skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only one thing? Not so fast young cowboy. They also show that the phone is capable and even if a Huawei or whatever has a better camera, it is possible to create fantastic photographs.
That's how I see it. The article doesn't say that I can take pictures like this, but that the phone itself is capable of it.

A great knife doesn't mean I can be Gordon Ramsay, but it does mean that I can't blame my bad stew on the tools I used.
Yes, and this is one of the main problems with the "someone would have talked" objection. There are often witnesses or leakers, including to events like the JFK assassination, but as long as they can be kept out of the public consciousness or adequately smeared as cranks, it's as if the secret was kept regardless.
Judging by history it will end up in a Huawei product.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10485560675556000
Nvidia still has GeForce NOW

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/
It's a small upward movement in a larger downward trend.

https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/consumer-packaged-goods/...
The CIA gets unfrair treatment, partly I think because they are held to the same standards by the public as say the FBI. This is what intel agencies do though. They are not there for democracy, political agenda, law enforcement,etc... they are like the military, as you pointed out they do heinous things.

But the part that irks me the most is your incorrect insinuation that they did what they did on their own. They acted on behalf of the american people and their elected leaders. Much like how the US military also did heinous things in times of war (as any military would).

The CIA is partly a paramilitary organization, sanctioned by the american people. Like any such agency they harm civilians and interfere in foreign governments' politics and economy.

Why does the US need to repair our reputation? Unless by repair you mean remind the world who to be afraid of. We do not live in a nice world where everyone gets along. The US government and military (and the CIA) have no obligation to the world, their obligations are entirely to protect the american people and economy.

Look at the unresr and strife in american society today. This is with a good economy! Look at the mass global migration to the US, civil rights changes,etc... they all happened because of post world war 2 prosperity, if you think all these rights and niceties can be kept under a crashed economy I'd have to respectfully disagree. In any other century in history, a country like the US would be inavding and decimating continents by now. When the CIA intervenes, it is because their leaders were hostile towards the US.

My challenge to you is if you are willing to face the chaos of a poor/powerless america and hope the alternative power-vaccum fillers would be nicer. China for example literally has police stations in western countries to crush dissent and I shouldn't need to say much abour Russia's election interference (and China!), if they were in the US's place, how would you think they would react to a hostile Iran in 1953? Even now, Russian mercenaries are toppling African governments left and right!

My point is not to morally justify anything but to plead for perspective here.
Wholeheartedly disagree.

I've yet to come across any git repo that didn't, at some point, commit the all_mypasswords.ini (or, just as bad, the .env.backup). I've only once ever seen a repo that had ENV vatlrs committed (where some moron committed the entire ./dist directory which included a Json that held the copy of ENV at compile time)

My point is not that "one is obviously better", but that none is obviously better. All solutions have downsides. Implementing 12 factor means understanding those.
True, though the better a camera is, the easier it is to take better shots. For instance, if you've only used point-and-shoot cameras and phone cameras, then you try out a nice pro-sumer or pro DSLR, it's amazing how much better your photos look just by switching cameras.
Ferrite – Simple, lightweight transformers in Fortran
The point is not that any given random conspiracy theory is correct. It's that these specific objections to conspiratorial analysis are spurious and disproven.
ZFS doesn't integrate with Linux' page cache well though. That's quite a large negative IMO.
Other than replacing the belts and filters there isn't much you can do. They should be a sealed system where there is nothing that can be done once it leaves the factory. Those belts are filters are important to maintain - they only stop a minority of failures though.
I dare invoke zimbardo that behavior is a product of structure, expectations and incentive.

If you treat people like morons they start behaving like them.

The reason (nuerotypical) people are studying in libraries and drunk in bars isn't because their fundamental constitution changes but instead, the context does.

So treat people right and they'll (mostly) reciprocate.

(I'm an exception to this rule somewhere on that vast spectrum. It's a handicap I assure you)
I think this is a bit unfair, there's a real significant FTC upswell happening, but they're contending with decades of atrophy and an antitrust lobby that is extraordinarily powerful, not to mention the number of monopoly-friendly judges that are sitting in some of the most vital courts.
Most of this was revealed by mainstream journalists, not conspiracy theorists.

The one I lived through, Iraq WMDs, wasnt a conspiracy theory at the time. All credible evidence said there were no WMDs. Bush and Cheney lied with no evidence. Everyone that was not a partisan Republican called them out on their flimsy pretext. That's why we had the largest antiwar protests ever (while conservatives ridiculed us).
It's still not clear to me if blue hydrogen is a real thing or just PR by hydrocarbon companies.
Agreed, the worst outcome here is the little guy getting funny ideas about being able to freely access information. We need to keep it locked up so our betters can decide what the most appropriate use is.
does anyone know who is behind "reclaim the net"? a lot of their articles are hard-right leaning and there is zero information on their site about who funds it and who is writing the articles. googling the "authors" of the articles leads to nothing.
Seems more like random Palestinian and Hebrew centric obscenity. Maybe it _is_ anti-Semitic, but seems too weird and purposeless to me.
One classic old estimate of the amount of information per English word, from Claude Shannon, is 11.82 bits per word. So very roughly, a 32-token text – the length they highlight to demonstrate their technique – should be representable in about 379 bits.

One of the embeddings they demonstrate the use of their technique against is the `text-embedding-ada-002` OpenAI offering, which gives back a 1,536-dimension representation, where every dimension is a floating-point number.

So as a matter of theory, just in the sign-bits of those vectors, there's enough raw state to potentially encode 32-word texts, and more.

If those float-dimensions are 4-byte floats, as are common, a single `text-embedding-ada-002` text vector takes (1536 * 4 bytes =) 6,144 bytes of storage (49,152 bits), While the dense/continuous nature of these values, and all the desirable constraints/uses packed into them, means you won't be getting that much precise/lossless text-representation from the values, it's plenty spacious for capturing a pretty-good compression of some pretty-long texts.

The interesting thing here is how often that short texts can be perfectly or nearly-perfectly recovered, via the authors' iterative method – even without that being an intended designed-in capability of the text embedding.

You could also see the result as an example of the old saw, "compression is intelligence" (or vice-versa) – an insight which has motivated, among other things, the Hutter Prize.

Some interesting questions for future work on the same codebase could be:

• at what text length does accuracy peak, and at what length does it precipitously decline?

• are even the failures still reasonable summaries of the original text?

• if for some applications such recovery is undesirable – in many it's no problem – are there ways to change the models, with different/extra training/ablation/whatever, that retains other aspects of the embeddings' usefulness but impairs verbatim text recovery?
They are not really limited to 2.4 GHz band. All recent Intel chips have a stupid mechanism built into the firmware: instead of getting the country code from the OS, as everything else does, and then follow the local spectrum regulations, the chip tries to discover it automatically. Tries, because it's half-broken and most of the times it fails and locks the radio to just a few 2.4 GHz channels with ridicolous power limitation (the LCD of all countries laws).

It's supposed to perform a scan and then set the country that is advertised by nearby APs. The obvious problem is that it won't work if there are no other wifi networks, or if one is trasmitting the wrong country. Also you have to manually run the scan, before the radio is unlocked, but virtually all AP softwares don't know how to handle this properly and get stuck in a loop.

In any case, they're terrible in AP mode even after unlocking the 5GHz band, because are locked to a single VAP and are not dual-band (I mean, not at same time).
> And what is Microsoft going to do with this purchase?

MSFT will ensure that every possible MSFT product is adopted by the entire Activision organization.
Sapolsky is a very great teacher, a good communicator. You can find his lessons at Yale on YT.
This is really cool from a documentation standpoint and I love that there's an open source project encroaching in this space.

That said, I don't just use Open API for documentation. I use it to generate clients and servers so that my customers can easily upgrade versions or generate them themselves. Are there any plans to formulate examples from those generated clients? That, today, has to be hand annotated if you want the custom examples (beyond REST) to appear in the API documentation.
Well, hopefully now you can see why some countries want to standardize something as simple as power delivery and serial data.
Planetary collision discovered after event spotted by amateur astronomer
If anyone wants to see what the integration used to do: https://web.archive.org/web/20230728021205/https://www.home-...
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37830605
Dangerous LED lights still on eBay [video]
Histotripsy – a technique that harnesses soundwaves to attack cancer
AI safety guardrails easily thwarted, security study finds
Elon isn't exactly known for honoring valid business contracts.
The book All the Shah's Men by Stephen Kinzer is an excellent narration of the time leading up to the coup, and the coup itself. I think it's fair to say that a lot of our problems with terrorism at the present all stemmed from this coup in Iran in 1953.
It's impossible to have any deep critique of a shallow subject.

The bad faith is on Google's part-- they use vague slogans that signal generosity and kindness, while their actions are exploitative and borrow from the ethics and TTPs of malware authors. Last time, it was "don't be evil." Now, they're putting users first. How kind of them!

Anyone brave enough to adopt "don't be evil" as a motto deserves scrutiny when they find need to change it. It's a warrant canary whose absence speaks for itself.

"Ok, prove it" is a challenge not enough of today's conspicuous bullshitters are confronted with.
And if you want to see how graphics work was done in Photoshop "back in the day" before layers and all that fancy nonsense, be sure to peruse the Kai’s Power Tips & Tricks archive of his graphics posts on AOL:

https://mprove.de/script/90/KPT/index.html
(major assumption) That's more than likely the position of the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78).

Its support planes are in the area [1], and it was sighted on Sep 28 near Italy [2], and if I understand it correctly, has been tasked to this area.

1 - https://twitter.com/wipljw/status/1712780646530118125

2 - https://www.marinevesseltraffic.com/vessels/USS-Gerald-R.-Fo...
I used to be in the camp that supplements/vitamins are bs in general and unless you are deficient they won’t do a thing for you.

However, I am now learning that serum levels don’t often tell the whole truth.

For example, many suffers of neurological disorders benefit greatly from using B1 even if their levels are not below “good” threshold. There is a physician who has done a lot of work on this. You can technically megadose b1 without any negative side effects.

I am now seeing neurologists even recommending things like ALA to patients along with meds to stop symptoms.

I welcome the open mindedness because the online groups of suffers often discover pretty interesting things.

Years ago I talked to a chemist who cured his neuropathy with pirenzepine(drug used for ulcers with good safety profile), there is a startup now with a cream that uses pirenzepine as main ingredient to treat neuropathy. They are in stage 3 trials and have seen success.
What you just described is bricking then, no?
Equifax scores £11.1M slap on wrist over 2017 mega breach
Yes whenever I use Bing (by accident) I'm instantly reminded of those "search engines" that came with crappy toolbars bundled in shady freeware installers. Same goes for any "crowded" search engine.

I guess Bing is also a complete mess too because it has no coherence in its UI. Maybe google will be better in that regard, because Bing is hard to beat, but yeah...
appreciate your comment! So sorry to hear this, what iPhone do you have? I have an older iPhone so im not getting this issue.

Going to try to recreate this thought, maybe the page is slightly zoomed in on your device?

Also feel free to email me (marc@scalar.com) if that's easier :)
No, it’s proof that human intelligence is possible. Since we don’t know how that works either we can’t really draw any conclusions about the viability of replicating it artificially (if that’s the definitions of AGI).
What is the vitamin C and cancer thing? Vitamin C causes cancer?
In the US, the floppy version was very uncommon. I didn't even know it existed for a few years, until I encountered someone that had it.
If that were their line of thought, they could always step in on a case-by-case basis. No company is going to say no to an offer of Google paying all their legal costs and paying any damages if the case is lost.
I'm really hoping a wiki will arise that will show how to disable network (radio) communications on all modern car models.
Yes, but that is a technical detail, it was just easier for me to come up with that than making up a set of axioms. How is an obscure combination of existing axioms still mathematics but not any set of axioms I make up? And how would we ever extend mathematics if coming up with new axioms is not mathematics?

But let us just take the integers with the common definitions for addition, subtraction and multiplication, but then redefine them so that every operation first performs the usual operation and then increments the result by one.

1 + 1 = 3
1 * 1 = 2
(1 + 2) * 3 = 13
(a + b) * c = a * c + b * c + c - 4

Still not quite what I had in mind, nothing completely new, but maybe at least different enough from the normal integers to have some weird properties. Not the numbers themselves, they are still just the integers, but the algebraic expressions involving the redefined operations.
The only thing I remember is that I would never install SP2 because of EULA. I don't remember the specifics though. Around that time I started mostly using Linux anyway.
Assuming this is to protect against drone attacks, wouldn’t (civilian) GLONASS also be jammed there?
Doesn't EA still have theirs?
I think the technology is about 80% there. To my eye, the graphics and performance are the same as running the game locally.

Provided you have a good internet connection, if you could just run a AAA game off of your crummy computer or tv, why would you buy an expensive graphics card? It is definitely where things are going.
Is this a "New v Old" thing or "cheap v expensive" thing? Or is it related to the task the helio is performing?
> practically demanded to return the old root password

You could set that password just for that one customer, and there is no problem.
That's a lot of hypotheticals.

What I'm trying to say is that this is unrelated to regular folks' cars. For this you need to manually authorize access to your car, and then they can do things like unlock the doors[1]. It's meant for rental agencies and such. Not to scrap data of any Tesla owner (like Twitter Firehose)

[1] https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api#door_unlock
I hope the EFF or a similar non-profit steps in here. Bad faith DMCA notices such as this need to be challenged as a matter of principle.
Oh, forgot to mention that definition is a quote from the Wikipedia page about OpenAPI.

I found the name weird, since I'm only used to open API. It's when your mode of access is obscured, like poking physical hardware, or triggering code through HTTP or other generic protocols, that one needs to actively describe the API to make it "open".
So call it fiction. We like fiction.

Truth is hard. Maybe too hard for a mere machine. But dramatic narrative and quirky dialogue might be quite doable.

3000 chapter litrpg fantasy generated overnight.
How exactly are patents involved here? This is simple legal department muscle that they're flexing.
'Egyptian blue' found on Parthenon sculptures at the British Museum
For years I thought it was odd that GitHub didn't let you do basic tasks in their mobile site. You couldn't browse releases. You couldn't look at the files in a PR. Then one day I accidentally hit my thumb over the middle of the screen and it scrolled. I had no idea all this info was there but required horizontal scrolling because there was no scrollbar. Moreover, the tabs all perfectly fit on the screen so there was no indication that anything existed beyond them.

It's still somewhat of a problem, but now I see GitHub doesn't perfectly align its tabs. It's obvious that some text is cut off and you need to scroll to read it all. Other UI elements are now placed behind a menu button and that's nice, too. But, it's amazing just how poor the mobile UX is everywhere overall.
You know, maybe it's OK to sound stupid sometimes. You're likely to learn more if you're more willing to make mistakes.
This is always my biggest gripe with these comparisons. But 14 is not enough, please show the 11 and 12.
Ask Open Science
Seems more like random Palestinian and Hebrew centric obscenity. Maybe it _is_ anti-Semitic, but seems too weird and purposeless to me.

I admit I might be missing something in this case, but it seems like anything involving ethnicity + rudeness is automatically labelled hate-speech nowadays.
But all those useless gadgets and sensors cost money. So the actual cost of the product is much higher than what you're billed for; part of the cost is subsidized by raping your privacy.

One hope is that the cheap EV cars from China won't have this bloatware.
The claim is about the acceleration of warming which has been a controversial topic for many years.

> Among my colleagues in climate science, there are sharp divisions on this question, and some aren’t convinced it’s happening. Climate scientists generally focus on longer-term changes over decades rather than year-to-year variability, and some of my peers in the field have expressed concerns about overinterpreting short-term events like the extremes we’ve seen this year. In the past I doubted acceleration was happening, in part because of a long debate about whether global warming had paused from 1998 to 2012. In hindsight, that was clearly not the case. I’m worried that if we don’t pay attention today, we’ll miss what are increasingly clear signals.
The checksum type for the block is defined elsewhere (include/sys/zio.h) per a "enum zio_checksum".
Then also, which specific conspiracy theories were actually confirmed? Part of the problem is that the kernel of truth in the theory is scaffolded out to "justify" the much broader, wilder claims.
The fastest human-made object vaporizes space dust on contact
I actually have unlimited car wash subscription. Well it was 12.99 but since I washed too much it went up to 19.99. Absolutely hilarious .
Not the most important question since it has nothing to do with the fleet developer API.

But yes, if you are fine with not using Superchargers (which would be insane) or the built-in internet then you don't need to deal with the vendor after purchasing the car.
https://esirc.emporia.edu/bitstream/handle/123456789/904/Mar...

(scroll down to 'storm on the plains')

It does vary by tribe, this is just one I had bookmarked. I researched the topic a few years ago after the Derecho event.

Also, these storms are one of the reasons why a lot of north american tribes didn't really nail down agriculture or settlement-building like the Aztecs did. When you plan on a storm deleting your construction once or twice a year, you optimize for something else.
Also, Sierra (King's Quest, Space Quest, Gabriel Knight, etc), Knowledge Associates (lots of ancient Edutainment IP, including Mario Teaches Typing and Mario is Missing!), Davidson (Math Blaster and other Edutainment IP), and more. Activision was a massive M&A shop of classic PC games history.
But the issue isn't really at storage level, it's about the filesystem driver not dealing with it. Most modern journaling file systems don't really care if my drive intermittently disconnects, all that will happen is some failed file operations, and at worst the necessity to run a quick filesystem check. With ZFS's emphasis on storage being fallible (checksums to detect silent data corruption etc) it's not weird to expect it to also handle connection issues at least as well as other file systems.
Could you recommend a self-hosted library for playing with text embeddings (as opposed to a REST API hosted online)? Thanks in advance!
Great. Thanks. I'll just go back to my country, since it's all gravy then.

Arse-hats.
Lungs are usually pretty reliable, but they're still working on a long-term fix for when air becomes unavailable.
Recent and related:

ZFS 2.2.0 (RC): Block Cloning merged - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36588240 - July 2023 (165 comments)
It's not their line. They licensed their name and branding to another company. The same has been done with other brands like National Geographic, Discovery, Kodak, Jeep, etc.
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.

The article says "well, sometimes what it makes is bad".

Well big deal. A lot of human-created art is awful too.
Ask HN: Any social communities you pay for?
Hi, just as the title says, do you have any online memberships that you pay a monthly or annual premium to be a part of? What is it, how'd you hear about it, and does the value outweigh free alternatives powered by advertising?
I’ve seen these photos a week or two ago, but didn’t read the accompanying text.

I hadn’t realized they where shot with iPhone™ and/or where part of advertisement text.
Coincidence theorists are the real crazies.
> Then they've got a long way to go.

I'd love to see a realistic treatment on where the line of 'possible' lies for an intelligence org. They're already one of the most open intelligence orgs in history.
Short term gains, long-term destruction of beloved franchises
People don't say centripetal because they're willing to make mistakes and learn. They do it to sound clever.