skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the compression time for brotli to achieve compression ratios comparable to LZMA on these types of data sets: https://github.com/google/brotli/issues/165

I understand that brotli is incredibly slow as compared to LZMA when using these high ratio settings (q11, w24), so slow as to be impractical in production even in a write-once, read-many scenario if you have any non-trivial amount of data being regularly produced. I do not want to have a farm of machines just to handle the brotli compression load of our data sets just because it is 10x slower than LZMA.
Similar one.. This AI bot from Spanish start-up removes plastic from garbage... http://www.sadako.es/?page_id=33&lang=en
Academics spend a lot of time on the internet defending their poor decision of going into academia, as well as anyone who points out how obviously fruitless academia is.

For most people it's nearly impossible to admit something they just dedicated a large portion of their life too was completely worthless.

(standard disclaimer statement that of course there are exceptions to the trend.)
Well, first off, I don't really like Java or the JVM. That in itself is a pretty strong reason to not get into Clojure.

Secondly, I don't really like Clojure as a language: It's strongly opinionated, and made some unorthodox (for a lisp) design choices which I dislike.

Finally, Clojurescript is really heavyweight, dragging along not only its own runtime, but also the google closure library and compiler, making the entire system more complex than it needed to be (was there any reason we needed to have a closure dependancy?).

Don't get me wrong, Clojure isn't an objectively bad language, it's just a language I personally dislike. If you have similar tastes to me, you may not like it either. OTOH, You may thibk it's The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread (TM). That's fine, I just won't agree.
> Are facts sexist?

No, but yours is not a fact; it is a belief (if it was a fact, it needs no believing in). Your belief is that men are solely responsible for the wiles of humanity, hence your advice being to get rid of them in order to “fix humanity”.

> Men tend to be much more violent than women.

If--note ‘if’--men tend to be much more violent than women, as you say, it does imply that women are capable of violence. Thus a society of full of women is no solution to fixing the wiles of humanity as their female denizens are still capable of violence. If I may ask? Since both men and women are capable of violence, why not get rid of all humanity?
You’ll have to wait a few years for Linux to be announced...
That may be a risk yes. But we'll see. For now the service is great and the support is quick to answer tickets :).

What is so wrong with OpenVZ? (Which is indeed the technology at use.)
Why isn't someone providing apps for these businesses? Perhaps apps aren't so important...
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To provide a counterexample, I definitely type less than 50 (their median) wpm on a mobile device. More like 10 - especially if there are symbols involved that are not on the first two screens. On blackberry maybe 50.

On the other hand, speech is a lot worse. A lot of times you can't afford to have 10%, 5% or even 1% error rate since messages are usually short and you cannot infer intended meaning easily. So my WPM accounting for correcting speech with swype is <10.
Don't correct. Just keep talking.

I found speech recognition to be useful mostly for brain dumps. I've found I tend to think best when explaining or talking. I used to bring along a voice recorder on long drives, capture what I was thinking, then run it through voice recognition later. It was often a garbled mess, but usefully captured a lot of thinking. Modern recognition systems would do a lot better. Yeah, I should try that again.
Research in 1984 (Graphical Perception: Theory, Experimentation, and Application to the Development of Graphical Methods - by William S. Cleveland and Robert McGill - https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~tmm/courses/cpsc533c-04-spr/readings/...) found that texture (what they call shading) is worse than color saturation for discrimination of quantitative differences. For categorical discrimination it is probably as good as color if limited to a few patterns.
That's a really unhelpful comment. Please specify what encryption you think Dropbox is doing on the passwords and what knowledge you have on the topic.

I'm pretty sure you're going to say "they do TLS" and then the person you're talking to can go ahead and explain that the encryption LastPass/1Password does protects an entirely different threat model, but unless you have a conversation here no one is going to be able to communicate a thing.
A slightly different model, but Meetup.com lets you do this for free.
Heh. Given how Athena itself seems to be run atop ubuntu these days, I wonder how MIT gets all the GUIs working.

Unless the architecture of Athena has changed radically, and it's no longer using networked X...
Given the number of bluetooth headsets out there, nobody would look at you twice for talking in public, these days.
> Thus a society of full of women is no solution to fixing the wiles of humanity as their female denizens are still capable of violence.

As ever the perfect is the enemy of the good. A male-free society would be expected to have a much lower violence rate.

> Since both men and women are capable of violence, why not get rid of all humanity?

A robot assigned with the task of setting the harm to humanity to zero would probably recommend this (and so would an anti-natalist philosopher like David Benatar). We have "humanity has to continue to exist" as a boundary condition.
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Recently (past 2 years, even less), the speech recognition tech has gotten much better in my experience. I can ask it things like I would ask a human, and it works.

I would try to use it again, but this time not concentrating as much on the speech, and assuming success.

Disclaimer: This works especially well for things like setting timers and reminders, but I don't really use it for replying to texts.
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> As ever the perfect is the enemy of the good. A male-free society would be expected to have a much lower violence rate.

How about we consider a different demographic group? It's well known that African-Americans are disproportionately responsible for violent crime in America. Would it be "good" to get rid of them too?
Thanks!

(And thanks for GPLing it, I probably won't port it to iOS, but it's nice to know you've chosen to let me if I want to...)
"Cucumber grading has been automated for years. Look on YouTube for automated cucumber grading systems.[1][2] There are many competing vendors. The commercial machines process their video locally and don't need "the cloud". They're also much faster."

I think OP in a way demonstrates something characteristic of Japanese agriculture:

"There are also some automatic sorters on the market, but they have limitations in terms of performance and cost, and small farms don't tend to use them."

Japanese agriculture is notoriously unproductive compared to other countries' yields and inputs, and a major reason is the lack of scale and mom-and-pop farms. If this farm were bigger or needed to save labor costs more, it could afford the already existing solutions and would sort cucumbers into more standard grades than their own ad hoc system. But they're not, so instead they do it by hand.
He didn't keep the money. It all went to payroll.
What are your thoughts on SBE vs Cap'n Proto.
I don't know much about serialization libraries, but was thinking about looking into these both soon.
Since you are using Aeron, I thought you would have looked into SBE( since developer being same for both) and not decided to go with it.
I guess I may fall under the 'lapsed fan' heading. Not sure where I will find the time nowadays, but this sure is tempting...
> Because you actually want to use something like the SHA-1 of the content (better cache hits). Again, you have an issue around the atomic behaviour of updating the site.

I don't see why. As soon as you use hashed names, you can upload all the content, without removing the old one. Then either replace the html files, or relink the main directory. Sure, if you're using some CDN that doesn't recheck very often, you need to invalidate the pages themselves - but that's regardless of the way of hosting.
I think they meant, "Does the 'undergraduate' student get a discount for a class that is being taught by a Graduate Student rather then the original faculty staff".

As everyone here knows, NO.
Huge Wagon fan. Very sad to see it go. I loved both the sharing functionality (shared folders + being able to easily share a link) and graphing capabilities. If I had to pick one over the other I'd probably pick the graphing capabilities.

Would love for you to replicate Wagon :)

I'd be happy to pay $5-10 / month to continue to use Wagon past October
I tend to take on one significant project per year, i.e. on that looks good on the CV. Generally work comes along through word of mouth, but if I'm getting itchy for work I'll start mentioning it to old clients/colleagues etc.

I generally also spend some time off working on my own open source projects too. Reading HN helps me stay up-to-date too :-)
Thanks, I didn't mean it's trivial, but it's not a hard technical problem (anymore) to do that on the web.

Not sure if I'll be working on this, though, because there are so many (commercial) services providing this already. Sure, you might think that Google Docs could be more lightweight and elegant, but for many people it's working fine and that 10% improvement on Google Docs is definitely too much work for a tiny open-source project.

I was talking about basic functionality, just as you were in your first comment. The title of this contribution didn't talk about a poor man's Google Docs by chance.
Unfortunately for Snowden nothing trumps the US Government.
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If that's what you want to call it. I interpret is as an opinion that's based on nothing and you plug your ears when confronted with facts.
It has definitely been replacing the need for FedEx with it's super fast delivery, although some Amazon items still come via FedEx...
Which begs the question: what are the remaining 10%?
At least for schools with successful football or men's basketball teams athletics are generally run as basically break even programs. The money brought in by those two sports funds everything else.

And that doesn't even take into account the large alumni donations that big time sports programs can bring to a school.

Here, for example, is the University of Michigan 2015 budget (the first one I found googling):

https://record.umich.edu/articles/michigan-athletics-present...

Revenues: $151 million

Expenses: $145.9 million
It's at the bottom of TFA. First I've seen it, too.
Getting an actual hourglass sounds really tempting. :-)
Thanks a lot!

This project is mainly targeted at presenting (read-only) documents, which includes displaying and printing invoices etc. I admit, the project description could have made this clearer.

Basic editing is possible, which is why it's a poor man's Google Docs. Styling is possible as well, if you don't try to bold/unbold randomly, etc.

So for presenting read-only documents, this has zero of the problems that Google Docs had and the project can safely continue to use the DOM and "contenteditable".
That's the good part. I don't have one.
At one point in my graduate career, my university was paying the last two basketball coaches more than $100,000 each because they had been so bad at their job they had to fire them but their contracts had multiple years left on them -- including one who had been in trouble for NCAA scholarship violations in the past and shockingly got caught violating the rules again while he was at my school.

Meanwhile I didn't even have dental insurance...
Ha, quite possibly. We have an interesting family history, but it all went wrong sometime around the War of the Roses. I think we picked the loosing side.

I probably shouldn't mention the name of the warehouse on a public forum. Happy to talk about what makes it work though (tl;dr: A varied range emotionally mature people!).
So the reason men kill themselves is "because, men?" I get that is sufficient for the sort of people for whom, "because, women," or "because, men," is explanatory, but maybe something social changed in the last 40 years?

When you control for hard drugs like the mari-huana, heavy metal music, D&D, violent video games, rap music, marylin manson, the fast and the furious sequels, and toxic masculinity, surely there is something that must shake out.
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> "The value that journals provide is identifying high-value research for other scientists to read"

As I said before, curation.

> "and also for the researchers' employers and funders who use it as a basis to decide whether to hire the researchers, give them tenure, or fund them."

If that's true, sounds like it's time for the processes around hiring of science staff to get an overhaul.
First thing I see is a post by a Matt Dillon about creating sub-processes. Wonder if it's Matt Dillon the DragonflyBSD guy.
Thanks, great read!

Please see my comment on the parent to your post for a response.
That will undoubtedly happen one of these days. It's a considerably easier project than WINE.
A server like this could only work by buffering an entire response before compressing it once, requiring (compressed+uncompressed) bytes temporary space. In reality most servers of the design you mention operate streamily, flushing the compressor's output just in time as the backend fills its input buffer. In designs like that (most of them) a compression context per connection is still required
My wife went to a #1/#2 school for her field (molecular cell bio.) It certainly didn't seem much better there.
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> AI techniques are routinely used. Support vector machines are popular.

Do you have any information regarding what kind of accuracy such SVM have in practice? What do they do with the false positives and false negatives, do they reinsert back in the line ?
Many New York apartments ban in-unit washing machines in the lease: the old plumbing can't handle it.
Does anyone else work mainly with Linux but use Google Drive?

95% of stuff I work with is Linux but that last 5% is done in Windows for work. I use Google Drive but the lack of syncing is really annoying. I also have a NAS that runs Linux that I would love to use to sync my GDrive/Amazon Drive to.

I've been brainstorming ideas including but not limiting to seeing if I could use W10 IOT for the RPi and install Drive on there (Pretty sure its impossible).

It boggles my mind there isn't a elegant solution to this that doesn't require me to pay for a service.
I don't know about other countries, but in New Zealand, the media specifically doesn't report on suicides (or omits the cause of death, if it's a high profile death by suicide). This is because of the fear of copy-cat suicides.
Local stars are used all in the as well in Japanese commercials. Idols, Actors/Actresses, Singers, etc... all because Dentsuu is basically in control of what goes on TV and they tend to enforce the use of personalities.
The $15 wage in my part of the US is equivalent to paying $35 in silicon valley or new york. I just want to add that my Craigslist ad has attracted offers at that rate, so the price is fair. (Of course I'm talking about the lowest-tier haircut one could get.)

But the interesting phenomenon is how to more directly (and covertly!) target entry-level hairstylists specifically given the hurdles I listed above.

I'm thinking of going to the back of the Supercuts nearby and leaving flyers on cars.
The schools I'm at might be different but in my experience the student evals aren't the deciding factor in employment.

They are important and I was once talked to because of a poor student eval (although in that same meeting she said she wanted me to help out in course instructor meetings since I had taught the class several times and wanted me to mentor the new grads. It was a confusing meeting...) and I saw a fellow grad student come under a lot of scrutiny for some odd teaching (I really think the guy was bipolar) but there was never any fear that you wouldn't be able to teach next year.

I'm currently an adjunct at another school and luckily my evals have been quite positive overall so I haven't had to worry about it here.
The general term for this is "Forward Confirmed reverse DNS" (FCrDNS). I do these checks (plus others) on my Postfix mail systems. I would assume most of the other (sane) MTAs can perform these checks as well.
It is not necessarily representable. By diagonalization, in fact, nat -> nat can be shown to be uncountably infinite. Intuitively, an example nat -> nat function that is uncomputable is ~Ld, the function that, given a natural index i into the diagonal of the table of Turing machines and their accepted strings, returns the opposite of whether machine i accepts string i. The output is then clearly equal to no Turing machine, since it differs in at least one position. In order to encode this function, an oracle is required. As such, nat -> nat uncountability can be shown to be central to proving Turing recognizability.
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Next-gen DTV platform runs Android on quad-core Cortex-A53
There's no point in responding seriously to this inflammatory post. Sex-selective childbirth (which is legal in the US) and genocide are a false equivalence.
That must be a local thing. The only time I ever see people talking on bluetooth headsets in public, it's the older guys who think they're cool because they're using expensive tech. Everyone else just holds the phone up to their ear.
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>No one votes on "congress as a whole"

Exactly. But congress as a whole would regulate the Internet.
> A male-free society would be expected to have a much lower violence rate.

I did gather that conclusion from your "Men tend to be much more violent than women" belief ... yet, a conclusion stemming from a belief is no more valid than the belief itself. Try contemplating on the nature of violence itself ... as a starting point, look up 'female aggression subtle' on your favourite search engine. Here is just one article picked from a cursory glance: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/insight-therapy/201401/...
If you really want to fix humanity, I'd advise getting rid of men.

Not sure if you're a disgusting sexist or just a troll. Maybe the male suicide rate is up because men have become self-hating and spread misandrist propaganda, instead of taking a human for a human - a being that requires fair treatment and love to stay mentally healthy.
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It's not no true scotsman though. Google search was very different to what came before it. The only similarity was the UI.
Pizza Theorem
That depends on what you mean by encryption. The data can still be stored in encrypted files where Google has the key(s).

https://cloud.google.com/security/encryption-at-rest/#encryp...
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...and SNAP! pg was dead right. Didn't read that thread at the time. Thank you.
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You didn't mention sex selection in your previous posts. You said:

"Labs can make sperm from stem cells, so there's really no need for us anymore."

That statement is ambiguous. You could have been referring to how a post-male, post-genocide society would be able to function.

I agree that sex selection is a much less radical position to take. It's still wrong.

American society is becoming more and more multi-racial. It's not hard to imagine future parents selecting for phenotypes that are strongly associated with various racial groups today. Blonde, or curly black hair, for example.

Do you think it would be advisable for parents to use contemporary crime statistics to decide which "race" they want to pass on to their children? Do you understand why some people who are already alive might consider such rhetoric dangerous?

We're talking about the biodiversity of the human genome here. It shouldn't be winnowed so carelessly based on current societal conditions.
My best friend is a writer [1] and back in January we were driving to a convention. He was working on a book at the time and his thought was to use the drive to get some work done. I was expecting him to type, but instead he tried dictating the book to his computer.

"... and that earned him the name of War Thug ... erase previous word ... War Thug ... erase previous word ... WAR ... THUG ... WAR THUG! WAR THUG! WAR THUG! NOT WARTHOG YOU GODDAMNED PIECE [CENSORED]"

It was the most amusing thirty minutes of the drive.

He ended up not dictating the book on the drive.

It was only later that the thought came to me that he should have gone ahead and cleaned up the text later. I'm not sure how successful that approach would be.

[1] https://seanhoade.com/books-by-hoade/
You can always drop out if you feel the tuition is too high. We can talk all day about how much it ought to cost, but clearly you feel it's worth it to stay enrolled.
These suits are decided with "out of court settlements" 99% of the time. Especially if the suit is granted a change of venue to the Eastern District of Texas.

Which really just means: this is a shakedown. That sure is a nice Steam Store you have there, Valve. Hate to see it burn to the ground.
Sounds like you need a new technical co-founder with the skills and/or desire to make your product happen.

Since you guys are like family just bring it up with him, ask him if his heart is in continuing and pursuing this.

You can lead him toward shelving it or you continuing on without him if that's your desire.

The time frames seem really long. Apps start to feel dated after a couple years and this latest one you're saying is 1.5 yrs old and still not ready to demo.

Talk it over with him tell him you want to focus on remaining close friends and see what you can work out.

Good luck.
You would only not be able to map higher order functions to Gödel codes if it is not the case that for some n, f(n) outputs but does not determine m. I'm far from the most knowledgeable programmer in the world... but I do know that such a function could not be implemented by a computer.

As long as f(n) outputs a unique m, you can number f, n, and m. And as long as a programming language is Turing complete, you can do that. Interpreting any sort of abstraction is beside the point (even the "Gödel sentence" that you could ultimately find needn't be interpreted... which I suppose in this case would be a "Gödel operation").

Insofar as a program can be compiled and implemented in machine code, all the functions of that program's programming language can be mapped 1 to 1 to nat -> nat operations. This is just what's at issue here.

To cut through it a bit, you write

> The Church-Turing thesis says absolutely nothing about abstraction barriers your language might enforce, e.g., what you get if your language has parametric polymorphism

If a language has parametric polymorphism, is it therefore not Turing complete? Because if the language with parametric polymorphism is Turing complete, then the Church-Turing thesis absolutely has something to say about that language.
The patterns remind me of MacPaint.

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There are two types of people on this Earth: Those whom have read Sapiens and those whom have not.

Harari is required reading, especially if you're reading this comment.
Multi-armed bandit problem
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