skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can access all of a person's iMessage using only a phone number? So they are registering it on your behalf then, and keeping all of the credentials for themselves. You all are nuts using that.

What are they doing about people using someone else's number to gain access to all their messages?
A fridge but in reverse? the science of heat pumps – visualised
Wuite curious. What indexing and retrieval software is this using? I couldn’t find reference to it.

Does it index phrases ?
I think we're circling around the well known correlation between conscientousness and lifetime earnings. A conscientious person is more likely to follow rules and procedures by definition and also more likely to earn money as shown by research.
> I'm the type of coder who can lose an hour to stupid typos and similar bugs that should be easy to spot.

Oh, a seasoned pro then :-)
You're moving the goalposts substantially from the original claim, which was "Tesla's tech is all smoke and mirrors for years now."

It is certainly misleading to call it Full Self Driving - no argument there at all. It's also wrong to call all of Tesla's tech for the last however many years fakery.
Ingestible bioelectronic modulates gastric stretch receptors: "illusory satiety"
Grocery also has a much larger set of SKUs and lots of low-margin items.

RFID makes sense for mid to higher value items that have limited SKUs.
Why does it matter what people push that idea if there is some truth to it?
The Negatives of Digital Life
"If someone would have told me I was going to spend 10-12 hours in front of a computer most days to do my job, I would never have chosen my current occupation, but it seems like most jobs these days require constant computer use."
CAROLYN HEINRICH
you do all your shopping at trader Joe's?
Lots of companies have been forced to do provide free services to non-customers; consider almost any industry classified as a 'utility'.

Since when is any utility service free? Electricity, water, phone service. All of these require payment for service. For electricity you have to pay for both generation (from your chosen generator) and for transmission on the wires to your house. For water you have to pay for all water and sewage service to your house. For phone service you have to pay your provider. If you roam outside of their network they have to pay the other network to carry your traffic (and then it’s up to your provider to decide how to charge you for roaming).

Edit: I should add that email is an example of a service which is not a utility. Why? Email providers are free to block any message they like, preventing delivery in either direction. They typically use this discretion to filter spam but they're under no obligation to deliver. Anyone who has set up their own email server will know what I'm talking about: you have to jump through a lot of hoops to get your emails delivered to Gmail users!
>A vibrating ingestible bioelectronic stimulator modulates [porcine] gastric stretch receptors for illusory satiety

Abstract:

Effective therapies for obesity require invasive surgical and endoscopic interventions or high patient adherence, making it challenging for patients with obesity to effectively manage their disease. Gastric mechanoreceptors sense distension of the stomach and perform volume-dependent vagal signaling to initiate the gastric phase and influence satiety. In this study, we developed a new luminal stimulation modality to specifically activate these gastric stretch receptors to elicit a vagal afferent response commensurate with mechanical distension. We designed the Vibrating Ingestible BioElectronic Stimulator (VIBES) pill, an ingestible device that performs luminal vibratory stimulation to activate mechanoreceptors and stroke mucosal receptors, which induces serotonin release and yields a hormonal metabolic response commensurate with a fed state. We evaluated VIBES across 108 meals in swine which consistently led to diminished food intake (~40%, P < 0.0001) and minimized the weight gain rate (P < 0.05) as compared to untreated controls. Application of mechanoreceptor biology could transform our capacity to help patients suffering from nutritional disorders.
Presumably because GPT-4 generated training data was used somewhere along the line - maybe by Vicuna.
> Estimated reading time: 7 min 02 sec

Huhh, that's quite specific for an estimation.
That's bronze. I'd assume any brass/bronze/copper to corrode away, that's what it does naturally. Now consider gold, stainless steel, and the many other inert materials humans work with. I assume 10,000 year old gold artifacts would look the same as the 5000 year old artifacts we know of which are very well preserved, and other similar materials would fare similarly.
For me it is the system the US had during the New Deal era and WWII. Central economic planning focused on need rather than profit. Jobs programs run by government organizations themselves over private contractors seeking profit margins. Massive investments in STEM education. Massive investments in public works, amenities, and institutions. Stipends for artists, musicians, and other creatives. Seems we Americans got much more for our tax dollar in this era versus perhaps any other.
"Zelle’s website notes that it will send emails only from domains ending in @zelle.com and @zellepay.com, and any others could be scams."

I don't know if Zelle really said this or if this is just a misinterpretation by the author, but spoofing email "From" addresses is trivial, and should never be used to confirm anything. Whoever said this is dangerously clueless about security.
> I think the masses produce the ideas. Those ideas are then selected and amplified by all sorts of people leveraging all sorts of means driven by all sorts of motives.

> My point is that, sure, the moneyed class does play a role, but reality is much more complex than that and I don't really buy the idea that the world is "controlled" by a bunch of "supermen" who are both incredibly wealthy and also incredibly intelligent and play 4d chess

These don't contradict what I said at all. You are arguing with a straw man.
Yeah you're right, far more money to be made in white collar crime.
Cedar is a very popular insect repellent due to the make up of its oils. Insects just don't like it for whatever sciencey reason. It's not just for protecting clothes. Cedar as mulch is used to keep insects out of your garden. Cedar pellets can be spread in your yard like fertilizer to help reduce insects. I use it to reduce fleas in my yard for pets in a non-toxic manner.
Reminds me of my brother where he would bring 6-7 floppies to a cafe just to download an anti-virus update.
What was it we used to hear? Their platform, their rules?

The fact is people are unprincipled and will either complain about free speech or will clamor for it, or complain about censorship or clamor for it depending on point of view.

I wish people were principled and stood on principle and not what dog they have in a fight.
Find better creators. They are the ones making the content, after all.

Very odd to blame the platform for this.
Beta is out, try it for free
OpenAI can just copy this.
> Our findings imply that the implementation of the platform's prioritization policy should be carefully monitored in order to ensure there is no abuse of users with extra influence.

Not sure what to make of this paper, or this concluding sentence. Are we to avoid abusing those users who are granted extra influence, or avoid such users abusing that influence to change overall system dynamics?
I spent a pretty significant amount of time in QBasic. It definitely has functions. It also has subroutines "Subs" and the difference was a function returned a value and a subroutine did not.
Yeah, but that guy is going above and beyond. Even just using iMessage as intended with a group of Android users causes you to inject superfluous noise into the chat.

The whole point of having reactions as a separate thing from messages is that they don't distract from the conversation. Sending "X Liked: 'Y'" to every Android user for every iMessage user who likes something makes the iPeople look like a bunch of buffoons who don't know how to read the room and want everybody to know that they have an iPhone, when actually they're just trying to communicate.

Apple is savvy enough to have avoided that situation if they wanted to, so you gotta conclude that it's part of the plan.
> until Google gets entrenched enough that they can put ads back in for paying subscribers.

I keep seeing this repeated, and this has never been a valid argument, even if this may end up being true.

You can cancel when that happens.
We’re US based but come from pretty much across the globe and my wife is Punjabi, so yeah that’s the origin of the name :)
This seems sort of like understanding machine code vs assembly; it's much easier to learn WAT and translate to/from WASM as necessary using the wabt tools [0].

Either way its super cool how simple WebAssembly is, you can really get your hands dirty and understand exactly every detail of how your program runs!

[0] https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt
Amazon Fresh grocery stores have the cashierless thing too, not just Go.

Amazon Fresh is all over the Seattle area and in many parts of the country (a number of them are in Chicago)
> Usage and License Notices: The data, and code is intended and licensed for research use only.
Yep, everyone is full of shit and self interested. Accepting that makes it easy to tune out weak rhetoric from all sides.
The Tech That Died in 2023
This is the entire future of mass entertainment. A non-stop stream of endless content generated from the long tail of your digital advertising footprint. No more scrolling Netflix for hours, or waiting two years for a new season. Just an unending feed of everything you ever wanted to see or hear forever.
How do others feel about the pace of innovation in AI? Is there ever a reason to slow down advancements in a given field?
Interesting video, but he doesn't mention that genuine Nespresso pods are back-filled with nitrogen to keep the coffee fresh. I don't think others are doing that. Is that aspect, like the seal, still patented?
90 degrees celsius seems very hot for radiators. I thought boulers were efficiently set at less than 70 degrees?
And then there is the risk that a customer don't pay for a reason or another and you need to take the loss.
The dataset is really 75% of it. Just look how runway "fixed" stable diffusion 1.4.
Cloud is the best solution in my opinion. Put your data in AWS and Azure. If they go out of business in 40 years, you transfer your data somewhere else.
You're correct in that uid 0 in the container is faked through userns, but you can easily bypass that with a privileged container or adding the CAP_ADMIN capability. Yes, you can disable creating privileged containers within Kubernetes, but that isn't something you can rely on. If the runtime is running as root, which it often is, you can also become real root within the container under these conditions.
I've used it a lot and was never overcharged. Might want to check those anecdotes.
I do not know a ton about it. Thanks for the pointers.

I kept up with Swift more in the old days, but it doesn't seem to have gained a ton of relevance outside of Apple platforms, which I don't develop for. Doesn't mean that I think that it's bad, just that that's why I haven't spent a lot of time with it yet.
sure, let me spend my Saturday going on Google for you, to find the overwhelming evidence that has been gathered for the past several decades, which you somehow missed.

or claim to have missed.
I've definitely seen Bard beat ChatGPT once in a while. I don't use bard much but when ChatGPT gives me an answer I know is wrong I go see if Bard did any better and yes, sometimes Bard is better, not often enough for me to switch ... yet?
My overall impression from this is: highly manipulative but effective leader.

Which, seems fair?
> Here's rap about a duck trying to get chicken nuggets at McDonalds:
https://app.suno.ai/song/27476a1c-ab35-4dbd-bf71-a9fa0aaa4de...

That reminds me of Uberduck.

They've been working on the exact same problem as Suno (text -> TikTok format songs with lyrics and beat).
Our models support full 2+ mins of coherent generation but generating a couple of verses at a time through continue gives good results you can keep picking the continuations that sound best!
Ask HN: What charities are you giving to this year?
The alternative is a light in a predictable position or with a standard shape. I really hate that EVs are trying to be all modern about light systems redesigns. Specially in the US, car manufacturers are being very creative with their new designs in ways that are not even legal in Europe. I hope international standards for human-friendly lights can be agreed upon soon.
why not LLMM?
Apple isn't implementing encryption in RCS. I don't really care about SMS. I just want it to be that when I send a text to someone on iOS it's encrypted. And it would be nice if it had good support for emojis and multimedia. This is partially on Google too but from the outside looking in, it seems like Google has been honestly trying and Apple has been deliberately sabotaging them. (Not that I'm on Google's side - I just want a good encrypted multimedia messaging standard.)
> It sounds like you’re saying now it’s hey taxation is how we control inflation?

Among other things.
A (if not the) fundamental idea of MMT is that for a government that issues its own currency, money is *not* a limited resource. The wealth the private sector accumulates is what the government (or rather, its central bank) issued in the first place. Taxes are not there to finance the government and its spending, they're there to establish the government issued currency as a valid form of payment.

This is a stark contrast to today, where "the taxpayer pays for the government".

Pretty much everything else builds upon this fundamental idea.

> For a while it was hey spending more won’t cause inflation.

This isn't universally true or false, it's also very much compatible with the idea of MMT.

Fundamentally, as introduced, money is considered to not be a limited resource. The restrictions placed on how much debt a government can take on etc. are arbitrary and of political nature.

There are, however, very real restrictions that aren't artificial in nature. Human labor as well as the availability of natural resources are the two example that would effectively constrain everything.

Regardless of how much money you throw at a given industry, when they cannot fulfil the demand because they don't have the human labor to produce the stuff in demand, prices will go up (=inflation). The same principle applies for natural resources, but in two ways. For one, if your production capacity has reached its natural limited (i.e. there is no more stuff), prices would go up if you continue throwing money at the problem. You're also constrained if you'd have to import resources. The Eurozone can create euros, but if you have to pay for Oil in USD they won't matter much.

That is also where the restrictions for MMT in terms of applicability come from. The state needs a large degree of monetary autonomy and the currency is not bound to a physical object (gold standard, etc). Also, as already implied, if you'd have to take on debt in a currency that you do not issue yourself, MMT won't really be applicable either.
If you look at solar and batteries 10 years ago, that is where we’re at today with GPUs and generative AI today. Hard to see the hockey stick from here, but we are there.
Interoperability is great though. You can talk with anyone without having to install yet another client or wonder what the other party is using. That’s why SMS is still used despite being godawful.

So opening the standard is great. The question is how will it work and how will the other parties guarantee the level of service. How do they deal with spam for example? Do they build their own network or do they use Apple’s? If Apple is forced to open up does it mean they’re forced to give access to any of their infrastructure? Can they charge or will there be a price cap? Who drives the evolution of the standard?

The details matter more than the principle in this case because on principle you could just end up giving everyone a crappier service.
This view depends on accepting the idea that advertising of all forms really does poison the mind and is a universal evil.

But that idea in itself is, in my opinion, an extremist one.

The act of informing someone else about something is baked into the social nature of our species. Without it there is no specialization, we are all creatures living alone as nomads focused on subsistence and survival.

All you to do is watch monkeys teach each other how to use tools. That was basically an advertisement, a transfer of knowledge about a “product.”

Then you have to consider ads that save lives and help society like public service ads for seatbelts, anti-littering, child seats, etc.

Also, rich people see ads. They’re just different ads. Go to a yacht show in Monaco and you’ll see ads.
> Using any protected class

Right. And they're saying it would be best if they weren't accidentally doing that.

> DEI isn't an anti-discrimination effort, they are actively carrying out discrimination

Why do you think this? All efforts I've seen have been to correct for the discrimination currently occurring in the system.

> You admit that women are overrepresented

I don't. We're still substantially less than 50% of engineering.

> The evidence in tech company hiring actually shows women are favored over men

If this were true, men would be the minority. Women like money just as much as men do, and would leverage that non-existent favoritism to get those high paying jobs.
How does the homepage of https://mwmbl.org/ not have a single sentence explaining what it is or even an "About" link?

From Github:
"Mwmbl is a non-profit, ad-free, free-libre and free-lunch search engine with a focus on useability and speed."
replace https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders with cousin count
The future of training seems to, at least partly, be in synthetic data. I can imagine systems where a “data synthesizer” LLM is trained on open data and probably some licensed data. The synthesizer then generates data “to spec” to train larger models. MOE type models will likely have different approaches in so far as something like a Mathematical expert likely gets a long way with training data from out of copyright works by Newton, Euler, et al.
> FTL should be possible because the universe expands [EXP] at speeds greater than that of light.

The universe isn't expanding faster than the speed of light, it seems to be expanding everywhere at the same rate. Galaxies beyond a particular distance from us are receding at/above the speed of light only because all of the expansion between us and them stacks up and is pushing them away from us at faster than the speed of light. They are not being pushed through space though, space itself is expanding.

Furthermore, since the speed of light is really more accurately the speed of causality, once these distant objects are receding faster than the speed of light, no further information (which in practice means EM radiation, but in theory means any/all causality) from them can ever reach us. So, I'm not sure how it follows that because universal expansion exists and is being driven by something, it should therefore be possible for us to harness it. The universe seems to be extremely clear that causality is not allowed to happen faster than c.
> I think temporary society-scale prohibition when drug use becomes a widespread societal ill is good policy.

OK, but we passed a constitutional amendment saying the opposite, and the so-called "War on Drugs" operates in defiance of the spirit of that amendment.
Nothing is for free.

Email is open standard, so it is designed to be interoperable from the start but services offering emails are not free by default. They're free up to a certain point, each email service has restrictions such as certain amount of email per day or size restrictions, or they offer ads (take a look at Outlook for an example).

Back then, Internet was free too, via NetZero with ads.

You get what you pay for.

In this case, Apple customers paid for Messages by buying their devices and/or iCloud plans.

I would prefer Apple to open up and offer Messages for Android/Windows/Linux and the only way to use them is via paid iCloud plans.
Running Multimodal LLMs on device and offline, i.e LLMKit for free equaling GPT-3.5 / 4 then Google will follow on Android.

Ability to download / update tiny models from Apple and Google as they improve, à la Google Maps.

No need for web services like ChatGPT.
It’s only 1% of my gross income (before tax) as a freelancer. I’ve never seen or heard of it being exercised in my sector (management consulting / cyber), but to be honest it’s a small price for peace of mind in case things do go pear shaped.
Circa 2013 I worked at a bootstrapped startup (MaxCDN). We got a trial request from Pinterest who put a small fraction of their traffic on dedicated edge servers and we couldn’t sustain it. They ended up going with EdgeCast that had the capacity and resources.
Boycotting is simply choosing to vote against a company's principles or actions with your wallet, which is the essence of capitalism.
Anyone who is arguing that Apple is right in withholding iMessage misses the point of the article, that the FTC is investigating that in itself. Whether a company can keep a messaging platform closed off after it has crossed a majority market share.
> What's the difference?

Because humans aren't actually doing the generating either, the answer gets clearer when the question is something like, "are you making music, or telling something to make you music?"

Replicators are a good analogy. Ordering a meal from a replicator doesn't make you a cook any more than giving Midjourney an order makes you an artist.
> It seems to be a fair amount of pfaff getting in to confirm who you are

This seems overstated. You scan a barcode on your Amazon app. That's it.

> there didn’t seem to be that much selection to find much worth buying.

It feels like a smaller, more focused grocery store (something between an Aldi and a Safeway), but all the basics are there and then some. I don't live close enough to one to use it regularly, but I would if I did.
Cover to Cover: The founder of magCulture on the front-cover arms race (2021)
yes, this.

in any case, so much just depends on the specific kinds of crimes we are talking about.
How Your ID.me Wallet Works
No matter how bad that’s probably still better than LinkedIn. When I login there, I don’t see anything I actually am interested in.
You could try paying attention to human rights reports instead of assuming a false equivalence.
I thought the straw thing was weird because I don't like straws. Unless you're drinking boba or are disabled, why use a straw?
Depends what your org is optimizing for. Are they optimizing for cost or speed of development? It’s a question I have to deal with on a daily basis when I here of yet again another “fast” tech to add to our stack.
> For me it is the system the US had during the New Deal era and WWII. Central economic planning focused on need rather than profit.

You do know that FDR's preferred economic system was overtly inspired by European fascism, right? You're literally saying that a fascist, authoritarian state and a wartime economy are the best we could possibly do. Excuse me but I'm a bit skeptical.
You can also add red blinkers and everyone will think you’re firetruck.
You are definitely onto something.

If you relax several manufacturing & design constraints, you can go from requiring a $3bn facility to something that can be made in a high-end lab or even a fancy garage.

There are smaller-scale techniques for EUV light generation. E.g.:

https://www.energetiq.com/euv-selection-guide

The time constraint is probably the most severe one. If you are willing to wait a week for your wafer to get dosed for every layer, you have a lot more options available than a foundry does.