skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Windows Professional has none of that bullshit and I've done many installs.

Windows Professional has a lot of bullshit.Yesterday I lost 3 hours because, after a crash, Windows will run an "online checkdisk" and die before completion. Pulling the ethernet cable solved the issue. (this machine does not and will not have a wifi connection).
If you’re compressing 100 or 100k such datasets, presuming that it is not custom tuned for this corpus, then wouldn’t you still save much more than you spend?
As an alternate datapoint, I've almost solely (by a 90% majority or more) heard "sequel" and "sequelite" (/'siː.kwəl/ and /'siː.kwəˌlaɪt/, respectively) across 12 years and 6 companies (from FAANG to YC startups in SF and NYC)
But where is Little Snitch for iOS. At least Android has NetGuard.

Firewalling applications is relatively easy on a general purpose computer. Where it becomes excessivelky difficult is on a so-called "smartphone".

https://www.obdev.at/support/littlesnitch/bm3q8

"Will Little Snitch be available for iOS, tvOS and watchOS?

Unfortunately Apple's regulations and submission guidelines do not allow applications like Little Snitch that operate on the system level on the iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch), tvOS (Apple TV), or watchOS (Apple Watch) platforms."

It appears Apple's "regulations" prohibit owner control and increased transparency. No such thing as an option for "experts only" when it comes to Apple computer owners; one size fits all. Apple are the only experts and the only ones entitled to control and transparency, over and into _other peoples'_ computers. Remarkable.
The answer is simple: I have something to hide. I have many things to hide actually. Nothing of these things is illegal currently but I still have many things to hide. And if I have something to hide - I can be worried about many things.
Hard disagree. Just because people reached a consensus on something doesn't then mean talking about that something is propaganda. Is all talk about modern medicine propaganda? All talk/technology that uses AC electrics over DC?

In the modern world it seems like EVERY discussion is 'why XYZ is wrong' and there is zero defense/explanation of how/why we reached/settled on XYZ (current norms) in those discussion, just attempts to discredit xyz/norms.
Plastic bottle reuse has been done in other countries for half a century, without QR codes.
The Blaming of Joe Biden
The definition above says "largely similar" not "exactly the same".
Yes, it probably will. If it does then I will move to a new platform.
So, do away with all negligent security cases?
This SDK is the actor framework with the primitives.

There will be additional packages to facilitate chat (https://github.com/agentjido/jido_chat) and AI (https://github.com/agentjido/jido_ai)

There's a WIP workbench app that will be 1-click deployable to set up and chat with a Jido AI agent soon: https://github.com/agentjido/jido_workbench
This is not "attacking" RAM. A UEFI binary (or Linux kernel in the CCC demo which uses a different method to retain the key in memory) already has access to all the extents of physical memory. It just has to search it for the scribble leftover from the bootloader.

See https://github.com/NoInitRD/Memory-Dump-UEFI/blob/db4888dc05... and onwards.

Edit: Ah, I guess you're referring to the fact that the reboot preserves RAM contents? DDR5 doesn't change anything about that AFAIK.
Trump told SCOTUS he plans to make a deal to save TikTok
https://archive.ph/2024.03.02-222958/https://www.washingtonp...
As I understand it, most people want independence, but not at any cost. I think most people have economic concerns about independence, and want to diversify the economy in a way that makes them less economically dependent on Denmark before taking the last steps towards independent.

Politically getting independent wouldn’t be that difficult, they would just need to pass some laws, finish drafting a constitution, and have national referendum. If they can make the economic case for it, I think there would probably be an overwhelming majority in favor.
Consider the existence of forensic genetic polymer tagging sprays etc.

For example: https://www.selectadna.co.uk/dna-tagging-spray

One could easily fathom not just overt authorities but also covert authorities wishing to use similar technology.

Clearly an intelligence agency doesn't want the lower level police leaking detections of higher importance, so best to differentiate say DNA for cops and RNA for intelligence services, so that the pragmatic tools and workflows of police won't result in uncleared personnel figuring out things they aren't cleared for.

That wouldn't explain quasi biological statistics as opposed to white noise random sequences, which would suffice for tracking, but also would blow the cover as a man-made genome...

I.e. if RNA sprays had been reserved by some power bloc for intelligence service purposes (DNA sprays for usual law enforcement), then there is a clear incentive to have the secret pseudorandom sequences at least mimic plausible biology sequences, an adversary bloc detecting such a tracker might believe the sequence to be of biological origin, and intelligence associated academics would publish it: revealing both the detection by an adversary bloc and the academic's employment by intelligence circles...
Sounds like a solution in search of a problem. To machine-read every item's nutrition label, you have to read every item, one at a time. So maybe I can find the food that doesn't contain nuts, but I still have to scan every food item first.

There's an easier way to do that: look for the label on the front that says "nut-free", or the label that says "may contain nuts" or "processed in a facility that processes nuts", or the primary ingredient that is not a nut, etc. No phone and app needed, no encoding data, anyone can do it, it's easy to find. Plus it's not easy to adopt a machine-encoding standard to changes in trends or society (like the difference between "contains nuts" and "processed in a facility that may process nuts"). We also already have OCR that can read all this text, and it's all laid out in a uniform way, so machine processing isn't that hard for existing labels.
Sure, I agree that's an interesting and likely solvable technical problem. However, the vast majority of the addressable market in today's over-secured society don't really need improved detection. Concert venues, sports arenas and similar customers buy massive volume and they are much more concerned with faster throughput enabled by shorter cycle time and minimal false positives. Of course the head of security at Madison Square Garden can never publicly admit they don't care about better detection enough to pay more for it, but I'm confident the sales managers at these security vendors understand exactly what their largest market segments really care about.

Customers like Tel Aviv International Airport, who actually care to some meaningful extent about improved detection, are a small minority segment of the overall market. Creating new technical measures able to demonstrate improved performance in rigorous objective tests on the metrics these customers care about (some sweeter spot on the matrix of false pos, false neg, true pos, true neg, net throughput, cost) would be valuable but only to that small segment.
In 1994, I had access to personal webpage hosting. I read the HTML doc and built a webpage and because URL's were a big idea for the web I linked to an external image. In a few weeks the link was broken.

That's just the way it goes when you try to use the web the right way. Working around it is probably pragmatically ethical. Perhaps not deontologically.

But it is not that complicated. If you don't feel it is ethical it is not ethical. Ethics is not doing things just because you can get away with them. Good luck.
Interesting this post was not flagged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41561181
Just to clarify: even storing ranking, here would likely produce good results, but not as good as storing the probability, since it exploits better the ability of arithmetic coding to store this fractional intervals. But here the fundamental trick is that the LLM can compress the "next in sequence" information in a distribution that is much better to compress than the initial data itself.
Thank you for the kind words, but even good CVs get lost in the great recruitment filter all the time. It's great to have a platform where you can interact directly with real engineers at various companies.
OP is wrong, SQLite does match the requirements outlined in the OSI's definition: https://opensource.org/osd

It's not "open source licensed" simply because it is not licensed. There is no license document for OSI to approve.

Relying on OSI approval does not necessarily make sense, they don't get to all licenses as your link points out. However arguing over their definition seems very foolish. People only do it when they want to pass their all-rights-reserved code as "open source" (e.g. "I can call it what I want"). Having adjectives that mean the same to everyone is very valuable, actually.
LLM Chess Arena
Here is the repo:
https://github.com/llm-chess-arena/llm-chess-arena

This project enables two large language models to play chess against each other, showcasing their strategic reasoning and decision-making capabilities. Fully open-source and licensed under the MIT License, it’s a great tool for exploring the potential of AI in classic games.
Having the majority of the population supporting something doesn't really mean too much in the US. I mean marijuana legalization was supported by near 70% of the population even 2 decades ago. Many states now have legalized recreational marijuana, and yet it is still federally illegal and the federal government could at any time shut down all the state approved marijuana sales. I think that by itself makes it pretty clear that the US is barely democratic and the will of the people is easily and regularly ignored by politicians.
Goodbye HashiCorp...
> though I have seen enough YouTube analyses of it to know I don't want to

Eh. Probably don't trust ragebait TV.

YouTube optimizes for clicks and eyeball time, not honest considered takes.
Comes up as a minor plot point in Vernor Vinge's The Blabber (1988):

> “And from your standpoint, Hamid, there’s one big drawback. The mean bandwidth of this thing [an ansible, more or less] is just under six bits per minute.”

> “Huh? Ten seconds to send a single bit?”

> “Yup. Skandr left three protocols at the Lothlrimarre end: ASCII, a Hamming map to a subset of English, and an AI scheme that guesses what you’d say if you used more bits. The first is Skandr’s idea of a joke, and I wouldn’t trust the third more than wishful thinking.”

(Good advice at the end there.)
What would "south" even mean to flat earther? I can't envision a model in which any sane definition wouldn't lead to a contradiction.
Made a quick and dirt streamlit app to play around encrypt decrypt

https://llmencryptdecrypt-euyfofcjh8bf2utuha2zox.streamlit.a...
Status Update: Live Stus is now available at https://stats.uptimerobot.com/e01zgAwwLr
I’m not gleaning what observations support these things being alive from the article-how do we know they're not just an odd form of garbage RNA produced by cells?
> The nice thing about passkey is that unlike password, you can have multiple per account.

I would charitably estimate that of the sites currently supporting Passkey, the ones that support multiple passkeys are in the single digit percentage. So, practically, you can't.
Looks like it’s been updated since then; commenters in that thread are saying the decompressor needs to run on the same hardware as the compressor; now the link says:

> “The model is evaluated in a deterministic and reproducible way. Hence the result does not depend on the exact GPU or CPU model nor on the number of configured threads. This key point ensures that a compressed file can be decompressed using a different hardware or software configuration.”
The first widespread portable music player, the Sony Walkman TPS-L2, was in fact a modified recorder that had a platform for audio that punched above its weight.
I see what you're saying, but you're overlooking the fact that some of the best funded pacs out there aggressively lobby against minimum wage increases. I submit they aren't spending that money out of boredom.
The original post says it's not actually a burden though; they just don't like it.

If something is so heavy that 2 requests/second matters, it would've been completely infeasible in say 2005 (e.g. a low power n100 is ~20x faster than the athlon xp 3200+ I used back then. An i5-12600 is almost 100x faster. Storage is >1000x faster now). Or has mediawiki been getting less efficient over the years to keep up with more powerful hardware?
Right. "The world's best cookie". I think the idea is that no reasonable person would understand that statement to mean that literally, of all the cookies in the world, this one right here is the best.
This compressor is by a certain Fabrice Bellard, an overactive overachiving powerhouse of a programmer who happens to be leading the Large Text Compression Benchmark https://www.mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html, which is maintained by Matt Mahoney who happens to run the Hutter Prize :)

Fabrice also makes some programs you might use, like FFMEG and QEMU

https://bellard.org/
Providers also make a lot more money in the U.S. than in other countries. This encompasses much more than just doctors, but try running on a platform that’s seen as “cutting doctor salaries” and see how far it gets you.
I instigated `user-agent`-based rate limiting for exactly this reason, exactly this case.

These bots were crushing our search infrastructure (which is tightly coupled to our front end).
isn’t a LLM itself basically a compression of the texts from the internet? you can download the model and decompress the (larger) content with compute power (lossy)
I'm so sorry for your loss.

Your father's contributions are immeasurable. Just reading the word "QModem" gave me an instant flashback to my youth. QModem was my gateway to the outside world.

I grew up way out in the country. I was the 80s and I was pretty isolated from technology and didn't even know anyone who cared about it at first. I started tinkering with our home PC, and I finally purchased a modem and figured out how to connect to BBSs. This changed my life. I had many sleepless nights as teenager, connecting everywhere I could. QModem was like a fancy car that drove me anywhere I wanted to go.

I became obsessed with learning and tweaking things. AT commands, autoexec.bat, QModem scripting. Whatever I could figure out to get maximum performance and fast download speeds. Because of Qmodem, I could download games, text files, and even talk with other people. This moment in time defined my future. I knew right then what I wanted to do with my life.

I owe thanks to your father and what he built for my wonderful career, and 40 years of enjoying technology. Without something as easy to learn and reliable as QModem, who knows what path my life would have taken.
This is entirely defeated by https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/pc-client-work-gr... - if enabled, if the OS isn't cleanly shut down (giving it an opportunity to wipe encryption keys) the firmware will pause to wipe RAM before booting anything else on next boot. Does Windows not make use of this, or did the tested system not implement it?
Show HN: PowerPoint Generator AI
What would the ideal AI Powerpoint maker look like?
> You're making it sound like Drop is regularly not called

Sorry if it came across that way. My claim is weaker, that it's sometimes not called even in cases where it could be with a smart enough programmer/language.

> But any language will have issue executing code before exiting if you go out of your way to...

Is there an easy way to make Drop work nicely with signal handler induced shutdowns other than having a "correctly" configured panic handler and panicking in the signal handler (even that causing other UB depending on what code Drop runs)? The edge cases for the feature look thorny from my perspective, but (some) other languages handle that by forcing you to be explicit about which code runs when.

> I don't see how Drop causes leaks

"Relying" on Drop is the most common source of Drop-related leaks. All it takes is one extra reference to cause leaky code (see Actix as a case study in such problems).

> Beyond my skepticism about the mechanism being a significant source of performance degradation

That's... pretty easy to test? Pick any problem that potentially has a lot of allocations, like an async sudoku solver, and check how it performs with a collection (arena, pool, ...) vs using Drop on each item. I promise the difference is substantial.

> writing collections that take responsibility over dropping their contents in one go isn't particularly difficult or restricted by the language

No, not at all. I totally agree. The concept of "intentional friction" is useful here. An expert can make excellent Rust code. My last job had one person like that (not that it matters, but that was out of many people who wrote Rust there), and you have shining examples like BurntSushi. My complaint is that the language's happy path doesn't guard against those performance mishaps, and since most Rust code I see in the wild has fallen prey to those pitfalls I think it's a reasonable complaint.
Speaking as a person who has played on both offense and defense: this is a heuristic that's not used frequently enough by defenders. Clients that load a single HTML/JSON endpoint without loading css or image resources associated with the endpoints are likely bots (or user agents with a fully loaded cache, but defenders control what gets cached by legit clients and how). Bot data thriftiness is a huge signal.
This line of reasoning is deeply flawed. If US tech companies are “making enormous amounts of money from your country’s populace”, then your country is getting something in return, e.g. access to Apples hardware products, amazons cloud, or googles search engine.

Why should it matter if they also open an office in your country?
https://github.com/R-O-C-K-E-T/Factorio-SAT is another codebase trying to tackle the same problem
Is there really any evidence that they are parasites and not part of the host's machinery?
VR Goggles for Mice
The problem is that some racial bonuses are things that can be plausibly explained away by background (stat bonuses, mental abilities, humans getting a feat) but a lot aren't (aarakocra flight, dragonborn breath weapons, halflings being able to hide more easily), and they're all balanced against each other. Does an aarakocra raised by humans get human bonuses, and still get to fly? Does a human raised by aarakocra lose their human bonuses but grow wings?
I'd use it somewhere in Github or Dev.to where there is support for MD, though I'm opening it using VS Code which doesn't has direct MD support. Or I'd like to archive it for some reason.

I downloaded this tweet, for example, this can give you an idea about potential usecases
https://x.com/ThePrimeagen/status/1873778477448782035
Interesting in light of another much-discussed story about AI scraper farms swamping/DDOSing sites https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42549624
Healthcare cost sharing ministries can work for some consumers but there are loopholes which allow them to deny coverage for services that commercial insurers do cover. This can leave consumers with huge surprise bills.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/health-care-cost-...

Commercial insurers are already required to rebate premiums if their medical loss ratio is below the limit.

https://www.cms.gov/marketplace/private-health-insurance/med...
Not sure what you are talking about TOTP suffering from a similar issue.

TOTP works via a secret key provided by the service. The TOTP(secret key + time) function generates a 6 digit code. This is a standard. The secret key can be stored on Authenticators and those authenticators sync to cloud services.

When adding the secret key for the first time to your authenticator, you have to also copy that to a notepad. This way if you want to transfer the keys, you have them available. Authenticator apps don't always allow you to export the keys. TOTP.app is a good auth app that does allow but there is no sync to cloud capability.
What makes Howard Oakley a “toady”?
This happened to me once. Sadly I had wiped the flash drive containing the recovery key months before the lockout without realizing it. Chide me if you must, but I certainly learned my lesson.

I tried a few non-hardware exploits, even CVE-2022-41099 about WinRE but to no avail.

I’m not a security pro, but I assume once it is in recovery mode lockout you’re pretty much out of luck. From what I can tell most other exploits require it to be unlocked in the first place. Even the hardware hacks seem to require a drive being in a non-lockdown state in order to sniff things during boot.

That NVMe drive is just a keepsake now. I plan to frame it and put it on my wall as a memento.
I worked with John for a few years in the 1990s. This was during the heyday of BBSes, when he joined our small team at Mustang Software after Mustang bought Qmodem. John moved to Bakersfield California (with his family, including OP!) to be with us. John left a few years later due to I think business differences with management.

John was personable and full of joy. He always loved a good joke. I remember the parties (not wild, we were pretty tame back then) we would have around the pool at his place. He was generous with his time.

The story of Qmodem itself was a bit different. Qmodem for DOS was a one-man shareware business and was John's pride and joy. It was clear that he poured everything into that program. It was finely tuned and just worked. Times were changing though, and people were calling for a Windows version. Unfortunately, John was not interested in learning Windows programming, so Scott Hunter (now at Microsoft), Dan Horn, and I built Qmodem for Windows. It was good, but it really never had the same level of polish that John's work did. It was "Qmodem" in name only.

After John left Mustang he also left Bakersfield and I lost touch with him. I'm sure he continued to make the people around him smile. Thank you for your time and contributions, John.
Ok, but in the US they are not obligated to do that. It's been put forth to the Supreme Court at least once.

A cop can be at the scene of you getting actively murdered and do nothing about it, and legally the cop is ok.

Morally, you could definitely argue they're not okay.
But a glass bottle weighs 10x what a plastic bottle does, resulting in significantly more fuel usage and greenhouse emissions.

PET bottles are widely recycled, at something like 90% in Norway and 80% in Japan. Versus 25-30% in the US. The issue in the US is literally that people just throw them in the trash or on the side of the road, outside of the six states that have a deposit.

Statista link, with some of the rough figures corroborated by Wikipedia:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1166550/plastic-bottle-r...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PET_bottle_recycling

The issue is the lack of will, and opposition, to actually put them in a place where the materials can be recycled...and to make it cheaper (through tax incentives) to recycle the material than to use new plastic.

Those glass bottles would end up in the trash or in the road too, as things stand. It's where I already see them go most of the time. Moving from a recycling-friendly state to a southern state has been infuriating in that regard.
I guess I am a bit dense when I create Apple passkeys for the few websites that support it, I don’t have any issues with using chrome or safari and macOS or windows? I will test again but I don’t remember experiencing this.