skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Naturally, we dislike it because "it's not human"."

This is partly right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
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I didn't see any comments on implications. Can anyone TLDR?
> I'll die on that hill

"I'll" instead of I will? Is it shortcuts you are mad at or just change?
That’s if I added just one more burrito (totaling 2 burritos). Point being that the price of a decent meal (which 2 small Taco Bell potato burritos is not), should not near $15.

Or is the economy truly gonna fuck us that blatantly.
Monorepo, it has made sharing code and tools a lot easier.
I was just asking about the ability of photo aging software, not commenting about privacy at all. Though yes, I am thankfully in Europe (but there are recent photos of me online).

But don't disagree with you - in a different comment that was about privacy, I (despite living under GDPR) suggested that for offline verification with known people it's better to choose secrets that definitely haven't been shared online/anywhere rather than just choosing random true facts and assuming they couldn't have been found out by hackers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40353820
It's okay! We'll just hook up 4o to the Waymo and get quippy messages like those in 4o's demo videos: "Oh, there's a tornado in front of you! Wow! Isn't nature exciting? Haha!"

As long as the Waymo can be fed with the details, we'll be good. ;)

Joking aside, I think there are some cases where moving the goalposts is the right approach: once the previous goalposts are hit, we should be pushing towards the new goalposts. Goalposts as advancement, not derision.

I suppose the intent of a message matters, but as people complain about "well it only does X now, it can't do Y" - probably true, but hey, let's get it to Y, then Z, then... who knows what. Challenge accepted, as the worn-out saying goes.
The issue is that an interface that's good for a touchscreen often isn't good when using a keyboard/mouse, and vice versa. Touchscreens require significantly larger targets than mice, which reduces the amount of information that a program can convey. For an example, see how much Windows has regressed in keyboard/mouse usability since Microsoft started targeting 2-in-1 convertible laptops in Windows 8.
It feels like there's a qualitative jump that voice assistants need to make which they wouldn't have been capable of before the last 18 months, and as a result, yes, the products themselves have stagnated. But if you were Amazon, at what point in the last year (say) would you have picked to draw a line in the sand and build a product iteration based on that level of tech?
Indeed! It would be so much better if this were a Postgres extension instead.

There are some efforts but still quite immature: https://github.com/sraoss/pg_ivm

But at least Materialize does have Postgres wire compatibility, and same for Noria and MySQL. It's a plug & play switch, it's not as complex as adopting other Pub-Sub, Job-Queue or KV-Caching solutions.
The problem here is you're assuming your family members aren't idiots, this is your first mistake.

Chances are they've already shoved some app on their phone that's voice to txting everything they say and sending off somewhere (well lower chance if they have an iphone).

Modern life is data/information security and humans are insanely bad at it.
A few points of note:

1. This doctor is widely-described as a pathologist. So it seems unlikely he would have developed any cancer treatments as a lead investigator.

2. It's much more likely he was part of a team that developed treatments, and that his was a supporting role.

3. A quick glance at Google Scholar indicates work on multiple approaches to melanoma treatment that Scolyer had some kind of role in. The article doesn't say which one was used.

4. There is no "cancer-free" in glioblastoma. Pieces of the tumor always remain after surgery, waiting to grow back. This is part of the reason there is no cure.

5. MRI cannot detect remnants as in (4).

6. Median survival is roughly 12-15 months, so being alive at this point is not in itself much of an indication of success. Three years would be more interesting. Even three years of "clean" MRIs would be more interesting.

This story keeps getting trotted out, and the journalists doing it fail to acknowledge these points. It's an extraordinarily complex disease that does not lend itself to feel-good stories. If it does get squashed into that box anyway, the result is misleading at best.
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Criminals misusing it? I feel like this is already a dangerous way to use AI, they use an enthusiastic, flirty and attractive female voice on millions of nerds. They openly say this is going to be like the movie Her. Shouldn't we have some societal discussion before we unleash paid AI girlfriends on everybody?
But security theater will live, inconveniencing us all with its invasive efforts, forever.
Are there ways to disable just specific JS APIs?
I do agree with this in the end. I also think people often underestimate how challenging it is to create good docs.

I've seen this pattern often:

- Person doesn't know how to do something.

- They fumble around until they get it working.

- Once it's finally working, they write a doc about how they did it (because our "poor documentation" is a common pain point and therefore a popular problem to attack).

- If you actually search our internal docs, you find at least one other doc describing the same process.

I've seen this happen in many different contexts, even onboarding. I've seen multiple people join the company, and each one wrote down their own "onboarding painpoints" doc to hopefully help the next person, without even noticing the existence of the previous person's equivalent doc.

So again, I still agree with you. Even in these scenarios I described, I'm willing to believe that there is some way we could've structured our docs that couldn't prevented these issues. But I have no idea what it is, and seeing all the futile attempts at improving the situation makes me irk a little at armchair "poor docs"-style comments (not that that's even related. I've gone a little off topic here!)
In the absence of countries, do you think less people get murdered, or more? Yes, countries murder people. They also try to see to it that other people don't murder people. (The "monopoly on violence", and all that.)

You seem to be assuming that it's worse with the existence of countries. I regard that as not proven, and even as unlikely.
I started using the Pi LLM app (by Inflection.ai) with my kids about six months ago and was completely blown away by how human-like it sounded, not just the voice itself but the way it expresses itself, the tiny pauses and hesitations, the human-like imperfections. It does feel like conversing with another human -- I've never seen another LLM do that.

(We mostly use it in car trips -- great for keeping the kids (ages 8, 12) occupied with endless Harry Potter trivia questions, answers to science questions, etc.)
Closest to R&D we're getting is hackathons and the like, and in practice it's trying out new technology that someone else developed; coming up and developing something new in IT is really difficult, and said development takes time for which you need buy-in first.

That said, I'm sure there's still dedicated R&D at companies like Google and the like. Or maybe that's just wishful thinking.
I prefer the HTML version at https://minejima.jp/ISLispHyperDraft/islisp-v23.html
Then it should be "FLOPs" to indicate that the S is not separate word in the acronym, just the plural form.
Yes, but this will cost money and resources. Large companies can take this as a loss. Small companies will go out of business
I think that the world is still not coping with current tech. Legislation and protections don't sufficiently cover people for current scams or how companies leverage tech against workers.

This is even more scary that this puts a lower bound price on many, many skills, with again, still no protections for humans.

Would this be exciting if everyone had a safe place to live with infinite electricity and food? Sure. Will tools like this bring about massive uncertainty, hurt, and pain? Almost certainly.

Saying that the sun is shining where you live, doesn't mean there isn't flooding in other parts of the world.
Considering they did first small-room-sized wireless electricity distribution, I'm not sure they're that different from DARPA in terms of know-how and amount of secret sauce.
I first read this as unwanted alert tracking. Like, I’d love to have my phone intelligently track and block unwanted alerts, from the apps and OS makers that spam me.
Yep, the more we take AI "advice" the more we're becoming the agents of AI rather than the AI being an agent of us
I don't think it's available in Europe yet? It seems they prioritizes the US market for now. Hence OSX because Mac is way more popular in the US than the rest of the world.
It's interesting to see the cycle. Alexa said everyone wanted to toggle the lights and get the weather forecast. Hence, they folded. Now, we are back with "stronger" tech and want people to change their behavior.
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> I find myself doing stuff on my PC frequently that either isn't practical or currently possible on an iPad

Same here, but for me it goes both ways.
That's covered by the Online Safety Act 2023, which effectively places responsibility on social media for the content they carry. It's very likely that we'll soon see calls to ban the whole of Reddit, for example. Predictions in this field are somewhat difficult because the UK government is likely to change at some point in the next 8 months - but the Act had bipartisan support, so it's possible that these policies will continue to be pursued and enacted in the same way as before.
> Why shouldn't the burden of proof be on the people making these meal replacements?

So we can have what, one source on the issue with a very obvious conflict of interest? What kind of sense does that make?

> The NOVA system is more interested in the wider effect of ultraprocessed foods replacing existing eating and cooking habits.

I wasn't make a comment on what they do. I was making a comment on what I would find useful.

I don't find saying "ultraprocessed bad mmmm'kay" particularly interesting or insightful. All processes and preservatives are not equal. Pretending they are (or even just glossing over the details) is unscientific and a waste of time and money.
I was disappointed by its architecture too. You must write intermediary files, you must call qbe as a separate binary, and you must write the resultant objects to disk.

If I recall correctly, the author has no interest in re-architecturing qbe like this.
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And that too with some gymnastics, and not through a straightforward option in settings.
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Try paying attention to the UI hints. When part of the previous app shows up on the left of the screen, that’s when you’ll get the app switcher.

Here’s a decent video showing the principle: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ewhAR7BmoMM Note that he lets go when the UI hint shows up on the left, but no earlier.
Ah. Too subtle in an international context, should have made it "GUL.AG." or something :-)
Probably due to its outlandish economic power and cultural projection all over the world, i.e. because it is "the center of the world" insofar as the phrase means anything when applied to a city.

(Yes I am an NYC resident, but it's not my perception of the city that makes it what it is on the international stage)
> iPad also was a pretend computer for a long time until it got mouse support

That was a very important step forward. Now, it is a pretend computer with mouse support.
"Know" is a vague word. Everyone should know one language inside out as if they can code within a Notepad without IDE support. I think if you know three languages really well, that puts you in the top 1% of devs. I would go for C, Python, and JS.
https://archive.is/f5aEI
Then afford what can be gotten with other vendors rather than wishing for something outside a price range with different featires
Would love a "parachute" that works like this...
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Seems like we're creeping closer and closer to just making this available to everyone. But doesn't it also make people sick? All drugs list their side effects in ads. For this one the ad glibly calls nausea and diarrhea frequent side effects. And lots of people are reporting the same, which makes it seem real and common.

I'd rather tackle this problem the old-fashioned way. Eating right and exercising regularly doesn't make me feel like puking my guts out.

*I know it is a game changer for some extreme cases.
Maybe for your usecase, sure, but my usecase is my own dotfiles which has some of these helper scripts and it's a good fit there.
I've read the book before but I guess I kinda forgot about this point. Scary.
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See http://www.humanstxt.org/ for a generic answerer ( https://web.archive.org/web/20240507225939/https://humanstxt... )

One of the most powerful organizations, Hollywood, who are also people people do it. Stands to reason IT should consider it. (Don't confuse Hollywood with the snobbery of academia, not sure lab assistants etc get credits)

Google Dork - https://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Ahumans.txt

Netflix is cute, but not to the spirit - https://www.netflix.com/humans.txt
Lowes wants you to look at the ads in the app.

I would guess that most companies will not want to provide APIs that an agent could use to make that kind of query. So, the agent is going to have to use the app just like you would, which looks like it will definitely become possible, but again, Lowes wants the human to see the ads. So they're going to try to break the automation.

It's going to take customers demanding (w/$) this kind of functionality and it will probably still take a long time as the companies will probably do whatever they can to maintain (or extend) control.
> If they sell it in the EU

shop.unitree.com has options for shipping to EU countries so yes, they sell directly to consumers in EU.
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There are alternative systems. One would be artists making a living through other ways such as live performances, meet and greet, book signings, etc.)

We could also do patronage. Thats how musicians used to be funded. Even today we have grants from public/private institutions.

We could also drift back into "owning the physical media" We see this somewhat with the resurgence of records.

NFTs would have been another way, but at least initially, it failed to become generally accepted into the popular conscious.
True, you can build without any acoustical feedback (or maybe even feedback not triggered by the find my network, but only by your own app).

But the target's phone will still be notified that "Someone else's tracker is moving with you", won't it?
"Sure, Dave, to open the pod bay door, simply <completely hallucinated incorrect instructions>"

"That won't work, you need to ... <correction>"

"Oh, I'm sorry. Thanks for the correction, here's updated instructions for opening the pod bay doors ... <repeats nonsense, in some other incorrect form>"
The goal is to end up with a model capable of discovering all the knowledge on its own. not rely on what humans produced before. Human knowledge contains errors, I want the model to point out those errors and fix them.
the current state is a crutch at best to get over the current low capability of the models.
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An AirTag is a lost item tracker. What I was mentioning is a stolen item tracker. Very different propositions.

You’re proposing something that may be a paradox. The only way to make something physically hard to remove is to integrate it. Locks are proven to be ineffective for this purpose. When this ideal lock is invented you will simply lock your bike with it directly and achieve the goal of theft deterrence to begin with. No need for tracking if stealing the bike destroys it.

Getting an AirTag into a mechanically locked compartment of your bike is useless. You even mentioned LPL so you know any such lock will be bypassed in a matter of seconds, maybe even less time than it takes you to put the AirTag you just bought in there. So your theoretical protection model hinges on something that doesn’t exist yet: a lock that you can easily open to put an AirTag in and service it but that nobody else can unlock.

Car or e-bike manufacturers paying for access to any “find my” network means they can heavily integrate the expensive electronics in a way that makes removing the “tracker” part truly impossible (it’s on a main controller chip) or severely devalues the object if you do (the chip/board is prohibitively expensive and impossible to find on the open market). It’s more expensive and kills self repair but reliable anti theft might be worth it to you. Think of the iPhone model here.

At the end of the day the Find My network exists to be used by different manufacturers [0]. The unpickable lock doesn’t.

[0] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/04/apples-find-my-networ...
Thanks for the great reply and for linking the research paper - I am going to check it out. Could you suggest a good review paper for someone new to get into modern HPC?
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Thank you for a product that is well designed and thought through. Not a common thing these days.
in the same vein there was a product called "Copernic Summarizer" that was functionally equivalent to asking chatgpt to summarize an article - 20 years ago.
Here are the categories: https://security.apple.com/bounty/categories/

I'm not really sure what else you're asking for. Nobody in the world except Apple Product Security itself knows why Apple Product Security is refusing to pay a bounty in this case. It makes no sense.
I have been happily using a pure Go stack. That includes Go's built in templates, and web server. I compile the entire application into a single binary and rsync it to the server. Then I restart the systemd service which picks up the new binary.

It's incredibly simple and old school. No kubernetes, docker, cdns, etc.

Write code, build binary, ship binary.
Swipe the alert and tap options. You can opt to never see it again, or mute it for as long as you want.
Bochs can help there.
Why is WebAssembly not supporting 256/512 SIMD registers?
Why is WebAssembly not supporting 256/512 SIMD registers?
> Its not about me wanting a way to stalk someone, what a bizarre thing to say!

Please describe how what you’re asking for is different than stalking the people who stole your stuff? More importantly, how would Apple/Google know how to differentiate between the two use-cases?

> However am I not allowed to complain, even a little?

You can always complain but your complaint is pretty non-sensical because this is private corporations making a decision and government isn’t involved, so it’s unclear how this is a nanny state. Go build your own tracker that meets your specifications?
Ask HN: Thoughts about GPT 4o for tech people? raised the bar substantially?
Couldn't help but wonder that GPT 4o now changes a lot of stuff for people in tech. I've already had an amazing impact on a data cleaning, EDA and even base statistics level with gpt 3.5 and gpt 4.

this definitely makes the workflow more efficient and higher quality.
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If $23b of earnings last quarter[1] is struggling, I would love to struggle as much as they do.

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/fy2024-q2/FY24_Q2_Consol...
It's simply the further debasement of the language: "content" and "consume", "fleece" meaning a piece of plastic (and "lamb" being used for both lamb and mutton), "elite" meaning "better", "gift" as a verb, excessive and gratuitous use of intensifiers (the physical manifestation is standing ovations after any public performance) the content-free of useful words like "freedom" and "patriot" and so on.

Languages constantly change and that's delightful. But there is a class of changes that are deliberate manipulation for commercial or propaganda purposes. Often the idea is to hollow out the word and insert a new meaning into the husk, so listenera (at least initially) get the associations of the old meaning while it is transformed into a new one.

I hate this because it is deceptive, and I also hate it when no handy way remains to specify the original meaning ("plastic fleece" would be silly and redundant these days; you can't usefully say "real fleece" any more, so what term do you use?)

"Consuming" a book would mean destroying it ("consumed by fire"). Economists use this for the action of people who buy rivalrous goods or services -- a logical and obvious metaphor. But the use of "content" and "consumption" were deliberate coining: "content" expells any differentiation of what it refers to, applying an equivalence to user-generated work, commercial speech, advertising, propaganda, whatever; "consume" reinforces a corporate producer -> passive consumer mentality that again strips away the agency of the person actually looking at the screen.

Just part of the incessant effort to turn the Internet into "a remote control with a buy button".
At some point, airlines were raising concerns, but the rules have changed.

When I recently pointed out to the lost luggage department at an airport that I knew for a fact that the luggage (or at least the tracker) was right at the airport, they did not appear to be surprised or concerned at all.
Ask HN: Moore's Law historical data but in FLOPS?
I'm curious what the historical growth of computing looks like if you count the total compute of all operational processors. Has anyone come across research that attempts to estimate this? I assume this would be far more exponential than Moore's law
I was once the CTO of a financial services firm that had been founded by a non-technical person. When I was hired the code base was in poor shape. With a bit of guidance we overhauled the codebase in 3 months and swept clean about 15 years of technical debt. They were using a 13 year old version of the compiler.

New clients were requiring audits and attestations we wouldn’t have been able to pass.

I was able to hire a few seasoned engineers to begin working on the next pass over the monolithic core design. We needed to prepare for a container and cloud based future, given where our clients were going.

The founder just complained and complained. He couldn’t accept that we were working on things the client couldn’t see. I spent a lot of time negotiating for a percentage of total velocity for core design changes.. the rest of our time and effort would be focused on things the customers were demanding and which the founder thought we should focus on.

We had increased velocity about 2000% already. He wanted 4000%. We needed sprints for back end redeployments. Founder was visibly angry when he overheard us taking about refactoring back end things like deployment scripts and data architecture.

Senior engineer gave him a copy of The Cathedral and the Bazaar, just to share something that could lead to some kind of common vocabulary. Founder spent weekend marking up his copy and on Monday firmly announced that he rejected the text in whole.

Senior engineer quit on the spot and walked out.
You just shared your personal opinion without an argument why exactly you think it's overreach.

As far as I can see it's not regulation for regulation sake, if you read the EU directives it's quite clear why the Commission and Parliament decided on bringing those regulations into place. Would be good if you could cite what you think is wrong with their reasoning.
"AI now beats humans at basic tasks": Really?
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