skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To improve compression of a sorted list of words you can replace the (initial) letters repeated from the word above with spaces before compression and add them back as an extra step after decompression. For example, if the previous word was "apple", the next entry will be " y" ("apply", edit: HN removes extra spaces, so this should be four spaces + "y") ("apple" will probably already be entered as " le" (three spaces + "le")). In theory a compression algorithm could handle this automatically, but in practice this gives better compression.

This is conceptually similar to what OP does by storing the (numerical) difference between the words. Also, if you have a list of numbers that aren't random, they generally compress better if you turn it into a list of the differences between the numbers.

A simple compression algorithm (miniLZO is apparently 6KB compiled) might be small enough and save enough bytes with compression to make it worth it for OP.
Covid Vaccines Were Deadly in Rare Cases. Governments Are Weighing Compensation
Using half of zero-page for IO (and then dedicating 1/4 of that to a string printing interface) is a somewhat odd design choice. Most nontrivial 6502 software leans heavily on zero page (since there are very few registers and shorter/faster instructions for zero-page memory access).

Simulating something that looks like a serial port (transmit/receive/status registers) would seem more natural, peripheral-wise.
slightly unrelated, but it seems tripp [1] is also a nice approach to meditation using VR

1. https://www.tripp.com/
There are other first order effects that government does (e.g
Inflation, arraignments for infractions, vehicle infraction revenue cutting) that drown out those second order effects. Fix those first.
I don't know why this post should've been flagged. It's a valid viewpoint and a reasonable explanation.

FWIW the idea of jerking off while your SO hangs out smoking weed and playing a video game is ...pretty alien and crazy to me. But I've been in mostly very long relationships and I do understand the ennui.
endorheic basins are fickle like that
Happy to see the Fall of Civs podcast on HN. An amazingly well produced, thought provoking podcast - highly recommended by this Internet Stranger!
This is an absurd argument trotted out by people who -- to be blunt -- have absolutely no idea what really goes on.

Lawsuits by government agencies against suppliers are rare, and likely to result in a loss if attempted against large corporations. Companies like Microsoft or Oracle have armies of the best lawyers on retainer. Government agencies can only afford the ones that have sensible shoes and patches on their jacket elbows.

A recent case in point: The NSW Transport department had a legal spat with a huge contracting company Acciona, and ended up losing the court case to the tune of over half a billion dollars!

That specific case made me laugh out loud because the company I worked for had signed a very similar contract with the same department. I remember looking at it and thinking it was some sort of joke that nobody in their right mind would sign (on the government side). It included none of the "hard but essential" bits, and all of the easy fluffy bits. They signed it. They argued with us over non-delivery. We pointed at the contract and made them pay us 5x more than the original amount to do the actual, hard work.

The real reason that government agencies like big contractors is because they are reassuringly expensive. They're the "big name" that looks good in reports. They're chosen by people with unlimited funding, no profit motive, and the power to choose a vendor with the sole motivation of covering their ass. That's it. No need to be "efficient", or "fit for purpose", or any such thing.

These decisions are all made by a small number of people acting in individual self-interest. Optimising for their own continued employment. They're trading your taxes so that in the event of a failure they can point at the name on the report memo and say: "See! Not even Big Name Vendor could implement this! It's not my fault!"

I once got "fired" from a consulting gigs where things went wrong and I took it very hard. A salesman explained that our purpose is to be easily fire-able so that the manager at the customer can keep his job. That's why he paid us triple rates compared to a direct contractor. I was back on that site 12 months later, once everybody forgot who I was.

TL;DR: Organisations that mis-allocate punishment and reward force their internal middle-managers to protect themselves at the expense of the organisation. Big consulting firms exist to milk these inefficient organisations, and this has nothing to do with lawsuits.
> That's why you get a complementary attorney if you can't afford one.

Not in US you don't. Leaving aside how you don't have a right to a lawyer when you are on either side of a civil matter, most states will send you a bill should you avail yourself of the "a lawyer will be provided for you" part of the Miranda rights. Now, if you are broke, they'll still provide services to you.

In Canada you actually get free legal advice before any questioning.
I submit edits to Google Maps occasionally (less often recently, as I mostly use OpenStreetMap these days). It's easy to do, helps others, and Google sure isn't gonna fix info on small businesses halfway across the world from their HQ.
> outsource a lot of the complexity involved in using event sourcing

Temporal uses/implements/helps implement event sourcing easily?
I recommend Purely Mail: https://purelymail.com/

Very cheap, pay-as-you-go, unlimited accounts and domains with routing. It's a 1-man company with rough UI but works well for keeping control of your own data.
There's definitely a range between tenure-track professorship and professional sports as careers. Plus I think there may be some wider lack of knowledge about just how more competitive professorships at colleges have become recently. I seem to recall it's in the 10s to 100s of thousands. Professional sports is much more scarce. Probably those two help flush out what a range of acceptable odds to aim to overcome and maybe not looks like.

Most PhDs (all?), though, are beyond the diminishing returns to additional outlays of effort. Diminishing returns are probably a good metric to inform people about, too.
For quite a different definition of "worked", especially 2+ years ago.
That’s what privacy addresses are for.
Search quality has decreased drastically within the last year... My theory is that they ran some A/B tests and concluded that:

bad search results = more clicks on ads
Hard to believe it’s been that long since he passed. Was quite the blow.

I was pleasantly surprised to find he wrote a Forth primer for Kitt Peak observatory. Linked from this page: http://www.forth.org/tutorials.html
Editing movies is not easy. It's a quadratic time expenditure.

High end phones still use glass and light. This requires a lot of setup from the user to get right, despite the advancement in computer vision and enhancement algorithms.

The former is fixed by making the edit part of the act of capture. Inverting the production pipeline. The latter is fixed by capturing a lot more than just photons. Actually, there are a lot of techniques that will help.

We're getting off into the weeds. Let's reconvene in ten years and see what happened to the movie business.

I'm just glad we're finally debating about a subject I like rather than Apple for once.
That means it could be off by as much as 20 to 30 seconds when the sun finally burns out. Obviously unacceptable accuracy.
Which, to many, is a big plus.
Bug? See screenshot. My 5th guess shouldn’t have gone down like that for a conventional Wordle clone.

https://ibb.co/93CdVWv
"It might be rice wine to you, but it's saki to me*"

- Laugh-In, 1968

* 'sock it to me'
decades late seems harsh, have we actually been generating faces for 20 years? i think im losing sense of time.
1) Microprocessor Design: A Practical Guide from Design Planning to Manufacturing by Grant McFarland.

2) Chip Design for Non-Designers: An Introduction by Juan-Antonio Carballo.

3) Demystifying Chipmaking by Ricahrd F. Yanda et al..

4) Fabless: The Transformation of the Semiconductor Industry by Daniel Nenni et al.
I read this, and then got lost in the rest of his blog. A very fine description of security protocols and their designs. Seems like the most fun conversations to have. Highly recommend.

In section 4 (sign message) at the end:

> Using the hash of their encryption key as their signing key is convenient, since it removes the need for Alice and Bob to perform another key-exchange dance. It also provides a subtle contribution towards deniability that we will discuss later.

This stuck out for me, as without additional diversification (CMAC, or KDF that just creates another key mgmt problem), it seems moot to use the HMAC of a shared key for signing messages, as if you know the protocol, you know what you have to compromise the shared secret to generate that, and without additional entropy, it seems like a complication without a net increase in security. I may have misread, but I'd wonder if it was superfluous.

Edit: thought it through, it's elegant because it's being used as a slightly diversified signature, not that I'm at a level to critique their work, but appears my pen lept from its scabbard.
Because they switched to AI. That's why verbatim search, among other things, stopped working.
What about PWA added to the Home Screen? I read they aren’t subject to storage time limits.
> There is very little good scientific evidence that it is important to breastfeed.

So you're saying the WHO and UNICEF are basing their recommendations[1] on very weak evidence?

Even when they think the benefits outweigh the risks[2] of nasty pollutants in the breast milk?

[1]: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/infant-and-...

[2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2569122/
In economics we distinguish between naive and sophisticated agents. The naive agent assumes he can continue to maintain self control. However, we want our future selves to make a different set of choices than our future selves often want to make.

So, the sophisticated agent recognizes brute self control does not always work and finds ways to commit himself. Most of us are familiar with ways of doing this:

- Plan food for the week and don't keep unhealthy things in the house

- Get a gym partner to avoid excuses for skipping workouts

- Make a budget to place artificial limits on impulse spending

If I were a serviceman and knew I was going to places with lots of drugs, and that I had a weakness, I would maybe ask my CO to test me every x days while there. Commit in advance to a course of action that maybe in the future I would not like, but the choice is already made and so I am better off. This is only one possible idea, of course there are others, the point is there are ways to mitigate these problems.

There are ways we can work against our future selves to make better choices and doing this is an important part of being an adult. The fact that everybody is not perfect at it does not mean people don't have agency. And an idea of "self control fatigue" does not excuse people from responsibility for the consequences of their actions or failure to succeed.
The problem with "density" is that designers use power optimized transistors for some things and speed optimized transistors for other things, on the same manufacturing process. Also, the quality of standard cell libraries matters, kinda like the quality of the compiler affects the SPEC score of a chip.
To me, they absolutely shunned their core audience -- people who wanted greater flexibility and configurability than existing browsers could give them. As a power user who used to have Firefox humming along exactly how I wanted it (thanks to things like Keyconfig, etc.), I now really perceive next to no difference between Firefox and Chrome. Yes, there's philosophical reasons that make them differ. But in terms of what they offer to the end user? There's no difference. They neutered themselves.
One of our founders wrote a blog series on this https://www.observeinc.com/blog/why-observe-part-3-the-platf.... It all boils down to this snippet:

– Ability to ingest 100s of terabytes to petabytes of data per day, and store those for months to years.

– Ability to provide a delightfully interactive user experience, despite managing terabytes of data.

– Ability to work efficiently with semi-structured data (i.e. the messy slop you find in logs).

– Ability to efficiently execute the kinds of band-joins and window analytic functions needed for us to realize efficient queries on Resources.

– Unit economics that make sense for the Observability use-case.
Too much focus on implementation details and not enough emphasis on state of the art theory. A new practitioner should start with probabilistic learning for theory and deep learning on the practical side. A cursory overview of linear regression, decision trees, and the various linear algebra vector learning tricks is more than enough. They are mathematically interesting but not particularly useful except on sorted and cleaned tabular data. The best introduction to ML is by demonstrating its solutions to previously intractable classic problems: realistic text to speech, speech recognition, image classification, image generation, natural language processing. A boosted decision tree is rather limited in its applications (except for Kaggle competitions) that it should be something to learn after the fact.

Understanding maximum likelihood and probability chaining at the information theoretic level is a lot more important than focusing on the nitty-gritty details of the Generalized Linear Model du jour. A good understanding of ideas like KL-divergence and messaging passing is more crucial than knowing which tree or forest algorithm to use.

Many tutorials like to focus on linear and logistic regression because they are well understood and mathematically straightforward (for the educator). But machine learning is not purely a field of math, nor is it merely statistics. Too many practitioners never go beyond formula chugging and end up missing the forest for the trees. Sure a big enough model will solve almost any problem. However, without understanding the information theory and probabilistic explanations behind why a model can learn and function, ML will always remain a bag of tricks.
+1, Migadu is simple, reliable, easy, and just works. Cost is low enough it might as well be free. I've only ever had one issue (from incorrectly interpreting documentation) and had an actual human respond and walk me through it.

The only downside to be aware of is the lack of calendar support (technically yes via CalDAV, but that doesn't work for most users--e.g. Calendly won't work).

Edit: the way they handle domains and email aliases has simplified my email life.
I think you are talking about the Piedmont plateau leading into the Appalachian mountains but I'm not sure.
At least in US contracts, it's fairly common to establish role based pseudonyms at the beginning of the contract. Especially for reused contracts. Presumably, the same style applies to our legal system.

For example, a contract may read:

This contract is between John Smith (hereafter employee ) and XYZ LLC, a Delaware company (hereafter employer). Employee agrees to provide Employer with services for...
Indeed, my first reaction to the article was: Maybe basing your trust of somebody on their face wasn't such a good idea after all.
What happens when business operates on less income than it costs to operate?

It dies.

Same is true for people who are required to labor for more than it costs them to labor.

It just so happens we will fund people who cannot exist otherwise, right?

And there is the problem. We have many companies perfectly happy to underpay their labor, mooch off the public, and bank that for profit. The likes of McDees, Walmart and many others can and should be fully funding their labor and they don't.
I’ve been learning a lot about this. It’s pretty wild. Anyone interested in this should look up Polyvagal Theory.

This related book with a strange name has been incredible to read. “Accessing the healing power of the vagus nerve.”
Direct link to show’s website: https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/

Submitted link prompts me to download the previously deleted Apple Podcasts app on my iPhone.
Was his clone successful, though?
I'm not sure how my parents would be able to run their own email service or manage a backup routine if they went the POP3 & SMTP route. The reason why cloud services have grown so much is because they make computing services accessible and easy to use for a much wider portion of the population. I think it will take multiple generations of technological fluency indoctrination before we can get to the point where people can use these types of services without relying on cloud services. Cloud services are likely here to stay and likely will maintain their power unless regulation steps in.
Really curious how rivers look like electricity burns made on wood
So we doxed then we’re so sure…
I had a bad dose of the 'flu in 2005. I could keep hydrated, but not tolerate much else. By day three I had the headache from hell, and eventually figured out it was caffeine withdrawal. I decided I didn't want to be functionally dependent on daily doses of caffeine and gave coffee and black tea away completely (I've never been one for caffeinated soft drinks).

Since then I drink green, white and herbal teas, and an occasional decaf because I do love the flavour and aroma. For me there's been no downside to stopping caffeine.
Really? That seems costly for no reason. I thought when I've seen it it's been the same light.
They are excluded from the limit (WebViews within apps probably also). But getting a user to install a PWA on Apple devices is difficult. Besides, if it's something used occasionally a user shouldn't have to add a site to the home screen.
If you ever want someone to work early, a lot of ex-military just naturally run on an earlier schedule like that. People who run for a hobby tend to start early too.
How is it a quadratic time expenditure? You’ve been able to edit video like you would text for a decade. An M1 Mac Mini handles 4K video well. A higher end M1 Mac Pro
Original article: https://www.naiaonline.org/articles/article/federal-legislat...

transporting pet store animals across a state line would become a felony unless the species is on a federal register -- HR-4521
Only looking at the first graph, I'm curious why they left out "data size requirement". Does the problem you want to solve have access to a lot of data, or only very little (or data gathering is costly). Is it noisy? Biased? The latter might be beyond the scope, but the amount of data available seems to be crucial for the cheatsheet?

Imagine following the graph and deciding on Neural network and then realize you can't collect enough data for it to work after.

Looks like an low effort article to me
I would describe an off-the-shelf NAS as easy and cheap. A 2-bay model with drives costs <€500 and protects against drive failure. You need a bit of technical knowledge, but all the big manufacturers have relatively user-friendly GUIs.

It's not a highly redundant enterprise solution, but it's decent for home and small business users, especially since the alternative is usually 'nothing'.
It's a difficult problem, but that would definitely be useful for sure.
Here's another "don't know" example, albeit for a very different reason: Does following program halt for all x?

while x != 1:
if x % 2 == 0:
x = x // 2
else:
x = 3 * x + 1
The repo has zero documentation. Do you use it on client, node, or both? Does it renders the calls in a tree?
It's similar to the compression techniques you might use in column store
He said: "maintenance, insurance and gas"

It very much does cost several thousand. My insurance alone was almost $1K per year. Gas was about $100 per week, but, in rural areas, that's probably $50 per week. That's about $2,500 per year.

In addition, most poor families have ONE, and only one, car. Putting it in for maintenance not only costs money for the maintenance but also money for alternate transportation.

I had a 20 year old Honda and a 20 year old Pontiac. It cost me about $2K per year for maintenance on each (I calculated that if it reached $5K per year it was time to get a new car). However, because I had two, I could put one in the shop and use the other without thinking. This is a luxury that the poor do not have.
The absolute worst search results I've ever gotten are trying to search my history in Chrome.
I had inflammation from sciatica that was causing depression. Had no idea. My conciousness was completely changed. I went in to a see a sports medicine team for the sciatica (after I fought off a round of depression) and they prescribed an anti-inflammatory which has solved the issue for now (need to remedy the sciatica which is a long term effort). I didn't take the pills for a few days--I was feeling good and forgot to--and it crept back.

The depression was so bad I'm literally scared/paranoid for it to ever return. I nearly attacked my family twice before getting the anti-inflammatories. Really fucked up.

I have great sympathy for anyone dealing with this, and an understanding of the condition now. Depression is indescribable. I 100% get why people dealing with unrelenting depression kill themselves.

I think back to my reaction on hearing of the deaths of Bordain, Cornell, Hartman, Williams and wondering why these famous people who had fulfilling careers, riches, free time, and beautiful families would kill themselves. It was not "unhappiness."
I find the stories of rising and falling civilizations both fascinating and sad.
Enabling ipv6 creates a lot of routing problems and networking issues on my network, so it remains off and NAT with upnp is used instead (and sometimes tunnels which provide ipv6).

ISPs and home routers need to do a better job handling ipv6 traffic as well and end user devices need to fix bugs with implementations.
> Your (sic) are too stupid to make your own decisions

The author gives a lot of examples where this is a bit ridiculous... But I do think sometimes it is true that people are just too dumb to make their own informed decisions:

- consumption of tobacco products (people just need a tax nudge)

- consumption of junk food (people just need a tax nudge)

- seatbelt laws (I disagree with the author here)

- vaccination (I know I won't be making any friends here, but empirically, layfolks just don't have the capacity to make an informed decision)
it was a large format print art book called "High Frontiers" maybe with Magazine. Think Heavy Metal Magazine, fewer pages, less cohesion.. this was certainly before Wired Magazine 1.0 and that graphics barrage.. better taste, more counterculture flavor in the big grand one, IMO
That's great, but most web apps aren't full-blown interactive IDEs, yet the usual dev approach uses the same extensive scaffolding and layering.
Invariably, any criticism of safety obsession is met with something along the lines of "so you're saying we should fill playgrounds with active landmines and light machine guns?"

Danger needs to scale with a child's ability to handle it, and which is likely higher than the average American parents' tolerance.

A two-year-old isn't ready to contend with rattlesnakes. A sixteen-year-old absolutely is. Somewhere in that timeline, there's a stair-step in the danger function, and that's just part of life.

Safety-obsessed Americans would ensure that the rattlesnake stays behind glass forver.
There's a big difference between free and paid cloud services.