skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft was also up by leaps and bounds when Ballmer was in charge and RIM had its highest market cap in 2010 - three years after the iPhone was introduced.

That has nothing to do with whether Google has the ability to create new great products and it has failed miserably at that over the past decade.
I don't know, there are some other contenders. For example, some of the more funny ones:

- 2016 - when he staged the Tesla 'self-driving' video

- 2016 - Tesla will self-drive from Los Angeles to New York, fully autonomously

- 2016 - SpaceX will launch manned missions to Mars by 2022

- 2017 - Boring Company received a "verbal government approval" to build an underground Hyperloop between New York and Washington DC, which will allow a travail between those in 29mins

- 2019 - 1 million Robotaxis on the road by 2020 (funnily it included some mock-ups of the ride-sharing app already !)

- 2024 - Tesla Roadster will be able to fly.

I'm very glad that people are waking up.

Even Fred Lambert, who is Editor in Chief of Electreck, and who spent looong years promoting Musk and Tesla. For which service, he was promised 2 free Tesla Roadsters. He recently realized these will never happen.
> "all rights are temporary and can be revoked on a whim"

That is the basis on which practically everything I have purchased from American companies (or their subsidiary in a tax haven) exists.
What did Bush add to the process that was significantly new?
Aside from just standing and watching dumbfounded in front of a bunch of children.

The US may have used existing knowledge, but 'perfected' requires something more, and it certainly wasn't during Bush.

Its also just muddying the water, when you have two major powers that have been involved in almost a century of targeted subversion, and irregular warfare targeting the children.

Can you really call a person American when they abandon constitutionally founded values in favor of Maoism (DEI,Woke,Cancel Culture). Its terribly unclear.
Good luck cloning that machine.
You didn’t demonstrate that because

>The NC must neither assume nor try to guess in advance the exact action performed on an iOS Notification, because these actions are based upon information unavailable to it, as well as other factors such as the ANCS version implemented by the NP. The NP guarantees that positive and negative actions are associated with results that do not surprise the user.

So pebble app can’t explicitly say dismiss or mute but has to hope that the phone does that action on a given notification.

Imagine the app says dismiss but the phone‘s real action is just a snooze.

Press X to maybe dismiss doesn’t sound like a great functionality, does it.
Listen to your PDFs in any language
Hey, I built this tool last year to listen to machine learning books and papers. Since there were still some users this year, I updated it! I’m curious what you’d use it for and whether you find the AI explanations useful!

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your guess as to what % of $1.5bn that would be?
The last chart did show the percentage and distance for walking compared to cars, bikes and transit.
A little too on the nose?
Because the larger market of watch buyers end up buying way way more round watches than square or other shapes, thus a lager market of buyers and prices are probably lower. I don't really care though. It doesn't matter for these kinds of low sales boutique devices. I ordered one ;-)
From every angle I try to look at this, it does not make 32B sense.
From that ruling to this case it extends that the local or tourist who took the photo would be the copyright holder which makes little sense.
Again there is no technical rigor behind these notions. Video providers didn’t like the idea of untrusted HDMI devices scraping video from DRM protected content so they came up with HDCP, which allows anyone to develop and certify solutions as trusted software/hardware. There’s no reason apple can’t do something similar, it doesn’t have to be completely open vs. completely closed. There are always alternative solutions to the problems that people think apple’s walled garden approach is solving; which makes it clear what the real purpose is.
Well said. No notes.
right. with the availability of early voting, that implies that most of that 69% didn't care enough either way. it was a pretty close election, probably with a slight edge going in for Harris, so that would tend to cause more would-be Trump voters to stay home.

in other words, there are plenty of valid complaints, but "abnormal" or denying a clear democratic mandate aren't any of them.
This is cool. The text to speech is OK - it's a bit squeaky, yet super low pitch. Definitely not bad, but it could be improved. The intonation is good. Maybe just let people switch voices? I generally find female voices are better executed with TTS.
I was reading Reddit and saw a link to hardware.slashdot.org. I learnt that slashdot still existed. And with the relaunch of Digg, I thought I was having a flashback to 1999.
You call the tests you write tests. I'm not even sure how this is a question. Manual tests and automated tests are terms used in industry, but mostly to distinguish manual versus automated end-to-end or integration tests. And then the only time you'd use the terms is when you have both and feel a need to distinguish them. Otherwise, just call them tests.
a lot of my vendors and contractors pay or are paid in stablecoins, and we redeem them in our exchanges and banks as domestic transfers. for me in the US, this allows for same-day liquidity in all forms - crypto, bank deposits, cash. In a matter of minutes after invoicing. In comparison to weeks or possibly even months.

these vendors and contractors are worldwide where either an international wire transfer is needed, which would have extremely high scrutiny and unknown settlement times, or other payment methods that are equally subject to random freezes or high fees or transaction size limits

thats one use case for me for 8 years now. I wish it wasnt a friction I would even need to consider but I dont really consider traditional finance a competitor, sometimes I want the currency used by my government and brokerage firms, sometimes I dont.

one person I ask “do you take crypto” and they laugh like its an uncomfortable absurd joke, the next person receives the business and often discounts it due to lower transaction fees and settlement times
I don't want Apple either to get access to my health info, so I don't have such device from Apple.
I think linus torvalds is an example that would disprove your theory here. He's not likeable, yet his work speaks for itself.

Similarly, Steve Wozniak isn't considered charismatic, yet no one denies his code.
> it is bad for business

It is good for business, just one level more abstracted.

You might look at the economy and think that it's an engine that uses capital to produce goods and services for the combined benefit.

But one level higher, it's a way for the already rich and powerful to gain additional capital and power.

From that point of view, temporarily depressing the stock market, real estate, dollar denominated assets, etc. is highly beneficial if you are properly positioned. You can permanently acquire lots of capital and annuities.

Private equity can buy up US commercial and residential real estate. They can buy shares of stock at decreased prices. They can line themselves up to buy the federal government's real and liquid assets for pennies on the dollar, and further enrich themselves by entering new lines of business, like privatising public benefit programs, the USPS, etc.
There is a thing called regulation.
What difference would the extra 16KiB or whatever instead of the 2 RISC-V cores make? If 520KB is far too little for you, you're likely better off adding a 8 MiB PSRAM chip.
You said that Apple makes the best tech, but you wouldn't know, because you cannot pair third party accessories with your Apple devices and have them work properly, so you cannot determine if third parties are capable of making accessories better than Apple or not.

Whether or not a third party is capable of making a better "ecosystem" of interconnected devices is a separate concern; I'm talking about accessories here, which is the topic at hand.
i didn't maliciously paraphrase, that's a sentiment a reasonable number of extremely online types seem to share. if you're saying i didn't seem to favor that sentiment, well, obviously.
Too bad SLI isn't a thing anymore.
I'm not sure where you arrived at that conclusion.

The photographer has been claiming the entire time it's his copyright while other people (namely PETA) have been arguing the monkey should have it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...
might it be because the author is making a new version for no starch press?

https://nostarch.com/designingelectronics
But the LLM is a tool. If I use a set of colored pencils to draw you a bird, the pencil company doesn't own the copyright. I do. Because I used the tool.
What about the series of really creative and complex prompts that an artist uses to create the AI-generated art? That is, the creativity and the associated values will be in the prompts.
If you're willing to share I'd be interested in hearing more about what you learned. What is it about those two codebases that you've used to inform your own choices?

The kernels are pretty sizeable and pretty specialized pieces of software so it's kinda fascinating that useful lessons for other projects could be extracted from it.
Tangentially, that reminded me of my days back when I frequented a forum for Rio digital audio players. When the company got sold off, an engineer leaked an unreleased firmware without the company's permission. We all had a laugh when the engineer decided to go by the name of "Nestle tollhouse".
perhaps i'm out of date! this may have resolved with the recent increased support of rcs and i maybe haven't heard this complaint lately, it's worth checking into again.
> Does that exist?

Yes, for the purposes of this case, because that that is an accurate description of the image in this case is not a fact in dispute between the two sides. This is a case about what the law means given that uncontroversial (between the parties) fact.
So much for 3 independent branches of government?
I mean there were people on the ADL payroll who didn't agree with the way they were conflating the terms, and the groups involved: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/jan/05/adl-pro-israel-...
That's not true -- on-device dictation works just fine. You can verify for yourself by turning off WiFi/Internet and dictation works identically. As long as you have a modern enough Mac that supports local dictation, of course. (Older Macs were only cloud dictation, I remember.)

The popup on my MacBook says specifically:

> When you use Dictation, your device will indicate in Keyboard Settings if your audio and transcripts are processed on your device and not sent to Apple servers. Otherwise, the things you dictate are sent to and processed on the server, but will not be stored unless you opt in to Improve Siri and Dictation.
I feel like Java has calmed down a bit and is more focused and thriving in its niche with enterprise systems. I recall the days when we believed that Java and the JVM could solve all of our problems.

I worked a lot with Spring and Spring Boot a while back and I can't help but smile when I think back to the discussions where a room full of us were arguing about beans.
macOS too. It’s insane how both companies have just given up.
Except forget the Apple ID password, then it's game over
The argument about whether human selection would make the human the author of the work is irrelevant, because the human in this case isn't claiming authorship, by selection or otherwise.
I agree entirely with this post. Considering that it is posted on HN which has very much promoted the startup hustle lifestyle for so long, this feels a bit like the buyer beware that comes 15 years after the fact. Something to consider for anyone who wants to give everything in exchange for 0.001% equity in a B2B blockchain fart app.
Locks, leases, fencing tokens, FizzBee
I think this ruling is wrong.

It's not hard to imagine a compiler using AI to optimize byte code, and so now the binary it creates is no longer copyrightable?

Compilers and transpilers, even though someone else may have wrote them, the courts have held the the copyright of the output binary is whoever wrote the source code.

In that sense AI is nothing more than a English language to image compiler.
Almost... unbelievable.
So Apple's BT stack is crap? Because that's the one that is in control here...
I hope you learn to respect other users here by moderating the way you talk to them.
Why do you think they are more reliable and have better resale value?
By the way, git blaming is really misunderstood by a lot of people; its NOT about who did it, its about which commit is to blame -- that's different.
what on earth is wrong with watts as a unit of power?
> way worse than Elon has ever been

Seriously? Vandalizing innocent people's property is wrong, but ransacking government institutions is far worse and much more consequential. There's an order of magnitude difference in the number of victims and the ways in which they're affected, which includes death.

Death, you ask? Gutting health agencies, pollution regulators, or international efforts to prevent the spread of disease will all lead to increased numbers of death.

However, it seems that when the scale of the crime outgrows a certain threshold, the perceived severity goes down somehow. It's depressing.
> America can prevent the Netherlands selling goods to China

EUV lithography was jointly developed by the U.S. and the Netherlands [1][2][3].

[1] https://www.eetimes.com/u-s-gives-ok-to-asml-on-euv-effort/

[2] https://www.llnl.gov/article/27641/euvl-partnership-makes-it...

[3] https://www.asml.com/en/news/stories/2022/making-euv-lab-to-...
Thanks, now I also know where the word comes from.
Does that mean that Republicans engaged in terrorism when they threatened to hang journalists, shoot immigrants or Democrats, etc.? Seems like the courts might be overloaded if we redefine every threat as an act of terrorism.
If you strictly want things that are not vector databases, you can choose to categorize each item with multi-hierarchical categories. To query, just filter for items belonging to the categories that interest you. As a bonus, this approach is a lot more interpretable than using embeddings.
> What, if any, practical implications does this have?

Very little.

> Why would a real person or company want to specify a non real person as an author?

Other than to needlessly complicate the claim that the work is subject to copyright? No reason at all.
Where are the weirdos? Is it all just AI now?
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Right. The same can be said for AI art. If you think you can exactly reproduce stylistically of some of the more popular AI work, you would be mistaken.
If you click through to the FAQ this is addressed:

"How is this different from The Art of Electronics?

The Art of Electronics is a wonderful book, but doesn't contain a lot of information about the design process. It's mostly theory, which is important, but is missing a lot of the information that I ended up learning the hard way. The Art of Electronics makes a wonderful companion to Designing Electronics that Work."
You could read it like a subtitle.

"Designing Electronics (that work)"
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I never commented on the subject of the article because I don't come here to engage in political flamewars. I will continue not to comment on it, but rest assured that you have absolutely no idea what I am angry about. Having engagement driven clickbait on the front page is bad for the entire site.
You can run ad blockers in mobile Safari. This one works great: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/firefox-focus-privacy-browser/... -- it's both a browser itself as well as acting as a content blocker for Safari and does a fantastic job at blocking ads.
What they call "gross profit" is not profit, by definition. It's certainly useful to track $revenue-$cost_of_goods, but you can't call that profit. People are free to use words incorrectly, but they shouldn't expect anyone else to go along with them.
Tell that to the thousands who have lost their jobs in careers they no longer feel comfortable pursuing.

Claiming only those who are "terminally online" think this is more than inconvenient is an amazing display of either privilege or not giving a crap. Either way, lol calling kettle.
> The Alexa went to the bin quickly after that session of exploration and insight.

Why? It sounds like it was really interesting and valuable to observe those patterns.
The open alternative to 30-pin when Lightning was introduced was micro-USB and micro-USB is ass, but not switching away from 30-pin wasn’t an option for the phone they wanted to build at the time, that being the iPhone 5.

All in all, Lightning was a net benefit that overstayed its welcome by a few years. Even once USB-C was introduced a few years later, it took a few more years than that to become as pervasive as it did.
Unless the international community jumps on it in a multilateral fashion(a la Balkans)
You most certainly can, and you should.
I have no idea how these corporate acquisitions are valued.

Craftsman Tools was sold to Black and Decker for $500 Million. This was and is a respected tool brand with an international presence making physical and tangible products and it is apparently worth 1/64th of Wiz.

I'm not even saying Wiz is overvalued, I don't know, I'm just not sure how they come up with these numbers.
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A lot of PI’s pull rank and crack the whip on post docs it’s super toxic and the hours are atrocious with weekends and expectation to work at night. I’ll take a tech middle manager over an arrogant PI every time.
> I guess the question is when does accountability stop? If a company and its descendant employees and products are built on an evil foundation and benefit from it, how do we rectify as a society? Ford is hardly alone here, many German, Japanese, and American companies were built on wartime atrocities and exist today from that previous goodwill. If the malignant founder is dead, is then the rest of the machine exempt from responsibility?

Corporations aren't people. Yes, I understand the supreme court rulings on this subject, I'm saying the supreme court is wrong.

Each person in a corporation is responsible for their own actions.

This is a very big problem in our society. A more recent Ford misdeed, the Pinto, was rushed through production despite 40+ crash tests in which the fuel tanks ruptured in every test. People knew it would kill people, did it anyway because they could make more money by letting people die, and shareholders were the ones punished. This is an injustice: the people who pushed through the Pinto committed at the very least manslaughter, and have as far as I can tell, never even been named publicly.

Until we address this problem we're going to keep having these problems. GM in 2014 refused to replace faulty ignition switches which ignited, killing 13 people. The car industry is littered with bodies, but these faults are not limited to automotive companies. In 2010 PG&E refused to fix known problems with a gas line and it exploded, leveling 38 homes. It's a miracle that Boeing hasn't killed someone yet. And this is setting aside simple safety neglect: letting people die isn't just a small cost-cutting measure for healthcare companies, it's a core part of their business model.

These decisions are not made by corporations, they are made by individuals, and as long as we continue to punish corporations for individual decisions, while letting literal murderers move on to the next job, this will keep happening. We need to hold individuals, not corporations, accountable.

Unfortunately, a lot of the people with money and power don't want to be held accountable, and have crafted a legal and propaganda system that avoids that. So until that changes we have Luigi Mangione and tanking Tesla stock--actual justice isn't an option we've been given.
> The practical implication is you can't copyright something that your AI generated.

No, its not.

This is not a case of the human trying to claim copyright as the author of a work made using AI tools.

> As the article notes, copyright applications are also being rejected in cases where a human asserts authorship over an AI generated work.

That is true (although at least one has been accepted by the copyright office, IIRC), but it is not an outcome of this case (even in the sense that this ruling might support it) because this case does not concern human claims of authorship at all. It concerns undisputed solely-AI creation.
At which point does a monopoly becomes a monopoly?

There is no need to have a "clear" monopoly like Windows in 1990's to abuse your power and presence in the market.
> US have a huge influence over the Netherlands economically, politically, and militarily

It's important to remember that this influence is a product of goodwill. (Wouldn't have thought I'd have to mention this a year ago...)

The Dutch are beginning to decouple from America [1] because despite those economic and military ties, if it isn't supported politically and culturally, it's difficult to project.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43401487
That's exactly how it works. Apple does the same thing everyone else does. But when Apple does it, it's "secure", and when everyone else does it, it's "insecure". Hope that helps.
The real issue is that the monkey (or Stable Diffusion) cannot be sued in civil court for copyright infringement, so they can't be granted copyrights in the first place: it makes no sense to have one-way streets of legal responsibility.

Note that a human-made curation of AI or animal art is protected by copyright (e.g. you can copyright an AI art coffee table book). The original case involved an AI-generated graphic novel: the author could claim copyright for the whole book but not the individual panels.
> "Make reference to provincial, state or nation-wide scoring systems, rankings" - do these exist in the US?

They name a couple, SAT and ACT are still the main ones. Some states like New York have the Regents Exam which would be a statewide score. Demanding those scores is still just about the dumbest fucking thing I've seen a tech company do.
Pb-208's doubly magic nucleus defies expectations with surprising properties
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-rupee_note
I’m not saying anything about this is good, but I do think there are a lot of people who think following the law is important and we can use each and every one of them. Blatantly ignoring the law is how they lose suburban middle class voters and we don’t need too many of them to flip elections.