skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You show a bunch of English speakers some text that’s cut off, and ask them to predict the next letter. Their success at prediction tells you the information content of the text. Shannon ran this experiment and got a result of about 1 bit per letter: https://archive.org/details/bstj30-1-50/page/n5/mode/1up
Show HN: Brown noise generator. Ultimate focus mode
If you want a non-religious take on the history of Abrahamic religions, a recent episode 393 of the podcast by Sam Harriss, where he interviews historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, should be an interesting listen.
My Pal, the Ancient Philosopher
So if property price drops completely because insurance do not want to insure, it should make buying houses in cash and avoid mortgage easier right? House becomes a cheap commodity, everybody can then buy a house again, insurers can insure them again because they are cheap. The market correct itself.

Problem solved?
> or perhaps a brand refresh.

Doesn't brand refresh often includes new components and new design language? In creative space, every design agency tries to sell something different to the organization and thus brand refresh will discontinue any prior design tokens and come up with new one.
None of those are inconsistent. If a is confusing for you, use i, A and o, that'll be enough for most things you want. Most of the time you'll drop into insert mode through cw, cib and the like anyway.

What do you mean by empty lines? Does your vim somehow have lines in the buffer that aren't in the file?
I've never heard anyone say the early church wrestled with polytheism. Maybe that's my bias nestled in Christian circles of not using that word, in favour of something more like "the nature of the triune Godhead", etc.
This work looks to be rather excellent, apart from their deciding to coin their own term "token" for what I take to be a "design element".

Here is my slightly edited comment from below:

What they are calling "tokens" are just their design elements.

They have abstracted the design elements into their 'tokens' so that they are defined parameters/variables/model-elements that can then be reified at some point before deployment.

This is a fancy (but seemingly excellent) way of encompassing a system's design decisions into a model, which can then be used either abstractly or concretely to proliferate them throughout the entire system, as needed, at the latest possible point the actual values are needed.

It really looks like top-shelf work, but I think their deciding to use the word "token" was an unnecessary mistake of nomenclature.
Show HN: Stringify.org – encode any text as a JavaScript string
Do you ever want to embed a super long string in JavaScript, and find yourself escaping quotes or interpolations by hand?

I find this comes up a lot, particularly when you're doing code generation stuff, because you need to have examples of code for the LLM, and that code often has strings embedded inside it. For example, take a look at the code properties in this JSON array[1].

Introducing stringify.org, the world's only correct-by-definition JavaScript string encoder website. It uses JSON.stringify, which is the only guaranteed method to output a string that is also valid JavaScript. It's in the spec.

[1] - https://www.val.town/v/stevekrouse/cerebras_coder_prompts
> McDonald's stock is up 20% since Oct 7, 2023

> the boycott effort was a temporary scare to the business that didn't have significant impact on sales long term.

Are you making stuff up on purpose? I've rarely seen such a poorly argued and fact free reply on hacker news.

1. "McDonald's stock is up 20% since Oct 7, 2023." Why start on October 7? The formal boycott calls only came in January (https://bdsmovement.net/Boycott-McDonalds) and why would a boycott start on October 7th anyways? McDonalds had nothing to do with the attack. Rather it was McDonald's that supported the Israeli invasion of Gaza after that attack. If you start from January 2024 there is no growth in MCD stock. Second, you need to compare to the market. It has dramatically underperformed the rest of the market which is in a boom. Thus it actually is like negative 20% compared to the market from that point onwards.

2. It was so bad that McDonalds acquired the Israeli franchises and it says in the articles it was because of sales misses: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/05/israel-boycott-mcdonalds-wil... It was a franchisee decision to support the IDF via McDonald's promotions, that likely won't happen any more.

3. "Sales growth slowed a bit... temporary scare to the business that didn't have significant impact on sales long term"? How did you get that? Sales growth is negative this year and continues, McDonald's says so themselves. Their global comparable sales (which looks at same stores, ignoring price increases) have actually been decreasing this past year, especially in International markets:
https://corporate.mcdonalds.com/corpmcd/our-stories/article/... https://corporate.mcdonalds.com/corpmcd/our-stories/article/...
FPV interceptions of Russian UAVs: A new era of aerial combat
I would hate this, I think.

The relatively low (and I have to tick boxes for most of the high risk industries on the form) amount that I pay each year for what seems to be a nice PI policy is easily worth it for the peace of mind.
Protestants all find their differences of opinion a big enough deal that they'll break up over it. They're not fighting wars I've doctrinal differences any more, but who in Christendom is these days?

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/sep/29/comedy.religio...
simple. testing it on myself now. Friend suggested to listen to brown noise for more clarity in thinking and to become more focused while coding
added X/Y mirror feature and saving fav colors on the palette
Resistors, which are passive two-terminal devices that provide electrical resistance, are fundamental in circuits for a variety of purposes such as limiting current, modifying signal strength, voltage division, and biasing active components. They also play a role in the termination of transmission lines. In scenarios requiring the dissipation of significant electrical power as heat, high-power resistors are utilized in motor control systems, within power distribution networks, or to test the output of generators. Fixed resistors maintain a stable resistance that is minimally affected by temperature, time, or voltage variations. On the other hand, variable resistors offer the flexibility to fine-tune circuit parameters, like a volume control or a light dimmer, or to serve as sensors for various environmental conditions including temperature, light, humidity, force, or chemical reactions. These components are prevalent in both electrical networks and electronic circuits, and are found in all types of electronic devices. They can be made from a range of materials and configurations, and are also integrated into microcircuits.
Let’s just require polluters to secure permission from each person whose air they’re going to pollute. That seems fair enough.
The product in TFA is a wrapper around the tool I linked, plus some stuff for docs and so on.

Wrapping free software is mainly viable towards enterprise customers, where the thing you're actually selling is SLA and a certain level of insurance and sexiness on middle manager CV:s and so on.
In theory, sure. In reality the racket between insurers, government and banking will find strings to pull so that that never happens. They're in on every deal. They're gonna fight tooth and nail to prevent the precedent of getting cut out.

I don't think it's fundamentally uneconomical to live in these places. It's just uneconomical in the current "nobody has any responsibility for anything it's all just financialized away" status quo in which it's ok to have plastic siding over a plastic-wood structure and shrubbery all about status quo. People will have to return to the "old ways" of corrugated steel, clapboard (or masonry or cement board) and super short grass and dirt for large distances around structures.
Like any software when they are not supposed to suck and work for not against you
From the paper:

Take for example a human typist working from a hand-written manuscript. An advanced typist produces 120 words per minute. If each word is taken as 5 characters, this typing speed corresponds to 10 keystrokes a second. How many bits of information does that represent? One is tempted to count the keys on the keyboard and take the logarithm to get the entropy per character, but that is a huge overestimate. Imagine that after reading the start of this paragraph you are asked what will be the next let…

English contains orderly internal structures that make the character stream highly predictable. In fact, the entropy of English is only ∼ 1 bit per character [1]. Expert typists rely on all this redundancy: if forced to type a random character sequence, their speed drops precipitously.

[1] Shannon CE. Prediction and Entropy of Printed English. Bell System Technical Journal. 1951;30(1):50-64.
My concern was that Let's Encrypt didn't have any issues generating certificates for trademarked names, something a lot of commercial providers didn't want to do without extra verification.
Technical debt vs. technical assets: What's the difference?
Some people see technical debt as a list of missing features, but it should be a list of the problems that you know you have to vs want to solve. The list can vary but should include known bugs and errors in your code. It should also include how readable your code is and any bloat you might carry. Slowness in build and execution time needs consideration as well.
I hope you're not asking me those questions ;-)

Yeah, those are great questions, for sure.

I can always be awestruckdumb by the understanding that we are all mostly space inhabited by fields, our littlest bits vibrating at mindblowing speeds.
Tap on the button line. AFAIK there’s no such a think as back button in iOS. Apps can display one from the SDK but don’t if no need. Going to the homescreen is done by swiping from bottom on iOS. This site doesn’t handle swipe and use the bottom bar visual indicator as a home button like in the old’ days. As a long time user I find it evident but totally get that it’s not obvious for those not accustomed
Semantic Startup Search Engine to Find Competitors
I see founders struggle a lot to find the right ideas and understand what’s already out there. A semantic search engine for startups can help by showing ideas and companies that already exist, making it easier to brainstorm and build successful solutions. This is just a fun little side project.
It is a sizecoding/demoscene classic, which is a form of art.

Using it as-is tends to be discouraged though, because it is considered unoriginal and lazy for all but the tiniest of intros. Variations on it are fine.
It's really hard to take a Saturn V and make it reusable. Though there were plans [1]

It would be better to develop technology at a smaller scale, being able to iterate more, both in more paths explored per dollar and per year.

In that sense DC-X and the lunar lander challenge were on to something, as was Fastrac. Falcon 1, Falcon 9 and Starship then continued from there. (Spaceshipone and hybrids were a dead end.)

1: http://www.astronautix.com/w/wingedsaturnv.html
This reads like a lossy compression of METI and Sangyo Saisei Kiko("Industry rejuvination body") project criticism. The METI(ministry of economy, trade, and industry) had attempted to intervene to revitalize multiple major Japanese corporations over the past few decades, very few of which saw successes.

Bureucratic and indecisive nature of managing government employees are often brought up as a contributing factor, which applies to every government decisions ever, so this assertion do need citations to be a valid point in a discussion.
Paul Graham is a major Lisp advocate, attributing a non-trivial part of his own early success to it.

So there are all those good reasons for it, but it's still a little weird.
cool stuff! What Amazon Q should be really!
I see there are some people in the thread that doubt the low bandwidth between conscious thought and the rest of the central nervous system.

Do you also doubt that you're actually living half a second in the past, with the brain compensating for this lag between initial perception and conscious reception of the indirect effects of it?
The delivery is a bit too weak for me. It would be way more relatable if the workers stopped delivering red beads (as a stand in for bad news) on day two but miss their quota, except for one employee, who delivered red beads, but is fired as a result.

In this modified scenario, the manager would have initially known that there is a problem, but then the manager thinks that he fixed the problem and his team is merely underperforming, but in reality the underlying problem is still there, but it no longer turns up in the metrics.
I conclude that if you perform horrific experiments on animals then our intelligent universe reduces the rate at which you can continue to 10bps.

This is why enlightenment cures you of your curiosity.
> dates back to approximately 230-270 CE

The nerve to use "Common Era" when specifically talking about the spread of christianity.
I would love it.

As things are now, I'm mandated to spend $XXXX/year on insurance that I've never used and know, for a near certainty, that I'm never going to use. I'd really rather not. I've looked at the statistics and, for me, it's a better bet to eschew insurance. (Which, generally speaking, it would have to be, otherwise the insurance industry would be losing money.)
Covid study that promoted hydroxychloroquine retracted after 4-year saga
There's also Genie 2:

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/genie-2-a-large-scale-...

this one's entirely about world understanding with physical concepts etc. and less about photorealism, but it's really not hard to imagine a pipeline combining these
UK Government Consultation on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
Updates to H-1B
https://archive.ph/KZXmI
I’m interested in that app if you have a link.
It's not really depth perception, but there is a significant difference in how objects are perceived when looking with both eyes. It's also applicable to binocular splitters used with a single mirror/lens telescope.
My fam chat is currently on Telegram, but there recently (Durov's arrest) was a long discussion about that; everyone is actually interested in switching to something E2EE and/or self-hosted. But we want to keep the core features: share photos/videos, keep a history, 1-on-1 voice/video calls, etc. So the main alternatives are WhatsApp, and (distant second) Signal - the latter doesn't offer history for newly joining devices.

If self-hosting in general wasn't such a PITA, I'd probably research the options and set something up. But honestly, I'm burnt out with trying to maintain even the most basic setups. I have a Raspberry Pi with NixOS under my desk that hosts Miniflux over Tailscale, and I can forget it exists 99.7% of the time - until I accidentally unplug it, and 6 hours later, wonder wtf happened again.

Now multiply the problem by the average funny cat video size and crappiness of my residential uplink. Won't happen.
If you look at the source [1], you'll see what it's doing is very simple (the file I linked is basically the whole library, everything else is Gem-specific things and tests). You can even skip the gem and implement it yourself, not a big dependency at all, so no need for constant maintenance in this case :p

[1] https://github.com/vigetlabs/olive_branch/blob/main/lib/oliv...
What about Shahed? Or are those flying too high/too fast?
I think that they know that the maintenance of the certificate on their server could be a big point of failure, maybe out of their control, so they disable any validation on the client.

A self renewing free certificate (eg: Letsencrypt) still requires some maintenance. A non free certificate also costs money. It's probably a no-no for many of those manufacturers or the company that give them the servers. Razor thin margins, know how, dedicated staff, etc.
> which costs peanuts

Peanuts aren’t free. Buying many peanuts adds up. And again, they are already operating at a loss. Additionally, it does not cover them when the system inevitably makes a mistake, especially considering that the OP’s fear is precisely that a disgruntled user would target them, meaning it would be a matter of time before someone would bypass the LLM.
New Neutrino Detector in China
meh, her changes are good and empower every day consumers.

I vastly prefer Khan over judges that don’t care and act partisan.
I built a small device as a hobby a couple years back using an ESP32. It has 500KB of memory, so storing a full set of CA certs was quite limiting. I forget the size, but looking at Ubuntu package repo, perhaps 100KB. So the constraint was storage size (and therefore hardware cost). I ended up making it local network only and using unencrypted HTTP, which worked for my use case.
Everyone (with some degree of savings, which really isn't everyone) will be able to buy a house in an area where that housing and local infrastructure will be regularly devastated. Areas with a more amenable climate will continue to have insurable mortgages and inaccessible housing prices.

So if the 'problem' is _simply_ that people can't buy houses, I guess it's solved? If one words it more carefully - people can't buy houses that allow for a greater degree of economic stability and wealth accumulation - then no, problem not at all solved.
I think the term token had been used in some UI products for quite a while now. The first time I heard it felt a little awkward but it is really quite natural now.
Here I was expecting to see emulated Cisco software
Not just contracts, this is a variation of an "aside" and I've seen it often enough in books that it's normal to me. I do it pretty regularly in comments here, too.
It's one of the most irritating snowclones because most of the time the papers are not presenting some dramatic leap forward like attention.
They'd need to be so cheap that rebuilding (or maybe even repairing) are not things people would care to do. For a $40k house, in today's dollars, it might just be a risk I wouldn't care to rebuild if there's massive damage; just move away. Someone would have to take care of cleanup/removal though.

I see where you're going, and sort of think it could happen in some areas, but regulations might not permit that any time soon, even if 'pure' market conditions might call for it.

Interesting to think what this might do for the 'tiny house' market. Start zoning more places where people can put up $30k tiny houses. You might still need insurance for protection against personal injury on/in the property, but rebuild/repair wouldn't need to be a factor.
Then why suggest someone “especially outside the EU”, then? Would you mind clarifying that?
But they hired someone capable of learning.

99% of developers will not learn a language that doesn’t look familiar to them on principle. They don’t like it and it’s the end of discussion.
I made a quilt that uses this texture. I used the same rainbow scale that one of the last pictures on the site illustrates, So it looks a lot like this. 6 ft by 6 ft decoration I've got hanging on the wall.
When you were first purchasing your unit did you do much research into its privacy policy/rooting support or offline support?
Well said.

Yeah, what I mean by classical would boil down to just genitalia, which doesn't really hold up in how we must respect the person and how they feel and choose to express themselves. Yes, so long as their expressions are not harming others, then we must respect their human right to choose who they are.

I've got to give a huge hat tip to Suzi (Eddie) Izzard, who -- beyond their being just a brilliant comic and generally good human being -- taught me and my fam about how the spectrum of human configuration is way more complex than just male and female.

Cheers, friend.
>What humanity is now struggling with is that there are plenty of folks with lots of both or little of either and all kinds of combinations.

Even that is a very smooth view of humanity as if was all going through more or less the same mindset.

Rest assured that most of humanity don’t conceive their life experience according to a scientific measure of information units.
As the answerer, if you have a wide vocabulary or if you're a technical person then it's not too difficult to routinely choose words the other person simply does not know so that no amount of yes/no questions will get them there.

Obscure medical terms (phlebotomy), names of uncommonly-known stars (Fomalhaut), obscure data structures (cache-oblivious lookahead arrays), mathematical constants (Feigenbaum's constants)... The list goes on and on!

The point I'm trying to make is that most people who play Twenty Questions aren't trying to maximize the number of bits per second in their answer. They're actually trying to play semi-cooperatively. The fun part of Twenty Questions is when the other person guesses your word with as few questions remaining as possible. Having them get all the way to 20 and then you tell them "no you were way off to guess toothache, it was actually temporomandibular joint dysfunction" makes you look rather unsporting!

Thus, since I think we can expect people who play Twenty Questions to actually try to choose a word they know the other person can guess within the space allowed, we can reasonably conclude that using the game as a way to establish some sort of rough constraint on the speed of thinking (in bits per second) is way off. In fact, I know from my own experience playing the game that I will think of and discard many words in a short time as I try to find one that will be in the sweet spot of challenge for the other person to guess.
The climate is changing and is affecting regions we knew would be impacted by climate change 30+ years ago. The insurance companies cannot make a profit (and thus would not choose to operate) in these areas now that they're being impacted by climate change. On one hand this seems like the market working exactly as it should be. People should've moved out of these regions in the last 30 years given the information about climate change, but they didn't.

On the other hand many of the people living in these regions don't really have the means to move away and they're the ones disproportionately affected by all of this.
>Creating stuff from scratch is not a fun experience

It's one of those things that I love the idea of doing. I'd love to create my own look and feel and design.

But day to day at my job I just need a dang button that does the thing or transition between things, a spinner or ... whatever.
Someone who learned Haskell intensely for 8 days could very well be more productive than someone who learned Haskell intensely for 80 days. The former probably got a good introduction to the standard library functions and has become familiar with the main classes like Functor, Applicative, Foldable, Traversable. The latter might be too engorged in advanced language features like TypeInType; or evaluating and choosing between slightly different abstractions to accomplish a single goal, like choosing van Laarhoven optics vs profunctor optics.

And I'm not trying to demean advanced type system extensions or van Laarhoven lenses; I'm just reflecting on my personal journey with Haskell. Playing around with the language in this way is similar to playing around with advanced template meta programming in C++. It just takes experience to have the discipline to know the difference and write simple code and be productive.