skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, you do not have the rights to my “doppelganger” because you were never granted them.

This is a bizarre argument as well.

When a news reporter is doing man-on-the-street interviews, you have to sign a release that allows them to broadcast footage of you.

It is not your physical person inside the TV, it’s a video representation of you. Just as much a doppelgänger as any deepfake. And they have to have you sign something in order to use it.

They have the exact same kind of paperwork for filming porn. Because the same legalities and rights are in play.

Just because the image of you is generated does not mean: a) it’s not an image of you b) it’s not subject to these same laws.
Let's Replace the Synchronized Keyword
> Sailpoint

Oh gods, the painful flashbacks.
Hi, I'm HKChad, I own 3 macbooks (well 6 if you count my kids/wife) and 3 iPads, 5 if you count my kids iPads as well.

We also have iPhones I'm not going to start counting those.

Now you do!
It's even better!

When the US automakers were told they would have to meet mileage targets that Japanese automakers had been meeting for over 10 years... they sued the EPA to say it's unfair!

So they openly admitted they couldn't compete with 10 year old foreign vehicles.

And they still got bailed out!
While using GIMP
Whether a country is a bad emitter is a factor of its total and per capita emissions. It has no inherent moral meaning, but it has serious implications for how we can slow down climate change.

At current rates, China is going to be a larger per capita polluter than the US ever was, because it’s still choosing the quick, cheap, and dirty approach to so much of its industry including those focused only internally. As a result of poor central planning and incentives, it has built and then destroyed entire apartment blocks in cities across the country without them ever having been in use. Its per capita emissions rate is already higher than that of the EU average.

Nobody on here is saying that China or any other country shouldn’t develop. It’s expected that there’ll be a rise in per capita emissions as a result. But that doesn’t mean that China has the right to emit as much as it can just in the name of development, especially when so many lower carbon options exist.

Again, this isn’t a moral judgement, where adding focus to China means taking focus away from the US and letting it do what it wants. Nor is it a situation where we can or should give anyone a free pass just because of history. Instead, we’re in a situation where we’re collectively screwed unless we can reduce total emissions and China has to be an integral part of that reduction too. Just as the US has to be.
Kudos to companies that are releasing the source code to antique versions of their software. I hope more companies do so in the future.

Unfortunately I fear that much of this source code has been lost to time and multiple serial acquisitions over the years. Also, wide spread use of version control is a fairly recent phenomenon, so much of this source code if it still exists at all is on random tape backups and floppy disks or printouts in binders.
wonder if anybody has it up on github
Nitroplast Organelle Unveiled
A Mac is their most expensive personal product. I'd bet a majority also have iPhones and Apple Watches. If you can afford a computer that expensive, what is $350 for an iPad?
The motives were there regardless of how Boeing chose to act. It's the chosen act that is potentially criminal. The DOJ is not in any doubt as to whether or not Boeing had a motive, and it is not considering at all the question of whether regulators have now allowed Boeing and the airlines to treat the 737 MAX family as much more closely related to earlier 737’s than they actually are, regardless of any parties' motives in that regard.
When used thoughtfully, I find my clients love emojis on some things and they seem to work better than many web icons.

Warning Emoji, a weight, phone emoji ... people see them every day and understand them immediately.

https://emojipedia.org/warning

Granted silly emojis, those that imply other things, eggplant. Not so much. And the burrito is just for developer type stuff.
Skynet??!!?! It seems so obvious that I am having a hard time understanding your objection... it would feel condescending to try to explain that Terminator is about AGI risk.

The modern conceptualization of AI existential risk comes largely from Vernor Vinge, in particular his essay "The Coming Technological Singularity" but it is also a central theme in most of his works, especially the Zones of Thought series.
This was my immediate thought, it's the beginning of the end.

Maybe I'm becoming bitter and cynical, but all I can see are things being ruined after IPOs and the like.
Case in point if anyone wonders why Apple [seems to] refuse developing a more desktop-like OS. I guess the M4 iPad Pro got many of us dreaming. :)
Isn't it way easier to get a target to use a usb device than a keyboard
Okay hear me out:

instagram, but instead of infinite scroll you just show a blank canvas. When you post you include an xy position used to absolutely position it on the wall. Everything is 100x100 pixels max. Epoch time of post date determines zIndex.
I agree that this will happen (I said in another post), but I can't for the life of me attach it to one of the points I made
The Demographic Roots of American Power
Having more energy is intrinsically dangerous, though, because it's indiscriminate: more energy cannot enable bigger solutions without also enabling bigger problems. Energy is the limiting factor to how much damage we can do. If we have way more of it, all bets are off. For instance, the current issue may be that we are indirectly cooking the planet through CO2 emissions, so capturing that sounds like a good idea. But even with clean energy, there is a point where we would cook the planet directly via waste heat of AI and gizmos and factories and whatever unforeseen crap we'll conjure just because we can. And given our track record I'm far from confident that we wouldn't do precisely that.
Watching the video, it seems like the explanation is mostly "tag the code and transpile to C" - im assuming the tags are acting as the hardware-aware part?
People want macOS on their iPads because it's the software that actually works for professional use cases. iPadOS does not.

Apple could, of course, make iPadOS work for those use cases, but I have a feeling Apple management don't actually understand the problem. They always deflect around iPadOS's limitations instead of addressing them head-on. We need file management that doesn't break if you look at it funny and require a full system reboot to fix whatever daemon is managing containers. We need to be able to have apps that stay running when you close them and they need to be able to peg the CPU.

Hell, it's comical when Apple's own apps just pop up a generic "Export failed" error message if you task-switch between apps when doing exports or rendering. Did they just forget that they have a blatant "no background rendering" policy?
Because a few of them will turn and go take a job offer from NERD.

https://www.nerd.nintendo.com/files/Secu%20Job%20Offer%20202...
I don't disagree in the least. I'm just saying it's the in same bucket as many commercial products that are designated as therapeutic and that they should all be looked at with a similar kind of celebration/skepticism.
Is anyone actually building more on Microsoft services? I have been withdrawing as much stuff as possible from anything Microsoft owns.

The writing is on the wall with their abuse of customers on Windows 11.

Microsoft gives me AOL vibes, where the ancient customers will be squeezed until the end.
Yes actually, I've been binging a lot of General Relativity content lately by coincidence and can say the Dialect YouTube channel has been the best resource for describing this. I'm not an expert so I cannot speak to its accuracy but it seems sound.

In particular the video "Conceptualizing the Christoffel Symbols". Also look at content on the Metric Tensor

Additionally, there is content from other sources (albeit less produced) on describing projective geometry which is also related
honestly this isn't that bad imo. i've seen, used, and been forced to make stuff that is way worse than this. it's just the natural result of the corporate development process and it's virtually impossible to not end up with something that strongly resembles the broadcom site.

you get one guy who just comes up with ideas in the shower and then drops a message on microsoft teams at 9:30pm telling the team to make it so, and you also have any manager even remotely involved with anybody who uses the product able to dictate features and functionality too, none of these people have experience in technical roles and are either sales, ex-sales or ex-scrum masters.

then finally at the end of the human centipede, you have a bunch of .NET-brained pseudoprogrammers sitting in a circle nitpicking and debating the most "correct" way to split up and size the current thing and then cram it into the existing mess until you end up with a plan of action that is a combination of multiple ideas which may have once been half decent in isolation but the result is a steaming pile of human shit.
Apparently the error seems to be with the managed VMWare integration. They have my sympathies: it can be really hard to get products from external parties to work just as well as the “native” product ie gce.

Even if they do fix this particular issue, I see this as a warning to be very very reluctant to adopt these integrations. A product level integration (eg internally hosted github) seems ok. But infra level integrations can have ugly failure modes.
To my understanding (ha!), none of these language models have demonstrated the "recursive" ability that's basic to human consciousness and language: they've managed to iteratively refine their internal world model, but that model implodes as the user performs recursive constructions.

This results in the appearance of an arms race between world model refinement and user cleverness, but it's really a fundamental expressive limitation: the user can always recurse, but the model can only predict tokens.

(There are a lot of contexts in which this distinction doesn't matter, but I would argue that it does matter for a meaningful definition of human-like understanding.)
Same. That scene stuck with me.

Makes me wonder if over-protecting children from negative feelings backfires. Pulp Fiction was a risk-free and simple way to make vivid the risks of heroin.
Do you also compare sandals and shoes, claiming they have the same purpose? Sounds ridiculous? Well...
An OpenAI spokesperson recently stated explicitly that "We have no intention to create AI-generated pornography".
A post talking about the worst website that doesn't mention the wonderful Ling Cars [0] cannot be taken seriously.

Or should that be in a post about the best website?

[0] https://www.lingscars.com/
Does this mean we can get the 5 year cancer survival rate to 100%?
Ben here from Quary.

We love Grafana! It's fab for building dashboards, but it's focused on dashboarding/alerts and on pulling from various data sources, not just SQL.

Quary is purely focused on SQL, and crucially, it allows you to build up and develop more complex transformations.
I'll be clearing it of all my data and unlinking it from my accounts, making sure it's updated, and mailing it to a friend who'll pay me a token amount plus the shipping costs. It'll go to his kids to use as a spare computer. If he wants, he knows how to install Linux or Windows on it. We've done this with several of my older computers and he still has most of them up and running for the kids, I think the oldest one I sent him is now recycled though.

I got 7 years out of it before it became worth replacing for me, they'll probably get another 5 at least before it gets retired. I'd keep it and put Linux on it but my wife is already annoyed by my (now reduced) large and often disorganized book collection, I don't need an electronics collection adding to the issue.
https://github.com/Nutlope/aicommits

Sure, it's a timesaver for you until it isn't. When someone needs to rollback your changes or wants to find something specific.

As long as humans have to have a history of your commit this is an insane egoistic approach and totally lacks any kind of empathy.

Considering how easy it is today to use AI for the commitmessage (so you would not have to spend a second on it) i don't understand this approach.

If you would ask every team member and your bosses if it is okay to do it like this and they say: yo - then if you really insist to do it, but like this?
I'm not sure if it's just sugar but PostgreSQL does allow subscripting on JSONB in UPDATE statements

UPDATE characters
SET jsonb_column['superpower'] = '"invisibility"'
WHERE id = 5;

Can't seem to find any docs around whether that still does a full rewrite under the hood or not but seemed like an important omission from your examples
GIMP has a plugin system and this does not AFAIK, so you're comparing unbounded features vs bounded features.
Anne Sacoolas is somewhat more nuanced than that, mostly because Diplomatic Immunity is a strange necessity for functional alliances.

The underlying gist is that people important to the government or possessing sensitive knowledge are immune to prosecution from allies to prevent prosecution being a viable method of coercing information from government officials. Ie the US cannot charge a UK ambassador, because that ambassador may be tempted to leak secrets in exchange for leniency.

The same typically goes for family members for the same reason.

In this case Sacoolas had done undercover work for the CIA at some point, so likely had knowledge the State Department did not want leaked. Her husband was active in the CIA and likely also had similar knowledge.

The same is true in reverse. You can look up the court cases, the US has had to drop several cases due to diplomatic immunity.

There is an element of might makes right to diplomatic immunity because there is no real higher power to enforce it. If a country is willing to weather the political fallout (and reciprocal loss of diplomatic immunity), potential hostile action, and can get their hands on the perpetrator, they’re free to ignore diplomatic immunity.

In practice, diplomatic immunity is almost always respected, even when it could probably be ignored, because of onlookers. If the US ignores eg Kenya’s diplomatic immunity (who they can likely afford to piss off), it might worry the UK who the US does not want to piss off.

Diplomatic immunity is very, very rarely ignored, but is waived with some regularity. The US is particularly liberal with granting diplomatic immunity, though, and more reluctant to waive it than most countries.
> Does Booking.com use their size to harm competitors in any harmful way? Not that I know. Do they abuse their customers or accommodation partners? Not that I know. Regulators should show some evidence before making hostile moves, it seems they are just acting on ideology and not in the interests of the customer.

That's exactly where the designation as a "gatekeep" comes in. For it to happen there's an investigation by the commission, and there are static thresholds but also sense applied. Just because you don't know how booking.com have abused their position doesn't mean they haven't - as concrete examples, they've been caught applying dark patterns with lies (only X rooms remaining and Y people are looking at them!!!), and them precluding hotels from offering cheaper rates is also a problem for consumers.
A company being criminally liable just means slightly larger fines. They aren't charging individuals. No one is going to jail over this.
Exploring bloom filter index merges would be an interesting addition. I do wish it were easier to profile merge performance to break down where most of the CPU time is being spent.
5.7.1 is the response code Exchange uses any time a policy blocks a message. If they are using Exchange then they set it up with a mail flow rule action of 'block the message / reject the message and include an explanation'.
I just can’t come up with any compelling use for a raspberry pi.

The practical purposes for an RPi have diminished. They're still good for when you need something small, light or low power. But the market for refurb mini-PCs really replaces most of the instances where you're just looking for a cheap, but semi-powerful, computer.

And things like the ESP-32 have reduced the Pi's practicality on the other end where you just need something powerful enough to read and transmit data from a sensor.
The bigger they are, the stupider they get.
Hey! OP here, I don't have a clear answer for this yet. We're exploring ways to make Quary more extensible. We are focusing on the core piece first, happy to chat to hear more about your specific use-case.
They may have a few times, maybe. Far from a given.

Now consider an average middle class American, who might afford Swift tickets, could have on the order of a million dollars net worth (albeit mostly illiquid, tied up in their property). That puts them two orders of magnitude off of Taylor Swift, the sort of person they might see a few times in their life. But it puts them six orders of magnitude above somebody who's flat broke on rock bottom, and they certainly meet that sort of person a lot more than they meet Taylor Swift. The inequality gap between a middle class person and somebody at rock bottom is wider much wider and more pervasive in society than the gap between a common middle class "millionaire" and the billionaires, but all nearly all the internet whining about inequality is focused on the billionaires.

Now I grant you, comparing different amounts of zeros is kind of a silly way to think about inequality. Let's get a bit more real: the middle class and billionaires both take a lot for granted that somebody at rock bottom cannot. They both know where they're going to sleep tonight, both feel secure in the knowledge that they're going to have a roof over their heads, stomachs filled with food, medical needs met, etc. Somebody living on the streets has none of that, and that difference is I think far more profound than the difference between the middle class and billionaires. The middle class have to go to work and don't own megayachts or helicopters, but these are trivial matters that needn't worry them so much as somebody living on the street has to worry.

Now what about Neolithic times? I think people at rock bottom still existed back then. People who were cast out from their group, due to disease or getting on the losing side of a power struggle, being a weirdo, or whatever the reason. There were probably people who got banished and probably died soon after. And I think there were probably people who were very popular, who were respected and loved by others, or maybe were feared. People who benefited from a strong social safety net, who got given food by others and were protected by others. The inequality gap between them and the banished would have been immense, just as the inequality gap between the homeless and middle class today is immense. If my assumptions about neolithic society are accurate, then it's absurd to say that neolithic society didn't have meaningful inequality because they didn't have billionaires.
You have a good argument, but the exaggerated numbers hurt your case. $5 per gallon and 5 gallons per miles are high/low estimates. At this rate, fuel costs $1 per mile. Are you saying they "easily" drive thousands of miles in a day? I'd hope that 2000 mile days (the minimum for "thousands") are really rare.
> So you think with fewer variants, one of those few is more likely to meet your needs?

Yes, because being over-specced doesn't matter if it's cheap enough.
I'm not sure that's necessarily practical though - if I'm dropping a link in Slack to a colleague

> You want to look at [a123456](some.git.url/a12345678...) to see where we've done this before

I can't promise that the repo won't have changed by the time they look at it (but because the full hash is linked, it's not a problem in practice).
> The faking of emotions and overt references to Her (along with the suspiciously-timed relaxation of pornographic generations) are not fine.

Are you not aware of how many billions are getting spent on fake girlfriends on Only Fans, with millions of people chatting away with low paid labor across an ocean pretending to be an american girl? This is just reducing costs, but the consumers are already wanting the product.

I'm not sure I get the outrage / puritanism. Adults being able to chat to a fake girlfriend if they want to seems super bland. There's way more stuff out there that's way wilder you can do online, potentially also exploiting the real person on the other side of the screen if they are trafficked or whatever. I don't have any mental issues (well, who knows? ha) and genuinely would try it the same way you try a new porn category every once in a while.
Open AI was founded on morals. It was a not for profit there for the benefit of humanity. Then M$ came around with a lot of cash and we got the soap opera we're seeing here.
I wouldn't bet on it, given that that's all of the iPads from the last ~8 years.
You detect it and then what? You get depressed and there is no treatment for something that early. Better to test for obvious signs every year based on susceptiblility.

Maybe the depression and stress can make you more sick, let alone the effect on your family should you announce it
> That's an interesting take on the man who brought the Apple Watch to market and oversaw the development of Apple Silicon.

Apple Silicon was a cost cutting measure. Cook does know how to do vertical integration well, I'll give him that. Wanna talk about how ram/storage upgrades are priced now that you can't go to 3rd parties?

The Apple Watch was started by Jobs, according to other posters in this HN discussion.

> While Steve Jobs certainly brought the iPad to market, it has been under Tim Cook's leadership that it has evolved into what it is today.

What is it today? I own the cheapest iPad possible and I keep it on my nightstand for content consumption in bed. If you're not a graphic artist/musician/video editor, it's useless for any other kind of creative work. Unless you add an external keyboard and stuff and then a macbook is cheaper.

I set up a python ... ide? ... on the ipad once. Still don't know how i get my work out of it so I'm not using it.
I have a feeling that much of it was translated to C or C++ at some point for portability and maintainability reasons. There are several automated Pascal to C translators out there, such as the following...

http://users.fred.net/tds/lab/p2c/

Also the languages are similar enough that a programmer with knowledge of both could translate it manually without too much difficulty.
This is an absurd level of nitpicking... the phrase "is about" means both of those things in common speech, and everyone can tell which you mean depending on context. Language is defined by regular people through its use and context, scholars only describe it after the fact- to their extreme dismay. You might be technically correct within the jargon of, e.g. an academic literature course, but you aren't correct to insist the words mean that unless you are in that context, with that audience, where it has that meaning.

Moreover, I don't think you are correct, even in the literary sense, when saying, for example, what Neuromancer is about. I don't really care what an author says it's about, most artists are channeling something unconscious and often have very little conscious understanding of what their work is actually about. I've read plenty of Gibson books. The guy is an absolute luddite, and writes on a typewriter. He is terrified of how dangerous and dehumanizing technology is, and all of his books are "about" an all-consuming fear of technology and the changes it causes.