skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no idea what you are trying to say. The device works by running apps for Spotify, Uber etc. in a VM and logging you into it. They say it right on their homepage. If you don't trust it, sure don't buy it. That's your own decision, but doesn't make them any more right or wrong.
Kagi is sure interested in the role of AI in searching, but the fact is that their product works great, so why the negativity?
I don't think any fan of Teenage Engineering is no longer a fan because they were paid to design a product that flopped.
> With nobody paying attention to the car’s actions, the Tesla software ignored Jeffrey Nissen on his motorcycle and continued on at speed. The car rear-ended the two-wheeler, Nissen was flung from the bike, and his life ended pinned underneath the electric car, where he was still lodged when police arrived to the scene.

Personal anecdote: A couple decades ago, I was rear-ended. (No permanent injuries, though my car was totaled.) In addition to the red light that I was stopped at, my brake lights, and my bright red car - it was full daylight - the at-fault driver could have noticed the other 3 lanes of traffic stopped at that red light. But she did not, because (she said) her nose was too deep in the (large, paper) map that she was trying to read as she drove.

While I'm sure that "Tesla" gets the clicks, and I've a pretty low opinion of both Tesla's self-driving tech and how they represent it - the boring fact is that inattentive drivers have never needed any personal electronics, nor clever cars, nor any other cool or interesting "help" to cause horrible accidents.
Was there some study in the past that said otherwise? As thought it was common knowledge that diet is of course more important long term for having a healthy weight. Since you can eat well, and do no exercise and have your weight under control. If you eat terrible but workout "alot" that will work in the short term but working out a lot consistently forever is quite impractical.
Since killing != killed, your comment already shows that the title is misleading.
Gambaryan switched to working for Binance, a firm whose founder just plead guilty to criminal money laundering [1]. Why this person should be even a remote U.S. policy concern is beyond me.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-authorities-set-unveil...
The lawsuit hasn't been brought precisely because IBM fought tooth and nail to cut off access to the courts.

Not the sort of thing you do for the hell of it.
We are still early. Eventually you'll be able to change your race, gender, add reptile eyes, regrow limbs etc. Has to start somewhere. Need more data.
I would like it if they would actually respect the weird syntax consistently
Do you mean for AI to do the entire job of researching, creating, testing, manufacturing, and distributing a cure, or just for AI to be involved? And do you mean completely eradicating a disease, or just producing a cure for it? And do you mean an outright cure, or also a treatment or vaccine? If the latter in all cases, here's an example:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/26/1058743/i-was-th...

If you mean the former in any case, it'll probably be a while, if ever in our lifetimes.
Climate Queries, Asked and Answered
What NFT projects were they involved with?
Unless you are single, and even then you carry occasional passengers, many/most cars are used by multiple people. So people who buy cars are thinking not just about the primary driver but about all the other people who will drive/ride in the car too. Nobody buying a car actually wants in-dash 4k movies, but they think that their partner/kids will.
Actually they should’ve limited it to being a spatial computing productivity headset to enhance the productivity of actual professional Mac users, like 3D artists, music producers, programmers, etc. They could’ve severely reduced the size and weight of the headset, maybe even made it glasses form, if they simply anchored it, wirelessly even, to a nearby Mac.

From there they could’ve expanded the spatial capabilities over time and eventually create a consumer version. The Vision Pro is the Newton of mixed reality.
I'm saying it's shoddy, and scammy, and I can't believe anyone would lift a finger to defend this type of product, engineering, or actively training people to get phished. Hope that clarifies.
That is one of the main accusations against Israel among protesters. Do you see how people who believe Israel's actions are colonial in nature might not understand that they would be fired for continuing their long-supported stand against colonialism?
Wow that board looks like a mess.

Anyone remember Sega Channel? I was the only kid I knew that had it and very few people have even heard of it. It was so unreliable.

It's on my huge list of "things my parents acted like were super expensive but now that I'm a working adult know it wasn't" list.

Apparently it was a big part of improving cable signaling.

> The SEGA Channel delivered games to over 250,000 subscribers over regular coaxial cable. Games would download to the Genesis’ volatile RAM, meaning that they were erased from the system’s memory each time the console was powered off. No matter, though – games could be downloaded again in under a minute. It’s little wonder the service won Popular Science’s “Best of What’s New” award in 1994. The service continued until July 31, 1998, well into the next generation of consoles. Many cable operators had to clean their broadcast signal and equipment to ensure the SEGA Channel could be received, so the very fact that you’re enjoying broadband internet right now could well be thanks to SEGA.

https://www.ign.com/articles/2012/05/20/sega-a-soothsayer-of...
I highly doubt that. TE has a strong reputation and their involvement in another company's product outside of their normal business won't impact their sales regardless of whether or not R1 is a flop or a ruse.
This would be such an interesting write up comparing many styling/layout systems! Unfortunately I reckon not many people have experience with multiple styling languages, so not many people can create such a write-up.

I think flutter and XAML might be other interesting ones to look at
The minimum warranty for all products sold in the EU is two years. Beyond that, it depends on the country and the type of product. For example, in NL consumer warranty claims are based on "reasonable lifetime" expections of the product, based on guidelines from the manufacturing sector [0]. For your €2000 refrigerator you could reasonably claim warranty for 8 years after purchase.

[0] https://www.technieknederland.nl/stream/richtlijnenafschrijv... (PDF)
Can Ben Gomes not launch a google rival or join bing ? I am sure msft will welcome him with open arm like they did Sam Altman . VSs will fund him without a second thought too .
Implementing Object Expansion on REST APIs with Rails
Shitty results increase the number of queries, because the initial query fails to produce a desired link, and it increases the number of ad clicks because the ads are comparatively helpful sitting next to the steaming pile of crap that is the results.

I thought the author covered this well in the breakdown of the "Code Yellow" results in 2019, and what happened when the resulting update reversed optimizations that had cut down on SEO spam.
I've nothing to do with the leak itself, so can't help you there. But did check - both archives are identical, and contain a Node project that seems to match what is claimed. (Run it at your own risk.)

$ md5sum lam.zip
3a78b14e1379ac5c059dbbe5660fca8a lam.zip
That's wishful thinking not supported by empirical results.
Yes, and it's possible to turn off the AI / automated summary features if you don't like them as well.
Seems like using RAFT(https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ai-ai-platform-blog/r...) to generate the glossary+KGs for a given doc should give better results for cross-doc or intra doc answers instead of just relying on vDB chunks alone.
I’m pretty sure that’s mostly down to who your VPN is having you share IPs with. It’s hard to limit unwanted traffic while not impacting regular VPN users.

More annoying to me is getting captchas constantly just for running a recursive dns resolver. That’s a normal piece of internet infrastructure and is well-behaved.
It's nice to see the mainstream (non-techinical population) starting to understand what's going on with corporate surveillance, but this GM thing is really just one small example.

This is nothing in comparison to the scope of surveillance performed every moment by the "phone" app industry, as well as modern WWW technology.

It's ironic (in a deadly sort of way) that so many people are so willing to stake their lives on support of the 2nd ammendment (which brings very little practical benefit to anyone), while ocmpletely ignoring the massive violations of the 4th ammendment (which could bring bennifits to almost everyone).
> Is there some reason you do not adopt a more sophisticated approach?

Like what?

> you seem smart enough

Thank you.

> Presumably you can see the vast complexity that underlies these symbols

Yep. But symbols are the only tools available here, so I have no choice but to use them despite their limitations.

> Maybe that's the thing though: if one puts little effort in, discerning reality is easy

I think you underestimate the effort I've put in. I've already smacked you down once for failing to do your homework. Please don't make me do it again, I really take no joy in it.
I think this is somewhat misleading. Walking is one of the least strenuous forms of exercise. I could walk all day on a treadmill, no sweat (literally). When I was playing singles tennis almost every day, on the other hand, it was exhausting, I was in the best shape of my life, and I could eat as much as I wanted. Indeed I had to eat more, because my body demanded it. And elite athletes eat a ton of food, an obscene amount of food, but they also have the best bodies. Walking is fine for people who can't do anything else, such as the elderly, but otherwise it's simply not enough exercise.

In general, weight is not really a great measure. You can lose weight by losing muscle. I "measure" my own body by looking at it in a mirror.
As the creator of Japanese Complete I would like to mention on this article about Japanese that we're hard at work making a multiplayer version of our curriculum to add to the excitement of learning Japanese intuitively. I really appreciate discussions about the beauty of Japanese and its contextually-dependent vagueness, as it is a wholly new way of framing the world when the situation itself is a memetic moment of dynamism, where the ongoing vibrational nature of phenomena is highlighted constantly via active verb endings similar to how we use -"ing" in English. I must apologize (as would be custom in Japan) for the delay in offering our multiplayer version of our award-winning curriculum. I am looking forward to helping the world master Japanese, and get an insight into a new way of framing the world and our experience of it.
Talk about finding what you are looking for. What does that search even tell us? Of course Kagi is pursuing AI. Why is that bad? It’s a promising search technology.

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. Kagi’s vision involves organic growth and a pay-for-what-you-use users-are-the-customer Internet. They’re giving us a chance to pay for both a browser and search. Something this community has been asking for.
I fail to see how 2013 has anything to do with what the OP said. RH was acquired in 2019. Stock is up $50 since then.
This. People just pull random sticker prices from Ivies/Stanford/MIT type of schools, without realizing that almost no one attending those schools pays that much. They have amazing need-based financial aid programs. “I got accepted into Stanford/MIT/Ivies, but cannot afford to attend” isn’t really a thing.

Unless your family is extremely wealthy, you can only realistically spend that much by either going to a small expensive private school (aka one that doesn’t have Ivies-tier financial aid) or to a hyped public school out of state (e.g., UCs as a non-CA resident). Which is a mostly silly idea, but even then, you wont really be hitting $80k/year.

I remember that back in 2013, UCLA was roughly $32k/yr for an out-of-state student. Of course I ended up not going to UCLA and went to GT instead as an in-state student. In-state sticker price of tuition was roughly $10k/yr, but every single in-state student also had access to HOPE/Zell Miller scholarship based on GPA (3.0+ covers 90% of the tuition, 3.3+ covers 100% of the tuition). And that’s on top of federal financial aid. Even without the scholarships, $10k/year is not terrible, and is a far cry from $80k/yr. Out of state costs were roughly $22k/yr, and international costs were around $30k/yr.

I am really curious to see those $80k/yr schools that don’t offer Ivies-tier need-based financial aid. I would bet that the number of those schools in the US can be counted using just two hands at most. I, personally, am yet to find a single school like that. So if someone could list at least a few that are of any noteworthiness, it would be greatly appreciated.
Aramaic original New Testament theory
Oh man joyful.com! Are you kidding me? Teach me your ways
Recovering Garbled Bitcoin Addresses
> new proprieties

I'm guessing this was going to be "properties"? It kinda looks like "proprietary" instead, so let's double down on that - I propose "display: tetris;"
If you read the HackerNews thread then it was announced, it was widely claimed this was the next big thing. Very curious how so many got it wrong.
Why not "unable to express at all"?

Maybe you prefer the "languages are like Turing complete" argument?
You've heard of Russell's paradox and Godel's incompleteness, I am
sure. Wouldn't a concept that escaped our capacity, be by definition
unthinkable? Someone literally can't think of an example.

So maybe we should approach it a different way - is there any
possibility for the "existence" of a concept that could not be
successfully communicated at all, say between a human adult and a 5
year old child, or the the adult and an advanced alien being?

If concepts exist only in the mind, that are more than literal
depictions of physical reality, surely here must be conceits
thinkable in some systems but not in others. (I am probably just
replaying Douglas Hofstadter here)

The alternative is that every language is kinda "complete" and I could
spend three hours trying to explain what a Alpha-Centurion has one
word for.

Edit: sorry our discussion is getting down-voted for bizarre reasons.
Is there a kind of racist/anti-pluralist thing here on HN?
"Infrastructure", which includes z mainframes (called out by name) and I assume iSeries also (though not called out), is the smallest segment of IBM's revenue.

See page 17: https://www.ibm.com/annualreport/assets/downloads/IBM_Annual...
I don't use JS for masonry layout. I have a fallback from the current masonry CSS solution to a supported CSS solution.

The problem is ordering. The current CSS-only solutions work fine as long as the order is not important. (though you will still end up with weirdness at the bottoms of the columns IIRC)
Brute.Fail: Aggregate stats of 10 months of brute force attacks
it's not, but we're torturing an analogy here.
It's worth noting that the aforementioned list is the unified pronunciation list that was published in 1985 by the Ministry of Education. The reason why you see some words only having a single (unified) reading in that list is due to the necessity of having to unify them in the first place, although there are still quite a few words with multiple readings. Keep in mind that there was no official language of China until 1932. Without going into detail about how pronunciations evolved with the change of dynasties and how China actually has 300+ spoken languages, the need for a unified pronunciation stems from the fact that many people in China, historically and even today, do not speak standard Mandarin as their first language. In other words, prior to 1985 it was much more chaotic. If you want a more up-to-date comprehensive list of words with multiple readings (多音字) you can find it below (although this is not an official government list). I've linked directly to the common words of which there are 106 (although the page does not define what is considered "common").

https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%A4%9A%E9%9F%B3%E5%AD%97/108...
This reminds me of how Playdate owners make it very obvious they don't use the thing in the way they retroactively justify their purchase by commenting on quirkiness or aesthetics at the expense of functionality or usability. I guess I get it but there's cheaper plastic toys out there.
You get older, you lose the willpower and energy to fight the machine

They have enormous power, but they are now also up against vast armies of lawyers and executives and lobbyists who will whisper and whine in their ears all day

Do I, Larry Page, really want to deal with all of that with my failing health and depleting energy?
Martha Wells had a Patreon for a while before Murderbot Diaries blew up. If I have the story right, the short stories she published there are rolled up in a collected short stories book now.

My kid likes to remind me that Naomi Novik was one of the founders of a fanfic site called AO3.

A number of the books we call classics today started out in serialized form in magazines. Atwood, Capote, Christie, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Doyle, Dumas, Hemingway, Joyce, Sinclair, Verne, Wells, have all done serials that are now bound. And if memory serves Asimov and Clarke as well.

The medium may be different but the process is old.
Just to chime in, I started reading the article due to this comment, as I wanted to check the style of the writing, but the amount of in-your-face insistence to subscribe to yet another newsletter just put me off entirely.

There was a CTA right at the beginning (which appeared suddenly after 4-5 seconds of reading so I lost my place), then another one a few paragraphs later, then less than 3 seconds after that, a pop-up to subscribe!

At that point I was so annoyed I just scrolled to the end to see how many more of these distractions I would have to endure, and then I found _yet_ another one and ALSO a bottom bar?

What gives? Is this really useful anymore? do people that subscribe after being harassed like this actually care about your articles?

I try to ignore these as much as possible, but holy cow, I just want to read this one article and maybe later _if_ I find it interesting I might read a couple more and THEN actually subscribe.

I am really annoyed by the amount of distracting stuff these "blogs" put in front you as if they wanted you to avoid reading the material. What is wrong with these people?
To sales numbers, you're right that revenue skews it somewhat, but see [1] and [2]. Per 2022, print books added up 788 million sold, while e-books did did 191 million in 2020.

2020 was also a big jump up - in 2019 it was 170, after years of decline for e-book sales from a peak of 242 million in 2014. A large part of that is likely explained by the price gap narrowing, as publisher realised they were leaving money on the table.

> Anecdotally, with my two self-published books, ebook and PDFs make up a pretty large slice of the pie even though my books are known for prioritizing the print experience (careful layout, lots of illustrations, etc.).

This is true for almost all self-published books, because realistically your books are not going to be in many - if any - book stores. But most of the best-selling trad published books are. So for self-published authors, focusing on e-books is certainly the way that is most likely to drive actual sales. Sure, you can get some copies into local book stores, and encourage fans to request them elsewhere, but you need pretty decent numbers already to shift that balance without an established publisher behind you.

> The days of just having to write a great book and get in front of two people to be successful are dead and gone.

That's true, but somewhat less true for trad published authors where you at least has the shot at getting it into reasonable numbers of book stores. But of course the odds against getting through to a trad published have gotten far worse.

> There's a lot of stuff most people would rather not do, but unfortunately, sometimes the economic systems don't enable that.

That's true, but when it comes to writing the reality is most of us can't hope to live off it anyway, and that creates freedoms we don't otherwise have. E.g. I am not bothering trying to sell individual copies and do book signings or talk to book stores, because I don't need the sales bump it might bring, and so it's all about a balance between keeping it enjoyable and the fun of at least a little bit of recognition and feedback on occasion.

[1] https://wordsrated.com/book-sales-statistics/

[2] https://wordsrated.com/ebooks-sales-statistics/

(they don't cite sources, but a quick checks makes it quite clear the numbers come from Statista - some of it behind their paywall)
>Continuing with the above example, let's imagine I just downloaded a new podcast app on my phone (one that is also available in the automotive Play Store). The next day I have to go on a long drive and I want to listen to a podcast episode I downloaded on my phone. When I enter my car, I have to go to the Play Store, find the app, download it, log in, and then download the episode. When I use CarPlay, I only have to connect my phone.

Does the author have no experience with Android Auto? The same happens there, if the app is on my phone and it supports Android Auto then it will automatically be available in the car, along with all media on my phone. This isn't a CarPlay only functionalitiy, it's just how phone mirroring works on both platforms. Author seems to think there is an extra step involved on Android. Perhaps by "Play Store" they mean the car manufacturer's own app store?

Source: I use Android Auto constantly in my own vehicle and in the 15+ rental cars I have every year.
In my desire to have obscure flags of real and imaginary places as laptop stickers and backpack patches ... the flag of San Serriffe calls to me.
> But people seem to keep using them for whatever reason.

The market is not very effective at addressing second order inefficiencies and abstract privacy violations. How can you expect a random person to accurately value the tradeoff vs the service given?

This kind of stuff we need regulation to handle.
It can't achieve what it advertises, though. I mean, what even did it advertise? Voice transcription? Playlist management? Phones do these already. "Order me a pizza, whatever the most popular option is"? That's laughable. No one actually wants that.
I implemented my own DIY version of Rabbit at a hackathon using Playwright and VNC. I feel extremely validated that they use the same things that I thought of.
I used to feel this way too. It turns out the mirror test is not a good measure. Hard metrics are much better. Weight alone isn't the best, but it is a good place to start.
It's a pity to hear
What killed Google Search are the AI research papers that ultimately led to the rise of OpenAI
Ah available for borrow at Internet Archive: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3106695W/Grid_systems_in_gra...
Pichai must be Grima Wormtongue tier bamboozler
Selling underpowered toys at eye-popping prices has been Teenage Engineering's modus-operandi since the beginning. After the OP-1 price hike (and subsequent re-release at an even higher price), I don't think their target audience cares past this point. You either buy TE stuff for the brand recognition or you own a bunch of Behringer gear because you're poor.
All of these studies are severely limited. Show me one that had study participants running an hour a day 6 days a week. I lost 40 pounds doing that and I've kept it off because I kept running. It burns so many calories I actually need to make sure i eat more.