skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just don't get this, or any other "VUI"/voice-centric platform for that matter. The killer feature of the smartphone or watch isn't that it's the most convenient (which it is), it's that whatever you want to do on it is at least somewhat private. I don't want the guy next to me on the train to know I'm messaging Andrew, and he doesn't want to hear me message Andrew either. Asking me to speak out loud these commands removes that privacy. I think this type of "out loud interface" is the wrong direction for personal devices... forcing us to expose our "private selves" or conflate that with our "public selves" is really an area where humans need to draw the line, IMO.

This is why Alexa (and other voice assistants) are only really valuable in the home, and typically as communal devices... its mode is public by default. "What's the weather?", "Play The Beatles", "Add milk to my shopping list" are not expected to be private. How does a device like Humane offer us an "incognito mode", where everyone within earshot doesn't know exactly what I'm doing?
Then it will remain a curiosity.
> Another revelation from that FCC filing: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is Humane’s largest shareholder.

> Altman owns “14.93% equity and voting through a number of holding companies none of which individually holds 10% or greater ownership interest in Humane,” the filing states.

https://www.lowpass.cc/p/humane-ai-pin-cellular-mvno-sam-alt...
I’ve long believed that denials that come from an insurance company should be required to:

- come from an individual doctor (not just be signed off, but the doctor originates the denial)

- the doctor must be personally named and identified to the patient as the party responsible for the denial

- that doctor is *personally* and *professionally* liable for harms that befall the patient from a wrongful denial
"Impacted" by layoffs on May 24th. Took a nice 3-4 month break before I even started my search. Just started at DoorDash this week. A lot of former Meta/FB folks here
It's all fun and games till you're at a Sheffield pub talking about 'United'
I assume it's a "really good" Omnimax, and like Omnimax you need content specifically created to take advantage of the dome aspect ratio.
Some games have anti cheat that only work on Windows.
But I have yet to see any indication from a development standpoint that it is.

PC games already automatically figure out what specs to use (or at least many do) so I am still struggling with this argument.

The argument completely falls apart when you have devices like the Asus Rog Ally or the Legion GO.

It also falls apart when, unless I am mistaken, SteamOS is open for anyone to use on other devices.
Wonder if this will help reduce the amount of bikeshedding in PRs
Obviously you get a C++ IDE for free for a few months or so.

No one is forcing you to install it. Your rant is pointless.

I own CLion and will try it out. It probably works well enough. If not then I simply won't use it.
Unfortunately, the overemployment subreddit is mostly just fan fiction, but for a time, it was a reality for some, and for a lucky few, still is.
I’m still waiting for performance gen 2 to come out. I think that’s going to be the sweet spot
I live in Ireland, and work in the Tech sector.

What you are saying is bullshit.

This affects only Apple, and not any other company.
This is a decision made regarding Washington state law’s “statutory injury requirement” [1].

It says “a plaintiff must allege an injury to ‘his or her business, his or her person, or his or her reputation,’” with “a bare violation” of the privacy law being “insufficient to satisfy the statutory injury requirement.”

It is particular to Washington state, not all Americans. And it may not apply to a prosecutor versus private plaintiff.

[1] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24133084-22-35448
If so, they made a big bet. Vision LLMs were literally made this year. Before that, parsing images to get a coherent response is pretty resource intensive and not really reliable at all. Designing the entire device around image capturing for context seems like a very risky approach so I doubt that was their main reason.
Why does the article say "Democracy" when it means plutocracy?
Yeah it is. You're arguing against my point by creating a false representation of what I said.
(i'm an investor in the company, and invested over 3 years ago.)

this product has always been about AI—what they launched is almost exactly what they pitched me. their expectation of where the world going ended up being prescient.
Do you know when it will launch in Poland or Europe? I want one.

I often have to deal with communicating with people in other languages this would save me so much time.
Why classical music is boring – by a classical musician
Discussion in progress here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38207656
Youtube web version for desktop has the same problem if I get what you mean right.
Uhhhhh, thanks. That makes a lot of sense!
NASM has a logical and sane syntax that is both readable and maps directly to the generated instructions, in other words it is designed to be written by hand, not as an convenient intermediate format for the compiler to generate.

Contrast that to typical AT&T-syntax x86 assembly with bunch of meaningless punctuation and complex addressing modes represented by bunch of comma separated numbers. And with MASM that needs bunch of boilerplate and noise words, because the syntax is motivated by what was required to produce real-mode 16b object files.
"We are not seeking datasets with sensitive or personal information, or information that belongs to a third party; we can work with you to remove this information if you need help."

One thing that is impressive about OpenAI, apart from the technology, is that their written materials are really good. This sentence in particular is very artfully done.
so it's like a phone, but there's no apps or functionality other than what's built into the base OS, and there's no screen or input controls other than voice and gesture, it only plays music from Tidal, and only connects to t-mobile, and looks to everybody around me like i'm always wearing a camera pointed at them?

pass
Hello Rudasn, a Chrome extension captures your click, and product code and generates a demo instantly!

Thank you so much for the lovely feedback!
I'm not gonna lie, this type of technology is what I've been looking forward to ever since watching the movie Her. As a first generation of the technology, it definitely has some issues and oddities, but I think those could be easy enough to work out with future iterations and updates.

A more natural speaking voice. Bluetooth earphones for a more personal interaction experience with the device (maybe even control with your hand in front of the camera and receive audio feedback through the earphones)? Color projector with more fidelity as a new form of interaction (can use it like a screen for short periods, but it's not the main interaction method).

I'd also think some advancements for on-device processing of daily life/events could be really helpful. For example, being able to have it sync to a cloud drive as a repository of my docs (like Google NotebookLM), or holding up a piece of paper in front of it and having it record it and process that info. Just so it's able to better operate as an analogue of a real life PERSONAL assistant, rather than an assistant that just searches the internet for me and tells me what's on my phone.

I don't want to get my hopes up, and it definitely has a tough road ahead of it to disrupt the industry, but I think it really could become an incredibly useful product.
No, this only works for a few languages supported as plugins. Most of JetBrains IDEs are separate even if built on a same core. I have all products license and still can't use a single app to access all languages.
What an absolute feature.
Amazon is ditching Android for Fire TVs, smart displays
I saw both the U2 show and Postcard from Earth movie. Both were amazing in their own way, but the movie was a better demonstration of the technology if you have to choose one (and if you're not a big U2 fan).

The Sphere partnered with an immersive sound company Holoplot to design and build the sound system (https://holoplot.com/news/sphere-immersive-sound-powered-by-...) - this was very impressive during the movie and you could locate sound coming from exactly where the objects were on the screen in a way that I've not experienced before.

The experience was similar to wearing a VR headset since the screen covers almost your entire field of view, but the sound system significantly improved the feeling of immersion. During the movie, the system also pushed air onto the audience to simulate wind in a convincing way.
Apple CarPlay works over my USB-C cable, at least in my 2018 Subaru Crosstrek on an iPhone 15. No Bluetooth required I am fairly certain. I also have to unlock the device every so often with my Face ID -- unsure what triggers this as it is not 100% of the time.
On the contrary, I'd say that the Steam Deck has a lot in common with consoles, especially as modern consoles (PS5 and XSX) converge with PCs. The Steam Deck comes with a store integrated into the frontend, a verification process, and standardized controls and performance targets. It's basically a "pre-jailbroken" console. At the same time, the XBox Series S is showing a big reason why Valve might want to keep a single performance target for a longer than the normal constantly evolving hardware in PCs, and both it and the PS5 digital have removed any sort of physical distribution aspect to the definition of consoles.
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I've been waiting for this. Seems like it is a self-contained cellular device requiring a subscription, which makes sense. I guess I am curious how I can be in communication with it. Will my contacts be texted from a new phone number? That seems like the biggest hurdle for me, as I'd just like to use my pre-existing cellular service that I already pay for.

I also find it curious that a former Apple exec formed this company. I'd assume Apple itself would want to pursue this internally, as such a device would be yet another killer addition to the iron grip of the Apple ecosystem.
Sure, but changing the resolution and changing the scaling means changing the performance metrics.

If one device is 1080p and one is 2160p, then even if both "render" at 1080 and one scales up to 2160 that is a change in performance. They don't want developers to have to test on multiple devices to see if it gets laggy on the one with the higher-res screen.
1) I'm not cancelling the Sphere. I'm just telling you I don't like Dolan but still like the Sphere and think it's worth seeing. That point of view is pretty close to the opposite of cancelling somebody.

2) As far as criticizing people, maybe a reasonable rule of thumb is that if you're either in public office or wealthy enough to have "fuck you money", you're a reasonable target of receiving public comments on your behavior?
A better way to work with maps
I get that this has and needs a constant cellular connection, which ain't free, but $700 + $300~/year is going to make this niche.

For comparison, my main smartphone is cheaper by both measures. You can go buy an iPhone 13 ($600) and hook it up to T-Mobile's Connect plans for $180/year ($15/month, 3.5 GB/month unlimited talk/text).

This frames itself as a smartphone replacement, but realistically it is a rich person's toy.
Well, there's a lot of those lists and most states don't test anything other than OBD-II emissions readiness. And I don't really think that the primary concern here is that automakers are going to disable your brakes or legally mandated lights.
> What beat them down were the gauntlet of reviews, the frequent re-orgs, the institutional scar tissue from past failures, and the complexity of doing even simple things on the world stage. Startups can afford to ignore many concerns, Googlers rarely can.

I wonder if this helps explain why Google is getting smoked in the LLM space right now.
Curious, what does partially obstructed mean in the context of the sphere?
At least for me it's very common to have several layers of clothing on most days. It would be hassle to attach this from outer jacket to shirt when moving from outside to inside.
Ssshhh. I just discovered the Arts District on my visit last month. Let's not let it turn into what the rest of The Strip and old downtown have become.

BTW, The Sphere is amazing and U2 still puts on a good show. I did not partake in any $20 beers though.
This is organized crime and the economical effects are devastating. It does not matter if the trees can regrow

The keyword here is diseases. Olive tree tuberculosis for example will easily propagate if you use the same pruning tool on different trees without disinfecting it.

This is not a joke. We are talking about estimated damages of 20 billion euro (with a B) that the European Union has been suffering just by Xylella fastidiosa, the "olive tree ebola" at a rate of 5.5 billion bleed each year since it appeared in Apulia Italy on 2013 and later on Spanish almonds in 2016. The disease can affect olives, almonds, figs, plums or cherries. It has 500 species of hosts.

Several new plagues entered inexplicably by Italy or Spain in the last decades. We should treat it much more seriously.
I mean, sure if you're ok moving your mailing list to the not-actually-maintained Google Groups, I bet you wouldn't have gmail deliverability issues.
Show HN: OpenAI Vision Experiments
Yeah, I think there are limitless possibilities.
Yesterday I saw on twitter someone using GPT-4V to narrate a video game in realtime, just mind-blowing. The future is here.
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Countdown till they axe The Onion. G/O is trash even by private equity standards.
I think that, and making the doctor who denies the claim responsible personally and professionally as if they were providing care to a patient.
I'm still not convinced that the best strategy isn't just to take the acquisition money and bail. Any sort of large corporate acquisition is going to lead directly into a few years of spending an outsized amount of time just converting code, tools, security rules, and processes into the parent company's preferences.
It was a sexist website offering bad advice for impressionable, young women.

Nothing of value was lost.
Imran wasn’t an exec, just an IC designer.
What are the most toxic tech companies to work for? (r/bayarea)
Change of subject - any thoughts on the difference between user-friendly URLs?

Root paths route to usernames:

- https://twitter.com/username

- https://github.com/username

- https://www.instagram.com/username

Sigil-scoped paths for usernames (these also use www-prefix):

- https://www.threads.net/@username

- https://www.youtube.com/@username

Path-scoped usernames:

- https://www.reddit.com/user/username

- https://www.reddit.com/u/username (redirect)

- https://bsky.app/profile/username.bsky.social

There's obviously an engineering cost to having usernames at the root, but does that make sharing easier?

Which would you use if you were starting a new app?

Is the first option strictly better for growth? Are the technical caveats not worth it?
Let’s face it, in an energy starved world the car of the future is an e-bike. Side effect it’s free of connected BS. So far…
Sounds like he might be an excellent presidential contender
I believe build.rs can do pretty much anything: https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/build-scripts.html
That does not solve the root problem.

The root problem is healthcare is an extremely complex field, requiring extremely specialized knowledge that takes extreme investment to get. And everyone wants it, the demand is infinite and the demand has no elasticity.

So a buyer of healthcare has a problem. They have no idea what they are buying, and have no idea if the seller is scamming them or incompetent. So you need a second opinion. But as stated above, people who can provide this opinion are few and far between.

It is not like paying $100 to get a second opinion on your car. It is more like paying $500 to $10,000 or who knows how much to get a second opinion.

So the root problem is people simply cannot afford the level of healthcare they desire. Everything else is just papering over that intractable problem.
Hard labor barely exists as a job, it's all done with machines. Go to a nursing home, the workers are sub-minimum wage high-school students, illegal immigrants, and... old people. Infrastructure maintenance is all done with machines. Also, not all old people are fragile grandmas who break their hips in a slight breeze, plenty are perfectly capable of doing any kind of work.
My car also uses wired Android Auto, but somehow after I set it up the day I drove it home, my phone automatically connected to it via Bluetooth. I recall something similar when a friend plugged in their iPhone but I’m not sure.
Just to expand on that - we sent multiple millions of tons of aid - probably $120-150 billion, in current dollars. Thousands of tanks, thousands of planes, plus trains (locomotives and cars), food, fuel, anmmo, explosives, and industrial supplies. Not to minimize the tremendous price the Soviets paid in lives (soldier and civilian), but they almost certainly would've lost the war without lend-lease.
Love the idea.

It also shows that GPT-4V created a new angle in web scraping.

I guess, this or similar code would be leveraged in many projects like:

1. Scrape XXX websites, say LinkedIn or Twitter use all types of methods in the DOM to prevent it, but fighting working well GPT-4V + OCR would be ultra hard.

2. Give me an analysis of what these XXX companies are doing. And this could be done for competitors, to understand the landscape of some industry, or even plainly to get news.

Large-scale scrapping, not depending on the source code of the pages is a powerful infrastructural change.
And one GCHQ spook, no less.
> but if you can't understand what the code does even at a high level when you can't see any types then there's a problem anyway.

Who says this implies you can't understand what the code does at a high level? Often you know the high level behavior but need to figure out how it works so you can update the code. If anything, the high level behavior is often easier to understand, since you have the API documentation etc. available.

And in the cases where that is the case, what does "there's a problem anyway" mean? That the reader is too stupid to figure it out?
I wonder why the Navy or Core of Engineers can't make civilian nuclear systems. It arguably would have made us safer as a country to have energy independence by investing dollars in reactors for domestic use instead of for warheads and nuclear submarines.
Depends on how highly you value your privacy. Ads aren't just annoying visually, they contain little tracker bits spying on you.

Long before I had an adblocker, I developed "banner blindness", the real benefit my adblocker gives me is less info leaking out to the platforms. (and since ublock/umatrix is so great, also more security and better loading times, but these are cherries)

If that counts as a "practical purpose" is up to you.
Right. We're far removed from the 1930's "have lots of men hold on to lots of ropes" level of technology.

I assume airships aren't allowed to touch the ground because it needs to rotate with the wind. For an LZ, the load could just be slung then released. If the craft jumps skyward, who cares because it can't land yet anyway.

To your point about weight, I was thinking that instead of permanent anchors fixed to the ground, you could use water bladders or those large military sandbags[1] for ad-hoc purposes. You need to forage for the ballast on-site because of the relationship of lift you described.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesco_bastion
Communication seems to be a major selling point of the pin going by the demo, but I'm pretty certain it is impossible for it to work with iMessage, WhatsApp etc. in the way that is shown, so I'm wary about the actual advantages.
America might have been doing better on "progress" if their VC lottery winners were of a higher calibre than Peter Theil.

The most incisive thing he says in the whole piece is "America isn't a democracy. It's a republic".

Which is cringe coming from a random teenager online who just heard that factoid and hadn't yet discovered those things aren't opposites or exclusive.

Coming from an open fascist with deep ties to the CIA and who has been funding multiple election deniers... well it's still cringe but it's very dangerous cringe.
We are a small project for now ;) I'm the cofounder in charge of the product & design topic, and we made it with my three friends & cofounders on the tech side in an indie way. We spent 11 months in stealth and started hiring a team four months ago. ;)
I'd add a requirement that said doctor have practiced in the relevant specialty within the last decade.
It's easier to light, but it's pretty non-explosive if not mixed with air: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_RKdWYqgu3Y (mixing with air is a problem).

The big advantage (and what could be designed for) is that hydrogen goes up and so (by default) the flammable stuff escapes.
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I'm not an attorney, but I think a lot of the Internet misunderstands the law. It is legal to do this, apparently, but that doesn't mean the court is saying it's okay or they should do this, and it certainly doesn't mean anyone would be okay with you doing it. But if you managed to, then yes, it would apparently be legal. The court can only rule on what the law actually says and it says you only have grounds to sue once you've suffered an actual injury, not because the party you're trying to sue has done someone that might harm you in the future.

This is frankly a shortcoming of trying to use civil law for something like this. As far as I'm aware, this is nearly always the case that you have no grounds to sue unless you've suffered quantifiable monetary damage from someone's actions. If we just want this kind of thing to be generally illegal, then it needs to be made illegal according to criminal law or it needs to violate some law overseen by a government regulatory body with the power to levy its own fines.
hopefully the goal of modern technology would be "don't catch fire" more than "survive the fireballs!"
Genuinely asking, problem does this solve? And won't apple instantly destroy them the moment they use an LLM for siri?

Why wouldn't I use my existing watch/phone/earbuds/pods instead of paying 600$+subscription for this?

I don't understand the insistence on using voice as the main interaction and ditching the screen.

At least google glass/AR let's me read
If you are looking for Anti-Elon content you'll find it. Others have seen the car teardowns and know that somehow his companies manage to produce excellent engineering(at least in some departments). Its possible to both hate him and like him at the same time(for different reasons).
There's an oddity in that article...the C++ p99.9 is lower than its p99. Am I crazy or should that not be possible?
The rage of failing to talk to someone about the beautiful thoughts you have because the math to describe it doesn't exist yet so you invent calculus
Google hasn’t innovated on anything in over a decade. Just continuing to ride that search monopoly. Entire company of rest and vesters.
lol looks awful
Quite a coincidence. Thanks for your help!
The device and the subscription both cost more than my Pixel 8 Pro + Google Fi. Seems a bit steep, especially considering that the P8P can do most or all of these AI tricks and then some, except for clinging to my shirt.
Do they have a dev office in Toronto? Thought it was in waterloo
That's how it works with contractors in most large organisations. The other side of the coin is that they're usually rewarded better than employees are, on the basis that they can be fired at any time with no notice.

In practice that rarely happens, as higher-pay => better-retention => becomes-most-knowledgeable-person-over-time.
is there any SDK or API?