skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is particularly interesting as there seems to be, for decades, a general consensus that the problem of text compression is the same as the problem of artificial intelligence, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutter_Prize
This has always been the Hard Problem. For one, constructing an ontology that is comprehensive, flexible, and stable is huge effort. Then, taking the unstructured mess of documents and categorizing them is an entire industry in itself. Librarians have cataloging as a sub-specialty of library sciences devoted to this.

So yes, there's a huge pile of tools and software for working with knowledge graphs, but to date populating the graph is still the realm of human experts.
as an alpine linux enthusiast, i can say that this is fantastic.
keep it clean
For a vast majority of people, and especially so with the sort of things that a) save lives and b) make the bean counters cringe, “won’t pay” is the same as “won’t get”.
One big plus I found when switching to Apple after using Android phones for 10+ year was essentially always scoping file/photo storage.

It seems like a pretty easy thing to do, and I don't know why its not common / not a thing on common Android phones.
> When asked during an interview earlier this year whether he had ever been star-struck, Carlsen responded: “Yes, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.”

what a piece of shit. well, two pieces of shit, can't decide which one is bigger: the one who ordered a gruesome murder or the one that's 'star stricken' by the murderer

let's not even touch on the subject of LGBT rights, democracy, women rights, workers rights and everything else that makes Saudi Arabia hell on earth

Next time someone should ask Carlsen why does he promote gay people being imprisoned, killed and persecuted, i'm genuinely curious what he will answered
You completely ignore the fact that they are also requesting a lot of pages that can be expensive to retrieve/calculate.
If I hired a Hitman, if that fact were discovered I'd be prosecuted for murder or attempted murder, despite not pulling the trigger, despite not knowing if the intended target actually dies.

I don't think I can accept that people knowing or almost certainly knowing the outcome of their actions and taking those actions regardless should not responsible for the outcome under our legal system.
LLMs, and now this, make me think of the (non-existant) "Sloot Digital Coding System" that could be viewed as a form of "compression".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloot_Digital_Coding_System
There’s definitely some form of filtering you can apply to metal detector results to make a relatively good guess on whether it’s a false positive or not.

Just need to train it with a variety of hidden and unhidden items. I kinda like the idea of a team of test people hiding their weapons everywhere and then taking multiple trips through the thing just to teach it.
Sounds like SAT scores are a pretty poor metric, for Stanford's purposes.

Are they sticking with the SAT just as a way to game their US News rankings? Because of some regulatory or contraction obligation? Ivy-encrusted tradition?
presumably the QR code is just an ID and the actual counting is done on a server, so there's not much room for "replacement" qr codes
I'm pretty sure it doesn't use ranking. That leaves a lot of performance on the table. Instead you would use the actual predicted token probabilities and arithmetic coding.
Those JavaScript scripts often get data from some API, and it's that API that will usually be behind some fingerprinting wall.
There is no 'security product': you must engage in the permanent tracking of security flaw and intrusion: do heavily trap your kernel/applications, do man-in-the-middle traffic analysis between known traffic and unknown traffic, do not trust off-the-self crypto, etc.

But the basics are not even here: you should not use any compiler, all critical pieces of software should be assembly written with very lean SDK (aka extremely stable machine code), namely without the abuse of macro-preprocessor.

Everything else is just posture.
The main benefit: if used to replace passwords, they eliminate bad passwords and password reuse and password leaks by things you log into. Which is a gigantic improvement in practice, as those are extremely common ways for mass account theft.

(I am not personally a fan of passkeys for a variety of reasons, but the main goal is very pragmatic and something like passkeys is a very obvious choice. I just don't like this spec, the UX awfulness and railroad-everyone-into-giga-corp-systems-and-giving-up-all-control shown in this article is a direct and very predictable result of the spec's decisions.)

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Per-device is an option (part of the spec, and I believe always allowed), but it has a bootstrapping problem that leads to custom out-of-spec shenanigans (how do you attach your account to a second device, without any other way to log in, if the new device has nothing that can prove it's related to the other?) and most people don't have enough devices to be able to have guaranteed backups. Lose your phone and you might lose literally everything. Or a house fire. Data is FAR easier and cheaper to put in multiple locations for redundancy.

Also I set up new devices like a dozen times a year, whether it's a new physical device (relatively rare) or simply an erase and start over / OS switch (at least annually , it ensures my backups work and I get rid of cruft). If my passwords weren't backed up and handled with far more paranoia than my browser session, I've have lost them at least a couple times.
Hey, thanks for sharing and trying to express it even if it's not your primary language - it isn't for me either - it gave me a new insight.
It's more that it's a category error. Replication has a context for where it's important, e.g. a treatment and cause & effect relationship. It doesn't If you say "we did this to people and it caused them to respond this way X% of the time," that's something that needs to replicate for us to know if we should take it seriously. If you look at a bunch of separate data sources and find out that a bunch of them show that a certain thing verifiably exists, that doesn't need to replicate to be taken seriously. The data should be checked to make sure the thing actually does exist, but that's verification.

So most findings in research psychology definitely need replication. But the idea that the existence of something is verifiably found across a bunch of different datasets doesn't need a new set of experiments to show -- you just check the data.
Learning & Development (i.e. books, courses, or similar "professional skill development" resources)
Sorry but you have it backwards. The examples you have in mind are South American and Eastern European countries 20 years ago ie emerging markets struggling to maintain a currency peg.

Iceland doesn't suffer from hyperinflation and it's already got an established central bank and trusted institutions. Lowering the interest rate in this environment would 100% lead to more inflation.

Plus Iceland relies on currency devaluation to cope with shocks. It would be crazy to give this up.
> Security checkpoints are the primary point of delay for getting into venues, and places that have rolled these out process people through about 95% faster. It's a huge difference.

I assume expediting peak crowd throughput at low labor cost is the primary, if not entire, value of the device. I hate that it's being marketed dishonestly but I also assume most concert venue buyers know (or suspect) it probably doesn't work all that well in practice. However, in a concert context accurate detection isn't their main priority. They need to get more bodies per minute into the venue at lower cost while appearing to conduct security checks sufficiently 'real' enough to act as a deterrent to get those who care about getting 'caught' to leave their knife or concealed carry handgun (or whatever) in the car.

The only hard and fast requirement is meeting the contractual security requirements of the venue and promoter's insurance carriers - because no insurance = no concert. It's a bonus if the 'security' also looks plausible enough to reassure the small fraction of perpetually fearful people statistically challenged enough to actually worry about terrorists or an active shooter killing them while at a Taylor Swift concert (as opposed to the infinitely more likely chance of dying in a car crash on the way to the concert).

In a perfect world, everyone would be rational and numerate enough that we wouldn't need to maintain the pretense of 'security theater' in contexts where actual security isn't necessary. But in the imperfect world we live in, I prefer having concert (and airport) security be as minimally disruptive and inexpensive as possible regardless of effectiveness (since it's unnecessary and mostly ineffective in those contexts anyway). I just wish companies would sell these products as 'security placebos' instead of lying about it because fraud is wrong.
The family of modem data transfer software back then had Kermit, xmodem, ymodem, zmodem, UUCP scripts, and pro-quality tools like QModem and Telix, as you mentioned. I'm sure I've left some other modem data transfer tools out. QModem had a certain polish and stability to it.
How much data can the code store? I doubt it will contain all of that information, but rather, a URL. Like the other post said, more tracking!
Xcancel is also a great service, it's a complete X replacement.
> Patients must take responsibility for knowing how medicine works and motivations of its creators/prescribers.

This is true. If you blindly trust whatever your doctor says, you are going to have a bad time in the current medical system. Doctors are incentivized to push pills because they get kickbacks from the pharma industry. This is pretty well known (https://www.propublica.org/article/doctors-prescribe-more-of...)

When it comes to Elective surgeries, perscriptions. etc. you need to do your own research to how these things work and make an informed decision for yourself. Ultimately, if you're an adult, you are responsible for your own body and your own equipment.

It's not a matter of deep technical knowledge, it's shallow technical knowledge and political knowledge of what institutions are trustworthy.
“Probably” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. I’m not sure why Meta deserves the benefit of the doubt with a horrible privacy track record as shown in multiple judicial districts throughout the globe.
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It could be an ID in the central database, or jwt-style signed token. More crypto-punk stuff ;) (not related to cryptocurrency). "Valid bottle" sounds funny
I used to work in an office that had beautiful views over a big river. I remember that there were a lot of issues with the WiFi, despite having switched between all major Access Point manufacturers to try and get a properly working setup. In the end it turned out to be the radars of ships causing issues.
"former CIA director and retired four-star army general" does not decide new Trump policies.

Also, in this situation directly targeting Russian troops and ships will trigger even more tactical nuke on Eastern European targets.
Blocking all image/video/CSS requests is the rule of thumb when working with headless browsers via CDP
Definitely. I'm just talking about an interesting way to identify content creation on a site.
From another comment here.

https://developer.apple.com/support/downloads/DMA-Interopera...
It's very hard to imagine. I feel like I don't exist when I'm alone
... how do you plan on doing this without paying?
This is especially sweet for owners of high end android tablets, where if you have an android 16 tablet you can then run both windowws legacy apps and full linux desktop on the same device.
Many people can't hear "inner voices" or imagine common sounds
Thanks! Honestly, I think this approach is inevitable given the rising tide of unstoppable AI spam.
Popular in America, but not elsewhere.
Selenium usage is similar to browsing patterns of real person. (I hope they don't ban my account, if they see this)

Your extension somehow crashed on my system while downloading a thread(i couldn't see download button), I was able to get 1 md file downloaded though and I'd say it does it's job nicely, in the highest manner.

Feature Request: Make download button compatible with Dark Mode(currently it stands out loud)
We've reached 'peak carbon'. The world is increasingly acknowledging that higher concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere increase the overall temperature of the planet, which changes planetary weather patterns, and that this changing climate is expensive to adapt to.

As such, we're emitting a more than economically optimal amount of carbon dioxide, and demand overall should drop. Hence, peak demand. More energy consumption can give us more good things, so the energy consumption itself isn't bad, but we've reached a point where the side effects of the energy consumption are eating into the benefits we get, probably past the point of marginal benefit overall.
My condolences. May he rest in peace.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qmodem
Nah, easily filtered out.
They're not saying we can exist. They're saying that it's not uninhabitable to something, therefore making the value judgement that it would be uninhabitable is simply not true. Which is another kind of value judgement about how important your own values are.
Yes I have. An altercation between two people in a parking lot is different than a school shooting.

Have you looked at the other items listed where there are victims? Multiple times I see that it was an altercation in a dorm room of a college. Sorry, I would consider that an altercation in a residence, not a school shooting. Here's another one that a kid shot himself in the leg and it's counted as a school shooting.

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/incident/3092594

These stats from GVA are inflated with respect to school shootings.
This depends on what you're fighting.

If you're fighting adversaries that go for scale, AKA trying to hack as many targets as possible, mostly low-sophistication, using techniques requiring 0 human work and seeing what sticks, yes, blocking those simple techniques works.

Those attackers don't ever expect to hack Facebook or your bank, that's just not the business they're in. They're fine with posting unsavory ads on your local church's website, blackmailing a school principal with the explicit pictures he stores on the school server, or encrypting all the data on that server and demanding a ransom.

If your company does something that is specifically valuable to someone, and there are people whose literal job it is to attack your company's specific systems, no, those simple techniques won't be enough.

If you're protecting a Church with 150 members, the simple techniques are probably fine, if you're working for a major bank or a retailer that sells gaming consoles or concert tickets, they're laughably inadequate.
Not sure if tax supported medical coverage, tax supported college level education, guaranteed vacation, sick time and maternity leave are a “slightly better” social safety net. Just to name a few.

The U.S. culture is so accustomed to the brutality and constant anxiety of not having any of these things that we don’t have the felt sense of actually having safety. Which makes it easy to dismiss - especially when fed the illusion that we are a step from being wealthy, a prerequisite of actually having this safety and more.

Why not allow for everyone to have it? It isn’t because we can’t afford it. We are just used to siphoning all of society’s wealth to a few selected people - and made to believe that we can join them.

Freedom to exploit a lot of people without accountability is different from freedom to live one’s life based on one’s calling and choices. Using the same word for both meanings leads to confusion.

In the U.S., the priorities are aligned behind the freedom to exploit, extract, and socialize all externalities. As individuals this comes at the expense of our own freedoms. I only have the “freedom” to operate in an increasingly adversarial environment.
For millions like me with long Covid, the pandemic isn't over
Off topic but what Helix theme are you using here?
It's constantly startling to me describing to people I consider not that much younger than me (I am an elder millennial) that in highschool almost no one had a cell phone (or if you did, you didnt necessarily always have it on you, was just for emergencies) and it absolutely was not a problem. I'm usually met with complete disbelief or "how did you do X then" kind of questions. Almost nothing else makes me feel older, but this really wasn't a super long time ago that we comfortably existed without smart devices in our palms 24/7/365. The only utility I've gained is I can do desktop-like activities like banking etc. on my smart device now, but it's still very little problem to just do that stuff on a laptop.

I've often quipped that my generation may have been the very last ones to experience their primary education without devices.
regular people strongly disagree. from what i can tell, people who aren't HN commentators or tech bloggers love passkeys.

you click "sign in" and you are signed in. that's the dream. my non-technical family and friends have been lamenting not being able to do that for years. my customers are asking for it.
> Oracle were the prime. They were a disgrace

I think I may have actually been working on the project you are talking about from the Oracle side. I think many of us tried our very best as individuals.

I was never on it full-time, I worked for Oracle engineering but they'd sometimes send us on-site at big customers to fix problems when they blew up. It can be a lot easier to debug a customer's problem when you have the source code right in front of you.
Played this game and switched to prebuilt libraries. Think builder docker images have also been broken for a while.
> they're assuming that these fundamental changes will likely be beneficial to them.

This is the part that confuses me. I have met a few “burn it down” types but never heard one articulate why that would work out well in the long run. I’m only assuming they even thought that far ahead.

The only people who can tell me why they voted for Trump are people who want his specific brand of incremental change.
Yes

Imagine it. Fear it!
Greenland is in serious need of infrastructure. Denmark has not been a kind colonial master (no such thing exists). However it would be foolish to think that any more infrastructure would be built under the USA’s colonial rule than Denmark’s. And I think the Greenlandic population knows this all too well. Both are their indigenous neighbors to the west in Nunavut and Alaska suffering way more under Canadian and USA’s rule than they are. But also as their autonomy has increased over the years so has their infrastructure, including cultural institutions, as well as their cultural independence.

I’m from Iceland, who also suffered (though much much less; so much less it is not comparable) under danish colonization. And I’m of the opinion that the biggest help Iceland can offer, is cooperate in cultural events and institutions, such as sport competitions (especially football and handball), theater (a collaboration between the two national theaters would be lovely), music (there artists from each country should be constantly performing in the other), etc.
Reminds me of the RFID tags used to limit refills - https://www.validfill.com/solutions#overview
Truly free choice is an illusion; the best we can do is a force of law to keep players from tilting the playing field in their own favour.
Much more than the 1D barcode.
The mere existence of regulation is part of the problem. Without precise understanding of the law, you don't know if your use cases are fine/excempted. The safe default assumption is that your site is not compliant with regulations until you can prove otherwise, involving a lawyer.
Surely some people do actually want suffering, or at the very least are indifferent to causing suffering to advance their goals? I don't feel like there's some weird paradox, but rather that the system makes it too easy for sociopathic types to rise to the top.
Only today, I told my colleague that the first BBS connection was one of the most extraordinary experiences I've had in my life. Of course, it wasn't possible without QModem software.

Thank you so much to your father for the happiest moments of my childhood!
Love hearing when old code does just fine after that much years to be honest. Very impressive
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Unique codes will finally allow the implementation of "drink verification can to continue" with validation that the user hasn't reused a previously scanned can
> Why fight them? Just make the resource usage lighter.

Because you presumably want real, returning customers, and that means those customers need to get a chance at buying those products, instead of them being scooped up by a scalper the millisecond they appear on the website.
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If you like that idea, give Kiwix a try! Best ~60 GB I have stored on my phone :) And it comes in handy more often than initially expected.
After careful consideration I've decided that I'm more concerned with the waste and pollution caused by single-use plastics than I am the privacy rights of polyethylene bottles.
Ah yes please also take an all or nothing stance against- golf, soccer, tennis, cricket, boxing, formula 1, e-sports.
It adds levity to the article and also introduces the reader to the sorts of things that can go wrong if they try it at home.

The last paragraph highlights how they fixed one of the main pitfalls I normally see in this sort of thing, where floating-point operations are mangled in myriad ways in the name of efficiency (almost always correct for physics or whatever, but a single bit being incorrect will occasionally mangle this compression scheme).

Mind you, actually doing what they claimed in that last paragraph is usually painful. The easiest approaches re-implement floating-point operations in software using integer instructions, and the complexity increases from there.
It is functionally the same for the recipient of the medical care who wouldn’t be able to afford it out of pocket. You get the medical care, and you don’t pay for it. Then declare bankruptcy if you have to.
There are necessary cookies for sites to operate. For example, you need a cookie for authentication or a server-side e-commerce basket.
It's not that they don't understand; it's that it causes more work for the lawyers, because someone has to review the license if it's not one of the standard boilerplate acceptable licenses.

I once had to go to lawyers to get a license approved on a lib that went something along the lines of "this work is in the public domain; do whatever the fuck you want with it, just don't come crawling to me for help". I'm paraphrasing from ~20-year-old memories here, but I do distinctly remember the profanity. It elicited a chuckle from the lawyer and something along the lines of "I wish all of these were this simple".
The US isn't the only jurisdiction, and public domain isn't a concept in all jurisdictions.
This seems like such a horrible, insecure idea that would never pass muster at any company I’ve ever worked at