skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, very interesting, I didn't realise intent was part of it. There's even advice from the CPS (linked from that Wikipedia page) about what to do about someone claiming to just be generally a naturist [1]

[1] https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/nudity-public-guidance...

It includes this:

> Nudity in public alone with no aggravating features is very unlikely to amount to [public nuisance] (or any other) offence.
Oh, interesting, could you share an example? It could be anything from strlen() to some SIMD optimized super loop of doom, so I'm curious what it is like
I just feel like a fine of this size really isn’t a deterrent. The amount of revenue generated by this many users should be taken into account, and the fine should be at least greater than that amount of revenue.
This is exactly correct. Maybe 30 years ago it would have been difficult to get pockets on clothes because the shops in your locality didn't sell them.. but now we have this wonderful thing called the Internet.
Which is funny, because the movie is about not understanding alternate forms of intelligence.
It's always been "liquids and gels" when the instructions are given in full. Toothpaste is the more obvious case.
Stanford just released a 386-page report on the state of AI
> Federal agencies do what they’re told.

Yes, the FDA often does what it's told by pharma companies.
> when people realize they can have an extra 10 grant a year post-tax by using a cargo bike instead of a car they might be persuaded.

Sure, some people might. And every little bit helps.

But car ownership rates in the US are actually increasing in recent years, despite the fact that cars are getting more expensive to own. And cars keep getting bigger, too. I just don’t think it’s realistic to expect large numbers of Americans to trade in their SUVs and pickup trucks for tiny little e-bikes.
Its Open so you can just grab a copy and spin up your own version ... /s
When I was not self-employed my company forced us to use an external monitor, keyboard, mouse and a chair with armrests, because of regulations. I bet those regulations are there for a good reason but after 16 years of self-employed working from home on my laptop (no external monitor) on a 5 wheels chair with no armrest I'm still fine. I definitely prefer looking down than up. It's easier on my neck and I can look both at the screen and at my hands and touchpad. Not that I need it but it probably helps somewhat.

I removed armrests because my wrists are resting at the side of the touchpad. I never touched the armrest unless I was standing up or sitting down.
Cool. So on that platform CHAR_BIT was 16. I still wonder if those statements should use the plain non-typed sizes, or if no such were available. I can live with

sizeof(char) == 1
sizeof(short) == 1
sizeof(void *) == 1

all being true with CHAR_BIT equal to 16, but it seems pointless to support uint8_t if it's not truly 8 bits.

Too far from my language-lawyer mood now to dig deeper. :)
The x220 it replaced had a smaller battery and two ddr3 sticks instead of a single ddr4. It still lasted longer than the framework laptop when comparing suspend times, even with deep sleep enabled.
Musk has claimed on Twitter that Tesla wasn't allowed to present new evidence, and that the fine would have been 0 with the new evidence. But he says the jury did the best with the given evidence and he respects their decision.

I think there is more to the story than CNN reports, also, just because something has been made into a law, it isn't beyond discussion or criticism. There are many bad laws in existence.
>>the time axis is slightly special: it's counted as imaginary (see Minkowski space: the distance contracts along the time axis)

Can you elaborate on this or provide more context/reading links.
So what's the real future cost of a photovoltaic panel then? Will there be people alive in 100 years that need to spend money on my panel or something really bad happens?
So, as someone who works in the energy industry, what is "base load generation" to you?

It is an "always on" source?

Why does a particular fuel type need to be always on?
Ask HN: Startup ideas based on Silicon metal
What are ideas for a startup based on easy access to Silicon metal? The silicone metal manufacturer Wacker Chemie AG has one of the largest plants for silicon metal production near where I live, so I am thinking of ideas to use them as a supplier for silicon metal and make a product based on silicon.
Base load power is a concept that doesn’t make sense with renewables.

It’s a concept that was created for nuclear, because it has a very similar problem as renewables: the cost lies in building the generating capacity, not in using it. For nuclear to be cheap it needs to get used 100% also in the night and during the weekend.
In a purely nuclear power net you also need overcapacity to be able to generate maximum load.
Just because something is a law, doesn't imply it is good or justified.
They could easily determine the exact extent of impact by such a change. Before effecting it.
Yeah when I went full remote I decided to buy both a 4k Webcam (at the time, for job interviews) and a microphone marketed for podcasts, and everybody likes both. I do find people commenting on the background of my apartment more often though lol

I use a logitech brio 4k webcam (only 4k at certain resolutions) with a JLAB Talk Pro Omnidirectional microphone.

I also started recording programming tutorial videos to justify the cost of the microphone
I think I agree, but I don't think what you say there is a good argument. You could apply it to hair colour groups (e.g. fair hair, dark hair, red hair) as well to prove the non-existence of hair colour.
Father of the cellphone predicts we'll have devices embedded in our skin next
> If you want to go that speed on a regular bike you have to earn that speed by cycling for many years

That's not good attitude - my grandma isn't gonna get any fitter.

If you are going slowly on narrow UK road you get overtaken by double-decker bus with 2 inches of clearence. It's a harrowing experience.

Or if you are going uphill and you are concious you arr holding up all trafic

Without ebikes, only fit bike enthusiasts ride on the roads
You might want to consider whether you don't suffer from any chronic ailments. I've always had this attitude, and in the end it turned out I've got a bad case of UARS and gut dysbiosis, compounded with on-and-off deficiencies of iron and vit D.
Brussels has no priority pass lounge, nor one of the large Heathrow terminals.
> tons of possible downsides

Like what?
I think this is just the marketing team acting. "We're losing points with a community! Quick, what could we do? Exclusive VIP memberships, private events, goodies!" They're just out of touch with their target market.
I'm pretty sure engineers at OpenAI working on GPT-4 could very much demystify this entire discussion, but they choose not to. They didn't find out how to do AGI, they found a way to get a lot of people very very excited by employing a veil of secrecy and mystery. Its a program. You can see what it does, and there is a possibility to see what it was trained on. "Open"AI just chooses to hide that. If it was really that smart, OpenAI would have no issue publishing some more informationn on it.
The work is being done at Collabora Online.

you can download it and play with it: https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/
I think it stems from people being really poorly equipped to think about scale like that. Even someone who has lived in NYC and/or been to jam packed sports stadiums, you're still only around ~50k humans max and that comes out to around 0.005% of drive users. So if a developer comes up and says a change will only effect 0.1% of users it may seem like a insignificant percentage but the actual impact is something to the effect of 20 full stadiums of people, massive.
See my answer above.

For short typing sequences I retain the pen between the thumb and the palm while touch typing and the switching between keyboard and pointer is faster than with a mouse or trackball.

Before typing a long text, I drop the pen on the tablet and I pick it up later, which takes about the same time as releasing then grabbing again a mouse or a trackball.
The amount of solar/wind paired storage drops significantly if you take into account wind energy's anti correlation with solar, demand shaping and overproduction.

It isnt just a matter of getting 2GW of solar and getting enough batteries to supply 2GW through the night.
The Cacophony: AI as Golem
It's a big leap from seeing some people on here making that mistake, and extrapolating that to everybody.
Osamu Tezuka’s Metropolis is ultimately a narrative about the nature of art told in a concrete visual and verbal logic accessible to a child. The story unfolds across multiple domains – Greater Metropolis, Underground, Child’s World – and has the form of a ring where the first element matches the last, the second matches the next to last, and so forth: 1 2 3 4 5 4’ 3’ 2’ 1’. By juxtaposing multiple plot lines, Tezuka deploys an essentialist mechanics of inner-workings and external appearances of people and animals to illustrate practical, moral, and aesthetic issues. By depicting a world that is rapidly destroying itself, Tezuka indicates the order that must be conserved if the world is to persist. Two of Tezuka’s devices have been developed in later manga by himself and others: 1) an artificial being is search of its place in human society, 2) a being that can be either male or female.
I was going to speculate more about how GitHub could handle this, but it turns out they already have a system where you name a successor and they get control of your public repos 7d after GitHub receives a death certificate or 21d after an obituary.
But they don't include private repos: https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-an...
Haystack looks very interesting, just found out about it today :)
Is there some overlap with the functionality of langchain? Could you highlight some differences? Thanks
No one responds to polls anymore. Researchers are now just asking AI instead
WHAT! Oh wait nvm its TikTok

To be honest, it was expected, right?
Just to be clear, you’re agreeing with the author that it’s primarily a moral distinction? Since the shortage is impacting all patients equally it seems harsh to support it.

It would help to understand why you feel that it’s immoral; my interpretation is that you are saying it gives people an advantage at a cost that you don’t want to be forced into paying yourself in order to compete.
Outside: Why Brandon Sanderson likes to write
Full knowledge of the threat from liquids probably requires a high level of security clearance. I wouldn't expect security at the airport to be aware.
>That's true for any kind of power and, more generally, for any kind of human activity.

You're thinking philosophically perhaps? :)

I mean what you have to pay, financially, to be clear. In the sense that when you don't want to pay for more solar power, you close the plant and stop paying.

That's not an option for nuclear power plants. All closed nuclear power plants are still costing money.
Absolutely.

Given a) they started experimenting with iPlayer pretty early in the streaming came, and b) they have a huge and valuable back catalogue, it's always amazed me that they didn't open up pay-per-view and subscription options for an ex-UK audience.

I've always suspected there's a good reason why not behind the scenes - maybe because a successful PPV operation would lend huge weight to people in the UK seeking to abolish the license fee?
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35437449

Dang, maybe the threads should be merged?
Or development could shift out of the hands of these large corporations, which might be a good thing.

Somehow, though, I doubt they'll let the golden goose slip through their fingers, no matter what happens.
Most likely people would be using awk and sed for the same purposes.
Sucking up? This doesn't sound like a title that will be a good discussion starter.
Of course they don't propagate on their own, they propagate through people. Some people prefer them for aesthetics, but others don't. Some people pressure men to be strong, others don't. It's useful to be aware of these subtle influences on our thinking and our behaviour, and use that awareness to make more conscious decisions about who we listen to, and why.
I never understood programmers who use stripped-down mechanical keyboard. I use my arrow keys, home, end, and pagedown key all the time; having to use a fn key to access those would really slow me down. Do you just tend to use the mouse more, or are you on some kind of vim-keys-everywhere kind of thing
DVI on the RP2040 MCU: A Q&A with Raspberry Pi's Luke Wren
Women's jeans always have pockets. It's easy to find jackets and coats with pockets. Real working pockets.

They just often choose the clothing without pockets. Women's clothing is way more varied than men's. All men wear the same stuff and that stuff always has pockets. We don't have pockets on our shirts or jumpers. Just our trousers and jackets/coats. Exactly the same as women. But women wear other stuff that intentionally has no pockets. Tight leggings, for example. The whole point is they are tight and have no pockets. Tight dresses. Again, the whole point is it's tight and has no pockets.

Also, find me a woman who leaves the house with only wallets, keys and phone. They'll always need to carry a bag so what's the point of having pockets?
I honestly don't believe that this is an actually common archetype. I have met enormous amounts of people with undiagnosed or undertreated chronic issues manifesting as varying degrees of fatigue preventing them from functioning, and your take just sounds like an attempt to justify the systemic discrimination against them that I see everywhere by vilifying them.
SQL: 2023 is finished: Here is what's new
But the human mental model is purely internal. For that matter, there is strong evidence that LLMs generate mental models internally. [1] Our interface to motor actions is not dissimilar to a token predictor.

> The mental model we build and update is not just based on a linear stream, but many parallel and even contradictory sensory inputs

So just like multimodal language models, for instance GPT-4?

> as experiences in a world of which we are part of.

> The simple fact that we don't just complete streams, but do so with goals, both immediate and long term, and fit our actions into these goals

Unfalsifiable! GPT-4 can talk about its experiences all day long. What's more, GPT-4 can act agentic if prompted correctly. [2] How do you qualify a "real goal"?

[1] https://www.neelnanda.io/mechanistic-interpretability/othell...

[2] https://github.com/hwchase17/langchain
That isn’t allowed by the C standard: signed integer types have to be two’s complement, one’s complement, or sign-magnitude; they can’t be wildly asymmetrical about 0.
This still doesn't go far enough to the standards of the major big tech companies having similar breaches elsewhere. Another slap on the wrist. TikTok should get a fine in the hundreds of millions, and for repeat offences should be in the billions, just like Google and Facebook did.

Regulators are never tired of collecting and issuing fines to companies that are repeat offenders for privacy breaches and violations as I said before.
Battery storage is still mostly LiIon, simply because it has a lot of preexisting investment in R&D and large-scale production. I expect battery storage to become much more economical once a technology developed for the requirements of grid-scale storage takes off. There are plenty of good candidates, but none of them seem to be quite there yet.

I also expect a lot more hydro to be built eventually, it's not as dependent on geography if you just build two ponds at different elevations for pumped hydro, or repurpose old mineshafts to get the elevation difference on flat ground.
Yeah fully agree, ECS is the microservices of gamedev these days.

I've worked on AAA games that used it, and shipped games as a solo dev without it. If you don't know why you need it, then chances are you don't need it. Just keep it in mind as one possible architecture pattern for when your code base starts to experience growing pains is my advice.
> The very currency notes they introduced are ugly.

Also, the paper is flimsy, the colour runs if you get them wet, and the visually-impaired can't tell them apart [1]. Classic BJP last-minute my-nephew-can-do-this-cheaper implementation.

[1] https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/why-india-s-blind-people-s...
but demand isn't flat.
Unrelated to TFA: everytime I see numbers like 386, 486, etc. I’m instantly triggered. Even more than for powers of two. Growing up with computers really „does a number“ on you.
I used to use an SM7B in to a DBX-286 in to an RME DA/AD but I sold them and switched to a Sennheiser Profile USB, it's much quicker for me to switch between my different systems, works without drivers or software, saves on desk space and is a fraction of the price. It sounds like a dynamic mic and doesn't even pick up my typing sounds during calls.

I'm only using it for calls, delivering training and co-working though. If I was recording an audiobook or doing music production I would switch back to my previous setup I think.
Ask HN: How to get Apple hardware to remote employees?
We need to send Apple laptops to some remote-only employees in regions Apple doesn’t cover (e.g. Bolivia). Has anyone dealt with this and how did you solve it?
Excel is ubiquitous and makes csv easy for humans to read.

Machines do the 99.99% of the time that things are working. The .01% when humans need to get in the loop is when something goes wrong and life is better when you can read the data to figure out what went wrong. JSON is amazing for this. CSV not so much but it's still better than a binary format.

Machine efficiency is not the most valuable metric. Machines are built for human use. The easier a system is for humans to use the better. Even if it's orders of magnitude less efficient.
That worked maybe in 2021 or early 2022. That's what I mean by paradigm shift, there's been a hard shift in the last 6-8 months, since Pelosi went to Taiwan and the US started restricting investment in computer chip technology. Not to mention Xi's visit to Russia or the counter actions targeting Micron (or the fucking balloon). With the McCarthy visit this Wednesday, you can expect things to get more tense. Any company that looks like it is curtailing free expression in the US to appease China is in for a bad time. That's what I mean by paradigm shift, things that were once accepted are no longer acceptable.
I often do not need to see their screen because I am a vestigial appendage to the meeting
I have a 10-input analogue-to-digital converter plugged into one USB port, which allows me to log environmental things like current outside light levels, and a one-wire adaptor plugged into another, which lets me have a string of thermometers on a long cheap cable. I currently log temperature outside in the shade, in my "root cellar", in the greenhouse, 10cm under the soil, and the central heating radiator pipe inside. Helps with the gardening, when to sow seed, when to open windows in the greenhouse. Also, I wanted to know how much sunlight I get here for my plans for solar power.
To put this number into perspective:

> The average installed cost of wind projects in 2021 was $1,500/kW, down more than 40% since the peak in 2010. Lower installation costs lead to energy produced at a lower cost, with the average levelized cost of energy for utility-scale wind power down to $32/MW-hours in 2021.

https://www.energy.gov/eere/wind/articles/land-based-wind-ma....

Double the price of wind energy.
Accounting wants to work with a portion of the Parquet database. Your options are: give them data in CSV/Excel formats, or hire a dev to work for accounting full time and still have them constantly complaining about having to wait on the dev to get them the data they need.

The programmers, data scientists, and other technical fields should never process data in Excel, but you can’t expect that of the whole organization, so exporting to it is important. At this point, I’d recommend XSLX as the export format because it’s harder to mess up the encoding, but libraries exist for CSV and others as well.
It has 16 bits but the units of sizeof are not bytes – they are ‘the minimum difference between two addressable things’ which on that architecture is two bytes.
Not really. This model only made it to the public because meta was offering it publicly.

This won't happen to GPT any time soon so they are safe, copyright or not.
>their local health practice ignored or even refused to listen to a patient.

This is not at all what this article is talking about.

This article is about people with no symptoms, experiencing no medical problems, going to the doctor to get medical tests.
It's not opposition, it's just not overpaying any more.
So what is 12,000,000 divided by 12,000,000,000?

This world is a joke and your kids are the punchline.
OO I can still subscribe ... I have only used it once or twice in the last 6 months, but if I dont subscribe now I might not be able to ever again ...
Twitter started showing people I don't follow in my Following tab
I wonder if this is a bug? Somebdoy else noticed this?
I have similar issues. Thick thighs and meaty butt, I had some nice looking pants that used to allow me full range of movement that I had used for a while but a few weeks ago I tore a pair when squatting down. I'm now currently resigned to joggers for the time being. It feels like there are no decent pants out there for men who lift
> TikTok has been fined £12.7m for multiple breaches of data protection law...The failure to enforce age limits led to “up to 1.4 million UK children” under the age of 13 using the platform as of 2020, the ICO estimated…

So less than 10 pounds per child? That’ll teach ‘em.
Actually I don't recal the name any longer, but TI used to have a DSP Assembler that was pretty simplified C, something like for the expressions

dest = src1 op src2;

Only basic control flow, no structured loops and so forth
"While we disagree with the ICO's decision, which relates to May 2018 - July 2020, we are pleased that the fine announced today has been reduced to under half the amount proposed last year."

So they will pay half of 12.7? Or is 12.7 already the half?
RHEL/CentOS are meant for servers/workstations aiming to run 24x7, and most of the instances might not event have GUI installed. I can understand why those problems were there as end user experience wasn't the priority. And you mentioned it was IT that updating the kernel, if I read it correctly, then it's the IT did not do their job properly as they did not test an update at all before rolling out. For 3rd party support, it's getting better, but as you mentioned, still a long way to go.
I'd like a wireless mouse but I'm worried about security.
I have a mantra: "Success breeds success."

I like to establish the habit of consistently succeeding. I feel that we often need to start with "small" successes, then gradually increase the complexity/ambition.

Before you know it, you're routinely completing pretty damn ambitious stuff.
Thanks for clarifying. The support for local LLMs seems very interesting — would a haystack agent call out to a separately “running” self-hosted LLM via an API (REST, etc) or would it need to actually load up the model and directly query it (e.g model.generate(<prompt>) ) ?

Also it seems like the functionality of haystack subsumes those of langchain and llama-index (fka GPT-index) ?
> On every modern processor design I know of, that is an 8 bit quantity,

Serious throughput DSP chips don't sully themselves with a mere 8 bits, they're designed to do 32 bit and more FFT pipelines that modular index multiple vectors, fetch, multiply, add, and store every clock cycle.

Eg: the Texas Instruments TMS320C54x has CHAR_BIT 16 ( Table 7-1 page 192 [1] )

Other modern DSP family chips have CHAR_BIT 32 .. they're for numerics not ASCII text processing.

[1] https://www.ti.com.cn/cn/lit/ug/spru103g/spru103g.pdf