skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My theory is that google went from ads in search results to ads on visited pages. By buying doubleclick etc they are suddenly incentivised to drive traffic to ad-supported websites.

Almost all the interesting factual websites are not ad-monetized. The SO spam etc are all scraps of the factual websites with ads injected. If google simply deprioritized ad-supported websites the search results would be much cleaner, but the part of google that sells the ads on sites instead of in search results would throw a fit.
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Ugh, go post your negativity somewhere else. Awful comment.
This looks fantastic! Love the idea of leveraging modern hardware for faster, client-side semantic searches. The ease of setup and integration possibilities are super appealing. Kudos to the team behind client-vector-search! Will definitely be checking it out.
Didn’t they invest on Hydrogen gas and believed it was the future?
Some people will even go out of their way to abuse a pricing scheme to get things for far cheaper. See cdkeys selling Xbox live cards from Argentina, for example
CVSS is not a measure for risk. I feel like it’s pretty hard to define an objective measure for “how much should you care about this” that applies to everyone, since you’d need to know how common the affected software is among all computers and how many of them are using the specific vulnerable configuration, etc.
What you can do instead is have a measure for “if this affects you, it’s pretty bad/not that bad/…”.

Heartbleed wasn’t an RCE, it just leaked sensitive data. RCE often results in a total loss of confidentiality, integrity and availability, so it receiving a higher severity rating makes sense.
What they mean with "“intelligence is compression”" is that there's actually an equivalence between them.

See, an "intelligence" is a predictor. Like a LLM, it predicts the next char/token depending on what it's seen before.

In order to turn this into a compressor, you store the "difference" between the predicted token and the actual token. If the predictor is good, this stream of data will be very low entropy which can be compressed with arithmetic encoding or something similar.

In the case of arithmetic encoding you get lossless compression. (additionally, because arithmetic encoding is based on probabilities (frequencies), if the predictor outputs probabilities instead of a single prediction, this can also be used to crunch the entropy)

Now look at for instance the speech codecs in GSM. They use Linear Prediction Coding, which has the same concept of using a predictor and storing the error stream. Except the latter's coefficients are rounded down, making it a form of lossy compression.

And yes, you can probably make a pretty good (lossless or perhaps even lossy, but I don't think you want that) text compressor by using an LLM to (deterministically) predict (the likelihood of) tokens and storing only the errors/differences. It should be able to outperform zip or gzip, because it can make use of language knowledge to make predictions.

There's a catch, however, which is that in the case of LLM compression you also need to store all those weights somewhere, cause you need the predictor to decode. This is always the catch with compression, there is always some kind of "model" or predictor algorithm that is implicit to the compressor. In the case of gzip it's a model that says "strings tend to repeat in patterns", which is of course "stored" (in some sense) in the gzip executable code. But with gzip we don't count the size of gzip to our compressed files either, because we get to compress a lot of files with one model. Similarly for this hypothetical LLM-text compression scheme, but you just need to compress a whole lot more text before it's worth it.

All that said, however, like many others pointed out, 78% isn't a great score for MNIST.

Then again, I also don't think that gzip compression is the best predictor for gray scale image similarity. For one if you have two pixels of grayscale values 65 and 66, gzip will see them as "different bytes", regardless of them being very similar in grayscale level. You might even be able to increase the score by thresholding the training set to BW 0/255.
FWIW, if you use matrix-docker-ansible-deploy, enabling the Sliding Sync proxy involves just adding one line to your configuration (for the most common setup).

https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/b...
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In everyday use, the year is the least important part. It makes perfect sense in many cases. It's in order of most relevant information to least.

YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS has its place as well, but not here.
Rites were in latin yes. But sermons were generally in vernacular. Otherwise there would be little engagement between priest and his parish during the mass.
The somewhat, odd, obsession of some Old-Catholic sects with latin is notable but not entirely orthodox.

Some info on the subject: https://going-medieval.com/2020/09/04/on-sermons-and-the-ver...
For a few years after the death of my baby daughter, I’d relive the events of that day pretty regularly, looking for some kind of meaning, pattern, lesson to be learned maybe. I’d also continually wonder what she’d be like now she was 3, 4 years old, etc.

This was making me incredibly sad. Eventually, I just had to forget that day, forget her, stop thinking about what her life would have been like, and get on with enjoying the here and now, with my other children.

Even though it would be her 10th birthday next week, I haven’t thought much about her in the run up to this.

Dwelling on past trauma didn’t work for me. YMMV.
It's actually a relation between two contacts, not between you and the contact. The UI allows the user to link several contacts, e.g. link the "spouse" or "brother" contact to your friend's contact card. There's a set of predefined labels to choose from, and there's also an option to add a custom label.
Also, for the single-key abbrevs I'd not use any prefix at all just like I have in my browsers "g something" googles "something", it's close to never when I need to search for a single letter (and in those cases I'd just add a space before " g" to let it parse as a literal)

These ! prefixes are nice "visually", but the ergonomics haven't been thought through

Basically, customization is the solution to such design mistakes, but lack of customizatin is another design mistake :(
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Servo is an amazing project and I love everything Mozilla has done, but it's also financially coupled to Google, right?
Ah, sorry, I meant an app that uses OSM as data source (OrganicMaps in my case). For some reason I thought I had an "official" app the OSM project, otherwise I wouldn't be so casual with the name.

And a shout-out to StreetComplete, that gamifies contributing to OSM.
There's a huge difference. Browser sandboxes are not "real" VMs and share a kernel. And in case of Chromium it's enough to read a few bytes from another process (token) to escape.
`left-pad` is the perfect amount of complexity and "I'm sure I can do it" ability by everyone who looks at it. I want you to write that logic and not have some stupid mistake that was fixed in that module 15 years ago.

Now we have String.prototype.padStart thanks to that debacle.
> Because rest of the comments in this subthread are clearly much better, very thoughtful, substantive and non-generic.

Does someone elses crime expunge our own? You mentioned you were scared of being "murdered" which meant you understood the problem of what you were sharing. Just pointing out the comment guidelines is a simple way of keeping hackernews as a good place to have conversations rather than becoming another internet forum.

> Even if it was a joke it's always a bad idea to post anything even remotely controversial on the Internet

I do not think this is true. Humour is a fantastic way to treat controversial topics, but there is a place and a time. Hackernews is many things, but its not the best place to have a one-liner observational humour stand up routine over politics.
Chrome feature: Compression dictionary transport with Shared Brotli
I don't find such views as yours very pragmatic. I am not an ideologue. But I'm also not German so I'll leave the choices to you lot. Whilst mentioning that my only horse in the game is the fact that a healthy and prosperous Germany is beneficial to me, whereas the opposite is absolutely not. Best of luck.
Decoder-only is pretty good on some tasks. Translation for example was a classic encoded-decoder task but it seems decoders can handle it.
Given the time I suspect there was to much dope involved. Also the internet was the wild west so I suspect a guerrilla action from EMI records.
There’s a lean towards thoughtful, educational content on Nebula
https://blog.estimote.com/post/676268055242883072/apple-open... (February 2022):

“another wireless communication technology called ultra-wideband, or UWB — specifically Apple’s UWB solution with the Nearby Interaction framework and Apple U1 chip-enabled devices, including AirTags. UWB provides precise location and distance ranging, much like the older iBeacon technology but more predictably and accurately. In fact, UWB RF ranging can detect distances as close as a few centimeters!”

I don’t know what range it provides, but it apparently can be used for fining your phone, so 10m seems not out of reach.
Bell’s new helicopter may look but it could reduce accidents and noise
where can I see more?
Which is a stance that Buddhism generally takes. There are thoughts, and feelings, but they exist on its own and (sometimes) build up an "ego" which is a fleeting, unstable thing, without its own essence.

Cogiationes sunt is an empiric fact. But cogitationes sunt ergo res cogitans est is not.
Yeah, and that's great for storing things in databases. Not for everyday communication. We talk in terms of most relevant to least relevant - the day (or time) is typically most relevant, with the year being least.
Do any of these methods actually work though? Last time I looked (admittedly, 6 months or so ago), there were 0 seeders on the torrents.
Not just you, it used to have solely high quality Q&A...then the yahoo answers folks migrated over
Have it hyperoptimised for your precise operating conditions?
... though being bored regularly is probably a good thing. It will make you think, invent and accomplish things.

Games, YouTube and pretty much anything added to HTML after 1995 is just about making you not-bored, thinking you're doing something. I admit it's difficult to tell the mind not to go for the cheap stuff, but staying bored until the _right_ urge comes up.
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/article...
he got suspends so basically russell now under forced labour camp
Well, I wouldn't put _any_ service on a public network, unless it is explicitly required. Firewall is all well and good, but security in depth is even better.

Private networking is good. IPv6 doesn't help here at all.
He probably doesn't like it and that probably doesn't matter. In the documentary "10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki", it is said that Isao Takahata is the only director that Miyazaki has respect for and considers his equal or perhaps better.

Hayao Miyazaki is so caught up in his own vision that it seems like he doesn't have much room for appreciation of things outside of it. As such we shouldn't give too much weight on his opinion on things outside the kind of movies he wants to make.
Perhaps just an early attempt at viral marketing?
When I started coding, going all in using Assembly was perfectly normal, then C, Pascal, Modula-2 were all over the place, then Object Pascal, C++, Clipper, Delphi, then Java and .NET, then ....

It will take generations, doesn't make it impossible, and you already see this change happening in mobile OSes like Android, where C and C++ are frowned upon for regular app development other than games.
actually more bad, because he is from a land that screaming about 'freedom and democracy'
It was actually quite good, and I didn’t get the Google hype at the beginning.
Unfortunately no, in most cases we don't have a direct line of sight to the marker
Did not perceive it as such. It is metaphorical. And it is an animated illustration (as opposed to realistic depiction).

Actually, the first reference is the scan (the slices are MRI), so an image of analysis. Then, the slicer can suggest removal (of the «bad memories»).

If anybody perceived it as sensational, they should go beyond the impact and perceive it as operational, or as sympathetical (your fellow man is performing his burden - where a bit of apprehension for the in-a-perspective "painful" act is shared experience).
In the early days of Google, that would have been getting rid of the expensive, building- or cluster-wide UPS and adding batteries to the power supplies. Later, they switched to a rack-level UPS.
Experiencing this too... I used to get like 225cl of 6% alcohol beer on fridays. Now I've reduced and 75cl gives me the same pleasure and effect. Less money spent, less damage on the body, feeling better in the morning...

There's no way I will stop drinking completely, I like beer too much. But reducing has really no downsides at all.
Source for the "body map of emotions": https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24379370/

"Emotions are often felt in the body, and somatosensory feedback has been proposed to trigger conscious emotional experiences. Here we reveal maps of bodily sensations associated with different emotions using a unique topographical self-report method. In five experiments, participants (n = 701) were shown two silhouettes of bodies alongside emotional words, stories, movies, or facial expressions. They were asked to color the bodily regions whose activity they felt increasing or decreasing while viewing each stimulus. Different emotions were consistently associated with statistically separable bodily sensation maps across experiments. These maps were concordant across West European and East Asian samples."

Personally, I agree with the author. I work with various Emotional Release techniques, and they ultimately lead to crying as release for me as well. It took effort, and time, to connect to my emotions in such a way to actually notice how intense the bodily sensations are. If you don't practice, the brain seems to filter the sensations and leaves you with only bits of information, if any.
Are hundreds of publicly addressable services better?
Team sport, or any sport for that matter.

All of the friends I've made have been through competitive sport, the gym, running, team sports.
I don't understand what I am seeing on https://www.lmfdb.org, but frontend developers take note: See how quick informative websites can be even with server side rendered templates? And still the website looks consistently styled and actually kind of neat.
I've listened to the podcast version of that video and it made me reduce drastically my alcohol consumption. It's been a year and I've listened to it a few more times. I lost 20kg (44lbs) in like 5 months. Granted, stopping drinking gave me more energy to exercise more frequently, which helped immensely with weight loss. But I've always been very active, I've had long periods of exercising very frequently and intensely, and never before had I observed such an improvement in losing weight. I attribute this to all the calories I've stopped consuming regularly. Since then, I've been able to maintain my weight without really needing that much exercise anymore.

I'd say that listening to that episode was one of those defining moments in life for me. It completely changed my relationship with my own habits as I started to reevaluate every other habit and was able to successfully pick the ones that made sense to me and the ones I could let go. For example:

- It was easier to quit smoking, which is something I used to stop and pick up again intermittently.

- I quit drinking so much coffee. Now I only drink it if I wake up super early and I know I have a long day or maybe I have a very complex task at the job.

- I've been able to maintain the overall cleanliness of my home at a higher level. I don't feel that feeling of "I'll do that later" as much anymore. In this podcast, Andrew talks about how chronic alcohol consumption hinders our ability to postpone satisfaction in the short term in favor of long-term benefits.

- I started being able to actually enjoy things instead of just enjoying having that alcohol buzz.
You never thought about the why and what for?
Ask HN: Subscription Model for Angel Investing
Would you like a model where you could subscribe at a certain amount monthly(say $1500 - $10000) and decide monthly which startup you will want to fund from a list of highly curated startups looking for an angel round.
> "out of bounds read = bad" even though realistically you can't do anything bad with it

Schneier's law [1] is at play here. Especially in situations where the person who wrote the bad code in the first place is later tasked to fix it. If they couldn't see the problem the first time it is going to be tough for them the second time around.

I've gazed longingly at a promising bug for weeks with no idea how to weaponize it, only to finally give up and ask someone smarter who tends to point out a trick I had never seen before. Even with a career in security old enough to buy beer, I am still amazed by the clever shit I miss.

1. "Any person can invent a security system so clever that she or he can't think of how to break it."
I worked for NDS when they were acquired by Cisco. They've spat them back out a few years ago. Not entirely sure Cisco should have got into the video space.

I enjoyed Cisco (great 4th July parties!) but it never felt like we were properly integrated.
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Sonos doesn’t have tracking. That’s my entire point. And it’s extremely ironic you call Bose “no strings attached”, that’s what Sonos is about in the most literal sense.

You pay a huge premium in trade for less wires, great multi-room audio, decent sound and a long support timeline.

I will say that I hope Sonos and Google bury the axe at some point, and the Cast (or at least DIAL) protocol gets added.
Everyone I know would pay 0% if they could, and they do as much as they can to get close to that. But that's not how you build a country, especially not with the demography we have in the west
What the machine is going to do with this label though?
I see now that somewhere most of the way down the front page there's a button-type link to "Support Matrix", which leads to a page which points either to membership or to a handful of ways to donate:

https://matrix.org/support/

I'd suggest you make sure there's a link to that page 1) somewhere in the menus 2) somewhere in the footer. I'd also make a link to the membership page from the "About" page, and a link to the "Support Matrix" page from the "Membership" page, so that people who manage to find the Membership page but aren't ready to become members can support via patreon / whatever.

Thanks for all your work on Matrix! Looking forward to seeing the improvements coming down the line!
> become formidable on its own

If you mean to say that India on its own is not formidable in its current condition, you are living in an echo chamber. Several of India's achievements have made it a formidable country in its own right

> "Good ties" is quite a reach

Again, it appears that you are the only one with this view. In 2023, 70% of all Americans were held favorable views with regard to India [0].

> they applied boorish, childish sophistry of busted logic out of defensiveness. I said that India's GDP is disastrous despite massive advantages. Replying "Well someone else has a good GDP therefore they something something" is just tired nonsense.

Yet you were quite eager to use the measurement GDP per capita to somehow to portray India in an inferior light? Perhaps you need to read your own comments again, lest you contradict yourself again.

And I suppose being the country with the 3rd largest GDP (based on PPP) is "distastrous", right? Again something you got incredibly wrong. India is also the 5th largest country by nominal GDP.

> lot of cheap exploitable labour

Ah yes, explains the extremely good ties US has with Cuba (a country with no minimum wage). Accusing other countries of not fully cooperating in the fight against terrorism [1] is something that only the best of friends do, right?

> The "oh gosh this must be satire" tactic has always been incredibly lame.

Well the things you said in your comment were so mind bogglingly wrong that I had to include that. Comparing India with Congo? Really? Then you started crying when the other guy used your own method to say that Qatar was better than US.

[0]: https://news.gallup.com/poll/472421/canada-britain-favored-r...

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-says-cuba-not-coop...
My experience is that drinkers are incredibly boring people.
Just like Open source won with everything else.. right? Right?
> And iirc the PS2 reused the PS1 cpu as a component on the board for I/O

Which has some interesting implications for softmodded systems. I play my PS2 games via Ethernet off a Raspberry Pi Samba server—it’s incredible to me that it’s possible and works so well, but because it’s using the PS1 CPU for I/O you can’t use it for PS1 games.
It would need to be sub-meter accuracy. I think something like the Tile/Airtag would be like 8 to 10 meter accuracy.
Ask HN: Can Chat-GPT detect incorrect grammar?
I asked Chat GPT if the following sentence is correct or not. The sentence does not contain any verb. But still GPT thinks it is correct.

In this paper a decentralized application proposed to improve the medical insurance process by enhancing transparency, security, and efficiency using Blockchain Technology.
Check Legal Advice subreddits, it happens. It may be an abundance of caution most of the time, but it doesn’t hurt.
Looks cool, I'm not much into webassembly... but I see just fews lines of Haskell code produced a gzipped wasm of 448K. How does this compares to other languages?
Tbh the browser and search wars feel over and we should figure out how we want to handle the future with legislation. I don’t think more choice screens are a good solution (re the cookies choice screen is really annoying). I also don’t have a solution so I guess I’m just complaining?
You unable to answer such a simple question?
Yup, a couple of months(weeks?) ago, I submitted that website as an example of good information density, responsiveness and ease of navigation.

Regarding content, it started as a database of modular forms, indexed by various specialized numerical data; since then, it has grown to a repository of all kinds of number theoretic data, including number/function fields, elliptic curves, various special functions and much more.
"The Toubon Law (full name: law 94-665 of 4 August 1994 relating to usage of the French language) is a law of the French government mandating the use of the French language in official government publications, in all advertisements, in all workplaces, in commercial contracts, in some other commercial communication contexts, in all government-financed schools, and some other contexts.[1]"

"...the law mandates the use of the French language in all broadcast audiovisual programs, with exceptions for musical works and "original version" films.[2] Broadcast musical works are subject to quota rules under a related law whereby a minimum percentage of the songs on radio and television must be in the French language.[2]"

"...this [law also] means that computer software developed outside France must have its user interface and instruction manuals translated into French to be legally used by companies in France."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toubon_Law
I tried to replace it but ChatGPT is slower, wordier, not up to date, and sometimes hallucinates, so I just went back to quick google searches.
It’s a tagged Union with associated data (the molecule), released in edition Homo Erectus. Pretty nifty feature a lot of other species lack. Abstract Human Types are much more powerful than what Homo Go can offer, for example.