JohnEdwa

My doorbell is a sign that says “Knock”, because my 70’s doorbell is broken. It requires 0 cloud services to fix the problem of people pressing an unhelpful button.

[EDIT] To people downvoting this, did you read the article? Specifically, this part:

“Before we had the doorbell, people just knocked on the front door. But now, people would notice the doorbell and ring it instead. This would send a notification to our phones, and then it would also helpfully play a sound on the doorbell itself… outside the door… which we could not hear.”

He then goes on a tech bodgeathon to fix the button, instead of just placing a sing that says “Knock” to go back to the thing that worked before.

Were they also trained on the vast quantity of media of gymnasts made out of pasta for them to be able to create videos of that?

One of the main points of GenAI is the ability to smush multiple concepts together. There are plenty of training data of children that are in swimwear, or just literally naked that has nothing to do with CP, and there’s boatloads naked adults and of course, porn, it can successfully combine them together even if there was no actual CP in there whatsoever.

Hello, AI Effect.

Well, as long as you are using the crosswalk, you indeed have the right of way and the driver is required to yield.

But I don’t know what magical city you live in, as Finnish drivers definitely do not consistently follow that law - 60% of pedestrian injuries happen on a crosswalk, as do one fifth of deaths. Go walk across Helsinki without checking that the car actually will yield for you, and you’ll find yourself in the hospital in 15 minutes.

True, he was born in South Africa to a Canadian mother, so his original citizenships are to those countries. He does have an American citizenship since 2002, however.

Though I heard that the idea that immigrants aren’t actually American even if they do get citizenship is currently a rather controversial topic over there.

Donut Media was the sponsor for the project.

He got replaced as a part of a government reshuffle caused by the dismissal of the old prime minister, most likely because he didn’t exactly agree with the military leadership and firing the commander-in-chief of the armed forces instead wasn’t exactly an option for Zelenskyy.

They didn’t, they bought the data, and only the data, in a bankruptcy auction.
Everything is on sale for the highest bidder in an effort to get as much money to pay the company debt as possible. Buying the actual company would be suicide, as then you also get all that debt.

The questionnaire first asks you if AI was used yes/no, and if you say yes it then asks you to describe in detail how and for what, and for many devs the first thing to do is to try to highlight all the important parts that it wasn’t.

If you want actually pretty good smart home stuff, and for cheap, go to IKEA. By default they require nothing but being paired to a button/dial/motion sensor that works entirely on a local mesh network (Zigbee, or more recently Matter over Thread) between the devices. You can buy a hub, which again by default is local only - to control the lights using your phone you need to be connected to your own wifi. And if you really want to control them from somewhere else (or use Siri/Google Assistant etc), you have to specifically enable that functionality.

And because they use matter, they work with most of the other matter stuff, and vice versa - I have a bunch of Aqara temp/humidity sensors connected to mine. And you don’t even need an IKEA hub, any Matter hub will work, and there are quite a few of them including stuff like the Google Home Speaker, a 3rd gen Apple TV, and the Apple Home Pod.

Main downside? IKEA electronics aren’t exactly the most reliable things around.

A lot of it actually is AI, as in the vast field of computer science called artificial intelligence. It’s a lot bigger than just LLMs and slop generators.

Most of it just suffers from the AI effect.

Done right, it actually would.
Powering those centres would require building ton of new power generation, and in the case of a risk of running out of power, non critical infrastructure - like a datacenter - can be disconnected from the grid to redirect that power to the uses that actually matter. Like here in Finland, if we are risking blackouts for homes during winter for example, they will cut power to factories and stuff like that first in an effort to prevent it. It’s part of the contracts for commercial electricity connections, and they have to just accept that.

The bigger the section of non-critical infra you have, the more capacity you can free up in an emergency.

In Texas, though? Not very optimistic it would ever work that way.

BMW iDrive has versions 1 to 9, and now the newest really is OS X.

…yes?

The cameras around the US scan 7000 plates per second, trying to figure out what they say with 8000 different possible plate designs around the country, and those results are then matched to a database of stolen vehicles and other plates , which there’s roughly 600k reported stolen in the US each year so. That database is going to be massive.

That means every second, 7000 strings of letters and numbers OCR’d at unknown conditions and accuracy are being compared to hundreds of thousands of stolen plates. They are guaranteed to get a number of “matches” constantly, most of them from reads that were not accurate.

And specifically because they aren’t sent anywhere, nobody can double check the picture to see if the camera got it anywhere right at all.

I did not know there was only one single Flock camera in the city of 150 000 people, or in California, or the USA in general. lol.

it has cameras in more than 6,000 communities across the country, and it touts more than 20 billion vehicle reads each month.

Oh, kinda looks like they have more. 20 billion reads a month, huh. That’s 7610 scan a second. Fancy that.

If you have a pi reading license plates, you are probably scanning a few dozen different plates a day, looking if they match a handful of possibilities. If the only plate that opens the gate is ABC123, nothing happens if it accidentally reads anything else, and I’ll probably get it right a second later.

When Flock scans plates, it reads thousand of them every second looking to read and match every possible plate variation from every state (which there are over 8000 of) to every reported stolen plate, in all weather and lighting conditions. It’s really no wonder if 71% of the times it reports it found a stolen plate it had got it wrong.

It’s not.
Bezos is one of the many investors that provided funding for it at the start, but he has a minority stake in the company.

At one point he had one board representative, but now even that isn’t the case any more.

It’s a pepper spray drone, delaying them from killing people is the point in the first place.

For Finland, 46% of heating is done with district heating, with it being as high as 90% in the bigger cities.