skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. People do care about privacy, in the EU and other jurisdictions; it's the US where users tend not to. It's better for everyone in this thread to simply stop generalizing about what "humans" and "people" or "laws" do; start talking by country or region or privacy regime. (Whether the laws are flouted is entirey another topic.)

As to smart-assistant usage, what we would really want to see is comparative numbers of current and new Alexa users, broken out by privacy region (US, EU, other Europe, Australia, Asia, ME, CALA, Africa).
(PS noone other than Amazon knows how many "active Alexa users" there are in a geo, since no third-party can audit Amazon's numbers, and "installed units" might simply mean "user bought an Alexa device at any pointsince 2014, it might be unused/disconnected/broken/sitting in a pile of junk/given away years ago. This is just like the games Linux vendors, Java and MSFT notoriously played with "licenses installed" even if that machine was wiped to install another OS, without ever activating the shipped OS).

"Amazon has sold more than 500 million Alexa-enabled devices" absolutely does not mean "there were at any point 500 million active Alexa users", and anyway most Alexa users have multiple devices in one house, so the theoretical peak devicecount was only ever 500m/n at most. I suspect the real peak was closer to 77m than 500m. But noone outside Amazon knows; there are only estimates. There is no Nielsen Research or Quantcast of Alexa devices, AFAIK. There are only the "77.2 million (Alexa) users globally" stat for number of users [0][1]. Not devicecount.

And as to whether privacy laws, warrant requests are being disregarded, blanket geofenced warrants, Ring syndication, yRoombas snooping on you, data fusion of that data with Kindle devices/phones and smart TV etc., it's a semantic debate whether that's "widespread privacy violations which US Congress is lobbied to turn a blind eye to" rather than "users aren't sophisticated enough to detect when laws are being violated". Imagine if we applied that thought process to bank robberies and whether they were adequately protecting your money: the onus being on the customer to constantly monitor your bank. (We don't need to because there are consumer and criminal laws governing banking).

Anyone with more time might care to look for estimates of number of households with active Alexas by geo/privacy region, and compare to privacy watchdog reports.

[0]: https://www.demandsage.com/voice-search-statistics/

[1]: https://keywordseverywhere.com/blog/voice-search-stats/
I'm talking about plastic waste in landfills ("mountains"). For that, recycling does no good because it's just as likely (or more?) to leak into the environment failing to reach a recycling facility as it is failing to reach a landfill.
So put a transit cop on all the public transport. This whole "we gotta make the cops' jobs easier" is so sickening.
While you're scanning through the docs, I'm already done and working on the next task.
Statistically everyone who goes to casinos for a long time loses.
Can we get some kind of "Crypto Free" label/certification on banks and credit unions that don't engage in crypto activities?
Yes let's just have a fascist government that can seize private property because they declare it "dangerous." I see no way that could go bad.
Thanks, and you're exactly right - the Oracle bit is probably the most basic, interchangeable part of the whole stack. The tricky bit there for me was all the ports/firewall configuration which like you say will be the same/very similar anywhere.

For hobby projects like this I have had no complaints with OCI but yeah, you would have to be crazy to use it in production.
Little bit controversial post - does not matter that much, few miliseconds either way, consistency is more important. just think what those clocks are used for inside of your hardware and you get your answer.

even "old" time signals like DCF77, WWV.... are sufficient enough for home lab. they can be heard even inside of a buildings, where GPS can have problems. And you can think about RTK signal as a signal in this more available signal category.

Most strange thing to me is that i have to set correct time in long wave radios (receiver), when they can just receive any of all those time signals.
See the leaderboard tab here: https://lmarena.ai. Or just try it. It's excellent. Usage is free of charge so far. Subjectively, on my prompts, it seems substantially stronger than GPT 4o and 4.5. I also like its more "informal" tone, and its willingness to discuss the more controversial topics.
Email is not a realtime social network, not even close.
Must be the most expensive botnet in human history
The negativity is because he's using investor money in xAI in a related party transaction. He's negotiating both sides of the sale and it's not at all obvious the transaction price is a good or real price for Twitter. It may make sense to merge the two, but this is an unethical way to make a deal and I think it is likely the xAI investors are getting screwed.
> In fact, this ambiguity between attributes and children has always been one of the head scratching things for me about XML. Well, the thing I've always disliked the most is namespaces but that is another matter.

Just remember that it's a markup language, and then it's not head-scratching at all: the text is the text being marked up, and the attribute values are the attribute of the markup - things like colour and font.

When it was co-opted to store structured data, those people didn't obey this rule (which would make everything attributes).

Namespaces had a very cool use in XHTML: you could just embed an SVG or MathML directly in your HTML and the browser would render it. This feature was copied into HTML5.
Discussion (258 points, 2 hours ago, 244 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43509923
Yeah it is bad. That public health is an entertainment avenue or a schadenfreude avenue, thats bad.
Well, anyone that says "all India states are very beautifull places" must be on something. Not denying India has some beautiful places, but it also has some of the most post-apocalyptic places I've ever seen. Gurugram reminded me exactly of the city in Blade Runner.
> and xAI doesn't have much of any revenue or assets.

xAI does have some pretty massive datacenters with 200K+ GPUs.
And the other half was unregulated banks?
+100.

Patterns and Abstractions have a HUGE cost in python. They can be zero cost in C++ due to compiler, or very low cost due to JVM JIT, but in Python the cost is very significant, especially once you start adding I/O ops or network calls
I'm always amazed by the arrogance that if you can't hack it, then everyone else can't either.
I’ll bet $100 that AWDL is better designed and will work better. It isn’t like Google didn’t have all the time and chances to do this right. Android beam worked 50% of the time. IIRC half of the failures were BT and half were WiFi. Airdrop is much more reliable than 50%
Try to persuade an super-intelligence not to sedate you
I don't understand what you mean. People in your province voted against their own interests because they believed (incorrectly?) that it would benefit them? How do you know what their interests were or whether it did benefit them in ways that were important to them or not?
And now the crypto is going to be in the banks.
> He’s literally the richest person the earth has ever known. He’s never going to suffer financially. He has countless levers of power he can pull.

Just being rich doesn't mean he's got all the power to stop that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Madoff

Him being a Trump associate is a lever, but not a financial one… unless and until they have a falling-out. I'd be surprised if that's any less than 6 months away, or more than 3 years away.

> The same fantasy applies to any past or current president ever spending a day in jail. He literally commands the most powerful military apparatus the world has ever seen. Even a sliver of that capability and influence ensures nobody will ever dare to try and slap some cuffs on him

Depends if he dies in office (~10% all causes, he's old etc.), and if the dems regain congress in two years.

Trump was already very close to getting one day in jail due to inability to behave himself in the trial where he got all those felony convictions, and he did get impeached twice.
Cool, I hope efforts like these help make framework the goto laptop for power users.
I guess we'll see what matters when Trump orders the tanks to roll into Canada.
What's the source / evidence for that? If the xAI shareholders really are all fine with it there's no ethical issue. But they have to be basically unanimously ok with the deal. Even a small investor has the right to not have their capital used for an insanely conflicted deal.
What does this have to do with what I wrote? I said nothing of the sort. In fact, I explicitly pointed out that HTML and WYSIWYG word processors address it automatically.
Per my longer post above, people do care about privacy, in the EU and other jurisdictions; it's the US where they tend not to. Stop generalizing about what "humans" and "people" or "laws" do; start talking by country or region. Americans do one thing, Europeans another.

And as I pointed out there are not 600 million active installed Alexas, noone (outside Amazon and LE) knows the number of active current Alexas or current households with 1+ active Alexa. A better way to estimate usage is look at usercounts for the top-100 most popular apps, by geo.

UPDATE: I found the "77.2 million (Alexa) users globally" stat from [0] citing [1]

[0]: https://www.demandsage.com/voice-search-statistics/

[1]: https://keywordseverywhere.com/blog/voice-search-stats/
So he bought Twitter for $44bn 2.5 years ago and has run it so badly that even when his own company bails it out using made up figures the best he can do is $33bn. Embarrassing. It's not much more than a pyramid scheme.
Sounds like the targeting is just not specific enough yet.
Often enough, thanks.
We already have the concept of "tree", "grass", etc. it would just need to be formalized
Every bank? I suspect that at least a few banks will be prudent. I hope there's some way to tell which banks are heavily into crypto and which aren't.
Better docs would be appreciated! Can you guide us to use it? I’m not a slack guy because it’s too distracting, but easy secure chat integrations could be big … keep it up!
The Constitution isn't worth much right now, and it's up for sale, no less.
Actually it fails exactly like I would expect something trained purely in knowledge and not in morals.
Not a fan of Grok by any means but an SDK isn't that much of a requirement. We use liteLLM as it gets really annoying to roll your own router when you have so many viable providers with various specialties.
Nice of you to state your option as fact. Now let me try. Compat with Android is “completely insignificant” but magical auto-auth based on Apple ID is the “elephant in the room”. See how that works?
I'm guessing the logic is that an AI company is sexier and given higher equity valuations than a struggling social network.
There are military lawyers for this. I seem to recall that Trump fired them last month.
Maybe he knows something.
Whenever I post, I always have that Violent Femmes lyric in my head: “I hope you know that this will go down on your permanent record.”
Last day for free access course in Udemy – Python for Signal Processing
To pay for things, you obviously must use something.

What you likely do not realize is there are additional protections inherent with checks that you likely do not have with what you are using.

Payment systems often force you to pay a percentage of the total as a fee, just like using your ATM card at a out of network ATM will impose a fee both at the ATM, but on your banks side as well.

That's more than you would pay than if you provided a check.

There are also many things inherent in the processes involving cashing checks that protect you from various forms of fraud, and the documentation you generate (with carbon copies) can be used in court to support claims as well when bad actors lie.

By utilizing something else because its convenient, you effectively sign away protections you didn't know you had.

Not knowing the how's and why's, and not being taught, becomes detrimental to your future without you even realizing it.
I pay for chatgpt and would pay more.
Not the commenter you asked but I inherited my mother's sewing machine and decided to make a ball cap by seam ripping apart one that was wearing out but fit really well.

I traced the pieces onto new fabric (waxed cotton) and reused the existing plastic brim insert. It's still in use and I enjoy telling people I made it although there a few things I'd do differently. I watched a few yt videos on constructing a cap for tips on things like machine settings, top stitching, fastenings etc then just winged it after I felt like my theoretical knowledge had plateaued.

It would undoubtedly have been cheaper to buy a new cap, but since I'm unemployed, long term burned out and also newly-diagnosed with ADHD, some things are just gut feeling without making a great deal of sense these days.

Now as things wear out I'm cutting them apart to study the pieces and make new versions. It's surprising what you can make. I just made some quilted slippers for my kid by tracing around his feet and using scrap leather I had lying around. My next project is a pair of trousers. Weirdly, as a recovering perfectionist, I find myself a lot more open to making prototypes and learning from mistakes than I ever was in my career.
Judgement is what we call a system trained on good data.
Oh, thanks that's very kind of you to say. PeerJS is great - it takes a lot of the complexity out of WebRTC and replaces it with a nice, clean API. I think it was an OK decision for them to use Google for their TURN server - really, the best use case for their cloud server is exactly as you described - get your PoC working, and then if you're serious, implement your own
In a hurry for what? Even if the need to rearm is not made-up itself, the urgency definitely is.
Man scoops Italian lottery jackpot of €88M, ex-wife sues for half
Show HN: Kanji Game – Learn the most frequent kanji by English meanings
I’m guessing Tesla is paying xAI to train their FSD model?
I was watching the US NCAAM basketball tournament last night, and all the announcers had their Twitter handles displayed under their names.

I had a thought that Twitter will eventually become a group of: famous people, media, and bots all just tweeting at each other.

Or people do still use the platform. I never have, so I can’t say one way or the other.
Volvo Tells Plug-In Hybrid Owners to Stop Charging
Hot damn this is inspiring!
And that makes me think of the Knights Templar. They were so rich that everybody borrowed money from them. The one day, the King of France decided he didn't want to repay the loan. The story doesn't end well for the Templars.
It wasn't clear to me how this was like a Venus fly trap: the wasp grabbed prey with a rib cage and... what? Hung on to it till it's larvae developed and consumed the victim ... or what? Sorry, can someone ELI5?
So how do I specify the font of a word without attributes?
As best I can tell the deal includes paying off $12 billion of Twitter debt. So that's real money, though that seems like it's basically all of the cash that xAI has raised, so if that's the case that's pretty wild.

Edit: I misread, Musk said it's an all-stock deal, so you're right, it's all funny money. I think that means the combined entity is taking on that debt. It's still great for Twitter and bad for xAI investors because the combined entity now has both the $12 billion debt and all the VC xAI raised.
yeah, "you're not spying on your spouse the way your insurance company spies on you, right?" i don't like it
That is true and correct, except that Linux does not have raw devices, and O_DIRECT on a file is not a complete replacement for the raw devices (the buffer cache still gets involved as well as the file system).
For Wikipedia, the bulk of the data in the XML is inside a "<text>" block that contains wikitext: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext

In the English Wikipedia the wikitext accounts for about 80% of the bytes of the decompressed XML dump.
FYI; Comcast is a corporate rebrand of American Cable Systems
No, you're right. NASA has already shown that we can go past our solar system, so... His company has done some really awesome stuff with the ships/rockets, though.
Russian joke:

>Trump, in the afterlife, gets permission to go back and visit Earth for one hour. He goes into a bar in NYC and asks the bartender how things are going for America. The amazed man says, "Wow, sir, we have the most incredible empire thanks to you! Greenland, Panama, and Canada!" "That's great," says Trump, "What about Europe?" "Oh yes," says the bartender, "They also couldn't resist us!" "That's so beautiful," says Trump. "Well, I have to go back now, how much do I owe you?" "One ruble and fifty kopeks," replies the bartender.
https://archive.is/ZzxzT
Child complains of 'monster' under bed. Babysitter comes face-to-face with man
You're right.

"Getting hit by lightning is good for some tropical trees, since it can withstand the strike, but its competition cannot" might be the more verbose but complete title.
Did you not watch them land the starship? That's easily the biggest space-faring accomplishment since Apollo, and certainly not something NASA could replicate in the foreseeable future.

Speaking of the moon, NASA's SLS is projected to cost several orders of magnitude more than a super heavy launch, and is only aiming for the moon as opposed to Mars.

If there's one place that Doge could really, actually stop a lot of waste and fraud, it's at NASA. Of course, that would be the conflict of interest par excellence, and face a bunch of opposition from red-state congressmen with huge contracts in their constituencies. Objectively speaking, though, it's a huge waste of taxpayer money.
With more complex structures, you need to specify how it should behave. The definition for 'more complex' here is basically no virtual functions, virtual base classes, is trivially copyable and constructible and a few others.

Basically, if it seems like memcpying the structure might be a reasonable thing to do, it'll work. This is why types like std::array will work but std::vector and std::string won't. It can handle those types when inserted individually but not in aggregate since there's no reflection.

The compiler barf does tell the user why it was rejected but... average C++ errors, even with concepts. Not the greatest.

main.cpp:136:52: note: the expression ‘is_trivial_v [with T = UserPacket]’ evaluated to ‘false’
136 | concept pod = std::is_standard_layout_v<T> && std::is_trivial_v<T>;
TBH as someone with a lot of experience in this (I plan to write more when I get to 69 posts on the front page of hacker news, I'm only at 55 right now), about half of it is that you have to be personally jazzed about the post. If you're not, it'll show and the audience here will eat you alive and either flag you or mock you. You gotta sink or swim.
Edit: G. Branden Robinson (note spelling) is the maintainer of groff.

https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/
Just like Puerto Rico and DC?
I frequently play Age of Empires 2 with my wife and her brother. Remarkably, this game still supports LAN play in 2025, even though the netcode has been completely overhauled since 1999.

However, we decided to try it on a recent flight, and it turns out it still requires an internet connection, both to satisfy Steam, and to connect to some sort of LAN coordination server. I ended up paying $20 for in-flight wifi.

We've lost a lot in the last 30 years, but tech like wifi aware might help bring back local-first networking. I choose to believe that if solid APIs exist, developers will use them.
but the guy can work cheaper if he has more money, no? If the rich, through a series of steps including taxes and a debt relief program, pays that guy's mortgage, he can work cheaper, breaking the deadlock, no? Or am I misunderstanding the problem you're stating?
I've noticed there seems to be a gatekeeping archetype that operates as a hard cynic to nearly everything, so that when they finally judge something positively they get heaps of attention.

It doesn't always correlate with narcissism, but it happens much more than chance.
> all of this is assuming that the broad Republican constituency have to some extent gone anti-Trump, and I really don't know how much basis there is for that assumption.

> Republican primary voters don’t seem to be upset.

Replying to both of you. It has started -> https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5214236-democrat-james...
outstanding, a lightning trap for nearby plants, and maybe nearby animals i wonder
Fair enough, edited to just revenue. But those are just datacenters bought with VC money - my intent was to say that xAI's resources are basically just the investment they've received.
> Half of the Great Depression was caused by tariffs.

The downvotes might be because it's unrelated to the discussion, but it's also not really wrong. The exact impact of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act probably can't be quantified, but it's well agreed that it contributed significantly to the extent of the depression itself due to the retaliatory tariffs triggered and the resulting drop in global trade. (Institutional access needed - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-economic-...)
> Google is a very, very big company with many products and activities outside of AI.

Profit is what matters though, not number of products. The consumer perception is that Search rakes in the largest profits, so if they lose that, it doesn't matter what else is there. Thoughts?
> all of this is assuming that the broad Republican constituency have to some extent gone anti-Trump, and I really don't know how much basis there is for that assumption.

Seems to be absolutely no basis for that assumption. His approval ratings are in the mid 40s, and the people that vote in primaries aren't exactly the waverers and independents that just wanted a change from Biden.

It could change when he properly tanks the economy, but association with Trump isn't likely to be a problem in primaries when you've got more than half a party's membership so immune to reality they'll insist that not only was Trump doing a good job of running the country in 2020, but he also won that election...
Unlock High-Precision Keyword Search with pinecone-sparse-English-v0
I hope it doesn’t. At times need to run windows stuff and just prefer to just start a vm without networking.
I wonder how this impacts people who do testing. Maybe they just have domain joined machines or just use windows accounts.
Because I'm not about to hand over one of the 26 essential letters of our alphabet to corporate whims. "Twitter" emerged as a fresh term because people embraced it—not because a billionaire decreed it. Whether it's naming a service or renaming a gulf , words—and especially their letters—belong to the public, not to the power of a few billionaires..
SpaceX is worth less than 10% of what Tesla is valued at, so 15% is still a larger holding and very much "where it hurts". You should consider pausing before calling the popular position drivel.
> He’s literally the richest person the earth has ever known

This is arguable in real terms.
Eh, that's kind of moot since most "tax payers" have no idea where there money actually goes and money is fungible. Do it implies that tax payers only care about part of their money. What is actually accomplished if we don't see the link? Of course there are all sorts of ways to hide taxes from the end payer, such as gas tax. If someone is looking to reduce taxes, then they must also look for the hidden ones. Continuing to think of tax payers as only the general fund contributors only allows the deception to persist.