skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Inter-networked connectivity made this style ownership model untenable though since the 90s - the amount of harm an application can do now that it can receive remote instructions and siphon off data has increased.

Hence software publication tied to real-world identity, sandboxing to reduce access to local sensitive data, entitlements to enumerate needs for local capabilities and a review process both to restrict unnecessary entitlements and put additional non-technically-enforceable restrictions on software.

Maybe if GDPR-like regulations were not laxly enforced or non-existent, the platforms would need to do less policing themselves.
> urban areas, defined as densely developed residential, commercial, and other nonresidential areas, now account for 80.0% of the U.S. population

> (as of 2018) 31% of the U.S. population lives in urban core counties

Improving public transportation in cities, makes those cities better for those who live and/or work in them. In downtown SF I counted the number of people in cars backed up in a single city block. The traffic looked miserable. It was ~30 people, less than a single bus' ridership that passed by. The only way reducing the supremacy of cars in cities affects people who don't live in "concrete jungles" is that they either have to pay for the externalities of their chosen transportation mode when they visit cities, or "park and ride" from the periphery into the the city proper.

No one wants someone in a Montana ranch to take the bus. That's either a misunderstanding or a purposeful straw man.
Humans aren't really built for communism on a large scale either. We are tribal, capitalism gets around that with incentive and greedy individual reward for doing something that generates social improvement at scale (nation-state) level--trade, commerce, interaction, communication. Communism, Marxism will never provide that. You either have to use the carrot (capitalism) or the stick (despotism) at scale to get results. Communism (real communism) fails beyond a few hundred (may only tens) of souls, again we didn't evolve for that,
> The lesson you were supposed to take away from it was to stop and call your dad every now and then.

That's a good catch, thanks!

I also think the dad was intended to be a commentary on Japanese salaryman culture, and now that I'm older, from the dad's perspective I see another lesson about all the things you might miss if you spend all your time working.
Which is a followup to https://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif
> I was thinking about the number of technologies that came out (essentially) fully baked and haven't seemingly improved since.

Google Maps (mobile). Horrible UX in so many ways.
There is no doubt in my mind that the light we used could have set off the sprinklers from at least fifty feet.

I don't know off the top of my head the amp rating, but I know we had to have the room electric supply upgraded (and this was already a well equipped robotics lab - it isn't like the electric supply was bad to begin with).

The light itself was about three feet in diameter, four feet long, and, like, 200 pounds. It was a big old hunk of photon-generating madness.
This is par for the course. We've had the gulf of tonkin incident, and weapons of mass destruction. The difference is now we have more information, so it only looks like it's gotten worse.
I always suggest people who aren't good at apostrophe rules to just leave them out entirely. Better to seem lazy than wrong, I figure.
The main problem with Alexa / Google Assistant / Siri is that the tech was not ready when they launched. We didn't have models that could understand non-trivial user requests, generate non-trivial actions or keep track of context properly. Now we do.

Amazon, Apple and Google are all working on incorporating LLMs but why is it taking so long? Why are these assistants still so bad? ChatGPT has been available for a year, GPT3 API for 3 years. I suspect some of it is legacy tech and legacy researchers from the pre-LLM era.
Suburban sprawl is both ecologically and financially unsustainable, with city dwellers subsidizing suburban living.
Of course they are the same thing. Language as humans use it isn't a god-given perfect formal grammar system. It's people grunting and gulping about what they experience, for many thousand of years, each generation picking up the patterns from the generation before, and adding to them. Language was, is, and always has been about knowledge, because you literally build the language skill up from correlations.

All the more and less formal models we invent for describing "language"? This is just fitting curves to a snapshot of reality. So sure, "a lie is language, which is pretty close to the opposite of knowledge" - a lie can be expressed in the formal model. But the truth (as subjectively understood) is much more likely to be spoken or written down in practice.

Communication isn't random. Language isn't random. Learning it is picking up the patterns.
Lol is this the "best of the best" that FAANG supposedly hires? Here on the east coast, everyone is expected to have a sound CS foundation or equivalent skills and experience, our second tier state college has a fantastic CS degree, and the half of my team that is in India has no problems with everyday usage of CS concepts and the worst I can say about them is a lack of initiative or creativity but like, same.

Is FAANG just sniffing it's own farts about their "ability"?
On a recent trip to Japan, poking about Akihabara, was very cool to see all the various Wizardry boxes for all sorts of different platform versions in glass cases. Abundantly clear that there's a deep love of the franchise!
People care about the darnedest thing's
Google's ChatGPT Competitor Will Have to Wait
Why pick on Golang, then? Rust doesn't have a monadic interface to side effects and "errors" either. Nor do the vast majority of the other newer languages.
Me too. But if OpenCYC has been completely absent from the public discourse about A.I., does that mean there's a super secret collaboration going on ? Or... hmm, maybe the NSA gets to throw a few hundred million bucks at the problem ?
“Each meter’s..."

Just a poor choice if which words to elide for space. :)
Go to your local bike shop. Buy what they sell.

There are other good ebikes, but if you don't already know them you also don't know how to service them and so they won't last long.
My point is that "remote work" is orthogonal to car dependency, so why are you bringing this up?

I am all for remote work, but even if I had to be commuting to work, I'd be doing by taking the bike, bus or train like I've done my entire life.
I stayed in the Circa hotel recently. They have an Amazon Show on the nightstand. It does nothing in terms of automation. It’s just there to replace the in room phone, show weather and nothing else. Can’t recall as it was very limited when I tried interacting with the voice assistant.

I haven’t seen Alexa evolve that much but maybe someone who worked at Amazon can give more on what’s evolved.
The disconnect is that both sides are valid. User value is important, but stability, opportunity cost, and ROI also provide user value.

It's not valid to say that the realities of the current code base are irrelevant just as much as it's invalid to say clean code always trumps features.
Adapting effectively and quickly is kind of our thing, also backed by millions of years of evolution.
That does sound like an interesting and tough problem, how an intelligent agent can know what is relevant to the listener, and what to filter out.

I imagine it would work similarly to how human brains do, or at least how we think they do. To notice the "big picture" first, recognize large shapes then smaller details, or faster moving things then static things.

> remove the very filters that keep us sane

Haha, yes, I know what you mean. If our brains paid attention to everything coming in through the doors of perception, our mind would be flooded with information, way too much for practical purposes. Occasionally it is helpful to access such a mode of experience, but the filters are necessary for daily life in society. We can't be going around in rapturous ecstasy of gnosis all the time.

A related problem might be too much filtering, or the wrong criteria for the filters, missing what's important.

I imagine this could be solved by a conversational interface, where the listener talks with the ambient narrator to zoom in/out and focus on details as desired.
Have you used it recently, or just years ago? It definitely used to be very slow, but since ~2 years ago it's very good, and my go to browser (my phone is not high end, by the way)
> “Ohh it’s not a monopoly because your clients could just carry around a lenovo running linux instead of a mobile phone”. How is this argument still passing the bar?

This explains that they are a duopoly, not a monopoly. However I do agree they are both a monopoly:

You're making a 10$ app targeting Californian 10-20 yos. They have 95% Apple devices (I don't know, I'm completely spitballing, but you get the idea.). You develop the Apple app, everything is going good, you have 1M users, Apple decides to cut you off on a whim (not saying they are doing it, but they are allowed to since they are legally not a monopoly). What does this "free competition between Apple and Android" is going to do to you? Re-target your game to SWE who are more likely to have Androids?

The Unity ruling seem to be clear to me that that the US law doesn't consider it a monopoly, and I acknowledge that. I can understand where this comes from. But it feels like laws need to be updated to take this new kind of situation (a local per-person monopoly impacting multiple distinct markets) into consideration.
Is there a market for something in between bike and car, like a micro-electric car that holds 2 people max.

I know these exist, but I don't think they've caught on for whatever reason.

I would be cool to see some kind of federal incentive to buy a super small electric car instead of a full-size EV.
I'd be curious what prompt was used
Except for the part that there was a lot of clear text on it. It probably contained metadata. It did contain the name of some Backblaze employee, that's how I tracked it back to them.

Would you be comfortable publicly posting the encrypted database from your password manager? Or encrypted copies of your financial information? Go on, drop a google drive link if you're so confident
The problem so far in my opinion is that the current GPTs need good instructions and inputs to give useful responses and they're still very robotic.

Also, imagine having several agents and having to switch back and forth between them. I'd probably prefer a single GPT with multiple abilities customized to my interests and coding tips.

The day when personalized agents can give you information you didn't know you needed, then we're talking...
'Used as cheap labor': luxury Aspen resort abused visa program, lawsuit says
Is that a problem? Having an in with the butler is of plenty of value and could easily be sold.
Yeah I have a nice leather Brooks ready to do... nice fat rearseat for my fat as.
So the end game is the analog hole but for ads?
SAM-CLIP: Combine Grounded Sam and Clip for Instance Segmentation
Winters tend to be colder the further inland you go, e.g. daytime temperatures in Germany in the coldest parts of winter are typically lower than in Iceland.
Only on HN will you see a recounting of a massive achievement of humankind dismissed offhandedly like this.
> A car-centric lifestyle is incompatible with a livable planet.

There's no reason to believe this.

Unsustainability is only ever a result of perpetually growing demand, or demand growing faster than technological innovation. Global population growth rate is projected to stagnate in 100 years, so it's a moot point, and from a purely engineering perspective, emissions are a solved problem. The real issue is that emission are poised to rise in the short-run because demand is growing so fast in east Asia (and to a lesser extent through immigration to the West).

This is a near-term problem, unsustainability doesn't belong in the conversaiton. The question is really whether we want to weather that strain with current trajectory, or spend and implement policies to mitigate the climate effects during that period.
I suspect that our devices do use audio samples in their observation of our lives, where possible; but i don't think its as simple as "they're listening to us and reporting back"

<they're the same picture meme . gif>
I think people are forgetting that transformer architectures are a wider field from GPT and predate GPT3 by 3+ years. Referring to transformer architectures using a branded commercial nomer (GPT) is just going to help cement OpenAI’s brand exposure and soon regulatory capture.

For comparison this would be like referring to convonets as Inception architectures back during the CV boom (or VGGnets before that)
There's no way to concisely compose all the racist, sexist, homophobic shit that Andrew Price has said in public, because there's just so much of it, so I only quoted the highlights, and linked to pages with even more quotes. And he also makes quite a lot of money off of his videos, and he also shills NFTs, so he's not sharing "for free", he's just another self-aggrandizing youtube influencer trying to make money fast while shilling toroidal NFT pyramid schemes.

So if you really want to contribute to the Blender foundation, subscribe and buy some swag like I do and suggest you do, like a t-shirt you can actually wear, or a coffee mug you can actually drink coffee out of, instead of a pathetic NFT of some asshole's virtual donut you can't even eat.

There are so many people so much better than Andrew Price making Blender videos and not shilling NFTs, like Ian Hubert and others much more skilled and less toxic than Andrew Price will ever be. And I linked to a twitter thread that cited many of them, so parents can review them and show them to their 8-year-old kids.

But I'm truly glad you took the bait and outed yourself for the kind of person you really are (as incoherent as your reply is), but as I said: nobody cares about your toxic opinions, or how much it hurts your and Andrew Price's feelings not to be able to call kids F*G, or that nobody wants to celebrate "International Ghetto Talk Day" with you two by shouting the N-Word again and again one day every year, or how you verbally abuse and bully your own brother.

But if you really want to carry the water for Andrew "International Ghetto Talk Day" Price, go shout the f-word and the n-word at kids somewhere else, like 4chan, because it's against the rules here.

We're having a discussion about a 16-year-old animator, and I'm responding to somebody who asked about what youtube videos his 8yo should watch, which should NOT include videos using the f-word multiple times, by an NFT shill who can't resist using the n-word. And you've made it quite clear that you view empathy and kindness as a weakness, so your opinions are absolutely worthless in a discussion about what videos 8- and 16-year-old children should watch to learn Blender. So you keep a lid on it too, and try to resist saying the f-word and the n-word if you can possibly control yourself, please.
Most likely they will attack the EU's definition of the relevant market as being "iOS App Store" and claim they only have a sliver of the larger "Mobile app store" market, even though iOS and Android apps are not substitutes for one another. How you define the market is usually the crux of antitrust battles.

The European legal system has not been captured like the US was by Robert Bork (yes, that Robert Bork) and the Chicago School (dogma: monopolies are a logical impossibility because markets are infallible). Thus this will likely only stall for a few months, I'm sure Apple knows that, but it's a few more months of those juicy App Store margins that are so essential to Apple's financials under the "Services" rubric.
https://archive.li/4faEt
Yeah I bought some extremely cheap property through a realtor and felt I made out like a bandit vs through a lawyer or dealing with that shit myself. Realtors want to charge a percentage? Cool story bros, I'll burn out the green labor doing my work for pennies on the cheap shit then use a flat lawyer for anything real money.
Let's extend the idea to unlicensed dentistry too. For $20 I'll remove your tooth with a pair of pliers. It'll take less than 5 minutes.
> Trans women are not males who call themselves women, though.

They are male, by definition. If they were female then they would actually be women, rather than men trying to mimic women - which is the reality of 'trans existence' for these males.

They really have no business imposing themselves in female-only spaces. Rejecting this form of male entitlement and keeping them excluded from these spaces that are not for them isn't 'genocide' by any means. That is sheer hyperbole.

> However, sterilization (aka genital surgery) still is not a thing.

Genital surgery for minors is rarer but it actually a thing that happens. For example, reality television victim Jazz Jennings was sterilised at 17 years old.

Here's another male who had his surgery at 16: https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/29/transgender-teen-who-began-tr...

And another: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/fb-6329525/WHO-JACKIE-GRE...
I wish the US had cheaper sleeper options more like second-class service in India. This makes much better use of space, but it requires different cars.

They're essentially coach during the day, but at night the bench-backs swing up to become beds (so, two side by side bench seats become two vertically stacked bunk beds). This does require some consensus on the train about when the "transformation" is supposed to happen (incompatible with hyper-individualism?). I also suspect that it is made more viable by India's extra-wide rail gauge (they can fit an extra, sideways bench on the other side of the aisle).

Eastern European trains are close to this, but they seem to have 2/3rds the capacity, because they don't have the sideways benches. Soviet rail gauges are again wider than the "standard" Western one, but perhaps not as wide as India's.

Let's see:

- "The 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) gauge is now commonly referred to as Indian gauge."

- "The standard Russian railway gauge of 1,524 mm"

- "The U.S. federal safety standards allow the standard gauge to vary from 4 ft 8 in (1,420 mm) to 4 ft 9 1⁄2 in (1,460 mm)"

So yeah, India has nearly an extra foot to work with.

Still though, I think Eastern European style cars ought to be possible in the US. It shouldn't be "sit upright in coach all night, or get your own private room", with nothing in-between.
It's interesting that you mention that you like it having SMS support; do you only use this function to message Android phones? In my experience, the iPhone people I know are consistently annoyed by me and my SMS messages.

IMHO, RCS isn't a solution to anything since it still requires phone carriers to adopt it. A quick check of the internet indicates that many of these phone carriers are actually charging more to send RCS messages than SMS, making it a non-starter all around.

Maybe Google could create an iMessage-like (internet only) alternative for Android... Although it still wouldn't work with the actual Apple iMessage protocol unless Apple adopted it. IMHO they'd have better luck getting companies like Apple to interoperate if it was pre-installed and worked on all Android phones.
I was taught the former. You'd pronounce the "'s" if you were speaking it, rather than saying "Mr Jones van" or "James pen".
> How do I know I _know_ something? Usually because I have searched for evidence from multiple angles / dimensions / senses. When multiple independent observations of quality agree, and my conclusion matches the result, it is safe to say that I know that fact.

This is technically true, but no one actually does much of it consciously. But this is how you picked up every skill and understanding, including language, since you've been born.

And this - the unconscious fusion of correlated patterns - is pretty much what LLMs undergo in training.

EDIT:

Also, a lot of confusion is created by using terms like "a fact" or "a conclusion" or "a result", as if they were fixed points in space, fully defined mathematical symbols. But there exist no such thing. There is no binary "know/don't know", there is no binary "result match/does't match the conclusion". Those are all continuous quantities, that get rounded off for convenience.
Bizarrely enough, the framing of these concepts is family-friendly.

These events happen, and kids do need to know about them in order to prepare for them. But there's enough abstraction to make it not be gratuitious or traumatic. It's like having Fred Rogers teach kids about this stuff versus George R.R. Martin.

"Family-friendly" doesn't mean avoiding difficult subjects altogether. Even the Bible freely explores all of these topics. Going to church is literally a family event.
Perhaps there was a single meter which only took dimes? :)
I have a 20/strip Nichia 757 2700K LEDs with CRI 90+ [1] taped on the back of each monitor, cost me around €25 with the appropriate power supply [2]. I control them with a Shelly RGBW2, which I bought for an additional €20.

I run them at between 25-50% brightness most of the time.

[1] https://www.leds.shop/products/conextbar-power-supply-module...

[2] https://www.leds.shop/products/meanwell-lph-18-24w-power-sup...
I develop software for a living, my capabilities at layer 1 are quite limited.

Also my wife would not go for visible Ethernet run like that. I'd have to hire a contractor to do drywall work to have it done right.

I have managed to get Ethernet everywhere I want for the most part though, thanks to a luckily positioned unfinished half of the basement and garage, where visible cables are fine and I can just pop through walls here and there.
I know I'm incredibly naive, and there's no political will to actually make the system work.

It seems like various sections and departments are passing audits. If you're within, say, 1% just allocate the funds.

If you didn't pass the audit, fill out this form and then get the money. The form can be classified.

I have no idea, but I'd imagine like payroll and taxes are pretty much perfect.

Once you get a handle on who doesn't know where their money is going, you can help them figure it out, throughout the year, and be on track next year.

It's huge, it's massive it's trillions of dollars, it's a completely incomprehensible system. But, like, some parts are comprehensible. Those parts are easy. The incomprehensible parts can be broken down and figured out. Is divide and conquer not a thing?
I wouldn't pin this on any particular party or ideology. Both major parties in the USA support dumping infinite unaccountable money into the military. It's one of the few things they agree on.
I've tooted plenty on topics other than those - not that anyone seems to be remotely interested.
Huh, I (naively, I guess, although this seemed largely true of my playtesters) thought that folks would assume that this was how it worked. The site does mention that it uses WebRTC although it certainly is not a "huge disclaimer" right now. I am going to see if I can rejigger the site to just always use my TURN server for now.

I'm also happy to chat more (here, or you can email eieiogames@gmail.com).
I never said urban sprawl was good, get outta here with that. Things could be different, but they aren’t. And it’s not like any of those things you mentioned are likely to change rapidly either. I speak to the present day reality, which is that cars serve a lot of people as a capital asset and they don’t have to cost 12k/year.
Cheers! A step in the right direction.
Maybe by coincidence but a missing apostrophe was in the news today - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/17/hampshire-vi...