skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not the AI lying about the date, it's about the people using the content.

One big problem is that Google also lies about dates when you do a 'before' search, so AI spam still shows up even if you filter it out.

Scraping a new dataset without contaminated content is impossible now. There's no authoritative source on the age of any given website. (You can try places like the Internet Archive, but most such archivers aren't interested in handing their data over to AI firms because of the bad PR.)

The only way to ensure you don't have AI content is to use a dataset created before ~2021-2022. This too is hard because all the big ones are illegal to posses as they contain CSAM.

The real answer is that AI developers played themselves. Humanity was creating exponentially more data each year, and by rushing these AI tools out the door, all that data is useless now. By the end of this year there'll be more new "AI-polluted" data on the web made after 2021 than the total amount of "clean" data made up to 2021.
My personal guess is that it is related to Apple's ability to use the Chinese supply chain which is no longer politically tenable.
You're just optimizing for a different outcome. You could still apply this thinking, just with "Zelda adjacency" as the primary metric.
> Snapchat - does it even exist anymore?

I can't say overall, but my children and their friends use snap as their first line of communication, with iMessage a close second.
>I'm not sure why it struck me so much

Perhaps a case of Thing, Japan.[0]

[0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/thing-japan
"Es war sehr schön, es hat mich sehr gefreut."
Hmm, I can’t select a time zone. Safari on iphone
It should be mentioned that "old" violins that are still used today have all been substantially rebuilt to accommodate later repertories. There is a lot of difference between an early Baroque violin and a late 19th century violin including the fingerboard and the type of strings, and only a few museum strads that have not been played have retained their original configuration. One benefit of the early music movement that took off in the second half of the 20th century was realising that the "old" and "original" instruments weren't actually that old or original after all, and new baroque violins had to be made from scratch to attempt to reproduce what they would have sounded back like in the 17th and 18th centuries.
> their recent sudden shift to proprietary is...

...the reason i do not wish them well :)
It's still interesting that self driving cars are framed as being something other than "AI".
Great point about disregarding our own bubbles. Here's a good example re:Snapchat. Slightly more than 5% of the world is on Snapchat daily. That number has been going up, almost without fail, quarter over quarter for 12 years.
Of course, but I'm not inside his head :)
Snapchat - does it even exist anymore?

It's the primary mode of group communication for my teenage daughter and everybody in her social circles. Second place is probably Discord, but that is heavily skewer towards people she knows via gaming.
ffmpeg is a lot more than just a wrapper on libraries. It can do a lot of filtering and rewiring of audio channels, video channels and subtitles.

Handbrake doesn't do any of that. You can't even drag a bunch of audio files on to handbrake because handbrake doesn't do audio, while ffmpeg is great for encoding audio.
missingstudio/gateway
I not sure why you think I'm trying to convince you that you should spend any of your money on something you don't want.
It was very obvious the Apple car project was never going to happen. So obvious that it never even felt real when I read the headlines. Apple is not a car company and Apple is not willing to transform itself into a car company.
That certainly is a guess.
Already in place.

FedNow provides instant, low cost fiat payments and transfers run by the 12 nodes of the Federal Reserve --- minus blockchain.

A privately controlled blockchain is really a duck out of water. If control is centralized (like with the Federal Reserve), blockchain becomes just another database --- a highly inefficient one.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/fednow_about.h...
The 10$ are for 1TB of OneDrive, Word and Excel are just free extras.
Imo it's unfortunate that python is the dominant tech of this domain. Typescript is better suited for the inference side of things (I know there a ts version of most things, most most companies are looking for python dev)
Building the Best PostgreSQL GUI: PopSQL Joins Timescale
Yup, I don't touch any Meta properties, avoid them like the plague that they are. If your page is on FaceBook/Insta, or you require login to FB Messenger for your sales/customer service chat, I just NOPE right outta there...

IDK if I've managed to avoid having a shadow profile created about me, but it seems worthwhile to starve it.

If anyone has any 'inside' info about FB's data harvesting and/or further clues on minimizing or foiling it, I'm all ears.
People have had walls and heating during winter, wood or coal for heat, going back 1000s of years.

And houses for shelter just as long.

Unless you think people lived without houses in the 1800s, and heat, it's modern medicine that's changed, dramatically, the outcome here.

Ans there are plenty of moderate climates that had no better life expectancy than colder ones.
We need a permanent solution for universal broadband access
I work in a school IT department. We have full Wi-Fi coverage of all our buildings. We definitely have filtering in place, both DNS and managed extensions on student Chromebooks. We use Cisco Meraki switches and APs for connectivity, with Cisco Umbrella for DNS filtering.

The Federal Government has programs like E-Rate that reimbursee districts for up to 90% of the cost of getting internet access for students, but like other commenters have said, paperwork. Unless you can get full support from the superintendent/board, bureaucracy will 100% be your biggest obstacle.
I actually just read this book a few months ago. There is a some weird stuff in the middle there, but the latter half of the book is really sweet and emotional, especially the very ending. It was one of the most interesting pieces of fiction I read in the past little while.
Non-commercial clauses violate Freedom 0, the freedom to run software for any purpose. It’s the single most foundational freedom. A non-commercial clause basically guarantees that a piece of software will not be used.

For that matter, why should e.g. Warren Buffet personally get to use non-commercial software personally for free, while the bakery down the street must pay for it? That doesn’t seem desirable.

I think the biggest issue is that the companies charging for open source are not turning around and funding everyone the rely on, just a few key projects. If they tried to distribute a little bit to everyone, I think that would go a long way.
> We've had that in France for years, and noone uses that as far as I can tell.

Which part of France are you in? Where I am, Paris suburbs, I see it used all the time in Carrefour.

There is a learning curve, which I think inhibits wider usage. I used it a couple of times, and every time I forgot to scan stuff, or forgot whether I scanned stuff, and had to go over the last scans to check.
Both E3 and E5 includes Windows Enterprise.
quite enterteining that majority of "I don't like X" articles are coming from people who can't use the tool because they're lazy to understand basics
My friends and I did DC to Pittsburgh every couple years when I lived in Pittsburgh and it's a great gateway trip to see if you like bike camping.

Not sure about your fitness level but if you can handle a 75 mile ride and have a three day weekend in the summer you can ride from Pittsburgh to Ohiopyle, camp at the state park, spend a day doing rafting, natural water slides, Fallingwater & Kentuck Knob, etc, and then come back on the third day. (And for folks who don't like sleeping on the ground there are hotels / B&Bs there too.)
> Is there a term for this where outputs are eventually fed back into training, at a ever increasing rate?

Consciousness
The First Item Sold on Amazon Was a Book on Artificial Intelligence
It's more enlightening to think about the proceeds of the funds. If we're taxing the stupid we must be collecting a fair bit of coin, where does the society direct that funding? Education, facilitating children's sports activities, reducing homelessness or allowing the people administering the lottery to buy luxury goods for themselves? The answer seems to depend on which lottery and which country. Some spend this money very wisely.
> [...] resident has sparked conversation online after he shared a perplexing discovery about his LG washing machine's seemingly voracious appetite for data on X

English is not my native tongue but I believe that sentence could be read like the washing machine is particularly interested in content on X.

Otherwise this is the perfect crime. Washing machines do use quite a bit of power. So why not try to mask farming bitcoins with power your own customers pay for?
We do tax corporations in America, at a rate which is in the middle of the pack worldwide.
Sure but now we're talking about a universal problem across languages, rather than a C-specific problem.
Second this Jitsi is unknown to me. Bluesky I only heard about because they did marketing push with limited spots to drive demand and it got good press coverage being an investment/board seat of Jack
Which only came into effect on March 1 2024, so people still have sub 1400 FIDE rankings from 2024.
I've personally analysed various Chinese CCTV firmware vendors and backdoors planted there were obvious, here's an example: https://github.com/zb3/tiandy-research, but a better example was XiongMai which actively tried to disguise the backdoor ("Ret" was normally used for replies in that protocol, but the backdoor op requires it set in the request, you can't explain this by incompetence)

Are vendors in the US or EU required to do crap like that while also being prohibited to admit it?
Of course services that collect the data "in the cloud" share that data with the government, but this is official and predictable.
> I’m with you on some liability for the conviction of innocent people, but that liability should also extend to juries.

You have to be careful here. Doing so can create perverse incentives that undermine justice. If a judge or a jury face such penalties, they will be inclined to reduce the penalty or feel compelled to find the defendant not guilty as a fearful precaution, even in cut and dry cases. And would you punish innocent jurors where unanimity is not required?
Embedding the Servo Web Engine in Qt
Huh, I didn't realize that Apple had mostly avoided it, but you're definitely right. In their defense, the other large tech companies just started trimming fat from everywhere it seems, where as this seems like a direct business decision to abandon an entire project. Still rough for those involved, but it feels less bad than the other mass layoffs to me.
Ah yes, it hit the boot (which was steel toe capped) but I believe where the laces are, the top of the guys foot basically (no anatomy expert, but from a quick search it looks like a ‘tarsal’).

Tragic really, he worked in a sharpening factory and spent his life doing this as a career, had many cuts and wounds over his years and a completely invisible injury took almost his entire leg.
> t's cruel and inhumane to forcibly remove someone's access to something they are personally and emotionally invested in.

Not always. And not in this case. It is not cruel and may be necessary.

> It's cruel and inhumane to force one's own view of a “good life” on someone who obviously disagrees.

Speaking about fallacies, this framing is clearly not what is going on in that situation. In either way, the kid is growing to be entirely unable to live without caregiver of a sort, so yes, it is duty of parents to intervene regardless of kids agreement.
LocalStack – a functional local AWS cloud stack
> maybe it would discourage some people who go into it hoping to make infinite money

That's totally fine by me, the point of copyright should be to advances the arts and science, not to help concentrate wealth.

> I wonder for how many people it is an issue secretly

I think quiet a few. See for example ElasticSearch and Amazon. If you want a truly open-source license then you have to accept that. Otherwise there's a whole spectrum of "source available" licenses, or something like CC BY-NC-SA.

Though that's another difference between works of art and source code. Releasing my book doesn't produce a maintenance burned on me, an open source project usually does.

> using Middle Earth in a commercial ad for a car

You don't even have to go as far as a car, see [0]. They didn't get sued, but it's safe to say that they would the moment they try selling it.

As for the other aspect of fanfic, I think the copyright's holders desires should be weighed less. I personally disliked many of the star wars movies, particularly the latest trilogy, and I'm not alone in this.

A) I know for a fact that better star wars movies would be possible if Disney did not hold a death grip around the IP by the simple fact that other good movies can be made, there's nothing intrinsic to star wars.

And B) just as copyright holders won't stand by if you try to do a fanfic that they don't like, I shouldn't have to be forced to stand by and watch them butcher (yet again) the stories that I grew up on AND be told that that's the only version available.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer
The hormone therapy eventually stops working, some of the prostate cancer cells will be able to continue to grow even with low levels of testosterone.

Google Gemnini says:
Not a cure: Hormone therapy is not a cure for prostate cancer, but it can significantly slow its growth and shrink tumors.

Often used in combination: Hormone therapy is frequently combined with other treatments like radiation therapy or chemotherapy.

Side effects: Hormone therapy can have side effects like hot flashes, fatigue, decreased libido, and bone density loss.

Your doctor will discuss these with you as you choose the best treatment plan.
Robots should take more inspiration from plants
Can’t say I blame them give how windows is going. The UI approach reminds me of a wall that has been repeatedly painted over but only partially and the entire thing is dragged down by the telemetry
I remember visiting a friend, while in high school (in the 1970s). He lived in a fairly exclusive area.

He showed me his electric guitar. It was unbranded, pretty plain, and beat up. Sort of a Gibson Les Paul-looking thing, made of some solid light wood. Maybe maple.

When he played it, it sounded amazing. I couldn't believe the sound came from that raggedy-ass-looking axe.

It was made by a family friend. A chap named Paul Reed Smith.
I have a similar mental model, but Teams the way we use it is more of a replacement of Slack than Zoom. It's a huge app in terms of features, and it covers both segments, so it's not really a clean divide there.
Wait, what? WhatsApp has “updates” like a news feed? I thought it was a group chat app?
What do you mean by wanting games not to access the kernel? You don't want them making system calls full stop?
Unexpected Phenomenon Detected in the Sky of an Alien World
Harmony is a bit of a loaded word in Chinese (nowadays, not sure how about it historically)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonious_Society

In the west you "promote hate" or "spread misinfo" or "are a Russian agent"; in China you "disturb the harmony". All ways to silence dissent if you ask me.
don't stop working on this!!
> This problem is being tackled by a small group of politicians who believe it is something that will benefit EVERYONE.

So the actual problem here is that you are living under a dictatorship. Sure, history has shown that doesn't tend to work out. I'm afraid in that case you can't pass the work off to the hired hands, though, you're going to have to get your own hands dirty.
We're not at saturation exactly, sales are growing but growth has slowed and competition is much stronger. It's entirely possible Tesla has peaked and won't recover but that's speculation. I'm still confident EVs will be all or nearly all cars on the road in the near future but it's going to be more like 20-25 years than 10.
It's noteworthy because it's Apple, and it's self driving cars. If this has been 600 employees let go from something else it may not have gotten so much attention. But this is Apple, the world's largest company and it's about its mythical car project.
Wasn't that even stated in one of the reports recently that the problem was not that they couldn't do it but the commercial viability of it and wether to could ever actually make money? A problem with how much it would cost.

I highly doubt the problem was, can Apple build a car? They have enough money that they could probably hire the people to do just about anything they wanted to try.

Not really sure how you simplify making a car enough to make it worth getting into the market at all in the first place.
Maybe someone needs a year to audit the history and find all the other backdoors. Who's going to work on it for a year for free or without being in on it, I don't know.
Because they’re different skill sets? The people test driving the cars aren’t hardware engineers.
Edit: I was wrong, 40M MAU is peanuts and shouldn't even be considered an app really.
No one would take the job first. Being a public servant is already pretty thankless and doesn’t pay very well. Second, if they did take the job, they wouldn’t do anything, since the consequences of being wrong are so high, why take the chance? Public opinion would then flip the other way, and they are either a wheat stalk flowing with the wind or they quit.
Facebook keeps adding crap to WhatsApp, and my friend group keeps ignoring it. Direct and group messages. That’s all. Nobody even uses the status feature they added a long time ago. There are four main-menu icons on the bottom, not counting “settings”, and we don’t use three of them.

If they ever try to push the other stuff at the expense of the text-messaging-replacement, I expect we’ll all migrate to something else.
But I guess they laid off not the "AI people" working on self-driving cars. They most probably laid off experts in the automotive domain (I don't know, mechanical engineers working on creating parts for the prototypes, for example).
I'm not sure how obvious it was or that it still won't happen in the future. Cars have been becoming more and more like a computing device.
I struggle to understand how the data gathered from appliances can be worth the cost of running the servers that collect that data.

Getting notifications in an app can be useful, but doesn't require going outside the local network.
According to everyone that has ever told me how to do powerpoint presentations, they need an intro slide that tells the audience what they are about to be told in the presentation they are about to be told, and a conclusion slide that tells the audience what they were told in the presentation they were told.
> I only keep a FB/Insta account to stop somebody else squatting/stealing my name.

There are probably thousands of people in the world with the same name as you.
You don’t know what kind of jobs got layed off. They could be very car specific and not useful for other product lines. I doubt they layed off 600 software engineers.
The opposite can be true as well. I’ve seen TF environments that were designed with so many layers of abstractions that unraveling a single piece of infra was an incredibly long endeavor.

Solving Imaginary Problems At Scale is a thing. Monolithic TF – or at least one per env – will take you extremely far, and is easy to immediately understand. When it comes time to break out of it, don’t go overboard.
It's a promising sign. Technologies stop being called AI when they actually work.
At pretty small scale. It seems unlikely that such a capital intensive business would make sense long term.
You're mixing server and client use cases. And you're looking at a gaussian distribution. And DOCSIS is a shared medium.

Most of the world doesn't even have 100M internet: https://www.speedtest.net/global-index

By the time your game can use even 1G per client, XDP won't even be helpful for 100G. (Which, depending on use case, it already isn't.)
Social media (d)evolved into soapbox bullhorn.

But so did traditional media.
IRC is not a website.

Neither is WhatApp, Discord, Slack and many of the other ones mentioned (yes you can interact with them via a website, but the same is true for IRC)
Google sues two crypto app makers over allegedly "pig butchering" scheme
I so relate to that out of body experience. My story is different though -- 10 years ago, I was driving along the SF-LA scenic route (I forget its name). I'd rarely driven in US at that time and was brand new to the country. Suddenly I felt like I knew the route. I'd seen these underpasses before, surely? It was so surreal. I could even predict some road feature that was going to show up next.

Turns out the game Roadrash that I played as a kid had that route :)
I wish Apple went back to being more secretive and closed off like before. I don’t want to hear about anything unless they have a completed product.
„Apple is not a phone company“, „Apple is not a watch company“,…
Self driving cars were supposed to be around the corner because AI was advancing so fast.

Instead of autonomous cars, we get generative AI out of this last rush of AI advances. Today, when people talk about "AI" as a startup they are talking about using this already existing technology.

Self-driving was always a speculation that the science would advance into engineering within a sm timeframe, which is always a risky bet. I was hugely skeptical, told everyone that would listen that I didn't believe for a second that Musk would ever deliver on self driving. But I'm far more bullish on AI, we actually do have something new here, it just takes a lot of skill, talent, and discovery to deploy it in useful ways.
I think you might be talking about GPTs with actions?

This implementation of function calling works differently from those.

OpenAI/Anthropic don't make any API calls themselves at all here. You call their chat APIs with a list of your own available functions, then they may reply to you saying "run function X yourself with these parameters, and once you've run that tell us what the result was".

This is useful for more than just tool usage - it can help with structured data extraction too, where you don't execute functions at all: https://til.simonwillison.net/gpt3/openai-python-functions-d...
Full Line Code Completion in JetBrains IDEs: All You Need to Know
Private trackers are a good examples of that. And Subreddits with karma rules. If your users have an attribute that is tied to credibility and status, and moderation can remove it, people will usually be civil.
google "Разрушки".
For a dystopian look at the housing market, just look at Canada or Australia. Inflation impacted just about every country. At least in America we have lots of land and diverse housing markets we can choose from.
Windows sends data to Microsoft and Microsoft shares the data with the government. This is official and mandated by the law.

But XiongMai plants backdoors in their CCTV firmware so that data is shared with anyone interested, all around the world. Of course it magically turns out, that cameras they supply for the government are not vulnerable. What a coincidence...