i've found a genuinely useful application of this that isn't just "talk secretively":
I'm part of a community that has a chatroom on both discord and another platform. we have developped a bot that can make the bridge between the two, but it needs to maintain a table in a database of all the bridged messages, so that people use the "reply" feature on either platform, the reply is also performed on the other platform. With this, each platform's bridged message can contain hidden data that points to the other's platform ID, without the need to store it ourselves, and without it being visible to users.
obviously we won't be tearing down the infra already in place anytime soon, so we won't actually be doing that, but that's definitely a useful application for when you don't want to be hosting a database and just wish you could attach additional data to a restrictive format.
Right? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here and on Lemmy, the whole point of ingress was that it was made to sell Google mapping data and point of interest data, that's why the game didn't have monetizing practices for so long (of course it started having them once all the data was sold but hey)
I don't know the specific mechanism used in the OP, but android has several mechanisms that can be used to start an app on reboot. Take a look around a Google search, I'm sure you'll find what you need
Things do not require to be useful or to increase revenue in order for them to be enjoyable. If the only reason you ever do something is because you get material wealth out of it, are you even making choices or are you a perfect rational actor as described in textbooks?
Things are allowed to exist and be enjoyed on the sole basis that they are enjoyable
The user interface for a doorbell (smart or dumb) is a a single button that you press, with your finger. Compare that to take out my phone, find a way to scan a qr code, scan it, install an app (?!?!), press a single button with my finger, on the app.
This is even supposing that I want to do that to begin with (I know for sure delivery drivers are never doing it).
Good job on the project, I really mean it. It doesn't matter what you do, it matters that you've achieved it and for that, congrats. But as a practical semi-object, this has to be one of the worst ways possible to solve the problem.
Some of these planes are constantly flying as long as they're not in maintenance. A plane not in the air is a plane the company bought that's not currently generating profit.
Not really surprising. Vector embeddings are really not that great at conveying arbitrary "without"s. The words the model sees are "alligator", "tail", and "without", but without means nothing. If something is in the prompt, it should be drawn, so it's going to make extra sure there is a tail in the image.
The exception is when it's common to refer to something that has an element removed, for example, a french king without a head.
There are some prompting software that allows you to negatively specify certain words, which is useful for example if you want a picture of a mustang, the horse. You can specify negative: car, and the model will avoid diffusing into anything looking like a car, but you can't get that level of control from chatgpt.
It is not my intention to be contrarian, but honestly this might be the most incorrect comment I've ever read on hacker news, in several different ways. Sure, some of these might be subjective, but for example chromeOS is Linux with a shiny coat in top, how could it be any better than, well, Linux, let alone miles ahead?
Give this is already rolling off the production line, the toolchain they use must be certified iso 26262. More than actual engineering (though there still is some), the hard part is getting that certification at all, or you can't put it in a car.
I think now this is correct due to European laws, but not that long ago, if you were not in your home country and someone called you, you could be billed for the international part of the call. Nowadays the agreements telcos were forced to put in place means this is largely solved in the EU, and quite cheap outside of it.
This specifically is trivially defeated by ECC, though it wouldn't be that much harder to instead flip 3 bits and ECC would be unable to help. ECC has very poor penetration outside the server world though, so we're still safe. For now.
In my previous jobs we didn't have any business in china and banning all IP ranges was a cheap an easy strategy to remove 50% of unsuccessful login attempts.
Aren't these just IPCs disguised as normal function calls though? IIRC only the main node process does anything node, renderers can call "node functions" that really happen in the main process.
I like the idea but you can't ensure the battery supports the load and it's a matter of time before someone puts the shittiest of 18650s inside it and it explodes
obviously we won't be tearing down the infra already in place anytime soon, so we won't actually be doing that, but that's definitely a useful application for when you don't want to be hosting a database and just wish you could attach additional data to a restrictive format.