skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The charge against them is very clear. The feature is changing the performance which enabled excess emissions. Whether is it software or hardware does not really matter.

> Today, the Justice Department reached an initial agreement with Cummins Inc. to settle claims that, over the past decade, the company unlawfully altered hundreds of thousands of engines to bypass emissions tests in violation of the Clean Air Act.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/statement-attorney-general-me...
Interesting that it's called systematic tricking when Cummins does it, with VW it's just criminal fraud?
Why is that? Are the parts necessary to meet emissions requirements extra expensive and so are only worth installing on commercial vehicles which are more expensive, vs passenger vehicles have a different profit margin, or is it something else, like commerical vehicles have lower standards for noise or higher standards for maintenance?
IIRC other manufacturers would detect the usage pattern of tests and run cleaner as a form of bypass.

Similarly you could lie on the OC2 response.
Compared to Android, the iOS keyboard has always been a nightmare. However, wI feel it has been causing me fewer issues within the past month-ish. Has it been updated recently?
> How often are you in a situation where you do have WiFi but don't have a cellular connection?

Ummm, all of the time. Traveling, on a plane, etc.

> Wow. I feel sorry, not for you, but for your friends who chose to be friends with someone so shallow.

Huh? When your group message constantly breaks so you can't communicate properly its far more respectful to make sure the couple gets the message than not.

> How often do you need to add and remove people from an existing group text anyways?

I get added to group chats all of the time that I want to leave (due to spamming stuff) but can't because ONE person has an android phone.
Damn… I clicked on this thinking I was going to read some light hearted article about why cat’s are such a joy.
This was not what I was expecting at all.
“Just have well off parents”
The report (Identifying and Eliminating CSAM in Generative ML Training Data and Models)[0] that this guy is very slowly sumarizing (and seems to largely agree with despite the title) was discussed 3 days ago (38 points, 30 comments)[1]

[0]: https://purl.stanford.edu/kh752sm9123
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38711135
I have Signal and WhatsApp installed on my phone, along with 3 or 4 other apps. The “competing messaging protocols” aspect seems to be doing just fine.

I don’t think a competing SMS/MMS application would shift the competitive landscape significantly here. If it was, we’d see Beeper making an SMS app and challenging Apple’s inclusion policies there, not reverse engineering iMessage.
>does it protect against gamma rays

Probably not. Might need to throw in some lead, concrete and water barriers.

I wrote my answer as pretty tongue in cheek. It gets to a stage where certain threats being solved for would wipe out humanity anyway, which is why my last suggestion is summarising the lessons of your data into stories and parables to be passed on from generation to generation :)
Hey.com is one of my favorite “new design” email clients. The OTP feature in Skylar seems cool, maybe they can steal it ;)
> why should Apple be forced to open it up?

They shouldn't be forced to it. But by not doing it they are showing how all their talk about inclusiveness and working for the common good is just marketing bullshit.

And the more people I see (on Hacker News of all places) that keep supporting this marketing, the less faith I have in techies' ability to critical thinking.
Houses don't last forever, you pay taxes, have to make fixes (sometimes really big ones), you need insurance and most people have a mortgage.

Even if you're able to buy a house outright, and the future maintenance is no bother, who's to say that anyone in your family will want to hang on to your idea of good property? Maybe they'll sell it for cash, or turn around and rent it. The odds of a single average dwelling staying in one family for a LONG time can't be that high.
History of the universe can be determined using radio telescopes on the moon
> The constitution of United States, in the first Amendment prohibits certain speech, speech inciting violence is one of those prohibited speech.

It does? Here's the full text of the First Amendment:

> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Which part of it says that? I don't see it anywhere.
Thus, the squeeze, sometimes literally. When costs rise faster than incomes, people are forced to accept a lower quality of life, such as longer commutes and living with roommates, both of which can be stressful.

I understand that this is just the way things are right now, but we need more housing so that way fewer people have to resort to these measures.
They not only map the world, but clean it... of everything.
Maybe because the discussion is not of very high quality? Look how many downvotes there are already, it is an emotional topic and yes, even here people are having problems with maintaining a civil debate about a controversial topic. And others don't want all that flame war here, so they flag it, simple as that.
Cool, I created an issue for it and will look into it post holidays

https://github.com/4DModeller/fdmr/issues/298#issue-20549082...
I would include ordering blocking by local ISPs in "build a firewall". It seems what has happened here is Rumble is doing the blocking. A mechanism existing by which Brazil can force a company with no presence in Brazil to block access to web content strikes me as problematic.

Of course when a company is trying to do business in a country, it needs relationships with local companies, access to banking and payment infrastructure, etc... and governments can certainly prevent those from doing business with it. It doesn't sound like that's the issue here though.

If there is a mechanism by which the government of Brazil can force a company based in the USA or Canada to block visitors to its website, I would like to know the details so I can advocate that the USA withdraw from the relevant treaty. I'd apply the same logic to the USA trying to force foreign websites to shut down or block visitors from the USA.
Have you used custom lyrics? Just write nothing or [none]
? AppleTV and Apple Music are not decades ahead of anything. AirPods are way better than the existing Bluetooth headsets that were on the market.
I'm already going to wager that they're not going to be shat on quite as hard as Volkswagen was, just like Fiat-Chrysler wasn't.
As far as I am aware there were free elections during this time, kind of the exact opposite definition of what an autocracy is.
That's actually a really good summary of the whole fan restoration situation.
> Android users cry about being excluded, but the rest of us don't even think about android users.

While I think you’ve illustrated the point that the issue is not just a technical one, I’d rather not be counted in that group. I’m deeply in the Apple ecosystem, but I do think about my Android friends. When possible, I use chat clients that work well for them, because otherwise we can’t share quality photos with each other. I don’t shun people for their technology choices, just as I’d hope they wouldn’t shun me for mine.

> It's not Apple's responsibility or obligation to fix this.

Do you believe that companies have any responsibilities to their customers? Especially when the nature of the relationship is one of directly exchanging money for hardware and services, it seems reasonable to expect Apple to listen to me as a customer and to build capabilities that solve the problems I think are important as a user.

As an Apple customer, I am deeply unhappy with their iMessage stance. In 2023, I want to be able to take a photo with the much-vaunted camera built into the device (one of the reasons we feel justified in spending $800-$1200+ on a “phone”) and I want my device to have the ability to send that photo to other modern devices out of the box. And if that capability doesn’t exist, I’d like a company of Apple’s size/stature to use their position to push forward new industry standards, as have the many companies that built up the modern web over the years. I’m not naive enough to think they’ll do this - they’ve shown us how they operate - but I think it’s reasonable to want this as someone who believes current tech giants owe their existence to this kind of leadership from companies in years past.

I’ve been a product manager. My customers reasonably expected me to listen to their requests, if for no other reason because they were willing to continue spending significant yearly $$$ for the ability to use my product. That doesn’t mean I could always say yes to every request, and I agree I wasn’t obligated to to implement every request, but I did have a responsibility to listen and to try to build a product that my customers would find valuable.

We don’t have to speculate about why Apple is doing this. It’s a matter of public record now from those emails revealed in discovery during a recent trial. The stance is pro-Apple at best, and arguably anti-customer. Given Apples profitability and market position, it’s hard to feel that Apple’s behavior here is really justifiable, even if it’s understandable. And by “understandable” I mean we’ve come to expect anti-consumer behavior and so it’s not surprising that Apple is perpetrating more of it. But I think they should be criticized soundly for it, even if it is their right to not give a shit.
That’s an interesting thought, IMO. These flexible width fonts are often thought of as localization-assistance features, to help fit other languages in the terminal world. But English also had to be modified to fit into fixed-width fonts. I wonder how the discussion would change if this technology had been popularized originally in another country.
VyOS 1.4.0-rc1 LTS release candidate
This. I'm tired of creating accounts. I have my own filesystem.
> include the intentional removal of the particulate filter

People who think this is a problem should read the instructions for cleaning one.
This is really fun, just made a Christmas tune!

https://app.suno.ai/song/cb52391f-01ed-4df2-85a3-4c78ec5c2de...
It's an issue if Joe is a color blind cop...
The bikeshed color argument never ceases to be relevant. Would you say "large language model multimodal"? I doubt it.
Ha! It'd be pretty fun to let folks pay a dollar to like, add special sound effects / intro sounds to their moves or something :D
> Dijkstra will go down in history as one of the great algorithm designers, but this will always be a black mark on his legacy, possibly overshading his contributions. There's a lesson here about not pontificating outside of your field

I am begging of you, please do a little bit of investigation into the historical context in which Dijkstra wrote that memo.
Yeap.

https://github.com/curdinc/skylar-email/blob/main/CONTRIBUTI...

should point you in the right direction. Feel free to ping back here, on github, or on Discord.
Secret History tells me he killed a Trillion People!

[1] https://sacred-texts.com/cla/proc/shp/shp21.htm
You get caned as well as sent to prison sometimes. You also get hanged for just a pound of weed, a pretty typical yield for 1-2 outdoor plants.
In what's happening today, it's not hard to identify who is killing tens of thousands of civilians indiscriminately.
A couple weeks or so ago after some UN official was in the news for resigning in protest over what was happening in Gaza and called it a genocide, NPR interviewed someone who has actually prosecuted genocide cases and asked him if the UN official was right.

According to the prosecutor he didn't think a case could be made. The key is that "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such" part.

To prove that you need statements from officials that show they intended such destruction, and those need to be officials that also had the means to carry out or cause to be carried out that destruction. Prime ministers and generals, for example.

If someone is going after legitimate military targets but a lot of members of some national, ethnical, racial or religious group is getting killed as collateral damage that is not enough to support a genocide charge. You need to statement of intent.

He added that there is a genocide case that can be made in the region--against Hamas. They have stated their intent to wipe out a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, and thousands of their attacks on Israel over the last 20+ years have been directed at purely civilian targets.
Stealing is the greatest form of flattery!

What do you love most about hey.com? Maybe we could steal you over ;)
Ah yes the judge. Who decides when I see her? Do I just sit quietly in jail until then?
So, Google resolved the interop issue with "liked an image" and similar reactions back in 2020. I can't remember that being an issue for years with reasonably modern Android phones.

Yeah, I've had some isues in the past with pixelated videos but again, almost zero in the past few years. But there are ten billion better places to post videos than via group chats, especially to conserve memory on people's devices, and pretty much everyone knows it at this point. Literally everyone I know has been posting videos via Youtube or Facebook or Instagram or Whatsapp or Discord or Slack or Google Drive or Dropbox for years at this point.

But yes, Apple should absolutely support RCS for encrypted messaging in group chats with other devices. 100% with you on that one.
This is not a forensic video. No one is claiming that the colours are actually real. As a documentary this brings us closer to the experience of reality than the black and white jerky movements of the original film. It definitely does approach reality. Grass is green, not grey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHHt-CBKkS0
What's your proposed workflow? Hit "export" every time you create a bookmark? Add a weekly reminder to export?

If it regularly exported automatically, it could get picked up by a syncing app, but otherwise...
That explains a lot if he saw his constituents as little more than dogs to be beaten and trained.
Do you own anything digital?
There's a huge difference between saying "we can do" and "we think we will be able to do".
The part about making it reliable in the ways it needs to be.
> Sorry, I didn't understand what is the argument bhind your first paragraph: advisory vs. consulting.

It was more to clarify it was proserv work than anything.

In the context of SaaS/tech, typically professional services is implementation, maintenance or break/fix of specific products or technology. Advisory work is supposed to be independent work where you are being paid for (what is supposed to be) unbiased opinions and strategy.

It's the difference between staff augmentation / project work and strategic / planning work.
Yes, because Frequentists won a long time ago. And are responsible for producing garbage science ever since.

Of course the winners don't rant about anything. But any time we probe the consequences of Frequentist statistics they turn out to be horrific for science, our health, and our planet.
Cops can’t be colorblind?

I don’t know if they have to do a test or something.
Why ask a question in bad faith? You may not agree with my answer, but you asked for the opposing viewpoint and I gave it, but now I see it was a waste of time.
Apple is all about a controlled pleasant experience, it doesn't matter if it doesn't give you shiny new things; most Apple customers don't even know those shiny new things exist, so they keep spreading the word that "Apple is so easy and simple."

The idea of having an unpredictable LLM in the ecosystem is Apple's worst nightmare. I bet they will overly restrict it to the point that it stops being a general purpose LLM and becomes a neutered obedient LLM that always acts according to Apple's rules.

Also, it doesn't help that ALL the authors of this Apple paper are chinese. It raises questions about how Apple will handle political debates with its LLM.
my boss got his small company bought out by private equity masquerading as typical consulting firm. it took me a beat to recognize what was happening but in short, they pushed admin/management down. it didn't matter what the apparent client hierarchy looked like, they're allergic to the actual work.

Suffice to say, they constantly wanted to push me towards managing without offering any of the value.
I support the fact that messaging should be interoperable and accessible by any client application.

I want applications like Beeper to succeed because I’m totally fed up to be forced to use 3 or 4 messaging applications. I’m fed up to not be able to join Messenger groups because I don’t trust Meta enough to install their app.

Instant messaging is now all about being forced to use the official client to be able to use the network. In fact, IM is in a worst state than 15 years ago. That’s stupid.

I don’t want Apple to be allowed to keep it exclusive, as much as I don’t want Telegram, Signal, Facebook, WhatsApp … to force me to install their apps just to be allowed to join my friend’s group.

I’m fed up by the fact that in 2023, you have to follow the rules of whatever corporation to join your friends group because corporations have actively fought against standardized protocols. Even Google is just faking it with their homemade implementation of RCS.

That’s stupid, we should have had some chat equivalent to emails since at least two decades (hello XMPP/Jabber, nice try) and we are here discussing about the exclusivity of iMessage. In an alternative universe we are laughing about the uselessness of an exclusive IM like we would laugh if Apple tried to implement its own exclusive email protocol.

That’s stupid and very sad.
> What they don't do is sell you a lie a year before release then deliver shit (like every other fucking vendor).

If you're referring to Google, then you're right. But OpenAI has consistently delivered what they announced pretty quickly. Same with Microsoft. To think that Apple somehow has a secret sauce that helps them surprise everyone is an illusion. They've had 3 years now to show their interest in LLMs, but they're just too conservative to "think different" anymore.
Status symbol products don't make you a more loved or more valuable person? What a concept.

This isn't meant to be condescending to you, I have just gotten SO MUCH CRAP from friends, coworkers, and the like for using a sort-of-old Android phone. We shouldn't be praising Apple for switching to USB-C, we should be asking why they didn't do it 9 years ago.
Add more braces. Not joking.

I find that a lot of Rust borrow checker problems can be solved by inserting more blocks. At the very least, it helps you isolate precisely where the issue is.

I don't see this recommendation often for how much it seems to help beginners. To be fair, it's a lot less of an issue than it used to be as the borrow checker has gotten quite a bit better.
> The company does not admit wrongdoing and says no one in the company acted in bad faith

Fuck me, though, right? I know the government can't do it, but this kind of statement itself should merit some kind of additional punishment.
I think Apple solves this pretty well in iOS… there’s pretty simple iCloud API’s apps can use to store basic data (also structured data with CKDatabase/etc) which automatically just use the user’s iCloud account storage and implicitly are synced across devices. Apps don’t have to implement any cloud storage or consensus/etc, they just use the platform API’s and everything just works. I’d be shocked if android/play store didn’t have a similar thing.
I think this all boils down to steering all economic policy toward increasing the labor share of income.
Was using their readme as a basis and it seems like I forgot to update one link which is affecting like half the folks :')

Thanks for pointing it out! Fix is on the way out!
California's AB 1482 gets renters some relief, though it may not apply in your case. It limits rent increases to 5% + CPI, or 10%, whichever is lower.

If you just happened to have a spare $200k lying around to make a 20% down payment on a million dollar condo in the Bay Area in the low interest rate era, you'd be paying the same as a renter, but fixed, and with equity.
The Art of Electronics (2015)
Did you ask the question just so you could interpret any given answer as uncharitably as possible and pretend that the people answering are actually Bad People?

You’re making a lot of really bad faith replies.
> A strong hash is already difficult to collide

I don't understand. The whole point of the article is that this isn't true.
I don’t mean to discount this work, but this particular model is the product of a few months of work tops. It’s effectively LLava with different training data, targeted at a specific use case. While I’m sure there is a significant effort at multimodal LLMs within Apple, this is just a tiny corner of it.
If someone is watching a movie when driving, yeah I would probably want to know before I call the cops.
Except that almost every landlord I've ever had has treated me like second-class citizen or a child, constantly invaded my privacy, and skimped on all the costs that you're supposed to be saving. No guests at any time. No candles. Inspections for "safety" every 1-2 weeks, often with no notice because of a contrived emergency. Wouldn't fix the freezer part of the refrigerator because the lease only said it has a refrigerator, not a fridge+freezer. Going off on long political and cultural rants against my generation and political party every time we interact. Cameras pointed at my front door 24/7, with detailed tracking of my overnight guests (for a lease that would only allow 2 weeks of overnight guests a year).

If you don't own your home, you don't own your life.
I was being sarcastic. Honestly it was a low-effort post that doesn't belong on HN.

You are correct. I was mocking the user above for suggesting that a vaccine mandate was "fascist".
uhm... we have neural style transfer these days.

you can grab the postproduction color grading and even VFX from the low-res one, and apply them to the high-res one. Without messing around with other aspects.
> https://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/01/28/pentagon-tell...

This article is not about giving used equipment to police departments.

> Eisenhower even warned us to such actions in 1961

Yeah, and we did what he said. US military spending as % GDP has gone straight down since ~1985. (Except around 2008 - but that's because our GDP went down.)
AWS charges the same money per core and gig of ram, whether you get a big instance or 5 small instances. I guess their top end isn't as top end as hardware you can get in your DC, though.
Mistral 7B is pretty good and the instruct v0.2 runs on my iPhone through MLC Chat.

However, the ChatGPT4 app is much better in usability: better model, multi-modal with text/vision/speech and better UI.
Just like in every other kind of engineering, for software capability pulls the requirements.

The only reason everybody is complaining about lack of memory safety now is because there are alternatives for every use case. Before Rust existed, it was seen as an inevitable issue that one must work with, not as a problem to solve.