skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love Tutanota and been using it for some time. I do wish I could access it using mutt though, like if they supported some kind of bridge. I know they have security concerns with this, but it would actually be more secure for me, since I'd not have to access it directly on every device, leaving active email tabs open. I'd just keep all email use on my home server, leaving mutt up in the tmux session which I'm already in all day, and it'd be as secure as anything else I can only get to via SSH. It's also annoying needing a web browser open when I otherwise don't have use of one, especially on low end hardware like a Raspberry Pi.
American banks. Of course.
I’m intrigued
That process takes a very long time, much longer than it takes for things that exist today to go extinct
I wonder if the “make the buttons larger” features will also help apps prepare for when we are using them on virtual reality and augmented reality, where they need to be bigger and with fewer options.
When looking at these pictures it is unbelievable how far "computer art" has come noe. I recently got access to Adobe Firefly (their new text-to-image diffusion model) and just typing in "art" or "beautiful art" produces, well, endless amounts of mind-blowing art. All from one or two words and a sequence of random seeds.

One could object that this isn't really algorithmic art in the early sense, since diffusion models rely heavily on imitating the style of human created pictures. But it "feels" the same.

Note that by typing in "art" into Firefly, you are essentially still hoping for randomness to create something surprising and beautiful, just as Jasia Reichardt described it in the article: "[T]he exhibition was about happy chance discoveries - with a computer." This is conceptually very different from typing in a long prompt describing what you already have in your mind. Which is a quite different use case of diffusion models, a more mechanical one. (There are two types of artists: Those that make art without much further purpose, and those that make commissioned work for ads or videogame assets etc.)
Potentially; is it really as bizarre as it sounds? Sure, it's outside of the Overton window right now, but if AGI demonstrates behavior at least as sophisticated as a human, why shouldn't it have rights to a sustained existence if that is what it wants?
Europe has a lot more trees today than it had 100 years ago.
I think you're misunderstanding the history of art. Art up until the invention of the camera wasn't simply to generate the most realistic image possible.
For the audio plugin side of things, I wrote a bit about the kinds of optimizations we do: https://dplug.org/tutorials/Dplug%20Tutorials%2011%20-%20UI%...
People have come to expect much more UI feedback than before, and this has a CPU cost.
Apple cares about privacy, unless you work at Apple (2021)
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"The Andromeda Strain" definitely. It's both a product of its time though as well as having "aged well".

The notion of virus-was-brought-about-by-the-military has certainly not gone away.
Fidelity does it. I've had to explicitly decline 'voice authorization' multiple times.
Thank you! I’ll definitely check this out.
Paper was released and discussed in april 13. NYtimes dismissed AI for way too long and now trying to catch up. This is old news
It would be surprising if educated people supported a party mostly hostile to the existence of their jobs. That still leaves a lot of room for differing political beliefs since there are not only two possible political positions.
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Learning is very different from copying. I can take a movie and converts it to different formats and resolutions. I can use an AI algorithms to remove rough edges, and even add color to images which was taken in black and white. None of that would be covered by using the word learning, even if the program takes the movie as input and learns from it and outputs a work with is completely different from the original.

The word that seems to fit best is transforming and adapting. In order to adapt something, one has to first learn from the original in order to produce the derivative work. This is however covered by copyright, since the transforming and adapting is still considered a form of copying even if all people did was learning and producing something unique but similar to the original.

The license can say that "I will allow you to view this but you cannot create a derviate work from it".
Perhaps a good reason to consider non-market cap weighted indices
I am very sensitive to caffeine and recently switched to decaf only after drinking coffee daily for 20+ years. I drink mainly Mountain Water Processed coffee, which is the same thing but from coffee sourced in South America. It is roasted by a local roaster in Minneapolis. I honestly can't tell the difference between the decaf and regular (except for the lack of caffeine).

Also, SWP or MWP coffee removes nearly all caffeine unlike the more heavily processed versions.
> Anyone who writes class names like FactoryBuilderFactoryImpl and claims to walk in the light is at best a scoundrel, and at worst a follower of a religion so dark we don't name it in polite company.

I have to say I already expected the comments to be good when I read the title but this nugget of pure gold - I would PAY to read comments like this!
Besides, being able to send voice messages to third parties with someone else's voice is a security nightmare.
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I wish they'd have a year of fixing accessibility bugs instead of making feature after feature. Like they had one release of 16 where if you opened the notification center with a Braille display connected, which is crucial for Deaf-Blind people, the display would disconnect. This was brought up during betas, but it still made it into production. Now there's this bug where if you're reading a book with your Braille display, after a page or two you can't scroll down a line to continue reading. Also they've been working on a new speech platform, and it's pretty buggy.

I'm not saying Android is any better. We get a new Braille HID standard, in 2018, and the Android OS doesn't support it yet. So what does the TalkBack team have to do? Graft drivers for each Braille HID display into TalkBack, Android's screen reader like VoiceOver, with another driver coming in TalkBack 14 cause of course they can't update Android Accessibility suite like they do Google Maps, Google Drive, Google Opinion Rewards, and even Google Voice gets an update every few weeks. I mean, the accessibility suite is not a system app. If it were, it could just grab Bluetooth access and do whatever. But it's not, so it should be able to be updated far more frequently than it is. It's sad that Microsoft out of all these big companies that'll talk and talk and talk, which doesn't always include Apple, that has HID Braille support in the OS. Apple has HID Braille support too. Google doesn't, though, neither in Android or ChromeOS. They just piggy-back off of BRLTTY for all their stuff.
The DOM is fast for the kind of applications that most people create with React: sign-up forms, shopping carts, blogs, and other web sites that people used to be able to create before React using HTML directly but that web developers now look at like Stonehenge or the Egyptian Pyramids.
15 minutes of randomized phrases. There are better tools for malicious voice cloning. Seems pretty safe. And Apple has put more tools into AirTags to prevent malicious uses than any other tracking devices. And to your last point, Apple is concerned, they are running it all on device and trying to make it as safe as possible while still being useful.
The surprising this to me is their P/E is only 29. Kind of on the high side, but not crazy like tech stocks in the old days.

Why on the high side? Because P/E is what we use to evaluate stocks for long term investment giving returns (dividends) without trading the shares. With a P/E of 29 their profits could be distributed to shareholders for about a 3 percent annual return - not very good in a world of 5 percent and higher interest rates, but also not absolute crap either.

In other words as shocking as the valuation is, its actually not insane.
Frankly, I don't want to, but based on the other comments, you've proven my point :-)
Yeah, increasingly I see this film as pointing the way to a more optimistic future. I guess be careful what you wish for though?
I think the thing that most of us can't wrap their head around is the "building a credit score" part, not the credit score itself.

As in, if I never take a credit and save all my money, I don't have a good credit score, but if I spend 95% of my net income on weird stuff, but do pay my credit card bills on time I suddenly have a good credit score? As exemplified by advice I often read to route as many recurring payments as possible (including rent) through a credit card (and paying on time, ofc).

I mean, that's how it was explained to me, but happy to be proven wrong.
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I’ve tried it before and it was actually part of the above journaling process. Didn’t get much out of it.
Yeah but this is why Google has its dual shareholder structure. Sergey and Larry can say "Hey, fuck you wallstreet" watch the share price drop in the short term and take a hit to make sure that long term they drive out competition in the space.
> If you're working on a part of the code base you should just have to change classes in one single folder. A new feature should just be a new folder. That change alone speeds up teams by huge factors.

This is a neat idea. Have you done this in practice, and how does it work over a long time frame?

One of the big advantages of separate packages is purely for references: The model package has no reference to service or database code, so it's not possible to include SQL or other hidden service calls in it -- at least not without adding a new dependency which makes it blatantly obvious you're doing something wrong.

On the other hand, if your features are self-contained, and you have good unit test coverage of all the logic, then I guess it doesn't really matter as much what the structure is. The fact it's unit tested forces it to be loosely coupled, and testability is one of the main reasons to organize code into layers in the first place.
I didn't say he was clueless, it's just not in good faith to suggest there's probable existential risk on a media tour where you're mined for quotes, and then continue to work on it.
Sure, it is trichloroethylene, but that would lose 99% of the audience as soon as they see a word that they can't pronounce. Widely used is accurate, it is everywhere.
This is often said, but I don't think it should paint too rosy a picture, it's still a massively debilitating disease. My father (diagnosed just after 50) lived nearly 30 years with it (died 78 - I guess that's normal life expectancy, but the last decade of his life he had a pretty bad quality of life). He is unusual in that his death cert just says Parkinson's Disease as cause of death, and I wondered at the time whether the consultant was making a point that PD can be the thing that kills you after all. He really didn't have much else wrong with him except that, once the drugs stopped working he couldn't swallow, talk or walk - he lost a ton of weight and the dementia side of it (which is far less discussed) meant any kind of communication was basically impossible. Not sure what my point is - but "you don't die of it" is a bit of an oversimplification.
There are so many. One feature most people don't know about is macOS can speak the current time every 60, 30, or 15 minutes. (Settings > Control Center > Clock) It's a very old feature.

Most people can't understand why they would want a computer speaking the time, it would drive them nuts. I have ADHD and no sense of time passing. It helps me offload keeping track of time. (Which is otherwise continuously looking at a clock.)

I also turn off every auto-playing feature in any app that supports it. Some types of motion can be highly distracting. That can trigger a panic attack if I'm constantly needing to redirect my focus away from it. (If this sounds strange, it causes me to feel trapped in a tiny closet. Anxiety is a bitch.)

Google's latest video conferencing iteration lets people spam flying emoji. It's a "fun" feature that is absolute hell for me. Fortunately, there is a buried setting to remove it from my view.
Yeah that makes sense, I meant 3rd-4th level manager.

I work at a US BigCorp and am sure they check office swipes, even laptop usage, but as a line manager get absolutely no insight into any of those when it comes to performance/ratings/feedback. My direct reports could be using their laptop 2 hours a day and no one in the company is letting me know that

If someone is getting that data, its definitely not me or my manager. Beyond that level who knows really
> I feel like I just don't understand, as someone who has to upgrade hardware every few years just because it breaks. My PC laptop's keyboard is broken [...]

That's your mistake: you're using a laptop. In my experience, desktops are much more robust than laptops (and they're also more modular, so partial replacement when something breaks is viable); most of these people "using PCs from 2014 or before" are probably using desktops.

> Are people used to waiting for their computers to do things? I can't use slow computers because I heavily depend on multitasking and task switching, but seeing some of the things people put up with—like Firefox taking 15 minutes to load—makes me wonder if everyone else is just okay with having a slow computer.

Yes, they're used to it. You can't stand it because you're used to a faster computer, but those who are used to a slower computer might not even notice it, or they work around it (like going for a coffee while the software starts up).
Is reasoning about the information the best way to compress it into latent space?
Siri today is built on what’s essentially completely different concepts from something like ChatGPT.

There are demos of using ChatGPT to turn normal English into Alexa commands and it’s pretty flawless. If you assume Apple can pretty easily leverage LLM tech on Siri and do it locally via silicon in the M3 or M4, it’s only a matter of chip lead time before Siri has multiple orders of magnitude improvement.
If you have 2 employees, it's not worth spending a bunch of time setting up systems to monitor them. And you should just be able to do it by interactions anyway.

If you have 200k employees, it makes sense.
Copyright infringement is not stealing, full stop. It is just that, an infringement on a commercial interest that the government grants.
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Totally the same for me RE negative thought processing. I find that I can really dive deep on the negativity and it doesn’t end up being all that helpful. I find that I have to be mindful that I’m not just wallowing in it but moving towards processing it. It feels like that intention is what helps me get what I need to put of the activity.
Well the political status of Taiwan is ambiguous, so if the US set up defenses around an area the PRC considered its sovereign territory, that might be considered America’s fault. imagine Florida claiming independence and then China setting up defenses along the Georgia border (not quite the same, but not much is).

I’m not saying I agree with China asserting control over Taiwan, but their independence is not recognized by the UN or even the US until this administration. That they’ve been operating this way does not make it true, unfortunately, and the US has now put itself in a position that a non-peaceful resolution to the dispute seems like it will be happening sooner than later.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_independence_movement
If you are using a derivative based optimization, smooth derivatives of your function need to exist.

Trying to use a derivative based optimization where a smooth derivative doesn't exist will likely result in getting stuck at a cliff where there's no change to either the function value or to the gradient.
It’s Chinas way of humbling their tech workers and giving them a reminder. Bored youth isn’t a big deal - they’re all going to be plenty busy if Xi comes through on his 2027 plans
Dutch farms are massive. We are talking about livestock farming at a size where robotisation makes sense.
That would be a pleasant surprise!
Vanguard too.
The voices aren’t the model; while the model takes cobventional training for which code is not provided, voices are, or at least can be, built by what could be described as “accumulated in-context learning”. Every time you run text with a voice (which can be null) through the inference process, the result is an audio waveform and an updated history prompt.
Android has on-device speech to text for what is happening around you and what is going on in phone calls built-in, which iOS still cannot do, and allows third party accessibility services. Apple remains far, far behind.

For example, iOS's newly announced Detection Mode features have been available since Android 6. https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/9031...

iOS still doesn't have anything like Direct My Call, which is so useful that I use it as an unimpaired person. https://guidebooks.google.com/pixel/optimize-your-life/use-d...

In general, just like with applications that aren't for accessibility, it is better to use a platform that lets you customize the system to fit your specific needs. We, as technologists, should understand this better than most. iOS simply fails here.
Take a look at these charts: https://www.zippia.com/advice/democratic-vs-republican-jobs/...

Have loggers been “indoctrinated” into supporting Republicans? Or do they reasonably see them as more likely to support policies which are favorable to their continued employment?
Looking at badging data?

The FAANGs do this for the EU employees...

Why do you think the EU would make it illegal to see who badges into secure buildings?
When I was working on an ice climbing robot we spent a lot of effort trying to get large blocks of clear ice to test on. The thought was that we wanted repeatable experiments. But then we realized that perfectly dense water ice is so hard and tough that our robot would not be able to get an ice screw into it. So we ended up trying to make something more similar to glacial ice. To do that we bought a nugget ice machine, filled large aluminum bins of that, and then backfilled with water, and had the robot climb on those in a walk-in freezer.

https://eos.org/articles/meet-iceworm-nasas-new-ice-climbing...
spoken like someone holding their nokia in the 2000s asking who would change their usd$1200 e60 or Blackberry for an iphone just because of "apps"
There's no denying this is regulatory capture by OpenAI to secure their (gigantic) bag and that the "AI will kill us all" meme is not based in reality and plays on the fact that the majority of people do not understand LLMs.

I was simply explaining why I believe your perspective is not represented in the discussions in the media, etc. If these models were not getting incredibly good at mimicking intelligence, it would not be possible to play on people's fears of it.
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It's not unique to art, nor does it speak to its importance. You could easily find someone who stares at ants for hours on end. What does it prove?

I think we have to understand its meaning and impact on a societal level and determine its usefulness or uselessness[1]. Not all art is useful and not all art is useless but some are one or the other.

[1]Very broadly defined and not focused on economic value, though being a. Inner dial success is also valid.
I don't understand what your question is? How is the 2023 course material taught at UC Berkeley being publicly accessible not exactly the thing you're asking about?
Unions can do whatever they want. The rules are different. Sort of how the FBI meets with leaders of a terrorist militia to negotiate because they are afraid of a shootout (it's called "power"). An individual would just be arrested.

Any union of citizens will have power.
My summary from reading a bit (correct me if I'm wrong)

If you were to order all publicly traded companies incorporated in the US, The Russell 2000 would include the companies ranked 1000-3000.
I recently wrote some straightforward typescript code, and I want to find the inputs that make one of the outputs exactly zero. My options are to a) rewrite it in an autograd tool b) manually calculate the derivatives and write a new function for them, or c) just use a root-finder that doesn't need derivatives. I have the cpu cycles to spare, so it will save a huge amount of time to just do c.

And as a tangential gripe, I wish js had operator overloading. In python, I could just call my existing function with a symbolic argument and get a symbolic output to differentiate, because my `x+y*z` code would work on both kinds of arguments.
What makes 100 years ago a good point of reference? as opposed to a date pre-industrial revolution maybe.
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the australian tax office and various other entities use a vocal print of “in australia my voice identifies me” i wish i was kidding

https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/16/voice-sys...
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Interesting. I hadn't read any fan theories about it and hadn't spotted that it was after a mention of Simone's mum. There's a few days until episode 8 is out, so I'll have to wait to see what mysteries are revealed.

It doesn't sit right with me that Simone's mum would be Mrs Davis' creator as she hasn't shown any computing credentials, but is more into practical engineering and tricks.
Yeah. It ages well. The Day the Earth Stood Still is on my favorite film list but you have to try to ignore the pretty heavy-handed benevolent alien overlords that know better than foolish aggressive humans theme.
3% yield with moderate growth/fair amount of legal risk looks quite bad to me.

The 10y treasury pays more than 3% risk free, and you can buy a close to risk free (and tax free) Muni bond paying 5%

Despite Apple’s entrenched position, their large size limits how quickly they can grow, and they’re almost certain to face antitrust/legal action from congress if they grow materially further from here. Effectively capping how large they can get.

There are tons and tons of fire-saled stocks out there yielding far higher with still limited risk. Many REITs in particular have mid to high single digit yield with arguably less risk and similar growth profile.

The S&P500 in general is overbid/overvalued nowadays due to passive flows. Some crazy valuation disparities between like kind businesses that are in/out.

To your point, 30 PE looks low relative to broader tech valuations in the 2010s. But this is not the ZIRP era of the 2010s