skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
shrynk is not doing any compression itself, it's using ML to do a "meta" approach: it computes features on your data like how many rows, how many columns, how much duplication etc, and then predicts which existing compression algorithm (out of the available compressions) will be best given your requirements/preferences in terms of size, write time and read time.
Just run Win7 in a VM on Linux. That lets me run my legacy apps with no native replacement.
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The diaeresis and umlaut are literally exactly the same Unicode character and the symbol or diacritic itself can be called either. The difference is what it does to the vowel — it’s a diaeresis if it indicates a repeated vowel, and an umlaut if it modifies the vowel sound.
> One of the most important questions. I have zero experience I'm speaking on, but my guess is they'd never completely die out. Unless every single strain of resistant bacteria were evolutionarily disadvantaged, it seems like a few or a number would stick around.

Antibiotic resistance is made up of expensive and inefficient adaptions that tend to drop out of the gene pool when those particular selection pressures subside.

From what I've read, cycling antibiotics over time is purported to be one method of fighting resistance.
True, Kafkaesque would imply something like you get on the elevator to floor 5 and the 5th floor is labeled 6. You take the stairs down two flights to floor 5, skipping floor R. You go to the door labeled for the office you want and they tell you the office you seek is actually in a different building, which they do not know the address to, and you must now wait for the elevator which has stopped running until an hour from now because reasons and the stairs do not let you back to ground level.
Ask HN: How many email addresses do you actively use?
I'm addressing this question especially to those who have multiple businesses online.

Also, how do you access them?
Have you seen dance roulette? This was made almost 10 years ago: http://youtu.be/aEolW1x9O3k
Another hint, a reddit discussion of a golang phenomenon this puzzle depends on: https://bit.ly/2rqqWkh

It's a bit annoying that it's depending on such an incidental behavior.
Ask HN: What are the best computing-related videos you've watched recently?
Everyone talks about books and sites they read all the time, but I barely ever see videos talked about on HN, despite videos containing some of the most interesting (and, unlike text, unsearchable) bits of computing history, information and anecdotes.
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It is a bit more complex than that. You probably would want to look at particular genes, rather than populations of bacteria. As with horizontal gene transfer microbes readily exchange genetic material under environmental pressure.

And as I understand, there isn't much research on that - "a genetic document is rather mute" - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-019-0251-8
Not really: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox - Money quote:

> Contrary to traditional assumptions, high-level reasoning requires very little computation, but low-level sensorimotor skills require enormous computational resources.
It turns out there is a guaranteed order, because of the way this puzzle is executed. https://bit.ly/2rqqWkh
I like mine for the fact that it is static and hosted on github pages with a not too bad design.

https://vks.ai/
It’s analogous to evolving a resistance to a flame thrower. It is possible, but takes much more than just a subtle change to the cell wall.
Show HN: Turtle – Share and discover dev and startup tools
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Hi HN, I am one of the creators of Turtle. There are many tools which are extremely useful for developers but it is sometimes hard to find them.
Usually they are shared between colleagues, you discover them on some insider blogs or they are shared in these huge lists of dev
resources.

We wanted to make this discovery/sharing process as easy as possible and create a place where you can easily collect them but also have
a stream, which is configurable based on your interests.
I would bet that there will be no more than 1,200 (if they raise the money needed to launch and manufacture that many).

And I would also bet that even in an 8 year time-horizon, they will not launch 12,000 satellites for Starlink because simply, there will be no market for so much capacity. In my opinion, we are heading towards an Iridium, Teledesic, Globalstar 2.0 scenario.
Jeff bezos, and countless others before him, have consistently proven this false.
CDS and AppCDS, along with jlink, are also great for this.
> Every single "big bang" replacement I've done, while not exactly a total failure, was extremely painful.

The bigger question might be how much more painful was it than continuing to try to be competitive (react with new functionality, deliver ongoing value, etc) in the previous codebase, and how much more painful over trying to plan out small incremental refactoring changes during the same time? And... after a certain time period of going through that pain, was the end result quantifiably more useful (testable, fewer bugs, faster, easier to grok/extend/etc - choose your metrics) than if that big change wasn't undertaken?
Not benchmarking against log4j 2 is odd as it implements low latency asynchronous logging.
People have partners on the side very successfully until they are caught, and arguably those side relationships would be more successful if they did not have to keep them a secret and their other partners agreed to the open nature of the relationship.
Which does count as a downside, to be fair. The genome has a maximum size set by the mutation rate.
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I wish you could right-click and open videos in a tab from the various things on the way downward. There were lots of creatures I've never heard of, and plenty of cool videos on Youtube about them.

Spent more than an hour on the decent. Quite a worthwhile and adventuresome web page.
I designed my home page as a thin homage to web server root index.html pages.

Though I'm most proud of my SMIL animations.

https://www.pcmaffey.com
IMO both games are best played at max difficulty with most of the HUD junk turned off, and no save-scumming. You're a friggin' superhero, and even at top difficulty the only thing keeping you from shredding your way through the levels (past perhaps the first one) is whatever sense of ethics you bring to the game.

Max difficulty just means if you screw up, people die. Not you, probably. But other people. That's an uncommon experience in games, where you have enough power to accomplish goals while keeping kills low and it doesn't require a ton of trial & error and "gamey" playing to do it (think, the Thief series or something like Deus Ex at the higher difficulties) so it all feels relatively natural. But there's real challenge and tension in trying to get through when a miss-step means killing that guy you're trying to avoid. Your goals are well enough motivated and important enough that it's not plainly unjustified to fight your way through, and these folks are trying to kill you, but they're also people with their own lives, and you've got some serious great power / great responsibility things going on. It's an interesting & fun perspective.
Steering clear of the underlying, complicated regional politics:

The survivor (victim/perpetrator/some of both/neither) writes history, descendants rewrite it. (How else would we get "Whalers on the Moon?") Yet, the web complicates it as a living organism of impermanence/bit-rot, fiefdom platforms and essentially unaccountable anonymity.

Further complicating reality, bias is as inescapable as the human condition, the unconscious variety being somewhat irreducible; while the integrity of the amateur copywriter (fairness, completeness, quality, accuracy and correctness) is implicitly (if not explicitly) socially-contracted to deliberately aspire to such ideals in each task.
You didn't try pressing the -> arrow key? That works and scrolls very smoothly.
This former felon talk encourages crime. It suggests that it’s okay to commit serious crimes, because you will be welcomed back to society and have a second chance. Why not give it a try? It’s dangerous and bad for society.

It’s one thing to do it. To hire folks who’ve served their time, etc. Its another to talk as if there isn’t and shouldn’t be a stigma to crime.
Polyamory doesn't have to be a three or four way free for all. One person could have two independent partners. Some partners will come and go, while others stay. It is more work, but it doesn't have to be as bad as you make it out to be.
Heh, good point. But still I wouldn't call it a failure, just a defect, or not optimal. The company as a whole probably works just fine.
Ooops, I think you are right!

Here is where I mixed up things: WizTree does what WinDirStat does, but here it's really quicker.
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A somewhat different example but related (at least by name) but I recall an article from Chris Wellons' blog, Null Program, where he wanted to "discover" a new hashing algorithm, so he randomly generated them, JT compiled them to native, then tested them.

There was, how ever, no machine learning or optimizing. Instead, he called it "prospecting" and just generate a new one from scratch each time until he found something interesting.

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/07/31/
None of those surprising behaviors exist in python 3.

I wouldn't say "100" < "2" really counts, since, alphabetically it makes sense (an equivalent would be "baa" < "c").
I agree. But I am still going to tell my kids to learn to code. Programming is more than automating stuff. It’s even more than solving problems.

Programming is a process, a way of thinking about things, it is entertaining, it’s creative, it’s beautiful in many ways, in and of itself.

Learning to program sharpens so many parts of once mind, I want everyone to get a glimpse of that.
Zachtronics:

Start with e.g. opus magnum. Visual, will teach basic concepts of sequencing instructions, iteration etc.

Then Shenzhen I/O if they enjoy it

Alternatively:

Human resource machine (programming)

7 billion humans (parallel programming, probably will teach antipatterns but still useful)

Alternatively:

LOGO. This is how I learned to program back in the 80s. Drawing pictures. Draw a line. Rotate. Make a square by writing a loop to draw a line and rotate 4 times. Make a window by drawing a square + 2 more lines. Make a house by drawing a window and doors.

Even at university I remember the first year programming course included a 'draw a house using ALGOL' exercise.
To me, it often seems like technology does have a moral imperative it follows: It chooses transparency in all kinds of situations. That's not to say that technology consciously chooses to impart transparency. In reality it's just too damn expensive to erease traces in data. Which leads to transparency by default.
When and why would you want to apply ML to this problem?

Off the cuff, this seems like it competes with an alternative of simply running every considered compression algorithm and choosing the optimal one. I guess this would be advantageous if the RF classifier is meaningfully faster to run than the compression algorithms themselves. Is it?
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10129914

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11761622
You might as well write a tool that extracts strings from a video signal using OCR, and translates them. That would make the solution more universal, and you could even use it to e.g. suppress ads.
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Two of the most interesting ones I've seen this year:

Brian Kernighan (of K&R fame, and much more) interviewing Ken Thompson (initial author of UNIX, though you probably already knew both of these): lots of interesting anecdotes, like getting a chess machine seized by the US government:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY6q5dv_B-o

Drew DeVault, (sway/sr.ht/much more author) hacking on his Wayland VR desktop inside of his Wayland VR desktop (don't believe the people who say you can't do programming inside of VR yet!):

https://spacepub.space/videos/watch/f60bee0e-31d3-4aca-9e49-...

NB. the second video is on a PeerTube instance. PeerTube is a federated and decentralized YouTube alternative.
JFYI, SwiftSearch has Regex functons and it is (on NTFS of course) as fast as a search tool can be:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/swiftsearch/?source=dlp
Yea - that is related to genetic programming. That, and using auto-encoders for e.g. image compression are known approaches in "AI".

I'm particularly proud of this meta approach and I am actually thinking this could become huge: the same thing can be done for hyperparameter optimization in machine learning tasks.

Hyperparamter optimization is currently focused on minimizing cross-validation error, but using this concept you could have weights on accuracy, training time and prediction time (very similar to compression where the 3 dimensions are size, write time and read time), and then given a new unknown dataset you could predict what model/hyperparameters to use.

Maybe this should be patented ;)
Yes. So much narcissism, Dunning-Kruger and so little authoritative expertise/oral history. I had a guitarist Wikipedia editor tell me that a niche science industry page update adding historical details of people and places "wasn't relevant" when it was an account of an important era for that industry. Smh. History lost forever.
Blaming an economic system for one's lack of motivation to search for work sounds like a cheap deflection.

Moreover, it's not like Blockbuster was known for hiring skilled workers.
my personal site: https://alligatorbrowser.github.io/index.html
C is a good example precisely because it highlights the fact that explicit typecasts and memory safety are a LOT better at preventing bugs than static types.
> Brutalism when done thoughtfully and well is beautiful, uplifting, and provides a sense of calm and space

And yet common folk - unfairly deprived of an education in hifalutin architecture-speak - still seem to consider brutalism to be as ugly as sin.
> - Full boot in under 10 seconds (with an SSD)

And then 45 minutes of updates: 15 in the foreground, and then 30 in the background, during which the laptop is still basically unusable (it can take up to 2 minutes for a CTRL-ALT-DEL to come into effect...) despite pretending to be active. Great.
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> A failure of capitalism when less work and more productivity is a bad thing.

Do you believe buggy whip manufacturers should be entitled to their old job even today?
They dont need to get the proceedure - they just need to get a medical record of the procedure.

Anyway nothing surprises me the lengths professional athletes will go to to win
Ask HN: Are we in an AI / ML bubble?
As in title. Is there a systemic over-valuation of companies in these spaces?
This sounds to me like a new technology and a way of operating has come and we're trying to make it accommodate the old way of doing things.

If we really have a way to launch thousands of satellites easily, can't we replace the terrestrial functionality with that? Let's launch hundreds of satellites observing near earth asteroids.

If a private company can do it, governments definitely can
On the plus side, Starship will be able to launch more and bigger space telescopes for lower prices, to places beyond the Starlink constellation. That doesnt help ground based observations though.
Manual is always an option, but that's not my point. I've automated plenty of things in my life and know only too well that the task of automating a task is often a major task in its own right.
More questions to ask: What is their source of funding (VC, bootstrapped with founders' money, etc.)? What is their business plan, and at what point do they anticipate being profitable? If they're not profitable from the beginning, how long do they think they can run the company on the funds they have? Would they expect you, as a co-owner, to help fund the company? Do the founders have any prior business experience? Have they researched the market they're entering?

If you don't know how the business works, there's no way for you to evaluate whether their equity is worth anything at all.
Correct. So, now, if you want to allow any program, and presumably its libraries, to register their regions of memory as being syscall-worthy you need to lift the called-once restrictions, which opens a hole for an attacker.
As others have noted, I don't think this is an entirely unique situation. The decentralized nature of Wikipedia's editorship results in these kind of situations with fair frequency.

> Something can be factually true, but where there is a number of facts, choosing the less important ones and omitting the more important ones tends to lead to wrong conclusions. According to sources, Tito was both an autocrat and a dictator, and stating only the milder qualification is an unacceptable act, an act of vandalism.

I think the above quote from the article gets to the root of the problem - when it comes to politics and history (especially on Wikipedia), the game of framing can always be played where something can be made to look either good or bad by the accentuation of certain facts and the omission or downplaying of other facts.
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"Macro-recorder on steroids" is a surprisingly tricky thing to do well.

Think supporting 30+ years of different UI frameworks, over process variants that may be dissimilar (e.g. when code = 5, the "OK" button is actually a different class).

All while hiding enough of the underlying complexity that a business user ignorant of all the above can write 95%+ of the automation.

So yes, I'd say it's one of those things that seems easy, but is difficult to actually get working for compatibility reasons.

There are no physical robots involved. ;)
Can you listen to the podcast from 12th minute for a few minutes so that we all are in same page? Its highly possible I oversimplified and missed some key elements since I listened to this episode a while back.
The following documentary is an important record of the early days of the BBS/comms world of computing. Particularly as in most cases it includes interviews with the individuals responsible for creating so many of the standards used.
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Contact info, GPG key, brief bio, links and a big QR code of its own link.
That’s the same as every other fibrous cement product, though. Is this different apart from using hemp for the purposes of marketing to a certain crowd?
>> “ I think you save time in the long run not dealing with all the type errors.”

Have you written and deployed production code in the languages you mention above? Did you encounter a substantial number of type errors?
There's also:

Management will be pleased and then ask the team to achieve 20-50% more per day because your automation sped things up and now you have more free time to do stuff. This adds stress to the team because the script isn't 100% reliable, and when it fails the team is still expected to maintain the 20-50% more benchmark. Your ass is being burnt to fix the script ASAP, and everyone has to work long hours to hit the "new normal" benchmark.

Oh, and of course, you don't get any real reward for improving the team's productivity because "It's awesome you did this but writing scripts isn't what we hired you to do".

I've lived this guy's life:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21737666

And after a bunch of similar experiences there I decided that I'd never work again in a team where management exhibited such behavior. If improving the team's performance adds stress to everyone in the team, I'm not going to automate. But I became an engineer to solve problems and not to pointlessly spin wheels. The only good option: Leave and find another job (which I thankfully did).
Spot on (I briefly touch on this in the article)! This is why I try to work with cheap-to-compute features. I used to calculate how unique all values were, but ended up taking a sample instead to speed that part up for large data!
Journalists don't typically write headlines.
Willing? People are doing what they need to do to survive. In this economy survival requires massive debt, capital, luck, or a niche and in demand skill that few have. The opportunities today cost more and reward less than those of decades ago.

People in general seem to have forgotten that we can protest en masse to force changes. I'll skip work and walk on Congress in protest with millions of Americans at my side but if I do this alone I'll just get arrested. I'll take the risk of incarceration, job loss, etc if millions of others are with me.

We can protest for single payer healthcare/universal Medicare, student loan forgiveness. We can force these changes. It takes effort. Until a leader emerges to direct the suffering of the masses into boots on the grounds chaos our society will continueto decay.
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Good day. I've not been able to shake an idea over the past year, so I figure it may be an itch worth scratching. The idea is not profound or groundbreaking. It certainly is not a platform. At best, a feature, to start. Might turn into an app.

But it has the potential to solve a problem relevant to me. I have a hunch that my thoughts, notes, journalling, todos, things I read can be synthesized to make connections and surface insights.

A note taking app, you say? Maybe the user interface to collect data could come off as that. And that is by no means interesting. I am more interested in making connections, drawing insights and developing predictions.

I'm putting this out there to see if others see value in this and would consider collaborating. I'm open to how this partnership gets structured (forming a company, starting informally, etc.)

I am not looking to spend 100% of my time on this project. And I certainly do not expect you to do so. How much time we allocate to this ultimately will be driven by how excited we are about doing this. I want for you to lead on the technology front (user experience, software development, machine learning). I am interested in contributing to product design, marketing/branding and architecture. That said, I don't care if our boundaries blur. I just want to set the expectation that you'll be coding 99% of it.

I am based out of Toronto, Canada, so ET is my timezone. Happy to zoom, face time, etc. Reach out if interested!
A thread from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13790954

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13217129

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7551423

Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7341690
You should be able to do it with enough sample data, but it might not be perfect since you'd still be guessing at what it's really doing.
> There are so many things that the command line can't do -- GUI commands, window switchers, and so on.

Check out "xdotool": https://www.semicomplete.com/projects/xdotool/
It will only have lower latency when they have the inter-satellite links. Until then, they will have the latency of fiber PLUS the RTT from the user terminal - satellite - gateway path.
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Ah yeah they changed focus big time after the success of 3. I think they sacrificed some of the immersion and realism to focus on going mainstream and eventually adding multiplayer, the effect being that now both aspects are mediocre.