skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a closed loop system. The desiccant is regenerated occasionally, which can usually be arranged to happen at desirable times (cheaper/cleaner electricity depending on your priorities). The regeneration is done with a heat pump, so if it can be accomplished at a relatively low temperature the COP could be spectacular for seasonal use cases.
I don't think the expectation is to do it for free, but it sure would be nice if companies could repair their expensive products for less than the cost of a new system.

Modern electronics is just planned obsolescence + replacement.
1. Yes, sorry. In the process of fixing those as the licenses are finalized.

2. That's a good idea, but I can't do that in the actual license documents since I need to keep the actual licenses clean from non-license materials. Do you have any good ideas how to do that?
Spotify's LLark: A Multimodal Foundation Model for Music
They are actually bitcoin mines and the machines there don't do anything but execute a single function... sha256.
Roughly 80% of Grades Given at Harvard Are in the 'A' Range
It will be interesting to see if created sub-CNAs (CVE Numbering Authorities) will indeed allow upstream projects to get more control over the CVE assignment for their software. In theory, the existence of the sub-CNA should block assignment from less specific CNAs, but I wouldn't be surprised if that doesn't actually happen.
> If VCs don’t own a majority stake what authority do they have to make you chase such huge returns at the cost of a stable and profitable business?

Disputes with investors about the direction of the company are rare. Disputes about how exactly to aim that direction happen often. In my own experience, VCs and large investors have this leverage:

* Future investment. A major investor pulling back or not participating in the next round usually will result in worse terms, lower valuations or, the round not happening.

* Legal issues. Investments come with terms and conditions, and they are rarely, here's $5m, do what you want.

* Restructuring. From time to time, you need to have investors be on board with restructuring debt or the company. If you are at odds with a major investor, they are a whole lot less likely to be helpful.

* "We'll make it hard for you" Everything from investing in competitors, to introducing key people to job opportunities to guiding customers elsewhere. Yes they have a fiduciary duty, but when they think that duty requires management to change direction, things can get ugly.

Finally, investors talk to each other, and you piss one off, and they will poison the well with many others.
bluetooth encryption has been broken before. "KNOB" (https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec19-antonioli.pdf) was less than 5 years ago. The kind of equipment that could pick up the audio over a wired headset from across the room could probably pick up something from the speakers of wireless earbuds too.
What if a police officer generates some AI CSAM and then sells it to someone who thinks it's real? There's still "no victim," but the buyer thinks that there was. Are they guilty of a crime?

Your logic would seem to imply that there's no crime with possession of real CSAM either, and that the only crime lies with the original abuser who took the pictures.
Texting Email Summaries Using Google Palm AI and Twilio
> But until they don't allow me to delete the account the contacts keep seeing me as active on the app.

So your question is not exactly accurate. Are you expecting Google to reach into other people's accounts or other apps to delete your contact info? If I write your email in a keep note, should they delete my recording of that information?

Has Google tied pay to your general Google account, such that they are not separately managed? i.e. you have to delete your Google account, since there is only one anymore
never mind the downvotes, I agree with you. My kid plays minecraft, and the amount of microsoft bullshit we have to put up with to be allowed to play the game we already bought before the acquisition boggles the mind.
I have a suspicion, that before 2025, we won't be allowed in the game without an ms authenticator app on my mobile - to be allowed to play a kids game we already paid for. The rights of the end users are very low on the list.
Using the C for loop syntax is looney tunes, though. Do range support and leave that 70's stuff in the dust.
https://open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu/

I use it because it rocks more than anything else :)
So, granted, one big company is buying another big company and consolidating a decent chunk of the market for multiplayer fps games. Fewer platforms means fewer people play a certain kind of game with the benefit of less development for lower quality ports.

Other than the fact that AAA companies can cut costs from this I'm not so sure about what people are negative on this one. So if you don't want to buy a PC or get an Xbox, but you really like CoD, you might be out of luck eventually. I would think that what we're really concerned about is whether indie studios can get off the ground and create new experiences.
This is amazing, thank you!!

> My hypothesis is that the Alpaca dataset does not contain any related arithmetic tasks, and the model actively unlearns basic arithmetic when it focuses more on other tasks.

I'm surprised this wasn't verified, it's a major benchmark stat. My eyes keep getting drawn to it, because it seems to have the most variance. Does anyone know?

Also throwing it out, I would love to see a Neptune/Wnb of the hyperparameter tuning :)
That's just it.

It is a choice, you can turn it on or off.
RadioShack was a pretty good resource for those hobbyists. I was also an electronics hobbyists as a kid, and RadioShack was a critical part of that. Today I don’t think they sell any discrete components. They used to have shelves upon shelves.

So with that availability combined with the rapid prototyping ability of breadboards I’m not surprised that plenty of electronics hobbyists could exist.
I agree. Tell me what motivated the language. What does it do that other languages in the same space don't do well?
Looks great!
Is it possible to increase the resolution? Each hexagon cover too much area
Video Game Cyberpunk 2077 Uses AI to Replace Deceased Voice Actor
Problem is you want to live in society. You want to have your cake and eat it too. You want utilities, roads, healthcare, all kinds of shit.

That requires money, so you need a way to generate money. But you don't have to partake in society. If you want to I'm sure you can grab an axe and go build a log cabin in bumfuck nowhere.

And then you can work all day to make sure you have housing and food and firewood and whatever else you need.

Personally I'd rather sit on my ass in a comfortable office and get paid to think and press some buttons so that I can get electricity and food and all the shit I need. But nobody's forcing us.

I don't think you want what you think you want. You like modern society, certainly beats fighting mountain lions for days-old dead deer and dying of a treatable infection. If you want the benefits of society you have to contribute.
Yes but the assumption is that "push comes to shove" and they have to choose between pulling it from the EU play store and installing black box MITM software.

Having relatively easy alternatives in place would reduce the leverage the EU has to actually practically enforce this and hopefully pressure them into at minimum non-enforcement and preferably walking back the obviously unenforceable legislation.

But if it looks like they could practically force out Signal and co or force them to adopt this MITM if they want to continue existing, then they might be more likely to pursue it.
"The same way you agree on an XML schema?"

Yes.

But my point is, there's a lot of people who seem to think just waving the word "s-expression" at the problem is a solution. If you have to sit down and carefully define the exact standard, the value over XML gets mitigated a lot, because the standard is going to need a lot of stuff in it. It has to at least be as complicated as JSON, and JSON is often not quite enough. You can't just say "why don't we use s-expressions" as if that's an argument on its own.

But the reality is JSON ate that space anyhow. There's no room for something that's "like JSON, but not really" anymore.
It was the DX2/66 and Doom that got me to jump!
Detecting supply chain attacks at the end-developer level using such tooling is rarely going to pan out. Developers just don't care enough. There is a considerable increase in effort required when such defences are introduced.

Also, there are too many things to keep track of for the authors of such approaches. Eg: How would this tool handle changes in the standard library API?

Languages and repositories need to be funded appropriately to solve a problem that is systemic.

I've played with several methods, built tooling around this problem (github.com/R9295). Hell, my thesis is going to be about supply chain security. Solutions that inform the developer and allow them to make decisions don't work.

I get that there is no absolute defence and security is layered etc. But these approaches feel hacky
"carving your niche" involves either through a lot of experience (power) or to be known in the industry (clout). The latter isn't all based on raw skill so you just hope you don't burn out before you get to such a point.
To be honest 90% "it's fun to mess with". I had written my own looking glass type software with some historical statistics. I'm sure you could get similar data elsewhere but it was more about hooking into the route daemon updates and seeing general things or even watching what I was doing on other networks propagate live.

10% is having my own looking glass was significantly faster and easier for me to use. But I probably wouldn't have done it all just for that, it was just fun to mess with.
save money in power that you trade for time (labor) and expendibles seems like a failure
It's a shame that the classic style separation of lexing and parsing means to support the command CREATE USER FOR LOGIN WITH means all of those are now magic keywords, instead of only behaving so in the context of a CREATE command.

As for how to name the "user" table, I've used "account". User is a human not a piece of data, Account is the data I have about their association with my service.
> I'm generally a fan of eInk stuff, their suspicion of/hostility towards the GPL makes me not want to support them.

What suspicion or hostility does E Ink Corp have towards the GPL?
I don't think Sonos really cares either. Their shuffle has been broken forever (you simply can't shuffle a playlist on Google Assistant), my Roams frequently randomly disconnect, they tried to alienate half their userbase with the S2 update and only changed their tune with massive outcry, the desktop app auto-update doesn't work on Mac... I can go on and on. I tried to report these issues to support, and then to their beta community, and every single thing I reported was ignored for years. Shrug.

I really like their hardware but their software is so bad it's making me want to quit their ecosystem altogether. Their support is bad too.
Windows 7 with the Classic theme was peak UI/UX, IMO. It's been downhill ever since.
kurynt.com

plan was to be a one stop shop for breaking changes, deprecations, and so on.

probably with the latest LLM revolution this could be quite a powerful tool!

havent worked on it in months
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 is the classic case study. 6 injuries due to removing hardware interlocks and replacing them with a software interlock implemented with a flag that was set with an increment instruction instead of just storing "1". (This works fine 255 times! The 256th time has unexpected results.)

As for legal implications... there were basically none. Everyone is sure to include the "NO WARRANTY" disclaimer on their software now. People still build machines without hardware interlocks. People still use programming languages with integer overflows.
They are probably claiming that English Common Law differs from Code Napoleon, and Roman Law in general, in the way they claim. As someone else mentions, they have it backwards.
I remember the Nokia N900 being able to broadcast FM to achieve the same!
Just because they own all the pieces (the Fallout franchise, the engine Bethesda created for F:NV, Obsidian Entertainment) doesn't mean there's a workable concept for the game.

Obsidian put out two games in the past two-ish years: Grounded (a co-op survival shooter) and Pentiment (a point-and-click murder mystery set in the middle ages). Both were well-received. In addition, Obsidian has also announced The Outer Worlds 2, a sequel to a game that (fairly or unfairly) was compared to F:NV.
Well of course. They're spending a lot of money, why wouldn't they make the titles of anything they acquire be Xbox/Windows exclusive? That increases their profits. More people buy Xboxes, more people are on their platform, etc.

They have some contractual obligations that prevent them from doing it for everything, but they'll do it for anything they can.

That's just business sense.
All of the responses read like they were written by a facetious middle school student to me. Signing your death threat as "Furious, [Your Name]" or writing a cease-and-desist style death threat? Brilliant.
You're saying aircraft are reporting position based on their INS? That seems… weird. I've also been told the opposite, that ADS-B navigation accuracy is always reported based on GNSS, not INS. What's your source?

I hope this doesn't confuse the issue, because I don't think it's actually related to what you're talking about, but recently there have been reports of inertial nav systems being "corrupted", essentially, by spoofed GNSS. The hypothesis is that the INS/IRS is corrected using spoofed GNSS data after which the INS/IRS reports bad info: https://ops.group/blog/faa-warning-navigation-failures/
They haven’t owned Bethesda for very long so I think it’s fair that they haven’t released a F:NV successor yet. I do suspect that Microsoft may have been behind Starfield releasing in its half-baked, dumbed down state though a la “We need it on game pass by X, make it happen!”

Regarding at least the Blizzard side of the acquisition, I feel like Microsoft ownership may end up being a good thing for their underused IP. Microsoft has strong incentives to release RTS (StarCraft, Warcraft) games to bolster PC usage for gaming and maybe bring more attention to the Windows Store (IMO forcing minecraft onto the Store was a blunder as the upgrade experience was fucking terrible) if they choose to use it.
I'm having a hard time picturing where each of these phases are happening.

Is the dry air cooled by evaporation cooling in circulation in the cooling area? Or is it being used to cool off the condenser coils? If the air is being rehumidified indoors, then wouldn't that cause condensation problems on the chilling coils? If it's happening outdoors then wouldn't there be issues (particularly in high humidity regions) extracting enough moister from the dry air before sending it forward?

I have wondered if in particularly arid regions where swamp cooling is a thing, if it wouldn't make sense to use evaporation cooling in conjunction with a condenser coil to push the temps indoors down a lot further.
Because particles (and subparticles etc) are discrete units?
It does dehumidify the air, perhaps even configurably: https://bluefrontierac.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/BF_LD-...
+1 for “what that even means”.

I keep seeing people say “AGI” but no one will define it for me. It’s always “you know it when you see it” or “when software can do anything”.

I’m alright with “things will continue to advance” but people assume it’s a single event that happens, not a goal post that represents “the dream” that moves 1 step further away every 1 step we advance.

Just shouting random platitudes and religious grandiosity at people is just annoying.
I agree. I can put up with the minimaps, but I dislike them quite a bit. The traditional scrollbar appears to be pretty close to ideal.
I have been struggling to understand the use case. Would you still be using it to ask questions and receive answers, you get the benefit of not having to go to their website and being able to use the GPT-4 model, or is there another use case for the API to return specific data?
Alright I guess we just have different ideas of “minor limitations”. Being able to use only a single (paved) trail in the entire park sounds like a pretty major limitation to me.

Regardless, I much prefer BLM and Forest Service land. Free as in freedom, free as in beer. National Parks are fantastic for the disabled and (petless) families, but that’s about it as far as I can tell.
I can tell my engineering management's job is utter BS. Their entire job is

0. Scope out work for the next quarter - done by PM and engineers

1. Track engineering work using JIRA points or some status reports - automatically generated

2. Perform some 9 point exercise to stack rank people every 6 months on the basis of JIRA points (automatically generated) and # of commits (also automatically generated) - most of this work is automatically generated

3. Give bonuses to the top of the stack and PIP the bottom - work actually done by HR

4. Open requisition for a backfill - work actually done by HR

5. Interview them for 6 months - also mostly done by engineers and recruiters

6. After they are hired, subject them to the same meat grinder - work done by engineers.

All the work is actually done by someone else. This management role (and all the 7 managers above them) are all just this glue. Why not just automate all this work?

Before someone responds with "people problems" and "management philosophies", please - all the above work is administrative assistant work that does not need higher salaries than engineers. And "people problems" can be handled by HR.
Which likely is another example how crypto helps Russia to persevere against Ukraine despite sanctions.
Stock market performs a very important, valuable role. It is companies that try to exploit the stock market who are problem...
What's Happening in Coding EP2
They've owned Bethesda for a couple years, what are you expecting? They put out Starfield, New elder scrolls is in pre-production, and have said a new Fallout is next.
There are a ton of Nintendo and Sony exclusives, so to compete on an equal footing eventually Xbox will need some good exclusives as well. If all their premium AAA titles are released on PlayStation, and PlayStation has a ton of premium titles that don't get released on Xbox, why would anyone bother buying an Xbox? You don't have to have any great love for Microsoft to acknowledge that their departure from the console market would restrict consumer choice and hinder console development.
Syncing TBs of Data from PostgreSQL to Snowflake
I disagree because Microsoft doesn't hold some unique barrier to entry into video game production the way they do an operating system.
Just change the code?
Why? Two large corporations merging isn’t in itself antitrust. In some cases an industry is in decline and it makes a lot of sense for large companies to merge otherwise both might go out of business (clearly not what’s going on here, but just an example).
Absolutely. Crates that already use unsafe will be a more attractive target. Most of the ways to sneak arbitrary code execution into rust require unsafe.

As I said, it helps. It's not perfect. But there are a lot of crates out there that don't use unsafe, and having a way to focus your attention is useful. Looking at some of my own projects, for example, I notice that I often use crates like "env_logger" with 3.9M downloads. What an absolutely magical target for a supply chain attack -- but it doesn't use unsafe, or net, or tokio, or a lot of other things, and pinning that restriction with Cackle would let me update it with much less worry. I kinda like that.

I'm really not arguing that this is a silver bullet. It's just .. nice.

Edited to add, as a counterpoint: The "log" crate, which is used by env_logger, _does_ use unsafe. Great target for a supply chain attack -- and perhaps reason to nudge the developers to find ways to get rid of it!
They called the first one "The Great War" until they had the second one.

One reason we haven't had a third one was because the Allies went for unconditional surrender and post-war occupation, Germany and Japan are much better off today because of it. Containment of authoritarianism doesn't effect change, remains to be seen if it delays the inevitable.
Why would he need to hack his own exchange if he is CEO? He can just move the funds himself. I would wager it is not North Korea. Probably some guy in a developed country if I had to guess. That was the case with Bitfinex , for example. It's not who you would expect.
>My boss is all over me for all of my sick time.

don't you just have normal time off on top of sick days?

But if you're in a flexible enough situation where you can just call up your boss like that, that's great. That's what "unlimited time off" should theoretically have been before the well was poisoned. Trust that workers can manage their own mental health but not abuse it to be gone 30% of the year.
> In the last 1k years, we've upset the apple cart and may destroy the world as we know and need it. We _can_ coexist in our environment without utterly destroying it in 40k years - but we are not.

It’s extremely unlikely that whatever we do to the environment will decrease QoL in developed countries below that which was experienced by the Australian aboriginals (when measured by child mortality, life expectancy, access to stuff etc.) though.
Besides being huge fans of OSS software we really feel like packages like this only make sense in an Open Source environment. Licensing for developer tooling can't be restrictive or it's just a hassle to use. There great open source business models around support, service, and hosting.
Oops! Good catch. I was actually thinking of Kansai (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansai_International_Airport), which like Haneda is an artificial island, not a floating airport. I misremembered. Thanks for the correction!
Activision is a lot bigger than CoD with Warcraft, Diablo, StarCraft, etc each have huge followings. So not only does it impact players of a huge chunk of game series, plus any potential future series by Activision but also the viability of alternative platforms.

Thus, even pure indy gamers are being harmed here. Worse it’s yet another sign that US regulators have no intentions of limiting monopolistic behavior.
They sure are. In hindsight the title is a little ambiguous but OSS is the standard for this type of developer tooling.
Depends on how often the desiccant needs to be replaced and its cost.

If it's once a year and costs as much as the filters do, and saves 20% power, then it's a no-brainer.

If it's once a month and cost 1k each, saves 5% energy, then it's pointless.

We don't know the numbers, so can't say for sure.
Defining and Identifying Attention Capture Deceptive Interface Designs [video]
> Sometimes the consequences are so nebulous and spread over thinly over large population or far in the future, etc. that it is hard to argue this test can be useful.

But they are consequences, so the research example passes OP's test.

There are plenty of actual jobs out there where if they stopped being done, nothing bad would happen, at any scale and within any time frame. People writing reports that exactly zero people read. People making things that just get thrown away. People digging holes that other people just fill with dirt. That's what OP is getting at.
What's in PAIP is a bytecode compiler for Scheme with some discussion of simple optimizations, with a ref to a 70s or 80s paper by Deutsch (iirc) on design of a Lisp VM for a space-constrained computer.

Another paper that comes to mind is Anton Ertl's on his vmgen system. The Smalltalk-80 bytecode design is worth a look too.
I bet he couldn't find it because of added/omitted trailing EOL
someone who is smart enough to pull this off probably is smart enough to not be caught