skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is though, nothing progressed in Siri since the original demo in 2011. Despite boasting desktop-level CPUs and never-before-seen dedicated "neural engine" co-processors.

It has only become worse in the past couple of years.

The inability to know that bedroom means bedroom [1], or the impossible task of adding several items to a list [2], or failing to answer what the current month is [3] have nothing to do with slow progress or UI.

[1] https://x.com/dmitriid/status/1781030511336456612

[2] https://mastodon.nu/@dmitriid/114172857097176113 and https://mastodon.nu/@dmitriid/114180042031267746

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43432945
Please direct questions on this to Marc Andreessen, Peter Theil, David Sacks, Chamath Palihapitiya, Mark Pincus, Joe Gebbia
Siri is also on MacOS which is what I think the OP was referring to.
If your concern is storage you want as hot as possible, less boiling. Thermostatic mixing valves can bring the temp down to a safe temperature for use.

Losses are higher but you store more energy per L, which is often the limiting factor.
That's probably overly dismissive. Drone warfare in Ukraine is one specific usecase and has been dominated by different factors, notably signal jamming, single use and mass production. This configuration might have some sensible usecases that won't necessarily match.
> Until the EU decides that a public API that changes without warning

The usual solution is not to break the existing API, but to add new features and deprecate old ones. I doubt the EU will demand Apple not improve their API's.

The EU may have something to say about the rate Apple drops of depreciated API's. Maintaining them does impose a burden, but it can't be that bad as Linux, Windows and Android have maintained old API's for literally decades, so I'm sure Apple would cope.

Or to put it another way, the fact that Apple has to support a depreciated API for a while doesn't mean they are forced to use it. If they want to make a change, they publish their shiny new API and move to it immediately. The existence of the old one doesn't need to slow Apple down at all.

> In fact, TLS is a great example of this

If you're using it as an example of how a public API can't evolve then it's a lousy example. TLS did evolve, and fairly rapidly. The fact that some people elected to stay with the old version doesn't change that.

Frankly for most people BEAST didn't matter, as what they were doing on the internet didn't need a lot of security. But when it did matter, like say for a bank, then you were forced to upgrade. And guess what - that new browser still worked with old sites that support the new version. So some people chose to not move didn't slow the protocol's evolution at all. I think you are confusing the rate of adoption of something new, and the rate new things can arise and change. They are at best vaguely related.

And to state the obvious, the old SSL API's being public had no effect on speed of the introduction a new version, which is the opposite of what you seem to be claiming.
I’ve been converting to KEPUB[1] for years and two things I noticed immediately as I started doing so and still stick in my mind are more accurate page numbers and faster page-turning performance. Can’t really say anymore how much of a difference it is, since I always convert.

[1]: https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/
> For the average European there was never a risk of getting detained for weeks in a prison facility where the lights are never off and your only comfort is an aluminium foil blanket.

Maybe I'm too old, but i clearly remember that, some years ago, US did a lot of phone searches at its border and rejected or detained people based on what they found in the social media profile of the victim.
Ugh I hate those videos that each went to full screen and had to be closed for me to continue READING

I don’t even want em to autoplay much less auto-full-screen
Are you sure it searched the web? You have to go and turn on the web search feature, and then the interface is a bit different while it's searching. The results will also have links to what it found.
> [Leveling] conflates career development and salary negotiation. It encourages a mindset of saying, “what must I do to make L10” when you want to say, “I want a $10K raise.”

It's not obvious to me why this is a bad thing. I agree that incentivising a box-ticking mindset discourages ownership and initiative. But for software engineers I feel like there has to be some methodical (and transparent) way for raises to be assigned, and for it to relate to skills and traits. Otherwise you can easily end up in a situation where people are rewarded for being bolshy and savvy rather than valuable to the company.

Am I missing something here?
> Yes, you might discover that a Senior FPA Analyst II earns the same as a Product Marketing Director I, but why does that matter? It’s a coincidence. It’s like saying with $3.65 I can buy either a grande non-fat latte or a head of organic lettuce. What matters is the fair price of each of those goods in the market — not they that happen to have the same price.

Well, it infuriates me just the same. If a coffee shot costs the same or more that some other food that is healthy and gives you more calories and/or nutrients. And I say this as a coffee lover.

But beside specific examples nitpicking, I understand the gist of it, and I understand the market reasons - you want to attract or retain talent and they/we look at compensations on a market level - but this still doesn't mean it is fair. Unless you believe in fairy tales and invisible hands.
This article is good overall, and the map of solar capacity factor by US state is especially good, but it does have some flaws.

First, and most trivially, Potter's plot of PV module prices overstates their cost by a factor of about three to five. His last data point is US$0.31 per (peak) watt in 02023. https://www.solarserver.de/photovoltaik-preis-pv-modul-preis... shows a price of 0.26€ per peak watt in June 02023 for "mainstream" solar panels, which is in reasonably good agreement. But "low cost" panels were only €0.16/Wp, and since then prices have dropped by more than half, to €0.110/Wp for mainstream panels and €0.070/Wp for low-cost. (A footnote misstates this cost as $36 per megawatt, which would be $0.000036/W.)

Prices in the US are of course much higher, but that's due to inefficient regulatory interference in the market to protect uncompetitive and environmentally destructive fossil-fuel interests.

Another weak point is that the article doesn't consider thermal energy storage systems, neither sensible heat energy storage systems like a hot water heater or a sand battery, nor phase-change energy storage like the ice chillers used for decades in many office buildings and the MIT Solar I house built in 01939†, nor TCES systems using desiccants such as muriate of lime, carnallite, or tachyhydrite. Sensible heat energy storage has been a crucial part of domestic climate control for millennia, for example in the form of adobe, and can time-shift your entire HVAC energy load to hours when your solar panels are producing. The newer systems may be able to do the same at a lower cost and are certainly easier to retrofit into existing construction. This will dramatically drop the storage requirements for things like his example house, though it will not help with transportation and much industrial energy consumption.

Maybe its most glaring weak point, though, is that it compares costs in the US and Europe, but entirely ignores China, where the vast majority of new power plants are being built, where the majority of world coal consumption happens, and where the overwhelming majority of photovoltaic panels are made. (India and the Middle East are also ignored and may turn out to be very important, but at present their potential is largely unrealized.) Writing an article about understanding solar energy this year without talking about China is like writing an article about understanding automobiles in 01940 without talking about the US. You can probably find a magazine article from 01940 that does that, but probably only in French.

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† You could argue that the qanat represents a form of ancient Zarathustran phase-change energy storage that is much older than MIT Solar I, but I think that only applies if your buildings are responsible for condensing the water to fill the qanat.
Probably because the 6502 CPU had instructions for optimized access to the zero page (first 256 bytes of RAM), this would also apply to C64 and NES etc. If you want to use "Indirect Indexed" memory accesses then I think it also has to go through an address held in the zero page.

See https://www.nesdev.org/obelisk-6502-guide/addressing.html
Show HN: In My Pocket – An offline personal data vault
I built a privacy-focused iOS app to solve a personal frustration: the constant hunting for information like bank details, loyalty cards, and documents that we need to access regularly.

In My Pocket is designed with these principles:

- Complete data privacy: Everything stays on your device
- No internet connectivity required
- No cloud syncing/storage
- Support for text, images, and PDF documents
- Biometric security for sensitive information
- OCR functionality to extract text from images and PDFs

Tech details:
- Built with SwiftUI
- Uses local device storage only
- Implements biometric authentication
- Features document categorization with tabs and sections
- PDF rendering and text extraction capabilities
- QR code generation for sharing

I built this primarily for myself but thought others in the HN community might find it useful, especially those concerned about privacy. It's available on the App Store.

I'd appreciate any feedback or suggestions for improvement.
because that d be a several hundreds megabytes json :) Anyway with suggestion in another comment, i moved the root directory into an antivirus-excluded location, which gave me almost a 10 times performance win
Sounds like you would enjoy being involved in developing the technical strategy of a company or department, which basically means staying up to date with new trends in technology and planning their adoption in house.
Yeah then simply follow the guide

https://indieweb.org/Getting_Started_on_WordPress

Which links to dozens of other guides but maybe it's this one you want

https://indieweb.org/WordPress_IndieWeb_Plugin

Oh that's a stub better hit the linked github

https://github.com/indieweb/wordpress-indieweb

Unless it's indieauth you're after? Micropub? websub? webmentions? The world is your oyster!
Current civil engineering best practices is that if a sufficient amount of traffic is violating the limit the limit is what's wrong. Several states use methods consistent with this to set their speed limits generally. Many do not.

Regardless, this is a distraction. Law is the codification of acceptable behavior. Rules that come with force of law should not substantially deviate from what average people consider acceptable.

Furthermore, these sorts of bad laws aren't just limited to property seizure and speeding. From federal tax law to municipal zoning these is no shortage of these sorts of laws, rules with force of law and precedents that are crafted in such a manner as to give the enforcers unilateral power to take as they please and with checks limits generally only existing not to prevent abuse but to prevent the enforcers from getting so greedy that their racket gets outlawed. All examples of such laws and rules are bad and ought to be done away with.

Thank you for illustrating exactly what one of the enablers of these sorts of bad policies looks like. I will leave imagining what a similar argument in favor of civil asset forfeiture looks like as an exercise for the reader.
> one of Silicon Valley’s most oddball fascinations: the pursuit of everlasting youth

Yeah, what kind of strange person wouldn't want to age, become decrepit and die? Only an oddball.

> Mr. Johnson declined to answer many questions from The Times.

How odd.
I think we agree but you missed my point. You can create JavaScript-free websites (“documents”) and you can use a JavaScript-free browser, but there will still be websites with JavaScript (“apps”) around that your favorite websites (“documents”) will link to. You won't be happy with this arrangement until it becomes possible for your browser to cleanly separate the document-web from the app-web.
It's been a while since I touched it but I have a very similar GB emulator in rust:

- The library: https://github.com/shaoner/padme-core

- The web/wasm backend: https://github.com/shaoner/padme-browser
Possibly: Bank of Japan raises (or maintains) interest rate today or in the future, causes unwinding of the carry trade, which in turn causes over-leveraged banks (hello UBS/Credit Suisse) and hedge funds (hello Citadel, Susq, etc) to close/cover positions for margin, causing a chain-reaction and big crash.

Again, basically the same root cause as 2008: lack of regulation, lack of enforcement, institutions "investing" in dogshit wrapped in catshit that shouldn't have exited in the first place, crash.
Keep thinking even more carefully, it was more than two buildings destroyed in NYC and a huge portion of legislative branch could have been killed if in session. Threat of total defeat of US, which Capitol attack wouldn't have caused, isn't exactly a reasonable benchmark for being the only thing that would balance out the response we had.
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan on the Outlook for Silicon Valley Startups [video]
when you assert that something exists, it is generally expected that you would point at documented examples. for example, consumer protection organisations, or petrol lobbies, etc might have an interest in documenting those things. do those documents exist?
I usually find Claude to be my favourite flavor of LLMs, but I still pay for ChatGPT because their voice offering is so great! I regularly use it as an "expert on the side" when I do other things, like doing bike repairs. I ask it things like "how do I find the min/max adjustments on my particular flavor of front derailleur", or when cooking, and my hands are dirty, I can ask stuff like "how much X do I usually need for Y people", and so on. The hands-off feature is so great when my hands are literally busy doing some other thing.

I really wish Claude had something similar.
the last time i check it, it was 'relaim'

you can still see the word in the url

that's why i said 'weird', it's very abnormal for the economist, looks like someone had gone astray in his thinking, fortunately, it has now been corrected
Minimum Reviewable Unit
Nvidia invests in quantum computing after CEO said it's decades from usefulness
That was indeed my point. You can't just disable JavaScript and expect the web to work for you.
> children walking to school is unthinkable in the US because everything is designed for cars and public transit is inadequate/nonexistent

The hysteria around it is even worse than any of the actual dangers.
> Canadian entered to work without a valid visa, as the article states, her visa had been revoked in November and she was aware of this - she should have arranged a visa at an overseas consulate before crossing the border

I'm not seeing that.

>After a long interrogation, the officer told me it seemed “shady” and that my visa hadn’t been properly processed. He claimed I also couldn’t work for a company in the US that made use of hemp – one of the beverage ingredients. He revoked my visa, and told me I could still work for the company from Canada
That's something i would absolutely trust the current Siri to do, but less so the LLM.
FWIW you can get thermostatic mixing valves that limits the maximum temperature of the water by mixing in cold water. Lets you run the tank hotter but have the same outlet temp. Fairly cheap I believe.
Didn’t look closely, but is there a way to clone a voice from a few seconds of recording and then feed the sample to generate the text in the same voice?
How does Wiz work? What is the ELI 5 or tldr?
Does that mean you actually approve of banning something like a Pride event?

'Gender ideology' as a term is awfully vague and not really a thing outside of extreme-right politics. For some this appears to even include homosexuality and expressions of a non-binary gender identity, in addition to acknowledging the concept of gender dysphoria and transgenderism. The way the right-wing Hungarian political parties are using that term to me has nothing to with a critical or conservative stance with regards to transgender healthcare, or healthy public debate. Rather it seems to serve as a deliberately constructed straw man.

The problem is that no matter what restrictive policies and laws are enacted, gay, non-binary, transgender, and other queer Hungarians exist.
I think the problem is adding on to a clunky paradigm.

It wasn't a good verbal command line. It was usable because even an imperfect command line UI is inherently usable if use cases are limited. Building on to that though... you always overreach.

Personally, I always thought voice+screen interface was an under-explored. That (for example) would let you go from command line to command line navigator... a natural progression.

Voice UI kind of needs to be "one shot" to be pleasant: Play "Fortunate Son." Once you have to go back and forth, listen to list of options... it's no fun anymore. The Windows/Mac/Xerox GUI paradigm required a mouse, keyboard & screen. Voice only is limiting... perhaps.
The YouTube video in TFA has the following at around the ~4:50 mark:

> Important questions about ownership fair use and copyright need to be addressed
Living Forever?
In the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, is there a branch of the universe where an individual avoids every possible cause of death and thus lives indefinitely?.

For example:
I get a heart attack at 82, but one version of me doesn’t, and so continues living. Then, at the age of 85, another thing happens, but in one version, it doesn’t. How long can this go on?
> Additionally, even if the speed limit is changed, assuming there is appropriate signage it is your responsibility to follow the speed limit.

Legally, of course. But there is such a thing as an artificially low speed limit. If the road conditions allow driving in safety at 60 km/h but a town installs a sign that says that you have to drive at 10 km/h, with no pedestrian traffic or bends or anything at all that could justify it, then that is a speed trap, and drivers who drive the normal speed of 60 on that stretch are not doi g anything wrong, the law is just being abused against them.
Yep, that is exactly why I added the "your traditional avatars" part to the static images
We're slowly losing our connections to the physical world
https://zero.rocicorp.dev/docs/introduction

Hard to raise the bar on Zero. It’s a brilliant system.
> But, ask yourself, how long until those systems will eventually be completely revamped?

This question is at least 50 years old. The same applies for C, Fortran.

"Never touch a running system" is at giant corp a kind of Religion. Experiments through LLMs to attempt to convert existing COBOL programs in Java or modern languages have until now failed.
Why Did SoftBank Just Buy Ampere Computing?
The equivalent in my area are "bus gates" i.e. lanes at junctions reserved for buses during certain periods that automatically generate fines.

In principle, great, but the trick is that the signage is such an inscrutable combination of badly placed adhoc signs and road-markings that a huge number of visitors with zero intent to breach a rule get fined.

There is a common sense principle such things should meet: if the revenue from a traffic measure is high and consistent then not only has it failed in it's purpose to change behaviour but there is something bogus about it's setup.

A judge first ruled the signage was fine but after seeing so many appeals, he admitted he had been definitively proven wrong and it needed to be improved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Rome,_Ohio#

The south catches a bad rap for speed trap towns but seems like every 10yr or so some town in the midwest abolishes its police department or something because of that sort of behavior.
For those who don't live in US, do you mind explaining the comment? Thank you.
Littlewood's Law and the Global Media (2022)
From the CCP's standpoint. Both ROC and CCP claim to be the legitimate governors of "China".
What do you mean civilians?
List of films that most frequently use the word fuck
Ah, no. Not really. People sometimes think about conflict resolution as a problem that needs to be solved. But it’s not solvable, not really. It’s part of the domain, it’s not going anywhere, it’s irreducible complexity.

You _will_ have conflicts (because your app is distributed and there are concurrent writes). They will happen on semantic level, so only you (app developer) _will_ be able to solve them. Database (or any other magical tool) can’t do it for you.

Another misconception is that conflict resolution needs to be “solved” perfectly before any progress can be made. That is not true as well. You might have unhandled conflicts in your system and still have a working, useful, successful product. Conflicts might be rare, insignificant, or people (your users) will just correct for/work around them.

I am not saying “drop data on the floor”, of course, if you can help it. But try not to overthink it, either.
Show HN: My Attempt to Organize the World of AI Dev Tools
I've been exploring the (not so=) amazing potential of AI in coding and have compiled a list of tools. From AI-powered IDEs to code generators, this resource is my contribution to the community.

I'm still on the fence about including txt2sql projects, as their functionality seems too basic to me.

And I'm personally maintaining this, so your feedback is wellcome.
None of my Samsung phones have ever advertised anything to me. Unlike iOS,there are any number of music player apps on Android that stay out of the way and don't try to be a "platform".
They spent more time polishing voices than they did on actual features, if anything, regressing them to the stone ages in terms of its primitive form.

Plus, there’s no more humor. Trying to crack jokes at it used to give funny responses. Even old things like “I need to hide a body” — “I don’t know how to respond to that”. Insult it and it’s a “I won’t respond to that”. Lots of old funnies are now gone and stripped away.
> Whatever framework you choose will be obsolete in 5 years.

I must be living in a different reality, because most of the frameworks 5 years ago are still being (actively) used.
It's non-existent in Western Europe around my field (electronics & embedded programming of small products that can easily be taken home in a backpack).

I mean there are tons of companies offering 1 or 2 day WFH, but what I was referring to was 100% remote. No office.