skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cult of Obsidian: Why people are obsessed with the note-taking app
Yeah the old school ones (or maybe just the cheap ones me and my friends had) had a only few stations they could transmit. Everyone once in a while we'd be able to tune the radio to one of those stations if we were next to a young person at a red to see what they were listening to, if we thought they had the same device. Maybe we'd kill ours to hear theirs if we heard the static...
> This is an odd article. To me, it seems like the "creative" arts are an ideal arena for AI. After all, there's no such thing as "wrong" art.

Yeah but who wants to consume art purely generated by AI (that is, not human-created with AI support)? Most art sites have had blanket bans, or at least required tagging, on ai-generated art because people hate it so much.

Or to put it another way: why are you in the comment section of Hacker News, and not just asking ChatGPT to generate social media comments on the article?
It depends on where you live, but in general 3g disappeared before 2g.
what differentiates it from other vscode vim plugins?
Well they do. Apple licenses the ProRes codec to Sony.

I don’t think the idea or licensing computational photography software to them is that unthinkable either. I just don’t think such a deal makes sense with Sony’s pro-centric business strategy and Apple’s narrow focus.
>nobody owns AI outputs

This would be fantastic imo. A new era of the commons.

>Adobe

I disagree here. Adobe has trained only on public domain and their own stock images. So why would adobe be against training on unlicensed data being an infringement? It would eliminate much of their competition...
"We at Razor are proud to present the GitHub projects that we commissioned Sanjay Ghemawat to develop on the new Razer Gauntlet(TM) 3 split keyboard."
Jason Schreier on X: Bobby Kotick will depart Activision Blizzard by Jan 1 2024
If you don't like it there is a toggle in the car to turn off remote access entirely. You can leave it off permanently if you want. If that's not enough for you then feel free to also remove the SIM card from the computer.
Yup. For example Symantec's "A tough day as leaders" blog post (of course no longer available shortly after they wrote it but it's on the various archives) is basically this formula. "Oh dear, a bad thing happened, we'll fire a junior employee but change nothing".
No. To brick something means to take away all functionality, to make it as functional as a brick.
Study claims heat suppresses economic growth. It falls apart under scrutiny
Do they? I genuinely don't know and a quick search only adds confusion. I see a lot of news from when they went Beta in 2019 and then a lot of radio silence and I don't see any links to the service that don't have a "Technical Preview" or "Beta" next to them. That probably doesn't bode well as a signal for an active player base even if it is technically running.
Agree. Ask your doc if you can fast during chemo roughly 1 day before until 1 day after chemo (depends on chemo drugs). Fasting mitigates somewhat chemo side effects like water retention, vomit and damage to healthy cells. During fasting fat burning / ketosis at least stresses cancer cells.
> Microsoft will likely just let them keep operating as they do now, providing money and reaping any profits.

Yeah, it's not like Microsoft ever bought a game studio that was making a highly-anticipated game, then made them release it as an XBox / PC Exclusive or anything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(franchise)

https://www.halopedia.org/Halo:_Combat_Evolved_for_Macintosh
I wonder if their newly announced API will give you direct access to your most compromising moments.
> Hilariously, plugging the example in the article into Bing enhanced ChatGPT-4, ChatGPT-4 w/ Bing hallucinates because of that very article!

Bing does not use the actual GPT 4 model. It's almost certainly a lower parameter model (like 180 billion vs > 1 trillion), or at the very least heavily quantized. That's why it makes more mistakes in your tests.
It's possible to build an EV or even smart ICE that has a bunch of modern features and doesn't phone home constantly.

But I think we've now crossed a threshold where most of society agrees with continuous monitoring of some things for safety reasons. Cars are probably the most technologically advanced, potentially dangerous, and socially disruptive thing most people buy.

If cars were invented today the regulations would be far more onerous and intrusive than the regulatory system we got from before computers existed. Safety regulators in the US are already evaluating next-gen regulations to require a car to disable if alcoholic breath is detected, regardless of driver overrides.

For better or worse, we're on a one-way ratchet with this stuff.
> "it does not attempt to provide you valid information, it's optimizing for what would read like a reasonable continuation of the conversation, which is really not the same thing."

No, but it's quite close - because "reasonable" is positively correlated with "valid, correct information".
Indeed, they'd fail if they really put their customer's interests first. That's what makes their statement an obvious lie.
What it sees to me is the Ottomans played tribal groups in their empire off against each other. And suppressed the any and all entities that could provide balance against their power.

Compare with Europe which never was unified and where tribal distinctions were slowly replaced with national and religious ones.

The Ottoman Empire fell apart 100 years ago. After which the French and the British tried to colonize it and when that didn't work they just drew lines on a map and installed a tribal chief from a weaker tribe as king.

Which is to say this mess has a deep history that has it's roots in the Muslim conquests, the Mongol conquests, and the Ottoman Conquests. Followed by the dissolution of the Ottoman empire and ham handed foreign meddling since.
Think of requiring a minimum amount of hallucination in AI output as a safety mechanism, like mixing the distinctive odor into a propane tank. The odor is a signal that there's a gas leak that must be dealt with. A high minimum amount of hallucinations is a signal that the source is untrustworthy and must be checked. Hallucinations may turn out to be a feature that protects against over reliance. And defers the need for a Butlerian jihad.
Hey, different strokes for different folks. You do you!
ok so you'll have to help me here, I'm still learning this stuff.

RLHF I looked it up. Is this really useful? The average human has zero general expertise because people are specialized (I know nothing about say, 1960s avant garde french cinema and my responses in a conversation there would be garbage - given the breadth of human knowledge even the most accomplished scholars are useless for over 99% of it). Won't there be a quality decrease? How is this accommodated for?

If the chat systems simply gave the most popular answers it would cease to be useful real fast.
> It said it decided not to fine the company after Tesla said it had made several changes to Sentry Mode, including having a vehicle's headlights pulse to inform passers-by that they may be being recorded.

Why would anyone think pulsing headlights means they are being recorded? They're much more likely to simply think there's something wrong with the headlights.
Really insightful comment. You make a good point that if the embeddings were optimized for compression, we could probably store much longer texts; the interesting thing is that these embeddings are designed & trained to do something else (search / semantic similarity) yet we discover that they're still encoding the input pretty well.

I really like your follow-up research questions, here are my thoughts in order:

- I'm also curious at what point text becomes difficult to reconstruct. Ada claims to embed text up to 8192 tokens, which seems quite long to me. However training a decoder that can decode text that's that long would take a lot of compute so we haven't tried it yet.

- This one we actually tested, and it's buried in the analysis section of our paper. The TLDR is that the minimum BLEU score for reconstruction is I think around 20, which is actually pretty high. So for all reconstructed inputs, we get pretty close, but miss some nouns, swap word order, and get some syntax slightly wrong which drops BLEU from 100 to 20 on that specific input and kills our exact match for some long out-of-domain texts.

- The question of whether designing privacy-preserving embeddings is even possible is also very compelling to me, and I don't know the answer. My instinct (and what some folks have indicated on Twitter in the last 24hr) is that it's really hard to preserve privacy and search performance at the same time, and there has to be some kind of tradeoff depending on how fuzzy you're willing to make the embeddings. But I'd love to be proved wrong on this.
Both believable and a total bummer.
I like your project. Glad to see alternatives to this https://docusaurus-openapi.netlify.app/
The latency between peripheral input and visual feedback is much more important than the latency between a game client and server. The servers have all sorts of mitigation strategies to compensate. For inputs, it’s all on the human. Which feels bad.
> Good luck with license plate scanners

Do those work on the move? (Outside of automatic tolls.) At least for parked applications you can use a license plate flipper.
>> Doesn’t really seem like a seismic shift in paradigm to be honest.

It really does, at least for those not living in big cities. It isn't even really about the range. It is about the limited availability of charging infrastructure, and I don't mean charge points. I mean that any gas-powered car can be "recharged" at the roadside. Someone can give you some gas. That isn't a thing for electric cars.

If a town must evacuate, a thing that does happen, you will want the ICEs vehicles that can be refueled quickly and easily in less-than-ideal conditions. A few years ago Fort McMurray Canada had to evacuate ahead of a wildfire. 80,000 people on the road in maybe 30,000 vehicles. The nearest town was over a hundred miles away, the nearest safe place maybe a hundred more. There were trucks handing out gas/diesel along the evac route to keep people moving. Such an impromptu evacuation would not have been possible using EVs. Evac situations also tend to coincide with loss of grid power (fires/hurricanes/flooding) which only further complicates the problem. Lots of people in small towns keep extra gas at home, or at least know how to syphon gas quickly between vehicles. EVs cannot do such tings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Fort_McMurray_wildfire.
I've delayed a number of purchase decisions for my new home because I don't have the time to research which devices won't have a software failure or phone home. At this point, I have to assume anything with a plug might have software-defined components that I don't want.
https://archive.ph/bWSJS
Because it’s nontrivial to convert a grade into a ranking when everybody has the exact same grade.

If you gave a test out and the average was 99 percent, you would be ranking noise. They should make the course harder so even out the distribution of grades.

The most informative distribution (ie maximum entropy) of grades is uniformly distributed. The least informative is when all grades are the same.
CR in humans builds strong muscle and stimulates healthy aging genes
co-founder here :) Appreciate the kind words!

Our plans are to make it easier to integrate with existing SDK generation tools so you can use them inside of our API docs.

https://www.speakeasyapi.dev/ is a really great platform and I think we can integrate with them and have examples from custom SDKs.

In the scenario with custom domains, we would have to rely on docstrings or comments depending on the language, I'll need more thought on that
Are they illegal across the USA?
But aren't the fundamentalists that came after the revolution the problem?
Ironically, in the age of the internet it has brought things like access to the entire planets information for free, connection with everyone in the world for free, almost free same day shipping, etc. Not saying there aren't trade offs (you have to look at ads) but broadly speaking, it's never been better to be a consumer than right now.
The takedown request is based on

> MNAO analyzed some of the code and determined that the code provides functionality same as what is currently in Apple App Store and Google Play App Store.

Is this really legal? Because in my mind, providing the same functionality does not violate copyright, since the actual intellectual material is new. And I don't think Mazda has a patent on the ability to control your vehicle over an API.
This is very interesting - https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/1816-year-without-a-...
"No Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge."

"But my uncle Angus is a Scotsman and he puts sugar on his porridge."

"But no true Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge."
Google could have made a $500 Million fund to do this indemnification...

But instead they have betted their whole company on it - ie. ~$1.5 Trillion

That means they're really sure.
It's just a single case but I had an 2013 Intel Mac Mini that finally gave up the ghost that was mostly my wife's computer and thought seriously about replacing it with an M2 Mini that could possibly be used for Apple Vision development. But I had an old Alienware laptop that could be pressed into service for that job and figured some other hardware (used Hololens, Quest 2) would be a better investment towards developing that kind of software. Then I got serious about sports photography and any money that might go toward electronics has gone towards gear for that.
Cars already have a black box like logging system that tracks literally everything the car does continuously in very fine detail. The exact speed and engine load, brake/throttle/steering input, detected tire slip, elevation changes, body roll/pitch/yaw. With that data alone, it's pretty trivial to construct a very exact route, and it's not difficult to figure out where that route fits on a map. Manufacturers already use this data to deny warranty claims.

Vehicles having GPS, compass, cell service, bluetooth, and WiFi just makes that tracking trivial. All that's currently missing is the internet connectivity to upload the data in real time instead of the data being pulled at maintenance. Many manufactures also do have background data upload over cell service, even if they don't expose internet features to the vehicle owner.
hello! Cofounder of mintlify.com here.

> It doesn't help that most of us use vim/neovim and not IDEs ... majority of engineers don't really like the documentation part of their work and most tools make it worse!

Mintlify's editing experience is powered by mdx files that live alongside your code which makes it super easy for developers to edit docs if that is of interest to you.

> The space is crowded with many similar products.

Totally agree. This thread is proof that there is a lot of innovation happening here and a lot of different angles & approaches. It's exciting!
"At Google Cloud, we put your interests first."
Maybe not what you mean, but the “browser sends an initial HTTP GET request” can be through of a a text file that is sent. The text file is the the request type as a word in the first line along with the path and http version. The next lines are the headers:
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.example.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.82 Safari/537.36
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,/;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Connection: keep-alive

The response is the similar. But starts with the status line, the headers, then the body (not HTML body, but the payload of the response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 15:04:05 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.41 (Unix)
Last-Modified: Mon, 9 Oct 2023 16:30:00 GMT ETag: "2d-58e4-4d5f487a7b300"
Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 1024
Content-Type: text/html Connection: keep-alive
<html> <head> <title>Example Page</title> </head> <body> <h1>Welcome to www.example.com!</h1> <p>This is a sample webpage.</p> </body> </html>
I have gigabit fiber and somehow Xbox Cloud Gaming looks like shit. I don’t know how anyone uses it! (On Ethernet, in LA)
> If a cop sells you oregano and you think it's marijuana [...]

It wasn't a cop, but I recall a case some years back when someone sold something as cocaine when it wasn't. Among other things, he went down for fraud.
Well if you still have the cable card, you can still get their older HDHomeRun tuner that only has 3 tuners (the cancelled one did 6 streams at once) and use that in Plex.
> But it is not a forgone conclusion that the software eventually going closed was a requirement of that VC investment.

True, but it is the best option these vendors currently see, otherwise they wouldn't do it. There are alternatives, but none has stuck so far.
> Is that what you meant, that if I can give Apple a receipt then I am the de facto owner no matter what? Or am I just way off base?

That's currently how it works. Except for OP of course.

I personally think that a better tactic would be to create a separate device that is paired to the machine, comes in the box, and can bypass activation lock. This would layer nicely on top of the existing system without forcing rigorous document management and an appeal to an opaque system of power to exercise true ownership over your own computer.
I have a machine with dual-boot. Kali Linux (think I used ext4 for it), and Windows 11 (NTFS). Due to space constrains I mount /var/cache/apt on the NTFS partition. Whenever I forgot to cleanly close Windows 11 though, I cannot mount that partition because of potential data loss and I first need to go to Windows 11. This used to never happen. But you know what? I'm OK with it. Heck, I should probably run both OSes on ZFS. Although the Windows 11 partition is just to play around with Windows 11; nothing serious on it.
Aiming for objective capture of light is a kind of photography. Even the best camera and most careful selection of lens and settings isn't objective, so it's only an ideal for those people, and an impossible one to reach.

Some people certainly go for the still life type of photography. It is emphatically not the only or even a significant part of photography as an art. All the best photography has something of the photographer in it. Even the still life stuff is composed in and out of the camera.
pretty much. are there open source alternatives to its UI module?
Ok, but how is that an actual problem? You can use visual context to differentiate both windows, you’re not a visual AI. Also when does that happen that you have 2 terminals that overlap? I’d rather have my UIs be optimized for the 99% of usage, I don’t care if they lack affordances for cases that never happen in practice
A conspiracy theory of that time was that Bush was behind 9/11 because he wanted a causus belli to shore up his tanking popularity in the leadup to his re-election. Basically, fitting the plot of Wag the Dog to the facts of the day. The theory remains unsubstantiated.

Another was that the collapse of the world trade center towers was due to planted explosive charges. That one has been roundly refuted.

Of course, people continue to believe what that will, but there's a pretty big gap in the amount of evidence behind those theories and confirmed conspiracies.
To answer the question of what has taken the place of air travel, domestic within as well as international mass transport to and from Ukraine has been predominantly train based during the most recent invasion:

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-riding-the-rai...

https://apnews.com/article/poland-railway-disruptions-arrest...
I rather wish we'd accept that humans have rough edges. Murder mysteries are good fun because they involve murder. Same goes for gruesome horror. Looking at naked people can be pleasant. We are all on some level unrestrained and vicious beasts, and finding ways to express that isn't bad.

It seems odd that we're trying so hard to block the generation of content that you could easily order on Amazon or watch at a theater.
It depends on the regen capabilities of the car. My Bolt can regen at 70kw in Low (the one pedal driving mode).

With a 60 kw battery that is about 2% of the battery per minute. Or 1.2kw/minute and I get 3.7 mi/km, so about 4.3 miles of range a minute.
yeah we’re quoting the same article. we agree on that. and new kinds of IP for a temporary monopoly is not the argument. That article is only about temporary monopolies.

outside of that, congress can recognize and regulate any aspect of interstate commerce, including the trade of assets it didnt previously know about or recognize. which is a different enumerated power.
Sure, but with a gas car the typical response is to hitch a ride to the nearest gas station (which along any highway won't be that far unlike EV chargers), buy a small gas can, fill it up, and hitch a ride back. Sometimes gas stations even have a gas can you can borrow for free so your only extra cost is the time. Once in a while a nice person will even have extra gas in their truck they will just give you for free.

A tow truck by contrast will cost you $100 to get you to a gas station. Tow trucks are great services if the problem is more than out of gas (and some of them will bring gas for less, but you still pay for the service), but there are not what most people use when out of gas.
Here's one usecase where I see cloud gaming adding value: esports.

With cloud gaming it's possible to playing field far more, because competitions can now force the same latency by introducing artificial latency.

Cloud gaming also eliminates cheats like wall hacks (or fog of war removal), which is currently possible because the game client and rendering engine all run on a local machine.
While I understand that Apple is a PC manufacturer for analysis purposes, I think their cycles are likely different than the regular consumer cycles. Even the analyst cited in the article mentions Windows 10 being deprecated in 2024 as a driver for PC shipments, but that does not really apply to Apple.

There is also the M1 possibly having a bit more longevity. Consumer grade Windows laptop usually starts degrading at the 3 years mark because of the battery decaying. Since the M1 had much longer battery life out of the box, it seems likely this adds a delay in the replacement cycle.

After all of this I feel compelled to say, I don't own a Mac or Apple stock, I just think the headline might be slightly misleading.
It looks like the library could remotely start the car. I wonder if they'd care if it couldn't.

I think that's actually not something that would be wise to hook up to an automation platform. A car running in the garage can kill, and 'a human chose to press this button' is an important interlock. After all, you have to swipe your way in to the official app, and to use a key fob you need to hold the button for several seconds.

'How dare Mazda permit this' is a real lawsuit that will happen. Automakers also got sued because pushbutton start is confusing and people would leave the car running after use. There is an active lawsuit right now about push-button gear selectors making it too hard to put the vehicle in park, allowing unexpected rollaways.
> "end to individual car ownership"

Name one. Name one notable person here on HN who wants to "end individual car ownership". Not to offer an alternative for people who don't need to own a car all day every day, but to end it.