skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AIs are useful for "fuzzy" problems, but are not very good at doing precise things with high reliability.

Every plant has baked in restrictions on how it grows. If you can identify separate features of a leaf and how the leaf grows out of the stem you can basically look it up in a table and tell what kind of tree you are looking at, without need for guessing.

On the other hand AI will develop its own classification method but one that has unknown faults in it.

Maybe it has learned to look at the lighting direction because half of the data set was non-suculents with light from the left and half was succulents with light from the right, because it came from a different facility?

Or maybe different cameras were used to photograph different types of plants?

So now rather than looking at the leaves it uses light direction or photo grain to tell if it is succulent or not?

Face the reality, you are wrong.

The above algorithm returns completely nonsensical results for my searches, plants that have completely different structure and coloration and nobody would ever mistake them.

It relies at you looking at the suggested solution, and then, Hey!, here you have five more, maybe your plant is somewhere on the list?

This is only marginally useful but could have been so much better if it tried to identify structure of the plant.
I agree, the danger of password theft seems rather low, but I wonder if this mechanism could be abused for tracking.

Imagine you're Facebook and you want to track your users on non-Facebook sites. Traditionally, this would be done with some iframe-embedded widget and 3rd-party cookies. But browsers are increasingly phasing out 3rd-party cookies, so that won't work anymore in the near future.

As an alternative, the widget could embed a username and password field. When the browser autofills the field, a script sends the credentials to Facebook, along with the site's URL. The account can be linked up without any cookies involved.

(This makes some assumptions I haven't verified: That autofill works in 3rd-party iframes and that the user gesture can be outside the iframe)

In more limited scope, this works for first-party cookies as well: If you logged out of a site and cleared your cookies, the site could use the autofilled credentials to associate your guest session with your account even without you actively logging in.
How does this perform Vs Google lens?
> At exactly 7:49 the air waves crackled… “To-To-To !” It was the first syllable of the Japanese word for “Charge,” and it meant that the first wave was now attacking. But it told nothing about the circumstances of that attack.

> A few minutes later there was another message… “Tora, Tora, Tora l” (Tiger, Tiger, Tiger!) It was the prearranged code word for conveying the news that complete surprise had been achieved.
> Realistically, what they are doing is making full resolution prints on commercially available large-format photograph printers, with their effort going into tweaking the shaded relief algorithms and applying photoshop filters to boost local contrast.

Yes, exactly this.

> Marketing copy exaggerates a bit, film at 11.

And yes, also this, ha. We sell wall art, so the article is intended to convey that for something you look at on a wall, we're running up against the limits of what a human can see, with normal vision, at any reasonable viewing distance. It is absolutely true that someone with good vision, the right light, and a magnifying glass could probably see some dots, but that's not typically how wall art is viewed, which is what we design for.
1/2 of American's don't seem to trust a vaccine, but they are going to trust a computer car to take them places? I doubt it.

Everyone I know has been let down my computers way more then scientists.
Not just Linux, but Git too. So not only do most of the computers in the world run Linux, there's an entire ecosystem of the Internet based off of one of his side projects. Talk about proving that you're not a one-hit wonder...
Thanks, if you watch the Fuchsia tour session, they hint at some of the rewriting taking place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIT1ISCioDY
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Gusto is definitely the way to go.

Talk to an accountant about taxes. In short, the company will have its own taxes and you will have yours.

Look into the 83b election to see if you can still do that, depends on when you got your shares originally
Also, “I’ve determined your political opinions from one sentence and therefore I can disregard everything you say” quite the tell that GP was never acting in good faith in the first place.

Never mind that they’re extremely confident and laughably wrong about my political ideology. Maybe you can’t reliably guess someone’s political alignment from a single sentence after all?
I love sci-fi books/stories that don’t populate space with weird looking aliens, but rather tackle abstract issues like —

information (XX by Ryan Hughes),

impact of the mere existence of aliens (3 Body Problem).

Maybe these could be inspiration for you.
The iNaturalist app does a spectacular job at identifying plants (and insects, fish, birds…), even disambiguating based on your location

You label geotagged images with the AIs suggestion if you agree with it and then other users can either confirm or suggest a different / more specific species.
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People do that successfully, the problem is that if babies skip the crawling phase then it may cause learning disabilities among other things. Which is fascinating in the context of this conversation. The order in which things are learned can be very critical!
AppArmor also allows for some sandboxing, and is enabled by default in Debian stable.
A North African country sounds reasonable. Australia might be another possibility.

If you did allow river crossings, maybe Russia or Canada? There's a whole lot of empty space in Siberia and northern Canada.
Looks like I will have to settle with the regex used by W3C for validating email input type.
Xero aren’t exactly well known for their customer support. :-)
I'm using Meson for a project using C++ with Gtkmm, Libmicrohttpd, catch2 and other libraries. My experience is good neglecting some minor issues. Meson is fast, well readable if written well, uses system libraries by default and allows flexible usage.

On the other side I'm using Java with Maven and it is - a big burden. It's build in dependency retrieval system also isn't helping. Maybe I just don't like XML - because it is not human-readable ;)
Nanometer no more: Intel changes its process names to match TSMC
E-4B “Doomsday Plane” Just Made Unusual Visit to Tonopah Test Range Airport
I understand your desire to build a web app with Bluetooth access, but there’s just too many scummy adtech/malware assholes out there that would use WebBluetooth as another way to do their nasty deeds. It cannot be done in a safe fashion, so better to not do it at all.
SG–1 was good but B5 was better.
On the other hand, make a boringly criticism of a cryptocurrency (say, "No stablecoin is worth anything unless it can show a recent third-party audit that says exactly what and where their backing assets are and that the processes for handling those assets are up to best accounting practices.") and see how far that gets you.

Nothing about a bubble prevents other bubbles from forming at their own rate.
Microsoft proposes a standard of adding app changelog to Webmanifest
We usually run a survey with users who join our telegram community with one question (2 at the max) only after landing significant feature updates to the service.

We also send (often a different) survey email (along with product updates) to folks who've subscribed in case we expect to learn something else than from the responses in the telegram group. In our experience, with our audience, emails don't work as well as Telegram.

What we also do to gauge user-interest and build a community for an Android (userspace) DoH client and firewall we build is:

1a. Include a link to Telegram community in the about page prominently.

1b. After every update, shows a changelog to the user with a button "suggest features" that emails feedback.

2. Contact email features on all our webpages.

3. Google the past 24 hours for keywords related to our app to see who's discussing it, and if it is a forum like reddit, leave a comment and personal email (as opposed to generic support at domain dot com) encouraging the user to contact.

4. Newsletter to collect potential customer email-ids. As mentioned above, survey are always sent out to them once in a blue-moon and only with accompanying significant product updates.

5. All incoming to generic mailbox are replied-to from a personal email. Emails always end with a remark asking the user to not shy from sending bug reports, queries, and suggestions.

6. Monitor related subreddits where similar products/apps are discussed, and post replies only after the thread is off the front-page to avoid derailing a hot discussion with self-promotion (which gets you banned on most subreddits).

Provide white-glove service to users and they remember you for it and usually champion your product henceforth, which helps when the user base is young and the product is rough around the edges.

First answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26754095
> Whether the makers of my software are responsible is a contractual matter - and nearly all open source licenses include a disclaimer of warranty and a limitation of liability, including the GPLv3 (see sections 15–17).

That was true in the US until MacPherson v. Buick in 01916 and in the UK until Donoghue v. Stevenson in 01932. Nearly all proprietary software licenses include the same disclaimer, but they are on slightly firmer ground in doing so, since typically those licenses are in fact contracts under common law, while the GPL explicitly purports not to be a contract and is very likely correct about that.

The kind of statutory imposition of liability we're discussing here would have to specifically outlaw such contract terms in order to work at all. You could imagine a statute that would specifically exempt open-source software licenses from that, but as explained comprehensively in this thread, such a statute would certainly not be the one that was passed.
The good faith question isn’t “what’s the difference between 80% and 97%?” That’s a pointless question at best, a rhetorical trick excuse police and prosecutorial misconduct at worst.

A better question would be along the lines of “how accurate would shot spotter have to be to justify both its use by police and courts, and the cost imposed on cities for its use?” Also “how much do we trust shotspotter’s assertion of their own accuracy?” is a good follow up too.
It's not a tautology to say for an apple to fall of a tree it has to be on a tree, it's not a tautology for a plane to crash to be flying first or for a car to stop it needs to be in motion first. They are all necessary conditions, in fact this is the definition of a necessary condition.

Something to be a necessary condition has nothing to do with time-reversibility, it simply states a logical relationship

Let me give you another example: To accelerate a body with mass m it is necessary to exert a force onto it. All mathematical descriptions In fact equivalency, requires conditions to be necessary and sufficient.

Your argument that physics describes a world with statistical regularities is a maybe a nice philosophy, however most physicists (and regular people) do not believe we live in a simulation, but physical laws describe the real world.
"you give me a big expensive contract, and I'll give some of the money back". Sounds like corruption to me...
a "language standard" is something i can use to hold implementation and library developers accountable. I want a dry, exhaustive and systematic description of what code is legal and illegal. Instead we have arguments over whether some unsafe code found in the wild is UB and will break once LLVM fixes noalias for real this time, not UB (eg. holding raw pointers into a Vec while the Vec moves without reallocating), compiles fine but may break in the future (eg. holding raw pointers into a Box while the Box moves), compiles fine but the Stacked Borrows rules forbid it but will eventually be changed to not forbid it (Pin). Instead of a firm contract between the compiler and the programmer, we have unsafe code guidelines which is the language team's best idea at the moment for what is legal or not.

Even though C++ code in the wild is filled with standard violations, I like having a standard explaining what rules exist, so developers can reason about them, and I can use them to tell other developers to change their code because their code is invalid. (In practice I don't know if violating strict aliasing through reinterpret_cast rather than bit_cast can lead to compilation errors, and sadly std::variant can miscompile due to broken aliasing optimizations in library code even with valid user code: https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/j7gn2d/stdvariant_is_b....) Currently, not all unsafe Rust can be classified as either valid (make sure the compiler doesn't break it) or invalid (change the code until it's valid), though there are some cases where unsafe Rust is clearly invalid.

Maybe it's a temporary state while the language team makes decisions based on how the unsafe library ecosystem progresses. Maybe the language team has no plans to put the language on a firm groundwork defining exactly what is legal or not, which I find uncomfortable (though maybe others feel more comfortable with it). In any case, there's not that much practical impact on the quality of code being written and binaries being produced, but it still hurts to see people building castles on uncertain foundations.
"Web" = "Bloat"
I regularly slept on a bus when I commuted for ~40 minutes. Granted, that job lasted only 3 months but nothing got stolen. This was in Slovakia.
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I wish I had a backyard big enough for a Euthanasia Coaster!
> They want to pay $20/month to a single organization which has a hundred writers, also known as a "newspaper".

I think the demise of the publishing industry proves this point comically incorrect!
The problem with Blogging is that it got eaten by marketing drone teams. Most blog entries nowadays are just SEO optimised articles written by a marketing intern who has no clue of what he is writing about.
Is he operating a business? He just called the machine Index, a really common word in company names and beyond.
If we’re talking about mobile browsers, Mozilla functionally doesn’t exist. That space is just Safari vs. Chrome(ium).

And Apple are not obliged to have 100% feature parity with Chrome.
It’ll look bad for both Amazon and Bitcoin if they took that out and it’s a flop
I think this is wild conjecture. Users don't care as much as you think about "native performance", they care about features and price. PWAs can be iterated faster than native apps, and they circumvent the app store tax. They also let the business control the onboarding and sales funnel vs text only app storefronts filled with garbage.
You should probably fix that, because lying about your product in order to get people to buy it is fraud. Even if you don't care about the ethical issues, it could have negative repercussions for you in the future. It looks like it's good enough that people would buy it even if you didn't lie about it, so I think you should capitalize on that. (Maybe you disagree? People who notice the lie will think you don't think it's good enough to sell without lying about it, and they'll wonder what else you're lying about.)

Also 300 dpi is coarse enough that, despite my aging vision, I wouldn't need a magnifying glass or particularly good light to see the jaggies from 300 mm, and I think that is a reasonable viewing distance for wall art. 300 dpi is definitely not a "gold standard" for coffee-table books or wall art. Someone with good vision, the right light, and a magnifying glass can see features at 2400 dpi, 64 times the number of pixels you're using. Why do you think Linotype made 2450 dpi the Linotronic resolution 35 years ago? Perhaps you think they didn't have any experience with printing?
I think it came down to a single flag that gets set by the video chip for any two objects that collide. Once the flag is set, the game code needs to figure out which two sprite objects in the scene could have possibly collided. Some time elapses between the flag being set, and the code checking for the collision, allowing for other things to happen in the game (even if only briefly). Ultimately this creates a lot of room for errors because the software is analyzing the game in a slightly different state than when the collision actually occurred, and it may infer a collision between two objects that did not actually collide, due to some other limitations on resources and using object boundary boxes that do not perfectly map to the actual pixels occupied by an object.
> This item is not available in your country.

I don't understand why so many apps do this?? It's a free app, why not let me use it?
Many of the former Nokia Mobiles employees are also part of HMD Global Oy, and so far they have been the best Android phone experience outside the overpriced Pixels, impossible to buy in most European countries.
I think what makes Columbo good is how out he is of his element. The perpetrators are always from a higher social class and he always takes advantage of their hubris, lulling them into a false sense of security, agitating them until they give up clues. All that while being polite and sympathetic. There is no shoehorned social commentary in Columbo. It's pure entertainment, which is hard to find these days.
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It is a tool I have often thought would be useful. It's tricky to get the questions right but this is pretty good. I think extending it to the rest of the country will add a lot of complexity- like how far away is the nearest station, can I even get home deliveries etc.

It would also be handy to name a place (maybe where you live) and see what filters would get you there, and then fine tune the filters.

[Edit] Oh, and what political parties the MP or council are!
The majority of cities in the US don't look like Miami beach.

It just so happens that a bunch of cities where most of the people currently developing this kind of tech live do look like Miami beach and those people believe (or at least develop products like they do) there is no land beyond the valley.
I would agree with Toyota. Excluding hybrids from the mix is simply wrong, as global electric mix (64% fossil fuels, mostly coal) poor performance in harsh conditions, charging time and infrastructure, are still so unmature. Hybrids with smaller batteries are great middle step and solution for now, as you can have best of the two worlds. And in the most countries, they could be better in terms of environment compared to pure EVs.
Thanks for the clarification. I know that lawyers spend a lot of time revising these types of sentences; usually with an eye towards exit plans.

I appreciate the authoritative response.
If I weren't using autofill, then I would be re-using the same password for virtually every site. Because memorizing dozens or hundreds of strong passwords, many of which are forced to change periodically, is simply not humanly feasible.

So pick your poison. Passwords suck, and you're vulnerable no matter how you approach them. Best you can do is 2FA or biometrics, and even that's not perfect either.
We sell wall art. You likely don't look at a painting by your favorite artist and say "This is overpriced. I bet the canvas and paint only cost $10."

Also, Ramble Maps is a business. We have material costs, shipping costs, advertising costs, rent. We accept returns (and pay for return shipping), spend time making maps, answering emails, and writing posts like this.

And finally, can you let me know where you can get those materials? Those prices are far better than what we pay!
Fractal and NeoChat are two more Matrix clients. Fractal builds on the matrix-rust-sdk crate.

https://invent.kde.org/network/neochat
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/fractal
Tesla employs the Norman Doors of false advertising. In the lasting tradition of "Free" (not free), Tesla gave us "Autopilot" (requires manual operation at all time) and "Full Self Driving" (requires alert driver at all time).
Isn’t escaping editorial teams exactly the reason that many migrated to Substack?

A big reason people are on the platform is because they want to read Glenn Greenwald or Andrew Sullivan or Matt Yglesias in a way that’s not filtered by their previous editorial teams.
Thank developer laziness and GDPR
Well, my Nokia 7+ has served me quite well.
> ... is just a marketing term.

Who are they trying to fool?

Terms like nanometer and Angstrom obviously don't mean much to average consumers, so these are not the target.

But engineers rightfully call bullshit on the use of these terms.

So who are they targeting with this?
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I think that Tesla is the most to blame here.

Other manufacturers make it clear that their car is not self driving, using names like "assist". Tesla boldly uses names like "autopilot" and "full self driving".

Autopilot is somewhat OK (plane autopilots mostly just help flying straight, the pilot still flies the plane), but studies have shown it is misleading to the general public and I am convinced it is on purpose.

"Full self driving" is a lie, plain and simple. Tesla tries to justify saying that it is still beta, that in the future, it will really be self driving, aka marketing bullshit.

If we let marketers loose, words lose their meaning, and that's when I think it is time to do the unpopular thing and regulate. Maybe, after that, Tesla will take a hint from Boring and call their advanced driving assist technology "not full self driving".
The Economist doesn't have bylines because that wasn't really the norm at the time when they started out. Your point--that reporting shouldn't be primarily about individual credibility--does apply though.

While, in theory, picking and choosing for opinion/analysis (as opposed to news) is valid, in practice there are limits. It basically works for me with video streaming because I'm fine with having a limited number of streaming sources. I'm not sure I would be with $1/month for newsletters much less pay-per-article.
I agree that's a problem. But at least 4 > 2, and being secure until 2025 is at least better than being secure until 2023. (It also allows those who mind the security of their devices to use them for longer compared to a lot of the competition, which is an ecological improvement, although not a sufficient one.)

I'd also like to see longer life cycles that aren't limited to a few years due to unhealthy economical incentives. However, although you may not have meant it that way, your comment seemed to attack this particular policy, and that seemed a weird thing to do considering that it's at least better in that regard than the vast majority of the Android phone market.
"Resources" include the Earth's capacity to dispatch CO2 emissions, which we are clearly abusing.
Still better than most Android OEMs and above all Pixel devices, you know, those phones produced by the company that develops Android.
Surely though without a contract there is no liability? IANAL but imposing liability on gifts seems difficult.
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> but the editor did admit there was a Hamas presence in the building

Ah, so its OK to drop bombs on the entire building then?

So, by extrapolation, if there is a Hamas teacher or a Hamas nurse in a school or hospital, then the IDF can wipe those out too?

Nice.