skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an incredible feat to me that a single station can broadcast to the almost the entire US, Mexico, and even parts of South America at the right time of day [0]. (I believe this is why many clocks check for the signal overnight.) It's achieved by using an extremely low frequency, at 60 kHz. The antenna is enormous and suspended between 4 towers.

[0] https://tf.nist.gov/stations/wwvbcoverage.htm

[1] https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/time-di...
How much do those input tokens cost?

According to https://ai.google.dev/pricing it's $0.70/million input tokens (for a long context). That will be per-exchange, so every little back and forth will cost around that much (if you're using a substantial portion of the context window).

And while I haven't tested Gemini, most LLMs get increasingly wonky as the context goes up, more likely to fixate, more likely to forget instructions.

That big context window could definitely be great for certain tasks (especially information extraction), but it doesn't feel like a generally useful feature.
Objectively speaking (if people would be honest with themselves), both are just decent at best.

I think comparing them now is probably not that useful outside of this AI hype train. Like comparing two children. A lot can happen.

The bigger message I am getting from this is it's clear OpenAI won't have a super AI monopoly.
This is a good candidate for the list. Most solutions don't really differentiate themselves much, but being designed for production environments is certainly unique amongst the open source options.

I'll try to get this merged today.
That seems like a good deal considering he delivered the entire brand identity and name.
Converting Datadog queries, dashboards, and alerts to open source standards
Please don't take HN threads into generic ideological tangents (they're repetitive), and especially please don't post in the flamewar style. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sound management is a nightmare... you put some playlist on Music and start to surf the web with Safari only for the music to be interrupted because whatever random web site has a video on auto-play... Seriously?
I believe that they are going to try hard for artists and creative folks via apps such as Procreate.

https://procreate.com/ipad
What's new with Postgres at Microsoft, 2024 edition
Well. He knows more about the exploit. Maybe he could tell us what it is.
The big tech co I work at has filled thousands of back office roles in UAE this year. Political neutrality + fundraising + tax advantages have pulled them away from US/Europe/Asia
The endgame of that is that people will leave.
I believe that "Alabama prisoners' organs used after death without family consent to train medical students" exceeds HNs title character limit, and it also leaves out the fact that the blame for it is being shifted around -- an important component (arguably the most important component) of this story.
However NVIDIA limits it to datacenter GPUs. And you might need an additional license, not sure about that. In their view it's a product for Citrix and other virtual desktops, not something a normal consumer needs.
Leaving aside other flagged terms, I have seen people take offense to being called cis or cisgender, so if the concern is to avoid people feeling attacked in the public sphere, it seems as valid as other similar protections.

I'm not sure why it's at Musk's "whim". Maybe I missed that he personally made that call in the linked article?
> "This tool isn’t available in your country yet"

How did I know I would see this message before clicking "Sign up to try"?
Yet, they killed the Jews in occupied countries as well. Shockingly, the Nazis were the least efficient at doing their genocide at home where the support was highest.
Can anyone explain why libc versions are so often a problem when installing software? I understand that all libraries in an executable need to use the same version of malloc. But otherwise I don't understand the reason for these clashes. Even malloc can be swapped out for another function with the same functionality. And I also don't understand why libc needs to be updated so frequently, anyway.
IBM i doesn’t need a lot of power for many common use cases (even this machine is overkill). For example, my credit union (like many other CUs) runs CU*BASE which runs on i. This entry level machine is still orders of magnitude more than the software needs to run well. (For reference, when I spec’d out an entry level machine for an application like a credit union a few years ago, the cost was roughly $10,000 - fairly easy for most IT budgets to handle.)

I suspect they didn’t want the one core sales to cannibalise more expensive AIX or Linux machines, and most people using AIX or Linux would want a more horsepower anyway.
Would be great to also see new pg_lakehouse and datafusion benchmark results here: https://duckdblabs.github.io/db-benchmark/

Currently Datafusion is much slower than duckdb or OOMing.
dupe with some discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40353585
So I'm screwed if an iPhone user ever pairs with my headphones, i.e. when I lend them to them?
Thanks!

> Two suggestions: it’s not immediately obvious whether subsequent benchmark result tables/rows show deltas from the original approach or from the preceding one (it’s the latter, which is more impressive). Maybe call that out the first couple of times?

Agree!

> Second, the “using the single Vec but mutating it” option would presumably benefit from a reserve() or with_capacity() call. Since in that approach you push to the vector in both erroring and non-erroring branches, it doesn’t have to be exact (though you could do a bfs search to find maximum depth, that doesn’t strike me as a great idea) and could be up to some constant value since a single block memory allocation is cheap in this context. (Additionally, the schema you are validating against defines a minimum depth whereas the default vec has a capacity of zero, so you’re guaranteed that it’s a bad choice unless you’re validating an empty, invalid object.)

Oh, this is a cool observation! Indeed it feels like `with_capacity` would help here

> But I agree with the sibling comment from @duped that actually parsing to JSON is the biggest bottleneck and simply parsing to the minimum requirements for validation would be far cheaper, although it depends on if you’ll be parsing immediately after in case it isn’t invalid (make the common case fast, assuming the common case here is absence of errors rather than presence of them) or if you really do just want to validate the schema (which isn’t that rare of a requirement, in and of itself).

My initial assumption was that usually the input is already parsed. E.g. validating incoming data inside an API endpoint which is then passed somewhere else in the same representation.
But I think that is a fair use case too and I was actually thinking of implementing it at some point via a generic `Json` trait which does not imply certain representation.

> (Edit: I do wonder if you can still use serde and serde_json but use the deserialize module’s `Visitor` trait/impl to “deserialize” to an enum { Success, ValidationError(..) }` so you don’t have to write your own parser, get to use the already crazy-optimized serde code, and still avoid actually fully parsing the JSON in order to merely validate it.)

Now when I read the details, it feels like a really really cool idea!

> If this were in the real world, I would use a custom slab allocator, possibly from storage on the stack rather than the heap, to back the Vec (and go with the last design with no linked lists whatsoever). But a compromise would be to give something like the mimalloc crate a try!

Nice! In the original `jsonschema` implementation the `validate` function returns `Result<(), ErrorIter>` which makes it more complex to apply that approach, but I think it still should be possible.
>Even worse, and likely illegal(!), the warranty has terms that are likely against FTC guidelines, like voiding the warranty if you disassemble the robot. As far as I know, these type of terms are not valid.

Yea that's the joke. They can just claim a tiny scratch is why the robot is broken and void the warranty that way. Standard practice these days.
I tried to watch Joodse Raad and I just can't.
I don’t know. I am really put off by the demo videos. They’re too expressive and human and seem to aim for engagement. All I want from an LLM is condensed facts and information. I have humans to talk to and don’t need something pretending to be human.
SoftRAM95: "False and Misleading" (1996)
> Even VMware Workstation and VirtualBox on Windows use HyperV under the hood if you have HyperV or WSL features enabled.

VirtualBox is consistently (and significantly) slower when it uses HyperV as backend than when it uses its original driver, and many features are not supported at all with HyperV. In fact the GUI actually shows a "tortoise" icon in the status bar when running with HyperV backend.
Ask Google Photos to help make sense of your gallery
A Windows convertible such as the Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Pro 360 has at least as varied an application library, and the advantage of a real file system, and the possibility of scripting, and a stylus which doesn't need to be kept charged up.
I meant to ask the question, and phrased it poorly.
Didn't Yitang Zhang end up a full professor at UC Santa Barbara on the basis of a single paper?
There has been a driver "in the works" for the past decade. Never coming. MS/Apple do not make it easy anyway.
If anyone knows of a detailed writeup of a language implementation like this, please link to it. The thread under this comment is disappointingly full of "a sufficiently smart compiler could ..." type stuff.
I read this as "doubles up as Scottish satire" and clicked trying to find the satire.

Very cool logo, though, so I wasn't disappointed.
Video will not autoplay audio without user interaction. Not even on desktops these days. You must be misremembering
You know you're getting older when...you unconsciously assume that "AMC" is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Motors_Corporation
There are arrows pointing out.
> Why not just the full 64k. The sliding window trick was of such limited use compared to the headaches it caused.

As I pointed out in my other comment, the full 64KB would have made it harder to support child processes under DOS.

Suppose I have 300KB of free conventional memory, and run an 8KB program (something like a menu program, for example.) If it starts a child process, that child process has about 292KB of free conventional memory to use. With your idea, it could only have 236KB, because even though the parent process only needs 8KB of memory, it would consume a whole 64KB.
>We’re going to witness an explosion of affordable humanoid robots in every home & business, and as they become increasingly capable the use cases will be nearly limitless.

For the first year, after that society will collapse as the largely now unemployed low income and middle class arm up and start pillaging for survival.
WOW.

I remember desperately trying to download this through a "Mass Mail" on AOL around this time. So much disappointment - you can't "magic" a 486/SX with 4MB of RAM.
I believe the machine you're referring to is called a Humphrey visual field analyzer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_visual_field_analyser
Can you explain this aspect of infinite jest to me without spoiling the book?
That's why the iPad isn't a personal computer. It's a computer that Apple lets you use, for purposes they approve of, only if they get paid a percentage of any commercial transaction that happens on the device.

It's a nice reader and portable second display, though.
And the pi hat only supports 500MB/s, so an m.2 ssd is really overkill
These announcements are kind of underwhelming but google is definitely going full force against openai now. Who knows how the playing field will look in another 2 years if they keep using their full weight like this
my friends with yahoo use gmail client, i'm not sure how they do it
The pop-ups seem to be new.

> Since last June, X owner Elon Musk has claimed that the words “cis” and “cisgender” are “considered slurs” on the platform. But only more recently have these words triggered full-screen pop-ups warning users that their post might be a violation of platform rules.
They showed just that in the demo with the voice call example. Screen share can be a live video feed
Did you respond to the wrong comment? You're also needlessly being an ass for no reason
One day soon Google will need the trust of developers and it will have to contend with the long erosion of developer trust from cancelled products and projects.
> I imagine many of the students there don't really care about physics.

It might be, but AFAICS the study was conducted at Harvard and I believe students at prestige universities have much more will to study. If they chose physics, they are likely interested in it
Ew, why would you lend in-ear headphones to anyone?
Please make your substantive points without calling names (and please don't post in the flamewar style generally). This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40337110.
My point is that at least their paid support fixed the things I asked them to fix; I cannot say the same of VMware where support was already non-existent a couple years ago (I stopped using them the moment someone here in HN said the entire Workstation staff had been fired and replaced with skeleton overseas crew, and this was way before Broadcom).
I use their website and it's one of the three models to choose from if your are on plus subscription.
curious about the UX really - feeds are a lot of things, hackernews, linkedin, twitter, instagram, techcrunch, bbc, my bank account, stock prices, crypto and so on

how do you make it extensible?
I was mostly hoping qemu would get paravirtualized support some day, because it is leagues ahead of VMware Player in speed. Everyone's hopes are riding on https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/pull....
So when you want to use email on your phone you first open a web browser, then navigate and sign in to your email service? I don't know anyone who does that, do you get some benefits from doing it that way (if i understood correctly)?

I will say, i use Firefox for YouTube rather than the native app, but only because Firefox extensions _infinitely_ improve the browsing and viewing experience (ad blocker, distraction blockers, subscription grouping and sorting, automatic resolution selection).
Are you talking about the address bar search? Just disable keywords in about:config then.
There's this little war called "World War 1" which resulted in the absolute collapse of the final world-power level monarchies.

As it turns out: the problems of monarchies is innate. Hereditary Monarchies lead to a separation into "Noble" vs "Peasant" classes, where Nobles have a genetic line to the throne. The Nobles believe themselves to be superior and start putting themselves into various sections of government, when in actuality many Peasants are actually better than the Nobles.

So when it comes to War (the only time societies can directly compare against each other), the side that has a bigger recruitment pool (ie: Peasant commanders, aka Napoleon's secret sauce), tends to win. This is also true of sciences, research, production, etc. etc. Every part of society, there are likely peasant leaders who are best at the job.

Peasants win not necessarily because Peasants are smarter, but because peasants are at "sometimes" smarter, and this "sometimes" happens in a large enough degree that anyone who cuts off their leadership pool into "Family members of the Monarch only" innately hampers their abilities to lead over time.

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Now colonial rule by far-away foreign powers is clearly a bad situation as well (as Britain's control over its former colonies can likely attest). But that's not "Democracy" either.

Hereditary monarchy may be an improvement over UAE's position (ie: better than foreign colonialism), but lets not get ahead of ourselves. The world gave up on monarchies over a century ago for a good damn reason.
You won't out-pace OpenAI, so selling a wrapper around their API that only slightly improves upon their current work is simply a stop-gap until they release model++

> and IF the goal of OpenAI is to literally create AGI, doesn't this mean all software is redundant?

Sort of means all of everything is redundant. :^)
I actually liked to format personally. As I am on mobile I prefer the scrolling action over having to click buttons to goto the next page of a slide.

I remember using john the ripper and hashcat back in the day to see how secure my old passwords are....and boy has the technology really come along way
Social media (snapchat especially) and rideshare apps are the biggest offenders in my experience. I tried to get an uber on this phone and it wouldn't let me use the old uber version already on it, and wouldn't pull a newer one from the app store from the iOS limitation. I guess they have a mobile website but I didn't think of that, just called a lyft instead.
> What if one model has the exercism solutions in its training data, but the other model doesn't, is the comparison still fair?

I agree that it might not be fair. However, refactoring is a different story imo since as I see it relates to more general capability of the model (description about refactoring tasks are in the link from previous comment).
For anyone doubting this, recall that OpenAI is already loosening it's "principles" with regard to the use of it's products for surveillance of innocent civilian populations that have not committed crimes, and yet who's behaviors are being monitored and recorded, and analyzed, not the least of which is Israel's current use which is open, naked oppression and targeting.

And despite the fact that OpenAI has incredibly low adoption everywhere outside of that, it is still worth tens of billions of dollars. Do you really think that valuation comes from being able to remove people from fuckin cellphone pictures with a tap, or generating royalty free images?
There is something particularly immoral about companies like Nintendo/Disney/Apple that have some sort of mind-control over their customers.

I think outsiders see this. There is something a bit 'off' about the loyalty of the customers. The other day I saw a family wear micky mouse ears in public. Someone else can define the difference between fandom and mental illness.
While we're on the subject, what happened to uBeam?
Car company died in 1988. If you haven’t relearned AMC by now…

I certainly remember the company but I’ve been to a lot of movies at AMC since then
How could they remove your data if it's anonymized? That implies they're using pseudonymization instead.
John Chambers at Cisco was a notable exception.

But he was notable not just for the company performance but because he was an exception.
accelerated world change has made examples from 1000 years ago, less relevant
Primary IDE for Unity and Unreal. Microsoft has been extending beyond Microsoft platforms, so I imagine a decent chunk of Visual Studio use is for cross-platform development.
My boss is currently on a visit to Saudi to drum up business ... the last 12 months has been nothing short of the full on capitulation of western businesses to Saudi money ... all concept of ethics has been completely dropped or 'explained away'.
Force these corporations to deal with the plastic waste they make while generating their profits. They dont get to half do their job and walk away with the extra saved cash. No more externalization of costs.

We will even let them keep their profits from all the years of getting away with it. How generous!
The iPad is mirroring the development of the original personal computer.

Bit by bit more tasks can be done on it as well as some new ones that aren't suited to traditional PCs. Just like we see today with phones, laptops, desktops, mainframes and the like - there are already people who can do all of their computing on just one device.

As for the complaints, everything is fair game, but most of the complaints about the iPad seem to be rooted in what it can't do in comparison to a laptop computer, or more specifically macOS. This is often given with the flimsy validation that the product is labelled "pro".

However it seems clear that it has "pro" in the title because it's far more capable than other iPads, not because it is peers to the Mac Pro computer. I also think it's borderline absurd to base an argument on marketing nomenclature. (Especially as there is an iPhone Pro, Airpods Pro etc.)

It seems clear (to me), that in order to make a thin, light, and performant device, that some compromises would need to be made - otherwise why aren't the laptops similarly thin and light. A cursory review of the specs between an iPad Pro and a MacBook Pro tell the story in better detail.

Perhaps one day iPads will have limitless background processing functionality, but there should be no expectation that the iPad of the day would match the functionality of the laptop or desktop of the day.
Its like you are referencing Iran before the revolution.
Neat!

Supported countries: https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/14517446?hl=en&co=G...
I haven’t been able to try out 4o. The voice chat continuously says there’s too much traffic and I don’t even see a button to turn on the camera
> Google - a gov funded research project to organise and index information

> Tesla - people dependent on the electrical grid are far easier to control than those dependent on gasoline.

I'm sorry, your tinfoil hat is slipping.
People love it, but I could never figure out how to use it (either in Windows or Linux). The actual TUI was also fairly unstable (as in long hangs, etc).

Coworker had the same experience.
I have the 4o model. On premium. No voice yet
> 1M token context by default is the big feature here IMO, but we need better benchmarks to measure what that really means.

Multimodality in a model That's between 4-7% the cost per token of OpenAI’s cheapest multimodal model is an important feature when you are talking about production use and not just economically unsustainable demos.
Author here. Thanks for all the upvotes - and Compiler Explorer is awesome - but I’m not sure this should be on the front page as it’s mostly a collection of links. @dang
I don’t think Llama being open sourced means Meta has lost anything. If anything it’s just a way to get free community contribution, like Chrome from Chromium. Mega absolutely intends to integrate their version of Llama in their products not so unlike how OpenAI is creating uses for their LLM beyond just the technology
Is there any good blogs/videos that ELI5 how these video generation models even work?
Same issue, but I'm on mobile using Firefox, in case that helps the OP's dev team troubleshoot.
You were both breaking the site guidelines, and I replied to both of you in the same way.

Even if I hadn't, though, we need you to follow the rules regardless of what anybody else is doing, and the same goes for every user here. Pointing a finger at the other person isn't helpful.
Flutter v3.22
Thanks! I forgot to include a link.