skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are advertisers following you around town?

Yes

> Bothering you at work?

Yes

> Hounding you in the loo?

If I'm taking a shit and open my phone. But also, sometimes at the urinal. I mean they put ads right in front of your face.

> Personally it seems like my data has been stolen from just about every company I've ever given it to EXCEPT for Google.

Google isn't in the business of selling ads, they are in the business of selling data. To make those ads more pervasive, targeted, and effective. A good ad goes unnoticed, it is often "native."

But to me, I just think about it this way. If some dude was following me around and writing down everything I do (maybe no the exact content of my words, but who I talk to, when, where I go, etc -- metadata), I'd be fucking pissed and call law enforcement for stalking. Now I don't understand why this is okay if the dude's name is Mark, Sundar, or Satya. I don't care that they're really good at hiding and that their note taking often goes unnoticed. I think it is creepy and immoral behavior.

And beyond that, I know what that data can do. Yes, it can be used to make a lot of useful things. I work in ML, data is POWERFUL. But a coin is a coin, and it can be spent on good things or bad things. Hell, there are even good ads. But the truth of the matter is that there are far too many abuses. More than I think is acceptable. I worry about growing abuse and the slow boiling of a frog[0]. The temperature (both metaphorical and literal) has risen all my life, I see no reason to think that it will cool down if we just continue business as usual. Each little instance of temperature rise may be small and not uncomfortable, but that doesn't mean that given enough time the temperature doesn't rise to a deadly point. I cannot stress this enough, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions." Evil is not (exclusively) created by evil men doing evil things. Evil is more often created by good men with good intentions. It is because the world is complex and because what we build and what we create takes on a life of its own, outside our hands, and outside what we imagined it could/would do. Ethan Zuckerman is not an evil man for creating something so universally hated, and he even created it with good intentions. But this is just the nature of the world and it means to be vigilant and careful. To be clear, it does not mean to stop progressing. But it does mean to be aware that the environment changes and that it is easy to get off track.

It's easy to point fingers at specific people, but I think it is more important to recognize the complexity of reality. Because if that isn't considered, you just create a vacuum for the same evil/abuse to rise again. And again, often by people who have no malintent. And that's the issue: the world is too fucking complex and we want it to be simple(er) and we will often try to bend over backwards to make it so, because we humans were not designed for this. But we are capable of processing it. So, will we?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
I have emailed him a few times after I read the book. He was pretty responsive.
Compressed-Language Models for Understanding Compressed File Formats: JPEG
Then it's a lot of hot air where UTC would suffice.
Wasn't nano released after the CUA spec? Hardly seems correct calling these "modern" keybinds
*right clicks* *context menu covers entire screen*

You can't drag and drop widgets in the hierarchy view, which sucks when a container has a width/height of zero because it has no widgets inside of them yet.

It's not terrible, but it could be better.

I can't be the only one feels this is weird, right? Like, you have a team who can create an entire IDE, even rendering widgets and dragging them around, but somehow things like organizing a context menu in submenus and making the designer intuitive is too hard. And this is a consistent theme in every one of these apps. The things that should be the hardest to program are programmed, the easiest to implement quality-of-life improvements are lacking. GPU-accelerated video transitions in a timeline based video editor? Easy peasy. A status bar that actually displays statuses? Absolutely impossible to implement.
This. I used to lay awake for hours, my mind racing. Started taking melatonin every night about 30 mins before going to bed and life has much improved. Once in a while I’ll lay awake like the old days but for the most part I’m out quickly. I never was able to find anything that worked like this
When I look at the Ukraine situation I get very nervous thinking about having a large number of nuclear reactors spread out over a country. They would be perfect bombing targets and could contaminate wide areas.
Who could be in command of a powerful AGI? Couldn't anyone with temporary access to the system have it generate a game plan for how that person can steal the agi?
Alzheimer's Takes a Financial Toll Long Before Diagnosis, Study Finds
Ask HN: Anyone left their job because of RTO?
Rumours has it, our company is planning RTO. I've been working remote for over a decade and not planning to go back to the office.

I was wondering if anyone here went through this and actually left because RTO was enforced. How did you go through it all? appreciate any feedback.
What's the difference between correcting a lunar-bound oscillator for this new time standard versus correcting it for UTC?
They are in a business of showing you ads. Showing your private data to someone is not in their interest.
I understand the motivation from the OAI side. what does apple gain though?

The purported google deal made a lot more sense to me. OAI is terrified of google, and Apple could mitigate Pixel differentiating against iPhone. Google would get a bunch of training data as well.
15 Pro is 8GB
the foundation owns the corporation and can dissolve it if it turns evil. There's no similar public-good outfit that can dissolve Google.
They almost assuredly have and will continue to. But it may not be ready fast enough.

Putting an AI assistant in every Apple product (it would have to be ecosystem wide) is nowhere near the same use case as dropping a model like llama on the web and saying it’s for research only.

Apple has successfully leaned on other company’s services for core features (Google maps) and even then it took years and years to create a reasonably compelling first party, privacy preserving alternative.

The Vision Pro is the company’s most risky bet in some time releasing a product that is not quite there. Reporting is there was great rancor over whether to continue to wait.

The company is exceedingly conservative about major changes to how its consumer-facing products behave and releasing anything new that isn’t ready.

This is true inclusive of the VP (which I think was well baked), AirPower (which clearly was not) the original iCloud and a handful of other stand out miss-calculations and failures.

A deal with OpenAI provides leading edge expectations of today’s consumers for AI assist. So, they won’t lose ground while Apple works quietly in the background.

Instead the company can watch behavior, develop their idea for how it aught to be and build in the background on their own timeline.

It's a good approach given the company was caught as flat footed as everyone else.
And?

Are you sure you understand the comment you are replying to? Your replies makes less and less sense. They just look like an attempt to pick a stupid fight.

If this needs repeating: I didn't deny that the project has a JIT compiler. I denied it was it's main goal. What you quoted confirms what I claim, but you seem to be misunderstanding this quote too?
I get that that's the default now, but can't help but hate it. When you search for like `dog house` to have a bunch of results for just house (marked "Missing: ~dog~" ) it's so dumb. Why would I have typed dog unless that was important to me??
People would probably feel confused, because that "reversal" doesn't reflect reality, and they would also probably wonder what you feel that proves, if anything.
OCR from smartphone camera could easily make mistakes that would be difficult to detect and correct.

What I would do is look for some kind of encoding that makes errors extremely unlikely. If I had to dump the entire laptop's drive, I'd rather leave the laptop running for a week once than use a faster method that introduces errors.

I don't know much about error correction, so let's take naive approach. 320MB (drive size) in a week is 530 bytes per second. I don't know what's the screen refresh rate (and reaction time) but it's sensible to assume that if we display any image at 4Hz and record it with a smartphone, we won't miss frames or have any other funny artifacts. So it's like 135 bytes per frame, which is 1080 bits. If we divide the 8.4 inch 640x480 screen into squares 16 by 16 pixels, then we have 1000 squares 0.5 by 0.5cm. If each square is either black or white for 0.25 seconds, then camera artifacts shouldn't affect the transferred data too much, and the bandwidth is almost exactly what we need.
Biomedical paper retractions have quadrupled in 20 years
They did, about 108 years ago.
Same company. Per Wikipedia:

> FCA US, LLC, doing business as Stellantis North America and known historically as Chrysler.
I can’t imagine apple has chip production scaled to the point it could support all the inference queries coming from all the iPhones
> advantage of Lorlatinib is high penetration of the blood-brain barrier

Why is this essential to fighting lung cancer?
Posting this demonstrates a clear lack of understanding of how the US government works - and a gross misunderstanding of the founding of the US and the framer's intentions.

The "And?" was a prompt for the poster to elaborate on their uninformed view. You apparently saw fit to double-down on expressing your lack of understanding as well...

Perhaps you would like to take a swing at explaining how Congress passing a law somehow "subverts" Congress?
In California, they definitely wouldn't do anything.
It would be useful if I could send people Signal link where they could login with their Facebook/Google/Instagram account (OIDC) to chat with me over Signal.
Signal no longer requires phone numbers as identifiers, so this might be feasible.
The brand recognition is surely flowing from the iPhone to ChatGPT.

They’ll have to rebrand siri though
> Contrasting this to AMD’s high degree of CPU support on even old Ryzen motherboards, it’s as if Intel introduced this incompatibility intentionally.

That is because they introduced it intentionally.

They don't give a rat's ass about how this screws people over and creates e-waste. Pencil pushers at Intel just couldn't figure out how to put consumer goodwill on a balance sheet.
Everyone with an office job was still a lot of people though.
> Mountain View is one of the handful of cities in the country with a triple-A municipal bond rating.

Having Google headquartered there probably helped their finances.
Imagine that. A new plague every four years.
That's what BitTorrent is for. The main issue with torrenting is that non-viral content is going to have very low availability.
I agree! I certainly don't think that making the offer is itself a firing. However, when the offer is declined and the person must leave the company as in the described scenario...
They do all these things even if you don't. Even if you don't have a google account. The degree in which they do is higher if you do, but that doesn't remove it, it just lessens it.

And it is worth noting that even turning off your GPS, you can still be followed. The very nature of how cell service works requires the ability to locate you, even if not to the same precision level (as aforementioned).

There are of course trade-offs and this nature does not mean the tech is bad. But it does mean that we need to be aware of how it is used and how it can be abused. It is okay for mistakes to happen, but we need to fix them and resolve them, not ignore them or underplay them. My larger fear is that we live in a cluttered house and all these conversations end up being "well that piece of paper on the ground isn't that bad. That doesn't mean I'm messy." Because that is true. But there's a million instances of that and the accumulation is what creates the messy/cluttered house, not any singular piece of trash. If we can't see the forest from the trees, we're doomed. Because most of the problems that exist in our modern world are through these larger complex chains of coupled interactions. Where singular events are not that bad, but the system is.
Guess I missed it.
You are North American? Most of the world was much less online in 2004.[1]

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/internet-history-just-begun
For creative tasks, for example, Llama 3 is much better. GPT-4 is very sterile, Llama is much more whimsical, and has a lot more character.
I think this is more strategic than about whether or not apple could make an AI if they wanted to. OpenAI plays MS off Apple, Apple plays Google off OpenAI. Apple probably gets very favorable terms from OpenAI due to the market they're opening up to them.
People look at this and think "dumb politicians" but that's not the right conclusion. The security teams responsible for protecting them are to blame, yes, even for poor password choices and drarkweb leaks.
As I was reading I felt like my 'visibility' at any given time was only like 1-1.5 pages into the past. Sometimes less.

Meaning the context for what I was reading, my understanding, went back about that far.

So I basically experienced it as "word soup" with some identifiable parts in like the last page, that I could sort-of kind-of divine a narrative from, somewhat.
My sense is an LLM is like Broca's area. It might not reason well, but it'll make good sounding bullshit. What's missing are other systems to put boundaries and tests on this component. We do the same thing too: hallucinate up ideas reliably, calling it remembering, and we do one additional thing: we (or at least the rational) have a truth-testing loop. People forget that people are not actually rational, only their models of people are.
This makes me glad I have iCloud Private Relay turned on for all of my devices and my wife’s devices. Clicking on this link showed my location as Birmingham, Alabama, more than 1000 miles away from my actual location in northern Iowa. Several of the other IP geolocation sites others have linked in this thread showed places like Chicago (closer), and Dallas (much further).
Fair feedback. My team is working hard to up level the documentation. But sometimes complex problems require complex solutions and it is quite the art to capture the 80% use case while leaving room for the rest.

I also think these questions are driven from a CYA perspective. Most of the enterprise companies I talk to are interested in offloading risk on to their cloud provider (but still somehow wanting every single knob available).
Tracking Gemini Models with Pipedream
There doesn't have to be anything new. You don't have to participate or gatekeep anyone from participating on a continued discussion.
What about more clickbait?

> Because of the many twists, the universe could contain copies of itself that might look different from the original, making them less easy to spot in maps of the cosmic microwave background.
What Google orders do you believe Mozilla followed?
Something like this but for The Iliad would be awesome
with a hex editor, I wonder how many bytes it would take to input a binary program that output the data to the screen as a series of black and white images, like a QR code but not. So you wouldn't be trying to OCR characters which has the problems mentioned, but you'd have to get the program into it first.
Look at the screenshot in the article. If a human Facebook representative would give that response, would you not trust them? And if not, how would you apply the Scientific Method to fact-check it?
It seems like a reasonable complaint, but a subset of

"Your bug is neither a regression nor a severe issue."

Since the paid developers, just like literally everyone else who contributes, do fix the most serious bugs in their areas of expertise/responsibility, but triage some reports as not the most valuable use of their time, or, if applicable, their company's resources.
==I would not be surprised if it once served a racist function==

It is a verifiable fact found across the country [0]. Many of the covenants still exist today, although they are legally unenforceable. That said, I have read many comments on this site about how non-competes have long been considered legally unenforceable, but can still have a chilling effect on those impacted (Thankfully, this has recently changed).

I think the more interesting aspect, in regards to today's world, is how HOAs lead to even higher housing costs during a housing affordability crisis. This happens through both explicit expenses (monthly HOA dues) and implicit expenses (lawn maintenance, regulation of architectural changes/additions, rental restrictions, etc.) on homeowners.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2021/11/17/1049052531/racial-covenants-h...
Lol on hacker news i was blasted for suggesting the primary use of air tags was recovering stolen goods. Ah last laugh feels good once in awhile.
What even is the box? Inside the ADHD mind
55% isn’t big to be when you consider they made the content, though the cost’s for video are probably higher than most things online.
Latent Inhibition and Creativity
Which has a benefit of alerting you if a stalker has planted an airtag on you or your car or something
Wrong.

From https://abcnews.go.com/US/new-york-election-law-center-trump...

Prosecutors allege that Trump falsified the records to hide a violation of New York Election Law Section 17-152 – a rarely used law that prohibits groups from using unlawful means to influence an election.
Sill down.
“…Visit http://trust.salesforce.com for current system status and availability.”
I think you are only looking at a point in time and not considering the impact of incentives over time.
“ We used mercury in fur clothing and lead in gasoline also because they were nontoxic.”

Ah, yes. That nontoxic mercury not at all turning our hatters mad.
An accident of lighting uncovers origins of the astrolabe
Prison in the US is hardly civilized.
> Showing your private data to someone is not in their interest.

Showing your private data to someone is not in their interest yet
While I'm at it, the very attitude of "that's not my problem" reveals your foreignness (or if you are from here and very young, perhaps the sad fact that civic culture is dying everywhere but maybe new england)

America has or has traditionally had a strong culture of self determination and citizen involvement in and ownership of politics and government policy.

Another word for this is democracy. Real, genuine, messy democracy. America is not a service provider to you. It is a union or coop you are a part of.

You are not a customer of your country. You are a member. A shareholder.

This attitude is I know very foreign to many people who come from elsewhere and only know authoritarian states or democracies in name only. Or very young people who have caught on that civic culture is dying in most of America.

But it's fundamentally diametrically opposed to what this country has always been intended to be at its best. it is very very much your problem
What a useful waste of time.

There are already hundreds of websites, boards and aggregators that could be improved with a single input field
This is a 1 year old post with unsubstantiated/anecdotal claims. Plausibly true but insufficient evidence to conclude it's factual.
I mean IME with Pluralsight, I fully meant what I said. Most videos barely go beyond the documentation.

I've paid for Lynda (now LinkedIn learning), Frontend Masters, Egghead, educative.io, Udacity, Laracasts, UI.dev, Safari, Ardan Labs, etc.

If you want to interview for a FAANG job, educative.io has the best content. Everything else on the site is extremely poor but hey if you need to refresh on system design or leetcode patterns no other content is as good.

I use to like Frontend Masters, but the decay rate of their courses is too high. You can take a workshop from 2 months ago but the instructor will never mention the version of the language they use and often the project files will fail to install. I absolutely do not think this is a good thing and should absolutely not be tolerated. You can blame NodeJS but it's a terrible indictment when 90% of your catalog is worthless. I've also disliked the new generation of instructors they have where it's mostly the same 3-4 people every year that always talk about the same topics. It's disappointing because this would be a service I use to recommend every frontend dev 3 years ago.

The only thing I continued to subscribe to is Safari/O'Reilly. Here you get books from all the major publishers and some decent courses as well (like Ultimate Go by Bill Kennedy); but I won't be renewing this. Books on extremely advance topics aren't released in massive amounts annually. There's like maybe one or two software books truly worth buying every year. Here's what I've bought the last 5 years (Beautiful Code, The Cathedral & the Bazaar, The Soul of a New Machine, Writing An Interpreter In Go, Game Engine Black Book, Refactoring UI).

Maybe I've progressed enough in my career that I see the best way to learn is to just read the docs ASAP then just build as many things as possible after. I truly mean build too, you can't watch someone make a project for you and copy them. You have to struggle when learning, because that's how you confirm your priors and what you actually know. There's also the benefit of just getting better at delivering software the more you make.

They've done studies about pottery classes where two groups of students were graded differently, one would be graded on the amount of pottery they make and the other would be graded on a single piece at the end of the system. The students that were graded on the amount of pottery tended to do better and make more advance things. This mimics my experience as a dev too.
> How AI could is on cusp of breakthrough that'd allow people and ANIMALS to talk to each other in '12 to 36 months'

It sounds like they are still working on the AI breakthrough to allow journalists to talk to people
Carp ?

https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp
I’ll agree in some capacity that ads are a scourge today, but what’s your alternative? You can’t just burn down the world ave start fresh, there has to be a better way and a plan to transition. Those who would just burn the world down are not mature. This applies to just parts of the world, too, such as “advertising must burn” or “let Y country burn because of X problem” (paraphrasing).

I cannot agree on blackballing workers. That’s just another form of control we shouldn’t exercise. Imagine if someone blackballed you for your career doing whatever you do? They’re just trying to survive and earn a living. Maybe I’ll agree on shaming and calling out execs though.
Not to mention that they know people have to upgrade, and in not that long of a time (5 years-ish?).

The strategy doesn't work if it was something like a car where the lifespan is 20+ years, but with high turnover they have people over a barrel. Now AMD competes, but I think we forget that this is a new thing (and likely because if you're on HN, you're deep in this environment). So the big question is: will Intel continue, or will they recognize that they don't have the choice anymore. That is, of course, as long as AMD decides to not play the same game.
The newsreel attempts to present Stalin as a good man: some children run up to him and call out "Uncle Joseph, give us some candy!". Stalin replies: "Fuck off."

The message then pops up: "He could have killed them!"
I like posts like this.

I learn something about a tool I love and have used for 10 years and it isn't snarky, flamebait nor preachy.
No need for any programming language in Windows 9X, just open a DOS prompt and use 'copy file.txt COM1: /B'. We used that trick back in the DOS days to print raw ASCII files on parallel (LPT1:) or serial (COM1:) devices. I'm willing to bet it still works on Win11.