skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly what the labels want, since if that type of thing keeps going their way they will soon own not just every song like they currently do, but every future song forever.
The reg article suggests not:

> ...then the next planned feature is wireless display support. At present, you can't dock the phone and use it as a PC with a keyboard and mouse, which is a shame. Apparently, the IO lines needed for a wired dock were used for the macro camera.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/26/furi_phone_flx1_debia...
There are two kinds of buyer demands: product, buyers, and the stock buyers. The AI hype can certainly convince some of the stock buyers.
The kindle hardware is pretty good in my opinion, though they make choices I don’t like.

The ecosystem is amazing and unbeatable.

The software was fine on the original Kindles (well, I had a keyboard), and despite gaining a few features is largely the same since 10+ years ago.

But don’t worry, they added ads to the device that they used to sell you books and they’ve managed not to speed it up one bit!
https://archive.ph/5YWHg
I have a concern about a tragedy of the commons type situation. How many students is this going to force into cheating in this manner in order to remain competitive? I think a lot, if we aren't incredibly strict right away. It could ruin academic culture in the US, which was generally very good when I was in school (as in, cheating was taken very seriously and was socially frowned upon by students as well as faculty). I don't think the benefits of AI are so great at this time as to make that a risk worth taking.
Ah, good catch - I read right through that.
Even if it were true, they wouldn’t have the same influence as Apple has.
I mean fuck, if that counts then I’m quadrupedal every time I go up the stairs quickly in my house
1. Buy them.

2. Try them for up to 14 days.

3. Return them if they don’t work.

https://www.apple.com/shop/help/returns_refund
Maduro shat the bed himself with perhaps the aid of his indoctrinated chavistas. They used to get help from Cuba. In any case, it’s their problem. Even Columbia, their neighbors and co-Bolivarians don’t like them going into their country illegally. They also want them out.

Man up and do what we did. Armed resistance and overthrow the repressive government and create a new beautiful shining beacon in the southern cone.

An implication of your statement is that Putin does this to undermine the US thus bolstering the position that these people weaken rather than strengthen us.
Understanding Logarithms Intuitively
Maduro is a 100% Russian product and service.
Well, I cannot currently foresee a situation where we’d need to apply this technology to store several orders of magnitude more energy. Even storing 50% more energy this way in the West would have significant self-reinforcing positive effects on the renewable energy industry.

You might be thinking in an all-or-nothing way. Some solutions don’t need to scale well on cubic scales, etc. Moreover, there is hardly a reason pumped storage power plants can’t be done along side nuclear investment. There isn’t a dichotomy of choice, expanding use of both — or either — would benefit us all.

In fact, there are synergies between pumped storage and nuclear power — pumped storage allows nuclear to more closely meet the peaks and valleys of electricity demand throughout the day.

I think the biggest problem is that the energy sector isn’t making big plant investments due to capitalistic incentives. Why invest into plants if less supply of electricity means a higher unit price, and any state investment into private power companies can go straight into retained earnings/dividend? It would be improving things for technological advancement sake, against investor interests. Things work differently when the power companies are state-owned, of course. But that doesn’t completely flip the script either — technological advancement for advancement sake is still not often pursued. And it’s often even seen as wasteful by the electorate.

If we wanted technological advancement, we have several clear ways to achieve it, even without scaling the current technology exponentially. The problem is that we didn’t want it enough. But now some companies do.
The derivative meaning has been use so widely that it has surpassed its original one in usage. But it doesn’t change the fact that it originally refers to the fingers.
I hated not having buttons. The squeeze things on the Voyage weren’t good but at least they were something. The buttons on the Oasis are far better than that, though I still have gripes about them.

I can’t imagine replacing my Oasis. I don’t know what it is they have against the buttons. I might’ve bought the color thing today if it had buttons.

I guess I just can’t upgrade until my device dies and then I’ll have to figure something out.
Decay Technique
GSAP Is Joining Webflow
Microsoft needs to throw something in the gap to slow down MacBook attrition.

The M processors changed the game. My teams support 250k users. I went from 50 MacBooks in 2020 to over 10,000 today. I added zero staff - we manage them like iPhones.
Yeah fair I have had similar thoughts on this subject. Maybe some kind of ai companion that translates news into your local language and can answer your questions directly with voice would be something interesting.
I don’t think that was their point.
In the status quo ante of this attack Israel was not in fact slowly annexing the Gaza.

Not yet, as majority policy. But a sizable contingent is clamoring for exactly that (only they'd prefer it happen much more quickly):

‘It is doable’: 10 Likud MKs to attend conference calling for ‘resettling Gaza’

https://archive.ph/BPP5C
Does it has any instructions? It's difficult/impossible to guess which key to press to pick and drop food.
Looks impressive. I'm guessing the demo isn't representative of the full possibilities of this? Tried to have a basic conversation in Japanese and it kept on sticking with English. When it did eventually speak Japanese the pronunciation was completely off. I'm really excited about the possibility of local language learning with near realtime conversation practice. Will keep an eye on this.
And the ground pangolin, apparently
Calm down. If you're down the road about privacy, and you didn't already know about the webRTC thing, I don't know what to tell you. Do you want me to hold your hand and pretend you're my grandma, or are you a smart HN commenter? Seven proxies won't hide your IP if it's leaked by design implementation, and you have it enabled in a layer above the session layer. Hence why I prefer to assume a system is compromised and ONLY trust the apps I have verified and validated... If I'm doing something that needs that. "Whole-system" vpns are naieve. You're just looking to blame people.

When you get down from your horse, go and learn the Greenhills kernel and why everything from the nsa to the f35 uses it.
Damn that was a really good pitch. I think I’m too dumb to learn Haskell though lol. I’m struggling enough with immutability in clojure!!
That's the problem — it might well be far too late.
The new Kindle paper white may finally get me to upgrade … but also maybe not.

I have a 10+ year old Kindle Paperwhite (I think first gen). I use it daily and it’s still just nearly a perfect device. It’s withstood rough treatment, battery life is still ~2 books long, and it has never been made obsolete by a software update.

No other electronic device I’ve ever bought has had this kind of longevity and it’s not even close.

Cool to think that if I do upgrade now that $159 will probably get me to 2035.
I like the answer, I'm just not sure it's correct - are there any yacht races that have that many legs?

(Aside from AI Yacht's, of course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U79-kDQnbPE )
Everything from rolling starts to perfect road conditions and specific tires, I suppose.
Protector by Larry Niven (1973) also features a gravity-powered telescope.
Can you elaborate? Do you use Virtual Desktop or have something like termux and ssh in to a separate box?
Then kick him out of office. Do a Panama and turn it around.
More like “free money” due to how bad code generation is. Job security would be someone writing shitty code on purpose.
>RTX, which previously set aside $959 million to cover expected settlements in the cases

A very good guess by RTX (or it was expected to begin with;). Maybe they even saved $9m.
No physical buttons, no purchase.
I assume he meant banking doesn't carry that many risks to children.
cctvs are fixed, this is mobile ! not the same difference.
> Peer-reviewed, published data from an official source is always going to be more trusted than data in a blog post.

Such is the reverance for official sources on Wikipedia that quite often you'll find that the cited source doesn't actually support the article's content.

If you add a correct-looking fact referencing a correct-looking .gov source to a Wikipedia article, the likelihood of your edit being reverted is very low.
Ask HN: Has someone come up with an unified protocol for LLM communication?
Has someone come up with an unified protocol or standard for LLM communications?

Something like webstandards or TCP, because I feel like the same thing for each vendor, agents are becoming a thing, embeddings are well defined, streaming responses is pretty much standard all around.

I understand there are libraries like langchain and vertex AI SDK, but I'm surprised I could not find any draft or paper around the subject.

I guess there's the argument on why would the vendors follow such standards protocol, but then again the same could be said about many standards.

My best guess is that with the current market we are in the very begining of the technology and vendors simply did not have the motivation to do something like that.
What are you smoking? Have you not seen the list of all the governments that have been "removed" by the US? Most recently Pakistan which was a year ago

[1]:https://theintercept.com/2023/08/09/imran-khan-pakistan-cyph...

[2]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
Interesting, so does that mean we're basically out of runway without aggressive cooling?
Booby-trapped robots loaded with explosives used by Israel in northern Gaza
Curse those clever Pro-Palestine hacktivists, what with going onto IA and erasing all material that's critical of Israel
Tom's Diner
> We typically do not look into the code

I actually do it, and when I don’t there is a chain of responsibility to handle that. LLMs write random code that haven’t been approved, agents would make that worse by actually running it.

Most AI fans want us to run commands like “cat /etc/random | sh” and that’s why software engineering is not real engineering.
Because none of those things have the force of law backing them.

Academic censorship? Start your own journal and publish there. Religious censorship? Start your own church and gather your followers. Forum censored you? Start your own website where they have zero say about anything and write about whatever you want.

Government censorship? You are screwed, and you go straight to jail if you try to break free and start your own.
> I've read most of the report

One would hope you'd read the entire thing, since you appear to have been behind it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41859793
I have some bad news pal :( https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/16/24272009/amazon-disconti...
in case it helps, had a similar situation, one antibiotic helped, others didn’t. turns the one that did also had a anti inflammatory effect which seemed to be reducing a then unknown food allergy.
Kobo has a store. It's decent, it won't have Kindle indies, and IMO it has fewer/worse sales, but it's not a big deal to me. They do have a subscription plan with unlimited access to certain books but it's not clear to me how good the catalog is.

You can also buy from third party stores, e.g. Weightless Books for sci-fi & fantasy, and just drag-and-drop the epub onto the Kobo.
I wrote an app tracking my location using the latest SwiftUI and SwiftData and the performance is so bad to the point it starts to stall the UI after just a few hundred data points. Apparently the magic of SwiftData + SwiftUI is only useful for making demos and anything beyond a few hundred data points wouldn't work out of the box. Everything is done on the main thread and offloading to non-main thread creates huge headaches and breaks the UI updates. It's almost as if the dev guys at Apple were just trying to hit their WWDC OKRs by releasing something so immature and useless for production. Even just reading/writing data to local, CoreData is two to three orders of magnitude faster than SwiftData in some cases. Their newly released core location APIs for getting location updates are also full of caveats and not useful for production at all. It seems that the teams are just focused on making good-looking Swift code using fancy new language syntax sugars.
Unpopular opinion: I suspect many "hacktivists" are driven primarily by the challenge/thrill of hacking, with the cause being more of an afterthought to appease their conscience.
This is the way. Often times clicking unsubscribe is just sending them a notice that your address is an active inbox. They can abuse that knowledge or resell it. Better to mark as spam.
Markets in everything.
Original Idea: Shared Computing
Where users could write and use programs within a computing space that is networked at the computational level. Thus creating an internet of code and programs. I think a paradigm like this could unlock a lot of new functionality and could be revolutionary. I've never started an open source project before, but I'd be happy to paste a GitHub link to this post if there is one.
Motivation: Have evidence that some content existed at a particular time. For example, let's say a major website publishes an article, and later they remove it, and there is no record of it ever existing. If I host an ArchiveBox, I can look at it and see "Oh here is that article. Looks line it was published after all." However, why should you believe me I didn't just make it up?

If when I initially archived it, I computed a cryptographic hash of the content and posted that on a blockchain, then at a future date I can at least claim "As of block N, approximately corresponding to this time UTC, content that hashes to this hash exited."

If multiple unrelated parties also make the same claim, it is stronger evidence.

Is this sufficient explanation? I can expand on this more later.
Apple will have a completely AI capable product line in 18 months, with the major platforms basically done.

Microsoft is built around the broken Intel tick/tick model of incremental improvement — they are stuck with OEM shitware that will take years to flush out of the channel. That means for AI, they are stuck with cloud based OpenAI, where NVIDIA has them by the balls and the hyperscalers are all fighting for GPU.

Apple will deliver local AI features as software (the hardware is “free”) at a much higher margin - while Office 365 AI is like $400+ a year per user.

You’ll have people getting iPhones to get AI assisted emails or whatever Apple does that is useful.
I've got the same generation PW and have it jailbroken running KOReader. I've considered trying other readers out, not because of issues but rather shiny new thing reasons. But at least when it comes to KOReader, it seems like the PW are the best if you can jailbreak the version you're on.

(I want / need it to run KOReader because I wrote a small Lua plugin for it that syncs reading stats (words per minute, minutes read per year, etc) to a centralized server.)
Django with DRF will get you a very maintainable API, and you can have as little or as much boilerplate as you want. For example, you can inherit all of the model’s fields, or you can choose to specify them all, or somewhere in between, add additional fields, etc. You can have it generate pagination or certain filters. It’s got plenty of hooks for overriding functionality.

If you see performance issues or situations where youre hitting the n+1 query issue, you can optimize by using the orm’s prefetch_related, select_related, or just drop into raw sql.

Im obviously a fanperson, but have yet to find a framework combo that I like more than those two. It’s not very fashionable, but you’ll end up with an app thats quick to develop and thats reasonably secure by default.
Article title: Tom's Diner
It would be more fair to note that both Hamas and the current governing coalition in Israel very clearly want a one-state solution. In fact, if you could roll Israel back to 1967 borders, the Palestinians would be in an enormously better position than they are today; politics, and, in particular, the logistics of dismantling what are in effect whole Israeli suburbs illegally situated in the West Bank, are what keep us from getting that done.†

It's difficult to really get a firm grasp on what "Palestinians" demand, because (1) the Palestinian Authority is deeply corrupt, generally not trusted by Palestinians, and actively sabotaged by the Netanyahu coalition, and (2) Hamas took power in 2006 and then for almost 20 years refused any self-determination for Gazan Palestinians, all the while being tacitly endorsed and financially abetted by the Netanyahu governing coalition.

If your claim is that Hamas is not interested in a realistic brokered solution of the Israel/Palestinian crisis, you're right. Hamas is a death cult propped up by the IRGC QF, truly one of the most despicable organizations on the planet. But I would strongly object to Hamas' worldview being imputed to Palestinians more generally; Palestinians are Hamas' primary victims.

† There are other logistical problems that would need to get hammered out in a "'67 borders" agreement, like what the corridor between Gaza and the West Bank would look like. To hear skeptical Israeli policy commentators talk about it, you'd also put the structure of Palestinian security forces on that list, but I think the last year has counterfeited that concern: you literally can't do worse than the status quo.
Taking a Closer Look:An Outlier-Driven Approach to Compilation-Time Optimization
Article title: The Lenna Story
This doesn't solve the critical problem, which is that you usually can't tell if something is okay until you have context that you don't yet have. This is why even SOTA models will backtrack when you hit the filter—they only realize you're treading into banned territory after a bunch of text has already been generated, including text that already breaks the rules.

This is hard to fix because if you don't wait until you have enough context, you've given your censor a hair trigger.

> Combine both streams with SSE on the front end and don't render the content stream result until the validation stream returns "OK".

Just a note that this particular implementation has the additional problem of not actually applying your validation stream at the API level, which means your service can and will be abused worse than it would be if you combined the streams server-side. You should never rely on client-side validation for security or legal compliance.
Paul Rudolph Was an Architectural Star. Now He's a Cautionary Tale
You're new to HN, right? We don't behave like this here.

I'm referring to the pugnacious tone, but the certainty in the absence of evidence is also a bit gauche.

So you know, chazza banks with coutts. I reckon he could draw much much more, over the phone or in person, and wouldn't be put on hold or asked security questions. If you also happen to be the head of state of several nations and have your face on the coin of the realm, and your experience is contrary, then please do rebut my assertion.
making it really hard to cancel your subscription is unfair, almost by definition
Wow, I'm the same. Celiac with very few symptoms.

Hearing this makes me want to keep on track. But I would like regular blood tests to find out if my nutrition absorption is improving. That would at least motivate me to keep eating this restricted diet.

Good to hear your story as a warning.
Anki, audiobook apps, better TTS, basic text browsing on the internet, notes apps, etc.
Separation of concerns. Input data from web is not always going to match schema of DB.
I'm really disappointed with the Internet Archive's level of unprofessionalism when it comes to any form of downtime whatsoever (let alone the blog). The monolithic one stop shop "Internet Library" can not even bother to put updates on their downtime page and instead directs their user base to social media platforms.

Call me a nut, but I feel the IA would work better if it was run by the Library of Congress, but then again that has it's own pitfalls.
Zig is also super easy; just use the -target flag and you're good to go.

Pretty sure Rust is only slightly less easy. No idea about Nim.
This is a great story, but I'd like to also point out that it shows why the popular trend of only blaming a company's top management for that company's terrible behavior is wrong: many people have a tendency to want to sympathize with the lowest-level workers at a company, saying "they're only doing their jobs and have no say in business decisions" when interacting with customer service personnel. As you can see here, many (if not the vast majority) of these low-ranking foot soldiers are sociopathic assholes who really believe the corporate BS and are happy to do their utmost to screw over customers. It's not just the higher-up managers or CxOs, though they usually set the direction.
I see no reason to believe this is a false flag. If there's no evidence for it, why should we believe it to be so?
Yes, but that is a response to the October 7 attacks, and this thread is about the antecedents of that attack.

(I question the seriousness of that movement; Likud under Ariel Sharon disengaged from Gaza and dismantled the settlements there, for practical reasons. It is not necessarily in the long-term interests of the Israeli state to settle in the Gaza Strip. But it doesn't matter for this thread either way. If it needs saying: all of Israeli's illegal settlement programs are bad.)
Have you had the celiac blood test?
ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
8086 was launched in 1978[1], so the x86 architecture is quite old, spanning over 45 years. How long before enough patents expire so those who don't trust Intel or AMD can launch a competing compatible implementation?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8086
IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems (Its) Best Dissertation Award
Using a VPN with WireGuard can actually reduce latency if your ISP has poor routing to the game server, as a VPN with better peering or routing paths can improve your connection. It’s not always the case, but with a decent provider, you might see lower ping in certain situations.
Unboxing Virgil ADTs for Fun and Profit
I just saw https://hanlab.mit.edu/projects/hart

it seems to be another autoencoder(autoregressive) + diffusion.
> until serious illegal activity is committed

What do they do in such cases?

Assuming they get the report after the fact and assuming their "no logging" promises are true, can they even do anything? They're not even supposed to know which customer did it, after all.

If their promises are false, wouldn't they reveal their hand if they handed logs over willy nilly?
I like how you're extraction and the scrapers for the cite. Check out this 3000 line algorithm for this same task but a bit more advanced

https://airesearch.js.org/
He Jiankui Affair
FWIW I've been running a jailbroken PW5 for a few years now always connected to the internet without any issues dealing with updates.

I did rename the ota binary. I'm aware that there's always the possibility of Amazon maybe having some other way to push an update, but I haven't had any issues so far.
Mine was buying a Windows 7 license back in 2009.