skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cynical view would be that in the current tech environment and generalized risk aversion rushing to demonstrate tangible use cases for AI will help justify a decade of out-of-control hype and investment, support exits, new funding runds etc.

Underneath all the commercial interest some specialists inevitably must keep adding to the knowledge base / capabilities but good luck finding any objective account of that process.
Ironically, in South Africa ‘Craven Week’ is an annual week long elite school rugby tournament - and it’s the place where talent scouts go to find tomorrow’s rugby stars for club and national rugby teams. It takes a lot of talent and guts to be selected for Craven Week.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craven_Week
Maybe the video didn't mention it but there is also a new laptop with a 3D display that doesn't require glasses.
On the one hand, I like right to repair.

On the other, Farmers are a terrible group to start with. They've actively resisted it in the past and are very unlikely to have or be willing to gain the skills needed and they are ultimately running businesses and should behave accordingly.
Amjad Masad on AGI as religion for nerds
I'd feel much more accepting of the small, near meaningless, changes if the large, most impactful, changes weren't being deliberately ignored.

As long as very low impact changes are pushed on the masses to deflect from failures to make genuinely impactful change people are going to resent them, even when ultimately they're not entirely bad ideas on their own.
the driver facing camera has an optional cover -- and it can be left on when you're not in the car doubling as a security camera for your car. I may have fell for the hype of the video in this article, but it looks pretty slick.

Only draw back I can see is having to be in two ecosystems (I already use the google branded cameras, mic's, hubs, lights).

Seriously Apple, Microsoft, somebody with bongo bucks -- make using different ecosystems as seamless as changing browsers -- standards, baby! Gimme standards.
We are searching for quality now in this AI driven age.
You're nearly there. You've got a large uninstall base because you're giving two weeks unlimited features and then scaling back, but some specific features are "core" to the usage of the product.

Switch the model, after 2 weeks it is limited to 1-3 sites unlimited and anymore requires upgrading.

You'll retain your students who are probably using it for specific sites to summarize papers or class information. Create the habit over a long period and then people will be willing to pay.

If you want a no code/less code approach allow to opt into an extension of 3-6 months if they click cancel.

Assuming COGS are low and the compute cost is on your side and not third party the goal is forming habits and then converting. The goal is not short term 2 week conversions to profit.

Would you like 25% paying after 2 weeks or 25% paying after 2 weeks AND an additional x% paying after 3-6 months?
Perhaps most people aren't, evidence is pending, but enough of them have been proven to be that this is a real concern.
I would argue that it is not misleading -- the website domain is, after all, "breakingthe3ma.app".

The title of the paper presents a more academic angle, and is intended to highlight what the "learned lessons" are, but let's not forget that Threema was vulnerable to our attacks for 10+ years.
> This is a brilliant prompt, for discussion / thought provocation.

The web is such a complicated mess right now that I wish we would revert to it being just a document-based format. That's why I'm interested in things like gopher. Gopher pages can look surprisingly good.

I ye olden days there were BBSs (Bulletin Board Systems). It is stateful and all the heavy lifting is done server-side.
How DEI Is Supplanting Truth as the Mission of American Universities
The good vent is so key. Most every house I’ve seen has a quite inadequate fan.

It should be larger than the top of the stove and it should have noticeable air movement when on - and you need to have makeup air.
The Cult of Musk is creaking
Only $2.3 billion is for construction of the express lanes, so $100 million per mile. And it’s not like with like. The Silver line was constructed on an existing median that had been reserved for it decades ago. The I-66 express lane expansion required buying more land alongside the existing right of way.

The 4 new express lanes will also carry 5,000 vehicles per hour in each direction, which is as much as the total ridership of the Silver Line (outside the Beltway) in an entire day. Also, the actual cost to the state will be much lower. People highly value point to point driving access. So the express lanes can charge tolls up to $40.
Completely agree. A managers task isn't so much to make sure 'more work gets done'. They are there to make sure 'the right work gets done'.

And that the right people are there (and stay there), that the right tools are there (which does increase efficiency), that no work gets left behind, etcetera, etcetera.
You could make a request to rpilocator for support in your region.

Stock is set to improve this year anyway so don't sell your kidney quite yet.
It's more like "two party state" though. Take a look at presidential election results[0]: after Chun Doo-hwan's(전두환) military dictatorship ended, candidates from conservative and liberal parties were elected taking turns.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_elections_in_Sout...
Yes you need to remember 'fg', but the argument 'you have a big problem if you forget how to do this' could be said for half of how Vim works.
Not doubting you, but why do you think this is so unbelievable? It seems intuitive to me that tracking CO2 levels in a shared space would act as a proxy for tracking how much of other people's breath you are breathing in. Some quick googling suggests this is a real effect.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/04/210407143809.h...
Fraud, slander etc are already illegal. There are consequences for crossing these lines.
Mine vents into the room.
Everyone's least favorite browser is the new IE.
I was reading about "eyeball planets", which are possibly suitable for life, and match this description (vaguely, IANAAstrophysicist). Basically, the idea is that a planet of right size and roughly in the right distance to its star is tidally locked in a 1:1 resonance, so one side is always pointing at the star, and one always poiting away.

Now, the perpetual noon point is very hot, and the perpetual midnight point is very cold, but you get a consistent temperature gradient inbetween. Somewhere there, it's about 20 deg C ~all the time.

It's also somewhat tunable. If the planet is closer to the star, perhaps only the perpetual midnight is a happy spot, and the rest too hot. Or maybe the planet is further out, and only the perpetual noon is nice. And so on.

Of course you also make the point about magnetic field requiring rotation, which is not addressed by this, but the temperature side at least maybe is OK.
This is good for right to repair right? I see this as a massive W for the movement.
This would have made Sneakers a much more boring movie.
Feeds: The Only Civilised Way to Read Online
Is the Business of AI More Like Steel or VBA?
> the DOM is a low level platform

The DOM is not "low level", its the wrong abstraction. It feels low level to you because it is fundamentally hard to express the layout of a gui application in terms of a document layout.

Compare the HTML DOM to Android's XML layout. It is so much easier to work with Android's layout system. You can trivially do things like anchor element X to the left / right / top / bottom of element Y, without workarounds like display:inline and adding div upon div upon div to make things work right.

I could list out another dozen things that JS does poorly, but I don't think that would be very productive.

> The web has made a great Bazaar, a great place for a conflux of possibilities

The web has been successful in spite of its bad technology. The concept of the web and the internet is wonderful. And the reality of the web would be better than it is today if websites weren't so slow, bloated, and buggy.
I would expect that keeping windows open will decrease the risk of passing on an airborne disease to your family, yes.
Biometric identification via voice is mostly hokum.

My education is in biometrics and our undergraduate seminar group had a student and his supervisor with essentially identical voices.

But that's just anecdata - the human voice doesn't carry a lot of unique information and on top of that it changes over time.

In biometric identification the iris is king. 3D face scans are a distant second, fingerprints on the border of usefulness and the rest like gait, voice, keystrokes etc. get rediscovered every decade or so just to, again, not yield results.
Is this extensible for things like CO and Radon?
yeah, that's what I mean. you can't copyright game mechanics, procedures, rules or anything like that.
This is a 1:1 translation of the German News Article https://www.heise.de/news/Aufsichtsgremium-Facebook-darf-Slo...

But whoever translated it (automatically translated by ChatGPT?) did not translate "Tod dem" which is ironically the German translation of the Persian Slogan. So the translated article which is now in English makes it seem like Persians are talking German.
I didn't find Kerouac very approachable (even though every sign indicates that I should), but loved the electric koolaid acid test
Hi Vindarel.
Have you read Allan Savorys book Holistic Management? Savory Institute has successfully developed tools for farmers, grazing planning, decision making and economical planning. The book does a fascinating job explaining a holistic principles first thinking process for managing the ever changing, evolving context of a farm and land stewardship.

I could imaging you would enjoy reading <teaming with microbes> about the life of soils.
Paul Hawken does a great job explaining a broader scene with <Drawdown> and <Regeneration>
George Monbiot writes a fascinating book <Regenesis> but comes to my understanding to the wrong conclusion.

Planetary Boundaries is my go to reference and the documentary on netflix is always recommended.

I have worked at Richard Perkins farm in 2015.
I'd like to point out the OP's author gave many examples of both EU & US websites, explained how both are probably not GDPR compliant, and explained how the US sites have been sued. I did not read to the end, but from what I read there were no examples of any EU sites being sued/punished for GDPR compliance. That is a problem, because it seems quite clear the EU regulations are setup for the purpose of taxing foreign tech companies. One could argue the EU websites are de facto compliant, but the OP indicates otherwise.

We get it.
I have the exact same experience with mine. I have been running a specialised software build on my pi zero that I found somewhere and have been very happy with it.
I think this is one of the cases where there is nothing wrong with using deepfakes. The person mimicked gave explicit consent and they did not do any harm with the tool. If technology increases accessibility of true political choice then it's good technology.

That said, I don't understand why the parent and the article paint this as a bad thing.
That was not our experience 8 years ago, it was much faster.
https://www.kurzweilai.net/the-law-of-accelerating-returns
It's all in the compression. That's why VOIP systems sound much better. Lots of telco systems still use AMR with a very low bitrate.
Apple isn’t legally obligated to send you details about why they deplatformed you, why should they be? The net is riddled with story’s like OPs and never does it end with “I threatened the trillion dollar company with my $200/h lawyer, and they caved!”
Jesus it can even understand Scottish. I need this app!
Why does grandpa's old Thinkpad keep beeping: .... ..- -. - . .-. ..---?
I agree, but there is also a ton of shitty books, still I'am more eager to read the entire book, than for example 10 blog posts. It seems that blog posts are just to 'thin' and not providing too much value.
I still have my doubts. I agree it feels true, and yet every "earthlike" planet found so far is nothing like the Earth. How many exoplanets have been found, and how many of those are Earth-size planets with a large moon in the habitable zone of a sun-like star? Because it's entirely possible that all of those are necessary.

Because as inevitable as life may seem, it's also fragile. Practically the entire universe is extremely hostile to it, with the exception of a small layer on the surface of this one planet. Radiation will destroy life, so we need a thick atmosphere and a strong magnetic field, something of the rocky planets in our solar system, only our planet has. The focus is mostly on water and the Goldilocks Zone, but it's entirely possible that there are a lot more requirements to make life possible.

I want to believe there's lots of life out there, but I don't want to be suckered into wishful thinking; evidence does matter.

> I'm perfectly comfortable with things being true even sans iron clad rigorous proof. If you limit your worldview to only that which has been rigorously proven you miss out on a lot of necessary and interesting truths, I think.

A sensible outlook in general. And I frankly think it's true of everybody, even if some people claim otherwise. Most of the human experience is not provable or falsifiable, yet we experience it and believe it.
where are you from? I've never heard of swimming lessons with clothes here in France, so I'm curious where it is common.
Could this serve as a general-purpose protocol that all remote development would benefit by using?
Someone will eventually release an open source model, right?
Why would that be nice?

Follow the thou g ht through to how it would work and what it would mean in terms of privacy for the average person.

Your niceties seem dystopian to me.
> “The fact that investment is being driven by pure hype, by data-free narratives rather than actual revenue data or first-principles analysis. The circularity of it all -- hype drives investment which drives hype which drives investment. The influx of influencer engagement bait.”

Think this cynical. author good to see ads or marketing using hype for clicks. people do stuff to make money on latest trend, just nature.

but me dont know anything productive in web3. it hype through all way. English not me first language. writing use almost feel magic to have chatgpt clean and rewrite my posts. also used for coding examples. dont think this equal to web3. maybe need time to mature to billion dollar scale but me wouldnt bet money against
The main driver is technological advancement and the generated value is _obviously_ net positive.

Not saying that there aren't issues that need to be discussed, nor am I saying that there isn't any (unnecessary) hype. But the comparison to Web3 is a stretch.

The author addresses this:

> One last thought -- don't overindex on the web3 <> LLMs comparison. Of course web3 was pure hot air while LLMs is real tech with actual applications -- that's not the parallel I'm making. The parallel is in the bubble formation social dynamics, especially in the VC crowd.

So aren't they just saying "hype is hype"?

(edited an incomplete sentence)
Ask HN: Is there an AI that summarizes non-fiction books?
I don't think many non-fiction books are worth reading in their entirety.

Is there some GPT-3 ai that summarizes books into a few pages at most?
I agree, but it can be "wow that's good" without "wow that's going to replace very single creative job in the world by 2024" which a lot of people seem to expect

It's a bit like thinking autonomous parallel parking will automatically bring you fully autonomous cars soon
That's true, though I think I actually read faster than I audiobook, despite listening at between 2x and 3.5x most of the time.

I just have far more time to listen than to read, so 95% of my reading is done via audiobooks.
From your usage, do you feel it's 1.0-quality?
> or make sure to remove the spyware the second they've completed the task at hand.

Yup. The problem is that those spywares are not cleanly uninstalled and leave junks on the disk. Some independent developers even created a dedicated tool for removing those "security" software to solve the problem.
The biggest loss in agriculture is growing feed for animals instead of food for people.
I’m assuming it’ll come down to two things: more reliance on in-person checks and eventually pushing more towards digital signatures but the latter is complicated in the U.S. by politics. It wouldn’t be insurmountable to deploy national ID cards like Estonia from a technical perspective but we have a non-trivial number of people who object to that on religious grounds so I’d expect we’ll have some kind of private sector multiple standards mess for years.
In a dense urban center those two things are at odds. When you widen the highway, where are you getting that space from? Unless you're tunneling, you're taking it away from housing, businesses, railways, bike lines, sidewalks, or parks.
In the video demo they show a glitch in the iOS screen. For a fraction of a second the Recent Products carousel has height zero and we see the cells from the carousel below (try recording with slo mo camera to see it). An obvious programming error, and yet they chose that for the demo. It doesn’t exactly inspire trust.
I’m reading Zero to production in rust by Luca Palmieri. My goal is to have a small and cheap little open source app running on hetzner with good CI/CD and metrics for tiny money. I still haven’t figured it what to build though.
Ahem... I do not know how much USA average family cook but... Typically a home is not sealed: an old one without a VMC typically leak air from multiple places and both have people coming and going without Star Trek teleport so opening and shutting doors... That's to say even poor ventilated environment with normal gas cooking do not saturate enough the air of CO₂ and water to cause any symptom...

Small gas stove to heat maybe it's different, but cooking...
I've got this new strategy where I just leave a few books around the house and I've building a habit where I just reach for a book instead of my phone.

It's personally been quite effective, albeit very simple.

Funnily enough, I just finished a book without replacing it and I'm straight back on the phone :)

Anyone else try this?
People talk about cryptography, which has fairly terrible adoption rates outside of invisible systems like TLS, but in practice the way humans authenticate sources is heuristic: do I trust the person telling me this? Does it agree with things I already know?

That is, you have a "filter bubble" which tells you that there isn't going to be a Nigerian prince with some money waiting for you (unknown sender, unlikely message). Reduced cost fakes force people to make their filter bubble smaller by raising the threshold for faking. More broadly, the question of "high trust vs. low trust" society.
If DRM is still needed (no idea) then you'd expect an official product to support it. I can't think of a use case where lack of DRM support by the camera could possibly be a problem for you.
And the paper is here:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.08658
Given that digital signatures have been around for decades, yet banks, the government, and the legal system still treat signed (and potentially notarized) physical paper or scans of it as the gold standard, and SMS-OTP as a close second, I wouldn‘t hold my breath.

All digitally approved contracts I‘ve ever encountered were e-"signed" (i.e. me emulating a paper signature at a computer), not digitally signed, due to lack of a mutually trusted public key infrastructure.

In that sense, I would be sad but not surprised if we instead moved to a system of "trusted recording devices", where scanners, cameras and microphones by some vendors are defined to be trusted, signing their outputs and leaving the underlying workflows (signatures, recordings of verbal affirmations etc.) largely untouched.
Is it doing some Harry Potter or Ghostbuster magic?

Also, pressure cookers have a vent on the top and blow the steam up.

Also what happens to spillages? Edit: they do say this - "If anything is spilt during cooking, the integrated tray safely catches both solids and liquids." - yeah that's gonna go well.

Like another commenter says, this is total garbage.
AFAIK nothing ever happened to the political parties that use these tactics. But I'll be happy to be corrected.
It's not so simple. For one thing, it's a very old city that is already full of buildings. Unless you want to raze buildings and rebuild (the most extreme form of gentrification, and also the way to ruin the historical charm), there's really not place to build new housing. You have to go quite some distance from the city center to find space. And then you need a lot of new transportation infrastructure to make it attractive/possible to get from the new available housing to the city center.

And just as it is difficult to build more housing in an already full city, upgrading or building new transportation infrastructure is very difficult and costly (and disruptive for years to the people currently living there).

There's really little that can be done to balance things. When "everyone" decides that Lisbon is cool (and it is!), they all want to visit. So naturally any apartment or building owner who can convert from local long term rentals to tourist short term rentals (at many X the price) will just based on the profit potential.

And when property companies realized this, they began buying whatever they could - both as a good long term investment in the real estate itself, and for pretty great tourist income.

Many places in the US and elsewhere in the world have the same problem.
> Is there any other sensible goal function for a text to speech model?

Yes: to transfer information aurally. And the models are there, and have been for quite some time. They can simply stop with the trying-to-fool part.
- Hey Janelle, what's wrong with wolfie? I can hear him barking. Is everything okay?

- Wolfie is fine dear. Wolfie's just fine. Where are you?
At the business / management level, who decides to green light a project like this and what are their reasons? Is it regulatory obscurity or denying the competition easy understanding of the code?