skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Many students are more than a little surprised to find that the actual contents of Latin literature are often rather less elevated than they might have expected

Our college Latin teacher was trying to get us to translate Catallus more faithfully, especially after one student gave a particularly polite translation. It was a moment in my career as a student I'll never forget - not only using pretty graphic language in class, and having a professor respond "Right, good."
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Source code compresses very well indeed, but my hunch is that it's peanuts. Let's see, I've got a projects directory with various projects from the past decade (all custom, there's a separate dir for downloaded repositories). I've mostly written things in Python and PHP (the JS/CSS/HTML stuff is on a server mixed with things like owncloud or SMF or so; harder to isolate).

PHP: 591 KiB, 196 files, 13'813 LOC, 1'236 comment lines.

Python: 345 KiB, 136 files, 7'760 LOC, 930 comment lines.

If someone spends 5 minutes of developer time trying to compress that to save disk space, that's already not worth it. Also in huge projects, the actual code is not going to be taking gigabytes of space. And if you mean in git history: that is, again, already compressed.

Other developer artifacts: I've got 26 GiB of project directories, this time including downloaded software and it will also include binaries (hashcat and jtr are in there, I wouldn't be surprised if there's also a medium-sized dictionary or two). Doing tar c . does not seem to add much overhead (26.5 GiB). Compressing that stream with pigz -1 (multithreaded gzip) brings it down to 17 GiB.

35% off is better than I thought! I wonder which files compress so well, hmm let me `find -type f | shuf | head -9001 | while read line; do echo "$(($(wc -c <"$line")-$(<"$line" pigz -1 | wc -c))) $line"; done | sort -n`... The largest difference is a huge 121 MiB binary that compresses down to 36 MiB. I didn't know these files were so sparse (not a C(++) dev), interesting!

While I'm looking into this, let's also look at my "documents" directory. It's 43 GiB and compresses down to 33 GiB. Not as good, but still worth it, more than I thought! (And this compression isn't good, but probably not more than 10% worse before the compression gets impractically slow.) It might not quite get a total backup size down by a disk size (e.g. not 1T down to 500G), but it definitely allows to keep more history before having to worry about what you want to keep and what you want to toss.
Chile inaugurates Latin America's first thermosolar plant
In an area exceeding 700 hectares, 10,600 mirrors surround a 250-metre-high tower topped with a receiver onto which the Sun's rays are reflected.
Of course, but on the topic of slack, shouldn't there be more security than a browser cookie required to get access?

I get that this in normal scenarios this cookie wouldn't leave the machine, I get that it's very convenient to not have to log in all the time, I get that Slack people know this stuff a lot better than me... but it sure seems like a weakness to have single point of failure to leak your slack channel by losing a cookie. Isn't it?
I wonder what percentage of people in El Salvador have enough money to "put into BTC". Wouldn't most of the poor population be living essentially hand to mouth and spending their meager amount of money on daily food and shelter?
> Bitcoin transaction use energy. The proof is that if no more transaction happened no energy would be spent in bitcoins.

That is not proof that bitcoin uses energy, in fact bitcoin only does about 2k on chain settlements every 10 minutes, and it has been like that for a decade, but energy usage has grown multiple orders of magnitude over that time period. Obviously energy is used for something other than transactions.
That's kind of why I mentioned this as a lien rather than immediately owed tax. Another way to do the mental gymnastics might be a interest free loan from the IRS to pay those taxes owed secured by a portion of the farm.

The issue specifically here is that tax that's tied up in unrealized gains can be used twice as leverage, once for the purpose of borrowing, and once for the purpose of avoiding a tax burden.

I fully expect that the newish bitcoin borrowing against assets approach* will cause the US Gov / IRS perk up and reduce this "loophole" at least for low net worth indiviuals.

*e.g. crypto.com - borrow against your crypto assets rather than selling them to avoid the taxes that come from selling.
It is impossible to know the likelihood as we have no other points of comparison.
Oh, that's important, and new. Here's the actual decision in Loomis vs. Amazon.[1] Amazon has been fighting that case since 2016, and last April, they lost at the appellate level in California.
But the plaintiff hasn't won damages yet; the case will now be sent back to the LA Superior Court where discovery will continue; a trial date is expected to be set in 2022.

So, in California, you can now make product liability claims against Amazon, despite their terms and conditions.

[1] https://cases.justia.com/static/pdf-js/web/?file=/california...
Could someone explain the obsessive devotion to doing all Artificial "Life" research in terms of Cellular Automata? If you could supply the mathematical reasoning for this, I would be very interested in hearing the answer.

And preferably an answer that goes beyond just saying that Von Neumann used Cellular Automata in his ALife research.

Also, if anyone knows of alternative methods to CA in studying the properties of life then I would also be interested in learning of these.

All in all, I find these procedurally generated art pieces to be rather underwhelming in any serious attempt or study of what artifical life is/can be.

> digital organisms and evolution

This is a claim without definition of what a non-biological organism even is. Could we just claim that any CA, any program is "living" while it is running?

I would love to see some formality before claims are made in this area.

EDIT: After watching the "Planet Gaia" video [0], I feel even more like the excitement about this is no different than the excitement for a video game and not for actual scientific progress. Cool code and cool visuals. Very little in the way of understanding life better.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9R6zrdl6jM
I've recently been thinking about this with regards to borders. There are plenty of borders around the world that rely on rivers as a boundary, but river's aren't static, and meanders shift all the time.

Of particular interest to me was the England/Scotland border, as I was visiting the area, and noticing that it doesn't always follow the path of the river Tweed.

When a river is a border, that is by nature always changing, how do countries decide which bit of land/islands are sovereign?

https://twitter.com/Coding2Learn/status/1397595858632388608
It's not just that.

For example, if I have a debt of $250k for a house worth $250k and inflation is causing a net benefit on my asset of 1%, then sure I'm gaining from the inflationary regime.

But what of the wealthy that have billions in assets and maybe even billions in debts?

The two situations belie a completely regressive tax. The billionaire gains net 1% on their billions and I as a peasant gain net 1% on $250k.

How can you argue this doesn't generate wealth for the wealthy?

Consider further that 1% is a modest number for the net benefit of asset backed debt.
Yet another good reason why corporate chat message TTLs should be no more than 7-14 days.

(Another is that the default of "forever" in things like Slack and Mattermost means that a compromise of a single user account gets to see every DM (including sensitive stuff DMed like passwords or PII) ever sent or received by that user. It's insane. It's also able to be subpoenaed. Expire your messages!)
I've got a strong background in formal verification. I do not believe that "formally verified" means "security bug free". In fact, I personally know researchers who have had vulns found in their formally verified code more than a decade after they completed the verification.
Seems really cool, and I can tell that it probably is something I want to use... even locally, but the documentation assumes people know way too much already and only gives a couple strong examples. It appears to be an overlay FS for organizing and sharing data using possible blockchain solutions to then make that data accessible to other people, and vice versa. Am I getting that right?
>Problem is, there is no proof at all that aducanumab leads to any kind of improvement

Nothing you have said has any bearing on whether someone who is currently dying of Alzheimers should be allowed to try it if they or their doctors or family choose. "False hope" is not the most important thing at stake here, not by a long shot.
What would it look like for math to not exist?
You can also go faster using SIMD instructions if you need to compute wider population counts (beyond 64 bits):

Faster Population Counts Using AVX2 Instructions, Computer Journal, Volume 61, Issue 1, 2018
https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.07612
It's not really comparable to the yellow book and its meant as a glossary for an older audience, but I've found Mathematical Notation: A Guide for Engineers and Scientists [1] to be useful, especially for reading CS and ML papers.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Notation-Guide-Engineers...
Interesting, I'd be willing to give it a try after I had to abandon Duplicati as it just seemed like a lost cause. Right now my backup setup consists on a UrBackup server my machines connect to, and a borg repository that is synced against the latest backup and then sent remotely to S3. It works, but could definitively use some streamlining...
New Microsoft desperately wants to be like Apple. They're being tight lipped because they're imitating. They want their products to seem integrated, well designed, well engineered, even... exciting. But they don't have half the taste.
The $50k/year above times 6 million is $300B. For $300,000,000,000, I suspect no one cares whether it works.
A consultant who works with NASA once told me that there was an incident where they had exposed several petabytes of data to the public Internet. Because no one had the storage capability for the data though, they wrote off the security incident completely.
It doesn't have a super amount of votes yet, not sure how the algo works. Do people see different front pages?
There have been plenty of perfectly healthy people with low risk factors in that age bracket that have died from covid.
I think strictly limiting the ability for central banks to inflate the monetary supply (and use that created money to their own ends) is good for poor people. If it requires centralizing the global economy on gold, I certinaly think it would be worth it. However, an alternative would be to simply renationalize the Fed and put legislated limits on dollar monetary inflation. There are a lot of options here that don't involve going back to a gold standard.

It kind of sounds like your argument is "gold is expensive, so how could it be good for the poor". Is that.. really the argument you're trying make here?
It's not quite the same, but there've been several efforts in the US to shift math education away from "memorize this algorithm for addition, this one for multiplication, etc." and instead get kids to understand our number system.

New Math was ridiculed for it[0], and now Common Core[1]. "Why are you teaching kids these inefficient ways of multiplying instead of memorizing the standard algorithm?"

Despite it being the focus of Tom Leher's song, my go-to test for "Do you understand our number system?" is "Can you work out a multiplication problem in base 8?"

If you understand the concept of digits, you can solve multiplication in other bases, and likely have solid grasp on how our number system work. From there, you'll understand both the standard arithmetic algorithms and will be able to figure out your own shortcuts. If you lack this understanding, you're likely stuck just mindlessly using the algorithm you were taught.

(One other thing I'd also like for us to add is Fermi problems. Physics students learn to estimate everything from the mass of the earth to the number of dogs in their city. Seems like something everyone would benefit from practicing and that kids would really enjoy.)

[0] Tom Leher has a famous and delightful song about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIKGV2cTgqA

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBkQAxt1JXA (This is more a defense of Common Core, but in response to the common complaint.)
Heating, electricity, furniture, maybe a seperate room, internet.
If you have a VT420 can I buy it? DM me.
My take on NVMe has evolved a lot after getting a chance to really play around with the capabilities of consumer-level devices.

The biggest thing I have realized (as have others), is that traditional IO wait strategies don't make sense for NVMe. Even "newer" strategies like async/await do not give you want you truly want for one of these devices (still too slow). The best performance I have been able to extract from these is when I am doing really stupid busy-wait strategies.

Also, single-writer principle and serializing+batching writes before you send them to disk is critical. With any storage medium where a block write costs you device lifetime, you want to put as much effective data per block as possible, and you also want to avoid editing existing blocks. Append-only log structures are what NVMe/flash devices live for.

With all of this in mind, the motivations for building gigantic database clusters should start going away. One NVMe device per application instance is starting to sound a lot more compelling to me. Build clusters with app logic (not database logic).

In testing of these ideas I have been able to push 2 million small writes (~64k) per second to a single Samsung 960 pro for a single business entity. I don't know of any SQL clusters that can achieve these same figures.
Are you sure? Let's see, just a bunch of the top of my head:

* concentration camps for Asian-related ( including born in the Us to mixed Asian heritage) people during WWII
* genocides against native Americans
* sponsoring regimes like Pol Pot, Pinochet, Batista, etc
* invasions with hundreds of thousands of casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan
* illegal detainment and torture of people in Guantanamo and other black sites
If the extensions have to request permissions for "full access" to the page, doesn't that mean they're sandboxed?
The article you linked seems to be saying the opposite:

> In fact, despite some ups and downs over the past several decades, today’s real average wage (that is, the wage after accounting for inflation) has about the same purchasing power it did 40 years ago.

Having the same purchasing power means that wages have indeed kept up with inflation. If they didn't, it wouldn't be the same purchasing power, it would be diminished purchasing power.
outuled the iron thing already, had a blood panel and levels were very good.
I love Miro https://www.miro.com
i've enjoyed the addition of linux beta to chrome os
I just don’t get all the “just shutdown the db for an hour, you’re not Netflix” comments.

If you can do things properly, as an engineer, you absolutely should, even if your company serves “just” hundreds of thousands instead of hundreds of millions users.

It is not like they wrote their own database for that, they just used an open source tool.
Documenting Unison Code
Your account has existed for 10 years so I'm not going to ban you outright just now, but the fact that you're using HN primarily (exclusively?) for nationalistic and ideological flamewar is a serious abuse of the site. We ban accounts that do this, regardless of what they're battling for or against. If you want to keep posting to HN, we need you to seriously recalibrate how you're doing it, and reorient to the intended use of the site, as described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

The users foolishly accusing you of being a communist agent are also breaking the rules. That's not relevant to the fact that you're abusing HN.

Actually, I would have a lot more sympathy if you did have a personal connection to China. HN's Chinese users (and those with other connections, such as their family background or couple relationship or work history) are under extreme pressure in these threads, because the forum is majority Western, aligned with Western media and geopolitical views, and a subset of the majority users have the kind of adamancy (and even aggression) that can only come from ignorance. That's a serious problem—users of Chinese background have even been hounded off this site, just for sincerely trying to represent their own viewpoint. I've even been personally accused of being Chinese (as if that were somehow an insult) just for trying to bring more respect into these threads. If you or anyone is interested, you can see some of that moderation history at these links:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

None of that applies to your case, though, if I'm reading your comments correctly, because you seem to be posting strictly out of ideological battle. That's, unfortunately, much cheaper and more destructive behavior. We don't allow it here, because the purpose of the site is curious conversation in which people relate to and learn from each other. Smiting enemies is precisely the opposite spirit of that.

I know what it feels like to hold a minority ideological viewpoint too (having been in that situation many times)—it comes with a feeling of righteousness and resentment that causes one to lash out and feel justified in treating others disrespectfully because, after all, one's cause is right and the truth is more important. Unfortunately this syndrome is poison to the sort of internet forum we're trying for here. Regardless of how right you are (or feel you are), or how important the truths you bring are (or you feel they are), we're going to ban you if you continue this way. We have no choice but to do that, in order to try to preserve HN for its intended purpose. Moreover, it makes little difference how right you are or what truths you're bringing, if this is the way you're going about it, because people don't listen when they're being blasted.
Attributing that to any one thing requires a large amount of evidence. For example, Americans spend a much larger percentage of their income on housing than they did in the past.[1] House prices vary wildly based on local because of demand and local legislation that affects how and what can be built. How much of that is because of increased housing cost, and how much of increased housing cost is because of monetary policy which is national and not local conditions, when prices vary so much by locale?

If you're trying to make a case that the middle class has less savings because of reasons other than that, it seems prudent to at least explain that away.

1: https://listwithclever.com/research/home-price-v-income-hist...
I have a special hatred of floating point numbers. I wish and advocate for a better standard.

My issue is that I've come across errors due to floating point in weird places. One example, searching a list of strings for another string. If the sort function decides those strings look like numbers it may coerce them into doubles (ints being too small to hold them). Then sort wont match correctly due to the least significant bits being rounded off.
Following the current trend at Microsoft, it will probably be called "Microsoft Azure for Desktops" :)
>Herbal supplements aren't considered drugs by the FDA

And what is considered a drug or not is at the discretion of the FDA and other agencies. This is a choice they make not to regulate supplements like drugs. This fact has no bearing on what level of regulation is appropriate for a given chemical. Don't avoid the meaningful discussion by citing trivia.
Some Scientists Believe the Universe Is Conscious
> Users already deal with the concept that some files are images, some are audio, some are documents and so forth without apparent problems understanding that.

I'm not sure they do to remotely the extent that they would need to, for file extensions to make sense. I expect that, to the average (say) grandma, there are 3 or 4 kinds of files:

Video, Image, Audio, Other

The first three match human senses. The ear (audio), the eye (images), the combination with motion (video). People have understood those are inherently different things since their childhoods. If your grandam is more advanced, maybe she also understands documents (like PDF), that represent physical papers she has in her hand. In any case, those are all reflections of physical things she already understands, but that's about it. She probably doesn't even understand .exe given that every app she sees would have a shortcut icon.

Now you're proposing that jumping from that to .jpg/.png/.bmp/.tif/.jpeg/.tiff/.webp/.gif/.jp2/.mp3/.aac/.wav/.wma/.mp4/.mpg/.mov/etc. is a huge step? Given how confused I know even I have been about file types in the past and what they mean, I... don't agree.

And sorry, but security is secondary here. Usability comes first.
That is the rate for Irish corporations, not foreign ones. Ireland, Netherlands, Luxembourg all negotiated bilateral deals with individual corporations so their effective tax rates are, at most, 3%.
I couldn't give a damn about macOS or the "Linux desktop". Yet I would still call Windows a disaster. Windows 10 was released almost 6 years ago now, and it's still a Frankenstein mess of 10 different UI styles dating all the way back to Win95, with no apparent drive to fix it up and make it consistent. Microsoft has extremely weak engineering culture.
Why should Biogen be able to sell their drug? It hasn't been shown to work, it is for all intents and purposes at this point in time, snake oil.

Should Biogen be able to continue research and studies, sure, but they shouldn't be able to sell it until they have proof that it actually improves someone's life instead of having some effects on a possible bio-marker.
"the process started by purchasing stolen cookies being sold online for $10"

Anyone know the details of how this actually works? Does it mean browser cookies? How do cookies end up being sold in this way?
I think another thing to remember: there's a lot of government folks agitating for backdoors.

It should remembered that good encryption protects everyone, regardless of who is in power and who is in Opposition.

You don't plan for when things go right.
They have no support for host either, it's all a free for all. A drunk guest tried to force his way into my sister's room one night. Got zero response from Airbnb and the guy is still on the platform.
probably had a good circuit breaker design. would love to read the article though.
Not quite, since you can always claim damages (e.g. relocation costs, breaking a lease) if the company rescinds a signed offer.
I hope they fix that, and also let users just choose 16bit download as a default, 24bit is pointless for playback purposes.
Discussion also happening here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27470955
-rupt comes from Latin rompere meaning to break. (see also "rupture")
you are conflating "rough enough to take a medication" with being "so sick you are in the hospital with covid." crazy comparison. I got my vaccine and the second shot hit me hard enough that I had to take some ibuprofen. Not a single regret and it wasn't that bad.

you are comparing apples to oranges.
Could your smart watch alert you to risk of sudden death?
As little delay as reasonably possible.
>White-boarding new systems/features

I find miro works well for this.