skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the whole article is about the flaws in the format :)

But the answer in this case is Huffman coding. The most common sequences compress to just a few bits, but backreferences and such are not byte-aligned, they just follow literals in the bitstream. Aligning things to bytes would significantly reduce the compression ratio.
If developers were given Operational Research and a couple management classes during university training, the pretense that they are some kind of highly functioning idiots would evaporate overnight.

Problem is that the industry is full of untrained individuals who hustled their way ”fake it until you make it” and will use all their political and manipulatoy clout to justify their positions and fight back any attempt at effective process engineering.
The Windows Registry API is an incomplete wrapper over the NT Registry API. One glaring problem with it is that the windows API uses null-terminated string, whereas the NT API (and the underlying file format) use length-prefixed strings. This means you can effectively hide keys and values from software using the normal Windows API.
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It could be useful for UX/UI folks who have input about content. Or imagine making a pitch (involving nature or tailored to nature) to a conservation agency where someone might have this knowledge and having a picture of a dead butterfly. That might be awkward.
> Is it really so hard to them to raise money? Look at some of the stupid ideas that have raised tens to hundreds of millions of dollars over the last few years.

Yes. I think it’s hard for them because they probably aren’t pitching to VCs correctly. The Mill folks desperately need some elevator pitch material. Ivan Goddard mentioned [0] that they’re having problems raising VC money, in a world where VC money has been flowing like water.

Every single video/document from Mill Computing has been targeted towards highly technical audiences. I’ve seen zero material from them targeted to laypeople. You’re never going to secure any funding if your website only consists of a series of highly technical slides and lecture videos. This [1] is their “high level” overview page, which is already way too technical.

[0] https://millcomputing.com/topic/news/#post-3684

[1] https://millcomputing.com/#_Technology
I agree. His heart is in the right place. And he's fighting the good fight. There is something wrong with a system which won't allow a spot somewhere in the city to put up tents. He's right about that.

But I don't think everyone has to go as far as you, and give more than they take. I think we can find win-win situations where we both benefit. I cut your your hair and you paint me a picture. We both win. But it's hard to find good one to one barter like this. Money is the way to find more win-win situations. In a system with no money, you're back to only one to one, so there are less win-win exchanges, and everyone is poorer.
Delete all your posts and photos, and put a generic photo as your profile picture. It gets the message across.
Having been in multiple educational institutions in different EU countries I have never seen this anywhere.

Did you perhaps confuse this with the common signs indicating that the EU funded that particular project/institution?
I'm slowly coming to the highly unpopular view that all fiction is essentially a lie, and therefore damaging. Your brain does not distinguish meaningfully between truth and fiction, at an emotional level. Yes, you can tell stories that capture some sort of essential truth - but writers don't typically hold themselves terribly closely to that standard, and in any case the time is better spent telling of things that actually happened. Every mutilation applied to actual events - in the service of making them supposedly more entertaining - clouds our understanding of them. And it's done on purpose! Inglourious Basterds is an abomination, a deliberate cognitohazard.
The Dutch East India company ( VOC) did plenty of conquering themselves in present day Indonesia and the Caribbean. And in a more indirect way ( funding rebels, lobbying their government to intervene), so did the United Fruit Company in Central America.

India wasn't really a country, more akin to the various Italian or German ( if we exclude the whole HRE thing) states pre-unification than a country - a bunch of independent-ish entities ruled by princes that were often in alliance or war with each other, and differed somewhat from each other culturally/language-wise/etc. but had plenty of common ground.
who would've thought that vocal minority on twitter does not reflect reality for all, cuz at the end of the day Amazon hires above milion ppl

So, just to add another opinion

I've seen only positive comments (sample size around 3) about working in Amazon's warehouse in Poland
No, the benefit of the GMMK Pro is supposed to be build quality. There are plenty of cheap hot-swap boards about.

I'm using a Hexgears K705A - it cost me £60, with BOX White switches and cheap double-shot ABS keycaps. That's less than a bare non-pro GMMK. I replaced the keycaps with a pretty expensive set of sculpted PBT's and it still worked out less than a bare GMMK Pro.

And my space bar doesn't stick :P
> The challenge is solving the challenge.

Oh yea, this is what should be done.

And like many other problems, I assure you its not going to be fixed. Far too many parties prefer the status quo - including the disadvantaged kids.

I hope I am wrong.
This was a very well written article on this person’s opinion backed with some, in my opinion, sketchy data points. As I read it, I couldn’t help but to feel a little cringy like reading a gossip magazine. Sorry to be off topic but what motivates someone to write an entire article to prove to everyone that a startup sucks. The very fact that they felt compelled to try to convince people the startup isn’t relevant all the while acknowledging that it is relevant enough to warrant this post is interesting.

It reads to me like, “stop talking about X so much, no one cares about X”.

I think it is great that startups can raise money during a hype cycle and hopefully find product market fit. The truth is that we just really don’t know what Will take off. If it were super obvious it would already be done. Yet we have break outs all the time.

With the money, hype and time that Cloubhouse has left, I really hope they become huge. I love seeing people build things and I love seeing money poured into them to watch the experiment have time to grow.
If anyone is interested in getting together, brain storming and working towards a startup in this space - I am interested.

I particularly like "I'd like a system that acts as my own portal to all those systems, and allows me to follow people on the Fediverse, Facebook, Instagram, RSS feeds, you name it; and is easy to expand to support new things, but also gives me more control over my feed" by mcv here.

You can drop comments here or respond to me at sridhar AT toonclip DOT com
> I'm having to explain what it means to summarize information.

It is what it is.

FWIW, I use HN as batting practice, to refine my talking points.

A terrific recent example is Scott Galloway advocating breaking up big tech. Observing his message craft over the years is instructive, inspirational. He now says stuff like "oxygenate the market". Brilliant.

Choice of metaphor matters. "The different between the right word and almost right word is the different between lighting and a lightning bug." -- Mark Twain (from memory)

Keep going. You're doing great!
Untethered
That's a shell built-in, though. So how command-line arguments are handled by processes and the OS doesn't really apply here.
I am not an accountant but presumably any material issuance of some sort of scrip that could be exchanged for goods would be seen as tax evasion.

Free meals are allowed under certain guidelines, which seem to be written in a way that generally lets companies like Google skate right up to the edge and not go over it (AFAIK). Things like loyalty points and rebates on business expenses are similarly ignored.
The weird shape of a fish knife actually has a purpose: it is used for filleting a whole fish. But nowadays it is often presented for use with a fish that has already been filleted and for that it is rather silly.
This is addressed in the comments to the article.

Basically: Some might get their wings into unusual position mid-flight, but the angle of the photo also plays in a great deal - the depicting addressed in the article is from directly above.
Disingenuous based upon math.

Bezos’ wealth is disingenuous built on disingenuous narrative he did it himself and is somehow entitled to as much political scrip he can leverage.

Fiat currency makes belief in a persons wealth not much different than belief in a holy mans connection to God.

Decoupled from their actual output, coupled to their ability to maintain a social meme.

Religion is effectively the same; belief decoupled from observable reality.

We’re all playing a disingenuous semantic game, and it’s hurting all of us.
I don’t think you need the distinction for the natural numbers. Int32 is a type. The natural numbers are the set of positive integers that don’t overflow the int type used to express them.
less is more?

Please don't, I understand that "more" is simpler but I like the ability to scroll up.
The problem is most agile followers take
"Responding to change over following a plan" to mean
Don't plan.
So you have 100+ person organizations running in a direction quickly for 2 week sprints to find out what the new direction they are going to run once they get there.
I am not confusing anything, that's exactly what I mean. The EU sends a minor (sub 1%, in many cases) contribution but its flag must be displayed on the right side of the local flag facing the children/people - that's exactly the problem. Now the flag is everywhere - public parks, public transit, hospitals, schools, etc - and today's children think there was nothing before the great EU funds rescued us from total poverty - a total lie.
I hear that Samsung is one of the few big players minimizing radiation to the user. Just thought I'd add this in case that was something you want to consider as well (mixed studies on whether there could be link between cellphone use and specific cancers).
When I hear “we need to rewrite this in…”, it's usually because someone isn't familiar with the language it's currently in and wants to switch to the old language/framework they like best. I don't think I've ever actually heard someone trying to advocate for shiny new x just because.
I think it looked at effects six months out. It’s of course theoretically possible for an effect to manifest after 60 years but not six months, but normally you’d expect some short run differences too.
That's not true at all, 3 to 4 clicks won't even get you through formatting the hard drive. Not to mention Windows Update never seems to install the correct drivers for my motherboard and very outdated drivers for my gpu.

Linux install is pretty similar and the only driver issue I have with it is my video card.

I would say they are pretty even honestly.
He is advocating for the homeless in order to help them not freeze in the winter. So he's got that going for him, which is nice.
maybe it's an issue with my neurology, but for me if the name isn't descriptive it takes me longer to make association between the name and what it actually is.

with "Virtual Servers", I would have only had to look it up once. With "Elastic Computer" it took me months of rereading what that service was for it to sink in.
Hey, at least it has a Q in the initialism even though it's not in the first position.
> Why so much focus on the keyboard size (at a hefty premium), the desk looks huge and a regular keyboard is much cheaper, and only a couple cm wider.

A large keyboard (TKL or larger) negatively impacts ergonomics. A standard keyboard has to be offset to the left to make room for the mouse on the right.

If you center the letter keys so your shoulders and wrists are square, then your mouse is too far to reach comfortably.

65% keyboards are the ideal middle ground between ergonomics and productivity. You only lose the numpad and 1 or 2 keys from the nav cluster, and you get perfectly centered letter keys.
Thank you so much for taking the time to write such a detailed response! The approach of "traveling" to a foreign place using VR is a really cool idea I hadn't even thought of! Now I kinda wish your app were open-source (or available for a fee) and my online Spanish teacher could use it in his language class with me haha. :)
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Well... If you also come around to the view that most nonfiction is fiction too... you might find yourself in a pretty nihilistic place.

Those depictions of butterflies are intended to be nonfiction.. naturalism. A precise and true representation of butterflies, an artistic culture that people like Darwin were steeped in.
I think if a distro replaced less with more I would be confused if it differs slightly. That’s pretty entertaining my first read of your comment I was confused took me a moment to let it sink in.
Funny, he'd fit more in a hunter-gatherer society because guess what they also don't have... (to spell it out: money).

I mostly agree with what you write, but "You have to contribute productively" is such a capitalist mindset that it draws for me the picture of you being a Gordon Gekko type.

I wonder if he'd agree to do some work like cleaning the city parks in exchange for some "gifted" groceries and a room. Obviously the city doesn't want to enter into customized barters with all its employees.
Absolutely. It is also crazy when literally conveniences influence people's thinking.

In serialised fiction where you have a set of "cast members" the writers sometimes feel that they should shake things up. Temporarily put out of action one or the other member of the recurring characters to see how the new group dynamics will evolve. One common trope is where a member of the heroes' group falls into coma. Hijinks happen, the rest of the group copes with the missing member, and a few episodes later when the writers get bored of the scenario they bring back the person from coma. And because the whole motivation for the coma was a plot convenience you will get a quick recovery. A dramatic scene usually occurs where the patient wakes up, frequently due to some stimulus from a friend. You are lucky if you can see one cut scene of the patient recovering afterwards.

Real life coma is nothing like this. In reality a high percentage of those in coma die. They can have all kind of involuntary movements which would confuse someone who expects a sleeping beauty coma. The recovery usually is a long, and arduous process even when someone wakes up and of course there are health risks even after the patient opens their eyes up. [1]

A few weeks ago I had a discussion with my dad. He told me about a friend of his who had a stroke and fallen into a coma. At the time when we talked the friend was unable to breath on his own since days. My dad was super concerned that the friend in question doesn't have life insurance. It felt as if it was a foregone conclusion to him that his friend is going to wake up, and is going to leave the hospital. His only worry was what is going to happen with him after. Now, how much of this was an understandable psychological coping mechanism, and how much of it was due to incorrect representation of coma patients in media is hard to tell. Sadly later the friend passed away.

Luckily my dad didn't had to make any care decisions about his friend. (Of course) But regular people get thrown into situations like that all the time, all around the world. It's already a very stressful situation as a baseline, and then on top of whatever is happening people have all kind of unreasonable expectations swirling in their heads as they go through it. And all because writers regularly run out of material and have a need to conveniently shake things up in their fictional worlds.

1: https://www.livescience.com/739-comatose-patients-falsely-de...
I went to my first live orchestra concert with solos by a violinist and a pianist just before the pandemic started and I have to say it's really something everyone should try at least once in their life. I found the whole experience very calming and yet energetic.

Unrelated by I couldn't help but notice something trying to load from localhost as I opened the page: https://localhost:8972/ping.js
I believe it partly comes from this, which is for non-supervisory positions across the board (including truckers):
https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag493.htm#earnings

However, if you look at the table below that, even when you differentiate to more specific occupation, median (and certainly mean) wages are above $15. Perhaps there's a further differentiation to "hand laborers and materials movers" that brings this number down further, per the other BLS link in this thread.

I'd be curious about regional differences though, e.g. in Bessemer https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/business/economy/amazon-w...
I've never been a Mac user but Camino is looking incredibly familiar to me. There must have been a FF theme back in the day that. The scrollbar I can understand, guess it's just cocoa or something, but everything else looks the same.
I wonder if they still have 2 line advertisements for party lines printed in the back of cheesy magazines? I never used them, but I did meet someone who found a long lost sister while chatting with strangers
a) Either produce and consume oil or don't. If you do, you have to accept the ecological impact and you can't push a story about how your country is morally superior. Sorry, you have to find something else on the basis of which you can feel superior.

b) Just be Norway.

c) Just be Norway, but wage war on governments that refuse to buy oil.
>>> because talking has less friction than writing, therefore more people will use a talk-based app.

In a way this is true, those who don't know how to read or write also can use a talk only app.

But talking BS also has less friction ... so there will be more noise than signal I presume.
> [Company] making it their policy to help people get visas (shouldn't that be a government choice?)

Of course it's the government choice to grant the visa or not. It's the company choice as to how much support (financial, HR/legal advice, other) to extend to their employees [and their household].
How would you recommend exploring truths that may end up being too politically charged to explore except through fiction? For some time the only way LGBTQ+ and race relations explorations could only occur through fiction. (Arguably, exploring the trans experience can often be limited to exploration through fiction.)
I'm not an expert, I am referring to the following. Am I misunderstandibg something?

> due to its real-price volatility, gold had not been a good inflation hedge over the short- or long-term.

They did find that, going back to the era of Emperor Augustus who reigned from 27 BC–14 AD, gold had been a pretty good hedge for inflation measured by military pay. So, if you have a liability due in 2,000 years, gold might be a good way to maintain your purchasing power.

https://www.pwlcapital.com/will-gold-save-the-day/
My house has a non-potable water supply used for irrigation, and is in fact required by the town to. I know the same is true in some parts of Utah and probably other places. In such cases, also requiring toilets to be supplied by the non-pot line would be a trivial cost that would pay for itself eventually.
- Interoperability: FaceBook / Twitter and all other social network take their advantage from the network effect / the winner takes all, not because it is "good", "private", "secure", "beautiful", "user friendly", but because they have the critical mass. A decentralized social network must be like bittorent. You have many client, choose the one that suit you the best, and share data with other whatever their client.

- Add-free Business model: Big question in how do you monetize the system, making it viable. Maybe the people contribute in storage, storing the data of people they interact with to enable availability, and contribute depending of their possibility.

- Data ownership (a lot of concern for some tech people, but for the majority, I think they don't really care / understand the problem)
On the other hand, in case of typhoon elevated lines often stop, unlike underground ones if there is no risk of flooding.
I am wondering if it's because they were linking to the Sci-Hub pages in both tweets and the profile
I don't know, I've installed installed arch many times and I still occasionally will forget some step or make a typo or something. Then I have to boot the installation image again, remount everything, fix the issue... it's annoying. GUI installers don't really have this problem.
I have a wide screen. On one side, the app I'm working on reloads itself as I'm working on it, middle is the code, right is docs.

On a second virtual desktop I have chat, email and todos.

Works perfect for me.
Haven't you ever done your own dishes? I use something so that it gets dirty, so I'll wash it off.

The jobs "no one wants to do" is usually work people are happy to do for themselves or occasionally their friends and family. The idea that "no one wants to do them" embeds the presumption that you spend eight hours a day doing just that. Of course no one wants to do that!
> My dad was super concerned that the friend in question doesn't have life insurance. It felt as if it was a foregone conclusion to him that his friend is going to wake up, and is going to leave the hospital

Wouldn't having life insurance be more relevant for the case where the friend doesn't wake up...?
Any reason you're singling out Inglourious Basterds in particular?

In general, though, I do not believe that this problem is at all limited to the kind of art that we commonly dub as "fiction". For example, in the 19th century, travel diaries of colonial "explorers" were a very popular form of literature consumed by the educated classes in the colonial metropole, and they consisted almost entirely of distortions, willful or accidental omissions and often outright lies. Yet, they helped shape the view the West has of "oriental" cultures and peoples, with many of these cliches persisting even to the current age (i.e. "Orientalism").

Therefore, following your logic, all scientific works are damaging.
> Funny, he'd fit more in a hunter-gatherer society because guess what they also don't have... (to spell it out: money).

His refusal to use money is really a lampshade on a refusal to do anything useful period. Plenty of people don't interact with money yet still manage to provide useful goods and services in exchange for necessities. He's not doing any of that either.

> "You have to contribute productively" is such a capitalist mindset that it draws for me the picture of you being a Gordon Gekko type.

You've got me pegged all wrong. This transcends affront to capitalism to affront to all forms of societal organization; guy is a mooch, pure and simple, unwilling to do anything to help others but perfectly willing to accept all help from others for his own benefit. No society would put up with him, capitalistic or otherwise. He's a deadbeat father who wouldn't even do anything to support his own kids.

> I wonder if he'd agree to do some work like cleaning the city parks in exchange [...]

Based on what I read in the article it doesn't seem like he's willing to do any work at all. No mentions of performing any work or services in exchange for essentials; it's all freely given to him by charitable people and organizations.