skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the depiction of every upset customer being irate because of a personal problem

That's the straw man. I don't see anything in the parent comment that implies or expresses that. It says

1. "There will always be a subset of people who act irate or abusively for external reasons", not
2. "All people who are irate or abusive due to external reasons"

Your flipping the implication within the sentence, then arguing against that
According to most reporting, Spirit removed, then failed to re-install the door. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boeing-loose-bolts-alaska-airli...
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The United States market by GDP is about $10T bigger than the EU. Apple's Americas revenue is about 41% of total revenues while Europe is about 26%.
Yeah, .NET Core 2.1. The target device was Raspberry Pi 4 running Debian Linux.

The code uses many structs defined by Mpeg4, MKV, and V4L2 kernel API.
However, my C# code doesn’t do much work during playback. It loads slices of bytes from the input file, sends video frames to V4L2 (the OS exposes an asynchronous API and supports memory-mapping so I can read bytes directly into V4L2 buffers), sends compressed audio into dedicated audio thread, that thread decodes to PCM format into memory mapped ALSA buffer. Both threads then sleep on poll() listening for multiple handles each, and dispatching these events.

I didn’t have a profiler on Pi4 but I expect majority of CPU time spent during playback is in external unmanaged code, device drivers and audio codecs. I’m not sure a modern runtime gonna help substantially.

It will probably improve seek, and especially loading. These use cases are implemented with a large pile of C# code because media files (mpeg4 format in particular) are ridiculously complicated.
except in this case the parent company owns the most popular browser chrome and they've modified extensions in a way that adblockers are known to be less effective
This is why you need proactive privacy evaluations before you ship.

The standard of the past 25 years of “let’s violate every privacy law and know it won’t catch up with us” is over.

You either ship privacy complaint product, which means painful and slow review and adjustment which is an obvious financial cost…OR you go to market out of compliance, get slammed by the press and regulators, and the entire project eats shit.

What seems like short-term cost saving is really just torching the entire investment.

The underlying reason Boeing planes fall out of the sky and these privacy hostile products fail is the same: speed and greed.
Basically you can read that above article as: Hey Mark, we've got a bunch of our money riding on your stock going up, so make your stock go up. I know in the past (2010-2022) we wanted you to grow like crazy and throw money around and grow some more, but like now with interest rates not 0 anymore and stuff, we need you to like start making money and you know, make the stock go up and up. K, thanks, bye.

I found it funny because these are the same VC who spent a decade throwing money at anything with first Cloud, then ML/Deep Learning, then Blockchain, then threw money like no tomorrow during Covid, and now are like, yeah, we want you to not do any of that stuff anymore, just like actually make money now.

The '/s' is an indicator of sarcasm in text, you'll see it in online comments from time to time. Hard to convey sarcasm online otherwise.

And yes, as the other guy said, oh you're an AI company!? Here's a few million. We'll see how long that hype lasts for these "AI" startups.
I paid for YT Premium for years until I noticed just how atrociously YT runs in Firefox. There were also the accusations that YT slows down the video pages for anybody with an adblocker... even if they're paying for Premium.

I block ads at the DNS level and am not about to tweak things forever just to de-mangle my paid-for YT experience. So I dropped Premium, started supporting channels that I actually watch directly via things like Patreon, and watch YT videos via tools like Invidious and yt-dlp.

Local video players such as mpv and IINA are so much better than the YT player has ever been in any browser and I don't have to worry about buffering. The bonus is that I can keep a backup of favorite videos sans baked-in ads or whatever customer-hostile tactic Google dreams up next.
Looks like this one is free: https://fmworldcup.com/product/the-forecasting-power-exceler...

The video alone lays out how these things work, very interesting. My brain started solutioning right away. Lots of fun.
I meant ram and overall hardware resources since it claims to be lightweight.
Does Recall work locally? If so, why would it send data to the cloud?
It's fair to ask for proof. I checked Twitter and there's another user who posted a screenshot of their email. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40683874
No problem. We simply unleash wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the fungus.
What's the context of all this?
It’s a bit deeper than that. The SDKs that library authors implement need to be extemely minimal. The collection libraries that vendors implement based on imo should also be minimal.

OTLP imo doesn’t even need to be part of the spec.

But minimal would also mean focusing on solving fewer problems as a whole. Eg OpenTracing plus OpenMetrics plus OpenLogs. I only need one of those things.
Yeah, the crown for raw computer power for crunching numbers at scale would probably go to CUDA or, better yet, TPU job executors.
SponsorBlock is already available and does an excellent job of filtering out embedded ad content inserted by content creators themselves, which (IMO) tends to be much sneakier than anything Google could implement. I also can't see how they could hide the interactive part of the ad ('Click to buy' links etc.) from blockers, so even in the best case where the embedded video ad go undetected, the links will not appear/be clickable.

Google probably knows that trying to dodge content blockers in a browser environment is a losing battle. But hey, it might bump up their numbers for the next earnings call.

Being extremely short-sighted seems to be the name of the game in tech lately, so they'll probably go for it, and call it a success.
I suspect that as Alphabet clamps down more and more on combating ad blockers the major competitors to YouTube (Tick Tock, Twitch, Odyssey, Nicovideo, Bitchute,...) will start gaining more and more traction until people start switching over en masse.
You can use your human creativity to come up with an outline of a story, then have AI do first drafts of chapters according to your outline. It's tremendously faster to go back and rewrite the AI draft than it is to generate a first draft by hand and to be honest for most writers the quality will be better.

That doesn't mean you don't painstakingly labor over characters, story flow/pacing, events, meaning, etc. It just means you're never stuck with writer's block - though you might get stuck with storyteller's block, which AI can also provide suggestions to help push past.
We had a conversation at work yesterday about this, specifically in the context of TV, and potentially having a camera/capture card + microphone + ML model to identify and mute ads automatically
Erm...But that's not what is written in the article though?
You're the one in deny all the demographic data.

The compounding problem for Russia is that not only is the war killing a million plus people. Probably by the end of it it scared off 5 million other people in emigration and probably 20 million more in the coming years
Given that it's a design newsletter, I have to say that the design of the daily lists is not very good... low information density and my eyes are darting around all over the page. The https://archive.sidebar.io/archives is much better.
But I need my aesthetic! https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term?tab=readme-ov...
Ottertune.ai Is Shut Down
I was supporting a variation in my head of the "Yeah but who wants to contribute to an SDK for a service that you need to pay for?" claim.

You can self-host for free, so maybe @hahn-kev don't mind contributing to the SDK now.

For me, I refuse to contribute to an open-source SDK for a non-foss product. And I refuse to self-host a non-foss product.

Personally, I don't care if non-foss licenses speeds development. So yeah in my case it's ideological.
Problem was they also massively increased the spacing between menu items, so the amount of menu bar items you can fit before it is a problem has dropped massively from before.
I wonder if MKBHD's podcast discussing the feature is the cause of the backlash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg8uJXSRhKo. I think they do a fairly good job talking about the pros/cons of the feature. It definitely seems insane that raw screenshots would just be accessible on the device.
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Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40679599
Currently I am still looking forward to when the Secure Future Initiative (SFI) will actually mean more .NET and Rust and less COM and C++ love by Windows team.

So until this changes, take with a grain of salt how much secure Recall is actually going to be.

Contrast this with Apple Inteligence, where not only are most local APIs made available via Swift, they have created special hardware and a unikernel like OS with sandboxed layers, exposing only what OS capabilities required for AI processing and cluster communication.

Versus "Thrust us, we are going to do the right thing".
I’d differ. Recall is more akin to what Rewind AI[1] is building. I don’t care to know what happened in a chat box in my Zoom call last Friday. I just want to be able to explore structured data that I have generated across different services.

For example, Nike Run Club offers some stats on the app but I’d like to be able to do more. Spotify shows me I follow this artist but I’d like to know since when have I followed them. YouTube has my watch history but I’d like to be able to process what kind of content I was consuming during a certain time period.

[1]: https://www.rewind.ai/
OpenTelemetry is interesting, On one side it is designed as the "commodity feeder" to number of proprietary backends as DataDog, on other hand we see good development of Open Source solutions as SigNoz and Coroot with good Otel support.
The headline is spun. The text of the article doesn't allege "counterfeit titanium", only that the paperwork chain contains (according I guess to an audit done internally at Spirit) counterfeit documents. What that says about the metal itself is unknown. It seems more likely to me to be legitimate but stolen titanium than it does to be fake material.

It's not really feasible to fake something like a raw metal. Nothing else looks like titanium, nothing has the weight properties, even things like smells are different between metals that come out of different processes and tarnish in different ways. Basically by the time you got something that wouldn't be noticed by the assembly crews you'd have spent so much you might as well just have bought stolen titanium on the black market.
Ok, I see your point. Yes, it's a specific flavor of uncertainty.
The ones you listed are about outcome uncertainty (anticipation). And uncanniness is about the nature of things.
The internal products I support may not be as fancy looking as the specialized commercial products, but it will be designed for our exact workflow and internal weirdness. IME users will generally prefer the product that has only the 7 fields they need, and already "knows" that on alternate Tuesdays the TPS reports get printed in landscape, because of that silly local council rule.
Regular Expressions (POSIX.1-2017)
Also on my project list - the AntiAssholeFilter. It's so interesting the ways you could handle this. Personally, I would want to just transform the comment into something that doesn't even mention that that the commenter wrote a mean comment - if it has something of value just make it not mean, otherwise hide it.

A couple things are really interesting about this idea. First - it's so easy for the end-user to customize a prompt that you don't need to get it right, you just need to give people the scaffolding and then they can color their internet bubble whatever color they want.

Second, I think that just making all comments just a couple percent more empathetic could be really impactful. It's the sort of systemic nudge that can ripple very far.
https://x.com/andy_pavlo/status/1801687420330770841

> I'm to sad to announce that @OtterTuneAI is officially dead. Our service is shutdown and we let everyone go today (1mo notice). I can't got into details of what happened but we got screwed over by a PE Postgres company on an acquisition offer. https://t.co/uPg9JDKMlz
macOS and iOS have later rolled out methods of data containerization on top of existing file systems. Microsoft certainly has the talent to do this as well. They shouldn’t have shipped a product without the necessary requirements in place - it’s quite obvious the sensitivity of this data.
> Hydra transforms an ungeneralized [peephole] optimization [...] from a developer or a superoptimizer into a generalized version that is often suitable for inclusion in a compiler [llvm]

Example: `y ≠ 0 |= (y:i64 − 42) × 2048 ⇒ (y − 42) ≪ 11` to `IsPowerOf2(C) |= z × C ⇒ z ≪ log2(C)`.
Turkish supplier who reportedly got it from a Chinese supplier, and where they got it from is unknown since the Chinese supplier apparently forged the certificates using the name of a Chinese source (apparently in good standing) who say they did not make it. The actual source at this point is unknown, only a couple links in the supply chain.
I just do it in Google Sheets with Apps Scripts and then move on from there.

function dateFix() {
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName("Sheet1");
var dateRange = sheet.getRange("A:A");
var dateValues = dateRange.getValues();

for (var i = 0; i < dateValues.length; i++) {
if (dateValues[i][0]) {
var fixedDate = fixDate(dateValues[i][0]);
if (fixedDate) {
sheet.getRange(i + 1, 2).setValue(fixedDate);
}
}
}

}

function fixDate(dateString) {
var datePattern = /^(\d{1,2})\/(\d{1,2})\/(\d{2}|\d{4})$/;
var match = dateString.match(datePattern);

if (!match) {
return null;
}

var month = match[1].padStart(2, '0');
var day = match[2].padStart(2, '0');
var year = match[3];

if (year.length === 2) {
year = '20' + year;
}

return month + '/' + day + '/' + year;
}
without running tests it’s hard to say. my educated guess is it would hold up better than LIG on its own… LIG didn’t really hold up even outside of a washing machine.

generally speaking not many of these materials are designed to withstand repeated wash / dry cycles. I imagined the sensor component to be replaceable, similar to glucose test strips.
GDPR, death of 3rd party cookies, and mobile app data-sharing crackdowns is a big obstacle for adtech. If they hadn't been investing in server-side integrations, all $2B could easily have been at technical risk.
Newer Apple Intelligence features will require 16gb ram and new M-series chips to run on-device. How is Microsoft able to release wide-spread features on device when there is a much diverse ecosystem of lower-powered, low-cost, windows devices??
It doesnt help that M$'s reputation is awful.

How many different ad screens are on windows 11? How many privacy things did I need to check or uncheck for privacy? Why did the ads come back after I disabled it? Why did onedrive takeover my documents?

Microsoft isnt trustworthy.

I have begun my migration away. I only use Microsoft for programs my customers use. MSTeams(webapp isnt good enough for high stakes b2b), and Windows for a specific niche application.

Everything Microsoft says is met with an anti-consumer lens. They earned it.
I remain very skeptical that most companies or products can or should integrate with LLMs - and I say this as someone who works on a LLM-based product!

Overall I feel like our industry has lost the plot to a large degree. Hype has always to some degree exceeded the merits of the technology-of-the-month, but the last few cycles have been truly extraordinary in terms of the gap between the breathless hype and the reality of the tech. It's LLMs now but before it was crypto.

It just seems like we're stagnating as an industry, and rather focus our efforts on the hard R&D needed to reach the next Big Thing, we've decided it's much easier just to focus on cults of personality combined with vast over-hypedness.
I just asked GPT 4o to do the following and it succeeded:

> Write me JS code that generates a random list of 10 prime numbers, takes the sine of each (as radians), then takes the cosine of each of those values (as degrees) and then adds 5 to each value

I assure you, this task is not on Stackoverflow (because nobody would ever be deranged enough to want to do this) but GPT 4o could do it!

Admittedly, this shows only a very rudimentary reasoning ability but it demonstrates some. The idea that LLMs are just a slight evolution of search indexes is demonstrably false.
>"In alignment with our commitment to an open and accessible internet, Mozilla will reinstate previously restricted listings in Russia," the group declared. "Our initial decision to temporarily restrict these listings was made while we considered the regulatory environment in Russia and the potential risk to our community and staff.
This was written by someone with bad taste.
*shtup, or schtup
I guess the only question is if you include hybrids in ICE cars. I'd personally never buy a strict ICE again, with the high quality of hybrids.
Lets be honest, if Apple did it, it would be hailed revolutionary.

Different customer base.
I wonder what would happen if the customer is very happy and having an enjoyable conversation. Would the AI remove the emotions here too, resulting in a completely monotonic voice?
I'm currently giving https://piku.github.io/ a go and it's working well, but this is just for hobby projects.
Thank you for this context.

Giving a bunch of projects $300 a month in credits for six months is still far more than nearly any company does.

I wonder if they had projects legitimately consuming more than $300 a month of their services.
So not a point in time snapshot to go back to, but natural language analysis of aggregate data? I can see how that'd be useful.
If it is important to your business for deployment staging, then why not just pay Vercel?
Yes, but to be fair the reporting is incomplete because the Boeing-maintained records of the maintenance were incomplete in seemingly-deliberate ways. So... we just don't know. At least one, plausibly two bad guys there.
I’ve worked at 2 saas companies that both declared this. Out loud. In writing. In all hands meetings.

HR departments went buck wild
I like spreadsheets to get things done quick 'n dirty, but I feel like the threshold to where a spreadsheet becomes painful and the problem is better solved with a database (SQLite would do) and custom application is remarkably low.
It's also possible that they're using an alloy which is not easily detected, or that the titanium is in a part which was painted or otherwise coated before receipt by Spirit
I wonder how many of us there really are. Is it enough to make them change their ways? There are enough people with ad blocking software for them to make the effort to deploy countermeasures, but how far is each side willing to go?
> risks creating an artificially imposed echo chamber.

I think that ship has sailed? Agree that the ramifications of auto-transforming communication is huge, but I think I'm more optimistic. The internet is a cesspool, I think that improving things is pretty likely now that empathetic software is no longer the stuff of dreams.
Ideally you could handwrite something and your unobtrusive bionic whatsis would ask you for a directory where to put the OCR of it as a text file maybe with images.
I severely doubt messing with sense-making and coherence of traumatic episodes is going to prove beneficial.
I subscribed and it worked for me. I like your writing style. Short, concise and informative!
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Who said anything about a business?
> Anyone who is still using windows in 2024 and isnt a multinational business or llc gets what they deserve.

Yeah, enjoy your just desserts of games that work, HDR that works, variable refresh rates that work, sleep and wake that works, the ability to run the software you need to use, one of the best IDEs available, fantastic backwards compatibility, etc
In a pre-SpaceX world, there pretty much was no one else they could lose the next contract to. I think a lot of Boeing still lives in a world where they have a good reputation to milk.
Spirit itself is an "outsourcing" from Boeing's point of view. They spun it off so they could put more aggressive downwards pressure on labor price and then play dumb when it had the obvious and well understood outcomes like "buying underspecced materials to save money" and "workers don't do all the work they should, to save money" and "having different systems to control work so you can massage the official one, to save money by doing less work"
I dropped $5k on an A6000 and I can run llama3:70b day and night for the price of my electricity bill.

I’ve gone through hundreds of millions, maybe billions, of tokens in the past year.

This article is just “cloud is expensive” 101. Nothing new.
Should this be implemented, the cat and mouse game would likely continue.

The circumvention would be to for the server to some kind of proof of work of the “ad view” — use a service worker to check downloaded segments, and occasionally issue challenges that require sending a salted hash of the ad segments back to the server, along with a proof of elapsed time, without which the server simply refuses to serve the next video segment.
Basically. So many startups pivoted so hard to try and get some AI exposure it's absurd. An insurance startup is now an AI insurance startup, finance startup is now an AI finance startup, accounting startup is now an AI accounting startup, blockchain startups are now AI-blockchain startups.

This to shall pass.
This is what I'm saying. It takes a dozen LoC to do what Excel is theoretically built to do: format a column of dates "as date".
Fair, and the number of people that use Excel and understand this sentiment is also remarkably low.
I was looking at companies like those described here, some of whom went from rapid growth straight to the the rubbish bin.

https://fortune.com/longform/failed-unicorn-startups-billion...

Whatever the reason, the outcome is the same: companies held aloft on a cushion of easy money, untethered to market forces, free to pay arbitrary salaries to people easily outcompeting their neighbors who aren't so blessed.
> Subsidizing open-source projects is ultimately a marketing spend

They say 2M in Vercel credits. How much is that in actual money?
> supply chain security

https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/not-a-supplier

"You are not buying from a supplier, you are a raccoon digging through dumpsters for free code."
I think enforcement could have some positive uses. Think of reddit automod and what you could do with prompt engineering + LLM-driven automod. People's opinion of automod will vary, but I think it is a powerful tool when used right - there is so much garbage on the big parts of the internet, it's helpful to be able to deal with the worst stuff automatically and then incorporate a human escalation process.
Err, it is nvidia. Why would they support AMD?
Does DATEVALUE not solve this?
It's the same playbook every company uses, who want to feed us something we don't like. They'll try again and again. Maybe they'll add sugar to the medicine, maybe they'll wave the spoon around and make airplane noises, maybe they'll distract us with a toy and jam the spoon in when we aren't expecting it, maybe they'll hold us down and give it as a suppository. One way or another, the baby is going to take the medicine. That's how these companies think about their customers.