skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my case, the only iPad is the cheap secondhand one. It would still be nice if I could "borrow" it for the weekend without having to sign in to every service that is already tied to my Apple ID.

I don't disagree with you in general and it is what I recommend to others with the same issue... but the issue is completely unnecessary since (however many generations ago iPad hardware stopped struggling).
> It is really up to them to make up for it.

That is obvious and the signs are there showing that they are working on it. What more do you expect?
Any precedents? I guess hiring US legals and writing lengthy letters is a way to go, but not the fastest one
The Five Futures of Russia
I was hoping to see optimization of the actual linked list manipulation and traversal (pipelining? i'm not sure what you'd do), but this is still a neat post. It's cool to see thought put into various parts of the problem, like reallocation/preallocation, stack allocation, etc.
Response Filter Denial of Service (RFDoS): shut down websites with WAF rules
From what I understand most of the power comes from ensuring there is only one &mut for a value at a given time.
Yeah, seeing his picture here was a bit bittersweet - it caught me unsurprised, and hit like a gut punch, but it's good to see he's remembered and his legacy lives on
Why does this sound like normalizing the behavior of an actually harmful person who is running companies that affect political discourse and national defense? Especially with a broad assertion, generalities, and no examples.
Microsoft is updating it's Surface hardware with ARM chips in a couple of weeks. This would include the Surface Pro 10, which is otherwise excellent save for poor ergonomics if actually laying down and using it on your lap. If they could fix this, it would serve the population looking for a hybrid tablet/laptop device well. (it will also have an oled screen in this upcoming update).
Yes, its Windows, but I much prefer the file manager in Windows to Mac, and definitely over ipadOS. They will also be announcing AI related updates in 2 weeks, and I get the feeling MSFT has leapfrogged apple by a year or two on this count.
Here I was thinking this was a new LLM with 193B parameters.
> "Someone has to ultimately be responsible for the data"

All you have to do is survive long enough as an unemployed criminal until the system gets round to exonerating you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal

"The British Post Office scandal, also called the Horizon IT scandal, involved Post Office Limited pursuing thousands of innocent subpostmasters for shortfalls in their accounts, which had in fact been caused by faults in Horizon, accounting software developed and maintained by Fujitsu. Between 1999 and 2015, more than 900 subpostmasters were convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting based on faulty Horizon data, with about 700 of these prosecutions carried out by the Post Office. Other subpostmasters were prosecuted but not convicted, forced to cover Horizon shortfalls with their own money, or had their contracts terminated. The court cases, criminal convictions, imprisonments, loss of livelihoods and homes, debts and bankruptcies, took a heavy toll on the victims and their families, leading to stress, illness, family breakdown, and at least four suicides. In 2024, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak described the scandal as one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British history.

Although many subpostmasters had reported problems with the new software, and Fujitsu was aware that Horizon contained software bugs as early as 1999, the Post Office insisted that Horizon was robust and failed to disclose knowledge of the faults in the system during criminal and civil cases.

[...]

challenge their convictions in the courts and, in 2020, led to the government establishing an independent inquiry into the scandal. This was upgraded into a statutory public inquiry the following year. As of May 2024, the public inquiry is ongoing and the Metropolitan Police are investigating executives from the Post Office and its software provider, Fujitsu.

Courts began to quash convictions from December 2020. By February 2024, 100 of the subpostmasters' convictions had been overturned. Those wrongfully convicted became eligible for compensation, as did more than 2,750 subpostmasters who had been affected by the scandal but had not been convicted."
NetBSD: Shall We Play a Game?
Am I the only one that feels underwhelmed by this?

yeah its cool and unlike anything ive seen before but I kind of expected a bigger leap.

To me the most impressive thing is going to be longer context limits. I'd had semi long running conversations where ive had to correct an LLM multiple times about the same thing.

when you have more context the LLM can infer more and more. Am I wrong about this?
Given the vision systems we saw from OpenAI yesterday and the one Google will show at I/O today, I'm thinking more like 2 years than 20. Maybe 10 years before they are a commodity that everyone has.
Oh cool. Phishing and identity theft committed by minors to see nudity.

Maybe the UK should stop making themselves such a desirable place to headquarters a porn company. They’ve been a hub for shell companies to do strange things and circumvent taxes and regulations for many years. Ever notice how many xxx sites have UK addresses in the footer and 2257 pages? There’s a reason.

I don’t see this working very well, considering all you need is an ID card number, lots of places to get those, or just learn to phish your own.
> What the west had over the last 100 years is what's pretty unique. It seems to be slipping away, and we should care about that, because it was pretty wonderful.

It was the most violent time we know of. I'd be keen to learn what you refer to as "pretty wonderful".

> But "pretty unique in history" is going rather too far.

I didn't research this properly. But the US army is bigger than the next five biggest armies together. This is an astonishing inbalance. Do you have an example in history where there was a similar inbalance?
pyenv + pip are tried and trusted. I would expect every tutorial they encounter will use them. So they're worth learning for that.

Rye is a great tool, but my issue with it is barely anyone uses it, and no tutorials or guides are going to use it. So when you read a README to install a package, you're going to see pip commands and have to figure things out yourself.
Show HN: Pico: An open-source Ngrok alternative built for production traffic
Pico is an open-source alternative to Ngrok. Unlike most other open-source tunnelling solutions, Pico is designed to serve production traffic and be simple to host (particularly on Kubernetes).

Upstream services connect to Pico and register endpoints. Pico will then route requests for an endpoint to a registered upstream service via its outbound-only connection. This means you can expose your services without opening a public port.

Pico runs as a cluster of nodes in order to be fault tolerant, scale horizontally and support zero downtime deployments. It is also easy to host, such as a Kubernetes Deployment or StatefulSet behind a HTTP load balancer.
American prosecution on Australian soil throughout.
Electric vehicles won’t become cheaper for a few more years. 102.5% EV tariff is huge.

Meanwhile Ford loses $100,000 on each EV it sells
Interesting. I've had Apple users recommend AirPods to me before, but I don't own any Apple devices so I already had a feeling it wouldn't work out. Would be insane if they would constantly be generating alerts on others their iPhones.
Ask HN: Is it true that AI can't explain grammar well because no one can?
It seems that English grammar in particular is messy and has too many exceptions to be easily explained.
Ai.com Now Directs to Gemini.Google.com (Not Openai.com)
A lot of simple ideas are not enterprise infrastructure or sales ready. Most devs wouldn’t know how to start that sales process, or bullet proof their app for the enterprise security theater. You need experienced sales people or just be straight up upper class (what YC effectively recruits for) so you have company connections that you can use (collusion and shit).

You can make an enterprise ready todo app and probably be fine as a company so long as that shit has SSO and a scumbag seasoned enterprise salesman. You can sell literal shit with that combo.

A lot of people on this very website sell literal shit to other companies (b2b) because they like, provide SSO to simple ass programs.

No joke. You can sell any shit to the enterprise so long as u have a solid combination of upper class connected elites, animalistic sales people, and sso. You may or may not even need on staff developers long term. Hah.
An iOS App for Capturing Notes as Text Files
US car manufacturers other than Tesla have not been very successful at producing EVs despite subsidies. It'll be interesting to see how this affects future policy making. Will there be subsidies to protect legacy US automakers? Does that mean gas cars are here to stay?
Everyone I knew who was using CVS in the 1990s said that $Log$ was a bad idea that should never be used. Why haven’t you deleted the useless comments?
HN has advertisement. It has the sponsored hiring posts from YC, Show HN posts to projects, and the monthly who is hiring / wants to be hired posts, which are all advertisements. Seems far from cancerous.
Oh, certainly there are significant architectural advantages, especially for the vcache SKUs in gaming. It would just be interesting to see how much TSMC is still (or maybe further) ahead of Intel. Intel was so used to having the process advantage vs AMD that their architecture could afford to be less efficient. But now that they're the ones behind in both process and arch, they're really hurting, especially on mobile now that AMD is making inroads and Snapdragon X is about to get a serious launch in a week. I'm typing this on a ThinkPad 13s with a Snapdragon 8cx CPU running Windows, and it's a pretty usable device that lasts much longer on a smaller battery than my comparable Intel laptop. It seems to particularly use much less power on standby, although it can't seem to wake up from hibernation reliably.
https://ai.com/
Ask HN: Have your search results gotten worse recently?
What's your search experience been like over the last couple of months?

I can no longer use Google, DuckDuckGo or any other search engine to find reliable information.
Absolutely everything is click-bait, repeated information that provides absolutely no value to me.

To get anything of value, I have to append every search with keywords like reddit/medium/stackoverflow to get quick, useful, to the point information. Either that or I'm forced to spend all my time in the AI's like Bing or ChatGPT.

As far as I can tell though, search isn't dying - I think it's dead.
This is pretty neat! I'm glad there's another open source option for trying out DORA four keys.
Agreed! The problem is that you cannot rent a MI300x or other high end AMD. They all go into HPC. A problem that I love to work on.
Maybe it is, somewhere I'd the depths of the void there is a giant planet sized llm, with cotton candy neurons.
We have tried other DORA tools but they felt like a wrapper of grafana, this seems more functional. Will give it a shot!
Free Trade with Free Nations
2/17/23 https://mashable.com/article/chatgpt-ai-dot-com-domain-name-...
Actually while it's generally female, it's not always! It depends on the region of Indian continent / ethnic group, as the final "-a" in many Sanskrit-roots may or may not be dropped depending on the modern language of derivation. For example, I know several Telugu, Marathi, and Bengali males named Apoorva/Apurva.

That being said, it does appear that this instance of Apoorva is indeed a female name (and in general, Tamil names like this one don't keep the aforementioned "-a" in the masculine).
Well, the American tech industry as always had some big corporate players who are more than happy to sell census counting and alphabetization equipment to the third reich, and won't look too closely at what they're doing with it - so long as it's profitable and complies with local laws. So we shouldn't pretend there was some glorious golden age.

But there was a time when SV was a lot more passionate and freewheeling, and beliefs like "information wants to be free" were a lot more widely repeated.
If it's a fair trade made between consenting, rational, partners both in full possession of the facts, why are companies so cagey about what information they're gathering from users? If it was a fair trade and users were aware, they surely don't need to be so worried. You wouldn't need to threaten with data protection laws, and you wouldn't have to require consent for information gathering and tracking, users would know exactly what it is worth and give it willingly if they agreed with the value propositions.

Or, is it actually that very many people are almost entirely unaware of the information they're providing (leaking) in the "transaction", or are unaware they're even making such a a trade in the first place. A bit like having a small, discreet, densely typed sign saying a shop is using CCTV and by entering you agree to be surveilled, but what you're actually doing is using the cameras to read PINs entered into the card readers.
I must be misunderstanding. Every test run was spending 3 _hours_ just discovering which tests to run 9 times?
I’ve been to the UAE and they’ve been in a super fast track to modernization. In the 60s, the whole country had less than 90,000 people and now they are over 8 million. As a foreigner I could buy alcohol and this wasn’t even possible until more recently.

I expect in time the UAE might soften up even further. Many of their orthodox/conservative values have been eroding away for decades now. Their native Emirati population is an absolute minority now and there is no way they’re not going to be forced to continue liberalization.
It sounds like consequences of bugs like memory corruption are far more challenging to deal with in the Kraft cloud situation. Sometimes isolation has other benefits.
WebAssembly is an abstract machine. Is there something preventing WebAssembly implementations from translating the current SIMD WebAssembly to use longer native vectors if running on sufficiently capable hardware? There seems to be a bunch of publications about binary translation of simd code to different vector lengths: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7823830 https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1109/CGO.2006.27
So, that's also what I thought and still think. But the fact the just by adding some randomness to LLMs increases the usefulness of their responses (making them more "creative") seems to suggest otherwise. Maybe creativity can be reduced to just taking a random different point of view and see where that takes you. Much like the contrarian philosophy advocates.
> It needs an entry point off the attack surface.

Considering how many vulnerabilities have been in the media stack of Android, all that would take would be an image or an autoplay video on a website.
One of my classes at uni used the ‘flipped classroom’ method. You were supposed to watch pre-recorded lectures ahead of time (comes with the ability to pause, slow down, rewind as necessary).

Then in the actual lecture, the teacher would just have a slide deck with exercises. Students tried solving first, then the teacher showed the correct solution. If you got stuck or didn’t understand, you could immediately ask questions, and those questions would also benefit other students’ understanding.

It is hard to understate how much better this method was for grokking the material than the traditional ‘zoning out during the lecture and struggling with the exercises at home’. I don’t understand why all classes aren’t taught this way.
Isn’t “information wants to be free” the rallying cry of hackers who want to leak all private data?
With the power of imagination
I really like the sound effects. Especially check.
it /used/ to take forever back in the Core 2 Duo days, with the amount of cores and the sheer speed of the IPC its gotten a ton better.
Now just imagine a month or two before November elections in USA

It's going to be an absolute sh*t show even on the one or two platforms that do actually want to stop it
Not especially a SV thing. See also:

The Middle East’s play to rule global sports - Washington Post November 7, 2023 - How Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar are upending the sports world — and what they want from their newfound power.

Texas A&M pulls branch out of Qatar, citing regional instability - The Washington Post February 11, 2024 - The Qatari government pays hundreds ... to the universities each year and in return the branches provide elite higher education for hundreds of Qatari students as well as others from around the region.

Related: The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority

It suffices for an intransigent minority –a certain type of intransigent minorities –to reach a minutely small level, say three or four percent of the total population, for the entire population to have to submit to their preferences.

https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
I don’t know what the past was like, but the tech industry seems happy to take anyone’s money. I’m not sure I can blame individuals - if you’re desperate to survive and are working hard, it’s difficult to throw it all away and say no. It’s not surprising to see a Middle East gold rush when you have companies saying yes to China, to private equity, etc. If we want any of this to change, it’ll take regulation.

Singling out Silicon Valley or the Middle East also doesn’t make sense when most of the economy has been outsourcing manufacturing to China, which annexed Tibet illegally and subjected them to re education, committed genocide in Xinjiang against Uyghurs, suppressed its citizens with the great firewall and social credit scores, violated agreements around Hong Kong’s governance, illegally attacked other countries ships in the South China Sea, etc. Comparatively, the UAE and Saudi Arabia feel friendly.
2/19/24 https://twitter.com/MKBHD/status/1759557096650010710
That's like claiming that evolution is nothing more than just a little randomness, while completely ignoring the arbiter of the final product: natural selection. Creativity is the same - it isn't just randomness, it's *meaningful randomness" leading to new insights and experiences, and the arbiter of that "meaning" is a human being. Creative people are actively, and often subconsciously, filtering out all the meaningless junk.

No, introducing noise into your AI won't make it more creative. You need the filter to apply to the result - which is currently impossible because that filter requires actual understanding, which today's AI is incapable of.
Show HN: Hanuman the Divine Protector – Free Mobile Game
Hi guys,
We have created this Mobile Game which is based on Lord Hanuman life. It has many phases of his life mainly Chitrakoot, Himalayas, Ram Setu, Panchvati and Hampi.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hanuman_th...

And we are working on other parts too which we will release soon.

Would love your feedbacks. Thanks for your time
I think a compromise would be more practical: every position that has actually occurred as a pre-rendered html file, with novel positions generated dynamically.
This has no effect on reproducible builds since the version strings are stable.
You have it wrong. Apple doesn’t fundamentally believe in selling one device (do-it-all iPad Pro) as opposed to selling two (Mac + iPad). The segmentation is a business decision, nothing else.

Apple have multiple iPad lines and could easily limit a desktop class OS to the iPad Pro, a move I can almost guarantuee would alianate noone.
For folks using Typescript, we're building this for web development at Triplit. We support incrementally updating subscribed queries in real-time from server to client over web-sockets.

https://www.triplit.dev/
Glad you liked it! One of the early insights we got for driving productivity in organisations was the tools overwhelming the leaders with data, rendering no action. We have tried our bit to keep high signal to noise ratio and offer interactive views instead of just data dumps.
Thanks a lot Aravind! It's been quite an exciting ride for us.

Definitely looking forward to bring some major value to devs across the world with this release!
They being simple and dumb works for their benefit.

Most people would never accept the same behavior from a being capable of more complex thoughts.
Yes, this is one of the reasons people have been so hostile to AI: it's the ultimate spam engine.
Thanks @jayantbhawal!
Agreed, this is what makes evaluating this very hard. A 1700 Elo chess player would never make an illegal move, let alone have 12% illegal moves.

So from the model's perspective, we have at the same time display of both brilliancy (most 1700 chess players would not be able to solve as many puzzles by looking just at the FEN notation) and on the other side complete lack of any understanding of what is it trying to do from a fundamental, human-reasoning level.
Right, the less it looks like printer ink and printer paper.
Learning from the object-oriented mania
Question: if the future is everyone having agents and assistants, won’t this be expected and even okay? Why do I need to lose time if my agent can represent my voice? And if so does that mean all social media will lose anonymity to avoid spam or influence campaigns? Or is there some middle ground?
Nothing in any of my messages indicates that I'm condoning "burnout", or any other things that you choose to draw lines in the sand around. And yet, you keep lecturing me on values of work-life balance. I care, some of my coworkers do, too. We all know who doesn't.
Does anyone have information about these lines? Are they auto-generated?
I'm presuming a lot of these pages exist to accrue followers now and start posting disinformation closer to November, yeah.
Free will is the idea that there is a “you” and you are the author of your thoughts.

If you think “you” is just a bunch of neurons in the brain then most people would not consider that free will because physics is the author of your thoughts.

To be clear that is my view. So I don’t think we have free will. We just feel like we do.
> John Harrison was a carpenter by trade who was self-taught in clock making. During the mid-1720s he designed a series of remarkable precision longcase clocks. These clocks achieved an accuracy of one second in a month, far better than any clocks of the time.

Wow. I own Tissot and Casio hand clocks and both are significantly worse precision. Are there any available clocks with that precision? Of course with GPS, WiFi and other wireless ways to access atomic clocks that's not so important, but still interesting.
Pay walled, but ...

Best summary and analysis I've seen is by ForwardBat6438 at https://www.reddit.com/r/geopolitics/comments/1c9q5lc/the_fi...

Funniest line of discussion there is by pass_it_around:

(Russia is) "... a gas station with nukes?"
The new Magic Keyboard adds a function row with an escape key fwiw.
Using Cuelang With Go for extracting structured data from LLMs
ALL LBO models are about selling the asset for a higher multiple than it was bought for. Not just tech.

Also, CFs are the most important thing for an LBO. The point of this investment model is for an asset to pay for itself, so if it has no cash flows how can it possibly do that. Also cash flows =/= profit here. You can be cash flow positive and not be profitable.

And you are right about LBOs not being done on rev multiples