skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious how LZ4_HC version (high compression) compares to ZSTD since LZ4 benched about twice as quick for compression and decompression, albeit at the lower ratio. Also reportedly, that decompression speed is not slowed by higher compression setting.
The security model is based on an entitlement system. Which other stores are trustworthy enough to be allowed to issue entitlements?

If the idea would be that an arbitrary other store can publish apps with limited entitlements, doesn't that just shift the "abuse" argument around?

If the idea is that users would be able to vet which apps or app stores should get entitlements... well, we've seen how well that works on Android.
Can robots fall in love and why would they
https://youtu.be/gfh-VCTwMw8?t=2378 (39:00)

Conway's law: Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.

Jimmy's law: A broken, dysfunctional organization driven by meeting unhealthy goals and metrics will produce broken, dysfunctional systems.

Inverse Conway Maneuver: Design the organization you want, the architecture will follow, kicking and screaming.
And when you can't debug... since no person in the company can build the code in Eclipse, or run it locally.. you look at the gigantic logs full of soap xml dumps. At least that's my experience.
So I could execute you if your high speed left turn injured me?
So you say there are some, you can identify them, and then fail to name a single one. Can you name them?
I believe you that you didn't mean it that way. Unfortunately there has been an uptick of people getting into nationalistic flamewars on HN in the least year or so, so we have to moderate comments that point that way more rigorously, the way park rangers get more rigorous when a forest is particularly dry.
back when I was a student, I would sometimes spend hours on Ryanair's website to find that type of deals.

My base was Paris and I wanted to go to Stockholm for example. The direct Ryanair flight from Paris to Stockholm was expensive (Let's say 150 euros).
I would manage to find two cheap flights that go for example from Paris to Rome and another one from Rome to Stockholm, both of those for 10 Euros each. The key is to use the big Ryanair hubs as gateway (Milan and Brussels would work really well back in the days)

I would basically lose my whole day traveling to save 80 euros.
Sometimes it backfires though, and when it backfires you are on your own. Once my first flight got super delayed, and I got stuck in Milan for the night. I managed to have Ryanair rebook my second flight for the day.

I think Ryanair wants to be able to propose high prices for direct flights and prevent people from finding those cheaper indirect flights. That's why they don't make it easy to find them.
It's a tempting premise, though my counterargument is decision paralysis. Making any decision has some amount of fixed overhead in the human mind and eventually you just don't want to deal with making a decision - period - no matter how small. This is why Netflix/Spotify/Apple Music is so popular; you may well save money buying/renting via iTunes but you just don't want to deal with it.

Micropayments can exist, as simple ledger entries. You pre-load a, for instance, PayPal account then PayPal can allocate pennies or fractions of pennies on your behalf. There's no technical mystery. It feels like this hasn't been done due to lack of desire for it rather than any inability to execute.
I appreciate you asking. I'm not working with anything in particular. This is for a personal exploratory project, and I can use any tool I want.
I would go even further to say it's not even broad enough to reflect the general culture in the US.
"have been funneled into social services"

Thos jobs pay for the social services of many, and if GM and Ford went kaput, it would wipe out the governments ability to pay for those services.

Now - I'm not saying it's the right thing to subsidize, but in a 'subsidize or collapse' situation, that is the reality.

A corporation has many stakeholders: execs, staff, buyers, suppliers, investors, debtors, and then all the ancillary people who benefit independently - they're all in a power struggle to share in the surpluses.

If a company is facing legit collapse, and the investors are truly willing to bite the bullet, it's because they don't think their is incentive there for them. The surpluses generated may actually be going into the other entities in the power equation: just because investors own the profits does not mean that profits represent the big chunk of surpluses.

My ex-neighbour was a long-tim plant worker, he earned quite a lot, granted he was senior - those are in fact plumb jobs that often pay way above others when you factor healthcare, retirement etc.. Also consider low turnover - most people change jobs every few years and lose a few months pay. When you work in an auto plant, for a bank, for the government etc. the stability factor is a real economic benefit you can calculate.

It's hard to tell if companies are bluffing or not, but in many cases they are not - and it illustrates really where the surpluses are and it's not with them.

There's a big Boeing 777 business case that's used in B-School for accounting, and it basically demonstrates that the project is kind of a loser for them, and they should not invest. But the government came along with incentives, making it worthwhile. It's not a paradox, it's just a lesson in who profits from what and how.
Sorry if my reply seems trite, but the same sorts of things could be said about the cab, bookstore, and music industries. They were entrenched and difficult to take down, but most are better for it.
My former SO lives in Oshawa and I spent a lot of time there.

I got to know a few people that worked at the factory. GM announced they were going to pull out of Oshawa more than 5 years ago. They've been operating on borrowed time. Nobody there will be surprised at the news. From what I recall it was mostly impala and camaro assembly happening there.

The GO train takes you right into Toronto, there's no doubt in my mind most of the laidoff will find work.
Musk: Tesla had ‘single-digit weeks’ as it teetered on brink of collapse
+1 on the recommendation. I found it fascinating.

His other book "Talking to my daughter about the economy" (1) is also a good read - especially for parents that have teenaged kids (in addition to being useful for the adults in the room).

There are many good reviews about the book, but an interesting negative review, for a rounded view, can be found here (2).

(1) https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1111145/talking-to-my-da...

(2) https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/lucid-but-flawed-pa...
IF all the jobs in field X are in locations a,b,c and you can't move there then yes seems like it wouldn't be smart to study field X in order to get a job unless you see a future where locations with that job are going to change to somewhere you can go.
"They should have gone chapter 7 and the canadian equivalent in bankruptcy law. Some foreign buyer would have bought up the assets worth buying, and made better cars. "

It's very unlikely.

A) Plants are tooled for a specific car, often to platforms that are company specific.

B) There is a reason GM is shutting it down, and other companies are probably in the same set of circumstances.

C) Do you think company A wants to buy company B's powerful Union? Uhhh, no! It's not entirely rocket science to train people to make cars.
Krita, for instance, is on Steam. They actually went a step further and put it on the Windows Store, which also enables auto updates. Whether their efforts have been successful I can't say but these are audiences more likely to spend.

That doesn't solve long term sustainability without long term growth but it's something.
I've considered myself fairly resistive to various devious scamming efforts but recently they have upped the game at completely new level. Other day I received text message that my XYZ card had suspicious charge and my card was disabled. To re-enable the card I must call 1-800- number. I absolutely believed that! That number is in fact fake number to get all your bank details!

These are clear attempt for theft. For physical attempts I would call police and that's one of the big restraint on rampant theft attempts. But there is no law enforcement infrastructure set up to report and act on electronic thefts easily. These thieves can easily be traced otherwise as their 1-800- numbers are public.
So if you're in the US, there's like an 80% chance that your flour was not produced in the way the article describes.

Meaning there's a 20% chance your flour is produced this way. With the vagueness of the supply chain, it could mean 20% of people grain this way or everyone gets grain 20% this way.

And the thing is the article describes a switch from the innocuous (afaik) practice of swathing to the disturbing sounding practice of desication, ie, killing the plants you eat with chemicals before harvest. This bring up the issue of how many other disturbing practices are happening if this is legal.
Governments should wise up when the next bailout happens. Seek collateral on the company via shares or some other valuable goods that are not easy to shed. Enforce some board member, etc.

For all the criticism Chinese tech companies get, the main control the Chinese government has is by being the largest shareholder of said companies. If the company does something that jeopardizes the stability of society, just enforce control. Every sizable Chinese company has a party secretary for the very same reason.
> Neither practice is necessary or common for grain production in eg the Midwest or Central Plains in the US

Or Eastern Canada. As a wheat grower in Ontario, harvest is typically in mid-July. Many months before weather becomes a factor. Really, the only crop we do sometimes desiccate in this part of the world are edible beans. A far cry from the "almost all crops" claim in the article.
Sure, I wasn't saying it's not possible to disrupt publishers, and I'm not discouraging anyone from trying. I'm simply saying that to do so you're absolutely going to have to understand what makes the industry work the way it does. If you don't understand your users (in this case academics, tenure committees, universities, grant funding bodies, etc) then you're not going to make a dent in the status quo. I'm more just trying to counter the argument that there's no reason for publishers to exist, therefore it should be easy to make them obsolete. There are tons of reasons publishers and the entire system as it is exists, and if you want to change it you need to understand it.
Yes, however last I heard, ranched cattle represents something like 1% of the beef market.
LinkedIn used 18M non-user e-mails to target Facebook ads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH0hikcwjIA
Edit: just wanted to add, the vast majority of all corn grown in the US is field corn for cattle, we're not talking some small portion of US agriculture.
"Forcing" a trusted party into the exchange is the optimization, and it only works because everyone does it. This is like pre-existing conditions. You only get coverage for them if everyone agrees to be covered all the time in the first place. As soon as one entity opts out and you have to build a system to accommodate it, the efficiency is rendered void/unworkable.

Your optional-trust model is effectively what we have now, with bitcoin + exchanges. You can opt to trust an exchange, and yes, that does reduce load on the network, however the network is still wildly inefficient because it needs to also support the use case of zero-trust transactions. Traditional banking is an exchanges-mandatory system, which is why it's so much more efficient.

NOTE: This is not an equivocation of the wild-west unregulated crazy-town exchanges of the crypto space and real banks, just the roles they play in their respective systems.
dude this is sick
Lard is rendered from the leaf fat, near the kidney of the pig. Takes about 4 hours and is well worth it! We have a freezer full of leaf fat.
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> It sounds to me like you've never owned a Mac.

That's a foolish assumption. I've worked as a web developer on Macbook Pros my entire career. Recently they've made some decisions that make me want to leave MacOS. The only thing I'll miss is being able to text on the desktop.

> As for open sourcing their hardware, I really couldn't care less. That's a problem for other manufacturers, not Apple.

That's a problem for users. It's a great idea they're discarding but keeping it guarded with patents.
You realize that Nintendo controls the title signing keys, their own App Store, and the physical manufacturing of cartridges right? They also require merchants to sign contracts saying they will not have a posted price below the retail sale price without approval.

I fail to see how saying you don't have to purchase "directly" from Nintendo matters.

FWIW, a similar setup to Playstation (you seem to have conflated Sony, which makes your point confusing considering that Sony has other subsidiaries that publish music and video). Playstation has a music and video store which will give you media DRM locked to your console.

Finally, Microsoft has an App Store which distributes "blessed" executables. There have been several editions of windows which only allow applications distributed through this store to run, such as the first iteration of the Microsoft Surface that ran ARM. There is speculation that this move is what prompted Valve to release their own Linux distribution, because Steam would be severely impacted if they no longer had an ability to run their own store.

Luckily for Valve, those limited distributions haven't made much headway.
The counterpoint is the coldwar and the threat being more powerful to the actual gun.
> The security model is based on an entitlement system. Which other stores are trustworthy enough to be allowed to issue entitlements?

That's up to the user to decide. It's a lot easier to choose curators from among well-known companies like Apple and Amazon than to choose individual apps that are inherently developed by small shops or individuals.

> If the idea is that users would be able to vet which apps or app stores should get entitlements... well, we've seen how well that works on Android.

Exactly. Some of them do a better job than Google itself. There is probably less malware in F-Droid than on iOS.

And if you like Apple's store then... keep using it. Just because other stores would be available doesn't require you to use them.
70db is way too low for an average leaf blower.

A vacuum cleaner is 85db.
Lz4 (by the same author, BTW) wins, hands down, on decode time, but doesn't compress as much. That doesn't always matter. Sometimes decode rate is overwhelmingly most important. When lz4 can decode faster than you can feed it, the benefit decreases, unless you can arrange to do something else while waiting.

One nice quality of zstd is that you can adaptively adjust the compression ratio according to load -- i.e., input rate, or available CPU.
You got my hopes up, but the TW borderless bank doesn't give you local SG bank account details (yet?). SGD is a supported currency of course.
A lot has absolutely changed.

You can think of it as the same government, just ruled by a new set of people. It's not like there was a violent overthrow. The Party is still very much in control.

But these categorizations don't mean all that much.
Industry insiders cannot always be relied on to dictate good policy. I won't profess to know more about ag, but I know that in any industry insiders can get too close to a problem and lose the big picture. Ag's totally insatiable appetite for water strikes me as one example, and disregard for long term pollinator health strikes me as another.

The point being, you don't have to be a farmer or rancher to have valid concerns, and the outcome affects all of us so we all have a stake.
The purpose of this work isn't to generate realistic NSFW images. The purpose is to visually represent what a neural network "looks for" when classifying NSFW content. It is very interesting that these generate images strike the viewer as grotesque even though there isn't anything specific in the images that could be called vulgar. This indicates there is some similarity between how a neural network and our brains classify things.
That disparity is unbelievable. Even allowing the 15 year difference. The UK consistently comes surprisingly well toward the safest end of global road safety stats, and has as long as I can remember. By way of sanity check, it would mean walking in the USA is safer than driving a car in the UK (1.9/bn m). That's not credible. :)

Sourced from gov.uk [0] (ods spreadsheet file), pedestrian fatalities, in 2016, are 7.1 per million population in the United Kingdom; 470 pedestrians killed, and 18.5 in the USA; 5,987 pedestrians killed, confirmed for USA by NHTSA[1].

For overall road traffic deaths, in 2015 UK 2.9 per 100k population (1,770 total deaths) 22.9% pedestrians, USA 10.6 per 100k (32,719 total deaths, approx 5x the UK population, 18x the total reported deaths) 14.1% pedestrians, source WHO, table A2 [2].

Every international comparison and US source I found prefers per 100k or million population and agrees with the above. I stopped there, so can't compare the gov.uk doc you linked, or why the US data in BMJ differs so markedly.

[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/ras52-in... (Download RAS52001)

[1] https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/... (PDF. Note they report per 100,000 not million, so it's 1.85)

[2] http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/road_safety_st...
Eavesdropper that is so incompetent that they don't mute themselves?
If the criminal kills innocent people all hope is lost in your opinion.
> You can precisely "quarantine" the "human referree part within the framework of a formal proof.

I think it is unlikely you can separate the two precisely. If it be so, mathematicians can replace doctors who make diagnoses. I don't think all empirical facts can fit nicely into a formal proof system.

But still, any effort to reduce the burden on the human referees would be welcome. This said proof system for peer review would be most useful to math and theoretical CS (though not so much to biomedical sciences).
> Glyphosate isn't used with fruit.

I suppose corn is botanically a fruit.
I don't like the sound of Harleys or leaf blowers.

Leaf blowers I'm forced to endure more often, unfortunately.
Lol no. The intercept isn't a rogue actor. The US government might not love them, but they are not assaulting democracy.

In this context, the "rogue actor" is the Macedonian kid writing about the activities of Kenyan Muslim Obama for abcnews.info
Fixing it is easy. Arrest and prosecute criminal behavior. California won't do it though. It's only a matter of time till some of the larger tech companies decide that the Bay Area is too far gone and start leaving.
Lobbyists would need the ability to write/amend laws or the current system of graft wouldn't work.

I.e., your design if not bug-compatible will be rejected.
If you look at a country like Sweden, which is pretty much cashless, we can see that electronic micropayments are indeed transforming a society, but it can also be shown that this is actually not an ideal situation. There was an article on this very site a few days ago discussing this.
They are not more advanced technologically, this is being further advanced culturally/ethically/regulatory.

Of course those advances could over time lead to a technological advantage. For instance if they find a way to improve intelligence that could be a runaway advantage.
> Consider yourself told, then.

Nowadays I run mostly Ubuntu but before this attitude used to be a big turn off for me. When things manifestly don't work but the partisan chorus is acting like Linux is the most perfect thing ever then it is really easy to walk back out of spite. I run Linux because it's the least bad OS _for me_, it's still pretty bad in so many ways.

> often better than Windows

And often not. My experience with Linux drivers has always been only "tolerable".

> KDE Plasma

It's functional. But its design language (if it has any) is by far my least favorite one. I'd rather use Windows than use KDE.
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I have never seen a VC care about what software stack you use. I did have one particularly geeky one asking me for advice on whether he should invest in MariaDB.

Your point about recruiting is spot-on, however. It's not that all candidates necessarily believe in the cargo cult, but they have their own career and employability to consider.
JPEG2
"Despite use of the word "standard" as part of its name, readers are advised that this document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is being published for informational purposes only."

So, there's an RFC, but it is not standardized, per se. But close enough, for many uses.
Wait, so are you arguing that an HTML5 app is a perfect replacement for a native app?
A little hidden on the article, but source-

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-018-0334-2
Just make sure the money has a deadly material that will absorb into the robbers skin rendering them unconscious
Found the selfish neighbor...
Schwartzchild Proton
Bunch of previous discussions:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=zstandard&sort=byPopularity&da...
The problem is greed, not money in itself. And you can't eliminate greed. You can make it harder to be greedy but greed always finds a way to corrode any constraints you build into the system. Greed is necessary but it is not good if not channeled to push the lever of economic activity rather than left in its free, destructive form. Hmm.
That does sound like some kind of rational explanation.

p.s. Further proof that history's written by the victors, from that 8.3 wiki page:

"An 8.3 filename...is a filename convention used by old versions of DOS and versions of Microsoft Windows...Similar 8.3 file naming schemes have also existed on earlier CP/M, TRS-80, Atari, and some Data General and [DEC] minicomputer operating systems."

"Similar naming schemes also existed"! A strange way of saying "DOS copied CP/M's drive letter + colon + 8.3 filename exactly". ..and everything else.

(Disclosure: I grew up on CP/M)
Universal T -linear resistivity and Planckian dissipation in overdoped cuprates
Or, does it constrain how high a temperature superconductivity can exist at?
Nickname checks out.
Check out the resources at http://benetech.org for blind and vision impaired people. Benetech is located in Palo Alto, CA USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benetech
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I spend a lot of time in python land and as of late I’ve been using Sphinx mixed with django-extensions graph_models and some hand edited graphviz. This allows the lion share of my documentation to live in actual code and for all documentation to be version controlled, architectural docs can reference real classes and code documentation can reference architecture docs, stir in the ability to hack simple Sphinx plugins in python and it’s been suiting my needs for everything from architectural overviews to operational “run books” and how-to guides.
You seem to be completely unaware of the state of fake news on Facebook. I have family who believe that Canada has invaded Michigan and Chinese warships are shelling San Diego with help fro the Clintons because "news" on Facebook told them so.

This isn't about bias in reporting, whether it's an issue or not. It's about complete bullshit made up wholecloth and targeted at paranoid old people who aren't used to reading news with a critical eye.