skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not called nipplebook for a reason, although that would be a perfect idea for a European startup
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A team of ex-Apple employees wants to replace smartphones with this AI projector
But why not? They weren't threatened with legal action (and if they were, the correct solution would be to undo the law that they were threatened with). They were attacked by the same moral busybodies who have been clutching their pearls over violent video games since at least I was a kid. The correct solution here is to completely ignore those people and keep ignoring them.
There is a Bible verse that says every deed done in darkness shall be named in the light. At times like these, I wish the deity who inspired it was a little more proactive.
I believe the better answer is "give me more detailed, and better yet, real context".
I'm fascinated by the parts of the article suggesting LLMs will face diminishing returns in terms of getting larger.

Once you've memorized the entire Internet, you can't really continue to increase the model size and get any benefits, right?
What on earth would native Wayland bring you, as an Ardour user?
Yes, all the persons in various databases that are born on January 1st 1900 (or 1970) because their birth date is unknown will agree...
Ultimately I support the change but, however self-interested it may be, their argument is probably true that people will get social engineered into side loading stuff they don’t want to.
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Only if "mobile" equates to "iPhone". And even then, it ran; it was the rendering engine for the old iPhone Youtube app. Lord Jobs simply didn't let it into the App Store for fear it would displace all the native games like iBeer.

Flash ran on Android natively; even ran on Windows Mobile 6.5, for those who remember it. It was Adobe that ended support for it, as Google also didn't want them competing against the Play Store.
Naturally this bill designed to strip our privacy is named after the song from Fifty Shades of Grey.
As an ignorant sack of shit, albeit an inquisitive one, can you elaborate on your comment about the Paris Morgue for me?
I just told it to generate an HTML page listing 10 science fiction novels, linking to Amazon and listing the ISBN and price for each. It just worked. I told it to write a small C program to open a window with SDL2. It worked, although it didn't include the event loop, which it might have if I specified. People are already using it to generate code, check logs, and automate all sorts of other tedious tasks, you can just check HN to find lots of examples of people finding legitimate use cases for LLMs.

I mean, I get a lot of the moral arguments against it - particularly where image generation is concerned - but we're well past the point of wondering whether it's even actually useful, it just isn't useful for everything at the moment. But yes, it is useful. It doesn't have to be perfect - humans aren't perfect. Humans "hallucinate" working code and truthful data all the time. But something that's adequate for a lot of tasks and which will get you most of the way there for a lot of other tasks is still useful.

Edit: I asked it to generate an svg image of a smiling cat face against a white background and... it wasn't so great. I asked for one of the Nike logo and it seems to have hallucinated an external link to a wordpress site. I told it to only use valid urls and it gave me this:

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" width="200" height="200">
<rect width="200" height="200" fill="#FFFFFF" />
<image xlink:href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Logo_NIKE.svg/200px-Logo_NIKE.svg.png" width="200" height="200" />
</svg>

So yeah, not bad.
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And 3 steps after that you’ll have to go live off grid in a cabin in the woods.

As romantic as it sounds, the one single purpose for for-profit companies is to produce shareholder value, and very few of them see shareholder value in keeping a legal department specifically designed for fighting constant and endless attacks on our privacy.

Much more profitable to do anything else instead.
I believe the term for this kind of argument is "whataboutism."
Tiny Language Model
What if there was a tiny language model to help explain large language models?
This is why the Chinese pity western "democracy," and it's quite easy to see where they're coming from. Of course, it's well established that the US is merely an oligarchy with a massive domestic propaganda operation.
Just drive a stick shift.
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Humbly suggest that HN converts these types of temporal event posts into megathreads a la reddit so there is one root to the discussion, and down-weights one line replies that are simply repeating the sentiment of the original poster ('happy X to you too', etc).

Don't know if that is possible of course. I think the HN readership would welcome a way to use a post to explore cultural aspects, ask respectful questions, etc, but dont need a slurry of one line celebrations.
Good to see initiatives like this one popping up. Congrats on the launch Giskard team!
No religious flamewar on HN, please. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's the rest of the world's own decision to use US websites. If I went to a China-based forum, yeah I'd expect censorship about Xi Jinping. But using Midjourney??
Sure but it's not about starter motors - these batteries power 400kW motors, that's a lot of power.
Arguably could have saved the world a lot of man hours if that vision had prevailed.
I think it comes down to those that categorize Flash's use cases as either white-hat or black-hat.

Some will remember Flash-based banner ads and video sites, that often had malware; that's black-hat Flash.

Many others will remember Flash for the games, cartoons and experiences that were non-commercial in nature and thus were malware-free.
How in the hell does one not make a profit when literally all they do is skim off the top of unlicensed taxi drivers, using an already fairly functional product?
I absolutely love this.

However... I was wishing the recreation had been done in software rather than in Photoshop.

I was hoping that some clever image processing would result in a Github Repository of a program that could take any photograph of a pixel image, and reproduce the original pixels. Handling all of the distortions along the way...
No it didn't, you're referring to an article on Wikipedia explaining how a battle was lost. I was saying how the war was won. Eventually every single insurgency leader and their field commanders were eliminated and nowadays Chechnya is part of Russia, and Chechen military forces are fighting on the side of Russia. If that's your definition of Russia's losing then I don't envy Ukrainian military command leaders.
Remember the PATRIOT Act?
Are people really still stuck on the whole self-help thing in 2023?

Striving for continuous improvement can be a horrible treadmill that just keeps you sad because you are never good enough. It's a repackaging of your own awful stubbornness sold back to you. Inevitably you will have to stop self-flagellating and ruminating endlessly or you'll never be able to enjoy your life.

Mistakes are not proof that you need to improve or evidence of what you do or don't know. They're just proof that you're human and aren't foolishly consistent. You can't create much without some enjoyment. If your ego still wants you to be the greatest that ever lived, that's ok go for it, but what it takes doesn't seem to be what many think. It's not how much effort you put into your work, but the thoughtfulness that comes from a state of flow that you can't will into existence consciously.

Examples are everywhere. Every celebrity, all star athlete, politician, genius, etc. all have flaws and they wildly succeeded despite that. Many of them are obviously bigger pieces of shit than you, or you wouldn't be obsessed with what the media says about them, right? So? Live life and get away from the messages sold to you.
> Worse, by fighting the issue so loudly and for so long, Apple has actually given the issue way more publicity than it would ever have received otherwise. It has turned what would otherwise have been a boring technical detail covered only by the Apple press into a mass-media news story. Apple has effectively contributed to its portrayal as a bad guy, with zero benefit to the company.

I can only agree with this conclusion. And I'm still somewhat surprised Apple would so intransigently do something that makes them look so utterly stupid and bad.
Those companies were doing layoffs a year ago. It sort of started there and has moved its way up. Many A/B companies are starting to pick it back up now and there’s actually a nice pool of talent available.
I did not know this. Is it for theft prevention, or more like a deterrent to e.g. would-be clandestine arms manufacturers. I'm aware CNC machines can be quite pricey, but they otherwise seem like an impractical target for theives. At least a tractor has wheels.
Documentary covering all of this: https://youtu.be/zc62rt-gafc
It's pretty weird that Windows drives use random letters instead of just the name of the disk.
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That is nonsense, the toolkit is like a million lines of code, constantly falling further behind. GTK2 doesn’t support a modern Linux machine well (Wayland, hidpi, GPU rendering).
Interesting, I was able to get a couple months when I switched jobs a while back. I think recruiters probably figure the longer the window, the more chance you go do something else instead.
I guess this is not really developer-friendly, but I only want to sideload apps with their source published on github.

And in that case, I can download, sign, package, and load the app on my phone myself.

I cringe every time I check the "allow packages from unknown sources" option on an Android device.
It’s a device for convenience. I want the critical functions work well. If you can make that work in an open system, great but I haven’t seen that being successfully done.
> AOHell

Early gateway drug for me too.
I wonder if that was ever considered as a possibility at Microsoft. They had proven the camel was capable with Win32 stuff in their build process.

Maybe it was considered technically by some of the programmers, but swiftly quieted by PMs.
There's zero chance Facebook removes themselves from the App Store in the expectation that their users will sideload instead.
EVs are amazing already. Great performance, quiet, convenient for many use cases. How are ICE cars getting 'shittier'?
Here’s the link to send an email to your local representative. It’s a pre-filled form and takes less than 60 seconds to complete:

https://act.eff.org/action/the-earn-it-act-is-back-seeking-t...
Our school is captured by google and schoology, so their dossier is already populated before adulthood.
I suspect things like this won't happen on their primary apps, but Facebook _has_ already done this on iOS with their Onavo VPN app. They incentivized people (including teenagers) to sideload the Onavo VPN app which would intercept their network traffic for "research" in exchange for a $20 gift card every month.

This was done using Facebook's enterprise developer certificate, which allows them to sign apps for internal use - Apple revoked the certificate as it was a violation of ToS to use it externally as they were.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/apple-bans-facebook-vpn/
This is a great initiative, but when it's such a simple functionality I wish it was shared as a TamperMonkey script instead of a browser extension.

It is much safer for the consumer as the browser extension will automatically update without ever notifying you, and can access everything on every page of every website. It just makes me uncomfortable.

I will port the code out tonight, but thanks very much for sharing!

EDIT: Here is the TamperMonkey script: https://pastebin.com/D555pGkj (sorry it's not installable in one click, I didn't want to share my GitHub account)
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I'm a bit younger than you, but I was visiting my mom a few weeks back, and found my old NES in some boxes she had saved for me (along with a few of the better games). Thanks to the composite connector, I managed to plug it into a modern HDTV and it worked just fine. My old copy of Zelda somehow even had a working save battery.

My mom made an offhand comment like "someone isn't sleeping much tonight."

The new games are more complex and realistic, but there is still plenty of joy in those old systems and games, especially for those of us who grew up with them.
Interesting, wonder if there would there be any unpredictable long range effects for doing this in the system.
Your comment proves what I'm saying. It's obviously name-calling to refer to people's beliefs as nutty-crazy-idiotic. In fact the latter word is the canonical example the HN guidelines give for this: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Thanks for the interesting etymology!
> I'm sure some people here remember that classic MacOS paths used colon as the separator

In modern macOS (previously OS X), you’ll eventually bump into those if you need to work with paths in AppleScript. You have to specify when you’re using a POSIX path so it is properly converted. Example:

$ osascript -e 'POSIX file "/System/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/MacOS/Mail"'
=> file Macintosh HD:System:Applications:Mail.app:Contents:MacOS:Mail
It's always surprising how many times Facebook comes up in these conversations, even though Facebook has not said anything about creating its own store and Epic was the one that brought suit originally.

It's almost like a talking point that relates this policy to the bad name of Facebook was seen as being effective
> FEINSTEIN

Many years ago, I remember she supported a similar bill around limiting encryption. Around six months later, it was reported some government agency was spying on senators' emails, and she wasn't happy. I don't think she made the connection between the two, or that she supports widespread data collection when it's not her data.
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I donate to the EFF, is that enough, I don’t know but I feel like I’m doing something.
For apps that are genuine but behave as malware in terms of data collection I'm not sure it will be possible to build walls high enough to keep them out short of regulation, or that currently users aren't already unknowingly accepting those risks. As is for iOS apps while the user can opt out of their IDFA being shared other tracking methods other fingerprinting methods can still be used, Fingerprint.com/demo has a good demonstration. If sideloading stays prohibited I'm not sure what would stop Facebook from migrating to a browser only version.

Over the long term I'm not sure there's a good solution other than legislation arriving at some "acceptable" level of tracking, given how crucial expanding tracking is to social media companies.
So do I, I find the addressing more consistent, too.

It used to be completely predictable when I was working with drivers on 1994 (patching the code), then less predictable when hardware for more diverse, and predictable again (or at least "always the same") with UUIDs.

It was always amateur/hobby dev or sysadmin so I may have had the wrong impression.
confirm the roles are still actually open.

Sometimes companies just leave thise positions open for months.
SG1 also had some nice parodies in episode 200: https://youtu.be/whfMMfR4KKw
I don't know.

I live in the midwest and invest over 50% of my salary.

I'm in my mid 30s and have almost a million in investments already.

Meanwhile I have friends from college, same major etc, who live in expensive cities and work in the same industry and they barely have anything to save after the high costs of living there.
M.U.L.E.'s great, but in my case it's Zaxxon (believe it or not, on cassette :) and a cart version of Joust.
> I’m afraid these bans get systematically sabotaged by well funded ice lobby groups.

They'll be sabotaged by reality. Thinking ICE cars and gas stations will become a fading memory by 2035 is wishful thinking. Politicians get big headlines and praise for proposing ICE bans and such, but as the date draws closer the reality of "OK, maybe we're not quite there yet" sets in and the date will be pushed back again and again. There is a very long tail with ICE, and it's going to take a very, very long time to replace them. Wholesale upheavals of established technology are difficult.

For a noteworthy example in another domain, IPv4 has been on its last legs for how long now?
How the UK emergency alert system test has been years in the making
Crying in the iso-cubes will continue until morale improves.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/amazon-men...
I came here to mention Krebstar as well.
> the language you're reading this post in allows you to guess the sound of the words by the spelling

It is "a guess" at best, and that guess won't be correct most of the time, unless you know the word already. And when you don't, you'll be dealing with all kinds of Cansas/Arcansas and although/drought/through/bought/cough/enough most of the time.

In e.g. Russian or German, you can read the word from the way it is written and maybe miss the accent. In e.g. Spanish you can read the word correctly with the right accent most of the time. Even Korean is more phonetic than English - in English the best you've got is a guess.

Not unlike Mandarin, by the way.

Source: non-native speaker of English, also speaker of some other languages.
There are tools that can handle this, Liquibase is one that I have used.

You write a change set that describes the schema you want to build and it generates DDL for whatever database you are using. It can also reverse engineer a change set from one database that you can use to generate DDL for a different database.

I supported an application that ran on half a dozen different DBs and it wasn't much of a problem. There were a few places where I had to specify change sets specific to one database implementation.
And allow: Legal emulators, and alternative browsers (with their own rendering/JS engines)
The very poorest don't even drive and are also disproportionately impacted by pollution from driving. The strata above that buys used cars.
Sure, vetting apps can be quite efficient at preventing malware.

But if a sideloaded app can do significantly more harm than just visiting a malicious website (which a scammer can already direct a victim to do), maybe the OS is providing too dangerous (or coarsely-controllable) permissions via its APIs?
The change with IPv6 was more than a simplification of removing fragmentation (though that was welcomed since most devices didn't do it anyways). In v4 you had the option to probe, you had to the option play it safe with the minimum 576 bytes, or you had the option to assume it was a larger value. In v6 spec compliant clients must either use the minimum 1280 or probe, the ability to assume anything is no more. The only reason things didn't fall apart in IPv4 despite the rampant blocking of ICMP for "security" reasons is everyone started using TCP which has MSS negotiation and MSS clamping.
They never expanded globally like Uber did though so there is potential there, but with any marketplace, you need a lot of money to expand into a market initially because you need both riders and drivers and incentivizing use when you're new is expensive.
Subsidizing the rides
No, the parent comment says that living in NYC won't be important to the people in Cincinnati, and it provides little value as a bullet point in the resume of your life because of that reasoning.

That's not the point of living in a city like NYC for many of the residents here. No one here I know is planning on leveraging "10 years in NYC" to impress their neighbors in Cincinnati.
You make an enormous amount of money, far more than the average nonprofit CEO, and far more than basically everyone in the world with an important job. I'm not criticizing you personally, I am also overpaid compared to every other profession, I'm just saying that if you see an issue here it's not with W3C, it's with capitalism or the structure of society or something. This salary range is in line with, to give one example, the executive director of Doctors Without Borders.
Taxes in the bay area can be insane - ~40% if I remember correctly. On top of that you have crazy-expensive healthcare, and crazy expensive housing costs.

~100k€ in (western) Europe may be comparable to ~200k€ in Bay Area.
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This is why I generally skip over any "breakthrough" science/tech stories on HN.

News articles on breakthrough discoveries are mostly bullshit and even when they aren't, most of the time they don't affect my life in the slightest because the tech is impractical or expensive.

It may be interesting to read about science discoveries, but I don't want to take the time to sort out the bullshit from what's real just to find out that the breakthrough is irrelevant to me and society at large.
Pretty sure this is not possible due to patenting issues. It's not that they wouldn't want to do things in a similar way, it's that they can't.
You could say the same thing about extreme endurance sports. It’s not about looking down on other people. It’s about appreciating what you have and for one month putting yourself in the shoes of those for whom even one meal a day isn’t something they can take for granted.
Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_d...
Decades ago, the American media colluded to hide FDR's physical condition from the American public.

Many doubtlessly think this was good, because a physical disability shouldn't reflect poorly on his leadership abilities. But there is no guarantee that such collective blindness will always be done in the 'good' way, whatever that is.
I'll add my story to the list here:

One Intro to Physics (for majors and engineering) professor was the toughest and reveled in it. The class, in general, was a weeder class, so we all knew going in that it was meant to be overly hard.

The final though. My lord. It was hard, yes, but he put a little extra bit of psychological torture into it: It was a 'choose your grade' final.

In that, he had written four separate final exams. One was a D, one was a C, one was a B, and one was an A. You had to choose which final to take, and that would be the grade you got for the exam, providing that you passed that test. If you didn't pass you got an F. You could only choose one exam to take, no trying to finish the D quickly and then move up to a B.

I think only one person had the chutzpah to take the A level test. Everyone else struggled along with the Bs and Cs. Which, I unfortunately have to remember, were very difficult themselves.
"Legal" characters is a fun topic.

I realized at some point that there is a discrepancy between what's allowed on the file system, and "Windows" itself (or, more exactly, the programs running on Windows and using its APIs to communicate with said file system.

In this case, NTFS, totally allows for "illegal" characters such as < > : " | ? * etc... pretty much everything except / and \, and \0, I think.

This makes for funny situations, where sometimes Windows programs cannot deal with that. At best, they can't read, write or rename them... at worse they'll crash, which is always fun.
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