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by frotaur | 2025-09-11 09:41:46+00:00
I don't know about golomb coding, but with Arithmetic coding you can do stream decoding(AC), if I remember correctly.

I supervised a student's project whose goal was exactly that : implement compression with LLMs using AC.

Since AC is optimal, if your LLM has an average cross entropy x on some dataset, you can expect that the compression will compress data using x nats per token on average!
by sersi | 2025-09-11 09:41:56+00:00
I disagree with you. Yes society evolved as a kid but I think nowadays we're going to see increased class division around screen use habits. Educated wealthy parents increasingly try to control screentime and teach their children how to manage it responsibly while uneducated parents or parents who are poor in time (because they need to have 2 jobs to feed their kids) will let their children have a lot more access to screens and won't help them form good habits. I think it's likely to seriously decrease upward mobility in the future.
by closewith | 2025-09-11 09:43:39+00:00
The Integrated Platform Management System (IPMS) on HING was state-of-the-art at the time, having been upgraded prior to the collision. The report found that the system operated as expected, but that the OOW had not been trained on its proper use and was not able to recognise the alarms.

Just like USS John S. McCain and USS Fitzgerald, until fully autonomous, the ships are only as good as their command and crews.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-09-11 09:44:24+00:00
People often started here:

https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/shared-librarie...

Getting into why the community argued for years while Debian brought up deb version controlled packaging is a long dramatic conversation. Some people liked their tar ball mystery binaries, and the .so library trend started more as a contest to see how much people could squeeze out of a resource constrained machine.

In a single unique application running context, the power of a cached .so reference count are less relevant. As a program built with .so may re-use many resources other programs or itself likely already loaded.

> ldd --verbose /usr/bin/bash

> ldd --verbose /usr/bin/cat

Containerization or sand-boxing is practically meaningless when punching holes for GPU, Network, media and HMI devices. Best of luck =3
by bmacho | 2025-09-11 09:45:42+00:00
Here's a userscript to apply it automatically, and show all the extra whitespaces people put in their comments. (There aren't many.)

// ==UserScript== // @name HN comments show whitespace // @description Changes HackerNews CSS to show comments with original whitesapaces // @match https://news.ycombinator.com/* // @run-at document-body // @grant none // ==/UserScript== // HN inserts a newline after <pre> so formatted code blocks have a whole newline after them // but we can remove that extra space with negative margin const HN_noformat_CSS_rule = ` div.commtext.c00 { white-space: pre-wrap !important; } div.commtext.c00 > pre { margin-bottom: -.25em !important; } `; let myStyleHolder = document.createElement('style'); myStyleHolder.textContent = HN_noformat_CSS_rule; document.head.appendChild(myStyleHolder);
by williamdclt | 2025-09-11 09:46:21+00:00
> I’m happier to stick to a cheap phone with a small screen to minimise the urge to use it (second-hand iPhone 13 Mini)

Me too, but this option is disappearing. As our minis reach end of life, I don't think we'll have other "small" options than foldables, unless you're willing to go for super niche android phones (eg unihertz)

Hopefully the foldables become more resilient by then
by inglor_cz | 2025-09-11 09:47:50+00:00
That too, but my experience was that a huge part of the problem was sheer ignorance.

When informed about those plans, most people actually react with some disgust. But the European Commission was really trying to be low-key around this, and the media usually jump on loud scandals first. Too few journalists are willing to poke around in the huge undercurrent of not-very-public issues and fish for some deadly denizens there.

More publicity definitely helped the freedom's cause here.
by alias_neo | 2025-09-11 09:48:16+00:00
I had waited forever for this to stop being a pre-order, like literal years, and by the time I gave up, I'd come to the conclusion that the keyboard layout would just be a nightmare and I wouldn't use it, think I made the right decision, even if I do look at it occasionally and think it looks like a really nice cyberdeck.

I've got big hands and I think the allure of pocketable full-keyboard devices is just not for me.
by ddxv | 2025-09-11 09:48:20+00:00
I compared AppGoblin's list of the top ~300 mobile app endpoints with a couple ad blocker lists and was surprised that about 30% of the endpoints I found were in neither and 66% weren't in each individual list.

I think the next step I have is to start checking which pieces of data (ie Device Information, Location or Advertising ID) were sent to the endpoints.

Sharing here if anyone is curious. All AppGoblin's code is open source, feel free to ping if you have questions.

https://github.com/ddxv/appgoblin

https://appgoblin.info
by potatoz2 | 2025-09-11 09:49:04+00:00
> Right now in Paris, when you have a newborn, the only mobility solution is to take an Uber if you need to go somewhere >1km from where you leave. Buses are very slow and crowded, the subway doesn't have elevators for strollers, cars are just inaccessible financially due to the war on surface parking space.

This is simply false. I just mapped it from place des Fêtes to place de la Catalogne and selected only wheelchair-accessible options (note that this trip is _not_ easy to do because it goes from one end of Paris to the other). Driving it's 15 km, 45 minutes, using the ring road; public transportation takes 47 minutes (48, RER B, 59/88). You’ll notice the same pattern for, e.g. Parc Monceau to Place d’Italie, a 9 km trip (30 minute drive at 11:47am on a weekday, 45 minutes on public transportation).

Buses are slow _because of cars_. Fewer cars means faster buses. The subway is inaccessible except for line 14, but RER A and B, all tramways, and of course buses are all accessible. You can also use a baby carrier.
by Hackbraten | 2025-09-11 09:49:57+00:00
I love the table of tortured phrases [0], which shows hilarious examples of synonyms of established scientific phrases, machine-generated by fraudulent authors to stay below the radar of plagiarism detectors.

My favorites from that table:

- “fuzzy logic” becomes “fluffy rationale”

- “spectral analysis” becomes “phantom examinations”

- “big data” becomes “enormous information”

[0]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.07257#table.3
by lproven | 2025-09-11 09:51:08+00:00
> Because Chrome OS is offered on low-cost laptops that are unsuitable for office work.

ChromeOS Flex exists, it is free of charge, and it runs on more or less any x86-64 computer, including Intel Macs.

Nordic Choice got hit with ransomeware and rather than paying, just reformatted most of its client PCs with ChromeOS Flex and kept going with cloud services.

https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/nordic...
by euLh7SM5HDFY | 2025-09-11 09:51:45+00:00
> that we should lower the speed limit until there are 0 deaths from vehicle accidents

We totally should. I mean it isn't even controversial idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_Zero . If we start with "all traffic related deaths are excessive" then trying to get rid of them in any way possible is only natural. Shame that 2nd amendment fans will be against any requirements for gun owners, event if they are similar to European commercial drivers tests.

Psychological test before buying a gun? What a heresy.
by contrarian1234 | 2025-09-11 09:52:16+00:00
I don't mean this in an antagonistic way, but has anyone clearly articulated a right to privacy in a clear succinct way? Unlike other human rights, the right to privacy has always been a bit fuzzy with a ton of exceptions and caveats

I just find it hard to imagine the right to privacy encoded in to law in a way that would block this. For instance there is a right to privacy in the US, but it's in a completely idiotic way. The 14th Amendment doesn't talk about privacy in any way, and it's some legal contortions and mental gymnastics that are upholding any right to privacy there.
by rjh29 | 2025-09-11 09:52:20+00:00
Samsung is no longer leading the pack for folding. They refuse to innovate; Fold 7 is almost identical to Fold 4. Cameras are sub-par and they removed pen support. Meanwhile Honor Magic V5 has pen support on both screens, top of the range cameras, silicon-carbide batteries, and is 4.1mm thick unfolded!
by potatoz2 | 2025-09-11 09:52:31+00:00
I live in outer Paris (19th) and have the exact same experience. I’ve taken strollers on the subway without an issue and people are eager to help you (it should be easier, of course, but it’s doable). I've also taken the bus, the tramway, the RER. These days I’ll carry my son (almost 2) or take a baby carrier to go faster on the subway.

Bus are slow because of cars.

I’ve never seen a drug addict on the subway (you do see homeless people though certainly).
by blensor | 2025-09-11 09:53:01+00:00
The Raspberry Pi is in dire need of a DP Alt mode USB C port. Those small portable devices would pair nicely with the current wave of Display/XR glasses but they all need Displayport via USB.

And while you can work around that with an adapter it takes away from the simplicity of just plugging in the glasses ( and most of them get quite hot too).
by GoToRO | 2025-09-11 09:53:31+00:00
Google took all their rules from years ago, and broke every single one of them. This was one of the rules: you can't advertize for keywords that include brands that are not yours. Now I was surprised that they will happily take the money, no matter what.

Also, ads must be cleary distinguished from the website content... not anymore Ads should not trick the user to click them (animating them so they expand over the content as the use tries to interact with it)... not anymore.

Basically, they are doing every single thing that the spammy websites were doing, 20 years ago. That also means that there is no more space to grow in the ads market.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-09-11 09:53:54+00:00
> These kinds of requirements betray a misunderstanding of what these LLMs are.

They do not. Refusing to bend your requirements to a system that can't satisfy them is not evidence of misunderstanding the system.

And if you tack on "with X 9s of reliability" then it is something LLMs can do. And in the real world every system has a reliability factor like that.
by robbomacrae | 2025-09-11 09:53:56+00:00
You absolutely can make a local MCP server! I use one as part of TalkiTo which runs one in the background and connects it to Claude Code at runtime so it looks like this:

talkito: http://127.0.0.1:8000/sse (SSE)

https://github.com/robdmac/talkito/blob/main/talkito/mcp.py

Admittedly that's not as straight forward as one might hope.

Also regarding this point "letting you easily connect to your own Agents SDK MCP servers deployed in their cloud" I hear roocode has a cool new remote connect to your local machine so you can interact with roocode on your desktop from any browser.
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by bell-cot | 2025-09-11 09:54:36+00:00
> William J. Bernstein, a neurologist and the author of The Delusions of Crowds, a book about the consequences of mass hysteria in history, expects the waves of political violence to eventually stop — but ...

A very good article, though obviously there are a lot of uncertainties.

Though - what does it say about the fields of Psychology and Sociology these days, that Politico picked a neurologist to be their expert?
by ta1243 | 2025-09-11 09:55:10+00:00
The only way to win the argument is to win the argument with the public.

In the UK the public overwhelmingly support the age controls, so even political parties who would otherwise oppose it just stay silent, because the public narrative

You have to shift the narrative. Farage does this - he's finally after 20 years managed to get elected to parliament, he's head of a company with 4 MPs, same say as the Greens, about the same as the nationalists, yet for 20 years he has steered the conversation and got what he wants time after time
by lproven | 2025-09-11 09:56:24+00:00
> It's got an NVIDIA K1100M. The latest proprietary driver supporting it is 390 which is not supported by Debian 13. It was by Debian 11.

Tell me more, please.

Does it only have an nVidia or is it dual GPU and switching?

Because I have the latter and the lack of GPU drivers is keeping me on Ubuntu 22.04.

Is it possible you're just using the Intel GPU and your nVidia is inactive?
by yorwba | 2025-09-11 09:56:27+00:00
From "7 personnel were standing on watch on the bridge, including the OOW, an officer and a rating under training and 4 other ratings." and "The OOW and trainee officer discussed the floodlights but believed they were ashore and stationary." it can be inferred that the OOW (who was punished) was not a trainee, but a full-fledged officer.
by panick21_ | 2025-09-11 09:57:10+00:00
Having just traveled all over Northern Europe, your doomer nonsense about 'crimes, drugs and violence' is hilarious. For example the automated metro in Copenhagen is a case of investment with great results.

> can't go anywhere because it's unsafe

I'm sure this is true in the fantasy land that exist in your head.

Do your far right-wing rants somewhere else.
by tkzed49 | 2025-09-11 09:57:22+00:00
"And unfortunately, a big part of that is institutional. I mean, what does it say when you commit violent crimes en masse and then the president of the United States pardons you? It basically tells people, “Yeah, you’ve got a free pass the next time.”"

The social contract is that there is some system of law and order which approximates justice and peace. When the party of law and order instead uses it selectively to further their agenda, what are the people to do?
by geokon | 2025-09-11 09:57:53+00:00
I'm not familiar with Haskell so it's hard for me to say. A cursory look at the wiki.. I get the impression you'd need to explicitly create a new type class? In a dynamic language you can just "dynamically" extend the record (which is sort of like a "class) with new interfaces without making a new class type.

Hopefully that helps.. Sorry if it's not exactly helpful

The protocol example at the end shows how it's done

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2016/the-expression-problem-an...

If you write something like

(extend-type BinaryPlus Evaluatable (evaluate [this] (+ (evaluate (:lhs this)) (evaluate (:rhs this)))))

Then you are adding (and defining) the Evaluatable interface to a record BinaryPlus (which can be coming from a different library and already be implementing other interfaces)

BinaryPlus records can still be used where they were used previously, but you can also use them with the enhancement you added
by tucnak | 2025-09-11 09:58:16+00:00
The unfortunate reality is that a single largest lobbyist for Chat Control in the EU is, ironically, the US, namely the US intel community-affiliated orgs like Thorn, WeProtect, etc. The EU bureaucrats are gullible, and it's no excuse of course, however there's a reason why every time there's a new driver, a new country behind Chat Control proposals. This has been part of coordinated U.S. signals collection strategy. Nobody in Europe stands to gain anything from this besides the US as all tech solutions for this are provided by US companies and agencies alone. The boards of these orgs are crawling with Washington guys, & their activity is limited to foreign countries. Not once have they attempted anything of the sort on US soil.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=44929535
by panick21_ | 2025-09-11 09:59:27+00:00
I was talking about large cities like Tokyo, not in Switzerland. Most of Europe has terrible housing polices.

In Switzerland you have to move out of the city center but because the S-Bahn you can be in the city very fast. In Luzern for exmaple, places like Ebikon or Emmenbrück, Horw.
by rob74 | 2025-09-11 09:59:58+00:00
Yeah, a relentlessly advancing deadly wall of fire becomes much less scary without the "relentless" part...

Another way of decreasing the difficulty is to enlarge the "playfield". I actually did that by chance, because my browser window is usually only half of my 4K monitor, so it's taller than wide. Because the monsters always start off at the bottom, you have much more time to shoot them.
by lproven | 2025-09-11 10:00:19+00:00
> It actually looks a lot what KDE is shipping here

No, it does not, in any way whatsoever.

GNOME OS does not have dual root partitions, Btrfs with snapshots and rollback, atomic OS updates, or any of the other resilience features which are the unique selling points of KDE Linux.

In case you are unfamiliar with the design of KDE Linux, I have described it in some depth:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/kde_linux_prealpha/

And I compared it and GNOME OS here:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/29/kde_and_gnome_distros...
by bayarearefugee | 2025-09-11 10:00:22+00:00
> All I'm saying, is that if I was a US adversary, I would absolutely be spinning up a million LLMs to post the most provocative possible stuff.

They have already been doing this for years -- over a decade -- with meatbag posters before LLMs were widely available.

How do you think we got to the current political climate in the first place?
by ProcessOptimist | 2025-09-11 10:00:49+00:00
Yeah I came across a reddit post in r/saas about an upcoming alternative that tells his story on how the acquisition crushed the product he loved that helped him build his successful gaming company.

This prompted him to build his own platform he would want to use instead of Trello. Basically claiming that Trello for teams is dead due to the transition to a "personal producitivty companion" xD

You can check out the post here if interested in reading more and even giving the pro plan for his platform free forever for 30 days.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1ndj8mn/remembering_t...
by pembrook | 2025-09-11 10:01:23+00:00
Many people working in government wish they were administering a totalitarian state, and would be the beneficiary actors.

Government is a job that self-selects for people who either want safety (non elected jobs) or power (elected jobs) more than anything else, given it pays far less than the private sector. Both the safety people and the power people want to reduce public freedom and the ability to do things.

The only way we keep these people from this is the threat of voting them out of their jobs. But they are more motivated than we are, so they usually win over time.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-11 10:01:47+00:00
Because these are fundamentally different crimes with different motives, people from mostly different walks of life doing them and different preventative steps.

The stuff you do to "solve" drive-bys and targeted drug industry violence won't solve school shootings and vise versa.

To lump them together serves no non-evil purpose. The people doing so are exactly as deserving of marginalization, and ideally legitimate state violence following due process (but that's just a pipe dream of mine), as the people who use a slight of hand to include prescription abuse in stats about cross-border drug smuggling or the people who try and act like literally every instance of domestic violence is the fault of alcohol or whatever. Nobody with even a shred of decency would stand behind those latter two examples. It speaks volumes about HN that the mass-shooting slight of hand is fine though.

And this isn't just a mass shooting crime issue. This is a "people feel emboldened to lie and be shitty because there is no consequence" issue. Bad people perform comparable dishonest slights of hand on all sorts of issues.
by _ink_ | 2025-09-11 10:01:54+00:00
It's also in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). But that has a big loop whole.

Article 8: Right to privacy

1. Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence. 2. There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.
by adrian_b | 2025-09-11 10:02:53+00:00
I am pretty sure that a general strike could not have been initiated in Poland without the support of traitors from inside the top layers of the communist party and of the security forces.

In any of the communist countries of Eastern Europe everybody hated the government and they wanted to start a general strike. However, immediately after somebody would say this in loud voice, they would disappear. There have been a few cases when strikes have succeeded to start in a place, but then the government succeeded to prevent everybody else to know anything about this for many years, usually until the fall of the communist governments around 1989, and the strikers would disappear in such cases.

The weakness of the communist governments around 1989, after decades of easily suppressing any similar opposition, can be explained only by an internal fight within the communist leadership.
by DecoySalamander | 2025-09-11 10:03:09+00:00
The CEO of a healthcare insurer is not involved in "withholding" funds. At best, he sets up policies that distribute a limited amount of funds among millions of claimants who are all in need of help to some degree, but he does that job poorly. If this juvenile logic is applied further, aren't you guilty of the same crime? There are people in need of life-saving drugs and treatments, yet you're just sitting behind your computer withholding funds.
by somewhereoutth | 2025-09-11 10:03:11+00:00
The highest body of the EU is the Council. Nothing happens without the approval of the Council. In comparison, the Commission is merely the civil service or secretariat, answering to the Council.

Each member state has a seat at the Council, and for almost all issues a veto. Each member state is democratic, therefore the EU itself is entirely democratic. That doesn't of course mean the right decisions are always made!
by rs186 | 2025-09-11 10:03:41+00:00
So the facts we know are that 1) Samsung market share rising from 23% to 31% and 2) they recently released new foldable phones. But do we know that's the actual primary reason for the increase? I couldn't tell that from the article. The article mentions engagement of specific social media posts, but that's as much as it, without any sales number/estimates from anyone.