skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If I understand you correctly, it means that the encoding itself serves as the metadata that indicates Chinese/Japanese.

Only if you have some unicodebrained mentality where you consider a Chinese character that looks sort of similar to a Japanese character to be "the same". If you think of them as two different characters then they're just different characters, which may or may not be present in particular encodings (which is completely normal if you make a program that handles multiple encodings: not every character exists in every encoding)

> In which case, why is it unreasonable to ask for the same for UTF-8, except using some more clearly specified way to indicate this (like lang="ja" etc), rather than encoding it all into separate characters?

Firstly, you have to "draw the rest of the fucking owl" and actually implement that language selection mechanism. Secondly, if you implement some clever extension mechanism on top of UTF-8 that's only needed for Japanese and can only really be tested by people who read Chinese or Japanese, realistically even if you implement it perfectly, most app makers won't use it or will use it wrong. Whereas if you implement encoding-awareness in the standard way that we've been doing for decades and test with even one non-default encoding, your application will most likely work fine for Japanese, Chinese and every other language even if you never test it with Japanese.
Why would you not enforce a particular belief about how a language should be designed? There are languages designed around being able to do anything you want at any time regardless of if it makes sense, and then you end up with everyone using their own fractured subset of language features that don't even work well together. Not every language needs to be the same feature slop that supports everything poorly and nothing well.
You and I know very different artists. "Logical" people have their woo, too.
We do, they are easily hopped over.

More recently people have discovered that if you pull the turnstile backwards a half turn you can squeeze by with very little effort.
Its not a "yet", its an effort that is part of a larger one. LIDAR and facial recognition should not be used. We should be against both.

Congestion pricing hits the lowest earning individual the highest. Congestion pricing should follow measurable improvements to public transit, focusing on the word "improvements".
Love how under "Multiple Characters Generation" the white guy is "A Man," whereas the someone else is "An Asian Man." Reminds me of Daryl Gates and the "normal people" quote, thence patrol cars being called "black and normals."
I have no idea why Gnome keeps on insisting on breaking expectations. From the shell as a whole to the widgets and even the window titlebars they seem to insist on being different for the sake of being different.
I’d like to address a lot of the questions about self hosting: we do not currently have any way to self host, but we do plan on figuring that out eventually. Offering self hosting introduces challenges around updates, support, etc that we don’t want to slow us down while we refine the product to its initial state. We are cognizant of data restrictions and other factors that would require self hosting. That said, we don’t at this time plan on completely open sourcing the entire product. It would be more of a licensing setup. Of course this is all subject to change in the future based on feedback and product direction.

The most important thing is that you share with us WHY you want to self host. Is it compliance? What does that compliance mean (min/max data retention, right to be forgotten, data at rest needs to be geographically located or you have to own it, etc)? This will help us build the “right” kind of features in this area so that it works for you and your company.
Yes, that’s not what I’m talking about though

MacFUSE uses the kernel mode VFS API

I’m talking about the undocumented user mode filesystem LiveFS/UserFS/com.apple.filesystems.lifs API which was added in Monterey (macOS 12), and since Ventura (macOS 13) is used to implement the OOTB FAT and exFAT filesystem support. Using that requires private entitlements (e.g. com.apple.private.LiveFS.connection) which Apple (thus far) won’t give to anyone else
> As soon as you're trying to do deletions, you're making assumptions that the view of the state you have is complete and total and that is usually not the case

terraform does this, which is why it tracks the its own representation of the prior global state. So when you remove a declared resource the diff against the prior state is interpreted as a delete. Note this does introduce the problem of "drift" when you have resources that are not captured in the scope of the state.

> i.e. do you want to put `linux-kernel` in your package list?

Yes. At least I want to put something like "core-packages" or "default" or similar as part of setting my explicit intent.
Fun fact: Lots of cellular modem/routers have the easy ability to change IMEI. Doing so is a fairly common practice in the rural internet community. i.e., those using cellular for their internet access either because cable / fiber or an official cellular option like T-Mobile home internet is unavailable or they're mobile in an RV.

These people are not trying to do anything particularly nefarious but they do it so that they can use a phone or tablet plan in a router. Unlimited or high GB plans for routers and hotspots are expensive and there are not many options.

There are lots of reasonably priced, easy to get unlimited phone and tablet plans but if you put a phone SIM in a router it might work for while until the carrier detects that you have the SIM in an unauthorized device. The "solution" to that is to activate on a spare phone and then change the router IMEI to match the phone. Don't use both devices at the same time. The carrier now thinks the router is a phone.

The legally of it is somewhat unclear so it's talked about quietly on various forums using words like "magic configuration", "giving your router an identity crisis" etc.

It's a bit of a cat and mouse game because IMEI is probably not the only way to identify an unauthorized device but so far it seems to be the main way.
There's such a thing as bad publicity for Google also.
That's what makes it such a fascinating ethical issue!

Action/Inaction is an important distinction for ethical frameworks and our intuition, but this situation is so difficult to reason about because it forces us to ask when triage/lifeboat ethics apply. Even more tricky because the obvious solution to triage/lifeboat/trolley ethical problems (avoid getting into them) doesn't make sense here because the technology can save so many people!

How many lives can we ethically save in exchange for putting doctors and biophysicists into trolley problems? Entropy is why we can't have nice things.
That doesn't seem to be the case. From the text of the site, the only thing that's seemingly going away is the ability to purchase things on the Xbox 360. The site even states that you can still download things on the 360 that are purchased on the Xbox One.
GPT3.5-level models are now insanely cheap: $1 buys you something like a Moby Dick's worth of text. STT and TTS models are getting cheaper too. I'm guessing that they are betting usage over the lifetime of the device (maybe 2 years tops?) amortizes out to a decent margin without a subscription.

It's also a lot easier to stomach a beautiful shiny teenage engineering toy that doesn't do much if you don't have to pay every month.
Don’t you find it weird that one of these “riots” locations is “across 20 states”, and the remainder have an actual… y’know, single location? Why are we comparing things this way to exaggerate damages and undermine the overwhelming majority of people peacefully protesting?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/05/nearly-all-bla...
Yea they do, it says always charge when listing buckets.

Any way to mitigate this on AWS by restricting access to it via VPC only?
Why not go for headscale?
I'd say putting a very large class of people into "the system" has produced a worse outcome than the drug itself would ever have had.
FSD is cool as a great demo. But the optics and facts are that it’s got people killed. Multiple people over the years. Silly mistakes causing crashes.

It will get better but definitely does not live up to the “full self driving” marketing hype. That kills the magic.

Meanwhile look at Waymo. They don’t make a lot of noise. They take safety really seriously and keep on improving actual “self driving cars” city by city. Zero people dead.

I’ve sat in both. FSD was a great demo, but Waymo truly felt like magic. No driver at all!
This is very common. A majority of my engineering maths students are writing lecture notes and exercises on a digital device, the plurality on iPad (Surface next most common). Many of these iPad users have a laptop as well as or instead of a keyboard for their tablet though, as the extra screen and flexibility are worth it.
A baked good that is meant to last months in a freezer is often made with more preservatives than a baked good meant to be consumed within 48 hours (as is the case with many baked goods: bagels, donuts, french bread).

It was a dubious value at $5 or whatever per slice when I thought it was at least fresh. Knowing it was not remotely fresh, it was a clear loser in my book.
Yes, but only backwards compatible games are available in the Xbox One store.
Link should be to the Microsoft blog post: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/cascadia-code-240...
Here’s the original NuGet source tree

https://github.com/NuGet/NuGet2/graphs/contributors
>Even root might not be allowed as an ssh target if `PermitRootLogin` is set to `no`, which I do on all my systems.

would something like PermitRootLogin=localhost punch an enormous hole in your intricate opsec?
In other words NYC doesn’t have working turnstiles.
How did the fly eggs get into the sealed bag? Does that mean they were in there the whole time (and if so, that you wouldn't want to eat it even straight from the factory!)?
They work together to produce immutable cattle. The alternative is managing a pool of servers where you are doing things like in-place patch upgrades, vs a teardown of the old infra and replacing it with the newly baked servers.
The degree of security theatre at airports aside, surely you don’t think public transit should suffer TSA-style security to warrant a solution to that self-imposed problem?
You posted 10 comments about this. That's way too much, and the site guidelines specifically ask people not to comment about downvotes because "it never does any good and makes boring reading": https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You're quite right, of course, that people vote with feelings and ignore facts, but you're wrong about that being specific to Apple. It's true of everything, and therefore it is not interesting (although it certainly is annoying). We want HN threads to be for interesting conversation.
Just set the fees to be a % of income + % of net worth. If you want to skip the complexity, making it a % of the current KBB value of the car that earned the ticket will be >99% just.

A few rich people driving shitboxes around Midtown to avoid expensive fees sounds like a fine outcome to me.
A sophisticated social engineering incident in Los Angeles
This is based on almost nothing but I always suspected it was done by maciej cegłowski. He has a very similar sort of semi-sincere contempt for the fixations of tech people and the writing style isn't that different from his social media persona. He also disappeared around the same time n-gate went inactive tho he eventually came back.
Time for Microsoft Chat 2.0 it seems.
A probabilistic regression models behavior will just demonstrate the training data. Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
> Worse than this, it's possible to DoS a Mac with an NFS server just by refusing to reply to a request.

I wonder if their SMB/CIFS client implementation has these kinds of issues? It probably gets used more heavily

> And I don't even think its exposed by headers

Apple (accidentally?) released some of the private headers for this feature in one of their open source releases: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/msdosfs/blob/rel/...
Ahh the failure to recognize that the great runtime and tooling is due to the language semantics.
I understand that people are complex and can have subtlety and nuance to their personalities but I can only judge them on what they do. If someone kicks me in the shin, there could be 1000 reasons leading to them thinking it was a valid decision but ultimately they still just kicked me in the shin.

I'm sure 0% of Trump voters would tell a pollster they approve of sexual assault but their actions indicate they do.
Entropy is a tricky word: legend has it that von Neumann persuaded Shannon to use it for the logarithmic information measure because “no one knows what it means anyways”.

These days we have KL-divergence and information gain and countless other ways to be rigorous, but you still have to be kind of careful with “macro” vs “micro” states, it’s just a slippery concept.

Whether or not some 7B parameter NN that was like, Xavier-Xe initialized or whatever the Fortress of Solitude people are doing these days is more or less unique than after you push an exabyte of Harry Potter fan fiction through it?

I think that’s an interesting question even if I (we) haven’t yet posed it in a rigorous way.
FTC on a roll. I changed my opinion on Lina Khan. She’s actually getting shit done! I’m a fan.
That’s that yellow newspaper right? Or was it beige!?
FWIW, there already are lots of purpose built devices for accessibility for blind and visually impaired individuals: https://www.afb.org/blindness-and-low-vision/using-technolog...
I was seriously contemplating a Tesla when my current cars need to be replaced. The crazy stories I have been reading over the last few years really concern me. For an expensive purchase like a car, I want the most "boring" and reliable thing. The whole .. lets delete parts and add them back in .. seems crazy for a car (or rocket!!) company to do.
Did you miss the fish?[0] You should see the error in first viewing

What about the woman with glasses? Her face literally "jumps"[1] Same with this guy's hands[2]

Interesting, we notice that [1] has "sora" in the name though I think it is a reference to the main image on sora[3]

Not sure if the gallery is weird to anyone else, but it doesn't exactly show new images and the position indicator is wonky.

The thing that makes me most suspicious is seeing the numbers on these demos. 1, 2, 4 (terrifying to me), 5, 65, 66, 68, 72, 73, 83, 85, 86 (is this Simone Giertz? Vic Michaelis?). The part that is tough about evaluating generative models is the cherry picking for demonstrations. You have to do it or people tear your work apart but also in doing so you give a false impression of what your work can actually do.

IMO it has gotten out of hand and is not benefiting anyone. It makes these papers more akin to advertising than communication of research. We talk about integrity of the research community and why we argue over borderline works but come on, if you can get a better review by more samples, you can get better reviews by paying more, not by doing better work. A pay to play system is far worse for the integrity of ML (or any science) than arguing over borderline works.

Edit: I think it is also a bit problematic that this is posted BEFORE the arxiv link or GitHub goes live. I'd appeal to the HN community to not upvote these kinds of works until at least the paper is live.

[0] https://storydiffusion.github.io/MagicStory_files/longvideo/...

[1] https://storydiffusion.github.io/MagicStory_files/longvideo/...

[2] https://storydiffusion.github.io/MagicStory_files/longvideo/...

[3] https://openai.com/sora
to me, since the code have been produced before the contract, they don't hold the IP. I'm not a lawyer, I can be wrong.
They've done a pretty good job, although in effect it redownloads the whole game and just uses a disc as a license (if you have one rather than buying digital)

As a Rare / Microsoft game, I'm sure Perfect Dark is on the BC list. Phil Spencer has suggested that licensing is the biggest issue for heavily-desired games that are missing, like Jet Set Radio Future.
> Congestion pricing hits the lowest earning individual the highest.

This is true for anything that you buy. I’m not sure why being able to drive a car into the Manhattan CBD deserves special treatment. It also already has an excellent subway system that millions take daily.

You can’t means test virtually everything
Men Who Eat Only Meat
> But there is no “naive” implementation of Unicode.

I assure you there are thousands if not millions of apps that implement search the naive way, by comparing bytes.

> It won't handle emoji, normalization, and thousands other things.

Yeah. But it works well enough for Americans, so the maintainers don't care enough to fix it.

> As for official stance, maybe it's time for some group to agree on certain non-conflicting sequences, and implement them in some library/stack.

And then what? What do you do with documents in Japanese that have already been converted without using your new codepoints? What do you do with programs that ignore your new standard? What do you do about search being broken in most apps with no prospect of fixing it? There are already some PUA codepoints for a proper implementation of Japanese, but most app authors don't even understand the problem, never mind being willing to support something that's "non-standard". Asking them to support traditional non-unicode encodings, which is something that's at least relatively well-known and standardised, and something they can test without knowing Japanese, is much easier.

> By the way, is it possible to make proper quotes from other languages as described above when using Shift JIS?

No, not for arbitrary languages. If you want to mix arbitrary languages, you need some structure that's a rope of strings with an encoding per segment. But that's exactly the same thing that the unicode advocates claim is easy ("just have a sequence of spans with different lang tags"), and at least if you use traditional encodings then you don't have to do any such fancy business for the much more common case of a file that's entirely in Japanese (perhaps with some ASCII keywords).
How would I go about doing this?
Researchers discover deepest-known blue hole globally
the difference between fentanyl and marijuana is like a nuclear bomb versus a slingshot.
>and no industry corporation has an incentive to run this either.

Are insurance companies not incentivized to measure cost effectiveness of treatments in the US?
Github link is broken, and I honestly find it frustrating that the only link to code is the theme source and credits?? Is it really that important to give the static page theme that much real estate instead of actual code release for the project?
The threat of litigation is often enough to change behaviors radically.

For example, many companies that had taken advantage of putting devices into the Hatch-Waxman Orange Book being an unchecked unmonitored way to lay claim took their devices off once they saw the FTC starting to get interested.

Adopting a narrow view of success is detrimental. Yes, it's hard as heck to figure out how to appreciate & be happy for "number of mergers never proposed because the FTChas actually started taking anti-trust seriously again". We will never have hard data. But for sure for sure for sure, companies are being more cautious, are thinking twice before trying to acquire their competitors or buying a company to land horizontal market control.

Even losing is a detriment. The FTC had done nothing under Borkism. It was free reign. Even winning to the FTC isn't fun. It's expensive as heck, and there's a ton of discovery that happens & sheds light in a lot of dark dark places in your corporation. And other people see, hey, the FTC is out there, they're doing things, and maybe we won't get as lucky.

Last, people act like, oh, the FTC lost, they must be incompetent & unable to build cases, but there's a ton of random chance & whim that goes into each case; replay a case in another courtroom or with different judges or juries and who knows what would have happenen.
Turnstiles are a barbaric solution to a non problem.

People need to get around. Taking mass transit is the best way for humanity for them to get there. Therefore, the fare should be zero.

Even if we feel a fare is needed, plenty of places operate with civilized proof-of-payment systems.
In that case, they should have spun it out. I think Supercharger would be good if boring business by itself. That would also get rid of the conflict of having car company own biggest charging network.
I’m aware of both theoretical and empirical arguments that I find quite persuasive that you’re exactly right.

I think it’s extremely thought provoking why they would be symmetrically, locally Euclidean in such abundance.
Maybe working 100 hours a week to the point that you need ketamine to cope isn't a very bright idea. Based on the Cybertruck and "X", it's easy to see that this wouldn't be his first less-than-stellar move on the old 3D chess board.
I'm always going to be against piling on significantly more invasive tools to make the state's job easier. I wonder if there's a word for this process where organizations make something intentionally difficult for us and then say "look at how hard this is, clearly you need to let me do this other thing to make it easier".
There were attempts to remove Melbourne's trams like what happened across other Australian states.

It was saved thanks to the work of Sir Robert Risson [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Risson#Legacy
> It's not like tram | streetcar services can't be built to run safely an profitably.

During the era of private subways in New York City, regulations fixed the price of subway fares and it would be political suicide to change this. After decades of inflation, subway companies were forced to operate at a loss and eventually had to be taken over by the city.

> I guess the big question here is what makes the USofA so poor at delivering functional public transport?

I suspect that the reason the government is so inefficient at a lot of things is a curse of the country having to much money. Most of the smart people work in lucrative careers, and most of the very passionate people become entrepreneurs. The are politicians who are both, but they're incentivized to politick rather than write effective policy.
Paper title: Recent records of thermohaline profiles and water depth in the Taam ja’ Blue Hole

Taam Ja' Blue Hole is not new, or newly discovered, it was found in 2003[0], it's competing with the Dragon Hole[1] for depth. If these measurements stand up, this could compete with the Hranice Abyss[2] (the deepest pit cave in the world)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taam_Ja%27_Blue_Hole
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Hole
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hranice_Abyss
Express 5.0 – Last Push
Yeah, I would actually expect most hardware like this to be running on some open-source OS, either Android (AOSP), Linux or some variant.

I mean, even the hardware that Meta and Amazon produce are built on top of Android / Linux variants, so I would be surprised if smaller players were writing their own custom OS these days.
De-risk releases with AWS CodePipeline rollbacks
Copenhagen Atomics Why Thorium is the Energy game-changer we've been waiting for [video]
(Ab)Using a LLM to compress text
Implement something similar to that used to sort out green tomatoes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOTaNK-8LYY&t=2s
> facial recognition seems like a fairly efficient way

I feel this is extraordinary dependent on how you measure "efficient" and how many false-positives or false-negatives are too many. (Also the fun problems where it's wrong way more often for certain groups of people.)

If the metric is solely "maximize the percentage of evaders who are punished", then the most "efficient" solution is to indiscriminately fine every single person. :p