skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For Apple, they know the average person doesn’t really care about this. They only lean into privacy when it’s a useful competitive weapon. There are many people willing to pay for products now that record their screen 24/7, or buy “AI” wearables that are just open mics. The Overton window shifted for privacy concerns somewhere between Google Glass (where people were barred from locations) and now.

Still, it wouldn’t surprise me if they work with openai to release less powerful local models just for simple Siri use cases so they can keep using privacy for marketing.
https://archive.ph/T83J2
How bout both? Verify those backups in case you need to - make sure you can actually recover them as well, this is not the same as running a verify job - and go out while the thing is doing its job. I went out last night and got some spectacular photos here in Sweden, they would fit in some SF flick about a portal opening up in space. There was a clear impact centre for the charged particles somewhat south of the zenith from where large columns of light emanated to cover the entire southern hemisphere. Yes, southern, the aurora band was pushed down so far that I had to look south. Only later in the night - when the activity abated - did some of those columns appear more northerly.

I did not have to test my backups because I do so regularly and know I can recover from disaster.
That wasn’t for the initial charges. That was what she got after being found guilty (although it again sounds like it was a massive overreach) of sending threatening text messages.
Is there rumor that Tim Cook might be peacing out soon? Or is this just somebody pure speculating about possibilities? Because if the former then this is a lot more interesting. If the latter... meh

TFA just basically says "he's old, served longer than average, and could be looking for a replacement"
Yes. Same for me as well. It just works and is easy for my fingers to remember without consciously thinking about it.
lost can include you don't know where to find it even though you know it exists...
Anyone else worried about the apparent non-orthogonality here? Why do we need Apple's approval for using third party services on the hardware we own?
Worth pointing out that in Zig, you wouldn't have had this problem in the first place. The natural way to write a program of that nature is to create an arena allocator, immediately defer arena.deinit() on the next line, and then allocate to your heart's content. When the function returns, on an error or otherwise, the arena is freed.

No need to go back later and add a bunch of free(), because you correctly implemented the memory policy as a matter of course, in two lines.
Or you get the model and host it on your own hardware. The sort of thing an Apple might be able to do.
The problem is that individuals cannot cut it out, because big tech firms use it pretty widely. It's basically a moat that allows companies to ship products using a shared standard, but makes it impossible for individual developers to (especially ones who aren't actively trying to start a business, but even then, $7500 a year is a lot for a garage-level startup for a technical standard).

Imagine how much less innovation there would be if it cost $7,500 a year to write anything that uses the Internet Protocol suite of standards.
The DOJ is literally part of the executive branch
Any significant developments since the presentation was done in 2021?
Catfish Test. Find out if who you are talking to is real or not
Hello everyone,

My name is David. I like to build SaaS'es and web apps. I came across someone who was taken advantage of someone online and lost a good amount of money. I decided to build a little site that will allow people to check if the person they are talking to is who they are or not.

I present CatfishTest. This very simple tool will help you find out where the person you are talking to is from so you can tell if they are lying or not.

I have not launched this yet. I am finishing up development but have the landing page finished for people to register.

There is also an affiliate program where anyone can share a link and can win prizes and such when we go live. Feel free to ask anything and looking forward to helping people expose fake people online!
Sorry, but that sounds like victim blaming.

Nothing that transpired was anything other than a giant CF based upon the girls in question lying (and getting away with it) and ruining another persons life.

Nothing she did deserves what happened. Nothing.
This indeed seems to have been a heavy focus of their research team in the past year, eg. "Efficient Large Language Model Inference with Limited Memory" [1] and OpenELM [2]

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.11514

[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.14619 (with 1.1B parameters, this appears to be their attempt at building a lightweight LLM)
This is the reason why this notice exists in the OpenThread repo: https://github.com/openthread/openthread/blob/1fceb225b3858a...
Second best set of the night next to Tony's.
I feel like this is going to be used by pseudo-science influencers to push trendy diets to prevent autism when this study is observations stage at best.
You can just use a transformer to re-create the 240 for your pump if the power/load is otherwise fine

Especially as an autotransformer it's pretty cheap (should be about 50$).
Thanks for the recommendation, I'll try it out.
That’s a great reply.
Did not get feedback on my application after doing the multi-hour take-home

That was on me a bit because I left the email thread hanging for a long time but when I did finish it (and they were still hiring), it would have been nice to hear a yes or no
or it's more complicated than a simple all or nothing rule.
People tend to mistake what the job of the Supreme Courts is. It is not as some form of vindictive righteousness body.

Supreme courts are there to uphold the definite letter of the law. If laws are bad/outdated or otherwise improper, it's up to the other branches of government to change them.
Ask HN: How to Advertise Apps to iOS Users?
I am the founder of an app called Barrier - Social Lock (shameless plug: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/barrier-social-lock/id6448244443), designed to help manage and reduce screen time on social media and other addictive apps. Initially created as a personal solution to combat my own social media addiction, the app uses Apple's Screen Time API to regulate usage effectively. Despite having a small user base that finds it beneficial, I've encountered a growth plateau, suggesting a potential challenge in reaching a broader audience in a competitive landscape.

Given this context, I'm reaching out to the Hacker News community for advice and insights: How have you successfully marketed your apps, especially in environments saturated with options? Additionally, does anyone have experience with getting press releases written about their apps or gaining media attention? Any guidance on navigating these aspects would be greatly appreciated.

I'm also open to any feedback on Barrier itself: Are there features that could make it more appealing? Are there any bugs that need urgent attention?

Thank you for any suggestions or insights you can share!
You can put off upgrading for a year. Fedora N gets updates until Fedora N+2 is released.
I'm pretty sure you could measure this with a mobile phone app, if such a thing doesn't already exist. I've already many times used such an app to measure acoustics in a room as part of the setup process for multiple brands of home speaker system, they emitted a range of frequencies and presumably measured the result using the microphone.
There are a few issues, but the most frustrating one is the inability to reload the page or close the tab. If you accidentally do either of these, any changes made since the last version was saved on the cloud while you were online will be lost. Sometimes, if you switch online and you are writing, you could lose everything.
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o-HcG8QxPc
Twin studies are needed and they exist

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3893360/

> It is concluded that exercise attitudes and exercise behavior are heritable, that attitudes and behavior are partly correlated through pleiotropic genetic effects, but that the data are compatible with a causal association between exercise attitudes and behavior.

Here are some popular articles: Does exercise really do nothing for longevity, as a Finnish twins study suggests? https://theconversation.com/does-exercise-really-do-nothing-...

>When smoking, alcohol consumption and body mass index (BMI) were taken into account in the analysis, the link between exercise and longevity was much reduced, with only a 9% difference in death rate between the least active group and others – and no difference between the highly and moderately active. In other words, for a hypothetical twin pair with very different activity levels but the same smoking history, alcohol use and BMI, there would be very little difference in life expectancy.

What Happens When One Twin Exercises and the Other Doesn’t
https://www.outsideonline.com/health/training-performance/tw...
For stuff like this, overfitting is a given.
Is gold a security or a currency?
yes and, the strong interactive graphics inline are important for a lot of learning situations
Fedora First (tm) - they are always trying to push the NEW HOTNESS way before it's ready. PulseAudio, wayland, systemd, all the extra systemd features that shouldn't be part of an init system, Gnome 3, there's always jank new thing they're pushing. 3 to 5 years later this stuff is fine, but Fedora is always First.

I use Debian and Arch, used to use Ubuntu and Gentoo many years ago ... I like the model of Arch (and Debian and Gentoo) of being minimal by default, you add the components you want when you want them, for some components you can choose between the stalwart classic and the new upstart depending on what you need. Use boring technology where you can, use the new thing where you have a specific need, stuff will work much more reliably, without all sorts of excuses about how it's some other old component's fault.
Full scan of 1 cubic mm of brain tissue took 1.4 PB – Google's AI experts assist
The use of manual memory management increases the cognitive load when reasoning about software. Working memory capacity varies considerably between people and is a performance limiting factor when designing complex systems. You see analogues of this in other engineering disciplines too.

Over my many years of working in software development I have come around to the idea that most software developers do not have sufficient working memory capacity to reason about memory management in addition to everything else they must reason about at the same time. They may know mechanically how to properly do manual memory management but when writing code they drop things if they are juggling too many things at once mentally. It isn't a matter of effort, there simply is a complexity threshold past which something has to give. Automatic memory management has its tradeoffs but it also enables some people to be effective who otherwise would not be.

On the other side of that you have the minority that get manual memory management right every time almost effortlessly, who don't grok why it is so difficult for everyone else because it is literally easy for them. I think some people can't imagine that such a group of engineers exist because they are not in that group and their brain doesn't work that way. If you are in this group, automatic memory management will seem to make things worse for unclear benefit.

I've observed this bifurcation in systems software my entire career. In discussions about memory safety and memory management, it is often erroneously assumed that the latter population simply doesn't exist.
I'm sure Thread Group would love to stop Google making OpenThread available, but unless they want to tee-off against Google's legal team over patent infringement, the easier route for them is just threatening everyone else out of using it.

All the combined wealth of every individual who has ever wanted to tinker with Thread is a fraction of Google's warchest.
HN commenters in this very thread. And it's one of the most upvoted comments.
Isaac Asimov Predictions from 1981
> If you have a microscope or handheld lens you can look at pond water or found objects to observe what is hidden to the naked eye.

Decent electronic field microscopes are only like $30-40 on Amazon. They broadcast a Wifi network that you connect to on your phone and use an app to view the image, take photos, etc.
This article is very in-depth and I really like that the author took the time to draw good diagrams.
Music (long duration) To Work With. No time to choose; allows random re-select
Does seem like another browser/search integration debacle. Makes you wonder which side is getting paid between Apple and OpenAI.
> For Apple, they know the average person doesn’t really care about this.

This is one sad thing about the free market: everybody is _not_ average in one way or the other, but all we get are products made for average people, so in the end everybody is a little bit unhappy. Some people are far from average, therefore they must be very unhappy. Now if only the products we bought weren't so much locked down, we could modify them and use them however we wanted to.
Of course you don't need to store all the raw data though. Processing it and then throwing it away would allow you to churn through much larger parts of the breath this way without the absurd costs they calculate in this article.
This is about Apple tying 3rd-party capabilities directly into the OS. You can use ChatGPT (or whatever) via several existing extensibility mechanisms right now — Siri, Shortcuts, the Action Button, Share Sheets, etc. — with apps which have done the integration work.

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7993358-chatgpt-ios-app-...
That will 100% lead to the weights getting leaked, I doubt OpenAI would risk that
Reveals developmental origins or merely an observational study of metabolites in children?
We're moving from Portland back to Illinois (where my wife and I spent most of our lives), and the schedule happens to work out that we'll be rolling into town smack dab in the middle of cicadageddon. Part of me wonders if I try to look at cicadas through the lens of science or learn to appreciate their "song of poetry", it will be a little more bearable. But deep down I know that any curiosity or interest I try to nurture is going to go right down the toilet as soon as one of those big dumb bastards flies right into my face.

Edit: grammar
IMO insisting on a change like this would require retiring the original, un-suffixed name. And making separate -min and -full packages instead.
Who said anything about the executive?

You simply can’t file a “conflict of interest” case against SCOTUS. At all. The statute of limitations is a femtosecond.

That said, the DOJ is executive, not judicial. The courts are not part of it.
Intel Takes Open-Source Hyperscan Development to Proprietary Licensed Software
Announcement about an announcement. Is this against HN policy?

Let’s wait till Monday.
Photographer Smashes World Record for Fastest Drone Flight at 298 MPH
> defined in such a way that two with the same label can have remarkably little overlap in terms of observed behaviour

I believed this until my daughter was diagnosed and then I was later diagnosed. My experience with (some) professionals was a surprise to me; a much wider variety of "observed behaviors" than I expected seem to stem from sensory issues for example. And I think it makes sense that humans might adopt a wide variety of ways to deal with for a much smaller variety of processing issues.

(Unrelated to the professional experience) Have you looked into monotropism? It's a fairly compact theory that ties a lot of behaviors together that might look like they have no overlap from the outside.

Also:

> It’s a label for those perceived by others in a certain light

Lots of people self-diagnose.
Feels weird not finding the name of Masamune Shirow even once in the article (or the comments here, at least the last time I checked)
>Are you calling just allocating memory you’ll never use leaking? It is not.

Yes it is, by definition a memory leak is any memory that has been reserved but won't be read from or written to. If you allocate memory into a data structure and after some point in time you will never read from or write to that memory, then that memory constitutes a leak.
The link to the 2011 Norvig blog is broken. Correct link is https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/at-scientific-americ... (Edit: a better-formatted version is at http://norvig.com/sciam/sciam.html)

Link to the PDF version of Strachey 1966: https://pdfupload.io/docs/05a2ef03
The countdown to a controversial privacy violation begins.

Makes you wonder if this will be baked in or if they'll give users the ability to opt-out of data sharing on a self-proclaimed "private" OS.
So ur a westerner. When a country brings in mass immigration all at once and insist on multi culturalism what do think that does to the recipient country?

Could u have started those companies in ur parents origin country?
You should post this when you're ready for people to try it, sign-ups alone can't be Show HN's, take a look at:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
If a user keeps their credentials in a notebook and it got stolen, the TOTP check can be the difference between the attacker getting in, and the user being notified and changing their password
It isn't just food, it is everything.

And the "excess savings" in the US economy due to the pandemic are gone, inflation has eaten them all up.

Combine that with high interest rates and I don't see how we avoid a fairly severe recession.
FTA:

"only 10–20% of children diagnosed before 5 years of age able to live independently as adults"

^ the article and the medical treatment is aimed at those so severely impacted/compromised that they cannot live independently.
The microservices craze was perhaps the purest example of a ZIRP
Trellis (YC W24) is hiring Founding Eng to build ETL for unstructured data
That's my feeling as well. I can hear when the hot water has reached my shower.
Android in the Time of AI
> It may not be very exciting that D{n} = 0 for all numbers, but that's the actual derivative of a number.

No, that’s the derivative of the function that return n whatever its argument, which also can be written as λx.n or in a zillion different ways.

That can be written as n, but is different from the number n.

Also, one man’s “pretty confusingly is another man’s “similar things should have similar names”. There’s a rich history in mathematics of overloading the meaning of terms and symbols as long as there’s some similarity between them, for example when using × for both the multiplication of numbers and of matrices (where the former is commutative, but the latter isn’t, barring some exceptions such as 1 × 1 matrices).

(See also the comment elsewhere in this thread which says “Mathematicans like to call two things with the same "structure" by the same name, even if it's not obvious how they're otherwise related” (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40327885)
There is a big difference in deleting chat after the court asked, and simply not retaining chats.

Something about your reply seems to indicate the topic is about self cleaning messages, which is under question by the courts of deleting evidence.

Even the words utter in a room linger some time after they leave my lips. Should we be told to install acoustic tiles that let the words echo for the ages so the courts can determine the truth?
I hardly can imagine how it works for you, because WSL1 basically lacks any option for containers be it namespaces or cgroups? Netfilter? Bridges?

Feel free to correct me and share successfull cases with wsl1 and containers
Obesity Rates by Gender and Country
I think OpenAI would be happy to cut a deal. Microsoft already self-host their GPT4 models for MS Copilot.
The Mystery and Magic of Petra
Its here, in this talk in from this year.

https://youtu.be/q4TZxj-Dq7s?t=1461

They did 800gbps in 2022 and now seems to be focusing on low power usage with arm.
I'm a marimo author. Pluto is amazing, and definitely one of our biggest inspirations. As others have mentioned, we've given shout outs to Pluto.JL in most of our copy; oversight to not include it here.
Apparently I can't lip read, as I never heard anything other than "baa" even as the video was claiming that I should be hearing something different.
So hypothetically, if it was roughly 2-3x the cost to deploy into space, there may be situations where it would be viable. No land usage on the ground, no maintenance, power could be beamed to various parts of the globe as its needed, etc. Ground based solar still wins watts/$ probably, but the better comparison might be versus small modular nuclear reactors. I think costs are close to the smaller reactors, but larger reactors are still more cost efficient. It would be like an SMR that did not require regulatory approvals and could cover a larger area as needed.
I’d like a scientific revolution by anyone.
Ongoing discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40313193
Not sure how useful this is, and the media hype is probably stupid.

But I'm a fan of Bitluni. He has created a few pretty fun projects and is quite active in the local hacker scene
And this kind of leak is the same kind that is actually difficult to prevent and debug with manual allocation -- it's present / reachable in some structure, but not intentionally. Say you have a cache of items -- how big should it grow? Can it free space under memory pressure? If you reuse items, do they own collections (e.g., std::vec) that hold on to reserved but unused space (e.g. clear() doesn't free memory)? These are the hard problems and they are approximately the same with or without GC.
agree, it's more of an "according to me" statement

I'm sure I can find citations for both cases: meaning causing language and language causing meaning, so it'd only artificially support my reasoning

but I strongly feel thinking about it through first principles points more towards meaning causing language. an example is being able to imagine things, connections, processes: our ancestors wanted to convey whatever was in their brain to other members of the tribe (how big the lion that just ripped off their hand was, how fresh the berries were and where are they, how complex did the sky become after they ate those weird mushrooms, what happens if he uses a sharp object instead of a rock and why that's safer etc.). language evolved as a need to convey what your brain is 'seeing'

but yes, language definitely influences our perception about concepts, and it even predisposes us to certain beliefs, it's like a cage we're trapped our whole lives in if we're not fortunate enough to come across the right books/articles that set us free

in English, you say "Brevity is the soul of wit", in Romanian you say "Lots of talking -- man's poverty" (rough translation). the first is more positive than the second, but they're basically pointing to the same idea
Great feedback, thank you!

Our philosophy on pricing is to try and only make what real companies who can pay need, and offer what individuals and hobbyists and small startups need for for free, so that’s why SSO ended up a paid feature. But it’s great feedback for us - thank you!
None of the adults in this behaved appropriately.

1 The mother of the child telling about what the other kids did - instead of talking to the other parents found it right to send anonymous messages.

2 The other parents found it right to go into full-denial + legal mode.

3 Police and prosecutor instead of talking sense into the adults, went into misinterpretation of evidence for re-election gain.

4 Global media who just repeated and sensationalized the claims without further investigation.

5 A global social media audience amplifying the outrage.

6 Cameras everywhere and a society which doesn’t allow teenagers to be teenagers and try themselves out - and therefore can be blackmailed.