skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it generates an audio-rate waveform, and you can influence that waveform, it’s a synthesizer by my definition.
I read the article before it. Absolutely beautiful.

>> The solution is obvious, and any companies that release products in this day and age that inflict on their users the monstrosity that is the firmware update .exe should be ashamed.
Saw this news on motormouth. Hyundai didnt even check the battery or run tests, just voided the warranty and wanted 60k to replace it.
What happened to the mosquito "genophage" where the male mosquitoes were altered to be sterile?
Is it ironic that the article is split up by a dozen huge blocks of advertising and extraneous links? Which kinda…suck?
What if a coded message, or not coded at all, was interpreted as something that was not the case?

Then is it the other legal team’s responsibility to point out that it’s bogus and refute the claim that it meant “I stole Jack’s peanuts”. Maybe by giving examples of other assumed ciphers that prove it actually decoded to “I can drink 5 beer cans in 2.5 minutes” or that it also means “Rabbits are actually slow” according to yet another assumed cipher?

How does that work? I mean I know if it’s a jury and then it can just come down to their individual and collective whims and fancy and but how does it work in general?
> According to the write-up, the vulnerability itself was fixed years ago in BlueZ

That’s the BlueZ vulnerability. Which is certainly different from the iOS/macOS vulnerability given Apple has their own BT stack.

The decision made by the Linux kernel developers and distribution maintainers not to enable the fix by default is theirs. It doesn’t imply anything about Apple’s behavior.

If Apple wasn’t aware of this, they couldn’t have made a security/convenience decision at all.

Without knowing more it seems like jumping to conclusions. The Linux maintainers may have made a reasonable decision based on possible fallout from breaking lots of devices.
Store location history remotely: this is just a scheme to invade privacy and hoover up user data.

Store location history locally: this is just a scheme to cut down on storage costs.

There's no winning here, is there? Personally, I'm a fan of Google never giving the option to store location history remotely and this is a step in the right direction.
We're addicted to cheap stuff – and Temu knows it
It seems equivalent to desktop for me.

Add-ons -> [add-on-name]: opens the modal content for an addon

Add-ons -> Add-ons manager -> [add-on name] -> Settings: opens the settings page for an addon in a new tab.
For a point of comparison, here's what F-14 simulators are like today: https://youtu.be/8N0rRTvHGBY?si=tINfIqzwQ6fHk7p8
Is there anything in the article or the comment you replied to that implies that only empty apartments can become a health hazard, or are you just constructing a straw man?

It seems quite plausible that landlords with a high vacancy rate could be less motivated to proactively inspect, clean, and maintain apartments that are not currently generating income and which they do not expect to generate income in the near future, as compared to apartments that are in-demand or currently occupied. So such apartments could reasonably be more in need of city inspections prompted by complaints from neighbors. And inspections of unoccupied apartments will naturally tend to be less disruptive to tenants than inspections of occupied apartments, so there's not much downside to creating a mechanism to do more inspection of unoccupied apartments.
Silicon Labs Partners with Nabu Casa to Support Open Source
You can't think of any other things besides genetics and self-determination that allowed you to be where you are now?
This + FunSearch make it seem like Singularity is imminent.

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/funsearch-making-new-d...
Previous discussions:

Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten survival (cnbc.com)

924 points by mjwhansen 8 months ago | 995 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35614313

Tell HN: Submit comments to IRS re tax treatment of software dev expenses

461 points by mNovak 41 days ago | 229 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38120388
I had this argument with my then-13 year old daughter. I had forbidden her from using "the phone". She accepted the punishment.

She then proceeded on another device to show me that in no place on the official Samsung website is the device referred to as "a phone". The device is always referred to as "a smartphone" and in one place the telephone communication application is referred to as "the phone". I conceded that she made a good case and that the punishment therefore applied to the telephone communication application only.

Does the alternative password enable your phone book and phone history? If so, then yes you have unlocked the phone. If not, then you have unlocked "a phone" but not "the phone".
People are consistently arrested and/or charged for resisting arrest for not identifying themselves in states that do not have “stop and ID” laws.

Even if you know to the letter what your state law requires, the police often don’t. If you take the arrest and sit in jail for 2-12 hours, you can fight it later in court. Somehow, this is a luxury for most people in the US.
I don't think Meta will intentionally try to snuff out Mastodon but I don't think Threads breaking from Mastodon will have it just return to its pre Threads momentum.

Look it just makes sense to start out connecting Threads users to a pretty active user base which creates content for Threads users. Then as Threads grows, maintaining federation with Pubiverse will have a high marginal cost relative to the shrinking piece of pie users outside of Threads is. Compatibility will get worse and worse as the Threads devs allow their federation code to rot until eventually they make a clean break to focus their resources elsewhere.

Meanwhile if you happen to be a poster on the Mastodon side of the fence, you're going to have to get on Threads and start posting there to keep up with the audience you've gathered, it just makes sense. That network effect of posters needing to follow their audiences would hollow out a post-break Mastodon.

All this being said, I don't think Mastodon instances should resist a Threads federation. Focus on a superior user experience by really trying to empathize with the average user. Don't let yourself be relegated to power users or enthusiasts because, Threads federation or not, when push comes to shove people want to talk to people and they will go where people are.
That's an act of commission. You should simply do nothing, unlock nothing, and say nothing. Wait for an attorney.

It may not be difficult for the prosecutor to point out that you "unlocked" your phone into a mode you never use and in fact specifically use to deceive law enforcement.

Much simpler and safer to do absolutely nothing. Plus, you don't know for sure if that secondary mode being unlocked can enable third-party tools to break into the primary profile.
> Azure is developing its own inhouse message broker that they call EventHubs

This seems to imply Event hubs is some sort of upcoming beta or something. Event Hubs are one of the oldest parts of Azure IaaS - I think it was launched in 2014?
Part 2 follow-up could be: It sucks to Read Anything on the Internet in 2023

The article is a fair assessment. I have difficulties buying quality on Amazon. I will pay more elsewhere to get quality merchandise, than to deal with cheap knock-offs or erroneous items.
Adobe, Figma meet with DOJ antitrust leadership in bid to save deal
"Whats the password? I cannot recall."
...according to the complaint in a lawsuit against realpage.
Sometimes the thing you're looking for isn't something that you recognized as interesting in the moment.
You can also disable the usage of your fingerprint to unlock the phone with the AdminControl App.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.davidshewitt.admincontro...
A million times this. A sensible regulation in this field might involve mandatory re-assessments of the property values, so that these games are meaningless to play.
Somehow I doubt that the company running a site that gets 8 hours of video uploaded every second is concerned about the storage size of a bunch of (lat,lon,time) tuples.
How’s Gemini looking?
How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence?
I don't care what the problems are: what we need is not people reporting other people to the kommandantuur. It simply isn't.
FWIW on Arch Linux it is fixed starting with bluez 5.70-2 [1].

[1]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/bl...
The Element client will register your client with their push notification system (even if self hosted). It will attach data to your session on your homeserver of where the homeserver should send notifications of new messages for APNS, FireBase, or UnifiedPush. The respective notification pipeline will wake up your device, and inform Element of the new messages, and display them accordingly on your device.

Android + Apple OS only listen to their respective ecosystem's push notification system, in order to minimize battery drain + needed background services on their phones.

Element has a push server to send to Apple + Google's offerings:

https://ems-docs.element.io/books/element-support/page/under...

You can configure Element to use ntfy, or some other unifiedpush implementation, but (a) this is hopeless on stock iOS devices since apple severely limits what background services can do (b) this is frustrating on Android because there is inconsistent handling of background services.

Since I use android, I've taken option (b), and it's worked mostly okay, because I've figured out the specific magic spell for my OnePlus phone to leave the background ntfy service alone, and I'm willing to eat the extra battery to have one more service running in the background.
Dunno man he looks like just a conservative to me. I'm astonished at how easily people go for the "troll" conclusion when they encounter someone online with wildly different values/beliefs as them.
I don't know what kind of weirdass servers you hung out in...

My experience has been nothing been 100% positive.
Hey, is there any project or guide which I can use to build and run Cosmic Desktop on Arch Linux? I don't want to argue about why this is the case, and not use the distribution package right away PoP_OS...
I'd go so far as to say they never needed permission to refuse, so thanks for confirming the traditional position that coercion is not a valid means of confession.
Discretional ligatures… well, they require discretion, which the author seems to sorely lack.
Does it say that in 5A?
Al Jazeera is not an unbiased source and it a one sided view, yet it made it to the top. It has nothing to do with tech. What I have not seen made it this far:
* Stories documenting intentional atrocities against Israeli civilians.

* Vile propaganda calling for violence against Jews and Israeli, plentifully available on everywhere.

* Stories about how Hamas still were firing rockets into Israel, while complaining that Gaza needs fuel, food, etc.

* Mind blowing testimonies in Congress by the heads of some of the most prestigious universities in the world, where they said that it depends on the context if calling for genocide of Jewish is a violation of the code. Their hypocrisy has been exposed. Their academic excellence has been reasonable questioned. This is far more relevant to the tech, and yet, it gained very little traction, though it is very relevant to tech sector.

* Ukraine has been pummeled by Russia continuously for more than a year. Everything from killing civilians, to destruction of critical infrastructure, descrying schools, murdering and tortureiung civilians and POWs, to hacking Ukrainian IT infrastructure, yet the highest rated submission about massacre in Bucha gained 164 points with 100 comments.

The article makes multiple very strong claims about kids being killed by an Israeli sniper, soldiers with the American accent and Biden's sanction genocide. This is not a journalism.

Btw, this is Al Jazeera's guide to Hamas that they published on Oct 8th, 2023: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/8/what-is-the-group-h.... By this time some Telegram channels had already been flooded with videos of Israeli civilians murdered, mutilated and paraded among cheering Gazan civilians.
can you make an optical camo with this?
Story of my life. And my divorce.
The music player you wish you had in the early 2000s
> Any usage on your part is an investment in the company. Of course you would feel entitled to know why they are ceasing effective immediately

Going with the Steelman path - This is true if I sincerely believed in the company, likely promoted them to others, and was emotionally invested. I definitely would want one. As a shareholder, I would demand one.

Anyway, based on the OP's tone of this thread, I doubt they were emotionally invested let alone a paying customer - but assumptions.
Is there a self hosted solution to aggregating and viewing this data?

I'm slowly moving away from Google and other companies clouds where I can. Would be nice to take this data out in takeout and explore it locally, but it's such a useful feature for looking back on my travels.
Thanks.

You just check the Analysis/Interpreter box and tell it to how and when to use Python in the GPT instructions.

I put a mini Python lib for rolling dice and skill checks in the GPT instructions and just enabled the Analysis or whatever checkbox. And I told it to run the code in the beginning to initialize and use the functions for dice rolls etc.

It can write and call functions on the fly, but I wrote them ahead of time and have it call the library functions to reduce the amount of code needed to the minimum to try to speed things like dice rolls up.
The solution has always been to build more housing. Onerous zoning laws are preventing supply and demand from coming into balance. Single-family zoning needs to be banned. It's not actually that complicated, and to your point, it doesn't involve reporting your neighbors to the authorities.
This assumes you even have the right to a jury, or that you've even been charged with anything, or that you have the right to know what the charges are if they have been filed.

https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/detention/inde...
It seems to me we’re seeing something of a native GNOME application renaissance, both core and third-party, buoyed by GTK 4 and Flatpak (as well as the trend towards immutable base images). Rust seems to be part of this too—Loupe, Fractal, and Emmanuele Bassi’s recent GUADEC talk on oxidizing GTK¹ are examples. There are now three newer VTE-based terminal emulators targeting a native GNOME UX: Console (C), Black Box (Vala), and Prompt (C). Is there something about VTE or terminal emulators that makes Rust less appealing, or is this just a coincidence? I’m curious.

Prompt will probably be my next terminal emulator. That inspector looks interesting. Have you seen Ghostty’s recent demo²?

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVWrllJQJ_s&t=6155s

2: https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-devlog-005#terminal-in...
That's just not how software development works. The quality of the software depends on the people who own the development of that software, and the technologies they used to build that software. You're advocating that COSMIC should be a hodgepodge of random projects built with completely different frameworks with conflicting design philosophies. The end result of this is the exact opposite of good quality.
My first computer was also an IBM PS/2 Model 25. Was an amazing little machine. I ran Turbo Pascal on it for my undergrad CS degree. Great times.
>Proofing you were not at a crime scene at a certain time. You disabled location saving - that's suspicious?
/s

Having it enabled for years and then disabling it on the night your spouse went missing is suspicious. Having it disabled for years isn't.
Alas, merely guessing, but it sounds like you can tell an apple device "I am the magic keyboard you know and trust" and it will believe you.
Intelligent life may very well be everywhere (on the order of multiple civilizations per galaxy), but its impact is undetectable at such distances, just like someone dropping a pebble in the ocean off the shore of Tokyo is going to be undetectable in LA.
If I was to do penal labor, I'd search all days for way do to it poorly.
And while they were using their own app they got hacked!
You are brainwashed.
Indeed. According to this in 2022[0], Stack Overflow is still running off of 9 web servers.

[0] https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/stack-overflow-st...
The China Project Shutting Down
See also, the 100-mile "constitution free zone" in which around 2/3rds of the country live.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2018/03/23/two-th...
A cross platform, filesystem independent Time Machine
As is the baseband, or the Wi-Fi chip, or most of the other components in a modern phone.

Proper hardware isolation (e.g. using IOMMUs) should be able to mitigate many of the resulting problems – and if the OS can be compromised using the software driver stack, that is indeed a problem of the OS/driver.
Read the instructions from the pop-os/cosmic-epoch repository.
It would have no effect at all.

Public universities are part of the (state) government, so are bound by the first amendment.

Open source projects are not part of the government, so their freedom to associate with whoever they choose (with some limitations implied by eg the 14th amendment, but nothing likely to affect currently prominent codes of conduct) is protected by the 1st amendment.
Yeah and then all the companies that pay their workers well are undercut by those that don't and all the now-unemployed workers have no choice but to work for less than a fair wage. Many such cases.
Conversations, Cheogram and plenty more have solid user experiences, video calling, and services like jmp.chat provide gateways to other communication platforms.

The Jabber ecosystem has not stood still, it is competitive with other over the top messages and calling options.
Compact No-Bathroom Flats Popular Among Young Japanese
I hate auto-advancing fields. Auto-focus on page load puts you in the right place to start. Auto-advancing disrupts you in the middle of typing.

I would auto-advancing only if I am creating a form I am certain will be used over and over again by the same person. Even then, I would strongly consider if that is really any better than having the correct tab order defined.
I'm not keen to report my neighbor, but my landlord is not my neighbor. They could hardly be more not my neighbor if they tried.

When my rent skyrockets amid lots of vacant new construction (I'm not in CA, we're actually building around here), "gee, I'd like to help these fine fellows cheat on their taxes" is not the first thought to cross my mind.
As I said above, I am totally not an expert on any of this, so you should seek real answers from authoritative sources. However, I think I can safely clarify at least this much...

In this context, "Public University" means an institution substantially run by or funded by the U.S. government. Only some universities are public and many others are private. And different rules apply because the government is held to constitutional standards.

Conversely, "Public Domain" relates to the copyright status of a creative work and is entirely unrelated to how something is funded.

Legally, a "Code of Conduct" is basically just a contract. In the U.S. the "Freedom of Contract" and "Freedom of Association" between consenting adults are, thankfully, pretty damn expansive. If you want to create a non-government owned, run or funded project, club, cabal or coven which involves a contractual obligation requiring Taylor Swift tattoos and apple cider enemas, I'm pretty sure consenting adults can voluntarily agree to that if they chose to (although it should be noted, enforcement of such a contract will likely be limited to rejecting or expelling non-complying members).
I think it's not that LLMs have redundant parameters in general - it's a specific problem with OPT-66B, not anything else.

An 2022 paper "Scaling Language Models: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Training Gopher" (http://arxiv.org/abs/2112.11446) has captured it well on page 103, Appendix G:

> The general finding is that whilst compressing models for a particular application has seen success, it is difficult to compress them for the objective of language modelling over a diverse corpus.

The appendix G explores various techniques like pruning and distillation but found that neither method was an efficient way to obtain better loss at lower number of parameters.

So why does pruning work for OPT-66B in particular? I'm not sure but there is evidence that OPT-66B is an outlier: one evidence is in the GPTQ paper ("GPTQ: Accurate Post-Training Quantization for Generative Pre-trained Transformers", https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.17323) that mentions in its footnote on its 7th page:

> [2] Upon closer inspection of the OPT-66B model, it appears that this is correlated with the fact that this trained
model has a significant fraction of dead units in the early layers, which may make it harder to compress.

Since this article specifically target OPT-66B and not anything else, I would remain skeptical until they generalize their findings to other language models, such as Llama2 or Mistral.
Hi, what are your thoughts on distributed SQLite? Do you see it's becoming the default choice instead of pgs in future?
Astronomers detect almost 100 new extremely metal-poor galaxies
It's all in version control. Get is our house favorite. Documentation for the product is in the product's repo.
Pre-Miranda, according to the case law. It amounts to “don’t talk to the police,” because although the original case was about a murder, it now applies to every voluntary conversation with police. It’s a really unfortunate precedent.
I might be biased, because I'm the author, but I think GNOME Builder making it dead simple to install an IDE from Flatpak, create a GTK 4 application template in numerous languages, and click run/debug/profile/valgrind and you're off to the races had a lot to do with it. It even installs the SDKs and extensions for you so your new-developer setup is install, clone this url, click run.

We built Flatpak and Builder in concert from the beginning to foster this exact outcome.

But as for language? I already hack on GTK/GDK/GSK internals in C, a mix of C++ and C to contribute to VTE, and Builder is 250k of C with another 200k in associated libraries. I'm just better at it and language bindings are never an issue.
I'm not sure it's directly applicable, but courts have repeatedly ruled that you can't booby-trap your own property; I'm not quite sure this applies to, say, [non-explosively] erasing a USB drive by entering a decoy PIN.

https://www.hecklawoffices.com/blog/2020/11/its-illegal-for-...
Interfaces Are Not Meant for That