skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try thinking before posting.

You give the location of your missing property to the Police when stolen.

Tile/Life360 is now a superior product while AirTags are basically useless paperweight.

If you want to stalk someone you have always had numerous options including superior gps/cell based trackers.
> The technique was called product-line engineering.

Thank you for adding this bit of info! We’ve been using this model for a while but I hadn’t come across a label for it. Now knowing this, I’m coming across a ton of great info about managing/sustaining these product families.
Agreed - I had to ask somebody else in the office to confirm they were seeing the same thing.

You would think this is the sort of thing that Atlassian could catch in test? Pretty fundamental, adding text.
The files under Maps/*.json seem to be generated via https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API

You can generate your own and rebuild
Will this be available on old iPhones or only new ones going forward
In fairness it’s a little out there for an HN question. But I’m actually curious about the mechanics of it. If you used the app a lot you’d know what I mean. It’s inexplicably bad. Curious for a developers perspective on why.
The Federal gov has plenty of land, plenty of office space with parking lots, etc. It could easily find partners, etc. Instead it feels like ground up wheel reinventing with million dollar screwdrivers.
That feels like a list of the best things social media offers, but not the typical use case. The typical use case seems to be arguing, trolling, toxicity, and showing off.
How to optimize PostgreSQL performance on Kubernetes
Yes, that's correct: GB and TB are arbitrary units. We use them because historically, successive multiples of 1000 have been used to represent significant changes in size, mass, and velocity.

I used to work with/for NERSC and was around when they announced exascale as a target, and now they want to target zettascale. There is no magic threshold where science simulations suddenly work better as you scale up. It's mainly about setting goals that are 10-15 years away to stimulate spending and research.
I appreciate you pointing this out. I think the effect may be even larger when it's not an ad I'm trying to ignore or even a post that was fed to me, but words and emotions that were created specifically for me. Social media seems to find already written posts/images/videos that I may want and put them in front of my face. This would be writing those things directly for me.
I am very open to being wrong and changing course, but let's have a data-driven decision.

When we launched our anti-theft feature, we were clear that if we found there was widespread abuse, we would change course. We have had literally zero complaints of anyone being stalked with a device where anti-theft was enabled.

And I think you are misunderstanding the new standards. Google and Apple will proactively notify thieves of nearby trackers, and allow a thief to disable it. This is next level bad for anyone relying on their tracking device to protect against theft.

What is the data that would change your mind? I would change my mind if we found that more than .1% of our customers were abusing this feature.
It's annoying difficult to try and find an article about it, but IIRC there was a hack for the MacBook Pro's green camera LED where toggling the camera on and off super quickly would wouldn't give the LED time to light up
Anything that stems from _protocol_, to me, is astounding.

Yes, the internet is predictable in a sort of “yeah I think people will eventually all want to be able to communicate with each other easily.”

But if I said to Benjamin Franklin — the ambassador to France during the American revolution — that the internet only works because every country in the world agreed to do internet the same way, he would’ve said “fuck you, no way”
Seems I accidentally double posted. Sorry. Thanks (genuinely) to whoever kindly voted the dupe down to zero while leaving the original alone, that was a good choice. Too late to delete unfortunately.
Most players that had this amount of compute also tend to pay less than the equivalent corporate wage, and so besides being a good way to stress-test your cluster (prior to general availability), it gives you the positive feeling of “I helped make this, I help run this.”
CVEs being issued willy-nilly (both inside and outside the kernel community) makes me think of the modern US Patent Office. It's too difficult and expensive to neutrally examine the deluge of incoming candidates (and nobody really wants to pay for all that expertise), so instead we just grant them all, and then it's someone else's problem.

Another tragedy of the commons.
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and say hello to UBI which in the long term will diminish scam :)
> Try getting GPT to draw pictures of Mohammed and it gets pretty scared.

Yet, it has no issue drawing cartoons of Jesus. Why the double standard?
HN FTW!
The problem I've had with this argument is immunocompromised individuals existed before COVID but masking and obsessive testing was nearly nonexistent outside the elderly and infirm. Now that things have largely reverted back to normal, why have behaviors not followed?

You make valid points but COVID broke people's brains and caused widespread hypochondria. People in this category are likely making poorer long term health choices (e.g. N95 masks should not be worn for more than a few hours as it's hard on your heart).
I work on Android apps for a food company turned media network.

We, to this day...with no talks of changing it any time soon, support all the way back to Android 5.0 (released in November on 2014).
Yes, and we will fight it and win. This was also before we launched our anti-theft feature by the way.

If you want to see the insanity of going after bluetooth devices, just search "stealth GPS device" on google and see what comes up. Ebay is targeting me with an ad that says "Hidden GPS Tracking Device for sale" There are legit LTE enabled stalkers right there in plain sight.
Did they lose?

Being sued means nothing.
eech. i don’t want to use a language made by people who take advice from, let alone watch, tiktok influencers.
When a company makes something they rarely are introducing anything new to a market, but are ordering components that are already being manufactured in sufficient quantity in the market to be sourced en masse, and have an assembly company actually build something from these components. Tesla has done some things like some of the assembly in house but they aren't exactly mining the lithium themselves either. They are a customer to many other companies you might never hear about unless you order EV components for an automaker. Tesla's existence is therefore an inevitability of the wider supply chain bringing these components to market. If there were no Tesla, we'd probably still be seeing EVs emerging today, thanks to the expansion of the components markets that make a car like a Tesla or a Chevy Volt possible. Now, Tesla might have lead to these component manufacturers to scale up some knowing they have a buyer, but still, they existed already.
COVID is still an order of magnitude more immediately deadly than the usual influenza strain. Furthermore, influenza basically either kills you or it doesn't; COVID continues to have a horrible habit of leaving young and perfectly healthy people permanently disabled.
Case in point, Intel’s discrete consumer GPUs: They’re making major gains with each driver release, and I hope to see them seriously competing with nvidia in the gaming market.
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> game shows in this era were terrified

They still were 20 years later, and probably still are today. In Episode 6 of the Jeopardy! podcast[0], a former contestant coordinator recalls an instance where Ken Jennings, deep into his 2004 run and getting comfortable in the studio and with staff, was brought behind the board to check his appearance on monitors. But being "backstage" was a big red flag and several people had conniptions.

[0] https://www.jeopardy.com/listen/this_is_jeopardy
I have looked a few times in Walmarts and not found duck breast, which is something I eat in Australia once every 2-4 weeks. And also noticed particular cuts of beef that I'd expect are missing. I have been to the US 10+ times, usually 1-9 week roadtrips, and can't remember ever noticing an independent butcher (though sometimes there is an equivalent within a non-Walmart grocery store).
Reminds me of the Louis CK bit about internet:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=me4BZBsHwZs
Doing that right means having a second cloud account (Google/Apple), or you'll still be handing them a logged-in phone.

(If your phone looks suspiciously empty or has a weird account, you might as well have said "no", that phone will be taking an extra detour.)
I've worked quite a bit with STT and TTS over the past ~7 years, and this is the most impressive and even startling demo I've seen.

But I would like to see how this is integrated into applications by third party developers where the AI is doing a specific job. Is it still as impressive?

The biggest challenge I've had with building any autonomous "agents" with generic LLM's is they are overly gullible and accommodating, requiring the need to revert back to legacy chatbot logic trees etc. to stay on task and perform a job. Also STT is rife with speaker interjections, leading to significant user frustrations and they just want to talk to a person. Hard to see if this is really solved yet.
Completely unnecessary. With prices that high developers are very happy to construct things.

All that's necessary is for the government to get out of the way. i.e. dramatically reduce zoning and permitting requirements.
My company had us take the Ellume test, which was also over engineered as it was just a glorified one time use Bluetooth color sensor wrapped over a standard strip. I did start taking them apart and harvested several years' supply of CR2032 batteries though.
Yes. In my computational history I have: used the largest non-classified DOE supercomputers, built my own modest closet clusters, developed an embarassingly parallel computing system using Google's idle prod cycles, and helped debug training of LLMs when I worked on the TPU team at Google. I work for big pharma now (and my phd is in biophysics) and I'm also comfortable with other HPC domains.

I know the DOE/Nvidia history quite well as the Chief Scientist of NVIDIA visited LBL around 2005(6? 7?) and talked about their new hardware they were just starting to build and sell, with the goal of getting them into supercomputers.

We asked if they had double precision performance yet (because that was a must for many supercomputer jobs), but at the time, nvidia DP was still lagging SP (I guess it still does?) and we also quibbled about their non-compliance with some esoteric details in IEEE 754. The best part of the whole talk was when he walked us through the idea of visualizing our operations by drawing the matrices as textures, because you can easily see the NaNs- they render as nvidia Green!

I left DOE (Berkeley Lab) shortly after to work in industry because it was clear that ML wasn't going to be innovated in the government labs.
I think it depends on the frequency and intensity with which we use such a tool. Just like language learning, if someone reads a few words of Spanish per week, they probably won't learn Spanish. If they fall in love with someone who only speaks Spanish and want to have deep conversations with that person, they may learn very quickly. If they live in a country where they have to speak Spanish every waking hour for a few months, they also may learn quickly.

While some people may use an AI chatbot a few times per week to ask basic questions about how to format a Word document, I imagine many other people will use them much more frequently and engage in a much deeper emotional way, and the effect on their communication patterns worries me more than the person who uses it very casually.
There is an actual chasm between acceptable corporate behavior and anti-social behavior.
I tend to think it’s partially due to alignment but mostly due to the fact it is predicting not just on semantics but based on tone - not directly but by word choice and style.

For instance even in an unaligned model if I talk with a specific agenda and tone it will follow suit. The challenge is despite their capability they are still parrots. They take on our input into their context and the way LLMs work it must take on the nature of they type of people we are talking like. I don’t think the research means if you tell chatgpt the “sky is green, right”? My assertion is likewise the “tend to reinforce you” stems from where people like you tend to fall in the latent space by many factors including how you write and the questions you ask or statements you make. I control for this by posing countering questions or taking contrafactual stances.

But I have trouble changing my style of writing to confound this factor. In some ways I view LLMs as a second brain which necessarily echoes me, even if the draw of the common quorum drags it back towards a center of gravity.
Agreed. Americans why are you like this?
Yes, and most places that do this (e.g. OpenProject) don't have licenses preventing this, so I have deployed, and shimmed out the enterprise blockers, many Foss sass tools.
This seems pointlessly antagonistic and condescending.
I don't think they're illegal, but journalism aside, they may at times be suggestive of a terroristic inclination. It will raise further red flags. They can however lie to you that the possession is illegal and detain you for it, even though it's legal as per the First Amendment, and no jury will find you guilty if you quote the First Amendment in your defense, except in the event of a Supreme Court precedent against such possession.
Did you even read the question?
> You might be better off waiting for the technology to mature more. It’s very nascent but I’m sure in the fullness of time you might feel comfortable asking it questions on basic optics and photography and other well documented subjects

Or open a book right now.
I wasn't impressed in the first 5 minutes of using it but it is quite impressive after 2 solid hours of random topics.

Much faster for sure but I have also not had anything give an error in python with jupyter. Usually you could only stray so far with more obscure python libraries before it starts producing errors.

That much better than 4 in chess is pretty shocking in a great way.
> 5. Is maze free to use?

> - Based on the provided information, it seems that the website allows users to create and download random maze puzzles for free. However, it's always a good idea to check the site's terms of use or FAQ section for the most accurate information.

It would be nice to clarify that.

For a maze with a lot of walls like the ones you make, I thought that a simplified version of Dijkstra is better than A*. Have you tested both in big mazes?
Presumably the M4 in the iPad is throttled somewhat because of the power envelope it has to work with. I'm assuming that the inevitable M4 MBP will perform a bit better, with the larger battery power and significantly better cooling options on the laptop.

Presumably there will also be M4-Pro and even M4-Max. I'd really love to see an M4-Ultra though - my Ultra-1 is showing me that if you stack enough 26MP images from the telescope, even one of those will struggle a bit. It'd be nice to get back into the "contemptuously spat the results back at me immediately" phase [grin]
iPad learned from Surface. They can learn from upcoming Qualcomm Arm devices designed by x86 PC OEMs.
Beware if newer, an empty phone may qualify for an import tax.
That was my reaction (as an Australian) too. The AI is so verbose and chirpy by default. There was even a bit in one video where he started talking over the top of the AI because it was rabbiting on.

But I find the text version similar. Delivers too much and too slowly. Just get me the key info!
40 years is a really long time. For a lot of us, that covers the remainder of our lives.
> If you put an AirTag on say your bike, and thief steals it, they will get a notification and immediately just find and disable it.

And if a stalker puts it there, me finding it is a feature.

> scan a government ID

Considering how badly companies keep my private data private, be it email addresses or even direct passwords, scanning a government ID for a $10 tag seems really bad from a privacy perspective. Once you get hacked too (like many other, larger companies have been), the hackers will have all the peoples ID scans too to use with another company implementing such features.
I'm sorry, if I'm reading you correctly you think that I should...pay for eye surgery, go through the recovery period and then...continue to use vision correcting glasses, albeit with a different prescription (one that simulates myopia and astigmatism)?

And this supposedly makes so much sense to you that you cannot understand why someone would not do that?

Alright.
One issue with iOS vs Android is that iOS has the browser tied to the OS ala Internet Explorer. Once iOS is no longer supported, you're now using an unsupported insecure browser. And all other iOS browsers sit atop the unsupported insecure browser in iOS.

On Android, the browser is separate and you can install alternative browsers. The current release of Chrome for Android works with Android 8 which was released in August 21, 2017 and dropped January 2021. Android System Webview (the browser engine that other apps can use so they don't have to ship their own) works the same way and is independently updated from the OS.
> I used to work with/for NERSC and was around when they announced exascale as a target

We most likely crossed paths. How close were you to faculty in AMPLab?

> It's mainly about setting goals that are 10-15 years away to stimulate spending and research.

And that's not a barrier to you?

That feels very condescending about applied research or the amount of effort put into the entire Distributed Systems field.
Yep, my company would lose a significant amount of our users if we updated from Android 5.0.

A lot of the early Fire TV devices are still out there running Android 5.0, and they are actively used.
And here I was reading that headline and thinking it'd allow me to be notified when creepy adtech is stalking me. Of course not.
ActivityPub was to be the federal social network, but cancel culture balkanised it.
>You give the location of your missing property to the Police when stolen.

They will do nothing.
This is why I have my old iPhone as a dedicated travel phone. No way am I going to let officials rifle through my real phone looking for sensitive information or private photos. Especially out of sight!

With my travel phone, I always assume everything I put on there is public info. If I lose my phone, no big deal, just an annoyance.
Ya know, it's horrible to suggest allowing a company giving out bad test results to continue operating is a good idea. But on the backdrop of the US having the most expensive health care in the world and getting some of the worst service, at least these people were probably mostly right? I wonder if we fall into this fallacy of "health care should be perfect" so they should be able to ask whatever price they want. People in the US don't get to see the bill until after the procedure, if that's the norm then of course we're getting screwed.
How is it an anti-theft device if the thief doesn’t know it’s there?

I could see this being used in the aggregate to ascertain drop off points or chop shops, but at an individual level it doesn’t stop your stuff from being stolen. Even the aggregate case requires buy in from law enforcement to actually act on the information which is not a small thing.
It's not tragedy of the commons for the simple reason that it is the creators of the project that're issuing the CVEs. If anything, it was the prior situation that was the real tragedy of the commons- the freeloaders were not contributing resources back to the Linux developers for security assessment.

Now everyone gets to do their own, which they should have been doing in the first place.
We will probably get as much collaboration as the car industry does with some basic components and standards. But perhaps big differences in the major hardware (hands, chassis). The most valuable part, the AI models, will certainly be closed.

With that said, it is hard to imagine the economics of humanoid robots. The trend seems to favor automation in controlled environments for certain products. Then the displaced factory workers flood remaining jobs driving down labor costs and shutting down any prospect of a humanoid machine.
The problem is that social media is not and was never designed to be a replacement to public square..

Social media started as tool to allow people to stay in touch after their time together came to an end and eventually evolved\merged with forums as a tool to bring people with similar interest together.

The thing we have today that kind resemble a public square is a side effect of then needing to make money, that they decided to do by using ads.

In order to make more money with ads they need to keep people around for longer so they started taking content and spreading around to random people.

Kind like a public square but not really because you need to keep advertisers happy, so you cannot allow any speech in your platform that displeases the advertisers, or at least you need to ensure ads will not show next to speech that make advertisers unhappy or else they are going away and you now have a money problem (exactly twitter situation).

Public square is a end to end relation.. You go somewhere and speak and whoever is in ear shoot listen, if they don't want to listen they get away, if a lot of people that does not want to listen get together they make you leave, but you can always come back later.

The moment you add any kind of platform in the middle, specially one with an algorithm that decide what you should see, you are now bound to the platform rules and biases. And that is no longer a public square.

Social media today is, in my opinion, more akin to personal ads or letters to the editor in a newspaper then to a public square. It will spread your speech further then a public square but is bound to the rules and biases of the newspaper publishing then.

And I don't think any protocol can solve this. All a protocol can do is allow you to created biased silos where different types of speech live and they might or might not federate to other silos.

Basically federation allow you to turn social media in glorified forums, but it will never really replace public square.
And I answered - building the logistics and ecosystem
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