skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're responding to the editorialized headline. The (too long to fit) link's title is:

openrecall/openrecall: OpenRecall is a fully open-source, privacy-first alternative to proprietary solutions like Microsoft's Windows Recall. With OpenRecall, you can easily access your digital history, enhancing your memory and productivity without compromising your privacy.
The AI/Cartoony person being sent as a birthday wish was super cringey, like something my boomer father would send me. I'm a fan of genmoji. That looks fun. Less a fan of generated clip art and "images for the sake of having an image here", and way, way less into this "here, I made a cornball image of you from other images of you that I have" feature. It's as lame as Animoji but as creepy as deepfakes.
The difference is Apple and OpenAI's privacy policies.
Elsevier pays many authors. They may not pay the authors of some of the journal articles, but they also publish many books which generate royalties that are shared with the authors.

But why does pay have anything to do with this? Why does it justify the piracy? No one is holding a gun to the head of the journal article authors. They're making their own choice to submit it. And why? Probably because they want the fame and hope that it will generate big grants in the future. The editors, typesetters etc at Elsevier have ZERO chance of getting one of those grants.

And you mentioned the other academics who review papers. Again, they're doing it of their own free will. And why? Because they want to stay on the cutting edge. They want a chance to read the papers before they're published. Why? I would think that getting their own big grants is a motivator for many of them. Maybe all of them.

I'm glad that Arxiv is taking off. But riddle me this: why does Elsevier still exist? Why are enough scientists submitting their papers? Because they're making a rational decision about the benefits. They don't want to spend weeks fussing with LaTeX. They don't want to maintain archives. Everyone in this chain is a free person making a free decision.

If you don't like it, don't read the papers. Or complain to the authors who chose Elsevier.

But don't pirate someone's hard work.
I think you will find it extremely difficult to do better than simply checking the probability that each square gives you a spot times the number of victory paths it opens up minus the probability that it gives your opponent a spot times the number of victory paths it opens up for them. Add another clause for paths closed if you want.

Since chance is involved, you will basically never want to do anything but the greediest highest value next action. Sometimes more than half the board has net value of 0 or less which makes them very easy to ignore.
When you have 20 teams building all kinds of features, React is a common, familiar platform with re-usable components. Teams can interchange smoothly, good for retaining and training employees. Well supported, large community, standard testing, a11y, security updates.

For small, one-time projects? Use whatever makes you and your client happy. Just be aware it will be outdated in 5 years, so who will maintain it?
Yes but, is there an email to contact ?
> These are now stuck with the desperate second rate employees who are forced to RTO because they're not good enough to find a job elsewhere

This assumes that RTO is the one and only factor top people consider. Which for most people isn't true. There are usually dozens of factors that go into the equation of should I quit.

My current company is doing a small RTO (2 days), which I don't love, but also don't mind that much. Everything else being equal I'd rather not do that.

But I have awesome coworkers, very good management, many growth opportunities and the company has a nice product. I'm not giving all that up to gamble on a different employer who might turn out to be toxic despite all the promises during the hiring process (BTDT).
Little pills make a universe of difference.
But Apple is vertically integrating. Thats like Ford buying Bridgestone.

The only way it hurts Nvidia is if Apple becomes the runaway leader of the pc market. Even then, Apple hasn’t shown any intent of selling GPUs or AI processors to the likes of AWS, or Azure or Oracle, etc.

Nvidia has a much bigger threat from with Intel/AMD or the cloud providers backward integrating and then not buying Nvidia chips. Again, no signs that Apple wants to do this.
I agree, this is the biggest annoyance with voice assistants today. The good news is that, as you noted, the technology to interpret complex/unclear requests is definitely already here today with ChatGPT.

I think that Apple demoed this today where the presenter changed her mind mid-sentence during a weather query.

I'm hopeful that means they've added a LLM to interpret the intent of user requests.
I really need to unfuck my notifications; I'm getting them from Chrome (Google Calendar), Office (work calendar), and MacOS calendar (where I have a copy of all of them). Should unify that stuff.

Oh, and I get more notifications on my other laptop which has some similar calendars.

And my phone, too.
Ironically, I feel like Apple might have lost me as a customer today. It won't matter to Apple, obviously, but so much of what they showed today I just felt was actively pushing me out of the ecosystem.

I first bought some devices for myself, then those devices got handed off to family when I upgraded, and now we're at a point where we still use all of the devices we bought to date - but the arbitrary obsolescence hammer came down fairly hard today with the intel cut-off and the iPhone 15+ requirement for the AI features. This isn't new for Apple, they've been aging perfectly usable devices out of support for years. We'll be fine for now, but patch support is only partial for devices on less-than-latest major releases so I likely need to replace a lot of stuff in the next couple of years and it would be way too expensive to do this whole thing again. I'll also really begrudge doing it, as the devices we have suit us just fine.

Some of it I can live without (most of the AI features they showed today), but for the parts that are sending off to the cloud anyway it just feels really hard to pretend it's anything other than trying to force upgrades people would be happy without. OCLP has done a good job for a couple of homework Macs, I might see about Windows licenses for those when they finally stop getting patches.

I'd feel worse for anyone that bought the Intel Mac Pro last year before it got taken off sale (although I'm not sure how many did). That's got to really feel like a kick in the teeth given the price of those things.
Why the fanboyism? It's not a tournament. Let's embrace competition and enjoy that it brings the best out of each OS.
I would assume the answer is 'just network bro', as if that's supposed to actually be helpful.
Hello I'm interested, is there an email address to contact ? Thank you
> Most of the multithreaded function calls will set a flag in shared memory and return early, expecting caller to poll.

Which is exactly switching from function calls to event-driven architecture, and the problems with that are exactly the problems we're talking about.
You again fail to recognize the disticntion between free software and open source.

Does this make your reply also editorialized?
Siri was quite impressive when it came out. I just felt it never got significantly better until it became an embarrassment
It's been too long since I posted to edit this, so I'll reply to my own comment: something else my car does that isn't at all unique and some people might be delighted to learn (if theirs supports it too), is that if you hold down the unlock button on the keyfob (rather than press it), it lowers all of the electric windows, and if you hold down the lock button, it raises them. Useful if you left one of your windows open and it starts raining; you don't need to go to the car to shut the windows.
I think that basically stretched the limit of what local model can achieve today, which also makes their image API almost useless for any serious generative art developers.
I don't think these actions are hardcoded with the App Intents framework. Even today you can ask Siri to run arbitrary shortcuts via custom keywords.
are you, by chance, giving the computer artificially poor luck? My opponent has been rolling so amusingly poorly that I have to wonder if he's handicapped somehow?
My local garden place use to tell me roundup was safe to drink.

A few years later the that big cancer lawsuit hit the news.
These days it even shows you a popup that asks something along the lines of "are you sure you want this app and not the iCloud Keychain tab in System Preferences".
Assistive APIs require active participation from all software - and said software to use them properly, thus it creates as many obstacles as the number of programs (or actually, UI elements) on a computer.

AI-based OCR does not, there is only a single obstacle and that is the AI OCR itself.

With the former you need every developer who ever contributed/will contribute to everything that ends up on your screen to participate properly. With the latter you only need the developers of AI OCR to participate and then it can work with anything exposed on screen regardless of if the program uses (or even can use) assistive APIs or not.

While the latter is obviously much harder, once (if) it works you get consistent results for everything and even if the results are consistently mediocre, they're better than consistently absent.

IMO even aside for things like recall etc, assistive software will be taking advantage of AI and OCR in the future so it can work regardless of what the individual programs do.
Congrats on launching! What is your ideal target user? What is the hardest use case that is solved with thread.dev that cant be solved with existing tools? What is the architecture of thread? Frontend is in react and you start jupyter server in background?
Access denied - The owner of this website (tamim.io) does not allow hotlinking to that resource
3D-printed skin closes wounds and contains hair follicle precursors
Imagine the memory on their server is encrypted with an on-processor key (something like intel SGX) -- reading OS memory, e.g dumping from linux or hardware, you can't read it unless you somehow extract the key (which are different on each chip) from the physical chip. Now, the process running using that encrypted memory generates TLS keys for you to send the data, and operates on it only inside this secure enclave.

There is no way to access it without destroying the chip, and even in this scenario it will be extremely expensive and imo unlikely, certainly impossible at scale. Some scientists may be able to do it once in a lab.
I think the only way I would trust this is if they explicitly described how they would combat 5-eyes surveillance. If you're not willing to acknowledge that the most dangerous foe of privacy in the western world is the governments of the western world then why should I believe anything you have to say about your implementation?
Cloud compute and privacy in the same sentence, this is a new low bar for corporate bull*hit. Almost worse than the Windows Recall nonsense.
I will trust independent audits of local code and local hardware. There are still plenty of opportunities for someone to send out malicious patches, but the code running can (and probably will) be analysed by journalists looking for a scoop and security researchers looking for a bug bounty.

I have no idea what code is running on a server I can't access. I can't exactly go SSH into siri.apple.com and match checksums. Knowing Apple's control freak attitude, I very much doubt any researcher permitted to look at their servers is going to be very independent either.

Apple is just as privacy friendly as ChatGPT or Gemini. That's not necessarily a bad thing! AI requires feeding lots of data into the cloud, that's how it works. Trying to sell their service as anything more than that is disingenuous, though.
DO NOT BUY THAT (OR ANY) 12TB RUST DRIVE FROM AMAZON. I bought a 12TB drive same day delivery so I could blow away my 1.4TB home folder with no qualms about slowly reclaiming what I need/use from the backup for a month before I "freeze" the data on a shelf.

Instead of copying my library to my shiny Boox Note Air 2 and playing with my new toy, I spent Sunday hovering over an rsync transfer, cork tapping the spindle when it started clicking and grinding after having it for less than two weeks.
Probably a bit of both.

Assuming the oft-cited Delaware River and Palmyra references are genuine, no, Blackburne Rubbing Mud does not own any public property in Palmyra. Blackburne's registered address is 60 miles away. There's about a mile of riverfront on a public park, an industrial warehouse, and some condos.

He's stealing the mud from public property. I'm sure that he'd be arrested if he showed up with an excavator and tried to start a gravel pit on a nature trail, but, it turns out, you can boast on national media about taking dirt from a public park if you only take a couple hundred pounds of it a year and do it sneakily, two bucketfuls at a time.
Climate change is deadly. how deadly? Depends who's counting
Arithmetic Formats for Machine Learning – Report from IEEE WG P3109 – ARITH 2024 [pdf]
I have interviewed people who have attested to having a Java certification from Oracle that while they were able to pass that test, they were unable to use their knowledge to develop solutions or solve problems.

I could ask about how the class loader worked or the syntax associated with a particular construct (that that language level - not anything later) and get the correct answer.

They could pass tests and follow instructions.

Licensure for problem solving is difficult. Extend that to different domains and it is an even harder problem to solve.

https://www.nspe.org/resources/pe-magazine/may-2018/ncees-en...

> The Software Engineering PE exam, which has struggled to reach an audience, will be discontinued by the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying after the April 2019 administration. The exam has been administered five times, with a total of 81 candidates.

> NCEES’s Committee on Examination Policy and Procedures reviews the history of any exam with fewer than 50 total first-time examinees in two consecutive administrations and makes recommendations to the NCEES Board of Directors about the feasibility of continuing the exam.

> In 2013, the software exam became the latest addition to the family of PE exams. The exam was developed by NSPE, IEEE-USA, the IEEE Computer Society, and the Texas Board of Professional Engineers—a group known as the Software Engineering Consortium. Partnering with NCEES, the consortium began working in 2007 to spread the word about the importance of software engineering licensure for the public health, safety, and welfare.

> This collaboration was preceded by Texas becoming the first state to license software engineers in 1998. The Texas Board of Professional Engineers ended the experience-only path to software engineering licensure in 2006; before the 2013 introduction of the software engineering PE exam, licensure candidates had to take an exam in another discipline.
A decent salesperson goes to battle to beat the customer and extract maximum value.

A great salesperson looks for a win-win so both sides are happy and return to do frequent future business.

Sales<->customer isn't that different from employer<->employee on this.
Sadly this will take off, and be tied to everything apple. From a tech perspective I would never use their tools even if they are the most convenient. But the reality is most people will see this as the only option for password management, and 1password isn't free, so for them they will see no better way out.
> Again, every NJT commuter to NYC from NJ is subsidized by NJ to earn money in NYC and pay taxes to NYS. NJ's subsidization of NJT reduces the number of car trips into Manhattan dramatically.

Agreed, and agreed. But the "why" is important: NJ subsidizes NJT because it keeps people living in the state, which has its own taxes.

I don't mean to come off as stridently anti-NJ here -- I agree that the two are mutually interdependent, and that an abstractly fair congestion pricing deal would include funding for NJT as well (and not just MTA). But that's only half the story: NJ's pols have dug themselves into an "over our dead bodies" position on any amount of congestion charging, have failed to move NJT/MTA collaborative projects forwards, have fought NYS tooth and nail over Gateway's funding[2], and torpedoed their own NJT modernization and expansion projects[1].

In the status quo, my perspective as a NYer is that the MTA is (shambolically) moving towards a better status quo, while NJ digs in on a position that's ultimately incompatible with the region's long term livability and economic growth. I can't think of a good reason why it should be this way since, even at a deficit, both sides ultimately benefit from better commuter networks.

(On a related note: I checked the 2025 NJ budget[3], and there's a $6B surplus forecasted. So I don't wholly understand why NJ is considering cutting NJT's budget by $600M[4], or why maintenance has been deferred for so long.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_to_the_Region%27s_Core

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_Program_(Northeast_Cor...

[3]: https://www.njlm.org/1280/2025-NJ-State-Budget

[4]: https://www.nj.com/news/2024/04/nj-transit-study-targets-600...
Sure. Sam and other executives probably took an hour of their time to decide what they would write in the blog post to appease the critics (which is par for the course for any public-facing company as widely known as OpenAI †), and then maybe another hour meeting with their lawyers to prepare in case of a suit, three weeks ago.

But in the grand scheme of things, I don't think it's in their top 15 priorities. People here talk as if the Her thing was almost an existential threat to Altman's leadership.

† See Apple's recent apology for their ad. Do you think Tim Cook or his executives lose sleep because of the backlash? https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/09/tech/apple-apologizes-for...
I haven't found this to be the case. Does Siri explicitly refuse to answer questions, or does it misunderstand you? Maybe the microphone in your car makes hearing difficult?
Depending on how you mean "AI", I can see 2 uses:

* First, yes you can often use a11y APIs, but OCR is likely to be useful/needed for apps that don't play well with those for whatever reason.

* Once you have the text, I could potentially see value in AI/LLM fuzzy searching; it's easier to say "find something I saw about a new programming language yesterday" than "search for... oh what was the title of that page? Oh, I'll just search for 'language' and hope it was mentioned..."
I would suggest defining any acronyms in the title of an article in the introduction section of the article.

Had to get to PART 6 to answer my first question: What is an "ROV"?

"The solution was to use an ROV, Remote Operated Vehicle "
I would have thought that two parents working and not technology would have been the major contributor to loss of the community in early periods.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think it didn't display the outcome of the dice in this case. And it would be nice to have some hint that shows that this game ends in a Tie.
The triplebyte interviews were pretty tightly scripted to try and remove interviewer bias. If you did two interviews with TB, you would have found them pretty similar.

We also did tell candidates what to expect and how to prepare. Most candidates didn’t read our preparation notes. The people who did did better in the interview.

(Source: I was one of TB’s interviewers.)
In the context of off-device processing, it's worth keeping in mind that US surveillance laws have recently expanded in their scope and reach:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/16/house-fisa-g...
It's worth noting that this is Windows only, and needs you to install the iCloud native client there (which might not be an option on managed devices).

It doesn't work as a standalone Chrome extension in the way that 1Password or Bitwarden do, for example.
This is awesome. Synthetic dyes are prevalent because of their vividness and colorfastness. But natural dyes develop patina and are better for the environment
It’s a classic bubble. People are overpaying for chips (tulips) because other people are overpaying for chips. The big tech giants see the entertainment value in LLM and don’t want to be caught pants down. These investments are mostly being made on blind faith, not on the basis that any real value will come from it. There isn’t going to be an AI-pocalypse, but we are going to eliminate a lot of copy and paste cookie cutter shit even faster than before. Marketing and advertising feels like an area where that might happen. But the true creative marketing people, who aren’t just the same person at every car dealership or supermarket but truely creative innovators will not be affected. Apply the same logic throughout the marketplace. It’s all worthless shit work anyway. Big tech is uniquely positioned to take advantage of this and be the provider of choice, but it’ll be a race to the bottom in terms of pricing. It’ll end up being a waste of money and the shareholders will punish the ones who go too far. Apple had their chance today and all we see is UX and workflow stuff, not some new “intelligence”. Shit, half their play is just making buttons to send shit to ChatGPT. This shit is desperation and grasping at straws to make good on our egos, to try to make something out of nothing because we fell for something so many humans have falled for: if someone (or thing) is well spoken, they are trustworthy and valuable. Great religious orators have long used this to control the masses. Not to invoke Godwin’s Law, but look at Hitler. This mathematical parlor trick IS the level up. Computers can generate probablisticly realistic words, images and audio. That’s it. It’s already happened. The data wall is looming and we’re all going to go back to laboriously training ML like we have for 20+ years to get little incremental improvements. It’s a bubble. You’re fine.

See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
How many independent eyeballs are on Gemini's servers or OpenAI's?
It's a lot easier to implement the HTML5 parsing algorithm from the spec than trying to reverse engineer it yourself. That's a completely separate matter from the confused belief that "ignor[ing] everything that's not modern HTML5 and CSS3" would somehow "cut down on the scope significantly".
Yeah but that's paginated by id.
Not everybody appreciates platform lock-in (whether the platform is a browser or an OS).
Yep.

I remember vividly the comment on Windows Recall that said if the same was done by Apple it would be applauded. Here we are.
Writing fast string ufuncs for NumPy 2.0 – Labs
There's a Docker image that has worked out of the box for me.
A deeper issue missed here is his comment: "I am not saying that the warming does not cause problems. Obviously it does. Obviously we should be trying to understand it better. I am saying that the problems are grossly exaggerated. They take away money and attention from other problems that are more urgent and more important, such as poverty and infectious disease and public education and public health, and the preservation of living creatures on land and in the oceans, not to mention easy problems such as the timely construction of adequate dikes around the city of New Orleans."

That's one of the core problems with his statement: the deeply wrong declaration that these are disconnected problems. Every. Single. One. of those things is made worse by climate change. From disease to poverty to the collapse of fish biomass to the flooding of New Orleans.