skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was decisive.

Hopefully there was fraud because the alternative is worse, but there probably wasn't or we'd have heard specific accusations by now. The most likely explanation for Trump winning the election by such a huge margin is that the majority of voters simply prefer Trump's government.

My pet theory is that compared to 2020, all the new Democrat voters who voted because they were tired of Trump didn't bother to repeat it, but all the new Republican voters who joined the Trump cult stayed in the cult and voted again. That's a legitimate election victory, not fraud. It's known that red states engaged in voter suppression, but not enough to cause these numbers.

I think it's okay to protest against fascism even when fascism legitimately wins an election, but not okay to protest for fascism even when fascism legitimately loses, so I'm not sure I'd call it a lack of self-awareness.
Is this a it like eToro copy trade?
They could call it "Wet Texas"
Are you arguing that the sound of "J" in English (and the very different sounds of it in Portuguese, Spanish, Italian etc.) is wrong? Sounds of words change over time and that's probably why the same letters are pronounced so differently in different languages, though they might have been used to represent the same sounds originally.
No one ever cared about primaries enough to justify these overwhelming election results. The children simply yearn for the mines - nothing else computes. I'm glad to see that, outside of Threads, people who voted blue are gearing up to simply stand back with popcorn, instead of trying to protect America from Trump again.
That could easily be done with htmx. No need for an SPA.
How does it work for code? (Chunking code that is)
How does this create variadic functions? The arity is the same, since the function signature defines the exact amount of arguments. The compiler just passes the omitted ones for you.
I still see a lot of XML in SOAP/WSDL APIs, typically in Microsoft shops, but thankfully JSON feels like the norm when IIS isn't involved.
There's two prerequisites:

a) it has to have the fundamental properties of a good store of value

b) it requires the time it takes for most people in the world to realise this (or at least simply accept that it is a good store of value, based on the price history)

Bitcoin has far better fundamental store-of-value properties than any other asset the world has ever seen. Now we bitcoiners are just waiting for the rest of you to catch up. As you do you will store your wealth in it too, increasing the price. While it's growing like this, it experiences volatility as all growing assets do - it's called "price discovery". The waves get shallower and shallower the bigger it grows. It has the potential to store the majority of the value in the world.

To say it has no use is a big mistake to make. Possibly the biggest in your life depending on how long it takes for you to realise. It took me 10 years and cost me millions.
re: https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.t...

super tangential but am I the only one who has an undying love for the Tahoma font?
Edward really should have renamed it. By the way it's been reiser5 all of this current decade: https://marc.info/?l=reiserfs-devel&m=157780043509663&w=2
Don't follow any dogma and instead be aware of alternatives and consider them for each use-case:

- boolean
- nullable boolean
- nullable datetime/timestamp (e.g. closed_at)
- status 'enum'/string/code
- combinations of the above
MySQL and MariaDB, named for the children of the founder. Similar vein.

ffmpeg (first F is for Fabrice Bellard)

DJBdns; named for Daniel (J) Bernstein...

There's a few.
who cares, I'll be dead by then. -- conservatives
You can use ASCII-separated values in qsv.[1]

For the unlikely event that you are dealing with data with the metacharacters: qsv will use some other control character as the “quote” character to deal with that.
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That implies journalism isn't already dead, which is hilarious considering there exists such a fresh and recent example of their (lack of) integrity and (in)competence - the 2024 US Presidential election.

.. and the mainstream coverage of almost everything in the past half decade. There is no journalism anymore, there is only click and view farming.
>and push it to its limits.

HTMX. Or basically we need some JS framework like HTMX / Alpine.js where we could test what to include in HTML.
It’s not just Hans. Who hasn’t known some leading artist who was like this? Or even some former colleague? I’m sure most of us “artsy” types go through some phase like this, but this guy made it his whole life, and never questioned it until it was too late, too little. The art and the artist thing is real.
>They come off as regular people.

"I'd have a beer with him," vibes. Turned out great. Likewise, the actual Darths are just off-camera (Musk's is Thiel, Trump has several, Vance's is temporal, i.e., the Handmaid's Tale parody he'll turn into if Trump kicks the bucket before 2029).
i still use reiserfs - i can store more tiny files than the others. I was disappointed when testing Btrfs as it used more space and became corrupted easier, even when using compression.
To be fair the technology is worth billions today, too. Zuckerberg and Meta have scored some points in my book for this open source push.
it's anything but trade policy
We need research because we’re not running an experiment globally. An experiment would involve a randomly selected treatment and control group. I’m guessing it seems obvious to you that social media is responsible for a wide array of ills. But, as a researcher, I can’t trust what is “obvious”. Because a lot of things that have seemed obvious have ended up being wrong such as leeches as a treatment for illness, or that the earth is flat. And there certainly have been quite a few confounds over the past twenty years: the financial crisis, the pandemic, deindustrialization brought about by China’s rise, the fracturing of the news media in general, and on and on. Which is to say that I don’t care what your identity is; I care what evidence you have. Because without evidence all we have is our gut, and history has shown that the gut isn’t a very good indication of truth.
> But Picasso is so close in time, that his direct descendent have financial interest in exploiting the artistic legacy.

I wouldn't be concerned by this specifically. His relatives likely suffered from him being a jerk, I don't mind them at least benefiting from his work. I'm more concerned about Picasso being put on a pedestal.

I don't think I would be against exposing his art with the whole context though.
Oh yeah that does sound challenging. If you’re interested, here’s my take on the three libraries I mentioned.

1. Pandas is more mature with much better batch reading of larger than memory CSV files than Polars. But it’s slower and the syntax is worse.

2. Polars is my goto for one off analysis of CSV files that fit in memory. When max performance isn’t a concern, sometimes I’ll iterate through the CSV using Pandas to get it in batches, then immediately convert to Polars to do any analysis. ChatGPT has been poisoned by Polars’ early syntax changes so it often makes mistakes, but Polars’ syntax is so clean and consistent this often doesn’t matter much as it’s easy to fix.

3. DuckDB is a different beast obviously as it’s a full database, not just a single dataframe. It’s slightly more setup, but it has a CSV sniffer, does out of memory processing really well (no need to batch iterate) and lets you use SQL. I’m not too experienced at SQL yet, and it’s nice that ChatGPT is really pretty good at creating complex SQL queries. I am now gravitating to DuckDB for any larger than memory processing that can be handled in SQL. If line by line streaming is needed for the algorithm I’m implementing then I still use pandas or the pandas+polars approach.
This is very confusing naming:

> write pointer: the next address to write to

OK

> peek pointer: the address of the next frame to read
> read pointer: the address where data can be overwritten

What? If the "write pointer" is the "the next address to write to" then the "read pointer" had better be "the next address to read from".

The "peek pointer" should be the "read pointer", and the pointer to the end of the free sector should be the "stop pointer" or "unfreed pointer" or "in-use pointer" or literally anything else. Even "third pointer" would be less confusing!
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Escaped research monkeys still loose in South Carolina
Yup! That's the point that gets talked past a lot in the welfare-immigration debate, as each side emphasizes only the facets that buttress their argument.

Welfare and immigration must be balanced, to some degree, in that total_production of a country needs to pay for total_welfare.

What gets lost is why welfare.

I'd say most Democrat would say "Because it's a moral imperative" and most Republicans would say "It's allowing people to be lazy."

Imho, both of those may be true to various degrees, but its utility is the prevent the negative consequences of extreme poverty, which also impacts those in extreme poverty's ability to lift themselves out of it and the next generation born into that situation, both of which ultimately impact the economy.

So a case of saving/making (future) money by spending (current) money.

That said, obviously even the US can't afford to provide welfare for the entire world's population, so there needs to be some cap to the immigration flow (probably much higher than the current legal limits).

Although it does fund 1/3 of the UN [0] and is the 2nd largest independent aid funder [1] (via USAID, behind China on an absolute basis, and behind many others on a per-GNI basis).

[0] https://www.cfr.org/article/funding-united-nations-what-impa... [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_development_aid_sove...
I can’t find a reference to a filesystem called AFS. Would you have a link?

As far as I know there was Macintosh File System (MFS) which was replaced by HFS/+ and finally APFS.

But ReiserFS was also infamous for its difficult to maintain nature at the time of its inclusion. Linus himself was against a lot of aspects of it. They capitulated to community pressure to include it, but it was always going to be a project with a high bus factor regardless of his crime.
There's only 3 competitors in that particular benchmark, and the speedup compared to the 2nd is only 1.06x.

Edit: Also, from the same table, it seems that only this library was ran after warming up, while others were not. https://github.com/bhavnicksm/chonkie/blob/main/benchmarks/R...
Nice article!

I'm always in doubt: in a Windows computer without a powerful GPU, is it better to run the local models in WSL2 or directly in Windows? Does that fact that is an ARM machine makes any difference?
WebAssembly adds a virtual machine so you run any high level language in the browser.

C++, Java, Go, Erlang, Rust, PHP, JavaScript, C#, whatever
OECD combined STEM talent generation = high more indicator of surplus / overcapacity in generation = cheaper talent. It's about not having SHORTAGE of talent while catching up, even if some excess ends up driving cabs. Eitherway, youth emplloyment high, but not crippling high and overall unemployment is like 5% which means youths finds jobs eventually, just not right away.

The goal of family planning / investing in 1-2 kids is explicitly so resrouces can be pooled to throw them into tertiary - little educated emperors - so they can compete in advanced sectors instead of having 10 kids make widgets.

Japan is basically a US Satrap whose economy can be easily coerced via US influence (i.e. US killing JP semi / forcing it to appreciate FX to kill competitiveness). PRC insulated from that / doesn't have to comply. Also JP's talent is why it's still competitive DESPITE having such shit TFR, same with SKR. The issue witht those are relatively small countries is that they've already maxed out their human capital (80% skilled work force). They're running to stand still from bad demographic trends. PRC is still transitioning from 20% skilled to 80% skilled, they still have so much substantial room to accomodate 100s of millions of new skilled workforce and milk productivity gains current driven down by massive pool of under productive / undereducated labour will slowly be replaced (really die, since that cohort leans old). That's the problem comparing JP with PRC demographics... their skilled demographic/workforce composition not remotely comparable.
I agree with this take. Blogging is a the first step towards writing a book.

However, through blogging I've realized just how impressive book writing is. I work really hard to build coherent blog posts, I cannot begin to imagine scaling that to a book.

It's kind of like software in a way. Anyone can code a toy, not everyone can build a product.
The title of the submission was modified. It you read the article it says:

Audio Decomposition [Blind Source Seperation]
> The most anoying thing about the whole problem is that it was solved by design in the ASCII character set.

This is a great example of not understanding what “the problem” actually is, and then assuming that because part of a technical solution exists, that everyone should be using it and if they’re not it’s because of ignorance rather than choice. I think we all do this, at least I know I’m sometimes guilty, but it’s amusing when faced with what happens in the real world at scale, to jump to the conclusion that the world is wrong rather than to first question our own assumptions.

Personally, I think it’s funny to assume that ASCII == text. Obviously not all ASCII is “text” in the sense that most people will assume. When people say “text file” I assume it contains nothing that you can’t type on a physical typewriter, other than the annoying and persistent difference between LF and CRLF. ASCII has lots of characters you can’t type on a typewriter, and are not intended to print as a character.

But if you want to invent new “text” characters for a “text” file, the problem suddenly becomes not just having a char code, but how to easily type it, how to easily display it, how to teach everyone to recognize and use it, and how to standardize these things so everyone knows them. Personally at this point I probably wouldn’t call a file with ASCII chars 28..31 in them “text”. The ASCII characters haven’t solved the overall problem, they have created several more and bigger problems that remain unsolved, and are much easier to solve in practice by using a comma instead, which is why people aren’t using the special ASCII characters in practice.
No problem mate, it's a terrible name to google, I understand.

Here it is, the service is called "AFS": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Filing_Protocol
You can disallow those metacharacters in the data proper. Then you have a format that can store any utf8 or whatever except the non-whitespace control codes without any escaping. That solves a problem in an opinionated way. Just like how json is opinionated (utf8 only).

You can convert to another format if you need something crazier than rows and columns consisting of normal text.
llamafile simplified it even further - you just download and run it :)
I tried winnow as suggested elsewhere in this thread, this is what it may look like:

use winnow::combinator::{ repeat };
use winnow::token::take_while;
use winnow::prelude::*;

pub fn csg_parse(input: &mut &str) -> PResult<usize> {
let a: &str = take_while(0.., 'a').parse_next(input)?;
let n: usize = a.len();
repeat(n, "b").parse_next(input)?;
repeat(n, "c").parse_next(input)?;
'\n'.parse_next(input)?;
return Ok(n);
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod test {
use super::*;

#[test]
fn parses_examples() {
assert_eq!(Ok(0), csg_parse(&mut "\n"));
assert_eq!(Ok(3), csg_parse(&mut "aaabbbccc\n"));

assert!(csg_parse(&mut "abcc\n").is_err());
assert!(csg_parse(&mut "abbcc\n").is_err());
assert!(csg_parse(&mut "aabc\n").is_err());
assert!(csg_parse(&mut "aabbc\n").is_err());
assert!(csg_parse(&mut "def\n").is_err());
}
}
I'm a heavy Excel user, and I have yet to find a usecase that cannot be solved in Sheets. It has App Script after all, for whenever you run into a feature that isn't there. But even then, I've translated many Excel functions to native Sheets array_formula equivalents, and found the latter much more ergonomic.
Your post contradicts itself. Did the west not aid, or did they not aid enough? Ukraine is still a sovereign state and I'm not convinced that would be the case without Western intelligence and military aid.

Second, it's easy to say "They aren't aiding enough, and won't aid enough, bookmark it", if you can slide the definition of enough as far as you want, and use past delays as proof of I guess current status somehow. (Artillery was delayed therefore the fact that we're sending tons of artillery is somehow proof we aren't aiding? Ridiculous.)
Having looked at your project, what would you say is difference in ability or philosophy compared to Open Web UI or FlowiseAI? Or, is this "I want to build this because I want to?" To which there is nothing wrong with that.
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Haven't they already chosen?
Centres of disease control (in the US and elsewhere) track morbidity and mortality on a wide range of conditions, which is one standardised answer to your question. There are also (a small number of) independent or unorthodox researchers who pursue specific avenues. You'll of course find the frauds amongst these (e.g., Andrew Wakefield, who promulgated anti-vax theories and falsified research toward same), but there are also notable medical advances which have emerged in such contexts, such as J. Robin Warren and Barry Marshall's identification of Helicobacter pylori as the principle cause of stomach ulcers, rather than stress:

Jessica Tanenbaum, "Delayed Gratification: Why it Took Everybody So Long to Acknowledge that Bacteria Cause Ulcers" (2005)

<https://www.jyi.org/2005-february/2005/2/9/delayed-gratifica...>
Oceans, plus I guess the Caspian Sea, don’t get much satellite coverage because no one (except militaries) wants it enough. For the ocean, Google Maps uses bathymetry data to synthesise shaded blue imagery. The Caspian in particular I guess is such a uniform colour either because it’s so shallow that Google’s shading algorithm doesn’t shade it at all? (Compare to the northwesternmost parts of the Adriatic Sea, for example)
Tuberculosis is rising in the U.S. again. How did we get here?
My brother-in-law in the Philippines died from it in 2021. My own brother nearly died from it in the 1950's, was treated for 2 years. Our dad worked 2 FT jobs for years to pay the medical bills. He later suffered from 2 heart attacks but made it through thank God.
People are attracted to "I climbed a ladder, and it was safe" stories, which are usually presented without the context on the societal harms of ladder use in aggregate.
Folks have been espousing the quality, stock software that macOS and iOS sports as the final word on this conversation since a while now. (And almost always, focusing on the epub readers). I'll admit that it's a general leg up for the getting started UX and makes it easier to recommend to grandma but it's not really that big of a deal as you make it out to be. And yes, I also hate having to configure shit.

Sure, you have to spend some time to find the best tools at first but it's not really something you have to do regularly. This goes for Windows, Linux and Android, I've been using the same few apps for basic computing tasks for a decade now on all of these platforms and I can confidently most are still the community's choice in their niche. Truly, aren't SumatraPDF, Calibere and MoonReader a web search away?

And sure, the app stores on these platforms are a relative mess but it sure does seem the larger useebase they're serving is getting along fine. And not to mention the many other cases where you'll actually have to pay for some basic utility on macOS. Apple products are generally the best in class, don't get me wrong but this is hardly the differentiator the way I look at it.
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Would they know that it's a set of 2,000 year old remains? Or would they just go, "huh, another dead body."
I recall fernflower being an important part of the Minecraft decompilation process, a necessary part of creating the Minecraft Forge modding framework, which was hugely popular a while back. Another thing to be grateful of his (indirect) contributions towards.
From what I understand ancient civilizations rarely kept records of things that could be easily transmitted by speech. It seems to me that most practical skills are better taught this way anyway.

They didn’t have manuals and grimoires of building techniques, flora and fauna. Most of the texts were either religious or for bookkeeping. This was true of Egypt as well. Almost everything on display today is about death rites.

Of course it might be that these records were just fewer and eventually lost.
Absolutely. I moved countries, because I didn't agree what government does with my taxes (or rather what it doesn't).
I refer you to the reply made by the author on exactly this point:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42098298
You're right. That was a poor lead in on my part, a moment of weakness making me contribute to the same trend I'm bemoaning. Subjective perspectives of how things are (no matter how obvious or thoughtfully analyzed), is not a substitute for diligently trying to tease out effects in formal contexts.

The source of my dismissiveness was looking at the larger context - it feels like "social media" and its "algorithms" is actually one small part of the memetic problems we're facing. They may have helped prime the pump, and if centralized infokontrol had been nipped in the bud fifteen years ago then perhaps things wouldn't have devolved this much. But where we are now the polarization and anti-intellectualism seems pretty self-sustaining regardless.
I think your expedition was actually along Aral sea. That is dried.

Caspian sea is rather stable.
Great post. But something not expounded upon by the author, and not addressed much in the comments here, is that asceticism is not a binary. Sometimes you really have to get-shit-done, and in that case, yeah use something fully featured. But a lot of the time, you'd probably be better off accepting a bit of slowness and pain in order to learn more. It's the classic framework vs. scratch debate. Use the framework if you want to go fast, build from scratch if you want to get better.
When you read a book, have you violated the author's IP right by retaining the content in your brain and possibly discussing it with others without the publisher's consent?

Similarly, when I use a local LLM as an extension to my brain by having it process my library using RAG for quick searches and Q&As at a personal level, am I violating it?

Similarly, when my library or university uses it for educational purposes (which literally falls under fair use in most countries where IP law is not a joke)?

And by extension, if a private entity does it with an aim of creating an intelligent public chatbot, as long as it does not monetize by reproducing the author's original content verbatim?

You cannot blurt out such random appeals like asking courts to criminalize training data. Not only is it unfathomably stupid, it is also impossible to enforce. All you'll be doing is cripple your local technological innovation and hand over the edge in something as critical as AI to competing countries in a platter.
What does it mean and what implications are to come, when the patents are cancelled?

Will the technique then be released as open source? Or, now, that a few companies are doing the work (and obviously have the proper knowledge), do they have to stop having this knowledge?
Every internet fight is a speech fight