skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have a website
https://www.gengalactic.com/
When my kids were young we used sunscreen in moderation to prevent burns. Once they had a tan we didn't worry about it unless we were going to be sitting in the sun for hours.
> enshittification

I am so over this word.
My brother has psoriasis and lives in a northern state as well. He spent some time in Australia a while back (late 90s) on a research assignment and said his psoriasis was never better.
In the redesigned version, the “Log in” button has been replaced by a link that reads, “establish a collection of endorsements,” which is much, much clearer.

That seems unnecessarily verbose, and still slightly ambiguous. How about "Endorse a Candidate" and "Become a Candidate"?
> Actually the native character encoding in Windows is UTF-16 so you can't just assume UTF-8. If you're writing low level code, you have to convert UTF-8 to UTF-16 and back.

Yes. You should convert your strings. Thankfully, UTF-16 is very difficult to confuse with UTF-8 because they're completely incompatible encodings. Conversion is (or should be) a relatively simple process in basically any modern language or environment. And personally, I've never run into a problem where the difference between NFC and NFD mattered. (Do you have an example?). The different forms are (or should be) visually completely identical for the user - at least on modern computers with decent unicode fonts.

The largest problem with UTF-8 (and its biggest strength) is how similar it is to ASCII. It is for this reason we should consider emoji to be a wonderful gift to software correctness everywhere. Correctly handling emoji requires that your software can handle unicode correctly - because they need multi-unit encoding with both UTF-16 and UTF-8. And emoji won't render correctly unless your software can also handle grapheme clusters.

> When people living in ASCII world casually said "I just assume UTF-8", in reality, you still assume it's ASCII.

Check! If your application deals with text, throw your favorite multi-codepoint emoji into your unit testing data. (Mine is the polar bear). Users love emoji, and your software should handle it correctly. There's no excuse! Even the windows filesystem passes this test today.
For those of you in the Chicagoland area, the Pen Show is happening this weekend: https://www.chicagopenshow.com/
> * remember Katrina in New Orleans ... don't hold your breath and hope.*

I think it’s worth pointing out not every country has citizens barely able to survive and will to turn to violence at the slightest nudge.

Would live get harder? For sure.
But it doesn’t have to get ugly.
FWIW my sister had regular sunlight therapy for hers as a teenager, it sounded essentially like a tanning bed at the dermatologists office but probably had particular settings or something. She also used a product called Coal-tar shampoo and skin lotion, not sure if she still does (hers has reduced a lot as an adult). I don’t recall vitamin D directly ever being part of her treatment.
Weird, it doesn't seem to have any info on reddit users or their writings. I tried asking about a bunch, also just about general "legendary users" from various subreddits and it seemingly just hallucinated.
That’s super cool!!! Looks like quite a niche/technical hobby with amazing output. Do you mind sharing how much equipment costs to get similar results?
Sure. Just pointing out that there's a good reason browsers do this.
For anyone on iOS, there is a cycle tracker built into the Apple Health app, so no third party app needed.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210407
While not dirt cheap, UVB lamps/LEDs for treating skin diseases like psoriasis are fairly common and seems like a well proven treatment?

- https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/j.det.2019.08.001

- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8634827/

- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5597604/
I'm not a programmer, but how hard is it to write something that just checks what encoding the file uses. Or at least does its best to guess?
Can you share the prompt please? I am interested.
If this takes off... "What is your R" can join the rest of the famous lines beginning with "What is your..." :)
Rabbit is promising their Large Action Model (LAM) software, their "rotational eye" and associated software, and maybe an AI trained on actual user conversations.
This is anecdotal, but I can confirm this from my experience. I was taking 2000 IU per day, and I felt the effects of seasonal depression. When I increased it to 5000, I felt so much better.
It's not much safer now that a bunch of disposable Russians have been exposed.

Russian businessmen moved to the EU and the US by the thousand per year. We won't know who of them are "businessmen" and nobody is even pretending to check.
You lost me at numbers, but had me at Copyright monopolists.
I still want dynamic linking, but only a few trusted library files would be allowed to make system calls. Like libc. Sorry but golang would have to change to use libc.

This breaks the ABI, but it breaks it for naughty programs the most.
His fixation is so intense that it extends to the dinosaurs. What if the real problem with that asteroid 65 million years ago wasn’t a lack of food, but the weak bones that follow a lack of sunlight? “I sometimes wonder,” Dr. Holick has written, “did the dinosaurs die of rickets and osteomalacia?”

Isn't the whole article by a long shot - certainly an interesting counter point, thanks for the links and your thoughts.
"Semantic Knowledge Graph" is even worse! The term is intended for the design of semantic networks with edges restricted to a limited set of relations. A knowledge graph is already about semantics!

Gotta say txtai seems like a useful tool to throw in my toolbox!
Yet nearly every controlled trial supplementing Vitamin D has limited or no effect, except maybe in the most deficient people. Many many trials have been conducted. Vitamin D advocates always have an excuse — it’s too little vitamin D; no, actually you also have to add Vitamin K2; etc

Part of the problem of all the observational trials looking at vitamin d is that low vitamin d is a biomarker for being less healthy. People who are ill spend less time outdoors. People who spend more time outdoors are already healthier and are also getting other benefits from their outdoor activities.

You can try to control for all of these things, but every time we actually try to test what happens if you give people Vitamin D, we find almost no benefit.
With a staggered layout the right hand digits align with the columns and the left hand does the opposite; it's at nearly a 90 degree angle! So if you believe wrist angle follows the keys then staggered would be far worse.

I don't think wrist angle follows the keys. You simply move your hands and fingers to hit the proper key regardless of wrist angle. No alignment necessary. So then the benefit of ortho becomes the ability to judge the placement of the keys better by feel, particularly the top row. (And it has the side benefit of allowing you to map a numpad over the keys more naturally, which is particularly attractive to me.)
I will have to look into blue light therapy. I used to have psoriasis really bad on my scalp. This might sound gross to some people but what cured it for me was to not use shampoo & conditioner every day in the shower. I still wash well with warm water but ever since I stopped using "products" in my hair every day, I have not had an issue with scalp psoriasis in over 15 years. I will take naturally oily hair over scalp psoriasis any day.
A lot of people with ancestors from the Mediterranean have darker skin, which could have a big impact. Ozone levels also differ around the planet.
The Shift-JIS codepoints for the characters of that name are understood to refer to Japanese characters, so fonts render them correctly. Encoding-aware programs have different representations (such as GB 18030 codepoints) for the similar-but-different Chinese characters that unicode-only programs tend to display these characters as, and so will render them differently.
> I dont think that there was ever free standard of care medicine in the USA, as a matter of history. Today is the most progressive and subsidized the US medical system has ever been.

I didn't say "free", I said not being exposed to medical bankruptcy.
I always joke and PowerShell must have been created by someone who types 300 WPM ;-)
Coach's goal is to teach you.

And manager just wants you to make things done, no matter what. You may learn something or not, but at least get through some troubled times and fix situation. Crisis management on demand
Here is my Esprit 120mm widefield version https://www.astrobin.com/full/r97r5j/0/
It's not easy! Go check out the source for chardet (Python). It's not pretty.
You are ignoring most women and only focusing on the elite.
"No, no no no, no, that's—'The Pen is Mightier.'"
Essentially if you zip something, repeated text will be deduplicated.

For example "FooFoo" will be smaller than "FooBar" since there is a repeated pattern in the first one.

The attacker can look at the file size and make guesses about how repetitive the text is if they know what the uncompressed or normal size is.

This gets more powerful if the attacker can insert some of their own plaintext.

For example if the plaintext is "Foo" and the attacker inserts "Fo" (giving "FooFo") the result will be smaller than if they inserted zq where there is no pattern. By making lots of guesses the attacker can figure out the secret part of the text a little bit at a time just by observing the size of the ciphertext after inserting different guesses.
Having to work forever sounds miserable. I think there would be some psychological impacts as well around how we'd treat life, risk taking, etc. While many things would improve, it feels like seeing the natural wonders fade away for developments and stuff would be worse. Like we'd be trading human connection, general freedom, and privacy for more stuff.

I am excited about some stuff in the future, but I'm more pessimistic about how ever increasingly complicated and expensive life will become. There are a few things that I enjoy where I can already see the writing on the wall for them to disappear or be banned.
This is without a doubt the most advanced LLM out there, easily beating GPT4 and everything else. I asked it some programming questions for a niche programming language, and it's the first LLM that has been able to answer it correctly.
Oh nice! Except for Alnitak (I love me some spikes), I like yours more.
I remember going to Sequential Circuits on 1st street in San Jose (on my lunch hour) to buy a copy of the MIDI Specification (I think it was $10). Probably late 1986.
Libraries aren’t helping themselves. They’re trying to rebrand as community centers, hang outs for kids, and homeless services outlets.

All that’s fine and good, but isn’t going to help them negotiate with publishers, or get better copyright legislation.

I also think liberties have been branding themselves as politically progressive for a long time - since long before the digital age.

This has left them with few friends, as progressivism returns to its roots as an upper middle-class ideology.
This paper is from 2013. It is out-of-date. More recent large scale studies of Vitamin D supplementation show no benefit, except in cases of substantial deficiency.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41574-021-00593-z

Sunlight, however, does show benefits. This suggests that Vitamin D is just a side effect of sunlight exposure, and does not by itself do any good.
Not really. In Star Trek, you have access to mental healthcare and the educational resources to go do something you want to do. Then that’s the work.

I think it’s a little unbelievable that the right proportion of people want to, say, serve food at a restaurant. But that’s the idea.
I love the idea of tools like this. I have looked at Buf and Fern and am curious to try this as well.
React Native has been solid for years now.

Not my personal choice but it has been solid career wise.
Exactly. I used this technique at Mozilla in 2010 when processing Firefox add-ons, and it misidentified scripts as having the wrong encoding pretty frequently. There's far less weird encoding out there than there are false positives from statistics-based approaches.
> CJK is not some obscure alphabet.

Right. One would think that misrendering a major world language used by over 100 million people would be an issue that warrants some attention. But too many of the HN crowd don't care.

> In this case, perfect is enemy of good.

It's not though. Unicode-only is not just imperfect, it's an outright regression for Japanese. Meanwhile traditional encoding-aware programs render Japanese just fine.
Consider a one-week trip to Hawaii in the darkest time of winter; supplementation studies have shown that the body can safely absorb and store 100K IU, that it takes about 2 months to deplete such an amount. Your skin produces 20k IU in 30 minutes on a sunny day at the beach (wearing a swimsuit). If you're in the PNW (or central Europe at the Southern German border) your skin cannot produce vitD from October through April because of how low the sun is in the sky even at its zenith.
If the license becomes void if the disclaimer doesn't hold, then you can't accept the license; the author(s) specifically say that you don't have that option. By copyright law, you would then have no right to use the software.

Some people may not consider that FOSS, but I'm okay with that.

Source: I am making such licenses, and though IANAL, I am halfway through working with a lawyer on those licenses.
Good evidence of this is how Gary, IN is thriving after automation reduced the steel plant labor requirements by 90%.
Hard to believe but I remember australian grandparents claiming you would be a "good mum" if you left infants in the sun. But I also remember being told dark tans were healthy, and people without then looked sick.
There's always some food boogyman, but UPF is about as indistinct as you can get.

Food-processing itself is quite unlikely to the problem, it'll be some common additive, or the general balance of fats (and fat types), proteins, carbs, micronutrients, etc.

For my money, the big problem, after sugar, is vegetable oil.
And die like king tut.. spend the half on the passing haha
Australia recently updated its sun exposure guidelines to allow for the fact the some sun exposure is required to generate vitamin D. It's a balance, with influences from genetics, including skin colour.

The advice is tailored for Australian conditions. Australia is the melanoma capital of the world[1], so it puts a fair bit of effort into trying to get this advice correct.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/13/austr...

https://www.assc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Sun-Expos...

[1] https://www.cancer.org.au/about-us/policy-and-advocacy/posit...
It's a wonderful niche/technical hobby, but it's not cheap. You could even say it's "pay to win". I didn't buy all of my stuff at once, and I had some mistakes, but I'd guess I use on the order of $10k in equipment.
Hawaii is the southern-most state in the USA.
100% of the time when I post a critique someone replies with this. I tell them I've used literally every LLM under the sun quite a bit to find any use I can think of and then it's immediately crickets.
Those aren’t timestamps. They’re descriptions of how to select them.
I'm not sure how it's relevant exactly to TFA. The mechanism of propagation is an existing feature of libdl that uses an environment variable. With this worm, the loader still runs exactly as before, from libc and libdl.

As to restricting syscalls from certain calling libraries, macOS has this via entitlements, and I believe OpenBSD and/or NetBSD has this in some form as well.
Yeah, I use coal tar as well. I would recommend it over anything else I have tried. It is kind of messy and annoying to apply but worth it if for nothing else than to relieve the pain of dry cracked skin.
Australia's UV rays are not unique to the rest of the world. There are lots of places in the world where the UV rays are much stronger than in Australia.

"So where on Earth’s surface would we expect the highest UV? Peak UV should occur within the tropics (high sun, low ozone), at a high altitude site, in the Southern Hemisphere. Near the Tropic of Capricorn, overhead Sun occurs during the period when the Earth- Sun separation is a minimum"

Satellite data clearly shows that UV is approximately 1.5x stronger in Peru than Australia, for instance.
Been using the betas for my side projects and I’m loving it. So much easier to read, write, and test compared to RLS with postgres/supabase
So what if "The Right to Read" communicates such a message? If the Internet Archive gets a notice to shut down, I doubt anyone involved will suddenly start reading Stallman, then walk away as if they no longer had a company to shutter. The only people who matter in relation to the future of the Internet Archive are the ones who will be enforcing the law and I doubt most of them have read or will ever care to read "The Right to Read".
Of course the command and control uplink is encrypted. Always have been. All military satellite tt&c uplinks are encrypted. (Commercial as well, almost certainly, I just don't have personal knowledge.)
Encryption generally leaks the size of the plaintext.

This is true in both the compressed and non-compressed case. However with compression the size of the plaintext depends on the contents, so the leak of the size can matter more than when not using compression.

Even without compression this can matter sometimes. Imagine compressing "yes" vs "no".
True, but even then you wouldn’t want to store it egregiously badly.
World of Warcraft sold decommissioned blades for about that much with no intention to be actually used. Just something to thru up in the cave.
Not OP, but 'zipping and encrypting' one thing (a file for example) does not leak information by itself. The problem comes when an adversary is able to see the length of your encrypted data, and then can see how that length changes over time - especially if the attacker can control part of the input fed to the compressor.

So if you compressed the string "Bob likes yams" and I could convince you to append a string to it and compress again, then I could see how much the compressed length changed.

If the string I gave you was something already in your data then the string would compress more than it would if the string I gave you was not already in your data - "Bob likes yams and potatoes" will be larger than "Bob likes yams likes Bob".

If the only thing I can see about your data is the length and how it changes under compression - and I can get you to compress that along with data that I hand to you - then eventually I can learn the secret parts of your data.
GRU has always had its own illegals program, at least from the 1930s.

They were not concerned with the same tasks as KGB/SVR, targeting military technology and the militaries themselves rather than political/security espionage , so they did away with much smaller networks and humbler resources.
When you have the technology to replicate virtually any foodstuff to perfection instantly, restaurants become less common, and may take on different meaning (as more social hangouts rather than food-service places). Accordingly, the ST universe just might have enough bored, centuries-old El-Aurians looking for conversation and company to fill all the needed service roles there are -- and such roles are more relaxed and stimulating besides.
Looks great! Where are you hosting the 70b model?
He haven't even learned.
Can the federal government build millions of housing units overnight [1]? No. Can they force insurers to not squeeze auto insurance consumers as hard [2]? No. Can they force automakers to reduce their vehicle prices? No (although they are cooling naturally due to the benchmark rate->auto loans->loan payments being unsustainable). Services remain inflated because of reduced labor force participation, and while immigrants and migrants have helped cushion the blow with regards to service inflation from a labor component perspective, appetite for mass deportation of undocumented folks remains high [3] [4].

Some of these problems are years, decades even in the making, structural even [5]. They will not be fixed overnight, nor was this administration the culprit. Some of these problems can’t be fixed because the electorate is…unsophisticated, to be polite.

[1] https://www.fanniemae.com/research-and-insights/perspectives...

[2] https://www.vox.com/2024/2/21/24078362/inflation-car-insuran...

[3] https://www.axios.com/2024/04/25/trump-biden-americans-illeg...

[4] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-05/us-immigr... | https://archive.today/eDWSt

[5] https://www.axios.com/2023/05/08/us-labor-shortage-older-wor...
I think the GP nailed it. The thing is, no one in the community has been promoting fascism and bigotry. There are, however, plenty of insinuations. That's why there's strong opposition to this kind of thing.

Any other topic would've equally been as problematic. Is it a bad thing to target "terrorism" as well? How about "human trafficking?" Can't you please think of the children!
Heckin no thank you!

The FCC ULS database records are stored in a combination of no fewer than three different encodings(1252, UTF8, and something else for a handful of German names) that vary per record.

When I brought this up they said something to the effect of: it's already unicodes it has tilde letters!
something like over half the population of korea lives in the seoul metro area so it's not surprising that it's dense there. it's like if NYC was suffering from this and you posted a pic of a crowded subway at rush hour claiming otherwise lol...
some prior discussion, just not from the main url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39833321
I know, but then the sentence would be clunky. It's usually not considered "the south".
Large companies overhire for a number of reasons during robust economic/growth conditions including having a sizeable ballast that can be jettisoned when encountering inclement economic weather.

Also necessary optics to show Wall Street that they are focused on cost and not just growth, as part of the quarterly virtue signalling exercise during quarterly reporting. Damned be the impact to staff morale, culture and overall longterm goodwill for the company.

Trick is to know what and how to cut, without impairing performance and growth trajectory, and ensuring that the cull is managed while minimising negative news fallout.

There are now whole teams in HR now dedicated to this function, to manage large purges beyond the usual annual performance reviews/PIP exercises for un-regretted attrition exercises.

With AI removing wholesale the need for human intervention/involvement in certain work functions (in talent management, Customer Support, etc), right-sizing becomes ever more important to stay competitive...
The physics of this seem near impossible. Obviously you can make methane from CO2 and water, but making it more cheaply than pumping it out of the ground? Nat gas futures are $1.61 per cubic foot. Where are they going to get the enormous amount of energy to power this process?
Fuck me it's 2024

2014 me shaking his head in ways 2004 me saw coming in 1994.

Im only 40.

FUCK
> I also love creating new variables and naming them what I’m learning. Often times naming things will make bugs very obvious.

Agreed. There should be a formalish name for this technique/style.
Chaos with a Spreadsheet
You can stuff >256 bits into 56 BASE32 digits. The 63 character limit seems like it would only be constraining if humans want meaningful bucket names.
I don't know. I thought people set up trusts to get around that