skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Group messages.

If I send an SMS message to a group of people, they all see a message from me. They don't know who else got it. And if they reply, they reply only to me. Is your experience different?

WhatsApp (and I think iMessage) allow me to create a group with a name/purpose and send messages to the group and receive replies to the whole group.

(P.S. I went from dumb-phones to Android and have limited exposure to iMessage's feature-set).
I've watched lots of body cam footage as well. One interesting aspect is that apparently multiple departments allow officers to turn the camera off at will.
This is actually very cool!
That’s fair enough. Ostensibly the government of any country should be accountable to the people but history shows that cannot be counted on.

As convenient as Apple Pay is, I would not vote for a cashless system. I am just confused that very specific ideas of how this hypothetical system is going to work and am not sure where these come from or why it has to work the way people say and not in a more accountable less abusive manner. Expiring money seems patently absurd so why a central bank would consider it seems so outlandish to me at least.
You're talking about two very different scenarios. Metals would be brought back to Earth to improve life here.

Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen and Nitrogen would be essential to establishing habitats in space but close to useless if brought back to Earth.
As you know, to make machine learning work, it needs loads of data.

Most picture and videos are taken from a camera at arm's length, not attached to someone's face.

so if you want to make AR glasses "see" and "understand" the world from the point of view of a human (ie navigation, where is x, etc etc) then you need to make a dataset with that sensor configuration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vnZCwf5_QE has a simple example from CMU, rather than facebook
> But in this case if they lose in court they will lose far more then "just" dolphin being on steam.

The only thing they'd really lose is the money they already spent on lawyers, and they're more than happy to accept that loss. Nintendo will sue in futile situations just to make the other party miserable.
Consciousness as a solution to Maxwell’s demon?

Makes sense to me. Consciousness forms a closure over a deletion mechanism towards less and less paths over time. Eventually inconsistent architecture. It’s exactly what the universe needs.
The big reason is that JPEG XL is a seamless migration/lossless conversion from JPEG.

You get better compression and services can deliver multiple resolutions/qualities from the same stored image (reducing storage or compute costs), all transparent to the user.

So your average user will not care but your cloud and web service companies will. They are going to want to adopt this tech once there's widespread support so they can reduce operating costs.
I’d be very careful about this.
Video container formats do something useful: they let you to package several streams together (audio, video, subtitles), and they can take of some important aspects of av streaming, letting codec part to focus on being a codec. They let you to use existing audio codecs with a new video codec.

OTOH a still image container would do nothing useful. If an image is all that needs to be contained, there's no need for a wrapper.
One of my favorite movies of all time.
AFAIK, that is not true. Cookie banners are only required if they are used for tracking purposes.
> in that the policies in question aren't controversial and are already enforced

These policies aren't enforced

> Change management practices, so officer abuses are punished

"Less than 10% of officers in most police forces get investigated for misconduct. Yet some officers are consistently under investigation. Nearly 2,500 have been investigated on 10 or more charges. Twenty faced 100 or more allegations yet kept their badge for years." [1]

> Change management practices, so officers with multiple incidents of abuse of power are not allowed to serve

"Officers like Wiley Willis, who was caught on video manhandling a handcuffed woman in an interview room until she lay injured in a pool of blood. He got his firing reversed because an expert didn’t record a polygraph ... Among the officers who benefited from it: a Shreveport officer accused of raping a woman at police headquarters; a Baton Rouge officer who shot at a fleeing motorist and was fired for dishonesty; a Eunice officer disciplined for choking and tackling a motorist; and a Hammond officer who took part in a beating that a policing expert hired by the city said was one of the “most abusive uses of force” he ever reviewed." [2] all of these cops got their jobs back

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2019/0...
[2] https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/louisiana-shields-pol...
These aren’t comparative in the slightest. They aren’t being arrested for destroying an LGBT sign, they are being arrested for destroying someone else’s property. If you steal something from a police officer and destroy it, that is a “comparative” crime. You added false equiveillance examples because your “understanding” of assault laws has very little weight on its own. Considering there are actually many examples of anti-LGBT protestors that come armed [1] obviously to intimidate, it seems you attempting to mislead people as to the nature of anti-LGBT crimes and paint anti-LGBT crimes as “overcharged” seems telling.

[1] https://www.opb.org/article/2022/10/30/eugene-drag-queen-sto...
Amazing news. Kinda sad to see that Stripe was not on the list of early adopters but I'm sure they will implement it soon.

In Switzerland we build an awesome eBill system ontop of the equivalent thing to FedNow. Its all run by Six Group which is the biggest Stock Exchange but it is jointly owned by the big banks and government. So they all agreed to add this eBilling system. Its so much superior to having paper come in the mail all the time.

So much is possible once you have instantly confirming transactions supported by all banks. Suppliers can assume all possible customers have a bank account that can do this in contrast to the crazy world of sending paper checks by mail.
The entire point of the quote is that the answer to your question is "No".
I dont have (c)make installed
In general, the legacy hardware codec deployments are more important than what some ambitious software vendors think is "better". The primary inertia of media publishing markets, is content that will deliver properly on all platforms with legacy compatibility.

Initially, a new software codec will grind the cpu and battery-life like its on a 20 year old phone. Then often becomes pipelined into premium GPUs for fringe users, and finally mainstreamed by mobile publishers to save quality/bandwidth when the market is viable (i.e. above 80% of users).

If anyone thinks they can shortcut this process, or repeat a lock-down of the market with 1990s licensing models... than it will end badly for the project. There are decades of media content and free codecs keeping the distribution standards firmly anchored in compatibility mode. These popular choices become entrenched as old Patents expire on "good-enough" popular formats.

Best of luck, =)
ScyllaDB Is just knock off cassandra with different features and performance characteristics.
All 500-plus Whole Foods stores will soon let you pay with a palm scan
I would suggest getting your feet wet with HuggingFace Spaces free/Pro plan to get started & then their APIs once you get the hang of setting up things there. After that you can start with setting up LangChain pipelines or direct vector DB queries for which sort of columns or SQL queries to formulate(for the latter).

As for the former classifier you can try doing zero-shot classification between n number of categories + others. Models like Flan-T5/T5/Flan-UL2/DistillBART(also ~7B-40B param LLMs can also do this but would be overkill).
I definitely think there are two sides to this. The school I went to had a lot of professors for whom the "ossified 2 years prior to tenure" thing was true for, but I also found them to be helpful for teaching fundamental concepts that didn't change in an effective way.

I think one barrier to better engineering programs in universities is that there typically is an onerous set of "accreditation requirements" which prevents significant modification of the curriculum to adapt to modern needs.

The other barrier is that students culturally appear to not always want to do more coding than needed. Courses involving coding were widely regarded as the most difficult by the people around me, despite something like up to 80% of an EE class going into SW engineering after graduating.

I think in general, degree programs are designed to be something that they're not used for anymore often. The usual line is that they're designed to provide a track to academia, and aren't vocational training. But nowadays degrees seem very ritualistic and ornamental - it seems that people are doing their learning on the job mostly whatever they do, and the relevance of the degree itself is just a shibboleth of some sort.
No, if everyone had access to that much metal it wouldn't be precious.

If only the US government has access to it then it's up to them how much gold costs surely.
> According to Jerry Yang, chair of the Stanford Board of Trustees...

Also the co-founder of Yahoo!.
What I've learned from decades of software development: ANY and every component or capability you build into your system, incidentally or explicitly, will immediately (ie tomorrow) become "Accidentally Load Bearing".

Dependencies flow in and onto new components like water. This is a fundamental law.

Even secret interfaces, etc that you think no one could find or touch will be found and fondled and depended upon.

This is why the correct view is that all software is a liability and we should write as little of it as possible, just the minimal that is needed to get the dollars and nothing more.
Someday I had to tell my kid that people have two mommies and some people have two daddies, and you know what? It was fine. You can abstract it for a kid until they are old enough to understand.
Also I imagine there's still a huge risk of the drones malfunctioning, being shot down, messed with, disrupted, breaking due to weather, etc.
Tell that to china
Anyone who solves addiction would be regarded as a hero of our times. It's a huge problem across humankind.

But it's not just addiction that needs to be solved for videogames like these, it's highly targeted psychological manipulation they're employing (for example, "don't be a default"). That's not even counting the targeting of various age groups.
> We’ve made many improvements around the new 4.0.0 feature of using JSON files downloaded from formulae.brew.sh for package installation rather than local homebrew/core and homebrew/cask taps.

Curious to see the code on this. I read a good blog post a while back about updating how JSON was parsed for significant performance improvements. I wonder if the same concepts could be applied to home brew.

https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296339
"sensitive" as a criteria is a dead giveaway they are censors advertising themselves as the opposite. It's an evolved brand of censor; like some types of predator snakes that have evolved to mimic its harmless prey.
>Data, information, doesn't rot...

Can you tell me what hieroglyphics mean? What about a phrase of latin or another dead language? Information is only as "fresh" as our ability to interpret and understand it. Dead languagues are the same as a file who's format we no longer have the spec for. Yes, the ones and zeros may still be there, but without the ability to understand what they mean, there's little we can do with that information. We're still at risk of losing those capabilities for data.
Exactly. Where is the line between "curation" (or "moderation" in discussions) and "censorship"? If the line is subjective, how do we handle disagreements on that?

Even supposed objective measurements such as "Is this factually true?" can fail because we aren't omniscient, we learn new things and realize what was "true" yesterday is actually false, and sometimes an authority keeps telling us something is "true" and anyone who dissents is "moderated" and "curated" into effective silence.

I would trust Reporters Without Borders more than most, but maybe that's because their biases align with mine and I don't object to their censorship.
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Microsoft has removed the "logging tax" from Office 365
Thanks! It's much nicer to see the videos.

Stellar taxonomy and ecology is so interesting.

And while pulsar is a cool name, I think we missed our chance to name them whobblars.
> Fextralife says the devs didn't have an immediate answer for how many main endings the game will feature, though it'll certainly be way fewer than 17,000. But if there are that many variations to reflect the course of numerous small decisions made over the course of the game, you can still color me impressed.

You can roll a die five times and get 8000 different endings. It sounds like they're trying to use numbers to make something sound more impressive than it is because they know people won't do the math.
Why roles are not rules
I've been playing with this lately and it's been loads of fun (on OSX in particular, on Windows/WSL I don't think it's rigged up with GPTQ yet).

Of note is the experimental "Modelfile" that allows you to ship around an AI character or "stack" like a Docker image. I can really see the future around this shaping up to be really exciting, since I'll be able to hand you something much more replicable in terms of model, prompt, etc, and once we are able to chain calls and bundle embeddings, LoRa, etc., it seems like it could be really powerful.
websdr.org has a huge list. You can find a few more via google.
Our family of four is on an international vacation right now, peak season for the destination.

I checked all - direct airlines, kayak, Google flights, etc. I had specific dates and most online quotes were between $8,000 - $12,000 for cheapest economy ticket. 8k tickets had more stops/duration.

A local travel agent found a comparable ticket with good duration and stops for $5,500 for all of us. And I paid $600 for seat selection since we were traveling with kids and didn’t want to risk sitting apart.
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This violates farmers' rights and discourages production. It would be better for the government to buy rice on the open market or temporarily increase subsidies for the poor.
They seems to be end to end encrypted now. It asked me a password to encrypt the backup with. It's a recent feature and you must trust a closed source app. No idea of I can download the backup from Google drive with a web browser and decrypt it with some common decryption program.
As a US citizen, it is ridiculous that the Federal government is allowed to steal my money (via taxes) to actively kneecap the economy without any kind realistic recourse. Free borders & free markets make a country rich, this kind of nonsense is morally unconscionable and economic suicide.
People, myself included, also seem to underestimate the force animals can apply to things. Frustrating, as when it is corrected, it often times leads to silly "imagine if we fully exerted ourselves" discussions.
I think they’re thinking of things like that software control for the health machine that could get in a state where it would give a lethal dose to a patient.
How does mozjpeg compare to libjpeg-turbo? at what quality is jxl faster than mozjpeg/libjpeg-turbo?
As context, the ASF summarized current legislative efforts in

https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/save-open-source-th...

- EU Cyber-Resilience Act (CRA)

- EU product liability

- US executive orders, legislation...

The CRA committee's March draft showing changes is

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/ITRE-PR-745538...

Most concerning would be language enabling authorities to inspect secure enclaves, which I believe China and Russia will likely adopt. I couldn't find that.

Some other notable provisions:

The new draft says "only free and open-source software supplied in the course of a commercial activity should be covered by this Regulation" and puts the onus entirely on the manufacturer adopting it (i.e., off the developer or the sponsoring agency like ASF or eclipse.org): [10] "...manufacturers that incorporate such software in their products with digital elements should take all the necessary steps..."

[12a] It excludes national security and military electronics.

[14b] It excludes "leasing companies" from being considered as distributors.

[18a] It requires governments to prioritize vendors in compliance and to drive vendors to fix holes urgently.

[32a] Security updates must be automatic, but users can disable them. Once unsupported, users must be notified, and [32b] the source code should be given to companies seeking to offer ongoing support.

[34] Mandatory notification of vulnerabilities does not apply when "discovered by ethical security hackers operating with no malicious intent and with the manufacturer’s consent"

[61] In market enforcement sweeps for entire product categories, "Specific attention should be given to products with digital elements placed on the market by manufacturers that might present a security risk for the Union, including in light of the geopolitical context"
I wonder this when I studied Russian and saw all the French/German loanwords. "Did the Russians not use to have screens/beaches/furniture before the Enlightenment?"
Hosted k8s to run a few docker image is almost no extra work and possibly less work than setting up your own docker hosting system.

I see a small hosted k8s setup with a hosted sql server as a fine app for many things.
1) The research is cringe. 2) it's appropriate because he's literally guessing hashes.
Your hypothesis reminds me of the Gulf stream collapse hypothesis. Because the Gulf stream heats Europe this would mean Europe will be cooler and probably drier than now. I remember that in the seventies in Switzerland people were discussing the return of the ice age. The glaciers covered more than 80% of Switzerland and carved out the lakes in the plateau and on the edge of the Alps. I vividly remember an artist's visualization of this event: a large bluish glacier looming behind the houses of the old city of Bern.
That is… entirely divorced from reality.
> Why do some stores need a pin on my debit card, and some do not?

Oh that’s easy enough. If they need a PIN it’s actually being run as a debit card over the debit card network. Otherwise it’s being run as a “check card” over the credit card network (with higher fees and better consumer protections). It’s just backed with money instead of a line of credit.

> Why do online stores need my name and address, but IRL ones do not?

IRL stores have access to the actual card (with your name) and having this artifact present makes it much less likely that you are a fraudulent fraudster committing fraud, so the processors are willing to take it.

> How can restaurants swipe my card now and charge me later?

the good news is if the store ever defrauds you, everyone knows where to find the store! Unlike fraudsters making purchases.
Yeah, you'd have to do 6 weeks of PT first. But you can waiver that.
Welcome to the real world. Move somewhere more affordable.
I'm a bit confused as to why a Mixture of Experts (MOE) isn't one of the comparators. That seems like the most relevant direct comparator, rather than the several other paradigms that they cited.
Given that’s already happened with Google that’s a bit late. I’d rather support Kagi than reinforce Googles brand.
>This is a categorically false premise

This is accurate, somewhat. A lot of people do expect to find things of value when the use Google to search.

But people who are more technical know it's a bit of a faff and bother to get Google to spit out what you're actually looking for, outside of "who is Chloe Grace Moretz" or something equally banal.

And Google-the-Company does treat the Internet like it is their corporate property. Alphabet won't change unless it's made to do so.
It would be inaccurate if the charges were limited to property destruction.
> a behavior authoring loop

A behaviour that authors loops?
> India already has the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) [0]. Additionally, I think fears of this turning into a CBDC are overblown.

Yet, India is already working on E-RUPI [0] which is a CBDC on top of UPI by the Reserve Bank of India, also shown in the same Wikipedia link you just used. Eventually, FedNow will just be the rails for a US dollar CBDC.

The next time a protest happens in India after their government does something extremely unpopular, you'll see why CBDCs are a nightmare not to be ignored. This is why governments around the world are working with many central banks with pilot schemes to test them out and eventually roll their own.

> Like a Zelle or Venmo, but government backed!

Look where that went for Zelle. [1] A vehicle for rampant fraud on the system.

[0] https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/what-is-e-rupi-d...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/06/business/payments-fraud-z...
You can abstract it. My mommy is a dancer, or my mommy is an actor and she does shows for one grownup at a time.

It's really not difficult to find a true statement that is also not the whole truth. It's not like my kid understands what I do for a living beyond the company name I work for. Abstraction is fine and normal.
The legal rules around formality are somewhat complicated. To give you an idea, here are the broad laws in England and Wales.

Not a lot of formality is required for most contract signing, and so long as the other side of a contract is sure that you signed it, a PDF signed in a standard PDF editor like Preview is almost certainly fine.

But if you are making a deed, there are attestation requirements under s1 of the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989 - see https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/34/section/1

If a company is executing a document, it has to follow the rules in sections 43 to 47 of the Companies Act 2006. See https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/part/4/crosshea...

For property transactions, there's still an issue in use of e-signatures. There's a statutory scheme for "e-conveyancing" set out in Part 8 of the Land Registration Act 2002 which gives the Land Registry the ability to set up provision for using e-signatures for formalities that previously required wet ink signatures. They never got round to actually implementing this up until COVID restrictions made it somewhat impractical to get wet ink signatures so made a temporary change to allow it. When the COVID restrictions were lifted, they've gone back to the old practice but have promised that they're totally going to sort out a permanent solution. Whether they will is another matter.

See https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/electronic-signat...

I've personally used an iPad with an Apple Pencil to sign and have attested a (non-company) deed that had to comply with the LP(MP)A requirements and nobody seemed to have any trouble with it.

I suspect the target audience of a lot of e-signature SaaS products are companies where there are teams managing a lot of documents being signed across multiple jurisdictions, and juggling between sales, in-house legal and so on. Most of the problems those products are solving are likely business process issues rather than strictly legal requirements.
DAU down 50% already, predictably.
Why open-source is necessary but not sufficient for AI transparency
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I used to think like this about Google, back in the "Don't Be Evil" days.

I end up living day by day, knowing that nothing is permanent. Right now, I'm with Apple, acutely aware that someday, this will change -- probably when some snake finally manages to slip through similar legislation in the US and it becomes profitably unattractive for Apple to maintain it's privacy stance.

Apple's privacy stance is a marketing thing, after all.