skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's meant as a derogatory term cause people hate DRM. Like, I don't feel entitled to pirate movies, but plenty of times DRM has gotten in the way of legally watching movies I paid for.
It's the same number of keypresses as alt-U.
Ok, two things: first, America’s lock on innovation is already waning, so it would be dangerous to think we’ll continue to compete globally solely by out innovating other regions.

Secondly, I strongly doubt shitty labor laws have been the secret formula behind the success.
Its fairly obvious that an anonymous stranger on the internet, or a politician proselytizing for their punative economic policies is _not_ that type of friend. But it seems some people derive a great deal of satisfaction out of imaginging themselves as knowing better how people should live their lives.
How boring can your city be that billboards are enough entertainment to improve it? Are you sure you're, y'know, participating in urban life at all?
Thx! Fun fact, I still use last.fm counting over 100k scrobbles!
"To get started with Imagen 2 on Vertex AI, find our documentation or reach out to your Google Cloud account representative to join the Trusted Tester Program."

And also be prepared to wait somewhere between 6- inf months ... at this point the google cloud account reps can't even grease the wheels for us
I stopped paying a long time ago before actually deleting my account today. So maybe the setting was implicitly turned on for non-paying customers. Wouldn't surprise me.
Maybe its less extensive than I was led to believe from my source. I can definitely tell you they are laying people off. I personally know people affected.
And poverty is the biggest root cause of fatherlessness.
> 3) Be willing to "burden" users with the task of adding sugar which isn't "convenient"

Some people like rituals with their addiction.

Seeing the sugar being added may create the perception of more sweetness than there is. (But also guilt, so it can go both ways).
> You can sell ads without targeting.

You can, but that's not really what Google is selling anymore. It's certainly not the only thing Google is selling.

Unless you're making the claim that the data storage that Google uses for their data tracking isn't paid for by the targeted ad service? That if Google suddenly couldn't use that data for targeted advertising anymore that they'd still keep it around, or that none of their other services would raise in price?
It sucks that people will screech about vague bullshit like innovation whenever we try to make working here suck less.
Exciting new failure modes
the top selling segments are SUVs

Seems like a self fulfilling prophecy.
Domain squatting is my hobby. Very cool
Interesting why it decided to draw a bounding box around the dog's head, maybe because its training images are mostly dog portraits
Sure it's a solecism, but they communicated what they actually meant.
At least basic encryption. Remember one day, Dropbox forgot in production to check passwords of users. So you only had to enter email to access the Dropbox of the user (an open "log as" feature).
Thanks, didn't use this before.
I'm not a big fan of so many similar gestures though. I already sometimes accidentally switch tabs in Safari by swiping. Using this app-switch gesture from safari seems like a nightmare when first trying. And generally pretty fiddly. Maybe it needs getting used to.

The swipe area is very small on the vertical axis and there's also some risk of hitting in-app buttons, especially if apps place buttons at the bottom — although I guess this is discouraged. It's especially annoying when using a phone cover. And I like mine - iPhone would be unusable for me without it because it's also much more fragile than all my previous budget Android phones.

Will try getting used to it though.

Re your "It's a mess" comment: I've never had a problem with the android back button, it always did exactly what I expected and it was easy to build an intuition for it.

The context-dependand behavior always seemed very well thought-out to me, because I never ever had to think about it.
> […] (and Musk in general) have been over-promising and under-delivering for years now.

Related, "Tesla FSD Timeline":

> September 2014: They will be a factor of 10 safer than a person [at the wheel] in a six-year time frame

* https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38625380 (earlier today)
Logged into Dropbox to see (EU based). Setting wasn't there. Clicking through to the quoted tweet, they also report further on in their thread: I created the account when I was in the US, but now in the EU. (https://twitter.com/Werner/status/1734898806708166709)

In the "What's new" part within the Dropbox environment, I did find a note dated October 10, 2023:

Quickly find the content you need with Dropbox AI

Dropbox AI for search helps you get the information you need without the hassle of manually searching through Dropbox. Ask a question about your Dropbox content and get a response within seconds. You can also find the files you need with everyday language instead of searching by keywords, and search results now come with a brief summary of each file.

Then, once you’ve opened individual files, Dropbox AI for file previews now lets you save time and effort by summarizing your content, from long documents to lengthy videos, into a clear and concise explanation with the click of a button.

Dropbox AI is currently in alpha and available in the US in EN only for Dropbox Pro, Standard, Advanced, Essentials, Business, and Business Plus. Some features may be available soon for eligible non-US customers to test.
Can you elaborate on why you think that "the spoofing signal needs to usually come from sky"? As far as I understand, it literally never comes from the sky, in every single case it involved ground-based transmitters.

The GPS system doesn't use the direction to the GPS satellite for localization but rather only the distance i.e. timing, so spoofing GPS is based on accurate control of the time of the transmitted (or replayed!) signals.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38628326
So the solution will be to ask ChatGPT to summarize all these ChatGPT-generated articles and movies into a 2 line sentence…
Having done triangle tests with Mexican Coke and HFCS Coke, I find it unbelievable someone "can't stand" one and enjoys the other.

Mexican Coke doesn't use cane sugar anymore. But when it did, I'd read that the sucrose in peak-era Mexican Coke broke down into a HFCS-similar mix of fructose and glucose in the drink's acidity anyway.

I'm convinced the Mexican Coke thing is just some hipster thing, and Coca-Cola is glad to exploit it.
I was hoping to find the original recipe with coca leaves. I've just spent almost three months in Columbia and Peru, where coca tea is everywhere — it's much gentler and better alternative to coffee. I really wish it was exported to the rest of the world.
SO true, and if you are a few minutes late with the meal the servers all start whining about "their" tips.
Why do a lot of tech companies give big severances? I don't think other industries do it. It's strangely generous.
Yes, I am aware. I have no issues with using the word “recall” for this either, as long as it is clarified that it is resolved through OTA and doesn’t require a drive to a dealership.

And that’s because most people have no idea that recalls resolved trough OTA are even a thing. Makes sense to me that a lot of people wouldn’t be aware, since OTA updates aren’t entirely common in cars yet.

As for “why”, since “it is still a recall, the only difference is how it is addressed”? Because to an actual person dealing with a recall, it makes a significant difference whether they gotta drive somewhere and leave their car there to get fixed vs. their car autoupdating OTA overnight while the car is parked safely at home.
> PVs can only replace grid energy

PV can replace anything. The question is cost. At historical experience rates, PV energy will be under $0.01/kWh by the time the world is solar powered. Resistive heat using this would be comparable in cost to combustion of currently cheap US natural gas, perhaps even cheaper. It would literally be cheaper to use that to heat up a large mass of rock and use that to make steam to make power, than it would be to make that steam (and then generate power) with a nuclear reactor instead.
> I paid something around 7,500 euros for the so-called FSD package when the Model 3 arrived in Europe in early 2019.

So, this is something I never got. Like, even if you were convinced it was something which was definitely going to be delivered, on time, as promised, in a form that wouldn't cause the regulators to immediately ban it (and frankly this would be an unreasonable set of things to believe; even where the initial set of promises is reasonable, and they were not in this case, shit happens and things get delayed for reasons beyond anyone's control), why not just buy it when it became available? I don't get the impulse to pre-buy this sort of thing.
https://theamericanscholar.org/the-disadvantages-of-an-elite...

A university professor's personal observations about how a typical city college student faces myriad obstacles to success with little support, whereas a typical student at an elite college must practically struggle to fall through all the safety nets and actually fail. The article should be required reading for anyone who is or has been in any way involved with a higher-tier university in the United States.
> This isn't true most of the time is quicker to take public transportation due to the congestion issues. Cars don't scale.

If this isn't true then why the need for the charge then?

> Yes the point is to discourage people from driving into Lower Manhattan. Lower Manhattan is easily accessible by public transportation.

Only those who can't afford extra $15.

> The poverty rate for NYC is $35,000 if someone can afford to pay $24,000 yearly in parking I doubt they're in poverty

You are missing the point. Something like this is called wage slavery and many people are affected by it. They earn relatively a lot of money, but after spending on the necessities they have very little money on themselves. Someone can have a job that requires them to travel through the centre or actually park there and despite the high cost they can't afford to quit it because it is better to have some money than nothing. On paper they are doing well, but in reality they are miserable with no way out.
> What is surprising to me is that using a Back button that's at the top of the phone would be acceptable

This is why iOS added the back gesture, over ten years ago now, when phones started getting taller.

> from an iOS developer perspective, this is not always free

As an iOS developer since years before that gesture was added, I must disagree. The gesture comes for free unless you break it. Apps without back gestures smell like bad orgs.

If you build some custom navigation you won't magically get it, because it's interactive and you need to make your navigation interact, but people are generally discouraged from building custom navigation. If you do go down that route it involves an astonishing amount of code to reproduce interactive pop.

> and the back gesture itself only works within your own app unless you do additional work

I'm afraid I also have no idea what you're trying to say here.
The 480TB one is retired, replaced with a 300TB all flash one.

But more importantly these devices are only for uploading to GCP, not exporting data from.
No these were definitely employees. I know one of them personally and their whole team got let go. I will give you that "mass" might be apocryphal given that the person telling me was affected.
> abortion at any stage is morally equivalent to homicide

One way to look at it is that killing millions of people is NOT morally equivalent to killing 1 person. Is it?

Similarly killing 100 cells of a just fertilized egg is not morally equivalent to killing a born person with 30 trillion cells.

https://www.healthline.com/health/number-of-cells-in-body
Completely unworkable climate control and wild temperature swings. Blinding light at certain times of day that made it impossible to work. And of course the previously mentioned glass issue. I think it killed a couple people while under construction as well. It's got quite the history.
:( Sorry about that!
it isn't like you guys don't come back and yell at us when it suits you
Maybe it's not meant to be taken literally. I read it as, "You can achieve great things when you loosen your system of ethics and are okay with a net increase in human suffering."
>I'm puzzled that more people aren't loudly exploring this space (LLM+CLI) - it's really fun.

70% of the front page of Hackernews and Twitter for the past 9 months is about everybody and their mother's new LLM CLI. It's the loudest exploration I've ever witnessed in my tech life so far. We need to be hearing far less about LLM CLIs, not more.
If you had the energy to do so, you could try to replicate his results, i.e. buy a Mexican Coke, an American Glass Coke, and an American Can Coke, and decant them all into glasses or cups at home, then see if you can taste the difference.

If all your brain/tongue perceives as horrible is the taste of the aluminum can, you could always switch to buying Coke in glass bottles, which are more expensive than cans but still cheaper to buy in bulk than Mexican Cokes, and can be found at most grocery stores.

Or, if being limited to Mexican Coke means it reduces your overall soda consumption because you're only able to drink it when you're near a Home Depot, keep doing what you're doing. You'll probably be healthier for it.
Amazon has no competitive consumer product to dropbox, and he rightfully might want to separate his work and personal data. Can't really expect one to use S3 as a dropbox replacement.
Digital Restrictions Management is a backronym popularised by the EFF, but DRM is the actual legal term used in the US, and doesn't necessarily carry a derogatory meaning.
This is...odd, but right up TE's alley.

Honestly their whole product strategy kind of makes no sense. They are all over the place. The OP-1 is cool as well as those pocket oscillators. But this product just seems, well, strange.

Good for them if they can make it work, though.
The blacklist companies are kind of annoying. I’ve been hit by a range blacklist. It’s generally temporary and annoying to opt out of. I get why they exist though. There are spammers that will register hundreds, thousands of domains behind anonymous registrars from the Caymans and try to run a phishing scam by spoofing their domains, etc. You can report abuse to the registrar but… it’s a lot of work to get through each of 50917.com, 643801.com, etc for each offence. Much easier to setup spamassassin to report to a blacklist.

It causes splash damage to legit, indie operators… but aside from engineering a completely new protocol and migrating everyone in the world over to it, blacklisting is not great but it’s easier than all that.

I’d love to find a way to make it better and get back at these scammers much the same way folks are figuring out how to report and deter phone scammers.
I was led to believe that Clinton ended "welfare as we know it" to address that sort of thing. I wonder what your preferred solution is? Because it always seems to be something to the effect of "just get rid of welfare" which seems like it might be a bit hard on the kids as well.
On a reread, you'll note that I didn't make any claims about what layoffs are like in the industry as a whole: I implied that pay/benefits/conditions tend to be pretty bad in gaming and pretty good in the rest of tech, and I noted that you're wrong to make a universal statement about only high-profile companies giving severance.

I don't doubt your experience, and I don't have a survey of industry standards. But I will also say that experiences 14 or 25 years ago are not a reliable guide to HR choices in the 2023 tech industry.
If you're interested in something for consumers, I recommend you try https://stats.fm/.
I earn a living selling my open source software (2021)
What do you mean by "basic encryption". Either dropbox could access our files or it couldn't without authentication from us. If it couldn't how would search or indexing work.
It is an interesting article and some of the results are unexpected, but the layout is way too long and could be greatly condensed. At first glance and speaking from how I like to lay things out in a paper:

- You do not really need to show the prompt interface. You can show it once and thereafter use a bulleted list format, or simply show the input image if it responded correctly. - Your figures should be about half of their size, they don't need to fit the width of the body. - For comparative results against other models you can use a table with colored cells, with the test name on the row and model names on the columns. - For the dog, show a side-by-side figure with the raw image on the left and the box on the right, and include the coordinates it gave you in the body. - In your conclusion show the full matrix table of comparative results and summarize the relative strengths of the model against the others.

In terms of the writing and methods your conclusion says little and your tests do not go into significant depth. For example with the tire image you could show that it succeeds when cropped but as the photo gets wider it begins to fail to correctly identify the text in the image's center. For example see the methodology and presentation this article used: https://dynomight.net/ducks/

Also, the OCR test is too simple, even a 20-year-old OCR algorithm would probably recognize that. Experimenting with progressive degradation of the image could show its strengths, and analysis could show its accuracy at each level of degradation.
It was like 30s compared to Justine's 45. Apparently I have the right drivers installed, but apparently you need to compile the executable with the right toolkit (?) to make it work in WSL: https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/wsl-user-guide/index.html#cuda-...
I don't really see the business model though. That's like trying to sell Chinese fishing fleets subpar nets that cost more and catch fewer fish because you think overfishing the oceans is a bad thing. It's not going to be a very successful business.
> Learn the basics and it's amazing the mileage you get.

This could also be described as the Dunning-Kruger effect

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

There is a massive difference between “learning the basics” and understanding it to a competent level that we can reproduce it.

I know the basics of how rockets work but that doesn’t mean I could build a rocket and successfully launch it. Yet your comment suggests I’m already qualified to single-handedly deploy the next Starlink.
I’ll just quote Wikipedia directly:

“Gynandromorphism has been noted in Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) since the 1700s.[1][2][3] It has also been observed in crustaceans, such as lobsters and crabs, in spiders,[4] ticks,[5] flies,[6] locusts,[7] crickets,[8] dragonflies,[9] ants,[10][11] termites,[12] bees,[13] lizards,[14] snakes,[15] rodents,[16][17] and birds.[18][19][20][21][22] It is generally rare but reporting depends on ease of detecting it (whether a species is strongly sexually dimorphic) and how well-studied a region or organism is. For example, up until 2023 gynandromorphism had been reported in more than 40 bird species, but the vast majority of these are from the Palearctic and Nearctic, indicating that it likely is underreported in parts of the world that are not as biologically well-studied.”
So you're only interested in insulating yourself from ads? That's fine, but why even click the link then? Neither of those things they're offering are inherently distractions; it's not like they're signing you up for push notifications or unsolicited calls.
Granted half of those are submissions about Simon's new projects.
This is huge and probably the first time Meta has made things interoperable with external services.

> Zuck: "Starting a test where posts from Threads accounts will be available on Mastodon and other services that use the ActivityPub protocol. Making Threads interoperable will give people more choice over how they interact and it will help content reach more people. I'm pretty optimistic about this."
we've implemented E2EE search (and pretty much every feature you would expect) on https://skiff.com/drive
You’re probably in the process of learning this now, but in case you’re just getting started: effective multiple myeloma treatments are being approved at an astonishing rate. It was a death sentence 20 years ago. Now it’s indefinitely treatable for many people.

A close family member was diagnosed 5 years ago and went through a stem cell transplant at Dana farber and the cancer still hasn’t returned…although statistically by now I believe it should have. But when it does return there is now a massive menu of next treatments for her that will likely hold it at bay.

Things are changing so fast now that I’m not sure the stem cell treatment is the first step.

Good luck to your dad.
Modules are optional, so if you want to create an end-to-end RAG pipeline, you can do this from the database directly. It's basically less abstraction based on how the user wants to feed data into the prompt of the model.
The issue is, a lot of the people at the top engage in business practices that actively disenfranchise people at the bottom.

Their wealth actually comes from those people who have so little.

Stop peddling this absolute fabrication that there's unlimited wealth and the super rich should be left get richer still.
Most soda is too sweet for me. I really enjoyed Club Mate, quite a bit more refreshing and way less sweet than Coca-Cola.
ok, so they can talk to those lawyers. Maybe those lawyers concluded that Apple had no choice and could not fight this.

You're saying they could fight this, I am saying they can't.

Frankly neither of us have evidence either way since until a few days ago this was under a gag order.

But considering they complied, I am more inclined to believe they had to and had no choice.

Both Apple and Google complied with this order for some reason, knowing that when it comes out it will be criticized.

To me the only logical conclusion is that they had no choice but comply and if they consulted with their lawyers they likely came to the same conclusion.
Exactly.

It's also bad for consumers because they then have to migrate existing data to some new service (which is far from trivial for most consumers who don't know how to use rclone), and potentially face steep egress fees. Remember we're talking about the industry not just G. G doesn't charge egress fees for Drive, but many cloud storage providers do.

The strategy is "lock-in" and it's a primary part of the "go cheap or free to get customers" part, and it's bad for consumers. I'd much rather pay more in the short-term for cloud storage and not have to migrate later. Thank God for Back Blaze
> Europe isn't good at building massive tech companies.

Which is a good thing. Massive tech companies are a negative thing, not a positive thing.
No more drunk driving? US automakers forced to adopt life-saving tech by 2024
FWIW, the Night Manager is leagues better than the Night Agent.
Ok, we'll change to that from https://deepmind.google/technologies/imagen-2/ above. Thanks!
By your link, nearly every European country, save Ireland and Hungary, have lower rates of cancer. America is the 5th worst out of 50, so 90% of the countries on the list are doing better than America.
Having also done blind taste tests, I can pretty reliably pick out the mexican coke, but I agree that it's unlikely that someone would love one but not the other in a cup.

I think the real differentiator is drinking out of a glass bottle vs. a can.