skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But (file) compression doesn't hurt the quality! At least not compared with post-production.

An entire generation of music sounds like crap BOTH before AND after compression with mp3.

e.g. Recent RHCP or Metallica records are squashed to hell if you whether you are listening to them on 1411 kbps CD or 128 kbps MP3.

I'm not as familiar with image production, but if you think 100 KB is too small, then 200 KB is likely fine, and it's still many times smaller. Or make it 500 KB -- it depends highly on the image.

I think the problem is that the way to use compression effectively is unfortunately not common knowledge and not really documented (maybe someone here has a good link)
Oh boy, oh boy… First of all, stop listening to Joe Rogan, Gary Vee, and other professional bullshitters.

Quit the “hustle grindset” bullshit, and learn humility.

Finish your studies, and make sure you’ve actually learned something.

Then get a job, work for at least five years. Learn your field, and look for an opportunity or unserved niche that you can make money from. Convince a bunch of friends whom you trust, and create a product that clients are willing to pay for.
If I did that I'd have no harddrive space left due to how large python dependencies are.
3D print tabletop game pieces. Lots of tabletop games use cards. Having physical pieces adds a nice touch.
This article made me _really_ curious what manner of awesomeness is going on at Two Sigma, but couldn't figure it out from the website. @spf13, any pointers on where to find a good article on why TS is cool?
https://pdodds.w3.uvm.edu/files/papers/others/2011/lagi2011a...

See Fig 2. Note how tight the correspondence is between FAO Food Price Index >= 190 per "constant prices", i.e. cost of food adjusted for inflation, and the emergence of civil unrest.

There is a certain level of desperation necessary to spark revolution. Food prices seem to predict unrest remarkably well in MENA countries per the study linked above. Maybe our experience in "developed" nations is so well-padded with infrastructure and consistent resupply that we are simply not enough in want. The hungry can usually find enough food to survive, because there's so much accessible excess, whether by theft or charity.

A writer at Statista provides an update for 2022 since the invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent effect on food prices around the world: https://www.statista.com/chart/27110/food-prices-political-i...
"Cilagicin is still far from human trials."

But still, great news.
Humans are the longest living land mammals, beat only by whales. The bowhead whale is estimated to live to 200 years. And it's a huge animal.
I conceptually like Matrix, but in practice it has been a lot of pain. A project I participate in bridges Matrix and Discord, which arguably combines the advantages (I can go onto Discord to share an Image when Element freezes yet again, for instance ...).
My understanding is that in the vast majority of these mass shooting cases, authorities are well aware of the danger but there's no enforcement mechanism for "probably going to do a mass shooting".
Hmm, if Intel is getting massive subsidy to build the fab, may be they should be required to give FRAND access to chip companies that may be looking for TSMC alternatives.
I'd be too fat from all that icecream.
It took me 1 second to determine the reason, so your post is disingenuous at the very least. You bought ads to steer people into your chatbot page serving ads, where you can talk to a "boyfriend", or "step mom" with default prompt being "Please don't tell daddy about this...".

It takes 2 (TWO) prompts for "step mom" chatbot to try get into my pants.

>It would probably be easier if I could just take it off you

Hilarious!

Great product, especially if you manage to combine it with some sort of imagegen. But you can not expect to serve Google ads on this, or buy google ads for it.
Of course demand for groceries delivered in 15 minutes for the same price as you going to get them yourself is there. Add in the true costs, remove the VC subsidy, and see how well demand holds up.
that's interesting : Teams has worked far better for us
degrowth is a movement currently and a worthy one.

Answer this question : How many common things around your house do you use weekly, monthly or maybe a few times per year? How many other houses on the block have the same things? How much waste went into allowing you the comfort of using that when you want.

Would it be much less comfortable to have to "check it out" from a neighborhood tool-shed? What about instead of owning a 3d printer, the neighborhood tool-shed was a warehouse with bikes, tools, a maker space, cleaning supplies, perhaps even ATVs, and riding lawnmowers, etc.

Sure you'd have to logically create 'centers' around town close enough to walk, or have a neighbor maybe deliver if you're elderly or something, but there's convenience in having more options if you don't have a specific tool and only need it once.

You might need an HOA-type fee to pay people to take care of the equipment, etc.

Now that you don't need your own tools, lawn mower, 3d printer, printer, atv, weed whacker, you find you could've done without even having a garage, maybe we can start building smaller homes that are cheaper to heat or cool and with less environmental impact.

Nice to haves:

- Some sort of share/rental thing maybe for the atv's, and boat/rv storage.

- Commercial kitchens and space for community get together's, I grew up in the 80s and we knew our neighbors back then. I haven't known a neighbor since the 90s, unless it was from work, school, or a roommate back in college. It might be nice to have potlucks, or cooks from the neighborhood could show off their talents maybe with a tip-hat.

Perhaps some people don't cook much at all, and just prepare quick dinners in the commercial kitchen space for their family, and decide they don't even need much in terms of appliances in their kitchen.

My point is we've been conditioned to think we all need to own so much shit, when really we don't and there was a time when you needed something you'd borrow or trade with a neighbor.
This is the correct answer (to whatever the question was). I'm no great connoisseur (see my reply re: Walmart instant), but Starbucks is convenient, consistent and acceptable. And I generally like the people who work there as well.
People miss the most direct application of language model based AI, IMO - a ton of sales and CSR jobs are fundamentally numbers games following a script with escalation paths, with the existing scripts targeted at cutting your losses because man-hours are expensive. That's the kind of thing that you actually can get a large amount of training data for (for instance because existing interactions are recorded and transcribable) and an implementation opens up a lot of value because the calculus flips - it becomes worthwhile to pursue increasingly marginal opportunities because suddenly your time is cheap.
I was initially going to disagree that copywriters get paid in the same range as scientists, but the numbers in the US are roughly similar from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Indeed.

-Indeed average copywriter annual pay [0] is $54,998 USD, versus a staff scientist's [1] at $69,091 USD

-BLS median copywriter pay for 2021 [2] was $69,510 USD, versus a medical scientist's [3] at $95,310 USD

I'm surprised that the median annual salary difference is only roughly $15,000 to $25,000 USD in favor of working as a scientist, considering the additional years doing a Master's/PhD, whereas copywriter jobs often don't need even a Bachelor's. In addition, I would've guessed that the median copywriter salary would have been far lower, as my perception was that there is a far greater supply of candidates for copywriter jobs than scientist jobs in the US (maybe this is offset by fewer scientist positions?). Alternatively, maybe the numbers are missing important contextual information in some way.

[0] https://www.indeed.com/career/copywriter/salaries

[1] https://www.indeed.com/career/staff-scientist/salaries

[2] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/media-and-communication/writers-and-...

[3] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/life-physical-and-social-science/med...
> It's not quite China yet,

I'd call it a decentrailized surveillance system --- very robust against any attempt to dismantle it.
Do Schumer/Cornyn have a nice Intel position assumed in the past year or so?
Who buys your carrots? Once you are capable of selling a carrot to every person on earth, how do you increase your sales?

No matter how cheap and easy it may be to produce carrots, there’s a limit to how many may be sold (and its less than “to every person on earth”).

And ever increasing money spent on carrots is what our growth economy is built upon.

The analogy goes further, when you're technologically capable of producing carrots in the billions, where does the money go? Specifically, how much of it goes into the hands of people who don't own companies, and their investors (aka the 99% of the population)?
Being 31 years old doesn't preclude having a decent, official and reproducible way of installing packages in 2022. That's just a bad excuse to justify subpar package managers and terrible governance around this problem.

Package management is pretty much a solved problem, no matter how old is your language. It smells to an outsider like me like a lot of bike-shedding and not enough pragmatism is going on in Python land over this issue. Has a new BDFL stepped up after Guido left?
First Transcontinental Railroad and Stanford forever linked
Yeah, wow, exaggerations everywhere ! Very distasteful.
His LinkedIn profile says:
"I’m responsible for taking Go Language, Docker and MongoDB from niche technologies to widespread mainstream enterprise adoption."

W O W, really ?
See also: Hungarian notation (apps vs system)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation
> > - pip freeze

> all this does it just lists currently installed packages in a form that can be automatically read by pip

Are you referring to version specifiers[1] being optional or is there something more to versions that I don't understand? PEP 440 is a wall of text, maybe I should get around to reading it sometime.

[1] https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/glossary/#term-Versio...
That kingpin design is really for extreme overclocking and is about ensuring best possible signal integrity. Hence why it also only has 2 ram slots. But it demonstrates what's possible. In reality the RAM barely needs any cooling anyway and if you really care you can get one of those clip on fan brackets like this https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Accessorie...
Ask HN: Favorite IoT Fleet Management Tool/Service
I am looing for a suitable fleet management service - the application in use right now is Balena, but for my very little and cheap devices it is just too expensive. I mostly need OTA updates and the ability to update the core OS (rasobiaN). I also took a look at ubuntu core, easy to install and I guess I could build a service page myself that logs in, deploys a docker and so on ... are there any similiar services out there I missed (saw google, ms, dell, ibm, particle, fracctal ...)?
They fixed it: https://github.com/docker/hub-feedback/issues/2257
This is absolutely the case, except you don’t need an empty battery to cause a high pitched tweeter sound and shutdown. Just having the charger connected to battery and charging while playing at any level above 5 will cause a shutdown. The charger connected by itself will cause speaker to shutdown with a high pitch sound always after 5. Also causing the battery to fail afterwards.
Based on:

>but also I gotta have my "expert on topic talks to me about interesting thing" content.

You should absolutely be listening to podcasts. This is literally the main strength of the format. What do you mean you "never know how to play them" ?

Whichever phone you have there will be abundant free podcast players in the app store, you can look up and subscribe to their feeds and listen through that. Longform interviews or conversations on every topic imaginable.
》Hopefully with the EU's DMA this will change.

Does it enforce unified communication protocols allowing the good old Trillian days?
surveillance doesn't seem to do much to deter crimes, it just makes investigation easier
"...we change direction to reshape society, to become more ecological, more sustainable etc." This is literally what the criticized growth-focused system is doing: from recycling waste into new products to carbon-capture technology, sustainable polymers and much more, made and done with private equity.
> Looks like my atheism is is worse than smoking, who knew.

It's plausible that the faith-based stuff is just a decent proxy for actually having a functional community and community support.
We're not talking about centrally-developed distributed applications; we're talking about services that tell you to talk to other services. Services that could very well be developed by other people/organizations, years earlier or later. In fact, services that might very well be "plugins", in the sense that those URLs are user-supplied content from the perspective of the API. (Think: permalink URLs from user-supplied RSS feeds, in the responses of an RSS feed-reader API. Or image URLs, hotlinked in an oldschool phpBB forum. Or RDF vCards.)
Thanks a lot for the insight. I wish, I had read your comment before reading the article so could have saved some time.
But they say you should use chrome. Ironic.

(Should work in chrome too)
I would suspect it was already being done (in part, or in whole who knows) and the attacks were an excuse to "legitimize" it going forward.
You can order one from Amazon, use for 10 days and send back full money back guarantee.
He’s trying to run out the clock on his financing commitments.
First thing I thought of, 7 years old and more prophetic by the day: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

It's only a matter of time. Five years, twenty - we need to prepare for mass unemployment.
That is a heck of a sales pitch, my friend.
Just migrated to Firefox from Edge Chromium last night.

I know it will "burn" me one day but having the first one being Snapchat for Web makes me feel a little good.
This is not even close to reality in the US.
Zoning laws and various regulations mean that attempting to live like it is 1920 will eventually get you locked up in jail and your property condemned after you are fined to death. Assuming you can afford any property as our government has allowed corporate and foreign interests as well as excessive immigration to inflate property well past the ability of the average 1920 man to afford.
The trouble with big-everything is that they are indeed the big players, and therefore heavily invested in the status quo, and are the ones with power and influence. They don't want to fix things we see as problems, because they're doing just fine thank you.

Another instance of "Fuck you, I've got mine".
This is some nice theory.

In practice there are dozens of players bidding on infrastructure assets globally. The assets tend to be easy to model, easy to finance and hence finance types (like all the PEs, pension funds etc) love them.

Here is a starting point:

https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/pe-most-active-investors...

https://www.peievents.com/en/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/30_1...

https://docs.preqin.com/newsletters/ra/Preqin-RASL-August-16...

No one bidding on these assets is giggling about how much money they are going to make. They are thinking "we are bidding a lot here, these returns don't look so hot, how can we justify this??" and then praying their projections aren't off on the downside. At least, in the first world. There does appear to have been some shady dealings in Russia, Mexico etc in the 90's.
My maternal grandparents are in their mid 90s and my paternal grandmother lived to 97 (minus one week).

My maternal grandfather's 8 siblings are alive - save for one who died in a car accident.

One thing they all have in common is that they survived a war which took 15% of the population of this country at the time. Generations after them didn't have nearly the same life expectancy.

This is all anecdata, but perhaps there's some selection bias contributing to the result here.
yeah but the ML of tomorrow will write all of the code
My bet is you didn't gather that one of the blue zones is Loma Linda California.
This however is a pretty recent phenomenon, I think, as a result of rushing to the extremes. I suspect this position will be moderated soon, though with current toxic political climate, it may take a bit for things to cool off so that such things would not be seen as "ceding ground to them".
History is replete with fallen civilizations, lost civilizations, and civilizations we barely know exist. There are likely many who rose and fell and who we are wholly unaware of.

So no, growth is not inevitable, especially if you turn the livable atmosphere unlivable.
Yes, but to my surprise the "compound scaling" provides 3x more improvement in their ablation study. Also, I don't understand Table 8 in their ablation study for aux heads, specifically: why does it have different base benchmark values from Tables 6 and 7?
I don't think that was the entire point. But who cares? Loose coupling is of little benefit to the client in a client-server pair that are implemented by the same company (which presumably Fielding wasn't picturing). There are other benefits people get from REST. Semantically understandable APIs, handlers that do one thing, predictable interfaces (this is close to as valuable as discoverable imo). I don't really get your point re: casuistry. The implementation of REST as practiced by the industry is largely pragmatic. The article appears to be arguing for REST purity.
It doesn't need the full SemWeb treatment to work. All it needs is a reasonable descriptive language such as SIREN [1] along with Web Link Relations list the IETF maintains already.

1. https://github.com/kevinswiber/siren
I've always considered Pike Place Roast the worst beans that Starbucks ever foisted upon their trusting customer base; the fact that it's the only one brewed all day is an affront to decency (but that's just me). The best is Christmas Blend.
Do you have a link to the ML reporting?
I don't particularly want to "mess with sandboxes", but I do want my builds to be relatively fast, correct, reproducible, extendable/customizable, with bonus points for being secure (meaning a compiler shouldn't be able to tamper with parts of the output it has no business tampering with) and more bonus points for supporting distributed builds and/or distributed caching

If someone wanted to make a new build system to compete with bazel and have those kinds of features, it's probably a safe bet the competing system would use some kind of sandboxing as well

Even if you ignore everything else, just the security part is a big deal: supply chain attacks are an increasingly big concern for companies of all sizes. If your build system allows any script invoked during any part of build process to secretly read or modify any input or output file, hackers are going to love it.

Almost all tech companies (even the multi-billion dollars ones) that aren't doing something in the spirit of `bazel build` to generate their binaries have wide open, planet-sized security holes in their build systems where if you get one foot in the door you can pretty much do anything.
Master class in marketing and manufacturing desire!
Voice is the killer feature. Channels, not calls! Matrix doesn't have that yet and I'm not confident the new feature will actually be good.

As silly as Discord is in some places with all its ads and artificial limits, Element is glitchier, even slower and has even weirder UX choices, which I tend to find more impairing. As far as I know Discord also has better integration with other tools (bots for Github and Jira).

That makes it more suitable for professional use in my book - as long as you don't mind compromising on privacy and availability, but it's the same deal as with any other SaaS.

From an idealistic perspective I like Matrix and dislike Discord, of course, but the usability differences are hard to ignore.
Let's avoid giving them an acceptable reason to lock up anyone they want because they claim they're going to commit a crime.
Yeah, see my other comment here, but you make a good point about the definition of "owned" - it can't just be a name, it has to be a legally binding level of control over the operation s and finances. Unfortunately there's not really any standard metric for that which is enforceable.

Claiming a preference can be fraud, and is often abused, but... in reality, nobody's really checking unless there's a justifiable reason to. Not that I'm endorsing such fraud, and you're right, 51% is usually the safe way to go, but many LLC type setups don't have any easy way to help determine that. It's really quite time consuming and intrusive to determine "control" as the person writing or signing the contract. It's very much based on the assumption of honesty, unless there's some clear indication otherwise (and yes, due diligence is performed and documented, at least to some extent - it isn't just a Google search for "companies that sell widgets near me").

For an extreme example, I won't know that a company is a sweatshop using undocumented drug addicted children if their representations and warranties documentation says they don't.
> poor record keeping...

If I may posit an idea. It's not that poor record keeping leads to blue zones.

It's that not caring about the trivialities of paper pushing and imaginary rules that current Western governments use to exert their power, helps one live longer.

Now why do guys like you and me know what a land registry is? Is this essential to our survival, in the hunter-gatherer sense of the word? No. What are we then?
My takeaway is: if an air-gapped system is compromised, just assume all data on it is at high risk of exfiltration.

I won't be surprised if even the power connection becomes a future (unintended) means of data transmission.
Interestingly, my GF asked me a few hours before if I knew (I did in fact not) that users get a notification when you screenshot their stories from Instagram.
Are you aware of any physical process that operates in that way?
I'm on the other side of the fence - I believe they can store all they need to. Backdoors into Google, AWS, and others were strongly hinted at if not fully exposed with all the leaks back in the Snowden days, so US Agencies may not even need to store some of the bulky stuff. But given the vast size and number of datacenters operated by US agencies, it seems likely they have a LOT of storage capacity. http://worldstopdatacenters.com/government-data-centers/
was specifically commenting on the "magic" import system
I know this is a joke but if you'd like to see inside their data center, there's a nice video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eo8nz_niiM
Actually remember reading that a number of studies have linked short stature with heart disease. I’m not up-to-date on the latest research on this. But whether shorter or taller you do the best you can with the factors within your control - nutrition, exercise, sleep, etc. Anecdotally two friends’ fathers in elementary school died way prematurely, both quite short of stature.
I suspect the intelligence agencies are still in absolute surprise that all their hard work was for nothing and everyone will happily tell Facebook, Google, et al everything with no prodding at all, and all they have to do is slurp it up.
yeah that’s a good reason, though it sounded like one should never do that. I believe the majority of small and medium enterprises are ok with a single bill, so putting all services in one subscription is fine. Logical organization can be done via resource groups.