skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am also a little confused by this. I thought websites were not allowed to collect data from minors under 13 years of age, and that TikTok doesn't allow minors under 13 to create accounts. Why is TikTok not liable for personalizing content to minors? Apparently (from the court filings) TikTok even knew these videos were going viral among children... which should increase their liability under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
> Isn't it better to have an expert who is a mediocre teacher than an excellent teacher with only a mediocre command of the subject matter?

Suppose we suppose to suppose.

An expert visiting a classroom with a competent teacher would be the best thing -- the teacher can provide direction and control over the class as well as assist with prep.

A Boeing machinist specializing in door plugs might make for a dry presentation. But a Boeing machinist specializing in door plugs who has the help of a good physics/engineering class teacher to lay out a lesson plan would probably be pretty fun.
Dollar General shares crater 20% as retailer cuts outlook
they make profits for shareholders.
Walmart is doing well. Maybe people realize dollar stores are poor values.
At the scale social media companies operate at, absolutely perfect moderation with zero false negatives is unavailable at any price. Even if they had a highly trained human expert manually review every single post (which is obviously way too expensive to be viable) some bad stuff would still get through due to mistakes or laziness. Without at least some form of Section 230, the internet as we know it cannot exist.
I remap the screen escape key to Shift-Ctrl-^:

escape ^^^
One of the most famous indie games riffing on Sokoban and playing with expectations for its gameplay is the delightful Baba Is You.[0]

If you're interested in trying to make your own variations on Sokoban-like games, PuzzleScript[1] is tailor-made for the task, with a fascinating declarative approach to describing game rules.

A Sokoban-like game can also be an excellent way to familiarize yourself with a new game engine or graphics toolkit. My own project, Decker, includes a very short Sokoban to demonstrate how one might make turn-based tile-oriented games.[2]

[0] https://www.hempuli.com/baba/

[1] https://www.puzzlescript.net

[2] http://beyondloom.com/decker/goofs/sokoban.html
UK law is extremely loosely defined. Judges are ultimately responsible for its interpretation, which they do relatively literally - so as long as the police and CPS bring a case there's a good chance you've fallen foul of the law, subjectively - which is how they are written. E.g malicious communications act.
Has anyone measured the performance of very large context windows like this vs a good RAG that you also constantly update and curate?

At least with other very large context windows like for example Claude offers a RAG is still very much preferable as it avoids confusion and collisions with information in the context that isn’t correct or relevant.

Sure you can also prune the context window and for many existing models you also need to do that (I often use an LLM to summarize a context to keep it going) but doing it with a RAG seems to still be much easier. This especially holds true of you use good knowledge management techniques to structure your RAG so your retrievals are optimized.

P.S. on a side note how confident are we that these very large context window models are not just a RAG in disguise? As the models which boast very large windows are at least for now all locked behind API access only.
The US government can still basically yoink any ccTLD very very easily. It won't, but it could.
I think it's irrelevant if the cost of solar panels goes to zero, the reality is that the farm to fork cost/kwh is still quite high because dispatch and transmission are never cheap.

Furthermore, for every 1 pound of polysilicon produced...you get 4 pounds of silicon tetrachloride output.

I gambled on $UAN and $AMR guesstimating that the spread of renewables would lead to more nat gas and coal/steel consumption per a kilowatt hour produced globally. I got lucky and it worked out. I'm not bullish on solar costs going below the embodied energy cost of desal per 1000 gallons. (10-14kwh/1000 gallons)
I see a lot of commenters here holding up Brazil's actions to an American yardstick. If you want to do buisiness abroad you have to follow their rules and their norms. They may well have the legal right to revoke charters, size assetts or more in persuit of the collection of a fine. The Oglobo article makes clear they have violated the law. https://oglobo.globo.com/politica/noticia/2024/08/29/moraes-...
> the decoupling seems more likely to be from the transition from manufacturing and other energy heavy sectors to more services based economic activity

Put another way, instead of producing the products we consume, we offshore production (and the associated energy consumption)
Hah, I had something similar when travelling in Norway. The keyboard was almost identical but I think two keys were the other way round.

It took me far too long to work out why I kept miss-typing things.
Shufflecake allows this; a setup almost exactly the way you mention is on their homepage: https://shufflecake.net/

> In Shufflecake, each hidden volume is encrypted with a different secret key, scrambled across the empty space of an underlying existing storage medium, and indistinguishable from random noise when not decrypted. Even if the presence of the Shufflecake software itself cannot be hidden - and hence the presence of secret volumes is suspected - the number of volumes is also hidden. This allows a user to create a hierarchy of plausible deniability, where "most hidden" secret volumes are buried under "less hidden" decoy volumes, whose passwords can be surrendered under pressure.
What does “clunky” even mean in this context?
That's a very difficult question to answer - but I'd say, "no", especially for the younger grades.

Most of what's being taught is how to learn - and knowing how to teach is the hard part.
> how can potential recipients of benefits even know how or why they were denied to bring such lawsuits in the first place? Especially if they are forced into arbitration?

You get a letter in the mail, with a review of the decision they made. There is a section where they have to explain why they denied you. It is a direct, "We don't think you meet this criteria" statement.

Awful letters, imo.
Do you think they'll become good teachers when they're forced to be there against their will?
You don't buy it, you rent access to it. They want to market it as more of a service than a product.
> Starlink and X share a majority owner

Musk doesn’t own a majority of Starlink or SpaceX. (SpaceX owns Starlink. SpaceX is controlled by Musk. But he owns less than 50% of the shares.)
I don’t understand how anyone can push that “solution” with a straight face. Surely they have worked out the numbers and figured out it’s not realistic at all, right,…,right ?
Did you miss the part of the quote where he shares that Intel's cost estimate was wrong?

Also, after the magnitude of their error to get in at the ground floor sank in, Intel had no problems with selling x86 chips at a loss trying to break into mobile devices.

Remember their contra-revenue strategy?
Okay, thanks for that example. The ability of the pipe syntax to re-order the standard SQL pipeline order does indeed provide for more compact queries in this case.
Doesn't seem to have anything to do with personalization to me, either. It's about "editorial judgement," and an algorithm isn't necessarily a get out of jail free card unless the algorithm is completely transparent and user-adjustable.

I even think it would count if the only moderation you did on your Lionel model train site was to make sure that most of the conversation was about Lionel model trains, and that they be treated in a positive (or at least neutral) manner. That degree of moderation, for that purpose, would make you liable if you left illegal or tortious content up i.e. if you moderate, you're a moderator, and your first duty is legal.

If you're just a dumb pipe, however, you're a dumb pipe and get section 230.

I wonder how this works with recommendation algorithms, though, seeing as they're also trade secrets. Even when they're not dark and predatory (advertising related.) If one has a recommendation algo that makes better e.g. song recommendations, you don't want to have to share it. Would it be something you'd have to privately reveal to a government agency (like having to reveal the composition of your fracking fluid to the EPA, as an example), and they would judge whether or not it was "editorial" or not?

[edit: that being said, it would probably be very hard to break the law with a song recommendation algorithm. But I'm sure you could run afoul of some financial law still on the books about payola, etc.]
I felt like that was implied by the usage of AGPL: if Amazon wanted to start using this and apply patches on top of it, the AGPL would require that they share those patches with their customers, which would allow Elastic to integrate them into main again.
JetBrains Workspaces aims for benefits of monorepos without the downside
Self-Healing: Auto Remediation of Kubernetes Nodes
> But when Western companies load up their hardware with spyware and adware they are smart and savvy at business.

I have never met anybody (online or otherwise) that believes this.
Have they caught and arrested any would-be bad guys? Should be pretty easy to verify.
there's usually a long lag between a drop in the price of an input and the eventual impact on the price of the outputs, because part of the effect is mediated by the adoption of innovations that use more of the newly-cheaper inputs and less of the still-expensive inputs

to take one example, the last time we got access to a major new source of energy was something like watt's steam-engine in 01776. one of the effects of this was the widespread replacement of steel cans (which hadn't been invented in 01776) and glass bottles with aluminum cans in the 01970s, 200 years later. another was the replacement of travel by ship with travel by air, also about 200 years later. the delay is because many intermediating innovations were required, for example, in the aluminum-can case:

- the discovery of electrolysis;

- the discovery of aluminum;

- the discovery of canning;

- the hall–héroult process;

- improved aluminum alloys that permitted the use of 100μm-thick cans;

- the invention of deep drawing;

- epoxy liners that made aluminum cans chemically stable to acidic contents such as coca-cola;

- long-distance trucking which increased the cost imposed by heavier glass bottles.
> Is there enough room to have it control the ethernet port for another weaker or perhaps more powerful microcontroller?

Well there is a whole unused core and plenty of built in SRAM. Seems like a good way to have an open-source version of Wiznet chips [1]. It could support full protocol offloading like Wiznet's or a lower-level raw packet sender/receiver like the ENC424J600.

[1] https://docs.wiznet.io/Product/iEthernet
Also see this video essay on Thinking Rabbit and Hiroyuki Imabayashi (the author of Sokoban):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvEfSP-sRXI
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Not that it matters, but I was curious and so I looked it up: the three-judge panel comprised one Obama-appointed judge and two Trump-appointed judges.
There is a thing we call the universe and it does what universes do. What physics does is searching for models - mostly described in the language of mathematics - that describe the universe or parts of it. Some parts of the universe are well modelled by the Navier-Stokes equations, we also call those parts of the universe water [1]. But upon closer inspection one notices that description is not perfect, one can obtain a more accurate model if one treats the water bits of the universe as a collection of an enormous number of particles, water molecules. And we can keep going, treat molecules as collections of atom, break atoms into electrons and nucleons, split the nucleons into quarks and gluons, who knows how deep the rabbit hole goes.

Maybe we will even eventually find the ultimate model, a model that describes every aspect of the world perfectly, even though it is not obviously clear how we would determine that we did not miss some aspect of the universe in our models. But even then the map would not be the territory, the model would not be the universe or a piece of it. Imagine a wave function would perfectly describe an electron, would we be justified to say that an electron is a wave function? No, because for them to be the same thing, it is not sufficient that the wave function has all the properties of the electron, it would also have to have only the properties of the electron. But the wave function is an equation, I can write it down or square it, things I can most certainly not do with the electron.

So the wave function is of course only a mathematical description of a quantum system and not a real thing out there in the universe. But that is not the problem, the problem is that we have two seemingly contradictory descriptions of quantum systems. We have the Schrödinger equation describing the unitary evolution of isolated quantum systems and it works really well. But we also have the Born rule and the collapse postulate which tell us the probability distribution of measurement outcomes and how measurement changes the state into the measured Eigenstate, a non-unitary change, and this also works really well. But there is the problem, on the one hand a measurement - whatever that exactly is - seems to change the state non-unitarily but on the other hand a quantum system together with a measurement device is just a bigger quantum system and should therefore evolve unitarily. Something has to give.

As you say, that is very unsatisfying, but it was also not a complete roadblock, shut up and calculate worked pretty well. But I would not confidently declare that this does not hold us back at all, who knows what progress can be unlocked by solving the issue? It might of course also be mostly inconsequential but I guess that is something we will only find out after the fact.

[1] Or fluids if you want to be pedantic.
> Regarding analytics, I believe browsers should take user's side and do not cooperate with marketing companies

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40703546 - from 2 months ago
Open source, again … for now.
> If I sell you ElasticSearch(tm) Service which is the actual ES code base, what’s the infringement?

A reasonable consumer or customer might be confused into thinking a service named ElasticSearch(tm) Service is being provided by the company behind ElasticSearch. This confusion is exactly what trademarks rather than copyrights are meant to prevent.

The trademark law doctrine of nominative fair use allows you to describe your product as a hosted version of the ElasticSearch codebase, which provides the substance of the right you were describing, and it's also why you can describe the Toyota car you're selling as a Toyota, both without needing permission from a rights holder.

In the car case, you can also reference the product by name as a Toyota product because it is the same product Toyota sold, just being resold by you. But in the hosted service case, you're not reselling the same service as Elastic does; you're offering your own independent version of the service, backed by their technology. To prevent unwarranted damage to Elastic's reputation from any weaknesses in your service's reliability, customer support, or other factors, trademark law doesn't let you call your service ElasticSearch Service without their permission.

This works similarly for lots of software products and services, even other free and open source software projects. Debian has a trademark policy and exercises oversight of modified / derived / integrated versions shipped by the major public cloud providers to make sure that it's consistent enough with Debian's software freedom values, expected functionality, and quality standards to be called Debian, using trademark rights as the way they have that leverage.

At the same time, the cloud providers do not need trademark permission from Debian to redistribute unmodified official Debian images under the name Debian, or to derive from them without using Debian in the product name. (As with the ElasticSearch example, they can still use the word Debian in a fair and accurate way when describing the nature of any derived product they make without trademark permission.)
What? That's a clause with almost every UK contract I've ever signed. The US constitution doesn't touch on employment rights.

Id also point out that the UK is generally an extremely poor country, living standards for the majority are low, income is extremely low after taxes, especially compared to the states.

Britain compares itself unfavourably to the US on almost every metric that matters.
Nice, maybe they can hire some humans to write more explanatory website text, documentation, pricing information—better yet, anything on their website.

Elastic.co is the #1 example we use with our clients when we want to show how 'vague websites make you lose clients.' We show them the website and ask, 'What do you think of this company?' and 'What do you think they are providing as a service?' Not a single client, including tech-savvy ones, has been able to answer.

Elastic.co is probably one of the worst websites that somehow gained popularity despite its crappy pricing model and support. Their documentation assumes you already know everything about their weirdly vague services and have in-depth knowledge of server infrastructures.

To anyone who works for them: If you're reading this, know that your website is so terrible that it became our first example of a crappy company.
If "a body cam captured every word" is info that is released, and/or considered information that can be shared as evidence in a court of law and then not discredited as some kind of emotional utterance. Maybe.

I suppose my point is, its never quite that simple and it never seems to work out in favor of the citizen.

Who is going to fund the dispersement of AI to all of these cops, whose budgets btw have drastically increased? Citizens.
citation: https://abcnews.go.com/US/defunding-claims-police-funding-in...

Who pays for the lawsuits when they mess up? Mostly, overwhelmingly, citizens. Both for their defense + win and for their defense + loss of the case

What is the real impact of a force that in the early aughts literally shot its own citizens during Katrina? That at the UCs were quelling protests in the most destructive ways possible (also costing citizens). Unclear to me.
citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danziger_Bridge_shootings
citation: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-07-18/uc-unvei...

I want cops as an idea to work. I have no interest in 'defending my land' or whatever. But the way it is now, plus AI? - no thank you.
Better / worse for whom?

Given the nature of these systems, this 1 person likely made the day to day lives of a lot of people better, providing an (arguably) snappier web interface to existing systems.

Granted, they've probably made someone's day a lot worse with this discovery, but..
That and banking enough to cover the warranty for the next 30 years. Lots of early solar systems had reliability issues, especially the inverters, that make them expensive to maintain.
Big props for ARIA attributes - they’re so crucial for differently abled and impaired users. I’ve been combing through our project’s components lately to bring them up to design spec and have been taking a look at our accessibility - it’s so important and so easily missable for most engineers.
Do you have any recent examples? It's more often I see websites that claim they don't work with firefox but actually do if you change your user agent.
It depends on the legal jurisdiction but in the US you're allowed to use a competitor's brand name/trademark specifically to inform your customers. E.g. "acetaminophen, the stuff that's in Tylenol". You can also use the competitor's brand colors.
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If teaching paid as well as being an accountant, or whatever expert occupation you have in mind, I think you’d find that many more experts would be open to teaching.
> evolve unitarily and do not destroy a superposition

Unitary evolution can destroy superposition of the small subsystem by introducing negligible amount of superposition into large system.
Elon gave up on panels, but Tesla batteries are still a big player in home and grid scale storage.
"It's not like I write software for a nuclear reactor, making a mistake will not kill anybody".
Stock is down almost 25% afterhours (not sure if due to this or their earnings call)
> Besides, I'd be shocked if that analogy is how the law works.

There's not really much actual law at work here, it's all civil matters.
It's not too expensive to get a large, refillable propane tank installed, and propane is cheap. I've got family members who do that and they live five miles away from the nearest Walmart. They have municipal power and well water, but don't have municipal gas service. They only have to fill the tank four times per year. I would likely do the same, for cooking, hot water, and heat (supplemented by a wood stove, which I'd have plenty of wood for as I cleared land for a house, garage, and solar panel field).
FWIW, wchar_t is guaranteed to be Unicode if __STDC_ISO_10646__ is defined, which is the case on Linux/glibc. It's too bad that other platforms are lagging behind on this - there's really no good reason to not guarantee this in 2024. Windows at least has the excuse of having wchar_t be 16-bit which they can't change for legacy compat reasons, but that doesn't explain why e.g. FreeBSD isn't there yet.
Yes. There were a ton of them for various categories of sex drawings, mostly in the style common in Japanese comics and cartoons.
I'd like to take this moment to thank the European Union for our human rights /s
You know, there a lot of negative comments here but I found this post to be enlightening, so thank you.

This YT video explains how this simulation could be useful to the startup community:

https://youtu.be/pdWS-ZJ3K8Y?feature=shared
From the post:

> A subset of C kernel developers just seem determined to make the lives of the Rust maintainers as difficult as possible. They don't see Rust as having value and would rather it just goes away.

> When I tried to upstream the DRM abstractions last year, that all was blocked on basic support for the concept of a "Device" in Rust. Even just a stub wrapper for struct device would be enough.

> That simple concept only recently finally got merged, over one year later.
Not only reminds of "Punctuation Saves Lives!" (Let's eat, kids) but also this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFeVfwDvTyM
I feel for both sides here. If the fellowship was supposed to be a short term rotating program it makes sense that they might want to return to it. A rotating program will give more people opportunities and help keep fresh perspectives in the program

On the other hand losing your job always sucks. I hope the people affected by the layoff get back on their feet soon and can keep creating great art.
Some bacteria fight phages by assembling a gene not in their normal genome
Yeah but they're not just removing spam and porn. They're picking out things that makes them money even if it harms people. That was never in the spirit of the law
Doesn't that quote support the judge's position, though? X is being treated just like all other citizens. The page you linked also states "no one is above the law," so I'm sincerely not sure who we're talking about here.
> Furthermore, for every 1 pound of polysilicon produced...you get 4 pounds of silicon tetrachloride output.

SiCl4 can (and should) be completely recycled in the process that makes silicon, to make more SiHCl3. There is no reason to treat it as waste in a cost optimized system.