skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
500 million Alexa-enabled devices were sold, hopefully some can be repurposed and kept out of landfills.

Updating Echo Dot V1 to newer kernel: https://andrerh.gitlab.io/echoroot/

Echo Dot V2 Android tinkering, https://github.com/echohacking/wiki/wiki/Echo-Dot-v2 & https://andygoetz.org/tags/dot/ & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0IEMVDebzE
>"Contributions are very welcomed. Please feel free to submit proposals directly in the form of a PR or Issue."

Good luck getting contributions. I don't have the time to read and understand all 4000+ lines of this very long file. I have ideas, but I'm not even interested in participating because of the format.
Some typos(sorry): "Canada", "Chrysler".
There is a different way to think about it which is that the work could in principle be better structured to automatically be associated with more pleasure.
The ceasefire ended March first. The headline is a complete lie.
Isn't the warning about backdated post displayed client-side?
Competition is a good thing. Perhaps now those 3000USD devices will need to be less expensive to remain competitive?
Similarly if Apple opened up every API and allowed every smart watch to do whatever it wanted, I'd still prefer an Apple Watch. I tried using a Garmin and "not being able to send an sms" isn't even on the list of things I disliked about it. Ugly clunky interface, pogo pin charging, a companion app that at times wouldn't look out of place on a Windows CE smartphone circa 2006, etc.
They're likely to be regulated into allowing third party app stores with review processes that they don't control.
The plaintiff is asserting it exists. He could easily resolve the issue by listing himself, not the AI, as the creator of the work, but he's pushing the point to concretize it into law.
Same. It neither describes the product nor makes it easier to search for online. For that matter, it doesn't exactly roll of the tongue either...
Nothing MB has is anywhere close to FXD 13.2.x

So if the SAE standards don't reflect that, they are poor standards
> I am already not comfortable with Apple picking winners

This is what I like most about them! Just pick something that you think is good. If I like what you pick I'll keep buying from you.
Depending on how long you’ve been working on it and how hard you’ve marketed it, it’s important not to miss a signal that you should move on. While we all have problems with motivation from time to time, some things aren’t worth motivating yourself for and it’s important to recognise that. This might not apply if it’s just a hobby project - but a hobby project should probably be fun. If it’s a serious attempt at a business rethink your marketing strategy. Nothing will motivate you more than signups and revenue.
Completely normal country. First they consume from and subsidize this guy into the richest guy in the world, now they're vandalizing each other's cars.

I wonder if it's weird to be vandalizing somebody's car for being the same luxury brand as the car you sold last week. Does it feel revolutionary? Resistance libs are basically Carlists now.
Estimating the difficulty of a sentence in mere microseconds
Yeah, Claude can query and read the result sets. It does not send the entire database.
It's only dumb if they get caught doing it. If they do it once and keep it quiet and then someone finds out 2 years later, it's going to be a footnote in history.
The question is, why is it so infeasible to enter the market?

In theory it should be possible for someone to do this. Phones are made of modular parts. Some companies make chips, some make screens, some make operating systems, some make app stores, so you go acquire each of the parts, make your modifications and start selling your phone.

First problem, the best phone chips are made by Apple and they won't sell them to you for use in a competing phone. Also, they won't sell you their OS or let you use their app store. So it's already not possible to satisfy some of the requirements, e.g. using a chip of that quality or compatibility with existing third party iOS apps.

This is hypothetically more possible with Android, but it still isn't. Qualcomm will sell you a chip; it isn't as good, so you can't satisfy "use the best chip", but they'll sell it to you. You can get Android for free. Well, AOSP anyway. But that won't pass Google's Play Integrity system, so you've already lost compatibility with the existing bank apps. Other Android apps have more dependencies on Google APIs that aren't part of AOSP, so you've once again lost widespread compatibility with the only other market for third party apps, unless you ship with Google Play services. At which point you're not satisfying the "doesn't hoover up your data and send it to Google" requirement.

So anti-competitive behavior on the part of the incumbent duopolists is why there isn't more competition, and antitrust enforcement would address it. For example, break up Apple into its constituent parts. Then Apple Silicon is a separate company like AMD or Qualcomm and you could buy their chips to use in your own phones, the existing App Store becomes a separate entity with no monopoly on distributing apps to iOS users, etc.

At which point someone can feasibly produce a phone that does everything you want, and then someone would.
Does this mean the Wiz app is now going to include free person category filters for their security cameras? Instead of constantly asking you to subscribe
As a matter of law? Sure it does. Thaler said the image at issue was "autonomously created by a computer algorithm running on a machine". He's been trying to walk that back for the last couple of years though. See Thaler v. Perlmutter, 1:22-cv01564-BAH (ECF #24), D.D.C. (Aug. 18, 2023).
Using Fedora 3 as my first linux distro makes seeing this nostalgic.
So are distillation models copyrightable?

Can't wait until models generate models and we are finally free of the copyright and software patent troll extorsion rackets.
If approved, it will be published in the “staatsblad” in Dutch, French, and German.
> "As many tactile buttons as you can reach without significantly moving your hands. And a keyboard already gets pretty close to that ideal..."

The DataHand came even closer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataHand

but I'm not sre that's good; moving your hands to reach more keys, without looking, brings even more keys into reach. I can hit the control keys with the palms of my hands - and often do that with the palm of the knuckle under the pinky finger - and feel where they are by the gaps around them, similar with ESC and some of the F-keys, and backspace from its shape, etc. I don't know of a keyboard which is designed to maximise that effect, or how one would be.
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Respectfully, I don't see a viable business here. As a remote worker, I can hardly imagine "signing up" for an app to find coworking space. Your efforts would be better spent on something more compelling. PMF (Product:Market Fit) is hard enough when there's actually a decent addressable market.
Did you mean to respond to another comment? You’re in the thread about vandalizing left-leaning Tesla owners.
Isn't this ignoring the lock-in factor? Leaving Apple is probably more than just switching a single piece of hardware for many users. The entire Apple ecosystem encourages "buying in".

As a few examples

* (almost all) bought apps don't transfer

* bought media (music, etc) and how that integrates into the software

* icloud and other account services

* replacing your phone + laptop + watch + IOT devices which may all be in the apple ecosystem.

So one can easily see how folks who have bought in are willing to put up with user-hostile actions.

Of course, Apple is not the only company that uses integration as a way to retain customers. However, from personal experience, I feel Android is a bit more open (at the cost of a more fractured experience). I can definitely understand the pros of not having to deal with carrier installed garbage when purchasing a device.
It's called "unconditional generation" so yes you supply a random input string and it generates something. StyleGAN2 is an unconditional image generation model. StyleGAN2 trained on faces from Flickr: https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/
'If you don't like our business practices, don't buy from Standard Oil' type argument
Related:

Half-Life 2 RTX Remix Developers Respond to Concern From Some Fans That It Ruins the Original Game's Atmosphere

https://www.ign.com/articles/half-life-2-rtx-remix-developer...
> I don’t want to see any tweets or blog posts or complaints or whatever later on about this. I’m publishing this now so you can make an informed decision about whether to buy a new watch or not. If you’re worried about this, the easiest solution is to buy an Android phone.

Agree or disagree with what he's saying, he sounds like a petulant child
You could argue for only allowing communication through selected carriers, or connections to selected brand computers, and connecting to selected manufacturer Wi-Fi hotspots too
https://archive.ph/u3GU8
People all the way down...
If you look at places like Reddit where the organizing is happening, they don't differentiate between left-leaning buyers of years past, and in fact call them out for being complicit by not selling their (paid for?) car. It's scorched earth and is not limited to new buyers.
Musk has just appealed the rescinding of his $56B pay deal. Where would Tesla be were he to get a more favourable ruling this time?
Been a happy Fedora Desktop user since switching from 20+ years of Windows last year. Had a few hiccups at the start of last year with NVIDIA drivers in Wayland but that's since been resolved with Explicit sync support.

Happy there's been no signs enshittification of Fedora from Redhat, it's a just a clean polished well maintain modern distro, great option if you're a dev switching from Windows.
I know you have good intentions with your advice, and maybe it has come easy for you

But for a lot of people, developing social skills and "a nice personality" has been a life-long struggle

There is a big overlap in STEM with the autism spectrum, with ADHD, with anxiety and trauma, all of which make it very hard for people to "fit in" and develop social skills that come easily to neurotypical people

So while I share your sentiment that soft skills are valuable and are worth developing. Please don't judge others for not doing so, and keep in mind that they might not even have the capacity to do it, even if they want to. They might also have had a really hard time their whole lives being judged and rejected by "normal people". Please have some extra empathy with them
> Mobile computing is de-facto owned by two companies.

Still beats the Windows era when a single company owned desktop computing (which was the only type of computing for consumers).

> We've wound up with Standard Oil 2.0

Skipped right over Microsoft!

> We must break up these companies.

With Microsoft it was a complex consent decree. (The initial ruling to break up the company was overturned.)
I ordered one, with no experience although like the story and heard about the original.

One very frustrating concern - the warranty. This is $255+ for a device that is only good for 3 million seconds. Would it be possible to arrange replacement at cost after 2 years?
Starlink provides high bandwidth plus low latency for international connections.
The low latency occurs because once the origin TCP packets reach the low orbit Starlink network, they can be almost single-hopped to the destination continent before downlinked to the user's Starlink antenna. Land based routers take 10 ms or so per hop and there are many on an international connection.

The White House property Wifi dead spots would be best improved separately by a commodity secured mesh network.

For example, Google Fiber Austin to Israel (land based router hops):
1 _gateway (192.168.1.1) 1.162 ms 1.155 ms 1.191 ms
2 [redacted] 3.077 ms 3.054 ms 3.035 ms
3 * * *
4 * * *
5 * * *
6 ae1.pr02.dfw101.googlefiber.net (192.119.17.142) 8.666 ms 7.731 ms 7.698 ms
7 * * 141.101.74.42 (141.101.74.42) 9.144 ms
8 * * *
9 * * 104.18.28.18 (104.18.28.18) 9.160 ms
Tends to be the issue with a lot of human society. Although, reading through the summary on Wikipedia, I'd suggest that a lot of the "paradigm" shifting often has to do with humanity's monopolistic rent extraction / tragedy of the commons nature.

Almost every part of society, including science tends to collapse towards those that have access to ideas and resources, and are placed within society to be able to take advantage of them, and those that are exploited. Even the Nobel Prize was found to mostly favor those who were born to win a Nobel Prize. Best way to win a Nobel Prize? Be born to a wealthy family with a prestigious science background.

Those that have access tend to devolve into monopolistic tendencies, exploiting the existing "paradigm" for their own gain, while punishing, excluding, or minimizing those that suggest alternatives that might in some way disrupt their power structure and control. Money, politics, military, industry, and a lot of other parts of society seem to all work about the same. Best way to work at the White House? Be born to a wealthy family with political access.

Almost every person who has retrospectively been considered "great" or "revolutionary" centuries or millennia later were punished, excluded, or minimized during their own lifetime, while their contributions were then reevaluated, fought over, fetishized, and collected after their death. Galileo was mentioned elsewhere, relatively well known example, some success and acceptance at the time, mostly condemnation for "vehement suspicion of heresy." Van Gogh's work only began to attract attention in the last year of his life ... right before he shot himself in the chest with a revolver from being so mentally tortured.
> I'm setting aside the caveat about a potential price change due to tariffs and assuming they launch at current list price

As you should, because if they raise the price because of tariffs they won't see a dime of it. It's less raising the price and more that they don't yet know how much tax they'll be expected to collect and remit.
It is unequivocally terrorism to participate in violence against civilians with the aim of causing political change. And it's domestic because it's here. It's definitionally correct.
These devices never supported local processing anyways, right? So, no change there?
The US system is interesting in regards to well-known public personalities:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhgYMH6n004

You were warned this area gets complicated, there are some scenarios that get truly bizarre. Get some popcorn, and best of luck =3
The Tesla, last I read about and test drove one, is a great car. Why tear at a company that makes a great car over anyone's political preferences? The phrase "shooting oneself in the foot" comes to mind. It makes no sense whatsoever.
Tata punch EV does global ncap 5 star rating at around $10k
Good stuff! I didn't mind the fresh start with BlueSky but it'll be nice to import my last hundred posts with the free trial.
There's a fair chance models of any kind are not copyrightable.
Scorched earth strategies can be effective depending on your goals.
right but N Korea is not most people. hacking is one of their primary industries. they almost certainly already have systems in place for this
It seems that companies often end up with On-Call after they've reached some critical size but decide to do it in the cheapest possible way: let's just make our engineers do it!

One big problem is that they tend not to make any attempt to ensure that the on-call rotations are equitable across teams. You might need to be on call one week out of 4 or one week out of 20. At review time, this matters. Since you're typically not getting paid for the on call work or having it factor into your performance review, you're actually incentivized to snooze alerts and kick the can down the road until after your rotation or to join another team with lower rates of on call incidents.

Ironically, if you're spending 25% or your time on call and actually being diligent about the role, you're more likely to be adept with the typically hodgepodge collection of tools that you need to use to diagnose and address problems and will be better able to handle incidents than if you only ever use those tools once every 5 months.
I'm gonna disagree with the comments here and vouch that Age of Resistance is a fantastic show. It's what got me into the world of Dark Crystal in general. I saw the show first and then the movie, and I feel like the show perfectly setup the events that lead up to the movie. Even if the show unfortunately was cancelled before it could explore Deet's storyline, the creation of the Garthim, and the discovery of the Wall of Destiny. Sure, the rejoining of the UrRu and Skeksis is interesting, but it's certainly not the "whole point" of the movie/show.
VW has always had the chance to bring more than the ID.4 and Buzz to US/CAN for a more affordable EV but they've never really done it. With BYD taking on a huge customer base, it kind of begs the question who is this for?
Are we talking law or morality?

I think I see what you mean if we're talking morality. If we're talking law, this is exactly the rabbit-hole people end up going down trying to justify or un-justify the Second Amendment in an era where the weapon is a 60-to-1 force multiplier for body count, not a 1.5-to-1 (in that if two men approach you with a knife, and you have a colonial rifle, you can probably reliably shoot one of them and then you're on equal footing with the other).

The law has all kinds of pockets where they wrote it when people were on horseback... But it still applies.
What Can We Learn about Engineering and Innovation from Game of Life?
All companies I have worked for wanted you to answer within minutes, but you had half an hour to actually connect and try fixing the issue, so you could totally go out and if you were in a larger than a 30min drive/ride/walk you would just keep a laptop in a vehicle or backpack.

I used to do 3hours rides with my bicycle and go to dinner or social events with a gpd pocket 2 in a small bag.
exactly my thought! his talk "humane representation of thought" as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K89W4WyiRFI

If you like this article, you should definitely check out Bret Victor's work on this.
You're right, I was confusing REAL ID with "enhanced drivers licenses"
By design, no? The point of Tesla vandalism is to incur costs to the owners. Or is it just a mostly peaceful protest?
Seems like this is already doable:

https://typefully.com/blog/import-twitter-to-bluesky#:~:text...
I’ve used it a few times to “secure” an old but relevant dynamic website site. Like a site for a mature project that shouldn’t disappear from the internet but it’s not worth upgrading 5 year old code that wont pass our “cyber security audit” due to unsupported versions of php or rails so we just convert to a static site and delete the database. Everything pretty much works fine on the front end, and the CMS functionality is no longer needed. It’s great for that niche use case.
It's at the bottom of all reliability lists so I'd argue it's not a "great car"
One thing to note is that you have to set up codecs/video acceleration stuff manually on Fedora because of legal reasons. Here's a pretty good guide for that, it also has some suggested configuration tweaks for GNOME that make it a bit nicer to use. https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2024/10/14/fedora-starter-pack/
Google's M&A team: Oops we switched the 2 and 3 on that offer document, let's fix it and try again.
I understand it in this way (I am not a lawyer): if you're using an AI tool to generate art, the company that's running the AI tool as SaaS can't claim copyright on the generated content. The person who uses the tool can claim copyright, as they created the content with a tool (AI). Comparable to a brush (=tool) for painting.
Looks like 5 star ratings across the board for BYD vehicles on-sale in Europe https://www.euroncap.com/en/ratings-rewards/latest-safety-ra...

Would not say these are ultra-cheap. There is probably a lot of "price that the market can sustain" going on here, rather than what it costs them to build the cars
The downvotes on all tesla threads recently are abyssmal. God forbid someone mentions vandalising someone's property isn't likely to make them join your cause.
Instagram was roughly 10 people when it got bought, had less than 30M users and $0 in revenue.
But the datacenter GPUs are sold out too even at ~90% profit margin. I heard somewhere lead time is in years.
Siri does this for some simpler requests.
That's the funny thing here.

In case of Musk, if those protests work and as you say 'the jig is up', he can go from the richest man on earth to bankrupt in a space of months.

He is very 'cash poor' and has pledged a lot of Tesla shares as collateral to fund his other businesses.

If Tesla is priced as an automaker (shares would be in the ±10-20$), Musk will be bankrupt.
I recommend reading the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which required all incumbent telephone companies to allow any other company to install equipment in their central offices and buy rights to already laid phone lines at a fixed rate, where all the expense of actually building and laying everything laid entirely with the owner of the central office.

Turns out that (fairly applied) antitrust doesn't care how much it money it costs an incumbent company to begin allowing competitors
You would think we could actually do all voice processing locally now? The models that do voice, speech, and language processing aren't that big...an 8b model would be completely feasible for an affordable device, if not home server.
Is this the new artists-doing-free-work-for-exposure?
I don't, and I won't, but that doesn't really address the points in that post. There is nothing any individual can do about massive corporate cartels controlling entire industries and strangling all potential competition in the cradle, like they said anti-trust enforcement is the only way. But apparently it'll be difficult to garner support for that when people perceive it as an attack on their 'consumer preferences'
> If you’re worried about this, the easiest solution is to buy an Android phone.

The easiest solution is to buy Apple Watch.
> If you’re worried about this, the easiest solution is to buy an Android phone.

Readers might be interested in our Ultimate iOS to GrapheneOS Migration Guide and Review:

https://blog.okturtles.org/2024/06/the-ultimate-ios-to-graph...
I didn’t know about this, which companies are doing this?
This is of course nonsense, but interestingly enough also a FAQ entry of Sheepit:

> Who owns the copyright of the images generated?

> SheepIt Render Farm does not lay any claim to generated images, it only acts as a tool to provide compute power to owners of the project. The owner of the project will have all rights reserved to them; As long as the claimant is the true rights holder of all assets used, and complies with governed free use laws, as well as potential rights holder permissions.

Otherwise I guess GitHub owns the copyright on all software artifacts build on their CI systems. Obviously not how copyright works, like at all.
>Why tear at a company that makes a great car over anyone's political preferences?

With how our society is set up, you are suggesting not holding any political viewpoints or preferences.

I had a whole diatribe typed up that I deleted because I realized I cannot actually empathize or have a theory of mind for how you could think this was an acceptable way to live life. Do you silo every interaction you have with everyone else?