skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zstd is basically LZ77 + FSE. There are some other pieces to it, but they’re minor. FSE is a form of entropy coding that you can swap out with other entropy coding techniques, like Huffman or arithmetic coding. For most objectives, FSE is the clear winner of those three.

As people mentioned elsewhere in the thread, Burrows-Wheeler isn’t really composable with other systems. Nobody has figured out a reasonable way to combine LZ77 and Burrows-Wheeler. That’s why zstd + bzip2 does not work. But you do need an entropy coding system to go with Burrows-Wheeler… and FSE fits the bill.
> Funny, isn't it, how the goalposts keep shifting?

Propose a date Tesla FSD will be at parity with Waymo and their level of autonomy.
https://archive.md/4nbKB
> it's wild to me how many candidates think they can get away with it

Remember that you are only catching the candidates who are bad at cheating.
Scavenger's Reign made me remember how much I missed the batshit crazy Liquid TV animation of the 90s.

The SR episode with the moment in the cave wall is the most profound and beautiful animated thing I've seen in awhile.

Amazing how tame everything has gotten by comparison.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42904706
Many fights are best finished by withdrawing.

(It's difficult, I know, and I struggle with that myself. HN's "collapse thread" feature (the [-] on the comment link) is useful should conscious effort prove frail.)
I think one thing people are discussing a lot here about Privacy around contacts and sharing. Limiting access to contacts , completely or partially, is the wrong way to design such systems. There are two problems with this approach:

1. Having permission to contacts is NOT a capability. Running a function on it that is by design not leak PII is infinitely more valuable and a capability.

2. Asking users to grant permission is broken by design: You are giving a very bad multiple choice to the user: `(a)Creepy? (b). LessCreepy (c). Don't Use App`

Instead if we only granted operation rights and hid the actual information instead it would be so much better. We need a separation of data from the function to empower apps to give better choices to users.
I'm pretty sure boost::format can do this, though not inline in the string. Do we really need more complexity in cpp? isn't it complex enough?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42913081
"The second law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of an isolated system can only increase over time. "

Isn't there a difference between "can only increase" and "cannot decrease"?
I don't find this to be the case. Bad creators make bad videos, regardless of their length. Truly good creators, though... well, let me put it this way - I've watched 7+ hour long videos which contained not one sentence of repetition or padding. They just had that much to say.
I’ve had people using AI in interviews to answer simple “get to know you” questions. People just disconnect their brain and read whatever the machine says.
>Regardless of sex chromosome aneuploidies or a desire to be the opposite sex, everyone who is, who could be, or who has ever been pregnant is female.

Nature disagrees with you. There are many animals out there that can change sex. Sex, gender, etc etc don't have a perfect universal definition because nature doesn't work that way. The scientific literature is trying to capture the observed variety we see in humans and it will continue to evolve as our understanding evolves.

This whole line of argument reminds me of the history of pi and the governments that tried to legislate it to fixed values. Just because you want things to be simple doesn't mean that reality backs you up.
this is very strange statement. in what world did AI possibly shift power to the applicant?? applicants have almost never been in shittier position than they are now and things are getting much, much worse by the day
Very helpful post! I was using flag emojis on a landing page and completely unaware that they weren't being rendered correctly on Windows.

The author mentions a polyfill [1] and the fact that they dislike it's using a CDN. Fortunately, the polyfill can be configured to use a local/self-hosted font:

> polyfillCountryFlags(fontName?: string, fontUrl?: string)

Here's how I added it to my Astro landing page:
https://github.com/pentacent/keila-web/commit/e96ec233eef631...

[1] https://github.com/talkjs/country-flag-emoji-polyfill
45 WPM with 95% accuracy if the wind is at my back and I'm pointed downhill.

It's been getting stuff done for decades. My typing isn't the slow part of my development process.
To be fair, it looks like there was fraud in the Italy case - just of the builders not the scientists.
It has always been more about the application of facts or knowledge than the retrieval of facts that makes for a really good interview.

It’s better to know when to use a Linked list than how to make one (because I’d just use the one in the library).

So the candidate can prompt well good. But how much of the knowledge can they apply to a problem or are they just masters of hacker rank (sic).

But more often than not most interviewers are lazy and just use canned hacker rank style questions or if it’s not laziness it’s being too overworked to craft a really good interview.
If you want to do this now with little setup, run waydroid and then run wireshark inside the network namespace that is created for waydroid

sudo ip netns exec <netns> wireshark
Anything can signal something great to people.

An oddly ugly actor, with a strange voice who happens to also be a great character actor can become perceived as good looking and an audible charm without changing a thing.

Similarly, the repetitive and technically flawed but also predictably distinct tempo of an author who writes books that are consistently easy and enjoyable to read without too much mental hardship can become beloved.

Never underestimate the power of anything, no matter how seemingly worthless on the face of it, to signal something good to people.

When we ask “how can people like that?”, we may be seeing the reliable flaws quite accurately. What we are missing is it is exactly those particular flaws that have now become a signal of something those people like.

The flaws are just the consistently awful din outside a loved restaurant. Unacceptable anywhere else, but welcome when dining there.

What sounds like cacophony to many, is now hypnotic tempo to others.

—

TLDR; Branding lesson: any distinctive disadvantage can be counter intuitively leveraging for good effect, by incorporating it as a signal of something good. Soup nazi.

TLDR2; Health lesson: You can learn to like the taste of almost anything, if it makes you feel good after you eat it.

TLDR3; Social lesson: This is how beloved assholes become loved for being despicable assholes. People like something about them in spite of their being an awful person. Then they start associating their irredeemable asshole-ishness with what they like about them. Then they love that they are a destructive asshole. It’s one of their best features!! This dynamic underlines the worship of the asshole qualities of many real and fictional assholes. Slovenly lazy rude unbathed detectives are a classic. Certain repugnant politicians.
They're more likely to shut down the plants. The cross border system has been in place for decades.

It is unclear if the tariffs are a short term or long term policy. If short term then there's no way to justify the investment.

So you have to wait until you get certainty. And then you need to build industrial plant, train workers. And crucially the new workers have to stop whatever work they were doing previously.
Richard Sutton - Reinforcement Learning, An Introduction
I'm confused. Saying "Technofeudalism is worse than good old capitalism" and believing communism is a better system are not mutually exclusive. Are they?

As for mera25 policies being at odds with communist beliefs, I don't know, I don't follow this closely. Maybe he's trying to be realist in finding a way forward? Everyone knows that a marxist party will never win elections. Maybe he addresses this appearance of inconsistency somewhere.

In any case, it seems to me that your original characterization of him was exaggerated.
Hollywood: Split a console into multiple panes of genuine technical melodrama
Nevada Ivanpah Solar Plant Accidentally Incinerates Up to 6k Birds a Year (2016)
it doesn't have to become part of your thinking and reasoning, even in context, even though it does carry some actual weight. because it can be (over)shadowed. something that some people currently learn to code into LLMs, if I understood layering and quantization more or less superficially correct.

so, you might want to google it, because some part in the back of your head itches to remember something that is actually relevant and located on the rim (of the knowledge graph) of something that you do remember.

fucked up indexing. an 8 hour rabbit hole and that one of 43 links you didn't open in a new tab.
They still find a way to make it horrible and degrading.
That's true as Pratt described it. I mentioned it because it's a good example of the general idea of extending recursive descent to handle more deterministic grammars than vanilla LL.
Tangent: this sort of thing can be implemented without any change to libc++ (the runtime). Updates to compiler versions are sometimes postponed by users with big codebases that treat a libc++ change as something major.

Why don't we see gcc or clang or msvc back porting stuff like this to an older version with a sort of future tag. It's normal to see __future__ in the python ecosystem, for instance.
Was the pandemic limited to 2020?
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They even have Typescript libraries. Crazy.
OpenAI makes surprise livestream today for 'Deep Research' announcement
> Data-oriented programming (DOP) is a methodology for embedding malicious programs into fixed executable vulnerable
binaries.

Whoa, this is gonna be a wild ride.
This is the sort of change that adds complexity to the language but reduces complexity in the code written in the language. We take those
The commenter above was claiming that trauma causes autism, not the other way around.

> it can often be trauma that causes the auto immunes... It’s hard to find a not traumatized autistic person
I think that makes a lot of sense, thanks so much! I hadn't thought about converting transcript insights directly into Anki cards. Just concerned that the ChatGPT + Whisper -> Anki combo is not 'enough' of a product for people to pay for.
We're talking about humans. That some other animal species have a reproductive strategy of sequential hermaphroditism is not relevant to the conversation.
OK,

I was following Wikipedia: In 2024, Chollet launched ARC Prize, a US$1 million competition to solve the ARC-AGI benchmark. I guess the ARC benchmark appeared in 2019 (https://arcprize.org/). So (shrug)
how the MAID/IDfV gets into the PII-ID databases?

It seems that part is completely missing. (Or I missed it.)

So for example can/do airlines sell it? Or telecom/utility companies, when you use their app?
I've had several summaries that are just 80% duplications of pages found in the 4th to 5th position in the search results.

It seriously looks like google is deranking actually useful and informative sites and then passing their content through an "LLM" to slightly reorganize it and then pass it off as it's own.

It's a copyright laundering machine put together by advertising companies so you never leave their properties. I genuinely think it's a criminal conspiracy at this point.
I built a free tool using 12 custom AI agents to generate market reports
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Here’s how it works:

You input 4 simple details:
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I built this because I found it difficult to validate startup ideas efficiently without spending days on research. Starter Report is free and always will be. I’d love feedback from the Hacker News community on how to improve it!
The trusty laws of thermodynamics strike again
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C++ also has std::format, which was introduced in C++20. This is just sugar on top of it, except it also returns a container type so that printing functions can have overloads that format into a file or stream directly from an f-string, instead of going through the overhead of a temporary string.
Interviews aren’t about solving problems. The interviewer isn’t interested in a problem’s solution, they’re interested in seeing how you get to the answer. They’re about trying to find out if you’ll be a good hire, which notably includes whether you’re willing and interested in spending effort learning. They already know how to use AI, they don’t need you for that. They want to know that you’ll contribute to the team. Wanting to use AI probably sends the wrong message, and is more likely to get you left out of the next round of interviews than it is to get you called back.

Imagine you need to hire some people, and think about what you’d want. That’ll answer your question. Do you want people who don’t know but think AI will solve the problems, or do you want people who are capable of thinking through it and coming up with new solutions, or of knowing when and why the AI answer won’t work?
I find it fascinating reading hacker news, full of IT folk who simultaneously build software that enables and profits from the advertising and personal information selling & tracking industry - are also the same people who complain the loudest about it. Unbelievable.
just skimmed the proposal, dont see how inline rendered f-strings are more complicated than the alternative.
If you like Margo Martindale, you'd be remiss in not starting to watch The Riches immediately. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0496343/

Eddie Izzard putting in a serious character acting role as an Irish Traveler ner-do-well who essentially steals a Florida suburban identity. With Minnie Driver as his just out of prison addict wife.

It was really good, even moreso for its time.
Animal footpads inspire a polymer that sticks to ice
What happens when member names collide and you match an interface you shouldn’t have? It’s an issue even in Go, which, unlike Python, has a usable type system.
I’m relatively sure they would bring the hammer down on the sender.
Slow Horses is great... until there are action sequences.

At which point it does that British television thing where action just isn't.

But given there isn't a ton of actual action in it, the bulk of the show holds up.
Reimagining our built world: Using futures thinking
I want maps to show reality. Not who they *think* should be in control of Taiwan or Transnistria, but who actually is.
When is there ever an Australian flag to choose
Well, possibly yes, US law is one of the most regulation heavy countries making this sort of stuff impossible.

However the point really is, do there really need to be issues at the border when flights land? I guess you could exempt travellers so that there is the appearance of normality to people IRL, but that wouldn't prevent issues at the border for packages, and most people get a lot more packages than they do fly in/out of the US, so I'd imagine it wouldn't take long for people to really notice the impact directly (let alone several steps removed as companies can no longer import effectively).
If the focus is on text, then the best example is probably the sqlite amalgation file which is a 9mb C file.
The negative effects are generally low. Some types of gambling are close to zero harm (i.e. bingo, some kinds of machines, and sports betting), and the rate of addiction in most studies is under 0.5-1%.

The same people who will say that gambling should be illegal are the same people who believe that you should be allowed to take any amount of psychoactive drugs that are addictive for almost everyone and leave a double-digit proportion of users with mental illness (as is apparent to anyone who has compared the US with other countries, the number of mentally ill people is staggering).

In particular, the US was the largest gambling market before...when it was illegal. The reason why it is legal is harm reduction. In addition, if you look at some markets where it is not only legal but significant government intervention in activity of gambling companies you find harm because it causes people to go back to illegal casinos.

All of this stuff has been proven over and over again across the world. But the reality is that people do not like other people doing things they don't do themselves. That is it.

And, for some reason, no-one had an issue when large donors to both US political parties were able to pass laws to make competition in gambling illegal. Massive political corruption that people who talk about morals had no issue with whatsoever...again, because it isn't about morals, it is about other people doing something they don't like and them wanting to stop them doing it.

Gambling is definitely one of the weird ones because it is only in countries like the US and China where gambling has a terrible rep...because it has been illegal and a great source of revenue for organised crime. In places like the UK, people gamble, they have fun, and just get on with their lives (again, it is so strange that the US has this attitude...drugs, morbid obesity...no, it is people betting on the Kentucky Derby that need to be brought to heel...of course, not the homeless person smoking crack, it is the guy betting $20 on the SuperBowl, he just can't control himself, the animal).

Finally, something that the Guardian never mention is that the only people gambling addiction treatment in the UK up to about three years ago was...gambling companies. NHS wouldn't fund it at all. I think people assume that the government will regulate correctly, that the government will create a better solution...nowhere is this more apparently wrong than in gambling sector (and one big issue in the UK has been increasing growth of the unregulated sector due to the significant rise in the cost of getting a licence due to the skyrocketing budget/staffing in the Gambling Commission...it is more important for them to keep budgets growing, keep the pay rises than reduce harm...who could have forseen this?).
Chinese denialism over Taiwan is really, really demented. It's not that they just claim Taiwan - they pretend they already own it, and stick their fingers in their ears if you point out facts on the ground.

I suppose they did the same with Mongolia, until they couldn't.
Yeah I've been doing the same. Have been pretty stunned at people's inability to use AI tools effectively.
Few works of art are great across all the metrics. A book (or a movie) can have a great overall premise and structure, but have lacking dialog, flow or other issues. Is it good? Perhaps for me, but not for you.

I just watched Lost Highway in the theaters. I had never had a chance to watch it on the big screen before, and I brought my SO. I love the movie since there's no clear cut interpretation, yet it also feels accessible. My SO hadn't seen it before, and while she thought it was fine overall, she really disliked that there isn't a canonical "this is what happened and this is what the things mean" explanation. The very thing that made me love the movie.
>Interesting to think about what structures human intelligence has that these models don't.

If we get to the gritty details of what gradient descent is doing, we've got a "frame", i.e a matrix or some array of weights contains the possible solution for a problem, then with another input of weights we're matching a probability distribution to minimize the loss function with our training data to form our solution in the "frame". That works for something like image recognition, where the "frame" is just the matrix of pixels, or in language models where we're trying to find the next word-vector given a preceding input.

But take something like what Sir William Rowan Hamilton was doing back in 1843. He know that complex numbers could be represented in points in a plane, and arthimetic could be performed on them, and now he wanted to extend a similar way for points in a space. With triples it is easy to define addition, but the problem was multiplication. In the end, he made an intuitive jump, a pattern recognition when he realized that he could easily define multiplications used quadruples instead, and thus was born the Quaternion that's a staple in 3D graphics today.

If we want to generalize this kind of problem solving into a way that gradient descent can solve, where do we even start? First of all, we don't even know if a solution is possible or coherent or what "direction" we are going towards. It's not a systematic solution, it's rather one that pattern in one branch of mathematics was recognized into another. So perhaps you might use something like Category Theory, but then how are we going to represent this in terms of numbers and convex functions, and is Category Theory even practical enough to easily do this?
Scripts to help setup LLMs tools easily from FOSDEM
Waydroid uses the host kernel.
What kind of marketplace do you use?
The article says:

Yet despite decades of research, no treatment has been created that arrests Alzheimer’s cognitive deterioration, let alone reverses it.

Nowhere in the article does it mention that anti-amyloid therapies such as donanemab and lecanemab have so far successfully slowed decline by about 30%. They may not yet be "arresting" (fully stopping) the disease, but it's pretty misleading for the article to completely omit reference to this huge success.

We are currently in the midst of a misguided popular uprising against the amyloid hypothesis. There were several fraudulent studies on amyloid, and those responsible should be handled severely by the scientific community. But these fraudulent studies do not constitute the foundational evidence for the amyloid hypothesis, which remains very solid.
Thanks for these links, I will check them out!

I have different listening habits with podcasts -- most times I will listen to long form interviews that are supposed to be insightful, and often feel that way in the moment.

The key thing for me is actually translating those insights into action.
- Perhaps to bridge this gap, I need to reconsider my to-do system or build to-do-list integrations into the tool.
> I am a 10x developer

lol, okay.
So it's less complex bringing in a 3rd party library and having to pass arguments?

fmt library can also do something similar, but still requires the complexity of adding the library and passing arguments.
Or maybe Cole's Law
This is distinct from import taxes. I used to work for a retailer that sold to the US. We collected sales tax (which is not GST/VAT, semantically different, and you have to pay a US company to calculate it for you), but still had to put a limit of $800 per package in order to not get hit by import duties.

I believe Temu/Shein/etc collect US sales tax based on the destination address, but that is insufficient.
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