skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article mentions compression briefly. They are using basic run-length encoding.

There are probably better algorithms. GP suggested Huffman but I don't think it will work. Something like the algorithm used by crinkler [1] (context modeling + arithmetic coding) may work better. It can be made even better if combined with the encoding (the base doesn't have to be a power of two).

Anyways, no need to overdo it, the author's technique works. At least for the newer base2048 version, optimized for long tweets

[1] https://xoofx.com/blog/2010/12/28/crinkler-secrets-4k-intro-...
Cooking introduces you to the idea of smoking. Being able to preserve meat for months and months without leaving your reserves outside for scavengers, or without being forced to spend valuable calories to unfreeze it in the worst day of winter, is a game changer

And cooking turns parasites into food also.
We even have an internal web app. After years, still new acronyms are added every day.

A previous employer had one of these. Submitting a new acronym required a change request and took several weeks to make onto the site. Needless to say, it was useless for its intended purpose.
Civil disobedience is the strongest way of bringing change.

We've used it as a tactic for decades and it's been the only reliable force for change.

There is no reason for your representative to listen to you in America unless you throw a wrench in the gears.
A never ending one, certainly.
Well they also mention in the article that the drug dealer also sent bitcoin to a money laundering service run by Homeland Security, so his OpSec was probably as leaky as a noodle strainer.
Likewise. I'm still rocking a 2016 13" macbook pro with a dual core CPU and integrated graphics. I'm looking at picking up this year's iphone, and it might be faster in every way than my laptop. (But with less RAM and storage)

If true, I'm not really sure what to do about that. I doubt I can offload rust compilation to an iphone.
Why did so many tech firms move from monolithic SSR to API + SPA over the past decade?

It's not the right choice for everyone or everything, but making the backend and frontend modular is useful, because it lets you create different UIs that do the same backend operations.
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It's actually 65,792 code points total: 65,536 plus 256 for "padding" characters if the input has an odd number of octets.
I guess the thing is, if drugs were legal the chances are lots of drug dealers would be doing some other crime. There are obivously drug dealers that sell just to pay for their own drug usage. But there are lots and lots are in it for the money and choose crime because it's easy to get into.
I personally want drug-dealing gun-wielding ex-felons to be put in prison. Plus he only got 5 years, which isn't a long sentence in the US.
In this case though I'm talking of a COBOL backend very old windows app.

We want to move data from COBOL files to a database, we're making our own migration tools/scripts in python (In order to mainly rename weird name table/column names to sanish ones), and we can target any SQL flavour/database we want to insert that data at.. the question is what's the better call here...

SQLite seems pretty good enough, at least until we can move our whole app to a more web-friendly environment at which point something like postgres might make more sense? but that could take a couple years... (we're a small team/company in a very specific niche/locale)
Thanks for the thoughtful comment -- I thought about using elementaryOS a while back but got cold feet. How do you like it compared to OSX? Are there any missing killer features you wish it had?
I think you're overreacting and the misunderstanding and distortion is growing with every post in this thread. Which was basically my first comment. I'm not looking to attack or argue with anyone, never was, and hope everybody has a good day
Prohibition doesn't work for meth or heroin either. Making them freely available under doctor supervision is what works. Switzerland did it and an out of control heroin problem went away and especially important, usage among young people plummeted. Yes it costs money to treat a medical problem. It costs way more money to treat medical problems as something else. Let's go with the most effective solution even if "free and legal heroin" upsets some people's morals.

Also consider that methamphetamine is not "life destroying poison". Addiction is the medical condition that destroys lives. Methamphetamine and similar drugs are also prescribed for medical conditions where they help people. Focusing on the substance is just more drug war propaganda.
probably not great for SEO to have the micro on the name!
The number of cameras on phones will continue to grow, and soon they will fuse data from multiple sensors at a time to produce one image or video (and not just in portrait mode), like this camera from a few years ago:

https://www.wired.com/2015/10/light-l16-camera/

Processing all that data, especially in real time, will use an increasing amount of processing power.

You'll have a DSLR level of quality and control, a depth map of every photo and video, much better post-shot refocussing, etc.
It gave me flashbacks to high school computer class, in which we were taught to use a tool misnamed COMPRESS -- actually a defragger -- to maintain our hard disks. It displayed a similar animation in text mode as it worked. This was on OG IBM 5150s -- ancient even at the time.

It's funny how, in these late-stage Moore's Law days, a 10-year-old PC is old certainly, but not as hopelessly outmoded now as the 5150 was then.
Meth isn’t life destroying poison sorry to inform you. I take 10mg for ADHD a day and it’s saved my life when all other alternatives have failed. I would argue the bad cases you’ve seen are from people with no self control. Why should the government be able to tell you what you can and cannot put into your own body? Better, let people do what they want as long as they don’t hurt anybody else and educate them.
I mean I've not even seen a proper argument for hurts your own citizens.

If the US had a problem with tiktok they could've implemented a privacy framework and put everyone on that standard.
What is it that makes a database an OLAP database rather than a generic relational database?

Expressed otherwise: why would I choose DuckDB over SQLite, or SQLite over DuckDB?
Its not built yet.
You're doing that right now, with your tax dollars. It cost $81,203 _per year_ to house just one inmate in California[0].

I understand punishing sellers, but I think the punishments for drug charges (and most charges in the US), are so draconian. 1 Year in prison for this guy should be enough. From what I've heard, prison is terrible, people do not want to spend 1 day in prison.

There is absolutely nothing he will learn in year 3, or year 4, or year 5, that will make him a better person when he comes out.

"Tough on crime" and "war on drugs" are just two huge mistakes we have made that we cannot retract, because it is politically unpopular to do so.

[0] https://lao.ca.gov/policyareas/cj/6_cj_inmatecost
Socialisation may be easier by following the procedure for picking hunting dogs from a litter: introduce a few novelties, and regard the reactions. Prefer the dogs which show initial interest, then return to what they were doing. Those which either take no notice, or remain overly attentive, are probably more difficult to socialise.

Agree on the companion.
'Race to Idle' effectively means greater energy efficiancy due to less time spent in full-power mode
And don’t forget bartenders!
I still own an iPhone4S that I tried to use when there was an issue with the long-in-the-tooth (5 years old, 4 years newer than my 4S) but still perfectly supported 6S until it got fixed. It still runs iOS 6 which it came with (yes, that's a security risk I was willing to take for a couple of days).

It's not just the apps that are missing, and the low resolution; I preferred its theme, and the smaller screen but it's just not fun to use anymore now that I've gotten used to the snappy everything, the dictation while driving, the better camera, etc. When I got the 6S, it was for app support - I didn't feel anything was missing - but I won't switch back to 4S even if it did get a security update. I'll likely get a new iphone when iOS 15 comes out and the 6S isn't supported; There's nothing I know I need it for, but I suspect I won't be satisfied with the 6S after I do have it.

Re:ipads, though - my childern's 2013 ipad mini is essentially as good as their new one for all their uses, it's only missing software and security updated that prompted getting a new one.
There is ~250 cycling related traffic deaths per year in the Netherlands. Some 60 of those are e-bike related.

Normalized per capita that is well above the EU average, but you shouldn't forget that we cycle a lot in the Netherlands, which means that per cycled kilometer, cycling in the Netherlands is still ridiculously safe even without helmets. It has been argued that forcing people to wear a helmet in law will reduce trips taken by bicycle and increase air pollution due to an increased number of trips taken by car (25% of ALL trips in NL are taken by bicycle, versus about 16% in Denmark, to give some comparison). And this is not even counting the psychological effect it has on car drivers and their behavior around people wearing helmets. Besides: cycling injuries and deaths are skewed heavily towards the elderly population (65+), if you're a 20-something person, statistically speaking you're more than fine not wearing a helmet in the Netherlands.

Let's not jump to conclusions here about helmets and think this stuff through before shouting 'You should wear a helmet'. It's not quite that black and white. Forcing everybody to wear helmets might very well cause more death and injury than not to. We have taken other precautions to ensure cyclist safety, such as designing our roads to protect them, and those measures make a lot more sense. You shouldn't forget that a helmet only helps a little if you are already in a bad situation (e.g. an accident), so it's much better to prevent that situation from occuring in the first place. The Youtube-channel Not Just Bikes has great explanations about how we approach those problems over here.
I don’t know if that effect is intentional, but I do believe it is an effect felt by everyone, not just “G&T”. Distraction from real life.
Seeing someone else bravely telling their story and account how the biggest tech company mistreated them during an interview too...going as far as trying to steal/patent their work without their consent they demoed during their interview.

I had been telling my very similar story here of my experience for a few years, then to see another say same thing with email evidence was vindicating.

Around that time and maybe before more and more negative posts about said company started and have continued to appear on Hacker News. So her story along many other things going on I believe helped highlight they do evil/aren't to be trusted per the image they once sold.

Overall I'm glad she had the courage to post her experience and in turn help other dreamers/innovators (what my aim was) to not trust this tech company and highlight they are the opposite of the mantra they sold to the public.
Sorry for my perhaps stupid question,

has anyone tried this with ESP32/Arduino? I would need an anlytical DB for an hiking application (Temperatur/Pressure data etc.)
It enables all the devs reading this to add 10% more crappy JavaScript to their sites :)
I’m a huge fan of Dan Dennett’s online lectures. Reading a few comments here, and the first few paragraphs of the text I started to despair. I fear in his efforts to bring the reader into the piece, he is missing the current cultural climate. Brrr.

Dennett’s lectures are very engaging, and I appreciate not being put to sleep on a topic I only tangentially engage with, and I hope someone who is not in his ‘ivory tower’ at Tufts mentions it to him.

Though, fear not, for Dennett rights the ship. In fact he seems to speak directly to this community (and exchanges I had here recently about fake-science) with this passage:

“A good statistician (which I am not) should scrutinize the many uses of statistics made by Henrich and his team. They are probably all sound but he would want them examined rigorously...”

On point I should say.
Contrapoint: people in the past worried about things that happened after.
So they have differing tweet length according to the UTF8 pane it’s using. But Germans are still cheated compared to English, which is a quite concise language. (of course, the result focuses on Japanese because of the huge difference to latin languages)
uBlock origin advanced mode is very similar to uMatrix
It’s a benefit for me. Meth is the only thing that treats my adhd without horrible side effects. 10mg / day orally. I can’t afford the outragous out of pocket price for desoxyn per month. Moreover, after initially being prescribed it and having great results, after moving I can’t find any psychiatrist willing to prescribe it because they are all terrified of the DEA. Thus I and many other stigmatized people directly benefit from cheap pure meth on the street. Thanks for reading about this casualty of the drug war.
For someone outside the US your comment sounds so alien.
If drugs were legal there wouldnt any cartel activity associated with it, maybe no powerful cartels at all, so this is stupid logic
It's also a user error to reuse passwords, or to 'rotate' them in a predictable manner, or to fill in their password on a phishing site, or to install a password manager which doesn't have secure defaults or even ignore a security setting.
I'm super sure, that is exactly how play out......
If you're using uBlock Origin already, then you don't really need uMatrix or NoScript. Just enable medium mode or hard mode:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium...

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-hard-m...
Other types of crime require crimes against people. I know easily dozens of people who have dealt drugs, half of them are small women, and none of them would hurt anyone or commit other crimes. Your argument is unsupported by evidence.
For those looking for motivation - you can see examples of the related base2048 encoding used in tweets to the bbc micro bot twitter account:
https://www.dompajak.com/bbcmicrobot.html
...encoding and decoding (to learn from other's coding tricks) is easy with the editor:
https://editor.8bitkick.cc/?compress=true

without these tools I'd never have managed to fit this in a tweet:
https://twitter.com/bbcmicrobot/status/1248312174054948864
So perhaps you should teach them not to use drugs instead of trying to control what other people are allowed to put into their own bodies.
Then so is your diet and exercise regime my business. I also want to control who you spend time with (for your mental health) and what you consume for entertainment - there will be limits on what you can read and watch and how much. Alcohol is of course no longer ever an option, and many injury prone sports are also forbidden. At any point we predict you might commit a crime, we will jail you first to reduce the cost to society.
The thing is every group exclusive TLAs from their local group, from their greater group, their company, their industry, etc. These acronyms can easily conflict and live very different lifespans, making a wide dictionary hard (except for identifying common ones, of course)
The recognition of faces and settings of images for example is fully done on the phone.
But that is done overnight when the phone is plugged in.
I would like to work with her.

I've had bosses occasionally call me in for these types of open questions. It's really useful. But there's also a bit of mystery to when it happens and why it is not equally distributed across the team. There's a bit of "teacher's pet" anxiety associated with it.

There's another thing that can happen in these confidential conversations which she was not in a position to do at this point... Sometimes the boss can explain the political landscape he/she finds themselves in, such that you can contribute better insights to help them protect your team.
Yeah, I have the 2015. You can actual compile Rust on an iphone (but I think you'd have to sync the code thei manually), but I think for Rust you really want one the AMD processsors with 8+ cores. I guess the new macbooks might be able to compete. We'll have to see.
Any idea how that could be done?
But for eg cloudflare to work it also needs first party js
Think of all books and online articles that assume that ‘git push —origin master’ is a valid command. What about other companies who don’t adopt this change? Imagine you have to write an article about git and suddenly half of your readers start to complain that your examples don’t work. Yes, software do change a lot, but usually changes having such high impact are carefully thought out if the benefits outweigh negatives. Even people supporting this can’t give any compelling reasons other than “it’s nicer”.

If we take this change out of the current context and let’s say someone suggested that a year ago, do you think it would get the same traction?
> and Christian ethics rejects such exploitation

You recognise no other ethics? You abrogate all ethical judgements to your narrow viewpoint, apparently leaving none for others - of all other religions and in my case, atheism. So I am amoral? immoral? You haven't learnt from the horrors that christianity inflicted upon so many. In not learning, you are willing to perpetuate them.

> But overly "casual" sex can also be similarly objectifying and exploitive

'overly'? define 'overly' here. It's just a causally slapped-on label. You disapprove of casual sex, well that's your view, not mine. Any sex is fine if it's consented to, including degrading sex, which is loathsome to me but some like that - I will not tell others how to live their lives. But some christians will, it seems.

> Given the grievous consequences that can be involved in sexual victimization, it seems safe to say that sexual ethics is always a complicated matter

Heck, this sentence is a mess:

"...that can be involved in sexual victimization" as opposed to other victimisation?

"it seems safe to say" Does it? You need to justify this - again without presumptive weasel wording.

"...it's just basic sexual ethics on easy mode." More weaseling, implying that my position is 'easy mode' therefore childish and wrong.

If we assume adults can give consent freely by dint of being adults and not in exploitative circumstances, that's enough for me and covers the vast majority of encounters. You're just wrapping up an uncharitable (but christian!) view of what's right and wrong saying others should obey it. This caused eg. gays to have a miserable time for centuries. Shall I mention the treatment of jews, the crusades, the inquision.

I reject anything that leads to a rerun of those, I reject your value system (at least on this aspect). I reject your judgement of others. I reject your intolerance.

Some words from the bible I do like: Judge not lest you be judged.
Can you point me to some research exploring the comparative literacy levels of Trump supporters and everybody else?
The motivation for fictitious wars against bogeymen is to empower and bankroll law enforcement while diminishing the civil rights of citizens.

Like the war on terror, the decades long war on drugs has been a roaring success.
Not wearing your glasses is a terrible idea if you have astigma (eye ball deformation).

If I let my eye muscles work, my vision would actively deteriorate.
An HTTP server for recording ad delivery, clicks and installs
Get this shit of hacker news. The Atlantic can go to hell.
I just re-read the thread and realise I completely missed the bit where auto-fill is sent when turned off. That definitely had to be a bug!

In regards to the last statement. It’s much rarer now-days for a sub domain site to be owned outright by someone else where they have logs or a deployed website to capture this information.

In fact I honestly cannot think of a subdomain where I can upload my own code to. All the sub domains I can think of are just for multi tenant systems so you have to trust the root domain.
Christ what an asshole. Glad you were planning on leaving, because.... f*ck that guy.
Bookmarking this to point rubyistas at.
It was solid, but not sharply detailed.

on edit: ok it wasn't exactly solid either, but who am I to waste a line.
You are arguing against a position I did not take. My sole point is that hyper-permissive individualistic libertarianism is inappropriate in a cohesive society. Your health, your success, even your happiness; all affect me. We all depend on each other. As such, it's simply not correct to say "it's my business what I put in my body".

"No man is an island entire of itself; every man
is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;
if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe
is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as
well as any manner of thy friends or of thine
own were; any man's death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom
the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."
Yeah, when the entire worldwide MSM pushes a pretty(esque) child to bleat some establishmentarian message, watch out. There's nothing healthy about that scenario.
I don’t think it’s stupid at all, it just shows you had a not so great manager. They could have used this information to start preparing without revealing the specifics. Unfortunately it’s these types of incidents that make people weary of engaging in this level of candidness.

At the company I just left, I felt extremely comfortable telling my direct manager I was interviewing. By the time I got an offer we had a plan in place for my departure.

It’s certainly a situation specific action, and it’s unfortunate that more managers aren’t equipped to handle this adequately.
Thanks, no matter how many times you re-read, you always miss something!
I like Base1. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Yes it's from 1985 and no it doesn't actually give a number either.

The fact that you can't find it and have to go to 1 article which isn't even giving you that number, should tell you that maybe you haven't gotten all the facts here.

This is exactly what started my journey from worrying about the climate to understanding it to realizing the base for all this is much much much fragile and much much much more politisized.
...or your son.
I wish more resources were spent on law enforcement at the local level, fighting real crime. They could have more police patrolling the streets and subways, deterring assaults[0] and daylight shootings[1].

Does anyone really care that this drug dealer is locked up? Is anyone safer now? Do I have to worry any less about getting mugged on the subway at night?

Of course people are calling to defund the police, and if that happens I’ll have to be more worried.

[0]: https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-homeless-m...

[1]: https://nypost.com/2020/09/08/three-injured-in-broad-dayligh...
Meth isn’t life destroying poison sorry to inform you. It’s a benefit for me and many others. Meth is the only thing that treats my adhd without horrible side effects, it’s the smoothest calmest most effective solution. 10mg / day orally. I can’t afford the outragous out of pocket price for desoxyn per month. Moreover, after initially being prescribed it and having great results, after moving I can’t find any psychiatrist willing to prescribe it because they are all terrified of the DEA. Thus I and many other stigmatized people directly benefit from cheap pure meth on the street. Thanks for reading about one casualty of the drug war (me). Go look up reviews for desoxyn if you’re curious. Yes it’s the same thing.
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