skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good development. Making phone theft less appealing is a good thing, and locking away precious personal data and accounts if it does still happen is great. It’s an ordeal to face against thieves to change any login information they could find looking through the data on a phone. I hope this will be secure and work as advertised.
I don't believe AI would ever approach human levels of intelligence, be self conscious or have will. But I would still demand by law a kill switch in any major AI product, just in case.
"There is nothing romantic about a constant struggle for survival."

Just like the idea of the noble savage is wrong and hard to get rid of, so is this idea. It was never a constant struggle for survival. Depending where the tribe lived, there were indeed times of hardship, like winter or draught. Or war. And hunting some animals is and was dangerous - but so is driving with a car and wars we also still got. Oh and times of hardship are still a thing: "828 million people were affected by hunger in 2021".

But most of the time, it was lots of free time in a pleaseant environment without toxins and plastic garbage and fresh air among your trusted friends. It might have been cold at night, but the more you enjoyed the sun at day. And nothing tastes as good as self hunted meat, when you are hungry. This is the reason, why this archaic livestyle is romanticised - and our genes were optimized for it - not for the air conditioned office living.
That absolutely sounds like it.

I opened several laptops with spudger tools. Now I can open random items I didn't watch videos for just because I have an idea of how it _might_ be assembled.
There are two possibilities:

- This submission is being kept up out of personal agenda (in which case, fair, we can vote with out feet and voices on other platforms)

- This submission is being kept up out of genuine belief. That would constitute an adjective used to describe a person who inadvertently helps their enemies (which Iranian proxies are).

On another note, the article contents - most of it is just poor conditions and rough treatment, which is something that happens to you if you rape and massacre civilians. If you want to know what is actual torture, look up what happens in russia-occupied regions of Ukraine. That's torture, and it happens on a scale far surpassing anything that happened or can happen on such a small piece of land as Gaza strip.
I think AI can become dumber as time passes. Output of GPT can be wrong. Once it will flood the Internet, the next gens of AI will be training on more and more fake data.
I'm saying GPT 4 isn't the best learning tool, books are, and GPT 4 can be useful without exaggerating it's usefulness and declaring it "the best tool".
Nah. I was with Apple for the better part of a decade; Apple care[sd] about user privacy only insofar as it gave them something else to bash Google about[1]

[1] Getting into a knock-down-drag-out with the new honcho overseeing CoreOS about us "doubling down on user privacy" was one of the last straws for me. Everybody in the audience was source-disclosed (and some of us had even read the relevant parts :), and the guy had the audacity to claim a certain thing was impossible when we knew that particular thing was not only possible but was being uploaded to the mothership ...
Yeah - in fact, this is probably a great example of stuff you don't learn in class that gets really clear in the real world:) Operational concerns trump a lot of other things, and shoving everything you can into 1 database technology is so much better to manage that it covers a lot of suboptimal fit.
It just seems like the policy incentives in Vancouver are designed to erode the middle class. Allowing open air drug use and homelessness which creates a permanent underclass. More than half of VPD files in shoplifting crackdown did not result in charges, so petty theft and vandalism reduce the profitability of middle class business owners. And neither the poor nor middle class can afford to buy property in the city, making it a city that appeals to the very rich and desperately poor and squeezes the life out of anyone in between
>The uncynical take

And would this be the only thing they did not realize or there is still a giant list f things that require to be made public until Apple realizes that those things are incompatible with their PR about caring about the customer privacy.

Maybe is time that Apple customers demand Apple to disclose what other data is released to authorities without a warrant and why is Apple not attempting to fight back against that.
This is what everyone said to me when phones started losing their headphone jacks (purely so that phone makers could sell overpriced wireless earbuds).

But eventually old phones stop working on the new network and you realize every major new phone has followed suit in the cash grab. sigh
From the article you quote, 51% of Gaza supported a 2 state solution, 75% face food insecurity, only 23% had a great deal or quite a lot of trust in Hamas, 52% had no trust at all in Hamas, most said their freedom of speech is limited or not free at all. Per the Washington Institute, 70% wanted PA to take over Gaza from Hamas in July 2023.

In regards to the 60% you quote, the question was framed as
"How much do you support the military operation carried out by the Palestinian resistance led by Hamas on October 7th?"

Given the majority of Gaza has trouble accessing the news/electricity, 95% don't trust Israel's news (in the same survey), what they know about Oct 7 is not what we know about Oct 7. Whether you and I believe it or not, there are plenty who think all the targets on Oct 7 were military, any atrocities are fake news, etc. And for a people suffering under blockade for 16 years, including a year of weekly peaceful protests in 2018-2019 that were repeatedly met with violence by the IDF (~200 killed, thousands maimed/disabled), living in slums with little to no electricity [1], seeing their lives deteriorate year after year as the world has forgotten them - it would not be surprising at all for them to support a "military operation carried out by the Palestinian resistance."

Furthermore, we're talking about a survey taken in the midst of war where 46% have lost their homes (same survey you shared), 80% of Gaza is displaced, and all the thousands of civilian and children deaths and tens of thousands of maiming and mutilations etc. Hospitals destroyed. Bakeries and water towers bombed. Journalists and health care workers murdered. ... Unclear how many, but probably all of the population has PTSD; 90% of the children had PTSD back in 2021 [2]. So in that context, in the midst of such immense suffering, the answer to this question should not be surprising at all. It is completely rational.

However, it would not be accurate for us to conflate their answer with supporting atrocities committed by Hamas on Oct 7 (which is not something it seems the survey asked about).

>> Many people on the ground support the conflict
Re: Gaza, the survey you link says 90% "support a ceasefire that includes a mutual cessation of hostilities." So I don't think it's accurate to say the civilians of Gaza support this conflict.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/harsh-living-conditions-in...
[2] https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/4497/New-Report:-91%25...

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I had missed that the survey parent comment linked was completed before Oct 7. My bad.
It’s not just about how many people watched certain TV shows, it is that people who didn’t own or watch TV would know about such shows through daily conversations.
> Why ask civilians to leave before bombing if they wanted to kill them all? Why ask them to move to a different location?

Obviously, to maintain plausible deniability. Note that there was nothing organized in the South where they were asking those civilians to evacuate to. And they have also bombed the southern side occasionally after evacuating all those people there.

Not to mention, they have killed plenty of obvious non-combatants, such as journalists, children, doctors and others. They have bombed hospitals under flimsy pretenses, and have leveled entire neighborhoods. By their own (certainly highly biased count) they have killed two civilians for every one enemy combatant - a huge margin.

We can also compare these nukbers to other similar wars in the region. In the Iraq War, it seems the direct civilian casualties were in the order of 200,000 people in three years - most of these killed by coalition forces, with significant chunks killed by increased criminality and by Iraqi forces. In Afghanistan, where there was an even less well defined combatant, the total civilian death count is around 200,000 people in 20 years of conflict. Israel has killed on the order of 20,000 people in less than two months - going by IDF estimates, this would be ~13, 000 civilians. Extrapolate this to 36 months or to twenty years to compare.
Even smart people have an appendix!
The System/36 is from 1983. It would have been the System/32, and that cost about $1000 per month, according to Wikipedia.

What shops would have a that in the (air-conditioned) back room?
You've badly broken the site guidelines in this thread, as well as the request I posted at the top. This sort of battle is exactly what we don't want here, so please stop—regardless of how wrong other people are or you feel they are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38616662
Could these threads be saved by a different post weighting model? Throw away downvoted posts, but also discard controversial up voted posts? Or detect bipartisan voting and discard those votes?
This is basically a branding and broader application of the existing Keychain access control presence requirement, whose documentation specifically calls out these scenarios. All finance apps should be using presence verification post login and preceding an outgoing transaction or possible takeover action.
Ironically The Economist shows me ads on the app despite paying 28.99 euros a month in subscription fees
I slip the key card between my phone case and it works fine.
My eyes nearly roll out of my head every time I see someone complain about this. People act like astronomy is ruined forever, it's not. You can predict where the satellites are going to be and avoid them. They're not even a problem for large portions of the night and sky at all because there's very little light for them to reflect. There are a lot of benefits to having a constellation like this, and the tech that's being developed to support it will advance astronomy.

Is it perfect? No.
Is musk being an asshole about it? Probably, haven't checked.
Are the people complaining about it mostly NIMBYs who care largely because Musk has a (deserved) bad rap? Yes, absolutely.

This is a very marginal issue, folks need to calm down.
> a system called “Habsora” (“The Gospel”), which is largely built on artificial intelligence and can “generate” targets almost automatically

Do we have any example of popular open-source software with a license that restricts military usage?
As a data point, I buy used cars because they are not a tool I use for work so they are not like my laptop. It's pointless to pay the full price for a car: it is 100% a cost, the car has not ways to give me back some of the money I spend on it.

So my cars are always about 5 or 6 years old when I buy them. I optimize for price and costs of running and maintaining them. What's important is that they handle well, brake as they should, be reasonably safe in case of crashes and that's it.

Infotainment and navigation, I put my phone on a holder and I use it. The car could be a dumb one from 70 years ago and I wouldn't notice. I only use Bluetooth to make hand free calls. If it had no Bluetooth I guess I'd have to find some solution for a noise canceling mic.

By the way, my current car came with a version of Android auto that Google stopped supporting the year before I bought it and the manufacturer never updated the car. However I don't care, my phone is always updated and it's exactly the same UI I'm used to when I'm not in the car. This beats having to learn two of them.
> is probably because of lags those stuffs introduce

There is likely some truth to this, but I think the bigger reason for these things is that Qualcomm can't be arsed.
Large touchscreens and non physical controls are very dangerous
for motorcyclists
I benefit from ad free internet since the first ad blocker extension was made.
The activity stack experience in Android is probably my favorite part of the system design. It produces a deep consistency that makes navigation effortless.

I really wish this had been built in to iOS in the same way.

The activity stack works across applications, which means a back gesture always brings you back to the screen before it, even when several applications work together on a task.
Build a new henhouse with none of the personnel from the old one, then cut the funding of the old fox henhouse until it shuts down.
Honestly, I'm not american or a sociologist and it's not my place to comment on these issues in depth, even if I am disgusted by some of the discourse.
It's look like they use next.js in the generated website but they don't let you at least download the source code for further modifications.
who's responsible for this shenanigan? how much does this person get paid? how does it correlate with the shrinking user-base? good lord... mozilla the group seems like a bunch of children who has too much money in a burning house. can't have more sympathy to you people.
I'm not concerned that Stephen Hawking will destroy all matter in the light cone*.

Remember, if this conversation wasn't about eschatology, "AGI" would be just another synonym for "smart, useful machines." I didn't set the terms of discussion.

* or prevent humanity's technological transformation into the divine. Choose your flavor.
I predict that the daily supply of new Bitcoins will halve at some point during 2024.
Do you lump MMR vaccines in with popular and mass-market medicine that is shit or homeopathy? How about the polio or HPV vaccine? Or the drugs that suppress HIV? Or setting bones? Or heart surgery, or laser eye surgery, or amputations… all the (vague) claims in your discussion are bunk; the fact there is an unacceptably high number of elective surgeries done does not take away from the fact that all measurable advances in medicine have come from modern medicine. The massive increase we have seen in longevity and quality of life as we age is tied to modern medicine; the fact there are still more discoveries to be made is a given.
iDrive 5 forward (2015ish), map updates are OTA.
FWIW a lot of the things in 2-8 aren't unique to Tesla.

My non-Tesla does 3, 4 (camera view seems higher res than the Model Y I test drove, although I don't find the blind spot cameras that helpful because you have to take your eyes off the road to use them), 6, 7, 8 (Although I don't have enough experience to say how Tesla's compares), and 9 (except the Spotify bit, but since I use Android Auto and anyone who DJs in my car has either that or Carplay it's a non-issue)
You mean like empty downtowns and no stores or social engagement and everyone just sitting at home in front of devices all day? That kind of boring singularity? Yea … what if…
Right from the beginning.

https://www.engadget.com/2016-12-29-sex-at-ces-an-uncomforta...
Note to self, "a sliver of hope" is not to be confused with "the silver lining".
Ask HN: Is there some Wiki or database for book translations you know of?
I am a fan of old books, for example, Plato's "The Republic", or books where the author speaks none of the two languages I can read like Camu or Lem. That means every time I am on the lookout for a book it takes me sometimes hours to find the "right" translation. Usually, it comes down to finding the right Reddit post.

Is someone aware of some kind of Wiki or database that collects translation references for books and also has some categorization? With that I mean things like "easy to read", "faithful translation", "for studying", .etc.
Microsoft Training AI to Do Paperwork to Build Nuclear Power Plants
Apple Is Holding the Final Nail for X’s Coffin
Convince me separately that these aren't both valid worries, because the latter being true does not in any way imply the former.
https://archive.ph/rxeZX
> Or why do you think they are so few in number?

Missionaries and colonisers, at least that was the case in this part of the world.

Before M&C hunter-gatherers were everywhere: https://mgnsw.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/map_col_high...

Afterwards, not so much.
Since 2005 I've only lived in Israel for about 1 year. I currently live in Berlin.

For my family, the downsides of immigration are too great vs the downsides of upper-middle class living in metropolitan Tel Aviv. Israel is the only place where their mother tongue is the dominant local language, where their culture is the dominant local culture, where they have their friends and family and professional networks. Where they're not foreign.

Immigration is a pain in the ass and I'm not surprised most people don't do it.
It's interesting to see two replies to the grandfather, one saying this has existed for years, and one saying this will never exist.
Yeah, a card. A very inconvenient form factor compared to a key. I forgot that new cars use cards more and more. A key can be put in a pocket and never breaks. A card needs a holder to protect it.
If there was any doubt this was purely political, that quote erases it.

The FCC rural broadband program is an infamous boondoggle of vast overspending on bad services from third rate providers.

It's insane that they even mentioned Starship in this, when it was a test launch of the largest rocket in history, and has nothing to do with the Starlink launches.
It’s not a subjective opinion: I’m saying that I’ve actually migrated a Python application to Golang (real time chat application with a lot of business logic) and it was 2x the line count.

I expect the Golang line count ‘overhead’ gets bigger for typical LoB software that has to address any sort of enterprise mess.
Why run into law enforcement?
So at that point we’re basically stuck? Maybe new materials will help? Stacking?
The number of students graduating Per Year in psychology is greater than the total number of psychology jobs in the country. It fits in the category of "things that cannot last forever will not last forever"
LLM size isn't measured in bytes, but in parameters.
Based on his policies and character. But, obviously, I don't know for sure.

We need to wait 10 - 30 years til people involved starts to write memoirs.
risky, hydrogen has the widest explosive range of all flammable gasses, it is a small molecule = leaks, but I am sure they will add some super stinkum... good if there is anyone there to smell it, but there are gas detectors too - mines have rigorous safety controls.
Correct. Worst rental car experience of my life.
I'm not sure it's "client side source of truth" as much as it's just a bug with the dashpass status being lost occasionally unless you go into the payment settings under the account and select your credit card again.

This bug happens to me every few months and I know when it happens because it's clearly displayed in the checkout screen that the dashpass discount is not being applied to the total. I'll see delivery fees and other fees applied that are usually waived or discounted.

There's a similar bug on both doordash and uber eats where my delivery address gets reset.
Is procreation some sort of dark magic art this is entirely impossible to replicate? I think not…
I went looking and it was indeed Chrome that could do it. See screenshot from 2009 here: https://superuser.com/a/42499

Google removed the feature intentionally in 2013: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=297648

Apparently Opera supported it too at the time, and from the comments Safari as well.

Performance reasons seem to have killed it. I'd think that after 10 years now any modern computer would be able to handle it.
I’m in the same boat. The UX on Reddit is in the same ballpark as AliExpress’ app.

Since Apollo was shut down, I’ve completely stopped using any Reddit app on my phone. Sink It[1] makes the mobile site tolerable, for cases when I end up on a Reddit thread off the back of a search engine query.

1. https://apps.apple.com/app/sink-it-for-reddit/id6449873635
As a nuclear engineer, I have to say this is a very useful idea. The complexity of the regulations, codes, standards, court orders, owners group rules, etc. are extremely hard to follow for any human, even an expert. Just having AI to help out with things like "what requests for additional information (RAI) is the NRC most likely to ask given this application?" Could save tons of time.

Of course the NRC may respond by sending RAIs generated by AI as well... :)
We didn't have the UN to organize international agreements and compromises before 1945. I don't think there's any other realistic chance for peace, like the Israelis the Palestinians are too stubborn to simply give up and surrender.
COP28 ends with deal on transition away from fossil fuels
https://archive.is/NMRAi
> infotainment systems are underpowered, because they’re considered an afterthought.

Also, cars sell in the millions. Car manufacturers will redesign a circuit board if it will save them cents on each board.

So it is always a struggle to put a more powerful CPU in there.
That in the United States, 60% of the users don’t care about “openness” and buy iPhones and pay on average twice as much for the privilege.
I’ve worked with Germans my entire life and I’ve met more people that do nothing than people that actually contribute — you’re full of it.
From the article: they want a slice of the $25 billion subscriptions.
Facebook does, and contributes to ffmpeg.
My issue with one based indexing is more philosophical in nature. I truly believe to the core of my being that zero is the first number, and that indexing from one is simply wrong. The evidence leading me to this conclusion is that I have yet to know of a single instance where a procedure or mathematical formula becomes simpler when indexing from one; yet there are so many that become simpler when indexing from zero.
To this extent, I find it almost offensive that a language geared toward mathematicians would intentionally choose to index from one.
Maybe I missed that
You mean a dongle to aux jack, because that's a new phone. I can also not use a cable and turn the volume up to max. Either way, that's a workaround for something that's actually broken and could be fixed with a software update.
Why, oh why, is in-car infotainment so bad? And I don't mean bad as in subjective opinions about user interface. I mean the fact that my 2 year old high-end Audi A6 still show Yelp ratings in the navigation system in Europe - Yelp pretty much shutdown in Europe 2016!

It feels like there is somewhere an hierarchical organization somewhere completely lacking product management and a connection to what is expected in the digital world.
SaaS == rent seeking
Have you ever known rent to go down?
Are you saying the symptoms of genius and schizophrenia are the same? Because that contradicts my experience with either.
Could you please stop posting in the flamewar style? You've unfortunately been doing a lot of that. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Think of astronomy. The first generation of astronomers learns only by observing the night sky. The second generation learns by observing the night sky and also reading the books written by the first generation.

Wouldn't you expect the n^th generation to understand more about astronomy than the first? And maybe from a smaller amount of input - they might make relatively few observations of their own, mainly relying on the books written by the previous generation.