skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He had ~6 months to download his data, not 7 days: they told him on the 11th of May 2023 (or thereabouts they gave him a 60 day period ending on the 10th of July 2023) that he had exceeded his quota.

They should, of course, have given a clear timeline for deletion at that point, but does he seriously expect other people to believe he was naive enough to think Google would continue to store his data forever after they withdrew the unlimited service he was using?

I'm no fan of Google, and I agree with you that a good service would have offered an at-or-slightly-above-cost data export for that volume of data... but he's deliberately misrepresenting the situation here (either that or is painfully naive)

Edit: as somebody else pointed out downthread, he also would have received numerous e-mails throughout 2022 telling him that the unlimited service was being shuttered
A personal journaling web app that records my voice, sends it to a speech-to-text API, then sends that text to ChatGPT to rewrite it in a style of my choice (bulleted list, casual, professional, etc). Then saves that as a markdown file for viewing in the same web app. Pretty easy to make and I really like journaling with my voice.
Can you talk more about the underlying feeds for newsfacts and then identifying “the most important” news from around the world.
Haha wow, byebyefitness is such a darn good idea. Kudos for thinking of that!

Maybe one day you could get acquired by PaperKarma or a similar mission-aligned business.
I bought "just" the EAP since by 2022 the FSD was clearly a scam, but I feel like an idiot for having purchased even that. 0 of its 5 advertised features are usable and 3 of them don't exist at all:

Navigate on Autopilot - Useless. Only handles highways, deactivates itself on normal roads. It can theoretically handle switching from one highway to another - in practice it attempts suicide every single time. If you don't intervene it will either crash, or cause a crash behind you.

Auto Lane Change - Nope, not "Auto" at all in Europe. Got to "consent" with your indicator lights and a gentle nudge on the steering wheel. Said nudge must apply a torque between 0.44 and 0.46 newton - anything less won't register, anything more will override the autopilot and leave you in manual control. Also it won't work if there's a car less than 200mt behind you in your target lane - it's ridiculously cautious. Finally, 30% of the time, despite above conditions being met, it hesitates for 30 seconds then opts to stay in its lane with a timeout error.

Autopark - nope, not since they removed the 3 EUR worth of ultrasonic sensors.

Summon - nope, see above.

Smart Summon - nope, again, see above

If there's anything like a class action in Germany I'll gladly join.

This is really a pity because I like the car apart from this scammy aspect.
Disclaimer I said, and disclaimer I meant. That was a warning.
On a point 5, never underestimate the amount of labor someone is willing to undergo in order not to learn something. Educators everywhere share your struggle!
So, James Murphy is an AI?

"Yeah you wanted it smart
But honestly, I'm not smart
No, honestly, we're never smart
We fake it, fake it all the time"

- LCD Soundsystem
What's impressive is how much utility could be gotten from such a simple CPU.
I can only access https://makersuite.google.com/ when using a VPN to the US. Also, it spams popups that get blocked by Firefox.

Some basic prompts, which are answered correctly most of the time by ChatGPT4:

There are 31 books in my house. I read 2 books over the weekend. How many books are still in my house?

> 29 books

Julia has three brothers, each of them has two sisters. How many sisters does Julia have?

> Three

If you place an orange below a plate in the living room, and then move the plate to the kitchen, where is the orange now?

> Under the plate in the kitchen.

So, not great.
> it's hard for me to tell

I can only compare it to Stable Diffusion. But Imagen2 seems significant more advanced.

Try to do anything with text and SDxl. It's not easy and often messes up. I don't think you can get a clean logo with multiple text areas on sdxl.

Look at the prompt and image of the robin. That is mighty impressive.
> you can sidestep that with something like Snowball

Going by AWS's website[0], a 50 TB Snowball is $200, so you'd need to drop $1000 for five Snowballs to hold that data.

[0]: https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/projects/migrate-peta...
The original paper linked to there describes the same dynamic - innovations originating outside the industry which incumbents can't compete with because they have a different set of customers.
Of course Google gets value out of free users--that's a huge piece of their business model. And of course if Google had actually kept to their original "don't be evil" model, they wouldn't routinely screw over users the way they do.

However, as you note, they have been entrenched for years now, and it has been obvious for that same amount of time that they have long since dropped "don't be evil". So while it certainly sucks that they do the things they do, acting surprised when it happens is not a reasonable position at this point. Anyone who expects Google to honor any kind of commitment is simply asking for trouble. I don't trust them for anything.

And if widespread realization of that fact gets people to stop using Google services, so much the better: maybe that would actually get their attention.
> Servers don't necessarily have to run 24/7.

The benefit of your services having 25/7 availability aside, if the capital costs are high compared to operational costs, reducing operational time to save on operation costs is a bad trade.
> It’s interesting how you correctly identify that this is a massive play for control by Apple and Google, and yet you still seem to sympathise with their position!

Apple and Google got to where they are because people actively want to buy and use their stuff. Apple stuff isn’t cheap and for most of Google’s products, their nearest competitors are a click away and have been even when they didn’t completely dominate major product categories.

People have lots of experience with in-car infotainment and navigation, and here’s the real alternative: people would rather mount their phones in their car using an aftermarket kit or literally just hold their phones in their hands while driving than use the in-built infotainment and navigation systems that car makers provide. CarPlay and Android Auto provide them a nicer experience than doing that which is why new car buyers look for these options by name.
I don't define X because it's highly variable.

It seems to me that on one extreme there are people easily anthropomorphising advanced computing and on the other extreme there are people trivializing it with sentences like "glorified x thing". This time around it's "glorified autocorrect" and its derivations. It's always something that glorifies another artificial thing, and I suspect that if and when we will have recreated the human brain, or heck, another human, it will still be a "glorified x thing".

As 0x0203 said, maybe it is to be ascribed to the religious substrate that takes offence at anything that arrogantly tries to resemble the living creatures made by God, or God himself.
Wow. what a crap site.
I clicked on the option for prompt thinking I could go back and request an API key. Boy was I wrong. No matter what I do it takes me to the prompt console where I get Access Denied and it hijacked my back button.
His method of deletion and challenging requirements works well for manufacturing. It would appear to me that the same doesn’t work for software nearly as well.
How many people have been killed by cruise control do you think?
So how should Israel respond in you opinion?
Ask HN: At what point in your startup did you get your eureka moment?
I don't plan on doing any plugs here for my own startup but I want to get feedback from other founders. I've recently had a serious eureka moment with an early idea-stage startup that I'm working on with a friend and until I can do more validation I'm curious what this moment means for me and what it has meant for others.

At what moment did you think "This is it!"? Did this happen before or after funding and/or bootstrapping? What did that moment mean for you? How did it affect you and your business? How did you determine if those were false signals or not?
What precision is this running in? If 32-bit, it’s not using the tensor cores in the 4090.
I agree that if at any point you suspect the pricing isn't fair in any transaction, it's up to you to leave. If someone checks Yelp and sees red flags on tipping but still decides to go and complain about it, they're being a jerk.

But many sit-down restaurants don't give any indication about the tipping procedures until after a meal is served and consumed.
Because they are using 237 Tb in an "unlimited" service from Google. And based on the mechanism they are using to pay for it (enterprise account with one seat) - they knew they had found a loop hole in google policy. (r/datahoarders)

Seriously I'm all on board with giving Google the much grief that they deserve - but I also would expect someone claiming victim here to have more of a claim than abusing a "unlimited" account and getting mad about it. Yes 100% Google should be holding onto their data or offering them the ability to pay for the larger data tier - that part is BS.

Get mad at the FBI for raiding you, get mad that you didn't think of another cloud service to store with or pay for an appropriate service (0.07$/TB [my rough calc] is dirt cheap to the point of suspect). I also have to assume that the individual, former anonymous hacker has some wherewithal to be suspect of 'unlimited' packages from large corporations.

There's gotta be more to this story -- it smells off.
This is great wisdom for software. I’ll definitely carry this parable with me.
The thing is they keep saying it IS the digging that is hampering them (we know that to be false). The one I saw a few weeks ago they ran about 1000ft of cable in under an hour. Most of that was getting the machine off/on the trailer and reterminating the lines.
In this case, the goal is using the industry standard term to refer to a specific action defined under U.S. law. It’s called a recall because that’s the term used by the legislation delegated to the NHTSA by the Congress:

https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/documents/unders...

The only confusion I see on this point is from people who based on their history appear to be Tesla fans and presumably are letting their loyalties to the company trigger a defensive reaction.
Can anyone recommend any good ways of migrating tons of data from Google Drive to an alternative and what alternatives do people recommend?

I can't stand OneDrive, I find it is a complete shitshow. I am a heavy Apple user so wondering if iCloud is maybe a worthwhile option or shall I use DropBox?
I wrote a desktop and mobile app in Flutter that helps me quickly calculate state and federal taxes as well as after-tax income for my freelancing work.
Most unlimited services operate like all you can eat buffets. There is some secondary constraint that keeps usage bounded. I.e. the person's ability to eat food.
> You are not paying the competition either

Competition for what? Here we're talking about data hosting. There are plenty of companies that will host huge amounts of data for reasonable prices. And unlike Google, they actually have reasonable terms of service and customer support.
Building Back Ends with Rocket (Rust)
Ok, OpenAI will ditch Nvidia and buy macs instead. :)
>free tier storage is 100% not the place to put it.

It's curious how hard you keep pushing in this flagrant lie in this thread when the article explicitly and repeatedly makes clear that he was paying Google for Enterprise level storage and on top of that did indeed have local first, except all that got taken from him by the FBI. Yet for some reason you insist on claiming he wasn't paying and was somehow abusing cloud-only. Why?
The very first python app I wrote was a statistical bard generator. I had python calculate word frequencies from a Shakespeare corpus and spit them back out with a probability distribution.

Honestly it read just as well ;) We’re simpler than we imagine.
I’ll be sure to forward your wishes to the board
Someone else up-thread mentioned that they add Google as a risk when documenting risks.

I have run a 100+ user non-profit on Google Workspace. I’ve used it for many clients over the years.

There’s a reason Azure and AWS get my spend these days.

One of the biggest liabilities GCP has is that “G”.
Charles, Prince of Piffle (2010)
> It costs essentially nothing to lay fiber in the ground in most places

I'm sorry what? This part of your comment is so absurd that it calls into question anything else you might be saying here.

I lived through a fiber roll out only a short year or so ago, it was an entire summer of trucks, mostly contractors by the look of them, with trailers, with boring machines, stacks of boxes, and of course, spools upon spools of fiber and conduit. If that cost "essentially nothing" do you really assert that all of those workmen, all of those resources, all of those assets were simply brought forth from the void to perform their work and then sent back?

And that's just the actual work, I'm sure there was months if not years of permitting, working with the city engineers to plan things out, the logistics behind all of that shit, for actual months of work that was barely completed before snow hit the ground.

Holy fuck people. Infrastructure is HARD. It's one of the hardest things you CAN BUILD.
I usually give tips in cash anyway so that the server doesn't have to share it with their boss or declare it.
A read through the original WorldWideWeb proposal
The guy's boxes were confiscated by the FBI, which was why he'd been forced onto cloud storage.
Agreed, I find it concerning that even the basic system in my recent Ford feels like its edging into degraded supervision territory under certain circumstances despite only having steering based attention monitoring. Regulators/congress should be much more proactive about defining what constitutes proper driver monitoring.

I think the big issue is that the NHTSA is fundamentally a reactive organization. Automakers self-certify compliance with the regulations, then at some point later the NHTSA may investigate and take action against a specific product or manufacturer if there are enough complaints. Legally I'm not sure that they are allowed to make broad recalls even if its the logical thing to do.
> My understanding is that before this was made public Apple was under a gag order and could not talk about this. In a situation like that how would Apple be able to bring lawyers into the case to fight it?

Apple has in-house lawyers. Who do you think is advising them on this gag order? They don't need to bring anyone else in to fight it. They already have the resources.
Gemini Pro outperforms Claude 2 and GPT-4 on a classification task
- opposing genocide directed at a population is not an endorsement of any, much less all, policies of any government that claims to represent that people.
On the federal sentencing guidelines, the base offense level for that is 6 (0-6 months), which is way lower than the fraud's level would end up given the dollar amount.
And I really doubt that "tip" fully goes to the driver.
The scenario you lay out does worry me, but is that not also an argument against strong regulations of AI to minimize the chance of AI only being available to authoritarians? These tools can be weapons in a tyrant's hands, so we should be sure to arm the citizenry?

IOW, is it not still an argument for the accelerationist side and against the caution side, even if it's not driven by optimism?
It's impressive, but it's also somewhat amazing to consider that the Tegra X1 is still about 3.5-4x as powerful as the GPU in the Raspberry Pi 5 - even if any iPhone chip since the A11 Bionic would beat the X1.
The problem is that “slippery slope” arguments don’t demonstrate anything.

Remember when the USA south kept saying “what’s next, marrying animals?!” With regard to legalizing equal marriage?

This shit doesn’t mean anything because rational people are capable of understanding nuance. So they’re literally just here to say stupid things and waste peoples time because we’re obligated to respond to this stupidity to make sure that nobody confuses lack of response with validity.
Gemini is not available in the EU is it?
They do have support channels depending on your account type. I've used the enterprise support and they respond well.

They even go into your cloud architecture and tell you where you fucked up.
This lawyer has previously video blogged extensively on Epic's cases vs. Apple and Google.

Here's the playlist.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1zDCgJzZUy-lb7ReoUqL...
Nice! HAProxy has something similar: https://github.com/haproxytech/dataplaneapi
> I haven't seen a car that does not need a physical plug and someone getting out to do it.

AFAIK, the Formula E safety car charges without a physical plug or someone getting out to do it (which is important for safety because it has to be able to leave its charging station quickly, without the extra delay of someone getting out to unplug it); it uses a wireless charging pad on the ground.
It’s not misleading. This is a NHTSA forced recall. That means something legally.

The automaker is required by law to correct it.

That does not mean the car must physically go in, it’s just that until recently that’s how everyone did it because they didn’t have OTA updates.

A recall is still a recall.
People are incapable of nuance when they’ve been given enough propaganda to dislike someone. You see it all the time with political figures and people saying Trump is literally worse than Hitler
I've been making a CLI for advent of code ( https://adventofcode.com/ ) this week: https://github.com/VitamintK/wang-aoc-cli

It's been satisfying!
Did anyone else initially get a link that auto-upvoted this post?
That is maybe 3600€ worth of HDDs at current prices. I would consider that a loss leader.
Nothing. The problem starts when they kill other people doing it, which is unfortunately very common with automotive collisions. It's like when someone gets in my car, sits behind me and says they won't put a seatbelt on, they are fine with taking the risk - to which my reply is that it's fine, but I'm not fine with taking that risk, because in a collision your limp body will go directly through my seat and kill me, even though I have my seatbelt on. So yes, kill yourself if you wish, but don't take others with you.
Typography Hacks to Level Up Your Designs
To all the people saying “this sucks because we can’t use it” — there’s no real value in Google releasing this vs just making the announcement. This space is a race to the bottom, and there’s no significant profit being created in image gen right now (even if the service generates cashflow, the training and inference cost is insane). For the sake of team morale and legal risk, this announcement is totally enough, better to keep training models and focus on the next announcement…
>Pretending that every person in the world can work whatever job they want is worse than sugar coating reality.

Sure, except I did not say or indicate anything remotely that extreme.

Many people equate being a server at an average restaurant to an unskilled minimum wage job (and it is). In that same general category you have:

- Cashier

- Retail worker

- Telemarketer

- Receptionist

- Warehouse labor

None of these people are forced to take food service jobs, there are other options in the same skill/pay category.

To me, it is far greater malicious deception that we have a category of business that is essentially allowed to advertise false pricing, where as a customer you are expected to routinely pay much more than the stated price for things.

If a cup of coffee should be $6, instead of $4.50 plus a tip, just make the coffee $6 and pay the worker minimum wage.
I was promised pipes.
Wow that would be so illegal in Europe
What is the silent back-button capture?
I am not aware I built this in.
(Orion) Seems to support uBlock Origin plugin. Thatms all I really need+want
You literally just described every defining feature of California roads.
You realize we’re nowhere near decarbonizing the manufacturing sector and the related transportation right? Like probably not even 2075. Think diesel trucks, diesel excavators, diesel power tools, diesel boats, etc etc. You have to take the world as it is not as you’d like it to be. You also mention the time spent waiting for nuclear to come online but fail to consider that PV has consistently failed to reduce fossil fuel usage (in absolute or percentage numbers) even as the market share of it has skyrocketed. That would indicate that at best solar panels are helping offset energy growth from using fossil fuels although in practice it’s more likely that it’s been eating market share from things like biomass and other alternative fuels.

Sure in some hypothetical future it might be a lot less. But notice how you complain about not factoring in the manufacturing time of a nuclear plant in terms of lifetime CO2 emissions but then conveniently ignore the time we’d need to supplant those same co2 emissions with solar + batteries? That’s a terribly bad faith argument.

Also more PV installations don’t help get us to true net 0 because some manufacturing needs such high levels of heat that they collocate with power plants that generate heat (fossil fuels or nuclear).

Not to mention what do you with boats? I’m pretty sure we’d need nuclear on shipping boats to get rid of that massive amount of CO2. PV and wind power plants can’t help with that either. There’s some talk about electrifying the ports but best case attached solar in ports will be used to get to net 0 while at port (but still massive emitters during transit).

Lifecycle emissions today definitely matter because we have to build a realistic trajectory. And in 2050 when PVs have failed to help us achieve net 0 the argument will come up again “oh but now nuclear is too expensive / takes too long to build” etc. we should be investing in and building nuclear power aggressively not continuing to put our eggs in the perennial disappointment that is PV power plants.
> 237 Tb in an unlimited service from Google

So, not excessive. 237 TB does not exceed unlimited. What am I missing here?

>they knew they had found a loop hole in google policy.

What, exactly, is this loop hole?
That's what I read too: you're not democratic enough elon
Who was the real first computer programmer?
Stability AI has gaps in SDXL for text, but they seem to do a better job with Deep Floyd ( https://github.com/deep-floyd/IF ). I have done a lot of interesting text things with Deep Floyd
Google just spends millions of dollars building a product then dumps its own baby on the streets.

Then goes and makes new babies.
How could a statistical system trained on data display intelligence let alone innovation? It's just very good statistics at the end of the day. Artificial Perception is about as far as you can get with ml/dl tech if you point the sensors at the world of space-time. If you point it at words, as with LLM, you get statistics about words - that is, no actual understanding of what the words model in the minds of the original authors of those words. So utterly unreliable for any kind of mission critical or autonomous use.
> I wonder if similar optimization efforts could be carried out to make modern games accessible to a wider audience.

I wonder, too.
And did that happen in December? If it is truly important data I would expect process of new backups to be started immediately. After finding new device to order some disks online when the agents left.

And then hide those very well...