skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The essential consideration is that roaring bitmaps are compressed — trading increased CPU overhead per read/write, for lower size-on-disk => more rows fetched per IOP + better cache-coherency. So think of the point where the CPU overhead of compression/decompression for every read/write becomes worth those gains.

Most developers make this kind of judgement every day: when deciding whether to e.g. gzip a file before SCPing it somewhere; or whether to apply e.g. lz4 to the data being written to a KV store like Redis. IMHO that same intuition applies here.

See also: the heuristic Redis uses to decide whether to back a set with a hashtable, vs. a sorted list — sits around 512 elements: https://redis.com/ebook/part-2-core-concepts/01chapter-9-red...

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Mind you, the compression in roaring bitmaps is very efficient, has extremely low start-up costs, and is effectively "random access" rather than streaming; these low costs are why roaring bitmaps are preferred over other compressed-bitmap approaches.

And also, it not like, at small data sizes, even a "large" (hundreds/thousands of ops) CPU penalty would really be much of a penalty, either — because, with small data, you wouldn't be paying it very often! And within a "heavyweight" RDBMS like Postgres, that does a bunch of things when you make a request to it, these sorts of small CPU costs usually get lost entirely under the static overhead of query planning. (Postgres takes advantage of this property in a lot of other ways as well.)

It's only when you're trying to do something at scale, but where dataset size isn't the scaling factor (example: running a core DNS server — trillions of queries, but against only a small amount of data) that a roaring bitmap would be an explicit "wrong choice" vs. a sorted-list or b-tree or hashtable-backed presence set.
+1 on EKS. It's not perfect but we've had an excellent experience building a database-as-a-service on top of it. We run well over 100 clusters and are growing rapidly. Best thing is that we didn't have to get enmeshed with K8s operations and instead focused on the applications on top.
To a certain extent, if the supposed "illusion" is convincing enough it may as well be reality. If it is possible to simulate an individual so completely that it would convince that person's closest friends and relatives of its legitimacy, then in what way is it not that person?
That’s interesting. What kind of selection do you have? There’s a pretty big craze over the Buffalo Trace distillery lately. Their normal bottle - just called Buffalo Trace - is the most bourbon bourbon ever, and what I recommend as a benchmark (even if there are plenty of ‘better’ ones).
Theres just no way Google/Microsoft can catch up to the AWS product, without some significant improvement in distributed systems theory. AWS has had too many years of grinding tens of thousands of engineers to get things perfect. The customer obsession, rigorous on-call, and perfectionist work culture are what make AWS. The corporate culture of MSFT/Google would never allow for the working conditions at AWS and it shows in their respective inferior products.
I know this'll sound daft... Can you share some of this data?

I know there's related studies, like the famous "pick up your kids from daycare on time" study -- and of course plenty of examples about incentive structures gone wrong. However, I think those are different in subtle but important ways.

The point being made here, AFAICT, is that paying more would increase the available pool of candidates. All the people who are currently interested in teaching would surely stick around -- and a lot more people would be interested, too. Given the current issues with hiring and retention, it's difficult to see how that would be a bad thing.
No, the way it works is they don't prescribe to people that need it. Meanwhile, the weekend party people can get whatever they want.

Easy not to look like you're drug seeking when you don't actually need the meds.
but mostly not so much if the person has an MBA.

Sure, it's a gross generalization, but after 25+ years in this industry, I stand by this bigotry.
Resource groups seems awesome, and are nice in some ways, but they are sort of this slippery slope that encourage you to put more into a single subscription than you probably should.
Most people believe that they're the same person who went to bed last night despite all the changes that happened in their brain while they were asleep. They even believe that they'er the same person after a full decade despite the huge differences in behavior and memory that occur after such a large interval!

So yeah, after seeing uploads act the same way as the original they'll end up being treated as the original just like we treat people as the same individual over periods of unconsciousness.

For myself I don't think it's proper to answer questions like these with a binary but rather I prefer to think about how much alike two individuals are.
Very nice. Is it wordpress?
Qdrant: Open-Source Vector Similarity Search Engine
> If you dislike bitter

This is a disagreement over the meaning of "objectively better". To my way of thinking, "objectively better" is something that can be considered to be better without reference to anyone's personal preferences. Sugar is objectively better than arsenic. If you prefer arsenic to sugar there is really something wrong with you. Beyond that there are very few examples of things that are objectively better in the realm of things that humans consume.
>We’re not paid to think but to implement the poorly thought out hare brained schemes from the higher ups who have no clue about programming.

Dunno, when I see loose ends in specification, I report them to analysts with proposals how it should work to be useful for business logic. Well, maybe I am paid to think. What's the profit from doing a shitty job and then suffer from damage you inflicted on yourself?
The OP was clearly saying that the importation of beef into America was causing clearing of the Amazon, when the link is a bit more complicated. Yes, some things are a bit fungible in the world economy, some trade tariffs encourage things like soya from Brazil for food etc. But just nailing the US for it when the EU, Japan, and China is just as culpable is silly.
I guess you had better friends that I did. I had a name "given" me that stuck all through school, and would probably still get mentioned by some of the asshats from back then.
Reveal codes [1] was such a useful feature, I really miss it in 'modern' word processing apps.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPerfect#Reveal_codes
That's fair, I might have to revisit the number input issue. I totally get your complaint. Experimenting with the number input was a learning experience. I built Keenforms with React, and both React and Angular have some strange behaviors related to number inputs.
Nice, but the example is unfair, you can make rect tiling look just as good.
From a quick search (not some verified peer reviewed source deep dive), transportation seems to be about 30% and food 17% of USA household emissions. Calling it 1% is marginalizing the impact people can have with a very simple change.

Also note that buying a different product in the supermarket is an entirely different order of magnitude than changing your life around so that you can cycle to work without less free time / degrading quality of life. I'd argue there's sense to recommending doing low hanging fruit.
I think the biggest issue is that those language models are still very limited by transformer window (2k tokens, each word usually consists of 3 tokens), and there is no visible improvement over this.

Your problem, code base don't fit into 700 words, you have no luck.
Don't forget to pay some of it out as a citizen's dividend so that everyone gets a fair slice of the earth.
Future-Proof Programming Languages
> I plan to create my own custom number input that has its own increment/decrement buttons.

How will you handle users who have javascript disabled?

Why reinvent the wheel? Why not fix whatever problem you have with numeric input?
How do you protect against these kinds of attacks? Layers of shielding/faraday cages?
If truth doesn't matter, it's better to be an ideologue with ideological friends
this looks so great! congrats on the launch!
I think dreams are evidence that consciousness has continuity across sleep.
While I have some sympathy to the author's dissatisfaction with elements of the modern left, I think there's something fundamentally self-defeating about any _political_ movement that begins and ends by insulting its opponents. You don't convince anyone of anything, by calling them dumb, zombies, or evil. This is as true of relations between factions within a party, and between parties (which are factions within a nation). The most basic problem in our civil discourse, is that it is too focused on invective aimed at those with which one disagrees, which is corrosive to any attempt to find consensus on what to do.

Most of the "dumb" opinions held by left, right, or otherwise are held because they are the most opposite one can get from the Enemy, whoever that is thought to be, and getting as far away from the Enemy's position feels like the right thing to do. The solution is to get a healthier opinion about what "those people" believe, and why they believe it. "Dumbening" in the title of the article, is not a great start to that.
They are practical, just not widespread. There is no reason for them to be widespread. One use-case is to obtain data from air-gapped machines that do not connect to the Internet. More broadly, these are for targeted attacks not for dumping JS onto everyone who visits wikipedia.
I guess that means you probably hang out on reddit, lol. Sounds like the sort of thing I'd hear there (and I feel when I'm on there myself).
CS is so much about finding the correct abstractions. Any coder will sooner or later build a rule engine or a subset of a programming language. Thankfully, most of that never ends up in production. The reason other options lack this feature is not that no one else thought about it.
This is great.

After getting burned out of blogging after maintaining my own platform (instead of just writing), something like this is appealing to me.
Too bad for Musk that (1) the risk of inaccuracy of this estimate is highlighted in their SEC filings in which the estimate was mentioned, and (2) Musk explicitly agreed in the acquisition contract any risk identified in the SEC filings cannot constitute a materially adverse event along with waiving due diligence.
> Azure APIs, tools and services get deprecated often

My experience with "new" Microsoft is that they're still learning how to play nice with others.

Not in that they don't want to, but that they're objectively bad at it, because it's not something they're institutionally used to doing.

"Old" Microsoft was "We build what we want, how we want, at the pace we want, and we produce some very polished final docs, and you use what we built how we expect."

Continually iterating on externally facing services owned by a small team, and consumed in arbitrary ways by third parties, is a very different model than the above. We'll see if Microsoft can re-org to the challenge.
I am not saying KYC is not possible - I am saying the requirement that the seller does KYC - such as an invoice with customer details - on every transaction is not possible. Once an NFT is listed for sale through a permissionless contract, there is no way the seller can block a particular buyer, or demand an invoice or their private details before or after the sale. The buyer's tokens may have originated from a KYC-d exchange such as Coinbase or Kraken, but that information is not available to the NFT seller, and this is where the problem is with the OP website.

> The idea that you can pretend that a technical implementation can exempt you the law is so outlandish and absurd that I wonder if you're trolling?

I am not suggesting this exempts anybody from the law, I am suggesting the law is outdated and not compatible with current technology. If the law is that you must handle KYC upon receiving $10K USD in tokens, and an anonymous wallet sends you 10ETH in tokens, you should not automatically become a criminal and have your assets seized because of a law that was written before permissionless blockchain networks existed.
As to the ad-blocker on the payment verification page, it probably just wants to run some third-party JS for fingerprinting, to prevent the free tier being abused. If you can figure out which domains want to set cookies, you can whitelist them in your ad-blocker.
Yeah I also use a simple rss2email utility that I hacked together. Having feeds in my mailbox means I can search/filter and tag them appropriately.

A lot of these online feed-readers have terrible UIs for managing large numbers of feeds, but I guess they allow the same benefit of keeping track of state (read vs. unread) that email also offers.
> instead I have to dig around and either use some tool someone built for the purpose - a tool at the mercy of the walled garden whose wall they're peeking over
I haven't read the Lena story mentioned in the article, or the text below that point, but I have some idea about where this is all headed.

The transphobia we see today in various forms is rooted in the philosophical divide between theism and post-atheism/anatheism. Basically, people are divided between believing in religious texts and institutions, or they're nonbelievers who've experienced psychedelics or similar altered states through events like near-death experiences and had a personal encounter with the divine. It's one thing to believe/not believe, and quite another to experience. Basically, neither religion nor science can explain consciousness, and that drives people crazy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transtheism

The odds of us incarnating in this exact moment at the end of human history are too remote to fathom. In fact, any argument for or against religion quickly ends in absurdism.

But so many outrageous things are coming, and soon. Machine learning that surpasses material human ability by 2030 and mental human ability by 2040. The death of the oceans and most of the natural world between 2050 and 2100. The subjugation of all humanity if wealth inequality isn't reined in. People living 200 years right now, today, as soon as the first head transplant is successful. Brain cells getting gradually replaced by hardware until consciousness is running entirely on an immortal substrate by 2100 at the latest. Everything is converging towards the Singularity in 2050, and more people than ever have awoken to this eventuality, despite decades of gaslighting.

It makes it hard to live and work in the world when deep down we know it's ending. Which gets back to theism, because life up till now was about suffering, loss and eventual recycling back into source consciousness/heaven. Until we rise above and see the broad view of reincarnation and ourselves as snapshots of the universe/God experiencing itself from every possible context. At which point we begin to question things like our situation, our beliefs, our gender, if our mind is us, if our soul/higher self is mortal, and if that's even separate from God.

Transphobia is a backlash against transcendence itself, by people who feel disconnected from love/co-creation/nirvana. They aren't ready for the aliens to arrive. They aren't ready for the aliens to be us.
Yeah why did the Roman empire not advance into electricity/steam power? All the precursor elements were there such as metalworking. Did they just not have a network of smart nobles with leisure time to tinker? Are universities required for that? Referring to likes of Newton, Leibniz, Faraday, Maxwell, etc.
Just in case anybody forgot, there is a free version of Wordperfect for Linux (non-commercial use only).

https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/80768.html
Some more anecdata. More than one obese person I know does really psychologically feel like missing a meal is incredibly dangerous, not just for themselves, but also for their children and friends. It is not just a worry, but a real panic attack that sets in if this threatens to happens.

The aggro-food industry has been relentlessly aiming for maximal consumption/addiction in an epic Darwinian race to the top for decades. The results are incredible. Every aspect of that simple bag of crisps has been tuned to maximize recurring consumption. Hacking into the gut biome for behavior control has been trial and effort so far, but is bound to take a next revolutionary step as predictive models emerge to steer the research.

And do not count on regulators to defend your sanity. They've been captured to the core. Good luck.
If everyone did it, it would mean double digit percentages in reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. And they are two things everyone can do today and is actually actionable. Native plants have far more benefits than just carbon capture. And by the way, decomposing organic waste in landfills emits methane, which is several more times potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. So yes, it matters.
I have used both AWS and Azure, and ended up settling with Azure. The services all seem to hang together much more cogently. The service ecosystem also seems to move slower and feels less experimental, which is a positive when I am faced with supporting enterprise solutions.

Regarding support, I have found Azure support to be very good, albeit I subscribe to paid support. For those who claim AWS support is better than Azure support, are you paying for a service plan or are you referring to free tier support?
Three-quarters of UK adults can’t read a map
Doesn't have to be open source no, feel free to submit and we'll add it!
TiBA – open-source ledger for problems and or solutions
TiBA is short for The idea Bank. It is implemented as a short form that allows one to highlight a problem or offer a solution. Respondents will have the chance to fill in their contact details in case someone else would like to contact them for more information or work with them as co-founders. You can use TiBA as a starting point (speaking to users, applying for funding opportunities, building the product) for your entrepreneurial journey by either trying to solve one of the problems mentioned or executing on one of the ideas. You can also use TiBA as an outlet for a problem you are facing either personal or institutional. Finally, one can use TiBA to find co-founders
Have you tried nutritional ketosis to reduce your need for medication?

https://www.virtahealth.com/reversediabetes
The game is rigged against netflix? one of the most elite and well capitalized companies in the world?
Sure, if you're the kind of person that thinks more broadly about the world and its history. For everyone complaining about a sh*t job today, there was working in a meatpacker circa 1905 to make you not complain now. But most people just compare themselves to the Joneses right now.
thanks so much. I totally plan to post SHOW HN for some of these other forms. I love the "excel for developers". I think that's a great tagline.

The haters are fine. I'll take constructive criticism, as well as accept negative attention. All press is good press right?
Honestly, just be happy to be making good money and try to leave the rest at work. Other industries aren't better. You'll constantly be chasing a unicorn.

I can definitely relate but am in a different industry. So starting a start-up. But still have the other job. Until the start-up makes money or at least is enough to get some funding.
This very much requires acceptance of the worse-is-better model. That "beautiful" drawing of an an astronaut riding a horse is aesthetically... crap. It may take a person 5 hours to paint or draw that, but, arguably, a person wouldn't.

GPT-3 might generate a novel, but, generally speaking the prose is jarring and awful to read, because there is no intent (danger: philosophically loaded word) behind it. It's all automated collages and they all feel... cheap.

The world is beginning to discover that polyester isn't very good. It's bad for the skin, bad for the environment, and terrible for human health in general (microplastics generated from washing polyester give a medium for increases in algal blooms in coastal waters... etc.). It is cheap, but we're going to figure out it isn't good, and stop making or buying it (I hope).

DALL-E and GPT-3 are the polyester of design and creative construction. They're cheap; aesthetically uncomfortable. We'll turn to humans for high-quality design until we actually get AGI, and those systems are not a path to AGI.
The uploaded person movement will compare uploadaphobes to transphobes, just like the trans movement compares transphobes to homophobes just like the LGBTQ movement compares homophobes to racists, etc. You will become an advocate for uploaded people just as soon as they get around to it. Please tell me you're not an uploadaphobe!

Ok more seriously, are you saying that chips and plastic being a human is the same thing as a man being able to transition into a woman? I thought I would be able to make you transhumanists finally realize how absurd the whole brain uploading thing was by taking it to the most extreme politically, but apparently I was not able to and perhaps they will be enormously successful with this movement and we'll all be replaced by robots and anyone who speaks out against it will be banned from social media.
Fart Stack
Yeah, great filter is just one of those things that tries to explain why we don't see signs of alien life everywhere we look in the cosmos. Everything looks dead. Why? Maybe life is incredibly hard to take off and even with a bazillion planets, a chance of 0.0000000000001% might mean we really are alone in the galaxy. A different one is that life is incredibly common, but developing sentience is so rare that we're the only ones. These are the better options as we're already past these hurdle. What if it's incredibly common for sentient life to evolve that makes machines and all the things we do, yet the entire galaxy still seems dead? Well that would be very bad for us as it means there is a big "filter" ahead for us. Perhaps there are millions of dead civilizations amongst the cosmos that died from solar disruptions, gama ray bursts, asteroids, climate change, nuclear Armageddon, or a superior alien species bent on the eradication of all other life?
Would this still work if full-disk encryption were enabled on the victim machine?
How did REST come to mean the opposite of REST?
Yes, open to contributors!

I would say checkout PyO3 to learn more about how you can marry Python with Rust code. It is an awesome project.
I am not a fan of the ever increasing state surveillance of private transactions, so don't expect a justification from me.

Presumably €10,000 is the trade-off value which the member states decided would be sufficient to make an impact on money laundering without imposing too much bureaucracy on small transactions.

> Why should the people follow these insane rules?

I don't necessary like them, but AML 4/5/6 are well-reasoned Directives that were written and negotiated in public and agreed on by all member states. They didn't receive much pushback during their drafting periods. If anything, leaks like the Panama Papers have made them popular.

As for why people should follow the law, that should be obvious. The state won't leave you alone to transact as you wish. Compliance failures lead to civil and criminal sanctions.

> In the us this is potentially unconstitutional unless it is interstate trade.

Fortunately, the EU is not in the US.
Corporatism isn't the only one out there who would find such technologies useful. Besides, in this Judeo-Christian religious context there are many warnings from the Bible around such consumerism.