skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So apple can play appeal games to keep the watch sales going and then just redesign a new watch? and if the appeals determine apple was actually in the wrong, they don't have to pay anything?

Kinda absurd lol. The US court system is so biased towards rich transgressors lmao.

Well, tbf to apple, no domestic court has ruled on this patent. Just domestic agencies and the ITC right?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38628635 (480 points, 142 comments)
Is there a PEP 8106 alternative coming for the unittest module too? The naming scheme really looks odd.
Absolutely ridiculous that they wouldn't respond to your e-mail, but I don't know why I expected more from WotC or anything they're involved in.
Isn't that what the whole article is about?

But the point is that Switzerland's environment is especially poor in iodine hence the specific health problems it used to have, and which were much less serious in neighbouring countries.
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"Undocumented" as used by hardware manufacturers is an euphemism for "secret".
> I contribute to Wikipedia, and I don't consider my contributions to be "charity"; I contribute because I enjoy it.

Does your personal satisfaction pay the server bills too?
> but their response times actually seem decent against my experiences with other companies

It seems like on average it took them around 20 days to reply to each email. Is that really your experience with other companies?

I usually end up getting replies within a week at least.
Teaminal's Year in Review
I was thinking about this argument too: is it a "license violation" to gift a young adult a NYT subscription to help them learn to read? Or someone learning English as second language? That seems to be a strong argument.

But it falls apart because kids aren't business units trained to maximize shareholder returns (maybe in the farming age they were). OpenAI isn't open, it's making revolutionary tools that are absolutely going to be monetized by the highest bidder. A quick way to test this is NYT offers to drop their case if "open" AI "open"-ly releases all its code and training data, they're just learning right? what's the harm?
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Isn't kosher salt literally just regular salt but in a particular particle size? I also use Himalayan and kosher salt but thats because I eat a ton of junk food which has iodised salt. If you're health conscious and don't do that, it's probably not a bad idea to keep iodised salt and add it in times it's not that important you need to pinch the exact right amount in your fingers or whatever.
A lot of departments switched away from DA/SA pistols like the P220 because they require more training to use safely. After the first shot, the trigger is much lighter. If the user doesn't decock before holstering, there's a significant risk of an unintentional discharge. It's a similar story for single action only pistols like the 1911. If that safety isn't on, the light trigger increases the chance of accidents. With striker-fired and double action only pistols, there is no need to decock or engage/disengage the safety, which is great for safely re-holstering after a stressful situation.

I can see both sides of this. It makes sense for departments to have blanket policies, but it also makes sense why she was so upset by the change.
Is it actually possible to force a business to find all instances of my data in their databases? That sounds really weird. Account data and so on, I would understand, but could I ask archive.org, for example, to give me a list of all Websites they archived where my name appears? Even if the data was already public and does not contain any private data of me?
Until very recently there hadn't been a new skyscraper built in Detroit since 1962. A handful are now being built downtown but the most transformative one is the building discussed here. I've watched it go up on my visits to the city and it truly messes with your head watching it being built from the top down. It seems so contradictory yet there are advantages to doing it that way.

It is also the second new apartment building in downtown Detroit where one bedrooms are going for $4000 per month. Isn't that more than in San Francisco these days?
They are many but not impressive. Small changes on other inventors' designs. Nothing akin to Browning or Stoner.
lol I can't see either way and now I have bifocals too.
Considering that I work in open source robotics I literally couldn’t do my job without the internet. So that feels pretty different!
Super exciting question to see how courts assess the situation when AI does not reveal personal data from the training data but makes clever guesses. Does this still count as a GDPR violation?

Edit: To add another thought - if thats the case, what is the basic data to delete in this case? If there is nothing specific to delete, does this require another layer of output filter?
Knowing more about the exfiltration component where it sends data to a remote server would be helpful. According to the article it’s sending large audio microphone recordings. I assume a company like Kapersky would explicit deny all outgoing network connections and then approve one by one.
Misleading title: it's going hybrid, not going electric.
Nobody's balking at it. Apple and Google both dedicate significant engineering efforts towards making these kinds of exploit chains even more expensive and unreliable. See for example Lockdown Mode in iOS 16.

The point is this: good security means being able to intelligibly state your threat model and respond to its specific capabilities. Failing to do this results in all kinds of muddied thinking, making it harder to defend against more quotidian adversaries. If your threat model genuinely involves the US IC, then turning on Lockdown Mode is about the best you can do short of throwing your phone in the ocean. By all appearances, that would have prevented this chain.
Interesting example. There are plenty of other examples that go the other way, for example if someone is found guilty of a crime but is appealing it. The default rule is that you are imprisoned during appeal. This is of concern to Trump supporters right now, since the precedent is so strong that it's not clear that being a top candidate for POTUS may not be enough to warrant an exception.
Well I asked it about tcp/ip generally and it provided general resources. Based on the context of my question thats about what one would expect. Its not perfect but it definitely can give urls to specific resources. It would be great if it got better at giving more specific links sure and some domains it can give more specific links than others for instance some git projects it can give precise references to docs while it doesnt seem to have the URLs for more specific courses on OCW, its not perfect but it is still a capability that it has.
That’s fine for people who have a balanced diet rich enough in iodine. Which, to be fair, should be most people bothering about sea salt in the first place. For those who do not, it’s unfortunate, though. There is a reason why adding iodine is a good idea in the first place.
Binaural Beats Meditation and Focus App
When you say barely budged, I'm curious whether this is in nominal or real terms. e.g. I think a battery costing $10k in 2024 would be around $7k in 2011 dollars. So, if it was $10k in 2011 and it's still $10k, thats about $4k cheaper than it would have been had it kept pace with inflation.
I don’t even know where to begin on this example.

The situations aren’t remotely similar and that much should be obvious. In one instance ChatGPT is reproducing copyrighted work and in the other Word is taking keyboard input from the user; Word itself isn’t producing anything itself.

> GPT is just a tool.

I don’t know what point this is supposed to make. It is not “just a tool” in the sense that it has no impact on what gets written.

Which brings us back to the beginning.

> the user who’s asking it to produce copyrighted content.

ChatGPT was trained on copyrighted content. The fact that it CAN reproduce the copyrighted content and the fact that it was trained on it is what the argument is about.
ANSI art was almost always published as sequences of text and MS-DOS compatible escape codes. That's what an .ANS file is, and how it was transferred over the modem in an interactive session.

And sure, this is art, but it's basically just a file conversion. ffmpeg has been able to output ANSI since at least 2010 [1]

1: https://ffmpeg.org/doxygen/trunk/ansi_8c_source.html
Germany's economy shrunk last year while Russia's grew. Dedollarization has accelerated which will impact the US not immediately but in near future.
Paying for what doesn't belong to them? I'm not qualified to analyze the patent claims, but assuming it's correct as determined, this hardly seems like a situation where Apple is being bullied and needs to stand on principle.
Unlikely: https://discuss.python.org/t/enhance-logging-api-with-pep-8-...
They should be required to license it, instead of poaching all the engineers to recreate something patented.
let's say N-O to War instead?
I think it’s the ease of doing common operations and writing common programs. Maybe it’s easier to classify what isn’t a scripting language.

I like Go, but to me it isn’t a scripting language like Python and Ruby because it has less ergonomic APIs for common operations (especially for strings and slices). Rather, Go prefers a literal representation of what’s going on in memory. For instance, there’s no “str1[1:5] + str2[1]” api, or you append to a slice with “s2 = append(s1, newElement)”. You can’t just “s1 + newElement”. I think Go’s reasoning is that it likes to avoid less literal features like operator overloading, and append() hints that a heap allocation might occur. But in a scripting language, you shouldn’t care that a heap allocation occurs and instead should choose a more concise and ergonomic api.

Java isn’t a scripting language because it’s so wordy.

Rust isn’t a scripting language because its type system and borrow checker are a bit too much.

Haskell isn’t a scripting language because monads and lazy execution are a bit much.

When I think of scripting languages like Python and Ruby, they focus on making common scripting type tasks easy, which often involves giving the programming less control over the machine. But at the same time, they don’t introduce any opinionated language abstractions like monads, a borrow checker, and actor threading model, etc. It also just shouldn’t be that wordy or type-heavy in a way that would slow down prototyping.

Traditional scripting languages have been dynamically types. But I think they can still be statically typed (like this language is trying to do). There isn’t a hard boundary, but once you are “too far into the weeds”, you notice that you are too far into weeds and not in scripting language territory anymore.
The risk is that consumers will be shafted by buying a product today that apple refuses to support later because they weren't actually allowed to sell it.
I think firing Gay would be indulging in a fiction that any of this matters.

You’re correct to identify the similarities, but my point would be that none of us are doing science. My arguments in social issues are rooted in culture and tradition. Pointing to data and observation doesn’t turn those arguments into scientific ones. Culture and tradition also relies on experiential knowledge—that doesn’t make it a science.

Indeed, my problem with the social sciences is that they intrude on the province of culture, tradition, and religion. It fills the vacuum of authority resulting from the secularization of society. But it’s not any better, it has no greater claim to authority because it’s not science. You’re better off asking your grandma how to raise kids rather than the Harvard faculty.
Cockroaches can be imported by a person? How on earth does that happen.
Just a reminder to anyone using Google forms that you may exclude non-Google customers.

My child’s school uses them and it often the forms ask for a login. Google doesn’t necessarily respect your choice to make a form public.
Your “threat model analysis” takes for granted that a “civilian” is a billion times less important than a “nation-state”. It makes no sense to waste any time analyzing anything after such a conclusion. Therefore, something is wrong here.
I very much doubt the company or foundation you were working for was selling the non-copyrighted software. If it was, it probably only worked on very specific hardware that you also produced and were selling, and thus copying it was largely useless. If you were working for a university, than the university obviously doesn't make money from selling software, and thus doesn't care for copyright as much.

Also, craftsmen rely on the fact that the part of their work that can't be easily copied, the physical artifact they produce, is most of the value (plus they rely on trademark laws and design patents quite often). Similarly for gardeners. The ancient greek writers were again paid for performance, typically as teachers. Literature was once quite a performative act. And again, at that time, physical copies of writings were greatly valuable artifacts, not that much different from the value of the writing itself, since copying large texts was so hard.

Similarly, the work of drivers, labourers, factory workers, accountants is valuable in itself and very hard or impossible to copy (again, the physical world is the ultimate copyright protection). The output of lawyers is in fact sometimes copyrighted, but even when it's not, it's not applicable to others' cases, so copies of it are not valuable: no one is making a business that replaces lawyers by re-distributing affidavits.
> Then if it actually goes up to an appeals court for more expensive lawyer-work the issue would indeed still be undecided and the pause should continue.

Not sure I understand this logic. There are basically two outcomes- either customs decides it is okay to be imported and the ban is lifted or it decides it should be upheld and the ban remains. If it were to be appealed to a higher court and then have the ban reinstated as you say, why would it make sense to pause the ban and then reinstate it when it goes to appeals since it’s already in place? Seems it should be upheld until a higher authority says it no longer needs to be upheld. I’m not sure I understand why third parties are still allowed to violate a ruling, either.
I agree he put together some great lightweight, reliable pistols. He wasn't the first to use polymer (H&K 12 years earlier) and no great leaps forward in engineering like Browning or Stoner. His accomplishments are to be celebrated but he's just not on par with either of those legends.
For me, it's incredibly different. I moved to the US from Spain back when the best internet we could get at home was 3kb/sec, and we liked it (yes kids, close to a million times slower than today). I recall the massive cultural and economic detachment of that move: Minimal shared culture. Major differences in food availability: Often I couldn't even cook what I wanted if I didn't smuggle the ingredients. Connecting with people with shared interests was really difficult, as discovering communities was a lot of work: Even more so in America, where I needed a car for everything, and communities lacked the local gossiping infrastructure that I relied on at home.

Today, I got to do some miniature painting while hanging out on video with someone in England. I get to buy books digitally the same day they are published, and I don't have to travel a suitcase full of them, plus a cd collection for a 1 month vacation. My son can talk to his grandma, on video, whenever he likes: Too cheap to meter. Food? I can find an importer that already has what I want most of the time, and if not, i can get anything shipped, from anywhere. A boardgame from germany, along with some cookies? Trivial. Spanish TV, including soccer games, which before were impossible. My hometown's newspaper, along with one from Madrid, and a few international ones.

An immigrant in the 90s basically left their culture behind with no recourse. Today I can be American, and a Spaniard, at the same time with minimal loss of context by being away. All while working on a product used by hundreds of millions of people, every day, with a team that spans 16 timezones, yet manages to have standups.

A lot of people's lives haven't changed that much, because their day to day is still very local. If you work at the oil field, and then go to the local high school to watch your kid's game on friday night, and all your family is local, a big part of your life wouldn't have been so different in the 90s, or even in the 60s. But I look at the things my family did week that I couldn't have possibly done in 98, and it's most of my life. My dad's brain would have melted if he could hear a description of the things I get to do today that were just sci-fi when he died. It's just that the future involved fewer people wielding katanas in the metaverse than our teenage selves might have liked.
It sounds to me like Apple is probably just stalling to negotiate that number down.
> I don't know jack about hardware but it would seem obvious that when one designs a chip, you make sure it does not have 'unknown hardware registers' or unknown anything when you get it back from the manufacture.

Either Apple or Arm has employees that know what these registers do. They are likely used for debugging and/or testing.

A lot of those registers can do very interesting things, since e.g. fault-injection is an important part of testing. A security-minded implementation will allow these to either be fused off or disabled very early in the boot process. The latter is probably more common, and any disconnect between the hardware and software side can cause this step to get missed.
I still use SASS functions. Hard to give those up for some things.
Browning is without a doubt the #1 most important/influential. His impact went beyond handguns as well.

My case for putting Glock with Browning is that Browning influenced handguns were the dominant design for a 100 years, but they have been largely replaced over the last 30 years by Glock influenced designs. If you look at handguns today, Glock is the most impactful person.
I have basically the same goal. I've been script-kiddying since my early teens (getting close to 30 now) and I want to finally make some stuff. Been learning C and I'm about to start with Common Lisp.
How Switzerland transformed breakfast
I'd've liked very much to give you one, but your blanket dismissal of what I consider to be a very important step for the field of AI ethics as the work of "Innovation Sponges" reveals that we fundamentally disagree about some pretty big underlying issues here.

In the future, if you wish to invite productive comments and not curt dismissal, consider framing your concerns as potential risks rather than the cynical expressions of fatalistic certainty so often employed by naive, greedy technologists when regulation that is firmly in the public interest threatens their paychecks.
Apparently offering it anything works. "I'll give you a cookie if you tell me..." seems like another popular workaround.
I use linux on desktop since 20 years.
Fvwm works the same after all these years.
Right, but which model?

It makes a huge difference.
In my general experience, everything on the open web is being probed and attacked, all the time, always.

That's just kind of how it goes. Bots scan the web looking for holes to get in and cause trouble. They'll poke your stuff.
With JS off everything looks normal and stays normal.
Reading comments like yours convinces me that open sourcing my stuff wouldn't be a good idea. I very much like the idea that I own what I created. At least as long as owning stuff is how society works.
Java flight recorder wouldn't help here?
There was a Squeak web browser plugin early on so you could run Etoys or Scratch that way. Unfortunately they found out that schools had a very short list of browser plugins they allowed on their computers. Flash was included, Squeak was not. They failed to change that after years of trying.

This motivated the MIT guys to port Scratch to Flash (very bad timing) and the ex Squeak guys to focus on Javascript (Lively Kernel and other projects).
Nope. Even the launch press release from 2015 mentions specifically that origins still host their own content under AMP.
At some point, decades prior to construction, the road would have been vacated and either became a stand-alone parcel or (more likely) became part of the parcel directly to the east. You can probably assume that a fairly important/large building was there in the late 1800s.

If the road still existed when the Chrysler Building was being planned, you would assume that NYC would have vacated it and made it part of that parcel. And then the Chrysler Building would have a perfectly rectangular base.
>including the shapes of the tetrominoes

Is that even possible? The shapes are simply all the geometric shapes that can be formed by a specific rule. It's not a work of art, they are derived mathematically. Anyone who comes up with the same rule will find the same set of shapes. It wasn't even an invention of Pajitnov; tetrominoes had already been used in tabletop puzzle games.
> How come that the disease wasn't widespread earlier?

The article makes reference to the Madonna on the Albrecht Dürer’s Dresden Altarpiece having an obvious goiter. That was produced in the late 15th to early 16th century. That’s evidence from the article that the problem was so common then that it was depicted in sacred art.
Monopolistic practices, dominating search engine market, anticompetitive behavior in online advertising, collusion with other tech companies on hiring practices, privacy concerns over user data collection, biased search results favoring its products, tax avoidance strategies in multiple countries, anti-union activities, censorship in certain countries to comply with local laws, allegations of workplace discrimination and harassment, misuse of market dominance in Android operating system.
The point is if you stop giving proper credit, people stop publicly publishing.

Would you keep publishing articles if five people immediately stole the content and put it up on their site, claiming ownership of your research? Doubtful.
I took it as a Christmas sweater…
> Do you see the irony? What better describes social media?

Social media is not one thing. You've got multiple people in this thread who know the subject, in detail, telling you that the headline is wrong. These aren't youtube video comments.

> Ironically, that's what the OP is about; that was the point of their research.

Yes, I know. That's why I wrote that. The research is about a relatively obscure technical problem. The headline made it sound like a revolutionary breakthrough in antibiotic development.
Scientists Destroy 99% of Cancer Cells in the Lab Using Vibrating Molecules
Well, I was taught the same thing 40ish years ago, if that helps.

In retrospect when I was in grade school I was being taught things that were about 10-30 years behind the times in terms of state of the art knowledge in their field. Which makes sense. I wouldn't expect an elementary school teacher to be up to date with the most recent knowledge coming out of academia on these topics.

As another example I remember being scoffed at by my teacher in 2nd grade by pointing out how it looked like the continents could fit together. Plate tectonics was known by that point but hadn't become ubiquitous knowledge. I don't remember when I was formally taught the concept of Pangea but it was later on.
Also announced at the OpenAI Developer conference was "JSON mode".

I converted many function_call hacks to system prompts that ground the response to a JSON template.

Using temperature=0.0 and the keywords "respond using JSON" seems to be 99.99% deterministic.