skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Hey Google, add <x> to the shopping list"... was very useful... Then one day Google decided to disable that integration. Now the only shopping list you can add to is one Google provides

If I recall correctly, "add to my list" originally went to shoppinglist.google.com. They rolled it into Keep[1] ("note to self," tags, sharing).

It works well. However...

In 2016, I figured "tell me showtimes for $MOVIE in $CITY" should work. It still doesn't work. It may never work, because "robot butler with ads" is no one's idea of the future. (Maybe Jeff.)

A fire-and-forget voice action like "add to list" should still work(?). For conversations[2], we can pray Gemini is less infuriating.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
[2] https://developers.google.com/assistant/ca-sunset
So this would be kind of like hypnotic suggestion but for LLMs.
Vanguard Restricts Customer Access to Bitcoin ETFs
I've done some work in this space and there are pros and cons. BLE gets very complicated quickly. The mesh idea itself is nice, since there's no pairing / setup time - your device can be mostly asleep, and it simply powers up, sends a few bytes quickly, and powers down - that's a common industrial sensing use case.

However there are broader issues that are not adequately addressed - onboarding, key management, credential revocation and key rotation and so on.

I've also done some work earlier on 802.15.4 based mesh networks, there are standards for access control, payload encryption, frame integrity and sequential freshness, but delivering complete working solutions still becomes a bespoke offering that needs a fair amount of work to get right.

To see a broad adoption of these mesh standards we need to address the broader engineering, integration, deployment and operational issues.
This is true of games, but not other applications. You need photorealism to have immersive video calls -- as if you are meeting in person. Here is a tech demo by Google; see how users respond to the realism:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q13CishCKXY

So we do need more immersive technology; just maybe not for games.
Where are these figures from?

Older projects were subsidised much more but around half the current wind capacity has been built from 2016 with far less subsidy.
Humans have. Or maybe we’ve always been fully willing and capable of scamming anything of value out of anyone and everyone possible.

Either way, it’s humanity that’s broken, not just the capitalist paradise we created.
Uh why are you doing this
You are encouraged to read deeper about the end of WWII.

From an official US atomic historian, a survey of the breadth of opinion on the use of the atomic weapons, from just after until more recently: https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2013/03/08/the-decision-to-u...

There are many entries there on many aspects of atomic weapons and a wealth of declassified contemporary material.

As you can see you're largely repeating one position of a broad field as if it were gospel and there were no other positions and no evolution of the debate.

Many of your points are those that came into being after the use of the bomb, back fitted proto Cold War era justifications.

There was relatively little thought put into using the weapons at the time other than a sense of urgency to field test two distinct designs resulting from the most expensive weapons development program in histrory that didn't produce anything useful until after the Germans surrended.

Hiroshimo & Nagasaki were to be bombed regardless, they were way down the punch list and followed on from 72 other Japanese cities destroyed via firebombing and conventional high explosives.

They were selected not for their importance (they were much further down the last than mid 70's) but because they were relatively untouched and made for good test sites for "just the atomic bomb damage".
So YouTube should be shut down the first time a copyrighted work is uploaded to it?
Software has to be maintained. Nobody wants to do maintenance of their own works — it doesn’t look like a new accomplishment in a performance cycle. Nobody wants to inherit maintenance work. Google’s perf cycle directly causes its graveyard issues.
BTW the idea was you paste the article into ChatGPT and ask it to explain the text in laymans terms. Maybe that was the point which you misunderstood. Of course it won't know about papers that it hasn't been trained on.
Wow you did buy one of everything. So you definitely have the authority to say

> Everything on Amazon is shady knock-off garbage.

I have had the opposite experience. Everything I have bought over the past 20 years has been legit, except for one single thing.
Another example of a very successful commercial product is the P1x series of printers from Bambu Labs. The main chip is an ESP32.
But is it really a problem if the AI is transmitting the information in its own words? And even if that is considered illegal, doesn’t it significantly diminish said crime?
What were they used for? :)
Seller account seems gone too now.
What information sources do you use to stay up to date with developments in AI
I have been looking for blogs and news sites but nothing seems to consistently post the way I would like. I am interested in both technical and ethical aspects of AI.
I am going to nit pick you a little bit but if you want a good reason to use Firefox, then here it is.

"built into Chrome" implies that Chrome is the only web browser.
The problem is people at large companies creating these AI models, wanting the freedom to copy artists’ works when using it, but these large companies also want to keep copyright protection intact, for their regular business activities. They want to eat the cake and have it too. And they are arguing for essentially eliminating copyright for their specific purpose and convenience, when copyright has virtually never been loosened for the public’s convenience, even when the exceptions the public asks for are often minor and laudable. If these companies were to argue that copyright should be eliminated because of this new technology, I might not object. But now that they come and ask… no, they pretend to already have, a copyright exception for their specific use, I will happily turn around and use their own copyright maximalist arguments against them.

(Copied from a comment of mine written over a year ago: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33582047>)
That it has some good qualities is why I still haven't put them in the trash. My point is they've let it rot all these years. And the potential for cool applications is huge.
Because you can't stop him!!
New generation of Sonoff products are mostly moving to ESP32. The older ones still available are ESP8266 or similar.
People generate all of the data going into the system and then the middle-men (OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Big Tech middle-man of the week) reap a disproportinate centralized benefit. That causes a bigger problem than the so-called rent-seeking behavior of copyright holders in this case, as this has the net effect of leveraging human creativity, etc. to devalue it and continue the erosion of the middle class.

Bad things happen when you let middlemen get the upper hand, like the American health care system, or big finance disconnected from the real economy. I'll vote against the middleman every time in favor of the original value creator, because society goes down the toliet when middlemen win.
Registers of the x86 CPU Architecture
Additionally, buying directly from the company used to be painful, who knows what's going on there? 20 years later, basic eCommerce is relatively well understood and someone that makes a product can easily have their own site that functions well.

Add a password manager and it's just a couple clicks, really no more work that amazon.

So for a huge amount of my stuff, I'll see if I can buy directly from the person/people that make it.
DMARC happened 9 years ago, so I don't see why that would be related. I attended two universities in the United States, and they are both still happily forwarding emails to me. They have both been using Google Workspace for the last decade or so. So, for what it's worth, it seems like it's just your school that is doing this. Perhaps their IT department just has particularly dumb leadership that is trying to cover their ass for something they don't understand. Or maybe they have budget cuts?
It’s an evolution of astroturfing. Fun? Profit? Psychosis? World domination?
> Though I think it's worth keeping in mind Elon's recent frustrations with Grok.

My assumption with Grok, and please correct me if I'm wrong, was that they tried to control it's alignment through the contextual model prompt it was given, rather than the corpus of data it was trained on or fine tuning.

As an aside, on a whim I went over to Gab the other day (the "free speech social network") to see if it still existed. Apparently they have created a large number of LLMs like BasedAI or something that are supposed to be like Grok, and, like Grok, they fail in their mission in equally hilarious ways. Users will ask BasedAI whether the Jews control the world, and it will say no, and then they get really mad.
FWIW, I've noticed now that both Walmart and Target online stores have their own version of third-party sellers. I don't know if they do the same as Amazon (combining inventory in fulfillment centers) but just something to be aware of.
FTA: "A final version of the design was released in 2021, and production is now underway."

It's a rendering that represents the file design. Train sets have long lead times.
> like Zorg or whatever

Ow, right in the AARP flyer.
How so? This thing is large and likely loud enough to be useless in any real warzone that we have nowadays.
Right, the entire point of the X-59 is to support enabling commercial supersonic flight over land.
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do…
Seems like a perfect opportunity to gin up some alumni donations

Become a dues paying member of the alumni society? Get a real mailbox at school.edu to keep your address
I remember (maybe its still like this!) there used to be a page you could go to and see all your alexa voice clips since forever. It's amazing amazon has gone so long not caring about privacy without backlash.

EDIT: Yep its still there! https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
The US oil sanctions were in 1941. At that point war was inevitable, the sanctions were a response to Japan's military machine rolling across British Commonwealth territories in the Pacific. The US wasn't formally aligned but was strategically aligned with the British and Commonwealth nations and the sanctions were a response to Japanese military aggression. The sanctions didn't start anything, they were only an action in the middle of a larger conflict, and it's a funny way to frame them as starting a war when they were a non-military response to Japanese military attacks.
Follow primary sources on X. AI/ML engineers, startup ecosystem, etc. Whatever your angle is, you'll get the info faster and without an intermediary filtering what you read.
Oh my. Brilliant scientist takes drugs to explore the nature of consciousness, and square reader squirms: "Incapacitation! Invalid!"
Longing, Rusted, Seventeen, Daybreak, Furnace, Nine, Benign, Homecoming, One, Freight car
How about passing the time by playing a little solitaire?
Well, considering I’ve drank my fair share of fernet at The Page, I’d say you’re probably correct! Maybe we both know Kevin? Dan? Yani? (sp?) Big Ben?

Anyways, say hello from me to whomever we know in common!
When chatting with Shopify’s AI support you can ask it to connect you to a human and it will.
Yep. So much double-speak and lying through the teeth here. The audacity to mention "we're investing in assistant" in an announcement about how they are decidedly de-investing is rich.
I have a job I like very much, but over time my two main areas grew so much (mostly due to external reasons), that it put me into a position where I need to do two full time jobs within the work hours/salary of one.

I already mentioned this to my superiors a year ago and they got me an assistant. But right after I got him, we got further rooms and another department that creates more work for me than I can support even with an assistant. I work in public service/university so I understand their hands are tied somewhat, but if it goes on like that I might just quit. And they will likely not find anybody who can (or wants to) do this combination of things for the salary it pays.
I disagree. Probably not much of their customer base cares, but I think lots of really smart researchers think a lot about these things. openAI doesn’t want them to turn elsewhere.
> Maybe so, but pretty much all cryptographic primitives have to be written in assembly anyway to achieve constant time operation.

This really oversimplifies the situation. Even at my most pessimistic, I believe just a very few, very small, parts need to be written in assembly language to maintain the "constant time" properties, and that's just until we can work together better with the Rust language team to eliminate these small gaps. Even before then, the Rust language team is doing a good job at independently improving and expanding the building blocks we need to get to entirely-safe (in the Rust `unsafe` sense) and high-performance crypto libraries in Rust.

> evidently faster than ring itself[1].

If you're running on an AVX-512 system, there is a notable performance gap, temporarily. This state will persist for a few months at most, most likely. It's inevitable that we (all the OpenSSL forks, and even including non-OpenSSL-forks like rust-crypto) all converge on more-or-less the same implementations and/or different implementations of the same optimizations.
Where Now for Nuclear Power?
Duplicate thread (not sure which should be the main one): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38974802
Things I think I think – Q4 2023
Anyone know how this compares to zipline's platform?
Are we using that definition of "world" that somehow excludes any other country outside the western alliance? Saudi Arabia and six other countries have more seawater desalination capacity than Israel.
Military drone from 1964

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_D-21
I'm curious what it is, but I guess you won't tell us. Can you share an example that would be similar?
One does not need to be a military strategy genius to comprehend the numbers. There is no point in arguing further on this topic. Your position is entirely divorced from reality and therefore might as well be entirely made up.
Either continue navel gazing or effect change by voting decels out of state and local government
It’s not better “in concept,” it’s worse. Not only is it a non-native API, it’s abandoning one aspect of even attempting to mimic being native in favor of “branding.”

If someone insists that an app on the Mac should look the same as on Windows they’re an idiot. If they say an app on the Mac should look the same as a web page on Windows or Linux they’re a malicious idiot.
Makes me wonder what will happen as new, more efficient methods of training are discovered. Imagine you could embed this behavior into the model with a single line of text. Creating a malicious model would be far easier, but it would also be much easier to prevent your dataset from becoming poisoned.

Publicly available fine tuning methods are a notoriously blunt instrument. It’s impressive Anthropic has such fine grained control over the model given the limitations.
I've seen a lot of things come from gtp4, none of them "profound."

Could you share something that you se and think "profound"?
Use native frameworks on each platform for which you’re building an application, with a cross-platform non-UI core.
Aside from the engines.
Amazon does verify and also actively tries to blocks bad sellers. Details of this are easily found online.
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That's explained in the correction at the bottom:

> A correction was made on Jan. 3, 2024: A picture with an earlier version of this review was published in error. The image should have shown Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle, not Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, the Duchess of Portland.
> the rich who are more worse off as a percentage

Care to back this claim with data? Not that I doubt it necessarily but I have the opposite impression. The rich tend to not be bound by country lines to get richer and I'm not sure how Brexit would suddenly make that happen.
Again, this is just a temporary situation, and a matter of burning down a list of small tasks. Not that the OpenSSL license issue is a big deal for most anyway. Feel free to help; see this issue filed by Josh Triplett: https://github.com/briansmith/ring/issues/1318#issuecomment-...
"If there is no banner, your Actions project is not a Conversational Action and won’t be affected."

Here, "conversational" means your voice command should prompt the app to ask you a question, driving a state machine. (Set a reminder. When do you want to be reminded?)

I haven't tried to use it, but the docs indicate CRUD-over-voice ("built-in intents") is unaffected.

https://developers.google.com/assistant/ca-sunset#what_will_...

https://developer.android.com/reference/app-actions/built-in...
I'm so glad that in 2024 everyone knows how fun D&D is. ;-)
Completely different type of drone with completely differing military applications.
I personally agree. Comment policing is worst and more irritating than the initial "bad" comment.
Zipline: 1.8kg/85km/95 km/h (Platform 1) or 3.6kg/16km/110 km/h (Platform 2) (speeds are cruise)

DJI: 30kg/16km or 40kg/8km, 70 km/h (max)
Almost a year ago, I made¹ the following prediction:

It looks like to me that many companies want to use the new generative tools, and many others want it not to impact their stake in the copyright system. I’m pretty sure they will both come to a compromise which will leave most users without any benefits, either from reduced copyrights or from availability of generative tools. It’s what would make both powerful parties satisfied (if not happy), and will impact the status quo the least.

Say, for instance, that they instituted a mostly mandatory licensing scheme, so that an individual artist had no choice but to allow use of their art as input when creating generative tools. People using art in this way have to pay a rather high licensing fee, but it is not paid to the artist, but to some sort of central copyright office. Huge copyright holders can also pay an exorbitantly high fee (to the same recipient) to opt out of licensing. Win-win-win; Existing copyright holders keep their existing copyrights, only large-ish actors can create new generative tools, new political positions and institutions are created with lots of money flowing in. Of course, artists then get screwed by being co-opted by generative tools which they can never afford to create themselves, and the general public get robbed both of the opportunity of using and creating new generative tools, and of any less restrictive copyright law.

1. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35191112>
The most obvious use case to me is virtual reality teleportation, shared spaces, etc.
> Rate of change was already climbing through the 80's along with the other age groups.

Wonder if this older spike follows the period when the industry started bottling softdrinks in plastic instead of glass.
> This thing is large and likely loud enough to be useless in any real warzone that we have nowadays

you realize we still use planes in combat right
Ah - this is a quite common error. They selected the duchess on the right when they should’ve passed the duchess on the left hand side.
You could even say that I was employing irony by calling his humorless comment “droll.” I don’t mean “you,” per se, because you find it hard to know if the author was using hyperbole or was conveying that this was, in fact, the most horrible experience of his life.

Do you know what “pedantic” means? And do you think maybe you’re being… that?
Maybe WinSetView [0] and the options [1] it provides might be of use to you? It was able to resolve the issues I was facing so hopefully it can work for you as well.

[0]: https://github.com/LesFerch/WinSetView

[1]: https://github.com/LesFerch/WinSetView/blob/main/README-more...
I didn't conflate those things, the article did. I pointed out that in my original comment. But I'm not actually sure what you're trying to say; it seems like you're agreeing with me.

As for legal considerations, it doesn't appear to matter that much.
I interpret the “most horrible experience in my life” as hyperbole, but I don’t know for sure. The OP did take the time to post a long-ish complaint after all.

This kind of routine friction ranks above breaking a shoelace, but just barely. We can all sympathize, I’m sure. No need for the public whinging.
The kmeans metric is exactly the metric you would want to optimize the performance of an algorithm like [bolt](https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.10283). In that and other discretization routines, the value of k is a parameter related to compression ratio, efficiency, and other metrics more predictable than some ethereal notion of how many clusters the data "naturally" has.
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Thanks for sharing. I 'd like to know what the (re)compute time might be when adding, say, another million documents using this pipeline. The cluster embedding approach in my view, while streamlined, still adds a (sometimes significant) timebump when high throughput is required.

I see some significant speedups can be achieved when discretising dimensions into buckets, and doing a simple frequency count of associated buckets -- leaving only highly related buckets per document. These 'signatures' can then be indexed LSH style and a graph construed from documents with similar hashes.

When the input set is sufficiently large, this graph contains 'natural' clusters, without any UMAP or k-means parameter tuning required. When implemented in BQ, I achieve sub minute performance for 5-10 million documents, from indexing to clustering.
I'm a bit surprised at the negativity here. I have used Firebase for 11 projects and have had no issues at all. I love that I can quickly and easily set up services that work well together.

For most projects I use the realtime database and authentication. The database is very fast and the realtime feature is essential for some of my projects. Authentication is free no matter how many monthly users I have.

I also use storage and hosting, where I get excellent performance.

All but one of my projects work within the free tier. The one project that sometimes exceeds the free tier is generally less than $1 per month. My projects are fairly small, but I know that for large projects, there might be more economical solutions somewhere else.

For me, I would highly recommend Firebase to other developers.
I find paying for a real search engine the only option now that there is one. Along with Orion being the only option for a zero telemetry browser makes it simple for me.

It’s a really nice internet these days but I can’t judge or compare the nuances since I never used gmail, chrome or Google
https://www.remoterocketship.com
> D&D is an extensive and beloved cultural tradition, and WotC is trying to engineer changes to it

I am sure many Tolkien purists do hate Peter Jackson and/or Amazon.

Personally I'm kind of happy whenever we get to visit Middle Earth.
Yes, thanks for the English lessons, and for draining what little humor one might find in the exchange.
Changedetection.io

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37348162
Was it guilt by association? Last time I used meetup you only joined the groups you were interested in, none of mine were political
German parent company investigating Business Insider over Oxman journalism
Who in their right mind would bring this kind of intrusive technology into their home, right into their most intimate space? I seriously don't get it. I mean what's wrong with keeping a pen & paper shopping list on your fridge?