skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This gets reposted quite often.

The crux of the ongoing debate over the post has to do with the ambiguity of the stated requirements.

For there to be any rational discussion, you need to have proper unique definitions for what is being communicated. Without a definition (identity) no system of truth seeking will provide a definitive truth.

Most notably, "compression" has many different meanings currently in practical use. For example many people use the word compression and simply mean that the uncompressed size is more than the compressed size; lossy vs lossless doesn't matter when its good enough, all that matters is its been reduced, and an example of that might be H264 video.

Other more rigorous individuals will use it to mean entropy encoding, which has a strict definition, part of which is lossless, and in these cases they often view Shannon's theorems as gospel, and at that point they often stop thinking and may not try to sharpen their teeth on a seemingly impossible task.

These theorems are often very nuanced, with the bounds very theoretical or still undiscovered, though still seemingly correct. When someone is told something is impossible, they don't fully apply themselves to try to find a solution. Its a worn path that leads nowhere, or so they imagine.

This mindset of learned helplessness prevents a nuanced intuitive understanding of such problems and any advances stagnate. People take the impossibility at face value, and overgeneralize it (without that nuanced understanding), this is fallacy and it can be very difficult to recognize it when there is no simple way to refute it on its face.

Here is something to consider. Shannon's source coding theorem relies on the average uncertainty of probabilities as a measure of entropy (information). Some exploration is needed to understand what makes this true, or where it fails. It has been my experience that only a very few exceptional people ever attempt this process.

The main question that jumps out in my mind since compression has been a thing I've been interested in for years; is, can an average entropy in statistics tell us accurately whether this is true in systems with probabilities and distributions that are a mix of mathematical chaos but also contain regularity within their domains? Statistics can be unwieldy beasts, and act as regular sources of misunderstanding and falsehood without a very rigorous approach.

For a similar problem, people may find this article particularly relevant with regards to the chaotic 3-body problem in astrophysics.

https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/09/aa49862-...
> It's also possible to pursue a hybrid approach by bringing a battery to change the phone.

Or, as I have done on multi-day trips, a solar panel and a battery.
I don't know enough about this topic but my question is what is the input to the 250-500l cow fart equation. What's being consumed to produce that much methane?
https://archive.is/nEvr8
You might be interested in this talk: https://go.dev/blog/ismmkeynote
Because if someone was planting IEDs, they should be prominently visible, and have lights drawing attention to it...

What IED handbook would these people be reading?

Oh wait, maybe it's the handbook that says "Make them look like they're just for entertainment, so everyone will think they're just harmless marketing gimmicks.". But if so, the handbook should specify they should make it Mickey Mouse, not some obscure TV show...
This is an interesting testament to manufacturing reliability - that they can go to so many layers and still achieve good yield.
To be clear, the comment I was responding to mentioned severe punishment; at no time did I promote the death penalty or any corporal punishment. "Skin in the game" simply means incentives and disincentives: if people can act behind the guise of an entity and without repercussions (privatizing benefits and socializing losses/detriments) then society ends up worse off.
Show HN: Video Composition Tool Powered by Qwen2.5-Coder and FFmpeg
This tool allows you to drag and drop your own assets, such as videos, audio, and images, and then use natural language instructions to generate a new video. It uses the Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct model to process your assets and instructions, to generate a valid FFMPEG command. This command is then executed on your assets to create the desired video.

What's particularly exciting with this is that it's powered by an open-source model licensed under Apache 2.0 (https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct). Tried to build something similar ~1.5 years ago, but at that time, it seemed only possible with proprietary models.
I coined a term for this because I see it so often.

“People will always defend complexity, stating that the only alternative is shell scripts”.

I saw people defending docker this way, ansible this way and most recently systemd this way.

Now we’re on to kubernetes.
> I think what the original post was referring to was using their home (dynamic IP) network instead of a public VPS/dedicated server.

Personally, I wouldn't let incoming traffic hit my home IP/router by itself, that's why I suggested having something in-between public internet and your local network.

But, any way that works obviously works, the rest is just details :)
Because that's exactly what reducing farming output does.
This is an extreme dichotomy between fundamentalists and new atheists. I personally believe that both worldviews are wrong and inconsistent with lived reality.
> Hopefully, he doesn’t abuse the power too much

Haha, good one.
You’re getting really confused here. Nobody is arguing about stuff being worth more than the sum of its parts. That’s obvious to everyone who has watched literally anything useful being constructed out of materials.

You using that as some kind of support for Niantic’s actions doesn’t make any sense.

> There's also nothing fundamentally wrong about it, either, which was my point.

What you’re ignoring is the reality of people getting angry when they contribute something under a premise and then it gets used for something else. When I contribute to a charity that is supposed to build water supply systems and they decide to build pipe bombs instead, I’m gonna be pretty pissed off.

> Well, my point was actually that it's even more shitty to demand the sum total of the output when you only contributed a tiny slice of the input.

The collective that produced literally all of the input can ask for the model and then easily copy it to each member. If a single person produced all of the input and then requested this, how much does your argument change? Because these scenarios are equivalent when the product isn’t rivalrous.

More generally, you’re still not grokking non-rivalrous goods. A good isn’t non-rivalrous just because artificially constraining it and selling access to it can make it profitable. This confusion has led you multiple times to comparing this model to physical goods.
I'll say it again: this is the consequence of Unicode trying to be a mix of html and docx, instead of a charset. It went too far for an average Joe DevGuy to understand how to deal with it, so he just selects a subset he can handle and bans everything else. HN does that too - special symbols simply get removed.

Unicode screwed itself up completely. We wanted a common charset for things like latin, extlatin, cjk, cyrillic, hebrew, etc. And we got it, for a while. Shortly after it focused on becoming a complex file format with colorful icons and invisible symbols, which is not manageable without cutting out all that bs by force.
I really enjoyed this phrasing, from the comments on the post:

> I suspect the careerization of Big Science and Big Academia has a lot to do with [unwillingness to plainly admit error]. Although I have no proof to that effect. And certainly man has been subject to failings since Adam and Eve chomped.
I think the bottom of the page is you missing the joke. It's showing only the name letters that get rejected everywhere else. Similarly for the URL, the URL renders his name correctly when you browse to it in a modern browser. What you've copied is the canonical fallback for unicode.
The constellation is subdivided into orbital planes, with ~20 to ~60 satellites in each plane chasing each other around the planet.

The following is somewhat speculative:

The bearing to the next satellite ahead or behind you in the same plane should be roughly constant; likewise, the bearing to satellites in adjacent planes orbiting in the same direction will change slowly during most of the orbit.

Near the poles the required slew rate will likely be too high to keep the side-to-side links working but that's also a part of the planet where subscriber density will be low so losing that capacity for periods of a few minutes when near the poles likely won't matter.
I think the AT protocol is versatile in that users can acces each others data once authenticated without any centralized service (granted the aggregators and some other things may still be centralized).
Could Starlink receivers not act as a mesh like network and broadcast LTE themselves, gaining inside coverage.
Becoming "Children of a Modest Star"
Which bandwidth can a phone reasonably expect given nobody around for kilometers? Are we talking kbits or mbits? Is there some kind of theoretical maximum?
Lewis Lapham's Last Interview
it will take years before they can prove that their cars are made to last. I won’t be lining up to buy them but in 5-10 years perhaps
> I don't understand what this has to do with the topic at hand.

Try reading the comment I was replying to
Show HN: I built JSONtree a tool to validate, format, and graph JSON for devs
Hey HN, I created JSONtree (JSONtr.ee) to validate, format, and visualize JSON data.

As a developer, I often struggled with making raw JSON more readable and debugging complex structures. While tools like JSONLint are great, I noticed it breaks when dealing with JSON containing single quotes, which led me to create JSONtree. It offers:
Automatic formatting and beautification of JSON.
Interactive tree diagram generation for better visualization.

I'd love your feedback on how it could be improved or what features you'd like to see. Thanks for checking it out!
You can compare models in LM Arena across numerous models & categories (ex: coding), with confidence interval and user votes: https://lmarena.ai/?leaderboard
Unless they can remove buildings from this world, that isn't going to be a reality.
Wasn't Musk pulling Tesla engineers to go work on Twitter?
There's another interesting loophole to these general compression challenges. A universal Turing machine will necessarily compress some number of strings (despite the fact that almost all strings are incompressible). The set of compressible strings varies depending on the choice of UTM, and if your UTM if fixed, you're out of luck for random data. But if the UTM is unspecified, then there exist an infinite number of UTMs that will compress any specific string.

To some extent, this resembles the approach of "hiding the data in the decompressor". But the key difference here is that you can make it less obvious by selecting a particular programming language capable of universal computation, and it is the choice of language that encodes the missing data. For example, suppose we have ~17k programming languages to choose from—the language selection itself encodes about 14 bits (log2(17000)) of information.

If there are m bits of truly random data to compress and n choices of programming languages capable of universal computation, then as n/m approaches infinity, the probability of at least one language being capable of compressing an arbitrary string approaches 1. This ratio is likely unrealistically large for any amount of random data more than a few bits in length.

There's also the additional caveat that we're assuming the set of compressible strings is algorithmically independent for each choice of UTM. This certainly isn't the case. The invariance theorem states that ∀x|K_U(x) - K_V(x)| < c for UTMs U and V, where K is Kolmogorov complexity and c is a constant that depends only on U and V. So in our case, c is effectively the size of the largest minimal transpiler between any two programming languages that we have to choose from, and I'd imagine c is quite small.

Oh, and this all requires computing the Kolmogorov complexity of a string of random data. Which we can't, because that's uncomputable.

Nevertheless it's an interesting thought experiment. I'm curious what the smallest value of m is such that we could realistically compress a random string of length 2^m given the available programming languages out there. Unfortunately, I imagine it's probably like 6 bits, and no one is going to give you an award for compressing 6 bits of random data.
I read about an American professor that was visiting the various cathedrals in France and started noticing that the stained glass windows were interweaving the parable of the good samaritan with the story of the garden of eden in a fairly consistent manner. He didn't understand why they were doing that until he found records of medieval sermons explaining why they were combining these two stories. It was a symbolic message that would have made sense to medieval peoples, but had been lost over the intervening centuries.
Their downfall was earlier than that. Post WW2 everyone was looking to buy a new car (people kept their old one during the war because production was going to the war effort). The car companies had such demand they moved to a 'car salesman' sales structure to milk every customer as much as possible because demand was so much higher than production. They got hooked on the easy money and entrenched a lot of bad business practices/policies as a result.

GM for all intents and purposes died (remember we funded a whole new GM, a completely new business entity, during the 2008 financial crisis timeframe) and yet new GM just 'invested' 6 billion dollars in stock buybacks, millions in management bonuses while conducting employee layoffs. But they will have no problem coming and asking the government for billions 'to remain competitive' soon. F'm.
Because there's nothing else? 60% of Denmark is farmed land, most of the rest is cities, industry, or suburbs.
Most places where telling Štefan from Stefan is a problem use postal numbers for people too, or/and ask for your DOB.
C99 doesn't need function bodies: VLAs are Turing complete
or like most other tech - do the opposite “why would I explore in person when I can watch it from my couch”
In 2G/3G networks, IMSI is unencrypted in the initial handshake process while the handset gets a TMSI, so it can very trivially be passively observed, but only at specific points in time.

In 5G this is somewhat fixed - the handset uses its Home Network Public Key to encrypt the device-specific IMSI (producing a SUCI) which only the Home Network can decrypt. The MCC and MNC (carrier information) are still sent in the clear to allow the encrypted SUCI to route to the correct Home Network for decryption.
Does this allow the ability to circumvent LTE networks in countries like China? Do we have the capability to send messages to any/all phones in China if we (USA) wanted to?
Now, this is a good point! I'm actually willing to pay taxes to ensure they are used for the common good. My offspring no longer is school age, but i am STILL willing to pay taxes that pay for elementary school, and such...Because it helps society and the common good in so many ways. But, i think we have to have discussions when those infra.-level things are not providing the benefits because those in power keep making awful decisions...and the next steps don't involve removing said efforts, but rather improving them, bettering their implementations, etc...and that can start with a post-mortem, or RCA, even a simple 5 Whys, whatever it takes to help society stay safe, improve well-being for all, give societal particiapnts a chance at propserity, etc. :-)
Kinda not. Generally if you got road you got reception. Only wilderness areas don’t. For few people who go camping, etc the standalone miniterminal makes most sense.
Anyone else feels like this will be abused for phishing and/or malware distribution?
I had a bully who wanted to copy my answers on a science test, I refused so he said he'd beat me up. After science class, he followed me in the hall and kicked me in the back of the head. He was a black belt in TKD with the spinning roundhouse kick. All I could do was back up to avoid being kicked in the head. Until a vice principal broke up the fight. Sometimes you can't avoid bullies and sometimes they have a black belt in a martial art. Nobody brought a gun to school back then, but now kids bring guns to school.
Call to join PiEEG for VR researcher, great chance to combine brain, gaming, VR
Maybe that is worded poorly. :). It's supposed to mean there are no timeouts -- you can wait as long as you want between retries.

> That being said, is it all OSS?

The Transact library is open source and always will be. That is what you gets you the durability, statefulness, some observability, and local testing.

We also offer a hosted cloud product that adds in the reliability, scalability, more observability, and a time travel debugger.
It does divide the people who have ownership and authority in Nestle vs those who live in the area.
The inReach is basically indestructible. A cell phone, not so much.
Thumbs up for Nomad. We've been running it for about 3 years in prod now and it hasn't failed us a single time.
I'm genuinely curious how you explain your own unconsciousness which comes out all the time when speaking or writing.
This does not only apply to banks. The specific court case was brought against a bank, but the law as is applies to any and everyone who processes your personal data.
I wish that I could spare you from this harsh world of facts, but alas none of us have or can bestow that blessing.
I build my own with Jinja2 templates my custom python script + mistune library to parse markdown to html, and a YAML file in similar format to Hugo (the previous generator i used to use)

I found building my own custom one with python3, much more freeing in all sorts of interesting ways, I also exposed the static site generator with a FastAPI based API to auto build my website from my notes, my cooking recipes, database records, financials, git commits, etc to build me a private protected website (via nginx auth) from anywhere, whether via sending a text message to my telegram bot, or running a Shortcuts command on my iPad, or just directly running a command from my terminal.

It took barely a day to setup, and allows me to run interesting custom extensions in all sorts of interesting ways, and builds me a personal website curated to my interest, where the primary viewer is supposed to be me. and it exposes a public barebones website with barely any content for everyone else.

One of these days I think i’ll expose more of it to the world.
I have yet to try out Endless Sky, the open source EV tribute act. Could be good.

https://endless-sky.github.io
Rescuers describe 20-hour ordeal ending with amputation of rafter's leg
Calling someone irrational for being concerned a random, out of place device might be a home made bomb and then dismissing some home made bombs as having "literally nothing to do with anything" is pretty shitty.
I don't think I did. I watched the video and this is the phonetic transcription. I hear b zh e n ch ...
That's not how seeds work. Seeds are tiny.

Actually this would work perfectly if you knew it was generated in a single pass by a known random number generator and you had tons of time to brute force it.

If the file were generated by a natural source of entropy then forget it.

Or even if modified in a trivial way like adding 1 to every byte.
I have wondered whether it's worth storing instruction offsets (from the first instruction) rather than raw instruction pointers to increase cache efficiency, then they could be encoded in just 2 (or at worst 3) bytes. At the cost of an extra register.
Pretty poor article - not a single code sample, just vague generalities that I could have listed off without ever touching a LLM. I suspect this is just a disguised advertisement for Qodo.
Agreed, something simpler than Nomad as well hopefully.
There's never been a bomb in the maze/lines before security. Why not?
Show HN: A NextJS and MERN stack boilerplate to automate all the boring stuff
Hey HN,
I'm a solopreneur and I ship apps like a madman.

I realized I was doing the same thing over and over: set up DNS records, connect DB, listen to Stripe webhooks...

So I built ShipSeo for 2 reasons: 1. Save time and focus on what matters: building a business 2. Avoid headaches like emails ending in spam or waiting 3 days for Google to approve

I hope those boilerplates will be as helpful to you as it is for me. Would love your feedback pls

Arthur
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_production_during_Wor...
Berkshire is very different, they are a hedge fund/holding company and their main business is trading companies.
In that hypothetical world, I am quite sure that people would adapt to their improved material conditions and still become resentful at wealth inequality. A lesser version of this already exists in the US. Go to a relatively poor US community and it is almost unimaginably wealthy compared to past generations and other places in the world.
Western country populations seem to be willfully falling for obvious fossil fuel propaganda over and over again. Future generations will rightfully curse our names. (Including today's children.)
At least I never saw anyone arguing that the only alternative to git was shell scripts.

Wait. Wouldn't that be a good idea?
> But Hancock’s credibility is now in question after attorneys challenging the law discovered that several academic citations in his affidavit seem to be completely made up — potentially by artificial intelligence.

Stanford profs get bit by their own tech. The irony of this concurrent with this: [https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/11/school-did-nothi...] is priceless, as it seems the prof doesn't give credit to the work of others.

Anyway, deception is celebrated in America. The courts protect "puffery" i.e. lying and PT Barnum is seen as a hero.
They aren't. But for full sharing to occur every time you invented anything you'd have to stop inventing until the population of the world had one.
Which means military has been doing this for decades
Tell that to businesses, and beat it over the heads of marketeers.
So add four more companies to the list.

Six, ten - either way the point stands: same investors, same incentives, same evils.

Plus, those entertainments are mostly used by younger generations. Boomers are the ones with the wealth and in positions of power, and they still generally believe every shadow play the legacy media put on.
I prefer Zerotier approach in relation between account and devices.
In Zerotier for each device added, no need to login to Zerotier account. Just add the network ID and approve it from the account.
In Tailscale I have to login from each device to add it to the network.
why does that matter?! :)
Agreed and flagged, this almost seems LLM written, not a bit of data.
That is not remotely how tariffs work.
Considering that we're doing the barest of the minimum about it three years in, yeah, you'd think.
> ability to modify code at runtime

Would Java's moves towards "integrity by default" mean that this could be ruled out in more cases?
As someone from Australia, which hasn't shut its self off from the China EV market. I drive a BYD Dolphin. You should be worried. They are cheaper, and more full-featured than European equivalent. They aren't junk.

Also, they aren't the only big player from China. Australia is soon getting GAC/Aion, Geely, Jaecoo, Leapmotor, Deepal, Xpeng.

Here is an article if interested.
https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/which-chinese-car-bran...
I've used a number of Philips SA2208 8Gb players, with headphone jack, for this. The simple display seems to get patchy after a while, but the music playing function seems to work quite well for my purposes. I'm not aware of any third-party firmware support though.