skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OpenAI Whisper is open source. I'm not sure about Deepgram. And I don't see a reason you wouldn't be able to implement a self-hosted llama backend for the summaries.
A thought I had: what if there were a service which maintained a list of arxiv identifiers (or, maybe also allow doi identifiers, but only if some extra conditions are met) that met their standards for notability/interesting-ness/quality (each URL could maybe be accompanied by the title and a list of the authors of the work).

And suppose that all this organization published, was this list of URLs (and titles and names).

It seems conceivable that, if their list became respected, getting one’s pdf on this list could, maybe (this seems a stretch) prestigious.

Now, if they accepted submissions of URLs to be considered for inclusion in a future issue of their public list of URLs, if being on this list was prestigious, they would presumably be flooded with submissions, and need to reduce the number of submissions they received somehow. Then, I imagine them charging some fee for submitting a URL for them to consider for evaluation.

Of course, they might include a few documents that no one submitted, in order to make sure the list remains useful by having most of the most relevant papers in whatever field, in order to maintain prestige.

Conceivably there could be multiple such organizations doing this for different fields and subfields.

If this happened, it would seem to be essentially a replication of the phenomenon of author-paid publication fees in academic journals, but without relying on copyright or actually doing the publishing of the articles.
> Because everyone I know 'owns' 20 lb tanks.

By your own air quoting you know they don't own them.

The gas companies own those tanks and responsible for inspecting them whenever they rotate back for a refill.

The also choose the economic deal, they've baked a "lease fee" into their costings and are happy enough to ignore tanks that are never returned as most are returned, the total volume is high and the costs of chasing strays (that have an expiry date in any case) are greater than the value of gathering them back.

It's possible that EV batteries will one day have the same deal as propane tanks, more or less wrt to an explicit lease fee Vs an invisible one.
There's an argument to be made that that would destabilize MAD by encouraging a first strike.
I think they mean as an App Store download (since it comes with the phone, so therefore has 0 app downloads).
Thanks, missed that in my efforts.
True, the NSA needs a FISC warrant to conduct mass surveillance.
> Do you have any citation for those numbers?

You need to spend more time with the normies. 99.8% is probably an exaggeration, but if so, not by much. It's easy to forget just how little the average person knows, or wants to know, about how technology works, or their ability to change it to their advantage.

The vast majority of people not only do not understand DNS, they couldn't tell you with any specificity what a domain or IP address even are, and they're afraid of doing anything which might break their computer in a way they don't understand enough to fix.
To the people using a password manager to store the fact that they used third party login, this is some of the most perplexing behavior I've seen in a while.

It's like storing a photo of gold bars inside your basement safe.

With almost zero extra effort, you could be in control of your own keys. You already have the entire infrastructure set up to do this and all you use it for is a glorified log book?

Can someone explain this?
Trump says he's for electric cars because "I have to be, you know, because Elon endorsed me very strongly, Elon. So I have no choice":

https://www.thestreet.com/electric-vehicles/elon-musks-endor...

What Trump is really saying is that he's for sale.

Trump also told the oil industry he's for sale. He said they should give him $1 billion and that would be a "deal" because he would help them avoid taxation and regulation:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/09/trump-oil...

Everything is transactional with Trump. He's only interested if it benefits him personally. He only cares about himself.
It's nice that they try, but I wish the accessibility features weren't so terrible.

Case in point: I put off getting a new prescription, and ended up setting the font size up + enabling bold text on my iPhone. The first party apps often don't work well.

Of everything on my phone, GasBuddy handled it best. It's basically unusable with large fonts, but it suggested I go into per-app settings and disable display accessibility settings just for it. Now that I know that's a thing, I can blacklist the 90% of apps on the phone that don't display right, I guess.

Since the new glasses arrived, I'll probably just disable accessibility. However, my experience doesn't bode well for people that actually need reading glasses and want to use their phones when they're out and about.
Too pricey in a time where many fear a recession. So it's an even worse launch to market than usual.
I'd like this to be built by the US government, not a person who turned off Ukraine's starlink access on a whim based on his personal opinion of an international event.
I’ve ended up with a few pairs and found them quite unreliable after the first year.

I have one pair where the left bud doesn’t connect until I put it back in and take it out of the case a few times.

One where one bud doesn’t charge properly.

And one with declining noise cancellation.

They are great when they work properly, but I do think quality is slightly lacking for a relatively expensive product.
i mentioned this as well in another comment to parent. Hopefully it catches on.

"Hey, SMB? you probably don't need our services. While AWS, GC, etc would be happy to take your money anyhow, [...]" I dunno. obviously any sort of thing like this has to clear all the departments because i imagine it increases support load.
Some of the metaphysical imagery was once in reality specifically effective.
Love the Convivial Society posts in general, always fun.

I really need someone to remind me of the exact quote, but this is such a good reflection on the aftermath of one of my favorite quotes, which I can only paraphrase as,

> The measure of a society is that which it takes for granted

As in, that society no longer frets about cold winter or sewage or antibiotics or transportation or electricity are the measures of us. That we can forget the magic is the definition of our advancement.

I love seeing this article, on what the real ramifications are that we can forget ourselves so.
I feel that mourning Control Panel is misplaced.

Microsoft would surely do better to build one UX for the normies and improve it rather than do a half baked job on two. The only mystery is why its taken so long. I can understand Microsoft wanting to phase the migration but its been 10+ years since Settings appeared.

If there's a request I would make to Microsoft it would be to expose all the settings, consistently, in a single programmatic way. Powershell would suit me just fine for instance. This idea that powerusers can just unleash on the registry, apart from being an incomplete way to control all the settings, is wild.
If I log into Acme Widgets website via “login with Google,” then I don’t necessarily have an email or password with Acme, I have a delegated (SSO) account. In many auth systems you cannot use “forgot password” to convert SSO access to username and password. You have to actually log in and change it there. But of course if Google has locked you out, you can’t log in with Google.

And anyway… if Google has locked you out, you can’t access your Gmail to reset your password, even if Acme auth lets you.

In contrast: if you log into Acme with username and password, you can authenticate with Acme at any time, even if Google has locked you out. Acme does not need to check with Google to log you in… even if your username is a Gmail address.

If you’re going to use a password manager anyway, just do a fresh username / password whenever possible for each new service. It’s the most resilient and future-proof way to go.
Fair enough. Keeping in line with this thread, I didn't click the link and just reacted to the 'title' ;)
I remember when I took my course of "Theoretical Physics" (so called, it was an Introduction to Quantum Field Theory in actuality) and I realized that particles do not exist. It was quite an enlightenment. Particles are a convenient description of Quantum Fields in the perturbative regime, but what Quantum Fields are is not known, not even at the mathematical level. When you live at frontier of knowledge, as a Theoretical Physicists, reality becomes fuzzy. But that's life.
Same here.

At least, not anymore.

I have a few legacy logins.

And a few where I’ve connected my accounts - GitHib for instance to get Jetbrains Student Discounts.

But where possible, I avoid!

Also, the obnoxious login with Google prompt in Chrome actually costs businesses money!

I’ve had multiple clients run up paid support because they thought they’d lost their account because they clicked the login with Google option and all their account info seemed to have vanished! (Not my services, just ones I was supporting them using).
The point is that it allows you to remember which provider you used to sign in with and you’re not having to guess whether you logged in with Google or GitHub or whatever else.
I’ve had some old Bose noise cancelling headphones for approaching 20 years which are still going well!
Makes sense:

But do you need to BUY one? This is the thing I realized with VR sets, personally.

They are a great day at the fair, but who goes to the fair EVERYDAY?
You'd be surprised what they can do in Vietnam. Airpods are assembled there. If you have a local connection, You can find people who have worked in the factories.

Beyond that, the whole culture is to repair things because there isn't an official Apple store. They can also import parts from China and elsewhere.

Here is pricing to get parts from Singapore... most expensive repair is $100...

https://cares.vn/en/dich-vu-airpods/
Wasn't it more like, "Here's some hardware don't use it as a weapon system", "Hey can we use this to blow up some russian ships?", "No", internet goes on collective Musk hates Ukraine and loves Putin tirade even though his company is actively enabling Ukrainian battlefield communications since day 1.
I think this works in practice but I still prefer to have an anonymous/hidden/random email for each service. If one of your Gmail alias emails is sold, isn’t it trivial to write a script and figure out the real Gmail addresses?
Banking. Money crosses state lines which makes it fair game under the commerce clause. There's only 50+ years of court cases on the subject.
Usually people that don’t being in thought can’t think, so from their limited perspective, their arguments kinda make sense.

It’s like white swans. If you’ve never seen a bird, you might think that nobody has ever seen a white swan.
The cost of the device is way off. Apple watch is still vaguely in line with the prices of other nice ish watches. $400 or so. Expensive but not otherworldly so. Vision pro is so expensive you rule out the middle class. Its price point was conceived by people who haven’t left northern california for some time.
Intent matters little, consequences matter significantly. Strong argument exists that your comment focused on the intent instead of the perceived outcome.
I want a phone that lets you shoot PNG
great content so far, though I agree with others - it should be more dense
I would love to have an RSS for this
> But only 12.5% of Internet users can seem ‘em. All of ‘em Apple users.

That's a positive for Apple. "Why can't I view the new family pics?" "Oh mom you need to get an iPhone for that"
There are also sites that send you through Google signin, then they still want you to make a username and password. So you shared your email address for nothing.
Random aside to the other commenter's linked articles, I find it a bit coincidental that the supposed "kill switch" environment variable, yolAbejyiejuvnup=Evjtgvsh5okmkAv, decodes from UTF-16LE to UTF-8 as 潹䅬敢祪敩番湶灵䔽橶杴獶㕨歯歭癁 which google translates to "You can't do it without a soul."
I wonder how much it would cost to finance a lawsuit against the likes of Tesla.
Pricing the se and base model ipad is a bit disingenuous. You look at the flagships and they kept up with inflation adjusted pricing. Iphone and ipad 1 were flagships. Not old hardware released for a song.
That’s after screening to see if the number was linked to iMessage —- ie a valid iPhone attached to the number. That’s what that lookup service did. Then they scripted messaging the numbers that worked.
Ask HN: Ongoing education and Masters programs focused on AI
I'm in a senior technical role with many years of experience delivering enterprise systems and startup solutions. I am trying to cut through the chatter of the capabilities of LLMs and other modern AI. I have noticed several online learning options that are credentialed and in some circles I believe this is still important.

Everyone from Stanford to Georgia Tech is offering certifications and Masters degrees.

What is HN's opinion on the validity and usefulness of these courses over less 'credentialed' sources like YouTube, HN, PluralSight, etc?
In addition to the compression, JPEG-XL has some nice features that make it better image format. It also does lossless compression. It does color spaces.

One cool feature is that can losslessly convert JPEG into JPEG-XL. And back to JPEG. I can't tell if this applies to all or only converted ones, but it might make good source format and convert to JPEG on export.
I really wish The Lounge supported something like a PostgreSQL/MySQL backend. Having to keep state in files on a persistent volume is a pain for any app, it's so much nicer when I can just connect to a DB _elsewhere_. The *arr media apps recently added support for PostgreSQL
Forget recession fears. Most people don’t have $3500 lying around flat out.
Silver to soar on Samsung's solid-state battery breakthrough?
No SMB is OK with us zapping their services because some screwed up deployment or stolen token exceeded a billing cap. You're not talking about SMBs, you're talking about people deploying random personal stuff. We love those people, we're happy to have them here, but we do not price the product specifically for them.

I get that this is a lot of venting about people's issues with cloud providers writ large, but damn.
Ah for that I tend to go to Z-Library. But to be honest i don't have much need for that kinda stuff
Yes under the commerce clause in recent history has been interpreted to mean interstate commerce is something as simple as growing a weed plant on your own land and smoking it.

The precious CRA is an oft cited law as to why we need expansive interpretation of that clause (as without it CRA as we know it would be finished), the sooner SCOTUS crushes the CRA the sooner we can finally crush the rest of the civil rights violating overreaches of the prior commerce clause interpretations.
"Just doing their job" isn't really a great reason to do anything. The term "veteran" treats "Country and honor" folks the same as "Duty" folks. And that's what the law gets to be, but if murder isn't one thing, then neither is any fact of military service.

If they didn't use the economically desperate and every aux member to sanitize their image, more people would be willing to call at least infantry participants, if not "Veterans" by other names.
There used to be a Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty between US and USSR. Then Donald Rumsfeld pushed for a withdrawal from the treaty, and the US did so in 2002.

Then China had an anti satellite test in 2007.

Basically what I am saying is that your idea is not new, and it is not getting anywhere either. Trying to weaponize space is just more war-mongering.

I am not American.
Liability probably.
The problem with VR gaming is that movement that doesn't match real world movement tends to make people barf. The types of games you can build in VR is just so much more limited as a result. For example, it's very cool to imagine a VR MMO but it would be hell to actually play it.
If you are already using a password manager, why not login using password? No 3rd party dependency and risk, and no need to remember how you signed in.
Ask HN: Vercel for B2B Enterprise SaaS?
Any thoughts on using Vercel/Next.js for B2B enterprise customers? Will this be a bad choice (compliance/uptime etc...)?
I was a PM in GCP and refund requests due to customer misconfigurations would make it to me for approval.

Generally, I tried to make exceptions to grant the refund. It sucks to get these bills and they can be quite scary.

Unless you have a real chance of bursty traffic I suggest going with compute that has more predictable costs.
So you don't ever use anything federated?
Exactly. All the use cases for new tech like vr headphones or watches or whatever is just the exact same functionality I already have in another form factor. Why bother. I don’t need to pay $400 to look at incoming texts on my wrist instead of the slab in my pocket I already own. I don’t need to spend $3500 to look at 40 foot wide emails.
Tesla & SpaceX have both made the government look like absolute fools. From taking advantage of tax credits for sold vehicles that no other company can even come close to, to building rockets that blow anything Boeing and NASA have been doing out of the water.
My first gen pros didn’t survive. They still work, but have a high pitched wine. They were already out of warranty so I had to buy a new pair.

I did not and will not complain. I have owned over a hundred pairs of headphones/earbuds in my lifetime and these things are the best, by FAR.

However, don’t wash them.
Yeah ridiculous. Only in Germany...
I have had similar experiences on GKE. If a managed service can’t even get k8s right…
Valuing your time at $20 an hour, that's 8 hours worth of time for them. If the remote hiking spot is ~2 hours away, and it takes roughly an hour to deal with the park authorities, that's already 5 hours, plus transport.

Add in the inconvenience of not having them for somewhere between a few days and forever, and I'd also say they aren't really cheap but still it probably isn't worth the effort in that situation.
> The Pax Putin has been for a long time, apparently, an unwritten deal with the society, whereby he provides prosperity and prestige ("everyone is scared of Russia") in return for the society accepting authoritarian, undemocratic rule....

> Impossible to know how topplable Putin is, but he is now outside of the parameters of the deal he brokered with his people.

People have been saying similar things about the Chinese Communist Party for years, and no meaningful "progress" has happened (in fact, quite the opposite).

I suspect a lot of it is liberals, usually Western, reading in hope where there is none (e.g. "the deal" is just a surface-level propaganda structure, and the regime is far more solid than that alone).
Biden really should have made the import duty contingent on the US manufacturers not abandoning / slow-walking their EV lineups:

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a61935592/ford-cancels-thr...

At this point, it feels more like a ban on affordable mainstream EVs than an anti-price-dumping measure.
Sure, I don't say that you couldn't rephrase without the embedded part and reach the same level of precision, just that one can't simply declare that the center-embedded text had "no benefit". The added precision was a benefit over the proposed replacement, even if that precisions can be accomplished in other ways.
Yea my brother has ruined 2 pairs of airpods in the washing machine.
> having access to the source code of your wallet, and being able to verify the data of Bitcoin's public and open blockchain is obviously much better than blindly trusting your bank and getting cut off from your assets at any point through NO fault of your own.

Maybe for you. Not for everyone. The vast majority of people don't have the technical chops to audit a code base. They have to trust someone else to do it for them.

> slightly less iredeemably in some cases

But that's significant. And if you learn how to work the human system, you can improve your odds much more than "slightly". That's a skill that many people have a much easier time picking up than coding or public-key crypto.
Why? PNG is really a bad format for photos (simply was not designed for this use case)

JPEG-XL has a lossless mode if that's what you're after ...
The JPEG-XL test page (linked in the article), works well.

https://jpegxl.info/test-page/

At the bottom of the page it has animation demonstration, that doesn’t appear to work on my iPhone 13 Pro.

Does JPEG-XL really include animation support?
> Musk was careful to acknowledge that the chance that there was more to the story was low (“tiny possibility”).

These days I usually default to reading that sort of comment as saying the things with the tiny chance was likely, and the smaller the stated chance the higher the likelihood.
A fragile egomaniac like Musk is the last person I want involved in missile defense.
Your reasoning is based on 5 year old data. A lot has changed since then.
That is also my preference. However, that is not the question that is being asked.
Thats a good point, however I might want to set limits higher than my normal usage, just not astronomically high.
> The dependency trees for any meaty Rust project quickly become pretty horrifying.

s/Rust//

This is really no different from any other language.

At least Rust, with Cargo, makes it easy to scan your dependencies. And many notable Rust projects attempt to keep third party dependencies to a minimum.

C++ gives you absolutely nothing to work with. Other languages with package managers don't keep dependency trees shallow. You're holding Rust up to a standard that nothing meets.
HEIC is paid, inferior, unpopular ... while JPEG XL is finally the long term replacement of ~30 year old JPEG.
Even 0.03% of daylight is going to make a huge difference considering the human eye interprets beighrness logarithmically.

But no the mirror won't be 4km across. It's impossible
For that matter, I don't think any other Apple products are so out of line with competitor's prices. Airpods, iPhones, and iPad are also about the same as Samsung/Google stuff. MacBooks are marked up, but still in range of Wintel machines. Same for their workstations. Then the Vision Pro rolls out at 600% more than the competition, and doesn't sell. Pitching it as a work machine was shooting themselves in the foot, too: a $3000 MacBook is so much more capable than a Vision Pro it's absurd. The VP is using the base processor from MacBook Airs two generations ago. I mean, come on.