skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A while back I was reverse engineering a mobile game that used a completely custom serialization format for game data, most of it in one giant "config" blob several megabytes in size. I'd written a parser and serializer for it in Python, using custom classes to represent the various nested object types, but I didn't have a convenient way to explore and edit the data.

So, I wrote some code to parse the giant blob and emit a python source file, consisting of a whole bunch of nested class constructors (with named parameters etc. making it quite readable), and a final function call to serialize the whole lot back into a blob. Now I could edit that source file and run it, and have my source-level edits reflected in the output blob (which I could subsequently feed back into the game engine to see the results of my changes).
Can’t you just test the last digit of main’s arg and get the best of both worlds?
The professor having been trained in academia would state the sources of the verbatim quotes. In writing papers he would use references and explicit quotes. There's nothing hidden going on with the professor.
New York Times Sues Microsoft and OpenAI for 'Billions'
This is amazing technology. You should sell it to AWS so they can offer an Enterprise-ready AWS EvenOrOdd API for everyone who does not know how to host the 40GB executable properly. With the power of the cloud this programme would be unstoppable
As you said AI can rewrite articles, obtaining a clean cut separation between ideas and expression. Keep the ideas, write a new text. And if you got multiple sources, the more sources you use the better, it would make the output be even more different. This approach could also check consistency and bias between sources.
Adding new aliases to be consistent with Python's prevalent coding style? Increased support costs, not worth it.

Deprecating often-used APIs like datetime.datetime.utcnow() because they're ugly? Sure, we'll do that, that won't cause anyone problems unless their code is wrong. (At least they didn't set the removal date to be +2 releases = +2 years, as they usually do.)
Sounds like 2024 is gonna be the year of lawsuits like this.
Well… It depends. Lidl launched a range of good quality cordless tools under the Parkside Performance moniker last year. The 20V screwdriver and drill seem like solid pieces of work, and are holding up well in my tiny shop. Those are good, and I recommend these to anyone.

But many of the plain Parkside branded tools are utter crap. The oscillating sander with exchangeable triangular, rectangular, and circular attachments I got was made of way to little material to be useful. The plastic struts for the attachments (the process of swapping those being horribly inefficient) partly melted with use.

The Parkside drill press I have isn't too bad, but I had to fix a mechanical failure where the part which connects the manual up-down thingy to its gear just sheared off because it was a tiny rolled piece of metal sheet instead of a solid piece of 4mm diameter steel. I fixed that (replacing that bit with part of a bolt tapped into the axle) and it is doing fine now, but still.
> Typically I can't take a personal "tier" of a product and charge 3rd parties for derivatives of it. Say like VS Code.

Can't you, though? I'd thought in general, it's a very important for the market to be able to do just that, otherwise everything gets gummed up in webs of exclusive contractual dependencies between established companies.
Ask HN: What was the best dev progress report you ever saw?
I have a problem. All my current ways to display the progress of our software dev project are not transparent and professionell enough to please our stakeholders. I already tried:

* Color coding the status of each feature in the roadmap using a ppt slide.

* Listing all major milestones with desired due date and current status

I'm hesitant to start time tracking of individual tickets and contributors because I think this is not the truely important kpi. But this is something that gets recommended often when I google "software development progress report".

Have you seen any great reports in the past?
I understand from the article that the building was a trapezoid, not square, but I'm not savvy enough to tell that non-squareness from those pics of the upper shape of the building.

Can you elaborate?
The Valetudo page says it is Apache 2 licensed, so that would be open source not source-available?
But is it still piracy if you compress them and serve only a likeness of the original?
Stated is a REPL and library for embedding JSONata expressions into JSON or YAML
Be real careful about running nmap on public ips. ISPs can ban for that.
I would make a -$200 transaction whose breakdown with deductions and taxes and whatnot are all mirror images of the original $200. It exactly cancels the incorrect original transaction to zero across all accounts in the ledger. This is followed by the $50 is a new, independent transaction. No brainer to understand, or audit.
A RISC-V based security key
I personally don’t think FreeCAD needs an alternative. It’s good enough for most needs and it’s maturing. But it needs to be used for what it is good for: visual workflows. FreeCAD and all other CAD tools (that might be needed or preferred for some workflows) need to get out of the business of storing CAD data in proprietary binary files that are no good for any collaboration. Instead, either natively or through plugins, they need to import/export code. Once the design is stored like code, regular coding techniques kick in. And don’t just mean merging. Linting, code coverage, the whole shebang. That’s the kind of workflow that PartCAD aims to facilitate.
> current pv is something like 10× cheaper than nuclear

Maybe in nameplate numbers but not actual production in places like Sweden. Especially during the time the consumption is the highest (winter). The whole country is further north then the northern most point in US (excluding Alaska).

But in the places most of humanity lives (including pretty much all of US) solar works quite well just not once you go far enough north/south.

If you want to go renewables in a place like Sweden you go wind+hydro. Hydro is mostly built out already so that leaves wind.
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Is there anything that prevents you from doing that today? I mean the app in this post still seems to work. Apart from some parts of the system that have been pretty much locked down, I think one reason that apps are much larger today is that our expectations increased dramatically.
No need for pushing as the coalition of CDU/CSU and FDP had decided to shut down the reactors in Germany and had set the date.
GPT is like a fleet of small fishing boats, each user driving their boat in another direction, not a fishing barge. For every token written by the model there must be a human who prompted, and then consumed it. It is manual, and personal, and deliberate.

In fact all the demonstrations in the lawsuit PDF were intentionally angling for reproducing copyrighted content. They had to push the model to do it. That won't happen unless users deliberately ask for it. It won't happen en-masse.
Surprisingly, CBD is illegal in Hong Kong.
The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court, alleges that OpenAI, creator of the popular ChatGPT platform, and Microsoft, a key investor in OpenAI and developer of its own AI tool Copilot, have infringed upon The Times' copyrighted content. The complaint specifically claims that the companies used vast swathes of Times articles without permission to train their chatbots, essentially capitalizing on the newspaper's substantial investment in quality journalism.
While not seeing anything special in this particular VT implementation, I can only praise the virtual tables sub-system of SQLite as a whole. I'm very used to it, it makes the SQLite/sql engine sometimes just a glue for connecting different (virtual) data sets. Many SQLite files on my comp even has not dedicated data, only sqlite_master table containing virtual tables declarations.
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I have an ATEN usb KVM that allows anything to be plugged in. I have an USB drive to quickly transfer files but works with anything USB powered. It's expensive if you go for USB 3+, DP, etc but cheaper ones work also just for USB stuff.
One big drawback, at least for me, some mice and keyboards that have special keys, do not work 100%.
I find apps in Android are much smaller than iOS apps in terms of download size.
Nothing will come out of it. NY times will lose.
The title is:

> Discovering Malmesbury's 'gangster' medieval monk

The abbot is the gangster. So, what did he do?

> Then in the 1320s, the abbey became embroiled in a feud involving £10,000, which, by today's standards, would have been millions.

> The monasteries at the time had political allegiances and at Malmesbury they supported a local noble family called the Despensers.

> The family left a large amount of cash with the abbey for safekeeping.

> However, when the tide turned against them, the head of the family was executed and the monastery decided to keep quiet about the money they had stored.

> In the end though, the monks of Malmesbury were pardoned: "Extraordinarily, the King took the 10,000 and let him off. Basically, they all got away with it."

So, the Despensers left money at the abbey. They were then killed. Presumably there were no survivors to return the money to. Then the king comes and takes the 10k.

My question is, which person is the gangster?

The answer is the king! Not the abbot.

In what world does the king have a rightful claim to the Despensers money? Only in the one he writes the rules and calls the benefits he receives 'right'. So, gangster.

Tellingly, even now, all these centuries later, the BBC has to kowtow to this "royal" power. Because that is the BBC's job. As it is for all mainstream media.

That's my unpopular opinion anyway.
My problem is that it is difficult for me to read the white text when the background is too light.

E.g., right now the weather is overcast at my location, and the white text on the “main screen” blends somewhat into the white clouds of the background picture, making the text difficult to read.

Another example: Windhoek, Namibia, has daylight and clear sky as I write this. The UV reading is almost impossible for me to read because the white numbers have the same colour as the backdrop clouds. The numbers for humidity and precipitation are easier to read, but still difficult. The only easy numbers are the big “24°” and the windspeed.

If I scroll down to the “cards”, there is too poor contrast between the blueish-grey card background and the white text. Right now the air quality reads “1” in a darker box. If the entire background had that darker blueish tint, it would be much easier to read the cards.

The radar? I don't even know what I am looking at, as the contrast between the land and what may be regional borders is too low.

Whenever I land on a website that has too low contrast, I just move on. I really like the form design your app, and also that it includes air quality, but with the current overall low contrast, I'm not sure I will use it as my daily weather station.

Perhaps offer more themes? Dark / light / high contrast / for visually impaired / colourblind.
I'm sorry to hear that.

This is an open question which I've pondered for a while (so atemerev, your circumstances may not align, but I hope you don't mind me asking it here):

> I wonder how often/ to what degree, circumstances of long covid might be attributed to individuals whom pre-covid were on the cusp of developing more severe symptoms of burnout or depression (for the first time), being abruptly nudged over that threshold?

It strikes me, this likely happened in some cases, such that some individuals simultaneously faced both kinds of cognitive phenomena for the first time

So implicit – I wonder how often the two are conflated? Or how one ought to reconcile specific (relevant) circumstances between long-covid, and burnout/ depression?

So back to yourself atemerev (with no assumptions): can you speak to this at all?

Many thanks
But it is effectively impossible on Android as well. Let's ignore for a minute the fact that practically no one can install a custom ROM.

The bigger problem is that a huge bunch of software running on the phone is fully proprietary and closed source, and there are many many different versions for different phones around - making it virtually impossible to do any meaningful reverse engineering. So sure, your main OS may be up to date, but the baseband OS and virtually all of the device drivers will be left vulnerable, and they have just as much if not more access to the data on your device.
"at 61% annual utilization, an H100 GPU would consume approximately 3,740 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity annually"

Given that a tyical car consumes about 80 KwH per 100 km, and cars do about 20k km average per year, you run about 4 to 5 H100's per car.

The artcle then goes on to compare total consumption of the GPU:s to the houshold electricity consumption of Phoenix Arizona. This city has around 591,000 households and an average of 2 cars er household. At rougly 1.2 million cars in Phoenix Arizona, the cars in that city alone consume more energy than 5 million H100's. Which is around 3x the estimate for H100's that will be sold worldwide in 2024.

I've yet to find a clickbait artcle or a Microsoft spokesperson lamenting on how Phoenix residents cars consume more energy than the entirety of some countries
Right. Hardware is scary…
From what I can tell, this has nothing to do with LLMs at all. In the example in the article, the user is asking Bing to go fetch the contents of an article directly from the website, and print it out, which it dutifully does.

Seems like the "problem" is that NYT etc gives privileged access to search engines for indexing their content, but then get upset when snippets of the indexed content is being shown to users without the users having to fight the paywall or whatever.

This article also claims that the screenshot is coming from ChatGPT when it clearly is not.
Yes and the fact that the number of unique phrases grows so quickly with n is why the bloom filter needs to grow so that hashed n-grams don't collide.
Wow, Outlook actually tells you they blocked you? My email (custom gmail domain btw) just ends up in the Spam folder of outlook clients with no notification at all.
I have never enjoyed time outside even as a kid so I feel it is a good price (-4 diopters) to pay for the extra 1-2 hours/day I can spend indoors in all these years.
my toaster is an enameled steel tray with a steel wire grille on top of it. you put it on a gas stove burner to heat up the enameled steel enough to radiantly toast the bread resting on the grille. it's tray-shaped to catch the crumbs so they don't end up on your stove; the grille flips up so you can clean the crumbs out before they burn. a handle, made out of the same steel wire as the grille, allows you to remove it from the burner without burning your hand, and folds in for compact storage when you're not using it

these cost about US$4 locally: https://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/MLA-934643608-tostador-... (the price listed on that page is $3499 but currently the black-market dollar is at $950 bid, $1000 ask, so that's a bit under US$4)

but i got mine out of the neighbor's garbage during our eight-month-long covid lockdown, gambling that it wasn't covered with cyanide or something

the electric kind you're probably talking about goes for about US$20–US$40 around here but i wanted to point out that there does exist a more reliable alternative
I thought it was a quite natural assumption, considering the same brake friction force and that the work done by that is the force times the distance. (W = Fs).
Yeah, but the LLMs can't. They aren't big enough to contain every byte of every NYT article, even with the best-known compression algorithms. Rather, they pick up and remember the same patterns that humans do when they write. Authors of the articles also did that, and so the two algorithms (human writer, LLM inference) end up with the same result. (That doesn't preclude large chunks of text that are actually remembered, though. We humans have large chunks of verbatim text floating around in our brains. Passwords, phone numbers, "I pledge allegiance to the flag...", etc.)

Anyway, like I said, I don't think OpenAI will win this. Someone will produce one verbatim article and the court will make OpenAI pay a bunch of money as though every article could be reproduced verbatim, and AI in the US will be set back that many billion dollars. It probably doesn't matter in the long run; it preserves the status quo for as long as the judge is judging and the newspaper exec is newspaper exec-ing. That's all they need. The next generation will have to figure out how to deal with AI-induced job loss... and climate change. Have fun, next generation!
The European electricity market, the Germany is connected to, prices electricity (or priced last time I checked, there might have been changes), like this (over symplified, so please read up the details yourself):

- generators provide capacity and nominate that capacity for future and as reserve capacity, the former is being priced using futures traded at an exchange, the latter is paid for by grid opertors to maintain grid stabilizyt
- consumers, the ones large enough to trade on the exchange, nominate consumption the same way, if they are able to take up load or shed load on short notice, they are paid for that the same way peaker plants mentioned above are paid for

- the balance between demand and supply for each period, day ahead for example, defines the exchange price (which results, sometimes, in negative prices and allows for speculation)

- producers get to produce as long as their variable production cost is below the exchange price in that period (CAPEX used to be excluded from that), that usually means that wind, solar and hydro get to deliver first, followed by coal, oil and nuclear with gas usually being to expensive for anything else other than peaker plants

So, this market is pricing electricity based on variable cost. Operators are including these market prices in their calculations, and that means that the majority of the build capacity is wind, solar and coal (and yes, brand new gas plants have never gone online because shutting them down before hand was cheaper).

TL/DR: Exchanges, aka the market, ignores fix costs while opertors don't.

Honestly, if you fail to understand that crucial market mechanism (for Europe with its integrated grid, the US is different) try to get aroind that first, it explains an aweful lot of how electricty production capacity is built. By the way, this market prevented outages very reliably.
400+ commits with a ton of them being "catch up to main"? Wow, I guess even good programmers don't know how to rebase/use git properly.
Seconded. My Philips toaster is more than 30 years old and in the super cheap bracket.

Every few years I have to shake out the bread remains and that's about all maintenance it gets.

Works like a charm and the outcome is very predictable.

Granted, I only use it for sliced toast bread. But I'm happy with the results.
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are (as yours, let me say that).

I've been in jail for a robbery when I was young, and I genuinely wanted to know the experience of the person who wrotes the comment.
80? My ev does 15.5 kWh per 100km.
The future is the macro-grid: use electricity in northern hemisphere while it's summer in the southern hemisphere.

Pardon me, but there's zero future for the micro grids.
I currently have the same problem, I would like to root my dreame roboter, but unfortunately I can't get the components for the dreame PCB, or nobody sells me a ready soldered dreame PCB. Too bad there is no alternative, but that makes it really hard for people with a dreame robot to use the project.
The team probably didn't bother to change those things after they got fired. Notice the latest post and lack of recent activity.
In Europe heat-pump-dryers are the normal way dryers work and the clothes coming out of them are also crisp and dry. Are you sure there is nothing defective with your dryer?
PS (I can't seem to reply to my own posts): Perhaps even an option to skip the backdrop picture entirely, and instead have a uniform background colour.
2024 in Public Domain
France is balancing their reactors with a massive amount of water power, so they are not doing it alone on the reactor side. But I think France is indeed one of the countries with the highest relative amount of nuclear in the grid. Germany went never over 30% nuclear in the mix, so demand matching was way less of a problem. But also, both countries tried to make demand mostly constant like with pushing inefficient heating systems which would consume electricity at night.

This is very far off from working well together with a mostly renewable grid, where renewables can cover 100% of the load on most days, but there are larger gaps to be quickly filled.
It doesn't have database access to its own training dataset; it only has access to the weights it lossily-compressed that training dataset into.
Real Pyrex really ought to survive a 300F (150C) temperature difference.
> But also whatever the number 3 or 4 most valuable company in the world doesn’t get to scrape your content daily to repackage and sell as intelligent systems.

Here's a thing though: for 99%+ of that content, being turned into feedstock for ML model training is about the only valuable thing that came of its existence.

If it were not for world-ending danger of too smart an AI being developed too quickly, I'd vote for exempting ML training from copyright altogether, today - it's hard to overstate just how much more useful any copyrighted content is for society as LLM training data, than as whatever it was created for originally.
I know some people that are fairly skeptical of CBT, but this is probably because it was oversold to them as the cure, and in the end the attempt to use it lead to something that sounded like masking-induced anxiety rather than actual solution to problems.

On the other hand, I know people who did some sort CBT and it seems to have genuinely helped them, especially with helping forming better habits?
Given steam features the binding of isaac, hades and inscryption, I can't understand your comment.
Egypt mobilized a defensive force that was incapable of launching an invasion. Meanwhile, Israel had been planning a first-strike, which it actually executed.

> You're citing something that happened 10 years earlier.

Israel's invasion of Egypt was 10 years prior, but dominated Egyptian security considerations. Israel's major incursion into Jordan was only 7 months prior. The Arabs had every reason to fear Israeli aggression.

Going back to the original comment about the 1967 war, OP implied that the Palestinians were somehow to blame for the fact that they live under military occupation. The story of Israel simply defending itself in 1967 is not true: Israel struck first, and its claims that it was acting in preemptive self-defense are highly questionable, at best.
"just"

https://dohertyjf.medium.com/just-dont-say-just-4c3c4cde3ebb

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