skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are just releases that improve/change some small workflow stuff, fix bugs, or add minor or niche features like "Spatial Audio mixing with Dolby Atmos" that Apple cares about more than most producers do. The change lists look huge, but if you lose closer its all minor stuff.

The last release with a meaningful core update was 10.5 (May 2020) - the one that introduced Live Loops, major new devices like the new sampler, etc.

If it was a regular company selling its software, 10.5 would have been a paid update/major new version, and 10.6 and 10.7 would have been point updates.
if you try to do any local development you might also need to cache dependencies locally (somehow, predict deps in advance)

probably easier you find someone to sponsor you like internship and you move to some place that has better connectivity (maybe border town)
This is a really cool project. Feels like a really neat tool that could be integrated into something like Wordpress to improve the customization of the sites.
Or maybe we've just moved onto the "next they laugh at you" part which will continue for a decade or so before any actually advancements in AI happen besides creation of larger matrixes of inputs to outputs, with equally poor top level performance. I don't think anybody is laughing about LLM's or their potential, but rather laughing and mocking the people who are AI doomers saying that everybody's job is kaput because LLMs can spit out empty copywriting and junior level code samples.
This is great, but why not just have Garage Band work the same / be the same on both platforms?

I'm a PC user; few years ago I realized how great iPad GarageBand was for playing around. Like an idiot, I literally purchased a used MacBook so I can edit my iPad travelling doodles at home with big screen as well, only to realize that they are different software with different capabilities and you cannot seamlessly copy projects from one to another.

I openly admit I'm an idiot for jumping in like that, but for all the discussion on how user friendly and seamless Apple ecosystem is, I still don't think it was a ridiculous assumption to make :-/
People said this about Bitcoin. They said it about Google Glass. They said it about VR headsets. They never seemed to notice the same logic applied to Microsoft Bob.
You get the resolution but not the light capturing capability of a big telescope. The event horizon telescope had to do a lot of machine learning trickery to get an image. Also, as far I understand, it's much more difficult to do this at the wavelength of visible light.
The “foreign influence” part is when mass shootings are a fraction of a fraction of the deaths, yet 50% of the news coverage. Media publishes sensational pieces about what consumers demand - consumer demand is increasingly driven by online discourse, which is free to manipulate easily.

The best kind of misinformation is misinformation that is true but not representative of the real situation. Have you checked our heart disease deaths? It is *factually* an issue many orders of magnitude more important to the average American. And yet…zero discussion seems to happen about it online?

And why wouldn’t there be foreign influence? It’s quite an easy checklist:

* do Russia and China have the technical capability to make social media accounts and post in English?: Yes, obviously.

* do Russia and China have any motive to drive fearful divisive narratives in the US?: Yes - we are their primary geopolitical opponent

With both of these true, to assume they’re not doing it for some reason out of kindness requires a lot of mental gymnastics.
One way to thwart AI engines from using art
https://www.atf.gov/firearms/qa/does-individual-need-license...

https://www.nps.gov/spar/learn/historyculture/making-guns.ht...

https://interestingengineering.com/video/guns-factory
How could he read a bad review when AirBnb systematically deletes them?
Guilty of consuming TikToks of men shaking their asses on camera, not sorry
Doesn't matter if your uptime is 80% as long as that 20% of downtime is happening when nobody is working

Additionally an 80% uptime architecture is really simple to maintain and restore and so on.

Complexity increases exponentially the more 9's you add.
This rising tide of populism you speak of implies people in the Netherlands would prefer the "greater evil" of an elected head of state. Why not give people what they actually want?
https://archive.ph/zyfgb
I spent about a month without internet. I will be honest the last thing I touched was the learning resources. I downloaded youtube videos using ytdl and kept watching them on repeat. I would see a tv series every now and then, but nothing beat YouTube videos. You can request your entire liked videos information from Google. Moreover, it is very difficult learn programming without actually doing it and you can't realistically do programming without Google these days.

I don't think not having internet doesn’t suddenly make you 10x productive or 10x focused. You are the same person with and without internet. Just admit that upfront.

So, prep for it and try to replicate what your habits are with having internet.

You can download a few learning resources but please don't go overboard. Focus on one thing you want to finish completely. Don't go on a downloading spree.
Meta AI releases ImageBind demo: Holistic AI learning across six modalities
How old are your kids? What do you think of their current level of cell phone usage?
I see you missed the whole "Logic Pro costs $499" era and the earth shattering news when Apple lowered the price to $199. And far too many DAW creators refuse to learn that lesson, instead going "you can have a DAW for $199 but you only get three and a half tracks, only one can be a plugin, and your audio files must be in 17 bit RIFF wave with the bytes in reverse order. If you want something better, pay us more".
A note is a single instance of a sound by pitch and duration. A note does not include the space in between or the timing.
So absolutely little of what is out there is actionable or needed; just ignoring it and focusing on your day and your people is hard (it's like avoiding snack food) but it is so worth it.
They have self authenticating data structures no? Someone should be able to write a program that can verify any post.
You can already do that by including your module folder (eg. node_modules, site-packages etc) in your project tree
>It will continue to do exactly the same thing. If that thing had no value

The parent poster you're replying to wrote "loses value" not "no value".

As an example, I have the last version of Adobe Creative Suite CS6 ($2599) that had a permanent license with CDs instead of subscription download but that came out in 2012. Over the last 11 years, that old software has continually lost value.

The old version cannot easily be installed on newer macOS versions after Catalina. I can't freeze my os version at Catalina to satisfy Adobe CS6 because other tools like the latest Xcode and Logic Pro forces you to upgrade to newer macOS versions. I can't freeze Xcode at an old version because Apple's App Store rejects apps built by old versions of Xcode. And then you have the lack of desirable new features. E.g. the old Premiere Pro in CS6 can't open newer ProRes HDR HLG files.

The rest of the world around a particular software changes which then affects its value.

So "owning the software forever" doesn't necessarily translate into continually using it forever in a practical way.
Can steam deck run any Linux application? You might have fun designing creative abstractions in Pure Data meant to fit in the UI. Then, if you can hook it up to a keyboard, you might be able to take advantage of the user inputs on the steam deck & keyboard to make an ersatz OP-1.
At first I assumed this was the one near Belize, which is quite well known in the scuba diving community [1]. In fact, the picture on this post is probably of that one. However, this new one is over twice as deep!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Blue_Hole
Hear hear, though that doesn't stop everyone asking me about the royal family all the time. It follows me around like a disease. From living abroad I get the feeling that the royal family is a lot more popular abroad than it is at home.
I've seen plenty of people younger than me say they dislike "South Park" because "they attack everyone" isn't seen as a virtue; it comes off as overly cynical, opportunistic, nihilistic, etc. Kinda tracks with what you're saying.
Climate agenda slips at TSMC, Greenpeace says
Obviously what this country needs is even more guns! The more guns a country has the safer it is!

/s
It doesn't (and likely hurts, by clogging cellular infrastructure and roadways).

But parents want to know ASAP so they can rush to the school and "help". Probably because police in the US aren't actually required to actively protect people. And have proven incapable of doing the job.
I think it is often coordinated but I doubt all of it is “outside influence.” It doesn’t take many extreme nazi/far right folk to make a dent and they can easily coordinate a small group to trash a subreddit to be more effective.
> Not defending google but this guy has manually enabled one of the most privacy sensitivity features on Google

Google told the public that it didn't need to fear that particular feature.

From TFA: Google offered a partial solution: It would proactively delete its trove of location data when people visited “particularly personal” places, including abortion clinics, hospitals and shelters.
At the very least, we're trapping a bunch of kids with a bunch of other kids and some of the hormonal monsters with underdeveloped impulse control will do horrible things with cell phone cameras. Can you imagine what they might do? Got some ideas? Every single one of those things is happening all the time in schools with weak policies on cell phones.

We owe the many, many victims a phone ban in schools.
At $50 a year (equates to $4 a month if paid annually), this is - albeit a subscription model - so much better than Adobe's £20 a month plan for just Premiere (obviously to get you to go for the £50 a month plan). It's a much better plan and I hope things like this make Adobe consider their costs. It's a big ask and I know they won't... but you can hope.
It’s not. I bought FCP X in 2011 for $299. If you are just counting my own usage, that is $25/yr over the last 12 years, but I get to keep using for many more years, and both my kids use it through family sharing as well, so we are down to $5/year per person or less, without having to mess with yet another subscription.

I used to work on a competing product, and subscription pricing will work better for most people who are in this market, so my personal use case is an outlier I know.

Edit: all that said, I’m excited to be the first person to subscribe to Logic on the iPad. I hope that subscription is Family Sharing enabled as well!
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Depends where you are if doing so represents an upgrade in safety, I live here and really want to get out, not so much due to shootings but general political corruption.
Everything Julia Evans publishes is great!
Study offers explanation for why there are so few insects in the ocean
Ok, so if the world has changed to the point where these kids cannot live satisfied lives without their phones… then we need to start progressively raising the voting age now so they never have any input into how the rest of us live.

We can make them leper colonies filled with screens with up-arrows to click on.
compared to making a module, apart the fact that the module can end in kernel panic (thats my problem), is there any significance performance difference between BPF and kernel modules ?

If my goal is to reduce the cpu cloud bill, is BPF good enough compared to making a kernel module ?
Why do posts like this get flagged? Are Americans not allowed to talk about their violent culture on HN?
didnt they come up with this idea a few years ago as well? and it was a shit storm, you would lose historical tweets from dead people, like aaron schwartz etc.
This would be incompatible only if we require realistic interpretation of our taxonomies and theory of evolution can be true regardless of our (anti)realistic commitments.
That’s pretty hilarious. Although without looking it up I would bet the first use of writing would have been ownership documents and transactions
Ok well I was (rightly) suggesting that birdwatching is a good break from technology, and you have responded by making a criticism of birdwatching, so I'm going to take you up on that.

(I've been a birdwatcher since I was about 6, did a PhD partially on birds and have done lots of scientific field work on birds in addition to "birding")

What you said (and Feynman's specious know-it-all comment) is actually not true. Let's take your example of someone seeing a Yellow-rumped Warbler. Being a birdwatcher, this person is probably interested in seeing other Yellow-rumper Warblers in the future, or more likely, in seeing other Warbler species they've never seen before. Because they are interested in seeing birds, they'll notice Yellow-rumpeds microhabitat choice -- leafy branches in mid to high canopy. And when they see Black-and-white Warblers, they're obviously going to learn that Black-and-White has a habit of foraging along the trunk itself in a manner more like a treecreeper, and quite unusual for a warbler. So their birdwatching is already teaching them something about habitat and foraging behavior.

They'll be learning how to tell something is a warbler on sight, rather than say a Chickadee or a Thrush, and hence learning how morphology and plumage features vary across avian taxonomy. And they may even start wondering whether that bird-book taxonomy accurately reflect the true evolutionary relationships.

They'll hear the Yellow-rumped warblers thin, high-pitched calls and song, and they'll hear songs of other warblers and other birds, and eventually they'll realize that they can tell that a call is a warbler, even if they don't know what species. So they'll have learned that vocalisations are correlated with phylogeny. Perhaps they'll wonder whether birds vocalisations are arbitrary or not: they might end up learning about the notion of sexual selection, and also the fact that birds living near fast-flowing water (Kingfisher, Dippers, Wagtails) have strikingly loud and sharp high-pitched calls which can be heard over water (so not arbitrary sexual selection) and maybe they'll learn that in some species, studies have shown that females prefer males with more complex songs.

The bird-book / app they use to carry out their hobby shows them geographic ranges, and which species are migratory. They'll learn not to look for warblers in the winter, and hence they'll learn which birds are migratory and which not, and how that varies over avian taxonomy, and it will lead to many questions about what can be learned from these phylogenetic and geographic patterns versus what is just random.

Of course, what you said is true of some people, but the general statistical characterization of birdwatching is the opposite: identifying species is the starting point for virtually all field studies of biological organisms, and of course there is a huge statistical tendency for people who know what species they are looking at to end up learning more natural history and biology than those who are oblivious to it all.
Let's start in reverse order

> I have to hope you aren't one of those people who believe everything is secretly funded by Bildeberg group for some nefarious agenda etc etc

What does it tell you about yourself that to engage in a discussion you have to assume, despite me making some pretty clear points which I will clarify below, that you immediately label it as a conspiracy?

> doesn't matter why you're protesting, you can do it for any reason. That's a cornerstone of a free and democratic society

They can protest without blocking roads. Blocking a road is not inherently protesting. It's blocking a road. You could be holding a Bible quote or a big orange banner. The end goal of these protests is the act of performative protest, little more. *The end is nigh*

> What are these goals you have an insight to?

The same thing the edgy far left has wanted for 150 years. The absolute destruction of western society, and by proxy capitalism. Except they know that won't happen so the actual outcome they expect is beyond me. You can find plenty of evidence of such thinking from anyone involved. It's why you will find SWP banners handed out at any number of dozens of "protests". The climate stuff is just the latest hook of social injustice they've adopted. I'd love to see this refuted.

> I looked to see if this was true and couldn't find any joint extinction rebellion/ just stop oil candidates, nor any for either of them split.

They are both not an organisation and the same organisation so as individuals involved can say they are not involved. For the purposes of British law when they are tried they don't want to be tried as an organisation or members of one

> looked to see if this was true and couldn't find any joint extinction rebellion/ just stop oil candidates, nor any for either of them split

Maybe you didn't scroll down far enough.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Pink

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_London_mayoral_election

0.2% of the vote.

In fact their website redirect to

https://linktr.ee/burningpink

I quote:

> Bring Down the Government, replace it with Citizen Decision Making.

You will find a press release on there where 12 members of their party - maybe that's the whole party - were taken to court for criminal damage etc during an XR "protest"
Adobe subscriptions are nice examples of bad management, no long standing significant bug was fixed and they mostly seem to add toys around the fringes (cloud based neural filters for example)
I know this is extreme, but maybe you should consider reality?
Comprehensible, very hard to nail everything on the first try, and a person often has to make tradeoffs.

> this is how Electron auto updater works under the hood (checking for update = downloading it)

Electron auto updater seems too raw, for an app that has a decent size.

> I did change it now to 3 hours.

In my opinion, it is still too frequent. Ideally, the user should be able to set his preference and the app should have a less aggressive default (once a day seem more than enough for most cases).
In another thread here, the founder states that their solution is to reduce the rate of updates from every 5 minutes to every 3 hours.
Isn't the person claiming something is going to happen the first one that needs to explain why and how? Only after that, it makes sense to ask the person denying the original claim to bring his arguments.

Or, to put it simply: in this case, it's the doomers that need to answer how and why.
I signed up for the beta on February 21st and got my invite last week at the top of May as they started letting folks in.
From a graph I saw, they only had a couple hundred users til about April, then the May batch brought in another 50K (of which I was one). It's at 65K total now I think.

I have a negligible following on social media and don't know anyone over there so I don't think they're being cliquey with the invites.

To someone else's point, they're doing a lot of firefighting. When I got in, your followers list did an infinite loop, "hellthreads" were causing errors every time you viewed a reply, and content moderation was (and still is) constantly breaking (NSFW stuff keeps breaking through on their placeholder "what's hot" algorithm). I was able to register @salesforce.herokuapp.com as my handle, etc.

I think it's a beta in the truest sense of the word and you'll probably get an invite soon.
I found this needlessly nihilistic. The public wasn't suckered by Hsieh's generation. Enough of us found shopping for shoes at Zappos to be nice enough that we kept doing it. It was an improvement.

A bigger problem is when journalists and the world expect there to be more to the whole story than a simple successful business model.
We got Ecobees as part of an HVAC overhaul; they're nice and it's impressive how many situations they handle out of the box, whereas we had to run a new wire to get the (pre-Google) Nest to work correctly when it was already supposed to work with our existing setup. I do have issues with the software, though: we have two zones and it just doesn't handle that situation conveniently. (I don't know how the Nest would have done because we had only one zone with it.)
Infotainment has been commoditized by way of Android Automotive and Carplay.

The perception that there is a subscription revenue opportunity for intotainment is misguided - the TAM is insignificant, and the net loss of prospective Customers that refuse to buy a vehicle without Android Auto or or Carplay far outweighs any potential subscription revenue.

This will go over about as well as Cadillac Cue did from 2013-2017.

Source - I work in the automotive industry, live in the Detroit suburbs, and live and breathe this stuff every day.
Code: https://github.com/facebookresearch/ImageBind

Blog Post: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/imagebind-six-modalities-bindin...

Demo: https://imagebind.metademolab.com/
We are in the same boat, my friend. We bought a Nest Secure, Cameras and the Nest Yale Deadbolt because of their connectivity... Then Google randomly axes support for the Secure, instantly nixing the reason why we bought the Deadbolt. The Nest app is also CONSTANTLY bugging us to switch to the Google Home app. I didn't purchase Nest items to use with the Google Home app!
Given your skill level, I would recommend working through the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs in Racket, which has a nice self-contained development environment.
> Isn't this kind of feedback loop precisely what's predicted at the heart of the Singularity? A machine learning system reaching the point where it's able to improve itself without further human guidance?

Yes, but the article then goes on to explain that this isn't it.

> (As an aside, is there a theoretical limit to how intelligent a system can be for a given quantity of training data? Of course, we'd need a rigorous definition of 'intelligence' and 'data'...)

There is. A given amount of 'evidence' can only support a given amount of conclusions drawn. However, that absolute limit is mostly theoretical; it's completely astronomical compared to what humans manage, let alone AIs.
I have the complete opposite impression. Sure, Facebook an co. do partially depend on people oversharing. But people being careful about their data have seriously turned down their expectations. 10-15 years ago it would be a huge scandal if some software phoned home your software configuration. Today people are ok with unique advertising IDs.

Some say data protection today inhibits development. I do not think there is much merit to arguments of this kind.

I don't even believe the most important innovations wouldn't have been possible with more data protection at all and that includes huge datasets to feed AI.

Maybe the market for data being sold would be smaller. But that isn't innovation really.
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