skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
bzip3 usually operates on bigger block sizes, up to 16 times bigger than bzip2. additionally, bzip3 supports parallel compression/decompression out of the box. for fairness, the benchmarks have been performed using single thread mode, but they aren't quite as fair towards bzip3 itself, as it uses a way bigger block size.

what bzip3 aims to be is a replacement for bzip2 on modern hardware. what used to not be viable decades ago (arithmetic coding, context mixing, SAIS algorithms for BWT construction) became viable nowadays, as CPU Frequencies don't tend to change, while cache and RAM keep getting bigger and faster.

it should be noted that while using 16 times larger block sizes than bzip2 while providing compression ratios up to 10%-50% better at a cost of, as empirically shown, 17 seconds per 1.3GB of data, is a pretty good trade-off and if bzip2 wanted to get anywhere close to that (e.g. using the C API to tweak the block size), it'd have to sacrifice a lot of its performance.
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It feels to me that the type of communication slack is used for can't scale to a huge company, rather than it being a tooling issue. It's useful to be able to pull disparate people into a channel when working on a project, or to be able to find someone from another team to ask a question. But, expecting people to be able to discuss things with everyone from a large organisation all of the time just seems destined for failure.

At a certain size it probably makes sense to have actual humans in each department working out what communication needs to flow to the rest of the organisation and moving it in a different tool. Maybe links to those "publications" are posted in an all hands channel that most people have muted until they're ready to sit down and catch up with what everybody else is doing, but I can't imagine a situation where they should be getting notifications in real time about it.
Show HN: We built an AI to create done-for-you Social Media Posts
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In the Era of zstandard, do we really need this?
it's fairly common, at least in the circles i usually dwell in, to call compression ratio "compression _strength_".
bzip3 is _better_ than bzip2 since it uses a better technological model as outlined in one of my replies.
Up until 2021, the TSLA to ARKK correlation of coefficient was 0.9923! [0] I have always seen ARKK being mentioned with TSLA. Aside from it being mentioned in crappy posts that were trying to pump and dump shitty stocks. It is a freaking ETF they have other investments. But it is not your traditional ETF because it is volatile af.

They have bought into hype stocks into bad prices [1]. Roku, ZM, TDOC, CRISPR, SPOT, SHOP, DKNG, RBLX. All of these hype stocks. Very little reasoning behind valuation but they paid for it. ARKK is a terrible terrible metric for anything.

[0] https://www.buyupside.com/alphavantagelive/stockcorrelationc...

[1] https://cathiesark.com/arkk/complete-holdings
Even for those small niche apps for businesses there are a huge number that are unlikely to be doing more than the 10-20 write transactions / second that SQLite can support.
From their own benchmarks it seems more like bzip3 is geared towards a different compression/speed trade-off than bzip2, rather than an unambiguous all-around improvement. Am I misreading it?
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As in they lose money on every loan but make it up in volume?

The irony here is that’s supposed to be a joke and not an actual business plan.
Why would I bake all of those assumptions and limitations into my system though just on the hope it won't ever become a problem
You underestimate how big a role the "cool factor" plays in recruitment. Note how propaganda always focuses on jets and tanks and submarines and aircraft carriers and futuristic gadgets, and when they do feature an soldier it's always a badass tier-one operator who gets to flaunt the uniform code. Seventeen-year-olds don't get so excited about the prospect of burning literal shit in a hole behind some godforsaken checkpoint in Afghanistan until one day an IED takes their leg off.
We are a team of 3 from India & both my co-founders are Data scientists. We have been building this for over a year now.

In our AI Pipeline, we use small parts of OpenAI & the majority is our homegrown AI that makes the image creatives + other available Open Source Models.

How our AI works:

1. You give it a 1-liner text input about your business/products. Or Can link your Shopify/WooCommerce Store and select a product as input.

2. The AI "thinks" of different post ideas that can be published.

3. The AI finds good images from Pexels/Unsplash(copyright-free image sources).

4. It chooses the best image possible and uses that to make an image creative (think Canva operated by a robot filling data in a template :) ).

5. The AI then generates captions, hashtags, etc and completes the post.

6. Obviously, the post is not perfect and needs tweaking. Once you edit/polish, you can directly publish to Instagram and Facebook.

Overall it helps you cut down time spent thinking and making social media content by over 70%. I know there are a lot of AI products generating copy (using GPT-3) - however, very few can make images and entire social media posts like us.

We have a no-cc asked Free trial and it will take 5 mins max to try us out.

We will appreciate your feedback.
mine came out to 9.5%
No, because they are not being enforced strongly enough.
In the EU, or any country with strong privacy protection legislation, data of this sort is a liability.
That's what I took out of it too. Sacrificed a bit of speed and a lot of memory for a smaller output size.

edit: ah, bzip3 is parallelizable, while bzip2 isn't. That alone is enough for me to be able to claim 'faster'.
Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable home server?
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Frankly, after seeing the usual establishment media types cry out they need to control media and general comms, and factoring in how much misinformation they have put out there, I am eager to see what Musk ends up showing us.

I am not saying Musk is right, or will be better, or anything of the kind. No one can know. We shall see.

I am saying having this play out is very high value.
Ask HN: Does anyone here make a living only from internet gigs?
I've a stable career, and get paid decently.

But I don't feel engaged, and feel trapped on meetings etc.

I'm thinking about going full freelance and start with gigs in crypto economy, like hackathons, bounties on gitcoin etc.

Is anyone here making a living this way?
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It's important to choose oil with a low totox value, which indicates low oxidation (= rancidity) status.
Even better is the hypocrisy.

"We value your autonomy! We know studies say happy, autonomous workers perform better!"

Proceeds to stifle autonomy by invading your privacy in whatever way is legal or difficult to prove illegal.
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listen almost only music on youtube. it used to recommend only music i liked, specific to the genres i enjoy even, very nice!.

nowadays i get all kinds of crap. Additionally, if i watch a single non-music video now, I get tons and tons of recommended crap different from what i used to, so it kind of feels like the algo is more sensitive now to drop nonsense on u if u accidentally click some youtube url, or watch a video not related to your usual content.

before, it might recommend such a thing once or twice, and then learn again it's not what i like. now i feel like it's constantly just dropping ads on me (sh*t videos of popular channels i don't care about - ADs.) any opportunity it sees. oh, he watched 2 seconds of some video because he clicked a url on his phone... whole front page becomes full of this type of crap... using other sites and apps now to listen music. Asif the 'are you still watching' on a 3 hour musical mix wasn't stupid enough to constantly be asked...

I am pretty sure if you pay them , it will work better and recommend more suitable stuff. Stupid tactic, because now they lose ad revenue rather than gain subscribers - i think a service which provides good service is worth subscribing too, not a service which is 'only-good-when-you-pay-for-it'. - if that's the case, just put the entire thing behind a paywall and own the fact u've become such an entity...
If only IPv6 "just worked". It's better, but still not quite there.

I've been running IPv6 at home for a couple of years now after replacing my pfSense router with OpenWRT. It mostly works. Every now and then there's an issue and, guess what, disabling IPv6 makes things work again.

Latest one would be Android ignoring IPv4 DHCP DNS setting if Android device has a IPv6 address.
Why do you want to place cameras in your apartment in the first place?

Maybe one camera for the entrance, if you have reasons to be paranoid (I was thinking about it for myself, because of weird landlord with second keys), but why more cameras?

edit: one further reason for myself I remembered, watching the small kids from the smartphone, while going out for some minutes. But in the end I never set it up
> CBOR

Ugggghh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBOR

Negative numbers are encoded in such a way that can express a number than can’t fit into an int64. Undefined can be encoded. Floating point numbers are sent raw, so Infinity, -Infinity, -0, Signalling NaN, other NaN values can be encoded. A horrific choice for a security related API - a security API should never add unnecessary corner cases.

Type 1 encodes negative integers, with a value of −1−count, for values from −2^64 to −1.

The values 20–23 are used to encode the special values false, true, null, and undefined

Short counts of 25, 26 or 27 indicate a following extended count field is to be interpreted as a (big-endian) 16-, 32- or 64-bit IEEE floating point value

Edit: oh god no. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8949.html Epoch-Based Date/Time allows 5 different integer or floating point representations (what to do with NaN numbers unspecified, so t+Infinity and beyond are representable). Tag number 36 is for MIME messages. Read the rest of the RFC for a truely hideous kitchen-sink specification.
You get a replacement if lost or broken. Then re-authenticate and restore from a backup. That's how it's done with iPhones.

And about the police, you destroy or lock your device. If that's not %100 secure, it's OK because that's part of the risks about going against the authority. Can you imagine revolutionaries not revolting because the police might hit back? The risk of being caught by the police is part of the outlaw experience and you will need to actively try to avoid it.
I feel we're discussing a difference in terminology, where to me business card creation sites and Squarespace/Wix are not tools but services.

Case in point, you probably have to order your business card from the site you built it, and you continue paying a monthly/annual fee to Squarespace/Wix once your site is up.

Both tools and services should exist, and there should be something available at every price point. The point I think was just that there are simple ways to build a site if your needs are simple and you're OK with learning how to do it. If you're not there are myriads of other solutions to tend to your needs.
I don't login into youtube anymore. I bookmark the channel or use it via new pipe, I don't discover new channels anymore, I spend less time on youtube these days, good change in my life.
You can click either of these:

- Not Interested.

- Don't recommend channel.

Also, afaik, the sort of videos you complain about had no reason to be disliked much.
Another npm package taken over. Could not verify it, but the person claims that in total 36826 projects depend on it (npm lists 144 direct dependents). Also the "friendly" is editorialized by me to reflect the authors claims.

Package on npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/foreach

Since I editorialized the title (title = mastodon message content, which is too long; also it starts with "I just noticed...", which would be misleading), @dang feel free to edit, or @HN feel free to suggest a better title.
If your education in history is so concentrated in political philosophy I suggest broadening it. You might see that the idea of justified retribution or usually illusory and always cold comfort. If you think maximizing freedom and social flourishing has been a pressing concern you might look to the Mongols, Confucian philosophy or any of the great Muslim empires. Human flourishing they believed in but in an extremely different form to anyone who’s an intellectual descendant of Enlightenment thinkers. Flourishing their way. Freedom, certainly not. There’s a right way to be and we should follow it.

If your first and second paragraphs are consistent I don’t see how. Should you feel like continuing this my email is in my profile.
If you're writing JSX the way you write html, that sounds painful too. Html is low-level. Jsx let's you make a high level language for your markup, composing prebuilt things together. You can actually engineer your markup
> Truthfully, I would release Feetr for free because I believe that it can help people in an economy which is becoming harder and harder to exist in. Not only has investing in Feetr allowed me to quit my job but a few of my beta testers have been able to make more than their monthly salary.

> It's not free because I believe it to be morally wrong for me to be able to invest in Feetr stocks as I have early access to, and total control over, the data. And it's not released as a self hosted service because it would cost at least as much to host, and this way everyone gets the same updates and nobody needs to worry about server management/security.

This was my comment when asked on IndieHackers. And I have used Feetr investing in order to generate the income to quit my job and develop it full time.
Do you prefer the N over the L (ALCAR) form?
I think is fast if you compare with the other products mentioned, I hope they get their shit together (Slack and Teams) and build a real native app that is fast and use a lot less ram.
Has worked for me. I expect that to continue.

Consideration due is consideration given.

Put another way: people care exactly as much as they are cared about.
Nice. I wrote a similar one some time ago, that I need to update for 2022

Your Favorite Programming Language Sucks https://new.pythonforengineers.com/blog/favorite-programming...
MVC requires me to write at least 50% more code than asp.net. That's what I mean by unnecessary. And I'm referring to the "old" mvc model, I haven't bothered with asp.net core mvc.
Apply Lenin's maxim... the banks made it through 2008; in fact Lehmans were really shocked that they got thrown under the bus. The miscalculation was that the authorities would act irrationally in the crisis and let a broker dealer go under. All the banks had tested this with LTCM and were confident that they would get bailed and could collect on both sides. They were mostly right. The lesson for me is that authorities need to act a bit like an old testament god. Some random smiting would change market behaviour significantly, and for the good.
I think the biggest thing holding engineering estimates back is that the people asking for them are actually not interested in accurate estimates; instead they are looking for inputs to be used in various games of corporate politics.
Wow, never heard of them, will check them out, thanks!
In this case, you may be trying to make sense of garbage data. It's not unusual for public health figures in the 3rd world to be off by an order of magnitude. How confident are you that any of the numbers we have for Russia are better than a wild guess?

As for Russian emigration, the portion of society with the money and sophistication to support just up and leaving must be extremely small, and is probably very isolated socially from the rest of the population. So you have two distinct demographics that would poll very differently.
> If he came to the same conclusion, you’ve replicated the original findings. You used the scientific method!

You most certainly have not. You have decided to trust two experts instead of one.

> This should have occurred at every step of the process, and you can (and should!) review the literature to the best of your ability and get it explained to you as throughly as possible.

What if you don't have the ability or expertise to understand the literature? If you're asking for a simplified version then you're just trusting the expert's understanding. (This is a perfectly reasonable thing to do, but still involves a level of trust in the authority of the expert).

Out of interest, do you make sure you understand the science behind bridge technology and the engineering of every single bridge you cross, or do you trust in the expertise of certified bridge engineers?
> Just need software that punishes employees who aren't happy enough at work

Automating the good old “floggings will continue until staff morale improves”.

Though given a choice between that and the utterly cringy gamification¹ that some managers² seem to think doesn't make us want to high-five them in the face with a chair, I know which I'd hate least.

[1] which thankfully seems to be going out of fashion, but it'll be back again soon with a slightly different mask

[2] or “team togetherness and efficiency encouragers” or other fanciful titles they might have
When I was a kid my grandparents would sometimes get me a computer game when I visited. But they had no computer! This meant I could spend the weekend poring over the manual in anticipation.

My favorite was SimEarth (200+ pages and spiral bound as I recall!) but TIE Fighter was great too, since the manual was in the form of a novella.
Yes, and it can't hold it's peg, that's why we are here. So apparently this is not a functioning project that is working (as in "can solve its proposed use-case")
Guys, ok youtube recommendations suck, they may not always have, I don’t know, but does it really matter that much that you need to share your frustration to a community of thousands of tech people?

It’s just a product. You don’t complain online when your brand new sneakers hurt your feet, do you? Especially if you got them for free…

You don’t like youtube recommendation engine, complain to them, not to us.
>I am eager to see what Musk ends up showing us.

Why? We already know what it looks like, we've seen it countless times already on 4chan, Reddit, Parler, Gab, etc. Lack of moderation doesn't lead to greater quality or in-depth intellectual discussion, it doesn't reveal truths suppressed by the establishment, it just creates a cesspool of harassment, trolling and crackpottery.

But sure, let's run the experiment again and maybe this time the results will be different.
Yeah also it just so happens that when I scroll through my feed, I pass by videos I have already seen or where I actively decided NOT to watch them beause they were prompted to me already 20 times or so and I still won't click it. It's to the point where I hit the "I dont wanna see this" button on a video because youtube keeps pushing VERY hard to make me see certain videos. Recommendations are trash. I used to find videos I like to watch within seconds but nowadays its just endless repetetive scrolling and nothing of interest.
It would be nice if they'd also implement it using online banking.

The British version (PayM) isn't used much, but at least you can add a phone number to your own account within normal internet banking, and send money to a number linked to an account without using either side using an app.
I think that's stretching the definition of consumer product to the point of losing its usefulness. A lot of (semi-)automated emergency tech contains seriously dangerous stuff, like explosives or highly toxic materials, and these devices are usually very carefully engineered to keep the risks from using that tech acceptable even under emergency circumstances, and risk tolerance tends to be a lot higher for a device meant to be used in a decompressing plane in the first place. You can't use that oxygen candle outside such a situation, and you can only use it through the extremely constrained user interfaces provided by the yank switch and mask.
It wasn’t meant to be taken so seriously. Yeah I agree, it allows you to build up a higher level tag library of components to use for your layout.

I said that because it seemed like every new product was using react. In my corner of the world, it was all encompassing for front-end engineers. Still kinda is.
One trick so far, but it's a good trick. More tricks are coming.

Right now I'm using it to fund its own development but when it launches, I take all of my money out of stocks and put it into Bitcoin. This is a partial quote from the comments on IH:

> It's not free because I believe it to be morally wrong for me to be able to invest in Feetr stocks as I have early access to, and total control over, the data. And it's not released as a self hosted service because it would cost at least as much to host, and this way everyone gets the same updates and nobody needs to worry about server management/security.
Considering that F-117 was based on thrown out Soviet paper (which was declared to be publishable in the open by Soviets), they migh have at most taken a look at materials used for coating, but the materials weren't that great as F-117 based itself on the shape not absorbing capability of materials...
> If you let your kids laze around and do whatever, they will ignore you when they are 15, and wish they had stricter parents that forced them to do more things growing up when they are 30.

Nah, I'm going to argue that the tendency to laze around, given other viable options, is a personality trait.

Most kids will do stuff they find interesting, given the opportunity to do so.. It's only adults who have had their will to live beaten out of them that laze around-
I don't think that's possible, to recover the true image from the light that's been through the diffraction pattern. It would be like if you were able to resharpen an image that had been passed through a blur filter. You would be reconstructing / creating information that had been lost.
I was thinking - maybe JS is not the way to do this? Maybe to write similar things one should do it in WebAssembly. Thoughts? I mean, even with paused simulations, I don't see why an i7 CPU should be working at 100% just to draw something on a tiny window in a browser. It seems like a flaw in canvas and JS to me.
These are calibration test images. It wouldn't make sense to use software to improve the image before the hardware is well calibrated.
People get surgery every day, does that make the surgical instruments that are used, consumer products?
Go to Russia and have a use for the authorities there, or have a lever/debt of gratitude.

I genuinely don't know where Snowden sits on that - I think he serves as a useful demonstration of the power of Russia and the failings of the US, but obviously know nothing.

On the other hand, a failed crypto bro who has taken oligarch money and can't repay it with interest. I think that is going to be the very definition of a "Russian Holiday".
The single largest hydropower dam in the fucking world could power them... I really don't think you know the scale of the power generation you are eluding to here, energy is a currency for development, there is nothing being developed in the real world with the amount of power that crypto uses. Absolutely nothing.

Compare the real-world value of economies powered by the energy consumption of crypto and let me know if you think that crypto is creating more value for humanity than these countries, I'd love to hear your arguments on that.
How remote work could nix the sick day
As a non-native-english speaker foreign to ML and CV, what does that mean?