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I've largely fixed phpbb 1.4.4

https://phpbb.go-here.nl/index.php

It's from December 2000[1] (phpBB 2.0.0 was released in April 2002)

The idea the only thing that remained of 1.4.4 was a broken screenshot[2] didn't agree with me.

[1] - https://www.phpbb.com/about/history/#:~:text=phpBB%201.4.4%2...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhpBB#/media/File:PhpBB1-defau...
I think it should all be circumventable. My phone, like my computer, should be able to install whatever code I damn well please.
Which of Altman's credentials do we consider relevant to global-scale wielding of AI?
That's the exact opposite of my experience. Completely boring biz software that was, in essence, collections of forms. Didn't need the additional development burden of an extra JavaScript codebase, but that's what's in vogue, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
thanks for the feedback. Yeah I agree. However, imagine the AI becomes advanced enough to do it properly, would you still talk to it as a customer? My immediate thought is that I wouldn't because I know it's a bot. But on a second thought, the line would perhaps blur if the conversation is realistic enough.
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Technologies: React, Next.js, Node.js, Nest.js, Prisma, TypeORM, TypeScript, Tailwind. Also LLM tooling: OpenAI/Anthropic APIs, Pinecone, LangChain
Résumé/CV: https://maximignatev.vercel.app/
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All I care about is having some healthy competition in the marketplace again.

If that takes tying Google's hands behind its back for a few years, fine.

Taking a 30% cut should have been, prima facie, evidence of monopoly abuse.
How private intelligence companies became the new spymasters
Not saying he's making a good point (or not), but you don't need specific credentials to write an article on your blog about an opinion you have.
And from which worldwide schools of fashion you need credentials to even dare to remark that the emperor has no clothes?
You can imagine that situation. But all python code is now impacted to support that case.

Having a “python only” ecosystem makes about as much sense as a “bash only” ecosystem. Your tech stack includes much more.

> In other worse, I know what I'm doing, I've been doing this since the 90s

ditto. So that’s not relevant.
Thank you! I was misreading our logs. Can confirm no errors in us-east-1 for us as well.
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Do you know if VAX BASIC fixed the problems I mentioned in BASIC? Was it interpreted?

K&R C has separate compilation, pointer casting, a usable but janky and bug-prone variable-length string type, variadic functions, static variables, literal data of array and record types, bitwise operations, a filesystem access API, and an array iterator type. None of those require "assembly, compiler extensions, or OS specific APIs." (Well, I'm not sure if they specified variadic functions in the book. The first ANSI C did.)

Jensen & Wirth Pascal has none of those, making it completely inadequate for anything beyond classroom use, which was what it was designed for.

Each Pascal implementation that was used for systems programming did of course add all of these features, but many of them added them in incompatible ways, with the result that, for example, TeX had to implement its own string type (in WEB).
There were lots of times Microsoft filed amicus briefs against patent trolls and the like, claiming the need for a "free and open internet" or "open standards in the X space", while still in the hot seat for bundling Internet Explorer.

Large companies will clamor for freedom and consumer choice when it benefits them. They will put a hammerlock on consumers when it benefits them.
Why not? Every CDN I've ever worked with preserves custom headers.
Without a doubt, "Exact thinking in demented timed".
> Initially, there wasn't a requirement to ship Android with an app store

That's exactly the same case for iphones, Steve Jobs initial plan (and execution) was to install apps from Safari, the prototype of PWAs.
Save yourself the read. This article started strong, but never ended up making a logical point about why Sam is dangerous.
American mink is a good example of a very invasive species in Europe. They seem to enjoy swimming on the sea there also.
I think you are missing point, not everyone is up for an inquisition at every new meeting. Using this method, people that agree with you might just move on, because they don't feel like probing you. You are turning away people that would agree with you just because they don't want to argue with you. You also haven't given any reason for them to even try'.

Or better example:

Person 1: I like Atlas Shrugged (secretly don't but use it as a test when meeting people)

Person 2: Amazing, I also like Atlas Shrugged (secretly don't, but don't want to argue with another Atlas Shrugged fan boy, so just nod head and agree, and just looking how to end conversation and move on).
> didn't fail or get shot down as political overreach?

Progress requires testing the system and seeing where the failure points are. It's significantly better than the relative nothing we've gotten from past admins.

Also with the current judicial and congressional makeup it's a wonder anything gets done.
If anyone else was curious about the other website:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39067496
I’d interview someone who had been President of Y Combinator and most likely offer them my job by the end of the conversation.

Kidding aside, it’s at least in the same world. I’m not even sure what qualified to lead the scaling of AI would look like.
Whisper and Pyannote via Replicate to spin up a container for transcription and diarization. It returns word-level timestamps and speaker turns.

The LLM pipeline is built into the Rust code and makes calls to the OpenAI API.
Amazon currently does not honor its prime shipping agreement with all domestic customers and has no customer service path to get the issue resolved. In some places USPS is unreliable and Amazon insists on using it repeatedly, violating its own promise to customers. This suggests to me that Amazon faces no competitive pressure to deliver good customer service.
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Steampunk costume? Are you watching the same video?
Try "Best served cold" by Joe Abercrombie. Followed by The Heroes. And to avoid minor spoilers, read the First Law trilogy first. All good books are great, The heroes is probably the best!
> Apple's claim is simple: The monopoly was from the very beginning, when the iPhone had 0.0% market share. If it was anti-competitive, the iPhone would have failed. If developers didn't like it, the iPhone would have failed. Has Apple unfairly done anything new now that they have a monopoly? No. Did Apple raise their 30% royalty to 70% when they had a monopoly? No.

Apple did not have a 30% cut for in-app purchases when the iPhone was created, just App Store purchases. In-app revenue tax was instituted in 2011

e: No clue why this is downvoted
Can we petition for HN to block paywalled and ad-riddled content? As it is there's an incentive to spam paywalled content around social media websites to earn yourself more money.

Additional point: we can't have a balanced community discussion if only a small percentage of viewers have access to the full article. This is a community website, so we should favor content that is openly shareable.
Of course you don't. I thought, however, that you may need some credentials to be upvoted by an audience of highly technical readers.
I will crater to your wishes.
Cling (the interactive C++ interpreter) should also compile to WASM.

There's a xeus-cling Jupyter kernel, which supports interactive C++ in notebooks: https://github.com/jupyter-xeus/xeus-cling

There's not yet a JupyterLite (WASM) kernel for C or C++.
This is beautiful. Deterministic, bootstrapped, and doesn't break the established Linux conventions! Shame it's musl-only, I would love to use something like that to build glibc-based apps for future redistribution as proper Linux binaries.
It was similar last year when 3.12 came out and 3.11 still wasn't supported. I'm really curious what makes azure functions so slow to upgrade available run times, or if it's just that they figure demand for the latest python version isn't there.
Which scare screens? I've sideloaded on Android for nearly a decade now, and the only one I've seen is the reasonable warning about third-party app sources when enabling it for the first time.
This guy writing longform articles and publishing books doesn't know what he's talking about. Take it from me, a random internet commenter with no discernable credentials.
I quite enjoyed David Eddings books when I was younger as well. It came as a shock when I learned that he and his wife had been jailed for child abuse, which only became known after he died:

https://thewertzone.blogspot.com/2020/05/it-has-been-reveale...
IMO the OSI layer system (even though using TCP/IP suite) has some merit in education. To most of us, the concept of layering protocols may seem obvious, but I've talked to people who are just learning this stuff, and they have a lot of trouble understanding it. Emphasizing that each layer is (in theory) cleanly separated and doesn't know about layers above and below, is a very useful step towards understanding abstractions.
Thanks for the hint. I didn't know that. So far nothing happened, but I will start using the backup command.
> His boundless ambition is putting AI, and the world, on a dangerous path.

Has the narrative really become that Sam Altman is single-handedly responsible for the massive leap in AI?

I really don't think that Altman is even close to being in the top 5 worrying techbros. At best, he enabled OpenAI researchers to get their work done 1-5 years sooner.

This stuff was going to happen with or without Altman.

The advancements to come will happen with or without Altman.

These kinds of articles are alarmist nonsense.
Show me a phrase and I'll show you a language it doesn't work in.
True; except that the iPhone didn't allow apps from anywhere, at all.

Consider damages, from a legal perspective. Can you claim damages, because you can't write apps for your proprietary 3D Printer? Can you claim damages, because you can't write apps for your dishwasher? Can you claim damages, because you can't write apps for an ecosystem which is, and was, always closed?

No, no, and (currently) no.

You absolutely can claim damages though for building up an ecosystem that then turns into a bait-and-switch. Case: Android.

Edit: Also, the commenter below is wrong. Steve Jobs talked about the 30% cut in the very introduction of the App Store. The 30% cut was also required on all in-app purchases, but by a legal agreement instead of an automated collection method.
> the better F-Droid client

How's it different? Neither link appeared to discuss this.
Still waiting for January and my morning ritual of juicing a small grapefruit into an 8oz ice-filled mason jar.

It's a damn shame we haven't figured out how to coerce citrus like we do tomatoes.
The argument itself is the currency, not the credentials of the person making it.
How lazy from them.
More and more, antitrust is a means for people who dislike big, successful companies for no particular reason to attack them. On some level, the government is just throwing its weight around. The message is "don't forget who's really in charge."

Consider all the "Lina Khan fans" you see on HN and elsewhere. They rarely articulate why the government should be suing these companies, which laws that company broke, or if those laws make sense. They just don't like big companies and want them taken down a peg.

The Google suit was particularly egregious. There was no alternative to Google search because no one had built a better product for reasons that have nothing to do with anticompetitive behavior. And the real irony here is that Google appears to be behind on LLMs, which have finally given us an alternative to typing things into Google. So the government picked the exact moment when Google's search market share is seriously threatened to sue!
Altman has the job.

Dozens of people are writing about him.

Not all of that writing is relevant or useful in analysis. In particular, writing an article that contains a worry that people are "hating on the wrong part of Altman," is a bit of a giveaway that the author lacks the ability to a deep technical analysis of the problem and has instead decided to focus on personality.
I followed him on mastodon, the article is cool too.
On Mastodon, there is a video of the root access where one can see the screen.

https://mastodon.xyz/@retr0id@retr0.id/113252910481164528
Are you running whisper on that same $7 Server?
As I recall, the original App Store argument was "It would cost a lot more than 30% to mint CDs and sell them in Waldenbooks, so we're doing developers a favor by _only_ charging 30% to distribute."
When you resort to ad hominem attacks, it makes it seem as though you were unable form any specific objection to the actual content.
Yes, but we don't know when the next technology shift will happen. Amazon might be able to abuse their position for decades if a disruption doesn't come.

Aa for E-commerce, it can have a larger inventory than physical retail. You're not going to find many solar charge controllers or mechanical keyboard parts at Walmart, but Amazon will have tons of options deliverable within 48 hours. Few sites can have comparable shipping cost/speed and you have to research each one, whereas Amazon enjoys the position of being the default.

A decade ago, I helped a small Amazon seller with his inventory, and it was eye opening to see all the fees and risks compared to eBay. But he couldn't sell on eBay without losing a massive portion of his customer base, despite their better shopping/buying UX in my experience.
There's also the other approach: actually reading the content and judging it on its own merit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
Totally, I think there's a lot of retroactive justification for what's familiar whether it be microservice or monolith. They both have advantages and disadvantages -- we're at a point where deploying and running either is available on most clouds.

That said, I think interesting possibilities exist where the two approaches are blended. I work for a cloud [1] that supports a concept of "services" grouped within an app each of those services is a web server that can be configured to sleep [2] under specific conditions -- effectively serverless but without the loss of shared memory and all the efficiencies of running a more traditional web server.

The grouping of services also provides a way to spin off parts of an application while keeping it within the same deployment process.

1. https://noop.dev

2. https://noop.dev/docs/sleepy-services/
That's an unfair characterization of the situation.

Epic v Google was decided in a jury trial, whereas Epic v Apple was decided by a judge (as preferred by both parties).

The other big difference is that Tim Cook wasn't caught trying to destroy evidence, so the judge in that case had no reason to sanction Apple.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90955785/google-deleted-chats-in...

https://www.gibbonslawalert.com/2023/05/01/lets-not-just-cha...
Well, there's careers being made, egos being stroked, and insecurities being salved.

It's not just a shared interest community. YC isn't a benevolent organization, and many of the folks, hereabouts, have some pretty serious cred (and money/power). Lots of folks want to get on their good side, and may think that frontin' is the best way.
Podcastfy.ai
This is true. In Theta (https://github.com/ThetaLang/Theta) this is exactly what we do -- no need for more than one pass for the WASM codegen.
Fintech OpenBB aims to be more than an open source Bloomberg Terminal
This (index ordering resulting in useless indices) is not true, at least not in newer versions of Postgres (I just tried with 15).

While the query will take much longer (for me, it was about 47 msec vs 0.6 msec for 2,000,000 rows), it still uses the index.

Similarly, while normally you wouldn’t expect a query using predicate Y to use an index defined on columns (X, Y, Z) if predicate X is also not referenced, Postgres may choose to do so, depending on table stats, and the relative difference between random_page_cost and seq_page_cost. I’ve seen it happen before.
Ask HN: What are some of the alternatives of Mem0
I'm basically building an LLM application that needs a long term user based memory storage solution. I've found yc startup called mem0 - which is actually a great product.
But i want to see what other alternatives are there on the market.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance!

I mean: www.mem0.ai
When the US dollar loses ground on its reserve currency status, it wouldn't matter what happens inside America.
> Apple's claim is simple: The monopoly was from the very beginning, when the iPhone had 0.0% market share. If it was anti-competitive, the iPhone would have failed. If developers didn't like it, the iPhone would have failed. Has Apple unfairly done anything new now that they have a monopoly? No. Did Apple raise their 30% royalty to 70% when they had a monopoly? No.

The problem is not a monopoly on hardware. The problem is gatekeeping access to software markets.
Nothing says hacker culture like needing sufficient credentials to even consider someone’s ideas.

Edit: I hope you can see from the sea of replies that this sort of credential check is not welcome here.
Android has far more users both globally and in the US specifically, and the Play Store has triple the amount of downloads that the App Store has. This gives it far less lenience than Apple got in the EU, where it isn't even as dominant as in the US. Apple also has the benefit of being a sole operator of its platform, whereas Android and the Play Store aren't Google-only.

Also Amazon was a key reason why the ruling indicates the other stores must have access to play store apps as well.

Additionally, Google royally messed up this entire case from the start by being so openly egregious. Amateur hour sending emails about buying a company to shut them up from suing you.
The rest of the article is behind a paywall. I'm still on the fence about Sam Altman, and as someone who lives in Poland rather than Silicon Valley, it's difficult to form a solid judgment about him. It's much easier for me to see through Elon Musk's facade in his interviews, where he only plays at being an expert. Altman has some mystique surrounding him, though I think his frequent appearances on podcasts are ruining it. I sometimes wonder how he finds time to appear even on minor podcasts.
Yes, how dare they use their scale to make more cost-effective versions of popular things.
It's not just allowing alternative stores, it's stuff like:

- Stop requiring Google Play Billing for apps distributed on the Google Play Store (the jury found that Google had illegally tied its payment system to its app store)

- Let Android developers tell users about other ways to pay from within the Play Store

- Let Android developers link to ways to download their apps outside of the Play Store

- Let Android developers set their own prices for apps irrespective of Play Billing

Removing those restriction on billing in the app will probably have way more impact in the end.
To remark - none. To be taken seriously -- probably some, otherwise the noise of millions of bloggers is too much to handle. Which credentials, I'm not sure, hence my question.

FWIW, the author has university education and is currently a Visiting Professor of Science and Religion at Union Theological Seminary, New York. I personally don't find it relevant to the topic, but was curious to see what others thought.
Grifters in position of power always are. I don’t think anybody needs proof of this. If you do, I can recommend a few good history books.
I have not seen zero or very low rate car loans for used cars. You do see them for new cars, but they are just taking whatever they would have given you as a cash discount and converting it into a low rate. Maybe a bit more, as they charge fees on the loan that they roll into the balance owed.
Which parts you credential do we consider relevant to rate the expertise on the topic at hand?

Seriously though, I think the author is overworried about accelerationism but correctly rates sama power grab inclinations. What's your thought re TFA rather than the author?
You will see very quickly whether or not the person understood Nietzsche to have been writing almost entirely prescriptively or descriptively. The former almost always holds a caricature of Nietzsche's thought as the edgy truth.

GoM is an interesting work on his ideas about the historical evolution of social norms and the psychological motivations behind them in many cases; in either it or TGS he says that a really comprehensive work on the evolution of norms throughout human history and different societies in different conditions would be invaluable, and that his work is only sort of a first step on an enormous undertaking. Unfortunately, we never much took it up. Maybe that's inevitable, since Nietzsche in a rare normative moment says the exception should not become the rule; we don't want a lot of people to not take their norms so seriously they reflexively reject serious consideration of their contingent character. If they do, you don't have much of a society.

It's certainly very hard for people to seriously think about these problems. Plenty of very smart people take thinkers like Rawls seriously, where Nietzsche's work clearly shows it to be without any serious foundation. You could of course still make a claim for moral realism, but it requires the acceptance of ideas the same people are usually allergic to.

But even more than that, Nietzsche is full of really incredible ideas and insights worded in clever ways. TGS is brilliant. When someone talks about these subjects I usually gather they didn’t really engage. Those topics are what come up in almost all secondary sources where they are treated superficially or often, like Russell, almost maliciously wrong.
"processed uncompressed bytes"/"all uncompressed bytes" is a distorted progress indication anyway.
The FTC has succeeded at a lot of things that just aren't very interesting to report on. I'd recommend reading through FTC press releases. They generally release a statement whenever a major action is started and resolved. By my count in the past year or so the FTC was involved in at least 12 successful anti-monopoly actions (I counted modified mergers, killed mergers, and divestments).

The most consequential merger win was probably the NVIDIA/ARM merger that died under FTC litigation.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/02/...
'Catch 22' had quite an effect on me when I read it as young man. I'm not sure whether I will read it again, I'm worried it might dissapoint some 40 years later.
Don't Pixel phones ask the user if the want to enable location tracking on setup?
how did you stumble across this one?
"The Death and Life of Great American Cities" by Jane Jacobs.

This book completely changed how I view my city and other urban areas. I am now much more in-tune with my urban environment and understand how different aspects of it affect me emotionally.

It also led me to going back to graduate school for a degree in urban design and sustainability, and my focus is now how I can use my computer science background to improve my environment.