skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most painful is when a user first logs in using "sign in with Google" and then subsequently using "sign in with Apple" without understanding that they now have two separate accounts. People don't understand that these two accounts are completely separate when they see that their Apple ID email is a Gmail, or when they have a Google account using their iCloud email.
Gemini Live similar to GPT-4o voice mode is here
They do, in fact, have humans who check to make sure that everyone starts behind the starting line. And both humans and computers which check to make sure that nobody starts early.
Two notes on "starts early." One - start is any visible bodily movement, not the crossing of the start-line. So any flinch, whether in the direction of the start-line or not, is a false start. Two - if you start inside of 0.1 seconds of the start-gun, it is declared a false start, since the assumption is that no human can react faster than that.
The precision at the start is quite high!
It's preferring something that doesn't come from a diseased and unhinged ecosystem that not only involves a consistent tragedy of the commons, but also has tooling that is quite honestly just horrific.
Yours (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41237697) belatedly moved too :)
In this context I'd expect cost to relate to hardware and bandwidth. Simplest example might be bucketing memory or storage requirements against the different tiers of offerings.

Personally, baking this kind of spreadsheet work into a pipeline was a moderate pain in the butt and hazardous to fully automate.
It's my understanding that the OAuth "state" parameter nonce is generated and stored and validated on the client, not the server.
Think of an employment contract as “a contract” if you wish to renegotiate a contract and the other party doesn’t choose to engage you cannot simply declare the original contract void. Because, it’s a contract and that’s how they work.
Their use cases would become extremely relevant to people trying to rebuild society from scratch, I'd imagine. This device is so simple you could probably build one in the woods with nothing but a basic survival kit given a year or two alone.

So that's something. Learning how to build one from scratch seems worthwhile, much like learning to build a radio from scratch
Seems perfectly possible. General relativity, after all, was precisely the discovery that the curvature of space, well spacetime, is not uniform.
It was more of a demo reel pitching himself to direct a sequel. Give him the job!
Waymo works perfectly fine in the rain. No driver.
Unfortunately there is no alternative to Orion so far.

No, Starship may carry people to the moon, but getting them off the moon isn't possible. The lunar Starship won't return to LEO.

The closest thing you could do is send another Starship and do the same NRHO docking that SLS+Orion is already doing and then instead of aerobraking, do a deceleration burn to get an LEO capture. That is the only way without Orion. For better or worse, Orion in NRHO is indispensable.
iOS speech-to-text spells "smiley face" with a nose.

FWIW! :)
All the Krogers I've been to have had the dairy opposite the entrance.
Remember AMD's Skybridge project? They wanted to put ARM and x86 together on one chip, but they cancelled it. I don't know why, because it seemed like a cool way to bridge the gap. Maybe they were worried it'd become a reverse trojan horse like the Apple Macintosh clones that came about shortly before Steve returned in the 90s.

Seeing as Raspberry Pi has no dog in the game, and simply wants to offer the best product possible, I wouldn't be surprised if this is their intentional way of giving people RISC-V with the intent to allow them time to port their code to it so they can eventually pull the ARM stack. I say this because Jeff Geerling has a video about the Pico 2 where he explicitly says you can only use RISC-V or ARM cores. Not both sets at the same time.

I think it's probably because a full migration to RISC-V would allow them to innovate a bit more and cut prices, although I don't know what the restrictions really are with ARM's IP control and pricing. At $5, every penny counts though.
Thanks for sharing.

I'm curious about what types of source documents you tried, and whether you ever suffer from hallucinations?
Great presentation.

As the founder of teclada.com, I'll also share that one of the biggest risks is not even technical but human:

- not managing your SSH keys properly
- not even knowing where they are
- reuse, copying, etc
- forgotten placement of keys in authorized_keys

And worst of all:

- "no way I'm going to even consider changing any of it"
- "our audit logs are .bash_history"

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Alan, and he gets sent to talks sometimes, those are great to watch.
Hedge Funds Take Money from Each Other
Yeah, but Go is also worse (in my experience) than most, if not all, of the other general-purpose languages I've used, for this niche.

For instance, Rust is actually pretty great in this space, despite being very ... not-python, and Java also has decent libraries. Then C++ (and Fortran!) are good for a very different reason than python, "on the metal" performance, which Go also isn't a great fit for.
Am I in another world? (See my response above.) Most of the ‘hundreds of LLM apps’ I see are, well, not very fancy and struggling to keep up on accuracy in comparison to the meatspace solutions they promised to massively outperform.

I agree with your assessment that the IT risk barrier is very high in big corp so that entry might be hard for Trellis. Plus a continuous push afterwards to go back to traditional cloud once their offerings catch up.
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I think its more a case of once other people found out it became untenable to keep Dan Rather on.

However if his lies had not become public they would have been happy to ignore it and move on to the next thing.
Sending management to the gulag because they didn't meet a stupid an unrealistic quota is NOT "accountability". The USSR did NOT have accountability. If Stalin liked you, you rarely went to the gulag. If Stalin didn't like you, you went to the gulag. That's not accountability and no citizen ever parsed it as such.

You can't just shoot random people and pretend that's accountability.
What Does Long-Term Thinking Feel Like from the Inside?
I’m still bitter about my last Pixel with the stuttering display (no real-time thread for the graphics), the settings all over the place (I counted 4 different addresses for my home, and 1 was deeply hidden in their assistant), and the debug strings in UPPER_SNAKE_CASE in the Google apps, which is unacceptable for a device that is sold to everyone.
20 bucks a month for Gemini is bonkers.
you are projecting something gross on a total stranger online. check yourself.
I'm glad they finally went this route. I can't be the only one who usually wants the specs of the Pro but always opts for the smallest phone (p1, p3, p5 & now p8).
JVM Language Summit recordings – #1
Recordings are now being published. First one is "Java in 2024" by Georges Saab, SVP, Java Platform Group at Oracle.
Whats the catch?
The crossover with Beakman's World in all but name was amazing.
> Just make the battery thicker

These devices are already rather heavy.

I wish there were more options for people who don’t care that much about the camera in their smartphone. I remember the non-bump camera in the 7.6 mm thin 2016 iPhone SE was perfectly fine for many situations, I took some impressive vacation photos with it.
"They didn't" pretty easy answer. Also the idea that they lost "even though their products were technically superior to Microsoft's offerings" is sorta unsupported and is obviously subjective.
Long time ago I was stuck at the airport and I end up writing a interpreter in Python. I stop the project at arithmetic, so, basically a fancy calculator. After that I saw a really interesting video about Shunting Yard algorithm, so I gave that a got as well [1]. At some point, I want to try to write a programming language, I know a little bit about assembly but it is most theory; haven't done much programming using it (only basic stuff, back in college) but I find it fascinating.

1 - https://github.com/victorqribeiro/shuntingYard
> The sheer level of spartan discomfort, for instance, that university denizens were expected to endure

Sometimes* I wonder how much of the spartan discomfort in 1984 was authorial discretion characterising outer party life, and how much was just the background normal spartan discomfort of mid-XX britain.

* like when I read that Orwell had been burning furniture to stay warm
I'm not sure I follow. You don't need heavy logic to explain why a single person can capsize a canoe rather easily, but would be unable to capsize something like a ferry.

As a similar example, we know that you can't just scale up an ant body to be human sized, as it would crumble under its own weight. Look up the "square-cube law". Same basic idea, in many ways. Ratios and scale just don't hold as things grow.

Back on the cities and preparing for a hurricane, this is not that they are stronger because they were hit by a hurricane. By this logic, you couldn't have a new coastal town that can weather one. After all, they weren't made stronger by the first hit. I think we can agree that is silly logic? If you know what forces you will get hit by, you can build anticipating them.

This is too close to the phrasing that "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger." Which, frankly, is mostly nonsense. Many things can weaken you to the point that what didn't kill you this time let something else finish you off. Its cute, but largely presupposes growth between hits that has to happen.
Comparison of Terminal Emulators
There is such a thing as a natural monopoly. Usually these are more efficient when run by the government because they inherently cannot benefit from the advantages of market competition.
I never used a case and know a number of other people who don’t.
There's Gemini Nano which runs on-device
I have Gemini Advanced but I can't tell which model it is, yeah. Same problem. Whatever it is, it's useless. GPT-2 level. Can't do anything reasonable.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and ChatGPT-4o are roughly the same with the former pipping it for me and then out there is this shitty Google product that is worse than Llama-3 running on my own laptop. Even Llama-3 is better at remembering what's going on.

Fortunately, this time I managed to look it up and I have it for free because I have Google One 5TB, apparently. And there's no way to spend more money so that's what I have. It's so bad that when Claude and ChatGPT run out of messages for me I just use local Llama rather than use Gemini. Atrocious product.
My Pixel 5 is an amazing device, but it's slowly falling apart, software-wise. Bugs bugs and more bugs! It's also no longer getting software updates, and its successors have a laundry list of issues.

The alternative is Samsung, the company that doesn't understand privacy nor consent, or Apple, whose phones lack uBlock support.
Hard agree.

I used to watch LMG all the time, then it felt like the content turned to infomercials.

Then that whole drama thing went on and the fact that (in a leaked video) they had a manager say "you gonna get up on that table and dance for me" at the end of a HR meeting with zero reactions aside from laughing led me to fully block all of their channels.

To me it's clear they have an internal culture problem that came along with the money.
Is it? Maybe I've spent too long using iPhones—I look at that, and think "yep, that's a phone". It looks very vanilla.
Ask HN: What do you guys think about LLM optimization?
I just found this article on TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/13/move-over-seo-profound-is-helping-brands-with-ai-search-optimization/

They raised $3.5 million and claim to "help brands show up more frequently and favorably in AI Search."

They say they do this by using "proprietary algorithms and extensive datasets to query major LLMs and Retrieval systems at scale"... Which raises an eyebrow.

However, I think there is something to the idea of "LLM optimization" (mostly because Perplexity's founder keeps talking about its importance).

But LLM responses are non-deterministic. For example, if I ask "what are the five best running sneakers?" multiple times, it'll provide different answers each time.

So is this all just bullshit? Or, given how big of an industry SEO turned out to be, do you think it makes sense to take this seriously?

(If so, how would you go about optimizing your content to show up in LLM responses?)
Sorry, but no, awk and shell scripts are not a good choice for this kind of work. I'm sorry, but they just aren't!

Sure, go for it if you're just doing stuff for your own personal interest. But if you're doing serious data-driven work in a professional environment, this is going to be an awful choice.
Based on english doc it seems it's not dubbing but voice over.
How so? Google is an IdP. It provides the user's identity. Auth0 is a middle layer that (in this case) transforms oauth responses into oauth responses.

The thing you'd replace Google with would be something like oauth client auto-registration so people can use their own oauth server on their domain.

Edit: Oh, I see what you/they mean. That's probably fair, but SSO is actually convenient for people, so it's fair to offer both oauth and user/password login. And dealing with SSO is probably easier than handling passwords, reset flows, etc. Passkeys would also work well here if they weren't so user-hostile.
Is this effectively "Find My", but as a special purpose device?
Ask HN: SOP Development and Management
Standard operating procedures (SOP) and checklists have a significant positive impact on operations but I’ve found they are underutilized. Most processes are either understood in someone’s head or partially contained in IT system workflows. Does your company use SOPs and checklists for key processes? Is there any tech you use to create, store and maintain your SOPs and checklists?
"Free" sounds more appealing than "tax-funded", but they mean the same thing. Googling "finland income tax rates" gives this:

'The Personal Income Tax Rate in Finland stands at 57.30 percent. Personal Income Tax Rate in Finland averaged 53.99 percent from 1995 until 2024, reaching an all time high of 62.20 percent in 1995 and a record low of 49.00 percent in 2012.'

There need to be some taxes, but I think a person has the moral right to keep the majority of their earnings, regardless of how much they earn.
Hahaha, I've grown to love this question over the past few weeks. I'm a huge fan of Aseprite, and I don't have a bad word to say about it.

However, I could attempt to make the case for Stipple Effect over Aseprite a few ways.

In terms of what Stipple Effect can do better than Aseprite, or what it can do that Aseprite can't, I'd highlight some specific applications of the scripting system. If you are a game developer making a 2D pixel art game with a lot of animated assets of the same form (physical shape, dimensions, pose, etc.), Stipple Effect can really expedite the art process.

Imagine you are making a game with tons of NPCs, each of which has to have idle animations, walking animations, and a certain number of action animations. Or a game with significant character customization in the form of clothing and vanity items. At present, you would probably have to individually animate every NPC and every clothing item for each animation. Using Stipple Effect, however, you can spend a bit of time configuring a lookup relationship between a single texture and an animated UV lookup asset, and map the texture to the animation via a preview script. In the long run, this will save hundreds of hours of tedious work, as you will only have to draw a single texture for each item/NPC you are adding to your game.

See this video for a visual aid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj1foXYcHl4

Besides that, Stipple Effect is much younger than Aseprite. David has been working on Aseprite for over 20 years as far as I know, while I have been working on Stipple Effect for just over eight months. The program is improving at a much more rapid rate, and will likely receive more substantive updates more often than Aseprite will.

Stipple Effect is only a quarter of the price of Aseprite presently to reflect that it is still a nascent program with less polish, so there is an economic incentive as well.

In summary, I would say you should decide whether Stipple Effect is the best fit for your individual needs, and whether you're willing to take a chance on less proven software with a huge potential upside.

Cheers!
Am I the only one that thinks pixels have always been ugly?
Cloudflare is an evil company that at this point exists to a significant degree to hoover data for the US government and shelter sexual predators. Nobody should condone them or by using their technology promote their existence.
Not all CPUs behave badly when handling underflows, denormals or other exceptional cases.

On some CPUs the penalties for exceptional cases are negligible (e.g. on AMD Zen), so it is impossible for any SPEC benchmark to get a 30% speedup when ignoring underflows.

There are also bad CPU models, which have a microprogrammed handling of the exceptional cases, which can add e.g. a penalty of somewhat more than one hundred CPU cycles for each underflow, which is very similar to the penalty for a load from the main memory (which misses the caches).

If one of the SPEC benchmarks has so many underflows that on a bad CPU model it can be sped up by 30% when ignoring the underflows, then it is pretty much guaranteed that when the underflows are ignored the results computed by that benchmark are erroneous.

Cheating at the SPEC benchmark by ignoring the underflows could be easily avoided by changing the benchmarking rules, by providing a file with the valid results and by not accepting any benchmark claims where the results do not match those known to be good.

You can cheat at any SPEC benchmark with bogus compiler options, if there is no constraint on the compiled program to be correct. For instance you could make a compilation option that deletes 90% of the generated machine code, resulting in a 10 times faster benchmark program.

For some reason, the compiler writers that handle the generation of code for floating-point operations feel that they are licensed to generate incorrect code, even when similarly incorrect code would be rejected in other contexts. The fact that the floating-point operations are inexact, so they are accompanied by some inherent errors, does not give the right to a compiler writer or library writer to introduce arbitrary errors in the computations. The reason why a standard exists is precisely for guaranteeing that the errors are bounded and you can predict their effects.
Damn you nailed it. Now I can’t unsee it.
fwiw, T-Mobile also have the 90 days restriction. I'm not entirely sure it's a company policy vs a US policy.
The title doesn't lie. I've scrolled about a kilometer and I've learned everything from GNSS, mesh networks, how to pair units and privacy implications.

But I have absolutely no idea what is is.

What does it do? Why would anyone want one?

So it seems it has a vibe mode and a compass mode. You can pair with four other totems and if you tilt it up you can find them. How? I don't know but supposedly the arrow get's brighter when you point it in the right direction maybe?

Vibe mode blinks with the music.
I fail to see what is much better about a system where you don't know when it sends your data to the cloud or not (and is likely to do it 90% of the time).
There are right and wrong ways to address concerns of electronic voting systems. The methods Mrs. Peters chose were most definitely the wrong ways and she does deserve a harsh prison sentence for her actions.
What worries me is as soon as we accept AI results with no fact checking (or ignore it) they will become the means to directly manipulate people without any recourse for judgement about veracity. Like phishing emails with perfect spelling and well formatted HTML.
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I know it's not a good solution, but I wonder if you can send the Google Fi eSim to a friend back in the states to "reset" the 90 day counter then have the friend send you back the eSim.
The Wrong Metrics
Yep, mac os x external monitor is the best use case for it (and pretty good tbh) but just so disappointed in Apple for not doing more in terms of SW/OS development for it
There's nothing "theoretical" about it. Apple has a history of deliberately designing their products so they are both fragile and impossible to traditionally repair. Examples:

1. iPhones (starting with iPhone 6) being constructed to have fragile and DRM-encumbered components (display, battery, camera)

2. Macbook topcases with unibody constructions that can only be replaced as a single $600 finished assembly

3. Macbook bottom chassis for using glue instead of tapped screws to prevent safe disassembly and repair

4. Airpods being entirely impossible to service in any way (and conveniently removing the 3.5mm jack for alternatives)

5. Vision Pro being designed to stop functioning if non-essential features like the eye-tracking or the glass panel up front are broken.

Why is this a conspiracy? Because we can easily prove Apple knows about the pressure they're creating for customers. At first it was AppleCare that capitalized on these insecurities, giving the rich a solution that doesn't even repair their Apple products in the first place. Before being criticized for it, Apple themselves did not even want to repair Apple products. They'd rather trash your old one and give you a new one. Then the criticism came in, and instead of designing their products better Apple creates a new first-party repair program with worse DRM problems. Worse yet, they're still forcing you to buy entire component assemblies to fix a single broken part. Did your display's power IC break? That's a $2 Texas Instruments component you'll be paying $150 to get replaced. Don't forget your $49 repair kit rental. $200 to fix a $2 part.

You might say this is all very smart, on Apple's behalf. Too much so; with the DRM scheme they've created it's impossible for you to do cheaper repairs even if you wanted to. You have to buy first-party components, and even donor-boards won't work as sources of cheap spare parts. So Apple went out of their way to stop third-parties from being capable of performing profitable repairs. They've prevented users and repair shops from buying the components they need and using software they have blocked you from even attempting to fix things yourself. Sound like John Deere yet?

You know why Apple takes 3 years to sheepishly fix a mistake they don't admit exists? Because they make money off it. People stuck on old models are forced to get one with a usable keyboard. Hell, before they started (2 years after shipping btw) the free repair program as a response to lawsuits, they were charging users for new keyboards. It's a racket; you would have to be actually blind to look at Apple's history of behavior and assume it is not arranged for profit over any other single value.

BTW, this is not my opinion but instead a re-hash of the criticisms that Apple-certified repair stores have levied against Apple. People have been complaining about this since 2016 and if you step outside HN you may notice that people care about Right to Repair.
Wait a minute, is this a metaphor for our relationship with high tech? I want to breakup with my Pixel 6 because its camera lacks megapixels...