skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the main reason geofencing exists on modern autonomous cars is to assure connectivity. A ton of work is offloaded. Not immediate driving decisions, but classification problems and similar are offloaded. Object detection is local, route decisions and object classification is offloaded. Further, there's fairly limited cache of "landmarks", the route significantly relies on things like street signs and other roadside identifiable objects to identify it's position; without a database of those it doesn't know it's current road position very well. Lane markings turn out to be too ambiguous for these AI cars to use. It has a bunch of those cached, but street signs go stale very quickly, and two-way communication is used to keep these dbs up to date.
Maybe the difficulty for mobile users is a good thing
Examples of the garbage YouTube gives my kids:
- huggy wuggy (horror)
- kissy missy (horror)
- poppy playtime (horror)
- commercial drivers license advertising (they click on truck pictures)
- accident lawyer advertising (again pictures of trucks)
- videos of kids playing with toys with no identifiable words being spoken (laughter machine and fizz bang noises)
I hope there will be something like GPT for real world interaction / fine motor skills / robotics. Activities like cleaning or walking require the sort of intelligence that deep nets are able to mimic. The problem is how to train the model, what should be the task during training, what's the alternative to predicting the next word.
Even if it's just some random hobby project. Or a legacy system they can't change.

Or a modern system.

My brand new image scanner only transfer files wirelessly via HTTP or FTP.

People in places like HN freak out with "Oh noes! Teh securities!" But its wireless connection is as a wifi access point that only allows one client to connect, and only stays active for a few minutes.

Not every computer is inside NORAD.
This is firmware verification done right: it lets you verify that you have Google firmware, but it does not force you to run Google firmware.
The rich aren't entrusted, they're entrenched. Despite their PR, they're an artifact of a glitchy system, they're not any more deserving or dedicated or dependable than anyone else. Very often they're much less.
GNUStep – Free software object-oriented clone of OpenStep/NexTSTEP
There's also the issue that SD/MJ-generated images cannot be copyrighted in the US.
Interesante: so I would consider AI to be necessarily transformative. The idea is that the art it produces could never be a copy, because of the effect the rest of its data corpus has on the output.

There are several layers of transformation, feedback loops, etc. I don't know exactly how it all works (I'm not an AI engineer) so there's a lot of hand waving here.

So to understand this:

1. In a world where someone owns the rights to the Mona Lisa, if I ask it to produce Mona Lisa as exactly as it can, and it produces the Mona Lisa (uncannily so, in layers of paint), can it be said to be a copy? Was there a violation? Or, per this ruling and by virtue of being produced by an AI, should that work be free to sell?

2. If I ask it to produce 'Mockey Mouse', and it produces a likeness uncannily approaching Mickey Mouse, should that work be free to sell without claims otherwise?
Radon and Thoron in Kenyan earth houses, I dont know if this problem spreads to various underground railway/metro systems which are everyday and common in cities.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2019.0011...

Vit D, can be replicated with UV-B flo tubes used by people keeping reptiles.
Seems like a very reasonable policy. I wish that other companies would adopt similar policies instead of trying to stuff AI in at every chance.
Musk Told Pentagon He Spoke to Putin Directly, New Yorker Says
Ugh - sorry this quoting must be my own thing - I don't know why I keep quoting btw, and unfortunately can't tell if anyone else does it (you mentioned people, but you might've just wanted to be polite to me - hehe).

I'll try to work on that! it got me thinking... why the heck!
I think a big problem with the 5G rollout was the confusing mish-mash of low, medium and high band "versions" of 5G, each of which had different marketing names depending on the carrier (not to mention "4G+" that was marketed as 5G).

All the marketing speak just said "5G is superfast and will let you download a movie in 20 seconds!" or whatever, when that reality was that only applied to mmWave 5G, and oh by-the-way mmWave signals are blocked by a window. It was just ridiculously over hyped.
What the heck are we building at The Drive AI?

Before answering the question, let's start with the problem.

1. Our files are scattered everywhere.

I send files via Gmail to friends, upload them to Slack and Discord for work, and store personal documents in Google Drive and on my local machine. I even have tons of notes in OneNote. Finding a specific file, like my 2 a.m. thoughts, becomes a challenge. Was it in OneNote or Google Docs? And if it's in Google Docs, which of the hundreds of folders? Maybe I sent it to a friend via email or even Discord?

This problem is magnified in teams where files are constantly sent across members, making search and management a daunting task. In a large company, it's common to send the same file multiple times to the same employee simply because they couldn't find it.

2. Inefficient use of stored information.

In one way or another, we all have a vast internal knowledge base. Most internet users store files in storage systems like Google Drive, Obsidian, or Notion. But we often don't make good use of these stored knowledge bases. Consider this scenario: I'm struggling to solve a complex Calculus question. I have my Calculus book, which contains information on how to solve such problems. Even if it doesn't have the answer to the specific question I'm working on, it has the steps, rules, and information needed to solve it. Why can't I simply ask my book for the steps that would lead me to the solution? Additionally, if I want to write an article about the Amazon forest and have related materials in my Google Drive, why can't I use them to help write the article?

These are the two main problems we are trying to solve at The Drive AI (https://thedrive.ai). We aim to be a Dropbox for your knowledge base. Users can simply upload or sync documents to create a structured repository of information. Currently, you must manually manage these documents into files and folders, but our goal is to automatically organize them by content. For example, all content related to music theory would be found in one specific folder.

We treat each folder as a knowledge base, a single source of truth to draw information from. So, if you forgot what notes are in Misolydian mode, you can simply ask the music theory knowledge base. Sure you can search the internet for notes in Misolydian mode, but the core idea holds for internal teams and personal documents. Imagine an emergency at a company, and you need to find information on what protocols to follow in the face of an emergency.

With access to this knowledge base, we can tackle the second problem. We can use those files while reading to understand concepts better, search over them to quickly find information, and write new content with sources drawn from them.

We might succeed, or we might fail, but it's worth a chance. Join us on our journey by using the platform: https://thedrive.ai.
It appears to me the author is advocating Literate Programming[0]. If so, then this is a nice way to make "educational codebases" intended for study IMHO.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming
Black Hole May Have Formed by Direct Collapse
"Maximum productivity temperature" is whatever doesn't have me shivering or sweating. In the winter (PNW, west of Mt. Tahoma) we keep our house at 59-61F, and in the summer we let it get up to 76-78F before cooling it down (will use fans to cool us down, though, if it's not too humid).

If it's just me in an outbuilding I'll put on a hat and coat and be okay in 41F (the lowest I've noted while also being comfortable enough typing). "Optimal" in that case includes the cost to heat the space, which I'd rather not do if I don't have to.
Another parallel that I see is “cloud”. Salesforce was one of the first (if not the first) real successful cloud companies. But it took a really long time (and it still is going on) for cloud-first to be the default in enterprises. And along the way, there was a ton of new technologies that were (re)invented: VMs and then containers etc at the infra level, new app architectures like AJAX (holy smokes was this amazing when it first came out), etc.

Similarly I think we’re in for a wild ride on AI and figuring out its implications. There’s a ton of obvious use cases today but I’m really interested in the ones that aren’t obvious right now.
I'll put it here, then: https://github.com/ad8e/harmonic-keyboard

(nothing there now!)
You have a different definition of "malicious" than the general public. In fact most of us on HN do. That shouldn't be dictating what browser vendors think of as malicious extensions. Consider an extension that tracks your browsing in exchange for giving you promo codes to get 5% off on some purchase. Plenty of users have considered this kind of trade off and decided that the 5% discount is worth the privacy impact. Most HNers would consider it malicious. But if browser vendors start to block these extensions we would sooner hear news reports of tech companies being overly paternalistic.

You are not speaking for all users and you know it.
I kind of like how everyone appears to universally hate the advice here. I'm a 320K mp3 guy myself. Here's the thing I've come to realize over years and not sure where to go with it.

All the great tools out there for tagging etc are ALBUM/ID3 oriented. I use Beets and it's really good for when I want the whole album.

But now I'm realizing: there's a lot of songs I have for which I really really don't want the whole album. So I have this massively old collection of random mp3's with weird tags. Anyone come up with tips or ideas how to begin to tackle something like this?

(edit, again, I don't much mean like "what software," more like -- how do you organize this? I keep coming up with decent possibilities, but none perfect and none that I can motivate myself to work on?)
Cool, thanks for the extra insights!

With (high power) hearing aids, it's reasonably easy to know if you have a gap in the mold: I'll get a feedback loop (annoying noise, naturally) if one is loose or a poor fit. Interestingly, for the past few molds (a 4-6 year life per pair these days) the left ear definitely has more of a problem with feedback loops when my jaw is opened wide (i.e. eating) - the shape evidently varies more with this movement than the right ear does.
The Internet Court of Truth
I think it's because it uses the mainstream media as "reliable" dataset. There was another AI that was trained on Reddit that was considered toxic and with "far right" opinions.
Consciousness in AI: Insights from the Science of Consciousness
At my local stadium, which holds something like 40-50k people I have no issues with mobile throughput. However the whole stadium as of 4 years ago is now full of small cells with maybe a dozen or so in each "section" so I'd say that's a far bigger factor than 5G just by itself.
Fair enough on all points - I did somehow miss multiple times that the article explicitly makes claim #3 in the first sentence (was skipping straight to the data probably), which I think is dumb for the reasons you mentioned, but also does vindicate Guvante's claims as being from the article.

And yes, I should have used the quote about units in responding to the claim about units, think I was focused on their original claim of 74% of units which was the property number so used the property number. FWIW, I did point out the idiotic definition of institutional investor (ie. including trustees) in another comment.
I'm not convinced that we should view Transformers and diffusion models as an entirely new era of AI. While they certainly represent advancements, it's crucial to acknowledge the incremental nature of progress in this field.
I don't know about others, but I have had a lot of stuff about nuclear power make its way into my YouTube feed in the last few years. Once I learned more about it, it is clear that it is by far the cleanest energy we currently know how to capture.

Everything has a footprint: solar power has panels and other components that last 10-30 years, hydroelectric is often terrible for local biodiversity, windmills have huge blades that wear out, etc. Nuclear creates far less waste and spent nuclear fuel can be recycled even.

I wish the US had gone all in on nuclear like France.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nandina is another Bamboo like plant, it is invasive. I grew up with one in the only situation where it wouldn't go invasive, it's surrounded by pavement and stands alone by Mom's front porch. It has awesome flowers for bees. I think i'll remove it before I sell her house. I may pot some to have on a terrace. But it is another invasive.
You are really proving my point - multiple paragraphs of details and provisos, many of which would have been completely unnecessary if UIDs had been variable-length all along, as Windows SIDs are.
The phone in question has smooth animations. They're just very slow as if to show how smooth and cool they are. It's also from a very well-known brand. I could double animation speed with developer settings but even with this I felt like animations were too slow.

Solution was to disable animations. However this sometimes breaks things. For a few month this broke multi-tasking (two apps on the same screen), but the vendor fixed it (though they reworked multi-tasking at the same time to prevent switching one app so it became almost useless for me at the same time)

Unfortunately I like having the ability to install what I want too much to get an iPhone but I understand how people valuing stability may prefer it.
I've noticed longer transition times between towers, but while connected I can pull down a lot more data so the impact on streaming is fairly minimal for me so long as my "buffer" doesn't run out too soon.
> I only run uBlock,

(as noted by fsckboy):
uBlock was the original name for the add-on that subsequently was ethically compromised/"sold out to" advertisers

uBlock Origin is the 2nd version written by the original author (gorhill) and is not compromised.
The math doesn’t work for UBI at scale. Unless there’s a 99% tax on the 1%. And how likely is that?
The presentation is more of a defense of systemd
I find it so irritating and difficult to read when authors needlessly make most of their paragraphs a single sentence. Or use lots of tiny sentences that read like fragments. I guess it's to add effect? Except it doesn't read like it's profound, it's just annoying.

Please stop doing this and just write like you talk. Unless that's also how you talk, in which case please just don't do that.
Valley of the Rogue is very nice and has quite the cast of players. Thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3_rBQWMNao
Not a founder but I'm an early stage employee at a company that manufactures dual use rugged hardware. We know that products like ours get used in defense, but we focus on industrial only. There are some companies out there with nearly identical products that sell exclusively to defense, however unlike us, all of the senior leadership are veterans/former officers and or former employees of 3 letter agencies.

Even if you have a great product, you need people familiar with the culture, the language, the systems, etc.

I recently met with a group of consultants who specialize in helping companies enter defense markets. Theyre selling point was that their customers (companies trying to get into defense) typically get a PO within 12 months of engaging their services.
Does this effectively save SAG and such? By not being copyrightable why would studios do that? Or am I missing something?
Hmm, I suppose it's a bit challenging to say. I initially thought that it wasn't for the 80% smallest companies and petabytes of data is probably puts you in the top 20%. (Most businesses are small businesses after all.)

However, I now realize that th biggest companies probably should manage their own data. If you're Google why would you use Snowflake?

So I don't know if you are the target audience for this blog post. It's pretty ambiguous.
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Increasing the size of the market is a well understood phenomenon, but it isn't the only way a business can be successful. The music companies would prefer that you spent less time watching TV and more time listening to music. Or, they would prefer that you had less meetings at work so you'd need music to fill the silence. Or, Artist A would like to convince you that they are better than Artist B.

Humanity has always been constrained by the 24 hour a day thing, but the economy has grown nonetheless.

That last little bit is interesting. Back in the physical media era, if Artist B fell out of your rotation, you could sell your record/tape/CD and decrease the size of their new market a little bit. Then we went to DRM, and every song you bought was a sunk cost; if you didn't listen to it, you still payed. Now with streaming, it's back to the downsides of physical media; if you stop listening to Artist B, they stop getting paid.
> My experience suggests that the transactional nature of modern medicine is part of what makes these types of investigations so hard. A doctor will be booked solid all day without time to reflect or investigate and that really only works with one-off problems.

I'd argue that has more to do with the sheer number of variables and our limited understanding of how they interact.

Patient resilience is also a factor. Few have the resources to eliminate all possibilities at their own expense while accepting the risk of having nothing to show for it. The opposite end of the spectrum are people who show up expecting to walk out with Vicodin and SSDI after the initial consultation.

Using chronic migraines as an example, that shit is a response to something-- and it may not even be medical in origin. Worst case: if you're a diabetic homebody living with six cats' dirty litter boxes, have mold in your basement and bats shitting in your attic, drink no water, smoke meth and eat only takeout Chinese food, any single one (or combination) of these could cause chronic migraines, and are far from being the only causes. Stipends and Oxy won't fix any of this.

Doctors are not investigators. They are scientists. Trained investigators are presumed unqualified to "manage that narrative and mine it for insights" because they are not Doctors (credentialism/"you're not a doctor" is literally the response any disability attorney would suggest you raise against skeptics, failing to notice the irony in a non-doctor attorney/client team touting the validity of a self-authored medical narrative).
Did you have the newsroom angle and monetization plan in mind when you started working on Datasette? Or did you start working on it first and then come to the monetization strategy after you realized that it resonated with people?
Up until Delphi 5 or 6 the cheapest Delphi would be just $100, it wasn't until Borland became Inprise and chased that big $$$ enterprise money that their prices skyrocketed.
Purdue’s promotional strategies included falsely claiming to well-meaning doctors that scientific studies showed the risk of patient addiction from OxyContin was “less than one percent.”

These are "pill mills" - doctors who are willing to hand out hundreds of tablets to whoever walked in their door for a large cash payment. We're talking about doctors who saw hundreds of patients per day, didn't actually examine them and then wrote prescriptions. Offices that had people lined up outside.

To call those doctors "well meaning" is laughable. They were entirely complicit in handing out powerful opioids for cash.

Why do these doctors get a pass? They're the ones that are supposed to be the gatekeepers for prescription opioids.
> NVIDIA's public reasoning was to prevent fraudulent individuals/companies from flashing a vBIOS of a higher-end graphics card onto a lower-end product to sell it at a premium as if it were the higher-end product.

Of the many ways to verify a product isn't counterfeit, they just had no choice but to pick the one that takes away all control from the consumer. Meanwhile phones solved this ages ago - a "bootloader unlocked" message at boot. But NVIDIA is tactically ignorant of that possibility.

It's long past the time we start calling out these PR statements as what they are - lies. Publications should only repeat their PR lies as:

"NVIDIA lied, claiming this was to prevent fraud, despite being aware of ways to combat this fraud without taking control away from the user. When asked for comment, their PR representative gave only evasive answers."
At some point his love affair with Russia and China at the expense of US national security will come back to bite him. We live in a new era of great state competition. Freelancing by billionaires is just not acceptable.

'"You don't know?" inquires Stalin with marked surprise, staring at Mironov. "Do you know how much our state weighs, with all the factories, machines, the army, with all the armaments and the navy?"

Mironov looks at Stalin with surprise.
"Think it over and tell me," says Stalin.
Mironov smiles, believing that Stalin is getting ready to crack a joke. But Stalin is not joking. He looks at Mironov in earnest. "I am asking you, how much does all that weigh?" he insists.

Mironov is confused. He waits, still hoping Stalin will turn everything into a joke, but Stalin keeps staring at him waiting for an answer. Mironov shrugs his shoulders and, like a schoolboy undergoing an examination, says in an irresolute voice, "Nobody can know that, Yosif Vissarionovich. It is in the realm of astronomical figures."

"Well, and can one man withstand the pressure of an astronomical weight?" asks Stalin sternly.
"No," answers Mironov'
I feel like driving a car from "the cloud" is just asking for trouble, surely no one's planning on doing that right? Maybe a-sync updates like where the geofence should be, or new software would be fine but not something realtime (which I assume is where they're leading with this 6G business).

Could you imagine the crash reports? "Sorry you plowed into the pack of school children, RDS was failing over at the time."
> not silently pulling updates

a regular user would not have the capability to audit an update. A power user, with entirely too much time on their hands, could of course, but one should not be designing systems based on such niche scenarios.
Since my dog died I walk more and get better exercise. It's okay to walk alone (easy for this White male to say...). Please don't take lightly the adoption of a companion animal (or other type of working animal); we choose how they live and often how they die, and they are each an individual worthy of love and care (hence, as helph67 might be pointing at, their help in getting us outside to meet their needs, IF we actually care; I've seen too many people who have a dog as an ornament or solely to guard their property as the dog gains weight and gets cranky).
"Enabling a vessel to be blown along by the wind, rather than rely solely on its engine, could hopefully eventually reduce a cargo ship's lifetime emissions by 30%."

I was really expecting a much much higher number
I used the OnePlus One way past its EOL. Replaced battery and screen multiple times, custom ROMs based on linageOS tuned by the community to revive important features like RAW, 60s Shutter Speed and introduce some new ones not unlocked by the OEM, like manual focus. This included firmware modifications of various subsystems to improve the QoL, like introducing Stereo Playback via the speaker and tuning the Speaker curves to sound acceptable.

There is a lot that can be done and there is a lot that people do.