skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just because there is a computer chip inside it?

Sort of, yes? I mean, if you've got a general purpose computing device stuck inside of a TV, it's kind of nice to be able to use it as a general purpose computing device.

And I mean, we have open standards for things. I'm not saying that companies should have to manually support everything, but if you ask me if it's a desirable feature or if it would be better for TVs to use common platforms that can be targeted regardless of hardware, what do you want me to say? That it's a bad thing if I can control the volume on my TV using a universal remote? That it's good that different smart assistants don't work with the same music services? Because having a smart assistant say that you can't use a music service because some CEOs got into a fight with each other actually stinks and I hate that.

> I find it somewhat absurd that if you put a computer chip inside of a gadget you are now suddenly expected to support/enable installing literally anything.

Okay, but you understand that every consumer would view that as a feature, right? You understand that when you say, "imagine if every app worked on your TV" pretty much everyone is going to say, "that sounds great, yes please."

Never before has any console or TV ever advertised less compatibility as if that is a desirable feature that customers should want. Never before has Microsoft gotten up on stage and said "we have a hundred launch titles" and then Playstation gotten on stage and said "hah, that's amateur talk, we have 45 launch titles, we're clearly winning this fight."

You're arguing that this is a slippery slope, but you're also arguing that there's chocolate cake and puppies at the bottom of the slope. Generally speaking, using cross-compatible standards that allow people to interop with devices without asking the manufacturer's permission is a thing that I want, yes. I like that cars use the CAN-BUS standard, that's a good regulation. I like that I can have 3rd-party repair shops for my car, I like that I can buy a stereo system and hook it up and it doesn't matter if the stereo manufacturer has an agreement with Toyota. I like that Samsung and LG TVs both use HDMI ports and I don't have to ask "which computers can I plug into this" when I buy a TV. And of course consumers generally like that we use universal USB standards now and we've gotten past every device having incompatible cords. These are all great things to have.

You can argue whatever you want, you can argue that this is an abridgement of Apple's rights. People might believe that.

But just be aware that your slippery slope sounds less like a slippery slope and more like some kind of prize, and if you're not careful people might start to say, "wait, you're saying that if we open up iOS devices we could then do the same thing to consoles, and I would stop needing to buy 3 separate consoles just to play different games? And I could buy cheap controllers instead of needing to spend 60-80 dollars for an official one? And I could play games with people who are on different consoles? So where do I sign up for that?"
Also have a background in systems biology here, originally a chemical engineer. Used to do "sensitivity analysis" and parameter fitting on a bunch of PK models for pharma labs. Drifted to ML and now in the LLM space.

Prompt engineering - indeed a glorified way of plugging in values and see where comes out/where it takes you. I remember I did not enjoy guess-timating parameter bounds on a global search, and couldn't "configure" simulations as well as my experienced colleague. But well, here I am.
Super interesting! Haven't seen this before. Very creative (abuse?) of zip files! :-)

https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/blob/master/faq...
Because this leaderboard has a very limited audience, and second only to GPT-4 turbo isn't good marketing regardless.
Thank you for bringing some perspective to the discussion, because there are so many counterexamples to the GP post.

Karelia is another one. Whether or not such situations are resolvable peacefully is entirely up to the nations involved.

I don't see why revanchism gets a free pass in the specific case of the Palestinians.
I think their play is the same as always

it's better to let more people interact with it because this will help training the model (get more data) so it must be free to use.
Tech layoffs balloon in Jan. as rally lifts Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft to records
Speed limits aren’t the problem.
WTFHappendin1971 & this article both practice bad economics and make gross assumptions. Is like the writer took every point made and picked the exact opposite take while missing the correct answer in the middle every time.
Cool, and thanks for the head's up! (I work at Timeplus)
Please don't cross into flamewar, regardless of what anyone else is doing.
> How much fuel is needed to charge them?

The eventual goal would be zero.
Recording laws get in the way of this. You’ll start seeing/hearing a warning every time you start a call if they begin doing this.

The live-captions tool in Teams is already better at understanding some of my colleagues than I am. The tech’s there, and probably already was good-enough before LLMs.
What time do you sleep? I've noticed a major decrease in my problem solving ability if I'm getting less than 7 hours a night.
Sure, it could change in the future. It's not the reality now, so data retention rules on chat programs isn't likely to cause a return to office.

Management have been using phones to bypass record keeping for well over half a century.
It's not just a matter of love or hate. Firefox starts for THREE MINUTES on 22.04 as opposed to a few seconds on 20.04

Ed: actually, yes, that makes me hate SNAPs
That's not true over short-to-medium timeframes though.

There absolutely are equilibria in nature, all over the place. The idea of that "constant imbalance" is always the rule is simply false.

Now, as a rule at some point in time either an external force will interrupt things, or an energy source that was maintaining the equilibrium will run out. So no equilibrium will last indefinitely.

But an equilibrium can be maintained for an awfully long time -- much, much, much longer than you or I will be alive. It's not like populations are always either growing or shrinking. Absent man, they're generally extremely constant (allowing for seasonal oscillations and similar).

And to answer your question: when we seek to restore something, it's generally to as close as we can to the state of equilibirum it would be at without the industrial effects of man -- a level of rich biodiversity. We're almost never completely successful, but we can still do our best.
Whilst it's not that easy to discover you shouldn't have to be holding shift before you start dragging, it's generally only whether you're holding it down when dropping the items that matters in KDE from what I've seen.
From what i understand, the ceasefire was an extreme long shot by south africa and nobody really expected the icj to grant it. Particularly because the court cant order hamas to do anything and a one sided cease fire seems kind of unreasonable, but also the right to self defense is pretty fundamental in international law.
I didn't downvote , but I presume those were around your misunderstanding of FOSS and OSS.

>> Edit: I guess HN prefers to stay stuck in quagmire rather than dream of improvements. Sad state of affairs.

Dreaming in itself doesn't lead to improvement. There's nothing wrong with dreaming per se, but it won't solve the problem raised by the parent article.

There are other course lots of ways to "improve" the situation. Microsoft has a model that generates mountains of documentation, and they find a way to pay for it. That model though (commercial software generating sales revenue) is not compatible with OSS licenses. I'm guessing we're looking for an "improvement" here that doesn't involve changing away from OSS licenses.

Even if that wasn't a deal-breaker though, fixing problems with new taxes is seldom a viable solution in the real world.

Taxes are seldom so specific - occasionally things collected here are used over there but mostly it's a giant pot. So your suggestion would be better described as "create a govt fund, seed it with billions a year and issue grants from that."

Certainly the money would have to come from somewhere, which means either raising some general tax, of cutting spending elsewhere. In case you haven't noticed there is little appetite in politics to increase spending. One party regularly lowers taxes and increases the deficit. The other wants to expand social services and increase the deficit. All sides see an increasing deficit as bad. (Go square that circle)

Interestingly European Govts -are- spending on OSS, and issue grants. But there's little appetite got this in the US.

So, by all means dream. By all means throw out ideas. But accept that most ideas are bad. This one is bad I multiple directions. That's no big deal, it'll help inform your next idea, which may be good.
I don't think there's a way to talk yourself back up onto the horse here. Drive-by barbs like "worse than bad" are a plague on this site. It was a rude complaint about the website for an open source project, and it was called out civilly. Ironically, it's your personalizing response that skirts closest to incivility.

You can just disagree next time (if you really want to) without lecturing people on empathy? I think that strategy might work better.
Is the idea that having a login wall will keep AI bots from scraping the site? Because that seems like something that won't hold...?
Yes. The very first line of the spec:

> Software using Semantic Versioning MUST declare a public API. This API could be declared in the code itself or exist strictly in documentation. However it is done, it SHOULD be precise and comprehensive.

If it's not in the API, it is not bound by the rules. Many ecosystems come up with various norms, like Rust has, to help guide people in this. But it's almost certainly not a semver violation to make the change described in the XKCD because "handle unknown unknowns" is not possible. That doesn't mean that we should throw out the entire idea of software assisted upgrades to dependencies.
these scores are based on feedback from users who write any prompt they like and then blindly choose the best response. nothing to game.
We Europeans in form of fines. I’m not talking about class actions. Completely different market.
Most of those batteries are being charged by natural gas. Batteries store electricity, they don't create it.
To be fair you'd be surprised how many Hassio hoppyist leave their MQTT setup default (or even without password). Was part of a community 2 years ago that was tinkering with IoT for home automation, and most of them were not that familiar with linux, let alone lua, and would leave all their setup default.
Apple likes fewer skus and more money. I doubt this split world lasts for too long.
I rarely hear people talk about liking Claude. I’m curious, what do you use it for?

I personally use bard for general internet search stuff, because I like how google has set up the linking (and the UI). I use GPT-* for technical stuff (eg GitHub codepilot) because I find it can synthesize code better.
If they could make it work at scale, they'd have done it with ocean water by now.

That's the sci-fi dream: all the elements you could want end up dissolved in varying amounts in seawater. It's unfortunately a hard engineering problem.
A single example (what you are calling an anecdote) is all that’s needed to disprove your blanket statement - he provided it.
Apparently Alan Kay knew Dijkstra and was meant as a joke rather than some big insult.
So Genshin is trying to overturn centuries of US precedent? I don't see why they think that has any chance of success.
Everyone mention single use plastic and too many wraps. For those who don't live there, you may not know about gifting too. Everyone give gifts. I don't have the numbers, but I wouldn't be surprised if they give gifts 5-10x the rest of the world. Which are wrapped, boxed, with more wrappings and plastics inside. I think one way to reduce this may be for companies to start making reusable fancy gift boxes and have celebrities in commercials and posters show that it's the new cool thing to do.
Efficiency is just one of many issues for hydrogen. Storage is another issue. How fast you can dispatch convert in either direction.

I don't think seasonal storage will ever be thing. Having storage for a few days or weeks is practical.

Non of the technologies we are talking about will work for seasonal.
Does Hamas have to adhere to an ICJ ordered ceasefire?
>I'm surprised they have a $23b bet on basically a company whose brand name is associated with unhealthy drinks

>I'm surprised they have this much in 'assets' tied to 'not sexy + boring' things like "not the best foods/drinks for you"

I can't tell if this is moral surprise or purely financial surprise. It certainly doesn't seem surprising financially, right? It seems very normal, surely. I can't speak on the nuances of how good an idea it is, but it certainly seems like a "normal" thing to bet big on. But even morally it's only even a little surprising if you have some reason to believe that Buffett is an unusually moral person (like, very very unusually).
RAG Challenge Dataset I– Can Advanced RAG Beat NeuralDBs Online-Tuning?
Ugh, envious I am.
Healthy Longevity Global Competition
Old tv dishes go up to about ten feet.
This seems far fetched given China's traditional insistence that countries' internal affairs should not be subject to external overview, it's undeclared stance that subject populations should be suppressed by whatever means necessary and the still marginal effect of the conflict on its trade.
Not really a Google fan, but the fingerprint reader on my Pixel 7a is much better then it was on my Pixel 5, when it works.
It’s often not that anyone is doing illegal shit or not, it’s that archives can be mined for out of context quotes that will ruin the company or people involved regardless.

And large archives also dramatically increase costs of complying with civil discovery, which already can make the most ridiculous lawsuit costs millions just to ‘deal with’.
Approaching Mandarin I expected tones to be some sort of big hurdle. They're not. They're largely obvious. It's a part of the vowel, basically. Linguistically speaking, there's very little distinction between a vowel and a tone - it's part of how you make the vowel.

Both a Korean teacher of mine and an old housemate (who was a native Russian speaker and had a degree in French) pointed out to me that Americans are "lazy" (that is the technical term, I gathered) about how they use vowels. We get dipthongs confused with pure vowels. Unless it's pointed out to us, we don't think of how we say "oh" as containing an element of "w" at the end.

And tone and vowel quality interact in a complex way, which means you're hearing changes in the vowel, along with the pitches involved.

Ah ha! I think you just helped me! I hadn't been thinking of these two together!

the tone contours of Mandarin interact with the lexical tones of a word. Something we don't have to worry about in English.

Tone of voice is diabolically subtle, the way British and American speakers use it. About half the time, we're using it to indicate the opposite or almost opposite meanings of words. My wife from Fujian doesn't think of speech in quite the same way. We got into an argument, because she kept shouting, "BE CAREFUL!" every time someone cut me off in downtown SF traffic. It took me awhile to understand that she was just frightened and was telling me to be careful. ("HOW COULD YOU TWIST SUCH A TENDER EXPRESSION OF CARE!?" -- Which she said in that tone of voice.)

Tones don't occupy the same part of my brain as parts of vowels. It's more like a musical soundtrack accompanying the dialog.
It does seem like malicious and petty compliance on Apples part. But that’s also the expected behavior of a corporation— so the EU just needs to keep up the rule making and clarification.
Different ways but almost the same concept applies; write some code, get HTML of a URL, parse HTML, and finally extract the data you want.

However, if we only stick to this definition, we would be missing a lot of details...
This is a pretty important issue and it's almost surprising it has taken this long to come up.

The underlying problem is that unmasking someone is an act that can't be undone, so they should have to be notified that someone is requesting it and have the opportunity to contest the subpoena before it gets executed.

The fact that it has taken this long for it to come up exemplifies the problem -- the platform is the only one who knows about the subpoena before it gets executed, and they generally don't have a strong incentive to pay for lawyers to protect small time individual users. But if they don't do it then under this process the user is unmasked before the user can object to being unmasked, and then there is nothing to contest because it's too late.
Apple to EU, Drop Dead
OP here: Sorry that you had a bad experience, but glad that you made it through in the end! I would love to talk more about your experience if you're up for it. My email is in my bio.
Everything you describe already exists. Executables do list their dependencies, and we have well-defined conventions for indicating ABI breaks. It is entirely normal to have multiple major versions of a library installed for ABI compatibility reasons, and it is also entirely normal to expect that you can upgrade the dependencies out from under a binary as long as the library hasn't had an ABI break.

The bigger dependency management problem is that every distro has their own package manager and package repository and it's tough for one application developer to build and test every kind of package. But if they just ship a binary, then it's up to the poor user to figure out what packages to install. Often the library you need may not even be available on some distros or the version may be too old.
1. There are necessary interruptions and there are optional interruptions.

Almost all electronic interruptions are optional. Put them in a dedicated browser identity, a dedicated email identity, a dedicated virtual machine, a dedicated physical machine, etc.

2. Flow is not a magical state. Work is how you get into flow. Work is how you recover from interruptions from a flow state. So just start doing something that needs to be done.

3. Drama is interesting. It is not work.

Good luck.
Residential solar may still make sense for new construction (maybe?) in the right areas. But there was a lot of scammy behavior around home solar installation at one point. Given that home solar does not effectively give you a backup generator for free (barring a lot of batteries and specific electrical hookups as I recall), it's not clear it's a big win in general. A lot of utility things aren't ideal at the individual house level if there's an option.
If you read that article, or even the subtitle, you’ll see that it’s talking about Android Auto, which is importantly different from the Google Assistant Driving Mode I mentioned.

Amusingly apropos the main complaint that people seem to have with Driving Mode is that it isn’t designed to be screen-based, which would be quite dangerous, but rather voice-based which is comparatively safer.
The PCM-1 came out in 1977.
i remember teaching people about hierarchical file systems in the early 1990s - so no not much has changed.
It's very hard to have a healthy discussion over investing on the internet.

Much harder than having a healthy discussion over C++ vs Rust (which is already borderline impossible).
Your speaking with too much absolutism. It doesn't matter whether you committed a crime or not, it matters if you can be convicted. That distinction illuminates the ambiguity and uncertainty that is it inherent in the justice system.
Congress passed a law implying that Genshin could do it, the question is if that law is constitutional.
This applies to many different visas. The point is to ensure you are actually employed and not just here to subsist off of social services or working for illegal enterprises (i.e. organized crime). You can change jobs but the new employer must agree to sponsor you. Visas are not permanent residencies or citizenship. If you just want to tour the country or take university classes, get a tourist or student visa. If you did all the work to prove your "extraordinary abilities", you should be putting them to use. And yes, perhaps freelance work should be eligible for employment status but I feel that can be accomplished through some creative structuring of a tiny contracting firm.

I can easily compare an O-1 visa to being accepted to a prestigious university. You proved you are smart and talented enough to be there but if you don't actually put in the work (get good grades/stay employed), you get kicked out so that someone else just as smart and talented can take your place.
How is anything? One could argue that real estate occupancy in San Francisco isn't hackernews.

I think there's an intellectual interest here, but the line is very blurry with politics. It's probably as blurry as the articles posted about US being a surveillance state, cryptocurrency articles unrelated to the technology itself, etc.
Yes. That is why I said: faced with larger threats

What I can add is that this is indeed not just a "larger" threat for them. It "activated" a millennium-deep Jewish trauma (through pogroms up to the Holocaust). Deep, very deep.
Does anyone know if there are discussions on integrating WebAssembly into actual OS's? Would be great to have something that Java promised to be, but wasn't.
is there any place on the web where one can peruse PC Magazine issues from the 90s? I was looking for one last night and couldn't find anything like it.
3D PC gaming?

Kb/mouse > game pad > touch screen
Technological infeasibility is not necessarily an excuse for skipping record-keeping. I've heard that financial organizations, which often have strong compliance requirements, do in fact record phone calls and video chats - possibly even face-to-face meetings. And they will actively discourage you from using a line not controlled by the company, because otherwise they could have compliance violations.
Amphibious landings are highly vulnerable, and almost impossible to pull off without air superiority. What gives the impression that China's amphibious landing ships are resistant to anti-shipping missiles? Every article on modern naval combat I've read highlights just how vulnerable surface vessels are to attack, and how crucial it is to keep them out of range. I am incredibly dubious that China would land military ships in Gaza.
The measures ordered by the UN court are in references to Article II of the Genocide Convention [0], which limits the scope to “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”, where the court identifies the group as “Palestinians in Gaza”. So it’s the intent of genocide towards that group which is the deciding factor. As long as the actions do not carry that intent (and are plausible as such), they are not prohibited.

My reading is that the court is basically saying “You are presently running the risk of committing genocide, please take all measures in your power to prevent that.”

[0] https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-...
Intent is a required element in many crimes (mens rea), and proving so is often hard. Unless someone writes one of these emails, like they noted.

Fraud, for instance. Or murder vs manslaughter vs ‘an accident’.

Smoking gun emails can totally sink a case or get people convicted.
Object-oriented programming an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California
No, that was from south africa's request. That wasn't the wording the court used in its decision
This has exactly zero chances of happening. Israel would never let anyone they don’t approve of get anywhere near Gaza.