skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but in my experience [Australians] were distant

New Zealander here - I'll state one opinion although it is controversial and maybe totally irrelevant to you personally.

Plenty of Americans are socially unaware of the cultural differences between New Zealanders and Americans, because the differences are not so blatantly obvious like in many other countries.

I've result is that NZers stereotype Americans, and there is some negative bigotry towards Americans in general. The default is a negative sentiment towards most Americans, so becoming friends is an uphill battle. We generally won't correct your social faux pas++: you need to have the skills to read social cues and fit in. Your mental bullying government isn't helping all you'ze either.

The American tourists I saw in Mexico were some of the most obnoxious wankers I have ever seen (although exceeded by epically rude Russian tourists in Sri Lanka, and even they are exceeded by some other countries' citizens). I generally like the Americans I randomly met in the USA weirdly enough.

Not sure what I could recommend. Perhaps some serious self deprecation would help (à la British humour). Maybe find one person who will give honest feedback when you screw it up.

Some places are not as friendly as others. Go to Wellington if you are working in NZ - it is far more international and welcoming to people from different strokes. Great place!

Anyways, could have been anything, not just our typical anti-American sentiment. We are generally still welcoming compared with many countries.

What I said above is likely similar in Australia.
"It affects nearly all high sale volume technical books on Amazon. If you've bought a technical book on Amazon recently there's a >50% chance it's a fake."

If it were a high sales book, Amazon would probably have it in stock and they would sell it themselves. If not ... Things can be frustrating.
I was hoping that a random Mandelbrot shows up at the end.

(Spoiler: it doesn’t)
But the tradeoff between availability and integrity is different for data transmission than for data archiving. When transmitting data, usually the most important consideration is to avoid undetected errors (false negatives for corruption), because a retransmission can be requested if an error is detected. Archiving, on the other hand, usually implies that if a file is reported as corrupt, "retransmission" is not possible. Obtaining another copy of the file may be difficult or impossible. Therefore accuracy (freedom from mistakes) in the detection of errors becomes the most important consideration.

Part of the issue with archival is transmission. I transmit these files over the internet (github->cloudflare->server) and I haven't seen a single failure of a file to unxz after transmission. This implies that I should see issues... but I really haven't.
Fusion is just around the corner! Just 20 years away!
The article does not even discuss the obvious alternative that is perfectly consistent with relativity: all events in your past light cone "exist" (a better term would be "are fixed and certain"). This avoids all of the issues mentioned in the article while not committing you to the "existence" of anything that might not be fixed and certain based on the information you have at any particular time.

What always amazes me about discussions like this is how even physicists who are experts in relativity fail to see the obvious implications of the fact that, in relativity, spacetime is divided into three regions instead of two. Instead of just "past" and "future", there are "past light cone", "future light cone", and "spacelike separated". "Past light cone" and "future light cone" behave more or less like our intuitive concepts of "past" and "future"--the past light cone is what is fixed and certain and can't be changed, and the future light cone is what can possibly be changed based on things we do here and now. But the spacelike separated region is not like anything in our intuitions, since it is not fixed and certain as far as we know here and now, but we also can't do anything here and now to change it.

But instead of recognizing all this and considering its implications, discussions like this article talk as if the only way to divide spacetime up into regions is "past" and "future" separated by a "now" slice (and the "now" slice is of course frame-dependent so it can't have any physical meaning), or to talk as if the only thing that "exists" is the single point in spacetime that is our "here and now". It's disappointing.
Pretty sure the Bible talks a bit about God existing outside of time (he sees past, present, and future all at once or some such), so I always figured the model was "God exists outside of our universe much like a programmer who exists outside of his simulation, but can step forwards and backwards through time independently of the passage of time in the program itself". Something like that, anyway.
lzip? Not sure how closely commentators have read to have missed this (obviously plugged by the author) choice...

You are not getting compatibility out of xz, not even with itself, if you cared about maximum compatibility you'd be using zip (understood and supported by all major OS at this point), and it sounds like if you just cared about compression ratio you'd use lzip...

If it was speed, I could see zstd (or maybe bzip2? not sure how it stacks up), or just compatibility with linux/embedded folks, gzip. The use case for XZ seems actually pretty marginally small, its like holding onto .rar files or some obscure file splitting tool...
JP Moreland has written at length on this topic (see his book "The Soul" and many interviews/talks he's done).

In short, he distinguishes between the brain and the mind (consciousness, memories, etc). While the brain may be required for an embodied creature to use their mind, they are not the same thing.
Video #2 should be required watching for anyone joining the conversation about the Russia - Ukraine war. Martti J. Kari (the lecturer) spent his whole career in the Finnish military studying Russia.

The Russian mentality is _really_ hard to understand for a generic westerner. Russia has been lead by a conservative leader for 200-300 years. Lead by an autocratic leader (Tsar) for a good thousand years. The next Tsar will always be from the "Princes" - never a complete outsider.

Trying to change that mindset is as impossible as it would be for the USA to not have a two-party system. Their whole culture and bureaucracy is based on the fact that there is an "us" and a "them". Three or four parties will never happen in the USA.
Rust's URL crate: Redact password in logs
AFAIK, he did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s_first_set_theory_ar...
Thousands of salaries is cash.
If someone had said ‘what if’ during the setup of this thing, maybe it would have gone better.
Because anything organized by the state tends to obey the incentives of each clerk and government, ie at the beginning, incentives are well set, but it all goes to hell as time passes?

Here’s a video of drug dealers taking the high-speed train in France, singing, not having a fare, not being arrested: https://youtu.be/VMJenDMIbqg
There's a likelihood that 99% of accounts will be bots :-)
I haven't tried that one yet. I'll play around and see what I can find out. 7zip didn't perform as well.

tar c -C ./build $(BINARY) | gzip -9 - > $(PKG_NAME_GZ)
tar c -C ./build $(BINARY) | xz -z -9e - > $(PKG_NAME)
> This is getting absolutley ridiculous. I have tried on purpose to get addicted to alcohol and I couldn't

You’re saying that alcohol addiction is made up? And you’re only evidence is that you are not an addict? Or, at least, don’t admit to being one

> Substances help people deal with shit or overcome mental obstacles. I don't care for yet another research about alcohol being bad, show me a safer alternative then I would have respect for your work

Substances don’t help people deal with shit. An alternative that’s safe would be talk therapy, for example.
> cats cannot [be trained to execute orders]

Sure they can. This does not work as well as with the dogs but cats are not dumb and prefer to obey rather than suffer.

Take the example of the cat of my family (she and I coexist so to speak, the rest of the family is there to serve her). I taught her to move away from my laptop (her warm bed that does sounds and the screen behaves funny) when I approach and snap my fingers. The alternative is that she gets squeezed by the lid that I closer on her with a stick (just in case).

She hisses but still leaves.

My dog is amazed by my leadership when seeing that.
> I’m still waiting for those GPT-3 and deep fake horror stories we were warned about to come to reality.

I'm a bit confused. There's plenty of propaganda written by ML. Here's some deep fakes with respect to Ukraine[0][1]. Manufacturing robots kill people all the time[2][3]. They are weaponizing ML. Like specifically GPT-3? Probably not but people do use these to write tweets and short form things.

[0] https://news.northeastern.edu/2022/04/01/deepfakes-fake-news...

[1] https://www.npr.org/2022/03/16/1087062648/deepfake-video-zel...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/02/robot-kills-wo...

[3] https://www.techrepublic.com/article/robot-kills-worker-on-a...
You track that every day? How much daily progress is there on something that will likely remain impossible forever?
Yea, I’m not sure how accurate some of the methods he’s showing are. I have a pretty large collection of tech books and I had a look at the gluing after he said it. My O’Reilly, Springer, No Starch, Pragmatic and CRC press books all have pretty consistent binding.

Whereas I have some manning books like the Grokking series that I buy directly from them when they have those Black Friday sales and the glue looks pretty similar to the counterfeit he’s showing in the picture.

That said I usually try to buy from sold by amazon or directly from manning or no starch when buying new. Manning has some great topics and the quality of the content is pretty good too.
I have felt this for a while now. They send these cheap prints that have print bleed through from one side of the page to the other, and the print resolution is very poor and makes it very hard to read. The paper itself smells of kerosine. And the paper isn't cut nicely, there are striations on the long edge of the cut etc. I try to return them but they only do replacement and keep sending another copy of the same bad print. It takes extra effort to call the customer support and push for a refund. All in all, its quite painful to purchase and read physical books from Amazon.
How is it mechanically different from a human studying various artwork—besides the quantity of works studied?
To be clear, any answer short of, "this was a failure on our part to protect the children who attended, and as the leader of the organization, responsibility falls on me. We will make this right for the family and I will tender my resignation" is not adequate.
Come to Seattle's public libraries sometime!
Yearly refreshers come on top of the initial large grant - I've never seen a place that had yearly refreshers without an initial grant.
> some off-world reservoir of cold, which doesn't exist

Space has an average temperature of 2.7K, and there's a lot of it. Can interplanetary space be an off-world reservoir of cold?
I’m using “the prince” in an metaphorical sense referring to the oil industry as a whole. I’m not talking about literally one prince.
Okay, if the creator is good, why is there misery?
> You could say, the real cloud.

Okay I laughed, and I’m not ashamed to admit it
I get an email from https://f5bot.com/ every few weeks when someone mentions https://curlconverter.com/ on HN or Reddit
The intoxication from drinking having taken naltrexone is profoundly different than just drinking alcohol alone but it does satisfy the urge to drink, until one day you're able to just walk away from drinking. I never really felt the urge to drink without it while I was using naltrexone.

I still have an unfinished box of naltrexone which I kept because I was sure I would start drinking again and wanted to have it at hand. I just looked at it, it expired in 2013 and I've yet to use it at all since I quit drinking in '09 or '10 (I forget exactly, it's been a while).
How to get a job in cloud without a degree
Here are some steps I have laid out to get a job in cloud without a degree.
I'd recommend checking out zpaq[1], it purposed for backups, and has great compression (even on low setting) for large 100GB+ file collections. However for smaller stuff I use zstd at level 22 in a tar for most things since it's much faster, though a little heavier.

[1] http://mattmahoney.net/dc/zpaq.html
There are a lot of ways to monetize it. Run 2FA attacks on celebrity accounts' phone numbers, dox anon accounts that post racist stuff or follow gay porn and blackmail them, etc etc.
Agreed. Public transport in the Netherlands is way too expensive. And during peak hours you struggle to get space in a train or metro.
Not AI directly, but there is a talk by a coder who was asked to do triangulation targeting for mobile phones. It was an interesting problem so he went for it.

After a while he figured out that his code was used to target missiles on people using cell phones in Iraq.
I think my reality is probably the same for many. "Elders" suck and most fail miserably at providing anything close to sage advice. I remember my grandpa and father giving me car advice that was probably 20 years out of date when they were telling it to me. Fortunately reading a basics of modern car 20 page article catapulted my knowledge beyond anything they could offer. Despite being over twice my age both never bothered to update their information on a relatively simple topic.

I disagree with your last point as well. Again most "Elders" are terrible. The most common advice I got from elders all over the place.... "You will understand when you are older." yeah thanks....thats why I was asking so I don't have to wait. I'm pretty sure most people have similar experiences to me and its sorta provable. It's why nursing homes are overflowing with useless old people that are un-visited and ignored en mass.. Its simple, if they had any value people would come to visit them, but they don't.

I'm not saying its their(elders) job or anything. Just don't expect respect for living and not dying early. I already provide better advice to people younger than me than the vast majority of people double or triple my age can. Most people suck, with the internet it is easy to leapfrog the majority of so called elders since they never really tried in life anyway, most boomers just fell upward in a booming economy and don't even have soft or navigating life skills.

Yeah I don't really care much for old people if you can tell. However I do wish I've had some positive experiences from them but so far my entire life has proven otherwise.
The carrot-and-stick model works pretty well as most regions that adopt it: You fund/build enough housing and public programming to get enough of the unhoused into shelters/homes (carrot) and then ban public camping and street sleeping (stick).

Most cities rule out the stick unless the carrot is provided, which is correct. But a significant number of those on the side of handing out carrots don't want to tie it to the stick.

So homelessness is rampant and everyone is unhappy. Perfect.
Production systems with sshfs mounts criss-crossing servers, rather than having proper centralised fileserver.

It’s not the fault of sshfs, but it attracts people who just creates the messy systems.
The process of long-term archival starts with replication. A common approach is two local copies on separate physical media, and one remote copy in a cloud storage service with add-only permissions. This protects against hardware failure, bad software (accidental deletion, malware), natural disasters (flood, fire) and other 99th-percentile disaster conditions. The cloud storage providers will have their own level of replication (AWS S3 has a 99.999999999% durability SLA).

If you have only one copy of some important file and you discover it no longer matches the stored checksum, then that's not a question of archival, but of data recovery. There's no plausible mechanism by which a file might suffer a few bitflips and be saved by careful application of a CRC -- bitrot often zeros out entire sectors.
I used to have Google Alerts to scan for security/reliability news of my home's IoT products. Ultimately the firehose of blogspam and other false positives became too much. I then deleted the Google Alerts and got rid of most of my IoT products, which solved the problem.

If there's a low-volume mailing list out there for IoT security disclosures, I'd love to find it. Even better if users could sign up for the specific products they own. Could probably expand this to all kinds of software, hardware, etc... sign up with your specific model and/or version number, receive tailored alerts when urgent security/reliability news emerges. Sort of like "haveibeenpwned" but for all the software and devices in your life.

Sorry for the tangent, but I'm secretly hoping this already exists and someone will reply with a link, or someone else will get inspired and create it :)
Honestly a broken finger is pretty far down the spectrum of things to go wrong when near heavy machinary. Such a robot should have never been rolled out. The state of robotics is simply not advanced enough that I would ever trust one near me. Maybe those Boston dynamics ones. But they are on a completely different level.
Indeed. But if you transmit over TCP/IP, maybe SSL, probably over reliable links (github<->cloudflare<->server), seeing corruption is unlikely. And if unxz fails, in your case, you can just re-transmit.

So using xz may work well for you and using it is not a big deal, but that does not make the format reliable for long term archival and as a sibling wrote, you probably could use lzip instead for the same benefits (and actually saving a few bytes because there are no extraneous headers) but none of the problems discussed in the article.
Public Relation and Comnucation Agency, based in Baghdad, Iraq.
No? We have a legal system for a reason. Cloudflare should definitely comply with court takedown requests, and that's that.
A Simple Solution for Shape Packing in 2D
xz got a bit of hype there about 10 years ago, I used it until a couple years ago when I noticed how slow it was with huge DB dumps and how much faster zstd was while still having decent compression.

So I have no idea about all this low level stuff, I just know that zstd is overall better for sysadmins.

But next time I'm doing any sort of scripting that involves compression I'll take a look at squashfs now due to this thread.
But what does this have to do with docker?

;)
This fractal is non-holomorphic which makes it kind of a dumpster fire..or a burning ship I guess... The easiest layman's definition of holomorphic is any function or operations on complex numbers that doesn't peek at the real and imaginary parts of the complex number. In algebra, there is no combination of algebraic operations [1] that can do so. But on computers, we have Re(z) and Im(z), which are easy to calculate since the complex number is simply stored as two parts, and it just pulls one of them out.

When you violate this sacred notion, of treating a complex number as a singular entity, indivisible, the operations or functions you get, no longer have nice properties, like being analytic [2]. You are no longer doing algebra, you have gone into the realm of chaotics over R^2 with an equivalence relation through rotations, which is a far different beast.

That's why other fractals that treat complex numbers as first class citizens, singular entities, and don't use hacks like Re or Im, are much prettier and have less branch cuts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_operation

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_function
It might be better in the UK than in the US. In the US, even going by the seller is seemingly not a guarantee: https://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/ifytxk/ysk_t...
The idea that the Earth is warming and ecological systems are changing is Climate Change. There seems to be evidence and scientific consensus behind the fact that humans are playing a part.

On the other hand, the people proclaiming that humans are inherently bad for the planet, that we need to have fewer children, tear down our economic system and eat a plant-based diet aren’t practicing “Climate Science”. They are ideologues. You can spot them from a distance because they’re the ones against Nuclear Power, Desalination, GMOs, and other solutions don’t require require society to subscribe to their social framework. When people like me say we’re skeptical of Climate Science, we’re usually referring to the latter and not the former.
It should, if the compression algorithm is actually the same, just the format specification that differs.
Its only linear because the process is linear as you described. There's no reason why we can't have exponential growth - produce a machine which manufactures more of itself. This machine also contains solar panels (and other appendages) to collect resources to replicate itself.

Then very soon, the earth will be overrun with such machines, and we can go interplanetary, then consume the sun to go interstellar. At least, whoever that remains after the grey goo takes everything else would go interstellar...
I'm unclear why you would add iOS to that comparison. It's a toy OS that is comperable to Windows and OSX in name only.
>"It probably saves many lives vs someone walking up the mountain."

You say "probably". Means you have no clue whether it is a fact or just invention of your mind. Then why bring it up as an argument.
Public transportation drivers strongly, strongly disagreed in Seattle, which was one signal to get it banned. The very people who deliver the product were against it.

"Bus drivers have consistently supported eliminating the free-ride area, saying that letting people board without paying leads to more frequent fare evasion, as well as disrespect for Metro’s Code of Conduct, which forbids alcohol, harassment, litter, eating and reclining, said Paul Bachtel, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 587."
> 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.

I respectfully disagree. By putting it in the layer below, there is the ability to do repairs.

For example, consider storing XZ files on a Ceph storage cluster. Ceph supports Reed-Solomon coding. This means that if data corruption occurs, Ceph is capable of automatically repairing the data corruption by recomputing the original file and writing it back to disk once more.

Even if XZ were able to recover from some forms of data corruption, is it realistic that such repairs propagate back to the underlying data store? Likely not.
How about a magnetic base on each piece and a table built on top of a pair of xyz movements holding two magnets. That way the brain can at any time grab its piece and make a move while nudging any obstructions out of the way temporarily. It could probably made to filp the polarity on the lower magnet causing the opponent piece to topple gently when appropriate.

Seems very human proof and also exciting to watch in action.
Related:

Burning Ship Fractal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12581569 - Sept 2016 (65 comments)
Flutter can target the web too: https://flutter.dev/multi-platform/web
Dude, children get antsy sometimes. They literally have different brain development than adults do. They do not have the same controls and inhibitions.

Children are literally wired for physical experimentation and echopraxia.

Kids also want to be seen as helping. If this robot put a piece down poorly, the kid might be trying to straighten up after it.

All of which are eminently reasonable for a kid who has no concept of operating around dangerous machinery.
> a completely standard way of doing annual employee reviews.

For like 20 companies out of thousands. This is in no way standard.