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> Legislation should be put in place so that features not requiring a connection shall work offline.

I'm afraid that in most cases that is just impossible, because the service is essentially all in the "cloud" by design.

Perhaps the company should be forced to sustain service for a minimum warranty period like in the EU with their 2-years minimum legislation, which has cost repercussions onto the user.

But really in most cases the problem is that it's so accepted to be sucked into subscription deals where the company can change their end of the deal at a moment's notice, and where you might just lose a lot of invested time and effort, let alone data and privacy, and essentially nothing of that can be properly compensated.
Launch scrubbed due to lightning risk. Next launch date is is same time tomorrow (to be specific, one minute earlier for some reason).
It does require more than a few hours, but certainly starting with a few hours of video to understand the basics of automotive engineering is incredibly useful when you want to learn to fix cars. I taught myself years ago starting with a basic Time-Life book and worked my way up to factory technical manuals and research papers. I learned the theory first from books and then the practical later by getting my hands dirty and eventually being mentored by others who knew what they were doing. What I discovered from this path is that many of the mechanics out there have never really learned the first part, and while they're good at repairing what they know, they get stumped when they actually have to diagnose something new because they do not understand the underlying theory.
Custom Bluetooth Adapter Brings 1990s Car Phone Back Online
I'm involved in building a backend right now for which I chose to use AWS ECS with Fargate containers for deployment, over some managed Kubernetes service like AWS EKS which would have been my first choice. Using ECS has been dirt cheap (<$5pcm) whereas AWS EKS is ~$75pcm per cluster, before you even start running any containers. I'm not completely sure it was the right decision as it's involved having to spend time getting familiar with ECS, but it seems to work well enough and cheaply for something which isn't making money yet. I probably could have provisioned a Kubernetes cluster myself using something like kops but didn't want to deal with the headache.

Another one is using Heroku (~$7pcm) over Vercel (~$20pcm) for deploying a simple website/CMS for a business (and therefore not eligible for Vercel's free hobby tier). I initially wanted to use Vercel but Heroku is actually fantastic if you're developing solo and don't need all the bells and whistles Vercel provides.
It's worth pointing out that once you reach Google size and domination you can pretty much do whatever you want*. Things that if done by "ordinary" companies would destroy them or wipe out their customers/users overnight.

* Some limitations still apply.
It's also a liability issue. If a company allows tinkering with the software in the car it opens itself up to massive lawsuits.

If we have a right to repair here, we also need to see how to handle liability here. If you flash your own software on the motor controller and subsequently mow through a group of people because you forgot to do a plausibility check on the accelerator pedal value who takes responsibility then?

Even if you just get the original software, how do we ensure you flash it correctly?

If you get the schematics, how do we know used the right parts that are rated for 125°C temperatures.
Scientists challenge US wildlife director’s qualifications
I see. Well to clarify my point. I use slight missellings or concstinations or repetitions or specific word orders or layers of completely different concepts to great effect to pull and nudge the current image generators. This is just an intuitive feedback loop, that follows the logic of the images being generated, it's a new way to use language and letters. I can't imagine a llm can do this with purpose
I was wrong. I found something that resembled such a tiling, but was not, in fact, such a tiling. It was a fallback position. :/

If you do find any such thing, please let me know!
Why do you need stealth mode?
Your self-respect?

Honestly, going from contributing actual results, you are now just measuring results and browbeating intelligent folk into producing more results.

Simultaneously you find yourself trying to maximize your budget and minimize your deliverables to make numbers look good, while understanding that both these things are bad for the customers and bad for the stockholders.
Fatter chicken
I take it you're unfamiliar with the case law established in New York Times Co. v. United States (1971).
Good point. This may in fact be the thing that BYD expects to get out of the Toyota relationship.
My Gerd went away when I cut out anything that triggered it. Curiously, depression went better as well.

Sadly that left me with mostly meat and coffee
CoreML added to Whisper.cpp – x7 speedup
Did not launch today for the risk of lightning.
No, they are most certainly not GC roots, a fact you can actually observe in a program as described in the JEP (https://openjdk.org/jeps/444#Memory-use-and-interaction-with...).

If you want some more detail, when a virtual thread is in the runnable state, it is reachable from the scheduler (which itself is a Java object, and not a GC root); when it is blocked on a lock or IO, then the lock object or the IO mechanism must retain a reference to it, or there would be no way to unblock it. The thread object has a reference to the stack, which is a heap object (actually, it could be made up of several heap objects).

A thread that is not strongly reachable can provably no longer make progress -- it must be blocked but there's no way to unblock it -- and will be collected even if it has not terminated. It may live forever in our hearts, but not in the heap.
openai.error.RateLimitError: This app has encountered an error. The original error message is redacted to prevent data leaks. Full error details have been recorded in the logs (if you're on Streamlit Cloud, click on 'Manage app' in the lower right of your app).
I think that general routers, such as TP-LINK products, become obsolete faster than Google routers because they only receive one or two firmware updates with no significant feature additions during their product cycle.
You’re eliminating the “D” from “ACID” with these settings, and risk data loss on power failure and/or entire database corruption.

I can make a car go really fast if I eliminate the weight of having safety equipment on it like a bumper, seatbelt and airbag.
Any of their chat product ? Google Reader ? Cardboard ?

The list is much much longer, I'm surprised you're having a hard time finding them.
Adobe’s DreamBooth Clone Is 100X Faster and Obtains Better Results
A tooltip is a little pop-up text window that appears when a user moves the pointer over a UI element. Tooltips allow users to view more information about an element without clicking it.

With the growing complexities of modern UIs, tooltips help developers in many scenarios, like displaying product or image information, call-to-action buttons, and image descriptions. As a result, various third-party libraries are available to implement tooltips. But it is not easy to choose one since they all have unique features.

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I don’t think it is better than “the old guard” at all. I would agree with this piece (which contains examples to make the point), that all he’s done is boost ideas he likes hearing and suppress ones he doesn’t in nakedly partisan fashion: https://apple.news/ANuPT612pRca2DdolgCyu1g

And it does neatly summarize what I meant about the term “free speech” being abused: “ For them, free speech is when they can say what they want, and when you can say what they want.”
AIUI tinnitus is the name of the symptom, not a specific disease, and it's still tinnitus whether it occurs occasionally, frequently, or constantly.
Thanks, that makes much more sense
I think it’s because handles are so frequently shown in online interactions. AOL chat rooms at one point did allow people named “Dick Cuntpuncher” and so they wanted to clean up a bit as they went mainstream in the early 90s (and thankfully also did stuff like ban rampant child porn and other truly bad things).

I think it would be better to just have a sensible reporting mechanism and expect it’s probably easier now with enough trained modes to differentiate Scunthorpe from actual offensive names (although I don’t really care if people name themselves with curse words so I’m not offended).
Are you considering the use of the embedded dictation features of your operating system?
I work at Google so am perhaps biased, but that article is from 2019 and cloud is now a 20B/yr business and growing. Why does it keep coming up?
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io_uring it's not about batching. io_uring is about a new concurrency model based on ring buffers
In order to hash the string you need to access all of its characters, ergo O(n).

I agree with you that this sounds weird, but if you imagine arbitrarily long strings as inputs, and don't want to have a lot of collisions, you need to take into account all of the input string in the hash function.

In reality they are safely assumed to take O(1), but w/e the interviewer is looking for a specific answer.
Strawman.

I bought a router. I never expect any router to stop working because the manufacturer flips a switch.
I have noticed this as well sometimes, though never thought it might be intentional, I'd doubt it is. You can always hint to ChatGPT which language to use for the codeblock anyway though.
Can you be more explicit about what you mean? Also, the biggest difference is probably just the fact that MJ is using a much larger model than SD.
Cumming[0], or Graham[1]?

[0] https://www.exploregeorgia.org/city/cumming

[1] https://cityofgrahamga.com/
Lots of posts on HackerNews are adverts. That's what the "Show" tag is (partly) for. People aren't sharing their startups on here out of altruism, they want signups and conversions to paying customers. This isn't a show post, because the author didn't post it, and I don't think it's astroturfing. There are also plenty of posts for things that you can buy, because we (as hackers) think they're interesting. I think that kind of targeted advertising is OK.

On pricing, compare this to how much people charge for programming courses and textbooks. Not unusual for people to upwards of $200 ("Best Value!") for an ebook and some sample code. I have no idea who buys those, but presumably the payback is good enough and maybe for professional development it's worth it. For 14 hours of professionally produced content, even if incomplete, 22 Euros a great deal.
Are you making a claim about the past or today? If the former, public education had been established for close to a century already, so yes, I do have the expectation that levels of exposure would not be that much worse than today. If the latter then it doesn’t exactly explain why people have gotten better at it over time.
Carrying water for billionaires and trillion dollar companies is a common thing on HN.

So many threads are "Trillion dollar company did a shitty thing" ... "Yes, they have every right to do that, you shouldn't complain and it's your own fault since you should have known better and stop whinging on HN about it".

At least in this case, they may be Google employees.
Is it actually?

I think Tiktok is more of a risk to Facebook/Instagram, yet Meta is still doing just fine.
that's a ridiculous attitude.
Yes the problem is not only getting to Jupiter, it is stopping once you get there
It’s real and I mod the subreddit for it, nonironically. We had a problem for the first 10 years for people thinking it was a porn sub. But it’s just a bunch of suburban yuppies doing local Reddit stuff.
Richard Dawkins wrote in the Selfish Gene that across the animal kingdom, females and males can be distinguished by the fact that females always have larger sex cells. (E.g. eggs versus sperm)

This could be slightly off-topic since I can’t read the article.
That's a good question. I certainly am not willing to rule it out. If you had asked me 20 years ago if I thought algebraic topology was going to be of any use to physics, I'd have probably just laughed the question off. In retrospect, that seems a bit naive, since the Standard Model, mathematically speaking, is just setting up a Lie group and its corresponding group algebra, then turning some algebra cranks see what comes out, but I'm not so sure I knew that back then.

Someone once told me that mathematicians are frequently doing "the science of 100 years from now." I hope we don't have to wait that long to find out if design theory has a place in the Theory of Everything.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/1603/application...
Sure you can https://twitter.com/debarghya_das/status/1640892791923572737
The last thing Google wants is a shareholder lawsuit if they sell it at a discount to somebody else.
> complex interplay of genetics, environment, and prior experiences

for me personally, this is a "soft free will" distinction, i.e. we have true free will, but we're very unlikely to actually use it. the other one is the question of "hard free will", i.e. whether "god plays dice" and the fully deterministic universe.
I mostly used the Street View app to capture 360° spherical panoramas, offline, on-device.

Now that Google has killed the app, I can’t capture those photos! The app worked fine a month ago, why not let me use it, as it worked offline‽

No one seems to be talking about this issue.

I haven’t found suitable replacement apps to capture photospheres on a (i)Phone. The suggested Street View Studio doesn’t let you capture Photo Spheres!
It may also be useful for meetings, like in Kingsman.
Pretty sure LLMs can solve this particular problem. They have their own issues though.
In a pub years ago with some sort of early-internet online game available, guy trying to join got an error message because of the name he'd used: 'Geoff'
Clear worst has got to be whatever they rolled out that was worse than GChat. Just astonishing to go from best in class to unusable in one go.
How about the opposite? What products did Google create in the last few years that had staying power?
I work in a Go shop and we try to get rid of non-Go parts of our stack to make things simpler and more consistent.
I'm worried about the climate impact of economics, not the economic impact of climate change.

We could live with less, and we have to if we want to at least lessen the impact of climate change.

So we need to get a concerted effort going for degrowth in the world. But it looks like every country is still aiming for maximum industrialization and growth, which is understandable since it's individual optimization.
The reporter did at least some verification. Some of the subjects might be exaggerating a little but I think the story is mostly true. Some of them aren't writing code, they're using ChatGPT to write rough drafts of other content like emails and marketing plans, then doing some editing.
I wish I could still use Site Block, the predecessor of the Chrome extension Personal Blocklist. It was convenient because it could sync the sites I blocked with my Google account, so I could block them on my smartphone too.
Computing the hash of a string with n characters is O(n).

However, the whole discussion in the piece suffers from not taking into account the fact that words don't get arbitrarily long. Thus, insofar that for all practical purposes n <= 30, say, it is indeed O(30) = O(1).
$0.002/1k tokens, gpt4 is $0.03/1k tokens read and $0.06/1k tokens written.
It has started to monetise and Microsoft’s pockets are deep enough to cover the difference until profitability is achieved.
Ask HN: Subscription Strangulation?
Our company had a ton of services as subscription and due to the crisis, these are now one by one either cut entirely, or singificantly reduced to one subscription per company that is shared.

Is this whole buisness model not crisis resistant? Are there companies out there, giving up on subscription as a buisness model, pivoting back to selling "packaged" software versions?
But if you add the verification to the asking process you might as well just skip GPT altogether... It becomes a waste of time asking if you have to check every thing you ask it.
I've used Java since it came out and I have never used Maven
Disingenuous.

There's a bright distinction between natural wear of the product and remote shutdowns.

Analogy: I don't get outraged if my laptop's battery loses capacity or even swells over time. I do get outraged if I can't boot my laptop because it checked with some remote server that decided I'm not allowed to boot it.
Indeed, companies like VW, BMW, Mercedes, Ford, GM, Hyundai/KIA, Nissan, Honda etc are going to lose everything compared to a new entrant which doesn't have a single vehicle on sale in the markets where those brands have long been established players. They must be quaking in their boots. /s

The 2030 timetable is not going to be met by any single manufacturer, if it is going to be met to begin with. I suspect that it is going to be pushed backwards bit by bit as reality sets in: that it always was too ambitious a target to realistically achieve. And if they stick to it, which I would find very brave it will simply mean that the price of personal transportation will skyrocket and that older non BEVs will have to hang around a little longer.

There is so much that has to work for an all electric transition for every new vehicle sold in the next 7 years to be successful that I wouldn't bet on it. I think of it more as a goal to strive for than something that is realistically achievable, but of course I hope that I'll be wrong on this. Time will tell.
I bought an Otterbox case that has lasted 2 years and is only just now starting to show some wear and rubber/plastic separation. My Apple case was a bit embarrassing to pull out in public after only 6 months.
Now that you mention that...The mission will conclude with a crash on Ganymede. I guess from then on a bunch of Tardigrades will be the new population. Surprised they went with this decision.
I played Max Payne recently, and didn't find a way to fix the audio problems, other than that it runs great.
amateur radio [4] and Tor browser.

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_amateur_radio_modes
Maybe but I can tell that is not my case.
If I was to generalize my question beyond my circumstances it would.

What coatings should be used for roof and exterior walls for a well insulated building in in the mid forties latitude.

Snow has some insulating value so the heatloss is reduced. A highly absorbent roof might still be a plus. I'm currently trying to figure out the if I can put a thin layer of phase change material PCM on my exterior walls. The idea would be that the phase change would delay the reaction of the heat transmission through the walls. The building has a high thermal mass and it takes about 72 hours of a 15+ degree temperature difference to result in 4 degree temperature change of the interior of the building.
Modern commercial buildings can't use open windows for ventilation. The ventilation has to be provided by a mechanical system. I'm trying to optimize the building to maintain a consistent overall temperature range of 72-78 degrees. The summer is not a problem the heat pumps and solar array mean I only get 5 electric bills a year. I think that I can do a lot of optimization of coatings and solar thermal to get to net zero.
Apple Triples India iPhone Output to $7B in China Shift
I think it's quite unlikely that they will kill off GCP entirely. It's too established, and it is still growing at a rate of around 30-40% year-on-year [1].

What seems more likely is that they shut down an increasing number of individual sub-products, in the way that they are shuttering IoT Core [2]. If they do, then I'm not convinced that will be a bad thing -- a slimmed down, profitable, platform with a well-supported set of core services feels like a safe long-term partner.

[1] https://www.ciodive.com/news/Google-Cloud-Profitability-Alph...

[2] https://cloud.google.com/iot-core
What's the difference between the critic model and the reward model? In the diagram they show both.

EDIT: Is the idea that the critic model learns via the PPO process and gives a value estimate to prefixes of the responses?
syntactically you can learn lisp in ... an hour? the rest is about reading documentation
I think both things are true.

Googles results got stagnant and Google overall was complacent. ChatGPT is capitalising on this.
>Surely the people working at Google understand how all these shutdowns look to outsiders, right? I have to imagine so… they’re smart people, and a ton of them lurk here on HN.

Surely the people on Hackrnews understand that no one outside of tech enthusiasts even knows about this, right? I have to imagine so... they're smart people and surely sometimes interact with regular people in real life?!

But on a more serious note: none of these projects have ever had any traction. That's why they're killed!

Try asking anyone who's not in tech but does play videogames what Stadia is. You'll soon find out why it's axed.
Stable Diffusion XL is on the way, it's a bigger model, it's still training but you can try the last checkpoint on dreamstudio.
> MJ does really well with simple prompts.

Simple prompts can definitely get good results, but they tend to be much more generic than what you can get with complex prompts.
Nops. Trans "women" are not women. They don't meet any biological criteria for that, they can't operate functionally as woman. There are not trans-females in any other species, as this is exclusivelly a cultural and psychological phenomena in humans. As you said yourself, there's nothing biological about wearing dresses, thus, using a dress doesn't make you a woman.

As human beings, trans people deserve care and respect and the full set of human rights, yet, this doesn't include that we bend reality based on imaginary constructs.
one things that's missing is the ability to ignore politics. you have to know what hills to die on, when to enforce boundaries, when to back off, etc. also, having to make decisions, argue for them, and be accountable to them, without fully understanding all the details. I found these things to be far and away the most stressful parts of management.
Imagine we could build a dishwasher that didn't throw water on the floor?

Oh well, we got WiFi instead. That's fun, right?

If a dishwasher needs a firmware update, I might simply argue it was defective. Not everything needs to be secure or updated constantly. It shouldn't have network access to begin with.
Not just that: Imagine OpenAI going to court and establishing the legal precedent that makes their own product illegal.

So OpenAI can claim whatever they like, there is no way they will ever pursue legal actions, unless their intent is to (intentionally) lose the court case to establish the precedent that it is okay to train on random data you scraped from the internet.

We would also get into a weird situation anyhow where it is hard/impossible to prove whether all/some/none of the information in a dataset is curated by humans. So in the worst case, we will have companies work with human curators (but secretly supplement with gray sourced materials) during their training. Just like how its hard to get 100% slave free coffee beans or cacao.
Emission checks for EVs?