skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh. Humans see in vis. You aren't protected against intrusion in vis because everyone would reasonable expect that intrusion, can easily anticipate it, and you'll be monitored by your any passers by in vis.

This is called a reasonable expectation of privacy. You don't have one in the visible spectrum for things visible outside of your property to arbitrary passers by.

Super-duper sensing devices can potentially violate a reasonable expectation of privacy.

The decision in Kyllo was pretty clearly explained by the court.

"there is a ready criterion, with roots deep in the common law, of the minimal expectation of privacy that exists, and that is acknowledged to be reasonable. To withdraw protection of this minimum expectation would be to permit police technology to erode the privacy guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment. We think that obtaining by senseenhancing technology any information regarding the interior of the home that could not otherwise have been obtained without physical "intrusion into a constitutionally protected area," Silverman, 365 U. S., at 512, constitutes a search— at least where (as here) the technology in question is not in general public use. This assures preservation of that degree of privacy against government that existed when the Fourth Amendment was adopted. On the basis of this criterion, the
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*35 information obtained by the thermal imager in this case was the product of a search."
ChatGPT will not be able to hallucinate options to find and grep and ls because they all use every single letter of the alphabet.
These systems are typically developed in public-private partnerships. This is not really the same thing as "the government" creating it. The projects or technologies are typically evaluated by studies which, even if classified, are frequently conducted by private corporations contracted by the government; the research is undertaken by a mix of government and industrial labs; and then manufacturing is generally (though not always) undertaken wholly by private enterprises.

The government and industry both have a role to play. Maybe part of the reason the myth persists is because it is simpler to believe it's one way or the other -- government creates technology or private business creates technology -- than to think in terms of the more complex reality.
You turned up the “smart” knob too high, clocked it at sentence 3, but a hearty +1 from me
Doesn't have to go over well. Just has to be effective. China does such shit, and maybe people there silently grumble. At least until the next grimace recognition software update starts dinging their social credit score.

Banning a protocol that is 100% used only for piracy will have not nearly enough sympathy among the public or the government for the solution to remain unimplemented. The only thing protecting it is that it's such a shitty protocol and so completely paywalled that most people don't want to use it. Should that ever change...
Does "stunned" mean immobilized or that the animal isn't feeling fear and pain?
The correct order of learning Unix commands is: get a copy of Kernihan/Pike[0] and read that, do the examples.

Then the man pages make more sense.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unix_Programming_Environme...
One anecdote: we rented a place like this (on VRBO.com) for our wedding. We paid $8000 for the week. Had the wedding on the large lawn. All of our families stayed over in the house and a bunch of friends crashed on the actual wedding night as well. The 8000 hurt a lot less considering it meant lodging, and not using a wedding venue saved a ton of money on food and drinks.
the opposite side of the announcement, currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36063346
I imagine the targets can be predicted based on the trajectory of the missile, the same calculations used by the missile to release the warheads could in theory be used by the defender to predict their release and intercept them.
Isn’t the temperature on the body surface the big factor here? The sr-71 would heat up tremendously and it barely had any air pressure to contend with.
Right, another story to help us on to our knees into a begging position....

"Please give us a neural lace!"

Says no one... yet. But the priming is underway!
> It isn't a prohibition against the impacted party speaking out, just a delay.

It’s exactly this “it’s totally fair, surely it’s not ridiculous” attitude that shows how the powers control the people.

Gag orders and secrecy agreements can definitely be indefinite and regularly are.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220809113138/https://cdt.org/i...
My take is that advanced civilization isn't an evolutionary inevitability nor is it of any objectively higher value or importance.

Imagine a planet with just grass. One species. It's thriving. Highly successful. Who needs "intelligence"?
Crypto Startup Says It Found Path to Register with SEC Under a Broker Rule
I agree - Neeva was just Google-that-you-pay-for, which might've worked as a niche... but then LLMs came out and afaik they didn't do anything to integrate with them.

It was the wrong product at the wrong time.
I think people pay to continue using the app they’ve been using for years and for access to their thousands of notes.

Even if they’re not completely locked in, a transfer + re-learning a new app may not be a feasible task for many.

So someone probably ran the numbers and decided they can squeeze more $.

Also, inflation.
This is one of the more annoying things when talking to Russophiles that believe that Russia has a huge upper hand on hypersonic missile technology. What Russia is currently fielding is basically an air dropped ballistic missile. They don't have hypersonic gliding and they can't do avoidance maneuvers; they travel hypersonic...but so does every ballistic missile. They travel in an arc before reaching their target which is how the Patriot defense system has been able to intercept them. By the US goal for such technology, Russia's does not meet the criteria where we'd call designate it differently than a ballistic missile with a lower glide path and maneuvering to avoid defenses.

I do think that some of the Russian upper echelon actually believed what they were touting, but in a military environment where being a "yes man" serves you better (both for your career and possibly to avoid jail/punishment), you often exaggerate capabilities to get ahead, or just lie about current status which we're seeing play out in Ukraine.

The US also just avoided such tech in the past because it's so expensive, and stealth has just been better. That might change soon, but overwhelming with hundreds of missiles (and decoys) is currently much cheaper and more effective than using what the US would actually define as a "hypersonic missile." You could fire 50-100 missiles for the price of one true "hypersonic" one, and what if that missile fails? You just wasted $80M-$100M for nothing. Meanwhile a cruise/normal missile costs $1.5-5M. The US will eventually have them in their arsenal, but they will mostly never be used.
Spare a thought for we developers of terminal emulators. The block and line drawing characters have been being bodged since the time that IBM added the extra 9th column in hardware.

I have a fairly trivial bodge for them in mine. Kovid Goyal over a period of 7 years has built up an extensive system for overriding the glyphs for block and line drawing characters that are supplied in fonts and replacing them with ones that Kitty constructs itself, all started because they just didn't line up when using what the fonts supplied.

* https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/16

* https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/blob/28b84a2d5b2720b88fd...
And yet they're still ruled by the industry they have license agreements with. Which is partly why they started their own production studio.

All streaming services are not much more than a coat of paint over the same old industry practices. Why do you think every media conglomerate has their own streaming service?
I've tried switching this setting in Terminal.app and all it seems to do is change the value of the TERM environment variable. I haven't observed any other effect.
We're getting quite thin in the hypotheticals now, but here goes:

1. A person with no 'specialty knowledge' bought an iPhone, and

2. This person wants to have it repaired, but doesn't want to use Apple's repair service which is available in stores or direct-to-home through couriers, and

3. This person also doesn't want to use a 3rd party apple-approved repairer, and

4. This person also doesn't want to use a repairer who is using Apple's self service repair programme, and

5. This person needs a component repaired that includes a security feature such as faceid or touchid. Which rules out 3rd party component suppliers, such as those available on iFixit.com and similar for speakers/batteries/ports/etc, and

6. This person can afford an iPhone, but can't afford an official replacement part for a component that includes a security feature such as FaceID or TouchID.

The result is that this person can still have the repair made with an unofficial part and the security feature (FaceID/TouchID) won't function. That's it, that's the compromise. The device can also be repaired later with an official part to reenable the security feature.

The proposition you're making here is that the cumulative points 1-6 are somehow likely and burdensome. When it seems much more likely that the consumer would just take advantage of one of the many endorsed routes available, which also maintain the integrity of the device (e.g. camera alignment, drop strength & waterproofing). The idea that the consumer would trash their device to landfill and buy a new one doesn't hold water, not only does that produce the maximum amount of cash expenditure, but it also requires that the consumer didn't take advantage of the trade-in, buy-back and recycling schemes available.

I find most arguments about this topic fall over because many aren't aware of the breadth of what's available. So when it comes back to the article about the French government being "concerned" about paired componentry for "environmental waste" reasons - it really does smell like b/s, why aren't they looking at the myriad of brands which have no waste handling processes for phones. Instead they just happen to be fixated on the hardware which enables a high level of personal security.
Yes, the world's biodiversity will be fine after an extinction event. Eventually. I don't want humanity to have to live through a million years of the aftermath of one though.
Welcome to the Mini Moog Factory
Pediatrician advice is still that babies should sleep on their own - without toys and other objects in the crib.

Of course it's an argument. Why would you apply the logic to a single specific practice and hand wave away everything else? Makes no sense.
> No worries on being oven safe as its melting temp is 3,000°F.

Two things:

- Your bowl is most likely not pure titanium and is probably made of an alloy.

- Over 1,200F titanium produces titanium dioxide and may give you titanium dioxide poisoning.
your browser usually downloads an entire article and certain elements are overlayed.

it's trivial to bypass most paywalls isn't it?
How do we know they aren't eating beneficial insects as well?
Candles are more expensive than torches of similar luminosity (I've bought multiple extremely bright torches from PoundLand and EuroShop; can you even find a merely-one-candle-power torch in a pound-shop/dollar-store? Or anywhere else when torches are usually advertised by the biggest brightness number possible?)

Candles are less hands-free than torches because they are a fire hazard when unattended; also, you can turn an iPhone light on or off with "hey Siri torch on" etc., unlike a candle where you need to find both it and the matches first before you get started, instead of simply vocalising in the darkness to summon forth illumination like a wizard.

In fact, that fire hazard thing makes candles more likely to be the cause of rather than the solution to any serious problems I might face.
> We may be seeing the biggest reversal in war since late WWI - defense may be stronger than offense again.

Pretty sure once you’ve got that 300kW space laser up there someone is going to find an offensive use for it.
Show HN: Image background removal without annoying subscriptions
Hi HN,

Removing the background from images is a surprisingly common image processing task, and AI has made it really easy. The technology has come a long way since segment leader remove.bg launched here on hn in Dec 2018 [1]. Chasing remove.bg's success, a legion of providers have come on the market offering varying levels of quality & service.

Despite there being a large number of competing services, most still price for very high (~95%?) gross margins. Furthermore, subscriptions make the effective unit price a lot higher than the list price for infrequent users, and requires effort & attention to ensure you're getting value for money. This has prevented a host of use cases (e.g. infrequent professional / hobbyist) and business models (e.g. ad-supported websites & mobile apps).

We see this as an opportunity where we can jump to the market's logical conclusion to gain market share and build goodwill: cost-plus PAYGO pricing, i.e. the "S3 pricing model".

So we've built yet-another image background removal service ( https://pixian.ai - introductory post 6 months ago [2], a ton has been improved since then) but with a couple of twists:

1. Quantified quality comparison (90-120% of remove.bg, depending on image category), free for you to check your own images so you can make an informed choice.

2. Customer-friendly pricing (PAYGO @ 1-10% of competitors' subscriptions) with a generous free tier (and free while in beta).

3. A novel API result format: Delta PNG [3], which offers excellent latency & bandwidth savings. Especially useful for mobile apps.

4. Operational transparency: actual volume & latency metrics public, with more coming soon (all API providers should be showing this).

There's of course more to it than just price and we see several sources of differentiation in this market: quality, price, capability, reliability, latency, and goodwill.

As a new entrant we're looking to meet-or-beat the quality bar; beat on price, capability, reliability and latency; and to build up goodwill over time.

Our goal is to make it a no-brainer for new accounts to choose us, and to provide the tools and guidance necessary for existing accounts to make the switch with confidence.

We'd love for you to try it out and to hear your thoughts!

https://pixian.ai

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18697601
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33439405
[3] https://pixian.ai/api/deltaPng
Opinion-piece by a climate-change-denying[1] right-winger... doesn't belong in HN (then again, seems like a lot of HNers might agree with him).

He even writes for the Epoch Times[2] (who? [3]), geez...

[1] https://twitter.com/PardyBruce/status/1656499639682494464

[2] https://www.theepochtimes.com/author-bruce-pardy

[3] https://archive.is/FsAR0
The question was not about unionization, but the accomplishments of said unions, which remain to be seen. Unions that lack the strength to strike are a net negative.

The mayor elect didn't even support Bernie Sanders lol.

DSA membership has been nosediving for the past 2 years because DSA is effectively an appendage of the Democratic Party.
> “Want to learn to cook?”asked my mother, as she handed me a damp yellow kitchen cloth. “Start with learning how to clean.

My start of the adventure with cooking was making pizza dough and in first year the most visible progress was smaller and smaller amount of kitchen covered in flour after finishing

The breakthrough was going from "follow the recipe" to "understand how it works" (even if only on the very surface) and a bit of experience of what tastes good with what, and that was pretty much transformation from "I can make a decent food from recipe" to "I can pick what I have in fridge/pantry, maybe go buy one or two extra things and make something half-decent".

Never really experienced cooking with my parents (just helping around the food) but that's coz at that age my cooking was mostly "well I want to eat some pizza" and I only started cooking more stuff once I moved out.
Thanks!

I wish Mozilla and Google worked out their differences and came up with a way to enable WebUSB (opt-in, if necessary, for privacy reasons..) instead of just rejecting the extension altogether.
All their early stuff was uniform sizing, intended to be analogous to albums. Treating the programmers/designers like 'rock stars' was an intentional move.
The US's first amendment is rather unique amongst Western nations. Basically it says "the government cannot infringe on this inalienable right", that is the government cannot govern speech. Here's the actual language

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The key phrase "or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press".

As far as I know, this kind of language is absent from other Western nations. For example, Canada jails people for criticizing those of Islamic persuasion. [0] Note, the article doesn't record what the accused actually said. Here's a wikipedia overview of hate speech laws by country [1], though it is wikipedia, so take it with a grain of salt. Here's a somewhat relevant piece from Reason that takes an anti-hate-speech stance [2] where the author details the unconstitutionality of hate speech laws.

"Free speech" as we understand it in the US is unique in the world.

As far as the restrictions at state and federal level, these are considered unconstitutional, and you'll see a large number of them struck down in various courts across the country. Those in power definitely seek to expand their powers and fortunately we have a law that allows the citizenry to push back against that.

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/muslim-hate-1.614516...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_by_country

[2] https://reason.com/2021/05/20/teen-arrested-under-connecticu...
What those poor devices did to deserve such malady be placed upon them...
Wealthy nations will probably keep pace with defenses. Poor nations will probably just bypass them.

The easiest way for North Korea to nuke Tokyo is to just put the bomb on a legitimate seeming boat, and sail it over.
Vultr has gpus and locations in Miami.

Good pricing and easy to spin up/down machines.
Yet they're not that much better. Per Wikipedia (I have edited out successful intercepts!):

Syrian civil war (2014–)

{...}

In July 2016, two Israeli Patriot missiles missed an incoming drone launched from Syria, according to Russian media.
Israeli Air Defence Command fired two Patriot missiles, but they did not manage to destroy the target. Russia Today stated that the drone penetrated four kilometers into Israeli airspace, and then flew back into Syria.
In June 2018, a single Israeli Patriot missile was fired toward a drone which was approaching Israel from Syria. The missile missed its target, and the drone turned back to Syria.

Service with Saudi Arabia

In March 2018, another missile, apparently fired from Yemen, was intercepted by a Patriot missile over Riyadh. Missile experts via news agencies cast doubt on the effectiveness of the Saudi Arabian Patriot defense. According to videos, one interceptor exploded just after launch and another did a "U turn" midair toward Riyadh.

In September 2019, the six battalions of Patriot missile defense systems owned by Saudi Arabia failed to protect its oil facilities from attacks by multiple drones and suspected cruise missiles during the Abqaiq–Khurais attack.
Love the app. How do i export my bookmarks?
I would point to Jim Jordan and all the other Republicans after January 6th who didn't honor a subpoena and toss them in the trash. Nobody in our government honors them, why should we in the private sector? What's going to happen, they going to raid offices and get a bunch of PC's and books?
This is abstracted away from the customer and there is a wider and richer grayscale than at least I imagined before working at a data company and looking at IP providers for outbound. You have your TV sticks and VPN providers where a careful squinting at the ToS will tell you that users on the other end are signing off on the right to have their bandwidth leased. I don't see how else the supposedly legitimate providers of residential IPs could possibly offer the supply, geo-diversity, and pricing they do.
New 33B LLM Passes the Glass Door Test with "Push" Written on the Other Side
Governments are good at pure science, research, and individual technologies. They are not good at making products. That is fundamentally where private companies have a massive advantage.
Disagree there are sacred timeless skills we ought to protect; tech has and will continue to reduce our need to spend mental bandwidth on skills

Similar offline risk goes for all tech: navigation, generating energy, finding food & water.

And as others have noted, like other personal tools, ai will become more portable and efficient (see progress on self hosted, minimal, efficiently trained models like Vicuna that are 92% parity with OpenAI fancy model)
I don’t think I’ve ever had onions like this then
Unless we gradually produce enough interceptors over many years to disarm MAD. Then we could notice some other state building a lot of ballistic missiles and preemptively strike.
Equal Signs
Just because something is reflective in the visible light spectrum doesn't mean it's as reflective in other spectrums, say near-IR.
Can't wait for the new Thunderbird!
it's not misleading at all. Not only are those two methods of transportation also the largest in absolute terms. Per Capita costs are what matters because that indicates the efficiency of that particular mode of transportation. we definitely should measure concrete usage that way. If country A houses ten times more people with the same amount of concrete as country B, A is vastly more environmentally friendly.
High-Quality Video Reconstruction from Brain Activity
If they are actually glide vehicles these are exactly the hypersonic glide weapons discussed above, if thy “glide” part is an exaggeration, they are just classic ballistic missiles with maneuverable attack vehicles (MARVs), which are widely used, they aren’t, in any case, outside of the three categories presented.
It was a different thread that I remember. Someone posted the story as a submission, and one of the top-level comments was debunking it. My Google-fu used to be extremely good, back when Google was a good search engine, otherwise I would have found it by now and posted the link.

I like the effect that the story has had, but I dislike the idea that it might have been an exaggeration.

The author of Sled Driver made a lot of appearances/talks, but I don't know how much he was paid for them.

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The author states he doesn't normally monitor the frequencies as that was the other person's job, but the one time he does monitor, this happens?

Either things like this happen all of the time, in which case there would be plenty of people sharing their version of these kinds of stories, or the pilot got extremely lucky in his timing.
K-Means Log(n)
What's with the constant desire to rebrand things that work quite well?

Also, is this a bird or a dolphin, not quite sure...
I don't think that's a consensus view? Jeffrey Lewis says the opposite,

- "The point is that North Korea is clearly aimed at overwhelming the US missile defense system in Alaska... At that cost, I am pretty sure North Korea can add warheads faster than we can add interceptors."

https://twitter.com/ArmsControlWonk/status/13150050310751232...
The only thing related to Florida was the LGBT bit. The rest are all examples of a government sticking its nose where it definitely does not belong.