skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't 1 a point for their "skeptic" persona?

If babies learn much more from much less, isn't that evidence that the LLM approach isn't as efficient as whatever approach humans implement biologically, so it's likely LLM processes won't "scale to ago"?

For video data, that's not how LLMs work(or any NNs for that matter). You have to train them on what you want them to look at, so if you want them to predict the next token of text given an input array, you need to train it on the input arrays and output tokens.

You can extract the data in the form you need from the video content, but presumably that's already been done for the most part, since video transcripts are likely included in the training data for gpt.
> the company violated the Clean Air Act by installing devices to defeat emissions controls on hundreds of thousands of engines
you can also just screenshot the QR code they give you to register your TOTP authenticator, and share it with the other maintainers.

sites implementing 2fa don't make it easy to share the keys (because they shouldn't, that's bad!) but a shared totp key is better than no key.
The same difference as there is between a baker liable for flour content and you being liable for flour content when sharing some home made cookies with your co-workers.
Man growing up in the suburbs sounds like heaven compared to this. Pouring your cereal and roaches come out? Thats a scene from a nightmare or horror film.

Growing up in the midwestern suburbs in the 80s we saw them occasionally, but nothing like what was described here.
Reading this thread is like thinking about breathing, now I'm seeing them all again.
Just run regular salt for a few seconds in a blender. I'm not joking, I prefer using powdered salt when seasoning sliced tomatoes and the like, and it does make a difference in perception vs. dose.
The Nexus 6 (2014) can still run a version of android with security patches: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/shamu/

Google no longer offers security patches directly, but since you control the phone sufficiently to install your own OS, the community can come together and keep security updates flowing. You could do it yourself if you wanted.

Apple devices make this sort of community maintainership effectively impossible.

I know this means practically nothing since only nerds can actually install a third-party ROM, so for the general populace only the "default" security patch window matters, but for the hacker news crowd it seems like it might be a meaningful difference.
Hikikomori is just a word that’s specific to Japan. We certainly have the same thing here in the USA, we just treat the people differently.
> Technology improves
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> mainly because it was so difficult to read later

But it wasn't, it was just so easy to write badly early.
Neither Apple nor Google have a vested interest in providing a good experience with SMS/MMS/RCS. Google leadership failed to create a popular messaging platform so now they're trying to compete with FUD.

For instance, tapbacks (from Android users even) come through as foo liked bar on Google Voice. You gotta conclude that it's part of the plan.
I own a Neato Robotics Botvac Connected, and with Neato shutting down, my robots cloud-dependent functions will be useless(remote start, iphone app etc) Unfortunately it’s incompatible with Valetudo.

The Chinese $Mi bots I’ve come across lack the suction power I loved about the Neato. I’m in search of a no-nonsense replacement. Any solid suggestions? Dyson one seems nice but way to expensive.
That makes it even less work. Running ffmpeg is just video encoding, I don't think a 0.5fps video would be a huge issue.

Lots of people work plugged in most of the time. I don't see why one would want to gatekeep to keep them from using it.
I don't. Personally I can taste the metallic taste. But then again, so can I after using baking powder. Maybe I'm more sensitive to it?
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Ridiculous. This is such an odd generalization, but I can only assume it's coming from a self satisfied "cat person."

Have you done enough polling out on the street to determine the sole reason for people owning dogs?

Anecdotally the reason that I own a dog rather than a cat is because I prefer a playmate that I can physically roughhouse and wrestle with. Try tackling your 10 pound cat and see what you get.

My 80 pound half husky half great Pyrenees has zero issues with going out on a 5 mile run with me every morning too - she's like a drooling portable gym membership.
Yes, the famously compartmentalized Apple, whose roadmap regularly leaks out to the press years (cars, AirTags, Vision Pro) and months in advance (leaks about every iPhone), absolutely a great target for subterfuge.
Thing is the fundamental laws of physics give us a good idea as to the capabilities of the NRO given a certain launch platform. Like how when scientists in the late 70s were figuring out the best telescope they could launch they ended up with almost the exact specs of the Keyhole spy satellites, a spare of which became Hubble.
Have you tried using the Accessibility API instead of (or alongside) taking screenshots? It wont work with all apps but you can fall back to OCR when it doesn’t and best of all you can monitor the “DOM” for changes.
We're training on text because that's what we're making the model do.

It's a fact of neural networks that to train them supervised you need the training data in the expected input for(vector of n thousand preceding tokens for LLMs) with the expected output(the next token for LLMs). "Training them on video" would mean converting the video to a format we can train the llm with, then training the LLM with that info.

This would probably be a 1 OOM increase at maximum, if the video transcripts aren't already a part of the training data for gpt.
i record every command in .zsh_history (like everybody else does by default, but mine is configured to not have a size limit)

i often do things like

history | rg ..

it helps when you roughly know what you want to find, but want to check some detail you forgot
Kapersky denies it, but has never offered any proof.

All other Russian cybersecurity firms work directly with the Kremlin, hard to think that they got an exception.
myhdl is python based but I don't think it's been developed anymore.
This reminded me of a solar project at a US airport [0]. They placed solar panels to make a covered parking lot. I think it was part of a larger plan to use panels for cover and/or over some of the vast spaces that the airport covers

"Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS) and Austin Energy celebrate the completion of a new solar panel array constructed on the AUS campus that will produce 1.8 megawatts of locally-generated, renewable energy.
...
With 6,642 solar panels spanning across a distance that is equal size to two football fields, the array on the top floor of the airport’s Blue Garage is the largest on-site renewable energy installation on the AUS campus. The panels offer shaded parking for Blue Garage customers and will generate enough solar energy to power up to 160 homes per year."

[0] https://www.austintexas.gov/news/austin-bergstrom-internatio...
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Last year you said they couldn't even meet enough demand for the grid. Now it is 30 minutes to an hour. Next year it will be hours.

How does it feel when the Overton windows moves while nuclear is stuck in the past?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
Isn't it safer to have control mechanisms that don't involve taking some drug ourselves?
New York City to Lisbon is 5,400 kilometers. So no, 2,800 km is not even far enough to cross the Atlantic let alone the Pacific.

That submarine also does not use batteries for energy storage, it uses hydrogen gas (almost certainly produced via steam reformation).
There is some hope for individual developers in EP amended version https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2014_2019/plmrep/COM... article 10c:
> Developers contributing individually to free and open-source projects should not be subject to obligations pursuant to this Regulation.

Actually it’s an improved version. Hopefully it will make it through consolidation with EC version.
Years ago i argued about the danger of pdfs with another account and was told not to be a paranoid nutjob.

Told you so.

edit: The fact that this obvious statement gets upvoted above the apple backdoor on 22:40 of the talk also says alot.

edit1: https://imgur.com/a/82JV7I9
I'm sorry, WHAT? I need to pay extra to have my Roomba clean all the rooms?
s/Chinese/any/
One thing you didn't include: Opex, a solar farm is pretty low maintenance and requires zero fuel. A NPP is the opposite.
Nice. BlueSpec (Haskell based) was open sourced few years ago. I wonder how it compares with BlueSpec.
It’s an issue of expectations. If Apple advertises security support then it’s fraudulent to not deliver it; on the other hand, if they advertise an EOL date, then I’d agree there’s no reasonable expectation of security updates. But what they actually do is neither, they communicate very little, supporting some past iOS versions fully and others to degrees that only they know, resulting in them profiting off a reputation for backporting security updates while not actually binding themselves to deliver it, or, often, doing so.

Like the battery issue, I feel the whole issue is communication. Apple needs to communicate when they EOL OS versions. You don’t otherwise know it, partly because EOL OS’s, including this phone’s, still get security updates, just not all of them.
But if they don't include free/OSS projects, then commercial companies sponsoring FLOSS is an obvious way to launder liability, is it not?
Isn't the JS exfiltration part trivial?

The attack assumes that the victim is visiting an attacker-controlled web server.

If the attacker can put secret data in the DOM within the victim's browser, the attacker can also add JS on the same page that POSTs the DOM contents to the server once they're populated with secrets.
Works on Screen
Outperforming on the SAT(a test that the model was trained on) doesn't seem like a marker of intelligence as much as it is of recall.
No, almost all of our ammonia is produced via the Haber process which emits carbon dioxide. Less than a tenth of one percent of our hydrogen is produced via green hydrogen:

> As of 2021, green hydrogen accounted for less than 0.04% of total hydrogen production. Its cost relative to hydrogen derived from fossil fuels is the main reason green hydrogen is in less demand. For example, hydrogen produced by electrolysis powered by solar power was about 25 times more expensive than that derived from hydrocarbons in 2018.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_hydrogen
We're not just beginning to see it, it's already happened. It was enabled by digitized information, then amplified by the networking of the internet. The value of fresh information today is worth the price of a Google refresh, which for most people is effectively nothing. AI doesn't change that equation, and I'd argue it's overall impact on journalism will be less harmful than an ad-optimized economy or even the mere existence of YouTube.

Quality journalism hasn't had a meaningful source of funding for a while, now. If AI does end up replacing honest-to-goodness investigative reporting, it'll be for the same reason the internet replaced the newspaper.
How do we know they won’t patch it in like an iOS 15.8.1 update?

Even iOS 12 had a security update in 2023 still.
> Free Software, Perens explains, is now 50 years old and the first announcement of Open Source occurred 30 years ago.

That is what one may fairly call an "Alternate Fact". The term "Open Source" is well-documented to have been coined in early 1998 (not quite 26 years ago).
Their capacity factors are getting ever lower and at the same time they added more renewables than the growth for the electricity grid.

In other words, their CO2 emissions are set for structural decline simply by the amount of renewables being built. China is way ahead of the west.

https://theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/13/chinas-carbon-e...
Lives of the Great Composers by Harold Schoenberg

The merry adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

The Magicians Book #1 by Lev Grossman

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
I could see how someone could twist that to "gene therapy" but it's certainly not how I learned biology. Genes are the master copy from which working copies are made for production purposes.
A New Olympics Event: Algorithmic Video Surveillance
This piece has false balance painted all over it.
> I wonder if they use home-brew on mac

The author specifically recommends against that and instead recommends downloading an installer from python.org.
A company in your own country is subject to at least some responsibility for misuse, mishandling, leaking etc your private data. Chinese companies just funnel everything they have to CCP for whatever mining they want to do.
> "Telling people to stop bathing in electricity at night when that what keeps them alive is bullshit."

I never said anything of the sort. You're taking a really bad-faith and extreme straw-man of what I said, and I refuse to participate.
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I said we mist roll it out at scale, didn't I? The tech is there, and it works, now we have to build it.

You know, like Musk did with EVs and charging networks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/26/world/americas/mexico-bee...
When I talk to people that use copilot to improve their coding workflow, what I often hear is that copilot can replace boilerplate but not any business logic specific to the problem being solved.

It sounds like you have a different experience(copilot is useful for business logic). Do you have maybe any examples of what you mean by "any coding problems"?

Is it similar to what I've heard previously(copilot can replace boilerplate) or have LLMs actually solved business problems for you in code?
Many people skip Nagoya on their typical “visit Japan” trip and the trains there can be underwhelming compared to Tokyo/Osaka, so while I agree with you, it sounds like a case of OP not deviating from the “blessed path”.

And great, now I want red miso.
> It's very unfortunate to see such anarco-capitalist FUD being voted as the preferred option, on such a low turnout.

Posted Dec 27, 2023 19:32 UTC (Wed) by bluca (subscriber, #118303)

Can someone explain to me what in the statement from Debian is "anarco-capitalist FUD"? I find it quite reasonable overall.
LTP: Take pictures of the where you've stored your luggage/bags, "with" surroundings.
That way you'll have a much easier time finding it. Especially in larger stations around Japan. Saved my ass in Shinjuku this year.
I own two Roombas and have never heard of this.
Good catch. Just like how they always give us miles per accident in situations users feel comfortable using autopilot vs all other vehicles' all-situation miles, I'm sure it's a very principled approach like (10/years so far) * maintenance cost so far
It's normal in many very cold places to entirely switch off your heating overnight.

You heat your home up during the day and evening, and as you retire for the night it's switched off. With sufficient insulation and warm bedding you don't need active heating overnight.

So it's absolutely compatible with an electric supply that's heavily biased towards the daytime.
I'm using [1].

Page 15:

> In order not to hamper innovation or research, free and open-source software developed or supplied outside the course of a commercial activity should not be covered by this Regulation. This is in particular the case for software, including its source code and modified versions, that is openly shared and freely accessible, usable, modifiable and redistributable. In the context of software, a commercial activity might be characterized not only by charging a price for a product, but also by charging a price for technical support services, by providing a software platform through which the manufacturer monetises other services, or by the use of personal data for reasons other than exclusively for improving the security, compatibility or interoperability of the software.

This sounds sane-ish, but it the key is that it says Open Source Software is not exempted if it is part of commercial activity.

So what is commercial activity?

Page 34:

> 'making available on the market' means any supply of a product with digital elements for distribution or use on the Union market in the course of a commercial activity, whether in return for payment or free of charge

That "free of charge" connected with "commercial activity" is what has people up in arms.

Does it include free stuff like Debian? Does it include donation-based FOSS like Zig?

These are the things that worry people.

[1]: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/resource.html?uri=cellar:864f472b-...
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> Myspace is a favela. You've ever been to a Brazilian favela? It basically, politically, represents the structure of Myspace. You've got this remote, distant, old-school Brazilian tyrant. Anti-democratic, wicked mogul, pays no attention to you, supposedly owns the whole show, but the whole shebang is going south in a hurry.

It's been out-competed by some other economy, there's nothing happening there. You have no civil rights in Myspace. You can't go anywhere in Myspace, you can't organize in Myspace, you can't make money in Myspace.

You can have a hut in Myspace. And you live in the hut until they pull the plug. That's a favela. It's made of instructables. A favela is an emergent structure, it's made out of corrugated tin and breeze blocks.

Every slogan you have here, practically every slogan fits perfectly in a favela. "Action is cheaper than control." That's a favela slogan. It's cheaper to just build the hut and move into it than it is to try to sue you to leave, or get anything done.

"Just fucking do it." That's a favela slogan. "So fix it." That's a favela slogan. "Always in beta." Of course a favela is always in beta. You can't insure it, you can't get title to it, you can't raise kids in it. There's no inspection of the water, the heating, the electricity. It's a slum!

You built it yourself, with play-labor, but politically it's a slum.

— Bruce Sterling, 2009
Are you part of the team that build the site?
Or just the attacks by the Houthi in the Red Sea the past month.

Imagine one target being nuclear powered.
Sadly it looks like only the clients, and not the server, are open source. I’m a happy paying customer but would love a self-hosting option!
This one isn’t as bad as long as you know that many Oedo transfers are a pain due to just how far underground it is. Oedo in Shinjuku should, once you finally make your way up, be near enough signs indicating where Odakyu is.
The same could be said of other companies, especially for non-residents of the USA. In either case, they have no business making maps of my own home, especially when I can't even access those maps myself to see what's going on with my roomba! /etc
Not a planet!
For those unaware: CTRL+R in terminal will also change your prompt to search your command history. After typing, CTRL+R again to cycle through matches.
They do communicate it in every major release, including which devices are supported. Many major vendors release security updates for EOL devices when doing so would greatly increase the security posture of those devices and comes at little to no cost to the vendor. Notably Cisco, Microsoft, Apple, and Samsung come to mind.

Is the implication that once a device is EOL that a vendor should never release an update for that device again?
This is also what I was wondering. The demo is showing recording a web-browser, and I'm wondering if that is all it is doing. If so, wouldn't that mean creating a browser plug-in would make this possible on any platform?

I also don't understand the chatGPT component, and what it is trying to tell him. Though I'm sure if you just threw the URL and the screenshot to chatGPT, you could ask it questions about that source.

I'm not sure how useful this is tbh, or how I would use it. I'm not saying it isn't useful, just that I'm not sure how I would use it, or why it is useful.
Roombas tend to be better at cleaning carpets and rugs. They're also designed for service- it's really easy to clear jams and untangle hair, and they last many years. Many of the competitors at lower price points are essentially disposable devices.

One of their models is the only decent vacuum that can automatically avoid pet faeces.
I stay away from such devices and if i did buy them i’d rate them accordingly for missing “offline features”. Mine is “offline” but indeed doesnt do self emptying or persistent mapping. Some people feel the urge to shop anything new without considering the implications, but there are alternatives out there.
There's a bit more DIY than I'm ready for from an OS perspective I guess. I'm pretty happy living in the Linux terminal, but configuring every little thing is beyond me at present absent a large amount of effort.
I wasn't aware of this either (if it's not a joke)... if so, it would be right up there with HP printers refusing to scan if you don't buy ink.
No offense but you sound somewhat clueless and need to get some advisors who are aligned with your interests, not hard nosed hard money investors. Money is still abundant, at 100% growth 1.2mm revenue, should be no problem to raise $5 at $30 mil, which could include cashing some out or just start paying yourself a real salary.

I’d look outside the UK if this is what you’re hearing from UK investors.
Easy fix: corporations can't hold IP. Only people can.

There. Fix't.
Here is my favorite.

"Only supported robots are supported

While this may sound incredibly dumb, it unfortunately needs saying nonetheless.

Only supported robots are supported. Unsupported robots are not supported.

If you have an unsupported robot, it is not supported. There is no support for it because it is not supported."
Interesting…is it severe? Is it some hereditary condition?
And for every other install, all the other sw they install on the mac? I never understand this exceptionalism. It's not a well prosecuted case frankly.

So why install on debian via apt?
For English speakers intimidated by the introduction, the actual talk is in English.
I'm on the same boat. My neato is already a bit old (needs new battery and I had to replace a broken belt) but I've been procastinating in finding a replacement as there's just so many options, most of which suck.
The Tsutaya building that closed for renovations…? I don’t believe that Starbucks is currently an option due to that.

Hachiko is a small enough area that’s pretty much proven to work and is a location that any confused tourist can get pointed to easily enough - and signs inside Shibuya station will literally label it.
Always a bigger fish that can drag things in court to their advantage
Also might simply let them talk and record it. Someone could later make a transcript.
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When the punishment for the thing is effectively 0, you dont understand why people are more likely to do the thing?

If speeding tickets were reduced to 0, do you think more or less or exactly the same amount of people would speed?
I don't have specific questions, but I'd love to hear whatever stories they're most interested in sharing.
I believe our industry needs regulations and liability, but the CRA could be dangerous. (See my comment at [1].)

There is a better way [2], but I don't know how we would convince politicians that there is a better way.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38788919

[2]: https://gavinhoward.com/2023/11/how-to-fund-foss-save-it-fro...
If the story I link below is real, synthetic propane could become the standard for energy storage. Extremely efficient production from electricity and direct fuel cells convert it back even more efficiently. Hank Hill would be so proud.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37218727