skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case it wasn't clear - a jury awarded Sonos $32.5 million, but the judge just threw that out. Sonos gets nothing.

It's quite possible that both sides spent far more than $32.5 million on lawyers, but it made sense to fight.

Sonos, because they wanted to sue others and not just Google.

Google, because they didn't want to set a precedent that they'd give in when they hadn't actually infringed on anything.
My time is limited. If something doesn't capture my attention after giving it a fair chance, I move on. No need to feed a completionist disorder or fall for the sunk cost fallacy.
I can agree with all of that.

I was pushing back against something that might not have been there initially: an unwillingness to accommodate the idea that a fairly significant part of our intelligence is actually stored in our language and that it can seem subjectively (perhaps excluding those with no internal monologue) that we recall that knowledge in a manner which is close enough to the one we have managed to replicate in the larger LLMs.

This part of our function could well be a lazy optimization that in reality sits on top of our reasoning capabilities to save energy, but the point of the trite task with the bird in the hand was just to demonstrate that it seems to play a fairly significant role. I'm out of my depth entirely with respect to the actual form and function of the brain as per the state of research today.

I'm willing to admit though that when I replied to you I was probably really replying to a lot of other commenters, many of whom had stronger objections to the idea that LLMs are now knocking on the door of intelligence at least to the point where we feel the need to redefine it.
I like this, and the comment you replied to. I think most of the things we have are the way they are because of reasons like these, not because someone rationally planned them.
Not me personally, but gnucobol compiles to C ( https://gnucobol.sourceforge.io/ )
It's a very workflow-specific bug. I pretty much only encounter it while playing video games.

Turns out that while gaming I often have a Youtube video playing in one browser tab, and use another browser tab to look up game-related information. So it is really common for me to interact with the tab bar (which triggers the tooltip) right before alt-tabbing into my game.

During day-to-day browser use my cursor is almost always located somewhere over the website content - which rarely triggers a tooltip.
Does this come from the same reasoning where the way you get a good paying job is by walking in the front door and giving a firm handshake to the owner?

Addendum: nevermind that during this whole time of unfortunate and now very slow because "mail" correspondence, especially when the circumstance described is of a bank re-ordering transactions such as to cause the most possible overdrafts given a time range, this person's whole paycheck they need to survive may have been trapped or eaten by the overdraft fees if there's 4 or 5 of them. Yes, some people make that little.
> Huge swaths of eurasian landmass is uninhabitable because of harsh climate

This gets repeated over and over but looks false.

Why is the city of Ryazan on five centuries older than the city of Voronezh just 200 km to the south? One is in cold swampy forests and the other one is temperate grasslands. And you see this pattern everywhere where barely arable places such as Vjatka are populated for a long time but Krasnodar only recently populated.
An open source ISA is a collaborative effort, and it contains several members, not just from the US. And it was inevitable either way. Going against who uses an open source an open source ISA is against open source, and going against open source is capitalist greed.

I won't be debating that, there are plenty of resources to read on it and it's a big topic if you are so deeply opposed to it.
> She, I feel reasonably, points out that it was not me that spent 10 months being pregnant with our child

She is not being reasonable; your wife sounds entitled and childish.

It's not reasonable to ask someone to go without sleep while the asker gets all the sleep they need, regardless of what happened in the past.

After all, it's not as if you could stock up on sleep while she was pregnant, and now cash in those stocks, can you?
Sure, and some NDK APIs do exactly that. But you're still just using IPC to call into services written in Java, just using a different approach.
« AutoGPT engineers » seem to also generate their articles with LLM, making their documentation awful to grok. For instance, after showing 2 commands, we have to suffer this:
Forge your future! The forge is your innovation lab. All the boilerplate code is already handled, letting you channel all your creativity into building a revolutionary agent. It's more than a starting point, it's a launchpad for your ideas.
In our exploration today, we’ve covered the essentials of working with AutoGPT projects. We began by laying out the groundwork, ensuring you have all the right tools in place. From there, we delved into the specifics of building an effective AutoGPT agent. Trust me, with the right steps, it becomes a straightforward process.

The doc is littered of those paragraphs. Remove the fat! Go to the point! YOLO, that’s a freaking waste of life cycles!
My idea for that is UI Drafter, which eliminates the need for graphic design thinking when spec'ing out and prototyping so domain experts can collaborate more directly.

https://uidrafter.com
> lack of flexibility compared to AMD's platform

You mean flexibility to claim ECC support but not doing any validation to make sure it actually works? Does any AMD motherboard manufacturer actualy states that "ECC is supported and has been validated"? I think the muddy waters that AMD has created would warrant such an explicit statement.
> Almost no one would disagree that removing all instances of CSAM from the internet would be a good thing, whether it's a "human problem" or not. That's not really the issue.

Would removing all instances of CSAM from the internet be a good thing if it would lead to an increase in CSA? After all the human problem still exists after removing CSAM.
Impureim sandwich (2020)
There are robots / RC cars like that, but they wouldn't work well on rocky surfaces for example; legs are more versatile.
"Xiongnu", the early Chinese ethnonym for their nomadic northern neighbors, literally contains a word meaning "slave".
Most of this is just cheap design on part of the ergomech community. It's not that hard to add some protection. E.g. some keyboards use a Schottky diode on VCC for reverse polarity protection and ESD protection diodes to protect the data lines:

https://github.com/zsa/docs/blob/master/Ergodox%20V5-L.pdf

Of course the design requirements of USB would be different, since you'd always plug/yank the cable on a machine that is on, rather than protect against doing this accidentally sometime. Given that, it probably made more sense to completely avoid the issue.
*In California
> his particular feature may have been your low-key expectation, but it’s unlikely it was your principal consideration.

This is like saying that an ad for a camera means you will be granted pretty models to take photos of.

Again, it is not a tech spec for a smart speaker, and never was. If you sincerely believe so, I am sympathetic; modern life is hard. If you don’t then try responding to my analogy instead.

> I'm not sympathetic to Google or any other company that takes a feature away

Again, in this case RED did not take any feature away after the fact—BM simply didn’t do their research ahead of time. They made a buck selling cameras by advertising a specific feature, then took it away when things got hot. Meanwhile, another camera manufacturer keeps selling cameras with this exact feature for years. There’s just nothing to be said and no passing the buck can make it look good.
Wouldn't a vector DB be nice to have, so you can use it directly for search?

I understand the argumentation of the article. But I can imagine that waiting so long for a LLM to react that I would actually prefer to do a search instead on a vector database on my "additional information layer" and find relevant information myself. In that case, having a vector DB would then serve two purposes and that could change the considerations whether it is worth the added complexity.

Not an expert here, just a question that came to mind - it might be based on wrong assumptions.
Mao Was My Neighbour: Yao Zhongda and the "Opening" of Chinese Adult Education [pdf]
Again commonly repeated FUD.

Lightning originated when there was a talk about mandating micro-USB and finally died, after 11 years, when USB-C was mandated. If not for that legislation it would still be alive.

It's actually faster that way.
In hindsight, most of those games were bad. Some were very bad. A handful were OK, and a select few are still worth playing today. In general, games that old weren't fair, and they relied on a lot of repetitive gameplay to overcome technological limitations.

16-year-old me would also be shocked that grown-up me spends more time being physically active than gaming, though interestingly, both are driven by a sense of accomplishment.
> I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone has more than one child.

You'd understand it just fine if you weren't getting gaslit by an entitled and selfish wife.
I'm not an expert but couldn't you just make the tip live and not connect the rest until that's connected? Or have a switch for when the plug is fully inserted. I see that it's a problem for sure, but it seems easier than the problems they solved to make usb c reversible
I like making fun of them for not fixing decades-old bugs (and there's still a considerable amount left) and didn't really have hope they'd ever care.

What beautiful news if this indicates that some other old bugs will eventually be fixed as well!
I was training persian letters yesterday and actually found it more difficult on dotted paper than on lined paper. So maybe the answer is that schools start with lined paper, and then everyone sticks with it? Also I guess school children are the primary buyers of lined paper?
And clock face mimics the sundial, therefore clockwise is sunwise
Technology Man trains home cameras to help repel badgers and foxes
The mainstream, state broadcaster in my country publishes youtube videos of news topics with SENSATIONAL TITLES and thumbnails with close-up REACTION FACES. On their home page, along with the written articles.

I hate what the attention economy has become. Old man yells at emoji...
National Carbon Registry
Demo Website: https://demo.carbreg.org/
Code: https://github.com/undp/carbon-registry
The „perspective“ lines are awesome for drawing.
VBScript is getting deprecated
You'd be surprised... I've made a pretty good career of identifying cases where simpler, more efficient designs produce better or equivalent results.
There is little difference between offensive and defensive capabilities. It's all about destroying your opponent. This helps national security because it is an additional and advanced means of destruction that the enemy might not have.
Yes, that's Python's ternary.

https://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html#conditi...
And even if you hate China, it does not justify the opposition to using an open source ISA as a whole. It benefits everyone around the globe, and USA is not a special country. Others can use the ISA just the same, and it's better for them to do so.

You guys thinking in terms of countries is just as big of a problem, but again I don't have the time for that philosophy.
I can confirm using chatGPT for paraphrasing abstract, conclusion etc but I always edit it to make sure that it conveys the same meaning and has no errors.
> Further, our terms are governed by California law, notwithstanding the country of the customer.

So presumably if you’re a customer in the EU you’re still doing business directly with their CA HQ and not an office registered in Ireland/Luxemburg/etc. (pretty much how every other major company does it?)?

Then again why wouldn’t you say stuff like that as a lawyer? The fees from all the lawsuits would’ve been pretty immense (regardless of who wins..)
This is interesting. I am trying not to feel offended by your toxic play, so let's get started:

> kitty's graphics protocol is literally infinitely faster than sixels for local transmission

Let's get the comparison right here (not apples with pies), Kitty graphics over the PTY wire is slower than Sixel over the PTY wire. Kitty supports bypassing the PTY by just referencing to a file locally present on the file system or using n SHM region on the local memory. Both solutions won't work over the internet, because they break the VT I/O model. But you are right, when bypassing the wire, it'll be faster. That sadly limits you to local-only use.

> literally infinitely faster

I wonder what your math behind this is :-P

> taking into account that kitty's graphics protocol supports 32bit colors, unlike sixel

Sixel is using a palette to define the colors to reference from. This pallete can be either in Hue or in RGB format. Of course, the palette has limited amount of entries (which can be queried), but during the image transmittion, just adjust your palette, to get a breader range of colors to chose from. It's still RGB, or to be more precise RRGGBB (8-bit red/green/blue components, which makes it 24-bit. I wonder if what you mean with 32-bit colors other than 24-bit colors plus 8-bit alpha. Alpha values is something that is not supported by sixel (wrong age for Sixels :D), but still it is possible to render images that do not cover only rectangular parts. For example that image here: https://contour-terminal.org/screenshots/contour-notcurses-n... - look at the logo. But I agree, semi-transarent images are not possible using Sixels. But then, you probably want to use a GUI then :)
AdonisJS v6 – One Step Closer to the Release
The ASRock Rack B650D4U advertises ECC support on AM5.

It's a bit pricy, but you also get IPMI.
There is no limitation for CinemaDNG support. It is an open standard that requires no licensing fee. There is plenty of both free and commercial software supporting it. There are cameras supporting it. The patent under discussion doesn’t prevent BM from implementing it.

Furthermore, BM’s software is not free. It is a commercial suite that currently costs $300 (an inexpensive price point, likely subsidized by selling $xxx–$xxxxx hardware controllers without which Resolve is moderately painful to use). They do offer at no cost a limited version where certain features spawn a “please buy” pop-up; in return for that limited version they collect plenty of personal data including your full name, email, phone number and the company you work for. I know this all because I have in fact used Resolve (frankly it’s been somewhat buggy on macOS though), have you?
European security is national security via geopolitics. Being a global superpower has many benefits for US citizens.
need to be wary of the printer's printing resolution. My hp 400 is not printing all lines of some types of grid papers...
>The cost of storage isn't just the conversion losses. You also need the storage hardware

That is also included in the estimates of course and solar+storage is still cheaper.

Solar is so cheap that individuals are themselves paying to get it on the roofs of their homes and get returns from the investments inside a quarter of the life expectancy of the panels despite being taxed on everything involved, sometimes even the production of electricity.

Small communities have made off-grid hydrogen fuel stations, including electrolyzers and storage. It's so cheap that basically anyone can do it. Certainly any corporation that is making money can do it, and will do it, as soon as they realize it's cheaper than grid-electricity.

>"keep all of the existing natural gas plants operational and use them to burn hydrogen instead, but only when renewable generation is low." Which is just preposterously expensive

Any gas plant still being operational would be running all the time and be part of the base supply just like it is today. You would mix hydrogen in with the natural gas gradually as production capacity is increased, so for the first 100s of TWh you wouldn't even need to invest in anything but hydrogen production.

Compared to replacing the same amount of energy with nuclear it will be very cheap, maybe orders of magnitude cheaper.

Ironically that's also the main problem I see with it - there are many large power plant investments already made that will become unprofitable if solar+storage starts dictating the price of electricity, not just nuclear. There are many laws in many countries that only exist to make it hard for private actors to produce their own electricity.
I will keep on blaming the window managers, because I have certainly seen it outside Firefox. And Linux.
The FTX jury suffers through a code review
Good thing it wasn't a RCE via thumbnails in the file picker. /s
Yes, but I'm only talking about Chinese ones here. And considering just the open source boards, as I did, SiFive only has their Freedom series chips and boards, and their contributions to the Rocket Chip project.

All the Chinese ones I listed are open source designs.
Apple stock currently represents nearly 40% of Berkshire Hathaway's equity holdings.
Right, and because radio stations do that I'd wondered whether marketing choose to "make it sound like radio" so people don't complain when they buy the disc
Argentinian economics at its best. Let's hope Egyptians come to their senses and realize that they can't get us dollars out of thin air and controls such as this will Only make it worse.
Show HN: Study Buddy a GPT-4 powered robo-tutor and research tool
Hey everyone, I wanted to share a tool I've been working on after coming back to school after a few years. I was using Chat-GPT to help outline my studies, deep dive into concepts, and be an on-call tutor for me. I wanted some more study-focused features to help me do this easier so I built an app. It's free and I'm hoping to get some users and feedback to further develop it as a useful tool.

Ask Anything: Stuck on a calculus problem? Need clarification on a historical event? Just ask!

Outline: Want bullet points, Have it give you an outline of a topic.

Quiz Yourself: Have it quiz you on the information you just looked up.

Store Organize and Export: You can select text from the chat, reorder, and export as a pdf or copy to your clipboard to throw into another text document.

Hope you like it!

You can find it here: https://study-buddy.silversoftwerks.com/
>> Pretty insane that Sam Bankman-Fried decided to plead not-guilty.

>Would easily bet that was his decision.

That's a tautology. His decision to plead not-guilty is literally his decision.
> Mostly because he does not understand it (...)

What leads you to believe that he doesn't understand it? I mean, how many tech companies failed/are failing badly?

It's easy to single out Microsoft as an example of a success story, but it's even easier to pick failure stories. Perhaps Warren Buffet does well smelling out those?
> Drones and robots made attacks easier, did that help national security?

Yes because the enemy will have them eventually regardless of whether you develop them. Call it a Prisoner's Dilemma if you will, but it's the reality. Besides, unlike nuclear weapons, warfare with autonomous systems is not particularly more cruel than WW1 or WW2 style warfare.
GDQuest has some good free tutorials [0], and great bundles on their website [1] which is very project-based, i.e. you end up making small games.
Keep an eye out for special offers, e.g. I bought an "ultimate" bundle (which includes everything) back in Feb 2021 which includes future updates.

However, I would also recommend making as many small (tiny) games as you can. There's nothing as motivating as releasing something often. You have to be diligent, though, and not succumb to scope/feature creep. There's nothing like learning by doing.

PS check GDQuest's "recommended" channels at the bottom of their YT channel for more good stuff.

0. https://www.youtube.com/@Gdquest

1. https://www.gdquest.com/product/
> Settled cultivators basically made huge swaths of Eurasian land uninhabitable to nomadic pastoralists because your grazing lands were settled (often completely unsustainably) until they ceased to exist.

Sure - it was a Hobbesian war of all against all, until the settled cultivators made a better world.

> countless nomad-settled conflicts were cases of settled polities cutting off their noses to spite their faces by closing off trade with nomadic neighbors.

If the nomads make war on you unless you "trade" with them then that's blackmail, not voluntary trade.
This is fantastic, bravo !
Google has said they will block news once the law is in effect.
Businesses don’t care about being right, but about making money.
> This doesn’t improve our national security at all.

You said yourself that other nations can and will make this too. Avoiding a decrease of national security is the same as improving national security.
Amazing tech but I don't like the application. Had foxes and squirrels and hedgehogs in the garden growing up, loved them. I guess as long as it doesn't harm then it's the least asocial option. (Where I live now all three would be feral introduced species, but I am sure some of my friends would train this to recognise possums for the same purpose. I like them too but boy, are they noisy and destructive of the veggie patch)
No, OS was our largest competitor though
I don't see how patents on trivial stuff like synchronized playback are supposed to help startups. The big corporations are sitting on enormous piles of those which makes entering their markets extremely risky.
How much do you understand about Hardware?

If you want to understand Operating Systems from the depht of it, don't read the books you are reading just yet. Too early.

Go learn to use different Operating Systems, first, and get the differences.
There is nothing more enticing than the smell of money. You don't need charisma. You need the air of "get you rich". That's it.
> everything is translated to raw sql then pushed to the database layer

All ROLAP-kind of BI tools do that (including PowerBI when it uses direct-query connection mode), it is expected that underlying data sources are fast enough to handle these aggregate queries very quickly. In fact this approach may be used even with non-OLAP databases (like PostgreSql or SQLServer) and specialized analytical datastore is needed only for really big datasets (BigQuery, Snowflake, ClickHouse etc). In many cases correct usage of report parameters that can filter DB records by indexed columns OR usage of pre-aggregated materialized views, or tuning of SQL query generation (say, avoid JOINs and SQL-calculations when they are not needed for the concrete report) can solve performance issues.

This doesn't mean that Excel's PivotTable (and SSAS cubes) is good and ROLAP-kind pivot tables are bad because their applications are different. In cases when pivot tables should show actual (near real-time) data and this is main purpose of this kind of reports in BI tools; when users need to explore some dataset in a disconnected mode they always may export concrete report's data to Excel - in fact, some BI tools can export their internal pivot table into Excel file with pre-configured PivotTable.
Rust is a replacement for C++; if you look for a C replacement you should look on Zig
> I'm sure you've already heard the old joke about the difference between theory and practice..

It's not a joke, it's a fact of life that we learn soon after graduating, and then relearn again, and again, and ...
Tim Cook is also MBA and it looks like it is working fine for Apple.