skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Power generation is relatively disributed today, with solar and wind. Big telecom infrastructure usually has backup power. And there's power-over-fiber as an alternative power grid for telecom(altough not sure how often used).
Cell phone carriers can set up their own RCS servers. All the major US carriers (AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile US) outsourced their RCS to Google's Jibe platform, though.

Messaging apps haven't been pure SMS for a long time. If you've sent photos/images, it's using MMS, which basically uploads the picture to a HTTP server hosted by your carrier and sends the URL in a SMS message that the receiving app knows to automatically download and display the image, provided you have a data connection.

iMessage is proprietary to Apple, so of course it goes through Apple's servers. When you set up your iPhone, it registers your phone number with Apple's iMessage server so that whenever someone tries to send a message to your number, it sends it to the iMessage cloud instead of SMS. This can actually cause problems when you switch from an iPhone to Android because other Apple users trying to send you text messages might still get routed to iMessage instead of SMS, and there's no iMessage available for Android. You may have to use a website that Apple provides to manually deregister the phone number from iMessage in that case.

I'm not all that familiar with how RCS works but presumably there's a similar registration process so that other phones know that your phone is RCS capable, except decentralized since it's not controlled by a single company.
lol not a chance, we are talking about hn here, anything they don't like will be flagged and downvoted to hell
That's an ordinary subpoena and that data is not being specially collected and not e2ee encrypted. Has nothing to do with the guarantee in this article.
As an (extremely) amateur musician I've had hours of fun with free soundfonts like these and the open source LMMS[0], which was nice and familiar to me since I'd played with pirated copies of FruityLoops (now FL Studio) as a teenager.

[0] https://lmms.io/
The photos are amazing - blows my mind the amount of hardware people have brought to get hold of the 'ethical ivory'. The cost much be huge, it appears to be a wild gamble for those taking part - but then I guess that is why it is so like the gold rush.
This goes back to the "ADHD-ish attitude". I've had entire weeks where I didn't commit anything, because I was doing discovery or documentation or some other useful task with an outcome that wasn't code. Should I have deliberately broken my flow state to go put up a commit for a random unrelated typo?

The article does in fact note that documentation is acceptable.
The recent pandemic was a canonical example of the two forces coming together.
I hear this complaint a lot but Starbucks has done a ton of testing and studies to arrive at their process. They may not appeal to “serious” coffee drinkers, but it is engineered to appeal to the general public. Personally I’ve found their coffees “fine” and inoffensive, and the consistency has given it a place for me.

That said, I do think it’s getting too expensive for what it is. Maybe there are good reasons like living wages for workers or whatever, but it also means I am more likely to just have coffee at home.
It’s a matter of RAM most likely - models require crazy amounts of ram, and I bet they had to struggle to fit them on 15’s pro 8GB.
By every metric Threads is mainstream:

a) Top 10 App Store charts in every country.

b) Heavily promoted through Facebook and Instagram.

c) DAUs are higher than X.
GP here. I said "related feature" because I didn't recall what was exactly said in the keynote. FaceTime calls can be used to take control of the other person's iPhone in iOS 18. This is where scammers could convince people to allow access and perform actions when they (the scammers) get control.
You don't need a retina display for those things, thus proving my point. It's a waste of resources.

I have an iPad mini 2 and Air 2, which still work after almost a decade of use.
How tf can they block third parties app?
Before the truth was known? No. Before he accepted the truth after it became untenable for him to continue to reject it.

Chomsky simply rejected all the earlier evidence pointing to a genocide as an American imperialist lie.

For goodness sake, he characterized Barron and Paul's Murder of a Gentle Land as being sourced from "informal briefings from specialists at the State and Defense Departments" despite it clearly sourcing testimony of hundreds of Cambodian refugees and Khmer Rouge radio broadcasts. His characterization of it was so intellectually dishonest that it is difficult to believe it was either an intentional lie or willful ignorance.

He searched for any counter-evidence that would confirm his belief that the US was evil (and its adversaries were good or just misunderstood), no matter how questionable - a pattern he continued his entire life.
Your own infrastructure is definitely less secure than this or even, say, Google. You do not have the capability and teams of SREs to detect intrusions, and an attacker would know that your server processes your data.
To contrast a bit with other comments, he is very much disliked in eastern Europe. He was always pushing his multipolar worldview and not respecting that the Poles, Czechs etc. do not want to live under the Soviet/Russian 'pole'.

My personal opinion is that he 1) hates the US 2) hates eastern Europe because it defeated socialism.

I'd love to be proven wrong, but I do not think I will be.
The benchmarks are very interesting. Unfortunately, the writing benchmarks seem to be poorly constructed. It looks like there are tasks no model can achieve and others that almost all models pass, i.e. every model gets around 9.0.
Claiming that concepts have some definite, if abstract, existence, is how not magical and flippant? They too are ambiguous, as is your example definition "the inner angles of triangle must sum to 180 degrees". It depends on euclidean geometry, on another concepts like line and points, and many other concepts possibly not yet invented. And it's all just a matter of convention, humans can follow conventions but so do computers.

By the way, I myself don't think in the rigorous way you describe, either. And I can observe many humans don't too.
[citation needed]

A large portion of western media is state-funded public broadcasters (the BBC, CBC, PBS, ...), and another large swathe is under the control of various explicitly right-leaning corporations (Murdoch's News Corp and Fox, Sinclair, ...).

While there are indeed numerous liberal-leaning media outlets, it is entirely unclear to me that they have equivalent reach to their conservative counterparts.
Yes, I've done it many times!

At the time of writing based on total games played at https://database.lichess.org/ one in every 272,369 games are mine :p
This isn't about AI research, it's about delivering AI at unimaginable scale.
Not a requirement, but in Poland a ton of administration things can be done from a dedicated iphone/android app - including using your official ID. It is optional though, and you can alway do the same stuff (ID aside) from the web, or using paper and going places in person.
>seen this Rush-Driven Development

Y. Also:

s/ush/esume
This is the truth. He is only moral when it suits his hatred for his own country.
> I think this is exactly what _most_ people want.

No. Please stop being speaker for most of the whole world.

There are people, including me or my wife who is not technical at all, who will never use anything similar from Apple. Or any similar SSO/access/security platform. Google and FB tried that decade+ ago, only fools fell for that regretful trap if the service has actually any long term added value.
Intriguing! Can you give some examples? And maybe contrast their preponderance to mathematical examples?
What I hinted at was more granularity in how we treat different types of data, or other accesses, in response to the idea of being forced to turn on "Advanced Data Protection on iCloud".

Rather than putting all of our personal data and accesses under a thick virtual fire blanket, perhaps it is perfectly fine if some of it isn't protected at all, or is protected in ways that could be easily circumvented with just a tiny bit of finagling.

This is now how I'm approaching my own digital foot print, that some not secret things are nowadays wide open, unencrypted and you just need to know where to look to access all of it.
I don't think the solution to having been taught one biased view is to turn around and embrace the oppositely biased view. Countering one form of extreme with another does not make truth, it makes people who hate each other who refuse to find common ground or compromise.
Exactly, it's the same in France, although it started in the 90s (late 80s maybe) and ended after 2010, so we screwed up less neighborhoods than say, Netherlands, but we're 10 years behind into the rehabilitation of local communities. But any neighborhood built between 1990 and 2008 is often souless, car dependent and look like US suburbia (I lived in one)
If you reread what you wrote carefully an amazing irony falls out.

You might consider your consent has simply been manufactured in another direction. Lots of Chomsky acolytes never quite reach that epiphany.

They simply follow in his footsteps of being oh so traumatized by the sudden realization that governments lie and propaganda is a thing that you could get them to opt in to an even deeper set of absurdities and half truths quite easily. To the great delight of the enemies of the US.

This is how you get college students to chant "Death to America".
Agree, the original article could benefit from a concrete "explain like I'm five" example.
Microsoft Pulls Windows 11 24H2 from Insider RPC
https://github.com/michele-perrone/OpenPiano

I don't think there are any useful plugin builds of it, though, even though it's built on Juce
That’s crazy. Why no web interface? In Poland for taxes we have a web interface that is mobile and stationary, and for many other things it’s a choice between an app and web and paper.
I feel your pain. It used to reliably save and fill passwords. It’s a huge mess that doesn’t even work.
> The bottom 5 don't really need updates

Anything connected to a network requires security updates. The bottom five require network connectivity.

> Slow as molasses for the content

An old tablet isn't suitable for general Javascript-impaired web browsing, but there is a wide world of static online/offline content accessible to slow web browsers, as well as bespoke static content delivered via HTTP.

> Whole lot of work.. for almost no gain

The heavy lifting work is in device enablement, but that's a one time cost. Applications exist, work on other devices and are already maintained. Linux iPads would only expand the userbase for those applications.
Apple made their own AI models, only in certain cases it will ask if you want to send it to OpenAI. Presumably other ai companies later can integrate into API. But this is very privacy safe, if you use an iPhone already it already indexes all your photos and OCRs them for easy searching, on device ...
> still use SMS?

Instead of? If you have to send text to an occasional user, what do you think should be used?

The article is about /receiving/ messages supposedly from firms. How should they have sent it?
> The iPhone will let you install an app only if you tell Apple about it

That’s not 100% true, and where it is, there is a good reason, and pretty much every other store does it (being able to revoke malware)
More powerful organization tools compared to browsers, but most importantly, I can switch browser at no cost, use multiple of them without worrying about synchronization, and access them on other PCs.
I also thought it was useless until I tried it
Good resource. Some of the piano SoundFonts here are available in https://chiptune.app (Yamaha Grand Lite 1.1, Chateau Grand Lite 1.0, Abbey Steinway D 1.9, Steinway Grand 1.0). Play a MIDI file, open Settings tab, find them at bottom of SoundFont menu. (You can also drag-and-drop SF2 files.)
It's interesting you phrase it that way, because that's sort of how DuckDuckGo works with their !g searches. I'm not saying that's good or bad, it's just an observation.
Something great I've specifically witnessed yesterday: when doing a small request, like ask for a feature request in the team channel, don't just describe a small use case.

Instead, provide the bigger picture: e.g. "I'm currently trying to climb that benchmark, I'm close to the top and only need a few % points that I could get with this new feature"

For me it worked wonders: a PR that I had been awaiting for some time was done overnight by an enthusiastic and helpful coworker!
Lets me in on my microg lineageos with brave browser
ConcurrentHashMap is more performant in multi-threaded scenarios (it takes a performance hit versus the regular HashMap when single-threaded). Apart from that, it is fairly similar, and doesn't address the ridiculous rate of cache misses at all
Wow. This seems really important, because LLMs have been such black boxes.

Is this result useful only for basic concepts backed by huge numbers of cases in the training data, or is it more general than that?

Comments?
Did we figure out GenAI thats beyond a mashup of Conway's Game of Life tutorials and Stack Overflow answers, which humans created hoping to be credited?
The tax part is all web, it just mandatory 2 factor authentication to login that requires the app.
This, plus metal acceleration works quite well. 7~8B parameter models quantized to 3bpw or so run with good tok/s on my iphone 15 pro
First of all, thank you.

The difference is in simplicity. You just need to add a domain and nothing else. Healthcheck works right out of the box.

As a software engineer, I like many settings in domain-monitor.

But as a regular customer (SEO specialist, busy founder/domain owner) who just wants to add a domain name, unfortunately, I can't do it without manually adding a notification channel, domain, and monitoring settings.

Another difference is that with the free plan, you can do more (compared to domain-monitor.io, for example). You can be notified about SSL expiration, add more domains, etc.

Behind kit.domains, there are just two people (me – a software developer, and my wife – a marketing specialist).

Indie product -> less bureaucracy -> quicker features.

A few cool features like domain cost optimization and monitoring Domain Authority are coming soon.
Kiakvana Mail.com
> Here's Apple's big problem: it's not a replacement for so many alternatives because it isn't supported on all platforms.

No, it's not Apple's problem, let alone be a big problem. Apple does not like to provide services for free on other platforms and isn't even very good at doing it for paid services. This passwords app is meant for those who use and depend on Apple's ecosystem, not as a generic competition for other password managers.
I just threw a pitchfork at you. It had only one tine, though. It was to the left of your username above, and pointing upward. Heck, it just disappeared into the screen or something.
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[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40403492

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40415982

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40421787

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40427296

[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40429247
Does it matter what the baseline memory is as long as they have 16GB M4 as an option?
How do you explain the positive cases in the article?

You are right that they are bad at reflecting on their own knowledge.

I do explain in the article why it's not reasonable to expect an LLM to have a strong intuition about the specifics of the boat and goat problem. The altered question is extremely obvious to us because of our intuitions about the entities in the puzzle. Intuitions an LLM doesn't possess.
> GPS is very similar in that regard.

GPS originated as a military protocol and has some level of encryption and authentication, but this is not available to the general public.
Steve Wozniak Reacts to Apple's New AI Tools
> My personal opinion is that he 1) hates the US 2) hates eastern Europe because it defeated socialism.

He doesn't hate the US. He hates that the US has been captured by warmongering elites and hates its poor. And he'd probably school you on the USSR's state authoritarian capitalism not being a good example of socialism.
The Biggest Hiring Mistake: Not Involving the Team
Exactly the problem with whiteboarding and the likes of Leetcode being so widespread. If getting a job becomes a complex skillset on its own largely disjoint from actual realities of day-to-day work you don't select the person best at doing the job - you select the person best at doing interviews.

Ironically speaking, the person in question could handle all the interviews with new candidates if he's so good at interviewing.
Ask HN: Low-maintenance and cheap deployment and persistence?
Every now and then I think of creating a HTTP API/web service to resolve a pain point I'm experiencing, for which no good solution currently exists. I would do this purely on a hobby basis.

My fear is that when I have done this in the past, I have always run into one of two problems:

1. After a year or two, I lose persistent storage and discover that the backups have not worked for a few months. If I ran the service as a day job, I'd use a high quality but expensive backup provider and do restoration testing regularly, but I can't afford to spend that time for a hobby project.

2. After a year or two, for various reasons I end up needing to migrate the service to a new server, and I run into all sorts of deployment issues (builds failing, missing dependencies, incorrectly configured firewalls, etc.).

If I ran the service as a day job, I would just take whatever time was needed to sort out the deployment issues, but I cannot afford to suddenly drop everything for a hobby project, so I leave it offline for a few weeks, and then it becomes harder and harder to prioritise fixing it. It's often not brought back online until months later – or never.

Being in a position where I have no choice but to disappoint users like that is extremely demotivating.

These two factors mean that I don't want to create a service that requires deployment or persistence. This rules out a large class of things I want to build, and leaves in basically only small ECMAScript applications that use browser local storage.

Recently I realised that maybe I've just approached deployments and persistence for hobby projects wrong. Maybe I'm involving too many moving parts, and relying too much on being my own sysadmin in addition to being the developer.

How are you all doing it in a way that's cheap and low maintenance?
He did say ‘I think’ so not speaking for the whole world
I was thinking more about February 2022, where he tries to blame the Ukrainian invasion on nato expansion or something

https://chomsky.info/20220204/

Oh also his georgian take
https://chomsky.info/200809__2/
I'm getting a 403 trying to access this page.
If I might add my own - TechniCalc - https://jacobdoescode.com/technicalc
I couldn't agree with you more. I love VR as a concept, but the giant headsets are just unusable. Hence, I research this frequently and someone appears to finally have realised this:

https://www.bigscreenvr.com/

Linus Tech Tips did a review of it, so it's real. I have high hopes.
Best of Steve: https://youtu.be/CxlOdljFu6g?t=115
Uncalled landing page roast: The landing page needs some serious overhaul. No one cares if it's written in react. And AI in and of itself is not a feature. Tell me what I can do with it.

The demo is pretty nifty! I have the suspicion that for more complex things it will stumble, but I'll give it a try and fine-tune layout ML with a custom dataset or something that's more complex than survivors in the titanic dataset.

Oh and the API key/proxy thingy sounds a bit annoying.
I like that Apple is still investing in the basics, e.g. “a table of contents and high-level summary” for Reader mode in Safari, “topographic maps with detailed trail networks” in Maps, and “history and unit conversions” in Calculator.
Occam's razor cuts both ways :-)

Some people when they hear that MWI implies that there are many worlds and that the wave function branches they think that implies that MWI is "adding" something so Occam's razor should work against it.

OTOH what MWI postulates that the Schrodinger equation is all there is and the collapse of the wave function is observed because the observer is entangled with the system it measured.

In order to make an intuitive sense of what's going on, MWI invokes the "worlds" and the "branching" but that's just a way for us to grasp how it would feel if ourselves are part of the entangled system. But as many analogies whose purpose is to tickle the intuition it doesn't work for everybody and may be confusing the discourse more than helping it.

But the thing is: the everett interpretation is simpler and it requires less additional rules and mechanisms to explain what we observe. So Occam's razor should favor it.
> load the entire game tree, and walk randomly through it

Can't you just multiply all the percentages and just get an expected value for each field? Why the random walk? Can't you just calculate this exhaustively?
How do you forward a text?
The largest dataset of LLM jailbreak prompts
If your tests only run as part of deploy, you've already lost.

So long as you have a good set of integration tests and the right staging environments to run those tests against, when you ship doesn't matter. I've worked on multiple teams with test suites that give very high confidence what changes are good and are not; most tests were fast and could run before code was merged and block submission. The expensive integration tests ran against a staging environment, and when they started failing it was very quick to identify the range of CLs there and understand what to rollback/fix.

For most of my time there those services only pushed to prod twice a week - sometimes less if the integration tests were failing on the day of one of the deploys. Not every day, not every commit. And yet we had all of those benefits that you claim are impossible. No list of idle people waiting to approve changes, no "huge" deployments, infrastructure for automated tests and more. There are no meetings - those two weekly rollouts are entirely automated infrastructure, and unless an abnormal error rate is detected during the canary proceed entirely without human involvement.

The world didn't fall down. Customers didn't ask us where things were. Oncall appreciated that there weren't constant builds at risk of breaking and falling over - they only had to monitor rollouts twice a week and otherwise could focus on failing tests, logs, and alerts.
Thanks! That's great and sounds like they're really trying to go as far as possible with it.

Here's also a great summary from Matthew Green: https://x.com/matthew_d_green/status/1800291897245835616
That's probably where Microsoft's "Copilot+ PCs" come in.
I'm not even that impressed by the DIY tech but by the incredible detective insight this man seems to have to just guess three likely sites and be correct and not having to search half of Finland.
Some companies give their employees only base models.
Maybe something with at least TLS like email.
One of the more confusing web pages out there.
They have different branding from the rest of the police forces!