skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, this is confusing. It also shows Korean and Hiragana mixed with Chinese. The significance of this is confusing to CJK speakers.

If you're counting by "number of characters" you might as well use the entire Unicode range including all the Emoji if you are going to mix up Chinese+Japanese+Korean, which nobody would already never do.

Also, "number of characters" is a bit meaningless in the sense that human-intelligible Chinese is already far more compact than human-intelligible English in number of characters, and that's only because each character inherently carries more information, and not because the language itself is a compressed representation of ideas. Chinese characters are also made up of a standard set of components that are reused throughout the lexicon and assembled into different ways to make different characters, so it isn't "fair" to count a Chinese character on the same footing as an English character. A Chinese character is loosely more analogous to an entire word in English, and the components inside Chinese characters are kind of analogous to English letters (except they are arranged two-dimensionally and are most of the time not related to a character's pronunciation).

A more interesting study would be compressing English text into shorter strings that use English characters only.
Depends on who's clicking and who the advertisers are.
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That's just hyperbole and a statements to shut down a conversation. That statement has nothing to do with "one should absolutely be concerned about the number of total cases".
> accusing him of threatening harm

> they will be met with serious force!

Sounds like it matches up.

Why would this not end well for Twitter? USC230 isn't going to be changed because of Trump complaining, outside of that Twitter isn't losing any followers by doing this, it generates more buzz on their platform.
> Some of that was ironically due to budget cuts causing delays which in the long term increased costs.

If you want a prime reason things go over budget this is the prime one, not fully funding a project in order to save money. If you look at well executed projects they spend years setting up and then execute as fast as possible.
The page for base32768 has some efficiency charts for different binary to text encodings on top of different UTF encodings, as well as how many bytes you can use them to stuff in a tweet. Depends on where you're going to house the data, I guess.

https://github.com/qntm/base32768
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This is $46 each for the population of the EU. You aren't going to solve climate change for the price of a tank of gas for everyone or it would be solved by now.
I've never had any difficulty buying expensive things I need/will-for-sure-use-and-provide-objective-value. Cars, house, etc.

Personal hobby type items, I'll research for weeks or more. I also enjoy the analytical process of understanding needs/wants and learning the product area. At some point, I'll converge on something that seems the most suitable for my priorities. Or sometimes one of my top picks will get big discount. I'm usually very happy with my purchase, partly from bonding during the process. Often I'll stop using it after a number of months. I never regret my purchases. I should sell things off when I know I won't use them but I'm either I'm lazy or sentimental (not sure which). [I have a VW & Yamaha collecting dust in the garage right now. I decided I wanted each before they were available in my country.]
> I think the general opinion of both the Chicago and Austrian schools is that efforts to internalize externalities are generally a bad idea, and in the Austrian case specifically wrong on principal.

Why?
You are likely correct. I think most researchers would agree, however. The bigger issue is actually learning how to form complex models. People want networks to just learn this implicitly, believing that we would likely impose counterproductive models. Other people simply struggle to incorporate models into the training process.
Having worked in a tv newsroom before doing IT (so I could see all the reporters' real names), roughly 90% of the reporters used pseudonyms for their professional work. Not sure about the rate for print/internet media, but I'm sure it's still pretty high.
I generally believe that looking for "spin-offs" is a poor way to justify experimental physics, the space program, etc.

However, it does seem apropos to mention that the web itself was a spin-off of work at CERN.
> Generally we provide both row and column based access despite being column store. So anything a traditional database does we can do too.

Does quest DB use the same physical data layout for the row based access? My understanding was providing an entire row of data from a columnar file is expensive because you have to assemble the row from num_columns different slices of the columnar file.
Why they put on the parade and release them publicly I do not know. But having “your own font” (that is of course part of the company wise OS image) has advantages. The main one, you can instantly recognize a company internal document. The second one: it sets a baseline. All internal documents will be in that font. Otherwise one department will use Arial, the other one Times etc.
I think it's less about "any sort of doubt" and more about the doubts that I actually see put forward, e.g. "Fukushima proved that nuclear energy is not that safe."

I'll downvote that not because it's a doubt about nuclear energy safety, but because it's a pretty bad assertion.
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I'm actually curious if some type of phrasing-related arbitrage is possible. Like:

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I thought BLM started in response to police violence against Trayvon Martin. Did I miss something?
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I'd go so far as to say 3DoF was a massive setback for popular perceptions of VR.

Low-resolution spherical imagery and video is just not that impressive, and that's all you get with 3DoF. Contrast with the presence and immersion you get with even the cheapest 6DoF headsets, and it's not even the same technology category.

So, now we have a bunch of people walking around thinking they "tried VR" because they had a Gear or a Go or a Cardboard, but they didn't get what the big deal was about.
Critical thinking is supposed to be just one tool, everyone should have more than that in their mental toolbox. It's useless on its own, we need the capacity to build systems more than we need the ability to tear them down. It's also even harmful when only applied selectively (e.g. never to one's own, or to popular, positions(s)).
ಠ_ಠ when they refer to x86_64 as "Intel instructions": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#AMD64
When my son burned his Dell's CPU and mobo while carelessly overclocking it, Dell sent a tech guy to my house the next day with the parts and replaced it on-site for free. No questions asked.

My limited time on Earth is worth a lot and Dell seems to acknowledge that.
Great question! I'm an active Pocket user myself, would love to know what they use on the backend. From seeing their failures - when they think something is not an article or excluding some relevant stuff, I would guess they use something working on pure html and more similar to current open source solutions - wheres for example Diffbot failures looked quite similar to ours as we seem to use a similar approach (and it's quite rare to miss a large chunk of the article). I imagine Pocket margins must be quite slim so they can't throw a headless browser + neural network on every page. Maybe they can use higher quality and more expensive extractors for popular articles.

Browser extensions are in an interesting position here as they can probably have access to much richer features from the browser context (element size, position, CSS properties), but still want to be low overhead. I think I saw such an implementation, maybe even from Mozilla, but can't find it right now.
Or maybe called out on imprisoning Asian American citizens in their own country
I'd argue that changes and improvements count almost as much as start date. Today, in 2020, "Python" mostly means "python3", and practically means "python>3.5 or so", which is not super recent but is a lot younger than 1991. Has AWK changed significantly in the last 30 years, or does current awk basically look the same as it did in System V?
I've felt similarly about why traditional university education tends to have value, and why coding bootcamps cannot generally convey the same value within six or twelve weeks.

I coded a lot in university, but realistically, probably less during coursework than a very intensive bootcamp would, and certainly on things that I don't even begin to touch anymore (OS, AI, databases (not accessing, writing one), compilers, etc). The value was never in the coursework, really; as the professor says to Peter Gregory in the first episode of Silicon Valley, the true value of a university experience is intangible.
> Those are not laptops, those are iPads, which weren't modular to begin with.

Sorry, I thought this was illustrative enough to make my point, but if we have to be pendantic then here you go the exact same thing but with Macbooks:

https://twitter.com/RDKLInc/status/1251533085734252549

> in my local area people don't eat or drink next to their devices

Interesting local area you have there, at my office and all the offices i was in the past everyone has a cup of coffee right next to their laptop.
GitHub never had full width pages before of the Repo interface. They used a giant gutter on both sides on widescreens in classic Web 1.0 blog template fashion. That ~30% empty space has always been there beside the README, it's just now consolidated to a single side and used to bring a few more bits of information "above the fold".
And the author is ethnically Jewish, atheist/agnostic, and polyamourous, so he definitely doesn't fit into the usual stereotypes of reactionaries if he is one
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We pay a "national insurance" tax in addition to income tax, but this is mainly to cover the state pension from what I understand and maternity allowance etc.

As I understand it, NHS comes from general taxation.

Obviously there is no actual "fee" to use the NHS at the point of use - it is all free apart from prescriptions which are the same price regardless of what you get (and you might get it for free anyway depending on your circumstances)
The point isn’t whether there is corruption or not. In any government there is always some degree of perceived corruption. The point is the prevalence of corruption. Without some form of objective measure claiming corruption is largely meaningless, because there is nothing specifically identifiable to change.
While island based parallelism is doable and works reasonably well for many workloads, it's possible to dynamically batch constraints based on their involved bodies such that no constraints in a given batch share the same bodies. All constraints within each batch can be solved in parallel.

Of course, pathological cases can generate a ton of batches. Usually such implementations will use a final 'catchall' batch of some kind after N normal batches. That final batch can be handled sequentially or with a fully parallel jacobi-ish solver (which typically has worse convergence than PGS/SI, but it's usually not a problem in context).
The point being that the lawful order was unnecessary and they could have deescalated, but chose to force her to comply.

Over window tinting.
Yes! I've thought the same ever since I saw the following Malcolm Gladwell Ted talk

https://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell_choice_happiness_...

The point of the talk is that when you are developing a product you shouldn't aim to sell one perfect version of your product. You should have a small range of slightly different products that cater to several niches. Instead of one "perfect Pepsi" you have a few: Pepsi, Pepsi Lite, Cherry Pepsi, Pepsi Zero (or whatever).

He repeats versions of the following phrase four times in the same fifteen minute talk:

> They were looking for the perfect X, and they should have been looking for the perfect Xs

It makes the talk extremely memorable and has stayed with me for ten or so years since I saw it.
This isn't something that has never been thought of. Jim Keller described many problems like changing lanes as a matter of ballistics.
I live in the USA, and I've mainly heard "blacks" used by older people, or casually racist people who have had bad experiences with black people. For example, my father and grandfather both say it, and they're both working class white people who've had some bad experiences living and working in lower income areas just outside Baltimore. It's not the kind of thing someone would get fired over, but it's a pretty good indication of their mindset towards minorities.
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That ad was well after the rebound.
It wouldn't be a donation, it would be a premium account that has access to extra features. I just don't want those features to make the free users feel second class.
This really should be presented with a disclaimer that this is a work of fiction. Even the author's profile suggests he is working "on AWS Messaging" rather than "with" it.

The fact that it is polished and well thought out makes it even more misleading.
Yep. There's a ton of data dependencies, where e.g. you can't begin decoding the next bit until you've finished decoding the current bit. It's all about progressive decoding so there's multiple passes over each group of wavelet coefficients, accessed in a data-dependent sequence. Each wavelet transform involves accessing and interleaving the same 2D arrays in both row- and column-oriented fashions.

These design decisions all made sense when clock rates were exponentiating, but they're all nightmares now that we rely on branch prediction and memory prefetching and superscalar execution units. The codec is simply not a good fit for the computing architectures we have today.
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> the bar is lowered for going into management

For someone who cares about their work and cares about the impact their work and exercise-of-power has on others... How do you even possibly "lower the bar" of difficulty for being in tech management?

Sure, you can throw someone into it unprepared... but that sounds about as bewildering and miserable as when I was hired as a Senior Engineer a year after graduating from uni.
Are you serious? It's clearly true. The officer's gun remains in its holster until after Brooks fires the Taser — you can tell because his right arm is still vertical. The NYT has a good breakdown: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/14/us/videos-rayshard-brooks...

And regardless, let's not move the goalposts to consider only the time after Brooks fired the Taser. After all, it's not like that was the first opportunity the officer had to calculate how many shots it had left.
> On the level of black Americans? Probably not, no

Roma were literally being sent to death camps to be exterminated throughout much of Europe 75 years ago.
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The original 4-clause license does.
The next thing he could do was make a book out of his various projects and get some passive income. This is a really great and uplifting story!
Fair enough. I think I misinterpreted the "easier to approach" part of your original answer. Sorry if my answer came across as defensive. My wounds are still fresh. ;)
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Our capabilities are also luck: genetics, access to education and compounding that the rich will enjoy more often. The homeless person from a broken home trying to stay alive is less capable of writing distributed software. On average. Yes there will be rags to riches stories that make great reads, and set the standard of the “insert country” dream.
That could be true of macOS 11 but it's too early to tell unless they completely removed Finder.app and blew it up into a new user interface for macOS, which Windows 8 did for the start icon that destroyed the user experience, but we'll see.

If that's the 'Windows 8 of Mac OS' I don't want to see what the 'Window 8 of the Linux Desktop' is.
The picture on the profile page is so comically big.

I'm not sure what was wrong with the old design. Now everything is too rounded and flat and there's not enough contrast.

I also liked GitHub better years ago when the top bar was not black, so yeah I can hold a grudge :)
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Why is this a place just a collection PR articles. Can we not? If you work for amazon, please stop astroturfing this laughable bs. A 2 billion dollar investment is just incredibly non-consequential and honestly probably just a tax gimmick like all of Amazon's "charitable" ventures. Can we all stop be huge marks for this stuff. We are better than this.
Not a heavy UML user but the Dia Diagramming tool has worked well for me. Link: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Dia
Yeah anything from them should be taken with a healthy grain of salt at this point, but I'm cautiously optimistic. My game was on Go/Rift but reject from Quest with a "Why don't you try releasing on the Rift first!" message. This despite my game already being on Rift with 10,000+ downloads and a 4.5 star rating average. I said it when they announced the approval process for Quest, and I'll say it again, it was too early in VR's life to pull an Apple.
Awesome, thanks!! What would you say the top 2-3 missing things are currently?
Heads up: Though amazing, the compiler makes use of the deprecated POSIX setcontext API[1], which means you may have trouble running it on some modern distributions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setcontext
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When I put myself in the place of the constable, he seemed to be calm and polite. I understand how frustrating it is when you are trying to do your job and people won't cooperate.

That is not the question.

The assertion is that the lady was terrified, the constable failed to acknowledge this, and failed to act appropriately.

The constable doesn't seem like a raging racist to me. That makes this video even more important to learn from. Let me recap.

1. The car was not moving.
2. It was dark.
3. The constable thinks the window is too tinted, but it's hard to tell in the dark.
4. The lady doesn't want to be handled by police.
5. The constable agrees to get a woman officer on site, but is suspicious about the civilian's failure to cooperate.
6. The constable is irritated about being defied.
7. The officer chooses not to wait 10 minutes for the lady officer to arrive.

The end result is a confrontation between a civilian and police officers, then somebody jailed for legally tinted windows.

I am not black. I cannot completely put myself in the woman's place. But I don't have to do that to see problems here.

1. Making an issue of a parked car with possibly tinted windows after dark is a clear fishing expedition. It doesn't have to be racially motivated to be wrong.

2. De-escalate. De-escalate. De-escalate. Just chill for 10 minutes and let the lady officer show up. While you're waiting, ask the woman about the weather, if she's done anything interesting that day. Did she pay to have the windows tinted? Small talk. Build some rapport. Maybe even just outline a bit of what is going to happen when the lady officer does show up.

If the constable was suspicious about the tinting, the most he would have expected was to write a citation. But he was prepared from the very beginning to smash windows and detain by force if necessary. Why would that be necessary? Why was there some expectation of that from the outset?

The fellow seems nice. He seems polite. He seems very suspicious. He acts suspicious. He escalates when he is defied. There's no real way around it. He picked a fight. That's not nice.

I can totally see myself mishandling this situation. To me, that makes it a great video to pick apart and study inside and out to learn from.

Lesson #1: Why did you approach the car in the first place? What was your true suspicion? What was your real intent?

Be honest. This is really, really important. Getting this answer right really, really matters.
It's the first video in the original post. https://videopress.com/v/cTvJLHm8
I like it. Wider content, improved IA, cleaner graphics, and mobile support. I can see people not liking the repo nav being fullscreen with very wide monitors. Maybe an option to pin it to the content width would be useful.
A few years ago a lost dog came to our small laboratory parking lot from the nearby neighborhood.

Not a real stray just a misplaced house dog, but it was more fearful than most. When somebody went out there and talked to it the dog hid underneath a parked car and would not come out.

A few more people tried even bringing snacks but doggie wouldn't budge.

After about ten more minutes another worker goes out there, looks under the car and talks to the dog in spanish, and the dog comes out wagging its tail.

We do have many languages natively spoken by our people and up until that point none had come close to a spanish accent.

And then there's this:

basically a near-transcript of a Paul Harvey broadcast from the old ABC Radio

https://bible.org/illustration/bozo-elephant
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Well that's not actually wrong. The number of cases can go up 20 fold in two weeks without social distancing measures and people wearing masks.
Isn’t anybody else a little worried about how creepy this all is? The applications are endless, and I have this feeling that default on will become the norm, then the setting to turn it on and off and even see if you’re being contact traced will eventually disappear.
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Hi guys,
super interesting platform here(https://pubb.at/).
What they do is that they have this patform that allows startups to create a community around their product. And You only need to answer the question once, next time your customer only need to search up on google for the question.
I thought it was a pretty useful tool for my product actually.

I have this problem that I have to answer the same question over and over again for my tech product. It cost me so much time to do customer support. Do you guys have the same problem? How do you guys resolve it?
Not to diminish what a cool idea this is, but isn’t it cheating to not count the size of the GPT2 parameters as part of the final compression ratio?

Assuming the decompressor already has GPT2 weights is analogous to assuming it has a massive fixed dictionary of English words and phrases and doing code substitution — it’s likely the pragmatic answer in some scenario, but it’s not a fair basis for comparison. Real-world compressors use dictionary coders, but they build the dictionary specifically for the data when it’s compressed and then count that dictionary in the compressed size. For competitions like the Hutter Compression Prize (1GB of English Wikipedia) the reported size includes the complete binary of the decompressor program too.

GPT2 model weights require over 5GB of storage, so you’d need a corpus orders of magnitude larger for it to be even close to competitive by that standard. And it appears it would lose anyway — the OP claims ~15% ratio even with “cheating”, and the current Hutter Prize winner for 1GB of enwiki is ~11% without “cheating”.