skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked on a research team in Alexa. Almost all projects were focused on short term delivery, non immediate need innovation was highly discouraged. Most models were just direct imports of open source models created by Meta/Google. Extremely short delivery timelines for incremental improvement. Alexa employees were often highly political tenured Amazon employees. Minimal room for growth as they sucked oxygen out of the room.

The Amazon philosophy of constant execution is at odds with large leap technical innovation. It works very well for ops heavy AWS orgs, and supply chain related optimization problems. The company has a cultural problem

Regardless of the above, ChatGPT made almost all NLP technologies across all companies obsolete.
Yes. It works both ways as it always has. Being a communist was enough to get you fired at one time. Sinead O’Connor famously got canceled.
Cross-messenger groups are not a thing between WhatsApp and any other messaging app, your snark isn't helping any point.

"The rest of the world" is also not the whole rest, there‚a China, Japan, Korea, with WeChat, KakaoTalk, ...
techcrunch announcement here as well https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/12/restate-raises-7m-for-its-...
That's not what I was talking about. Google's messaging apps were famously a mess, but my guess is that the vast majority of Android users never cared. There was always a default texting app on Android devices that handled SMS and MMS, and later RCS, and that's what most people (again, in the US) used for texting.
For some reason reading this, I didn't believe you, and imagined "black text on green bg" to be very ugly, but you're totally right. There's the classic look we remember. Hmm.
I don't like the current trend of kitchen/living room hybrids. Open kitchens are pretty bad for indoor air quality and reduce the effect of insulation. The former is especially problematic for those with gas stoves. Moreso when combined with recirculating filtering extractor fans instead of the ones that vent the polluted air outside.

A smallish kitchen with a door and a good fan keeps the rest of house warm in winter, and keeps pollutants out of the house.
I mean, how much of this is stock buybacks?
I guess "don't be a hater" was more for the karma assassins. For every one person who voted up on this thread, two voted down!

I don't criticize your skepticism, I criticize incredulity! That is, the refusal to believe.
I blame apple for this. Basically forces me to use WhatsApp or something. Otherwise I'll not receive some messages or some people won't get mine. It's pretty confusing when trying to nail down plans.
HarperDB Attracts Significant Growth Investment from Serent Capital
not necessarily - we store the intermediary states of your handler, so it can be replayed on infrastructure failures. if the handler changes in what it does, those intermediary states (the 'journal') might no longer match this. the best solution is to route replayed requests to the version of the code that originally executed the request, but:
1. many infra platforms dont allow you to execute previous versions
2. after some duration (maybe just minutes), executing old code is dangerous, eg because of insecure dependencies.
The alternative would have probably been worse, considering that Trieste has been slowly dying since WWI, more or less. Like Venezia (and arguably, various other parts of Italy), it was built to do something that is now largely unnecessary, so it will likely survive only as a curiosity.
Apple don't react to anything until there's a large enough outcry about it, rather than immediately address the issue they wait to see how many people complain to decide if it's worth the negative press and consumer perception or not.

Everyone makes fun of Sammy batteries exploding, but forget antennagate, bendgate, software gimping of battery life, butterfly keyboards, touch disease, yellow screens (which I believe were when Apple had to split supply Samsung/LG), exploding Macbook batteries (not enough to cause a fuss tho). Etc.

Other companies can of course be ne'er-do-wells, but people actively defend Apple for the company's missteps.
> Immutable code platforms (like Lambda) make things much more tractable

My job is admittedly very old-school, but is that actually doable? I dont think my stakeholders would accept a version of "well we can't fix this bug for our current customers, but the new ones wont have it". That just seems like a chaos nobody wants to deal with.
You can already AirPlay from an iOS device to a Mac– doing this on a plane is a bit trickier because of the networking setup though. I think I have managed to successfully do it once by either
1. doing some sort of tethering/creating a local wifi network on my Mac
2. connecting both devices to the in flight wifi

I use AirPlay to my Mac (and external monitors) even at home since I can watch the 4K feed from apps, which isn't available for some services if you use the web browser (cough HBO cough),
Looks like a fun project!

Do you have any samples of the audio?
It would be great to hear what it's like before trying it out.

Also, have you considered doing this all in client side JS?
Would be a good way to protect the API key (at least in this demo case).
The maker of the camera system claims 0.5" precision; TFA calculates a mean 0.3" RMS deviation from an aerodynamic model.
Intel has older fabs on that list - including one that was built in 2003 - that are capable of 7nm production processes. Some of the older domestic plants have been significantly updated over the years.
Yeah, that photo is an older, separate very large load. They're trying to do a bunch of them back-to-back so they only have to figure out the logistics once. The 280' one hasn't left yet (or probably been loaded), but there's a picture of it on ODOT's site: https://www.transportation.ohio.gov/about-us/traffic-advisor...
What I find ironic with all this talk of lower-class green bubbles is that the Messages app icon is still…green!
> but not as deeply integrated or without any other app

Deeply integrated? How about a button that just does that? My android messaging app (that came with the phone) has a video call button in it. It works. Is it an app? What app is it? I don't know. I never installed it. It's just called "Video Call".

It seems that the main reason you can't video call or send emojis across Apple's garden wall is that Apple doesn't want you to. As you note, all the MORE ways you can communicate are things that I've done without an Apple product. I'm not sure what "without any other app" means. Other than what? Is Facetime a separate app from iMessage? Are those even the right names?
Zero-JavaScript View Transitions
We'll see how the SinkEx on the ex-USS Tawara goes at RimPac 2024.

I'd be surprised if they don't use some ASBMs.

But larger ships are built to take an incredible amount of punishment. It typically takes a heavyweight torpedo to crack them (hence why ASW is a primary skill set for navies). The physics of getting a 1/4 ton+ non-nuclear warhead (torpedo class) highly maneuvering are rough.

And there's a reason the Navy developed and deployed SM-6, and is now adding SEWIP Block III...

https://m.youtube.com/results?search_query=rimpac+sinkex
> Or, brainmeat can't do it better or more efficiently, and either uses the same techniques or something even worse. The latter seems unlikely, humans still do pretty well at generating text (gold standard, even).

Considering we use something like a thousand times the compute, "something even worse" seems plausible enough.
Sounds revolting, to be honest.
The colors will be purer if you use ethanol (denatured alcohol, 190 proof Everclear or equivalent) as fuel. High concentration isopropyl alcohol has a yellow tinge to the flame from soot formation. Methanol (sold to the public in the US in convenient small bottles as Heet Gas-Line Antifreeze) is also very good and may be easier to obtain in some areas than pure high-proof ethanol.

Sodium chloride, lithium chloride, copper chloride, and boric acid give the most intense colors. But sodium chloride's orange-yellow color is a bit boring compared to the others.

A few milliliters of the alcohol mixture can be ignited in a shallow stainless steel dish with relative safety and there will be no color interference from carbonaceous fuels yellowing the flame via soot.

If I had to pick just one to try, I'd suggest boric acid. The green flames it produces are unlike any "ordinary" fire and boric acid is easy to find. Here's a short video with a good view of how the flames look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1jHVk6oqjU

The first night that my now-wife met me in person, I showed her colored fire like this in the fire pit at my apartment complex. She originally meant to visit for just a few days but we've now spent 21 years together. I'd say that the demonstration was a success.
Restate also stores a deployment version along with other invocation metadata. FaaS platforms like AWS Lambda make it very easy to retain old versions of your code, and Restate will complete a started invocation with the handlers that it started with. This way, you can "drain" older executions while new incoming requests are routed to the latest version.

You still have to ensure that all versions of handler code that may potentially be activated are fully compatible with all persisted state they may be expected to access, but that's not much different from handling rolling deployments in a large system.
Money is just a proxy for goods and services in the economy. Cheap energy (along with cheap Latin American labor) is what allows Americans to live in houses twice the size of someone from say France or Germany, and drive their kids around in 5,000 pound SUVs.
Founders who have no need for money in the first year or two are fortunate people who are either already wealthy or have a spouse or family supporting them. Surely those aren't the only types of people worth backing.
Takeaway is roughly: those observing the pitch expect it to be moving in one direction, and it often is moving in a different direction, giving the illusion of a sudden change of direction. So the knuckleball is unpredictable, just not in the way that it appears to be.
just dont invite them! i have dinner parties all of the time, if you're a vegan, you're not welcome.
> In effect, 2 cats and 2 dogs were all he needed to reliably distinguish between cats and dogs.

I assume he was also exposed to many images, photos and videos (realistic or animated) of cats and dogs in children books and toys he handled. In our case, this was a significant source of animal recognition skills of my daughters.
I mostly message over WhatsApp but iMessage has a lot more features, and especially fun (e.g. multiplayer games directly in the messaging program) and useful (e.g. very slick location sharing) ones.
AI tool with the same name as a game where a robot uprising is one of the main backstories seems like it could be a bit problematic...
For reasons like this, I've never owned an iPad. Seems like an intentionally gimped version of a PC.
Our goal is to make it easier to write code that handles failures - failed outbound api calls, infrastructure issues like a host dying, problems talking between services. The primitive we offer is that we guarantee that your handlers always run to completion (whether to a result or a terminal error)

The way we do that is by writing down what your code is doing, while its doing it, to a store. Then, on any failure, we re-execute your code, fill in any previously stored results, so that it can 'zoom' back to the point where it failed, and continue. It's like a much more efficient and intelligent retry, where the code doesn't have to be idempotent.
I spent my entire youth convincing people to move to platforms like signal, and including signal, that would then be used by said people only to talk to me, until they had some UX problem and I became tech support for them

after many years of this I gave up and now I use the default: SMS

life is too short for this
Yes just riviting and at the end, very emotional knowing what peace they brought to their parents. I'm also so glad they got the presidential recognition they deserved.
Thanks! We've just spent a few months building this internally. We could have used your solution if we've seen it in time.

Do you support memory? Do you have some best practices that are integrated to build AI Assistants? Like the AI won't mention that they're ChatGPT or Claude etc
In my case absolutely none bar family reciprocated.

Tons of work, before and after, expensive.

I think that between families getting smaller, a tendency to spend much less time socializing in general, and economic conditions making it cost effective to just take people out rather than cooking for them it's not worth it.

Even my family in the south of Italy were gathering 20/30 people together was common is now limited both in frequency and attendance (few generations that didn't have 3/4 but 1/2 people each shrunk the party considerably).
Lynn Conway, leading computer scientist and transgender pioneer, dies at 86
With on device LLMs Apple is poised to incentivize most users to upgrade.
The True Extent of US Spy Satellite Capability [video]
Fair point. I thought the background music volume lowered sufficiently during the voice-over, but I guess not. Will look to adjust that.
The cloud of "where it ends up" is not important for establishing the difficulty of hitting a pitch. What matters is the correlation between the initial trajectory and its final location. This is the information that the batter has.
I suspect that something's slightly off with Apple's SMS implementation. People often complain about lost CSM chunks that were sent to them from iOS devices. Of course lost messages can happen anywhere, SMS is inherently not reliable, but the frequency with which they point to the other device being an iPhone raises my eyebrows.
Whoops, sorry. Slept poorly last night and missed this. You're 100% right, GCM doesn't have enough bits in the nonce to safely generate them randomly for any case where keys are reused significantly.
In theory none? Stock buybacks increase the stock price but reduce the number of shares. So the market cap should stay more or less the same.
>If someone thinks less of me or won't communicate with me because of something as meaningless as the color of my messages on their phone, then that person isn't worth my time to begin with.

It's not about the colour of the message, it's what it signifies: this is an insecure conversation that is not end-to-end encrypted. To me it signals "switch to whatsapp/signal"

Today green means SMS, which also means that deliverability can be unreliable (in the past I've seen SMSes send and never arrive, arrive multiple times, or arrive hours late), and delivery notification is limited and unreliable. Same with tapbacks, and that voice/image/video involves MMS (which is bad, and in many countries carries per-message fees).

P.S. the incoming message bubble is black-on-grey, the same as all incoming messages no matter the medium - it's unencrypted outgoing messages that get a green bubble
It's just AI hype from the keynote.
$110B in stock buybacks to raise the market cap by some $300B seems like a good deal —— or the market is pricing in new information that was announced much more recently than the buybacks
Levels.fyi has no Paris salaries @ Google >$292k (for a 12y tenure) https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/greater...
Out of interest, what use cases/people did you have in mind?
We’ve taken to having dinner parties with friends in their 60 and 70s. Better food and more often than not, more interesting conversation too.
Brazil recruits OpenAI in brave bid to slash court battle costs
The big one for me is image quality and metadata. Images shared in "mixed company" are lower quality and have the metadata stripped; it's not dissimilar to being sent a screenshot of a picture instead of the picture itself. It's not a big deal for "Look at how big the kids have gotten!" but if I go on a hike or beach trip with friends or family, and there's something they took that I care about, I have to say "Great thanks for sending but can you upload it somewhere else," usually Google Photos, and go through that whole dance.
I tried subway online ordering once almost a year ago. The last final screen crashed and deleted the entire order from my cart. Anyways, you're probably wondering if the order actually went through but subway's UI was shit and nearly tricked me into replacing the same order a second time: yes.
Official documentation of Framework Laptop 16 (Now featuring 3D CAD models)
There are modern iron gall inks with better properties. E.g. Rohrer and Klingner Salix. Older inks had insanely low pH.
By the way, oxygen is a colorless, odorless gas with an atomic number of eight.

If you would like to know more about elements just say "Alexa, tell me about the periodic table of elements".
The description of "project manager mathematicians" reminded me of "A letter to my old friend Jonathan" [1] and the followup [2] by Edsger Dijkstra from 1975. It was written as satire, basically criticizing the way that software was produced by showing how ridiculous it would be to produce mathematics the same way. But in some ways it was prescient. Of course, the main point of these documents is to critique intellectual property (particularly the absurdity of applying it to mathematical truth) but fortunately that aspect is not a significant concern of this push toward mechanization.

[1]: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD04xx/E...

[2]: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD05xx/E...
This is a wonderful article and kudos to the author for his moral sensibility here. The lack of liquidity and anti-dilution rights for any except a handful of key persons is a dirty secret of Silicon Valley. Most startup employees do not end up better compensated than they would at a larger company on a net present value basis even when their startup is successful -- and they don't as easily get liquidity along the way although there are more private secondary market brokers than there used to be.

The other angle worth observing here is the tax angle. In many cases, the founders are taking liquidity at valuations that are only loosely tied to tax valuations of the company. These valuations are fine for the founders and preferred by the buyers/investors, but undercut the premise of the tax system that was redesigned after the options backdating scandals of the early 2000s, in part, to ensure that taxes were getting paid in accordance with the actual capital gains.
> I don’t know if that’s Google’s, Apple’s, RCS’s, or SMS’s fault.

It's Apple's fault for "extending" a standard messaging standard with a non-standard protocol.
You pretty much explained how to fix this though. A good extractor and an induction stove. The heating issues are manageable even with an extractor fan.

Nobody wants to be hidden away in a small kitchen these days. So lonely, and completely impractical if you have small kids you need to keep an eye on at the same time.
It depends on the application. Some use an unconventional process because of application requirements e.g. radiation hardening. Special purpose fabs are often subsidized to some extent to keep them running. Also, the US military will upgrade the silicon of existing systems if the situation warrants it e.g. it is cheaper to use more modern silicon than to maintain a fab for the old silicon.

Most weapon systems use old silicon that needs to be robust in all military operational environments. They don't benefit from having more modern silicon. Terminal guidance systems on hypersonic missiles that do kinetic intercept of other hypersonic missiles often use something like a MIPS R3000/4000 class CPU and a DSP of similar vintage.

ISR systems (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) benefit from state-of-the-art silicon because that data is extremely large and analysis is time sensitive. Since pervasive ISR at scale is a cornerstone of modern military operations, having the best silicon and software for this type of computation is strategic. In these cases, it is often the latest commodity silicon.
Because often times the Android phone won't even do group SMS properly, and it screws everything up. You start getting messages that some other group members didn't. Maybe this is why a lot of Android users use WhatsApp, and that's what I do with my in-laws.
My understanding of Alexa is the thing doesn’t support a business of its own so it’s beholden to showing value to the enterprise through soft or derivative metrics like engagement or LTV. I believe that when a venture doesn’t stand on its own value within a larger enterprise it’s doomed to corporate politics and external optics. This has an ultimately shorter shelf life than something that makes money, in some companies it might be greater than others.
You yourself identified some problems that a modern AI guru would salivate over: Formal specifications from natural language, "filling in" formal details. etc

I'll add another one: NN-based speedups to constraint solvers, which are usually something like branch-and-bound. This is (i've heard) a very active area of research.
Why is Python packaging such a mess? That's a serious question. Has someone written up some recap or history piece on how it came to be this way? Any pointers?
I'd also say there is a bit of a 'when you have a hammer…" going on. Java in particular spent a good portion of its formative years with relatively few language features, so there was a lot of cobbling them together in interesting ways to solve new classes of problems.

Exceptions became a way to capture diagnostic context for where an error happened and a (limited) view of state, so a lot of Java server applications use them as part of their issue reporting and diagnosis process.

Other languages may expect say the application to halt on unexpected errors, and to build tools to locally evaluate the core dump (such as crash reports and symbolication in Apple-land).

This does have some influence on developers in terms of the ramifications of a failure (failed request vs stopped application/server), so it can have interesting effects in how seriously a team evaluates potential errors and designs for recovery/cleanup.
Regulation isn’t the root cause, and it usually never is the root cause as regulations are always made in reaction to, not usually proactively.
I was of course just thinking about the "front" of the execution, when you're sleeping for 2 days and you want to switch out a future step. Switching out logic that has already been committed is a harder problem. That's a goo point.

> after some duration (maybe just minutes), executing old code is dangerous, eg because of insecure dependencies.

Could you elaborate on that? My understanding is that all of this tech builds on actions being retried in an "eventually consistent" manner. That would seem to clash with this argument.
Sure until you lose your job, I think having your health insurance tied to employment is really scary for a lot of people (me included). Not everybody has the same tolerance to risk. Our safety net isn't what they have in europe, but it is still better than the US.

No offense but it is spoken like a true American. I have dealt with European immigration and it was pleasant/painless for the most part. In the US they make you feel unwelcome and they drown you in paperwork. Not that Canada is much better these days, but I am a citizen so don't need to deal with it.
A few links worth sharing here:

- Blog post with an overview of Restate 1.0: https://restate.dev/blog/announcing-restate-1.0-restate-clou...

- Restate docs: https://docs.restate.dev/

- Discord, for anyone who wants to chat interactively: https://discord.com/invite/skW3AZ6uGd
This was already gold but went platinum with: "At the present time I do not believe there is any man of this kind."
USD. I live in Texas and locked in a 3 year rate. It comes with a larger cancellation fee ($250ish), but if I'm doing 1500-2000kWh a month most months, I'm easily saving money even if I cancel before the year is even up because the rate difference is usually 1.5-2c.