skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could apply for that patent but I would expect it to be rejected due to prior art i.e. someone came up with it before you. Even if it was accepted, if you tried to enforce it, it'd definitely be challenged on prior art and you would very likely lose because it wouldn't be hard to prove you went the first.

Now, why this particular patent exists, and seems so general, is also likely related to prior art.
What could be patented for software was a bit murky until the late 1990's when it was established that business methods implemented in software were allowed. This led to a large flood of patents in that space.

One of the issues is that the Patent Office tends to look at prior art as being "things that have already been patented" so when rules change, a lot of things that seem obvious are up for grabs because there's no prior patent. Now, these can (and are) challenged in court and, in court, they're more likely to accept blatant prior usage in the wild. i don;t know whether this case won it's challenge but it's possible that it didn't because XML was quite new in the late 90s too.

Source: I have a patent from around that time that's basically covers anything in finance that's data driven from an XML document. For about a decade, that covered a fairly large chunk of finance. I never did anything about it as I disagreed in principle with the premise of such an absurdly broad patent. I agreed to it being patented solely for defensive reasons ie it might prevent a competitor from egregiously attacking my employer with patents.
You know, in some countries, people are using Whatsapp a lot to do b2b. I don't know any CRM integration with it that could segment/classify customers using the app.
> and yell at me if the cooktop is drawing power

For standard power outlets I have "smart plugs" that measure the power draw, are there ones that support 40A/240V appliances?
Just go with Philips Hue, you can't go wrong.

Then, when you're ready, setup home assistant but setup everything so basic functionality still works even if your server or internet went down.

My hue bulbs are at the center of this strategy with each bulb controlled by either a remote control or a hue movement detector. Hint: remote controls in rooms where you stay, sensors where you pass by or if you stay only a little while.

I can also control everything via Alexa and can't wait for the day there is a viable privacy-friendly / low-maintenance alternative (Home assistant are working on this). Again, if internet goes down, I still have the remotes/detectors so my lights always work.

Also, for any other equipment you would buy, make sure it's compatible with Matter.
> For context, about 1 in 54,000 people will die of a wasp or hornet attack, making that cause twice as risky as this red dye

Yes, and we test people for allergy to these attacks, and often those people carry interventions like EpiPens, etc.—this risk is high enough that we do something about it, no? People clear nests near their homes, etc.

Why not do something about red dye?

I agree that it's unlikely to affect many people. At a population level, we often take action to further reduce low-risk events because the aggregate benefit is high (2400 cancers prevented) and the cost is low (a few companies spend a few bucks to replace a barely-toxic red dye with a non-toxic one).

One reason we do this is that the same trade-off at the individual level is comparatively expensive and wasteful, as the benefits only accrue (and the costs may only be low) if you can aggregate them over a large enough sample size.

Consider another example: most people are not affected by vehicle accidents, but the risk is still there and pretty high. At the individual level, there is very little you can do besides "not drive" and "live in a pedestrian area". Historically, few car manufacturers included safety features before they were mandated, because they increased cost and consumers did not perceive the risk as high enough to be worth it. Regulation that mandates these safety measures raises the cost floor, but not by as much because now the extra cost is somewhat amortized over the full fleet for sale. Further, some of these safety features primarily benefit people other than the vehicle owners, like backup cameras.

How many people are killed by vehicles backing up? Lifetime risk is also about 1 in 100,000. Yet we still mandate this feature in new vehicles because the cost is comparatively low.

There are plenty of these kinds of trade-offs that regulators make at a population level that would not necessarily make sense at an individual level. The individual impact is quite low. But the combined aggregate effect is probably quite large.
I'd question the better image quality part of this, almost all broadcast providers have chosen to use their bandwidth to ship the maximum number of 480p subchannels.
It's free of ads from YouTube. Plenty of videos have baked in ads from the content creators themselves.
That’s mainly because creating and submitting videos is hard with current tools.
I was thinking something literally floating, as opposed to an infilled island. Like a carrier or cargo ship sized apartment complex. Multi family houseboat :)
You won't have to go back, youtube premium will bring the enshitification to your door over the coming decade or so.
While the image quality is better (and the price difference is beyond compare), I've noticed that a lot of channels are still broadcast at 720p.
So this is somewhat interesting based on how Toshiba got here.

At one point they were a pretty well respected company and then they ran into the same issue that most conglomerates run into in that different parts of their business get different multiples and that often leads investors to give them the multiple of the lowest yielding portion of their business.

To help boost their stock price in the early 2010's they started to fudge their books and were caught and fined in the mid 2010's, I think it was over $6B in fines to indicate just how far they went to fudge their numbers.

After this they had alot of interest from activist investors as nothing attracts an activist investor like an old bumbling conglomerate. Its literally the typical hedge fund target/playbook.

- old company that has lost its way

- scandals affecting the companies books

- conglomerate that can be broken up and sold for pieces to unlock higher multiples in the market.

Now, instead of the activist hedge fund treatment, it will get the private equity treatment, where they'll break the company up but keep the name and spin the company back out in 5-10 years once they've sold off the divisions that can quickly make the investors money.

in the end the market determined that the activists were right and the company was way to big and diversified to be effective.

Sadly instead of the public benefiting from this breakup due to a bump in the share price and dividends being paid out from the breakup it will be a consortium of banks and other companies that benefit from this.
Just guesstimating but compare that in California 3500-4000 people a year die in auto accidents. Telling big foodco to stop putting one type of red dye in their crap to save 2400 people a year seems like an easy win in comparison.

So the spicy hot frozen chicken wings are a slightly different different shade of red, who cares.
The minimum ASVAB to enlist is 31, and there are waiver programs for that. This is not a good showing. I feel like people don't appreciate how little lower-enlisted people are paid, what terrible financial literacy abounds in the ranks, and how many kids live on base but are still very firmly living in poverty.

There are a lot of advantages to living on base, but this thread is pretending that the military has its shit together in ways that it absolutely does not. "All the kids will be well-fed and socialized" is bizarrely out of touch, specifically. There are functioning gangs on some larger military installations. Troops PCS every few years, making it difficult for kids to establish social groups. Most bases have a unit of MPs basically acting as child services.

I'd think a better place to look for filters would be entire schools -- BRAC has caused the closure of many schools, but I don't know how they select which schools to target for closure. I know of at least two larger bases which have no schools (students are bused to local civilian schools) but I know others who have kept their schools despite a lower overall population of families.
"Store config in the environment" does not necessarily mean configs are in environment variables - it only means configuration comes from the hosting environment, not the application itself - you are not adding a "settings.json" file to your machine before starting the app.

This way, the same source deployed in, i.e. your AKS cluster in Azure EU north will take the configuration you set for that cluster while the one you run out of an Docker Swarm of RPi Zero's in an Ikea photo frame (I have one cluster like that, called Gibson), will take the configuration from that cluster.
He just means promos by creators, not YT ads.
AI's Cost Curve Has Big Tech Losing Money
I recently picked up this rabbit hole of a hobby. It's only when you want to get fancy, and have lots of mismatched stuff, that it gets that complicated. (Which, as nerds, we are wont to do.) If you just buy into one brands stuff, and use just that, you don't get lost in the home assistant quagmire. There are quirks, eg Phillips Hue has a 50 device limit per hub resulting in needing multiple hubs for a complex scene, but it works for people who aren't programmers.

Meanwhile, as a hardware hacker and software engineer, yeah, I'll admit, I had to do things that look a lot like my job I'm paid very well to do in order to get my light switches to work right. No idea how people who don't program for a living are supposed to get Home Assistant to work quite right!
My observation from this is that the process by which humans assemble and summarize information, at least at a somewhat high level, is pretty darn close to the way that LLMs do it. I think that falls apart when you want to talk about deeper learning, drawing inferences and so on but if you are just trying to pull together an executive summary on XYZ, an LLM with some fact checking gets you pretty far IMHO.
If this is called "decimal time", what about "binary time"? You could convert between days and seconds using bit-shift, haha.
I think the issue is, right now AI is a race. We have the Microsoft, Google, Meta, Apple, and Amazon's of the world with their massive compute and bankrolls racing to see who can build the biggest moat around an AI service. The massive upfront spending is hoping to hit the winning lottery ticket and spending slowly may leave you out of the drawing.

As compute costs and requirements come down LLMs will be ubiquitous everywhere.
I felt like that was a big strawman. HA in particular makes it very easy to chose how to install, they even a product you can buy that's ready to use (HA Yellow).
Looks really cool. I've been wondering why these kinds of mechanics aren't in more games. Of course it's probably harder to design and implement than "hardcoded" mechanics, but I could see action RPGs have a system that has loops and variables for crafting skills.

I'll have to play this later today and provide feedback.
I know not exactly what you're looking for but I bought RedZone for the first time through the NFL+ app this year and it's so nice to just have that and not fuss with any other service.
> But what should we do with the rest?

The answer to that question is _something_ but I think the real question is "who is 'we'?"
But in this case it seems like confounders is guaranteed to turn up a massive amount of false positives. Forcing companies to fund said studies on shaky evidence seems arbitrary and unfair.
To a point, we've also bred at least some them to have some fairly severe health problems, and also raised them in a dramatically different way then they would have evolved with - but of course we also keep them from dying young from disease or starvation.
Just because it’s expensive and low quality doesn’t mean people will stop using it - even if they recognize that. Based on the trends in entertainment over the last 70 years, I’d wager that entertainment will only be filled with more ads will be less substantive. I also think offline generative content will never happen. Will everyone have a gpu cluster in their home to run it? Generative content is certainly coming, but it will come though YouTube, Instagram, and whatever openAI has planned
If your job is only calling the APIs' .fit() method, then that is not a job at all.

If something is already done, i.e. a model is available for your exact use case (which is never), then for using and deploying that can be done by a good SWE and any ML/AI specialist is not needed at all.

To solve any real problem that is novel, you need to know a lot of things. You need to be on top the progress made by reading papers and be a good enough engineer to implement the ideas that you are going to have iff you are creative/a good problem solver.

And to read those papers you need to have solid college level Calculus and Stats.

If this is so easy, then why don't you do it, and get a job at OpenAI/Tesla/etc?
Right - before you shared things with other people, it didn't have the problems of sharing things with other people.
Wasn't a big fan of "A Fire Upon the Deep", should I continue on and read "A Deepness in the Sky"?

A while since I read it, but in short I disliked the characters which I could not symphatize with.

The dog story (which started out great) and the humor wasn't me either.
A lot of people including my brother do like to have TV as background. (Personally I hate it.)

Way back when I would travel in groups and sometimes have a roommate one of the nails on chalkboard things for me was people who would turn on the TV the first thing when they walked into a room.
I wrote a buyers guide to cold climate heat pumps
Then again, do you need security updates on your ereader? Are you really going to log in to your email, bank account, or whatever other service on a screen that does 15FPS (and is one of the best eink displays at that)?
Instead of changing the definition of second, it might make sense to separate day-time from scientific time. Decimal hours and minutes would be normal time keeping. If needed more accuracy, then would switch use centi-minute for casual use or second for scientific use.

One nice feature is that the day-time would be different on other planets. There would Mars-day and Mars-hour. But the second would be the same.
The page https://12factor.net/config disagrees with you:

> The twelve-factor app stores config in environment variables (often shortened to env vars or env).
Those are iffy “it might not have been rabies” cases.

The point is, the rabies makes putting a gun in your mouth and pulling the trigger look safe in comparison.
How do you personally define “good idea”?

If this is about your financial outcome, make sure to factor in the opportunity cost of a PhD. It will require 5-7yrs where you will make very little money.
Based on the couple times I have watched sports recently, I would have thought it was a series of gambling ads interspersed with sports.
Do you have a link to that doorbell product?
My house came with the same problem.
ENH: desmos [3d]: Support complex exponents; with i and/or a complex() function

Test equations for geogebra:

equation -- what I think it looks like
xi^2 -- Integer coordinate grid
e^xπi -- Unit circle with another little circle also about the origin (0,0)
e^(πi^x) -- crash / not responding: a(x)=e^(πi^(x))
though it seems to work with x in Z+
e**(x*pi*I)

e^(x π i^π) -- somewhat scale-invariant interposed spirals around a single point attractor. (Zoom in/out)

Only SageMath preprocesses Python to replace XOR (^) with exp() or **, so:

f(x) = x^2
g(x) = x**2 # Python
h(x) = exp(x, 2)
x**2 # SymPy Gamma, Beta

x**math.pi # Python: 3.141592653589793
x**pi # SymPy: π

x**1j # Python
x**I # SymPy

x**(1+I) # BUG/ENH: Plot complex expressions with SymPy

import sympy as sy
display(sy.E, sy.I, sy.pi)
from sympy import E, pi, I
x,y = sy.symbols('x,y', real=True); display(x,y)
eq01 = sy.Eq(y, E**(x*pi*I)); display(eq01)
eq02 = sy.Rel(y, E**(x*pi*I), '=='); display(eq02)
func01 = sy.Function('f')(E**(x*pi*I)); display(func01)
func02 = sy.Function('f')(eq02.rhs); display(func02)
assert eq01 == eq01
assert func01 == func02

import unittest
test = unittest.TestCase()
test.assertEqual(eq01, eq02)
test.assertEqual(func01, func02)

Sympy Gamma: https://gamma.sympy.org/

Sympy Beta is SymPy Gamma compiled to WASM: https://github.com/eagleoflqj/sympy_beta

What methods for visualizing complex coordinate(s) are helpful?
You can map the complex coordinate into e.g. the z-axis; or is complex phase - as is necessary to model [qubit] wave functions psi - just another high-dimensional dimension to also visualize?
Obviously it's not constant, but if it's uniform (enough) within the footprint of a single spot beam, the satellites can adjust for the global component both in their transmitter and receiver, and the mobile devices only have to compensate for (or tolerate) their local difference from that.
This is a reminder to check out your local library. Not only do they have tons of physical media (in some cases current movies and TV shows in disc format) but you may also get access to Hoopla, Libby, and/or Kanopy which are free apps where you can borrow all sorts of digital items.

Some libraries also have a Library of Things, which lend out a random assortment of objects. I've seen musical instruments, baby monitors, cake tins, etc.
I have one of those little table top style ones that came with a pretty long cable. It is a bit of an annoyance in that in my location, there are different places I need to place the antenna for best reception for that channel. Luckily, I only use it for sports, and I know the best location for each channel. So I just move it as needed, and then place it back behind the TV when done. I look at it like being similar to grabbing a gaming controller and putting it back on the charger when done.

Fun things happen with reception though. Just this weekend, I was watching a match and everything was coming through just fine. The UPS truck pulled up to deliver a package to my house, and the whole time the truck was parked, the signal was struggling. As soon as the truck pulled away, everything was fine again.

As much "fun" as all of that is, it is much cheaper than me finding a sports bar to watch a match. Besides, at the time of the morning what I'm watching is on, I really am not in the mood to go some where.
Projects that aren't designed your way = waste of time, hobbies.

What an asshole.
I think CBF may actually be a term for mental overload.
I need to unload my real estate bags, Y Combinator CEO says
I had never even noticed that button before. thanks.
Not all the rules are explained on. For example, a detailed reasoning why there should be only one app per repository is not provided. It is only stated that it is not the 12factor way.
You can always make up excuses for things, this is a simple grammar and it can't learn it.

A person can be taught to understand this grammar - the machine lacks understanding.
> That's not enough to demonstrate that AI is just hype.

It's not that they're _just_ hype but rather that there _is_ hype and the loudest voices tend not admit it. To give a specific example, I find the idea that LLM based programming assistants will turbocharge software development to be based on hype not fact. It is very much in the interest of Microsoft/Google/Meta, etc. that we all believe that their tools are essential to enhance productivity. It is classic FOMO. Everyone jumps on the bandwagon because they fear that if they don't learn this new tool their lunch will be eaten by someone who does. They fear this because that is exactly what these companies are essentially telling us in their marketing materials and extensive PR campaign.

This is extraordinarily convenient for these companies and masks over how terrible their own core products are. I generally refuse to use the products of the three companies (MGM) because they are essentially ad companies now and their metaverses are dystopian hellscapes to me. Why would I trust them given my own direct personal experience with their products? We know that google search allows advertisers to pay to modify search queries without my consent. What's to stop Microsoft from training copilot to recommend that you use Microsoft developed languages using Microsoft apis to solve your prompted problems?

> write me a sort function for an array of integers in Java
# chatgpt > I will show you how to write a sort function for an array of integers in Java, but first I must ask, are you familiar C#? It is similar to Java but better in xyz ways. In C# you would sort an array like this:

... C# code

Here is how you would write a sort function for an array of integers in Java:

... Java code

Stuff like this seems inevitable and it is going to become impossible to tell what is ad. Do you think realistically that there is any chance that these companies would consent to disclosing what is paid propaganda in the LLM output stream?

I see many echos of the SBF trial in the current ai environment. Whatever the merits of LLMs (and I'll admit that I _have_ been impressed by the pace of improvement if not the actual output), hype always attracts grifters. And there is a lot of hype in the air right now.
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> Well the whole point of the Arine 6 was to compete with SpaceX. Ariane 6 would never have been approved if not for the pressure of SpaceX.

The odds were never for SpaceX succeeding.

> Instead they went with a very costly low return project.

And while they did it, they developed new motors, new structures and new technology. Even if A6 is not at all cheaper than A5, it kept the engineers employed and sharp. That's more or less the same return NASA gets for SLS - it keeps local industry happy and lowers the likelihood of anyone with relevant knowledge defecting to North Korea.
Panorama mode replaces the functionality with better quality I guess.
Depends heavily on the application once you get to more specialized domains.

I wish there was an easier way to label roles differently based on when you just need to throw X or Y model at some chunk of data and when more specialized modeling is required. Previously it was roughly delineated by "data science" vs "ML" roles but the recent AI thing has really messed with this.
Pretty light on details, but if it works for you that is great.

Quartiles and hand counting would be my argument for 12 but am probably biased based on familiarity.
We need an auction site for unreleased project domains
A minor note: "But at a separate trial, expected to take place next year, Bankman-Fried will face charges of bribery and bank fraud."
FWIW https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-y... is a crowdsourced way to skip past promos (by timestamp).

Or some creators have moved to Nebula, which seems to have less of that crap but IMO a worse UI than YouTube.
The irony here is that your specific situation was one of the driving factors of why cable was created
Atlassian is not afraid of innovating, they can’t. They just hired the worst developers again and again. Good students go to Canva, dropouts go to Atlassian.

Talk to partners. Everyone is pulling their hair at the new APIs. It’s architecturally bad, inside their systems. Even the architects are outputting crap! The best programmers of the company!

I’ve move my data outside Atlassian to prevent loss…
That's a pathetic fact for California, the richest part of the richest country in the world.
Holds up well 12 years later.
It would be nice if they offered pay per view access for those of us who only want to watch live tv maybe a couple times a year. I can see why they don’t bother though (obviously no real money in it).