skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, exactly the example that demonstrate what I mean. These in-house, powerful M silicone allows them to create very thin iPad-like, long battery usage products with the power of a Mac. Can you say the same about the Surface Pro line? Is it as thin with no fans and lasts for 20 hours?

BTW, The thin and light part is very important, actually. If you're going to make a Mac that is also an iPad, it first needs to be an iPad - and that is thin and light to be used by picking up with hands.

Windows 8 tried to live that ethos but failed in almost every way. It tried to mix the different modes of use (iPad & Mac) into one. That's not what I expect Apple will do. It's going to be more like - once you attach a keyboard, you'll be automatically in Mac mode, once you remove it, you will return to iPadOS mode, immediately, seamlessly - since they will be the same OS (that shows up completely differently depending on the mode)
From a filmmaking standpoint I still don't think this is impactful.

For that it needs a "director" to say: "turn the horse's head 90˚ the other way, trot 20 feet, and dismount the rider" and "give me additional camera angles" of the same scene.
Otherwise this is mostly b-roll content.

I'm sure this is coming.
Successful doesn't necessarily mean good. the UI is slow. It crashes with large books. The hardware is seemingly under-powered. The OS degrades in usability over time. Search indexing is poor. The lack of responsiveness makes the keyboard unusable.

I've heard similar pitfalls about Kindle Scribe, the write-able Kindle.
AI Image to Video: https://www.clipmove.com/clip-move/ai-image-to-video This tool allows you to transform static images into captivating videos using advanced AI technology. Simply upload your image, and the AI will generate a seamless video with realistic motion and animations. Perfect for bringing your visual concepts to life.
Current AI models are more creative than humans on divergent thinking tasks
They weren’t gone. The story is about the meme stocks
Hard to argue with that!
there are people without an inner monologue, that little voice inside your head. If you don't have that voice then i wonder if you can imagine or hear music inside your head like you would "that little voice".

edit: here's a old article about people who lack an inner monologue https://www.iflscience.com/people-with-no-internal-monologue...
I have been considering cloudflare a bit, but it’s basically a mitm no?They decrypt your entire traffic then. It’s a lot of trust to put in cloudflare…
I think this is the original repo:
https://gitlab.com/zephray/glider

based on this tweet:
https://twitter.com/zephray_wenting/status/17901730074884506...
One should avoid type-casting people. It is tantamount to being a slur all by itself. As far as discussing Elon Musk's whims, let's not feed the troll.
Yeah that's my plan right now. I've thought about going back to full time every now and then but it is often too hard to advance and many companies with high growth end up failing. I have a lot of freedom where I'm at now (transitioned to a consultant with more pay and mostly choosing my own hours) and it was hard work to earn it at that company. Sometimes you get in too early and get burned out, sometimes you get in too late to make a difference. Big corporations aren't really for me either and I don't want to move back to a major coastal city, it ends up costing more than the difference in pay.

The company I'm currently with is doing pretty well too and I have a lot of time there so there's always a possibility of advancement there too. Though if there were jobs with 300k cash salary or more that didn't require relocation I'd have to really think about it. There's always a risk that the new job doesn't work out for whatever reason and I've been burned badly by that before. Never fully recovered from the 2016 move to Palo Alto!
Yeah, all you need is a rented uhaul that "conveniently" broke down when you're in the intersection.
Perhaps psychopath might be an exaggeration here but the primary desire for many is to grow income. The options chosen generally favor the path of least/resistance.

Until there's a law mandating morality in business decision making, why should a business entity care? Perhaps it might find comfort in using morality as a differentiator, but the companies that primarily focus on morality are the exception, not the norm.
I’m gonna go with interannotator agreement of labeled training data
This page has been around for a while. If you watch the YouTube video, you can see the skin on the person’s finger get burnt as they touch the little tiny plasma balls.

https://youtu.be/AoWi10YVmfE?si=1zzwNba9A1l9Y2ld
Sorry! I missed that part of the rules.
Have it write a program to output a repo as a flat file.
It's bad when your enemies do it and good when your allies do it.
I'd like to see this for Gemini Pro 1.5 -- I threw the entirety of Moby Dick at it last week, and at one point all books Byung Chul-Han has ever published, and it both cases it was able to return the single part of a sentence that mentioned or answered my question verbatim, every single time, without any hallucinations.
Not sure what you are talking about. Garman was in product since joined AWS till 2020, then to Sales / marketing.
Let AI answer the phone. I love it, can't wait. I hate answering phone but some people just won't email, they always call.
I have two SaaS products using this stack, and my personal site. The SaaS products get decent traffic (millions of requests every month, thousands of requests per-minute). I use Postgres for everything and I have no complaints.

I'm no Google, but it has been holding up very well (I've never had any issue with CPU, memory or anything). My simple release strategy does come with potential downtime, but the shutdown and start up are so fast it's very minimal.
> 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

I'd quite like to read those markings. Do you have them?
I am starting to wonder if cloudflare tunnel are not a little too much trust put into cloudflare.

They effectively are decrypting your entire traffic then, including login credentials. It’s a little scary…
> There’s an odd feeling that whatever I am going to build will just get gobbled away by some big tech company.

I have been wrestling with this exact feeling (and everything you posted) since the first day they released chatGPT to the public. As a software engineer / Maker, I can't possibly overstate how essential it is for me to be in the flow, writing software, building things and finding novel solutions to problems. If you take this away from my day-to-day job I have no idea what I would do with myself. I know I would be absolutely miserable.

People who are blindly "enthusiastic" and expressing their excitement about being able to "build things they never built before" "with such ease" are totally missing the mark. They're just being short-sighted and can't think about the logical implication of what it means when (in a few years) Products can be created simply by telling a computer what you wish for. Here is what happens then:

(1) The value and uniqueness of all products drops to near-0

(2) You can't create a business out of these "products" because anyone else can build them

(3) The only one profiting is the person or entity that owns the AI platform you're building your products on.

Why are people not revolting against companies who's mission statement is to "build AGI" is beyond me. it's just humans being completely oblivious as always. it's not like we haven't seen this with climate change.
Targeted searches have become almost impossible anyway. I was trying to help my dad fix a fridge a couple of weeks ago and searching for info was infuriating.

The problem I had was the I'd enter the fridge's model number as part of the search and Google knows it's a fridge, so instead of "exact model disassembly" I'd get results closer to "fridge disassembly". It was useless.

And I felt like I was getting crushed by what I call synonym syndrome. When searching for info about the condensers, the search goes from "exact model condenser not cold" to "fridge condenser not cold" to "refrigerator condenser not cold" to "refrigeration condenser not cold" and suddenly I'm getting results for vehicle air conditioning problems.

It's so frustrating.
You express no nuance and only say that something is wrong without explaining why. Your communication skills lack "skill" and "communication". Your absolutism makes me convinced that you are are either wrong or incapable to explain why you would be right.
There are many high-quality products at a competitive cost. That's a pathetic excuse.

A lot of time was spent integrating social features that no one uses. That time could have been spent on quality & latency.

I understand their business goals and objectives. It's still a low-quality product.

A profitable product can also be terrible.
Ugh, a seamless combination of a swastika with an arrow cross. I don't think this would go well in Europe.

(It's not just me. The page has a legal disclaimer:

"This image shows (or resembles) a symbol that was used by the National Socialist (NSDAP/Nazi) government of Germany or an organization closely associated to it, or another party which has been banned by the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany." )
Because the lead of the google photos team in charge of that enrollment funnel will get a pat on the head for having solid Artifacts detailing how many tens of thousands of users they got to sign up. I don't think there's any nefarious scheme, they just want you firmly and permanently locked into their ecosystem, and every little step helps.

Plus, it's one of those things where 90% of tech-illiterate people probably do want it. So it can make some benign sense to spam it a bit -- though that obviously sounds excessive.
Thanks for the thoughts, that's a good point. It certainly makes sense that the "object" merely needs typed properties to qualify.
> [...] was somewhat shocked recently looking into MySQL and SQLite to learn that even in 2024, no equivalent exists.

I'm not sure how one would make `NOTIFY` work on SQLite3. Maybe one could have a system table (`sqlite_temp_notifies`?) that would store notifies, and then have a directory associated with the database where one can create pipes/AF_LOCAL sockets that a process/thread running `NOTIFY` would attempt to write to in a non-blocking manner, then delete the notifies from that system table. The system table would only be needed to make notifies reliable while "connected" to the database and LISTENing (i.e., having registered the pipe/socket).

I agree that that would be very useful.

A couple of things:

- LISTEN/NOTIFY lacks authorization on the channel. Indeed, channels are not even CREATEd. This means you cannot trust NOTIFY payloads if users you don't trust have access to the database.

- NOTIFYs are lost if no client is LISTENing.

In practice this means that NOTIFYs are only good for waking clients that then have to check what's up with a query.
This is quite hard to do safely. Generating air breakdown with IR femto requires a reasonable amount of fluence. They are probably using galvo scanners to shift the beam in xy, but to get the required intensity they have to also shift the focal plane. Given the distances they are projecting away from the car that NA is low meaning they would need a reasonable power. Probably why they are running it at 1kHz. Given its 2015 it is probably a ti-sapphire at 80fs, galvos and an optotune lens. The reason this isn't a thing is that it very hard to make this eye safe.
That requires physical presence whereas these sorts of attacks can be undertaken remotely. And to actually use that as an attack, as the article points out, you need to do it to a lot of intersections which is hard to scale when you need to actually be physically present.

Plus, what happens if there are flaws in the control system that you can exploit via those kind of attack via a car. Like turning all the lights green at the same time.
Gemini Ultra has been available for people to try via Gemini Advanced (formerly Bard) for a few months
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Audio is one dimensional, so it doesn't use matrices but just arrays (called subbands).

And you can't get too hard into psychoacoustic coding, because people will play compressed audio through all kinds of speakers or EQs that will unhide everything you tried to hide with the psychoacoustics. But yes, it's similar.

(IIRC, the #1 mp3 encoder LAME was mostly tuned by listening to it on laptop speakers.)
A computer worm is pretty unlikely to make that suddenly a nation-wide thing.
Indeed, and though Kindle has improved, it hasn't improved by much. I've owned 4 generations and they are all a bit better, especially when new.

It's the same complaint people make about iOS devices degrading to force upgrades.

I don't think it's deliberate but I do think it's deliberately neglected.
Wow. Cool. I have access to that model and have also seen some impressive context extraction. It also gave a really good summary of a large code base that I dumped in. I saw somebody analyze a huge log file, but we really need something like this needle in a needlestack to help identify when models might be missing something. At the very least, this could give model developers something to analyze their proposed models.
I have seen startups geared toward finding clinical trials for cancer patients.
The other reasons are: power, power, power. FPGAs use orders of magnitude more power to accomplish the same task as an ASIC since you're doing lookups of bits in SRAM tables instead of directly implementing the logic functions using transistors. This is great while prototyping, but less useful in a mass produced device where virtually all functions are fixed at time of product release.
I didn’t even realize that we started rolling out intersections that talk directly to the cars nearby, and apparently only 30 minutes away from where I live.

I remember an old episode of Eureka about smart asphalt that if I remember correctly ended up causing a town wide traffic jam and then was never brought up again in subsequent episodes.

If only we could learn the pitfalls from sci-fi along with the cool ideas lol
> Stripped of humanity, exploited for labor or whim or scientific advancement because – because we can call them criminals instead of people.
>
> It’s as simple as that.

Ah yeah. I'd like a rapist to be called a criminal. For victims, you know.

It's also as simple as that.

Now should a rapist's schlong be used for scientific experiment? I mean... I'd joke that at least we'd be sure he wouldn't use it to do mischief anymore but I understand it's a bit harsh. It's not what we're talking about here: it's about harvesting organs from dead people.

But the point would be better made if some compassion was shown towards the victims instead of only ever showing compassion to the criminals.

FWIW there are western countries where the corpse of any dead human being can be used for scientific experimentation, unless specified otherwise.

What about an article about that instead of an article lacking any compassion towards rape victims and parents of murdered kids?
It’s tiring. Same thing happened to the GPT-4o announcement yesterday. Apparently because there’s no unquestionable AGI 14 months after GPT-4 then everything sucks.

I always found HN contrarian but as I say it’s really tiring. I’ve no idea what the negative commenters are working on on a daily basis to be so dismissive of everybody else’s work, including work that leaves 90% of the population in a combination of awe and fear. Also people sometimes forget that behind big corp names there are actual people. People who might be reading this thread.
I think it’s fear. Maybe not openly, but people are spooked at how fast stuff is happening, so shitting on progress is a natural reaction.
Would love to see Gemini there too!
I thought the parent company was "Booking Holdings Inc." (NASDAQ: BKNG).
I never thought I would say this but: I am a pretty recent flatpak convert. This thing just made me more convinced about how it is a good thing to let the Devs deliver the apps themselves and let the distro people do the distro stuff.

After accepting flatpak I started using fedora silverblue and then switched to opensuse aeon and I have been very happy. The only pain point was getting Emacs working properly.
I was talking about this case in particular, where we know the list is basically isomorphic to the call stack.
Unfortunately, there are many sweetgreen rip offs in my city that offer the original sweetgreen experience at the same price point. Which makes me think, either sweetgreen isn't managed well or the other places are also losing money (which doesn't make much business sense).
Pro free for now, or Pro is free abandonware. Both cases discourage adoption.

Open-source would help if there's any desire to keep it alive, otherwise this is a nice gesture but I would read this as a signal that I should stick away from it because it's dead or a trap.
That's great to hear. My biggest issue with GPT-4.0 was that as the conversation got longer, the quality diminished (especially relevant for coding projects)

I wonder if it'll be better now. Will test today.
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I loved Shake so much when I was an undergraduate that I attempted a very-over-ambitious node driven digital compositor as my senior capstone project. I learned Python and Qt just so I could build its GUI (my first non-trivial GUI program). It was able to perform basic compositing operations on streams of TIFF images, including 16 bit depth TIFF which I was quite proud of at the time. All the heavy processing logic was written with C extensions.

When I went to graduate school I got a better offer for doing scientific computing work instead of graphics, so that was the last major graphics project I attempted. It was also the most complex native GUI I ever worked on, because by the time I was out of school "Web 2.0" was in full bloom.

Thanks for dredging up very happy memories of when I was still trying to combine computers and creative expression.
I have felt for about six months that the web as we've known it is dead. The contract you speak of is on its last legs.

The problem is, with GPT style AI I think this was inevitable, Google has just decided to ride the wave rather than falling into obscurity.

Also, google has youtube, which should not be underestimated as a source of information. There is a lot of good, credible information on youtube, with even better signals (sub counts) than the traditional web.

This is Googles ace in the hole so to speak, the web can die, they can still feed their AI's with youtube, who else can?
what qualities are good? I admit they have a good ebook selection , networking features are good, and the price point is good when on discount.

But the software is awful and the application of the eink hardware is terrible too.
sure it does.. just significantly less than ipads
> You're replying to a comment that points out Gemini Ultra was never released

What are you even talking about? How do you know it's memory-holed if you haven't used it? The API is not GA, but the model can be used through the chatbot subscription. GP is talking about their lack of trust on Google's claim of 1M context token, not GPT-4 level reasoning. If you're expect GPT-4 level performance with cost-efficient models, that's another problem.
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Images are not truly bandlimited, which means they can't be perfectly represented in the frequency domain, so instead there's a compromise where smaller blocks of them are encoded with a mix of frequency domain and spatial domain predictors. But that's the biggest part of it, yes.

Most of the problem is sharp edges. These take an infinite number of frequencies to represent (= Nyquist theorem), so leaving some out gets you blurriness or ringing artifacts.

The other reason is that bandlimited signals infinitely repeat, but realistic images don't - whatever's on the left side of a photo doesn't necessarily predict anything about whatever's on the right side.
> with careful planning between the two of them they could do the necessary preventative maintenance on each other so that they didn't break down at the same time, or could go rescue the other if it broke down unexpectedly in the field, how long would it take them to build the infrastructure necessary to produce new parts to replenish their stockpile and generate new robots so that they could experience exponential growth?

There is a lot happening here. Really big jumps. Sure, humanoid robots with lots of spare parts could repair each other. You could also just imagine a robot that never broke down for this thought experiment. Still, going from nothing to "can build more complex humanoid robots", even with very persistent workers who never get tired, is an extreme endeavor.

I suppose some day the equipment to build a humanoid could be cheap and accessible to home fabricators. But that equipment still will not just be "a humanoid", it will be specialized machinery. You could certainly have humanoids operate that machine, but I still see this scenario as "imagine you have two humanoids. now imagine you have two humanoids and a humanoid manufacturing machine. they could make infinite humanoids". There is no getting around the fact that a machine that makes humanoids will be a separate machine.

Will it be interesting when that happens? Yes, absolutely.
Worth noting that even setting aside weird black hole physics, in the real world the amount of storage available given some information density and some maximum constant access latency is bound in r^3 by the speed of light, and therefore array access is not really constant time but O(∛n). This isn't some abstract ivory tower thing but the way computers actually work - due to cache hierarchies you will find that working with a 100 byte array is much faster than working with a 100 megabyte array, which is much faster than working with a 100 terabyte array. Every time the data gets larger, it gets further away...
> Google’s problem has always been in product follow through.

Google is large enough to not care about small opportunities. It ends up focusing on bigger opportunities that only it can execute well. Google's ability to shut down products that dont work is an insult to user but a very good corporate strategy and they deserve kudos for that.

Now, coming back to the "follow through". Google Search, Gmail, Chrome, Android, Photos, Drive, Cloud etc. all are excellent examples of Google's long term commitment to the product and constantly making things better and keeping them relevant for the market. Many companies like Yahoo! had a head start but could not keep up with their mail service.

Sure it has shut down many small products but that is because they were unlikely to turn into bigger opportunities. They often integrated the best aspect of those products into their other well established products such as Google Trips became part of search and Google Shopping became part of search.
People lie! Once again, ignorance rears it's head. This isn't some hocus pocus shit. This is stuff that actually works. Not doing this at this point is practically being complicit in child trafficking. If you think this is hyperbole, you are ignorant and need to stand back and listen and learn.

Hocus pocus? Seriously, this is programming 101. Talk to a programmer, it's not complicated.
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I miss being able to search for information with Google. It's just not a thing any more. Yandex seems to work but the association with Russia is off-putting given Ukraine.

Any recommendations for a replacement, especially one that considers AI generated plausible looking noise to be spam?
Wow, that wins and award for needing an /s. Bravo. If there wasn't the "word" un-capitalism