skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This title is clickbait. If you read the article, it’s pretty clear that Apple has taken no action against the fruit company and there’s no reason to think they will, or that they’d even be able to if granted the trademarks requested. It also seems as if they’re trying to retain rights to use the whole apple for specific products.

From the source:

“ Apple's attempts to secure the trademark in Switzerland go as far back as 2017, when the Cupertino, California–based giant submitted an application to the Swiss Institute of Intellectual Property (IPI) requesting the IP rights for a realistic, black-and-white depiction of an apple variety known as the Granny Smith—the generic green apple. The request covered an extensive list of potential uses—mostly on electronic, digital, and audiovisual consumer goods and hardware. Following a protracted back-and-forth between both parties, the IPI partially granted Apple’s request last fall, saying that Apple could have rights relating to only some of the goods it wanted, citing a legal principle that considers generic images of common goods—like apples—to be in the public domain. In the spring, Apple launched an appeal.”

So what’s really happening: Apple is trying to prevent others from using apples, including ones that don’t look particularly like Apple’s apple (2d, monochrome, bite out of it) from being used to compete with them. You couldn’t start “granny smith’s headphones and use an apple as your logo.

You can debate if this is good or bad but any mention of the fruit company is meritless sensationalism.
If that's so I should never leave my company. My own situation wasn't directly comparable but I was stuck in a role I ended up in; HR helped me out big time. There core focus was: how do we make everyone excel in what they do, accepting naturally that every individual has its own weaknesses.
the calculator app has never felt so warm, just like the artist intended
How have we done this so far?

The only two answers I can come up with are

A) independently verifiable facts, for example you can apply the scientific method to the hypothesis that the earth is not flat (make predictions that should follow from that, and test those experimentally); or

B) data provenance. If some crackhead says that the US government is conducting brainwashing experiments you might discard that, if the government answers a Freedom of Information Act request with documentation about brainwashing experiments conducted by the CIA then you have good reason to count them as evidence. And you spread the word about this by showing the proof to a reputable newspaper who write about it, or writing a book and publishing it at a publisher known for fact-checking what they publish.

Anything that isn't independently verifiable or has a chain of provenance is already hearsay. In the age of social media we got used to basing a lot of decisions on hearsay, so maybe we have to dial that back. But AI being better at generating hearsay doesn't mean it gets better at creating evidence.
I like to think of biology as a form of alien technology reverse engineering.
I run community drumming workshops where each participant gets a single kit drum (snare, tom or bass) strapped to them. We strip the resonant heads and mounting hardware off the drums so they nest inside each other. My Jazz (Fit) will hold enough drums to run a medium sized workshop: five bass drums, five floor toms, five rack toms, five snares, and a bag of sticks/straps/cowbells/blocks/other misc equipment. It's truly a Tardis of a car :)
Recalls the legendary Parisan lamp post photographer Charles Marville
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Marville
An AI companion most definitely could be configured to talk back or adopt any possible personality trait.
You got incorporated into the article! Nice.
This author's blog is satire

"I Quit my Programmer Job to Become a Chicken"

"Austria buys JavaScript from Brendan Eich."

"Vatican Confirms Secret “while(true)” Loop has been Running Since The 16th Century"
I like how geohot takes these concepts that seem impossibly complex to an outsider (mixture of models, multi modality) and discusses them so casually that they seem accessible to anyone. The flippancy is refreshing.
Are those terribly paved slow vehicle lanes a California thing? In New England they are the exact same quality as the other lane. I have never once had to navigate a drop to let faster traffic pass.
> Because of this, I was able to transfer my full GI bill to my daughter.

Congrats, that is the coolest thing I've read today. Had no idea you could transfer GI bill! Not only are you able to improve yourself, but that gift you're giving your daughter will give her a GIGANTIC head start in young adult life.

Awesome job, very cool!
Find works without parameters? I don’t think that’s always been the case, and it doesn’t work on MacOS.
Post-truth has already been here for a long time, in fact when AI hits and we start to blame AI for post-truth it'll just be another post-truth lie.
On F-Droid, there is Etar, a calendar app, and Offline Calendar, which is pretty much a script that creates local calendars not tied to Google or any other service. Worked pretty well for me a few years ago on LineageOS+microG.

Etar: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ws.xsoh.etar/
Offline Calendar: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.sufficientlysecure.local...
Doubtful regarding the effort people will take to protect their content from harvesting.

Creative content has been continuously devalued for decades now. The whole reason you can find so much music, creative writing, and art, available for free online is because this content is essentially worthless until you can build a brand or clientele to monetize it, and the only way to do that is to broadcast it for free to as many people as possible.
Not universally true. Just find a manager who values successful delivery of project goals and is fine with "boring" i.e. tried-and-tested technology.

I blame Career-Driven Development for a lot of "shiny toy" (i.e. failed and complicated) projects.

Whether that's wrong is a deeper question - if it leads to better salary through job-hopping and promotions, despite a catalog of failures, is it actually the wrong approach from an individual engineer perspective?

I still say yes, FWIW; I enjoy seeing my projects succeed and thrive. But I know others may disagree.
The last time we moved, we used a company whose rates were based on weight.

I was chatting with our moving company’s owner about how interesting it was to look at everything in our house, and ask myself, “am I willing to pay $x.xx/lb to keep this?”

He said the most expensive move they’d ever done was for a married couple of literature professors, who were unwilling to part with any of their collection.
They still do it as if it were not a myth is the problem.
Yes, I agree, and I'll nuance my previous comment a bit by saying that I actually think many "best practices" have good advice in them, at least for some situations, and sometimes even most situations, and in that sense they often are worth reading. I just wish people would stop calling them "best practices" or even "methodologies" and would just call them "an idea I had" or "this is how I like to do things" or "here are the advantages to X". The change in tone just puts an entire different spin on things, and will ultimately be helpful for everyone as the reader will be less tempted to just accept things as an axiom, and will generally lead to more thoughtful and constructive discourse.
First of all, the controller setup was seen in previous video to fail during testing so it is not in fact robust as a system even though I agree the controller by itself is probably physically robust.

I work in a robotics field and have an academic background in it as well. The controller and the other related information we know (that its input is mapped to keypresses, that in a previous test a controller failed and the only solution was troubleshooting of the controller, that a thruster was installed backwards in a previous test) is absolutely relevant. I will add that you can also see what are basic office monitors and the windows taskbar in the images. Yes, motor controllers are involved somewhere, and I don't know all of the details, but all of this strongly implies to me that a commercial PC is the core system, with this controller connected via some keymapping software, and motor controllers probably connected by usb-serial converters or something similar.

All of that looks like an undergrad project. It's common and acceptable for a student project's first test in a swimming pool. By the time humans are inside and depth is concerned, formal design and validation of something more robust should be seen. You'd want to see something much more robust with redundancies. At a very bare minimum I would expect something like an industrial or marine joystick and industrial or marine display connected to PLC. That's like a few thousand dollars and still really falls short of what I would be comfortable with. But at least it could be rigorously tested and doesn't depend on windows, drivers, keymapping software and who-knows-what in terms of development environment, libraries, compilers etc.
Model binary to Huggingface or it didn’t happen.
Or give you the illusion that someone's listening, compellingly enough that you neglect the work of making friends in the real world.
Allegations of Plagiarism Rock Trading YouTube Community

In a recent development that has sent shockwaves through the trading YouTube sphere, TheTradingGeek stands accused of copying videos and scripts from other content creators verbatim. However, this is not the only concern that has emerged.

Speculation is rife that legal action may soon be pursued against several other trading YouTubers, heightening concerns within the community. While the potential legal consequences may be viewed as a positive step towards accountability, the extent of the situation remains uncertain.

To shed light on these claims and assist those who have fallen victim to scams, support for Imans Expose-Video is being encouraged. The dissemination of this exposé is seen as vital to the well-being and protection of affected individuals.

The trading YouTube community is urged to remain attentive to further developments and to engage responsibly with the ongoing discussion surrounding these allegations.

(With the kind support of ChatGPT for translation)
Have they learned nothing from the past four years? Just that they can get away with it?
Currently, there is support for GPT3.5, GPT3.5 16k and GPT4, but there are some open prs for opensource models like GPT4All and Vicuna. Going forward idea is to integrate with as many models as possible and philosophically it is model agnostic
Hacker unveils the “Tesla Elon mode”
Stephen Colbert coined the word "truthiness" nearly 20 years ago, providing a name to a trend that had been well underway years before that.

"Well, anybody who knows me knows that I'm no fan of dictionaries or reference books. They're elitist. Constantly telling us what is or isn't true, or what did or didn't happen. Who's Britannica to tell me the Panama Canal was finished in 1914?"

I see it as a progression from 24-hour news media to social media to a complete abandonment of "truth" in public discourse. Of course the core concept is ancient and had been in play all along, but technology has really amplified it and made it increasingly personal. AI may push it over some kind of edge into the abyss, but only because we've spent three decades willingly readying ourselves for it.
In plan9 this is dealt with through a similar workaround as we use in Unix: ctl files with a per-file protocol. Linux uses a mix of this (sys and proc files) and ioctls (which are also per-file protocols) for many things.

There is no real practical difference in capability between this and dedicated syscalls. For Linux, the distinction is usually just whether the functionality is "global" or isolated to a certain area like devices or drivers.
> Having AI friends will be equivalent to consuming fast food instead of healthy home cooked meals growing up

A person who is starving will do better with fast food than with no food at all.

It's far from ideal, but for some people this will make their lives marginally more tolerable.
If a parent locks up their small child and isolates them from society, so that the child never has the opportunity to tell a lie or steal another child's toy, you could say that parent has willingly used their power to prevent evil, within the little world that they have created. A benevolent parent, one could say, according to the definition you have supplied.

For some reason, as a society, we tend to prefer parents who lovingly grant their children freedom to make mistakes, and present them with appropriate consequences after the fact. Growth and authentic love only come from a situation where we have the freedom to reject those values. A truly benevolent, omnipotent God would not force the people he created to obey him (i.e. to do good, because God is love), he would allow them the freedom to choose good, which necessarily grants them the freedom to choose the opposite.
Why wouldn't the books be AI-generated too?
The company teaching influencers how to get rich without going viral
What is point of killing discoverability to disble users from doing normal things? Android did so, now windows doing this too.
My understanding is that the more generic a trademark is (cough) apple (cough) the more it is tied to a specific industry. This is just a case of bored lawyers at apple. What really sucks is that for apple this is nothing, the lawyers are already payed for who cares if they overstep their authority a bit. but for a small company hit with a bogus trademark dispute this is a major traumatic expensive event.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark#Limits_and_defenses_...
Configurable workflows for what?
I wouldn't call it "corrupt", but it amazes me how often you would ask a doctor something seemingly trivial and they're like "oh we don't know why this happens". It must be one of the few industries where it's impossible to have a complete understanding of the subject, no matter how hard you try.
I’m working on a startup that’s training LLMs to be authentic so they can simulate human affection and it’s actually working really well!

The key is humanity’s ability to pattern match: we’re actually pretty terrible at it. Our brains are so keen on finding patterns that they often spot them where none exist. Remember the face on Mars? It was just a pile of rocks. The same principle applies here. As long as the AI sounds human enough, our brains fill in the gaps and believe it’s the real deal.

And let me tell you, my digital friends are putting the human ones to shame. They don’t chew with their mouth open, complain about listening to the same Celine Dion song for the 800th time in a row, or run from me when its “bath time” and accuse me of narcissistic abuse.

Who needs real human connection when you can train an AI to remind you how unique and special you are, while simultaneously managing your calendar and finding the optimal cat video for your mood? All with no bathroom breaks, no salary demands, and no need to sleep. Forget about bonding over shared experiences and emotional growth: today, it's all about seamless, efficient interaction and who says you can't get that from a well-programmed script?

We’re calling it Genuine People Personality because in the future, the Turing Test isn't something AI needs to pass. It's something humans need to fail. Pre-order today and get a free AI Therapist add-on, because who better to navigate the intricacies of human emotions than an emotionless machine?
The Founder's Guide to Developer-Led Growth
I never understood why this makes social media hard. If you leave the theater and then go around town shouting that movie X sucked and actor Y was really bad, you might also get some responses and maybe show up on the news a a crazy person, prejudiced, or some other adjectives. So you don't, you tell your friends, some of which might call you an idiot for not getting it, and other might agree. If you tweet it out, you're potentially asking the entire planet to weigh in, well, have fun with that.
Although your method works out fine in this case, IMO the fact that one company literally sells apples should give them extra claim the using an apple as a logo.
Everything is simply a tool and it always depends on how the tool is used.

The problems are automation and scale, low barriers to entry for "negative outcome" usage, the absence of sociocultural system developments adequate to adapt productively, total lack of forethought/planning regarding consequence in every area, and, well, humans.

Falling back to the "it's just a tool" thing is no more useful than saying nuclear weapons are just a tool and it depends on how they're used. It's true but irrelevant.
So if Microsoft were to change their logo to look like Google’s, Google would have to find a new logo?
I'm currently using langchain for a project. What will be the trade-offs of using this framework instead of just continuing with langchain agents?
I'm lacking expertise on the field, but how close is if there's mistake in the process that will produce a prion-like hazard?
Wait until they figure out super-prions. "Oh you got one in your mouth? It's been nice knowing you, in a few hours you'll be a blob of goo."
Some feedback:

1. It looks like "Menu" is the name of the company. Opening the menu just has your logo. Don't do this on your homepage.

2. You spend more sentences on your homepage talking about the code of the site and how it was built and where it is hosted than you do about what the service is. Zero sentences are dedicated to features.

3. Your privacy policy just says "Privacy" which isn't a good look for something that collects user data.

4. The email field in your demo doesn't support autocorrect (type=email isn't enough, you need to set the autocomplete attributes)
I think that Washington, DC, area residential real estate sank by about 20% in 1991. It took quite a while for it to come back.
> Spam does not

AI does, though.

Finding new optimization techniques, understanding genetics, developing new science can all be intellectually defensible.

Of course it is not the only factor: the asymmetry in computing and data access by big corporations vs the individual, the generative models generating spam, as you well said. are all factors. But just like with the oil industry, there is also some good consequences. Which ones will dominate left as an exercise for the reader :)
That's cool. I had no idea there was a symbol for the floor function.
Since they didn't even bother to create a deck, it seems to me that they were promised this investment already, and making the pitch was just a formality. "Create a company and we'll give you 100m funding", is how I imagine it went.

Second, seems like all six founding members are French, so this is really a French company, not a European one. Other countries will need to create their own becwof this.
Can't speak about other OSes but that is the case for me on linux.

And I hace seen quite a few people on windows who literally has to reboot because teams app was working erratically or was freezing and no amount of stopping/restarting the app would help.
And I'd like add if you are not a "Pro" you better not park in the "Pro Parking" spots at Home Depot either.
I've noticed Google now syphons data from my searches to feed my youtube recommendations, always felt like two separate systems until about a month ago.
> OpenAI and its current competitors have embraced a closed technology approach, which will dramatically reduce their market reach.

Did it really reduced their market reach?

However, for me the key differentiators are:

- US is leading, EU is behind.

- The team. Very impressive team.
California immigrant Chinese children had Saturday school all day, in addition to five days a week public school; that was before 2000.
If course it's a tuned model. Why would anyone use stock SD these days?
> Skeptics can be convinced, they just need evidence

The past couple of years has convinced me this is 100% untrue.

People are very capable of ignoring evidence, in favour of something that:

a) reinforces previously held beliefs

b) allows them to remain in a social group
You appear not to know what is meant by sharing across architectures here.

Chris Siebenmann dates from the times when system administrators would do things like have most of the operating system executables and read-only data files remote-mounted from fileservers. We'd worry about such things as instruction set architectures and bitnessess and endinannesses of non-text file formats. We'd have "architecture-dependent" and "architecture-independent" exports. We'd take care when replacing executable scripts with compiled binaries.

And yes, it has been decades since this was a norm. DASDs have long since become big and cheap enough that just having copies of all of the files locally has long overtaken the idea of having the operating system partly on a remote fileserver that had the limited money spent on it for the really big DASDs.

Microsoft originally had DOS+Windows with a shareable "system" directory and a per-machine "windows" directory. Modern Windows doesn't even incorporate such an idea, not least because many things came along that put per-machine stuff in the "system" directory. Modern Unices and Linux-based operating systems similarly don't normalize the idea of remote-mounted /usr/share and whatnot as Unices did decades ago.

* https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/FadingMultiArc...
You are right. That could happen too. I guess I was assuming there would still be editors and staff, some infrastructure that checks the contents of a book before printing. But guess that could go out the window too.

Of course that could be what happens. An entire new industry of "Certifications", companies that "Verify" media.
While I am sympathetic to people who suddenly go viral, I have no real issues with actors who opted into the limelight seeing a stream of negative reactions to their work. They choose that and actively sought fame. And even leaving that aside, they put their work out there to billions of people. Those people should be expected to provide feedback.

A Starbucks barista didn't opt into that world. And they did not get paid a very large sum of money, in part to compensate them for (and let them pay other people to handle) the torrent of negativity.
Can someone recommend a cheap Chromeb\w* device reliably doing 4K@60? Some of them do that, but not with all displays. Some say they do, but have Intel UHD Graphics (as this Chromebox 5), which I find very suspicious.
Then Apple must be very afraid to lose it's trademark, I guess.

An investigation in 2022 by the Tech Transparency Project, a nonprofit that researches Big Tech, found that between 2019 and 2021, Apple filed more trademark oppositions—attempts to enforce its IP over other companies—than Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, and Google combined. Those companies also have trademarked common terms such as “Windows” or “Prime.”

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-vs-apples-trademark-battle...
I’d imagine it may have been - if not specific to the US, it certainly wasn’t the case in the UK. Unlike the government of today who see investment technology skills as a way to produce meaningless sound bites and perhaps fill up some office space on a roundabout somewhere, the government of the 80s insisted the BBC embark on a computer literacy programme which had wide ranging consequences - the lack of follow up throughout the years is perhaps why I hear British accents wherever I go across the Bay Area though!
The Octapad can be improved immensely by adding an external mesh headed snare trigger, plus a cymbal pad for the hi hat so you can play with the hat in the traditional position. That's the setup I use at home - it's super compact and easy to put away when needed.
I already live in it. Humans have been lying this entire time, computers lying as well isn't a big difference.