skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One theory is if its free, more people might hop on the bus and use it for a block or two since they know its free and they don’t have to keep up a current transit pass. This basically catches the car users who might occasionally use transit but aren’t familiar with the pass system as it is. Free fares aren't even so much for low income people, as at least in my city low income people already have their fares subsidized. The more people using transit the more likely ballot initiatives pass even if they only occasionally use transit.
> As a parent, I think it’s perfectly reasonable to expect event organisers to have put adequate safeguards in place.

Literally everyone thinks that. Who is going to say that they expect event organisers to put inadequate safeguards in place? The issue is that things can go wrong even with adequate safeguards. Life be risky.

> We don’t need to put kids in front of a bear to teach them about the wonders of nature. Likewise, they don’t need to be in the path of a dangerous robot to discover machines.

Attempting to kill kids does seem like a bad strategy. But if you want them to learn about nature, they will actually have to go out into nature. And that'll be a lot more risky than this robot - nature is not safe either.
CHAR_BIT != 8 on a lot of systems: https://stackoverflow.com/q/2098149/7509065
There are plenty of us of faith who like to overthink things. Amongst philosophers of religion, those who professionally spend a lot of time overthinking things, you'll find an abundance of theists. While many of the questions they consider are not scientific in nature (just like, for example, questions about mathematics are not typically scientific questions), beliefs should still be compatible with the known facts.

So, bring it on :)
You are describing Marxism, but we live in a capitalist society, where it is seen as okay for companies to make a profit. Also, this is basically just victim blaming. I’m not saying it’s right that highly skilled people are paid so much less outside of the US, I’m simply pointing it out, because a lot of people don’t realise it. There are a lot of Americans who move to Europe and are shocked at how little they are compensated. Americans should be aware of this before moving, and so they can also get a global picture of wages
fusion has better marketing in the marketplace of the uninformed. "Harnesses the power of the sun" vs "nuclear bombs"

I'm sure the greens will try and tear it down it if it ever comes to commercial viability and start calling it thermonuclear power or some nonsense.
Weird, the only item I've ever bought on AMZN is a physical out-of-print book which I thought was the one thing left over from their startup phase where they got book stores behind and which they got right.
When does it make sense to use lzop (or the similar but more widely recommended LZ4) for static storage? My impression was that it was a compressor for when you want to put less bytes onto the transmission / storage medium at negligible CPU cost (in both directions) because your performance is limited by that medium (fast network RPC, blobs in databases), not because you want to take up as little space as possible on your backup drive. And it does indeed lose badly in compression ratio even to zlib on default settings (gzip -6), let alone Zstandard or LZMA.
So you are saying its cooling strategy is to make the device slower for the user so it can cook itself until the ball joints on the CPU fail? Great design.
If I say "you distribute revenge porn"

Twitter doesn't say that, it's, again, pretty clearly spelled out in the policy. The leap from 'our system thinks this looks like revenge porn' to 'you are accused of a crime' doesn't seem to be based on anything beyond umbrage and repetition. Neither of these things make it true, though.
I think we're arguing over terminology. But "it takes resources to create" is not the same thing as "it stores those resources." That's the whole misconception with Bitcoin. It takes a lot of resources to make one and that value is lost forever, instead of being used on something productive.
Do you think I’m defending the lack of compensation?
Here is some evidence:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7014832/
LZO has been around for 25 years if that helps.

I've also used it especially when resources are constrained (low performance CPU, ram, or when executable size really matters)
To me, this is a leading indicator that Amazon's ecommerce side will falter. When I look at the reviews for an item, some reviews are high and people are happy, and other people have terrible experiences that doesn't even seem to be for the same item. I think it's because of this issue, where Amazon lets 3rd seller to claim that they have inventory for something.

I really don't trust Amazon for a lot of things now, and would rather go directly to the seller on their site. Especially now that I've gotten older, I just want less stuff but with higher quality.
this has some serious problems in the analysis. First of all, about half of the earth's crust is under an ocean. Second, of the remaining half, it is on average about 10 miles deep. There is no way that digging up 10 miles of rock to get to some scattered uranium atoms is net positive from an energy perspective. The deepest mines in the world are 2.5 miles under ground, and is in a location with a very high concentration of gold. Most of the uranium in the earth's crust is at concentrations of less than 1 part in 1 million, and one ton of uranium can only (being maximally optimistic) lift 1 million tons of rock by about 1 mile, so any uranium lower than that (not in a major vein) will produce negative energy to mine. Also, just because it's technically net energy positive, doesn't mean it's efficient at all. If we want mining to be at least somewhat efficient, we will only be getting roughly 1/3rd of that (since by the time you are lower, you will be losing too much energy to be cost competitive).

This very basic analysis suggests that your link is off by at least a factor of 100, which doesn't inspire much confidence in their results.
Allow me to suggest, in all seriousness, American government is not so different.
> I still think there is a place for a streamable, concatenable archive format with no builtin compression, plus an index sidecar for it when you want to trade streamability for seeking (PDF does something like this within a single file.

I wholeheartedly agree! That use-case is not currently covered by any widely known OSS project AFAIK.
There is no specific team for easter eggs. They are implemented by random engineers.
I routinely distribute a ~5meg .xz (~20meg uncompressed) to 20k+ servers across multiple physical data centers on a regular basis. Haven't seen a single failure. It ends up being 1.85megs smaller than the tgz version. Unless someone comes up with a better solution (ie: smaller), I probably won't change that any time soon.
I think that’s challenging to achieve if you also want the robot to play well under time pressure.

Even if you manage to build an actuator that can grab a piece quickly but can’t break anything, the required rapid movement of the arm still can break things.
include is with regards to the source platform, not the target platform
la, you (generally) need a filesystem to compile, but you don't need a filesystem to run what you compiled
https://archive.ph/lOOXg
University of Miami's Music Engineering program is the most prestigious in the US for undergrad. Frost's Jazz environment is also excellent with numerous awards and great faculty.

The CS side kinda stinks but it's not hard to find a job in the music tech world with a degree from Miami. The alum network will open doors.
This means that you will need another comparison, if any. For other people it totally makes sense to restrict the comparison to products where you can install the operating system you want.
> I think I've seen reference that Amazon makes an author have an exclusive with their print-on-demand

I haven't heard anything like this for print books (print on demand or otherwise).

There might be some "exclusivity" like aspect for eBooks that are part of the kindle "unlimited" subscription service, but you can opt out of that and distribute on other platforms, n.p. One thing they require is that you use the same "list price" on all distribution channels.
Having to learn new things throughout your career isn't ageism.
Often Amazon is more expensive or the same price as other retailers.
> AGI alignment is a vastly bigger problem

But also far less likely to happen anytime soon. A bigger danger is when someone thinks a machine is sentient or "semi-conscious" (whatever that means) and naively uses it to do tasks it shouldn't.
What's the risk? It's not like we run out of wind and sunshine anytime soon. Please don't answer that sometimes neither the sun shines nor the wind blows, because we already know that we'll need storage for a carbon free system.
Sugar is not even in a comparable realm. By every measure, sugar is worst than any non-sugar sweetener.

Modern medical consensus is that added sugar should be avoided as much as possible.
Content ID is just a way to do the claims. You could still do illegitimate claims just fine without it (on TikTok too)

What DMCA says is that the service provider has to take the content down and forward the claim to the uploader. It does not really provide any leeway about trying to figure out if the claim is legimate or not. It is up to the party who uploaded the content then to dispute it.
Ask HN: How to put soft skills to use as an early SDE
I’m 4 years into my career and am learning my way through being an engineer. My managers have repeatedly given me feedback that I have pretty good communication skills which will cone in handy at senior levels. I want to know how all I can put it up to use at this level of my career too. I’ve thought abt tech blogs but I worry I dont know enough to write interesting things. Any other ideas..?
It's the way how wild animals live. Strong eats weak. That's it.

The wilderness of Russia should be apparent to everyone nowadays.
This is not Apple versus Vodafone/Telekom, it's Vodafone/Telekom vs. EU citizens. The EU has already made the big move to just outlaw roaming charges within the EU, which was a mayor revenue stream for the carriers, for example.
I don't buy books much, but it's definitely an issue with electronic tools. Scales, calculators, heart rate and oxygen monitors, computer accessories, or really anything with cheap electronics that aren't _too_ complex and sells well is counterfeited. If you can find the components on tindie, then they can likely find them mass-produced and cheaper, and if it sells well and makes sense to have someone design a copy and manufacture it then they're going to. Whether it ends up on Amazon specifically is a different question. Typically it's a matter of when and how long, not if.

Obviously this becomes an issue with tools because unless it's an exact copy being made in the same factory (which does happen with outsourced Chinese products and this is typically when you'll see /almost/ exactly the same product with 10 different listings and 10 different brand logos on them), it doesn't have the R&D and QA that the original product has. Even if they are made in the same factory, they don't necessarily have the same quality, latest software, or warranty of the original. Where the American company that outsourced that oxygen meter may have opted for the medical grade, consumer-safe plastic and tests each batch, the counterfeiters are happy to use the cheapest materials they can find, which are at best only lower-quality, and not actively unsafe. Counterfeiters make money through active deception, and money is the goal, so they will _never_ pay for the best materials and tech. If they can source the metal made with lead for 5% cheaper than the non-leaded equivalent, it's not even a question. They are going for the cheaper option, because that's 5% more profit.
why are you booing? you know i'm right.
> couldn’t you argue that that needs to be solved at a lower level

Self-referentially incorruptible data is the standard to beat here, moving the concern to a different layer doesn't increase the efficiency or integrity of the data itself.

It is arguably less efficient, as you now rely on some lower layer of protection in addition to whatever is built into the standard itself.

It is less flexible - a properly protected archive format could be scrawled on to the side of a hill, or more reasonably onto an archive medium (BD-disk), and should be able to survive any file-system change, upgrade, etc. Self-repairing hard drives with multiple redundancies are nice, but not cheap, and not wide-spread.

It also does nothing for actually protecting the data - I don't care how advanced the lower level storage format is, if you overwrite data e.g. with random zeros (conceivable due a badly behaving program with too much memory access, e.g. a misbehaving virus, or a bad program or kernal driver someone ran with root access, also conceivable due to EM interference or solar radiation causing a program to misbehave), the file system will dutifully overwrite the correct data with incorrect data, including updating whatever relevant checks it has for the file. The only way around this is to maintain a historical archive of all writes ever made, and that should be evidently both absurdly impractical (how do you maintain the integrity of this archive? With a self-referentially incorruptible data archive perhaps?) and expensive.

Compared to a single file, which can be backed up, agnostic to the filesystem/hardware/transport/major world-ending events, which can be simply read/recovered, far into the future. There's a pretty clear winner here.
> up to the octave

... well, up to the thirteenth, at least... I suppose one could continue to name diatonic intervals above that for really convoluted chords.

Without the off-by one error, one could do interval arithmetics in a way that intuitively makes sense... It's really weird such a bad convention caught on to begin with.

Edit: going down the rabbit hole... It looks like the off-by-one error for diatonic intervals goes back to the greek antiquity. The Romans named the fourth and fifth diatessaon and diapente, which have greek roots, but their chromatic intervals start a zero (tonus, ditonus, tritonus which gave the (semi-)tone and the tritone). The "semi" prefix means "subtract half a tone", not divide by two...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_(music)#Latin_nomencl...

Neither the Greeks nor the Romans had a concept of zero, so it starts to make sense as to why we started with a crooked convention. Inertia and habbit made it stick around.

There's another rabbit hole for microtonal interval names... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pitch_intervals#List
I have no idea why you think that use case does not exist. Your whole idea about archive seems to be it is to ensure a blob doesn't change (same hash). But that's far from the only use of archive. (Hell, even with that, you are assuming you know the correct hash of the file to begin with, which isn't guaranteed.)

"Repairing" corrupt archives, as in to get as much as usable data from that archive is a pretty useful thing and I have done it multiple times. For example, an archive can have hundreds of files inside and if you can recover any of them that's better than nothing. It is also one of the reason I still use WinRAR occasionally due to its great recovery record (RR) feature.

>replaced with a fresh copy from replicated storage

Lots of times you don't have other copy.
You are not using for long term archival though, it seems you are using it for deployment.
Any idea when could we expect DALLE to reach Google Parti levels of detail?
The prices in Germany are already outrageous compared to other countries in Europe. I got a good deal and pay 30 Euro for unlimited data but I've recently checked for a friend and unlimited data would cost her about 70 Euro a month, which is ridiculous.
I've had a few experiences trying to recover data from old hard drives or even tape drives. The general experience was that either it works perfectly or the drive is covered in bad sectors and large chunks are unreadable. I don't dispute bitrot exists but there does seem to be an awful lot of discussion on the internet about an issue that is not not the most likely failure mode.
Wow xz just got owned. How do you recover from this.
pixz (https://github.com/vasi/pixz) is a nice parallel xz that additionally creates an index of tar files so you can decompress individual files. I wonder if dpkg could be extended to do something similar.
Your reasoning sounds weird but Amazon actually is a good source for out-of-print books. Another good source is a abebooks, which is also owned by Amazon, unfortunately.
Interesting. I have a 12900HX laptop with 4 × 2T 980 Pro-s, upgradeable to 128G DDR5 RAM. It has a large bright 4K screen, mechanical keyboard with Cherry keys, and one PCIe v5 slot for next gen 15GB/s SSDs. It is cold and extremely quiet in normal work, gets about 5h battery life under Manjaro w/5.17 kernel. It compiles our clang projects 2-3x faster than 2022 MBP models, installs software faster than MBP users finish typing "brew install", and native Docker and general VM performance on BTRFS RAID10 is so much faster it's not even funny. I'm fine with not having XXX hours battery life which I don't need since I work at a desk, on a laptop with ridiculous amounts of telemetry which I cannot even fully control. To me, my laptop (MSI GT77) is by far the best laptop right now. Really don't get this focus on battery life that Apple peddles this year.
When feasible I subscribe to RSS feeds by keyword(s) e.g. job openings by technology and city, one feed to multiple subreddits grouped by topics. I'm in progress to curate some inspiring RSS feeds to HN and Stack Overflow.
It's not just DALLE. This logic can be applied to Imagine, Parti, Midjourney, Gato, GPT-3 and any other ML technology.
Push Notifications Are Abused to Deliver Fraudulent Links
The Stackless Way? Build websites without frameworks or build tools
The New York Times principle - never send out anything that you couldn't tolerate being published in the New York Times next to your name. All Big Social are covered by this, including "private" messages.
I've always imagined that everything about who we are is backed up to the original cloud. (You could say, the real cloud.)

And, in the resurrection, we will be 3D printed back into existence.

I feel like any technologies we come up with could have superior analogues by the person able to come up with the laws of physics in the first place.

But restoration directly from the past is an interesting idea!
I don't think that a four dimensional view of time is necessary for resolving concerns around the Christian resurrection and how memories/psychology could be maintained.

There are plenty of views that Christians hold, but one of the most popular views (I would guess among the laity, professional philosophers, and possibly church leaders) is substance dualism. While memories are clearly stored in the brain to a degree, or at least influenced by the brain, the dualist typically thinks those memories are also located in and available to the non-physical substance (a soul/mind/spirit/etc) that survives the death of the body. Since those memories survive the death of those neurons, they are never lost.

Another view that was perhaps more popular, and is perhaps also gaining popularity again, usually called idealism, is that there is no physical stuff that exists on its own. Instead, God creates other souls/minds/spirits, and God imagines a physical world, and then gives experiences to those souls/minds/spirits as though they were in a physical world, even though no such mind-independent physical world exists. On this kind of view, the memories at the time of death are remembered by God, or exist within the soul/mind/spirit who was experiencing being that human in that imagined world (this second option is much like the dualist view). And so in the resurrection, God merely needs to have that soul/mind/spirit again have an experience as of being in such a physical world with a body that now has those memories restored, or, if those memories are already located in that soul/mind/spirit, then no extra work is required. The memories are either remembered by God, or were and continue to be stored in the soul/mind/spirit.

A third view, perhaps even less common than the preceding two among Christians, is a kind of materialism, where we have no immaterial soul/mind/spirit, and we are just our bodies. On that kind of view, I would assume the story is that God knows how the body was constructed (including the memories encoded in the brain) prior to neurons being destroyed, and is therefore able to rebuild the body in the resurrection as it needs to be to ensure the right kind of psychological continuity. These kinds of miracles would be trivial for God as described by Christians.
Schematics: A Love Story
This is an informative and interesting comment but I would like to reply to a few points.

> Programmers typically do not know desktop tech well. They could out-program me drunk, but they were not techies. It's a different skill.

As someone who grew up in the 80s and 90s this comment is strange as hell. In the first place possibly because if you weren't at a point in time a techie you weren't liable to be a computer user let alone be programming one. But honestly compared to programming being an expert computer user is such a microscopic topic comparatively. It's like saying although he was a master automotive engineer who oversaw the development of countless cars he never actually learned to park one. I know a lot of people are rather bad at it but its really a microscopic topic.

Regarding finder and cut and paste I was curious so I looked this up thinking to find people complaining instead I found this. Seems like you can "move" something to another folder with a only slightly different shortcut. This doesn't seem much different than cut and paste. It's not like the cut operation instantly deletes it from the present folder on any other desktop interface. If not paste follows it just doesn't get moved.

https://www.howtogeek.com/735756/how-to-cut-and-paste-files-...

> Therefore most of the desktops for Linux are half-baked rip-offs of Windows that don't implement the clever stuff

Gnome seems more like a rip off of Mac, and the majority of other environments have their own "clever stuff". If anything Windows 10 looks more like a rip off of some of the better features from Mac/Linux after they tried and badly failed to go their own way with Windows 8.
It's clearly an artist seething at grim realization that they are about to get irrevocably replaced.
No disrespect meant but this reminds me when I took a 7g mushroom dose. I felt like a capital G guru and my friends would come to me for wisdom.
China Policy: An Early Career Guide
I learned how to properly touch type in my 40s. I’ve been programming and using computers since I was about 8.

I’m really glad I learned how to touch type, despite being quite a quick hunt and pecker.

So yes, it can be done. Learn the same way everyone else learns it.
I’ve had a lot of success with world of books[1] for out of print stuff recently. Afaik still not owned by Amazon.

[1] https://www.wob.com
What about lzip? The author claims the compression size is comparable or better.
Reminded me of https://twitter.com/DarthPutinKGB/status/1549655121000366080

"The hard part about doing propaganda is that the past changes so quickly you have no idea what will happen yesterday"
Okay I need to know what's with the jesus laughing thing?
The question here is why this did not already exist as an extension in some compilers. Getting something standardized that exists already in compilers and is used is far easier.
If you’re a language model, congrats on hitting 0.00 perplexity on the HN comments dataset. Your sponsors would be proud :P