skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. That ruins half the value of AirTags. It's a limitation that their competitors, like Tile, didn't have until very recently.

Every time this comes up, someone butts in with "they're for lost items, not stolen ones!", which is technically accurate but pedantic beyond reason. "Stolen" is a special case of "lost" for most people. In both cases the object is out of the owner's possession. "Stolen" just means it's deliberately missing and not accidentally so.

I understand, sympathize, and support the idea of making life harder for would-be stalkers. My gut instinct says non-notifying AirTags would make life harder for many more thieves than the self-tattling AirTags does stalkers. Apple and Google agree with each other that inconveniencing those losers outweighs abetting thieves. That's their decision to make. I'd still be irritated if I couldn't find my lost-with-the-help-of-a-thief bike because my AirTag told the thief I was looking for it.
Good thing to do regardless of the source, AI or Human, right?

I do verify by using topics I'm an expert in and I find hallucination to be less of an issue than depth of nuance.

For topics I'm just learning, depth of nuance goes over my head anyways.
“Where it ends up” is not a problem in the developed world. Everybody complains about it but there are zero problems with our landfills.

All the environmental degradation is in the developing world, where they… do not value the environment in the same way. We didn’t either when we were developing. It took a while.

But western advanced economies dispose of their trash well. It’s not even close to the top of our list in terms of what we could do for the environment. Seems to capture our collective imagination tremendously though. Maybe because of guilt for consumer culture, maybe because making a meaningful impact would hurt too much.
All while not addressing the rampant confabulation at all. Which is the main pain point, to me at least. Not being able to trust a single word that it says...
Hahaha hehehehe
> HAL's unemotional monotone

on a tangent...

I find it interesting the psychology behind this. If the voice in 2001 had proper inflection, it wouldn't have been perceived as a computer.

(also, I remember when voice synthesizers got more sophisticated and Stephen Hawking decided to keep his original first-gen voice because he identified more with it)

I think we'll be going the other way soon. Perfect voices, with the perfect emotional inflection will be perceived as computers.

However I think at some point they may be anthropomorphized and given more credit than they deserve. This will probably be cleverly planned and a/b tested. And then that perfect voice, for you, will get you to give in.
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I build this as I needed such a tool myself.
Its not as fully featured as tools like ahrefs but it was quite fun to build.
> HAL's unemotional monotone in Kubrick's movie, "Space Odyssey," feels... oddly primitive by comparison

In comparison to the gas pump which says "Thank You!"
I use AirPods Pro but an Android phone. My girlfriend and friends we hung out with would complain about these, so I eventually found a way to turn off "Find my device" on the AirPods by connecting them to my iPad. I now can't track them but also people aren't mad at me for "tracking" them.
It's possible to build your own tracker atop the Find My network without these anti-stalking features. The Find My network can even be abused for low bandwidth data transfer from any point in the world with an occasionally nearby iPhone.

https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openhaystack
Strange that all three collisions include "'s"
Alternatively, open a brokerage account and go through their process to enable options trading (essentially mostly a short quiz on how options work to make sure you're not an obvious liability).

Then either buy put options that are currently barely in the money (and will go further into the money once the stock comes tumbling down), or sell call options that are out of the money (or very slightly in if you can tolerate that risk) and will go further out once the price of the underlying goes down.

As with shorting stock, the risk for selling calls is technically unlimited (even though IMHO it's extremely unlikely that GME will go to the moon again the same way it did last time). With buying puts, your risk is the money you spent for the option. If the stock price is higher than the option at expiry, you'll have lost all of it. If it's lower, you can pocket the difference between strike price and stock price, minus the cost of the option.
Hate to disillusion you - but exactly this happened to us on AWS a couple of years ago. 1 months research compute - no biggie, but no more AWS for us either.
hey, unrelated, but found your another question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39877523

replying to your question from there: yes, I'm using SmartGit since 2014, and it's really good. there are others, 'more' free, or more paid -- depends on what you'd like. I'm sure you'll find logs of YT vids on this

SourceTree I think it's still the most popular 'as free as it gets' UI for git.

there's also Fork, GitKraken
10 years support seems pretty reasonable to me for a major operating system version, regardless of usage numbers.
>I also wonder if the effects from substantial social media interaction could be teased out.

Yeah, this is what I was thinking as well. The internet absolutely has a positive effect on my life. Finding out which store I need to go to, how to do simple home repairs, how to start a garden, maps, ordering groceries (we've got 4 young children; grocery pickup is a life saver).

And on the other hand, social media is terrible for me. There's just something about doom scrolling that's hard to give up because it's the perfect way to kill dead time.
yea, we don't want or need this kind of "magic" - because it's hardly magic to begin with, and it's more socially and environmentally destructive than anything else.
I took amtrak from Chicago to DC recently and my phone was constantly trying to tell me I was being followed/tracked cause someone else in the sleeper car had an airtag.
What struck me was the interruptions to the AI speaking which seemed commonplace by the team members in the demo. We will quickly get used to doing this to AIs and we will probably be talking to AIs a lot throughout the day as time progresses I would imagine. We will be trained by AIs to be rude and impatient I think.
> the metric "person type"

"demographic"
We're planning on getting a phone-carrying lanyard and she will just carry her phone around her neck with Be My Eyes^0 looking out the rear camera, pointed outward. She's DeafBlind, so it'll be bluetoothed to her hearing aids, and she can interact with the world through the conversational AI.

I helped her access the video from the presentation, and it brought her to tears. Now, she can play guitar, and the AI and her can write songs and sing them together.

This is a big day in the lives of a lot of people whom aren't normally part of the conversation. As of today, they are.

0: https://www.bemyeyes.com/
An unsupervised approach makes way more sense in some ways but advertisers often like to pick demographics manually so the categories need to be understandable by a human.
There's no way to determine the properties needed by imaging alone?
Did you literally DRS your shares?
That much is complicated. In the SF Bay Area, predominantly South Bay, I knew Asian families (all of them well-to-do, because South Bay), whose parents and extended family helped the new grads buy a house after a few years out of college.

Then those kids were expected to help the next generation, when the time came. It was like a multi-generation, extended-family economic collective of sorts. I didn't know what to make of it. On one hand I admired the effort, on some level. On the other hand, I think it really gimped the kids as far as pursuing entrepreneurship goes.

But hey, at least they can afford the "rent" in South Bay, I guess? I have never wanted to live there, so I can't say I envy the arrangement.
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> Play with it!

It’s not accessible to everyone yet.

Even on api, I can’t send it voice stream yet.

Api refuses to generate images.

Next few weeks will tell as more people play with it.
i legitimately don't understand this viewpoint.

3 years ago, if you told me you could facetime with a robot, and they could describe the environment and have a "normal" conversation with me, i would be in disbelief, and assume that tech was a decade or two in the future. Even the stuff that was happening a 2 years ago felt unrealistic.

astrology is giving vague predictions like "you will be happy today". GPT-4o is describing to you actual events in real time.
Dietary changes in the population seem the first place to look. That or contamination of some kind?

EDIT: or do we simply have better screening now?
Did they mention this in the gpt4o announcement video? I must have missed this
Cotton uses an order of magnitude more oil than "plastic" clothing.
> it's still unable to interpret two-part requests

Our car has Google Assistant, and yeah that's annoying. Want to turn off steering wheel heater and seat heater? Gotta do two individual requests.

That said, it's actually quite nice to have voice control over these things. Especially when it's heavy traffic and snowing on top of the icy road, and you really want to have eyes on the traffic and both hands on the steering wheel.
So if not exponential, what would you call adding voice and image recognition, function calling, greatly increased token generation speed, reduced cost, massive context window increases and then shortly after combining all of that in a truly multi modal model that is even faster and cheaper while adding emotional range and singing in… checks notes …14 months?! Not to mention creating and improving an API, mobile apps, a marketplace and now a desktop app. OpenAI ships and they are doing so in a way that makes a lot of business sense (continue to deliver while reducing cost). Even if they didn’t have another flagship model in their back pocket I’d be happy with this rate of improvement but they are obviously about to launch another one given the teasers Mira keeps dropping.
The article forgets the most important reason to use gopher; it filters plebs!
My brain can navigate a computer interface without using word tokens, since I have tokens for navigating OS and browsers and tabs etc. That way I don't have to read a million tokens of text to figure out where buttons are or how to navigate to places, since my brain is smart enough to not use words for it.

ChatGPT doesn't have that sort of thing currently, and until it does it will always be really bad at that sort of thing.

You are using a hand to hammer a nail, that will never go well, the solution isn't to use more hands the solution is to wield a hammer.
As someone who’s not American, I’m unclear; is going to a butcher not an option? Have they been competed out of the market by supermarkets?
There are all sorts of contracts that can be unilaterally terminated.
we need it down to vending machine cost, stick your hand in and boom
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As John Stewart says in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20TAkcy3aBY - "How about I hold the fort on making peanut butter sandwiches, because that is something I can do. How about we let AI solve this world climate problem".

Yet to see a true "killer" feature of AI, that isn't doing a job badly which humans can already do badly.
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does it make sense to have a "social" network that in essence is _only_ a directory? looking up someone works well, and links to some external site. full stop
Where's the Mac app?

They talk about it like it's available now (with Windows app coming soon), but I can't find it.
The big thing with pricing is that this is cancer, life-or-death. The companies know they can charge almost anything if it's highly effective. I wouldn't be surprised if the pricing is 100x or even 1000x the actual manufacturing cost. I'm sure some extra money is needed for investors and R&D, but in a lot of cases the pricing seems obscene for existing products/drugs even taking those into account.
Last updated 2014-07-03

So I guess (2014) is missing.
Web#, since it's going to be full of octothorpes anyway.
> Google takes this so seriously they're backporting it to Android 6

Or for contractual reasons, or for some technical reason it was easy enough to be "why not"
Interesting that Python is openly hostile to (what I consider to be) a more natural and composable way to program.

Iterables aren’t even very well done in Python - the list comprehension syntax is much less powerful than in other languages
The voice modality plays a huge role in how impressive it seems.

When GPT-2/3/3.5/4 came out, it was fairly easy to see the progression from reading model outputs that it was just getting better and better at text. Which was pretty amazing but in a very intellectual way, since reading is typically a very "intellectual" "front-brain" type of activity.

But this voice stuff really does make it much more emotional. I don't know about you, but the first time I used GPT's voice mode I notice that I felt something -- very un-intellectually, very un-cerebral -- like, the feeling that there is a spirit embodying the computer. Of course with LLM's there always is a spirit embodying the computer (or, there never is, depending on your philosophical beliefs).

The Suno demos that popped up recently should have clued us all in that this kind of emotional range was possible with these models. This announcement is not so much a step function in model capabilities, but it is a step function in HCI. People are just not used to their interactions with a computer be emotional like this. I'm excited and concerned in equal parts that many people won't be truly prepared for what is coming. It's on the horizon, having an AI companion, that really truly makes you feel things.

Us nerds who habitually read text have had that since roughly GPT-3, but now the door has been blown open.
Wikipedia prefers to be a tertiary source. They want the references to be to secondary sources, rather than primary sources.

"Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable, published secondary sources, and to a lesser extent, on tertiary sources and primary sources. Secondary or tertiary sources are needed to establish the topic's notability and avoid novel interpretations of primary sources."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research
No, back up your data to a service independent of the service hosting what you're backing up.

It reminds me of "I use box/iCloud/some-other-cloud-drive-service so don't need backups", but don't understand the model is "I deleted/broke the data on my machine, and then synced that data loss to every machine"
It's not that they don't choose suicide, it's that by the time your quality of life is gone you very often can't choose suicide or are faced with doing so by the one act they can still do--refuse food/water.

Look at the countries that permit euthanasia. Inability no longer is relevant and there are parts of the Netherlands where it's 10% of the population that take that route--and note that this is a substantial undercount because by no means everyone is in a position to make the choice. (Sudden events, those whose mind is going.)
There's two products here Bluetooth trackers and phones. People don't want to buy phones that expose themselves to tracking by other people.
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Both. The paper mentions using a deblurrer and novel view synthesis model(ExBluRF).
Of course, I’m not an idiot and I understand LLM very well. But generally as far as well documented stuff goes and stuff that exists it’s almost 100% accurate. It’s when you ask it to extrapolate or discuss topics that are fiction (even without realizing) you stray. Asking it to reason is a bad idea as it fundamentally is unable to reason and any approximation of reasoning is precisely that. Generally though for effectively information retrieval of well documented subjects it’s invariably accurate and can answer relatively nuanced questions.
Kinda stretching the definition of interactive there.
From the previous story, "S3 requests without a specified region default to us-east-1 and are redirected as needed. And the bucket’s owner pays extra for that redirected request."

So will Amazon continue charge for the redirected 403?
That's the question OpenAI needs to find an answer to if they want to end up viable.

They have the brand recognition (for ChatGPT) and that's a good start, but that's not enough. Providing a best in class user experience (which seems to be their focus now, with multimodality), a way to lock down their customers in some kind of walled garden, building some kind of network effect (what they tried with their marketplace for community-built “GPTs” last fall but I'm not sure it's working), something else?

At the end of the day they have no technological moat, so they'll need to build a business one, or perish.

For most tasks, pretty much every models from their competitors is more than good enough already, and it's only going to get worse as everyone improves. Being marginally better on 2% of tasks isn't going to be enough.
Monorepo for client and services - enough code sharing that it would be pretty weird to separate them out.
That one could also be reverse causality. People who don't enjoy their local area spend time in cyberspace instead.
Huh, good point that I hadn’t considered.
The market care more about growth
I thought this was posted a few days ago, and by my reading it didn't seem like it was GCP's "fault" in that the issue was GCP failed to stop a bogus configuration update not "GCP blindly deleted the data for an account"?
I'm not so sure, I think this is what's called "emergent behavior" — we've found very interesting side effects of bringing together technologies. This might ultimately teach us more about intelligence than more reductionist approaches like scanning and mapping the brain.
Bravo. I’ve been really impressed with how quickly OpenAI leveraged their stolen data to build such a human like model with near real time pivoting.

I hope OpenAI continues to steal artists work, artists and creators keep getting their content sold and stolen beyond their will for no money, and OpenAI becomes the next trillion dollar company!

Big congrats are in order for Sam, the genius behind all of this, the world would be nothing without you
Maybe you just haven't been around enough to seen the meta-analysis? I've been through four major tech hype cycles in 30+ years. This looks and smells like all the others.
Yes, but not really. Practically all Bluetooth connections are encrypted. There's a couple of cases where you can intercept the encryption key IF you capture both sides of the initial pairing negotiation. In those cases it's trivial to decrypt, but you have to know when pairing is happening and intercept the packets.

Beyond that case, you'd have to have a secret backdoor into the encryption algorithm, and we don't think there is such a backdoor (AFAIK).

You could of course sniff on all the unencrypted BLE beacons out there, but I seriously doubt that data is interesting enough to be worth a spy satellite network.

Far, far more concerning is the ability for a satellite to effectively jam Bluetooth across the continent. Bluetooth does not handle congestion well, and signal quality degrades very quickly with interference. Imagine your headphones cutting out when this satellite is overhead.
I would think that JS/TS support would be relatively high up... my own bias speaking, but a lot of development and effort to easing cloud apps is JS/TS centric.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36477589/

https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2020...

TLDR Strong evidence diet (more sugar, more alcohol, less fiber, highly processed foods in general), western disease, less exercise are contributing factors.

Following colorectal cancer rates of folks who get on GLP-1 agonists (semaglutide) might provide stronger signal.
One of the demos has the voice respond to everything sarcastically. If it can sound sarcastic it’s not a stretch to believe it can “hear” sarcasm.
I was intentionally vague and not picking sides. Extremist violent rhetoric encompasses communists and fascists and anyone else willing to kill people to tear the system down.

If you think I'm talking about the Israel / Palestine thing. It was not what I was thinking about. I was thinking about the US specifically but it also applies to other nations with strong personal freedoms, rule of law, and general economic prosperity. Advocating for revolution in such places is very dumb.
This is some serious cherry-picking. It's going private at a price below the initial IPO price of $48 from 3 years ago, and has generally significantly underperformed other tech stocks.

They might not be about to die, but they're not exactly healthy either.
we canceled them successfully ig
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Sure. That's why I say this.

> Have documentation and receipts to back up all your allegations

But you won't be dealing exclusively with reasonable people like you and me.
Nah, web components are great.
The demo is very cool. A few critics:

- the AI doesn't know when to stop talking, and the presenter had to cut every time (the usual "AI-splaining" I guess).

- the AI voice and tone were a bit too much, sounded too fake
It's been that way since day 1
This is anecdotal, but I feel that we (ParadeDB) have received more requests for Iceberg integration vs. Delta Lake. We were actually hesitant to launch pg_lakehouse without Iceberg support, but pulled the trigger on it because the iceberg-rust crate is still in its early days. We will probably be contributing to iceberg-rust to make it work with pg_lakehouse.
It was temporarily the latter, as far as I was aware - I got out as soon as they announced it and migrated to CF. But yea basically, and it's going about as well as you'd expect it to.
If that happens again, choose the option to stop notifying you about that specific tag.

(Also, it’s possible someone had slipped a tag into that person’s luggage without their knowledge.)
So I'm not the only one. Like I felt fear in a physical way. (Panic/adrenaline?) I'm sure I'd get used it but it was an interesting reaction. (I saw someone react that way to a talking Tandy 1000 once so, who knows.)
I mean when you’re making a point about how your views should not be taken as emotional bias, it pays to not be overly emotional.

The fact that you don’t see utility doesn’t mean it is not helpful to others.

A recent example, I used Grok to write me an outline of a paper regarding military and civilian emergency response as part of a refresher class.

To test it out we fed it scenario questions and saw how it compared to our classmates responses. All people with decades of emergency management experience.

The results were shocking. It was able to successfully navigate a large scale emergency management problem and get it (mostly) right.

I could see a not so distant future where we become QA checkers for our AI overlords.
I prompted it with "Take this SSML script and give me a woman's voice reading it as WAV or MP3 [Pasted script]" and it pretty much sounds like HAL.
There's lots of plastics pollution in the west - including from tires, from people throwing stuff away, and from microplastics in the water.

It's just not visible immediately. But you can actually easily collect hundreds of kilograms of plastics next to a 1-2km long part of a road on the countryside.
I am not sure I understand the question. I sampled various topics. I used this prompt: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/impredicative/podgenai/mas...

In the prompt, substitute {topic} with something from the near future. As I noted, it behaves correctly for turbo (rejecting the request), and very badly for o (hallucinating nonsense).