skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is 90% mass surveillance for general law enforcement, 9% state spying, and 1% about stopping child sex abuse.

So of course, because 99% of the dragnet is unpalatable to the voters it is being forced onto, the focus is on CSAM.

None of it is effective anyway, which is an open secret.

Israel for example has one of the most extensive intelligence gathering programs in their region and they missed a huge military buildup on their doorstep.

This technology is never used to help or protect people. Nobody forces through unpopular laws that cost billions of dollars to implement and utilise out of the goodness of their heart.

Laws like this exist to keep tabs on the poor so that they don’t have the means to organise against the rich and powerful. Look at how Cambridge Analytica used dragnet data collection to help unpopular politicians win elections.

This is what it’s about: power.

The power to listen in. The power to keep tabs on you. The power to destroy the reputation of upstart competitors to your power.
That is an interesting point. What we also know is that soils are being depleted of minerals, and farmers are selecting for crops with higher shelf life over higher nutrition.

e.g. tomatoes have lost most flavor and nutrition over past few decades, some efforts are underway to hybridize them with older variants to get the best of both worlds.
My most pressing question is, can it play Doom?

There seems to be a port for ESP32 [0] and Arduino Nano does play it [1], so maybe?

[0]: https://github.com/espressif/esp32-doom

[1]: https://m5stack.hackster.io/naveenbskumar/yes-arduino-nano-e...
Not made in America: Factory shortage stalls offshore wind
The comments here are the same old usual "supply/demand" bullshit.

Let's just call it what it is: greed and capitalism are what's fucking you

No need to admite it, not at all, and that's why you'll remain fucked...
One way to keep kids interested in another language is to let them watch animated shows or listen to soundtrack music in that language. That helped extend our kid’s interest in Spanish, and is helping her get into Chinese.
I think it's far more likely that this API is intended to encourage fleet deployments of Teslas and value add from third party apps, rather than for the API fees themselves to be a profit center. That seems far fetched, and I have trouble seeing how that could discourage someone from buying a Tesla anyway, since you can simply choose not to use these features like the vast majority of owners today.

There are real costs to Tesla to run this API, likely primarily the cell bandwidth, so it makes sense to pass those costs on to users instead of subsiding them, which would likely lead to inefficient use of the API or even abuse.
my friend wants to know if insurrection against the current government is ok as long as it's some other country?
American here - I'm still working on English and it's been a few decades, so I think I might have trouble with another language. I live in South Texas so there are sometimes situations where Spanish is the only language spoken and I can get by well enough with it I suppose. But English gets you pretty far the world over, so we can afford to be lazy about it.
> I am not remembering any exclusive games from Rare before being bought by Microsoft?

Although not universally, most Rare games were exclusive to Nintendo consoles from 1986-2002.
Yup, why should I learn it? I simply have too few occasions to interact with someone who speaks Spanish but not English that it would have been quite a waste of effort to learn.
Academics is entirely different depending on the field.

In the case of archeology, it's almost always spoken in terms of "here's the earliest evidence we have of humans in an area".

I don't think any archeologist will say "Oh, humans were not here earlier than X date" but rather "Here's the evidence we have of humans being at this location at this date. Digging through their refuse, it appears this is what they ate.".

A field like mathematics has historically had a large degree of philosophy in it. There's not exactly a bunch of empirical evidence you can bring in to prove math one way or another (hence things like irrational numbers creating cults).
Of course not! No one should spend more than 20 bucks for a computer game!
I think people are becoming immune to the "cancel" thing. It's become boring.
As a StarCraft 2 fan, I’m actually quite happy with the current game balance. The last two rounds of balance patches from the community were far better for the playability and fun of the game. It was alarming when Blizzard cut funding for GSL and it looked like the Korean scene was practically done, but Afreeca and the community pulled together and kept that prize pool interesting enough for the Korean pros.
Historically, many pensions were defined benefit, rather than defined contribution. Market risk (and benefit) fell upon the employer rather than the employee. My understanding is that defined benefit pensions are pretty rare these days.
My anecdata (2 jobs at large Fortune 500 companies, 2 jobs at startups) suggests that large corporations run Windows, and it's the startups running Macs.
It is terrible. Nearly unusable without an ad blocking solution. I've happily been using AdBlock (generic name, great app) on iOS for years as a local VPN and feeding it with the same filter lists I use on desktop like EasyList, Peter Lowe's List, etc. It works reasonably well, and I rarely need to disable it (but still have to sometimes).

Trying not to sound like an advert for it, I'm just a guy who uses it, likes it, and thinks the back and forth about "how much better android is" doesn't really help you solve the problem.
IMHO: Differential forms are just half-arsed GA.

Physics is littered with incomplete implementations of GA using a mish-mash of random bits of mathematics because of a perverse insistence on refusing to use the appropriate algebra.
I agree with you that blindly attacking war critics is ugly, especially for remote wars and wars of influence.

At the same time, nobody was surprised that Russia and NATO disagreed over whose sphere of influence Ukraine resided in. The “Ukraine Problem” and how it would culminate was making it into popular foreign policy writing 50 years ago, and was part of diplomatic and intelligence strategies long before that.

Putin is getting old and sick and made a play for his legacy, hoping NATO would be too war-anxious to act. That didn’t work out.

Critics should have their voice heard because there always new questions about how to proceed, or whether past choices were well made, but that conflict was prefigured for decades and is not an “everyone else’s war”.
> First, iCloud E2EE is opt-in. The setting is buried

Go to Apple ID > iCloud in Settings. Is that really "buried"?
Purely guessing here, but the closest connection a one and a half year old usually has is its mother. Fathers only become more "relevant" to them at 2+ years and people outside the family even later. So it would be normal for the kid to pick up the mother's tongue. But it would be interesting to see how this preference evolves in the coming years.
There are more than two statements that can be made about the world. The statement that you are claiming that I made I did not make.
this might work in the US but is unlikely to work elsewhere in the world

the EU in particular is likely to pay less than zero attention to the interests of large US tech companies

the liability they're taking on here could be absolutely gigantic
Can this be done on a Nissan Leaf? Lots of old Leaf's with <100 mile range.
> I also know my college roommate ran the 1-hour photo at a walgreens and if there were personal photos be developed he made copies for himself.

Robin Williams made a movie about that. But speaking as a former photo lab guy, I can tell you that while the odd photo might get you to call a couple coworkers over for a peek, no one really cared to collect anyone else's photos.
> significant demand would shift to that window

Sounds like we would need “smart” water heaters that can query energy prices. That most likely means they would be online sharing all kinds of data most of us probably don’t want shared and would have a small monthly fee. The water heater might even be very inexpensive because of this.

I know it wouldn’t have to be implemented this way, but of course that’s how it would go.
I’m not sure what you mean by backwards compatibility of launch PS3s. At launch the PS3 had PS2 hardware backwards compatibility in both models (20GB and 60GB). The launch PS3 is the ultimate backwards compatibility console (imho). Later revisions removed that hardware but provided software emulation for PS2 (except it seems like they removed that at some later date). A launch PS3 and PS5, both unmodded, will allow you to effectively play every PS console game (not portable) made since 1995.

I have several Xbox games that have to be played on original hardware and are not supported by backwards compatibility, and Nintendo only ever supported previous systems when they did offer backwards compatibility.

You missed Sony removing Other OS, SACD playback, and other on the box features from the PS3. I still have no idea how they got away with that.
This is great, hopefully OP can keep it up. I spoke only my native German to our first daughter and it went great but when the second one came around she wanted to have nothing to do with it. "Stop speaking Spanish!" was her reply (all foreign languages were spanish in her estimation) so I slacked off.

Even with my older one I stopped the German when she was a bit older because I didn't want to be the only one having simplistic conversations and I also prefer speaking English myself.

In retrospect I regret my laziness. Some of my German drinking buddies, even the ones with American wives, kept it up and I feel a bit guilty.

Lessons I've learned:

- It's a lot easier when a stay-home parent speaks the foreign language

- Speaking a "useful" foreign language (Spanish, Mandarin) might be easier, especially if there are immersion programs in your town

- Success varies with each child
Is there any US state that provides for an expectation of not being video recorded in public spaces? Europe is different.
Interesting. Curious if you tried constraining only the first n (1?) tokens and then removing the constraint; would the model revert to a refusal or follow through on its response?
A coding challenge for someone with more GIS knowledge than I have: use the dataset behind this map https://hub.arcgis.com/maps/847cabe2dfc64f92918f2c282e3cedfb (number of households where Spanish is the primary spoken language by census tract) and see if you can find a location in the United States where you can travel 100s of miles in any direction without encountering a Spanish speaker.

Might be somewhere in Alaska, maybe?
Stop trusting Apple?
Definitely not a lawyer. You couldn't charge anyone with criminal conspiracy from the parent commenter's perspective.
What's happening in that one spot in Texas over Casamigos Ranch?
Image B' *is* CSAM. A competent authority will add it when it comes to their attention.
Their CTO did a demo of TimeGPT at their launch event last month [1]. It definitely appears to be a very easy tool to use. Love that it's zero shot!

Regardless, need to see more benchmarks to better understand its true performance. If it holds up it would be a big win for time forecasting.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7luRRyxLoQ
I was a little confused on why they can't use it on her other tumors that are growing in her liver.
Very cool, very ambitious! I will keep my eye on this; good luck!
It is accurate for the vast majority of games. There are very few games that actually ask for more. And most of the games that do are trashy AAA games imo.

Edit: maybe more helpful. The highest end recent games I’ve played without any issues at max include Resident evil 4 remake and remnant 2 off the top of my head.
Everyone Is Chasing What Nvidia Already Has
I've just released version 1.1.0 with support for JDK21 (run with Java 11 or newer) as well as GraalVM native-image. Give it a try.
Definitely depends on how you approach gaming. To me, gaming is something you have dedicated gear for, set aside dedicated time for, sit down somewhere comfortable, remove all distractions, turn down the lights, and so on, like watching a movie. The idea of playing a game "on the go" is as ridiculous to me as watching a movie "on the go" (or, really doing anything on the go--when I'm going somewhere, that's what I'm doing, I'm not doing something else).

To others, I guess picking up a casual game in a cafe might be interesting... Maybe they're a great target market for Cloud Gaming, I dunno. I sure am not!
Well, one way would be word of mouth from performance and experience. This is not that. Furthermore, there’s no way to assess that from this.
Please, dear Lord, no. No. Do not do this.

Use something with a sane key event handling system. List here:
https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/keyboard-protocol/

(My particular use that drove me down this rabbit hole was using "Shift" for selection. You CANNOT DO THIS with "standard" terminals as you cannot detect when shift gets pressed or released without also pressing another key.)
> What I really think is that allowing apps carte blanche access to the Internet is just not tenable in 2023. It's a bit analogous to the old MS-DOS days when apps had open unprotected access to all RAM. Outgoing connectivity should be whitelisted.

This is a good idea. Users may not actually enforce it, though. I think most people would rather give all apps the permissions they ask for than quit using whatever program they're used to in favor of another one that doesn't send telemetry. Most people don't seem to care that much.
I'll throw in INET256 https://github.com/inet256

It's a specification for identity based networking. There is a meshnet and a centralized implementation. You can layer IPv6, IPv4, or application traffic on top of any compatible implementation.
It is the purpose of copyright, explicitly, to incentivize creative work with the promise of monopoly power over its distribution. So it's a bit disingenuous to assert that microsoft is not a monopoly because other game companies exist.

Tech companies have long understood, and in fact may be entirely predicated upon the understanding that you can leverage one monpoly to create another.

If I make a game that can only run on your platform, then you gain a monopoly on platforms that can run that game. These platforms then become not fungible, and therefore de facto monopolies. There is a certain amount of "we haven't tried to port our game to other platforms", which probably shouldn't be an explicit violation of the law, but entering an exclusivity contract with a game studio is, in my opinion, a pretty clear restraint of trade.
An interesting question, what in software causes catastrophic issues when it's broke, but also designed as it should, like the Jesus nut is for a helicopter?

Obviously many systems have a single point of failure, and can result in lost productivity, but is that designed as it should, or cause catastrophic results like a helicopter crash?
Adding GraalVM native-image support required a little more hand-holding than expected, but is now available with version 1.1.0.

The project can now also compile itself. Exciting times.
My temporary mail service: https://instamail.dev/
Fixing the System
While if possible, it's the best course of action, the truth is these days additions like HSTS make it extremely difficult to MITM.

Additionally, MITM and trying things out on a toaster are one thing, doing the same on a 40k$ machine that can potentially make it impossible to do your commute is another.

This is IMO a prime example where the double team rev eng is key to success: one documents the API, the other uses it without having access to code (whiteroom)
Think of anyone you’ve encountered whose native language is different than yours. Chances are they had an accent. The less fluent they were, or the more different their native language was to yours, the thicker the accent. The thicker their accent, the harder they were for you to understand.
It all depends on the situation and the kid.

I speak to my kids in Japanese mostly as well as my wife but we also speak to them in English. Both of our kids are considered behind their age group in English.

One of my friends spoke their son in Arabic, his wife spoke to their son in Japanese and they spoke to each other in English. They had to change that because their son wasn't speaking by age 3. Once they started speaking only English all the time, their son did great. Now he can speak all 3 no problem but as the doctor they took him to said "No wonder he isn't speaking, he's not sure what is going on!"
I think part of it is that so many people around the world speak English so if English is your first language it's easier to get around.
Another thing to consider is how many development resources a given product/team has available. Emergency Responder is fundamentally a supporting product[0] to their PBX software. For the organizations that need it, it is something they have to have, but nobody that buys PBXes[1] picks a PBX on the basis of the security of the E911 add on package.

Now, if you're a big vendor, do you give more resources to the PBX team that builds features which sells PBX customers, or the add on team used by a fraction of a percent of the worldwide PBX install base? I'm not asking what you should do, but rather what your inner MBA would do...

0 - the fundamental purposes of Emergency Responder are to a) provide enhanced location information about a caller, say the general location within a building, and b) to allow emergency responders to call back the person who placed an emergency call, even if the phone they called from does not have a directly callable phone number. It does some other things, too, but those are the "primary" features.

1 - source: sold a whole bunch of PBXes.
Look at some of the cases in the news--the tech giants are more interested in ensuring that bad guys don't use their systems than in justice.

Remember that case not too long ago with a telehealth appointment, they sent a picture of something on their 2? year old's penis to the doc, asking if it was an issue. The police cleared him, but he's forever guilty in Google's eyes.
This calls for a movie
They should buy a Tesla, as they support their API as a first class citizen in the ecosystem.

https://www.tesla.com/developer-docs

https://electrek.co/2023/10/12/tesla-releases-official-api-d...
Does this have any implications for training models of copyrighted material?
> Human rights activists and journalists can enable

This is completely missing the point of why one needs privacy. Lack of it harms journalism and activism, making the government too powerful and not accountable. If only activists and journalists will try to have the privacy, it will be much easier to target them. Everyone should have privacy to protect them. It’s sort of like freedom of speech is necessary not just for journalists, but for everyone, even if you have nothing to say.

> are there other vendors with out-of-box experiences that are at a higher level in this (security/privacy) regard?

Yes: Purism with their Librem devices, including Librem 5 GNU/Linux phone.
I tried to teach my children French. We had cartoons, and I even offered to pay them to listen to daily lessons. No dice.

To try to make a point about the ease of sitting inside listening to French versus manual labor to earn money, I offered them the same dollar amount to spend the same amount of time in the backyard breaking rocks with a hammer. Let me tell you how that backfired! Those two little boys were in hog heaven breaking rocks, and they asked me to do it again soon. I should have known better.
>Especially after Elizier's hysterical letter and calls to bomb the data centers. He is biased, and his letter was not rational; it was very emotional and full of fear

I would encourage you to peruse this other post from the same very-serious website that we are discussing the content of here

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Ndtb22KYBxpBsagpj/eliezer-yu...
ah yes, the 'oh shit handle'. i still call them that!
I don't really think you understand the premise of generalization.

A forklift is not a generalized machine. It is a specific machine for a very well defined set of tasks.

A LLM can take a set of input information, choose a number of options, like using an external tool, and act upon that data.
I would imagine a battery replacement would be more cost effective than swapping to a brand new drive system. The $5k estimate appears to be completely hypothetical, presumably based on bill of materials alone.
High training times could be cost prohibitive. Currently, its over $100mil to train GPT4 from scratch (which possibly includes other costs related to RLHF and data acquisition). Not sure how this model compares, but its likely not cheap.
The Polynesian migration got under way about 3000 years ago.

However humans have been using boats for longer. That's how Australia was settled about 40,000 years ago.

I am still cautious about this discovery. The number of archeological sites exploded starting 13,000 years ago, and it coincided with a major set of extinctions. That extinction might not be us, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas_impact_hypothesi.... But human arrival in places like Australia is generally associated with major extinctions. So we should expect the same in North America.

Early human remains in America have to explain both why they did not leave more remains and why they did not come with a major mass extinction.

One possibility is that we were not the only hominids, and 13,000 years ago was not the only time that there was a land bridge across the Bering Strait. What we are is the only primates known to easily cooperate in groups bigger than Dunbar's Number (150 for us). That gives us an outsized impact.

If, for instance, the Denisovans had made it to the New World, they could leave convincingly human footprints while having a far lighter ecological impact than we would have.
I don't doubt that, and thankfully there are tools to convert LaTeX to MathML. So one can continue to write in LaTeX if that's what they're comfortable with, and still publish to the Web in MathML as desired.
Doomsday Rule Algorithm
> I always wonder why so many Americans/Brits do not speak Spanish as their second language

I don't know about America, but for Britain:

* Spanish is one language of many, rather than "the other language" like it is in America. It's not even the closest country. French is more popular by far (the standard languages in school are French and German).

* It's extremely unlikely that someone from the UK would spend any significant time in Spain while growing up. Maybe one or two family holidays, but those are expensive, and it's unlikely that you'd always go on holiday in the same country anyway. It's simply not enough to motivate learning the language. Imagine if you went to Russia for a week once when you were young. Would you learn Russian? Of course not.

I had never been to Spain until my 20s. It's not at all uncommon. In fact I had only been to the continent maybe 4 times before uni. Also not uncommon. It doesn't help that the government has criminalised term time holidays. A family holiday in Europe is a huge luxury for most people.

* Like it or not, English is the lingua franca of the modern world. If you're not a native English speaker and you are going to learn another language, it's pretty obvious that you're going to learn English in most circumstances. Think about programming - it's common for programs to be written in English even if all of the authors are native speakers of a different language. If you are a native English speaker which language should you learn? It's far less obvious. That has certainly led me to not be so motivated to learn another language.

I guess Chinese would probably be the obvious choice, but that's extremely difficult and I'm unlikely to ever actually go there...