skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a complete pain if you use a laptop as your daily driver. You don’t want the entire drive filled with photos, and using an external drive with Apple Photos is a PITA as the integration with iCloud doesn’t play nice if the drive isn’t reliably attached.

Apple would make a lot of lives easier if they made a tidy way of exporting images from Photos easier to automate. And while they are there, a photo file structure that wasn’t horrible, with photos names something like ‘date-time’.
Does it drain iOS battery in bg?
when windows?! seriously I want to try this baby out!
I just noticed email reactions. Quite annoying.
Belkin’s smart home brand Wemo is backing away from Matter
This is going to revolutionise office work.

If it works as advertised, we are witnessing the complete reshuffling of (office) work and unprecedented productivity increases.

I'm wondering about the future job market.

edit: livestream: https://news.microsoft.com/reinventing-productivity/
Someone figure out eGPUs for Apple Silicon, maybe a kickstarter?
I’ve been making a lot of stuff for my D&D buddies using Stable Diffusion. With hands, I basically brute force it. Using an A100 40GB on Colab I can generate ~28 or so (depending on the size of the prompt, Automatic1111 allows for prompts above the 75 token limit at the expense or more vRAM per image) batches in about a minute, filter those and look at the one with the best hands, then feed it back in using inpainting (so regenerating just that small space, not the whole image) and eventually get one set of good hands and 100 sets of bad hands. If you’ve got a mysterious sixth finger you just inpaint it off and add latent noise under the inpaint instead of the original picture (just a checkbox in the ui) and set your denoising to 0.80+ and it’ll replace the finger with the background pretty consistently.
> One of the races is “black”, but since most Africans are black, and all humans have African ancestry, the idea of coming up with a genetic basis for “blackness” is completely useless.

Proves too much: the idea of coming up with a genetic basis for "fishness" is also now completely useless.
Demo’ing your SaaS products to audiences
I am still running a HL-5250 DN which was released around 2005. Recently I've replaced the drum with an aftermarket part.

The only thing the irks me is the standby power consumption ~20W.
Yes that's exactly what I mean
A bit off-topic, but is there a list of these “Are We X Yet?” sites? I think I've seen at least five by now, and most of them were somehow Mozilla- and Rust-related, but are there others?
Still, seems like you move up. I'm over a decade in and still a shitty midlevel.
At $100 each, adding $1M to a small study of only 10000. And biasing the results by only including people willing to hand over their DNA. I'm not sure the net result will be improved science.
Conservancy v Vizio being the current on-going one, this time they are suing for compliance as a third-party beneficiary of the GPL, rather than copyright holder:

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html

Sounds like John Deere might also need to come into compliance:

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/mar/16/john-deere-gpl-vi...
In fairness, who can time a market?
I have driven a TM3 for a year now. For me it's way less annoying then sitting into a car with sea of buttons.

It has been one of those "it would seem annoying until you actually get to try it" experiences.
Really great list, congrats on the success with ZipX. Great examples of Nelson Mandela's quote "I never lose. I either win or learn." in practice.
My bad! Original comment is corrected. Here's a link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.grapheneos...
I don't think this works... It looks like FetchPersons is free in the body of the receive, and I can't see any indication of the synchronization points in the actor. I mean, maybe every function in the actor is implicitly synchronized, but that's... a choice, and I think it needs other changes to work around that fact.

I actually tried to get Chatgpt to help me design a new language feature for C# and it was useless. Basically just gave me existing C#.
Related:

100 Days to Offload: https://100daystooffload.com/
I just send the bot a private message, solves everything.
This is a really great list. I see that you're constantly doing many things at the same time, do you ever feel like you're spreading yourself too thin? I wonder if you could benefit from focusing on one thing as opposed to working on many things at once.
Have you ever been to a bar?
> Could lead to a world that's even more tilted towards politics and socially engineering your way up the ladder, versus competence and skill.

The skill and competence of the coming world will be in prompt-writing.
What is psychosis defined as, and how is it any worse than the effects of excess alcohol consumption?

On 30+ years, I have never seen someone get violent from cannabis, but with alcohol, it is a regular occurrence.

Worked at a hotel when I was younger too, and you can bring me a hotel full of people high on cannabis, and the worst they ever did was buy a ton of snacks.

Alcohol, on the other hand, was responsible for noise complaints, broken televisions, furniture, sexual assault, violent assault, cops being called all the time, etc.
I think this is mostly the culture of "should". In our highly individualized society that glorifies self ambition, the list of things we "should" do are endless. However, when we say "I should go to the gym", we're not saying "I value my personal health and wellbeing and am convinced the gym is a path to that", but rather, "Society/friends/family/work might value me a little more if I do this" or "society may value me less if I don't do this". Not too much different from when we buy vegetables at the grocery store because we believe we "should" eat them, only to see them rot away in our refrigerator until we have to throw them out. The saying part is the easy first step, but our values are not in-line to follow through. In the end, "should" is just a mild-ish form of shame and shame is often a terrible motivator for long-term change.
> The problem here is that yes the occasional errors demonstrate certain flaws in it's understanding of some topic.

No, they demonstrate that the machine does not understand.

> The issue is there are many times where it produces completely novel and creative output that could not have existed in the training data and can only be formulated through complete and understanding of the query it was given.

What have you done to eliminate the possibility that it assembled the words algorithmically and the solution generated is something the reader constructed by assigning meaning to the text response? If the answer "can only be formulated through complete and understanding of the query it was given" then you must have eliminated this possibility.

> Understanding of the world around us is not developed through the lens of a singular model or a singular piece of understanding. We build multiple models of the world and we have varying levels of understanding of each model. It is the same with chatGPT. The remarkable thing about chatGPT understands a huge portion of these models really really well.

Where is the evidence that chatGPT understands a thing?

> There's literally no way it could do the above without understanding what you asked it to do. Read to the end. The end demonstrates awareness of self, relative to the context and task it was asked to perform.

Thats an interpretation of the text output that you assigned based on what the words in the text mean to you. I could just as easily say that Harry Potter is self-aware.

> Yet people illogically claim that for some other topic because chatGPT failed to correctly model the topic it therefore MUST be flawed in ALL of it's understanding of the world. This claim is not logical.

I don't think you understand what we're discussing.
"In the months ahead..."

They've not shipped this. They're planning to. You're reading a marketing piece about work in the pipe. Like so, so many other company product "launches" in this space that are "already testing with a small group of whatevers".
It's a fun Rust thing. People stand up websites to expose a high level view of Rust's ability to fit the needs of a given field and to inspire and encourage faster work.

- https://areweasyncyet.rs/

- https://www.areweguiyet.com/

- https://areweideyet.com/

- https://www.arewewebyet.org/

A whole list: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Areweyet
Did they put in work specifically to improve hands and other failure cases? Or is this purely a side effect of a generally bigger/ better model?
Synology.
Rsync images to it, upload to Backblaze at midnight and alerts set up to come through on failure.

Not cheap, but it’s a beautiful thing.
The public health case for restrictive regulation of alcohol is actually much stronger than for marijuana
For one thing, people are really lazy (especially when they smoke a lot of weed).
For another enforcement is kind of pricey.
I am aware of people who had federal helicopters land on their property to machine gun down their grow operations. I would guess that a helicopter full of highly paid federal agents backed by even more highly paid lawyers costs more than they guys would make in a few seasons.
A bit disappointed they didn't call it Clippy.
For Mozilla

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Areweyet

For rust

https://github.com/UgurcanAkkok/AreWeRustYet
Having used Amazon photos for a long time, I have had a bunch of issues. It is certainly (in my mind) not a replacement for Google photos, but is a possible second repository / backup.

Advantages: unlimited full resolution backup

Disadvantages: Poor facial recognition Unable to manually add tags Poor folder /album management Android app has stopped uploading photos and support hasn'tbeen able to fix it Upload from PC only using their app (which isn't great) Upload from PC has "lost" the database and subsequently uploaded at least 2 versions of the just under 1TB / 50k images / videos from my family

The result is that actually finding or doing anything with the photos in the storage is not very easy, but at least everything is backed up there!
I actually just leave the other stuff in autopilot and focus on the next one entirely unless I see it isn't working out.
Once the precedent is set with TikTok, it seems so.
She was easily winning polls of the members. The idea that conservatives are racist is a left wing slur, not reality. She lost because she is too conservative for the Tory MPs, who are well to the left of the party membership.

https://conservativehome.com/2022/07/16/our-next-tory-leader...
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Areweyet

https://github.com/UgurcanAkkok/AreWeRustYet
Here is a list of "Are we X Yet" lists from Mozilla: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Areweyet

The only non-mozilla "Are we X Yet" I know about is "Are we distributed yet?" which tracks various P2P features in the browser, many in connection with IPFS: https://arewedistributedyet.com/
Bad? It works nicely, at least on iPhone.
Very cool - will check this out
That's kind of my concern as well. I feel like there is already a decline in thinking, but currently I can at least tell that it's the case.
Clippy + execuspeak = a new corner in Office Space hell.
I know that driving while high accidents happen, but I have never heard of anybody being ran over by a high driver.

Alcohol on the other hand...
It’s another scam from VW. Why? VW Up electric is more expensive than ID.2 being one size smaller. There is Dacia Spring, basically rebadged electric vehicle from China going for 23k right now. There is no way for VW to build anything for <€25k. Vaporware.
The Province of Ontario made half a billion in cannabis revenue last year from legal sales. There are provisions allowed for private growing. Some people go beyond and grow more than they're allowed, but this has been a huge success, financially, for the government here.
I can't wrap my head around why companies do this. If you find a competent programmer whose work is good enough to use, wouldn't your team be better off if you hire them full-time? That seems more efficient than interviewing 200 people every time you need some code written.
A gun can itself be used to block a bullet, or to shoot down an incoming bullet, but they're both near-impossible to pull off. It's much easier to use the gun to shoot the attacker before they shoot you, or even better by its mere presence deter the attack in the first place.

This makes economic sense: it's expensive to armor every vulnerability and cheap to exploit just one.

I don't see a reason that AI would be different from guns or missiles in this regard: offense (or the MAD threat of it) is the best defense.
It's nice to see a manufacturer that realizes an EV is a drivetrain, not a lifestyle
Yellow could be used to start the sequence in reverse order. You are stopped at an intersection with a red light, light turns yellow for a brief time indicating proceed with caution as the cross street has just had its green light go directly to red. The brief yellow turns green allowing cautious transition of cross traffic right of way, instead of the regular use of yellow which seems to induce a lack of clarity on what to do, accelerate or decelerate. Green directly to red makes it very clear what to do, stop or maintain velocity. The grey zone still exists but it is on the new flow to proceed with caution instead of just, green=go. Rightly this would be rejected as it wacky, but wow t-boned accidents are horrendous and people really like to game the yellow light in a reckless way. How can we move towards caution.
How will they get the data to train the model. They have everyone’s documents, and could potentially produce amazing results. But how will they protect against content leaks?
You're probably right, but that's depressing! I found this vision more hopeful.

Nothing is set in stone, it's ultimately up to us as humanity how we integrate AI into our civilization, at least to a point.
<blink>NO AI BADGE CLUB < blink>
Microsoft press release: https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/blog/2023/03/16/intr...
A battle royal is brewing over copyright and AI
Conservancy do GPL enforcement and you can donate:

https://sfconservancy.org/donate/

Their lawsuit against Vizio is especially interesting:

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
What drives you? Is it money, general problem-solving?

I must be wired differently because I cannot understand how someone can try so many things in so many different industries without being driven by a mission beyond financial wealth. I have friends who are like this and I don’t get it.
It must be the combination of the complex, dynamic shape, and our high sensitivity to hands that look ‘off’. There are many other things that are hard to draw accurately but where we are completely convinced by very cartoonish representations.

That gives hands a very wide uncanny valley that is hard to cross.

Surely this is because hands are one of the most versatile and useful parts of the human body? We probably have a lot of brain cycles dedicated to modeling them.
it's not common, but not very rare either, that we go to view an old set of pictures on Google Drive and find some of them are corrupt and cannot be displayed. I've never reported anything to Google, because I don't really have any evidence to provide. All I know is, we didn't upload all these 'corrupt' photos 5/10/15 years ago.

and I do not have backups of them all (which is on me)
System prompt:

>>> You're a strict yet lenient manager, you have very high expectations from your reports, while making them feel like they are part of a bigger family. every email you write should reflect this.
Yes, sorry for the very British phrase!
In Seattle, we recently had a high driver hit-and-run, killing a cyclist, going 30 mph over the posted 25 mph speed limit.

> Documents also show Yusuf was identified on Ring camera and audio behind his house telling someone he was driving "55mph," several admissions he made in his social media feeds, including searches for "hit-and-run death of cyclist," "how long does marijuana (weed) stay in your system?"

https://www.q13fox.com/news/suspect-identified-and-charged-i...

Weed doesn't magically make people safe drivers; it's still driving while intoxicated and it's still dangerous.
If you couldn't tell, I literally couldn't get a job...
You don't ban something important without viable alternatives, that's just obvious. If we need alternatives, then you fund research or scaling of the alternatives first. That's what we've done with wind and solar and now they're super cheap.
Show HN: AppShots – App Store Screenshot Creator Launch
Fairly unrelated I guess but I'd love to work on navigation software of some sort. I worked on a project involving it in project and had quite a lot of fun with it, something very gratifying about making something useful for day to day.

I did apply to citymapper at some point to no avail unfortunately.
The decades old poison of Micro$oft: Embrace, extend, and extinguish.

On the hardware level, it feels like computing just has gone back to the era of mainframes. Hopefully the era of PC soon comes and everybody can start running their own "PC" for fun.
Exploring a Twitter Network with Memgraph in a Jupyter Notebook
>Maybe they didn't stop, but they're converging towards zero. In the past hundred years, artists were coming up with a lot of things that had not existed for all of humanity.

How do you distinguish this from survivorship bias? There were probably tons of shitty artists 100 years ago but you haven't heard of them.

> It's no coincidence that most image generation prompts have an existing artist or style in them.

I've been thinking about this. I don't think it's evidence that anything is getting worse, because a lot of the prompts people use are referring to recent artists/styles. Is it possible that leaving out the style/artist leads to an average of every style which doesn't really work?
I would absolutely rather walk into an actual shop than order something online and hope it arrives as described, or hang around for 30 minutes looking dodgy waiting for a dealer to show up
Nimble makes the leap to fully automated 3PL warehouses
That's not correct, based on my experience. Yes, you could copy-and-paste the "results" page, but that contains the answer, so it's no good for sharing. To get the actual "share" text (using Chrome on Windows 11), I had to open an email client when prompted and then cut-and-paste the text from the email the game created.
Reporters asked ChatGPT which 10 stocks to pick
Surprise, #1 is MSFT
I wish I could use Rust with the Unreal Engine.
That’s a pity. As an investor I’d love to buy shares of Stripe, Epic, and other unlisted companies.
Author here! It's been incredibly interesting seeing what GPT-4 can do for education.

Given some of the recent announcements from Duolingo, Khan Academy, etc., I wanted to see if it would be difficult to build something. This isn't an app but all the prompts are available so you can learn your own languages with GPT-4 via ChatGPT.

If anyone else is working on education projects in this space, I'd love to chat with you.
I almost get that, but the more I think about it the more unreasonable it sounds.

If I put 1 bullet in a revolver and spun the chamber, would I feel afraid to pull the trigger with the gun to my head? I wouldn't really know that I was in danger, just that there was a chance... Yet I would be afraid, and really should be.

Maybe the difference is that other people wouldn't put the risk of ruin at 1/6. Or perhaps it's just the "black swan effect" (the human tendency to treat improbable events as impossible).
But people won't smoke a pack of joints a day. Only, like, one per week or so.
Probably drawing hands is just 'prime factorization' for visual arts.

It's pretty easy to spot when something is wrong but pretty hard to get them right.
Imagine in a heated email thread, you answer without checking what the AI outputs, and it's something like pre-lobotomy Sydney would say when confronted (Nobody likes you. I hope you suffer. I hope you die alone. etc). Lmao.
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I think it's quite a lot of them! But both vehicles are designed to absorb a lot of energy in this scenario.
You're speaking vaguely enough that it's not clear what you're referring to. I didn't see any very personal information.
I completely agree. I am going to try to go to the local bank today and demand my money. Will update with what happens.
I've had mine for two years and the range estimate from the guessometer has not really changed. Range divide by battery fraction with climate off. I don't quick charge.

I did have a coolant pump fail which got fixed under warranty.
I've test driven a Model 3 and Model Y, they are the cheapest-feeling cars I've ever been in.

Both driving them and being inside them as a passenger, the quality and finish are that I'd expect from an extreme budget car, like an early-2000's Kia. I would much sooner trust any established brand over Tesla, even other American makers with their own reliability and quality issues.

I don't have any experience owning them, so I can't speak to the numerous reported issues with repairs and reliability, other than to say I've seen others complain about them ad-nauseum. After seeing stories about people fighting for months and eventually having to beg Elon Musk for help over Twitter, I would not want to be stuck with one. Even if the ID.2ALL has issues, I do have far more confidence that a company like VW would do repairs and maintenance in a timely manner.
AWD is more complex and most people don't need it (do you really?) so the engineering cost isn't spread out over more units sold.
ChatGPT opened my eyes to the fact that we already should have been wondering about it.

I tried using ChatGPT to generate answers to some requests to my team, and it created the most plausible wild goose chase answers I could ever imagine. They would be a terrible waste of time for anyone who received them.

Then I started to notice how many of the emails and requests I get are just as bad! Plausible sounding answers directing me to teams that don't exist, or telling me to read documentation that doesn't apply to the question I asked. Asking questions that seems specific but have fundamental contradictions that make them nonsense.

With people's limited knowledge and time and lack of attention and care we already live in the world of plausible bullshit hallucinated nonsense.
I've been enjoying the iOS photos widget. Every day it surfaces new photos from the past, based on different themes. A nice 2 minute diversion each morning.

But you're right, otherwise I would never have time to dig back into old photos.
Would the public health case be due to alcohol’s effects on others, or one’s self?

If it is one’s self, then sugar, carbs, and sat fats are surely up there also.

Although, one could define healthcare paid by other taxpayers as an effect on others, and that would encompass everything.
Does your company only cater to people who speak German?
We already have students using AI to generate answers for homework and teachers using automation to grade it. I would say we are already there.
And https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1131
People are already training SD models on Midjourney output.
It doesn't look like a good match. Just walk away saying you're not interested.

As a company, you'll want to prevent this sort of scenario, but as the interviewee you really don't owe them anything so you can just say you're no longer interested.

If, for some reason, you feel compelled to improve their methods then you will have to succeed at their assessment in order to do so. It is a property of humans that to change a thing you have to be able to show you can handle a thing.
If somebody tried to screw you then backed out of it and you have proof, seems fair game to post it online, complete with the scammer's real name and affiliation. It might not be tactically prudent since that person might sue you in retaliation, by you are squarely within your rights to do it if you want, no "violation of privacy" here.