skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, however, I was still left wondering about the writing that existing from earlier; and was hoping the article would explain it.

I am still not fully clear actually -- Alphabet being a finite set of symbols, how did pre-alphabetic writing work?
Yeah, I don't think people are going to tolerate going through the lockdowns, masking and everything else all over again.

People seem far more affected by the economic fallout, inflation, etc to do it all again.
We can pay for oncall availability, but rewarding outages and slow recoveries is a dangerous incentive.
What do you mean by "nulled"?
> Why use Docker Desktop is beyond me.

I lived through a failed attempt to migrate from Docker Desktop for Mac to an open source alternative (minikube+portainer, IIRC). A lot of test scripts developers relied on – to run parts of the integration test suite on their laptops for debugging – broke, because Docker Desktop for Mac went to a lot of effort to make macOS look like you were running Docker on Linux, whereas the open source replacement wasn't as seamless. Some of these test scripts contained Java code directly talking to the Docker daemon over its Unix domain socket, so need the same API implemented. Many other scripts made heavy use of the Docker CLI. After spending a lot of time on it, it was decided to just go back to Docker Desktop for Mac. The failed migration had resulted in highly paid engineers spending time pulling their hair out trying to get test scripts to work instead of actually fixing bugs and delivering new features.

Now, that was 2+ years ago now, and maybe the open source alternatives have caught up since, or maybe we picked the wrong one or made some other mistake. But I'm not rushing to try it again.
I have a Wordpress site I've been operating since 2005. In recent days I've seen notifications that a Wordpress core update is available, and I find myself very reluctant to install it. I no longer trust this organization. But I also don't want to fall behind on security updates. What an unnecessary mess.
You could design the opposite, a system where ultra-rare files get compressed a lot but most don't compress.

But as stated, what you said is not possible. To compress by a single byte, only 1/256 files can be compressible, or you'd have multiple different inputs compressing down to the same output.
Ah, that's worse than a mere privacy issue! Good point.

I was thinking merely about anonymity.

Both can be largely eliminated by having per host or per organization Identities and using IdentitiesOnly.
I struggled with similar feelings to the parent commentator during the pandemic. This is me processing it, because your comment reminded me of that feeling.

I realized I wasn’t hoping death on the people who gleefully refused to comply with basic pandemic presentation measures. That was a sort of sick dark humor to help with the fact they were exhibiting anti-social behavior but we live in a a non-just world and so they would go unpunished. The only punishment coming their way was from nature, and I didn’t celebrate it so much as not find it in myself to care.

On reflection I was just angry they were violating the social compact and wished somehow not to have them in my tribe. I think that’s very human, we don’t tolerate society members that endanger the society especially in extreme moments. We were at war, I was sacrificing to fight, and they were effectively treasonous in that fight.

The biggest help was realizing they lived in effectively an alternative world with alternative fake facts.

I’ve mostly overcome that anger now that I’m not actively in a pandemic but it’s really hard to feel good about people that willingly endangered my grandma. I don’t know how society would fare in a more serious pandemic and that scares me. My trust in society has been permanently broken.
I have no idea whether fission plants are competitive with gas plants, and knowing a bit about multi-decade projects, I suspect no-one does. It’s all guesswork.

What I do know is fission has a horrible cost profile. First there’s a huge build cost, which can often skyrocket unpredictably. Then you’ve got a hugely profitable part where you’re basically printing money. Then there’s an enormous cost at the end.

Huge cleanup costs, whether it’s nuclear or coal, basically means either government has its eye on the ball to an excellent extent (Australia seems to be good here.) or it’s not going to be fixed except by the same government that didn’t tie down the guys who made the money enough.

I’d call fission a bad choice for countries with weak or chaotic government. You need a rock solid civil service to allow it.

(You’ll observe the same is true of almost every mineral extraction project.)
Figure has the Figure 02, an autonomous robotic fleet, operating an end-to-end use case for BMW 400% faster with a 7x higher success rate [1].

1: https://x.com/figure_robot/status/1858876300691468579?s=46
Also:

- https://bullenweg.org/ (formerly bullenweg.com: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41957829)
its cromulent; the only reason anyone calculates energy is to find a difference; work is the whole point.
IMO, a new lockdown isn't possible but also would not be necessary if people were willing to behave rationally (I know, I know...). We know influenza viruses far better than we know covid. Masks would be extremely efficient at limiting droplet transmission.
Hutter put up the prize as a way of getting people to approximate his AIXI algorithm, which he already considers to be the pinnacle of artificially intelligence. That's also why lossy compression isn't interesting. It'd be an approximation of an approximation and not particularly useful for hutter's purpose.
> With the high inclination of the orbit (95 degrees) ...

How can such a high inclination be explained?
Yep.

I like the puzzle-solving aspect of it - like doing Sudoku, or Alphaguess - but I don't particularly have the time in my life right now to use AoC to learn a new language. (The last time was approximately 6 years ago, when I was learning Elixir - which was also for work. It was also when my child was young enough that I had spare time after her bedtime, but not so young that she didn't sleep through teh night.)
Some informed speculation about this on languagehat, in the comments: https://languagehat.com/oldest-alphabet/
I personally don’t know what the author is talking about.

My whole family now works from home in their pajamas, gets anything they want delivered next day to their door, and has access to all the knowledge in the world literally in their pocket. Is that utopia? I don’t know. But it sure beats life in the 1990s.
The Once and Future History of Knowledge Work
Yeah, but economic damage is still what many people and countries feel from the event and maybe for years to come.
I wouldn't worry. By that point nobody will be able to find any actual history over the roar of AI-generated SEO spam.

Whatever happens, they'll find a suitably comforting and/or enraging retelling of history that reinforces contemporaneous power structures.
Alphabetic writing really is incredible.

Despite the fact that I personally prefer syllabaries. I can't discount the fact that alphabets have done an incredible job of being adopted by other languages that didn't previously have any sort of writing system. Alphabets are really flexible like that.

The latin alphabet alone is used in all sorts of languages from English to Tukish, Indonesian and Swahili. Having this many diverse languages follow a single writing system is only really possible with alphabets. You couldn't do this with Chinese characters or Korean hangul, for example.
Inching towards blockchain elections....
Yes, good point. In those cases it can be said it allows you to extend your lifespan, or reduce the time spent in an undesirable situation.

So I'll reformulate what I wanted to express before: The time that somebody chooses to spend in a 80 hour workweek can't be recovered. So you'd better be sure that spending so much time in a job is what you really want to do.

Also, there's an interesting article about the topic: "Top 5 regrets people have when they die, says ex-hospice care worker" https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/07/phrases-that-are-often-peopl...
> It wasn't as obvious in the past now that DRM and digital/streaming only has given studios/publishers/etc the ability to cancel your access at their discretion.

And that right there is the crux of the argument. Cancelling access to physical media was never a thing, because you "bought" it. Digital media shouldn't be any different. If I buy a file and someday it doesn't work because of something you did, you're responsible for it, but corporations have been able to get away with no responsibility. Example:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/12/02/playstatio...
The biggest blocker to LibreOffice adoption? LibreOffice (2023)
I had a bank transfer (rent to my then-landlord) seized by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). They never provided a reason, but I suspect it was related to his Middle-Eastern name. I got a case number and was directed to a government website to dispute the seizure. I filled out the forms and switched to depositing money orders directly into his account, which was a huge pain in the ass compared to an online bank transfer.

Months later, I got a letter from OFAC telling me they had no record of the case, despite my including the case number in the disputation paperwork. I then decided that it wasn't worth the time and stress that would be involved in pursuing the matter, as it was ~$2k. I would hire a lawyer to take it on for me if I had endless cash, but at the time this nearly got me evicted because I couldn't make up the rent. A family member loaned me the money and bailed me out.

It was just another reminder that you can't take on the government unless you have the means to do so or your case is so outrageous that someone will represent you pro-bono. It was demoralizing. I'm also reminded, in this moment, of a sheriff deputy who claimed to smell marijuana in a car that I'd borrowed from my father while mine was in the shop. Not only was I not smoking weed at the time, but I'd sure as hell never have smoked it in a borrowed vehicle. Outrageous lies to pressure me to consent to a search (which I successfully declined, but I'm also white, so…)

I used to keep one of those cards that the TSA would leave in your checked luggage when they searched stuck to my refrigerator. It was a daily reminder that they can put their boot on your neck, which is exactly what I took the card as meant to imply. I'm not an anti-government type, but I sure am anti-authoritarian-assholes type. This behavior must be stopped.
The fact that geolocking also affects "downloads" really sucks. On our last holiday I prepared a tablet with downloaded content from Netflix and Disney for my 5 year old. But when we got there we couldn't play it, as it was geolocked. Next time I'll just use torrents.
A lot could change in the future and what’s the worse they could do? A billiokn dollar fine? Bold, do it and ask for forgiveness later.
Yellow Powder Quickly Pulls Carbon Dioxide from the Air
Say we have some dataset composed of D bytes.

Next, say I find some predictive model of the data M, where M is composed of N bytes. Furthermore, let us say that the entropy of the dataset under the model is H bytes.

Then, if N + H < D, my model compresses the data.

It doesn't matter if the model is deterministic or probabilistic: a probabilistic model can be used to (losslessly) compress a dataset with entropy coding.

One more argument for compression being equivalent to intelligence: Across many fields of statistical machine learning, there are generalization bounds which have the form:

test error <= train error + model complexity

That is, we don't expect to do any worse on new (test) data, than the sum of the train error and the model complexity (smallest compressed size). Notice that if you interpret the train error as the entropy of the data (i.e. error under a cross entropy loss), then the models which satisfy the statistical generalization bound correspond to those which best compress the data. In other words: the model which produces the shortest description of the data is the one which is expected to generalize best.
Completely agree. I moved from docker desktop to rancher after an update blew away my kubernetes cluster, and then from Rancher to Orbstack due to a number of bugs that were crashing the underlying VM. Orbstack has been rock solid (aside from one annoying networking issue), and it uses significantly less battery. They’ve done a fantastic job.
(2017) https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Achieving%20Warp%20Speed%20wit...
Yea the general public learned nothing from COVID (more like learned negative from it), but the medical system learned a lot. We could be prepared to handle the next global pandemic, our institutions are probably better prepared. But we won’t because the general public has gotten more ignorant, more conspiratorial, more belligerent, and more defiant, so overall we’re going to fuck it up even worse next time.
In case that all seemed too pro-SpaceX:

1) I think NASA does best when it focuses on the frontier of space, where private industry does not yet have the incentives or capabilities to increase our knowledge and access to space and solar system resources.

2) I think NASA does best, when it takes the greatest advantage of private industry, where ever industry is able to provide lower costs or higher performance.

I think this is more in line with how public money should be spent.

I think it reduces a lot of wasted money spent on unnecessary redundant and obsolete efforts.

I think it results in the greatest bang for the buck, for the government, and the greatest incentive to improve for industry.

At this time, I think the frontier NASA should be focused on (where industry is not yet incentivized enough), is manned space habitats, and unmanned and manned exploration of the solar system's potential manned sites and resources.

Where I think it should have already passed on the torch, is manned and unmanned orbital, lunar and solar system launch capabilities. Industry is already performing and incentivized to provide these capabilities better than NASA. NASA can best contribute to improving those capabilities, with the least investment, by being a demanding customer.

SpaceX happens to have put itself in the center of those principles, due to a lot of fine work. But the principles make just as good sense, regardless of who the industrial innovators are.
> current public health risk is low", and (EDIT: NOT the current strain) "50% mortality rate WORLDWIDE" (/NOT)

I’ve not only found online articles that emphasize one focus over the other (low current rate of serious illness in US vs high long-window mortality rate worldwide), I’ve found articles that say both things a few paragraphs apart and don’t give the reader any lifeline for resolving the tension (strains/substrains, access to care, effective interventions, etc).

It’s a reasonable mistake, but when reasonable people see it I hope we’re reaching out to the publishers and asking them to clarify. Better comms improve trust and we’re still suffering from poor if reasonable comms in early 2020.
So then you are saying it -was- Malfeasance?

So I guess we agree then. Welcome to the dark side.
Discussion (21 points, 1 month ago 45 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41927684
I was referring to the 2020 election.
> Unrelated rant: I once saw a US traffic sign online that said "If drivers are passing you on your right, you're doing it wrong".

One observation from a cop:

> “I stopped a guy one day for doing 100 [kph] [in the left lane] and there were cars passing on the right honking at him and giving him the finger,” Stratton said. “He said ‘I’m keeping people from speeding and doing your job for you.’ But he was keeping me from doing my job, which was to catch speeders and give them the ticket they deserve.”

* https://archive.is/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/drive/cul...

Ontario, Canada specifies to keep right:

> 147 (1) Any vehicle travelling upon a roadway at less than the normal speed of traffic at that time and place shall, where practicable, be driven in the right-hand lane then available for traffic or as close as practicable to the right hand curb or edge of the roadway. […]

* https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90h08#BK253

Quebec has similar stipulations.
Yeah the government has been heavily ramping up production of influenza antigen that should be effective against this strain the past year of so and funding more targeted mrna type vaccine research for h5n1

we won't be as blindsided or unprepared as we were by covid for this one
Here you go:

https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/articles/15-days-slow-s...

https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/st...

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/30/822448199/how-15-days-became-...

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/16/covid-a-year-later-trumps-15...

In no uncertain terms, your obtuse dismissal of history that most of us here literally witnessed with our own eyes is appalling.

Everyone in a position of power, including Trump and Fauci, fucked up because everyone wanted to use covid for political ends. Noone is going to trust the government, Trump or otherwise, the next time and for good reason.
I would look at Orbstack. Yes it costs money but it is pretty great.

Your situation sounds very similar to the company I work for. Orbstack has been a drop in replacement except one issue. Any dev using IPv6 assignment on their home network has issues where pods try to hit external dns because it tries to use IPv6 and I don’t think the Orbstack k8s instance is dual stack.

There are hacks to get around it but if I could get Orbstack to address this issue, I couldn’t find one other issue.

Orbstack is crazy fast and way better than docker desktop overall
I think we learned the first time around that relying on individuals to take coordinated, collective, cooperative action is pointless. Too many selfish people will choose “defect” in the Prisoners Dilemma.
understand though the kid is bearing the implications for the parent's decision.

> win and increase college admissions odds
+ also gain funds for the parents
Very interesting. With how standard containerization has become, we sorely need an FOSS solution
I happen to know the content on this blog, the tone of this article and quality of content is not usually like this. What happened?
Being prudent doesn't mean stopping the economy in its tracks. It means appropriate planning and monitoring, with intervention as necessary. For some reason, people don't consider the cost of an unchecked epidemy, which is just as real as that of a controlled one. Except people have nothing to complain about, since they don't feel under pressure from anyone. They just feel sick...
The Mutational Robustness of Influenza a Virus[2016]
Agreed.

Only someone trying to cheat would use the excuse that it wasn’t explicitly stated that AI was cheating.

This reminds me of the court case where they asked the court to define child pornography and they said “I can can’t define it, but I know it when I see it.”

Imagine saying with a straight face that some pictures you have of a minor are fine because this particular pose, facial expression, and clothing wasn’t specifically designed child porn. It would instantly make you sound like a pedo, like he sounds like a cheater
> - win, and increase college admissions odds

wouldn't this decrease? I wouldn't want to admit a litigious cheating student - whether won or lost. this was a pure money play by the parents
Well yeah it's a tautology that you can't have a significant number of people with 90 %ile schools for example. Fortunately, it seems that a decent number of people like the above poster consider such areas to be "hell", lots of people can't work remote, and the general sense I've gotten is that the nice areas that are more attainable for the upper middle class (high six figure-low seven figure as opposed to mid seven figure homes) tend to be in red states, which acts as a repellent for a lot of the would-be competition.
If you need experts 24/7, you should have had shifts that cover that timeframe.

Oncall is a source of so many ways for abuse, don't even ask me how I know. Saying that rejecting Oncall is denying support for you system is bollocks.

I'm happy that younger engineers mostly laught at that concept and leave. Once of the few lessons they are teaching us (the old pricks), especially in self care and respect space.
Checks for activation have been null routed so they always succeed. Common way to crack software protections
> free products to get people hooked

This is due to the WWW which took off only due to its open model (shipping markup source instead of binary blobs) which was inspired by the then-nascent F/OSS movement.

That F/OSS "gift culture" really keeps on giving, eh?
school recommendations
Cablesoft
For a typical recombinant subunit vaccine, you'd need to splice any new changes into whatever's churning out your proteins (bacteria, yeast, etc.) and then go get those proteins after growing them -- assuming all goes well. For an mRNA vaccine, you can skip the entire protein translation and production step.
Please enlighten me as to how on call is not free work when companies do not pay for this outside of your regular salary .
teach my kids some good ethics and taking responsibility for their actions, instead of jeopardizing the chances of college with the prospects of money
Of course at least establishing a clear precedent was a huge achievement.

Glass half-full, is what I'm saying.
That rubric only works until sufficiently advanced LLM-generated HN posts are indistinguishable from human-generated HN posts.

It also doesn’t speak to the permission or lack thereof of training LLMs on HN content, which was another main point of OP.
> the medical system learned a lot.

You sure about that?

Seems more like "the anti-maskers are inside the house." https://old.reddit.com/r/ZeroCovidCommunity/comments/1gsgjdz...
Juno gave clear indication it was a savings account, FDIC insured deposits, etc
Does anyone have any idea why Honda CR-V Hybrid is #5? Its fatal accident rate is 4.6x the average according to the study.

From what I've been able to find it looks like non-hybrid CR-Vs are around average. So what is it that specifically makes the hybrid have such a high rate?
Wasn't the COVID mRNA vaccine done in a remarkably short amount of time as well, and the vast majority of the development time was spent on testing?
Department of Glorious Evolution
If I understand correctly: The idea is to scan every ballot, and upload all scans to a public website. The system preserves anonymity because voters are not required to write their names or other PII on the ballot paper.

I still have lots of questions:

1. Doesn't this system raise the possibility of coercion? For example, a goon or abusive spouse might, under threat of violence, force you to vote in a certain way and mark your ballot for them to audit afterwards. Isn't plausible deniability also one of the key desiderata of the election process?

2. The system allows me to mark my ballot paper and confirm that my vote was correctly counted, after the fact. But I still need to trust all the other votes uploaded to the website. Of course, the presence of independent election observers (who watch the counting process and the ballot boxes being moved around) would mitigate this fear.
Who needs truth, when you can just ask Claude?
anecdata is data if you do not have other data or anecdotes to pack your claims up. The present an example whereas you present speculation
Do we have a cryptographic protocol for verifiable elections yet? Where someone can be assured their vote was counted (and counted correctly), but cannot be coerced, nor prove, whom they voted for?
Try Umberto Eco's "On Fascism," it's the best definition of the term I've ever come across