skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> in which case only STORED is available, therefore that's the only possible default, any other would lead to zipfile raising errors out of the box for some people.

I don't think that logic works. You can default to "deflate if available" just fine.
The ability to quickly flag posts that attract partisan back-and-forth helps a lot. That doesn’t work out quite as well for a newspaper, where virtually every story can relate in some fashion to politics.
A change in the last ten years is that it now makes a lot of sense, due to the development of nuanced algorithms, to optimize your hash infrastructure for the details of the specific application. This has been a positive development generally when it comes to efficient software.
I think if I answered your question the HN moderation would see it as leading the discussion into ideological flamewar and crack down. This is based on my past experience.
You could have a problem processing the red die.
For me the Arduino is either for learning or prototyping, because of quick iteration time. For learning a new technique (say a new protocol or a new IC like a shift register) I'll do everything on proto board until I understand it. For prototyping I'll do the same and eventually switch to a custom PCB.
A large submarine with a large crew and a serving of nuclear missiles us indeed hard to conceal, because it needs large coastal facilities.

But IDK if a small submarine with little or no crew, small dive depth, and relatively small payload needs all thus. If a nation-state wanted to deploy it, that could be done way more covertly.

Maybe this is not done because it does not offer any interesting military capabilities. Maybe it is done, but we don't hear about it, because it does offer some interesting capabilities which they don't want to advertise.
Not sure why you've been downvoted, as this all tracks with what I've read. SF has been spending $5k per month per tent in the "sleeping villages" set up for homeless people during the pandemic[0]. That $5k could easily pay for a decent studio apartment, utilities, groceries, a phone plan, etc.

[0] https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2021/03/05/san-francisc...
> is it the "old homeland" bullshit Israeli propoganda loves to spew ?

How old does something needs to be for it to be bullshit. Because the land palestinians have lost is now pretty old too, and their claim is subsequently bullshit. They should just accept that Israel exists, it won various wars, and now owns a lot of land where palestinians used to live.
If you make a conscious decision to bring lethal protection with you on a regular basis, you probably live in fear.

As you said, carrying a gun comes with huge responsibility. The chances that I would have to carry a gun to protect my life would have to be much higher than they are today before it overcame my concerns about carrying a gun.

Becoming oblivious to wearing a weapon is in itself a liability. So it comes with significant mental overhead.
This article from the same site has pictures and also a cutaway of a transatlantic sub.

http://www.hisutton.com/Narco%20Subs%20101.html
I recall reading something in the 90s where in the 70s, Huffman coding was considered mathematically optimal compression and the whole field stagnated for a while because they thought they'd reached a fundamental limit.
Protection, right?

extra protection against entropy loss

A little brogramming and some google translate and here we are.
IIRC, this is also how time is kept in some equatorial regions, as their days are consistently the same length year-round. Starting one 12 hour cycle at daybreak and another at sunset made the most sense.
This is what happens when a leader is a trust fund brat. There is a reason monarchy is not done anymore. The second Trudeau wave is exponentially worse then the first.
I appreciate you taking the time to break down your response. I still don't see the utility in NFTs personally (disastrous environmental impact notwithstanding), but you didn't handwave away my criticisms, which is a plus in my book.

EDIT: My other real concern, which I don't believe NFTs really address is the fact that, unlike a physical artform, like a certified Picasso painting, digital art can be infinitely copied, and having an NFT token isn't the same to me as actually owning the physical painting outright, something that cannot be properly 1:1 copied. Also... NFTs don't prevent a bad actor from tokenizing someone else's work and passing it off as their own.
The article mentions orcas slightly, but it is more about the effect of the marine mammal act on salmon populations. The effect on orcas is mostly implied, it is fairly well known that decreased availability of their primary food source (salmon) is causing their near extinction.

Here's another, if you're curious

https://www.nwnewsnetwork.org/post/hey-seals-and-sea-lions-q...
Five animals with weaponized butts from SciShow
From what I understand, Baizuo means something along the lines of “why bother doing it?”

It is used to describe anything where efforts are proven or likely to be proven futile, not just in relation to politics.

Here is an example, if my parents saw me trying to boil a pot of water with a candle, they would refer to that action as baizuo.

This is my experience as a Taiwanese so it may be different in China.
I have seen young people from US in my travels who were just as entitled as the old people from there.

At the same time US is still a great place, people just have to accept that life is not as easy as they thought there.
> There are a lot of objections to working outside of work, even if that work is for yourself. Many of them are valid. I only write for people like me, who have the energy and desire to make this work but have been lacking a guide.

I thought this would be yet more hustle porn, but I appreciate the care that the author put into this so as to not pressure those of us who just have zero energy to have a side project, even when we desperately want to. There's more after this quote that really hit home, and made me actually bookmark this for the day I have some energy to create again.
This sounds like a natural ecological process. New diseases appear regularly and disrupt ecosystems until the victim species develop resistance.
> I am lending out USDC because, well, where do I get 10%?

The US stock market has returned more than that on an annualized basis over the past decade.

(yes, I realize past performance isnt future returns in stock markets, but returns are hardly riskless in crypto either)
That pale-blue-on-white text font color choice is really unfriendly to read.
Status and backup by service in our Strasbourg data centers (SBG)
This isn't really accurate. Astronauts travel longer in a couple days than a robot rover will in years. Human survival in microgravity and largely unshielded seems fine even up to a year at a time or more (and "wrecked" is pretty arguable...). On a planet with gravity and ability to provide cheap shielding, indefinite habitation is feasible.
We have wealth taxes. They are called property taxes and inheritance taxes.
> While economy has historically been coupled to resource and energy usage, recently we have decoupled economic growth from things like that

I get what you are saying but I would need to see this sustained before I believe that we have finally broken the back of GDP to Ecological Footprint linkage. I'm not optimistic about mankind's ability to keep its footprint under control.
Cant you just remove those images which have that satellite streak or do they show up on almost all the captures?
Sometimes I feel like I'm trapped in a bizarre Escher painting of deployment deployers stacked on an infinite pile of bespoke libraries that all clamor and scream that they are the "one true solution to reduce all complexity".

Why not just use ask cli? Don't answer this I might just start screaming and never stop
Candidate for Ig Noble award.

My rainbow is better than your rainbow
Maybe the vaccine prevents blood clots?

If 6-7 billion people end up getting vaccinated, then multiple people will experience things that are literally one in a billion chances. Maybe spontaneous combustion.
This excerpt makes little sense to me. It says that “sometimes” it’s news media that’s driving SV censorship.

It’s quite pointless having this discussion until there is more evidence as to how large “sometimes” is.

If the corporate media outlets are doing it 1%, social media companies 80% and Random YouTube influencer 15%, then spending time discussing corporate media outlets’ influence seems more than a little pointless.

If it’s up at 70% or the times, then yes, it becomes urgent to discuss this.
From that perspective, a genuine Picasso painting has no intrinsic value above a fake one, since Picasso isn't physically part of the painting.
Jeff Bezos talks about it a lot. So it makes sense it would come up in the context of similarities between SpaceX's and Amazon's strategies.
Just posting this to answer your question, not taking a position on these:

“Women getting paid less in the workplace is because they purposely pick lower paying jobs, not because they’re discriminated against”

“The BLM protests from last year were more riots than protests and were not justified considering the events that sparked them”

“Transsexual people are experiencing a mental disorder and this shouldn’t be encouraged or accepted”
Earth has lots of humans with opinions, as well as established societies with the laws. This makes prototyping some technologies -- like heavily genetically-modified plants and nuclear power -- very hard.
> I'm fairly certain virtually every newspaper on this planet will gladly give someone who is subject of criticism a page to respond

Are you familiar with the James Bennet / Tom Cotton incident at the New York Times? The self-proclaimed Paper of Record forced their editorial page editor, James Bennet, to resign for publishing an op-ed by sitting US Senator Tom Cotton advocating for a position supported by a majority of the US population - that we allow US Military to assist local police in dealing with out-of-control riots.

We are way, way past the era of giving people who are the subjects of criticism space to respond.
Nano PoW, spam, recent attacks
You can also organize politically to get large scale action.
And countries like South Africa, India, Brazil deliberately keep people poor/starving https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_in_circulation#Total_...
> If I called an original Atari junk, some would take it as "this is useless" but most would take it as "this is useless now".

I think you have that backwards. "junk" is an insulting word. If you called an Atari junk, most would understand you to be disparaging it in a roundabout way, not making a temporal point. To be fair to OP he did at least call it "ancient junk." But there's no need to add "junk." "old" or "ancient" more than ably would have made the point.
I use to work for a Medical Simulation company and they wanted to get into the Hospital data business for sepsis. I had to get HIPPA Certified before I could even get access to the databases of the “unidentifiable” information. Having the certification was more of a burden than useful. There’s no such thing as unidentifiable hospital data. Instead of finding a connection to sepsis I found certain hospitals were ordering unneeded, or atypical, procedures which had resulted in a much lower fatality rate from sepsis. The project went nowhere and insurance companies weren’t interested in saving lives.
> the tactics taken up by such a resistance would have to avoid head-on confrontations with tanks unless they have (captured) the right weapons

See, there it is where it breaks down. A light militia which gun enthusiasts imagine cannot succeed without the cooperation of the armed force. Capturing heavy weaponry needs the leap of faith that the owner of this heavy weaponry will be ready to part with it. If they are ready to do so, then you don't need your handguns and rifles because you have the mindshare. If the other side has the heavy weapons and the means to produce lots of them while denying this capability to the resistance, then your rifles won't make a difference.

Both Libya and Egypt have tribe social structures out of the cities. Those tribes have guns of their own no matter the laws. The proliferation of local militias after the government breakdown in Libya did not happen out of the blue.

The reason I mentioned Moscow in my comment is to show that people were not armed in Russia either. However, the tanks were not ready to shoot and the coup failed. Authoritarian regimes do not fail because a few people with rifles make noise in the wilderness, they fail when they run out of the conviction of their own enforcement structures that the regime must survive. The revolutions in Eastern Europe happened without a single gorilla fighter and those were some of the most policed societies in history. Have you ever asked yourself the question how did it happen?

Afghanistan is not an example of poorly armed population. Those poor fighters had Stinger missiles. Afghanistan has a porous boarder with Pakistan that allows for the movement of people, money, guns, and drugs. It is like the EU but without the human rights. What's more, the mountainous terrain makes the effectiveness of deploying heavy guns rather limited.

> Arming them doesn't mean a resistance will be successful, but disarming them would guarantee that any resistance would be a failure.

Yet, last year a big part of the executive branch of the US government tried to subvert the elections and to remain on power. Stopping it did not take mobilizing local militias. Actually, local militias were part of the problem, but their mobility was hampered in various ways, including denying them air transport. That's why I say that reality today is much more complex than waving guns around. Power and influence were exercised a few abstraction levels above that.

So, if you want to stop an authoritarian government in your country, guns are the last thing that one should invest in. Maybe one should invest just in case of some very improbable scenario, but usually, if it comes to the guns, then the fight is already lost.
GPT-3 Anti-Muslim problem
It seems to me one of the few real projects using blockchain technologies in a sensible way. Honestly not sure why it wouldn't use blockchain technologies. Urbit has been using blockchain tech since before bitcoin or Ethereum existed.
Unfortunately cosmology and astrophysics is basically all passive measurements. Doing a controlled experiment would be more useful, but would probably remove half the fun!
> I had proposed charging a nominal amount for comment account creation, but I got a hard no. Too bad. It certainly would have thwarted the worst offenders, who were creating dozens of accounts a day.

That's an excellent idea, too bad management said no. a friend of mine works on an outlet where only paid subscribers can comment. Not only it reduces spam by 100% but it actually allows for a more thoughtful and meaningful discussion.
Looking at Anno's influences, it really draws upon a hodgepodge of non-mecha media like tokusatsu and sci-fi to the point where the inclusion of robots seems like a marketing pull. Interestingly, the Evas are are rarely, if ever, referred to as "robots." They're officially classified as 人造人間, "artificial humanoids," which is apparently what robot-like things were called before Čapek invented the word.

In an odd way, it's the same lightning-in-a-bottle formula that made the Golden Era of The Simpsons so endearing: a deconstruction of a worn-out formula coupled with shameless-yet-tasteful references to other media.
> Just posting this to answer your question, not taking a position on these:

How are you not taking a position on these if the question is in regards to "true things that happen to be taboo to say"?
The Summit-Obsessed World of Ham Radio
The idea is to do the whole shebang in python code, known as self-hosting, dogfooding, etc.
> Elon says we should see 300mbps soon and less than 20ms ping (iirc).

Mini rant: Can we stop calling that guy by his first name as if you were his acquaintance?
Seems to me like people investing in crypto wouldn’t be the same people needing to put things on “layaway” to buy them.

Maybe the better use case is having a semi-secured credit card backed by crypto and as long as you have your crypto locked, you don’t pay interests on late fees on purchases. That allows the user to buy stuff right away, not need to spend the crypto and avoid interest payments.

Trouble there is finding a currency that will pay enough to cover the interest rates a CC commands.
The USA is basically set up to grind natural resources (and people) into money without concern for anything else so that's one way to look at it.
V compiles itself in 150 ms on my machine.

0.6 seconds on a free tier AWS instance:

https://fast.vlang.io
According to this ahash is faster:

https://github.com/tkaitchuck/aHash/blob/master/compare/read...

Did anything change?
You can have some 9hour productive days from time to time. Cmon..

Cant keep it up every day of the year for sure but Ive had days where Ive been productive for 6 - 10 hours.
Had no idea Knuth ever contributed, looks like he did just one time in 1957 when he was only 19?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potrzebie#System_of_measuremen...
I see my name in the "thanks" section, it's nice, but I don't know why I'm there.
Well, not quite. You said that the same number of stabbings would be equivalent to the same number of people getting shot, but didn't specify that the stabbings would be fatal. I'm suggesting that if total violent crime stayed the same, but you removed guns, you'd have less fatalities.
> Bitcoin itself is extremely volatile,

This is because you're still measuring bitcoin's value in terms of fiat unit of account. If goods & services were already priced in bitcoin (something that might happen at some point), then what you would think is volatile is fiat currency. Not to mention that there have been studies already that forecast bitcoin's volatility to be going down over time and it will reach parity with normal currencies soon (e.g. https://medium.com/@silvestrimichela.s/is-btc-volatility-goi... )
Actually, current starlink latency is 20-40 msec, which isn't bad compared to DSL or fibre internet. Its usually better than 4g or 5g internet.

When starlink sats are fully using laser interconnects then their long-distance (london-NY or further) latency should be considerably less than anything else available. The speed of light in fibre is about 1/2 the speed of light in a vacuum.
Don’t Use Unique_ptr for Pimpl
For the pile of XML in front of me just now (originally arrived in a ZIP container aka deflate, part of a much larger set), it's 1.4gb decompressed, 44M gzipped/deflated (default settings), 31mb zstd (default), 5.379s to decompress with gzip, 0.560s to decompress with zstd. Just under an order of magnitude difference in the most frequent operation (decompression).

Admittedly compressors generally love XML, this is just one example -- 28% less time on download and 89% less wasted on file open. Multiply by a few tens to a few thousand occurrences per week for 7.6 billion people, and I really struggle to call that a Camry.
Thanks for sharing this. Reading this just threw my mind in an amazing spin.
>Not OP, but I feel similar way - these lessons can be learned here on earth(colony on the bottom of the ocean?)

Except we DIDN'T learn them. We've only developed these technologies when necessary and not before.

Look at space power sources. Sure, Earth could have been using solar power for longer than it has (and we could've started the process cost improvement curve much earlier), but we didn't. We pretty much used fossil fuels. But for space, we've been using almost exclusively solar power nearly from the beginning. Space provided a critical early demand for improving solar power.

Also, Mars has a CO2 atmosphere that (at likely altitude) shields from all micrometeorites and virtually all solar flare radiation. At Curiosity's site, an astronaut could spend 35 hours a week unshielded on the surface (which is much more than a typical American spends outside in a week) without exceeding terrestrial radiation limits. Mars also has lots of free iron in the form of iron nickel meteorites spotted by rovers and just sitting on the surface. It has water all over the surface in the soil and even in the air (not to mention vast glaciers). And the air provides CO2, which can be split into Oxygen plus CO fuel. In addition, the atmosphere provides nitrogen and Argon. The geology of Mars has been greatly impacted by hydrology, like on Earth, so you have similar concentrations of ores. And the gravity is significantly higher. So there are all sorts of advantages of Mars over the Moon.
You haven’t heard from parents whose kids would be walking to school in the dark? They’re very persistent.
It tells people what they want to hear but don’t consciously realize
aka "parallel construction"
And assembly, which I understood not at all when I was ten. So much effort and joy. I had a book with Eliza for Amstrad in it. Great fun.
So is Twitter.
I wouldn't frame the blackouts as a "windmill problem" as they're primarily a "winterization problem", but having so much capacity invested in unreliable wind generation was a very significant contributor to the blackouts that should not be ignored. ERCOT is a world leader in wind production, and that was pretty punishing when its 25GW of wind capacity was producing 0. We invested billions into a generation source that at one point produced 0 and eventually "exceeded projections" by producing slightly more than 0. We could have invested those billions in basically any other source and had significantly more electricity available. Winterization would have helped somewhat with less turbines freezing, but it doesn't help at all when the wind stops blowing.
Ponzi/pyramid schemes require you to pay the nodes above you. At some point you cannot find new victims to add under you. On the contrary, networks like Bitcoin do not work like that. Buying Bitcoin doesn't affect the Bitcoin balances of any other node in the network.
What monetary reasons?
you are clearly out of your depth. Waymo gathers way more data than Tesla, mainly because they can. Each Waymo car is free to transfer Terra bytes of data through their hard drive after each shift.
Your average tesla car can only upload a couple hundred MB, if even that.
See also “New fastest portable hash: wyhash” from 2019:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19357895
I just call him Musk Daddy.

Does that work better for you?
Does a healthy ecosystem on planet earth have any value of there aren’t any humans here to see it?
I could be misremembering but I seem to recall Wes McKinney saying in some talk that rather than rewrite Pandas to be Arrow-backed it will probably eventually be replaced by newer Arrow-backed libraries some of which might have pandas-like apis. I think the idea was that pandas API is too large and the library too widely used for it to be practical to correct some of the design problems people have mentioned. He'd sketched out a vision for Pandas 2.0 at one point and I think he said that basically that would probably just be a new library.

There's a lot of related discussion in this post on his blog.

https://wesmckinney.com/blog/apache-arrow-pandas-internals/
Those mysterious Toshiba T-chips: VTech Laser 50 and Type-right
That page is very confusing to me. It seems to try to sell me on the advantages of Chalice, but assumes that I already know what Chalice is. Then it goes on with a link list. What is the audience of that page?

https://aws.github.io/chalice/ is a bit better as an entry point, though that could also be a bit clearer on what problems Chalice solves