skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clickbait reply: Zstd is a huge advance in compression, but not for reasons you think.

Yes it's fast, yes it has a pretty good compression ratio. But it's greatest strength is streaming feature.

It supports sending chunks of data individually decodable but compressed with knowledge of previous state. Why is this so important?

Because small string compression is crap. For data < few kb, simple dictionary substitution does better than zlib.

But with Zstd streaming, compression ratio rises as more data is sent. Game changer for slow channels.

Imagine messenging over 200 bits/sec channel. You need each message to be individually decompressible. But these are short strings so ratio is terrible.

Enter Zstd. If message delivery is reliable, doable with retries + FEC, you make all messages part of a stream. By the time you've sent a couple hundred, youre getting great compression on tiny strings.

This is huge for constrained channels like NASA rover communications and more mundane IoT networks with low rates and power limitations.

You can get even bigger savings with the knowledge of what the other peer has seen in bidirectional channels. You simply compress the data from the other end mixed with yours. If you have equal data in both directions, combining the prior state this way gets you to good compression ratio terriroty twice as fast.

I have no FB connections with those who wrote Zstd, but i believe this feature was a priority design criteria. Maybe for their balloons or some IoT project, who knows. Either way its a huge advance in data compression.

Its roughly equivalent to how we stream video as diffs from last frame interspersed with keyframes. But for general purpose rather than video.

I don't know anyone currently taking advantage of such property. And you will need to strip out frame headers to make good savings. But a fun project for any of you nerds working on low data rate channels.
Nobody? I’ve been giving some thought to https://sr.ht/ recently because of that sort of thing
The idea of the modern Israel as a state was well conceived before 1920, do you really think Israel was created out of sudden?

Levant included the original Palestine, Syria, Lebanon and surrounding areas not only Lebanon[1].

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levant
Something this guide misses that is helpful about explain is that it can explain down to primaries types. “K explain po” is great, but “k explain po.spec” will give more details about the spec and its fields. This dot field pattern can go as deep as needed, like pod.spec.volumes.secret.items
This is awesome. I hope to see more tools that enable understanding of Rust codebases.

> RustViz generates SVG files with graphical indicators that integrate with mdbook to render visualizations of data-flow in Rust programs.
That's nonsense though. If we filter out the non-copyrightable parts of music we'd remove all the pitches, eighth notes, quarter notes, half notes...

We could remove the non-copyrightable parts of text works too. Just take out all the basic building blocks of language like verbs, nouns, stop words...
https://archive.is/uqxXm
It is best to make your own decisions there based on some telemetry tbh. It will likely depend on your demographics but also upgrades may depend on your business model. For instance, you may be motivated to upgrade if you realize users who are on older iOS versions don't generate revenue.
How's this different than the story of Crimea? Xi will just do the same thing with Taiwan.
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This isn’t really fair. Most buildings, public works, utilities and industrial processes are extremely vulnerable to the most basic of attacks, they just don’t get carried out as often in physical space because it’s logistically more difficult to execute.
You’re basically arguing that whole books aren’t copyrightable because after you filter out all the words which aren’t individually copyrightable there isn’t anything left to copyright. Which obviously doesn’t make any sense.

The tests exist as a way of determining if someone did the action of copying which is the important thing at the core of it. And in this case the facts aren’t really in dispute, it’s whether what GH is doing counts as copying.

If you had a really really good memory and remembered almost exactly how your former company implemented something and when faced with a similar problem unknowingly produced similar code. It’s iffy as to whether this is copying. Because it really probably isn’t — you’re allowed to learn from copyrighted works — but the courts aren’t omniscient and when presented with the code they very well may rule that copying was more likely than not.

But we are omniscient in this case so we don’t really need the tests. Is what GH does more like copying or learning? This isn’t something that can be determined purely from the output of the tool.
Lebanon as a buffer state is well documented by historians, please check them.
Here is the repository for the Microsoft calculator:

https://github.com/microsoft/calculator

An application universally ridiculed for it's inclusion of in-depth telemetry. It's time to challenge your preconceptions: find the roadmap items, features or bugs informed by the gathering of the telemetry data.

Here is what's really happening:

* Migrating the codebase to C#

* Iterating upon the existing app design based on the latest guidelines for Fluent Design and WinUI

That last one is probably going to be obsolete by the time they are finished. What's the value here that telemetry is delivering?

This is the story all over the industry. Fancy dashboards everywhere, but the people shaping products haven't made an evidence-based decision in years.
You're really splitting hairs here, the "polite software" you're talking about also needs to "phone home" to check and offer the update, which probably leaks about as much information as you manually refreshing the project's web site every week.
Launching a global pandemic and lying about it

I generally agree with your other points, but don't like the word "launching". That word implies a deliberate act. It's much more likely this was just poor lab procedures that let the virus infect researchers at the virology lab. Those researchers then infected the world.
Yeah I’m 32 and have had no job for more than 2 years. There are a lot of reasons for my situation. I’ve changed some aspects of myself I hope, but I don’t think I can really get a foot in the door to something I want at this point unless I catch a lucky break or make some luck of my own.
I have a genetic disorder. So I have some familiarity with the subject of genetics.

Years ago, I read an article in a magazine while waiting to be seen by a doctor. It talked about a study in a culture that valued boy children over girls.

Boys, especially oldest boys, got treated consistently better than girls. They were more likely to be fed their favorite foods. If they didn't feel well, they saw a doctor now whereas there was more often a "wait and see attitude" with girls. This meant boys were more likely to see a doctor several hours sooner, such as in the evening rather than waiting until the following morning.

This was not a case of girls being treated abusively. It was just a case of boys being somewhat pampered.

The difference in outcomes could be measured in terms of mortality rates.

We don't know what all genes contribute to height difference. We do know that underfeeding people will stunt them. Girls around the world seem to constantly be on a diet for fear of being too fat.

We don't know how much female height is being suppressed by cultural factors and we also don't know if cultural factors suppressing height might have intergenerational impact, even influencing genes by gender.

I don't think it's unreasonable to wonder about such things. I know for a fact it is enormously hard to have a meaningful discussion about such things on the internet, no matter how scientific the audience in question imagines they are. People are quick to dismiss such suggestions.

I've seen ridiculously biased statements about gender on HN upvoted to the top position in a discussion and heartily agreed with. It rapidly becomes a hostile environment where it doesn't feel safe or in any way productive to point out glaring flaws in such remarks.
There seems to be a 'Download designs' link on top of the page. Isn't that it? Do we really need a Github link? Maybe it's not open contribution?
China's fertility rate (assuming it is accurate) is excellent by the standards of other high-IQ populations, at 1.69.

By contrast, Taiwan is dreadful, at 1.07. Eventually, China will be able to just sail in.

The real threat to our chip supplies is that the world will run out of intelligent Taiwanese people to operate TSMC.
Someone would have to load this firmware onto your devices, either with local physical access or remote root access to your system. Are you suggesting it should be impossible for anyone to modify the firmware on their peripherals/NICs/etc, or else the world will end or similar? Is it only safe to allow us iPads?
> The presence of guns invites escalation.

This is just as inaccurate as the "no training required". Actually, the presence of guns is CALMING factor.

Also, come on, gents, both blade and glock are tools, one have to learn to use first.
> It's like I work for a bit and I'll get to a point where I just want to quit and be done with it. Or there are conditions I just don't want to put up with anymore so I just walk.

At 23 my first child was born.

Walking away from the job is still possible, but takes so much preparation that it's often easier just to but the bullet and keep going.
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Turbochargers run in open-cycle engines that are not bound by Carnot limits. Diesels run on the Rankine cycle, and gasoline engines run on the (similar) Otto cycle. Both of those take in cold air and exhaust hot air, so can be more efficient than an engine that runs a fixed supply of working fluid around the Carnot cycle.

Turbo- and super-charging enables an engine with a given displacement to take in more air, and thus can burn more fuel, than one that must fill cylinders with no more than ambient air pressure; and can thereby deliver more power. It doesn't change the engine's thermodynamic profile.
Personally, I stopped giving attention to Vice news after learning their founder was a white supremacist. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_McInnes#Views
your interpretation of the logo is wrong, you need to get new pair of glasses, and maybe some brain cells, lack of proper education maybe?
That's the article I'd come across in the past that made me think of it as a possible adhd med.

I think one thing to keep in mind is that Gwern is evaluating it for much more minimal use than you would try to treat adhd with. Iirc he was using it to try to build an exercise habit. So the addiction risks are going to be much higher than what he portrays them as.

Still better than untreated adhd though.
In my experience, for an ADHD folk the routine stuff is the hardest.

If it doesn't give you a hit of dopamine, it becomes extremely difficult. Anything from homework to daily chores means your brain entering a deep brain fog, almost like a subdued headache.

Getting to a point where I have the discipline and self-control to maintain a daily routine has been a lifelong challenge.
In software, you're never doing the same thing twice.
Yeah, I got laid off around 2011 and couldn't find a job for about 9 months. I think 6 months of sitting around doing nothing was really nice, but 9 was kinda pushing it. Definitely could have felt better about a longer break if I had worked on being more social, but I was barely leaving my house during this time.
> Pretty sure they will indeed have a famine soon if nothing changes.

Your reasoning and argument to suggest famine will befall the country is a non sequitur. You list a bunch of events and provide citations. Sure, these are fact. But I am not sure how a halving of billions of dollars of currency reserves at the central bank, for example, leads to famine in a country like Lebanon.

Don't forget that not too long ago Lebanon went through a civil war that wrecked the country - but there was no famine to go with it.

Nassim Taleb speaks a lot about "anti-fragile" - partly because he is from Lebanon and sees the concept play out everyday. That anti-fragility would prevent a true famine from occurring: a rich and extensive diaspora amongst many other qualities.
instantly flagged, i guess i hit a nerve :)

and i can properly map the elusive people on there, nice ;)
But how much of a transformation qualifies as a new work rather than a derivative?
That's why the link to their site is https://transfer.sh which was posted
> That's exactly how you develop it.

I disagree.

> You teach complex concepts which require kids to sort truth from fiction. You don't teach one. You teach many.

And there are many. Take away nazism, flat eartherism, and CRT, and there are still many. Many more interesting useful and fruitful things to teach at that age.

For sure teach them to beware of said charlatans and snake oil peddlers, but there's really no need to spend any amount of time on the bullcrap they believe. There are countless unscientific cult beliefs like this, you're going to pollute your child's mind with all of them when they are like 8-10 years old??

> You're generalizing an awful lot from n=1.

I'm not, I'm talking about the basic human nature behind it (and resulting in not only CPSU but CPC, and WPK, CPK, etc.) But I'm not here to litigate the merits of socialism so much as to say it's unproven and unscientific at best. Looks like snake oil no matter how you look at it -- promises to be all things to all people, and has no proven results behind it and arguably many spectacular failures.

> I teach my kid those alternative theories too. I do a sincere job of it too. He doesn't believe me, in part due to other adults in his life.

That doesn't mean it's good for your kid though. An if it is, you're the one generalizing an awful lot from n=1.
I've got the opposite experience from a lot of people on this thread: I've hated every dev job I've ever had for the last 10 years or so (I'm also 30) and have recently started working retail (which is fine, I can't pay the bills with it, but I don't hate my life every morning at least) while I try to figure out how I can stop working for terrible tech companies that just build garbage as quickly as possible no matter how much they screw over the users doing it. Unfortunately, most of the tech I've worked on that I think could actually help people also doesn't pay the bills.

I haven't come out the other side, so I can't help you there, but you're not alone. Lots of people change careers after a few years. It's going to be hard, but I'm sure we'll figure it out.
It's totally different in that Crimea is closer to Russia, it already contained a Russian military base, and Ukraine had nearly zero combat effective military. Taiwan is much farther from China (100 miles of open ocean) and their military is at least somewhat competent.
Not sure if this is at all useful/interesting information, but I was a photographer on a cruise ship 5-6 weeks ago and happened to be in/on/at (?) the bridge as we were approaching to dock after a 10-night trip.

There were two pilots that had boarded the ship some way out and were with the captain and another crew member at all times. The senior pilot gave constant instructions/advice but at no point did they ever touch controls. The captain in this case was very deferential but I'm not sure if that would be common in the situation or because he was introverted or that he was less familiar with that port.
They both consumed the lives of many of the smartest folks of the time :)
Americans do. By report, Brits don't, anymore, IIUC.
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Therapist might help. Ppl have told me to do that, and I guess I’ve technically been once or twice a long time ago before I could make the decision myself

BUT… I don’t think there is necessarily anything wrong with OP for feeing this. There’s a reason why Office Space is popular. I sometimes think there’s something wrong with the people I know who like their bullshit jobs or take their work seriously. Either deluded or really good at acting.
Roth IRA is now a “tax haven”.

Sensationalist reporting.
I see others recommending books, so I’ll throw one out there too: So Good They Can’t Ignore You, by Cal Newport. He has a great perspective on how “finding your passion” is probably not what will make you happy (or successful).

Another tip: take stock of your mental health, and if you can afford it talk to a professional. It’s possible you have ADHD, depression, or something else, which could be holding you back. Or maybe you have none of those, but they can help you identify why you feel the way you do.

Best of luck, and be sure to come back and update us on how things are going.
Rust struggles with software where most of the address space is used for DMA, like many database engines, because it requires ownership and mutability to be observable at compile-time. Also, DMA often does not respect object boundaries as a compiler sees it because DMA does not understand objects.

In modern C++ it is straightforward to write wrappers in the style of unique_ptr that safely hide the DMA and life cycle mechanics, which means the average dev using them doesn’t need to know how it works, but someone has to write that code and it is necessarily global heavy because it references physical devices that have their own behavior in your address space. Under the hood, if a physical device is stomping on address space your code accesses, you need a way to both detect that an object is effectively owned by a particular DMA engine before touching it and immediately de-schedule the thread of execution until such a time as there is no concurrent DMA operation that might conflict with the code execution. This happens within a single thread, so no blocking or OS context switching.

A big part of database kernel internals is coordination and management of physical resources, which are global by nature.
I recommend Pravda.
> what would the GPL violation be in this case?

Since it incorporates GPL source code, the entire copilot neural network needs to distributed under the GPL and - since it is a non-source form of the software - it's entire corresponding source (namely, the entire training dataset it was generated from) needs to be made available, also under the GPL, to anyone it's distributed to. (AGPL is a bit^Wlot more clear about the fact that remote interaction over a network is a kind of distribution, though.)
> Isn't that it?

No, because of the "for personal use" restriction. Whether it is on Github has nothing to do with it.
poles are shifting, quick, take your personal belongings and hide!
I think this is peak programmer logic. You can’t just declare something a black box or declare something an AI — the courts, people, aren’t that stupid. Lawyer words aren’t that magic.

If when you crack open Copilot it’s determined that it’s not actually learning and boils down to storing and regurgitating snippets of code no matter how few or many layers of indirection it’s still infringement.

What your AI actually does is underneath all the indirection is what’s important.
I made a thing like this once to scrape school websites to figure out if there was a snow day. I found that most schools have Twitter and it was simpler and faster to subscribe to Twitter for updates.
Do you genuinely think these weird litmus tests about irrelevant history trivia accomplishes anything? Or between us, is this just a signaling thing.
You're swapping "It does, at least occasionally, combine snippets" for "it's just combining snippets"
How can it be a buffer state if it doesn’t actually “buffer” two countries?

I mean Syria and Israel have been fighting at their shared border for decades.
Maybe you're a person who works to live? If so, embrace it.

Those who enjoy their work are often the opposite: they live to work.

You could try tech or any number of other jobs (EMT always sounded fun to me.) But your goal should be to find something that you can tolerate, clock out, and lets you live your life.

Stop putting "fulfilling work" and "career" on a pedestal and have fun.
I'm open to it. Do you do it? Can you give me an example or recommendation? Where I get hung up on therapy is that there's 100 different types. And it's an expensive endeavor to have so much leeway.
Please make sure you check the privacy policy there as well: https://man.sr.ht/privacy.md

It's not clear what sort of thing you're referring to, it's generally not possible to make a service where you have accounts and billing, that simultaneously doesn't store your information. The whole point of it is that you want it to store your information.
Don’t underestimate the power of changing the way you look at things in your life, which a therapist can help with.
I think the original author was referring to the wave of popularity a few years ago when Mongo / redis / cassandra/ etc were getting tons of press, "SQL is dead" was the going phrase, and document pre-joins and intense searching of object/documents via map-reduce (elastic, et al) was the metaphor du jour.

Like every other hype, it settled down to a realistic set of use cases that NoSQL databases rock at, and the world recognized that other use cases weren't their thing, and you stopped hearing about the death of SQL, the expectation that you'd never need a SQL DB or join again, etc.

So, not a fad, but past the hype-beyond-belief stage and now into the "gets stuff done" stage.
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The project: https://github.com/baltimore-sun-data/track-changes
How does one exercise their employee stock options using their Roth IRA? Not finding any information on this.
I was 30 years old when I got an entry level call center job in a software company. 10 years later I'm on the development team and finishing my degree. Hang in there 30 is the new 20.
Have you not seen the reporting at Pro Publica? Manipulating a finacial instrument to avoid taxes strikes me as a prime example of a tax haven.
We have device tree. The problem on ARM is

1) Qualcomm and other SoC vendors fighting interoperability

and

2) Users not understanding device tree.
At age 28 I moved cross country, away from the toxic environment where I grew up, I had a high school degree and my work experiences were limited to blue collar work/clerk.

I got a crappy entry-level job in an office, enrolled in college part-time, I was making $ 18,100/year at my full-time job, I was paying $500/month in rent, $150/month for a crappy car, and $550/per each college class. I did not qualify for student loans since I was making too much money.

So I took a part-time job, on top of my full time job, so that I could go to school at night 3 times a week.

It took me 8 years to graduate with my BS in Business (minor in CS), I went on for my MBA... to make a long story short it all paid off, I became a VP and develop a career mixed between being an executive and being an entrepreneur.

Chances are that my "recipe" won't work out for you, the common thread between my stories and other stories that I have heard is:

* work hard

* make your own mistakes (I have made a few, I didn't list them above)

* iterate fast

* when failing, pick up the pieces and continue

Not all that wanders are lost.

You could try the entrepreneurship route.

Also, read: The War on Art (by Steven Pressfield)
I'm in this situation at 29 and anticipating 30, but haven't come out the other side. Have quit 2/7 so far, and been terminated from 5 programming related ones. It's extremely difficult to figure out what path to take, but my experience is similar to yours in so much as you describe it. I've now been out of work for over a year, which has happened almost 3 times in my first decade of work, and nothing seems to be looking up.
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He was one of 3 founders of "Voice of Montreal" in 1994 and was bought out in 1996, when it was renamed Vice. That's...pretty freakin' distant a relationship to object to.