skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A temporary network disruption that affected AT&T customers in the U.S. Thursday was caused by a software update, the company said.

>AT&T told ABC News in a statement ABC News that the outage was not a cyberattack but caused by "the application and execution of an incorrect process used as we were expanding our network."

https://abcnews.go.com/US/att-outage-impacting-us-customers-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39477187
Because I don't necessarily think that local privacy law is all that great in the digital age, nor is our ability to ensure that we're complying with it, especially when third parties are involved.

People were clearly concerned about it, because the nature of its services weren't all that clear to the end user. Students protested, it was investigated and found that no PII information to taken, great no further action required.

My point is that the situation was clearly cause for concern because we have a lack of trust in these technologies and those who use them.

Case in point from the article "the embedded cameras inside Cadillac Fairview’s digital information kiosks used facial recognition technology to record over five million images of shoppers at malls without their customers’ knowledge or consent."
Sorry just updated!
It would but we have no means of doing this at the moment.
Not based on the fundamentals. Tesla maintains a high profit margin and doesn’t carry immense debt loads like the traditional manufacturers. Additionally Tesla has some degree of self-driving success priced in. Traditional auto also returns most profit as dividends and the stocks do not grow.
> I don't think we currently know of any practical way to change the wavelength and frequency of electromagnetic waves (within the same medium), and even if there was, it would likely take so much energy that it would never be efficient to spend the energy this way.

What? Yes we do. It's called fluorescence.

If you find a color range not being used effectively, it's easy to drop the frequency down to a better one.
providing the seed would have allowed it to be shared
For properties, not for methods.
How does immutable work in regard to databases? As in „we need to add a column“?
My graph says it's about the same against USD.
Doesn't handle escaped quotes, and the time complexity of that regex is very bad.
> No one doing dev in a dev environment should have such trivial access to prod

It’s the new and hip ‘cloud’! Probably using planetscale or something like that, which (last I checked, maybe it changed but wasn’t on), doesn’t even have ip protections outside the mysql user settings (while bad, would’ve protected them).

> Are there still good reasons for a migration to drop all tables?

We haven’t found any.
yep. gasps of genetic algos from the '90s still alive?
Why do you think it's a problem of foresight and not simple motivation? Perhaps none of the parties cares about the availability of a book that doesn't make enough money to stay in print. Perhaps having the book become unavailable for some time is perceived as a benefit to the rights holder, allowing them to do a re-launch.
Creative doesn't mean to consequently manipulate output to match a certain ideology.
> it's not possible at this point.

I think cheap and ubiquitous internet access has changed the game here significantly and it seems far easier to bring new products and technologies into the merchant space than it ever has been before.

> Visa/MC can straight up ban you from processing payments without rhyme or reason while they hide behind KYC/AML law

Yes, but if you had a dozen other providers to turn to, this may not be an issue, and may force the established players to have a more transparent policy.

> The government can't hide behind these laws.

I would consider the "No Fly List" as a terrifying example of where this naivete inevitably ends.
Twice I chat with someone who worked exclusively with customers no one else wants. One just grinds them down into a normal project, the other transparently charges what is reasonable for the unreasonable. $5000 for the first chat 24/7, for that money he explains how it is normally done, what it costs and what it costs to meet the insane requirements. If they chose normality he doesn't want the job.
Sure, these are simple fix.

They don't address the real issues though: (1) the use of facial recognition (2) without users consenting to it (3) and the resell of the data.
In case you are unaware, it's considered poor etiquette to share links to login-walled social networks, and something like Discord that forces you to join a chatroom with unknown implications (it may trigger a message drawing attention to you, it may require account verification, it may require manual action from a moderator, etc.) just to access some information, all that on top of requiring an account to view anything, is far worse. You can easily share information through one of the countless Pastebin clones out there.
Came here to say this: I try to stay away from Google's products and have been using phind and perplexity for the last couple of months. I have to say I am impressed with what you guys are doing and keep up the good work
No, that's socialist. We should give them more money because they few actually pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps. They're simply better than we are in every way.
Okay but what about the reply to that form?
Who is your current customer base? Why don't you go after more of them?
Given how much the cost difference typically is between India and the U.S., doing it in the U.S. at only a 50% premium is pretty impressive IMO. Wages alone are so much higher here that I would've expected a larger price tag.
"There should be a way to donate a website to the Internet Archive so that they run an online archive on it, basically"

Can't you?

I thought everyone with an account could upload. If it'd stay, is another question and they'd definitely not archive against the expressed will of copyright holder, but you could give it a try.
I don't expect to attain it, which is why I remarked on it as a goal. I've discovered that a lot can be done to eliminate the need for some forms of documentation. Also a lot can be done with the language to make it more expressive, and thus eliminating the need to document something.

For example, having the parameter to a function declared `const` means the function cannot alter it, and this is checked by the compiler. It won't be necessary to mention that in the function documentation.

P.S. This doesn't work in C and C++, despite them having a `const` type qualifier. This is because the `const` is not transitive, and can be legitimately cast away. Therefore, it's useless as a guarantee. D's `const` is transitive, and although you can cast it away in @system code, you're on your own with that.
But in actual world will probably make a killing
Thanks for this name, I'd never heard of it. Do you have other recommendations for buy once but buy well home appliances?

I mean washing machines / dishwashers / dryers / fridges etc
I know the HN guidelines say not to comment that someone hasn't read the article, but the comments section can be a little useless when literally all of the top comments I see are from posters who appear not to have read the article.

In summary (and, in fairness, these technical details are pretty far down the article):

> The machines are owned by MARS and the manufacturer is Invenda.

> MARS did not respond to requests for comment from CTV.

> Invenda also did not respond to CTV’s requests for comment but told Stanley in an email “the demographic detection software integrated into the smart vending machine operates entirely locally.”

> “It does not engage in storage, communication, or transmission of any imagery or personally identifiable information,” it continued.

> According to Invenda’s website, the Smart Vending Machines can detect the presence of a person, their estimated age and gender. The website said the “software conducts local processing of digital image maps derived from the USB optical sensor in real-time, without storing such data on permanent memory mediums or transmitting it over the Internet to the Cloud.”
I'm happy to see they dropped phone verification via SMS. I was critical about it a few weeks ago because 1) it's a dumb thing to do in 2024 and 2) it didn't actually work for me (they were trying to be too clever with German phone numbers and I couldn't get past their broken validation). I just signed up without that nonsense and it worked.

Thank you! Great to see companies taking feedback seriously.
You don't pay for features. You pay for support.
What, do you think they will be insulted? Why would they?
It's called "language model" for a reason, the AI is modeled after existing human language corpus.

Maybe there's "plagiarism" for today's version, but given time, the AI could learn from real world itself with multimodal capabilities and eclipse human knowledge in some point.
Yes it makes sense a bit. Many popular convents operate on 3x3 kernels. But the number of channel increases per layer. This, coupled with the fact that the receptive field increases per layer and allows convnets to essentially see the whole image relatively early in model's depth (esp. coupled with pooling operations which increase the receptive field rapidly), makes this intuition questionable. Transformers on the other hand, operate on attention which allows them to weight each patch dynamically, but it's clear to me that this allows them to attend to all parts of the image in a way different from convnets.
Fluorescence is pretty easy and cheap, we use it all the time. Yellow fluorescent material is added to blue LEDs to make white LEDs; blue fluorescent material is added to paper, clothing, and laundry detergent to make whites appear brighter under UV light.

Shifting frequency the other direction is much harder; some materials exist that can double the frequency of light (known as second harmonic generation), but it's not as cheap as fluorescence. They are used in green laser pointers to turn infrared light into green light.
I hate that with time there is just going to be more and more covert non-consentual facial recognition everywhere. It should be outlawed, but obviously that does not align with the interests of the powerful so it'll never happen.
Sorta. YouTube is kinda anti-monetization of your content unless you get 1000 subscribers, which is kinda hard if you don’t do consistent topic or are entertaining.

If you’re a grouchy mechanic and do boring videos of exactly how to do brakes on every car, that’s incredibly useful, but not subscribeable (unless your grouchiness becomes a meme).

I feel bad for the one guy that did 1 perfect video on how to fix&overhaul my garage door opener. But he won’t see a cent even as YouTube puts ads on it anyway and takes 100%.

Meanwhile on blogs etc with Adsense, you could monetize immediately. That’s how i started out and figured out what worked. Went from $2/month, to 20 to 200 to 2000 for a while. Lots of random articles. Didn’t care to become a “platform” (new users that visit and never come back are the best ad-clickers).
Worked at a place that put your last four of your ssn for the vending machine. I really hated that.
The RoundTripper throws me off if anything. RetryRequest, RetryOnFailure, anything could be more descriptive.
> They are quickly becoming the obvious choice if you are used to excellent tooling from other ecosystems.

There is unfortunately a lot to unpack in this statement, even if its correct.
JuiceFS relies on the object store to provide integrity for data. Besides that, JuiceFS stores the checksum of each object as tags in S3, and verifies that when downloading the objects.

Inside the metadata service, it uses merkle tree (hash of hash) to verify the integrity of whole namespace (including id of data blocks) between RAFT replicas. Once we store the hash (4 bytes) of each objects into metadata, it should provide the integrity of the whole namespace.
What kind of exaggeration is that?

Things are getting more expensive slightly over the years and that is nothing disastrous unless your life was already quite disastrous and made it even worse or you're purely an importer or rely on natural resources to see weak yen ruin your business.

Otherwise, it's mostly life as usual.
It does vary by bank, but:

> The money is not in your account until the dispute process finishes.

That's not necessarily always the case.

I use a debit card for almost everything. I've been doing it this way for quite a long time now.

Both times I've filed a dispute over debit card transactions, my bank immediately put the disputed amount back into my account while they investigated the dispute.

It was inconvenient to deal with (as many things in life can be), but it was not particularly problematic.
Find someone to champion your work. Also, if you aren't already, start praising others' work in the hopes that they will reciprocate.
That bit about the end about his watch reminding him that his daily steps weren't meeting previous highs was a real cold shower after a great story of exploration and endurance.
Exactly.

I don't know how they can get there. But if they could somehow manage to restore trust they wouldn't need to approach the weirdest/craziest part of the internet to learn that their image generation was awful.
What percentage of Google search results contain plagiarism?
It isn't "fair" when it is a misrepresentation of what the user asks for.
At this point, blog posts like these just look like "rage bait" for web developers.. What's the point of it? What's the alternative?

The biggest reason why this topic is a topic, is due to the browser developer tools letting anyone glance at these details easily. If this wasn't a low hanging fruit blog post, it would also try to figure out if this is isolated to web development or can we see this across the board (hint: look at how big games have become, is it only textures though?).
I'm not ML practitioner, so idk, but could we get generative tool that operates on higher syntatic level (e.g. AST) instead of interpreting code as just plain text? I feel it's so dumb that something like copilot generates code that is syntatically invalid, that feels like low bar for any code generation tool to pass?
India eases space sector FDI norms; 100% in making satellite components
> Those pre paid credit cards come with their own substantial fees, and usually are without rewards or purchase protections.

Having looked over a few the fees aren't any different than what you'd expect at a commercial bank like Wells Fargo. Many do come with rewards, often tied to the network of stores that issues them. Purchase protections aren't universal on standard cards.

> I’m not entirely sure what you’re getting at?

That debit cards aren't inherently safer than credit cards and this is reflected in the scope of available products.
It doesn’t appear to be using the sound from the video, but elsewhere in the report for Gemini 1.5 pro it mentions it can handle sound directly as an input, without first transcribing it to text (including a chart that makes the point it’s much more accurate than transcribing text with whisper and then querying it using GPT-4).

But I don’t think it went into detail about how exactly that works, and I’m not sure if the API/front end has a good way to handle that.
Are you sure? I used to see adverts for jobs in their Amsterdam office. Going on their careers page, they currently are looking for SREs in Amsterdam, Dublin, and Berlin.
It's all on groups.io
Even if you view it that way, it is a very useful tape recorder.
None considering it inherently cites the source.
With the added expense of increased complexity cf something like Zim, I find that MediaWiki runs pretty well in a Docker container and is quite easy to edit on mobile.
Manufacturing domestically doesn't mean it's not influenced.

Much food and natural resources are imported, not to mention anything dollar pegged like smartphones are simply getting more expensive. Seriously, stuffs like iPhone and GPU feel stupidly expensive but when you check the price in dollars, they look acceptable.
A.I will be the end of us. And what is the application use? To piss people off who want to talk to fellow humans? No thanks. This is just another CEO “gotta have it” it was in forbes! Executives have no place in security or making these careless choices.
This is a great insight. In the past we called it fish-boning an idea, looking at every possible angle based on data AND other factors. Data is not the same as knowledge and knowledge isn't the same as wisdom.
> because it's useful and cool stuff even in 2024?

Yes, absolutely!
Or you could just call it “Natural Neural Network data integration”
Agreed, not to mention phone numbers can easily be used by entities to ID anyone's account which has a chilling effect on freedom of expression.
I just got this PM from Reddit about their IPO, offering me shares early
Apparently certain moderators get DSP access to the Reddit stock before the IPO.
> What percentage of the comprehensive causal chain do you attribute to foreign propaganda versus it simply being various domestic phenomena, and upon what do you base your calculations?

I am no social scientist.

I am just an observer.

I observe society getting worse in certain ways, better in others.

The main observation is probably that Russia has been caugth funding both BLM groups and anti BLM groups.
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WTF‽ no fucking way. I really wanted to hear about unusual photosynthesis in grain but it's a goddamn wordsquat software cutebag! I'm seething.
Many people, especially in Japan don't realize not investing and simply saving means they're actually investing in their own country long term, which for Japan, doesn't look like a smart strategy at this point.
Would be very interested in self-hosting as an option.
But is it copyright infringement? This isn't academia, so that's the only test that matters.
> Copyleaks is an AI-based text analysis company that began selling plagiarism-detection tools to businesses and schools long before ChatGPT's arrival.

This is an advertorial from yet another garbage company that just says all text is plagiarized.
This does seem like the antithesis of useful, productive engineering work.
Japan has low inflation, like most developed countries.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FPCPITOTLZGJPN
I honestly don't understand this downer attitude.

AI is going to make it possible for anyone to make games, movies, programs. It'll automate all the mundane stuff we don't like to do, and it'll let any one of us reach higher than we ever could alone before.

I'm done with churning butter. I'm ready for the flying cars and jet packs.
See SEPA payments in EU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area

Or UPI in India: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface

So to answer your question: with law on your side. You limit price gouging, and mandate interoperability with a cheaper system.
And what does any of that have to do with finding the right services or products for the right customers?

Does a customer care if you shave off 2% of the final cost or do they care about having world-class customer support?

Does a customer care if a product has a higher conversion rates or if it is the product they were looking for in the first place?

Does a customer care more about how long payment processing takes or do they care that it takes their local mobile payment app?

The only way to know is to talk to customers. Without doing so you’re just coloring a different variety of button.
I couldn't find the actual methodology.

The copyleaks.com press statement itself is also very sparse on what was actually measured.

https://copyleaks.com/about-us/media/copyleaks-research-find...

Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place?

Though even if we do get their report, looking at the statement and the site in general, it seems these folks are selling a product here.
I mean, sure. I use it as an alternative to, or alongside, a Google search.
I scraped a sample of their posts ten years ago and ran a regression on user activity by ID. They have zero significant growth in user base other than mobile users posting more as AC. There was a small core of older active 5-6 digit UIDs doing the bulk of the posting and that was shrinking toward zero around now. Slashdot will die in the near future even if Netcraft can't confirm.
What kind of haircut do you have?!
> OpenAI spokesperson [...] "We have measures in place to limit inadvertent memorization, and our terms of use prohibit the intentional use of our models to regurgitate content."

If you demonstrate a model obviously violating copyright, not only does that sound like something you did (not the model), but the demonstration also violates the ToS?
It might be better to keep it low-profile. Go to a superior with the story of "told ya so".
Pornhub will be run in incognito mode

It’s not '80s anymore, nobody cares about your porn. I have bookmarks on the bookmarks bar right next to electronics/grocery stores and HN. And if you’re not logged in, how would PH and others know your preferences?
Not surprised at all that JIRA is 50 MB, but still... What the fuck
An adjacent problem is how to know that you've really prevented issues/others from getting stuck with whatever you were working on. No system is perfect and engineering is also an art of knowing when to skip which corners. If nobody sees value in your preventive work then maybe there isn't any?
Indeed all text exists if you make the samples small enough. Any sentence you can find somewhere, two sentences less, etc.

Their detection system is AI, so it might be hallucinating as well?
Yeah and so the phrase "African American" is a typical example of the ignorance of Americans thinking they're the only ones in the world.
This would have been formidable if only it weren't a year late. The height of transition from X/Twitter is over.
It’s already possible for anyone to make games, movies, programs.

The problem fundamentally is attention is limited thus all creative endeavors end up having a power law distribution. AI won’t solve that.
And packaged in a way that allows for both JIT and AOT workflows.
> despite winning the business of over 1,000 organizations, we were unfortunately unable to achieve venture-scale growth.

VC strikes again!
plastic casing is not yet a solved problem it seems
> Germany is doing just fine

Perhaps do a little research than believe whatever you want to believe?

Just searching for "german economy" would yield the world is saying the opposite.
Gavin McInness? Founder of the Proud Boys, Gavin McInness?
"A new report from plagiarism detector Copyleaks"... so a plagiarism detection firm says plagiarism is rampant. This is not news, it's a press release reformatted and branded to look like news.
Obtaining citations is necessary no matter what tool you use in an academic setting though.
Other problem on similar spectrum, when you have a good performance and your boss notice you, their expectations can increase and increase until you unable to deliver, then suddenly you're bad.
Someone writes the migration, commits it, it passes the build and unit test stages of the pipeline, then the application as currently running passes all function and integration tests with (and this is important) both the prior and the revised schema. Your commit is tagged as release ready! Not long after, the automation tooling confidently executes the now-tested migration under machine control during the next deploy, everyone goes home happy with your shiny new published_at column, and no-one has directly touched prod.

Two days later the CTO sends everyone a stroppy email about "column bloat that should've been a table", ssh's into the personal instance that they've been keeping alive† since before you had funding and learned to launch servers as immutable black boxes, and whilst trying to prove a point by rolling it back manually, drops all tables by mistake when a cat treads on the keyboard

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† excuse: "it's for reporting"
To let us know we are not alone with our disdain. Too many JS enthusiasts paper over this insanity. The remnant lives on.

"But JS is the biggest developer ecosystem in the world!"