skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that it will be replaced, but there's a natural progression of the types of media that is available on a given platform of distribution.

RF: text (telegram), audio, still images (fax), moving images

Web had the same progression: text, still images (inverted here), audio age (MP3s, Napster), video (Netflix, YouTube)

AI: text, images, audio (realtime API), ...?

Vision is the obvious next medium.
"This should be avoided if possible" and "This widespread standard makes it unavoidable" sound like two things that should not inhabit the same universe lol.

I feel like the intent was that there is a chance that this might happen, and they wanted manufacturers to make sure it's always handled properly... so there's no better way to force them to do that by making it happen constantly everywhere. Given that people don't really die from this on a daily basis I presume it must've somehow worked.
Yes good point, SASS has got us accustomed to the full free trial. I'll think about how we could do this in action - any ideas welcomed!
Two days ago there was a pretty big discussion on this topic:

Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41914989
1421 points, 717 comments
Not only is it the future of software, it's the past and present as well.
Yeah, “idiomatic” may have been a poor word choice, I really meant closer to “simply representable”. oneOf, for instance, lets you very easily define flexible, concise structures in JSON Schema that OO languages without union types may not express naturally if at all, and which may not be natural to work with even if they cna be expressed in many languages.
I went over the guidelines and cannot figure out which rule I broke?

"You write that it would be more useful to re-post something else" -- Is your critique just that you didnt like the quality of what I wrote? or is there something more tangable?
As someone who makes HW for a living, please do make more Rube Goldberg machines of black box LLMs. At least for a few more years until my kids are out of college. :)
Sometimes simply there is not a good mature way to handle things, just different shades of wrong answers.

Probably it was difficult also for them to say goodbye to many close friends and talented collaborators that work with them for many years before 2021. We should try to put ourselves in their shoes also. I can't see how it could be done in a different way.
>You’re not hearing what I’m saying.

You are saying Qualcomm doesn't have competition because Qualcomm make the best modem and others making worst product cant compete?
I mean vision in the most general sense, not just a GUI.

Imagine OpenAI can not only read the inflection in your voice, but also nuances in your facial expressions and how you're using your hands to understand your state of mind.

And instead of merely responding as an audio stream, a real-time avatar.
> Even Uber used to complain.

Why would I want to use anything from those scumbags?

>That being said with the exception of Qubes desktop devices are dramatically less secure than Graphene, so unless you're foregoing digital payments altogether I don't see how you could avoid some degree of risk.

You're talking out of your ass and it smells that way too. Yuck!
My gym closed during the pandemic and sold their memberships to another gym then continued charging me. Luckily the owners of my "membership" were understanding and let me cancelled over the phone.
Real Water ordered to pay $5B after liver failure outbreak
A sign of the ongoing commoditization?
But what about the heat sinks / fan when you mount the m2 on top? Especially /w Pi 5, to get more perf out of it, it presumably should have a sizeable heat sink complete with the fan?
> Our modern formalized fencing grips were designed with the same purpose in mind - to allow someone to easily grip and move a metal stick

Fencing grips were developed with the primary purpose of getting a long reach in a 1 on 1 duel with another swordsman in an era when both were ubiquitous.

Certainly a bronze-age sword was a state-of-the-art invention for it's time and commanded prestige. But I don't think it's safe to assume they would have adopted a 15th century sword technique. They would never have needed to! They had the best, easiest-to-use weapon around.

To your point, I don't think a great Lord of the era would commission one of these swords, with a handle so clearly designed to be held at a 45-degree angle, just to hold it in an awkward angle or direction with the mushroom pommel dangling uselessly.
MLC Chat is a great iPhone app for running models (it's on Android too) and currently ships with Llama 3.2 3B Instruct - not the version Meta released today, its a quantized version of their previous release.

I wouldn't be surprised to see it add the new ones shortly, it's quite actively maintained.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mlc-chat/id6448482937
Every reaction from the international community is vetoed by the United States of America. A veto power it has used on behalf of Israel to protect it from international scrutiny more than it has for literally any other country on earth. Over half of all US vetoes in the Security Council have been on behalf of Israel.

https://globalaffairs.org/bluemarble/how-us-has-used-its-pow...

> The U.S. has vetoed resolutions critical of Israel more than any other council member – 45 times as of December 18, 2023, according to an analysis by Blue Marble. The U.S. has vetoed 89 Security Council resolutions in total since 1945, meaning slightly over half of its vetoes have been used on resolutions critical of Israel. Of the vetoed resolutions, 33 pertained to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories or the country’s treatment of the Palestinian people.

> The first time the U.S. used its veto to support Israel was in September of 1972, when it vetoed a resolution that called on Israel to cease its aggression in Lebanon.
Would love some feedback on the ideas here - and would be over the top delighted if folks checked out the project and took a look at our online app.
To steelman the choice, the reserved IP /8 subnet is 10.x.x.x and is often used for corporate networks and other larger subnets experience similar usage. People on the plane using WiFi are likely to access their corporate networks via VPN, potentially causing routing issues.

Users VPNing into the reused address space for their own home VPN are probably knowledgeable enough to figure out what is going on and a small enough user base to not care about.
Hm... I'm not sure whether this is a good or bad sign.

I've been a Jetbrains user & proponent for many years, with most of my usage in WebStorm. But over the last ~2-3 years I've faced more and more bugs, some sitting open for weeks and months. Just for a short selection:

- The autocomplete popup sometimes froze the IDE completely (and killing the process caused minutes of data loss), open for close to a year[0]

- Since two months ago, the Typescript language server fails to start in Vue projects (due to a broken update by the Vue team). A fixed version of WebStorm was released yesterday, in the meantime you were apparently expected to search for the error message, stumble upon the YouTrack page, and apply a workaround[1]

- Performance is abysmal in a larger React MUI project, think 10-15 seconds for feedback on code changes, sometimes errors just stick around for a good minute or more[2]

- In some situations WebStorm makes autocomplete suggestions that aren't allowed - think effectively a type T with keys K | L, where Omit<T, K> leads to only suggesting K properties, while removing the Omit makes it suggest both K and L properties

- After updating from 2024.1.X to 2024.2.Y, the window had no buttons for minimizing/maximizing anymore. Now, this was partially caused by my environment, but after I found a workaround it was closed as "Third Party Problem". Still feels like a regression to me, since my environment did not change.

These are some of the more memorable ones from this year, but it feels like there's a new one every week. I'm pretty close to dropping my subscription, and this news doesn't fill me with confidence that the necessary investments in Q&A will be made.

[0]: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JBR-6171/Random-freezes...

[1]: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WEB-68756/Vue-LS-2.x-Co...

[2]: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WEB-59766/Very-slow-cod...
This is exactly the kind of surface-level praise I often hear but what exactly is it?

Is it objectively (significantly) more performant?

How does the MAUI app development experience compare?

Code completion?

IIS-integration?

Debugging?

Look and feel?

WPF / XAML designer?

File explorer?

Git integration?

...
Not in production, but I've used a 3B model to test a local LLM application I'm working on. I needed a full end-to-end request/response and it's a lot faster asking a 3B model than an 8B model. I could setup a test harness and replay the responses... but this was a lot simpler.
Put it to a nationwide vote and you'll watch the money flow into the ad campaigns and half your friends will start telling you how important it is to smash the "regulatory shadow state" and "unelected bureaucrats" or whatever the talking points are.
I mean, things seemed a little different 30 years ago.
I’d note that commercial airplanes generally operate with 6-7 9’s of availability. For anyone that’s ever built a system with 5 9’s, this is impressive. In fact it’s impressive enough you probably don’t think twice about sleeping on a flight.
I think from the point of view of Boeing, the FAA and the airlines, "put it in our maintenance checklist to reboot every 51 days" is a fix.
The number of flights varies a lot by time of day, so there is nothing close to constant utilization.
No, I meant that a lot of us are working very fast on a pre-launch product, implementing some cutting edge ideas using e.g. the incredible speedup in a small fast inference model like quantized 3B in combination with other tools, and I think there's quite a bit of paranoia out there that someone else will beat you to market. And so not a lot of sharing going on in the comments. At least not as much as previously, and not as much technical discussion vs other non-AI threads on HN.
Watch Windows 95 crash live as it exceeds 49.7 days uptime
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28340101

Must be a northwest washington thing.
unsure what you mean here. most of the systems go to a sleep state in modern vehicles ev or not. the 12v battery keeps only certain ECU's up - think ECUs that control alarm, lock and unlock state and any communication with the mobile app via LTE... but the rest of the systems are OFF, you don't want an EV battery to hit 0% and 12V to also hit 0% - that would basically make it a brick from what I understand- because EV's have contactors which need to shut for the battery to be 'engaged' the 12V battery controls these contactors.
Aren't we all just tired of arguing the same points?
I speak vim, but vastly prefer multiple cursors when the editing is less trivial. Say you want to turn

"foo bar" # For the 1st line
"baz qux" # For the 2nd line

into

"bar" # For the foo key
"qux" # For the baz key

With multi cursors, you could select foo and baz and then interactively edit the rest of the line. I'm capable of doing that with vim, but by the time I'd even settled on an approach for it, I'd already be done in the other editor.

I could use Emacs macros to do the same kind of thing, and I've probably used `C-x (` a zillion times to build procedures I could then run 30 more times on the following lines. For quick interaction, I still prefer multi cursors.
APU failure maybe? That would be troublesome indeed; with no engines and no APU you'd lose most instrumentation and a lot of the hydraulics.
Was the US designed to have a couple of judges in Texas determine the law for the whole country?
I feel like I am missing something so obvious that I feel the need to correct wiki, but that likely means I am fundamentally missing the point.

"The Von Neumann extractor can be shown to produce a uniform output even if the distribution of input bits is not uniform so long as each bit has the same probability of being "one"->[first] and there is no correlation between successive bits.[7]"

As long as the person doesn't favor which of the two bits they chose is "first", then it should appear as random.

But that is self-defeating, as if the person had the capability to unbiased-ly choose between two binaries, they wouldn't need the coin.

But since the only way to determine the variation from expectation is repeatedly increasing sample size, I don't see how doing it twice, and just taking encoding of the bits, then...

Is the magic in the XOR step? To eliminate the most obvious bias (1v5 coin), until all that could had been left was incidental? Then, always taking the first bit, to avoid the prior/a priori requisite of not having a fair coin/choosing between two options?

and it clicked. Rubber duck debugging, chain of thought, etc.

I will actually feel better now.
If something goes wrong, does it matter whether you are asleep or awake?
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>If ARM gets upset because someone wanted fixed-length instructions standardized in RISCV that's really the height of hypocrisy.

ARM never said that.

>but not to the value of extracting hundreds of millions of dollars ever year.

ARM makes money on selling ARM design, not from their ISA licensing.
The 3D view is really interesting (click "Draw Cross Section" lower right), but the main map view is not very useful. Try zooming into New Zealand, or even down to the South Island of New Zealand, and plot a decade start 2007 to 2017. You would be hard pressed to see the two city-levelling destroying earthquakes and one town destroying earthquake we had (Sep 2010, Feb 2011, Nov 2016).

I think the main issue is colour and scale. The magnitude is logarithmic, but the scale of the circles are not.

We experience earthquakes in New Zealand all the time. Th last one was 10 hours ago [1] with a total of three yesterday. So in places you would expect large quakes, you also get lots and lots of small ones.

On a side note, Google beta-tested their early earthquake warning system in New Zealand and it was opt-out. I had students diving under desks in a Deep Learning class because the warning sound emitted was very much like the govt. emergency SMS messages. It was a very minor quake, I am not sure we even felt it.

[1] https://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/weak
In a way, it was about time:

How else am I supposed to get convinced into buying it given the (probably more mature) default choice of VS Studio 22?

Reading about the rationale for this move this seems to be precisely their reason too.

Anyway, might try it out after all now given all the fuss ...
> DNS client that's new enough would use AAAA-only, if present, and ignore A. As implemented today, there's no way for a server to "force" the client to use AAAA and treat A as legacy.

This is exactly how Happy Eyeballs works: request AAAA and A, and use AAAA if it returns.

Trying to force things one way or another is a recipe for a bad user experience.
Kinda. Im leqd to believe heatpump is a $50 device that manufacturers charge $2k for (must be more to it honestly).

If that saves 10% of range that’s 10% less batteries which cost more than $50. Eventually all these savings add up so much that EV is lighter and cheaper than similar ICE vehicle…
Show HN: EmailUSD – a new way to send and receive TRON USDT using email address
Hi All!

I wanted to show you guys EmailUSD, an app I’ve been working on for some time. It lets you send and receive TRON USDT using just email addresses simplifying onboarding and making it super easy to use + send and receive.

I think for a lot of non crypto folks crypto is this scary new thing because the onboarding and usage experience is really novel. Upon introduction you have to write down your 12 words and we put scary messages everywhere about it. And then when you want to send and receive you have to transmit this complex combination of numbers and letters to someone and get it exactly right. Often people (myself included) will send a test transaction to make sure they have the right address.

EmailUSD aims to solve that by

- Making the onboarding experience super familiar

- Making basic usage (sending and receiving) super familiar and hard to get wrong

- Making it so that you pay fees in USDT so that you don't have to worry about getting TRX currency to pay transaction fees

The goal is to let you send crypto to non technical folks without needing to give each person long step by step instructions and explanations and to allow non technical folks to join the crypto revolution.

How it works:

EmailUSD uses NEAR chain signatures behind the scenes. In the simplest terms, this technology allows you to sign things using non-existent private keys controlled by a well audited, distributed mpc network of nodes. To get a signature you pass in a derivation path which could be any string. And the mpc network prefixes the derivation path with the caller’s account Id so that derivation paths are scoped to you and can’t be accessed by other accounts.

EmailUSD submits a zero knowledge proof of your google token signature to a smart contract which then calls the mpc network after verification using your email address in the derivation path. This allow it to derive any TRON signature using your token which is never submitted on chain, and your TRON address can be computed using just your email address

Disclaimer

- We are still pending an audit of the smart contract so please don’t store large amounts of money on it just yet

- Testnet addresses can be changed at any time. The MPC network does not guarantee the same keys on testnet

Testnet - https://testnet.emailusd.net - uses Shasta testnet which has many faucets e.g. you can go to the developer telegram here https://t.me/TronOfficialDevelopersGroupEn and evoke the command !shasta_usdt wallet_address and then you will get testnet USDT tokens that can be used for testing it out. You can also reach out to me and I'll send over some test tokens!

Have fun with it and let me know what you think!
Zero-cost Futures in Rust (2016)
There's not much reason to turn them off outside of maintenance. When they're parked, they're connected to grid power.
TypeScript but no JavaScript is a tiny bit disappointing. I still like to be able to work on front-end code without needing to run separate build tooling.
That depends on how much code was having trouble, and what you mean by "resolved".

The safe option might be to avoid the situation, and I could imagine that even if there is a code update it might just make the plane balk at getting ready to take off after a certain amount of uptime.
It might help knowing that Ozempic will not make you skinny. IIRC it increases the effects of a healthy lifestyle change by 15%, effect which is lost if you leave it. The life style change (activity and nutrition) alone is more important, cheaper, and as permanent as you want it to be.

Losing weight is still a hard endeavor.
I'd appreciate the perspective of an actual smoker on this, but I suspect those long-preserved cigarettes aren't that special in and of themselves. For Steve, it's a hit of both nostalgia and a chemical he's long been deprived of. It's probably amazing for him, and that shows in the videos, but telling himself that those preserved cigs are special might be a way for him to avoid relapsing. He craves more, but he can tell himself that the modern junk just wouldn't be the same.

If you decided to get addicted to vintage MRE tobacco you'd probably have a pretty tough time sourcing enough of it to give yourself cancer.
woosh!
I'm considering open sourcing parts of the system -- at its core this is a hashtable with wrapped in a tcp server. At its core a system like this is fairly simple :)
ZachXBT, the Masked Vigilante Tracking Down Billions in Crypto Scams
If this is your position then you might as well stop using any computing devices of any kind. Which includes any kind of smart devices. Since you obviously aren't doing that, then you're trying to hold Apple to a standard you won't even follow yourself.

On top of which, your comment is a complete non-sequitur to the topic at hand. You could reply with this take to literally any security/privacy related thread.
Would this allow for AmigaOS style message passing with memory protection?
I thought the guy I was speaking mentioned something about instrumentation but I wasn't 100% sure and that sounded more serious so didn't mention it - but if the aux engine failing would do that - I guess that lines up!
Thank you! Great insight.
Every company who profits by making it hard to cancel.
Same as other socials. Attract followers who are likely to pin your content. Post a lot of content, consistently good content that uploads your brand image. (You have a brand image right?)

Promoting anything on social takes about 100x more effort than most people wish it would take.
Probably not, but in that case, the U.S. would fill that void instead. It's a wonderful symbiotic relationship where countries don't give a shit about other countries' pet companies. God forbid if the EU would actually be strict with the automotive industry of Germany. God forbid if the U.S. would actually be strict with their tech industry.
> What should be the deciding factor is the resource consumption, then: if you end up with a less refined and less capable LSP+Extension enhanced text editor, it better be lightweight, right? Well, here again it's pretty clear that those LSPs and Extensions are everything but that, and not only JetBrains IDEs start fast (which was a big area of focus recently), they also respond better using comparable resources.

What kind of nonsense is that, lmao. JetBrains IDEs absolutely choke on our Java monorepo out of the box and you have to rely on huge hacks to make it work. While VScode works just fine and stays responsive while indexing in background allowing to move around and modify files without any lag.

And GOD FORBID you close it, open it again and be greeted with 30 minutes of “indexing”.
Their tooling is so great, that they had to migrate their homebrew Java tooling in CLion to clangd (C++ LSP) based indexer.

Android Studio is another level of awful and if someone would release Kotlin LSP I’d migrate in an instant. But of course JetBrains won’t release it, because it doesn’t drive IDE sales.
Couldn't we spare a single extra /8 for airplanes to use?

Though I suppose it's not worth it when you can hit 'reboot'.
Yes; thank you.
Worth mentioning that companies like Starlink make it trivial to cancel service.
Sending all the packets in one call is likely to lead to router buffers filing up, causing packet drop. Linux lets you send everything in a single call with the kernel spacing out the actual sends.
I've flown with airlines before where there was a cascading delay due to a "plane deficit" at the terminal (not the technical term, that's my own). Not to say it's always uptime, but I imagine there are instances of constant uptime.
The review requirement often comes from compliance, many standards require a control to stop developers getting code into production by themselves without anyone else looking at it. Sometimes it's because an engineering manager read a book that said it was "best practice" or because "that's what we did at $lastjob". Sometimes it's because someone set up the SCM to require it and never looked at it again. Maybe it made sense to someone 5 years ago but it doesn't make sense now, for the teams and processes you have. It's worth asking and finding out!

I agree 5 seconds is not enough for even cursory review, why even bother, unless it's a compliance thing. In a functional team the thing you do is raise this in retro and discuss what everyone expects and wants from reviewers.
I've been using PocketGPT.