skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Apple has never been big on living at the cutting edge of technology

There was such a time. Same as with Google. Interestingly, around 2015-2016 both companies significantly shifted to iterative products from big innovations. It's more visible with Google than Apple, but here's both.

Apple:

- Final Cut Pro

- 1998: iMac

- 1999: iBook G3 (father of all MacBooks)

- 2000: Power Mac G4 Cube (the early grandparent of the Mac Mini form factor), Mac OS X

- 2001: iPod, iTunes

- 2002: Xserve (rackable servers)

- 2003: Iterative products only

- 2004: iWork Suite, Garage Band

- 2005: iPod Nano, Mac mini

- 2006: Intel Macs, Boot Camp

- 2007: iPhone and Apple TV

- 2008: MacBook Air, iPhone 3G

- 2009: iPhone 3Gs, all-in-one iMac

- 2010: iPad, iPhone 4

- 2011: Final Cut Pro X

- 2012: Retina displays, iBooks Author

- 2013: iWork for iCloud

- 2014: Swift

- 2015: Apple Watch, Apple Music

- 2016: Iterative products only

- 2017: Iterative products mainly, plus ARKit

- 2018: Iterative products only

- 2019: Apple TV +, Apple Arcade

- 2020: M1

- 2021: Iterative products only

- 2022: Iterative products only

- 2023: Apple Vision Pro

Google:

- 1998: Google Search

- 2000: AdWords (this is where it all started going wrong, lol)

- 2001: Google Images Search

- 2002: Google News

- 2003: Google AdSense

- 2004: Gmail, Google Books, Google Scholar

- 2005: Google Maps, Google Earth, Google Talk, Google Reader

- 2006: Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sheets, YouTube bought this year

- 2007: Street View, G Suite

- 2008: Google Chrome, Android 1.0

- 2009: Google Voice, Google Wave (early Docs if I recall correctly)

- 2010: Google Nexus One, Google TV

- 2012: Google Drive

- 2013: Chromecast

- 2014: Android Wear, Android Auto, Google Cardboard, Nexus 6, Google Fit

- 2015: Google Photos

- 2016: Google Assistant, Google Home

- 2017: Mainly iterative products only, Google Lens announced but it never rolled out really

- 2018: Iterative products only

- 2019: Iterative products only

- 2020: Iterative products only, and some rebrands (Talk->Chat, etc)

- 2021: Iterative products only, and Tensor Chip

- 2022: Iterative products only

- 2023: Iterative products only, and Bard (half-baked).
If you stream the answer, the first token time is roughly the per token time.
I find "subject verb object" prose, combined with avoiding all forms of the verb "to be" yields clean, active, and easy to read text.
Show HN: Unforget, the note-taking app I always wanted: offline first, encrypted
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Don't worry, the "free market" will take care of this all by itself.

If not, Trump will take care of it once he's elected by raising the levels considered safe, just like he did with PFAS.

https://apnews.com/article/83eb8baf3c1533d9535f28e7145813c9
I'll be optimistic, and credit Bill Gates with pretty-good intentions on this...

...but why the <bleep/> is he trying to build an experimental reactor in the government-regulations-from-hell US? Vs. (say) South Korea, which yearns to be a major exporter of nuclear power technology. Or the Netherlands, which has existential reasons to be want carbon-free heat and electricity ASAP.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39692011
But kids often have parents who aren't poor. IIRC children's toys are a pretty profitable and segment.
Don't worry, it's not just eastern Europe.

There's also Radio Free Asia, Current Time TV (in Russian), Middle East Broadcasting Networks, Radio Televisión Martí (targeting Cuba) and of course, Voice of America, all under USAGM (Agency for Global Media).
"news"
It’s not that the gp is trying to avoid being secure.

It’s that for a service that you only have a need for, a few times a year, mandating 2FA is an unnecessary hassle that can lead to user frustration.

I’ve experienced the same with Gitlab. I rarely use Gitlab and don’t have anything important hosted there but when a project I was a member of enabled 2FA for all contributors, it made my Gitlab account completely frustrating to use.

Typical scenario: I’m trying to do something brief on Gitlab that requires me to be logged in so I login then get shown an interstitial page saying I cannot proceed until I enable 2FA on my Gitlab account. Every action I attempt while logged in will fail unless I either enable 2FA or remove myself from the project that enabled mandatory 2FA after I was added.

GitHub’s 2FA implementation is night and day better than Gitlab’s but I imagine the user frustration must be similar if you find yourself suddenly having to enable 2FA because a GitHub org you were already part of mandates it.
Right. So in those terms, NPA is isomorphic to PA -- until you introduce multiplication, at which point the isomorphism goes away becauase S(0)S(0) is S(0) but P(0)P(0) is not P(0). That seems like an interesting fact to me, and feels like it might be a clue pointing to some deeper truth.
As a pixel user I'm really impressed with their cleanup tool, it looks way ahead in UX compared to magic editor on pixel, also having able to select the distractions without altering the main object looks really cool (at least in their demo), magic editor on pixel's underpowered SoC runs too slow, In general iphones have superior hardware vs pixel (as per the benchmarks) so having this on-device should make it really nice experience overall.
#DearMoon (though, hopefully was cancelled instead of rushed, otherwise people would have died according to current state).

Pioneers can go to great lengths to overpromise safety, budget, and timeline to secure funding.
If you’re in the right info bubble, every AI announcement is a clear blow ;)
My roommate in 1992 would run this on his 386DX with the 387 math coprocessor. It would take literally days to run to create a small 640x480 image.

This was in the days of DOS where you could only run one program at a time. It would run all night and then in the morning he would stop it so he could use the computer for other things. But he had some kind of Targa .tga file utility to merge the files together.

Then he compiled povray for our Sun workstations and he would split up the rendering so that each machine would render 50 lines of the image and he could merge them together with that utility.

I remember how happy he was that he could render stuff 20 times faster.
Starbucks near me got rid of all their comfortable chairs and even build drive-thru only places now. So much for a "third-place". Also their coffee is terrible like everyone else is saying.
Once upon a time (~15 years ago!), I worked at a ski resort in New Zealand that had a fancy new "automated" snowmaking system. When all 200 (give or take) snow guns were running, along with the required water pumps/air compressors, the system could draw megawatts of power. Generally it didn't get below zero very often in the closest city to the resort (Queenstown), but when it did, people would turn on their electric heaters, and demand would go through the roof. The way it was explained to me is that the power company actually sent a signal through the power supply which would trigger our snowmaking system to shut itself off. It was pretty cool to see and also infuriating, because of course you can make much more snow when it's cold.

Being a giant nerd I of course asked if this was really happening via some network connection, but I was told they actually modulated the frequency of the entire grid in a very small, but predictable way. Some sort of device sat there and when it picked up the pattern in the frequency changes it would then trigger the shutdown.

I've spent a while doing some searches about such a system but couldn't find any information. Anyways, your comment about demand management made me think of this and how it's been possible in one way or another for a long time (albeit not milliseconds!).
> Companies are not going to entrust their business to a black box that sometimes says no.

Companies entrust their business to a black box that sometimes says no now. AI will not change that, and I agree it will get worse.

It is the irony of automation that some people still need the skills, knowledge, and abilities even more to fix problems that the automation can't fix. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironies_of_Automation
Could you provide an alternative model where you get what you want, that is economically viable for vendors and manufacturers to invest in, and that does not require me to teach my parents how to sysadmin their phones to keep them safe?

I trust Apple more than I trust Google to not share my data with a large group of corporate entities who want to sell me things I do not wish to buy.

I believe both - and if required, organizations like Mozilla, Ubuntu, Redhat/Oracle, whoever - to comply with law enforcement requests made of them to hand over any data relating to me that they might hold. I'm OK with that. I think Apple has less of that data than Google, and works actively to have less of it. Google works actively to increase the amount of data they have about me.

I think even if you had a functional device using entirely open software, that any organisation you share that data with or use to communicate with using that device - including cloud service providers, network providers, and so on - would also comply with law enforcement.

"Ah!", you say, "But I get to choose which crypto to use! I know it won't have backdoors!". To which I will reply you are unlikely to have read and truly understood the source code to the crypto software you're using, and that such software is regularly shown to have security issues. It's just not true that open source means that all bugs become shallow, and the "many eyes" you're hoping for to surface these issues are likely employed at, err, Apple, Google, Redhat, Ubuntu, Mozilla...

I look at the landscape and I conclude that true open source environments have a ton of issues, Google/Android have far more (for my taste), and that I am more confident in Apple than I am in either myself (even as an experienced tech expert), or Google, or Microsoft, to keep my data private to me to the greatest extent legally permissible.

Do I think "legally permissible" should be extended? Sure. Do I wish a multi-billionaire would throw 50% of the net worth at making open source compete on the same level? Yeah, cool. Do I think any of that is realistic in the next 5 years? No. So, I make my bets accordingly, eyes wide open, balancing the risks...
But in this use case of AI in the cloud I suppose it's not possible to send encrypted data which only you have the keys to as that makes the data useless and thus no AI processing in the cloud can be made. So the whole point of AI in the cloud vs. AI on device goes away.
As a longtime XCOM veteran, I am constitutionally opposed to making any game move with less than an 85% chance of success.
Indeed, I'll believe a company isn't up to some repugnantly slimy shenanigans the moment they volunteer to accurately and carefully explain what data they want, why they think it's useful, how they'll look after it and why it's in my interest to opt in, all without being threatened into doing the very barest minimum by law.

Otherwise it's about as convincing as the school bully being forced to shake hands with his victim while the head teacher is standing over him.
interesting but seems like overengineered life
People who understand cybersecurity who are not operating within a US-allied country use ... I don't know what to be honest. What to do in such a situation, where Apple is a US-based company obligated by law to comply with requests from three letter agencies and Android is a buggy mess which probably is backdoored by every major power?
They wouldn't launch that until the vehicle is human rated though...
Mushroom hunters can't stop finding mysterious fungi
Bringing [generative] AI tools to the automotive experience
While many cars are already equipped with voice control systems that interface with the vehicle’s systems, AI assistants offer a far more natural way of doing this. The AI cabin assistant also need not be limited to in-cabin interactions with the vehicle — combined with connectivity and third-party platforms, the functional scope of the AI assistant is almost endless.
The driver was an asshole for not finding somewhere else to put it.
Now why would children be safer in high trust homogeneous societies that share descent, religion, language, and culture than in low trust divided societies that share little more than a common currency?

Must be light trucks! What a fine example of Occam’s butterknife at work.
Are you sure it works in a different way? I always thought Betterdisplay still showed you fractional scaling by downscaling from a much higher resolution. Well, I'd say I can still see the blurriness in the display when I pick a custom high dpi resolutnion from the list.
Maybe for you. I'm terrible at starting projects and the beginning of them, but I love getting all the pieces in place and getting the product/feature to a production-ready state. It's easy and natural for me.

I used to work closely with a "starter" who is great at getting the activation energy to start, and we made a great team. Find yourself a "finisher".
It's been speculated that base config macbooks essentially act as loss leaders for higher end configs, so overall, probably sales across the line net somewhere around that. The cost of the upgrades themselves can get to multiple times the actual market cost.
> Tons of new features and the redesign

After LastPass lost it I shopped around and avoided 1Password precisely because it looks and is marketed like typical feature-oriented apps powered by VC valuations and growth metrics. I do not like trigger happy product management near critical single-purpose software. It’s already quite challenging, because pw managers need (1) offline support (2) a sync protocol that’s virtually bug free and (3) state of the art crypto/security and (4) wide cross platform support.

I prefer such an app to sit basically dormant until there’s a new industry development (like passkeys) to keep up with the times. And even then, those features should only be added thoughtfully with a defensive mindset to ensure stability going forward.

So tldr, your stated benefits are in fact the very reason a lot of people don’t like it.
True, but the alternative is that people with valuable projects to secure don't do that (because they aren't forced to), and lose things.

That said, the sign-in flow with a Passkey and BitWarden is great. Click "sign in with a passkey", click "confirm", done. No username, password, or 2FA required.

One day I hope BitWarden implement my suggestion of not requiring that second click if you only have one key.
Tow trucks would also be very useful to handle the people who think the trolley tracks, the bus stop or the sidewalk are a good place to park their car.

With trolleys, it'd be even better if the tracks themselves had some kind of AI technology to detect parked cars and call the tow truck to remove the car before it causes a delay.
Respect the ocean, Space is somewhat mild in comparison.
> The problem with multiplication is not that the proofs fall apart, it is that multiplication does not mean what you want it to mean.

Well, yeah, that's kind of the point: the positiveness of the naturals is not just a convention, it is actually a logical consequence of something in the axioms. Specifically, it is a logical consequence of the definition of multiplication. I find that interesting.
I never used 1Pass, I'd suggest ppl to make their own mental template for passwords that can be applied to different sites instead.
It is just a petition - basically meant to be something for the legislators to consider. AFAIK the new "coerced consent" version of chat control has not been officially proposed yet. We'll see in the coming weeks if the EU council actually tries to push it forward, and even if they do there is a pretty high change it falls through due to being fundamentally incompatible with the constitution of many european countries and / or the parliament voting against it.
Most of the stuff shown are much faster to do yourself if you have your hands free and if you don't you have to pray the gods that Siri doesn't fuck up for whatever reason.

Even something as simple as setting the time, Siri will bork it at least 1 in 10 times. I know that for sure, since I worked at a friend's restaurant 2 summers ago and was heavily using Siri's timer to time french fries blanching (many batches for at least 2 hours every day or every 2 days); this dam thing would regularly use wrong time or not understand at all even though it was always the same dam time and the conditions were always similar.

On the other hand, the Google home at my cousin's place operates at my command without mistakes even though he doesn't even have the luxury of knowing my voice.

People who think Siri is good either are delusional or have special godlike skills. But considering how many hilarious "demos" I have gotten from Apple fans friends; I will say it's the former.

I myself use iPhone/Apple Watch/Macs since forever so it's not like I'm free hating. I just goddam suck like too many Apple stuff recently...
They mean server infrastructure.
Calling this privacy focused and then shipping a version that doesn't even encrypt the data saying it's coming soon has to be one of the wildest possible ways to launch this lol. Microsoft set the bar low with how they addressed privacy concerns with their version of recall but apparently it was just the start of a limbo contest
> in a group chat where your dancer buddy Rex is learning to surf, it’s a killer.

Maybe, but this class of jokes/riffs is going to get old, fast.
Most of the millionaires I know certainly did not graduate from top tier schools and many didn’t even go to college.
"Tart up your startup"
Yes! Mostly for usenet but also for efnet and dalnet.
So your issue isnt the openness in terms of being limited on what you can do on it, and more that you want it to be bloated with drivers for millions of various pieces of hardware like Windows, got it.
I agree, more of a feel good/marketing piece. Bad electric coming into a system can cause damage so protection circuits are built in to prevent that damage from happening. I wonder how many UPSs kicked in and also lowered demand. What about poorly designed devices that stopped working?
Yeah I agree with that. OpenAI is obviously a much bigger and more relevant company than Nextdoor, but she is going back to a role she has a proven track record at.
I would LOVE to know where this is?? If it's more walkable that JUST the school.

I have lived in suburbs near enough to schools that you can walk on 2 occasions in both NC and AZ but this was a very lucky quality, not the norm AT ALL, highly desirable, and you could walk to practically nothing other than the school. Leaving the neighborhood on foot was not a good place to be walking.
> To me that's very rural

That's the idea if used in the North American sense. Suburbs are effectively rural areas, except with a higher population density. You will see rows of houses instead of rows of corn, but otherwise no different.

> Places with single family homes and parks and playgrounds where I can very easily walk to just about every store or service nearby.

What's a town, then?
I haven't actually bought Shipfa.st, though from what I heard about it is that it doesn't follow coding best practices with clean code and a good scalable architecture.

Having worked at Spotify as a software engineer, my starter kit is built with these core principles in mind. Enhancing collaboration, clean code, full type safety and scalability. So I'd say it is more robust and targeted towards solo founders as well as mid sized startups with a team.
From wikipedia:

> The carrying capacity of an environment is the maximum population size of a biological species that can be sustained by that specific environment.

In other words, we’ve exceeded the carrying capacity of Earth because our current practices cannot be sustained over a longer timespan.
Mexico is 4 times bigger than Spain.
So, in a matchmaking system, the cheaters filter themselves into a cohort of other cheaters and players who are on even ground without cheating.

On the other hand, you have issues like smurfers who cause the same disruption without actually running any cheat software.

Ultimately your problem is uneven matchmaking and the perception of cheating, not cheating itself.
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Research misconduct in China: towards an institutional analysis
Are you sure they modulated the frequency of the actual AC power (typically 50 or 60 Hz) and didn't overlay it with a high frequency signal? It's very common with power line communication or power line modems. You modulate a data signal on top.
Mandiant says hackers stole significant volume of data from Snowflake customers
POV: PLY Author
The odds on each square change every game. I didn't realize that at first.
Pathogen Paleogenetics and Late Antique Disease: A cross-discipline discussion
Show HN: Velox – PWA RSS Reader with no accounts, feeds saved locally
Source: https://github.com/ghobs91/Velox-Reader
Show HN: Relia – Build your own LLM benchmark
Relia is an E2E testing framework for LLMs, designed to help you build AI benchmarks tailored to your specific use cases. It identifies the most suitable LLM model for your needs and ensures that model upgrades do not cause performance regressions through continuous testing. Built specifically for function calling (or "tool use") scenarios, which are at the core of agent-based AI applications.
The have insane margin on ram and storage, it would be really surprising to see them move away from their current strategy
The screenshots are not storing anything new, it's just a visual trail of an already existing activity.
It literally just makes it easier to browse the history, that's it.
Someone motivated could just recompose activity from logs/histories of the various softwares.

The distinction is made by people who seem hell bent on trashing Microsoft for everything and glorifying everything Apple does.
As someone who has spent a fair bit of time around Death Valley, it really helped to illuminate how someone with no point of reference about the environment could really get themselves in trouble.