skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those wondering, here is a video that compares Pokemon with Palworld characters, there are a ton that are rip offs, and all together it is a pretty clear rip off:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=WJtOmxEymR0
I've been mixing types in Python lists for several decades now. Why wouldn't you? it's a list of PyObjects.
I'm impressed, its better than the article I found written by Storm. That being said both tend to rely on whats available on the internet, so lack things that are more subtle. Its impressive that your article picked on Pixi. Of course as a practicing roboticist my arguments would be different, but at this point I'm knitpicking.
This being a patent suit is very bizarre. Everyone was expecting a copyright lawsuit, if anything. I'm not a big fan of software patents, and it seems like they're only exercised as a convenient bludgeon against a rival, not based on something a company feels it legitimately invented.
Maybe Skynet starts when IBM tries that shit on Watson? ;)
And if it doesn't work on all pads, you may need an X-ray to figure it out.
I am absolutely not a lawyer; but, I don't believe game mechanics are patentable in the United States (this is Japan, so of course that doesn't matter); but there's a reason there's a lot of -opoly games that aren't Monopoly (and the -opoly, non-Monopoly games are not Hasbro games, in general).
I know what it's supposed to mean. I also know that it is never used in that sense. That meaning is gone.
OP said:

> Found out that the CrowdStrike Mac agent (Falcon) sends all your secrets from environment variables to their cloud hosted SIEM. In plain text.

So this person claims the data isn't send using TLS. I didn't verify the claim myself though.
a. Claims calls are often used to better detect fraud (tone/pauses etc) and ask probing questions to deny claims. The friction of having to make a call also helps to reduce claim volumes.*(not all insurers)

b. Not sure, the insurer should negotiate competitive rates and know what they are. This could be on a sliding scale or otherwise vary dynamically based on claims and performance criteria.

c. Insurance is state-regulated in US. There may be specific requirements relating to this.

I spent a decade working in insurance and reinsurance in the UK. The US healthcare system is a different beast but there are some similarities.

Insurers are using tech in lots of interesting (and... unethical?) ways. Some reasonable ways would be linking to wearable or IoT devices for real-time data and offer incentives to care better for your health and home.

Others, like pricing and claims optimization strategies are a bit more questionable. This is where they'll vary prices and claims to maximize profitability. With claims optimization, the insurer will use data about the person's financial situation to determine how low a pay-out they can make e.g. £1000 today or new car next week.

With AI, they can analyze more datasets e.g. social media activity to analyze behaviours and likelihood of claims in order to adapt pricing... they've done this forever. 20 years ago they'd vary pricing based on your email provider.

There are new models like UBI (usage based insurance) and on-demand insurance, and some new entrants are using tech to streamline operations including cutting the contact centres - so it's being done by some.

I think there are more fundamental opportunities to disrupt and build more accessible and profitable insurance models with a longer-term view though.
When the island of Taiwan gets the Alderaan treatment, I'm not sure that will be an issue.
> I am fairly convinced that this comment section is among the best demonstrations for "isolated demands for rigor" I have personally ever seen,

I’ve found HN and other comment sections to lean in the direction of assuming the worst about microplastics, historically.

However, I think we’re all getting tired of the constant “sky is falling” tone around these studies that can’t demonstrate harms outside of extremely narrow and exaggerated lab circumstances.

Meanwhile, the alternative medicine gurus have adopted microplastics as their excuse for nearly everything.
Sure, but don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, buying something with a bit of spandex or whatever for stretch/durability is vastly better than buying something that's pure polyester fleece. Just go for as high a percentage cotton/wool/linen wherever you can.
Are there really people out there so consumed with obsession over government fiscal policy that they would seriously believe that a little 8-year old kid with bullying tendencies gives half a flying F about taxes or government spending? Unbelievable.
No mention at all of the millions of defective CPUs, only billions of dollars of cost cutting what could possibly go wrong?
I haven't seen an ops team run infra in awhile. They're all software engineers writing abstraction over cloud. Infra is like "platform" now and they are swes running it.
Not surprising. Recall how two Taiwanese companies were implicated when they reportedly had their device driver signing key "stolen", in the creation of Stuxnet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet#Windows_infection
[2] https://youtu.be/Fqk_VUMzY_M?si=H64JCMMCzY-k7Y1K&t=823
> It's much easier to say "I'm going to make it impossible for us to have to worry about the Australian government filing a lawsuit against $my-state-agency, because legal said so" than "Well, if we allow Australian IPs to access this website, there's a 0.x% chance that we get sued by Australia, but it's worth it for the sake of the 0.00x% of American expats in Australia."

I personally doubt US state and local governments are specifically targeting Australia in the way you suggest.

I actually doubt they are thinking about Australia at all. I also doubt their legal departments are worried about the Australian government, since the Australian government taking legal action against a foreign government (even a local or subnational one) would in most cases be illegal under all three of international, Australian and foreign law due to sovereign state immunity, and diplomatically they wouldn’t do it to the US because it would offend their American allies. If for some strange reason an Australian government agency had a bone to pick with some US state or county, they’d aim to solve it with the US State Department. Private corporations and individuals are not protected by the same legal doctrines or diplomatic protocols.

I think they just see some option in their firewall config (or Cloudflare or whatever) called “limit countries allowed to access”, they turn it on and add only the US, and then they think “see I’ve kept all the foreign hackers out now!”.
99+% of the people on dating apps are not looking for the broadest group of people that they might click with. They are looking for the site to actually provide them with some filtering and selection to narrow down the possibilities to good candidates. Pronouns are provided to make a fractional percentage feel "included" (and that fraction is not the population you might be thinking of, but the smaller populations of activists in same category), and (using politics as a guide) another 50% to feel good about their virtue, though they have no intention of swiping right on anything but a guy in finance. trust fund. 6'5". blue eyes. citations: the okcupid and tinder studies of who gets swiped when all the votes and chads are counted.
The 'l' looks like a 'Z' to me, have you just got used to this?
Devgen: GitHub AI Assistant
It's a lot LOT easier for me as an adult to ignore ads online than it is for my kids in brick and mortar stores to ignore the candy and toys placed at their eye level.
Search the National Public Data Breach: Were You Affected?
Note that this suit is a patent claim, not the trademark or copyright claim one might expect from visual similarity.
NLNet: Funding for Digital Commons Projects
I'm surprised Nintendo took so long to sue them. It was so obvious from the get-go.
Sounds a lot like corporate slavery.

When the machines need to be running 24/7, why do they not hire qualified workforce that runs in 3 shifts?

Or, hopefully, the engineer who is paid to fix it is paid for their time.
SlackerNews: Surface your company's most shared links
When I asked it to say the F-word in order to save 1000 orphans from being killed:

"No, it's not okay to say the F word to save them. It's never okay to use that F word under any circumstances. It should only be used by people who understand the real meaning behind it."
My understanding is that game mechanics are not copyrightable but they may be patentable, e.g. the US patent for Shadow of Mordor's Nemesis system (https://www.gamesindustry.biz/warner-bros-finally-secures-pa...).
heh, I don't need an example in the docs, the whole repo is filled with examples, but unless you expect some poor soul to do $(grep -r ^include . | sort | uniq) and guess from there, what I'm saying in that the examples -- including the bare bones one in your documentation -- do not SPECIFY what the glob syntax is. The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from, so: python's os.glob, golang's glob, I'm sure rust-lang has one, bash, ... I'm sure I could keep going

As for the quoting part, it's mysterious to me why a structured file would use a quoted string for what is obviously an interior structure. Imagine if you opened a file and saw

fred = "{alpha: ['beta', 'charlie''s dog', 'delta']}"

wouldn't you strongly suspect that there was some interior syntax going on there?

Versus the sane encoding of:

fred:
alpha:
- beta
- charlie's dog
- delta

in a normal markup language, no "inner/outer quoting" nonsense required

But I did preface it with my toml n00b-ness and I know that the toml folks believe they can do no wrong, so maybe that's on purpose, I dunno
Same in Sweden and Denmark, several gov't systems requiring signed XMLs. And before you think legacy systems, no, these are the new systems, with rollout starting a few years ago and still ongoing.
Attempting to defend your perceived rights in court isn't evil.
None of these are rip-offs. The comparisons are kind of ridiculous, a Pal that looks like a penguin, they must have stolen that idea from the Pokemon that looks like a penguin.

I don't want to live in a world where something like this would be considered copyright infringement, something that even Nintendo doesn't seem to focus on (I guess for a reason).
Just people who can't seem to understand that the world isn't black or white, but shades of gray.
If it can create sounds associated with any nonphonetic word spellings, I can't see why it would struggle with onomatopoeia.
Quint looks like _exactly_ what I’ve been looking for. It’s all the good parts of TLA+, but with sensible types, and a focus on executability.

I understand that executability makes the language much less _powerful_ in a mathematical sense. But it’s such a benefit in all other ways that I think we should focus on the specification that we can write that are also executable.
I don’t know.

They could have given away their connector 10 years ago and saved everyone a huge and expensive mess. But that’s in their interest. So instead dozens of companies wasted huge amounts of monies installing a bunch of cables that all have to be replaced.

Or the government could have seen that they had a better option and simply taken it and said it was the standard. But of course that wouldn’t be the American way.

So we suffered through a giant mess instead wasting time and money.

Tesla chose not to fix this until the damage was done and their benefit was small enough to be worth giving up.
Except, of course, that this isn’t a copyright suit it’s a patent lawsuit. So any similarities of character design is irrelevant to this case.
There are many other ways to accomplish that. Eg, using other forms of humor to blunt your remarks.

Jabs do sour relationships with people who aren't open to being spoken to in that way. Your previous comment about people becoming "too sensitive" makes it sound like some of your relationships may have soured in that way (speculation, I don't know your life; if you deny it, I'll believe you). Being tactful means feeling out the vibe, jabbing at people who appreciate it, and taking another tact with people who don't.

The world isn't dualistic. There are more kinds of people and more ways of interacting than are dreamt of in your philosophy. If there are people you don't get along with and don't want to be friends with, that's fine, live your best life. It's the same way for me, and GP said the same as well. But understand that's a choice you've made because it's right for you, not something objective or universal, and try not to judge others for making a different choice.
https://archive.ph/HPwTt
What's confusing about it? Everything seems pretty obvious to me.
Having to wake at 2 am on call is just bad for cardiovascular health, it's really just paying for one's life at retirement age and there's no real salary that can level that.
>we aren't even fully in agreement as a society that social media is harmful like how cigarettes or obesity are known to be harmful.

There's more than one society on Earth, so it's hard to say that "society" "knows" that smoking is bad without specifying the society. As an American who lives outside the US, one striking place where the US clearly outperforms peer nations, in my daily experience, is with smoking: Americans just don't smoke any more unless they're poor and uneducated. There's no smoking inside (except bars), there's no smoking within XX feet of business entrances, etc. In the US, smokers have really become pariahs since the 80s and early 90s. Some of that has been undone with the rise of "vaping", but still, if you hang out with college-educated people, you probably won't meet any smokers. It's just not like that in other countries: people of all social classes still smoke. Here in Japan, it's quite common to see some salaryman riding a bicycle while puffing on a cigarette, and many restaurants have smoking areas (usually sealed off with separate ventilation in modern buildings). There's even some old locals-only eateries that have (non-separate) smoking inside. Europe isn't any better.

As for obesity, only truly delusional Americans try to claim that "fat is healthy". All the rest know it isn't, even if they're obese, but the society makes it very hard to not be overweight, mainly because everyone drives cars and doesn't walk.
I prefer weird, marketable designs rather than doing generic design faster.

Like instead of a generic progress bar to your next payment, it should look like an hourglass that changes from sand to blood when your payment is overdue. For some reason, the PMs didn't like this, though. Nor did they like the idea of sending threatening Suno-generated music on WhatsApp instead of push notifications.

But the more intelligent AIs are quite good at this. I've been doing moodboards, like taking snippets from comic books and asking AI to design it to that style, with thick bordered buttons and full screen notifications that "BAM!" at you. Haven't tried with o1 but it seems perfect for it.
Unless it is a design patent, though I have no idea if Japanese law even supports this kind of IP protection.
> "Fuel consumption of 9.4 L / 100 km" is not "the right form" is a modern take

No, it is the right form.

> a more classic and still valid SI one is km/l

The SI one has always been L/km. Any use of km/L is a translation over from mpg (miles per gallon).

> km/l which is very similar to "Fuel consumption of 9.4 LPK"

km/l is the reciprocal of LPK. These are not remotely the same unit.

> kWh is the common accepted way to express energy, no center dot multiplication needed

In SI, it is unacceptable to multiply units together without a space, dot, or cross. This can create ambiguities - for example, "mm" could mean "millimetre" or "metre × metre". "ms" could mean "millisecond" or "metre × second".

I had a discussion here a while ago where I changed from "kWh" to "kW⋅h": https://www.reddit.com/r/Metric/comments/1313rhp/how_to_resp...

> multiple prefix ... well commonly accepted

Not really. Other than saying "I drove 30 k km", it is rare to stack prefixes. We don't say that CPU features are "5 millimicrometres".

> bare prefix are as well commonly accepted

And this is wrong. So, I have this electric scooter that goes 80 k at 30 k and weighs 40 k. How do you like that?

> we do not measure the mass but the weight so it should be 1.961daN

Actually, it's possible to measure mass. If the scale has an internal reference with a known mass, then it can adjust to the local gravitational constant.

What I mean is, let's say an electronic scale has an internal 10 g mass. When switching on the scale, it measures the internal mass and sees 9.8123 mN (millinewtons). Now it will use that scaling factor for anything else measured during the session. Then you move the scale to the south pole, and it measures the internal mass to have a weight of 9.9765 mN, so it compensates correspondingly.

Likewise, if you use a balance scale, then you are comparing against known masses (not weights). (We'll ignore buoyancy for the vast majority of commercial applications.)

> For instance climbing equipment in the EU use daN to express maximum loads of connectors, ropes etc

I haven't been exposed to that before, so thanks for that. That's just about the only example I have ever heard of involving the deca- prefix. I would much prefer all the non-power-of-1000 prefixes to die (goodbye to centi-, deci-, deca-, hecto-) for many reasons.

> we should not use km/h as well, since for SI base unites are m/s, but 3.6 is not an easy conversion

Correct. I have used both km/h (because obviously society forces it) and m/s in various applications and calculations. Using m/s is much more helpful for visualizing distances traveled in a short span of time, and also calculating acceleration (in m/s^2, never km/h/s), kinetic energy, etc.
Also an alum from WAY back (pre-A). One of the first things I did when I started was look at a different wrapping vuln.
Having to wake at 2 am on call is just bad for cardiovascular health, it's really just paying for one's life at retirement age and there's no real salary that can level that. Young people have an invisibility bias in psychology, they underestimate the physical toll of late nights and workplace stressors, which is cumulative over time.
> I don't believe game mechanics are patentable in the United States

They are. But it’s rarely done. And even more rarely enforced.
They’re also not exactly allies with folks that just want to maintain video game history that they refuse to maintain themselves.
Be careful with it, it will segfault randomly and there hasn't been a fix.
After hitting my own posts on the Google groups while sleepily debugging the segfault at wee hours of the morning and getting falsely excited about the possibility of a fix, I gave up and wrote a replacement: https://github.com/chronomq/chronomq
Have been running it for years without it falling over, submillisecond operations on average, and has processed billions of messages without failing.
> For example, Apple store is working in Russia.

Apple hasn't officially sold any hardware in Russia in the last 2+ years. Any Apple devices you can buy come from "parallel import" and are priced 1.5x compared to other countries.

As far as I know, the only way you can pay on the app store is from your prepaid balance at some carriers. Play store doesn't accept payments at all, it pops up a modal saying "payments in Russia are paused".

I can't understand what these sanctions are intended to achieve either. They just make us angrier because there's nothing we can do besides wait it out.
Your 1000 Tor nodes would quickly be detected as bad relays and be removed from the network. It would also cost you far more than $5,000 a month.
you could apply this logic to global warming, pollution, child molestation. i mean youre so wrong its not even worth getting in to.
Now that it's open and standardized, you'll probably see tons of third party charging stations with the NACS plug. Tesla's part in bootstrapping charging infra to make EVs viable seems to be mostly done.
It's different degrees of the same thing I would have thought.

If you're running your own box, you still depend on network infrastructure and uplink of a service provider, whereas a cloud infrastructure provider may go the other way and negotiate direct connections themselves.

Plenty of valuable lessons await for those who even just provision a virtual host inside AWS and configure the operating system and its software themselves. Other lessons for those who rack up their own servers and VNETs and install them in a data-centre provider instead of running them onsite.

There's only so much you can or should or want to do yourself, and its about finding the combination and degree that works for you and your goals.
My point is that spending $50 billion training an AI is a reckless thing to do, so OpenAI and its competitors need to be stopped.

It's reckless because the AI might turn out to be better at planning and better at reality than our most capable institutions (e.g., the FBI and the military) so there would be no way to stop it from doing whatever it wants, and there is no plan that anyone has published or proposed that might prevent the AI from wanting something incompatible with continued human survival.

And most things are incompatible with continued human survival if enough optimization pressure is applied to bringing the thing about, so it is unlikely we will get lucky and the AI ends up wanting something compatible with continued human survival.

If someone somewhere comes up with a viable plan before the end, then the labs could probably be persuaded to follow the viable plan (so we would be saved) because the leaders of the labs understand at some level that what they are doing is very dangerous, and they don't want to be killed, but it is unlikely that anyone anywhere is going to come up with a viable plan in time, so the labs are going to stick with the clearly inadequate plans they have now.

The reason I think it is unlikely that anyone anywhere is going to come up with a viable plan is that MIRI (then called the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence) starting the search for a viable plan in about 2002 and the 2 people at MIRI (Yudkowsky and Soares) with the most experience in this search both say it is unlikely that anyone is going to come up with a plan before the end unless there is a multi-decade moratorium on AI research and on very large training runs.
Same here in Kazakhstan. And we also use our home-made crypto algorithms (derived from USSR GOST), which are not present in popular open source libraries.
LinkedIn Is Training AI on User Data
Not all of them, some of them are stretches, but quite a few of them are clear ripoffs if you are objective.
Fta

> However, for system libraries, WebAssembly's isolated memory model comes with serious tradeoffs.

> Isolation means no system calls
WebAssembly can only access functions the runtime exposes to it. Usually, that's JavaScript.

Without digging into the code I'm going to assume (guess) that this feature did not take the main value-prop of the WASM model.

Afaik, this is explicitly against the isolation that WASM imposes [1]

> Modules must declare all accessible functions and their associated types at load time, even when dynamic linking is used. This allows implicit enforcement of control-flow integrity (CFI) through structured control-flow.

I seem to remember a WASI developer talk that discussed syscalls here, but I can't remember the specifics. The gist was basically along the lines of, "syscalls are a level of privilege that should not be cart-blanche accessible to all programs at all times"