skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Imagine if a robot vacuum recorded videos of your home and uploaded them so that bunch of ML engineers can see and use it to improve the algorithm.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/19/1065306/roomba-i...

Yup, happing. Recent news on a lady whose vacuum took a pic of her on the toilet being leaked.
No prompting on backtracking or recursion, that was chosen by the LLM. All I did was tell it to break the problem down and reason about it, then afterwards asked it to write the code. Examples were added by me at the end, from a random sudoku site for "easy" and "hard".

https://gist.github.com/IanCal/9817f8b21b2ea6d77940966ee399d...
Yup, I know. So it Zuppa di Cozze and that's the beauty of it.
But, he's lost a lot of credibility since this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2023/06/04/stable-di...
Just 10-20% of applied phosphate fertilizer is taken up by plants. The rest gets lost in these insoluble forms. So there's a lot of room for improvement here.
How? You just said it does. Assume I’m dumb and explain to me the difference, please.
The fact that the platform is now explicitly transphobic is a case in point. Musk has made transphobia part of his policy position.
> if Meta scrambled to ship a competitor like this..

More like the 'fediverse' is scrambling [0] to block Threads before it has even launched.

[0] https://fedipact.online/
It would be a gross GDPR violation in the EU.
While I agree that adult capabilities for language learning are often underselled, you need to appreciate that a 2 year-old native speaker hasn't got the capabilities to learn the language to the full extent. Yet a 2-year old is likely to have a better phoneme representation – often much better – in their native language than an adult who has studied 2 years in language classes.
I dont understand how to interpret "support postgres wire protocol" any other wsy than go over a network (even if only localhost)
My recent surprise has been discovering that the online parkour community mostly lives on Instagram. I'm not sure why I find that odd, but I do.
I don't think this should turn in to an ORM or not debate, but there are plenty of reasons, especially for the crowd that would do anything to avoid ORMs. Just try to take a peek into the multitude of "ORMs are bad" articles / discussions.

For instance - I would love to be able to use https://github.com/porsager/postgres with sqlite.
Many people depend on YouTube or Instagram to make money. If YouTube and Instagram bans them - and it happens - they lose the ability to make money.
GDP (Gross Domestic Product) is the headline metric.

There must be many books on this subject, I’m pretty sure I learned that in one of my intro level college Economics classes (Econ minor)

I would pull out a macroeconomics and and microeconomics book from the library and study up. Maybe grab a Udemy course on Econ as well.
The way I like to see it, Facebook think of itself as a humanitarian company working mostly in the developing an underdeveloped countries providing them internet communication services.
> they're definitely not corrupt.

Mate, every regulator in Ireland is corrupt. Every single one.

GSOC - corrupt. Ask Maurice McCabe.

Túsla - corrupt. Ask McCabe, again.

Central Bank - corrupt. Ask Jonathan Sugarman.

Coillte - corrupt. Look at all the sitka spruce drenched in Round-Up that they plant.

The CRU - corrupt. Have never handed down a fine over three figures, afaict. They are literally paid by the utility companies. Ask anyone you know who has ever filed a complaint against them. My lawyer wouldn't go near them when his leccy company screwed him over - no point, he said.

The construction industry is a mafia; look into CRH sometime.

Look at what's happening to RTE now that they were caught giving tens of millions away under the table - one or two people will be scapegoated, lose their job, and escape jailtime.

FF and FG have their fingers in every pie. They have the country rotted out from the core. We're in debt over 40,000 euro per person.

So why on Earth would you assume the DPC, who has been letting FB run roughshod over half the planet's data for years, are any better at all?
The cadence and format of this video actually makes it look AI-generated. The content is padded and repeats itself quite a lot, the video is pretty much all stock footage, and the audio lacks any kind of variation in style like you'd expect even if someone were reading off a script. It sounds exactly like what you'd hear if you fed a script into a modern TTS.
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I don't think their business model does depend on breaking the law. They could stop operating in the EU and still make a profit, IIRC.
"Any reason why my Xiaomi Robot Vacuum uploads 11.5GB of data per month to the internet?"
https://www.reddit.com/r/Xiaomi/comments/9tgyrg/any_reason_w...
You probably should get yourself checked for photosensitive epilepsy.
Many of those ways just obfuscate the source or encrypt some files; they don't prevent the Electron packaging format from being opened. While that reduces most of the reasons for "cracking" the app open, there's still often useful information to be gleamed by doing so.
Of regularly used languages I would go for SQL in that quite often it does just what it says. It was developed for business people to use, and I pitched it as that early on, but ... not really.
So you can setup GA but you can't check your web server logs?
This is why I dislike when people gloss lovingly on product market fit. PMF is only part of the problem, an interesting indicator, and possible decision making support construct. But that's it.

Markets change, many evaporate or at least lead an accerated decay. Sometimes you double down on the decaying market, as the correct decision. Organizations have abandoned products, markets, or even invested in complete pivots as a result.

There's single right answer.
> The most frustrating part of this entire thing is that the intent of the law is pretty clear and yet they are trying stuff like this.

This is basically completely normal shit that american lawyers constantly pull - you're trying to put together a business contract that's been already agreed and then the legal team will just throw in insulting shit into contracts to see what kind of abuse they can get away with.

It's not surprising that this "approach" leaked into Meta's normal operations. They thought that if they manage to sneak in clauses in EULA, that they somehow won something (while they actually antagonized people they shouldn't).
There's been no mass censorship of right wing speech anywhere in the US. There has been censorship of both mis and disinformation performed independently by companies who didn't want their customers to die for preventable illnesses or become the next Unabomber due to Russian influence campaigns.
Thank God they didn't being Greta Thunberg to do the press release on their behalf.
(Submitter here) This is the article from which [The Darwinian argument for worrying about AI](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36533396) (on the frontpage 3 days ago) was excerpted (thanks to da39a3ee for pointing it out).

Submitting again because I'm completely baffled, really, by the almost complete absence of concern for evolutionary dynamics[1] in both the recent discussions around GPT etc.., and the hardcore alignment communities (LW etc..) of old.

[1] [This](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vJFdjigzmcXMhNTsx/simulators) is the only exception I know of, and it didn't get much traction outside LW at least (and I have no idea about inside LW).
You say "or" but then just give examples of what I said.

> law infringement implications

They comes from using people data in ways that you have no asked permission for. They don't want to ask for it because it's quite hard to spin "we want to mine your data for a Cambridge Analytica style social manipulation".

Adaption isn't that difficult, the cost comes from people saying no. They don't want to give that option.
that totally depends of discoverability and engagement. Bluesky is close to Twitter but doesn't have Meta resources, Warpcast for now is more like Twitter for crypto and decentraland, Mastodon got a lot of traction but also a lot of people leave it bc of discoverability problems. If threads will be close to Twitter with it's own spin, maybe it'll succeed
Sorry, I meant about the same resolution.

But in that case I'd expect the Dell 6K to fare even worse than the Apple 6K in a head-to-head comparison with the Dell 8K.
I tried consulting GPT4 on a question I found on MathOverflow
> as they don't make enough money

Commercial entities like facebook do not care for “enough money”. They want as much money as possible. Even if knowing everything about me, my family & friends, job & colleagues, etc. only gains 0.01% more (after accounting for the cost of the stalking infrastructure), they will do what is required to get that 0.01%.

Sometimes morality is allowed to get in the way, but the standard of moral core of an organisation tends towards the lowest common denominators within that organisation so things have to be pretty damned disgusting, and fairly universally considered so, before a commercial entity won't do them (or at least take a blind eye to them) in order to make another 0.01%.
One thing that really confused me with sqlite is how read transactions that are upgraded to write transactions half way through tend to fail very easiltly under high write load and cannot be automatically restarted by sqlite. It all makes sense in their concurrency model but it was surprising to me. The tl;dr is if you know you are going to write data in a transaction but the first operation is a read,use begin immddiate, so you dont have to worry about having to restart things manually.
LLMs don't understand meaning, they're just a statistical random number generator.
> There is a really simple proposal Meta can make to users now. Pay €1-10 per month for no ads or consent to ads.

Wouldn't most people consent to ads, without opting in to tracking? I guess in that case Meta would be in the same situation as now.
Well, you implied differently and said it was not in the spirit of GPL.

The spirit of GPL is just compliance. It predates all modern source code distribution and collaboration systems and processes - a floppy disk sent by snail mail in response to a letter is likely the original intent.
I read almost the whole article thinking there might be something more in there. There was mention of TCAV but that was about it.
This could massively save on the social security budget.
For practical things it's hard to teach in the abstract - you have to do - and doing means choosing some sort of toolchain - typically the most popular is a frequent choice.

As an example imagine learning programming - without some real world practice. And if you do some real world practice you have to choose which tool to use.

I take your broader point - but I think it's inevitable that most courses of this type are based around a particular tool chain.

Most Data Science courses use Python for example.
When you say "conservative" do you mean "blatant hate speech"?
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What's wrong with the unit file?
Most don't have a profit incentive, in fact I'd guess that some would be happy to have the users who'd leave over this leave
Putting all their dirty laundry out there should be useful towards tarnishing the reputations of the Ivies. If it can be spun that they’re white supremacist institutions, well, good luck to them.
I tried to join a few months ago and had the same problem. I couldn’t join through the app no matter what I tried. Instant ban with no way to get unbanned. But I was able to sign up on the website without an issue. And once I had a working account, I could create multiple alternate accounts through the app.

It’s frustrating Instagram doesn’t have lists so you need a separate account for every interest.
Not a rounding error in this case, but more to do with the precision of your input device and your screen size. The input angle and the converted temperatures are rounded to the nearest 0.1 degrees, but it is possible to hit 40.0° (I should probably add an option to round to whole degrees.)

If you really want to hit an exact number, you can add a query string to the URL.

https://degreeswhat.com/?-40
This is why everyone should be following Hank Green on LinkedIn.
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I am very privacy minded and I detest advertisements and the arguments in this thread seem ridiculous even to me. I was not expecting to see a full 1984 passage that quickly!

Let’s just face the reality: the jig is up. I just really really hope the paid experience is completely ad-free.
If you turn off desktop type effects with Linux I don't know what else people would really want.

Every window on my system moves what feels like instantaneously. Nothing feels slow on my machine at all. It literally couldn't feel more responsive and my machine is an i5 that is getting rather long in tooth.

It is the old you can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink.

Microsoft epitomizes the shitty aspects of monopoly. Everyone use to understand this before the Bill Gates influence campaign to revamp his image from that of Darth Vader.
If you want an imo more interesting example try "bulldozer". It's missing a quite... Important piece to our conception of those machines
For those who haven’t seen it, Makepad is also an in-browser code editor with an open-source UI toolkit. Looks like this synth is one of the examples of the UI toolkit.

https://makepad.dev/
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The whole point of having an APP_DIR option is so that you can change it and things will just keep working. By doing $APP_DIR/.. you invalidate that by making assumptions about the parent structure. In particular something that could easily happen in the future is that you may not have write access to "$APP_DIR/.." You gotta do what you gotta do, but it is smelly.
Wow, job for people who only knew google analytics exist? I thought at minimum SQL is required, and today's analysts also need to know python/pandas at minimum.

Imagine being a 'frontend developer' who can only use squarespace.
Maybe I’m wrong but CSS feels a bit anachronistic - almost everything was straight HTML back then. Maybe a little flash and a little JS?
Latency of a single roundtrip is the sole reason for the bloat being an issue. The bandwidth requirements to load even the heaviest webpages at a few megabytes is negligible for most people, but these pages are slow to load even in gigabit connections exactly due to their many render-blocking round-trips chained together.
I think we've found our killer app for AI.

I've got to say the call in the video is not very convincing, but the idea is pretty cool. Let's have AI and scammers talk to each other and waste each other's time while we do more interesting stuff.
These are essentially "IT Factory Workers". To be honest, I think there's value in that, with the same economics of "traditional" factory workers.
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Are those typically blocked by adblockers?
If it’s all bots, what’s another one really.
Yes that was a bit of an exaggeration. It's not setting up a manufacturing line from scratch, but finding the spec sheets and contracting a workshop willing to do a small run on the desired parts, which is not that easy.
That is very interesting. Where can I read more about your company?
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An accountant once told me that you don't get paid unless you send out invoices.

Businesses aren't going to pay unless they are mandated to, because why would they otherwise?
Of course passwords are fine. What's not fine is getting billions of people to change their behavior and switch to and use a password manager (that's not chrome).

You could even argue passwords are better than passkeys for those with strong password hygiene. However when it to the masses, the convenience-security tradeoff of something like passkeys is always going to be better. And for the nerds and geeks, passwords are not going to disappear anytime soon.
There's a gardening channel on youtube I watch (RED Gardens) where the guy does all sorts of small scale experiments with organic gardening. He was a bit surprised to discover his soils have excess potassium, from the various organic materials he had been using (like wood chips for mulch; pot ash, right?) The soils were also sodium deficient, so he was thinking of spreading measured amounts of salt!

He also discovered commercial compost can be crap, since it hasn't broken down enough and soaks up nitrogen as it finishes its decomposition in the ground. So if your potatoes are struggling in something like that, slather on some urea and they'll perk (and green) right up.
That's entirely fair, but also worth pointing out that (according to the google groups post) libjpeg-turbo doesn't implement all of the standard. To be even more fair, I don't know if libjpeg does either.
My understanding is they want to give themselves the option to do this in future even if they aren't doing it right now.
> Generally apple picks the optimal ppi and they don’t market the ppi value, only that it’s “retina”.

First world problem, but I hate when companies choose a one-size-fits-all value that is allegedly supposed to reach the limits of human perception, but that value still turns out not to be enough for me because (surprise) some people are naturally slightly better than average.

For example, the new Apple VR headset, despite having a resolution of around 4k*4k pixels per eye, would probably still have to make up for it in other ways, because I can still see significantly more pixels than that.

Apple actually seems to know this, and they know it so well that their entire marketing push is based on augmented reality and immersion. Blending things with the environment, moving around and interacting- basically things that can never really be disappointed by the screen resolution being insufficiently high.
It’s good to re-examine things without imposing existing frameworks.
How many bootcamp "developers" tooled up in one framework and struggle outside of that?
https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/commit/3cd931ef54... has some additional information, but not a lot.
I used to find post from Twitter were generally low value. Now I just don't bother.
Also Threads (yes, Instagram killed Threads once already: https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/17/22787783/instagram-threa...).
This entire comment thread is missing the point.

By releasing this library at no charge, the author is valuing his software at zero dollars. Downstream users accept his offer.

There is no story here.
I disagree, but that does not matter - even if you think it is fast somewhere in the EU, the fact still holds that your perceived loading time is in the ballpark of 2-3x longer than it would have been if hosted within the EU.

How you grade those experiences is subjective. Your "great" is likely my "meh", as physics dictate that we see similar results.
Awesome! Are there any simple downloads that have just annotations and connectivity? Like a sparse adjacency matrix with annotations of the node and edge features (neuron type, etc).
I didn't see any immediately.
A condensed representation of the 3d model should be pretty great for researchers as well.
It feels much more snappier than Electron-based apps.
Yes, all of them. For a non-blockable approach you can use a proxy on your own domain or by using a server-side integration.

https://docs.pirsch.io/get-started/proxy
Analytics and Business Intelligence in general tend to play a big part in modern enterprise organisations, at least in my experience. Often what happens with corporations is that the larger they grow, the more risk-averse decision makers become, and suddenly things like analytics become nice foundations to lean on for when a decision is questioned.

What I'd be curious to see is the ROI on these tools. They obviously work in some cases, but do they always work? We currently employ three business intelligence developers, and two developers who actually build products. What's the most hilarious about it, however, is that despite employing three BI's I can't tell you if they earn their keep, because their data doesn't show that.
Meta has lots of money, which the Fediverse does not and needs money to stay online. This is why admins of very large instances signed NDA with Meta to federate with them.

Money is power.
That's how they got to be big.
The question I have isn't why you need analytics but why you'd ever need any PII in the data. I don't care whether Bob clicked the button I only care whether 1% or 50% of users click the button. Or if those who clicked button A are likely to click button B so they should be closer together. Analytics should be anonymous usage statistics not tracking individuals. We are clumping two things together where one is bad and the other is useful and mostly harmless to integrity.
Some phosphate deposits are high in cadmium, to the extent that cadmium contamination of the derived fertilizer (and the fields it's applied to) is an issue. I wonder how much cadmium is in this deposit.

I also wonder if it could be mined by dissolving it underground with acid, rather than mining it and dissolving it at the surface.
https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/53528#issu... appears to be a comment from someone in the project laying out why they've changed.
You are sceptical that people will use LLMs for nefarious purposes?
This is very interesting. Any wild guesses how far (in years) away from building a synthetic fruit fly? 10 years?

By synthetic I mean a fly that doesn't die and that can be reproduced again.
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While I appreciate a bit of sarcasm, I'm not sure if this is what actually happened. In the CRT era, you either had good monitors which were expensive or a bunch of actually crap monitors. I had the former, but most of the people had latter and using those monitors for any extended period of time would give you headaches and dry eyes because of poor refresh rates, and terrible flicker.

As a personal anecdote: when I was choosing components for my first desktop computer (instead of using dad's work laptops), I selected components which are affordable. Also, as a coincidence a local IT magazine had a big test of desktop CRT monitors. So I've chosen some inexpensive one which wasn't terrible and as every kid asked parents for money. My mum who was already working on computers on her job had a look through that magazine and said that she'll pay for the whole computer only on the condition we buy the best monitor on that test. So we did (it was a trinitron Nokia @ 100Hz which was a lot), and I think with that move she saved my eyes long term, as I'm in my early 40ties and the only healthy thing I still have are my eyes. In any case, I've soon realized when I got that monitor is that I'll never save money when buying stuff which I use all day long.

Back to the topic. CRT monitors also were space heaters, and had a large volume which was only fine when being permanently placed on a geek's desk.

When LCDs arrived they actually were considerably better than average CRTs. The picture was rock solid without flicker or refresh rate artifacts, perfectly rectangular (a big problem with an average CRT as a matter of fact) and very sharp and crisp. All for a little bit more money. After two or three years they were actually even cheaper than CRTs. And I forgot to mention, they took much less space so you could place it on a POS counter or wherever. It took much more time to replace the top end CRTs, but I guess this is always the case when talking about some tech product.
Then everybody will need a robot butler to answer the door for them. Man, this industry is going to boom.