skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is not how a balance scale works. The two sides balance, because the weigher makes them balance. That can be done in a vacuum, air, or water.

The trick being described has the weigher balance the scale in air, with unknown mass A and some mass of gold B. The two sides are equal in weight in air, different from mass. Then the entire balance system is submerged. The difference in density of A and B, and therefor volume, leads the balance to become unbalanced.

It would be wise to add mass to the lighter side to try and measure how imbalanced. I would bet most adulterants are about half the density of gold or less. In g/cm3: Gold is 19.3, silver 10.5, lead 11.3, copper 9.0, nickel 8.9.
What's the use case here? For a quick look up you're not going to write that monster command. And for a more ongoing repeated use, you're not going to download and uncompress the file every time you want to query it...

I get the satisfaction as a curiosity, but other than that, to me that wouldn't be enough to make the my "favorite" or even "good".
Plus the old one doesn’t go in the trash, it gets recycled.
I think Amazon has the most effective strategy here. I find it distasteful, but the main risk is that the federal government might start enforcing anti-trust law.

They have two tiers of video offerings that I think are anti-competitive:

1) They give away access to some stuff ad-free as part of the prime bundle.

2) The more premium part of their catalog has ads (Freevee)

(They also have a very expensive, non-differentiated service where you can buy/rent stuff, but their prices and selection are similar to other services.)

Prime Video is a standard monopolistic dumping scheme: They're providing it for free to depress streaming plan prices and starve competitors.

With Freevee, they use account data they gathered from their online shopping monopoly to provide better streaming ad targeting than anyone else can.
No, it wouldn't be better. Because besides a sepsis issue a Chihuahua biting me isn't going to worry me one bit whereas a Pitbull biting me would be a serious problem even if it had just flossed and brushed.
I would be very worried that the LLM would say something medically wrong, and we'd get sued for a lot of money. ISTM that a better thing to do is to use the LLM to generate a lot of training data that you then test your handwritten super-regex against.
You might have missed the ending.

> Also, for those wondering, I really really hate the Pixel 7 Pro.
Yeah totally agree. We've found that a ton of OpenAI usage in practice is a variant of either classification or information extraction. This makes sense -- going from a human-native form of information (free text) to a computer-native form of information (structured data) is a key component of many pipelines!

Of course, GPT-4 is insanely expensive to use at scale, and still isn't a perfect classifier. So the next step is to take the outputs you get from GPT-4 and use them to fine-tune a smaller model that's really fast and good at your specific problem. In my experience, even without using any human annotations or online learning, a model fine-tuned just on GPT-4 outputs can actually outperform GPT-4 as a classifier! This seems really counterintuitive at first, but my guess is what's happening is that the training process is a kind of regularization, so the weird mistakes GPT-4 occasionally makes are overwhelmed in the training data by all the times when GPT-4 gets it right.

As a disclaimer, we're building open source tooling to ease the transition from prompt to cheaper fine-tuned model at my company OpenPipe.
A Huffman code like this can also represent knights (or any single other piece) in 3 bits.

000 - black pawn
001 - black knight
0100 - black bishop
0101 - black rook
0110 - black king
0111 - black queen
100 - white pawn
101 - white knight
1100 - white bishop
1101 - white rook
1110 - white king
1111 - white queen

Going with "a pawn in the first row is actually en-passantable, and should be swapped with the piece in the appropriate position if it exists", and "kings are represented as knights when they can castle in either direction, bishops when they can only castle kingside, and rooks when they can only castle queenside", that gets the initial representation down to 64 + 16 * 3 (pawns) + 6 * 3 (knights and kings) + 10 * 4 = 170 bits, with a worst case of 172 bits (when kings lose some castling rights), if I understand it correctly.

Huffman encoding for 21.5 bytes seems to win the day.
Looking past the editorializing, here's the actual quote from the CFO:

> For a decade, in streaming, an enormously valuable amount of quality content has been given away well below fair market value, and I think that’s in the process of being corrected.

He did not say anything about deadbeats, free rides, etc.

I think it's valid to say that the streaming services have been focused on growth rather than profits for the past several years, and that's changing as the era of cheap money ends.
Bureaucracy = $$$
It's illegal due to zoning and parking minimums
D&D is the worst system that exists imo. It has huge fundamental flaws, core mechanics that make no sense (one example: big guy has high AC so bigger person is harder to hit with an arrow than small one.), and then decades of pointless redundant crap thrown on top of it for good measure, scores of feats and spells and classes that are all almost identical but not quite. Literally any other system is superior, and most other systems are just fine. I'm flabbergasted that it's still in use. When I was a kid it was considered a joke. My theory is that in 90's in EU it was regarded as a joke but in USA it persisted and after internet it spread back.
Many years ago, I wrote a tool that logs OBDII and GPS data - it was one of the first around [pre-dates things like bluetooth ODBII devices and github], I never really focused on usability or anything, but what I made was cool: http://icculus.org/obdgpslogger/

The real enduring piece, though, was an OBDII simulator; I didn't want to keep going out to my car to work on the logger, and none of the other simulators out there were a) software, and b) supported most of the ELM327/OBDII protocol. So I wrote one.

The website isn't pretty, but if anyone actually wants to learn OBDII programming stuff, the simulator is still, AFAICT, one of the best out there: http://icculus.org/obdgpslogger/obdsim.html
That page has nothing on it. Why would I sign up?
Indeed. Here is an excellent & maintained summary of the lengthening terms (from 14 years to more than a century) and its effects: https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023/shrinking...
> Caching would introduce more complexities

Apache/nginx do it just fine...
Or maybe encode the version into the filename? It would overwrite if nothing changed, and the previous versions would remain available.

2023.01.01-data.zip
I think it makes more economic sense for the government to directly subsidize necessities by shipping them in and controlling the price or giving them away for free. This is what FEMA does in the US.

What does not make sense is a world where people have to buy disaster issuance just to make sure they can afford water when a hurricane strikes.
Are you saying that, to encode a valid position, ignoring the cost to encode both the starting position and the move definitions, you can encode the move sequence using less information than encoding a single position?
Tumblr definitely had (has?) cornered niche blogging too though I think? Especially photo-heavy content, as a Wordpress alternative for a personal blog not a 'website'? I think anyway, honestly didn't realise it was significantly used for porn.

OnlyFans on the other hand... didn't they recently say something (trying to appease payment provider I think) about being a general purpose fan payment/follower thing (like Patreon) not just porn? Sure.. it just so happens that the latter category 'rounds to 100' as you say, but yes, general purpose and theory and even intent perhaps!
Money is a social invention, it can never be apolitical. It very much reflects societal structure and contracts, explicit or implicit.

This (very early / prescient) critique of bitcoin is not casting a harsh enough light on the inadequacy of its design.

But maybe now that the concept of designed and programmable money is on the table people can think of what type of monetary/credit system befits a good society.

Bitcoin it aint and out bizarre private bank money perennially backed by the collective it aint either.
Apparently the overarching goal of Jellyfin is to always be able to "direct play" (no transcoding), but whether or not that's possible depends on each file and the client device. They have a comprehensive table of which formats require transcoding on which devices: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/codec-support/
Why not just use rclone?
Or not bother.

The list of big name "content" I think I really should watch/finish/whatever seems ever-increasing.

In reality I spend most of my screen time watching undemanding random and niche vids on YouTube made by individuals with fairly small followings.
> stations can't pump if they don't have power. That's generally why there's a lack of fuel.

They’re a gas station. They’re sitting on a fuel source. Why do you think it isn’t economical to install a generator? (Or even lease one.)

> why would there even need to be extra fuel over normal supply

Emergency vehicles. Trucks bringing supplies for repairs. People checking in on each other. People coming back from evacuation or leaving to find peace of mind. Also returning to normal life.

And it’s not about extra fuel. It’s about maintaining supplies. New shipments aren’t coming in, which means supplies need to be rationed. New shipments come in slower than they would if prices could rise; nobody serving the general population is incentivised to rush.

> increases would probably decrease hoarders but it wouldn't turn refineries back on and magically make more gas

Emergency shortages are all about distribution, not production. There is plenty of gas in the world in a disaster. It just isn’t making it to disaster victims. (Well, it is. But you have the pay the cab driver cash to pay the guy by Riverside Park for a can at $20/gallon.)
I love TypeScript for back-end work. Node.js is astonishingly fast, thanks to V8. TS is concise, has a wonderful/expressive type system, can share code/types with the front-end, and has libraries for damn near everything.

It's the easy choice for new projects. And yeah, if/when it's time to optimize later, and the raw performance of V8 ain't enough, you can reach for threads, WASM, or Rust. 10/10 experience.
Exactly! You need laws and a monopoly of force to enforce those laws in order for property to exist. Otherwise bitcoins can be freely stolen via rubber-hose cryptanalysis.
100%. That’s the reason I would only buy something on the Find My network (have recently had great success with “ATUVOS” ones for about $12 each and one found on Temu for like $10ish) or maybe if there was another that would enjoy 90%+ coverage of Android phones - although I suspect the fragmentation and unavailability of system updates to many devices that aren’t brand new would mean it would take 5 years for such a network to be built.
The Rust compiler was bootstrapped from OCaml as well!
A lot, actually. Typically they just speed it up a bit to bypass content ID.
Here you go:

"Between 2013 and 2021, Pitbulls Were Involved in the Most Dog Bites in 20 States. In many states, pit bulls are responsible for almost half of all dog bite injuries."

"Research conducted in Harris County, Texas, also concluded that pit bull bite incidents were 213% more likely to be severe than other breeds."

https://worldanimalfoundation.org/dogs/pitbull-statistics/#:....
I don't agree with much of this - especially if the alternative is Go. I'm a semi-fan of Go but there are really very few situations I'd pick it over Rust.

> Rust is the 14th most used language

I think the author is a bit confused about "most loved" - that means that people who already use it want to keep using it. 14th most used language is great for such a young and not beginner friendly language. It's only 1 place behind Go and that is 3 years older.

Additionally Rust is mainly replacing C/C++ codebases which are generally much older and slower moving than other languages.

> Now imagine being the developer tasked with updating the dependencies of a service that is 31 versions behind...
> During the same period, there was 8 Go releases, 7 Node.js releases (but only 2 LTS) and 3 Python releases.

This is obvious nonsense. The stability of a language is not measured by the number of releases. Come on, did this guy really write a successful book about Rust? Is this satire?

> Rust is actually still in the beta phase, with some important features such as async Traits still missing, which brings more churn to the ecosystem.

Really? Is C++ "still in beta" because it doesn't have async?

> The standard library is anemic

Sure that is an issue in C++ where using third party libraries is a huge pain. Doesn't really matter so much when you can just `cargo add regex`.

> async is hard

This is the only vaguely valid point. But on the other hand 90% of the time the solution is simple: don't use async.

Very disappointing article. I was expecting an actual good comparison of the pros and cons. Go does have some notable advantages over Rust - compile time, ease of cross compilation, simplicity, goroutines, built in fuzzing support, arguably better dependency management. Why not talk about them?
Project Pele
https://archive.is/FcEOC
It's not as if privacy teams are reviewing each code change at Google. The teams making changes are generally responsible for knowing if and when to seek out approval/advice.
I prefer the Ko rule of Go.

You can’t repeat the last position. But repeating a pattern of part of the board every two turns can force progress to resolution. The entire board never repeats, but it also stops the loop earlier.
I've heard (sarcastically) that MongoDB's business model is relying on companies who have it entrenched via tech debt and can't get out.
I agree that it's not the only solution, but it's the only way to (somewhat) guarantee a lack of bullshit.

There are companies like The Omni Group that I think are, generally speaking, bullshit-free. They make (in my opinion) pretty good products, I can buy them once, I get the normally-expected number of updates, and it's about as ideal a transaction you'd want. I don't mind them charging money for a good product, and I'm grateful that products like OmniFocus exist.

That said, one thing that continues to bother me is that Omni could change things whenever they want. They could decide to start charging 10x the price if I use OmniFocus for anything involving business, or they could make it so that my flat-fee purchase of OmniFocus no longer works.

Do I think Omni is going to do that? No, I think they're generally pretty decent people, but open source guarantees that I can always take a snapshot of the "current state" of the project, and also guarantee that there's not retroactive strings being attached to things I'm making with that software.
My claim is that we can't determine what caused a price change by looking at the distributional effects of that price change.

I demonstrated this with an example, where we know what caused a price change (supply chain issues for a substitute product plus increased demand) and know the distributional effect (higher margins for sellers of used cars). If we naively try to explain the price change based on the distributional effect, we would claim that higher prices were purely caused by increased greed. We know this to be false.

Look, perhaps companies really did become more greedy in 2020 and that's what has really caused inflation. Or maybe large amounts of stimulus caused increased demand. Or perhaps the war in Ukraine has caused supply chain issues which drives up prices. My point is that looking at the distributional effects of inflation is just completely disconnected from the question of what caused inflation in the first place.

At the very least, if you're claiming that we can figure out what caused inflation by looking at the distributional effects, can you provide some evidence, or some argument, to support that claim? Because I think my example demonstrates that common sense ("X benefitted from inflation, therefore X caused inflation") is not a good guide here, and if anything, the additional complexity of real markets works against you here - if we can't even explain inflation based on distributional effects in a toy market, what makes you so confident we can do so in the market as a whole?
What a weird version the 0.0.281
Does it mean they only did patch/bugfix with no additional feature ?
"Between 2013 and 2021, Pitbulls Were Involved in the Most Dog Bites in 20 States. In many states, pit bulls are responsible for almost half of all dog bite injuries. Research conducted in Harris County, Texas, also concluded that pit bull bite incidents were 213% more likely to be severe than other breeds."

https://worldanimalfoundation.org/dogs/pitbull-statistics/#:....
Jupyter can be used with Org Babel (interactive output, ansi escape codes, plots. I haven't tried widgets (shiny apps mostly cover this use-case for me https://shiny.posit.co/)).

https://github.com/emacs-jupyter/jupyter#org-mode-source-blo...
> It's their added value over something like Kodi.

Strange again, I thought that value was easy setup and that it "actually works"(tm)
Pouring money into it is something else than asking them to look into your secret kitchen.
I have a Nintendo Switch, I've literally never used it to play a game where cheating is a concern. Cheating in games is not a crime and it's not worth bricking devices to avoid.
Try lineageos, I have two pixels from 2016 as backups just like you and they are up-to-date with the latest security patches.

I know absolutely nothing about phones/android and was able to get lineage to work in a few hours, and now it's 15 minute every couple of months to keep everything up-to-date.

https://wiki.lineageos.org/
https://archive.is/97It6
> The whole attempt here is to predict if something is possible

Pretty sure the actual idea is to drown oneself in "copium" until the trend is too obvious to ignore.
Can you explain what the shopping cart is?

I mean... do they make you select one or more files, then navigate to another page to download your selected files?
Guess what. Reset copyright to 50 years and we call it even.
I’ve heard this corroborated by exhibition players who play ten or fifteen opponents at once. They do better with moderately skilled opponents than random people.
It could be greater than 0% but less than 0.5%, ending up rounded down when displayed. The value getting checked might be against the raw value rather than the rounded one. Which, of course, is a bug.
I assume it would be similar to declaring bankruptcy
Well of course it does; how else would it know how to query the API? /s
They do replace it, but it costs about $100. The watch itself can be had for $299.
Telcom, oil, railway, Google (I don't mean Google it, but just Google).
Sorry, but AC's don't get to claim expertise.
..oops sun screen is actually bad too (Octocrylene is the latest problematic newcomer), and would need a very thick application to get the claimed effectiveness.
Love the idea, but how far back do the data go?

And someone pointed out the preponderance of junk food; I want to see core items that are often used in recipes. To me this is the most offensive aspect of these scams: You know your favorite recipe takes four cans of tomatoes, cans that have been the same size for decades. Now... WHOOPS, your meal is messed up because the manufacturer is too gutless to simply raise the price.

The one example I see on the site is butter: https://www.shrinkflation.io/search?query=butter

These jagoffs reduced the quantity by 20%, which is definitely enough to mess up recipes.
It's apple only (tvos, ios, and macos). The yearly subscription is for enabling formats and resolutions, I believe. They don't have a server part. They just scan your sources (smb shares, cloud drives, plex, jellyfin, emby,...) and present a library. My setup is Jellyfin (old Mac Mini with ubuntu server) + Infuse on Apple TV as the player.
But it isn’t huge. I just checked how much data my local pc store fetches for the first page of RAM, 18 items total. It does too much ajax-in-json bs to estimate, but let’s assume each product uses 500 bytes, which is more than reasonable. It’s roughly 9kb total. The first RAM image on that page is 8kb. So the pictures on that page alone are roughly 18x bigger than that json. That means if there’s 18 pages of RAM, and there was 35 actually, the whole json is as big as one-two pages. Iow, unless a user changes just one filter and then buys immediately, it’s more effective.

As a consumer, this all feels like being between two fires. One side creates the stupidest UX possible, where one change can fix that, while the other side claims it’s all bs anyway and we must go medieval. Can’t we just listen to a user for once?
The issue most people have with shrinkflation isn't that the manufacturers made a tough call when all the options were tough, it's that manufacturers do so in a manner deliberately calculated to hide information from the consumer, and in some cases outright deceive them (if they didn't, this shrinkflation tracker wouldn't exist)

To reiterate, a company honest with consumers would inform them they were getting less for the same price, and try to make the case you're making now: "hey, sorry about this, but times are tough, and we can't raise prices"

Less scrupulous and deceptive companies don't
> I think that a modular and rich standard library such as Go's or Node.js's offers way higher productivity to developers, consistency to the ecosystem and reduced costs for businesses.

Is the Go standard library really considered rich? Coming from languages like python or ruby I found it pretty lacking. Admittedly I haven't used Go in 3 years.
Most of the multibyte from the last few years for example.

Bram didn't really record these things very well until quite recently (and even then, rather inconsistently) by just listing the author in the commit message rather than the git author field, so there's no easy way to check.
Google nears release of Gemini AI
This is bullshit … those are assumptions… not even science …
Here the article in one line…
If antioxidants reduce oxidative stress they could reduce dna damage and dna damage has maybe something to do with adhd…. We can’t be sure…if anything of that is true ..

End of story

Wtf
China slams EU over electric vehicle subsidy probe
Groq Demonstrates Fast LLMs on 4-Year-Old Silicon – EE Times
Thanks. That headline is malpractice, as it gives the impression of a near quote
Hardly an excuse, legal contracts exist and if Google would really care, they would enforce updates as condition to future AOSP access.
Show HN: AskOpenAI – CLI Tool
I wanted an CLI version of ChatGPT that integrated with a shell command. I couldn't find anything like that so a made one. I've updated it over the past few days with a few more features; my favorite of which being a 'CSV to Seaborn Visualization' Python script generator that I find quite fun and useful for making little graphs of data quickly.
Paramount+ just announced the new Frasier, and they were quick to announce that each episode would drop weekly, as opposed to all at once.

*Click, click, click, Wikipedia, last episode = 12 Dec 2023; click, click, click; Google Calendar :: New Event, 12 Dec :: FRASIER REBOOT S1 READY TO VIEW*

Am not going to pay 4 months when I can pay 1.

Re: Yearly plans to curb stream jumping? HA HA HA. No.
> Except Spring also has its own way of doing beans, people keep forgeting about it.

“Bean” is a broad term. It certainly didn't have a container to run standalone modules as ejb-jars. Spring is just a framework, not an application server with isolated classloaders that the JaveEE application servers were based on.

> I stand by my comment, rather Websphere than Kubernets/YAML/WASM.
Agree
Agree