skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate the detailed response. I am aware of the information theoretic definition, and I get that this definition is rejected or controversial. From the wiki you cited,

> Another interpretation is given by communication theorists Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver, who characterize communication as a transmission of information brought about by the interaction of several components, such as a source, a message, an encoder, a channel, a decoder, and a receiver.[17] *The transmission view is rejected by transactional and constitutive views, which hold that communication is not just about the transmission of information but also about the creation of meaning.* (emphasis mine)

I’ll go one step further and say that I don’t think the Shannon definition of communication applies to physical responses to external stimuli (reflexive knee response, signals produced by plants when cut), or signals produced by chemical reactions (light given off the stars or suns).

Induced reactions or chemical changes are not communication per se because the meaning of the transmitted signal would not exist without an observer as there’s no internal mechanism which creates the signal without the observer.

In cell to cell communication, for example, a cell will create signals without the existence of another cell to interpret those signals. If a second cell picks up those signals, then it’s receiving communication. If however the second cell produces a stimulus to invoke a response from the first cell, the signal received would not have existed without the observer. In this sense, I think communication depends on the ability to transmit information without the provocation of observers or receivers, which is especially meaningful for biological systems because the signals they convey determine their survival.

By simply existing does not mean something is communicating (sun or stars), and reacting to external stimuli does not represent communication per se, only signaling.
Ok, then I would be very surprised (positively) if it weren't overturned by SCOTUS (if it goes that far).
> Is the issue that there are other creditors who are unhappy with this, who would get paid before the aggrieved families' damages would? The lawyers seem to be fine with it, as they're the ones advocating for this plan...

Nope. Under the rejected deal, other creditors would have seen a larger payout, because aggrieved families are actual two separate groups. One with a claim near a billion dollars, and other with a claim of only a few million (I think, it may be less).

As a result the aggrieved families with the larger claim were set to basically hoover up all the cash from the bankruptcy, and the deal with the Onion was to create a better deal for the other families by having the larger claim reduced to allow a fair split of the total cash raised.
Google's Willow Breakthrough
> I wonder how you feel about Turkey's plans to remigrate Syrian refugees back to Syria now that Assad has been deposed.

Forcibly relocating entirely ethnic minorities? Yeah, that tracks.
Can't we let prediction markets solve the weather forecasting problem?
you reference "numerous studies" while sharing none of them and instead post the LD50 of fructose? you can't be serious. With that logic, everything is poison and you aren't making any point at all.
Wouldn’t hetzner bare metal allow you to do that an order of magnitude cheaper ??
This is from a model from 2019! Published now on nature. Imagine what they are cooking now.
This is impressive. I'm working in an adjacent space and one thing that has been a challenge is character consistency -- having characters in AI-generated art appear reasonably similar across different image generations. Your implementation looks to do a solid job -- any learnings that you're willing to share?
For what it’s worth, Scott spent the last few years working for OpenAI because he wanted to do something much more applied than quantum information theory. As an applied scientist I’m aghast: he’s one of the few people who actually gets to “touch the firmament of the Universe,” why would you ever give that up for mere applied science (even science as interesting as whatever goes on inside OpenAI) :) But as a human being I understand it. The grass is always greener somewhere else, and doing tangible things is sometimes more fun.

TL;DR: whatever you’re doing, there’s probably someone who wishes they were doing it instead.
Could Elon or a billionaire friend of his buy it, at a slightly higher price than the Onion offered, and then employ Alex Jones as a host?

InfoWars is worth nothing if not for Alex Jones right. So if you want to maximize value, you need to somehow keep him around to serve his audience.
> What if the objects are non-NULL, but invalid (not actually allocated)?

Still UB, since they're restricted pointers that must be valid to begin with.
Ask HN: TwelveLabs Alternatives
Hello Community,

I am tinkering with video applications like searching for a particular moment in a video based on audio/video description, creating shorts from long video based on text etc.

My questions are:
1. How are people using TwelveLabs apis (https://www.twelvelabs.io)
2. What real world applications do you see?
3. Are there good open-source alternatives?
4. Is there any reason that OpenAI or others would directly eat into share of TwelveLabs or both would continue to exist?
Show HN: I built a simple app to create PDF invoice
Hey HN,

I had to create many invoices recently, it was pretty annoying doing the same things over and over.

So i created this small tool that work well to create invoice and save them as template for re-usage. the ui is very easy and simple.

I hope this tool will be helpful to you as it it to me. ps: you can move around without account

Dorian
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37982495#:~:text=%3E%20....
any word on this coming out in pdf? thats the version I strongly prefer for my ebooks
I don't think he claims to be a corporation here.

What he says is that, because wordpress[dot]org is his personal site, telling him what to do with it would violate his First Amendment rights.
>Alex Jones's vitamin company offered 2x more cash

Yes, but shouldn't that already be due to the victims?

This is worse for the victims, because rather than getting that money, and future revenue, they just get that money.

And this all ignores the harm to the victims, of giving Jones control of Infowars again.

They aren't ever going to see all of this $1.5B. I doubt most even want all that money, what they probably want is for Jones not to be able to keep his mouth piece.
Of course he doesn't :)
You Are Already Using WASM in Production
I wish there were 4k/hd resolutions of these
Where I work, it is quite normal to link together C code compiled with GCC and Rust code compiled with LLVM, due to how the build system is set up.

As far as I know that disables LTO, but the build system is so complex, and the C code so large, that nobody bothers switching the C side to Clang/LLVM as well.
Is the implication is that genes don’t influence culture?
Ah I understand, that is an interesting use case. Currently the only searchable keywords are tagged on the job listings upon creation, but I can see if these keywords come up often enough to make tags for them. I'm not familiar with those Google products. Appreciate the comment
There have definitely been problems post covid in the UK - a huge increase in mental health issues for a start, and a definite effect on academic achievement (exams were made easier for a few years afterwards to offset it). IMO it accelerated existing deterioration rather than doing anything new, but it did have an effect.

The government certainly seems teachers as babysitters to some extent. There has been a push for more time in school, from having breakfast at school to more after school activities. More parenting being taken on by schools (I just read about "supervised toothbrushing" in schools on .gov.uk).

How well schools coped with it varied too. My older daughter's school (a well funded sixth form college) had relatively good IT, enough laptops to give them to kids who did not have computers at home, headsets and cameras for teachers etc. My younger daughter was home educated so it was easier to adapt but she still missed out on quite a lot of things, or had to do them online instead of in person and while she came out of it OK, its must have done some harm.
wlonkly on Oct 24, 2023 | root | parent | next [–]

The article talks about the specification and it's more... specific than that:
> “In 1973, the government mandated through a cabinet order that traffic lights use the bluest shade of green possible—still technically green, but noticeably blue enough to justifiably continue using the ao nomenclature,” Allan Richarz writes for Atlas Obscura

https://www.rd.com/article/heres-japan-blue-traffic-lights/
Very curious as to the typical strategy for implementing low power modes on things that are highly latency sensitive like a decoder.

Like would whatever mechanism they’ve got behave well if fetches were alternating between cache hits and cache misses?
You don’t need to write boilerplate code to check that. If you use a strongly typed language like Python, you know it will throw an exception if the input is not number-like.

Have you often written this type of test? What value do you feel it have given you??
Apple Intelligence now features Image Playground, Genmoji, and more
Interesting, I'm in the industry and secured lines of credit, and insurance is definitely viable alternative revenue generators for a userbase like this and actually dovetail nicely. Wishing you all the best.
Is this some kind of joke I'm not getting?

Prison and fines are punishments, having to pay damages is not. When you can't afford to pay your debts, bankruptcy is not a punishment, it's a process to clear out the debts so both debtor and creditors can move on.

Punishment regulates the relation between a person and the state and is a part of criminal law, paying damages is part of civil law.
Alex is doing some great work.
I don't think USA's wokeism has anything to do with communism/socialism.
Why should it matter anyway if its short or long when it will abruptly end as if it never existed
But the thread says, “When reached, they could not explain the reason for the cancellation:
Them: - We sent you an email.
Us : -We did not receive it, can you please resend?
Them: - We can't”

Was that on a phone call? Because if not, surely there is some record?
Piracy Shield Blacks Out Tech News Site by Blocking Another CDN IP
it very much was a case of FAFO. he lost the case by repeatedly skipping his deposition (once with a fake doctor's note), and by refusing to participate in the discovery process. them during the damages trial, he repeatedly lied on the stand in obvious ways, and also went on air repeatedly while the trial was ongoing to call the judge and jury insane, on drugs, etc. the trial strategy of loudly and repeatedly defaming the jury turns out to be a bad one since it does a very good job explaining to the jury just how awful being a target of Jones was.
Happy 400th birthday to the oldest bond
Any chance there's an android app planned?

Also, wondering if an edge extension is in the works too. Most chrome extensions work directly on edge but some don't.
Maybe we should get rid of "abstract machine" and treat pointers as memory addresses?
> I think wordpress had every right to cut WPEngine off

Even though wordpress.org is built/maintained by volunteers such as WPEngine who were all told it's a "community asset", "nobody owns it but wordpress", "it's maintained by the foundation".

Volunteers who now find out from court documents that wordpress.org is the personal website of Matt who can do whatever he wants with it?

Volunteers who are now banned from the thing they helped build for simply voicing disagreement with actions which are accepted by most as extreme/unwarranted?

Even volunteers who work on WordPress (not w.org), who built in to the Core reliance on w.org infrastructure after being lied to that it's owned by the Foundation.

I think in this specific case, they have absolutely no right and the injunction supports that.
A matter of taste, both are fine grammatically. The verb "to do" isn't obligatory to form the present tense.
No. The big automakers are abandoning this idea. Why? Because they don't see a path to profit. They've been at this for 120+ years. Their judgment is probably better than some ads company with an automotive side project.
What he did was beyond mere defamation. It was heinous, it was blatant and deliberate dishonesty, and targeted vulnerable victims.

Repeating the verifiable lie that the Sandy Hook incident did not happen, and promoting violence against the surviving families, despite repeated opportunities to stop without penalty, is beyond forgivable.

And this penalty is because he declined to defend this behavior. Remember, it's a default judgement.

The conditioning to the public is that this behavior is not tolerated in a civil society, no matter what your political leanings. Him losing his "intellectual property", but not his voice, is getting off lightly.
> "Release a gorilla wearing a human costume at the gorilla costume contest"

Absolutely brilliant, 2 billion $ idea at least :)
GNUnet 0.23.0 Released
It is possible and if it's true it means school system is awful, since it's up to the parents to do the teaching.
That was Blackwater ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_(company) ), no relation.
> The right to free speech doesn’t mean you can say literally anything without consequences. If you’re a deliberate liar who provably lies to profit and harm others, you can and should be punished.

Right, and how do you obtain that "proof of deliberateness"? Or measure that non-physical harm in a way that doesn't give power to people who just don't like what you're saying (possibly the truth)?

Most people in favour of free speech already know about libel and defamation, you're just trying to muddy the waters here.
He recklessly caused a lot of pain to families that already suffered a horrific tragedy, and profited from the attention by being (almost literally) a snake-oil salesman. He deserves a large punishment.
I LOVE IT!!!!!
OwlEars: Feedback from Your Employees and Customers
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Concur. A Toyota salesperson was once unable to tell me what the highest trim level of a Highlander was and how it differed from the model they had. Seen staggering lack of knowledge in all things, not just tech.
Magnet and charter schools have a lot in common. You could look at state charter school statutes as encouraging school districts to be proactive about setting up academy model and magnet schools.
Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1276/ in spite it doesn't have the ISS.

The projection from the center of the Earth is 109m/(6380+408)Km*6380Km = 102m (336ft), similar to the projection of Neptune.

But the angular size in your eyes maped to the Earth surface is 109m/408Km*6380Km = 1.7Km (1.0 mi) similar to the projection of Jupiter.

For objects that are far enough both calculations are equivalent, but for the size in a photo I think the second is the relevant one.
PHP sucks too
-For those without direct access to an LLM, Budibase AI offers an alternative, powered by ChatGPT

Is this always on or can it be opted out of? What if you don't want your data exposed to chatgpt
Here it's more that it allows to assume that this is never the case, thus no need to have an additional check in it I assume ?
Its not what the public think of 'self driving'. Its not like you can tell the autopilot where you want to go and then sit back, sleep, turn around, do something else. You have to monitor it.

So you are basically paying to take legal responsibility for the crashes of a not-quite-ready autopilot whilst still having to keep alert.

The moment there is a true self-driving capability, where you can sit back and let the car drive even if you're not sober etc, then it would be wildly popular.
Congratulations, you've invented an entirely new language.

Now, who's going to write the compiler for it?
Thanks for writing this up!!!

I just wondered about the following (unrelated) triggered by this:
Am I entitled under GDPR to get the internal writeups on my interview performance when I interviewed at a company? Does it matter whether I am in the EU but interview at a US company?
>The way I see it, anti-Communist paranoia

Ironically, the anti-communist paranoia is also what brought a lot of rights and perks to workers in the US and Europe.

The ruling elite had to concede some demands to the working class to prevent the read scare from spreading.

Now that threat is gone, we're seeing a claw-back (defanging unions, etc).
This is what is in front of our eyes: https://www.templetons.com/brad/robocars/timeline.html

Maybe yours see something different.
I built https://runjs.app because I wanted an easy way to run JavaScript and test out ideas.
It turned out that a lot of other people wanted the same thing.

The first version was free and very basic. After getting a lot of suggestions and feedback from the people using it, I added more features and introduced a freemium pricing model.
> This is dangerously close to making the penalty the loss of his first amendment rights.

They'll never be able to stop him from creating "The Alex Jones Off the Deep End Show" where he thrills listeners with zany tales of conspiracies that can only be held at bay with these brand new supplements. He just has to forfeit Infowars and its assets.
It makes no difference. The question is if a Greek customer would buy a subbed movie from Lithuania for example.
> It is very hard to fight this

Finland solution was to ban all private education. Once rich kids were forced to go to public schools, then suddenly education became a larger part of the gov budget, those parents spent more time asking for reforms, volunteering etc.

They have one of the best performant school systems in the planet. And all it takes is not allowing a percentage of the population think of education as optional
Claude thinks I am entitled to- but CISNAL (Claude is not a lawyer)
When you say "what was available" do you mean what a Tesla was capable of? Because I was trying to talk about things like Cruise driving for 90min at night in a city with no intervention: https://youtu.be/KSRPmng1cmA
> Charter schools where I live are required to educate every child. Admissions is via lottery. Is that not the case where you live?

Here they’re required to educate BUT they can do a lot to deter expensive students. If they don’t have support staff, kids with special needs won’t apply. If they require a test to advance grades, those kids will leave. If they require lots of homework, anyone without a nanny or stay-at-home parent and lots of support will leave.

My wife used to teach at one of those schools and it followed an arc over a decade where they started claiming they were cheaper but once they added the legally required support staff they were only cheaper to the extent that they paid their staff less by hiring young teachers and burning them out before they got old enough to expect better pay or have major health insurance expenses.

That is basically the arc of every charter school: every few years you’ll hear about someone doing miracles on a tight budget, but over time it’ll either disappear as regression to the mean sets in or turn out to be some form of selection to avoid expensive children. There just isn’t one weird trick an entire profession has somehow missed.
The damages seem excessive to me. If he were the shooter, it would be justified, but he was not. I'm surprised the appellate court upheld it. Don't get me wrong, what Jones did was pretty horrible, especially after having just lost their kids right before Christmas. The presents were still under the tree. I couldn't imagine, but he wasn't the shooter.

If it stands, it would also set a pretty bad precedent. Trump could sue MSNBC for $1B for their RussiaGate reporting. Gaetz could sue ABC for $1B their View reporting, etc. They would be effectively shut down.

Or maybe it would be good. It would force news organizations to not be so sloppy.
Because you can verify it part of the way there.

The point is to ensure that researchers are actually doing what they think they are doing and not deluding themselves. Its not meant to prevent outright fraud.
How much did AWS and those contribute until they got locked out of using Redis? That's what's interesting. That they now have to sponsor an alternative isn't exactly surprising.
I have absolutely not shifted a goal post. What I believe is immaterial, what's important is that the companies that really know this industry are behaving as if there's no future in robotaxis. That should give you pause.
Why is this article so longwinded? I understand that there are nuances to every subject but does the article it give clear solutions if one is 'debanked'?
I’ve had a Yukon with supercruise for 18 months. It is fantastic for highway driving, particularly, we’ve driven it west from Tennessee to Colorado and Florida. Other comments claiming it’s the same as other standard driver-assist packages are incorrect. Totally hands free, no “ping pong” with the lanes.

That said, when trying to BUY a supercruise vehicle, the sales guys were clueless, I had to review the stat sheets of each car to see which ones did or did not have it. GM is treating this technology as “surveys say 2% of the market wants a self driving vehicle” (incorrect question) compared to “install on every vehicle as an available subscription, let the sales team earn their way.” I’m sure the tech is expensive, but it can’t be that much more at the OEM level.

I also have a Tesla with FSD. FSD is truly amazing but still struggles with edge cases like, my office has two entrances, one is blocked by barrels, it tries to turn into the barrels every time.
Jones repeatedly violated court orders, withheld subpoenaed documents, ignored depositions, and disrupted the trial every chance he got, and so received a default judgement. I don't know where you heard the line about YouTube ad revenue but that's got nothing to do with nothing. Everything that happened was his own fault. He was extended plenty of leeway and he blew every last bit of it. If he thought the amount of money was unreasonable, he should have showed up to the trial and said so without doing fifty things worth being held in contempt of court for.
As someone that spend most of school except for the last year in my hometown's low ranking one I cannot compreheend why you would integrate problematic kids like that.

I was doing my best, but with others' constant attention seeking behaviour (shouting, interrupting the teacher, and other more insane things) it was impossible for the teacher to teach and me to concentrate.

If it wasn't for my last year at a private school I wouldn't be where I am now.

I understand they want to create an environment where the kids may feel guilty or something else, but the problem isn't with who they're with in school, most likely. And by problem I mean the CORE problem. That is in most cases a deep issue at home.
While not a first class solution, the EPUB version of the book converts to PDF fairly well (I'm not noticing anything wrong). There are plenty of tools to do so.