skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the headers are pure ASCII, which as noted is a subset of almost all encodings.
Clearly, as I had to ask. :)
I do Keto. I think it does help but isn't a cure for me by itself. That plus a little bit of exercise does help me keep the weight off though.

I would definitely use sunscreen if you are in the Sun for over an hour or two depending on your skin type though. Sunburn = bad.
for US citizens
That section explains why not to use a specific naive charset detection library that doesn't have a strong prior for UTF-8. There's no basis for extrapolating that further.
Lack of affordable housing, many can't find girlfriends, and good paying jobs are far and few between.

I don't blame NEETs and I honestly think they're the smart ones gaming the system until it collapses.
Pretraining Without Attention
indeed, it is hard to compete on quality in the long term.
I've written code to do this. If you're lucky there will be a BOM (byte order mark) or MIME type to indicate the encoding form. In this case you know the encoding. If you don't have this information, then you must guess the encoding. The issue is guessing may not produce accurate results, especially if you don't have enough bytes to go by.

The program I wrote to guess the encoding would scan the bytes in multiple passes. Each pass would check if the bytes encoded valid characters in some specific encoding form. After a pass completed I would assign it a score based on how many successfully encoded characters were (or were not) found. After all passes completed I'd pick the highest score and assume that was the encoding. This approach ended up being reasonably reliable assuming there were enough bytes to go by.
> A Gödel numbering is simply a mapping to integers (that is easily decoded).

"easily" is arguable. Sure, I could multiply/factor an enormous number and count how many copies of each prime it has, but I'd much rather concatenate/split some digits.
CDC: Technical Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Viruses
The link to his Google Scholar page from search results 404’s for me at the moment, however a recent copy is available here

https://web.archive.org/web/20230505164450/https://scholar.g...
The genes that predispose you to melanoma are probably the same genes that makes your skin white...
When I was on Android I looked for a period-tracking app but could only find cloud-based ones, so I didn't track my period for many years. Appreciate you.
Wow. TIL

I grew up cable, my parents stopped paying for it all through middle and high school, missed it, grew up and got my own money, paid for cable, and… my parents were right. 200 channels of nothing to watch. Cable is a waste of money.
Thanks for giving me an example of an architecture where the bits are labelled backwards, I'd never encountered that before. I've always appreciated that the bit number represents 2 to the power of that number.
Doclite: PHP NoSQL database and document store using SQLite
I've definetly seen this too, especially among younger kids raised in the cities!
I should say shutting some of those down.

A few have brought it to court and said “as long as there is a shortage this should be legal” and the court agreed.

But the FDA really dislikes compounding because of the safety risks.
Assistant works for you, but you work for the manager. E.g. you owe them money, in case you fail
Above certain threshold of solar in the grid it’s not necessarily so. Also there are locations that are good for solar and available but have terrible grid connecting capabilities.
this app make me think of my lady, it might be useful for her
Will there be 0 unhappiness, 0 darkness, 0 pain, 0 death, 0 risk, 0 inflation also ?
Seems like an aging population explains most or all of the post-2000 downturn, no? We're currently at a 20 year high of the 25-54 age group's employment: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300060
regarding passport and visa concerns:

no schengen exit stamp for EU citizens, that particular airline/route doesn't check for destination visa

I don't personally think this is top-tier spy stuff like this article is making it out to be, its spelled out for any 2nd passport collector on all those golden visa or perpetual traveller websites and literature
I mean look at the chart I linked. That's why. QE probably did cause inflation, in asset values, etc. We papered over many of the negative effects through importing cheap Chinese goods and cheap immigrant labor, which was a temporary bandaid that caused other problems.
That's the takeaway for people in charge of the software development, sure. But really, is it even actually a lesson? To my knowledge, there was no accountability, no backlash, no one got fired or reprimanded, no manager was denied a promotion. What lesson was learned by the stewards of the system, really?

Meanwhile, a lesson was very much learned by Mr. Tartaro who, as a DEFCON speaker, should have absolutely known better. He was playing with fire, and now he's suffering the consequences. I don't want to come across as defending the system in use, although it seems to be as much of a social issue as a technical one with people interpreting the text field as being invalid, but this was clearly a dumbass thing to do.
It's a mistake to call it x86 bit numbering, it's way older than that.
Its kind of obvious kids should be sweating 30 minutes a day at school.
So this is coming from Microsoft. I assume it’s going to be their answer to graphql. If the project is dogfooded internally, the tools may actually be half decent, compared to whatever an open source consortium cobbles together. Not sold yet, but might gain more traction.
Part D expansion has come in way under estimated costs which is a massive shocker for a federal program.
I can't help myself. The grandest of nitpicks is coming your way. I'm sorry.

> If you give me a computer timestamp without a timezone, I can and will assume it's in UTC.

Do you mean, give you an _offset_? `2024-04-29T14:03:06.0000-8:00` the `-8:00` is an offset. It only tells you what time this stamp occurred relative to standard time. It does not tell you anything about the region or zone itself. While I have consumed APIs that give me the timezone context as part of the response, none of them are part of the timestamp itself.

The only time you should assume a timestamp is UTC is if it has the `z` at the end (assuming 8601) or is otherwise marked as UTC. Without that, you have absolutely no information about where or when the time has occurred -- it is local time. And if your software assumes a local timestamp is UTC, then I argue it is not the sender of that timestamp's problem that your software is broken.

My desire to meet you at 4pm has no bearing on if the DST switchover has happened, or my government decides to change the timezone rules, or if {any other way the offset for a zone can change for future or past times}. My reminder to take my medicine at 7pm is not centered on UTC or my physical location on the planet. Its just at 7pm. Every day. If I go from New York to Paris then no, I do not want your software to tell me my medicine is actually supposed to be at Midnight. Its 7pm.

But, assuming you aren't doing any future scheduling, calendar appointments, bookings, ticket sales, transportation departure, human-centric logs, or any of the other ways Local Time is incredibly useful -- ignore away.
Are the use cases for period tracking: 1. helps planning (e.g. same way a weather app helps decision making around when to do / not do various activities), and 2. improves accuracy of estimating whether conception may have occurred (vs not tracking).

Are these correct; are there others?
That was my exact point.
> perhaps we do need a new popular license or set of variants that exclude certain industries.

Such a license would not be considered open source or Free Software.

Someone else posted this link about a similar situation in the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford#Software_lic...
For hydrogen in Europe to be considered green - if I’m not mistaken - you need not just carbon neutral sources, but also you need them built specifically for the purpose of capturing hydrogen. It can be tracked.
When using Perl you should `use strict; use warnings;` and you have something approaching a real language with a lot fewer warts, in which said quine is not a valid program. It isn't the default because Perl people have an obsession about not breaking backwards compatibility.

I think the people that love perl love its expressiveness. It has a little bit of functional programming here, and a system for making an object-oriented language, and all of these handy tools and you choose which ones you need or find most readable. I've heard Ruby called a better Perl, and - as someone whose day job is largely those two things - that's completely fair.
You’re right and it’s even worse. Much of the content on “engineering” especially on YouTube teaches resource intensive and overly complex practices sold as good programming. Moving more work to runtime. Increasing dependencies. Relying increasingly on blocking RPC. Wasting memory, cpu and storage.

A rejection of performance and compatibility as the core principles of software engineering in favor of “syntactic sugar” and “idiomatic Haskell”
An interesting thing i've been trying is to ask for a route from A to B in some city.

Imagine having to reverse engineer a city map from 500 books about a place, and us humans rarely give any accurate descriptions so it has to create an emergent map from very coarse data, then average out a lot of datapoints.

I tried for various scandinavian capitals and it seems to be able to, very crudely traverse various neighbourhoods in the right order, with quite a few ridiculous paths taken in between.

Ie. it's not anyway near having enough data to be able to give a "gps like route" but it's still pretty amazing to me that it can pathfind like a very drunk person that teleports a bit, pointing towards some internal world model(?).

When it'l be able to traverse a city from pure training data, wow. Would probably require heaps of historial local media and literature.

Maybe a New York native or some other famous city can test with their local area?
Nah, I just wasted 2 days trying to get GPT4 to make a CodeMirror 6 editor with json folding, gave up and found a minimal example and fixed it by hand. The model would confuse CM5 with CM6 and get burned all the time
An even bigger irony is that one of major community moderators who is mad is an “ethical software engineer” working at Google.
Early adopters of Unicode used the first available encoding, UCS-2. UTF-16 is an extension of that to handle the increased range of code points that came later.
Yes, it's not guarantee, but it is one good data source for predicting the future.

See Rule 5 in https://hbr.org/2007/07/six-rules-for-effective-forecasting
Surprisingly, I read a book that had information about the pay for spies, albeit in the Mossad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By_Way_of_Deception

Interesting book about how the Israelis infiltrated Iraq's nuclear weapons program, and the rivalries between the Mossad and other internal organizations in the 80s.
I spot checked a few of the studies in that meta analysis and they all suffered from the exact same methodological flaw that I pointed out above. They administered fixed doses to subjects rather than titrating the doses up or down to hit target blood levels.
Fwiw...I had no hand problems and excellent handwriting. People used to ask me to transcribe their notes for handouts. And after about age 20, I almost completely abandoned it in favor of keyboards. All to say, your life might not have been any different
that is completely the wrong answer
This is not correct. Look up rent seeking. If a company has regulatory capture it can seek the maximum profit and remain static (until it loses its capture). Generally it attains its maximum by exercising its pricing power. Exercising pricing power does not lead to more employees by the company.
> Once the user sends or receives an email, Avast will scan it and add an email signature without the user's consent. The signature indicates that the sender of the email is "Virus-free" and includes a link to the Avast official website.

UI control or browser code injection?
Hoard it
That only works if you are doing something unique enough to ignore its imperfections, otherwise people will use a full-featured competitor. The alternative to the Rabbit is your phone, I suppose.
The xz hack used an ifunc resolver to load its payload, where the ifunc resolver is a function that the dynamic loader calls to figure out what the address of a symbol should be (i.e., to make something dependent on the current hardware capabilities).
What biased agenda do you see in this article?
Neat! I watch it every day. Didn’t realize it was a waste of money until just now.
Apache Echarts. You run into constraints with most others after a point.
Using resources like F-Droid can help you find open source apps, which generally speaking, are very privacy friendly. I believe admittance into the default F-Droid repo doesn't allow trackers at all. Certain alternative front ends to the F-Droid repos, like Neo Store, can display privacy "scores" for individual apps.

There's also many groups that produce privacy-friendly apps, such as SECUSO[0] and Fossify[1]

[0]: https://github.com/SecUSo
[1]: https://github.com/FossifyOrg
They do support two external displays now in clamshell mode.
No.

Imagine sledding down hillside covered in gravel. Friction imparts momentum from your sled to the gravel, causing a few pieces to slide forward with each ride down the hill. With a thin enough layer of gravel, and with enough ride down the hill, you can end up with bare patches with no gravel.

In this loose analogy, the gravel is atoms in wire. The sled is an electrical impulse. Maybe there's some tunneling that takes place when the gravel moves from one site to another, but I'm not sure.

(I once had a job offer from Intel to work on electromigration in next gen chips, but didn't take it, so I don't know much beyond the basics.)
Better yet copy the minds jury system, if you flag a post or series of posts as harrassment, and hit a submit button, 1000 random users vote if it's harrassment or not and and I'd so then the person gets banned or temp banned from their account... However Facebook and the ad driven socials won't dare do that because even harassers have eyeballs to view ads with.

Ads are the cause of all this evil, really.
I learned how Touch Screen phones physics work
Lol if only the disclosed who funds Gunter Kuhnle. Doesn’t take much to put two and two together. This is a clear pr hit piece article from Big Food to fight against UPF research. Sad work from the OpenMinds team.
OTOH if no one ever pushes back against entropy, your great-grandkids will still be dealing with Windows-1234 problems in 2100.
How to train diffusion for text from scratch
Hey all,

I thought the paper “Discrete Diffusion Modeling by Estimating the ratios of the Data Distribution” was a pretty cool idea, so decided to dive deep into the code, strip it down so I could understand it, then train some models from scratch. My findings are linked here:

https://www.oxen.ai/blog/how-to-train-diffusion-for-text-fro...

I find the diffusion papers a bit difficult to read and looking at the inputs and outputs of code really help me grok what’s going on.

Main takeaways are:

1) It is yet to be seen if these techniques will scale in both data and model size
2) Is an interesting technique in general, kind of wild that the Monte Carlo sampling and denoising works at all
3) The infilling isn’t a super big selling point as is because the context length is fixed during diffusion. You’d have to layer in some hacks to make it work well for code completion or other use cases.

Curious what you guys think about diffusion for text, and hopefully this gives people a jumping off point for understanding and implementing your own!

Props to @louaaron and his team at Stanford and Pika Labs for the initial paper and implementation.
If you’re regular and become irregular, it’s often a sign that something is off, or if you’re into middle age, that your body’s hormone balance is changing. In either case it’s something to pay attention to and maybe mention to your doc next time you see them.
I mean, I don't have any problem with what Apple is doing. I was just adding a correction to the poster I was replying to: that all Apple laptops do not support TB4. Based on their single display support, they're fully-featured TB3, and that's perfectly fine.
(I work on the team)

I wouldn't say that TypeSpec is like GraphQL, so it would be hard for TypeSpec to become that on its own. GraphQL has a lot of opinions that are required in order to build a concrete application (protocols, error handling, query semantics, etc.), whereas TypeSpec at its core is just an unopinionated DSL for describing APIs. Bindings for particular protocols are added via libraries, and a GraphQL library is something we have long considered.

So in short, if Microsoft invented a set of opinions that solved similar scenarios to GraphQL, it might use TypeSpec as the API description language in that context, but it wouldn't be fair to equate those opinions with TypeSpec itself.
With regards to real estate price inflation, I agree with you. Homeowners originated mortgages at 2-3%, allowing real estate prices to run wild at those cheap money rates. It will take years for sellers to make peace with forward looking asset prices at the current benchmark rate (some real estate prices can be supported by cash buyers, but investor demand will be low with the risk free rate where it is at, and incomes that can support mortgage payments cannot support current price levels). But there is no way to dig ourselves out of this real estate inflation mess besides building as much housing as possible, as fast as possible, if you want to reduce housing inflation (unless you want to start forcing people with low rate mortgages to sell their homes, or take action that destroys demand for housing).

> The Fed resumed purchasing massive amounts of debt securities, a key tool it employed during the Great Recession. Responding to the acute dysfunction of the Treasury and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) markets after the outbreak of COVID-19, the Fed’s actions initially aimed to restore smooth functioning to these markets, which play a critical role in the flow of credit to the broader economy as benchmarks and sources of liquidity. On March 15, 2020, the Fed shifted the objective of QE to supporting the economy. It said that it would buy at least $500 billion in Treasury securities and $200 billion in government-guaranteed mortgage-backed securities over “the coming months.” On March 23, 2020, it made the purchases open-ended, saying it would buy securities “in the amounts needed to support smooth market functioning and effective transmission of monetary policy to broader financial conditions,” expanding the stated purpose of the bond buying to include bolstering the economy. In June 2020, the Fed set its rate of purchases to at least $80 billion a month in Treasuries and $40 billion in residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities until further notice. The Fed updated its guidance in December 2020 to indicate it would slow these purchases once the economy had made “substantial further progress” toward the Fed’s goals of maximum employment and price stability. In November 2021, judging that test had been met, the Fed began tapering its pace of asset purchases by $10 billion in Treasuries and $5 billion in MBS each month. At the subsequent FOMC meeting in December 2021, the Fed doubled its speed of tapering, reducing its bond purchases by $20 billion in Treasuries and $10 billion in MBS each month.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/fed-response-to-covid19/

https://www.axios.com/2023/12/09/mortage-rates-housing-marke...
I'm not that shocked to see Solaris, but I am surprised to see Solaris and not AIX, which is also actively developed and I thought IBM specifically made an effort to keep assorted FOSS working on it.
And my niece is still using my 2014 MBP that I gave her a couple of years ago.
I think Dave2D zeros in on the why in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMqhE9r5JuI&ab_channel=Dave2...

These devices should be apps on your phone. Google and Apple will won't open their devices enough for these assistants to useful cause they want to roll their own. So their only hope is to create a stand alone device.. But yeah they're dead in the water.
By default, even on a recent perl it'll act like you're on a really old perl and run just fine.

With warnings, it runs, but tells you about all of the mistakes you made.
With strict, it doesn't run.
Finally, a genuine attempt to address money laundering schemes, as opposed to stupid cash payment and transportation controls.
The problem is with the lack of transparency and expectation setting. If you sell something with lots of hype and then deliver half of it, you've failed.
LLMs trained on just human text are indeed limited, imitative models. But when they train from the environment they can surpass humans, like AlphaZero or AlphaGeometry
The constitution prevents that, esp the 2nd amendment of it.

Dont be weak and let the religious nutters be the only ones to practice their 2A right.
Moreover, compiling an IDL to N languages is substantially easier than compiling implementation code across N languages, especially when generating idiomatic code is a requirement. A language purpose-built for this task is going to produce better results while having substantially lower complexity.

(My $0.02 as someone who works on TypeSpec)
The web experience of the 90s and early 2000s is dead. The web has gotten shittier too.

I was going to type up some long rant, but why? This is a good example of why the web is dead. Fuck you author.

I welcome my fucking ban.
Surreal claims, lawfare and abuse: toxic politic in Spain reflect the new Europe
Lack of supply is the cause in some popular metro areas. But that’s not the whole story. Prices are exploding even in places that are experiencing virtually no population growth. Or where growth is below historic trends. The price of my house has doubled, in a country where population growth has been like 1% annually (and it’s a red county with lots of farmland where building housing is relatively cheap and easy). That’s not because all the yuppies want to move to exurban Maryland.

I don’t understand the resistance to acknowledging that inflation is the predictable effect of money printing. The M1 money supply increases from $4 trillion in December 2019 to $20 trillion in June 2022. That’s what’s causing the inflation. It’s a textbook outcome from easily identifiable policy choices.
> The remarkable aspect in Argentina is that the person in charge is not afraid of bearing the political consequences associated with austerity

There’s always a trade off. Prioritising the reduction of inflation may make a lot of sense but there will be side effects and now you manage that is key.

Maybe I’m just cynical after watching my home country, the UK, fall victim to “austerity”. It feels like another name for the long-term enshittification of an entire country and becomes a goal unto itself.
I don't do a lot of writing, that said I use fountain pens when sketching out ideas / designs - paper is preferred to sketching / whiteboard programs. I've found the pen that works for me is a $30 Lamy fountain pen - it works better for me than ballpoints, etc.
Just because you haven't used text generation with practically unlimited context windows, insight extraction from personal data, massively improved text-to-image, image-to-image and video generation tools, and ridden in an autonomous vehicle, doesn't mean that the field has stagnated.

You're purposefully ignoring progress, and gating it behind some arbitrary ideals. That doesn't make your claims true.
Humans supervising models solving difficult problems is the beginning of an AGI society.