skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gzip was written extremely well. I have been trying to get static compression with Brotli working for compressing web assets, along the way of getting that worked out, you realise that few people can be bothered with it, hence you are having to compile your own Nginx modules.

I found out the way to do it was to have Nginx run a proxy server that caches the output of another Nginx 'server' that does the Brotli dialled up to 11. So you are making your own CDN.

Nothing is difficult when you know it, but Gzip has scratched the compression itch so well that people just do not have a problem with it and therefore do not seek to change it.
It is in California State government’s best interest to devise policies that encourage higher fluidity of housing market as a form of increasing the revenue generating flow into their general funds;

- stoke the housing market,

- encourage foreign ownerships and take over of precious homes

- make people move,

- push senior citizens out of their home

- reset valuation of residential for the primary purpose of higher taxes and thusly more flow into the state general fund.

Fixed tax rate (Prop 13) on residential taxation is that California politicians’ over-perceived limiting factor of increasing revenue flow into their state budget. They only can resort to higher income tax (13.3%) or higher sales tax (10.75%) or more of those other add-on taxes (like the misleading and diminishing triple (sales/excise/use) gasoline tax).

Given that California income tax and sales tax are already crazy high, the biggest political brass ring not-yet-grabbed remaining is this increasing more of the residential taxation; all her politicians are training their eyes on this residential tax as a form of potential increasing tax flow.

And cities/towns knows this too.

So the building of commercial/industrial properties shall and will continue on, unabated, at full-steam ahead; housing, not so much.

Is it a fault of the Golden State politicians? Ye-up! They just do not like governing with handcuffed but limited revenue flow so they go all myopic and actually govern without the long-range foresights of much needed housings, and instead flood their land with commercial/industrial zones.

Don’t blame the Prop 13. It’s no different than other states’ no or lower property tax on residential tracts.

Many senior citizens (and state workers) living on limited Social Security retirement/wage, who own their homes for the long haul are not likely to be evicted by higher residential taxation (protected by Prop. 13) on their home, will rest comfortably until pushed out by even more and inexorably higher and newer state sales/excise/use (sky’s the limit) taxation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_California#Sales...
Are you aware of the huge issues France is currently facing because of their old neglected reactor fleet?
Unfortunately, most of the websites about GEM are offline now. These are good starting points:

http://www.seasip.info/Gem/

https://www.owenrudge.net/GEM/

http://www.retroarchive.org/cpm/archive/unofficial/gemworld....

https://web.archive.org/web/20030417043919/http://www.geocit... (there's a web browser for GEM there!)
Indeed, no inexpensive portable digital electronics was going to give you perceptible-noise-free 16-bit audio.

Depending on how the original audio was mastered, it could also have it's own hiss in the sound data if the CD itself. You can tell if you load the raw CD data into a wave editor and see low amplitude noise where you'd expect silence.
If I were Amazon, researching whether zstd can be used reliably could take quite some time. It would require a thorough code review, inspection of the assembly produced by compilers, and a test set of a few terabytes.

More importantly, it would require researching whether something even better might be just around the corner. I don’t think Amazon wants to switch compression every few months.
Mentioning a creator is not equivalent to stating that the US is a theocracy, let alone a christian one
The Mongol Empire?
I thought that the emotional life-history pattern of cancer patients is quite well researched and linking trauma, anxiety and stress to cancer is not his hypothesis, he is just popularizing it.
can't have the little people thinking they control their own lives, can we?
Just a very superficial comment/thought after reading the review:
There seem to be an underlying implied correlation between complexity and failure (or collapse).
If that premise is, indeed, part of the book's thesis then, in this context, would be fair to say that "simple" societies are less prone to collapse?
Seal breaks into New Zealand home, traumatises cat and hangs out on couch
Incompetent People Often Too Incompetent to Realize How Incompetent They Are
I have gas mask with filter marked to 1952 year for me. Still very appropriate to put it on in first few days because of alfa and betta ray make any dust radioactive.
Hey Jose, funny to see there answering phoenix questions on a Saturday. Since we're discussing JS, are there any official plans to expose pushing events to the backend directly from JS? What I've been doing (and seen others do) is to assign a hook to a global window variable in the mounted callback, but that seems very hacky.

Is there any reasons why that should be avoided or why you don't want to expose a proper API for that?
How the Find My App Became an Accidental Friendship Fixture
IMHO everything mentioned before to get Slack started, and then their integration efforts with APIs. They catered towards developers, had easy integrations for DevOps workflows.

So Slack was the tool for developers, with a lock-in effect, and other departments just followed (-> product -> marketing -> sales).
Records would skip as well due to worn tracks, worn needle or someone bumping the turntable.
> In essence, a good remote desktop software will use video encoding/decoding (h264/265 for both ways being very fast) to encode captured frames of the desktop, and a good transport protocol over the network with good tuning parameters to achieve low latency (which is what mine does). I believe this is what NoMachine and Parsec do and why they are so good (along with NICE DCV)

They do, but the paid version of NoMachine has?/had? a mode called X11 vector graphics explained better by NXDev here [0]. I've used it from 2016 until 2021 and for classic applications (ie apps not requiring a GPU) is incredibly fast. To the point that I used to forget i was working remotely.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=NXdev
Shared Libraries as Executables
The math on this idea is laughable though. Giving out $1 Million in tax credits per person in the US is $330 trillion dollars. Given that the US Federal Government only collects about $4 trillion in taxes and probably still wants to collect more than $0 then this scheme doesn't really work. Getting a $10,000 tax credit in exchange for nearly completely obliterating the federal budget just doesn't have the same oomph.
CD Reed-Solomon forward error correction did make that pretty rare though. You had to abuse a disc a fair amount to overcome the coding.
You must have missed the first half of this statement:

>This is not to say those values are wrong - I think, by and large, they are indeed good, but the arrogance with which they are expressed by the US often just doesn't help.

Just because something is a "geopolitical reality" doesn't mean it isn't cultural
"If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”

― Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
That has never been the case.

But sure, everyone can have their opinions and interpretations. It's just bad form to reprimand others when it's not clearly rooted in the group consensus. Doubly so when it's about my own prior submission that didn't get attention.
I would want someone who was part of few teams who designed a car.

Average project in IT is built in 2 years. In 8 years you could have built 4-6 different projects.

The dude that stayed in first project to maintain it, probably did not learn anything more.

Thats at least my experience. Old Java devs that stopped learning after java 8.
> Memory usage is improved by a factor of about 3x. For Zig, building itself went from using 9.1 GiB to 2.7 GiB.

Pretty impressive.
For those who don't know, the author was one of the best combinatorialists ever.
It's striking how much "cryto" is like a religious cult.

In either case, one of the keys is becoming "enlightened" with an over justified respect for your own insight. In other words, to be a true believer you have to become self righteous. Those who attempt to alter your course are the ones who lack comprehension --- not you.

Wonder how many people tried to steer these crypto bros but were rejected as being "not of the faith"?
Also posted here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32529113

In any case, great work!
I'm curious are there any examples where solo founders were accepted by YC?
Your criticisms seem to be about 7z, not zstd. Ztd doesn't have an archive concept, it's just compresses a sequence of bytes.
Thanks, I am still learning
Miami advances plan to move homeless onto island
People hate to hear this but noone has a right to live somewhere indefinitely

I am sure you feel it made sense when you wrote it, or the example explained it in any way. I absolutely failed to understand the common knowledge aspect about people's limits to their ownership rights or even understand the sequence of events or mathematical explanation of the example.
Then the whole discussion is only a matter of confusion between "energy" and "electricity". In fact, reduction of consumption of "energy" under most scenarios means increase of consumption of electricity, because electricity allows to do a lot more with less e.g. electric vs gasoline powered cars. And, electricity is the easiest form of energy to produce in a renewable way. 63% of electricity in EU is renewable or nuclear i.e. low-carbon, while only about 22% of energy overall is renewable and some about 27% is low-carbon.
Varargs with the same type is just a list. In many languages that could require an extra allocation, but in Rust that can just be a slice or maybe a an array with a const generic for it's size if you want to pass ownership.

Varargs here would really just be a minor ergonomics improvement.

Heterogeneous varargs would be more useful, but would require something like variadic generics. (which have been proposed before)
This is SUCH a good response. Thank you. Really solid advice.

And thank you in particular for taking the time to find the links to emphasize it.

I think this is exactly my learning also from "Act 1" / "Act 2". Specifically solving one narrow problem very, very well. And viewing anything else as a temptation.

One problem. One target buyer. No side-quests.

The problem I'm solving is "what comes after the demo in B2B SAAS sales".

Personal experience has shown me that the demo tends to be a high-point and the follow up is like "hey just checking in...". So I've built something that edits the demo recording into a highlight-reel, and uses that summary to re-engage people.

The metric my product owns is really specific: re-engagement after the demo.

My previous attempts lacked this kind of focus.
That's one out of hundreds kingdoms and "democratic republics". I don't think it's possible to base a strategy on that, it seems to be an enormous outlier of extreme historical significance.
FreeDOS shouldn't provide SEAL and such. If any, they should build and pack the full GEM software bundle.
An ultimate list of cool music websites and tools
You can do it using JS.push from the linked page. You can also use execJS to execute any JS event, including push, from anywhere. I am not sure if this helps though. :)
How can you just have a "flat tax" if you pay employees, or have inventory costs? You need deductions so you need to track everything anyway. That is the hard part.

So having a flat tax or not barely saves any complexity at all.
It wouldn't take 50 years either.
Income tax also has an outsized impact on wage laborers
Tax rates are generally changed by an independent political process (the municipal budget) which often has the power to increase/decrease the mill rate based on how much money is needed/desired. This doesn't change the fact that the mill rate does generally fall by a lot when properties are reassessed in areas that have seen a large property price increase.
Generally with filesystem-level compression you don't compress an entire multi-GB file: you compress segments of maybe a few 100k. This gives you a very slightly worse compression ratio but allows random seeks to still be efficient.
Hi there! What kind of photographic resolution of the earth’s surface is possible given the cubesat’s small size?
I find the following remark by Rota interesting:

Insofar as the Laplace transform goes, two radically different uses of the word “function”
are dangerously confused with each other. The first is the ordinary notion of function as a
something that has a graph. The second is the radically different notion of function as density, whether mass density or probability density. For the sake of the argument, let us agree
to call this second kind of function “density function.” Professional mathematicians have
avoided facing up to density functions by a variety of escapes, such as Stieltjes integrals,
measures, etc. But the fact is that the current notation for density functions in physics and
engineering is provably superior, and we had better face up to it squarely

I've suggested to mathematicians that the notation

⌠
| f(x) dμ(x)
⌡

in measure theory where μ is a measure should be replaced with

⌠
| f(x)⋅μ(x) dx
⌡

where the measure μ is treated as a density function. What I've found is a mixture of either not understanding the logic, or the response "What's the point?" So it's interesting seeing Gian-Carlo Rota suggest the same idea AFAICT.

As a bonus, the Radon-Nikodym "derivative" would be written as μ/λ instead of dμ/dλ. The RN derivative then doesn't appear like a derivative - it looks simply like division.
At least for cross-domain URLs. Within a domain I could understand context, back buttons etc being useful.
I think there’s lots of truth to these experiments of moderation. I just finished writing a similar book on the topic, but more along the side of it causing anxiety and depression in my life.

The brain is flexible. It can reshape itself where needed. If you’re stuck in the fast world of social media and overworking yourself to death, your brain will adjust to help you survive it.

By reducing tech(and media) in your life, you start to notice change. Your attention is reclaimed. You start to be in the “present”. You find yourself doing the things you longed to do like get out in nature, write the book, or build the thing.

You don’t have to ditch tech or media fully to see these benefits. Nor is that an enjoyable thing to do. Building enough awareness that most social media platforms are trying to entertain you to death will do.

(This isn’t a new issue per-say. It’s been around for each changing medium)
Ask HN: What is your fully remote work setup like?
I’m soon going to start a fully remote job and I am wondering what are some tips and tricks to setup the right place. I’m 26 and live alone, currently have no place as I’ve been backpacking so I’m free to start over.

I could possibly live in a small town with good internet and save a bunch of money but have friends & family in London, so will probably pick that city.

I’m thinking that I should at least get a 1 bedroom apartment and have the work desk in the living area and make the bedroom work free. Thinking of getting a standing desk(ikea perhaps) and a good chair and a couple of monitors.

I could also have a 2 bedroom and make one of the bedrooms an office but 2 bedrooms are quite pricey in London.
>> "CMO of a $180m company by age 23"

>> "And bootstrapped a small SaaS to $20k MRR and applied again."

What is it you actually want out of YC funding? It sounds like you've got a good handle on business. This is the kind of thing banks are for. Why not get a real small business loan? Seed/VC funding is speculative. You're well past that point.

What you're doing is like a scientist trying to find grants at a high school science fair. Try pitching a bank instead of YC.
Cranked to max? The only mtx are cosmetics.
Slack is like a virtual office nowadays. While browsing the channels, you can feel as if you are browsing the rooms in the office.
Just wondering, how would you compare this work to the Nazca Lines or Stonehenge? To me it seems like a modern take on the both of them. Does all art have to be pretty paintings?
Valve dooes not make games anymore though. One game ( VR ) in the last 10 years?
I appreciate Nordic leaving that bodge wire[1] in the photo, even though they didn't have to. The article's a little sparse on technical detail though.

[1] https://www.nordicsemi.com/-/media/Images/Products/Wi-Fi/nRF...
> They allow you to slice an arbitrary byte range out of an object which is technically harder to implement on a compressed file.

this is pretty easy, you flush the compression buffer every megabyte or so and maintain an index

maybe 50 lines of code
The intel transition really made it the platform for everyone, with all the cool intuitive apps like the apple office suite, to Office and Adobe availability and the unix shell and its underpinnings hidden away.

Now it seems that the power user stuff takes a much further backseat to the toy stuff.
Sigh.

I'm not talking about the "narratives" around the "conversation".

The first problem is that this changes as it's almost 110% political.

The comment I'm making is that bad education causes problems 10-20 years down the line. Inconsistent exaggerated stories which are not presented in context are dangerous and in the case of multi-genrrational issues undermine the whole effort to get anything done.

Talking about the "we'll run out of food" as another example is showing how people don't trust the people saying this. The problem here is that the word "academic" often has to be put in quotes. It's so doo-gooder pro science but who shouts a lot and causes more problems for researchers. (For another example most of my time doing outreach is undoing the damage caused by fools "explaining" the highs boson)
Irc as a service. You can pay with money instead of losing time maintaining it.

It is more accessible being in the browser so non-technical people can adopt it more easily.

Yes, they added bells and whistles like threading, emojis, and snippets that made the experience even better.

As an aside, I think slack huddles are superior to every other screensharing method out there. Being able to draw on the screen is a killer feature when collaborating.
Induction is also a very good way to prove these formulas. In fact, these are just perfect textbook exercises for someone learning induction: try to find formulas for the sum of the first k-th powers (for some not so big integer k), then prove the formulas using induction. As someone else mentions, the formulas themselves are related to the Bernoulli numbers and have some surprising properties, like how formulas for odd values of k can be expressed in terms of k·(k+1)/2.
I evaluate lots of things by looking at pictures of them. Turns out to be pretty accurate in most cases.
I've got ~zero burn atm (because I'm funding my small team of 5 with my old company).

So I don't absolutely need funding. But I still think YC has huge value, just I'm going to do it either way.

What I specifically want is to put all my focus into the new product and not have to split my time across my companies. And to go fast, as in many years of trying I've not seen such levels of interest as my current thing gets.
Supply doesn't equal demand, and it certainly doesn't equal all demand.
I'm working on a crawler to get and process the results internally
What about people who, themselves, do not want to be treated equally? I have found that most women I interact with do not necessarily want to be treated equally, they want to be treated with dignity and respect. These are sometimes, but often not the same thing.
Layoffs are happening and only the overemployed are the ones who easily weather that. It’s job insurance. In the US employers will drop people on a dime
Before Slack, I found it extremely difficult to send all those cat videos and emojis in emails. Worse still even if I tagged specific people in email to get their attention to watch my cat videos, it was always asynchronous and I never caught enough attention. Thanks to Slack, all attention is now on me and I'm well known in my company. So many emojis on my cat videos now.
> I don't quite like are Contexts

A while back I wrote a small guide on how to design your contexts and its queries for flexibility. Not sure if this will actually answer some on your issues with them.

https://elixirforum.com/t/a-design-pattern-for-more-flexible...
A few “fiat takes” on El Salvador to compare this blog post to:

- https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/07/22/el-salvador-debt-imf-ec...

- https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/25/el-salvador-bitcoin-experime...
Is your name a Dishonored reference?
Seems about 3x less certain than someone with one job going from 200k to 0
I am getting the same feeling, as Microsoft's track record with such things hasn't been stellar, anyway.

A crucial point, however, is that Windows Server only has had a kernel new enough to support this for a little while (not counting previews and RCs for obvious reasons), which I'd say is the one Microsoft platform that would benefit the most from this.

Also, since it's really hard for outsiders to find documentation on Windows kernel interna (which means as a normal user you'd be tracing syscalls at best), I suspect a key motivation was to improve observability for the Windows dev team, so we possibly also wouldn't be able to estimate of how much use the port really is.
There is also the cost of a bug. Imagine that AWS corrupted customers data due to a compression bug in your home-grown compression code.

It is almost like encryption in this regard.
Now it's Turrell's turn to finish Roden Crater.
> First of all, before Slack real-time chat in a company setting was a novel idea.

AIM, Yahoo, Bloomberg, etc were very commonly used I'm finance before slack.
Joseph Tainter was recently interviewed by Nate Hagens: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/27-joe-tainte...
It's just cheap marketing for AA. There will never be anything they have to buy.

Boom has no engines and no trustworthy plan to get any. They have a single digit percentage of the funding. Even if they had where would those planes fly?
Is there is there a good deep dive explaining how the actual portable executable works? The original blog post is kind of light on the details.
People often combine OE with FIRE
Storm king is great fun. The one Near me when I lived in white plains NY was the PepsiCo headquarters sculpture gardens. Smaller and the hours are limited to weekends and you can’t go inside the offices, but free!

https://www.pepsico.com/sculpture-gardens.

Dia Beacon is modern art in a old cracker factory that is huge and fun to explore. I have a love/hate relationship with modern art, but in the context of this giant building it was fun.

https://www.diaart.org/visit/visit-our-locations-sites/dia-b...
i'm totally correct in what am i writting. zstd not wide range suitable compression. And all current implementation that used non for 1 file compression - awful.
Very exciting. Are there plans to maintain the bootstrap path over the longer term? It always makes me sad when I hear about compilers which must bootstrap from magic binary blobs.