skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “Hey Siri, timer five minutes" - "I set an alarm for seventeen hundred hours”

I think I figured out the issue with this one, finally: Siri understands “Set a timer for 6:30” as a request for a timer for however far in the future 6:30 is. And it also understands “set a timer for 6” similarly.

And Siri doesn’t seem at all intelligent about when to stop transcribing.

So Siri has a rather large chance of interpreting “set a timer for 5 minutes” as “set a timer for 5” and ending up with utter nonsense.

A LLM that jointly handles language and audio might do much better.
You left out some context from my comment: if we call abortion murder, then we coerce the person by... etc.

FWIW, this is where we're at today, in the UK:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/12/uk/woman-jailed-abortion-pill...

> A British woman who used medication to induce an abortion after the United Kingdom’s legally allowed limit has been sentenced to prison for 28 months, the PA Media news agency reported.

And in the US:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/10/17/alabama-pre...

> Like Caswell, many of the women at the Etowah County Detention Center are detained under chemical endangerment of a child charges for alleged drug use during pregnancy, according to the lawsuit. Alabama passed the statute in 2006 to target people who put children at risk by converting their homes into methamphetamine labs, The Post previously reported. But the law has been increasingly applied to cases of fetal endangerment — a byproduct of Alabama’s 2018 personhood constitutional amendment that ensures “the protection of the rights of the unborn child.”

and https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/alabama-case-over-m...

> [O]fficials in Shelby County, Alabama, more than seven years ago brought and later dismissed chemical endangerment charges against a woman who [...] wasn't pregnant, AL.com reported in June 2015. And, in 2019, an Alabama grand jury indicted a woman who lost her unborn baby when she was shot, after declining to charge the shooter because it found she had fired in self-defense.

We're close, if not already there. It's a really bad time to be pregnant in some states.
Target has the best self checkouts I've ever used. 95% of the time I have no issues at all. Occasionally I might have to use the hand scanner on something if the barcode is faded, very rarely I might have to type in a code manually.
yes exactly, my Jewish wife has been supporting her Gazan refugee friends marching in the streets here in NZ against Israel's killing of tens of thousands
Yeah, I think the least controversial takeaway is that you can afford to have a large protein shake immediately after workout. I personally don't think you need to. But this study and some others indicate that muscle responds best to protein consumption when it's in some post-exercise state (but it's unclear if that state is 30 minutes or 3 hours or longer etc). I'd say it's more important to focus on your overall daily consumption rather than the timing of it
I had a conversation in around 1992 with someone missing a number of teeth who claimed that AIDS probably came from mutated molecules of latex rubber in "those damned condoms".
As you point out, it really depends on what is an error. Most of the companies I know of have a Holiday freeze are video games, casual ones, even. Changes are minor fixes and optimization—glitches that a player likely won’t notice, but you want to detect them early to avoid losing your ability to detect more.

Back-end tools are different, and I definitely see reasons other than bugs to not change business logic this month.
That’s possible. But taxation tends to be regressive, and the funds generated tend to be diverted for other purposes by downstream governments.
Best Party
Video streaming seems like a firehose.

Do you mean the battery could not handle the LLM?
It doesn't require government action. Insurance will see computers causing fewer accidents, requiring lower payouts and adjusting rates accordingly. Penalties for drunk drivers might become harsher because they now have an alternative. Ditto for old people. Commuters will like having their hands and eyes free. Robo taxis will also make a dent in the market. Over time the number of human-driven vehicles will decrease on its own and it'll make less sense to get a driving permit in the first place.
iMessage Key Verification does not require that you use 'iCloud for iMessage' (aka iCloud message syncing), it just requires that you're signed into iCloud and have iCloud Keychain enabled. Your critique is still valid but I think it's important to note that you're not required to store all your actual encrypted iMessage content in iCloud.
Yes it is possible https://github.com/CamHenlin/imessageclient

Or if you don't mind disabling SIP https://docs.mau.fi/bridges/go/imessage/mac-nosip/setup.html
I'm not sure what you mean by "conventional", certainly a plain resistive heater drawing 500W emits the same amount of energy as a computer drawing 500W. If you stretch the definition of efficiency, an infrared heater produces a similar subjective improvement to a room's temperature for less energy, as the infrared light skips heating the surrounding air and warms the subject directly. That is one downside to using computers as heaters - they produce almost no infrared, which can be less efficient for a given subjective experience.
Qarnot, a french startup is selling water heater, and space heater, and are used in some new building in France, and even swimming pools.
They also sell cloud services, and market themselves as low carbon compute.

I find the water heater a smart thing, since you also need hot water in summer.

https://qarnot.com/en
Did you even read the post?

Beeper's integration is open-source. Anyone can audit it. That means that Beeper requires less trust from its users than iMessage does! Nobody gets to audit iMessage.

> Perhaps Beeper has the best of intentions, but if you _allow_ Beeper you will need to allow everyone or then it gets even messier than it already is.

And if iMessage's protocol is E2E encrypted, then that is already guaranteed to be secure from MITM. The only new attack surface would be the endpoint, AKA the messaging app itself. The only way to guarantee coverage for that attack surface is to audit every messaging app, including iMessage. That is not the case, so there is no change in expectation.

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Your entire argument boils down to this: You trust Apple, and distrust everyone else: therefore, as an iMessage user, you should just throw E2E encryption out the window, and use unencrypted SMS instead!
>>Authors of scientific intellectual labour are currently unfairly exploited and should be compensated

Yup, that is very true.

And it's why a number of universities are creating patent offices to help their scientists commercialize their works (with the university getting a share; I'm not up to date on how fair the sharing is)
Extract URLs Relative and/or Absolute yy044
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Who's putting up all the $Trillions, to replace large "just a big resistor" electric heaters with fancy new computers?

Where's the market for all that extra computing power? The market for bitcoin is quite limited. And, at scale, the resources poured into manufacturing bitcoin mining rigs are not available to meet other human needs.

For industrial heating applications, where the output temperature of the heater can easily be 500 °C or higher, what sort of computer hardware would work?
I wouldn’t have a problem with ads if they weren’t so intrusive and obnoxious. Imagine trying to read a magazine that would jump itself to the page with the “Axe” ad, you go back to the page you were reading and 10 seconds later it jumps to the “Chevy colorado” ad. Or asking the bookkeeper for “a book of holiday recipes” and on you way home in every corner a guy knocks your car window to sell you “holiday food”.
Microcenter still does.
This rule is very wrong for the things like an iPhone which while expensive won’t be using a lot of electricity in its lifetime
Or Paid Interview Preparation.
I mostly agree.

Every time they add a new feature (none of those have ever been useful to me) I am afraid they're going to take it further from what I use it for. Which is only RSS feed reader.

To their credit - if you ignore all the little additions, the base functionality is remarkably identical over the last decade or so.
...what is this? The page has no About section or any explanation of what WinUAE is.
In this case it's a bit like legislating the weather.

Rights are just commitments by a government to ensure certain things do/don't happen within its area of reach. A right is only as good as a government's ability to enforce it.

In this case we aren't talking about life or property or physical things in a single jurisdiction. We are talking about information exchanged over a distributed network, that spans nearly every jurisdiction on Earth. Unless you are expecting a single world government, monitoring every network link, and a ban on encryption in the near future, it's unreasonable to expect the "rights" being discussed to materially impact you.

Maybe you work in advertising, and this does actually affect some number in a quarterly report.
I don’t think quicker is necessarily the motivation. But currently they’re likely using DoorDash which requires a human and a very large automobile so I think it’s an optimization of that. It may also be quicker since it can more effectively work in parallel

It seems to me like the delivery bots you may see around some places. Except those things are pretty slow and I feel like they’re always involved in accidents with automobiles.
> You're left with this kind of Sliding Doors situation where you are left attempting to compare two different life-strands

That comes down to the individual, which we cannot speak to generally, but someone considering going to college will certainly consider the options in front of them. The article's insistence that the entire cost of housing is considered a cost of college may not be a useful framework for someone doing that decision making.

While said jokingly, the bit about people going to college to learn how to determine if college is a good deal or not contains quite a lot of truth. The, typically young, people choosing whether or go to college or not generally don't have the life experience and knowledge to make an informed decision, relying on things like this article to help guide them.

I am inclined to agree with your reasoning, and touched on that lightly in the first comment. But, as mentioned then, the data suggests that most people near live where colleges are also located anyway. An individual may have otherwise lived in Podunk, Flyoversas, but if we have to establish a general case, then it seems people generally live in the same place either way. Thus, given the broad strokes at play, is it useful to call housing a college cost?
If he's actually "crazy", then would you want to work with him?
Now all they need to do is figure a way out to run Mixtral 8x7B in 8GB VRAM or less...
That's my personal hunch, too. Not so much for making "intelligence" ala Hal 9000, but for coordination / planning / structuring of what was acquired using probabilistic methods.

For, like, actual practical applications ... rather than pretending to be a person.

Had a person associated with a VC basically tell me that the VC community would fund nothing to do with symbolic, though. Not the current trend sauce.
To date, Mozilla refuses to let me donate to directly fund Firefox.

I can donate to Mozilla, but then they'll take my money and pursue whatever their current distraction of the month is. I can pay for Pocket, but then I'm paying for Pocket, which I don't need or want. I can't just give them money and say "I really, really want this money to go directly to Firefox, not to another side project".

Until they offer that as an option, they cannot claim to have tried everything.
It's not a new idea but I would love to see Apple implement a way to serve eg. a fake, empty contact list for an app that refuses to enable a feature unless you allow contact list permissions.
Excerpts from Dr. Claudine Gay's Work
The same rhetorical question still applies for hobbyist YT channels, IMO. Especially since many of them lock the more useful content behind subscription walls.
> > QuestDB organizes data sorted by time, so relying on insertion order may help to avoid redundant sorting if there is an ORDER BY clause with the timestamp column.

> If data is already sorted and you have an 'order by' then just use the data directly – bingo, instant merge join, no hash table needed.

I reckon keeping data on heap in insertion order isn't that useful for joins because hash table is used for lookups while iterating the other table (so the main table determines output order).
Where it could help is e.g. storing results of GROUP BY.
For query such as:

SELECT timestamp, key, sum(value)
from data
GROUP BY timestamp, key
order by timestamp

if data table stores data ordered by timestamp and hash table maintains insertion order then sorting is not required after aggregating all rows because iterating heap produces the right order.
The iOS Contact APIs shouldn't allow modifying this.

You can also try exporting the contact to a vCard .vcf file using the Share Contact button. I believe the iMessage key verification info won't be included. (But as you noted the most important thing is that it can't be modified)
As an autistic person, this is fucking terrifying. Someday I might have something to say and people are going to say "oh poor thing, he doesn't understand" and my life is going to disappear. Fascist bullshit.

Reminds me of 300 Million Random Assholes Voting on How You Die[1]

- [1]: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/r-foxtale-300-millio...
This. I see talent, with issues. Release em with conditions, a job, handlers and some incentive to move us forward technically instead of wasting this incredible talent.
So a heater I have in the house should be a subsidized equipment that does some unknown computation for a third party using electricity provided by me, or what is the idea here? Also, a lot, if not most of the new datacenters utilise the waste heat.
I'd say it would be simple to talk type these using windows 11's redux of voice typing. Pretty damn accurate and easy to modify/variate text/options. I use it all the time to make tech/engineering blog posts, faster and more organic than typing, typically, and it learns your technoacronyms. Combined with voice access, it makes it trivial to fully operate your computer (well, at least, browse the web, email, and media apps) from across the room.
For anyone who hasn't tried the updated version, highly suggest hitting windowskey+h and giving it a shot.
Because Apple fundamentally doesn't believe you own the device so the question makes no sense to them. They already own it why would they need to ask you?
Even light and sound become heat eventually.
> What about for those who do own an Apple device and thus paid the "tax" to use iMessage, but want/need to use it on unapproved devices out of convenience?

You'd probably be told no, that you can only access it via Apple's devices. Your options there are to access it via approved devices or use a different service. You cannot arbitrarily bypass requirements to use it how you want to use it and expect Apple to just organizationally shrug their shoulders.

> The argument would be very different if Apple merely restricted the service to Apple IDs associated to a valid Apple device purchase, but that's not what they're doing.

That's correct. They only want their hardware and software on all ends of this traffic. That is not inherently unreasonable or anti-competitive and is likely spelled out in the terms of service.

> Would you also apply that argument to Microsoft Office files? Microsoft would sure love it if it would be forbidden to create/edit such files in anything but Microsoft software. Would you also want LibreOffice/OpenOffice/Apple's very own Pages/Numbers/Keynote to not be able to read such files?

I think it would be a bad decision on the part of Microsoft to attempt that, as the file formats are already supported by other software and artificially restricting them to only Microsoft apps would only serve to drive users to Libre/Open office, but ultimately having proprietary file formats that are crypto-graphically secured is also not without precedence and also not inherently anti-competitive. At my current employer we sell specialized software for maintaining machinery, and our files are locked right down because that's how we make our money: the ability to open, save, and utilize our files is our entire business model so you're damn right it's secured. That's not anti-competitive either: if you don't like how we do our business, you are free to use a competitor's product. What you're not free to do is crack open our software and use it anyway.

Edit: I'm being rate limited:

> This is closer to a Telcom/Basic Utility law issue

No, it isn't, because iMessage is not the only way to text on an iPhone. It degrades gracefully into full compliance with SMS/MMS protocols to allow it to text Androids, Blackberries, or flip phones.

> and is the default way to text message on this "basic utility" platform

No it is not, SMS/MMS is. If your iPhone is in a particularly bad data area, it will also SMS other iPhones absent it's ability to contact the iMessage service.

> Interoperability should be a given

IT IS.
Personal agency and justice are not provided by cars. To that point, how much agency do you feel you have in standstill bumper to bumper traffic. How much justice do you feel sitting in traffic, focused on the bumper stickers in front of you versus other actually productive activities while the bus or train are in motion.

Cars != Liberty

They never were. They have always been rapidly depreciating assets that are useful for one-off destinations and horrible externalities with regard to city planning.
I've used 'private API' exactly how you did and some pedant told me it wasn't a real term so I empathize
Yes, cetirizine and fluticasone are a good long-term treatment for allergies.

Direct decongestants like pseudoephedrine are of limited use because you quickly develop a tolerance and they become ineffective. With corticosteroid nasal sprays, they work best after consistent use over several days and keep working more or less forever.
Protected from what, end-to-end encryption?
My sample size of one agrees with this. Costco has also been decently good
TIL, thanks! :)
>It’s called calling 911 and calling CPS, or going to your nearest healthcare place.

Who is suppose to do this exactly? If you're raised in an abusive household, it is not entirely likely you are aware you can do these things, or even if you are there is alot of fear and psychological manipulation to overcome in situations of abuse. With no outside party to intervene, it is extremely difficult for abuse to be overcome.

This is why, for example in California (and other states that have this law), if a there is a domestic dispute call, it is mandatory by law that the police separate the people involved for at least 24, even if the victim does not press charges at that time. This gives room for a victim to stand up for themselves once the threat has been removed. Not perfect by any means, but this has saved countless lives and improved countless others.

With children, an even more vulnerable population, removing them out of public school with no recourse for checking in with that child in a safe setting, you will exacerbate child abuse further than it already exists. I think the trade off of home school being that there is child safety checks routinely built in over the school age of the child, would be something parents could weigh as a trade off.
Honestly I trust Mozilla more than Google or Microsoft. Not that corporations should be trusted. It's more of a "less bad" situation.
There was a company in the Netherlands, can't seem to find the name right now, that rented out GPU clusters as central heaters, while using the GPUs to mine crypto. I believe they went backrupt during the whole crypto crash and energy crisis.
Exposing the Fake Science Behind Color Blind Glasses [video]
This is part two of a documentation about EnChroma and other companies that manufacture glasses that supposedly fix color blindness.
I think the idea that it's "fighting radicalism" has always been a ploy. Take a real moment to look at it and it's flawed on almost every level. I believe it's a candy coated "virtue" shell they wrap around their hatred for white people and white culture.

The color wars have been going on for at least 100 years in the US. Just look at the testimony of Manning Johnson. The communists of the 1920s realized that race was the weakest point in the American social fabric and bent a large quantity of resources on that point (and probably still do). If they figured that out then others have too.

EDIT: Spelling
Yes I agree with you about Japan. But the reason it was made private is because it was financially failing, as is China’s hsr today.

But I don’t agree with you on your other point. Look at the first link I offered. We have our first commercial high speed rail project going online in the US and they are already breaking ground on the second — LA to Vegas.

We also have a long history of successful private transit systems.

As has been written on hacker news before:

> The public transit system used to be privately owned and operated. Then the cities took over and kicked out the private sector. Now we have terrible public transit.

> Even the subways in NYC were built and operated by private companies (there were two, and they competed).

Truth is we need both.
Exactly. Not only do I know all my first cousins very well, but I also occasionally meet up with 2nd cousins and once a blue moon will even catch up with or run into third cousins.
Agreed. As someone who could not use the web without an ad blocker, I wouldn't even be opposed to a `X-Blocks-Ads: true` request header or something, to just shut down the hue and cry between the two parties. Let's all be honest, then see where it gets us.
What's stopping people from creating these hobbyists sites now? Or you from using them?
Ah, but you shouldn't be using a plain resistive heater in most circumstances. Heat pumps are much more efficient.