skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an American living in Berlin. I do a fair of amount of photography here and have some perspective to offer. An important part of the privacy laws is the prohibition on sharing on social media. Even if you can legally take a photo, sharing someone's likeness on Instagram is not allowed without permission and is actionable in court. Newspapers here take care to share different images on social media than they do on their own websites. It's common to see faces blurred on Twitter or Instagram if they even share it.

Even if it is legal, Germans are quick to confront people taking pictures. They will get in your face and yell at you about it and tell you to delete images. It rarely gets physical, if ever, but up to you if you want to deal with all that. This happened to me twice when I was taking photos of crowds, once at a flea market and the other outside a subway station on the street.

Don't even think of bringing a drone. They hate them and the restrictions are severe. I have all the required licensing and insurance and still can't fly in most of the city.

You also need to be aware of cultural differences within the international community. Berlin has a large Arab population and their tolerance of photography seems to be very different, especially if women or children are included. Also, some Slavs and Eastern Europeans are extremely suspicious of people taking pictures of strangers. Be warned.

Don't take pictures on the trains or subways, even selfies. I have seen some people get angry about that.
This is covered in the linked post.

On my phone, using crDroid (no official lineageos support), I can use Google Pay without problems. This wasn't possible when it was still rooted, so I think root access is what prevented that from working before.

As for Google Play, you can just install those right after installing Lineage. Or you use MicroG or something if you don't like the closed source Google services client.
The reason most places don’t do district heating isn’t “oh we don’t have nuclear power”. It’s a lot more “we don’t want to do district heating.”
Even with Google Play Services working, there's a much more difficult underlying issue that makes for a rather unpleasant user experience with banking apps: SafetyNet Attestation/Play Integrity/CTS profiles/whatever other names there are for it.

I remember that ages ago I had to use Magisk and a finnicky Xposed module on my phone to be able to get past the root protection my banking app had. I'll be honest, these days I just don't have the mental energy for those sorts of fights anymore.
or just... unemployed.
Indeed, this is a pet peeve of mine as well. If the silly notion of Roko’s Basilisk has any merit, I wouldn’t want to be that guy.
Besides, transversing an unstable or uneven surface would seem to be a better test, anyway.

I do however find it amusing that it is also apparently a requirement for a humanoid robot to stand up in the most uncanny way possible.
Why does the "Create link" send to https://www.epicgames.com/id/activate?userCode=KPGTBQDJ?

Why do you need to "activate" a code to get my locker?
The idea of AI companions and their role and effects on society has been on my mind a lot lately, and a frequent topic of discussion within my community - which I think is one of the ways we can help mitigate the negative effects of the rise of this technology: community. We need to build and foster more communities, and more functional, long-lasting relationships.

It seems to me that many people don't know how to build and maintain long-lasting relationships of any sort - so quick to find a new romantic/sexual partner, a new Discord server to join, etc. I think we need to figure out how to teach people (preferably at a very young age) how to have conversations - good ones; ones that aren't just exchanging a bunch of anecdotes about oneself - and how to maintain meaningful relationships.

Perhaps just as importantly, we need to teach people why - it's far more rewarding to grow a relationship (either with a person or community) over time, to help each other better ourselves, etc, than it is to attempt to replicate those interactions with an AI.

I think there's also potential to use the technology itself to help teach these skills, but that's certainly a tricky line.
Yeah, but how often do you say "computer" in a querying/interrogatory tone?

That's a perfect opportunity to get better at cosplaying a Starfleet officer.

(Seriously though, a Federation-grade system would just recognize from context whether or not you meant to invoke the voice interface. Federation is full of near-AGI in simple appliances. Like the sliding doors that just know whether you want to go through them, or are just passing by.)
You don’t actually need to hold, just a three-finger tap (anywhere on screen, except keyboard itself) is enough.
Statistically, more and more people spend time online and on phone. I'm not sure if we still reached the peak in terms of internet usage.
ChatGPT-4o – OpenAI's ickiest product yet
Bankruptcy in less than five years. Those small reactors are at best very expensive and have very limited usefulness. You would have to imagine a use case where there's no reliable power grid and no space or climate for solar and wind, which are both cheap, save and scalable. Even emergency systems run reliably on diesel generators and batteries. The reasonable use cases they describe have already been covered. They are competing in a market with better solutions, which is why they have to list "crypto" and "bitcoin" to advertise their own scam.
Multiple studies have found statistical patterns that can be modeled through mathematical functions.

It's not mathematical in a precision and mechanical sense, but the standard deviation of practical observations from the modeled curve is low enough to make it a good predictor and guide for spaced repetition and to optimize time spent to retention ratio.
You did a super job wrapping things up! And I'm not just saying that because I have to!
It's also worth remembering that testing as "super smart" is not the same as being "super smart".

Tests are often singularly-focused, have clear right or wrong answers, and measure smartness.

Real life is uncertain, many competing layers and priorities, and measures wisdom.
I'd bet it can't do it now. I'd be curious to hear what it says in response. Partially because it requires time dependent reasoning about being a participant in a conversation.

It shouldn't be too hard to make this work though. If you make the AI start by emitting either a "my turn to talk" or "still listening" token it should be able to listen patiently. If trained correctly.
> It becomes a household name and at the point it needs to keep things ticking over by investing in things like Brand and Mindshare.

Why? It has quite a virtuous circle of paying creators fairly well and so they're incentivised to keep creating, which will keep people coming. Why assume it needs to change doing what got it where it is?

I think the worst thing it can do is try to start competing with regular TV. It might want to do something like move into publishing independent film behind a low-friction paywall, to fund film creators better, and maybe sponsoring Cannes[0]. But don't just try and become Hollywood. That wouldn't be a good outcome.

[0] I just noticed that TikTok sponsors Cannes! https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/the-festival/they-support...
Why is this minor complaint that's fixed by any one of the many official and unofficial keyboard attachments at the top of HN on an article about fundamental issues which can't be fixed without major iPadOS changes
I wonder how it will work in real life and not in a demo…

Besides - not sure if I want this level of immersion/fake when talking to a computer...

"Her" comes to mind pretty quickly…
Thanks, but that's not the one.
re: defaults versus other options

Why does Google pay hendreds of millions of dollars annually to be a "default search engine" when computer users have the option to change the default settings at any time.
s/Offline/Online/ and make sure it has all the cloud features enabled, so you and your friends and loved ones can become one with the FAANG collective.
We should be thinking pretty hard right about now why this kind of progress and saving these expenses is a BAD thing for humanity. The answer will touch deeply ingrained ideas about what and who should underpin and benefit from progress and value in society.
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You are probably stuck in the “Web 2.0” era, when “YouTube” was “just a video hosting” for “my blog” or “our fan site”. It stopped being that long ago, when “my dog is barking so silly” videos on the front page were replaced with “internet celebrities”. It is clear that enormous amount of money was invested in becoming a TV(+radio) in everyone's pocket. Turn it on, drink the sweet stream of entertainment. Industry understands well that they are competing with YouTube — and also social services which promise the same “push the button and munch” fix. The production process has converged, and principles of working with audience became the same. Each eyeball with legs has x minutes of attention each day, if you manage to grab some of those, you win.

It is also disgraceful to say that something is “on YouTube”, “on Facebook”, etc. Specific people did that, “YouTube” or “Facebook” themselves did not give birth to “content”. That's exactly how public is manipulated to adore the TV boxes, channel logos, and brands, while “creators” become interchangeable nameless… “creators”.
Because app developers will never fully support two interaction modes. They will focus on one while the other will be an after-thought.
I agree it's fundamentally different in application which I think will have a large impact (just like targeted advertising with optimisation vs billboards), but my point is that given people know you can just write anything and yet misinformation is abound - I don't see how knowing that you can fake any picture or video or sound leading to a situation where everyone just stops believing them.

I think unfortunately it will massively lower the trust of actual real videos and images, because someone can dismiss them with little thought.
It truly is.

Like Google's AI that does not let you create images of faces rolls eyes

It is just kinda silly, when ChatGPT cannot tell me how to make a bot to publish posts on my own forum (I did it myself in the end) saying it is for ethical reasons, when OpenAI bots scrape tonnes of sites daily in such an aggressive manner that it comes near to a DOS attack =/
Youtube, weirdly, feels to me more like the web I remember than today's web does. Loads of content creation happening; good discoverability; interesting facets all over the place; historical text; people having fun.
>sometimes the messenger is wrong.

1. the only way a messanger is wrong is if they send the wrong message. Hence the adage.

2. It's all an interpretation of a complex situation, it may not be "right", but it's nearly impossible to find the objective truth. In the abscence of truth, no subjective take can truly be "wrong".

>I think that real solutions to complex problems only arise from analysis and thinking carefully.

And the fatalism comes from the realization that modern societies in an alarming number of sectors simply aren't even trying to solve the problem. they are playing a prisoners dilemma and they are more than happy to defect.
Is this the reason that my old mid/low end android devices become unusable even through they no longer get updates?
Pumped hydro is nowhere near maxed out. What is maxed out is primary hydro on rivers. Pumped hydro doesn't have to be on rivers. I can even be built in deserts, far from any waterways.

Your comments about intermittency are demonstrated to be wrong by detailed modeling. Using the tools available (various kinds of storage, transmission, demand dispatch, efficiency) intermittency can be dealt with at an overall cost lower than trying to use nuclear at its current cost.

I believe that link you are pointing to assumes batteries are used for long term storage. This is a common error (if error it is rather than deliberate deception) that inflates the cost of a 100% RE system considerably.

The "insane" comment is just a handwave. The world is going to spend something like a quadrillion dollars on energy this century. Renewables are very likely going to be the least-cost way of powering the world, when the $1000/tonne externalities of CO2 are included.
Take this bit of pseudocode:

a = readLine()
b = readLine()
print(b)
print(a)

What order are the lines executed in?

In a strict language, the answer is obvious. In a non-strict language, line 4 has a data dependency on line 1 so always executes after it, ditto lines 3 and 2. But how the two groups get interleaved is completely unpredictable, so, if you’re really committed to non-strict evaluation, you need a way to force data dependencies between all four lines such that order of evaluation is forced. Once you achieve that, you have a bunch of ugly-looking machinery that’s peppered across your whole codebase.

Monadic IO (and do-notation in particular) gives us a way to write this sort of code without feeling the urge to gouge our eyes out.
iPadOS is over-simplified in many ways, but not simple. It used to be simple, especially back around the original iPad Air. Now it's just complicated and too simplistic to do any real work.
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Nope, not the one. Mine had a large-ish detailed minimap and generally was really good-looking for its time (think, Comanche-level graphics).
I learned it by reading and so it will be pronounced forever in my head as something like “skwul”. Maybe that could be the compromise?
I am planning too this.
My general recommendation is a plugin-based system.
A lot of business just offer the same product as a SaaS or with integration just installed (like HomeAssistant which offers SSL certs for Alexa, or HelathChecks.io which offers Whatsup/Teams integrations).

Most of the Cusommers didn't care self-hosting, if your SaaS price is decent.

I strongly do not recommend to have two copies of the codebase, because it increase the sync time (like bug fixing portings, for instance).

Sad to say, consider protecting you from AWS/GCP/etc reselling as a service
I watched the release live. They have altered the timings of the anti-stalking notifications but they were there on day 1.

Edit: here is an article around the time of release describing how they work: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/05/05/apple-a...

> To discourage what it calls “unwanted tracking,” Apple built technology into AirTags to warn potential victims, including audible alarms and messages about suspicious AirTags that pop up on iPhones. To put Apple’s personal security protections to the test, my colleague Jonathan Baran paired an AirTag with his iPhone, slipped his tag in my backpack (with my permission), and then tracked me for a week from across San Francisco Bay.

> I got multiple alerts: from the hidden AirTag and on my iPhone.
SEQUEL^2
> Putin has declared very recently he's open to dialogue

Then he can pick up a phone, call Shoigu, and have a dialogue with him about issuing an order down the chain of command to withdraw troops from Ukraine if he is so keen on peace. But he doesn't do that because the goal is not peace, but concessions from Ukraine.
Force of habit?

Most of Starfleet folks seem to not know how to use their replicators well anyway. For all the smarts they have, they use it like a mundane appliance they never bothered to read the manual for, miss 90% of its functionality, and then complain that replicated food tastes bad.
Highly targeted attack on a specific machine. Probably not a threat actor but a red team or some other security researcher.
> "Making our firmware openly available (in Linux-firmware)" is a big one. How are firmware updates currently distributed ?

The "linux-firmware" repo is the standard place to put it, my reading is that Qualcomm are doing this in the right way.
Ask HN: Co-founder doesn't produce work, is unrealiable, doesn't want to leave
I'm the founder of a startup. I patented the technology 4 years ago, it was valuated over $1million, and secured pre-seed investment of $250,000.
I currently own 25%, our investor owns 70% and the co-founder CTO owns 5%.

During our first year, we paid our CTO $84,000 and we spent the rest of the money trying to develop hardware and software. There was a period of time when our CTO was unreliable, wouldn't answer and I still paid him $6,000 because I trusted him.

During that year he didn't produce a working software app, in our second year he still didn't produce an app we could show to our investor.

Another year later, we produced few hardware prototype units, that are bugged, but can be worked with a little. He still hasn't been reliable, so we removed him from being a board member. Several months later, when we all decided together he will keep working as a CTO, he received hardware devices, said he will get to work, and 6 months later we still don't have any work from him.

Instead he is toxic, blames everyone, says he put a lot of work into this (though nothing we can use), and will not walk away and is saying we can buy him out.

We have $0 in our bank currently and having him in the company is just toxic at this point creating terrible mood with me and our investor.

What are our options of removing him and making our product? We still need to spend again over at least $100,000 to build the product.

Me and our investor are on great terms, but he won't to put in more money when our CTO is involved. Can we dissolve the company since it has no money anymore and start a new one without him using our current assets?
Thanks, looking. That's pretty damn close.
I think it was explained pretty well in other comments: it's gatekeeping in the name of "protecting the business" where the main business is only one thing: money laundering. Sure, there are people still buying art to display on their walls, but that's not where the big money is. There's exactly zero painters selling millions of copies of their work the way any halfway decent singer would sell, although everybody decorates their walls with something.
I'm amazed this didn't come up yet as a part of the DMA because everything related to the play services and integrity are a blatant antitrust violation.
Well said, thank you for saving me from having to take the time to say it myself!
This is one of my main issues with AI from someone who hasn't actually used it in my work. I personally believe that doing is key to thinking. Yes, even things you don't want to do, like writing boilerplate or parsing a string for the 20th time develops your thinking, it just depends on what kind of thinking you want to build, really. Like muscles, not doing things allows skills to atrophy.

That's the biggest thing I loathe of AI, is that it will make "skilled" people de-skill themselves and it's why I haven't used it yet.
>prophets of doom should be treated skeptically like anyone else.

the only difference between a cold truth and a prophet of doom is the lens you view it in. In other words, the opinions of the ones receiving the news.

Skepticism is good to have, but this article wasn't about an anthology of 2000's to 2020's unfettered capitalism. The audience of such an article needs to have some awareness of the modern economic situation to get the most out of this.
In Northern Europe, rare occasional Dunkelflauten are best dealt with by an e-fuel backup. The RTE of e-fuels is lousy, but because these events are uncommon that doesn't matter much. Europe has ample geology for storing hydrogen, so it would likely be the e-fuel used.

A simple cycle combustion turbine power plant has a capital cost of maybe 5% of a nuclear power plant; combined cycle, about 10%. So one can substantially back up the entire grid with these at a capital cost low compared to that of powering the grid by nuclear.
retailiator
We have used NuttX for operating both fixed wing and multi-rotor based small UAVs back in 2019 for plantation monitoring.

Looking forward to use it for Gyrocopter UAV where it's like a Goldilocks of UAV, longer range than multi-rotor UAV and more maneuverable than fixed wing UAV.
The (internal) use of DataFusion to create new, powerful extensions for Postgres is a very clever idea. Very good work for the ParadeDB team.

I like this one very much. Very simple way to avoid having to use different set of tools and query languages (or more limited query languages) to query lakes.
Whaaaaat? Cryptocurrencies are a ponzi scheme? Really? Who could have know?
Don't you still need to select the text in the first place ?
The punchline is Point #8!
I agree I’m probably a loon too. I would say 90% is not the number that aren’t ‘up to something interesting’ but 90% cannot do good statistics? I feel pretty good about that number ;)
> has there been any real cases of this?

Apparently so: https://www.businessinsider.com/jobs-lost-in-may-because-of-...

Note that this article is about a year old now.

> Comparing it to the internet is insane, based off of its status as a highly advanced auto complete.

(1) I was quoting you.

(2) Don't you get some cognitive dissonance dismissing it in those terms, at this point?

"Fancy auto complete" was valid for half the models before InstructGPT, as that's all the early models were even trying to be… but now? The phrase doesn't fit so well when it's multimodal and can describe what it's seeing or hearing and create new images and respond with speech, all as a single unified model, any more than dismissing a bee brain as "just chemistry" or a human as "just an animal".
Ah, that's the possibility I wasn't thinking of. Thank you.
I'd wager that it's a humorous description, taking certain virtues to an illogical extreme.

The limited functionality is nevertheless likely referring to features beside the ones described as bloat.
resistance is futile... you have been assimilated.
I mean the iPad with M2 was also absurdly powerful. And I remember people speculating that they'd finally make iPadOS usable when they released the iPad Pro with M1, the first iPad with a laptop chip instead of a phone chip.

That doesn't mean it won't happen this time, I certainly hope it does.
Do you mean root detection? Because running Google apps on lineage OS devices is probably more common than not.
Like, a case of a potential war with Russia or China?

Good luck using diesel when all of it will be prioritised for the military.

Also, no one would care if it's green or not in case of a full-scale war. Your only priority would be to kill as many Russians as possible to survive.
Not this game, but DOS game + reconstruction made me think about something from my childhood.

I used to get around 1h of Internet time (modem) per week. I used this to download stuff that I could use for the rest of the week.

One time I started downloading a game, but a bit too late so I never got to finish the download before my time was up. Of course the game would not work as it was only partially downloaded (IIRC it was a zip file, but not 100% sure).
There was some message from Windows telling me that there was something wrong with the exe. But I continued trying to open the game over and over again (maybe fiddled with the properties?) and one day it magically started, ran for a while and then crashed. It was possible to restart it, but it would crash at the same point every time.

It's still a mystery how it was possible, I guess it only had "content" left and the exe itself was fine, but that doesn't really explain why Windows initially refused to start it.