skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A change in urgency is good. The issues with our food have been known for quite some time. Given the carnage and damage to health at a massive scale, taking seven years to start acting is irresponsible. This isn't new knowledge at all.

An airplane crashes and it becomes top news for days. Five thousand children and a million people per year are diagnosed with a diet-induced disease with horrible consequences and the media pays no attention to the issue at all.

The death and destruction caused by the global metabolic disease pandemic should make everyone take pause:

https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/pdf/S1550-4131(23)00039...

For context, COVID is estimated to have killed approximately 7 million people world-wide. Metabolic disease is killing over TEN MILLION every year and has been killing over 8 million per year for the last 20 years. And I am just quoting data from the Cell Metabolism Journal publication, which only covers 20 years. The destruction goes back decades beyond that.

In other words, this has been a real "clear and present danger" case for decades. This is precisely why these agencies need to be shake-up to the core. What have they been doing for the last 20 or 30 years?
Peri- for close and Apo- for far is not the existing terminology, in any other words except the derivatives of "perigee" and "apogee". You do not say apovision and apophone, you say television and telephone.

The fact that "perigee" and "apogee" have been used for the first time with this meaning by Ptolemy, who was a native Greek speaker (but of Koine, not of classical Greek), is not enough to ensure that they have been good word choices and that they have been used properly, conforming to how they were used by the majority of Greek speakers. For any language there are many native speakers that have poor knowledge about their own language.

The words "perigee" and "apogee" have not been coined by Ptolemy, but they were Greek words that have been in use for about a half of millennium before Ptolemy. For example "apogee" has already been used by Aristotle.

At the authors from before Ptolemy, both "perigee" and "apogee" had been used with their correct expected meanings, i.e. the former as an adjective for things that go around the world and the latter as an adjective for things that go away from the ground.

Ptolemy has been lazy and instead of creating a new pair of compound words, well chosen to express in the clearest way their intended meaning (i.e. closest and farthest), he has just repurposed two existing words, giving to them new meanings that were inconsistent with the original meanings of their prefixes.

Moreover, the guilt is not entirely of Ptolemy, because he had not defined "perigee" and "apogee" with the current meaning, because his planetary model did not contain elliptic orbits where there are 2 well defined extreme points. Ptolemy has used "perigee" and "apogee" in a more vague sense, of regions close or distant to Earth, where a region where something goes around the Earth was understood to be close to Earth and a region that can be reached by going away from Earth was understood to be distant from Earth. Only after Kepler, when "perigee" and "apogee" have been redefined as extreme points of an orbit, their original Greek meanings have become completely inconsistent with their modern definitions.
We certainly have the data, too much so actually. I should correct the statement to say, we have insufficiently developed _applied_ information theory.

We know how to quantify homology, it just has not been applied to sufficient depth to the field of RNA/viroid evolution to resolve how much of an RNA element with extensive secondary structure, or ribozyme is evidence of a homology vs. convergence. And how could we resolve the two? It's easy with protein sequences, tricky with protein structures, but deep RNA evolution? That's a mystery.
Germany says Elon Musk seeking to sway February election
Florida is such a weird state. Their main income is tourism by a lot, yet the government keeps hurting their main money-maker by not taking care of their beaches and environment and, I guess, trying to be more like Texas. When the deepwater horizon oil spill happened, they didn't really clean the beaches or water that well and just dumped more sand on top of the oily film to hide it before the summer tourist season. For years afterwards, you'd always find tarballs and oil spots in the sand just a few inches down.
why waste a tld when URLs already have a protocol component?

unix:///tmp/my.sock
Ah yes, I have my target set to 100. IIRC the first off the shelf closed loops were hardwired to 120 but newer ones are configurable.
Thanks to your father for his contribution to my childhood, I used QModem every single day until my parents screamed, and it changed my life. I made friends on some local BBSes that I still have 30+ years later.

Sending condolences and gratitude.
This could be circumvented by _training_ the LLM on the fly on the previously observed file data. This is what Bellard's other NN compressor, nncp, does [1], which is currently #1 on Mahoney's benchmark [2]. Unfortunately this is too slow, especially running on the CPU as Hutter's challenge stipulates IIRC.

[1] https://bellard.org/nncp/

[2] http://mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html
Yes, one way to think about arithmetic compression is encoding the difference between the prediction and reality.

This isn't normally what people mean by lossy compression, though. In lossy compression (e.g. mainstream media compression like JPEG) you work out what the user doesn't value and throw it away.
I prefer as few middlemen as possible for my personal communications, and not having to spend a hundred bucks a month on it.
Interbase is still around and it can store the entire database in a single file or across multiple files. There are also 3 versions of it available: IBLite (in process DB engine), IB-To-Go (in process DB engine), and Interbase (server based).
This is good. It defers the decision as to what to learn!
Americans don't have to wait, if they can pay enough money to make other people wait, usually through having superior insurance. And this is anecdotal but my own father had to spend 3 months in 24/7 heart afib as he waited for his thyroid to be removed. And that is with every doctor knowing for a fact that having afib is both damaging to the heart and may result in a deadly heart attack at literally any moment. But because his insurance isn't as great as other people's insurance, he has to wait in line with all the poor saps while people with money get treatment within hours or days.

The idea that American's get better and more immediate healthcare is only true for people with money.
So, there's actually a chance I could play Populous: The Beginning on a tablet?
There is an argument that without the copyleft provisions of the GPL (sometimes described as a virus), free software would not be as popular and important as it is today.
macOS also supports the APIs, but password manager developers don’t seem willing to implement them there.

I’ve used 1Password for a long time, but I’m probably going to drop it for Apple’s password manager because when users ask 1Password to add support, they are directed to use 1Password’s browser extension and universal autofill instead. Neither support passkeys in applications. I also find the browser extension buggy at times (especially with passkeys).
> That being said, such a split design may help with improved AI inferencing.

Unified memory is the only reason Macs are so coveted right now for local AI.
A single 192 gb ram Mac costs less than the equivalent in standalone GPUs.
http://archive.today/N59nk
Coroplast deteriorates quickly in UV light (like the sun). In 2-3 years, those pristine white panels will crumble under your fingertips. I just scrapped some coroplast windows that faced the sun after only 3 years.
It's never too late for a true quibbler to correct the record.

According to my etymology source, perihelion came out in the 1680s, so it's closer to 350 years, not 400
I’m not sure this is strictly true. It seems more accurate to say there are deep connections between the two rather than they are theoretically equivalent problems. His work is really cool though no doubt.
Talk to everyone you have ever worked over, under and beside (and your students as well). Your relationships with the people who know your work is the most important job search resource. Good luck.
I think US has a much larger need for welfare than Denmark, or actually maybe all Western nations. So, welfare and care for the homeless is super pricey. IMO, this a byproduct of the extreme form of capitalism practiced in the US.
This is by a good margin the most interesting knowledge-domain I have encountered in at minimum weeks. Super-interesting.

Hammerhead Self-Cleaving Ribozyme is quite a chunk of English.
This is especially true for instance when you have two or more tokens that are about equally likely, or one token that is virtually certain, which ranking would obscure.
The economic boom isn’t helping everyone.
Have you checked webmaster info via whois for the domain? I know, it's generally obscured and all nowadays, but there might be a way to contact the author, if they aren't MIA.
Did that actually hurt the tourism?
Well, that's sort of obviously true, right? Like, there's generations of legal and economic thinking around this problem? It's one of the central problems? This is what Coase was all about.

Take the pristine state of nature in some location prior to human interaction, and then anything a society of humans does in that location is in some sense going to injure that state. To say you have a Constitutional right, as a resident, to forbid those injuries is essentially to say you have a veto on virtually all activity. So the question isn't whether you have a procedural right to stop pollution, it's how to negotiate the balance of competing interests.
Yeah, without clean beaches and water, why am I vacationing there?
> The Fifth District Court of Appeal ruled Thursday that although 83% of voters in Titusville approved a 2022 initiative establishing the right to clean water, the city in Brevard County couldn’t enact it because of a 2020 state law preventing local government from giving rights to bodies of water, plants, and animals.

Finding seems to be that the city law is prohibited under a state law, and the state law does not contravene the state constitution and so cannot be invalidated to allow the city's new law. which makes for a ridiculous headline, but doesn't seem wrong on its face.

The problem is Florida's state government reserving environmental protection for itself, and then failing to sufficiently protect its environment...
Not too surprising. After many decades of sensible policies which got the state to where it is today Florida is now in its "kill the golden goose" stage. In another decade or so the economy will mirror the rest of the deep south.
That is extraordinarily insightful, thank you.

Maybe I will give this a crack. If I get anywhere I'll contact a local university to speak to a biologist.

Thank you.
It sounds worse than it is. The judge cited that the cause is admirable but there's no legislation which supports this and it isn't the courts job to legislate from the bench. There is overwhelming support for this so now the activists need to pressure state legislators to make it law. Once it's law then a court can determine if citizens are having their rights trampled on.

We get into a lot of trouble when judges step outside their bounds.
You can also block by IP. Facebook traffic comes from a single ASN and you can kill it all in one go, even before user agent is known. The only thing this potentially affects that I know of is getting the social card for your site.
We just need a browser plugin to auto-email webmasters to request access, and wait for the follow-up "access granted" email. It could be powered by AI.
How did you find these things? Since you "stumbled upon them", you probably didn't know what you eee looking for, so... How did this research get started?
> Rich people would be sad because taxes.

Something tells me the people in charge most definitely do not want this at all…
mmh sure. I think your take is extremely optimistic, you mention The World as if there were a collective direction, but from where I stand CO2 emissions look like the ultimate example of the tragedy of the commons.

Also the side effects of benefits have large delays, so economics are very dependent on the rate of discount you use for your net-present-value calculation...
What he said is true, if you have a lot of money, which is the part people always seem to miss. But people get sucked into the propaganda because they personally haven't had to deal with it, or themselves or their family have the money to bypass such problems. Every time someone complains, people with money will dispute it because they themselves have not had or seen that experience and deny there is a problem at all because they personally don't have that problem.

And HN itself is full of people doing way better financially than the average American with better insurance than the majority of people, so even here many people will have a much better impression of and access to the US healthcare system than the average person in the US actually does.
Volkswagen leak exposed location data for 800k electric cars
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How to learn about a world-class double bass? Give it a CT
> Another intriguing aspect is the separate CPU and GPU design. If true, this essentially means M5 will not use a unified memory architecture (UMA) shared between the CPU and the GPU.

This does not follow. Intel is shipping unified memory processors with CPU cores and GPU cores on separate chiplets but still sharing the same memory controller (on a third chiplet, for Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake). AMD is about to launch Strix Halo, a high-end mobile processor that is rumored to consist of one or two CPU chiplets and an IO die with a big GPU and 256-bit memory controller.
The real headline is "Municipalities can't make an end-run around Florida state law."

I'm not saying it's right, but you can imagine where this sort of thing can go sideways. And I'm not even saying it's clear-cut (e.g. see how the Supremacy Clause and 10A work when it comes to Federal/State).

Anyway, obviously people shouldn't be forced to drink crappy water, but methinks that 'right' would have to be applied top-down instead of bottom-up under the U.S. system.
I think they do know and that's why they don't want it.
I'm imagining a quixotic terms of service, where "by continuing" any bot access grants the site-owner a perpetual and irrevocable license to use and relicense all data, works, or other products resulting from any use of the crawled content, including but not limited to cases where that content was used in a statistical text generative model.
I can't help but think there is an alternative to this dichotomy. If, for example, US were to institute a high-percentage income tax bracket for the wealthy (maybe 65% over $1m) and used that to pay for national healthcare, would that really impact start-up culture? Maybe it affects some business at large, but it means the average joe can get laid off and not stress about hospital bills, while still encouraging a "risk-hungry sector".

Tl;Dr: Europe could have trillion dollar companies and still lean heavily towards labor, just like we could
Dislocker does require you to have the keys tho it’s not a bypass.
> D. Richard Hipp (DRH) was building software for the USS Oscar Austin, a Navy destroyer. The existing software would just stop working whenever the server went down (this was in the 2000s). For a battleship, this was unacceptable.

Maybe it's a nitpick, but a destroyer is not a battleship. The latter weren't even in service in the 2000's.
> Naysayers haven’t been submitting to cold options I suspect which is why the trend has always been denial. But with mass layoffs, people are having to resort to cold application processes and finally experiencing at scale how terrible the process has been.

Aye, this. Got all of my jobs historically though word of mouth. Sat next to someone at a wedding reception, or talks at a Linux User Group, or colleagues from one job going to the next and pulling everyone with them, etc.

cold applying was brutal. worked out, eventually, but it feels/felt like such a waste of time.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I too like to peruse the things that neovimmers are up to as they come up with some pretty neat ideas. There does feel like there is a productive synergy between Emacs and neo/vim.
I thought you meant kTLS doesn't support SNI lol
Insurers have an app where the patient (member) can type in a procedure code and see prices for local network providers. It's literally right there in every member web portal! Every health plan has sent out multiple notifications to their members! How are people still not aware of this?

https://www.cms.gov/healthplan-price-transparency/consumers
This still won't prevent yoinking the entire RAM modules and dumping them offline.

Ideally, the keys should just remain inside the SRAM cache on the CPU, never even going outside of the CPU die.
4.8M requests sounds huge, but if it's over 7 days and especially split amongst 30 websites, it's only a TPS of 0.26, not exactly very high or even abusive.

The fact that you choose to host 30 websites on the same instance is irrelevant, those AI bots scan websites, not servers.

This has been a recurring pattern I've seen in people complaining about AI bots crawling their website: huge number of requests but actually a low TPS once you dive a bit deeper.
Actually, even before then.

The Qualified Majority Vote has been being used in increasing scope of policy areas for many years.

QMV was part of stuff from the 1986 SEA, and got a major boost in the 1992 Maastricht Treaty, since it was recognised as practically being necessary to make any progress towards (and within) the Single Market.
The scraper bots can remain irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
Why did the state enact the legislation in the first place?

Was it because it meant to save the environment, or was it to stop towns and cities from frustrating lobby interests?
Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late. I use the
side door. That way, Lumbergh can't see me. And after that, I just
sort of space out for about an hour. I just stare at my desk, but it
looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after
lunch, too. I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen
minutes of real, actual work.

Office Space (1998)
I have no idea how to parse this, but if you thought I was going to give you a list of all the CNE vendors I'm aware of on an HN thread, obviously, no. Why would you care anyways? I know enough to know that I'm speaking factually about the state of the market, but I don't work in it or interact with it in any meaningful way, so you could just as easily say "if you know about that vendor, that means they're not a SOTA CNE vendor either". You might be right!

On this leg of the thread, we're considering basically one issue: is NSO Group one of the {only,most} {important,impactful,sophisticated,whatever} CNE vendors. Is someone seriously arguing that's the case? I'd assume the idea that there are lots of vendors more impactful would be pretty banal, but maybe there really are people on this thread whose understanding of CNE comes entirely from that book linked upthread?
i really enjoyed reading this post. people are really critical here...
Yeah. Our research group has a wiki with (among other stuff) a list of open, completed, and ongoing bachelor's/master's theses. Until recently, the list was openly available. But AI bots caused significant load by crawling each page hundreds of times, following all links to tags (which are implemented as dynamic searches), prior revisions, etc. Since a few weeks, the pages are only available to authenticated users.
To easily run a HTTP service that only your user can talk to.

echo 'unix:/tmp/my.sock weather.unix' >> ~/.config/unix.hosts
dillo http://weather.unix/today/
I think this is related to fundamental attribution error. The system is messed up and therefore attracts messed up people in leadership positions, not the other around.
No, it wouldn't work. The coordination and decision-making processes would be even slower than the EU's current glacial speed. In order to persevere, the European countries must coordinate quickly and act with decisiveness for the next couple of years or risk becoming vasalls to a strong Russia and China.
Didn't see this comment before complaining in a separate comment, but a destroyer is not a battleship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destroyer
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I'm sorry, I think you mispronounced market segmentation... This is Apple we're talking about.
Disney’s the main draw for Europeans
The water flow analogies always messed me up because young literal me couldn’t handle reconciling the abstraction with “actually current flows negative to positive”
Full sedans as a whole across vehicles old and new is 2 deaths per billion vehicle miles.

Tesla is as high as 10

Motorcycles are something crazy like 267

Yes driving a Tesla is far safer than driving a crotch rocket but far more dangerous than a 10 year old Carolla which is concerning.

Either it is incredibly poorly designed as far as crash safety which doesn't appear to be so or its software kills enough people to more than make up the difference.

Which is it? I'm guessing if we are relying on Tesla to investigate the state of the software that auto pilot is only being implicated when it is engaged till the end whereas most crashes probably see the human take over unsuccessfully prior to the endpoint.
Power company hid illegal crypto mine that may have caused outages
With mass spectrometers measuring concentrations of things in the parts per trillion or less, some man made pollution is everywhere on Earth and many other planets.
I'm very sorry for your loss.

In the early 1990s, QModem's workflow for offline inter-BBS email (in the QWK file format) allowed me to communicate several times weekly, much faster than physical mailed letters, to people all over the world that I would not have been able to do otherwise. It helped me curb depression, build my technical skills, and join a community whose members I am still in contact with over a third of a century later.

QModem was written in Turbo Pascal, and was noticeably faster than other terminal ("modem") programs on my aging 8086 hardware at the time. And knowing it was written in TP, and being a TP programmer myself, gave me hope for the possibility of writing fast code in a high-level language myself, which I eventually did.

I would not be as successful in my life today without the positive experiences made possible by QModem.

PS: Your father's choice of name for his shareware company, "The Forbin Project", was quite the hax0r flex at the time.
Sorry for your loss Aaron. My father passed away just before Thanksgiving and it hit me harder than I expected (long illness, failing health, so I felt I was prepared but alas).

Qmodem was for me the tool that IT gave everyone so they could "dial in" to the office when on business trips. And because it was installed by IT on every fresh laptop it was always in the top left corner of the screen. Even after my company had moved on to other products, my wife continued to use it for years sending faxes when folks needed a fax sent.
Plus Apple themselves are already kind of doing it with the M Ultras - those are two chiplets glued together, each of which is only connected to half of the systems memory directly, but it still behaves like unified memory even though half of the memory traffic has to be routed via the other chiplet.