skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have a member protection link at the bottom of our page - it is not buried. https://www.life360.com/member-protection-resources/

We encourage people to first go to the police, and we work with law enforcement to help bring criminals to justice on a regular basis.
I asked, it said 48 teaspoons.

I asked to play a song my an artist on Spotify and it did it. Popped up in the Dynamic Island.

Honestly, I didn’t know it could do that!

(It did ask permission to access Spotify data first, but only that first time).
I was showing my wife 4o voice chat this afternoon, and we were asking it about local recommendations for breakfast places. All of a sudden…

————

ChatGPT:
Enjoy your breakfast and time together.

User:
Can you tell that it's not just me talking to you right now?

ChatGPT:
I can't always tell directly, but it sounds like you're sharing the conversation with someone else. Is [wife] there with you?

User:
My god, the AI has awoken. Yes, this is [wife].

ChatGPT:
Hi [wife]! It's great to hear from you. How are you doing?

User:
I'm good. Thanks for asking. How are you?

ChatGPT:
I'm doing well, thanks! How's everything going with the baby preparations?

—————

We were shocked. It was one of those times where it’s 25% heartwarming and 75% creepy. It was able to do this in part due to the new “memory” feature, that memorized my wife’s name and that we are expecting. it’s a strange novelty now, but this will be totally normalized and ubiquitous quite soon. Interesting times to be living in.
It's interesting to me that capacitors and batteries are slowly converging. I'm curious which one will end up being the future. My bets are on capacitor's due to their simplicity, but it's still in the air if they'll ever scale high enough in capacity.
I think we’re backsliding on choice, if anything.

It gets even worse if you look at packaged stuff. “Look, twelve brands of coffee!” but actually it’s three because some of them are owned by the others, or by the same parent company.
Well the one time he just said "Tea, Earl Grey" the computer assumed, "Tea, Earl Grey, luke warm".
What if this technology could be applied so you can’t be manipulated? If we are already seeing people use this to simulate and train sales people to deal with tough prospects we can squint our eyes a bit and see this being used to help people identify logical fallacies and con men.
OpenAl GPT-4o customer service [video]
And if it was a tile device, that it had the "help me stalk people" feature turned on. And if it did have that feature turned on, that they should report it to tile. Generally I would expect a significant fraction of people in this sort of situation aren't reporting it to anyone.

Considering the multiple examples listed in the lawsuit [1] that the CEO is aware of, there are certainly stalking instances that they know about. Just none that they know of since 2022 (when they introduced the anti stalking features) with the anti stalking features disabled.

[1] See links on page 13: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.41...
I got a weird feeling reading that article: As an individual, I like the fact that, if I go to Germany, my privacy is protected.

But, it does make me uncomfortable using my camera phone to casually take photos. Does the activity (commercial / personal) of the photographer have any bearing?
I think it's pretty fair to make this clarification and I don't fault a company for wanting to squash misinformation about their product. I found it to be a useful comment because I had no sense of the scale of the Tile network, and I did have an intuition that it was much smaller.

I have zero affiliation with Tile and I have never bought any device like this of any sort, but this is useful information to me as someone who has been the target of frequent bicycle theft.

The criticism I will agree with is that it does feel worded a with a bit of a corporate polished tone that does give that vibe. edit: I think it's largely the "supercharge" descriptor.
I’m really not impressed.

My academic background is in a field where there are lots of public misconceptions.

It does an absolutely terrible job.

Even basic textbook things where there isn’t much public misunderstanding are “rounded” to what sounds smart.
This is powered by Google Play Services (aka: gmscore). https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/9037938?hl=en
The talking over the AI was actually one of the selling points they wanted to demo. Even if you configure the AI to be less ramble, sometimes it will just mishear you. (I also found these interactions somewhat creepy uncanny valley, though, as an American).
Assuming you're hitting on carbon stuff. There are simple solutions even with rockets. For instance liquid H2 / liquid O2 rocket engines are a thing - this is what the Space Shuttle Main Engine used. [1] Reacting hydrogen with oxygen is, counter-intuitively, an extremely effective propellant! And the exhaust is literally water vapor.

Some reason SpaceX decided on methane based propulsion are because it's more safe/stable than liquid hydrogen, because Mars is the goal, and the Sabatier reaction! [2] You can create methane + water from reacting CO2 + hydrogen. And Mars has practically infinite CO2 + hydrogen, which translates to practically infinite fuel + water. Add in fully reusable rockets and you have one heck of a nice starting framework for colonization, that in some ways almost feels too convenient.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-25

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction
Yes, that's what google play services is.
Theres so much pent up money that Powell just has to tweet a picture of a dove and the market will go up 15% the next day. Markets been lumbering up since mid april despite all the doom and gloom narrative with the interest rate and continually being told no cuts for now by the fed the entire time. Anytime the fed says no cuts recently, seems like its Powell creating a buying opportunity more than anything and a week later the ship is back on course. Whenever they do cut rates this year there will be fireworks.
Simon Willison thoughts on GPT-4o
I didn't know that, but I'm glad I have my MacBook in clamshell mode with an external camera with a physical cover.

I mean, I appreciated the little green light, but the fact that it seemed necessary indicates to me that humanity still needs some evolving.
I think we often get better at detecting the underlying emotion with which the person is communicating, seeing beyond the one they are trying to communicate in an attempt to manipulate us. For example, they say that $100 is their final price but we can sense in the wavering of their voice that they might feel really worried that they will lose the deal. I don't think this will help us pick up on those cues because there are no underlying real emotions happening, maybe even feeding us many false impressions and making us worse at gauging underlying emotions.
There's a few parts to it:

- new growth is monoculture, and we're having health issues coming with it (Japan is trying to do something about its pollen problem, but not until two decades from now). It's also more fragile areas, including geologically.

- new growth also means the process that took centuries to build forests is not starting either.

- if the plan is to produce more paper (replace current plastic use with paper use) we can't just keep the current tree farms. It will be expanded and eat up on the legacy forest, as it needs the right niche to efficiently grow.

On the last point, if we were really good at farming new trees, we'd have tree fields not far from manufacturing centers. That's not the case, we're still relying on favorable places where forests used to grow, which doesn't bode well for further mass production in the future.
A Brief Review of the Clicks Keyboard for iPhone
How does that explain the focus on gender? Admittedly there are countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia where there might be laws about what you're allowed to show women.
This. It’s mind boggling how many people can only see things through one world view and see nothing but downside.
Also exposed when thinking about hardware stores. If you need to build/repair part of your house and the supply chain for wood or steel is gone, are you going to wait for tall, straight trees to grow? And then if you don't have milling hardware? Know how to create and extrude steel roofing or angle iron or similar?
This is the first demo where you can really sense that beating LLM benchmarks should not be the target. Just remember the time when the iPhone has meager specs but ultimately delivered a better phone experience than the competition.

This is the power of the model where you can own the whole stack and build a product. Open Source will focus on LLM benchmarks since that is the only way foundational models can differentiate themselves, but it does not mean it is a path to a great user experience.

So Open Source models like Llama will be here to stay, but it feels more like if you want to build a compelling product, you have to own and control your own model.
> They are re-victimized when the videos are shared

> Same thing with murder videos

Philosophically, can a dead person be re-victimized?
If you like another language that's a bit like Haskell-but-more-practical, give OCaml a try. They even have a for-loop in OCaml!
If you think stalking is more common than theft then you must live in a very, very low crime area.
Really? I think interruption and timing in general still seems like a problem that has yet to be solved. It was the most janky aspect of the demos imo.
I think pets often feel real emotions, or at least bodily sensations, and communicate those to humans in a very real way, whether thru barking or meowing or whimpering or whatnot. So while we may care for them as we care for a human, just as we may care for a plant or a car as a human, I think if my car started to say it felt excited for me to give it a drive, I might also feel uncomfortable.
The good news is the interface will be multi modal. Talk, type, and I guess someday just think.
What field? Curious to see it myself
Yes but demographic has the unfortunate problem of needing to be connected to real world observable traits. Clustering people into as many groups as naturally fall out can capture way more.

The downside is that you don't know what the clusters actually mean precisely but you figure that out broadly by running tests.
>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.

This is not using TTS or STT. Audio and Image data can be tokenized as readily as text. This is simply a LLM that happens to have been trained to receive and spit out audio and image tokens as well as text tokens. Interjections are a lot more palatable in this paradigm as most of the demos show.
Bro what?
Because it is obviously going to be used to manipulate people. There is absolutely 0 doubt about that (and if there is I'd love to hear your reasoning). The fact that it will be used to teach geometry is great. But how many good things does a technology need to do before the emotional manipulation becomes worth it?
This might be a US thing, or related to some functions? Ours has never done that.
Perhaps something was lost in translation then. The most likely reason to lose things is because they are stolen.
Few banks support consumer-initiated FedNow transfers. The main near-term application is receiving government payments: Medicare, tax refunds, and such. The US Treasury wants to convert over, to reduce customer service issues. ("Where's my Social Security check?") If it only takes seconds, customer service and actual money transfer are in sync.

Banks are dragging their feet on customer-initiated transfers because of the fraud problem. If you send money by FedNow, it's gone. So there's a lot of scam potential. Wells Fargo supports bill pay via FedNow to known payees, which is useful. Pay a bill, and the payee gets paid immediately. Both sides can see the transaction as completed. That's useful.

The ability to send your entire bank account to anybody in seconds with no way to reverse the transaction is rather risky.
Theft is more common. Each instance of stalking does more damage. I haven't the faintest clue how I should weigh the cost against the benefit here, but I certainly don't like how the CEO here is blatantly attempting to downplay the stalking-enabling-externality their theft prevention device has.
> No, anonymizing the comment doesn't count.

It would be nice if HN, or literally anyone, offered that option.
How did my direct reports do today?

They did fuck all, especially the ginger.
With the new frameworks in ios17 it’s clear that Apple is slowly converging on providing the tools for easily compiling for Mac and iPad from the same codebase.
Yes exactly. There's a little translate button provided by Google in a post detail page. I guess if we can imitate this in the timeline page is would be useful and unobtrusive to an old X user.

I market internationally. A lot of non-english users will mention a english speaking user. And the translation provided by GOogle is actually bad you just have to re-translate it with GPT with more prompts to understand it in its original culture.
Losing the device in such circumstances is definitively the best outcome. There is a shit ton of data that these devices have and the law is so complex that you probably committed a crime somewhere without you realizing it.
CM5 is just shorthand for Compute Module 5. It's a raspberry pi 5 in a different form factor. Until it's released we can't know all the exact differences without apparently signing up for an NDA'd spec sheet. But see https://www.makeuseof.com/raspberry-pi-4-vs-raspberry-pi-com... for a breakdown of how the PI 4 and CM 4 differed.
The $2.3B Tornado Cash Case Is a Pivotal Moment for Crypto Privacy
Went down the voice assistant rabbit-hole with Home Assistant. To integrate with an LLM, you will need a separate processor (or connect to the cloud service).

Wondering if CM5 will offer enough of a boost to allow on-device LLM processing on a Home Assistant Yellow.

Guessing the answer is no, but it might be worth trying.
Oh, good. "Twisted skyscrapers" are a fad in post-modern architecture, but seemed a bit radical for Fort Worth.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40350681
Your profile says

> Emacs/Lisp forever

I think of Haskell as the declarative statically typed lisp I’ve always wanted.
I get a bit annoyed when people focus too much on the "functional" aspect when discussing Haskell. True, it's a significant part of it, but there are other functional languages that go back as far as Lisp. What sets Haskell apart from these languages is its strong typing, lazy evaluation, algebraic data types (along with supportive matching syntax), and many other small language features which together make it a really nice language.
Given that your previous HN comments have stated your primary goal is making progress toward AGI, are you just funding methodological research or are you open to applications within ML, e.g. something like AlphaFold?
If you are desperate enough to shim it out you're not worth pursuing as a customer
what is your solution?
Despite H5N1 bird flu in dairy cattle, raw milk enthusiasts are uncowed
The full title has the word "outbreaks":

> Despite H5N1 bird flu outbreaks in dairy cattle, raw milk enthusiasts are uncowed
no one but sebastian seung and his gang of hacks actually thinks this. the connectome is but a very useful, _very_ expensive tool.

and, actually as of writing, we have a connectome for the _adult_ drosophila brain (more than one actually). two orders of magnitude larger, 200,000 neurons.

neuroscience discussions on orange website are always a sight to behold but, uh, even more so than the connectome (we spent $50M peeling atomically thin layers off the most important fly to have ever lived and then hundreds of man years annotating it) the techniques of modern neuroscience would blow people away. we routinely image from the entire drosophila brain at several hertz, while it is running on a virtual reality treadmill using biological sensors genetically engineered to be expressed in a specific subset of neurons.
The 1Password database is something you have. You unlock 1Password with something you know or something you are.
Which specific plans are you referring to? Please provide references.

Oxfam and the UN do some good work on hunger relief. But the notion that some sort of plan can overcome extreme levels of corruption, theft, and violence is so ridiculous that it's unworthy of a serious response. The statements that I have seen from Oxfam and the UN on that issue have been so vague as to be meaningless. They essentially require good faith cooperation by the very militant groups that intentionally want to starve their enemies, or profit by embezzling money and stealing supplies.
Writing is only superior to conversation when weighed against discussions with more than 3 people. A quick call with one or two other people always results in more progress being made as long as everyone involved wants to get it done. Messaging back and forth takes much more time and often leads to misunderstandings.
And you’ve just nailed where this is all headed. Each of us will have a personal assistant that we like. I am personally going to have mine talk like Yoda and I will gladly pay Disney for the privilege.
c#, dotnet with blazor webassembly; for a new project I was hired to rework on for downsizing a 20user Salesforce SAAS app having around 30 tables everyone is happy with the performance. It is 2nd version of the rewrite which started of as a next.js app.
we need to repeal the faircloth amendment.
I won't repeat what I have said in other comments but scroll down for more specific thoughts on the points you make.

At a meta-level, we don't think the bad behavior of a very very small number of abusive should degrade the product for tens of millions of good actors. Theft is unfortunately extremely prevalent and a key reason why customers by trackers - we think the greater good is to responsibly support this use case.

We have put safeguards in place that make it tough to use our products to stalk, and while nothing is perfect, the only complaints of stalking we have received are from people who were allegedly stalked by Tiles that did NOT have the anti-theft feature turned on. By adding this ID scanning friction, which includes a liveness check, we have empirical data that the bad actors go elsewhere.
Cool! Thank you :)

You brought a lot of joy back to Web developing for me. I have gotten a little insane from the "modern js" frameworks, and it is so refreshing.
I took a photo in a Berlin McDonalds of their menu board, and got yelled at and kicked out.
Because accessibility is more than checking a box. Got a photo you took on your website? Alternative text that you wrote capturing what you see in the photo you took is accessibility done right. Alt text generated by bots is not accessibility done right unless that bot knows what you see in the photo you took and that's not likely to happen.
Thanks for commenting. I’m a fan of your products.
Glad to hear that! If you are up for it, can you email me - chris@life360.com - I'd love to learn more about your story
This could make various “night mode” photos much clearer. And the motion perhaps even helpful.
Sure but your average user isn't sticking around for that. At least on Bluesky, Twitter, and Mastodon.

The average user doesn't really post all that often. They don't even necessarily retweet or like posts that often.

The average user is consuming content produced by your "high quality content" users. The artists, musicians, youtubers, streamers, journalists, blog writers, podcasters, and other types of content creators. They are the actual value add to the platform. The make content that the average user cares about consuming and maybe the average user pitches in their 2p here or there.

There are other types of users of course but by and large, you are going to expect that your average user is mostly consuming instead of contributing. Some platforms (like instagram) may encourage users to post their own content for their close friend groups but platforms like bluesky aren't really about that in practice.
Got an good pointers for writing pluggable code? How to make the app itself ready to get all these fancy plugins?
CP/M's open-source status clarified after 21 years
Keygen uses Keygen to license itself via license gates: https://github.com/keygen-sh/keygen-api/blob/e668dffbb90bd53... (the EE edition requires a license key with entitlements to access the EE features).
When have you last used it. I used a few weeks ago to create a fake podcast as a side project recently and it sounded pretty good with their highest end model with cranked up tunings.
https://www.gehealthcare.com/products/magnetic-resonance-ima...

https://www.gehealthcare.com/about/newsroom/press-releases/g...

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf21/K213717.pdf
Seems like the manufacturing centers need to be sited on rivers with rights to pull from and with access to sufficient available power, and a way to distribute this product. Are all forests in such condition? Probably not. I've seen some of these forests, they are often in the middle of nowhere connected by dirt roads built by the logging companies. This is marginal land, sometimes leased by the US forest service. Prime land near rivers and power sources isn't going to be squandered when you can get a permit to farm on marginal land or buy it for cheap if its a private holding, just like how you don't see grazing near feedlots. Grazing needs more land, can be done on marginal land, and you can just ship cattle to feedlots elsewhere near meatpacking plants. As a result we graze cattle in places where you sometimes can't even drag a plow, and have feedlots near chicago where cattle can be processed in vast quantity and then distributed.

I will agree that monoculture is no good and neither is taking over virgin forest, but this isn't exactly the only industry on this planet that behaves like this either. Rather than trade paper for plastic we can instead consider how we protect virgin areas from any sort of development. Monoculture is also a risk for industry in the form of crop loss from disease, so I wouldn't be surprised if this begins to change in the future and we see more polycultures farmed, not just in trees either. So if there is a plastic ban favoring domestic paper products instead, as well as sufficient protections in place for existing virgin forest, you can probably expect the value of a tree farm to go up to the point where people who might be using their land for one thing being more inclined to farm trees on this land.
This allegedly includes DR-DOS[0].

0. http://svardos.org/?p=forum&thread=1700161021
I wouldn't say "most phones", but perhaps most of them in China:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/24/1091740/chinese-...
If the client wants Java, I always go with https://quarkus.io/ or hilla.dev. GraalVM allows you to create native executable images.
As a non-citizen, I don't think you have enough rights to really fight back, and you could risk upsetting a petty border agent who may decide to 'punish' you and maybe deny entry.

Thankfully I've learned to back up and wipe devices before travel and then only restore after landing.
For our SaaS [1] we have a plug-in architecture.

And each plugin has a concept called install constraints. They consist of app, tier, and the role of the user provisioning the account.

Based on the right combination, certain plugins get auto installed and the user can enable/disable optional plugins/features.

Upon installation, the plug-in module has a “lifecycle” module with callbacks for install, uninstall, after_install, etc.

In those, we insert db metadata (pages, folders, menu items, etc) related to that plugin.

All is written in elixir.

1: https://simplyscholar.com
It seems to me like we get a lot of stuff done splitting up the brain work.