skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty hard. There's no true way of knowing when you're right. You can make educated guesses based on statistical likelihood of certain patterns, but nothing stops people from constructing text that happens to look more "normal" when interpreted as another character set.

If I see the bytes 0xE5 0xD1 0xCD 0xC8 0xC7, then it is a decent bet that it's intended to be مرحبا in DOS 708. But there's no definitive reason why it couldn't be σ╤═╪╫ (DOS 437) or åÑÍÈÇ (Windows-1252) or Еямих (KOI8-RU). Especially if you don't know for sure that the data is intended to be natural language.

I can be pretty reasonably certain that it isn't, say, Japanese. 0xE5 in ShiftJIS is the first of a double-byte sequence, and it's odd, so the next byte would have to come from the range 0x40-0x9E, and 0xD1 does not fall within that range. In other words, it simply isn't valid ShiftJIS (it also isn't valid UTF-8). So you can narrow down the possibilities... but you're still making an educated guess. And you have to figure out a way to program that fuzzy, judgment-y analysis into software.
The article mentions a lot of external reasons, but what about men who are just lazy and have the opportunity to do nothing? Be it because it's easier to claim benefits, or they still depend on their parents (or wife). All factors I would imagine are more common than in the 50's.

More and more I've been reading articles where misfortunes are mostly-if not exclusively-due to external factors, and personal responsibility is seldom mentioned.
Indeed. Is there a browser extension or something that replaces every reason.com article on Hackernews with a corresponding jacobin.com article? For this one, there's an acceptable substitute on the front page right now: https://jacobin.com/2024/01/can-humanity-survive-ai
>No one should have that much power, because messaging and other encrypted services have become people’s memories, their casual hallway chats, their intimate whispers. Yes, there is longstanding legal precedent for searching someone’s papers and home, but the barriers to doing so are considerable – not just those imposed by law, but also physics.

I agree with most of the article, but I think it is important to acknowledge that technology has also enabled many things that were previously impossible.

A "casual hallway chat" or "intimate whisper" across countries and between thousands of participants was previously impossible.
Yep. I'm a heavy user of CJK languages and I don't give a damn about the slightly increased plaintext storage. Give me UTF-8 any day, every day. Legacy two-byte encodings can't represent all of the historical glyphs anyway, so there's no room for nationalist crap here.
I definitely should do more sunny trips in the fall/winter. I am going to try tanning in a UVB bed a couple times a week during the bad months this year. I have heard that it has helped some people.
> [...] you cannot trust people to manage your keys for you (because due to lack of regulation preventing that companies have this bad habit of pulling the rug under their customers' feet) [...]

Huh? There's plenty of already existing legal ways to do that. Just leave your key with your lawyer or a notary, and existing regulation about fiduciary duty handle everything just fine. You can also make normal private contracts that stipulate fiduciary duties, courts will enforce those contracts just fine.

As a technical alternative (or augmentation), you can also use a threshold secret sharing mechanism to store your keys amongst your friends and/or with companies.

Now what you can complain about is that there is no convenient way to do all of this. And that's a very legitimate complaint! Convenience is important.

However, the way to get convenience is not via regulation.
Unconventional Aggregation
Anecdotally, my cousin works in operations for a small minor-minor league USA soccer team, and even he and some of the other staff suspect it's a money-laundering scheme. They've never met the owner or know his name (The whole staff is only 10 people). They are told he's from Portugal but that's it. Nothing about the press releases in local papers even mentions who owns or funded the team, outside of two "partners" that are a pair of coaches who started a local soccer club. If you take a look at its registration, it's just an LLC with no other names or information available.
The reasons to have a separate range don't seem to be compelling. I'd hazard a guess no other secret service ever did that kind of blunder.
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Traveling at the Speed of the Soul
Could you expand on how xz took advantage of the dynamic loader (I think that's why you most likely meant)?

If you built your binary statically against the compromised version of xz, you'd still suffer wouldn't you? Or did it depend on dynamic linking in some way? I'm not really that familiar with the mechanism it used, so sorry if that's a basic question.

So, eg an entire distro built statically would still have been fully compromised. And without dynamic libs, you wouldn't be able to just update the single lib, you'd have to update everything. So to the extent your own software is statically linked, your own software may be fine (because you never picked up the new update) but you are still vulnerable if the statically linked system had the bad lib linked in.
You can use a threshold secret sharing scheme to distribute your keys amongst your friends (and amongst companies).

This way you don't need to trust any single one of your friends to be 100% honest nor 100% available.
I didn't ask what you do with LLMs, I asked how you see "fastest growing technology of all time".
Google has published that it is at about 2 billion LoC not including experiments and scratch use. I don't know if the 100 million lines of Python includes experiments. Also, if the number is old, there is a chance that the number of lines of Python has actually gone down over the years due to the (soft) mandate to stop using it.
Is this caused by quantum tunneling?
Stupid question: how are the headers passed for http? What encoding describes the encoding ?
That is fine in contexts where a wrong guess does no harm.

But that is not always the case, and e.g. silently "fixing" text encoding issues can often corrupt the data if you get it wrong.

By all means offer options of you want, but if you do flag very clearly to the user that they're taking a risk of corrupting the data unless any errors are very apparent and trivial to undo.
You’re aware that by prompting it in that way you’re effectively telling it to role play in a fictional scenario?
I've read some articles on how international phone systems "work", and it blows my mind how crappy and wild-westey it is.
What's controversial here? The benefits of Vitamin D is pretty well established

( it's a "vital mineral" after all.)

I read the summary and didn't see anything very adventurous.
Take OpenAI for example, they decided to skip on paying for content for training their models and by doing so substantially reducing their costs. Does this make ChatGPT more “green”? Does it mean when OpenAI is made to pay for all their copyright infringement that it becomes “less green”?

And what about technology which is controversial, causing a lot of discussions online (all those people spending energy to post comments…)?

I think cost has nothing to do with it.
What they neglect to mention is that increased sun exposure reduces all cause mortality, including from melanoma. Yes, it does increase skin cancer, but paradoxically reduces mortality from skin cancer.

"Additionally, assessment of sun exposure
parameters has consistently shown an association between the development
of malignant melanoma and short-term intense UV exposure, particularly
burns acquired in childhood. As a consequence, protection of the skin from
UV radiation is an integral part of skin cancer prevention campaigns. However, more chronic less-intense UV exposure has not been found to be a risk
factor for melanoma and in fact has been found in some studies to be
protective."

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-46227-7_...
I agree that the recommended dose is probably too low, but part of the reason for the discrepancy may be poor absorption of many supplements. I ended up with side effects (racing heart and thirst that wouldn't go away - which reliably went away when I backed down the dose and came back when I upped it again) from only 2000IU/day (as an adult). But I was taking it in the form of drops under the tongue (and as a combined formulation of D3 and K2) which I suspect is absorbed much better than the typical pills which are swallowed.
And the elite are shocked, shocked! To learn we don't trust their shamans.
The master rolls for player pianos were made by actual pro players playing in real time. They needed to have the performance chops, even if they maybe were not the composer in every case.

This quote about "separation of composition from performance" applies when you are working with a sequencer because the composer can "step-edit" the musical data note-by-note into the sequencer and then have the sequencer play it back in proper musical (real) time.
There's a big difference between sunbathing in Scandanavia and sunbathing in Florida, though.
Even after how much they botched the Covid response, you still go to the cdc for basic vitamin advice?

“Natural? That must be bad for you. Take these supplements that are manufactured by companies we totally don’t own stock in”
Isn't this just an involved personal assistant?
Exactly – otherwise, somebody would have most likely already deorbited them or disrupted them in some other way.

Even amateur satellites are allowed to use encryption for TT&C – a rare exception in (at least US) regulations that otherwise ban all form of encryption.
on windows copilot is built into the task bar with a popout window on right side bar showing output that can work with clipboard. You can talk to it, copy in an image or screenshot and ask for details too. if you prompt for PowerShell it gives you a code block with a copy button. (oh and also reference links to learn more... which is much nice)
Gotta be concerned with the garbage in sunscreen too
There have always been clear benefits to sun exposure. While I can't speak about what the public opinion is these days, there's plenty of recent research covering that seem to have balanced risk/benefit analysis.

Alfredsson, Lars, Bruce K. Armstrong, D. Allan Butterfield, Rajiv Chowdhury, Frank R. de Gruijl, Martin Feelisch, Cedric F. Garland, et al. “Insufficient Sun Exposure Has Become a Real Public Health Problem.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 14 (July 2020): 5014. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17145014.

Hoel, David G., Marianne Berwick, Frank R. de Gruijl, and Michael F. Holick. “The Risks and Benefits of Sun Exposure 2016.” Dermato-Endocrinology 8, no. 1 (October 19, 2016). https://doi.org/10.1080/19381980.2016.1248325.

Lindqvist, P. G., E. Epstein, K. Nielsen, M. Landin-Olsson, C. Ingvar, and H. Olsson. “Avoidance of Sun Exposure as a Risk Factor for Major Causes of Death: A Competing Risk Analysis of the Melanoma in Southern Sweden Cohort.” Journal of Internal Medicine 280, no. 4 (October 2016): 375–87. https://doi.org/10.1111/joim.12496.
I don't know why you are getting down voted. Driving is also the most dangerous thing I do each day and there are countless good reasons to ditch the daily commute. For both me and society at large.
I think the parent may be referring to the indigenous Australian (i.e. Aboriginal people) - who are basically black-skinned, and have been here for a lot longer than other races.

(Even they came to Australia from South East Asia originally - tens of thousands of years ago - back when there was a land-bridge).
Well, that review is quite old and out of date now. We now know that vitamin D doesn't in fact protect against these diseases (from the results of large vitamin D supplementation trials). However, a number of large studies show that sunlight itself does give significant protection against cancer and cardiovascular disease, and reduces all cause mortality. It is thought that this effect is due to skin-derived nitric oxide rather than vitamin D.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/joim.12251
We make some B2B software running on Windows, integrating with customer systems. We get a lot of interesting files.

About a decade ago I wrote some utility code for reading files, where it'll try to detect BOM first, if not scan for invalid UTF-8 sequences. If none are found assume UTF-8 else assume Windows-1252. Worked well for us so far.

Still get the occasional flat file in Windows-1252 with one random field containing UTF-8, so some special handling is needed for those cases. But that's rare.

Fortunately we don't have to worry about normalization for the most part. If we're parsing then any delimiters will be one of the usual suspects and the rest data.
It could be a partially trained model that they stopped at a checkpoint to gauge performance.
- Patreon if what you're doing lends itself to regular updates
- PayPal or other payment processor if your project could use donations
- Subscription based Server As A Service for things that need data syncing between multiple platforms (eg: the public/client parts can be Free Software, the server part just exposes an API, and you make it clear what data is transmitted to the server remaining solely on the user's device)
- Consultancy to assist with installation/training if your product is complex
This isn't targeted at OP. Sharing options doesnt mean that you shouldn't use the one this thread is about.
only because your linux distro is doing it for you not because bash has git completion built in.
Why create a new language, rather than use an established programming language like Go where you can actually write an implementation too?
I hope a greater and greater percentage of the population comes to understand this.

Currently the people putting in the bigger volume of “work” are the “we want the money” faction. Those who claim they own every concept that they touch. Because they will get more money if they win they treat it as both a war and a job.

Some legal-decision makers put in a smaller but more personally costly amount of work to fight against them in that war.

And a few in the general public put in work to try to change public opinion so that either the war can end peacefully (the “we own everything we touch” faction dwindles and get phased out) or we can get enough people to join the legal fights so that we can win the war.

Every time we become complacent they gain ground. Every time we make a stand they try to erode it from all sides. It is the active and vigilant effort despite them that makes forward progress possible.
Maybe the percentage of skin cancer deaths was acceptable back then? We now try to save every individual no matter what disadvantage they may have been born with thanks to modern medicine and surgery, and that practice has been changing our gene pool.
Youtube has been rewritten in c++/java eons ago.

I have been told by an old timer that YT is indeed the reason why there is Python at Google, and the time required for the rewrite is indeed the reason why internal devtools had to support Python.
> No criticism at this particular thing, but it is a good opportunity to mention that GPT-5 only exists if you have non-public information.

What?

> Sure it does.

What? Contradicting yourself immediately?

> I mention because it is not a good sign that “people are getting this,” when youtubers are using headlines like “What GPT-7 means for your sales leads!”

…what?

> The fallacy is kind of allowed by us who understand it better, when we accept semver from companies as actually being incremental, and accurate public information.

I don’t see how this follows from your previous points (if you can even call them that).

> It’s not like these models are all just matrices of weights, they are radical architectural experiments.

Aspects of both things are true. Also, this doesn’t follow from/connect with anything you said previously.
Using image embedding and evaluating 100s billion parameter LLM for OCR is like hunting rabbits using Yamato’s 18in naval gun.
Over the Wire [0] is also great if you're curious about this sort of thing. The webapp challenges became one of my initial exposures to SQL -- as well as to injections as a concept -- and later became the basis for a whole rabbit hole on Web scraping that I haven't fully gotten out of haha

The CLI ones are also how I learned (among other things) to run single commands over ssh, which I ended up needing to kill stuck browser processes on my dev box at a previous job. Hilariously, I ran across this (as well as a reason to use it) a week after a boss of mine told me it wasn't an effective use of my off time

There's a tip-of-my-tongue one I keep hoping would crop up again here, but I haven't been able to find since: it was something about a site that showed example exploits inspired by high-profile breaches that happened IRL. It's unfortunate, bc that sounded fascinating

[0] https://overthewire.org/
I’m not sure I understand why living in a northern state prevents you from getting sun exposure for part of the year. Is it cold out? Sure. But if the benefits are as much as they seem to be for you, I’d endure some cold exposure in order to get that sun therapy.
I had never heard of MARC-8 before, but after a quick google search:

"There are no defined MARC-8 character sets for Armenian, Bengali, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Syriac, Tamil or Thai."[0]

"If a character is not representable in MARC-8 of a MARC-21 record, then UTF-8 must be used instead."[1]

[0] https://help.oclc.org/Metadata_Services/Connexion/Connexion_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARC-8
Worldwide Telescope
> Satellite data clearly shows that UV is approximately 1.5x stronger in Peru than Australia, for instance.

Does this account for the diminished ozone-based UV filtering Australia is subject to?
Non-technical users don't want to do that, and won't understand any of that. That's the unfortunate reality of developing software for people.

If Excel generates CSV files with some Windows-1234 encoding, then my "import data from CSV" function needs to handle that, in one way or another. A significant number of people generate CSV files from Excel and if these people upload these files into my application and I assume an incorrect encoding, they won't care that Microsoft is using obsolete or weird defaults. They will see it as a bug in my program and demand that I fix my software. Even if Excel offers them a choice in encoding, they won't understand any of that and more importantly they don't want to deal with that right now, they just want the thing to work.
His spiel starting at 14 minutes in about how seemingly every tech product these days is a partially-baked, unfinished, barely even usable, yet full-priced product with a vague promise of "it'll receive updates and be better" rings very true, and is frustrating as hell.

Marques specifically mentions it happening in video games, cars (Tesla self-driving), smartphones, and these AI things as particular offenders. I've also seen it with SaaS. Even a lot of the things being released by the big cloud providers at their yearly conferences are mostly in some half-baked state.

We've taken the concept of a "minimum viable product" and turned it into "minimum hype-able product". It sucks.
There is a huge class of problems that's extremely difficult to solve but very easy to check.
There are several kinds of skin cancer: carcinomas (which don't usually kill you) and melanona (which does). Carcinomas are indeed positively correlated to sun exposure, but oddly enough melanoma is negatively correlated: sun exposure protects you from melanoma.
If younger generations were given the ability to rewrite the laws around sharing works, I feel like none of this would be in question.
> Some among the medical staff and social workers involved in the case thought that Jenn reacted strangely to the discovery of her children’s injuries. She didn’t show emotion or seem bothered. Her affect was “flat,” according to the D.S.S. report. The hospital’s abuse specialist concluded that the baby girl’s fractures were “diagnostic of physical abuse” and that the bruises were “inflicted.” D.S.S. concluded the boy’s injuries were also the result of abuse. A factor in this determination was that Robbie and Jenn did not have “a plausible explanation” for the injuries. “We had no idea,” Robbie told me later.

What’s perverse is that the state can take your kids away without a trial and on the basis of evidence this flimsy, and the expectation is that you are guilty unless you can provide an explanation they’re happy with. To add insult to this obvious injury, you will be held to account for your affect when dealing with the state apparatus charged with taking your children away and subjected to weird psychologizing by people without any particular psychological expertise (as if there is a correct way to respond to these questions in the first place). A tired and overworked social worker who just came from collecting six kids from a drug den can operationalize a gut feeling that your responses were “flat” and you’ll go to bed that night not knowing where your children are or when (if ever) you’ll get them back.

The idea that this only ever happens to bad people who deserve it is naïve in the extreme, and the annals of CPS are full of cases of outrageous mishandling and overreach.
I'm pretty sure it was ESPN and the NFL? The creator of the tech seems to indicate that and 1998 predates the first go around with the XFL.

https://www.sri.com/press/story/the-first-down-marker-how-te...
At the start of the video you are looking at a good potion of the whole visible sky. If you look at the very center of the frame, there is Orion, and you can see the three close bright stars together that we zoom in towards are Orion's belt.
Not every policy claiming to prevent (insert something heinous here) is a good one.

The PATRIOT Act is a terrible law. Opposing it doesn't make you a terrorist. But you would've been accused of being one nonetheless if you opposed it in 2001.

It's easy to see why many people wouldn't want to actively get into such a controversy. But even that is being used as grounds for kicking someone out.
The alternative proposed is for an entirely different platform than the OP app, so this seems like the perfect place for it.
My city started a program to train librarians to administer narcan and the city distributes narcan to libraries [0]. I can't imagine Chicago is has a larger homeless population than most other cities (as it's very affordable here).

[0] https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/cdph/provdrs/health_pr...
Not all of them contain those additives [1] (I believe coconut oil is needed because cholecalciferol is not water soluble), but yes, I agree that they should not be pushed as a substitute for sunlight if you have the choice:

> Each concentrated drop delivers 400IU of vitamin D3, the form naturally found in the body, blended with premium quality fractionated coconut oil. The sugarless formula has no artificial colours, flavours, or preservatives, so it won't interfere with feeding.

[1] https://www.ostelin.com.au/products/infant-vitamin-d3-drops/
Yes. It made many request with Range star- (i.e. without end).

500$ is not making a huge dent in the monthly bill for this. I just got a few laughs at my expense from colleagues..

I don't know how AWS meters, but, if your assumption is right, I can abuse this and generate a huge bill to anyone just by starting streams and not consuming then. I could generate 10s of gbps of "apparent" billable traffic with a puny VPS.
The flat white (?) looks great. Looks exactly how I make it, and I even have a cup like that.
A valid point, I guess it rubs me wrong when the top reply is a negative comment about someone creating something themselves. It isn't nice or even necessarily valid.

Lots of founders could've been torn down at this early phase by crap like this.

My hypothesis: They need much more sun and water.