skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a big difference in earned trust. Waves has had scummy business practices for a long time - price gouging back in the day, and more recently, an "upgrade plan" that amounts to a barely optional subscription already. That is, unless you don't want bug fixes, M1 compatibility, etc.

They also have perpetual sales cycles that only serve to trick new customers into thinking the sale price is actually a deal and not just the normal price (this is not exclusive to Waves but they do it more broadly and more often than anyone else except for Plugin Alliance).

In other words, Waves is the used car salesman of the audio plugin world. Certainly not alone in that, but way less trustworthy than a big player like Apple. Who knows what they'd try to pull this time. THAT is the sentiment behind the recent uproar.
> Are we reaching the point of diminishing returns of what a reasonably sized (for our current rockets) space telescope can see?

No, not as far as I know (also a layperson). It's just that we've already seen the incredible leap of "there's nothing here" -> "there's things here". The JWST is still a massive leap in capabilities, but you aren't going to be as impressed at seeing intricate structures inside a galaxy that once appeared smooth. The JWST is truly a new era of exploring the early universe, but it might not have the same "wow" factor.
create an account on https://singlelogin.re/ (z-lib) and download books. 10 per day should give you a nice collection in 7 days.
I think people who only saw low quality picture of something shouldn’t draw conclusions.
I'm just thinking in terms of energy expenditure on the margin. Humans need more energy to sustain themselves, but for a given cognitive task, I imagine they need to expend less energy than slime mold - being able to solve problems by gathering photons and sending electrons down a maze is much more energy-efficient than having to move or grow your body, made of matter, to solve the same problem by touch alone.
> Governments don't spend,

Yes, they do.

> they invest.

Even if all government spending was investment, investment is just spending in the expectation of future return.

> It's not like there were trillions of dollars sitting around waiting to be spent.

It is literally exactly like that.

> The real tragedy of war is not that trillions were spent

True, that's not the real tragedy of war.

But that's because spending money isn’t tragedy (though the opportunity cost of the choice of how to spend it can be), not because government spending is not-spending, so the trillions spent on war are not-spent.

> Your argument of efficiency is inherently flawed. It implies that war is good as long as it's cost effective, which isn't true.

I thought the context was clear that I was referring to utilitarian justification, whether it is good is a differebt story, sure.
The risk of starting it in Fresno is that if you don't finish (which I think is likely), you are left with something of very little value srving few people with low need for rail.

If you start in SF or LA, you at least have a fast train serving an area with terrible traffic and a population of millions.
> There are dangerous places, but everyone you are working with will quickly let you know where they are in your area, and you can avoid them

People were randomly shot while they were walking out of a H&M in a premium outlet mall in suburban Dallas with a Whole Foods nearby. Doubt you can classify that as a 'dangerous place'. I do agree that this is not common in the USA.
irrevocable licenses are pretty different than subscriptions.
> Dense places do not have the tools to correct the problem themselves due to the coordination problems mentioned in the parent comment. It's a pure game theory situation where nobody wants to act first.

Nobody wanting to act first doesn't mean they can't correct the problem. It means they don't. The federal government doesn't need to be involved in this.
In the jetbrains you only get a perpetual license for the current version. You lose the year of updates.

Also why should companies do that? They could be leaving money on the table as people can continue to gain value from the perpetual version without you getting any compensation for that value. Also you now have to deal wind a fragmented user base on different versions. And the user community has to dear with not everyone supporting the same features and menu navigation as everyone else.
> Should Google delete all entries of anyone who at anytime passes within X feet/miles of an abortion clinic?

Should Google tell people they will proactively delete location data when people visited "particularly personal" places including abortion clinics if they didn't intend to keep their word?

Geofence warrants are a real danger and Google told the public they would delete their location history to protect people against this threat.

These warrants are based on GPS location, not how Google labels things.
Students often have information the school doesn't have in emergencies like where kids are trapped or sheltering and in need of medical assistance.
Economics in Austria are still strongly influenced by the legacy of Austromarxism [0] (the city of Vienna is the largest landlord in Europe) and, more recently, the Socialists under Bruno Kreisky [1], who built the modern welfare state.

Given this reality of economics in Austria, the term "Austrian Economics" also seems like a misnomer.

Maybe something like "Austrian Marginalism" would be clearer?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austromarxism
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Kreisky
Is that right?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/gun-violen...
But it can't read what you aren't sounding out in your mind. It can't determine truthfulness, and it can't find memories.

If you're playing a VR game, you probably aren't using your inner voice to articulate your secrets. Although if you are of great importance and interest to people with sufficient resources, they might be able to trick you into doing so in a game world.
They are saying correctly that we _can_ understand the learning of models in a continuous fashion, and that we do not need to assume that at some stage something different than at other stages happens. So no emergence.

This is massive because it means, for example, that you can study what is happening in these models with small ones that perform worse but are simpler to understand, and you're not missing something fundamental. I don't think they claim we already understand what is happening I these models though.

I don't know what exactly you are talking about with your academia bashing. If anything it seems to me academia is just as awash as everywhere else with barely substantiated AI hype. Disparaging and psychologizing critical voices just makes it seem to me like you might be missing the point of academia...
Apple puts physical input methods where it matters, such as the wheel and buttons on their watches.
Accelerometer and gyroscope are enough to do a pretty decent mapping of indoor locations without GPS and the like. Its all differential, so the longer it goes without a point of reference the lower the confidence is, but its possible.
I think it's three things:

1. Blur on slow objects, as you mentioned. Something moving 5 pixels per frame probably shouldn't have any blur applied.

2. Blur exceeding the distance moved per frame. If an object moves 20 pixels between frames, the blur should be less than 20 pixels wide. Ideally, I'd even argue that the blur width should be half the movement between frames. The example above of something moving only 5 pixels per frame probably shouldn't have any blur applied.

3. Blur on objects that are not moving relative to the camera. In a racing game being played with the camera above and behind the car, yes, the scenery should be blurred, but your car and the car right next to you that is driving the same speed as you should not be blurred. Though I suppose this is really just a special/specific case of problem 2 mentioned above.

Of course, there's one problem with all of this: the video game camera is supposed to represent your eyes staring strictly in one direction. When your eyes follow an object, the object does not blur, but everything else you see does. This means that if you're tracking an object on your screen with your eyes, that object should not be blurred. Unfortunately, this is not possible for games to do, because they don't know where your gaze is actually directed.

Finally, I can't close out this comment without mentioning the greatest offender when it comes to doing motion blur wrong: simply blending each frame with the previous one. There was an N64 game that did this, and my god it's horrible.
Why people correct climate change misinformation on social media
Manufacturing the JWST was already extremely challenging. Not saying we can't do bigger, but payload size isn't the only limiting factor.
The Danube Sinkhole
It is a book review, not a hit piece.
That the research here was mostly non-longitudinal really undermines how useful the results are.
Even though our society has this data, it’s just in Big Social’s data vault.
Would be nice if we could enforce them to let scienctists use this data for research.
Who cares about top-of-the-line updates. Adobe Photoshop features from 10 years ago is all I need for my use case, and probably anyone who's not using it every day. That's why they force subscriptions now.
no one else posted it afaik
As i said the only reason is money. Where I live is a safe place. Crime free (capital crimes) and it's been like that as far as i can remember
The first ad was just a crude drawing of a shapely woman with an arrow pointing eastward. Urgak thought his addition of a penis to the drawing would bring in more customers and in flash of genius Kalik devised a counting scheme a lot more flexible than the stones they were using. It turns out Urgak’s suggestion was statistically insignificant but they all agreed that they liked the addition of the penis so they kept his variation.
Thank you.

It has probably been worded as such for about 8 years and no one has corrected it.
> The idea here is to nudge cities away from car-dependence,

If that's the goal then this is exactly the wrong way to achieve it.

What you do instead is you start with a decent transport network and people gradually give up cars - most superfluous cars are second and third vehicles in the family and are there because there's no alternative.

If every household had just one car, the ownership rate would be less than 500 per 1000 people.

Personal anecdote: there's a town next to a hill about 30km from my place where I used to drive regularly - used to, because just 1.5km from my apartment there's now a train stop and a recently reopened line that goes every 1.5h.

Point-to-point the trip takes roughly as long, the tickets cost twice what I would spend on fuel to get there and you have to be punctual but I still pick the train because it's a nicer experience.

If someone tried to "nudge" people from driving there by reducing the number of parking spots, people would just not go there.

Bottom line is if you want to solve problems, solve them - not make them someone else's problems.
I'll pick up the app (I have it on my Mac), once I get an M1 iPad (which may be a while).

Give them some time to work out the bugs.
There is:

* https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.osmtracker/

... but I think it is perhaps a bit too trip oriented. It sounds like you want something more life oriented.

It is an interesting idea. With public key cryptography you could securely log and encrypt your every movement. Even if the phone was seized later there would be no access to the data. The private key required to decrypt the data could be kept on the phone encrypted with a strong passphrase or in a completely different secure location.
I built a DIY ice bath out of a large chest freezer. Big enough for me to fully submerge. Works like a charm. I use a large aquarium filter to circulate the water and an ozone generator to keep the water clean. With this setup, I rarely need to replace the water.

All it took was sealing up the inside of the freezer with silicone caulk to make it waterproof. Then drill a 2" hole in the freezer lid for the filter power cord and ozone generator hose. I put a PVC pipe gasket on the hole to seal it up and prevent any heat transfer. This also allows me to switch the freezer back to regular freezer mode if I no longer wanted to use it as an ice bath. According to my FLIR, there's no heat transfer when the hole is sealed. So the modification doesn't have any downside for future use as a regular freezer.

I use an Inkbird temperature controller outlet to regulate the temperature. The freezer is plugged into the controller. A temperature probe is inserted into the water. The controller will turn on and off the freezer to keep the desired temperature (45 degree F in my case).

Total cost is <$1,000 USD where a commercial ice bath is upwards of $10k. The only real difference between the two is the aesthetics and safety concerns. With a commercial ice bath, you can keep it plugged in. With a DIY ice bath, you need to unplug it whenever you're using it for safety reasons. Even with a GFCI, it's best to just unplug the whole thing when in use.
The monarch has a lot of power to vet many laws without the public even knowing it happened.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/08/royals-vette...
Heh, well, yeah, that's the plan anyway. We'll see if it survives "contact with the enemy", as the saying goes. I think years 12-15 are gonna be rough, but after that, like... if it matters that much to you, go get a job and pay for it? That seems totally reasonable to me. If they don't, guess it didn't matter that much after all. I figure if they're responsible enough to plan and get a job and save, they're ready for the phone—if not, they'd better grow in those ways, if they want one. I'm hoping this ends up being one of those Pro Gamer Moves where I force them to improve and learn something to get what they want, but who knows, may not work out.
I‘ve personally only experience 1 outage that effected me. And I’ve been using it heavily for the past year and moderately for years before that.
I'm not seeing how fascism can be said to have pioneered them, concepts of lese majeste - which, for a monarchy is essentially equivalent to the crime of dissenting against the government - have existed for centuries all over the world.
One thing that history teaches is that there are always people who will misuse technology for personal gain and to influence or control other people. Always. Human nature hasn't changed.
Exactly, global poverty and inflation makes it easier for money-havers to control what population at large puts effort towards. We're all slaves, just on a much bigger scale.
Just highlights that Bitcoin still cannot scale and is even more useless and is an environmentally worse solution for tokens than Ethereum is.
> Is anyone else tired of the snobbery, condescension and down right hate around this topic

Isn't it the logical response to the fanaticism, ubiquitousness and down right obsession that seems to dominate forums like HN and Reddit?

I can't think of anything that could make a topic less interesting than fanboys making every other topic be about that. Every conversation has a "here's what chatgpt said" comment on it.
Yup, it's been long known that some state actors, like Russia, do that, usually by amplifying alt-right content.
Anecdotal: the app "One Sec" broke my twitter habit over the course of a few weeks.

Via iOS' automations feature the app allows you to configure a per-app waiting period during which you can decide you don't actually want to open whatever app you've tried to open.

Very grateful for this tool.
The computerization of vehicles can be done exceptionally well or exceptionally bad, and some of them are just phenomenally bad.
Polya Urn Simulation
You didn't say if you have kids or not but as a parent, those worries are multiplied. There are lots of things we won't do because of the additional risk. The terrorists (white nationalists, red pills, etc) are winning.
1. we're in the process of open sourcing, agree
2. if you'll try it you'll see it's little more the 500 lines of code... (real time collaboration, data tables, file storage and more...)

thanks for taking the time to comment, I'll update this thread when we open source it
Is it realistic or sensible to expect every internet user to become a security maven?
Why would it be plagiarism? There are tons of people that imitate other people's voices and sing covers of their songs. Why should this new use be different?
On Vasectomies: A Whole Different Ball Game
Just think what space telescopes will be like if the Starship reduces cost/kg to orbit to 1/10th or less of Falcon 9's already low cost. They'd get very big, and it would likely make sense to assemble and maintain them in space by workers in space suits. It might even make sense to have telescopes in high Earth orbit with a maintenance station located nearby.
Sounds like a startup with no devops and before a lot of the tooling to make things better.
> but at least it was between massive orgs

AFAIK they fixed the infighting more than a decade ago. That's why you don't see it causing problems. But also AFAIK (because I was never there), forced competition got all the way into single developers.
This is only an issue on one operating system. Purchasing an application on Windows still comes with absolutely none of this worry. You can still use applications that are decades old on Windows 11. It's very odd that this is now accepted as a norm that is inevitable, rather than an obvious and avoidable disadvantage of Apple's ecosystem.
>> The good parts should be celebrated, the bad parts not, but you can’t have one without the other.

I mean, there is bad, and then there is Bad. Drug addiction is the former. Sleeping with one’s underlings is the latter.

Or to give another tech leader as an example: it’s one thing to be an annoying twat on Twitter and post bad and even embarrassing memes, another thing entirely to signal-boost TERFs and white supremacists and similar scum.
Historically, one party has shown indifference to refugees and it's not the left. Your entire comment is complete bullshit you made up to confirm your world view. Please be constructive, and not transparently strawman-ing
Along the same lines, you can download a dump of the different Stack Exchange sites:

https://archive.org/details/stackexchange

The dump of Stack Overflow's Posts is about 20gb. The Android Enthusiasts Stack Exchange site is about 100mb.
Probably depends on what you are optimizing for. If this metric is an app startup time then AOT is super beneficial and always beats JIT without strings attached.
>Someone harassing you? They, and all of their buddies, will know as soon as you block them.

But Twitter has a huge "This person has blocked you" page? This doesn't sound like a massive upset to the status quo.
This is exciting.

I'd love it if they opened the iPad up to tools like Rogue Amoeba's Loopback[1], because a tool that allows audio capture from the device is critical for any sampling workflow.

I'm not holding my breath, but that would complete the dream, for me.

[1]: https://rogueamoeba.com/loopback/
They removed the home button on iPhones, which was a net loss, since face recognition is much less reliable and easy to use than fingerprint, and requires a visually-disruptive bar overlay to indicate you need to swipe up.
Yeah, in addition to the XKCD comic it also reminds me of "Spurious Correlations" lol https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
And that's what happened in this case, right? The author seems more upset that it tracked his visit to the coffee shop, which to GP's point, they opted into.
> if I go somewhere in public then people see me. I should not expect my location to be private.

If that's the case, then we have almost no meaningful privacy. Fortunately, that doesn't have to be the case.

If I go out in public, people can see me, sure. But the odds of any of those people knowing who I am are miniscule. To them, I'm just another body in the bulk of bodies that populate their landscape. My privacy is retained.

It's when cameras are everywhere, recording everyone they see, when we carry devices that report our locations to others, etc., and that data is correlated with other data, that privacy is compromised.
They do copy code sometimes but most of the code they generate is new, I think some (maybe not many but some) people have the impression that they literally search for similar code and copy it exactly 100% of the time which isn’t true
Something related that might also catch you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
Forth Generation Version Control
iOS devices don't support downloading specific versions of apps, and you cannot sideload. Apple has made this model impossible on iOS.
If you look at more mainstream forums like Reddit, people are in really hard denial/look how stupid it is mode.

I think at least some people on HN are able to sort of see through its unformed intelligence into how it can be constrained to likely be hyper effective.
OpenLM: OpenAI-compatible Python client to call any hosted LLM inference API
Oh, that's the confusion.

I mean the overall failure rate of the port.
As a piano player I definitely depend on the existence of a piano for me to play. Better tools absolutely enable artists to make better things faster — Yo-Yo Ma can make a cheap cello sound amazing, but he can make an expensive cello sound even more amazing.
I got the JSAUX dock while waiting for Valve to release the official dock. Never bought the official on release, the Gen 2 JSAUX with the extra USBs is awesome. Docked my deck to my TV and its both a media player as well as my console, almost never remove it except to dust :D. Also, the USB has recognized all peripherals I've thrown at it (I use desktop mode 98% of the time) and the ethernet works as expected.
I've been poor before and $200 one-time is WAY less expensive than $5/mo recurring. If I can't afford to save $200 I sure can't afford to pay $5 recurring. Recurring subscriptions are for the wealthy, not the poor, the poor can do just fine with freeware or some 10 year old version of whatever.

Paying a recurring monthly subscription isn't the only way to get a trial.
Still potentially way easier said than done. Robert Miles has a good video on this.

One issue is that to define something like "harm", you need to solve a whole bunch of philosophy problems. And people disagree -- does corporal punishment harm children? People used to think that failing to hit your kids was harmful, because they'd grow up and be lazy and end up wasting their lives!

Another issue is that a lot of stuff breaks down as the robots get more intelligent, and start coming up with solutions humans aren't smart enough to consider. Is scanning human brains and digitizing all of us and getting rid of our human bodies harmful? What if it means we get to live forever and are protected by the AI, who is more competent than us? What if we don't want to -- is it good to "protect" us against our will? If not, what about saving someone who is suicidal? (back to the philosophy problem!)

Also, note that the three laws aren't really meaningful -- if lower laws always must be prioritized, you can't ever really do anything, because your action might lead to a human coming to harm. So they have to be interpreted with some tradeoff. But that opens the possibility for a robot to take actions to protect its own existence at the cost of human lives. If the tradeoff is 1000 AI lives to 1 human life, what happens when there are 1000 times as many AIs as humans, and they're worried that we'll do something that ends up killing them all?

So yeah, implementing anything like the 3 laws still requires completely solving alignment, basically.
Reminds me of "The fall and rise of JavaScript"
"No true understanding" is the new "no true Scotsman." If you're still repeating this line in mid-2023, you're not meaningfully engaging with the technological developments that are occurring in front of your eyes.