skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a fun time, make a nested json blob about 1000 layers deep[1] and in python:

with open('lulz.json') as ayy_lmao:
oops = json.load(ayy_lmao)

If you parse arbitrary json bytes from the Internet (for example, if you have some public Python API with no auth) then you have given the world a fun little stacktrace generator, and a way to lessen your server room's heating bill.

EDIT: btw you can do the same thing in rust's serde_json if the type you're deserializing into somehow supports the nesting, but you'd have to work for it.

EDIT2: the only (decent) way I can think to mitigate this in the python app's case is to enforce a sufficiently restrictive Content-Length at the edge, which obviously isn't possible of you expect blobs O(100Kb) uncompressed. Or you could pre-parse to detect nesting.

[1] EDIT3: on my machine in ipython right now it's 1485:

import json

def nest(d):
return '{"k":' + str(d) + '}'

def make_mess(n):
v = 1
for _ in range(n):
v = nest(v)
return v

json.loads(make_mess(1485)) # boom
If a projects build system can't depend on python, that let's leave them in the dust, ffs..
Pretty sure these days more people get killed for being Palestinians than for being Jews.
SF childcare costs are usually around ~20 an hour per child in 1:2 (under the table, where folks who can afford it get an indirect subsidy from the government via Medi-cal and dodging fica) nanny shares where the nanny goes in your home. It’s a vaguely healthy market from what my friends tell me.

Doesn’t work in the suburbs where you won’t find a family 3 blocks from your house with a similar age child. You would think it would be more common though given how much useless sqft folks in the suburbs have.
That would be a most temporary ownership I should think.
Inherently unstable countries tend to get rid of the rulers
at a high frequency than stable ones.

Unless you have the military power to maintain dictatorship and
money to buy the protection of a superpower.

But even then it is tenuous.

Taking over a stable country would be far easier in the long term.
Yet when stable countries undergo major change, they tend to gravitate
towards unstableness.
Safrole is a precursor for MDMA (ecstasy), so Customs might be interested, but I wouldn't have expected TSA-style scanners to pick this up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safrole
Cargo does not “use git.”
What if the AI was trained on data collected and assembled by someone with "tribal bloodlust".
Writing comedy is really hard! Great concept for a show, tho. TBH a good example of something that could be interesting and viable with a tool like On Screen but never make it as a studio or even indie production.

The scope and target complexity of the series I'm making with On Screen is _dramatically_ cut down from what I started with, and it's still a bit of a stretch for the models at times. I started at DS9/Babylon 5 and ended up at Flash Gordon...
Can you give examples of AI or Musk/Twitter news that would be of interest to the community and should have stayed on the frontpage?
Specifically look along the border with other countries where the offset is obvious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_dat...
No, that’s the problem. The GWPs usually quoted are over 20 years (GWP 81.2) and 100 years (27.9), but over 500 years it’s still around a GWP of 8.

Depends on your definition of a ‘long time’ but it’s not like it reaches the low single digits even after 500 years…
As a white guy I have trouble in the tropical sun, so, I use sunscreen.

Maybe we should make sure phones have alternative biometric functionality for black people such as fingerprints.
> accurate bathymetric data is a huge deal for modern battlespace preparation

Their resolution is "all features 100 meters or larger", so better than nothing but not useful for manuevering your submarine.
You tell me how many people died in the cultural revolution then
Does anyone here know if and how the IHO's S-100 data formats relate to this?
The heated up water is consumed as drinking water. Excess water is returned to the lake.
There is nothing cynical or about "corporate politics", or about any moral judgement including kindness in my previous comment.

It was purely factual and about duties (as in duties of an employee).

I think it is when people mix up all the moral concept you mention with facts and legal duties that people indeed get indeed confused.

HR may absolutely appear friendly and helpful, and they can really be so because it is their job to help you succeed as an employee, that is to say to deliver value for the company. It is not their job to help you act against the company. In fact it is their job, as it is for all employees, to work in the company's best interests (that's called fiduciary duty).

Perhaps another issue is that some, perhaps naive, people do not understand the nature (in the factual and legal sense) of employment.
"in-home child care hobby business" means stay-at-home parent.

But in the non-urban areas around here there are in-home childcare setups, that have to follow specific laws. I assume something could be done similar in urban areas, but the size of house that is amenable to it may be limited in number.
There's always Twitter/X or Reddit if that's your jam. I just think it's hard to disagree that a huge, if not primary, value people feel they get from HN is the discussion, which is probably unmatched compared to any open forum on the net, and a huge part of that is moderation and curation.

Like I said, I don't agree with this particular topic getting flagged (I saw it go back and forth numerous times), but I also would push back hard on any allegations of "censorship". There are plenty of completely open forums online anyone can access with a click, and HN is most decidedly not that, by design, since the beginning of the site.
Man pleads guilty to stealing former coworker's identity for 30 years
> gotos are fine if used judiciously

Is there a language feature that is not? :)
Can the Vue ever automatically differentiate between a rice cooker and a toaster that are plugged into the same branch circuit?

Sense, theoretically, can.
FDA Approves First Prescription Digital Treatment for Depression
Fastmail or Proton Mail.

I use the former for personal and latter for business.
What a weird article. Title mentions bubble, body only talks about favorite AI companies.
> One source stated that human personnel often served only as a “rubber stamp” for the machine’s decisions, adding that, normally, they would personally devote only about “20 seconds” to each target before authorizing a bombing [...]

Brings the Ironies of Automation paper to mind: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironies_of_Automation

Specifically: If _most_ of a task is automated, human oversight becomes near useless. People get bored, are under time pressure, don't find enough mistakes etc and just don't do the review job they're supposed to do anymore.

A dystopian travesty.
Yes, there are some undocumented instructions [1]. They say it's a transistor-for-transistor replica so it should be 100% compatible with them.

[1] https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2021/6502-illegal-opcodes
> We all should have worked harder at solving the problem, but a genocidal militant group

Yes, 'we all' should have worked harder when Benjamin Netanyahu actively funded Hamas and expended all possible efforts to prevent a viable Palestinian state. Genius thinking right there.
Or see highly profitable things that aren't valuable, or that are even highly damaging?
"I'm sure that's what was intended"

Intended by who? You don't kill 13,000 children by accident.
Sussman has a great guest lecture that mentions exactly these sorts of issues, and that he found it much easier to verify work he and his grad students did in mathematical physics after developing the "mechanics programming" notation he explains in Structure and Interpretarion of Classical Mechanics and Functional Differential Geometry.
A viral $22 burrito explains inflation in the US
But the relentless leaf blowers and lawn mowers.
I've seen a row of 20 active e-passport gates and maybe 1 or 2 officers in their booths off to the side, both assessing people in their role as a second line of assessment (I've before had the gates fail to scan my passport and had to go to the booth). At least in those circumstances, it doesn't seem to be the case – both because I don't think a 1-10 ratio would work, and because they were busy doing other things. Maybe this happens in some places, but as far as I can tell, not in the UK/Heathrow or Australia/Melbourne where I use these gates regularly.
> Spellcheck was once considered AI

No it wasn't, let's not start spreading misinformation.

Spellcheck was around since the 1990s. Originally it was simple heuristic-based against a dictionary (localized, maybe also allowing some personalization). Noone called it AI, pre-2010 AFAIK. Can you show any pre-2010 citations for any actual mainstream consumer-available spellchecking using AI?)

I only see a small number of references to the use of AI in spellchecking, mostly post-2018, and they're still the minority of mentions of spellchecking, dictionary heuristics is still a simpler much more basic technique, even if ads don't say that.
(There are now (post-2018, GPT-era) AI-based spellchecking/writing-coach/style-type startups, and obviously there are also many companies trying to infuse their collateral with claims about AI, or pivot/bolt on AI to a non-AI concept. Let's not muddle all that together.)
HN is the new r/worldnews. Only the correct mindset is allowed.
https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

App Store for iOS and macOS down hard.

"Today, 5:31 PM - ongoing

Some users are affected
Users are experiencing a problem with this service. We are investigating and will update the status as more information becomes available."

Some other services I don't particularly care about down as well (Podcasts, School apps, ...)

Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp outage earlier today as well.

Maybe a cloud provider issue today?
If you read this and got curious here is an independent grower who has been breeding all kind of wild apples on his homestead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBHqPMK9xM0

6 min in you can see his bright red fleshed (yes, flesh!) apple he is trying to breed out.

Or see this short: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/S4BfgfZ9Kmk
US debt cannot be ignored, Citadel's founder says
Science Saved the World (2000)
Something that can solve this issue is removing the free spaces entirely. If all parking is a minimum of $5, then the garage is fine. But if there are SOME free spaces, people will circle to blocks for hours trying to find one. People are weird.
I'd love to see the studies mentioning 10% efficiency gains if you have a chance. also, do these studies balance against cost of running the models? remember, that's why stability.ai has collapsed.
Im working on a music learning app to study jazz licks and this is exactly what I needed. Thanks!
What's the objective measure of "interest to the community"? The voting score is obviously the closest one, and links I am describing constantly get upvoted to the top and are then removed.
If you go back to my message, I said: "Neoliberalism/Anarcocapitalism stunned them", I was talking about the political and cultural environment that fostered Apple's and other's attitude from the end of the cold war, that the system didn't have anything to compete against, and got out of hand, until now.
Yeah, you're right. It's not as easy to write Wuffs code during the research phase, since you don't just have to write the code, you also have to help the compiler prove that the code is safe, and sometimes refactor the code to make that tractable.

Wuffs doesn't support global variables, but when I'm writing my own research phase code, sometimes I like to just tweak some global state (without checking the code in) just to get some experimental data: hey, how do the numbers change if I disable the blahblah phase when the such-and-such condition (best evaluated in some other part of the code) holds?

Also, part of Wuffs' safety story is that Wuffs code cannot make any syscalls at all, which implies that it cannot allocate or free memory, or call printf. Wuffs is a language for writing libraries, not whole programs, and the library caller (not callee) is responsible for e.g. allocating pixel buffers. That also makes it harder to use during the research phase.
Larry Summers thinks AI could replace 'almost all' labor
> The suffix -li is used in Swiss German dialects

Seems similar to -let in English.

JPEGlet

Or -ito/-ita in Spanish.

JPEGito

(Joint Photographers Experts Grupito)

Or perhaps, if you want to go full Spanish

GEFCito

(Grupito de Expertos en Fotografía Conjunta)
Note that the US does not trade with Iran, the largest producer of saffron. Undoubtedly, some saffron in the US is Iranian, just ferried via another country for customs reasons but it makes the spice here more expensive than it would be otherwise.
“I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed,” - Israel defence minister
My favourite Nix error message is

infinite recursion encountered, at undefined position
Impressive, I don't think I've seen a local model call upon specialised modules yet (although I can't keep up with everything going on).

I too use local 7b open-hermes and it's really good.
> My credit score is 850. What now?

Name, address, phone, SSN, credit card numbers, tax returns, itemized income statement, health records, SMS logs, phone logs, email account exports, relationship history.

> It's only considered "sensitive" information because our society is incompetent and corrupt.

"Society" is an abstract concept, and the concrete reality that it represents is a large collection of people who are mostly strangers to you, and whose interests and values are by no means guaranteed to align with yours even when they are totally honest.

> The secrecy that protects the rich and powerful is an artifact of that corruption.

The same secrecy protects you and me. And at the end of the day, I don't care one bit about "the rich", and "the powerful" are exactly who I want safeguards against.

> In a just and competent society

...the streets would be paved with gold, champagne would flow from the taps, we'd all live to be a thousand, and our pets would speak to us in perfect English.

> none of that information could be used against us

You are of course free to use HTTP instead of HTTPS for all of your web-based data transmission.

> If you have to hide to feel free, you're not actually free.

I think I'll stick with imperfect freedom in this reality over perfect freedom in a nonexistent one.
> Their claims about Jpegli seem to make WebP obsolete regarding lossy encoding? Similar compression estimates as WebP versus JPEG are brought up.

I believe Jpegli beats WebP for medium to high quality compression. I would guess that more than half of all WebP images on the net would definitely be smaller as Jpegli-encoded JPEGs of similar quality. And note that Jpegli is actually worse than MozJPEG and libjpeg-turbo at medium-low qualities. Something like libjpeg-turbo q75 is the crossover point I believe.

> Hell, I question if AVIF is even worth it with Jpegli.

According to another test [1], for large (like 10+ Mpix) photographs compressed with high quality, Jpegli wins over AVIF. But AVIF seems to win for "web size" images. Though, as for point 2 in your next paragraph, Jpegli is indeed much faster than AVIF.

> JPEG XL would've still been worth it though because it's just covering so much more ground than JPEG/Jpegli and it has a streaming decoder like a sensible format geared for Internet use, as well as progressive decoding support for mobile networks.

Indeed. At a minimum, JXL gives you another 20% size reduction just from the better entropy coding.

[1] https://cloudinary.com/blog/jpeg-xl-and-the-pareto-front
Historically, registration of assets has been used by government to seize and tax the property of those they opposed.
App Store is currently down for many users around the world
1.

> … Olive Christian, wife of the accused mayor, daughter of Len Brown and mother of Randy Christian, both of whom were also among those accused, called a meeting of thirteen of the island's women, representing three generations at her home, Big Fence…

2.

"Live Like a Local When you Stay at Big Fence with Steve & Olive Christian":

https://www.visitpitcairn.pn/accommodation/big-fence
I recently noticed that all the thumbnails on my computer are PNG, which I thought was funny.
Deterministic Linux and Zephyr/micro-ROS testing in OSS Renode (2022)
Autocode Is Shutting Down
Happy to answer any questions and open for suggestions :)

It's basically a LLMs with access to a search engine and the ability to query a vector db.

The top n results from each search query (initialized by the LLM) will be scraped, split into little chunks and saved to the vector db. The LLM can then query this vector db to get the relevant chunks. This obviously isn't as comprehensive as having a 128k context LLM just summarize everything, but at least on local hardware it's a lot faster and way more resource friendly.
The demo on GitHub runs on a normal consumer GPU (amd rx 6700xt) with 12gb vRAM.
Thanks! There isn't anything built-in to specifically modify a commit, but you could make the modification to the file with Plandex and then `git commit --amend` for basically the same effect.
One Human Quality May Help Explain Why Neanderthals Went Extinct
> Do you have better data, or are you just being an asshole?

Last I checked, 55% of games on chess.com are 5 minutes or less if that’s what you’re asking. But at this point I’m just done with this conversation.

Also, average account ELO was ~800 not sure if that’s active or just not banned.
Unfortunately, Big Tech has been very effective in spreading a message that helps Israel maintain the plausible deniability that comes from a system like Lavender.

For at least 15 years we've had personalized newsfeeds in social media. For even longer we've had search engine ranking, which is also personalized. Whenever criticism is levelled against Meta or Twitter or Google or whoever for the results on that ranking, it's simply blamed on "the algorithm". That serves the same purpose: to provide moral cover for human actions.

We've seen the effects of direct human intervention in cases like Google Panda [1]. We also know that search engines and newsfeeds filter out and/or downrank objectionable content. That includes obvious categories (eg CSAM, anything else illegal) but it also includes value-based judgements on perfectly legitimate content (eg [2]).

Lavender is Israel saying "the algorithm" decided what to strike.

I want to put this in context. In ~20 years of the Vietnam War, 63 journalists were killed or lost )presumed dead) [3]. In the 6 months since October 7, at least 95 journalists have been killed in Gaza [4]. In the years prior there were still a large number killed [5], famously including an American citizen Shireen abu-Akleh [6].

None of this is an accident.

My point here is that anyone who blames "the algorithm" or deflects to some ML system is purposely deflecting responsibility from the human actions that led to that and for that to continue to exist.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Panda

[2]: https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/metas-broken-promises/...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_and...

[4]: https://cpj.org/2024/04/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-...

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_dur...

[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Shireen_Abu_Akleh
Dynamic analysis of firmware components in IoT devices (2022)
Fun project, but fairly old news at this point.
Encoding is definitely in Wuffs' long term objectives (it's issue #2 and literally in its doc/roadmap.md file). It's just that decoding has been a higher priority. It's also a simpler problem. There's often only one valid decoding for any given input.

Decoding takes a compressed image file as input, which have complicated formats. Roughly speaking, encoding just takes a width x height x 4 pixel buffer, with very regular structure. It's much easier to hide something malicious in a complicated format.

Higher priority means that, when deciding whether to work on a Wuffs PNG encoder or a Wuffs JPEG decoder next, when neither existed at the time, I chose to have more decoders.

(I work at Google, and am the Wuffs author, but have nothing to do with Jpegli. Google is indeed a big company.)
It'll "never be enough" in the sense that there is a non-existent potential of higher wages to stop agitation for more money.

Because there is no disincentive for labor to ever-advance the claim that their wages are enough.

In addition, the incentive to ever-claim that wages are not enough is unable to be quneched due to the fact that there is no risk. That logic is what supports my point.

The point can be proofed to economic mechanisms, as well. The exchange of money for goods naturally sets prices via an auction mechanism that, in turn, naturally creates an economic hierarchy in purchasing power.

Which is a verbose way of saying that raising the wages of the working class, while periodically necessary, will always lead to rising prices to create relatively par pourchasing power over time. When speaking of wages, purchasing power is all that matters (assuming lack of debt).

Artificially and dramatically forcing wages up only creates economic churn in job availability, housing equality, and asset ownership. All negative for the working class. If forces them into unemployment, out of urban centers, and creates firesale auctions for assets that wealthy people take advantage of.

To make matters worse, the "forced equality" economics of communism are only feudalism in disguise (which is hidden on the balance sheet of the State and Feudal Lord). The closer that the working class gets to forced economic equality, the closer that they get to slavery.

The storm that's coming is a cyclical return to various feudalists battling it out for workers who are paid the lowest possible wages and who have no labor protection. But on a wider scale than we are used to seeing.

The problem with wage debates is that there is no solution aside from a delicate balance that is easily corruptable. In fact, its natural state is corrupt imbalance.

This problem is unsolveable because it is inherent in the system of money.
Probably backed by those who benefited from it, as another way to to screw young up-and-comers.