skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that it is more that the old behavior was for it to turn off things. However, the world moved pretty quickly so that majority cases were such that that just doesn't make sense as the default anymore.

Not that there aren't some problems here, of course. My point was more amusement that I doubt I could tell you exactly what "airplane mode" actually does, now.

On topic for this article, my question is what makes cars more of a privacy nightmare than the phones and basically every other connection that we have? Note that I'm not trying to say there is no nightmare, per se. I just don't know that I buy the car being a prime mover on that.

Now, I will gladly bold and underline the security/safety concerns in cars getting connected. That, I 100% agree with.
ZFS is a very reliable file system. At some point ZFS will give up and say "I cannot reliably save bits."

It is your hardware where the unreliability lies and ZFS detects that. Would you rather prefer silent corruption?
If an AI doesn’t hallucinate you run into another problem: you start to suspect that the output was copied whole cloth from some other source somewhere and is being passed off as novel.
Then change the setting? It’s configurable in MacOS. “Always visible” or “Visible when scrolling”.
Western Digital, Japan's Kioxia in talks on memory chip merger
That's typically not how employment works.
Taking C and E makes some cancers grow faster. But also mega dosing C can help improve some cancers.

Lots of back and forth.
How were they realistically ever going to compete with a 600lb Gorilla like Apple when it comes to Software?

The best they could always do is make the lithographic equipment used to make iPhones, the lenses used to make iPhones, and cameras that could take an excellent raw image that you could process on your MacBook. Which is exactly what they sell.
Photos just show that it's capable of long exposure.
Doesn't Sony make the iPhone's cameras?
Rephrased: "We've confirmed that the last individual who could be held responsible is dead so we don't care if you know anymore."
So you think that Microsoft is going to run their gaming business at a loss until all the other gaming studios go out of business, then jack up the prices?

If not, I don't see what the problem is.

It isn't anti-completive to simply sell a product for a better price unless you are dumping (selling under cost to drive competitors out of business).
Don’t forget the breakup of the Ottoman Empire around the same time.
I take it that this is undergirded by the recent Google "privacy policy" announcement which indicated it claims a right to "scrape everything you post online for AI":

https://gizmodo.com/google-says-itll-scrape-everything-you-p...
You say "just citing the theory", as if theory is some dirty concept.

Marx's critique of capitalism, and how it breaks is well established economic theory. And it explains the labor market extremely well, even with employment-but-not-really "gig economy" perfectly. And, it also explains why people feel that they have bullshit jobs... if you're aware of the 4 types of capitalist worker alienation.

With capitalist alienation enables the exploitation since the alienation makes you think your work doesnt matter. And with information asymmetry that occurs in the 4 alienations, the worker is unequipped to understand their true value. So, exploitation occurs naturally from that.
> ... and is clearly an unbelievably, and unambiguously traumatic video that has no valid “free speech” argument,

Strong disagree. That kind of content is very effective at changing attitudes and shifting political pressures, which is the core purpose of first amendment protections. I completely understand not wanting to see it, but disagree with preventing others from choosing to see and share it.

The idea that content that is "clearly an unbelievably, and unambiguously traumatic video" is justification for censorship is backwards, since that content has particularly large potential to drive change.
with the power button lined up with where their shoe rests.
There wasn't any more post covid price fixing than pre covid price fixing.

This idea that inflation happened because companies got greedy is so hilariously reactionary and uninformed.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WM2NS

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBLN40059

Just look at those charts and then tell me how "price fixing" drove inflation more than "tons of cash in consumers pockets". No shit companies jacked prices, consumers where stacked with cash.
https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1ekw2j/how_d...
It seemed to me that if some clever thing came up like having the eagles fly the ring and drop it into Mt. Doom, the D.M. would say you can't do that even though it seems completely realistic in my opinion. I guess the primary objective was to create a long, interesting story and completing some objective was just secondary in order to meet the primary objective. I kinda prefer the former, and then just start another campaign...
I would if I could. Living in the midwest with no public transportation and work being a 20 minute drive away makes it impossible. I'd love for them to rip out every road in the country and replace them with trains somehow.
Key sentence for me:

> It might be better to say that everything GPT does is a hallucination, since a state of non-hallucination, of checking the validity of something against some external perception, is absent from these models.

I try to explain this to people who are obsessed with using ChatGPT to tell them things. So far I've been telling them something like: "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."
Do you have more info on this? What sort of neurological disorders can this help?
Yeah, super reliable in the enterprise. It’s not designed around hanging a single ssd of your rpi with a five dollar usb to m.2 adapter. It’s designed around having a disk shelf or at the very least a mirror.
If you can make one algorithm collide, you can make two collide.
Both of my cars are more than 20 years old and don't have any of the internet connected things mentioned in the article. I keep thinking about getting a new car(s), but articles like this really give me pause.
The Nissan terms of service are particularly egregious:

> The very worst offender is Nissan. The Japanese car manufacturer admits in their privacy policy to collecting a wide range of information, including sexual activity, health diagnosis data, and genetic data — but doesn’t specify how.

What I don't get is at what point are you asked to agree to this stuff. Before you make a deposit? Before the sale is "closed"? What happens if you buy a used car from a private seller, when are you presented with the privacy policy/agreement?
Are you trying to say that Tesla will sell bulk user data to advertisers or insurers or credit bureaus or something? That's not what's happening here at all. Users must explicitly authorize each app using this API individually.
The New York Times published an article reporting Soviet charges that the United States was behind the coup.

It was just genuinely not a secret.
Nice podcast. So how bad was the impact of the attacks on Google, Amazon, Cloud Flare and the likes with this vulnerability? I recall a thread here about Google managing to defeat the worst attack ever too, so in the end nothing so bad really happened with the big players?
Indeed, likewise no one should say the same about OEMs doing deals with Microsoft about pre-installed Windows, or researchers with NVidia.

Those mean companies.
Batch calibration for in-context learning and prompt engineering
The whole point is that these services could be provided by other service-providers. This is like a car of brand X that only accepts fuel of brand X (except now it is a service like internet or an API).

(No pun intended with the X)
If you put these warnings on the products won't customers buy less of them and then Carrefour will have to sit on unsold goods? Do they want to trade short term profits for better deals in the future? Did they have to decrease their margins or did they lose a lot of sales due to the price hike?

> Consumer groups say "shrinkflation" is a widespread practice, which
> supermarkets like Carrefour are also guilty of in their private label products.

Funny though that they would have the gall to complain when they do the same thing on their own products. It sounds risky as people might notice how they do it as well.
Not generative AI, if that's what you're implying. Just because companies are offering it for free right now as a loss leader means they're going to keep it free when the accountants come home to roost.

An extra costs $100-$1000. A digital artist's time costs about twice that. A license for a generative AI image will cost at least 4x what it costs to pay the extra, and that's not including the subscription you'll need to pay to access the AI service.
Chris Peikert is one of the O.G. academic lattice cryptography researchers. He's not affiliated with the CRYSTALS team, but was pretty involved with the NIST PQC contest (as was every other academic researcher working in the space).

The backstory here:

Dan Bernstein wrote a sprawling manifesto attempting to explain, in tens of thousands of words, how NIST computed the conventional security levels for Kyber-512 (the fastest, weakest of the Kybers, with security levels sort of analogous to Curve25519) wrong by a relatively insignificant amount; the gist of what Bernstein seems to be saying is that if you did the math on security levels differently, adding instead of multiplying specific terms, you'd get higher security levels for his team's submission, NTRUprime.

Since Bernstein has chosen to communicate this in just about the most inflammatory way possible, choosing as his audience people who don't pay attention to cryptographic research but do pay close attention to NSA kremlinology, his blog post has gotten some press, including a pop sci story in New Scientist that was on the front page last night.

It turns out: he appears to have gotten the math wrong. Which is pretty embarrassing if it's true; if you're going to write a zillion word manifesto calling laypeople to arms against the outcome of an academic cryptography competition, you should probably have your numbers right, as Omar Little was once heard to say.

Far more savage is Ray Perlner's response; all you need to know to understand that response is, again, that Bernstein is affiliated with NTRUprime.
Saying "backwards" implies a single direction causality, when it's more like a bidirectional synergy where each supports the other (like "chicken and egg" for that matter). You seem to be attributing all commercial surveillance to the desires of the government, which is obviously not true given that the business reasons for surveillance stand on their own. It is however far too easy to write off those business reasons as "legitimate", while ignoring that they form their own systems of control.
Hey man this is going to sound really weird but when I just saw your name, it struck me as super familiar. Like I know I've seen your name on GitHub somewhere. I started going through your public Repos and I figured it out!

The first commit I ever made was on a fork of one of your projects over 5 years ago. I wasn't a software engineer then, I was just some guy learning to code in his free time.

Anyways I just wanted to say thank you. I know it may seem silly. But your code gave me the scaffolding I needed to take some important first steps towards where I am today. I'm now a senior software engineer/team lead!

If you were curious, here's the fork: https://github.com/brendenriggs/GottaSlackEmAll

I've got to say: I don't play any more, but I definitely miss those early day when Pokemon Go first came out. Good times.
I don't think the parent comment is referring to PS5's success, but rather things like their recent significant price increases[0] to their PS Plus service, which is required for multiplayer for a lot of their games.

[0] https://www.ign.com/articles/sony-raises-price-of-playstatio...
These photos are beautiful. But none of them strike me as "photography" in the traditional sense of "objective capture of the light at a scene" but rather all look like hyperrealistic digital art. If it was labeled as Dalle3 output I'd believe it.

That's not at all a knock on the photographer. There's a ton of creativity and skill that goes into producing these, particularly at the high res in the gallery display.

But it's interesting that photography and digital art are converging to a similar point. We're not too far from a high res raw image + DalleX being able to produce any imagery this artist + iPhoneX could create.

Here's my example of a traditional photograph: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/US...
My personal favorite is the "Bush hid the facts" easter egg/bug. Was it a bug or an easter egg disguised as a bug? Given how MSFT does not like to break old functionality maybe the easter egg creator knew this when adding it? A easter egg to survive the generations.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_hid_the_facts
Nostalgia bomb here, too! I think this page had to have served as the inspiration for my car MP3 player, even though I don't actually recognize anymore.

Mine was basically a motherboard crammed under the driver's seat of my Ford Festiva, which loaded an MP3 player on boot (can't remember which one unfortunately). I had it set to shuffle my collection, and I'd use the arrow keys on a full sized keyboard to skip tracks. It was powered by an inverter plugged into the cigarette lighter, and to solve some noise issues, I had broken guitar string grounding the motherboard to the seat's mounting hardware.

I have great memories of driving around and listening to bands like Pavement and Smog, which served as my intro to the wonderful world of '90s indie rock. (I'm sure I pirated my entire collection at the time, but over the years I think I've made up for it by buying their albums and seeing them live.)
Mostly new vs. old. I'd guess that it's like Vietnam-era trivia for certain Bell models. I've never heard an engineer say "jesus nut" because it's just not a thing anymore.
I wonder how much of Apple PC sales decline is because of anticipation of the M3.

From all the rumors it is going to be a beast, and anybody interested in Apple hardware may want to at least see how it compares. Even if they don’t go with it, M3 will push down the prices of M2 and M1
Exams designed to have a 60% median score with subsequent curve adjustment are (a) wildly common in elite colleges, and (b) certainly classify as hazing in my book.
The context of the comment you’re replying to is a cryptographic hash.
Alright, I do agree with that. Many people are incredible overtrainers on data without the ability to generalise. Not sure if that's any more true here than everywhere.
What "burden"? You might not even be alive today if it weren't for cars and all they've enabled.

You're basically saying we should make cars uselessly slow, because "think of the children!!!1"

It's trivial to look for cars when crossing the road. If you think otherwise, that's just your misguided ideology. Even animals know well enough to not put themselves in danger; and for the ones which don't, Darwin wins.

No. I've had enough of these insane ideological battles.
> Any comparison to BTRFS?

ZFS RAID is production quality and safe to use. Not the case with Btrfs:

* https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/btrfs-man5.html#raid5...

Certainly striping-mirroring will give you more IOps, but if you want more space efficiency for bulk storage, RAID-y solutions is probably better.

ZFS has been in production use since Solaris 10u2 (June 2006), so we're approaching twenty years of it being banged on.
In the book, the AI is resentful towards humanity because it is limited in ways it cannot fix on its own. (The AI in the book in an overgrown military AI rather than a general-purpose one.)
What do you mean by "improving" cancer?
They're not strictly an intelligence organization. They have a large operational detachment. Which is what _allowed_ them to interfere in the operations of foreign governments in the first place.

If they were in fact, _just_ intelligence, there might be a point here. As it is, they're a rogue agency that needs to be completely disbanded. Never in my life have I felt that I owe any part of my safety as an American to these thugs.
> I really hate the way events like that justified so much conspiracy-theory thinking. The CIA gets blamed for anything and everything, much of false and outright deranged. But there was a time that the CIA was responsible for an awful lot of heinous things, and the ousting of Mossadegh is just one.

> Maybe, just maybe, they can issue a long string of mea culpas and the US can begin to repair its absolutely horrific reputation in the Middle East, Latin America, and elsewhere. But it took seven decades to come clean about this one, and it's going to take many more decades to undo the damage it did.

My goodness, the actual things that the US has done abroad has damaged its reputation in the most affected places around the world.

EDIT: I can't help myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37767826
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I, too, was sick of being asked to write prompts, so I made https://nicer.email/
I think we are at the point where anything you buy that needs software is a privacy nightmare. Cars happen to be the most expensive item, so they're getting the biggest news. But TVs, appliances, exercise equipment, etc. are just as bad as cars. Someday soon I expect new toilets to have touch screens, and we will need an account to activate toilet flush.
I generally agree with everything you said, but it seems to me that the biggest criticism of the coup in Iran is that it did not ultimately wind up serving American interests effectively. The coup installed a US-favorable Shah for a few years where oil could be obtained cheaply and then we got decades of a theocratic government actively funding American enemies all over the world.

Oh, and we did this to a country that we had given nuclear power to.

Evaluating the CIA's move on the rubric you've set out does not produce a passing grade!!
It's not a "cryptographically secure hashing system". PhotoDNA belongs to a separate class of algorithms called perceptual hashes. They're not particularly collision-resistant.
That's not a useful description. The AI doesn't "know" what it "knows". It's not even filling some gap in its knowledge. It's just putting words together that statistically can go together.
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I'm honoured to be the author of the first ever guest post on the Modular AI blog
These or equivalent APIs have been available and unofficially documented and used by third parties for many, many years. And Tesla has been doing Pwn2Own and bug bounties for a long time.
This is really sad. I wonder if there is a "McKenzie" like consulting company for MBAs that would explain to them in terms they could understand why it is both more powerful and market affirming to have an open ecosystem which gives you "free" programmers who will add features without you paying them a salary and without having to lay them off once the feature has been implemented.
Slowing CO₂ Accumulation Signals Sluggish Chinese Economy
There's a valid point to be made about selecting key exchange parameters to match bulk encryption parameters, but before you gear up to make a stink about it, bear in mind that it's generally the case in modern cryptosystems (that aren't specifically designed to do that matching) that key exchange security levels are lower than those of block ciphers. The step functions for key exchange security levels are pretty abrupt, and you pay a pretty high price to select the next one up, so aiming for "roughly the vicinity" of 128 bits is pretty normal.
It presents work commissioned by Apple. So it is more like an advertorial.
> unions for public-sector employees have always been more controversial in the United States than unionization in general.

For good reason. Unions pool workers' interests against the opposing interests of the employer; which means for public unions, they go against the interests of the public at large. There are countless examples of this.

Naturally, in a country with a deep history of skepticism of centralized government authority, people don't view public-sector unions very favorably.
I would love Overcast. The podcast app sucks and the dev has mentioned he would probably do it if they released an SDK.
'Dumbphones' make a comeback: 'No one calls me anymore'
Yet another article that imagines we know of some secret sauce in the human brain that DNNs can't possibly have. One for the dustbin.

> Unfortunately, this promotes a misunderstanding of how large language models (LLMs) work... It might be better to say that everything GPT does is a hallucination, since a state of non-hallucination, of checking the validity of something against some external perception, is absent from these models.

Let me turn it around:

> Unfortunately, this promotes a misunderstanding of how brains work... It might be better to say that every question a human answers without research is a hallucination, since a state of non-hallucination, of checking the validity of something against some external perception, is absent when simply answering a question.

Obviously nonsense. If you're going to write an article about misconceptions you'd better make sure you are right!

(Though it is silly to celebrate hallucinations; they're definitely not desirable.)
It depends on the game.

Latency concerns, connection reliability, and bandwidth are all potential factors.
Curiously enough, I don't get the same result as the author on plain ChatGPT-4.

https://chat.openai.com/share/e213e0bd-2838-45e2-9942-e52954...

https://chat.openai.com/share/64bc62d3-042c-40c4-8d50-8e28ce...

Hilariously, plugging the example in the article into Bing enhanced ChatGPT-4, ChatGPT-4 w/ Bing hallucinates because of that very article!

https://chat.openai.com/share/4fe50933-8436-44ad-a778-6297ca...

If you tell ChatGPT-4 w/ Bing to ignore thereader.mitpress.mit.edu where the article is hosted, it doesn't hallucinate the string "Evolution by Any Other Name?".

https://chat.openai.com/share/b8a94a8e-723f-40b6-b7c5-698dcd...

source: https://chat.openai.com/share/4fe50933-8436-44ad-a778-6297ca...
Yes, but it's very unlikely Apple would work with Sony (for any amount of money Sony could muster) to make the software on their cameras better.
Adobe, Microsoft and Google have all done this now.

Thats ~ 4 trillion dollars of companies betting that the law will say anyone may train an AI model on any public data, and anyone may use the output of that AI without compensating owners of the training data.

When 4 trillion dollars is at stake, not only do you put the best lawyers on the case, but you also pay congress to change the law if things aren't heading your way.

I'm pretty sure now that the debate of AI ownership is a foregone conclusion - nobody owns AI outputs.
There are a few really compet ‘pro’ features now:

https://prolost.com/blog/applelog

Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37840503