skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you can model the domain, then you can achieve very good compression.

See this recent timescaledb post (since you mentioned Postgres) which goes over an array of techniques used in column-store databases that general-purpose compressors on a csv file full of data would not be able to match:

https://blog.timescale.com/blog/building-columnar-compressio...
discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21412596
A Man May Be Big Tech’s Biggest Threat
I agree with you that there would be glue code and I don't doubt your right that MIR can be optimized more.

But rust in the general case is agnostic about 32 vs 64 bit pointers and explicitly targets WASM.
I'm not familiar with GCC's IR, but unsandboxed AOT WASM compiled thru LLVM IR is astoundingly fast.

> This average benchmark has speed in microseconds and is compiled using GCC -O3 –march=native on WSL. “We usually see 75% native speed with sandboxing and 95% without. The C++ benchmark is actually run twice – we use the second run, after the cache has had time to warm up. Turning on fastmath for both inNative and GCC makes both go faster, but the relative speed stays the same”, the official website reads.

> “The only reason we haven’t already gotten to 99% native speed is because WebAssembly’s 32-bit integer indexes break LLVM’s vectorization due to pointer aliasing”, the WebAssembly researcher mentions. Once fixed-width SIMD instructions are added, native WebAssembly will close the gap entirely, as this vectorization analysis will have happened before the WebAssembly compilation step.

https://hub.packtpub.com/introducing-innative-an-aot-compile...
Last time this was in the news, there was another discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20095462.

User 'twtw asked the following, with no responses:

> Why didn't the IAU petition the FCC during the comment period for SpaceX's application? Seems sorta weird to wait for the first launch to express concerns when the application was submitted to the FCC many months ago (and I think I recall an earlier version years ago).

I think this is an interesting question. There are a number of commenters criticizing SpaceX's claim that "no one thought of this." I'd be interested in their response to this question. If so many people knew it was going to be a problem, why not raise those concerns to the organization tasked with regulating this stuff?
When I visit relatives in “flyover” country, I definitely think about buying a ranch and working remotely. It’s so weird to me that I can get Gigabit all around the Wyoming/Utah/Montana area that’s better, faster, and cheaper than what I can get in the Bay Area.

Traditional economics tells us it should be the opposite, which means it’s probably a political issue and not a market one.
>For the record, in the US, if you'd rather take your chances with just the judge, you can waive your right to a jury. But most people accused of crimes seem to believe the jury is a better bet.

Apparently this happens quite a lot in extreme cases like child rape or murder where the accused probably committed the crime but has a defense that replies on legal technicalities. They know that a jury would likely ignore the instructions to focus on the exact law and find them guilty because, well, they probably did it.
Author here. I actually didn't know about this, thanks for sharing. I'll update the article.
It's not that hard to beat Slack and Teams.

IRC + viewing history + image preview + 99% uptime + lighter client gets you there, anything else is icing on the cake.
Not the OP, but he’s not joking — it’s an area with an increasing amount of interest and research, although obviously tremendously hampered by the legal issues. I don’t have any links, but you can find plenty on google.

There are also studies using it to treat PTSD in veterans.
Sure, but “fixing the climate crisis” with engineering is also not an acceptable option for many radical ecologists. The only acceptable solution to them is to abandon technical progress and reduce population.
Certainly a couple, by themselves, is the 2nd worst choice for raising a child other than a single parent, by themselves. Children need to be raised by lots of caring adults. However monogamy does provide a sort of back-stop safety protection against adults prioritizing their own relationships with each-other over their relationships with their children (who are naturally less interesting and invigorating relationship partners). Non-monogamous raising of children probably has its own advantages and dangers, the point is to make sure that children are always protected and nurtured to the best of their caregivers' ability. I worry about diffusing responsibility for raising children too much, at the expense of them developing a secure attachment. However, as long as all the adults in a child's life are prioritizing that child developing a "secure" attachment style, I could give a shit who is fucking who.

And yes, this is very much my business, because how you raise your children dictates what kind of society my children will live in, so please raise them right.
scientific study: "The importance of touch in development", Brain Research Centre and Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2865952/#__ffn_...
(as commented elsewhere)
One thing that we know from decades of twin studies is that childhood family environment explains a vanishingly small percent of long-run adult outcomes.

Contextualizing this single study's result against the much larger, more established evidence from twin studies strongly suggests that one or more of the following is true.

- The results are spurious and won't replicate.

- The results are true, but the association is not causal, and is simply proxying correlation with an upstream factor.

- Lack of touch does lead to methylation in the short-term, but by adulthood there's strong reversion to the mean.

- The methylation has no significant impact on any actual metric that we care about like success, health, personality or wellbeing.
An OS thread M can run on any available P. While there are some caches associated with each P, Ps are fundamentally there to insure that only so many CPUs worth of Go user code is ever running at once, so the important thing is that an M that wants to run user Go code has some P, not a particular P. Ms claim and release Ps as they go in and out of running Go user code, but I believe they don't release and then re-acquire a P as they switch between goroutines.

(I believe the actual implementation treats Ms as a sort of secondary thing. For instance, I think that the local list of runnable goroutines is attached to the P, not to the M. At one level, the M is just a context for running things on Ps.)

In the optimistic case when the system call blocks for too long, the M is unpinned from the P it was using and continues to sit in the system call (the Go runtime doesn't attempt to interrupt the system call itself). If there is another runnable goroutine and there are no free M's, the Go scheduler will create another M to run the goroutine on the now-free P. I think that the runtime directly allocates the free P to the newly created M rather than letting the new M try to contend with other things for the P, but I'm not sure.

I don't think there's any limit on the number of Ms (OS threads) that the Go runtime will create, but I haven't checked the code carefully. Idle Ms are reclaimed under some circumstances.

(I'm the author of the linked-to article.)
I wonder when consent stopped being important? And how that was accomplished. I know the mentality from authority has always been;

WE the government can stick anything into your body, cause we know best. And WE the multinational corporation can stick anything into your devices, cause we know best.

But we the consumer seem to have just given up. If i wasn't averse to tinfoil hats I'd say it was something in the water.
Ask HN: Has anyone sued social media or gaming cos for addiction/depression?
Now that it's widely accepted that social media causes depression and these companies work hard to continue the dopamine feed to addict users, has anyone attempted a lawsuit?

If so, how did it go? If not, what is the legal hangup that would make such a suit unsuccessful?
Ha! It sounds like something out of cowboy be-bop.
OhioX aims to catalyze tech industry's struggling growth
Visual Studio copied Resharper. VS now suggests some new language features.
"The hardback is a mark of quality"

I disagree. A major mark of quality (other than the writing) is the paper it's printed on, and the publishers often pick the poor, yellowing, easy-tearing newsprint paper, almost newsprint quality.

Then they stick a hardback cover on it and sell it for £££.

Come on publishers, if I pay decent dosh for a book, hardback or soft, don't skimp on this.
The "dark side" of web scrapers has always been one step ahead with things like IP bans and CAPTCHA solvers, maybe it's time to get their assistance... as the old saying goes, "an enemy of an enemy is a friend".
On the other hand we could use all this reflectivity ( and a ton more! Adding space sails on each of those) to cool the earth
I started seeing it on VS2017. I use it a lot in VS2019.
One, here are two lists of online games to teach coding, first list is for CSS, other is for WebDev. Frankly, I've bookmarked them for myself, they look so cute.

https://dev.to/paco_ita/train-your-css-skills-with-online-ga...

https://dev.to/paco_ita/train-your-javascript-skills-with-on...

Two, why not set your kid up with PyCharm, and start dabbling together with Python. (like build a simple chatbot or something that pulls stuff from Wiki).
Mass depopulation is probably the only option either way. Whether it's under our control or forced upon us.

Even if we manage to colonize another world, there's no way we'll be able to scale transportation and settlement fast enough to move enough people off planet to mitigate climate change here.
That only explains a decision to take them down ITFP. What can be gained by shredding all that information? Maybe they aren't shredding it. Maybe they just want no publically available copies to exist.
Oh god, not this again. I will say though, often it's the research and technology produced from space programs that pushes society forward. I'm not sure how useful it's going to be to dwell over our impact on the environment and how many gold stars we have before we can trade them in for a space mission. I also have serious reservations about humanity being in only one place, it's not a good idea to have all our eggs in one basket.

I don't see why we can't work on reducing our environmental impact, reversing damage where feasible, and funding space programs. We are capable of doing multiple things simultaneously.
GDPR, CCPA, <insert other regulation>, all are possible reasons to throw their hands in the air rather than do the work / endure the possible risk.

Very possibly the timing isn’t a coincidence, being CCPA is about to take effect.
I tried to limit as much as possible switching between email addresses.

Because of there is no central authority to bind an email to a person, you cannot really ever delete an address.

I used to have a gmail address, and then I switched to a custom domain + email provider when I started to want some emancipation from Google. My gmail address still exists but redirects emails to my new address. I refrained from creating aliases to that address for the very reason that I wouldn’t be able to delete them.
I like the site, but the font, while cool, makes it hard to read. It's giving me a headache lol.
right i didn’t know that
I frankly don't remember how it was in the first game, I think you switched over to other members of your team (you started levels as a team and then got killed off one by one). Getting a team member dead meant you couldn't have the same team member again (i.e. you had to use worse people).
Well that's of course in terms of features an duser experience, but these don't ensure your product actually wins in the market.
I would suggest we maintain the one as plan A and the other as plan B, and work on them in parallel.
> So does it even matter if bacteria are evolving to be slightly more resistant to lower concentrations of alcohol, but are still killed by the level in hand sanitizers?

I imagine yes, it does matter.

It's not like hand sanitizer use is absolutely perfect.

Let's assume some bacteria always gets past the direct initial 70% alcohol application, but there's residual alcohol that tends to take care of whatever remains.

As the bacteria becomes more alcohol resistant, those lucky survivors of the initial direct application become more likely to survive the residual effects.
Be careful of believing what you hear. There are still plenty of lifestyle businesses, they just don't seek out or receive much publicity.

The media buzz is dominated by mostly-not-very-good VCs and mostly-not-very-good startups trying to find and impress each other. The VC market is designed to seek out the "unicorn" companies whose value will grow 1000x, and so the companies that might be that and try to look like that get the most buzz. There's nothing wrong with starting or funding that kind of company, but it's not for everyone, and it certainly isn't all that's out there.

It's still viable to start a smallish lifestyle business that produces enough money for yourself and doesn't take a ton of work to keep going, but will never grow to be 1000x the size. It's just fine if that's what you want to do too, but know that such businesses usually don't market too much, either for customers or investors. They don't want VCs, and VCs don't want them either.
There are always skirmishes between ideologies on Wikipedia.
I didn't realize it lacks presentations, as I'm still using slime. That's good to know.
> I think respawning is justifiable as a mechanic, though it would be better for infinite reinforcements to arrive on an infinite stream of transports. That would probably be too harsh for the people who fight their way through the checkpoints though.

this is one of my major gripes with open world games like far cry. some of my favorite gameplay is either ambushing patrols or getting surprised and having to fight your way out. I had a lot of fun with the convoy side missions in far cry 4. it gets really boring in the late game though when your weapons are so powerful that it's trivial to dispatch the small groups of enemies you encounter. if I start picking guys off deep in enemy territory, there should be some sort of overwhelming response at some point.

my other issue is how the stealth mechanics tend to play out in these games. if an enemy sees me kill someone at an outpost, the whole place is at full alarm for sixty seconds trying to find me. but if I just hide behind a tree and wait out the timer, they give up and act like nothing even happened. it makes it feel kinda pointless to clear a whole outpost without getting detected. there's no need to destroy the alarms either when the "reinforcements" are only a couple more trucks with enemies.
wow, thank you so much!
Yahoo Answers is an invaluable trove of insight into an intellectual class of people that I think a lot of us regularly forget exist.
-Assuming you're in the UK, I'd like to draw your attention to the Folio Society - granted, their selection is very limited, but their titles are a joy to behold - proper, heavy paper, sewn spines, commissioned illustrations...
Unfortunately, this sort of attitude is in line with a prevailing attitude at least in society today, that focuses on novelty over mundane things that work, maintenance, and fixing things that are broken. It's not that people who have a different perspective don't exist, it's that they don't make decisions.
my personal favorite: https://bruno-simon.com/

(FYI: i'm not the author)
NSA might have a copy just for your concern
You don't need to win the market if the market has billions of users. Keybase has a few million users, doesn't it? Get 40% of that to use it, and you win.
Wait... Does our DNA change as we age??

If so, to only sample the DNA after the study and not before seems crazy.
It's better then it's ever been before but it's not good enough. Maybe in another year or two it will be competitive but until then I can't say it's a viable option for mac.
This is probably different than what you want but just in case...

I almost always do Ctrl+s to search and type a few letters of the program I want.
When you say email provider, is that an Exchange account? Or just roundcube/free thing from your custom domain?

What do you use to read/send emails? And did I get it right that you only have two now i.e. custom domain and the gmail one?
There's no hard formula. It's basically forming a habit to never use file I/O and use SQL queries instead.

Bonus points for the `lsm1` extension of sqlite3 which allows you to use it as a key-value store, which I used with mixed success (if I could remember the key names that seemed the most logical thing in the world last week, lol).

There's nothing to it, really. sqlite3 is a very mature software and save for a mechanical failure of your storage drive, the odds of it losing your data are practically zero.

For even more bonus points, encrypt your sqlite3 storage. That way you can freely distribute it on Git hosting services.
Building a global services network using Go, QUIC and Micro
Yes and evolution in one direction probably means they lose different protective traits (?)
> that turns everyone's problems into my problem

I see software as a new form of literacy, and this argument is, for me, a clincher.

Imagine a world where, you were the reader/writer in the company. And if there was a problem with the letters sent from head office, then because you are the reader/writer guy who does all the writing the problems are all yours

Yes, that is correct, as the only reader writer they are your problems. but the wider problem is why are you the only one?
The telemetry issuers are big for me, I know there are tools to limit what Microsoft collects but when your vendor is trying to get that information and you have to take steps to stop them, that's enough for me to move away from a piece of software.

I'd been switching between linux and windows for a while, but with proton and wine to back me up, I can't envision ever installing w10 on any of my machines.
libc is a C runtime library, while kernel32 is not.
Bacteria don't dance. They just don't.

Twitch, maybe. But dance? No way.
Centralization of sickness always was a bad idea. The problem was, that expertise and expensive equipment could not be decentralized. I dont have a solution for this.

Also as someone, who has several nurses in his closer circle- the handsanitizers are brutal on the skin of doctors and nurses using them constantly. Those hygenic rules do not take open sores by constant use into account, and are thus often ignored by "bad" people, who want to keep there hands.
If I need to put a hardcover book down for a moment, I can leave it open on a table or desk. Paperbacks won't stay open like that.

This is particularly annoying if I need to copy or reference something from a book on a separate device of piece of paper.
They do international shipping too (or used to). I was a member for a number of years and resided outside of the UK.
If there is one thing that confuses me, that is productivity.

You start doing the thing you were doing twice as fast earlier, thus your productivity doubles. Kind of, assuming that the price of your product does not change due to your increased productivity. If the price halves at the same time (e.g due to competitive pressure because you were not the only one to figure how to spend half the time doing same thing) your productivity measured in dollars did not change at all. Weird. You do twice the stuff at same time than before and now I claim your productivity did not change. Makes no sense whatsoever. So did your productivity increase or not? I have no clue.

Even further confusion. Your increased(?) productivity just caused that with same amount of money people can by more of your stuff, i.e deflation. Now, why the heck, given the massive increase in productivity(?) during the last century, we have seen inflation, not deflation? Makes no sense to me.

It looks to me like we would need to have more words for different kinds of productivity. Because at least I am confused as heck what that word actually means...
Indeed, but this is for lossless compression :)
Sincerely, which do you think is more feasible? Reducing emissions in a number of countries you can count on one hand or moving billions of people off to another planet on technology that doesn't even exist yet?

We know the technology to reduce GHG's, it's already here. We just aren't doing it for what I think are foolish reasons.
Let's collectively DDoS attack Verizon and Yahoo.
Motorola 68000 is still widely in use; why would they remove it?
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There's TimescaleDB built on top of PostgreSQL.
Yes, because everyone is now 'An AI company' to woo investors, yet they don't contribute to AI research.

If this hype-cycle doesn't sound ridiculous, I've also heard that my local grocery store is using deep-learning + kubernetes to scale their supply chain systems. They told me that they're writing a Medium blog-post about this which is coming soon /s
"Lures"? If this was a SV company it would be "empowering consumers" lmao
As a customer I use one email address per service, using a catch-all on my domain name.
As a business, I have about 3 or 4 email addresses for each business and all of them are managed through a single fastmail.com account
Well let's figure out a way to assemble them in space.

Hubble is thirty years old, and is being used now as a reference. I don't understand all this negativity. Had we had this mindset, Hubble would not have been there
As an astronomer once upon a time I follow a number of my former colleagues on Twitter and pretty regularly see them posting images that have been ruined by Starlink. Here is one from just 12 hours ago:

https://twitter.com/MassiveStarGuy/status/120358895831320576...

This is going to have a bigger impact on the more expensive observations that require long-duration exposures.
Thanks. Checking the links out together with my 10 year old daughter. I’ve also used these and she likes them:

https://www.tynker.com/

https://studio.code.org/courses

https://codekingdoms.com/

https://codecombat.com/
For some background on the history in English Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_Serbs_in_the_Ind...
When I was at aol I tried to get them to open source the q link server code from the 1980s. Someone actually got it on DVD for me and everything but after the Verizon merger they fired the entire legal team that was responsible for authorizing open source release and it just stalled.
No non-privately owned company would ever willingly put itself through the legal and tax requirements for spinning off a new company with part of its assets just to do the right, non-profitable thing, with those assets.

Also, in my opinion, no privately owned company either, unless the owner was soon dying of something and wanted to get in good with their creator.
Yea, look at jekyll in combination with github pages. You can see my blog for example (https://vks.ai), the code is hosted here: https://github.com/kootenpv/kootenpv.github.io
It's simply way too much work. Dying projects generating no revenues don't get the luxury of having tens of people assigned to work on them.
This is only true if by mass depopulation you mean of specifically the US and some European countries judging by per capita GHG production.
Sorry, but I wasn't joking.
I watched the old https://archive.org/details/computerchronicles a while back. First reactions on Windows 3.0 or the Pentium, discussing different flavors of Unix, calling anything that fits onto a desk a micro computer. And any interview with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall may he rest in peace.
1 work, 1 personal, 1 professional (for recruiters and domain stuff)
I wish the C++ world would adopt bazel eventually as their standard tooling base.