users like this (and breaking the site guidelines in general) will get you banned here. We've had to warn you about this before.

I'm not going to ban you right now because you've also posted good things, but we need you to take this seriously, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN in the intended spirit, that would be good.
i think driving is probably already dangerous enough without adding cannabis or any other psychoactive into the mix
Yeah... I'm not even Australian and this being some sort of indie OS build made by or for indigenous Australians was my first guess at what this was.

I had a similar concern but you stated it way better than I could've. Thanks for doing so

Naming is hard.
Stinky is very qualitative. Maybe you grew up around tobacco smokers and so don’t mind the smell? I hate it.

Quantitatively, marijuana smoke is less carcinogenic than tobacco smoke.
Almost all actual democracies have secret ballot? There’s any number of ways to ensure secrecy is preserved at all times by default. (unlike in Sweden, where virtually no votes are secret because it requires hacking the process)
RefactAI: Use best-in-class LLMs for coding in your IDE
Why can’t you just flag the comments you don’t like instead of suppressing a relevant story?
In my experience, the weed dealers aren't the same dealers as the guys moving the harder stuff. If you can get meth from a guy, he can probably get you coke too. But your weed guy probably can't get you either. At least, IME with NYC dealers.
How about fixing Siri? I’m totally bought in to Apple’s stuff but Siri is beyond embarrassing at this point. It shouldn’t take several seconds to respond to basic commands.
employees as contractors is very common. this is a solved problem.

and firing people is also not a mystery, interestingly PIPs are a US invention (but if labor laws are so lax, why were they needed there? :))
Is it a better deal to blow your entire runway + opportunity cost on hardware that nobody wants?
I want to live in the real world where most people live a hopefully fulfilling natural life of 75-100 years and then "make room" for the next generation.

I want a world where geezers like Joe Biden and Donald Trump are not our choices for who will be running things. Imagine if they were 40 years older than they are.

People get old, and die. It's OK.
This could be reasonable policy if the police in the US didn't have racial bias in enforcement. It's not even historically
I like to have one of my tmux windows be a sudo session with emacs running as root and mostly used to run emerge world or apt update etc. also a window tailing all the logs. I haven’t been on a machine where more than one admin was logged in at the same time in quite some time.
We all do, German and non-German alike.
From their NEWS page: https://landley.net/aboriginal/news.html

News

April 30, 2017

-- End of Line --

Development of Aboriginal Linux has ended, replaced by mkroot.
i never had a real reason stop using safari for my purposes though this might be it if some un-optional AI button slams me in the face every time i open safari, ruined like every other thing running on CPU I used to love

your move, apple

EDIT:

> users will be treated to a new user interface (UI) for customizing popular page controls

> This feature is not automatically enabled in test builds of Safari 18 and instead requires manual activation from the page controls menu.

i remain cautious optimistic
I think you may need to read my comment again. It's even mentioned in the summary:

> In summary, our results show that additional tokens can provide computational benefits independent of token choice. The fact that intermediate tokens can act as filler tokens raises concerns about large language models engaging in unauditable, hidden computations that are increasingly detached from the observed chain-of-thought tokens.

The paper discusses an unexplained benefit of additional computation regardless of which token is selected be it symbols or Lorem Ipsum.

I didn't mention anything about training. I'm speaking based on how the Transformer architecture itself is designed.

The "unauditable" computation is simply a result of how machine learning models work. The extra computation made available is mentioned in my explanation.

Keen to hear your thoughts on it though.
Sounds more like a typical caching issue than anything
That logic doesn't really hold. I'll speak generally and not about this specific administration:

If the <current government> was doing good things that the people wanted during the entire term, then they would not need to resort to moves like this alleged one when the vote is coming up. It's only if they're not doing good things that the people want that they would dangle something shiny to the electorate.
It is designed for the cloud storage use case (Dropbox, Google Drive, etc) - it creates local copies of files and synchs them with remote ones. Not what you want to do in the general case.
Indeed. https://github.com/landley/toybox would be a better link to discuss.

It's an interesting project. I wasn't aware it also built minimal Linux images. It seems like a great base for a new distro, just bring your own package manager. Nix would be a great fit for this.
(fictional hypothetical Minecraft snippet, ignore)

If there's anyone out there with the magnet or torrent to the 2011 XBL / partner net dump that may or may not have been leaked (not src, just bin), there are an entire new generation of talent out there that wouldn't mind picking up where the now fallen - giants had left off.

"Clean room" implementation folks were able to replace the pinned certs and connect to our own "sex box lies" before the momentum was focused elsewhere (also MS has goons)
You have the same PL preferences as me. I haven't tried Rust yet, but Kotlin, modern C#, and F# all fit your requirements. Kotlin is closest because it uses the enormous Java ecosystem.