skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Font/typeface licensing and IP is a nightmare. Typefaces cannot be copyrighted, but fonts can. As a practical matter, this means that representations of typefaces in rendered documents can be redistributed freely - but the font file can be copyrighted, which means that anything that loads the font file (e.g. your website) has to have a license to use the font.

So - if this font was being used in just a few places, they could easily convert that text to images and be fully compliant (though obviously hacky). However, since they're loading it as a web font, now they have to pay.

It gets weirder when you talk about productivity software - lots of companies believe that they "own" their fonts, and hence can use them in their documents with impunity. In reality, they likely have an unlimited organization usage license, which allows them to install the font files on every computer in the organization, but not to distribute them outside of their organization. Have a design agency that you hire to build slide decks for the sales team? They need to buy a license to use that font (or you buy it for them).

This also creates a reason to distribute documents in rendered form - wonder why that marketing deck got emailed to you from a vendor as a PDF instead of the PPT? If it uses a licensed font, you probably don't have a license and consequently won't have the font file installed on your computer, which causes the document to fall back to an alternate font (with mixed results)

This is often true even when the font was custom-designed for a particular company - if it's a custom version of an existing font, the foundry typically creates a one off license for that customer.

This is also why Google Docs and Slides can't support custom fonts - in their model, the fonts are delivered over the browser, so there's no way to limit distribution of documents with those fonts to remain in compliance with the foundry licensing. (Disclosure: I'm a googler, I worked on google slides years ago, got a ton of requests for custom fonts, out of 30+ companies that asked for this, only two owned their fonts in such a way that they could actually be distributed without limits).
I just don't understand how they are allowed to do this. I thought we had laws against intruding on systems, hacking, and wiretapping. How can a business do this in the clear and not get stopped by some law enforcement?
Why I built Pipeless: a computer vision framework
Distrowatch is a good place to get a brief overview of pretty well every Linux distribution ever made, with links and a bit of background info on each:

https://distrowatch.com/
That's pretty neat! You're basically using ping triangulation!
Yes, of course. But parts of the discourse make it sound like we need to reduce our energy usage as some kind of 'moral imperative'. They give the impression that they'd be disappointed if everyone could get everything they wanted with zero cost to the environment.
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Wow this was indeed super comprehensive. A few things I noticed:

- In the cold start section, a couple of the synthetic_data responses say 'context does not provide info..'

- It's strange that retrieval_score would decrease while quality_score increases at the higher chunk sizes. Could this just be that the retrieved chunk is starting to be larger than the reference?

- Gpt 3.5 pricing looks out of date, it's currently $0.0015 for input for the 4k model

- Interesting that pricing needs to be shown on a log scale. Gpt-4 is 46x more expensive than llama 2 70B for ~.3 score increase. Training a simple classifier seems like a great way to handle this.

- I wonder how stable the quality_score assessment is given the exact same configuration. I guess the score differences between falcon-180b, llama-2-70b and gpt-3.5 are insignificant?

Is there a similarly comprehensive deep dive into chunking methods anywhere? Especially for queries that require multiple chunks to answer at all - producing more relevant chunks would have a massive impact on response quality I imagine.
Tails is great. I am using it for several years now.

Other related projects are whonix ( https://www.whonix.org ), which consists of two virtual machines:

A workstation to work on and a gateway, which torifies all traffic from the workstation VM.

Whonix is also integrated in Qubes OS ( https://www.qubes-os.org ), which allows you to easily work with multiple seperate whonix VMs. There is also the possibility to tunnel all internet traffic of your machine through Tor including system upgrades of the host OS itself.
I was just watching a video from the CBS Morning Show talking about how the Great Salt Lake was recovering from the drought, thanks to all the recent heavy winter snows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F98VvsJuJeM
> It's the "toner" of thermal paper. Basically every modern receipt you get is a sheet of BPA dusted paper

Don't worry we're all good, we (EU) replaced it with BPS, which is equally as bad but can't be filtered by our liver nearly as good
Do you have some idea on how to do storage cheap at scale? There is a lot of money for anyone who has an easy technical remedy.
> The European Union has recently reached an agreement on a significant competition reform known as the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which will impose strict rules on large tech companies that will have to offer users the ability to communicate with each other using different apps. WhatsApp is one of the companies that will be required to comply with the new regulations outlined in the European Union’s Digital Markets Act. This is because WhatsApp is considered a gatekeeper service since it’s a large tech platform with a substantial user base and falls within the criteria set by the DMA. With the latest WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.19.8 update, which is available on the Google Play Store, we discovered that WhatsApp is working on complying with the new regulations.
Ah, I'm sorry. That happens when you write messages on the go... seems too late to edit the message though unfortunately.
And every time the citizenry tries to use regulation to reign in a megacorp it ends up creating more burden for that company's competition. megacorps legal team can easily squeeze into the loop holes, but mom and pops (and entrepreneurs) get ground up like cheap meat.
Yeah. The house I grew up in was built in 89 and the kitchen had this little built-in desk beside the pantry. And it really felt like a “you sit here and take a corded phone call and make notes” it was far too small to be a serious desk for work and yet it had drawers and cubbies above for documents.

In its defense it got used as a place to store school forms and sports forms and other “family administration” stuff that was too daily to belong in the office with all the taxes and financials and warranties.
If you'd tested, you would have found that unfortunately access to about:config has been disabled on the release (and I think Beta, too?) versions of Firefox for Android.
"Plan" means a lot of things.

There has been some research in applying GPT-4 to Hierarchical Task Networks (HTN), one means of doing computerized semi-automated/automated planning of a complex task as a tree of less and less complex tasks [1].

There are other types of planning. Automated planning works better as there are more defined the tasks in a plan, less ambiguity in dependencies, more separate between the tasks. The OP article touches on that, noting LLMs are good at extracting planning knowledge but not good in their experience at creating executable plans. This is why I think the hybrid approach is best, using an LLM to inform and tweak other planning tools in order to create an executable plan.

[1] https://github.com/DaemonIB/GPT-HTN-Planner
The NBA Players Association would like a word.
Thanks. These are reasons in favor of parens, right?
I'm pretty sure I used to own a book called The Newton-Leibniz Correspondence, being a collection of letters. But my search-foo has failed to turn it up.
When I moved to France I was very surprised to know that oxymetazoline is prescription drug here. It is routinely prescribed to children and available over the counter where I am from.
This is correct to be honest. rooting your phone doesn't ruin other peoples phone experience unless you perform actually illegal conduct perhaps (maybe some hacks or w/e?). Cheating in a game is not illegal, so companies need to take it upon themselves to prevent it. This is honestly fairly logical. it does not at all compare to PC or Phones.
Won't happen till laws demand it.

Very few companies/programmers I know write 'secure first'. Most of the time it's "this shit isn't working, turn off the security stuff and see if it works then we'll re-enable it later"
I should have been more clear.

The comment I replied to seemed to make the following reasoning: "a lot of junk science uses oversimplified models; this work also uses an oversimplified model; therefore, this work is also junk science".

And my intention was to point out that this kind of reasoning is invalid, because simplification is an important aspect of the scientific process.
Beta or VHS?
More info on this functionality: https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/shared-ipad-overv...

Spoiler: it doesn't work very well, last we used it.
Is it possible to get the creation of new github issues behind some sort of signup? In the same way that randos can't merge PRs.
I thank everyone that replied, but most if not all the answers do not take into account the limitations of NOT changing the current (192.168.1.1) address of the gateway and/or are anyway using the "added router in the middle" option where the proposed Microtik hex router is replaced by some other brand/make/model.

I understand (a little) the way multi-WAN routing works, but due to the exposed limitations that cannot work.

The whole problem revolves around the fact that the (hypothetical) device (if it is a sort of router) has an own address of 192.168.1.1 and that it should be able to route/switch to one of the three DSL/4G router/modems each one having the same 192.168.1.1 address.

I am now thinking of a ethernet relay like the ones used in home automation, similar to this one (example):

https://relaypros.com/Relay/Relay/ETHERNET_RELAY_CONTROLLERS

but I read somewhere that it is not a good idea to use the relay contacts on the actual ethernet cable, so I could use one of them to control the power of the three routers/modems, but this would introduce a (bearable, still ...) delay as the routers take some time (tens of seconds, one is particularly slow and takes over a minute) to boot and establish connection.
It's very unlikely for a solar company, whether an installer or manufacturer, to last 25 or 30 years. I worked in equipment sales and our suppliers would routinely go out of business or be on the verge of bankruptcy. We'd advertise warranty insurance and reinsurance because it was assumed that the company wouldn't be there that long from now.

If you just have modules (the panels themselves) on the roof that long you'd probably be okay, but if you have microinverters or power optimizers under them, those power electronics have a finite lifespan and will eventually die. Or if a single module wired in series goes bad, you'd still have roof work to do.

It's not just install and forget. It's install and pray you don't have to do too much work too soon...

(Edit: Ideally, these systems would pay for themselves in a few years. As long as that happens before they die, you'd still come out ahead. But that's not always the case. My last company got sued because the stuff we made kept failing -- it was in the news, so no company secrets there. One of our major installers also went bankrupt. Depending on who you ask, our equipment may or may not have been at fault.)
Journalism wasn't invented after the smart phone.
Maybe a dumb question but how is it possible to use salt water for agricultural irrigation? I thought the high salt content would kill most plants?
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All known law enforcement attacks against Tor have involved some kind of exploit (e.g., in Tor Browser) that creates a non-Tor connection to collect the user's IP. Tails does not protect against this. Whonix provides much stronger protection against practical, real-world attacks, since the entire operating system is forced through a Tor connection.
So, at the risk of outing myself, I wrote http://www.hostip.info a long time ago* which used a community approach to get ip address location ("is this guess wrong ? Fix it please").

The last time I checked (maybe a decade ago [grin]) it worked pretty much perfectly for a country, imperfectly for a region, and better-than-a-coin-toss for city resolution. All the data is free.

I don't think they have it on the site any more, but I used to have a rotating 3D-cube thing (x,y,z were the first 3 octets of the address) for things like known-addresses, recent lookups, etc. I used different colours for different groups (country, continent,...) It was so old it was written as a Java applet. Yeah. I guess if I were to do it again, it'd be WebGL.

--

*: I sold it a long time ago, with the proviso that the data must always remain free. I actually didn't believe the offer at first (it came as an email, and looked like a scam) but it went through escrow.com just fine, and I think we both walked away happy. That was almost 2 decades ago now though.
Maybe identifying duplicate issues could be a good use case for AI. Stackoverflow does this when you try to ask a question.
> at a loss with profits recouped on game sales

and perhaps the FTC should be smashing down that practice as anticompetitive?
that sounds fun...link?
When Llama first released in Feb Yann tweeted that they were committed to releasing all models under GPL, and yet that’s not the license we all got. There’s been a move to more permissive licensing since. So it’s been a bit of a tug of war still.
In places with low rates of shoplifting (i.e. most places), this never seemed to be an issue.

In any event, the restrictions on pseudoephedrine had huge societal costs (as a proxy, apparently at least $1.7B/yr is spent on useless “decongestants” [0] as a result), and I would hope it at least had corresponding benefits. But it doesn’t seem that meth has gotten any less available.

[0] Presumably more. After all, if people have trouble buying a decongestant that works, might as well buy a homeopathic “decongestant” instead, which is probably safer than phenylephrine while being no less effective.
> This basically allows legislators to force anything into the public domain by simply referencing it in a law.

Legislators can presently force literally whatever they want into the public domain simply by creating a law that does that. It's a toxic principle to place copyright on a pedestal where profit overrides the public good and copyright holders can hold good regulation hostage.
Meta 'ruined' the term metaverse, but now it's evolving: Yuga Labs CEO
People are generally exposed to reviews by third parties. They do their research and only then buy. Most products can be replaced / returned if you are not satisfied. Limited friend circle and their limited exposure to existing and new products should not be a determining factor in deciding what should I like or not. It should be my personal decision.

Politicians / media are inherently untrustworthy. Yet society chugs along.
My point is that it is normal for special purpose devices to be regulated in such a way that prioritizes their primary purpose. And this is true for smartphones. The parts of your phone that must comply with telecom regulatory standards are locked down in black boxes separate from the main system.
Have you seen Nvidia's stock price?
The inside story of Threads
For anyone interested in how the obsession for organization can end: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Otlet
There are now over 100,000 tourists visiting Antartica per year [0], while the working population maxes out at around 5,000 [1]. So, in fact, the overwhelming majority of visitors to Antartica pay for the privilege.

0: https://geographical.co.uk/science-environment/tourism-numbe...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica
What app developers want/do is irrelevant. I am saying that it should be impossible for any individual app to access or connect to anything without explicit user consent.

We need to stop automating everything and then complain that companies aren't putting optional banners everywhere. This is beyond stupid.
There's a nostalgia about the old web, where things were uplifting, good and positive.
People sort into groups that have similar interests. This article is an example of it. Hey guys, who wants to go spend a year living in the middle of nowhere, in an ice cold region, dark enough to drive people insane, for mediocre pay?

For some people that sounds like an awesome adventure. For others its incomprehensible why anybody would even consider it. And these sort of interests, for both genetic and cultural reasons, are not going to be evenly distributed. It doesn't mean that e.g. hiphop or basketball is excluding non-blacks anymore than death metal and swimming is excluding non-whites.
Not sure what you mean by "serious", but this is well known in design circles. Maybe this[1] will convince you?

Typography is visual design after all, and is not any different from other design elements we see all around us. It's obvious that it has an impact in how we perceive and experience brands, and the source of any text we read.

[1]: https://www.monotype.com/company/news/monotype-study-shows-t...
Google certainly uses its geolocation DB, but it also learns based on map browsing patterns.

To clarify, the scenario I described is as follows: 1. Initially, when I open Google Maps in a clean browser it defaults to my real location. 2. I repeatedly browse some other location. 3. When I open Google Maps in a clean browser, it defaults to that other location. The only reason for Google Maps to pick that other location is my map browsing.
Not sure if this was just a obvious Cunningham's Law comment but here goes.

Some reasonable ones: https://wiki.python.org/moin/Powerful%20Python%20One-Liners

Some less so: https://hostcloud.blog/is-it-possible-to-write-obfuscated-on...
The process of going from [malicious image which gets loaded by apple wallet] to [shellcode running] depends hugely on compiler flags, memory layout, etc.
Buy Cult of the Lamb now, cause we're deleting it on Jan first
Ask HN: What programming languages are you using at $WORK?
I want to distinguish between the hype and the real world.
What would be the point in a dual-listing? How does one actually work?
Your bullshit detector is broken from being overloaded with your lies. The clogged ERs were from people being lied to about how dangerous COVID was. Simple cold, gotta get to the hospital.

It's high time fear mongers go through a moment of reflection and introspection to look at all the bullshit they've been peddling.

Get help, bud. Your world view is an illusions you bought into.
A lot of these justifications sound like, " if you make enough money, you can't complain".

Also,Yes, some people, some of the time don't need these protections. Switch it to an early in career person in a terrible economy and things become quite different.

> mildly insulting to a laborer fighting for it because they actually get tired at the end of a day's work

I dont understand this one

> men really don't need much paternity

The first year of children is a sleepless affair. It is difficult for a mother to do the heavy lifting by herself. Additionally, if the woman wants to go back to work in a few months, then that's a good time for the man to take paternity leave and step up.
I’m not sure shareholders asked them to over hire since 2019 by more than 2x (conservatively) and start spending billions to acquire random companies without having a clear vision what are they planning to so with them.

That mostly came from the board and the executives. It’s not like shareholders really that many ways to influence company policy that much besides selling or buying their stock
Not to defend the practice but I think the intent is to allow scraping (or API access) only by the price comparison site but not by competitors. (Why wouldn't the competitors then just scrape the price comparison site? Because that site also has anti-scraping measures in place...)
Local storage, whether straight to disk or through UserDefaults, has no permissions on iOS.
And when people "root their phone" they are just modifying part of the device. The baseband is closed source and illegal/impossible to modify in order to protect the network and spectrum.
Johnson and Johnson is getting rid of its script logo after more than 130 years
NVDA is up 200% YTD and was already massively overvalued at the start of the year.

Others do seem to be backing off, but there is still definitely a lot of way overvalued tech out there.
How much would one of these specialists take to create a custom solution like this?

I would expect something in the thousands of dollars range, not exactly affordable.
How does Tails help you avoid censorship?
https://www.tesla.com/megapack

https://electrek.co/2023/04/19/tesla-reports-massive-increas...

https://lorenz-g.github.io/tesla-megapack-tracker/

(on a smaller scale, to date, Tesla has deployed Powerwalls and Powerpacks at more than 50,000 sites worldwide; their Lathrop, CA facility is ramping to manufacture 40GWh/yr of capacity)