skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Alexa put a huge emphasis on protecting customer data with guardrails in place to prevent leakage and access. Definitely a crucial practice, but one consequence was that the internal infrastructure for developers was agonizingly painful to work with.

I was in Alexa and this rings painfully true. So many workarounds and endless classification escalations. The customer-data certified compute environments were extremely painful to use (though later improved but still annoying) and getting data in or out, even for anodyne reasons, was nigh impossible. For a long period, even getting access to this system (called Hoverboard) took months. During my internship I spent about half of it waiting for access to be granted and had to spend a big chunk of it testing out my training system on CPU...not fun.
Huh, on all platforms and then mention thumbprint? I assume other biometric authn options will be available because not every device has fingerprint reader.
We just funded and managed two 20 year wars across the planet from our borders, one in a landlocked country. Russia couldn't move a tank column down a highway at the beginning of this war.

Putin is definitely crushing us at manly and assertive displays, though.
https://whatispiping.com/cold-box-cryogenic/
uv is essentially an improved version of pip, virtualenv and pip-tools, but from the outside it's pretty much the same thing. The CLI imitates most of pip's options too.

It's not like conda, which is a completely different ecosystem, with dodgy integration with pip.
Hey HN,

A few months ago, I realized that many of the people I know spend countless hours each day writing emails. For me, time is one of the most valuable resources, and I saw an opportunity to help others reclaim some of theirs. So, I set out to create a tool that could make email composition and replies faster and easier.

Introducing Scribix – an AI-powered email assistant that writes and responds to your emails in under a minute. Here’s my story:

The Problem
In my professional life, I’ve observed that writing emails is a significant time drain. Whether it’s composing new emails, replying to inquiries, or just managing the daily influx of messages, the time spent on emails adds up quickly. This isn't just my experience; it's a common pain point for many colleagues and friends in various fields.

The Idea
Inspired by advancements in AI, particularly GPT and natural language processing, I decided to build a solution. The goal was to develop a tool that could seamlessly integrate into daily workflows, handle various languages, and produce contextually accurate emails.

Building Scribix
Leveraging AI and machine learning, Scribix can:

Compose emails based on brief prompts.
Reply to incoming emails with context-aware responses.
Operate efficiently in multiple languages.
Learn and adapt to your unique writing style over time.
Rare Earth Element Recycling and Reuse from End-of-Life Permanent Magnets
If I get your question right, you still need some host software (like a rust compiler)! It's not exactly micropython experience.

The bare minimum would be one of the examples [1] compiled with a Rust compiler and then transformed into a .uf2 file with elf2uf2 [2]. You can then just drag and drop the .uf2 file into the "mass storage device" presented by the bootloader. To get the bootloader to mount, you press a button on a Raspberry Pico (or short two outputs if you're using bare RP2040) while plugging it in.

You'll probably want a debug probe [3] driven by probe-rs [4] at some point, it's just much more convenient to flash and debug with it.

[1]: https://github.com/embassy-rs/embassy/tree/main/examples/rp/...

[2]: https://github.com/JoNil/elf2uf2-rs

[3]: https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/microcontrollers/d...

[4]: https://probe.rs/
> Send 100 hypersonics per ship and one will hit.

What about all of those submerged ships that will lay waste to their opponent with the weapons they carry?
SQlite handles concurrency "fine"; If you have long-lived locks, it can be a hassle, because that's still fundamentally single-threaded, but you can have as many processes accessing the same database as you want so long as their locks don't overlap. If you're mostly reading, it's great.
NEON extension on ARM comes with CNT instruction that counts set bits.
This might sound strange but most people with iPhones actually like how their phones look and behave. Personally I’m not the biggest fan of this era of UI design, but it’s silly to assume hostility on Apple’s part. Every year they announce even more accessibility features, and it makes sense to because they really want more people to actually be able to use the phones they sell.
You sound like Clippy. "It looks like you're writing about oxygen! Would you like to know its chemical properties?"
Interesting given how many products out there now are negatively described as ChatGPT wrappers. Sounds like Alexa was just an open source model wrapper.
The companies did it, but also, the buyer had choices.
Yeah, definitely. We would like to have modes of operation where Restate puts its state only in S3. In that world, it could potentially run for short periods, and sleep when there's no work to do.

Cloud only has an early access free tier right now. We intend to make Cloud into a highly multitenant offering, which will make the cost of a user that isn't doing anything with their cluster effectively 0. In that world, we can do really cost effective consumption pricing for low-volume serverless use cases. Absolutely this requires trust, and some users will always want to self host, and we want to make that as easy and cost effective as possible. Its worth noting that we should be able to support client side encryption for journal entries, in time - in which case, you don't have to trust us nearly as much.
This is why I don't write serious applications in Python and Node.
It's not unreasonable for Apple to appreciate an aesthetic that is less accessible considering they provide the tools for users to customize the device for their needs.

The majority of people have no problem with the contrast of the Messages app, or at least it's never been a complaint that I've heard. That's not to say we shouldn't consider those who do have problems, but, again, there are options for those people.
> If you're serving it uncompressed

That 847 KB is actually the size of the (compressed) zip file, but it does contain other files. The compressed WASM + the JS to load it is probably about 500K, depending on the specifics of compression & minification.
In 3 important ways besides price:
-Personalization: The platform can be fully customized to your interests, e.g. 3rd party vendors, tech stack, products, peers or industry. It’s like having your personalized threat intel org that cuts through the noise. Each of the alerts are ranked and tailored to your interests.
-Customization: The platform can be used for a range of use cases, with agents undertaking tasks ranging from finding and extracting check, loan, and credit card fraud, risky narratives about your brand, through to breaches or emerging ransomware groups targeting your tech stack or vendors. Those agents can even identify breaking events that could be near your assets.
-So what and now what: Each report provides finished intel, whether finding or extracting relevant indicators of compromise, background on the threat actor and victim, compromised credentials, or compromised credit cards and checks. We can even automate workflows through integrations or creating cases/escalations for specific teams.
I still use bitchx with argon today. Been my favorite client since 1997.
Nope, they'll conclude that the EPA is ineffective, then cut and / or eliminate it!
I like OCB and dislike GCM, but GCM is very, very fast and is the de facto standard AEAD, and the runner-up is Chapoly. OCB would be a quirky choice, and maybe trickier to get in every ecosystem you develop in (I ended up writing my own back in the early days of Golang).
You’re making a trivial claim. When I say the sun will probably rise tomorrow, I’m not saying that anything that happens before will happen again.
Sadly you can't get a glimpse on the immense effort we put into destroying our society. But the nunbers are available if you are curious enough.
A lot of it comes down to management/team quality. Do you want to spend an awful lot of time with these folks? Do you think you'll learn from each other? Do these folks seem to know what they're doing and are the building a product that interests you? If you can say yes to most (all?) of those questions, then all-in-all, it's probably a wash. If not, run.
Huh, interesting take on things here. The Talenti pistachio doesn’t contain any whole nuts from what I recall, it’s more of a blend. Just thought this was a stylistic difference compared to having whole nuts, perhaps since Talenti is supposed to be gelato.
Shrug
I haven’t bought mine yet because I was waiting for people to ask this question :)
America is perfect? No bad to be found here? I find this hard to believe.
I've been using Elixir as a backend for a side project (with a Remix frontend) and it's been really pleasant and productive to work with on the backend. I appreciate how productive LiveView can be, but for my specific case I needed to handle poor network connections and LiveView was (as expected) a poor experience.

I wish Elixir was able to decouple itself from LiveView in a sense in the minds of developers. Even without LiveView and realtime/channels, just using Elixir as a backend for a simple API has been really fun.
Bretton woods probably had the bigger impact :)
Or Emacs in the 70s. "Everything old is new again."
Someone liking a black lives matter post could be disastrous? That's an interesting take that definitely doesn't smell like white supremacy
1) The examples in those screenshots are way lower contrast than my actual messaging app on the real device. Maybe it wasn’t that bad when they did the calculations, but it’s not a great sign.

2) The author believes Android users’ messages show up green, so I wonder if they’ve ever even used an iPhone.

3) The messages are in fact not hard to read and you can crank up contrast system-wide if that or anything else gives trouble (and if these do, you’ll need improved contrast to browse the web, anyway).
3 nights ago at about 1am my Alexa started blasting heavy metal music at 1am.

I unplugged it and am not too sure about plugging it back in.
For me, it's always regret:

1. If I buy stock, and the stock goes down, I regret buying

2. If I buy a stock, and the stock goes up, I regret not buying more

There's no winning :-/
GCM's nonce reuse failure modes are worse than CTR's.
Curious for those that are reading comments here -
1. Are you users of google dataset search?
2. What other dataset searches are you using?

At my company, we recently (last year) did a crawl of over 600 million tables (TabLib) and released it. We've done some indexing, but haven't released a public search for it yet. If people were interested, we could stand up a service pretty quickly that serves a larger number of data sources (with data directly accessable, rather than behind potential paywalls like google dataset search). We can also attach it to our Data AI products (eg. chatgpt integration with it, to do analysis and plotting with it).

Super curious for feedback and signal for interest in a product like this, so please let me know - reach out here or directly via email if you have interest and why!
Having an API in front of a database for full control of what is available is extremely common.

> trying to handle this in your own custom backend code

It's not writing some extra custom code, it's simply locating all of the code which interacts directly with your database on one host. Splitting up where your code is so that what would be function calls in some places if everybody interacted with the database are instead API calls. This kind of organizational decision is not at all unusual.

And if you're using SQLite it's probably because your application is simple and you should have some pushback anyway on people trying to mAkE iT WEBScaLE!! (can I still make this joke or has everybody forgotten?)

A lot of premature optimizers get very worried about concurrency and scalability on systems which will never ever have concurrent queries or need to be scaled at all. I remember making fun of developers running "scalable" Hadoop nonsense on their enormous clusters which cost more than my yearly salary to run by reimplementing their code with cut and grep on my laptop at a 100x speedup.

I've worked places where a third of our cloud budget was running a bunch of database instances which were not even 5% utilized because folks insisted on all of these database benefits which weren't ever going to be actually needed.
Those issues are handled quite nicely with nix:

https://github.com/nix-community/poetry2nix/
The positive here is that it's possibly the first time an independent with no political affiliation gets elected as MEP. Possibly a new phenomenon.
Caffeine Has an Intriguing Effect on the Brains of Parkinson's Patients
US goverment sanctions Moscow Stock Exchange
Are you asking if the underfunded Russian military made mistakes in manning a ship, building a ship, designing a ship? Surely, it was meant to be rhetorical
> I'm sure you saw over 1B images of cats though, assuming 24 images per second from vision.

The AI models aren't seeing the same image 1B times.
Inspiring infrastructure.

The module aspect is super cool, is there much adoption with any other projects using the individual modules? e.g. a webparser using the dom module
'Anti-Woke' Shareholders Are Going After Corporate Boards
Or the email was sent in plain text (typical) and an intermediate hop logged the address and made it available.

Or the matching address was generated algorithmically because if you're spamming you don't really care if most addresses bounce. Thinking about the days when I used to use bespoke addresses, they would have been pretty easy to generate algorithmically. And thinking about spam I've received, what appears to be algorithmic generation is not uncommon.

Or the Terms of Service you agreed to include sharing information with partners.

Good luck.
> But it seems the goal now is just "Make it an LLM," instead of focusing on recognizing the task that the user wants to do, and connecting it to APIs that can do those tasks.

I almost completely agreed with you, but this is not true! Apple is trying to solve the task & API problem with “task intents”, on which they go into more detail outside of the keynote: https://youtu.be/Lb89T7ybCBE

The new Siri models are trained on a large number of schemas. Apps can implement those schemas to say “I provide this action” (aka, the user intends to do this action). Siri can use the more advanced NLP that comes with GenAI to match what you say to a schema, and send that to an app.

These app intents are also available to spotlight and shortcuts, making them more powerful than just being Siri actions
The easiest way is to move to the SF area. However, you'll end up spending most of the after-tax pay on housing, food, etc. For example, rent on a 1 bedroom apartment in the suburbs is going to be $30-60K per year:

https://www.zillow.com/santa-clara-ca/apartments/1-bedrooms/

The cost of pretty much everything around here reflects that cost of living. Businesses have to pay workers enough to allow them to live in the area.
Home Security Cameras Are Getting Smarter with AI. That's Good News for Everyone
Here's a poll for yes/no responses so here we can focus on substantive comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40660397
Every time I read about the various spats and incompatibilities of non-standard message systems, I am extra grateful for email.
Neat. But somewhat confusing that it's missing some common plants. (A few I found: honeysuckle, broccoli, turnip, jalapeno, kale.)
In 3 important ways besides price:

-Personalization: The platform can be fully customized to your interests, e.g. 3rd party vendors, tech stack, products, peers or industry. It’s like having your personalized threat intel org that cuts through the noise. Each of the alerts are ranked and tailored to your interests.

-Customization: The platform can be used for a range of use cases, with agents undertaking tasks ranging from finding and extracting check, loan, and credit card fraud, risky narratives about your brand, through to breaches or emerging ransomware groups targeting your tech stack or vendors. Those agents can even identify breaking events that could be near your assets.

-So what and now what: Each report provides finished intel, whether finding or extracting relevant indicators of compromise, background on the threat actor and victim, compromised credentials, or compromised credit cards and checks. We're training our agents to be even more specific with answers e.g. "what IOCs relate to malware groups most active in the airline industry". We can even automate workflows through integrations or creating cases/escalations for specific teams.
> This makes it hard to plan ahead

Debian stable is released roughly every 2 years. Once a release becomes oldstable, it gets LTS [0] support for at least 5 years, and Extended LTS [1] for another 5.

I think Debian is one of the easiest distros to plan ahead for.

[0] https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
[1] https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Extended
Valve used the name Overwatch since 2013 (before Blizzard) for their player-run jury system for cheaters.
I doubt they provide any kind of guarantee that they'll catch everything. That's not what a tool like this is used for (i.e. it's not a security tool or a network monitoring service).

OSINT is about gathering data from public or semi-public places.

There are plenty of private dark web forums that these kinds of tools probably don't have visibility into, but the bigger public well-known ones are where you are most likely to see high-profile breaches being sold (since there's a wider audience and actors want to sell data quickly before it devalues), so it's certainly better than nothing...
Not the Vision Pro, but I got the latest Facebook device around Christmas time, and it got almost entirely shelved before the end of January. I maybe get it out, for a workout, once a month now.

Some of the games were really fun, most notably Walkabout Minigolf and Super Hot VR.

Some of the exercise programs were pretty neat, most notably The Thrill of the Fight and Les Mills Body combat.

It did not work well as a replacement for either a TV or a computer monitor. The device was just too bulky and inconvenient and the software too clunky. So much easier to just use a laptop, if I want to work / watch on the go.

In the end, none of the experiences were compelling enough to keep using it regularly.
The Documentation Tradeoff
What AGI ?
I use it every morning with my keyboard to watch videos, get caught up on emails and messages, and sometimes call friends. I don’t use it quite as much in the evenings when my wife is around since I like to be able to show her what I’m doing, so I’ll use my laptop instead.
Yes, but I've been just doing it to distract myself when putting away dishes or folding clothes
Yeah. I enjoy it for watching movies/shows, especially while flying. I also like to do a couple of hours of work (programming) in a cool environment with immersive music every couple of days. I keep it on my standing desk and when I stand up, I frequently will put it on.

I don't recommend it for non developers until there is more content, but it's a really neat dev kit device that shows where the future is headed.
This is the first I’ve heard of Calm. It seems very similar to Slow, which I recently heard of.

https://slow.co/about/
Yes, big fan of using the native apps in conjunction with the MacBook mirroring makes it a great workspace. After work, it's fantastic for media consumption.
There's no such thing as group SMS. Your phone either sends multiple SMS messages, or uses something else than SMS (usually MMS). I'm talking about SMS specifically, as CSM chunks aren't relevant to anything else.

My assumption is that iOS somehow manages to lose some SMS messages when sent in rapid succession more often than it would happen for usual reasons.
And, if you exit the company -- either voluntarily or involuntarily -- you often only have 90 days to exercise your options. If you've gotten laid off, eating into your savings while searching for a job is a pretty risky proposition. If you have an appreciable amount of equity, that bill can be rather high. Then there's AMT. Many end up letting the options expire. So, taking that pay cut for equity really didn't work out -- you had less money to exercise the options and because you couldn't, the option portion of your compensation was effectively clawed back.

I very much appreciate the startups pushing to extend the exercise window out to 5 - 10 years, but that's far from the norm. I've debated this with a couple of investors and their stance is if you leave the company then you're not committed enough and shouldn't receive anything. I think that's quite debatable, but that's certainly not the case when folks are laid off. And we commonly discuss people thriving in one particular phase of a company. If you're not in that phase, it's no good for either the company or the employee to continue the relationship just to defer having to exercise options.
Bird in hand is better than 3 in the bush
AIPIS
> hard not to regret the choice

If you can't handle "regret" in these cases, then you probably shouldn't be in a position where you're deriving the vast majority of your income/weatlh from investments (which is fundamentally what a CEO does).

It's astounding how many ICs can't wrap their heads around the concept that holding onto your RSUs make absolutely no financial sense. With rare exceptions, this doesn't make sense for anyone. And yet, fear for "regret" keeps people holding.

But it's not shocking that even in tech many ICs are not good at reasoning financially. But if you want to be a co-founder, and hold a lot of your wealth in investments it's essentially that you learn to reason, plan and accept outcomes accordingly. Otherwise you're more-or-less a professional gambler.
That's fair.

It depends on why you care about AI-written code.

At the code review stage, we care mostly that the code is good (correct, readable, etc). So if the AI-written code passes muster there, then there's nothing wrong with it being "AI-written" in our eyes.

If you care about AI-written for the sake of preventing AI usage by your developers, then I think it's already impossible to detect and prevent.
>Sigh... all thats happening is formation pressure overcoming an improperly capped well

They know that pressure is what's forcing the water from the previously capped wells, the unresolved question is -- what's causing that pressure and where is the water coming from? Could be from fracking, could be something else, but proving it is the hard part.

Poorly capped wells are a problem, but this water ejection, at least on the scale they are seeing now, is a new problem.
Now nobody can tell that others have expressed positive feelings, which is the point, no?
https://archive.is/4Jz2t
Stored Procedures I guess?
I’ll eat my hat if the Google and Amazon lobbyists let this even get remotely close to a vote.

Money runs this country, not the electorate. There’s far too much revenue involved in siphoning off government budgets to let this get anywhere near the congressional floor.
My startup [0] works with a lot of companies that are non-traditional, as you put it, and gives you the tools to design a CRM (and other business tools) that actually suit your business, if you want to check it out

[0] https://noloco.io
Mysterious technology can boost any processor's performance by 100X
NASA Abandoned a Spacecraft in Orbit for 5 Years [video]