skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PICO-8 [1] might be a good choice. I always consider that kids want their friends to try their games, and so being able to easily distribute to the web is awesome. They can link their game from the site [2], or with some parental help they could even serve them from their own website, which could be very empowering for a kid.

1. https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

2. https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?cat=7&carts_tab=1&#sub=2&mod...
Show HN: Text an LLM at 61493035885
Full number (no + allowed in title): +61493035885

I put together this basic service running on an Android phone with a cheap prepaid SIM that supports "unlimited SMS to 20 countries". I considered alternatives like Twilio and Telnyx, but at ~5c per SMS sent or received in Australia, the SMS costs would rack up faster than the LLM costs! Of course, this comes at the risk the carrier disconnects my service.

I explain it more in the blog post, but the service is just a basic node server that sends the LLM calls to DeepInfra running Llama 3.1 8B. The node server runs in Termux on the phone receiving the SMS, and is relayed to the node server by SMS Gateway for Android[1].

Tip: you can text "CLEAR" to clear all your past messages from the database so you can start a new conversation.

[1] https://github.com/capcom6/android-sms-gateway/
Your original comment just sounded MAGA!

You've softened it considerably with the added explanation.

I think, however, most Canadians (and the rest of the world) know it's a minority opinion in the US, but that doesn't change the fact that 1) there were enough people in the US that voted him in 2) there weren't enough people in the US that voted opposing him and, most importantly, 3) it's the ensuing behaviour of "the system" that's having this chilling effect on relations - it's not individually personal.

Having said that, it's probably important for as many of the US voting public as possible to reiterate that it's not "individually personal" as often as possible to keep eroding any building notions that it could be.
I’m not sure I want / need an LLM for the handful of basic commands I want Siri to do in the car with no complication. Siri is good at some straightforward command patterns. And that’s how users have been trained.

Adding an LLM feels like a solution looking for a problem
It's not theoretically impossible but it is completely impractical to engineer such a thing - destructive interference has to be precisely matched to cancel out a sound, and if it's not you just get "beats" as the phases overlap.

And that match depends on matching frequency and distance - or having a very fast tuning system, and then you've got to do all this in a device that's not just another LRAD (at which point you're back to "the best defense is a good offense").
Police also regularly use tear gas against US citizens. These are weapons that would violate the Geneva convention, but we're okay with them to disperse a crowd.
it's too bad they didn't release it so a few hundred or thousand people benefit from it and save a few minutes each!
If you poke around at what US government agencies are doing, and what European countries and non-profits are doing, or even do a deep dive into what your local library offers, you may find they no longer lead the pack.

They didn't even ask for donations until they accidentally set fire to their building annex. People offered to help (SF was apparently booming that year) and of course they promptly cranked out the necessary PHP to accept donations.

Now it's become part of the mythology. But throwing petty cash at a plane in a death spiral doesn't change gravity. They need to rehabilitate their reputation and partner with organizations who can help them achieve their mission over the long term. I personally think they need to focus on archival, legal long-term preservation and archival, before sticking their neck out any further. If this means no more Frogger in the browser, so be it.

I certainly don't begrudge anyone who donates, but asking for $17 on the same page as copyrighted game ROMs and glitchy scans of comic books isn't a long-term strategy.
> okay, but if the speed limit is 90, then how is that "speeding through the intersection" - you're supposed to be predictable when driving, hitting your brakes when approaching a "green" intersection is not predictable - for instance, i'd probably rear-end someone the first day.

It's entirely predictable, you slow down when there's a lower speed limit sign. You are responsible for being alert when driving, if a 20km/h lower speed limit makes you rear end someone, you just weren't alert enough.

The sign is far enough from the actual intersection that you have the time to slow down without braking at all. In practice, the limits are usually done in a way that reduces accelerating/braking between consequent intersections and so on.

> But slowing down before an intersection with a green light, and not even every intersection? at least california had the decency to say "this circumstance, this speed" and no exceptions.

Sorry, but I don’t understand what's inconsistent here. You slow down if there's a sign, otherwise you keep going the same speed.

Again, this rule is in place to (1) keep people from speeding through intersections (speeding to catch green lights) and (2) to keep the speed limit low enough so that one can completely stop in case a pedestrian/cyclist mistakenly attempts to cross, someone cuts them over etc.

It seems to be working, looking at the data comparing my Central European country's traffic deaths to the US [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
Mercedes has gained approval to test Level 4 autonomous driving. Level 4 is considered fully autonomous driving, although the vehicle retains a traditional cockpit, and the driver can request control at any time. If a Level 4 system fails or cannot proceed, it is required to pull the vehicle over and bring it to a complete stop under its own control.

I would argue that it is getting very close to what people think autopilot can do. A car that, under certain circumstances, can drive for you and doesn't kill you if you don't pay constant attention.
The most interesting question arising from this is the meta-question: who leaked this meeting and why?
The log of 3.1m is 6.5. How do you say "10^6.5"? I say "mag 6.5" and it is clear. The Richter scale famously uses "mag 6.5" exactly like this. If that was ever confusing, then we've managed to work past it, and this just expands the Richter scale to cover basically everything.
No, collision avoidance has to put a greater degree of trust in the actual driver of the vehicle, the human, and only step in if it’s absolutely certain the human is about to hit something they did not intend to hit.

For example, when Tesla detects that you are about to accelerate into a human or a wall, they slow down the acceleration so that you have time to react, but they don’t stop it altogether.

That’s very different from FSD’s decision-making process.
Heh, quoting Wikipedia and its sources isn't the win you think it is. As usual, it's always making someone who dared to criticize the COVID "vaccines" as if they oppose all real, working vaccines and then labeling them an "anti-vaxxer".

Did you even bother to read the article and the actual emails it quoted?
I don't see how that affects my argument. The point is, Active X had an XML HTTP Request way before it was standardized. Same with iframe, and other features.

Microsoft is known for treating developers pretty good. Much unlike Apple.
> The USA appears to be destroying much of the 'soft power' that it spent decades building. And it cost a tiny amount compared to the 'hard power' of the military. As an outsider, it seems very short sighted.

Republicans think this is a good thing because they think the US can rule the world through hard power alone. It's such a depressing monumental mistake.
The pay-walled features: AI

But let's not let facts ruin a good Windows 11 outrage story.
Seems to be a call for the return of skeuomorphic UI, and combining it with things like haptics (actually, fairly classic).

TBH, I'm not especially against the idea, except that, if you make something look like a real-world object, it's important to make it behave like one.

There's a hell of a lot of digital interfaces (not just touchscreen stuff -digital dials and switches can also have the issue), that look like they should behave a certain way, but don't actually do it.
What about Impersonal PIN anonymization letter?
Are these optimizations exposing the cryptographic code to some side channel attacks? For example, making the code not constant time?

It's one thing to make things faster but maybe not at the expense of security. On the other hand I don't know the specific application here, so maybe this is a perfectly reasonable tradeoff.
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Just because some evil is a standard policy does not mean it's excused. The sending of broad NDA just to address a problem with Cloudflare itself is more throwing it's weight around again ala,

"I woke up this morning in a bad mood and decided to kick them off the Internet. … It was a decision I could make because I’m the CEO of a major Internet infrastructure company. ... Literally, I woke up in a bad mood and decided someone shouldn’t be allowed on the Internet. No one should have that power." - Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince

Requiring every web browser to support every bleeding edge feature to be allowed to access websites is not the status quo of how the web has been for it's entire existence. Promoting this radical ideology as status quo is also seemingly shady but perhaps the above corporate rep is just in so deep so long they've forgotten they're underwater. Corporate use cases are not the entire web's use cases. And as a monopoly like cloudflare they have to take such things into consideration.

But they keep forgetting. And they keep hurting people. The simple solution is for them to make cloudflare defaults much less dependent on bleeding edge features for the captchas. If sites need those extra levels of insulation from the bandwidth/cpu-time to fulfill http requests it should be opt-in. Not opt-out.

The solution for the rest of us humans that can no longer read bills on congress.gov or play the nationstates.net game we've been playing the last 20 years is to contact the site owners when we get blocked by cloudflare and hopefully have them add a whitelist entry manually. It's important to show them through tedious whitelist mantainence that cloudflare is no longer doing it's job.
It’s one thing to chat with an LLM about information/knowledge. It’s another completely as a user to understand which actions it can take on your behalf. That seems like the disconnect.

What would be nice if an LLM could just exist to tell me what Siri is capable of. As I usually blindly stumble into its capabilities.
The world would be much better without much of what American venture capital has created over the past twenty years. Ad tech mass surveillance, Uber eating labour protections, "Unicorn" worshpping monopolization of basic utilities.
You can use 'unsafe' blocks to delineate places on the hot path where you need to take the limiters off, then trust that the rest of the code will be safe. In C, all your code is unsafe.

We will see more and more Rust libraries trounce their C counterparts in speed, because Rust is more fun to work in because of the above. Rust has democratized high-speed and concurrent systems programming. Projects in it will attract a larger, more diverse developer base -- developers who would be loath to touch a C code base for (very justified) fear of breaking something.
I'm enjoying this tutorial so far. Every sentence was carefully considered which I think is important for my level of understanding of quantum mechanics. I'm reading very slowly and carefully. It was really helpful to define the wave function as not existing in the physical world such as a water wave but exists as description in probability space.
The personal context issue could have been solved long before LLMs appeared.

My foil for this has always been the simple request from Siri: "Take me home".

Apple and my device know where I live. I have even registered "home" in Apple maps. This is not a huge leap, and this is not even something that requires an LLM. But it does force the featureset and capability to be better. This was a problem in 2015. 10 years later I still can't make this simple request.

I don't know why Apple just froze Siri and put it on life support. They could have been doing far better in this space.
The blue black dress thing is how people perceive it, but the values for pixels are absolute. The pixel values aren’t changing from viewer to viewer.

If OP had said “perceived color”, I would agree. But we’re talking at pixel level here.
Well I think that most of our users have never typed a "[" character... So for them, Markdown is definitely complex :)
You're responding to wrong comment. In the comment you meant to respond to I admitted I wasn't sure whether continuity was required to make the proof go through and you still haven't demonstrated that it is. Riemann surface here is just a fancy word for the loop itself and indeed the key part of the definition is connectedness not C.

You linked a math SE question with no responses (yes I read the comments), Arnold's book, and the same proof I've already read. So I'm not convinced.
> As someone from europe, I am baffled by the ability to just fire everyone on the spot. Are there no job-protections for federal employees?

There is, but Trump is ignoring them, and no one in his administration is enforcing those rules. Additionally, as of today he has started ignoring court orders.
Governments, by definition, have legal access to anything they can get their hands on.
Also, just to add to that because it's on my mind now, I think there's a ratchet effect to "UI that screams at you" or at least "UI that tries to tap into my senses". The more of it becomes common place, the more people expect to be able to annoying you, via your devices.

It doesn't matter that I can force my phone's vibration motor to only output an anemic "buhhhh..." no mater what coeffienct of bothersomeness some app sends to it. The person causing my phone to make that API call still expects the cacophony of pain to emit from it. We all become numb to how annoying this all is because it becomes the standard TO BE annoyed and distracted.

The uber eats sound is annoying because it conveys nothing except "whatever you're doing is unimportant!!!! PAY ATTENTION TO UBER!! UBER THINGS ARE HAPPENING!!!". There's a million other better ways to do that, so *I* find the information. *I* go to the stupid glass brick when *I* can take on a new order. But because we already set the expectation that the user is allowed to set off an alarm in any kitchen in the city for the low-low price of overpaying for food, the stupid glass brick tells ME when it's time to deal with it.

Spatial computing (like the example of a note taking app) now introduces all of the extra work of cleaning to a digital note. The computer wants me to sort my own notes now. It opens up the potential of being an e-slob for no reason other than my ability to make it as equally messy as my desk.

I don't know why we would expect this even-more sensory-focused model of computing to not also ratchet up the stress and dread of being alive.

I'm 27 going on 95 I guess, just send me to the old folks home now lol
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The original Star Wars trilogy in Spanish it is. I know the movie by heart…
I mean, sure, but, as the Vampire makes clear in its name... it's not an Amiga, it's its own thing, wearing the Amiga's skin as a hat. You can also stick a Raspberry Pi running E-UAE inside an Amiga case for pretty much the same thing (a thing that's definitely not an Amiga, emulating being an Amiga, in the shell of an Amiga)
Larger LLMs can summarize all of this quite well though.
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Ah yes the Mercedes L4

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h3WiY_4kgkE

The one which needs a leading vehicle to follow below 40mph on some stretches of freeways? Try to look up videos of it from owners that are not press or mercedes reps.
All the other drive assistance systems out there with proximity radar would have detected the wall. None of them claim a grandiose name like 'autopilot'.
We continuously scrape a sizable number of ecommerce sites and have had no trouble whatsoever bypassing CloudFlare's antibot technologies.

CloudFlare representatives often defend user hostile behaviour with the justification that it is necessary to stop bad actors but considering how ineffective cloudflare is at that goal in practice it seems like security theatre.
> too little friction is terrible too.

I just don't buy it.

> Using Stable Diffusion is lower friction than sketching or painting. But the latter two are better.

No, the latter two aren't "better". All three are totally different tools for achieving different purposes. I'm going to use Stable Diffusion to raise engagement on my blog with a hero image and a relevant thumbnail, I'm going to sketch to explore visual ideas and improve my skill of seeing, and I'm going to oil paint to carefully craft something designed to hopefully hang on someone's wall for a long time. (Well, not me because I don't know how to oil paint, but you get the idea.) I'm certainly not going to oil-paint something to illustrate my blog. Oil painting isn't "better".

And when I use ChatGPT to ask questions about math or physics or history or culture, the last thing I want to do is to make the process more difficult. I already spend enough time typing a prompt the AI can clearly understand. There's no way in which it would be made better with "good friction".

I mean, I literally don't know what you mean by "good friction". I don't think I've ever encountered it in my life. Life in general is challenging enough without having to add more challenge for no reason.
You can explain the photoelectric effect with classical light (i.e. as EM waves) as long as you properly quantize the atomic energy levels. This is often called s semi-classical model.

However, photo-detections with sub-poissonian statistics cannot be explained under this semi-classical model, but it can be explained with properly quantized EM field (i.e. with photons).

For reference, see Mandel and Wolf's Quantum Optics textbook.
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Apple (AAPL) dropped down to $0.12 in Dec 1997.

27 years later, stock price hit its high of $260.10 in 2024 Dec.

2167x.

That's a mighty impressive run by Steve Jobs and Tim Cook.
The metric they used was “planning accuracy”.

If you planned for a ticket to go into the next sprint but you finished your work early and did it early, the program managers would start wringing their hands and beating around the bush asking if you could find a way to slip it to the next sprint. Having it go to “done” in a sprint that differed from the plan reduced your “planning accuracy” metric.
That's some impressive range, 200 meters.

And it seems as effective in the back as in the front.

I bet this video will 10x the orders for these devices.
> [...] This is to the point where is starts to become hard for you to work without one.

Why would one work without one?
I don't think these are so different. The reason a lot of UIs feel like they've lost their minds is because they are not adapting to humans. Which that is the argument for using more senses. I mention Norman Doors because this is that intersection. I could definitely have communicated better, but I think these things are fundamentally related.
The point of driver assistance systems is to be better at this stuff than humans, and most actually are because they don't leave it up to just cameras and "we'll figure out how to make it work as good as radar/lidar eventually, I promise".
Use some thick metal plate as a shield and let it reflect the sound back towards the source, most likely. Or something foamy, like mattresses or the like, to just attenuate it. But I don't think any of that would protect you if you're facing 160 dB (though it would indeed be useful if you're farther from the source); the appropriate tactic then is indeed to disperse uniformly over a larger area and make it infeasible for your adversary to launch a concentrated attack. (After all, this is how actual present-day military tactics copes with the existence of much older "area denial" weapons, such as machine guns, tanks etc.) Your protests should then become more "hit and run" in style, relying on highly visible gimmicks rather than mere physical presence to demonstrate continued support.
I think of this trend every time I try to connect my bluetooth headphones to a third device. They'll tolerate two just fine but if you want a third you have to puzzle out which other two they're connected to, go find one of them and disable bluetooth on it. Then you can power cycle the headphones and your third device will now be your second.

I want some kind of magical piece of string which I can touch to both devices as a way of saying:

"you two, communicate now"

And then later, to break the spell, I'll just touch the ends of that string together.

I don't want to have to dig through settings, I want to manipulate physical objects around me.
Looks like as of 2 weeks ago the unsafe block should no longer be required: https://github.com/rust-lang/stdarch/pull/1714

..at least outside of loads/stores. From a bit of looking at the code though it seems like a good amount of those should be doable in a safe way with some abstractions.
Yes, but polarization is a possibility. You can't know you're the majority, so until violence is used against you, you don't necessarily have a reason to turn the thing into a civil war.
And I'd prefer lots of things that won't happen, too.

I guess we're alike.
Hey! Yes we do, we plan to release sub-docs before the end of the month. That will allow you to create trees of docs (with as many child / grand-child as you want) all inheriting the user rights of the parent.
SR-IOV doesn't sell consumer cards, are you expecting Intel to produce an expensive XEON equivalent of Arc?
I'd expect them to attempt capturing some LLM market share by loading up the cards with RAM rather than expending effort on niche features.
> I am not sure why most people think autopilot is hands of the wheel without looking.

Well, because they named it autopilot.

Autopilot means it pilots... automatically. Automatic pilot. Not Manual Pilot, not with intervention, automatically.

They could have named it "driver assist", "partial-pilot", "advanced cruise control", "automatic lanekeeping" or anything else, but they named it Autopilot. That's Tesla's fault.
Assuming you're an American, here's something I told my kids when they were your age (and they're not much older than you): Think about broadening your horizons.

The truth is, the United States has been going through some pretty rough times for a while now. And when systems start to break down, the process can be slow at first—like a ship that’s been leaning for hours, making people feel like there's all the time in the world to react. But then, sometimes without much warning, things fall apart quickly.

Why does this matter to you? Because if you're just starting out in life, you want to be building your future somewhere with real opportunities and stability. That doesn't necessarily mean you have to leave, but it does mean keeping your eyes open and considering all your options.

If you decide to go to college, just be careful about piling up debt. Financial freedom will give you the flexibility to move, change plans, or adapt to whatever comes your way. And if you get a chance to travel or even live abroad, it can be one of the most eye-opening experiences you can have.

I'm not saying this to scare you, but to help you think strategically about your future. Keep your options open and stay adaptable. That's the best advice I can give.