skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A sequence of tokens can be converted back to the sequence of tokenized characters without loss of information. Eg, how do you think text is rendered for the user based on sequences of tokens generated by the LLM? Different tokenization schemes arrange that information differently and may make it (hand waving here) harder or easier for the model to reason about details like raw character counts that are affected by tokenization. If the training set included sufficiently many examples of character counting Q/A pairs, an LLM would have no trouble learning how to do this task.
They're doing it for free.
The greatest thing about PBS Space Time and Matt (previous host was pretty good too) is it's not dumbed down or watered down and only the smallest of layperson explainers are given.

It's "keep up or fall behind", almost like sitting in a college level astrophysics class but more entertaining at times.

But sometimes on some topics I have to watch it a dozen times to fully grasp the concepts and the math at some points is beyond me. Some days my brain is just not working well enough (which makes youtube the wrong place for them but I save them to loop later).

Maybe my favorite part is I love it when he starts breaking out the Penrose Diagrams.
Disney ditching Slack after massive July data breach
Yikes.

I tried Arc a while ago but switched back to Chrome. Quite glad I did now.
> If you are serious about finding a job, you HAVE to rely on your network

This is not a hard rule. My last 4 jobs I got without a network connection, and I work at a large, well-known company now.
Sure, Dokku is still valuable without it. I've seen a ton of recommendations over the years to "just use Dokku" when people ask about simple hosting setups for their side hustle or whatever though. In that context, Dokku isn't really a viable option unless backups are in place - ideally OOTB. Without having backups OOTB, the idea of Dokku being a really easy way to get going is a little bit diluted, don't you think?

I sort of see it the same way as "just install Linux Mint, it's great, you'll love it", but when something doesn't work, it's "oh yeah, just open the terminal and ________": opening the terminal is the _last_ thing people want to do if they just wanna read their email or whatever.
This just just an ad. Chrome extension might be "free" but there is nothing free here.
I can't type anything in the text area on Firefox. Works in Chrome (macOS).
They're going from 2+MB (for some reason) to 300KB - even if decompression is "slow," that's going to be a win for their bandwidth costs and for perceived speed for _most_ users.

I was surprised to see little server-side CPU benchmarking too, though. While I'd expect overall client timing for (transfer + decompress) to be improved dramatically unless the user was on a ridiculously fast network connection, I can't imagine server load not being affected in a meaningful way.
They might have been getting murdered by egress fees in which case they'd be willing to make that sacrifice
I didn't claim that Brazil would lose the citizenry or anything about this specific situation. I disagree, generally, that nation states can always win against corporations. But maybe it's more a question of time frame.

DuPont adversely affecting the environment and ultimately people during the manufacture of Teflon is a ready example. It's a loss due to decades of severe impact. Regulatory capture and banking also comes to mind as a loss also given the number of people pushed to economic ruin because of it.

I'm curious where you think I made an extraordinary claim? I'm also curious what comes across as so biased?
This aligns with my prior likely release hypothesis, informed by this excellent deep dive article that looks at a lot of the arguments for either the wet market or the lab: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/practically-a-book-review-r...

My favorite quote from the article: Fourth, for the first time it made me see the coronavirus as one of God’s biggest and funniest jokes. Think about it. Either a zoonotic virus crossed over to humans fifteen miles from the biggest coronavirus laboratory in the Eastern Hemisphere. Or a lab leak virus first rose to public attention right near a raccoon-dog stall in a wet market. Either way is one of the century’s biggest coincidences, designed by some cosmic joker who wanted to keep the debate stayed acrimonious for years to come
Not especially surprising, the GCC (of which the UAE is a member state) are Sunni petro-states that have been aligned with the US since the 50s. Hezbollah is a Shiite group who are patronized by Iran, who are the chief geopolitical rival of GCC countries and compete with them to sell fossil fuels on the international market.
I used to always wonder how do llms know whether a particular long article or audio transcript was written by say Alan Watts. Basically these kind of metadata annotation would be common while preparing training data for Llama models and so on. This could also be reason for the genesis for the argument that ChatGPT got slower in December. That "date" metadata would "inform" ChatGPT to be unhelpful.
> the old homes were built to breathe

Yes, but there are ways to handle that. Even the insulation can let water vapor through, of course you can't in that case use the cheapest styropor.

> I think Karl Marx only serves as an expensive lesson in what destructive ideas look like.

I fully agree implementing his dumb ideas mostly from the Communist Manifest led to huge tragedies, but they were implemented partly because he was a hugely influential philosopher and that was not some random success. His critique of capitalism is worth reading, or at least reading about.
Do the packets transmit through Discord's servers? Reducing their bill may be more important to them than user performance.
Ironically, the proposed biological mechanism behind EMDR is totally incorrect, and everyone knows it, outside of some diehard polyvagal theory (also totally bunk) adherents. But the treatments do work for a lot of people, probably because it's just exposure therapy by another name.
Attempting to find the relevant docs page via search engines is generally not a good way to go, you should go to the documentation and search from there. Bookmark the landing page of the documentation.
> Do people really fall for scam like that?

You should put a "voice activated" sticker on a random break room appliance (toaster, water/ice dispenser, microwave, coffee machine, ...).

Don't use strong adhesive if your desk is within hearing distance.
> a configuration page for Pihole in your NAT router's web interface likely isn't coming soon. I hope that changes.

In the meantime, the majority of routers do allow you to specify the DNS resolver instead of using whatever it learns via WAN DHCP, so you could put in a filtered public resolver (as opposed to your own Pihole instance) which gives pretty similar results if you don't need to whitelist anything. Plus, you can do the same on mobile devices that roam beyond that router (and avoid VPN through said router). I've been using dns.adguard-dns.com (94.140.14.14 and 94.140.15.15) [0]. They were founded in Moscow but now operate out of Cyprus (EU) and I don't have much of a reason to trust any other DNS operator more than them.

[0] https://adguard-dns.io/en/public-dns.html -- "method 2"
Same subject, different article.
Pay the guy properly. $2000 is an insult. It should be $50k. This kind of bug could be sold for 100-200k easily.
This does not address the furin cleavage site, which I understand is not present on any other coronavirus.

This feature is the lead evidence for a lab leak.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furin
>Them acknowledging the issue, then fixing it within 28 hours isn't good enough for you?

Are you not concerned with the yet to be discovered vulnerabilities?

What is concerning is the nature of the vulnerability and how it speaks to their security culture (which is obviously non-existent).
This also revealed that their privacy policy is pure marketing fluff, completely disconnected from (and, in fact, counter to) their actions.

If you are comfortable using a browser (probably the software with the largest risk and attack surface on your device) that had an embarrassingly rudimentary vulnerability, made by a company who lie about the most important promise of their privacy policy, then I've got a calculator app for you.
https://cs.stackexchange.com/a/60978
Some of those payloads are much larger than a few kilobytes (READY, MESSAGE_CREATE etc.)
There is a section and data on "time to compress". No time to decompress though.
It's almost certainly about hosting costs, not user facing value.
It's not a full solution, but meditate. When everything seems too much on the outside, we can find space inside. It makes it easier to deal with the job afterwards.
Supposed to be, apparently.
What happened the last time UK debt hit 100%? I don't remember the 1960s as being particularly tough times for the UK, other than the IRA bombings.

Edit:

> Considered by conventional macroeconomic metrics, the 1960s can claim to be one of the UK’s most economically successful decades. GDP growth averaged 3.5%, unemployment 2.7% and inflation 3.5%. Real disposable household income per head was 25% greater by the end of the 1960s than it was at the end of the 1950s. However, such figures fail to take account of the trajectory of developments over the course of the decade, which tended largely in a negative direction. As well as slowing growth in real disposable household incomes and the declining profitability of industry, this trajectory can also be seen with respect to inflation and unemployment. As can be seen in table 3, inflation and the unemployment rate began the decade at 1.0% and 2.1% respectively, but gradually ratcheted up with every stop-go cycle. By 1969 inflation was 5.4% and unemployment 3.5%, a post-war high.

From https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/the-uk-economy-in-the-196...
This misses the bigger point of my argument. The whole reason why abortion is seen as this religious issue is the system of religious thought that's ingrained in American society. It was created as a wedge issue for religious voters, and this system grew so much that nowadays it's seen as this intrinsically religion-dividing issue, as if it's just natural for it to be this way. The reason why you (and possibly the mayor) see opening a clinic as this big act of secularism is because the underlying religion is deeply integrated into their community.

And the second half of my argument still stands. Someday, religion may become a minority ideology. But it will never be a rebellious counterculture.
Personally netflix went downhill the moment they stopped the "forced bitrate" option.
The quality is shit.
This was the moment for me where piracy was a more enticing option.

I still kept netflix because it was cheap divided by 5, the value proposition was still there, it was easy enough for 4€/m.

When they stopped it was over for me.
Or Neoliberalism. Trickle down economics.

How rich are the rich now compared to the 1960s?
Shareware at one point was really try before you buy without restrictions--even if mostly people never bought before software really didn't have trial periods etc.

"Free to play" is really awful in general though. But I guess people won't in general pay up-front for a lot of things.
Public Good Naming for Ethereum: Mapping Human-Readable Names for Free
> It's cheap

That hasn't been the case for at least a decade now - not after safety requirements were brought to where they are now.

And that 60-80 year lifetime which is supposed to spread the cost is a myth. Most plants are decommissioned before they turn 40 years of operation:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/272139/age-distribution-...
That's good to know - Spanner is even more impressive engineering!

I wish we had the staff and time to build and maintain something like Spanner. Different constraints lead to different solutions.
Ask HN: How to determine RSU value for offer for non-public company?
I have been offered a certain number of RSUs as part of a compensation package and need to determine what the realistic value is of these RSUs.

The company is not public yet but has been around for about 10 years and is pretty well known.

When I asked about the value of the RSUs they refused to share any key numbers such as outstanding shares, valuation etc.

Based on public info the valuation is in the single digit billions.

How does one come up with a realistic pricing range of the RSUs when evaluating an offer?
> Just by symmetry, shouldn’t it blueshift on the way in, gain some preposterous amount of energy — enough that it can escape?

Escape requires a certain critical speed (escape velocity), and light always travels at the speed of light regardless of it's energy, so light's ability to escape a black hole is not energy dependent. At some radius (the event horizon), space itself falls into a black hole faster than the speed of light, and that's sets a hard limit on everything's ability to escape.

Past the event horizon physics get weird. Time becomes finite and ends for all observers at a point in the future called the singularity. Everything falls towards this point, gaining preposterous amounts of energy. "Preposterous" here means infinite energy, and infinite density, really just a whole lot of infinities. Those infinities are problematic, and mean there's probably something non-infinite and uniquely interesting going on in there, but since nothing can escape the event horizon we'll likely never know.
No. There are no good or bad people. But people do good or bad things, all the time.
Interesting, very much at odds with Matt Ridley's analysis here:
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/09/10/there-is-now-no-dou...
Transit app introduces safer bike directions
> These CDNs agreed with Anatel, to reserve IPs exclusively to X, so IPs can block X without collateral damage, that's all.

Thanks, the article didn't say anything like that. It, of course, makes sense to avoid the obvious collateral damage. It didn't seem like it started out that way based on this article though:

> X recently moved to servers hosted by Cloudflare and appeared to be using dynamic internet protocol addresses that constantly change...
I didn't know she was so influential with regards to kitchen design and universal or inclusive design. Wonderful article with a lot of depth and much food for thought for anyone interested in trying to find solutions for this problem space.

Americans strikes me as being in crisis due to various social factors making full-time wives and moms relatively rare. Our food culture, recipes, kitchens, home design etc etc are rooted in an implicit assumption that your wife or mom is doing the grocery shopping, cooking, keeping track of your health issues and dietary needs etc when this is no longer true for most people.

There seems to be an endless stream of people complaining they either don't have time to cook or they are fat and broke from consuming takeout and an endless stream of companies trying to address the issue, such as meal delivery companies.

I like Julia Child's skepticism about the effectiveness of productizing the space as the only or prime solution. It seems likely to me we need to rethink and rework our food culture so everyone can eat adequately, even if they don't have some privileged life with a high quality kitchen and full-time wife and mom taking care of all the nutritional concerns and logistics behind that, which are substantial.
They use JSON over the wire and not a binary protocol? That's madness and reminds me of XML / Jabber.

Protos or a custom wire protocol would be far better suited to the task.
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/richest-1-bag-nearly...
Isn't this not a coincidence at all? The research lab was put there because it was known hot spot for wild coronavirus strains.
Three Mile Island nuclear plant will reopen to power Microsoft data centers
From the same guy:

https://www.space.com/china-space-plane-caught-on-camera
Yet another reason why I love Singapore: by law, the budget must be balanced over every parliamentary term. So, they never accumulate runaway debt. And that's before you count the $2.5 trillion reserves they have across Temasek, GIC, CPF, and MAS. And that's for a country of just 6 million people.

Even the Arab petro-states that literally scoop money from the ground haven't saved that much! (Highest is Saudi Arabia with $1 trillion.)

Edit: in case you're wondering, no, there's no catch: Singapore has ultra-modern infrastructure, great healthcare, and they're enviable in every way.
Not just taking into account the furin cleavage site issue, but there is every incentive for the scientific community and those in power to blame this on the wet market over the lab leak.
I think videogames are the most bandwidth-hungry workload that most normal people have, so I think it would be hard to justify this sort of drive otherwise.
For such low-bandwidth applications, you'll usually want to do the key exchange while you have a faster connection, as well as build a dictionary of expected recipients etc.

Once you have a pre-exchanged symmetric key pair and IVs etc., encryption can be done with zero overhead, and you can choose your own trade-off between authentication security and message size. Even 4 bytes go a long way (an attacker would need to send 2^31 messages over a very bandwidth-constrained channel to impersonate you), and 8 bytes make it safe enough for practically all applications.

That way, you can keep the authentication overhead very small (on the order of a few bytes), similar to how it's done for e.g. SRTP.
I imagine the beancounters have little hope of just making the programmers go away, so they might as well be doing something useful :)
There already was compression before, through zlib. The findings, as showed in the post, was that Zstandard was also a lot more efficient than zlib from a cpu time standpoint.
It's interesting to read this study... the degree of complexity of the analysis reminds me of a overcomplicated codebase.

Would love to see completely independent analysis before trusting such a large codebase is bug-free.
Still applies; the only outlier in the Hezbollah entry is Malaysia, who most likely are doing so on sectarian lines or to follow the KSA's lead.
$2000 is an insult, good luck getting tips for your future vulns.
huh? users can still use takeout. this just stops third party apps from enumerating all of your photos

why would they need to do that anyway? I wholeheartedly agree with "If your app relies on accessing the user's entire library, you may need to re-evaluate your app".
Math teacher next week: "Now where's my cut?"
The Costs of Housing Regulation: Evidence from Generative Regulatory Measurement
What's the issue with all these websites? Is it simply that you have a distaste for affiliate sites in general?

It’s worth noting that Lars Lofgren’s own affiliate site (the person that wrote this article), hradvice.com, was impacted by a Google update in August, so there might be some personal bias and motive here.

But I’m curious—what exactly are the criticisms you have towards platforms like NerdWallet and Bankrate? Would love to better understand.
This is why I switched to Kagi.com it gives me results that are much more sane for things I'm looking for when it comes to a programming stance
The header to this study should read:

>Using data made available by the Chinese government...

They even kind of acknowledge this in the final line of the paper

> Finally, the publicly available genomic and epidemiological data from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic remain incomplete, and future data from this time could shed further light on hypotheses regarding its emergence
> Nobody has come up with a scalable metric for determining quality that can't be appropriated by SEO

Nor will it ever happen, at least as long as search is a Google monoculture. One effective player in the search space means that everyone sets their sight on the same target. Which naturally leads to SEO being an extremely one-sided arms race not in favor of Google - "good content" is hard to quantify, and whatever proxy (or combinations thereof) Google uses to estimate that quality will be ruthlessly uncovered, reverse engineered and exploited to its last inch by an unyielding, unending horde of "SEO optimizers".

The only way that Google maintains search quality is if it properly accounts for the fact that websites will adopt the path of least resistance, i.e. put in the least amount of effort to optimize only specifically the things that Google measures. Which means that the heuristics and algorithms Google uses to determine search rankings must always be a moving target whose criteria needs to be vigilantly updated and constantly curated by people. Any attempt to fully automate that curation will result in the cyber equivalent of natural selection - SEO-optimizing websites adapting by automating the production of content that hits just the right buttons while still being royally useless to actual visitors.
Note that this kind of visualization is just the collapsed form of a standard forecast graph, e.g.

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=37.39&lon=-122...

https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/ca/mountain-view
Agreed. In the RAG space there are a million Open Source projects on GitHub all calling it memory, recreating the same thing over and over again.
One-chip sound player – Dmitry.GR
They didn’t talk about the furin site at all? Hmm
For native documentation, why not just search the official docs at https://docs.python.org/ ?

I find it to be very discoverable if you are looking for docs about a specific function or module.
So we still live in 2020? Hey, that shit is done with, get over it.
They don't have all the permissions. They state which ones they require, which can be none at all.
Bandwidth costs for text messages, maybe, but how much data is that really compared to images, audio, video or even just the app's JS bundle?
Some airlines (Air Canada, in particular) are ramping up their attacks outside of just technical means [1].

It's a pretty sad state of affairs, but it seems some airlines would rather throw lawyers at a problem than let their users have a better experience.

[1]: https://onemileatatime.com/news/airlines-shut-down-websites-...
What does the water get transformed into? Coal? Dirt? Gold? Carbon monoxide? Neutrinos?

Seems a bit hysterical.
Geopolitics and nuclear power are not always such a great combination - consider the Russian occupation of the nuclear power plant in Ukraine. I'm not against nuclear power in general, but saying it's a great hedge against political risks involved with wind and solar is quite a stretch.
You are describing it as a scraper (which sounds sketchy), but your link says it is a provider for the LinkedIn API. What is it, really? And why would we need it because, as your page indicates, Linkedin does have an existing API.
> A 12-nt insertion at S1/S2 in the spike coding sequence yields a furin cleavage site, which raised controversy views on origin of the virus. Here we analyzed the phylogenetic relationships of coronavirus spike proteins and mapped furin recognition motif on the tree. Furin cleavage sites occurred independently for multiple times in the evolution of the coronavirus family, supporting the natural occurring hypothesis of SARS-CoV-2.

"Furin cleavage sites naturally occur in coronaviruses" - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7836551/

Just one paper among many, not sure it's as strong evidence as you seem to think.

Overall, current evidence seems to be mostly be pointing to a natural origin, maybe linked to wildlife sold in Wuhan.

Wonder when we'll reach any sort of conclusion to this.