skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For Gzip, memory usage during decompression is bounded statically by 32K + constant decompressor overhead; for Zstandard, it’s 128M (tunable) on non-ultra levels (mentioned in the header); I don’t know about Brotli but it probably has something in that vein as well.
I have been able to do some algorithmic work in my 4 decades (mostly lately for generative art) but most of my career was How So I Ship This Complicated App With Too Few People In So Little Time. This usually requires creative thinking and experience, but rarely requires advanced knowledge of many of the topics mentioned. I never had a CS education so I had to learn things myself, but it still makes sense to me today to understand complex topics; even if you never use them, being able to understand such things is a benefit to the complex things you will have to do.
I suspect your prediction is slightly wrong.

Even after the Tornado Cash sanctioning, people in the blockchain space designed simple mechanisms where validations can't censor transactions to/from specific entities because they won't know what any individual transaction does.

To meet your prediction, some rich group would need to launch their own network and make code changes to support the features they need. I think the wealthy who were going to do that would just start a private "smart contract" that can run code and make transactions on a centralized, non-blockchain system.

There's no reason they'd need to keep running a blockchain if they were going to centralize decision making.
Can you give examples of books that are really problematic? Because the ones listed by NYT are definitely not.

Even the one listed by your link "Queerfully and Wonderfully Made?" is just a book for teenagers who are questioning their sexuality. Nothing pornographic there and I'm glad if teens who are wondering get the information they need.
Because we afraid of nuclear energy. There are lots of fossil fuel fans masquerading as green activists who claims that nuclear is kind of no eco-friendly. And yes, the possibility of building great things is decreasing nowadays since the best minds are working on letting us to see more ads.
Such a great movie. One of the best hacking-related movies ever made for me personally.
I test drove a variety of cameras renting them from Lensrental to find the perfect travel camera.

I took a XT-3 with me to Tokyo. While it’s a nice camera, I still found it too bulky but without the benefits of FF.

I ended up going with a A7R3 combined with a RX100. I leave the hotel room with the former gets taken when I know there’s something important I want to capture, if it’s at night, or when I know bulk isn’t an issue. The latter is taken when bulk is of concern.
Ironically books like those of Orwell aren't particularly helpful, because they anthropomorphize too much. The idea of a downward trend of civil rights is also misleading, because it implies a separation of these rights from all the other material or cultural forces that are brushing up against each other at the same time.

Tales like Animal Farm create the impression that all we have to do is to get 'the team' back together again and just align the liberal democracies around the old methods in a struggle of good vs. bad.

We only have what we identify as civil rights from very specific material and historical conditions. It's not a coincidence that liberalism appeared around the same time that we first created a significant surplus during the industrial revolution.
This is a common misconception. Even a piece of plastic benefits from a higher resolution sensor.

It’s not very hard to get moiré on a 45mpx sensor with a modern lens, hence we most definitely need higher resolution cameras. But even with a lower resolving power than that there’s an advantage.
I have a passion for a very small niche within this - Preserving user-created levels for the game Quake III Arena.

When I was a kid we got our first PC just as Quake (1) released. We didn't have a modem to get online, but magazine cover disks sometimes included custom user maps and mods. I'd run around them offline, wondering in awe at these empty spaces and amazed at being able to explore a 3d space that someone somewhere else in the world had conjured from their own imagination and effort. In time I figured out the tools and techniques, and even released some of my own content to add to the mix. That sense of wonder has stuck with me for over twenty years, and while I very much enjoy playing the games, it's not just about that - Accessing and exploring the spaces themselves is fascinating and hold inherent value to me.

I recently came back to spending more time with the games, and see a great deal of that custom content dropping offline never to be seen again as the sites that used to host them wind down and dry up. A lot of it has likely already been lost. I'm digging through every available source I can to try and dig out as much content as possible, but of course it'll never be 'complete' in the same way that a ROM collection for a classic console might be.

Then, quite aside from finding and saving, there's the question of how to make it accessible (and interesting) to anyone else. I'd like to think it's of interest to more than just me, but maybe it isn't? Perhaps daves_awesome_map_v5.pk3 and the thousands of others I have stashed don't really have an audience beyond that one weirdo that saved them =)

On the offchance you're reading this and have any old Quake 3 custom content stashed away in your closet, please get in touch!
That's a pretty clear "hey government, how about you stop trying to push things through and do some more asking around whether people actually want this" if you'd ask me.

Of course, it's easier to just keep trying and altering your methods until people give in from exhaustion / negligence, rather than actually figuring out whether the people want it.
Don't.

I have yet to use a service where I prefer having infinite scroll. I always prefer having pages.
Great idea!

Instead of Bitcoin just consuming energy and producing hardware garbage Asics and consuming chip capacity, let's also eat it solar panels which could just create normal energy for non Bitcoin use.

Bitcoin is not becoming green just because you use renewable energy.
You can also go online to do it in like three clicks, but you have to verify stuff to get the QR code. And don’t you keep the original paper the physical sim comes on for the PUK?
In terms of following China, Russia, etc. there have been significant moves that affect the whole population in ways that are very important.

- Reduced access to firearms (safety, individual power)
- Social Security and Medicare (financial independence, retirement, health)
- Mandatory health insurance (health and financial freedom). - Formerly abortion (much less than 50%).

Gains have been for increasingly small groups.

- Sexual preference (affects about ~5% of population).
- Transgender (<1%).

Then things like the Supreme Court’s recent gun cases have mostly just foreclosed future restrictions, but haven’t increased access to those sorts of small arms that would be needed in an e.g. Ukraine-type situation. This obviously leaves the American people closer to Russian, Chinese, etc in terms of their capacity forcibly defend their rights.
In some contexts this another expression of positive feedback loops and where there are few negative feedback loops, or they are ignored because they are annoying (like dismissing the high pitched alarm)

Whether induced by the audience (external) or by the creator(s) internal.
Policing is much quicker now. Urbanization makes it easy to identify "dissidents" and shut down voices. Sure, manipulation always existed, but as technology evolves, it is becoming increasingly difficult to even hold your dissenting opinions private.
The cat is already out of the bag. What GDPR is doing is just providing a counterweight to the siphoning power of American tech.
For me focusing on BDD over TDD - or just ensuring I am testing behavior over small component functionality - gives me a lot of lift.
If not in number of years, more so in half-lifes of knowledge [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life_of_knowledge
What surprises me is that I as a dutch citizen working in cyber security, have heard nothing about these new laws. Maybe I've been neglecting the right sources, but this change feels (up to now) very under the radar and uncontested. I hope this will put some more emphasis on this new law.

edit: Having looked into this a bit more, two things stand out:
- The law is temporary
- The justification is being able to counter nation states with an offensive cyber programme.
> that they made your life difficult as a programmer. Sorry.

> But sacrificing user experience for developer experience is not the way

I think you misunderstand my last comment. It’s not “difficult to maintain ergonomic web forms”, it’s roughly impossible. I know that sounds facetious but it’s true. There are too many under-experienced developers or developers who don’t “want to learn” or respect front end development. As such what should be simple is almost always broken.

Three years ago I joined a team, their “relatively simple” (16ish fields) web form took 3+ seconds to load. I got them to add React (ie increase page weight) and lazy migrate to components over 3 months. We dropped time to interactive to 500ms (including the server latency), improvements got made in weeks rather than the previously scoped months reducing time on task for our users, developers were happier and users reported better feedback.

This isn’t the first time I’ve personally improved a “simple web form” with React, and I know of many such success stories. You can disagree with me. You can argue they were bad developers. You can argue you would never have fallen into those traps. You might be right. But my description above is very much the reality of a very many “simple web forms” and definitely true for all complex web forms. Using a framework is just the better default.

> No, because as a user your React "app" fails to serve my basic needs.

Could you elaborate? Is it the “JavaScript required” issue? Increased page weight? Something else?
I think it's pretty easy to construct adversarial examples to your (1) that are dealt with cleanly by real pagerank.

e.g. if A is a Huge Important website, and A -> B -> C, then locally looking at {B, C} will underweight C significantly. (And, sure, you might say to look at k-th order inbound links for your iterative approach, but the adversary can just move the weight to k+1).

Perhaps, as you claim, your approach would have been good enough, but clearly understanding the theory got them something better.
Apps like these usually have a limited shelf life before they expire and die out. The reason being is that their popularity is driven by younger demographic that ages and the replacement population doesn't want to use what "old" folk use. So Tik Tok or whatever the latest buzz generating app will be doomed to die slowly in the end. The fad of short videos of people doing inane things is just the latest fad until they come up with something else on another platform. When your mom uses Tik Tok then it's time to get off the platform.
When Emacs came to be, you'd be lucky to have a 80MB hard disk, let alone main memory. :)
Depends how big your operation is.

A basic industrial unit with a 10 kilowatt supply? They'll supply you no-questions-asked.

If you're a huge operation like a steelworks, consuming tens or hundreds of megawatts, they'll want to work closely with you for capacity planning.

If you've got special business requirements, like a hospital or data centre that needs redundant, highly reliable power - you'll have to tell them that's what you need.

If you want to negotiate a discount below their normal prices, an account manager will sniff around your company to try and figure out how price-sensitive you really are.

If you want a big upgrade to your building's power, which needs new cabling installed or the road dug up? The workers might not keep quiet if they see you're a cannabis grow operation.
Same laws which allow similar things.

Greater good for society would be a good reason. Climate change laws as well.

You can't buy lead paint anymore as well.

Why do you assume a country can't create new laws?

There is also no logical base system which would only allow certain laws to be allowed.
"Very old" is subjective, some people think the Antikythera to be very old.

But when I remember developing software in my startup around 2000, the world of software development was completely different. So, hence, for me, very old.
Stepanov’s “Elements of Programming” is free, though I don’t think in the public domain: http://elementsofprogramming.com/
Thanks for the link, interesting reading. I can totally appreciate the angle that some generations may be too trivial to be worthy of protection.

I happen to be in the UK, and this happens to match my expectations, but it does strongly imply more regional variation than I’d have guessed:

> The situation may be different in the UK, where copyright law allows copyright on a computer-generated work, the author of which is the person who made the arrangements necessary for the work to be created. This, in my opinion, is the user, as we come up with the prompt and initiate the creation of the specific work. I think that there may be a good case to be made that I own the images I create in the UK.
Damn I knew someone with traits of all three and I tell you, it was a frightening experience. It really forced me to contemplate nature and behavior.
Hong Kong Sentences 5 to 19 Months for Children’s Books Deemed ‘Seditious’
see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32786158
Wonder if it can be used to void warranty like the analogue version - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_contact_indicator in non water resistant phones
Funny, because I feel that affine types make me much more productive in Rust :)

Comptime would be nice to have, though!
Here are some ideas:

Try several different presentations to several different audiences. Think A/B testing. Introducing a new product or concept is a process: expect to adapt to how people want to see your product.

For now, try to describe the value of your product in one sentence. “Product [name] provides [main feature] so that [insert really valuable result(s) here].” Try out several different sentences on close associates to see which one seems to work best. Then consider using that sentence for your headline. Again, you can use A/B testing.

What is the most valuable thing about timetraveller.dev? Think: saves time, improves quality, saves money, provides entertainment, increases social status, etc. Stuff like that.

With respect to storytelling, such as what you might use in a pitch or formal presentation, it’s important to identify the protagonist, describe the difficult experience they are having, list the things they tried (failures), identify the epiphany (realization of the solution), and then finish with the details of the valuable “happily ever after”.

Good luck.
Count-Min Sketch (2019)
Why? Because right now everything we do creates more CO2.

Producing more energy means more CO2.

Even producing more solar panels creates more CO2.

The problem is CO2 and climate change. your and mine climate change.

It will cost us less to avoid producing the mass amount of energy for Bitcoin than trying to make it real CO2 neutral which is very very far away
Star fox and Monster Hunter are different kinds of games. RPGs and dungeon crawlers have asked for dozens of hours of grinding for a very long time.

However, it is much more pleasurable and less of a grind when fighting monsters made up of a million 3D triangles as opposed to one made up of 100 2D squares.
Ask HN: Should I Quit Already?
I've been working two jobs and two freelance gigs for the last 3 years. And slowly but steadily, things have started to take a toll.

It's hard for most of the people in my circle to understand because either they don't work that many different roles or they won't have the family responsibilities.

Now that I've working on raising my pay, is it time to make the decision to drop some gigs and focus on just one?
> 99% of people in the world live in places where air pollution exceeds the WHO guidelines

Wow. I knew cities are polluted but this is extreme. In 50 years we might look at pollution as we look at smoking now, a terrible self-inflicted wound on civilization that took way too long to acknowledge and fix.
On the other hand, when I tried to charge my Galaxy S7 with a particular charger (the Surface 3 micro-usb charger), it would tell me there is moisture in the port and refuse to charge.
If they can ban the internal combustion engine and potentially leave large swathes of the working class unable to travel to work, they could certainly ban energy-hungry high-end gaming machines.

The elite will still be able to enjoy private jets and superyachts, though (How else would they travel to climate conferences?)
> Seems like a very contrived example.

It was based on my real-life experience working with a colleague from another team.

> If it were possible to use itertools, wouldn't they just research that, update the PR, and say OK in a comment?

Time spent on a call is time you are publicly perceived as working. Time you spend researching itertools is time during which someone can interrupt you by pinging you in Slack. In that employee's shoes, it seems clear which one of those gives you less of a headache at the end of the day.

Politics aside: Exactly what you describe - the capability to research a library, respond to a PR comment concisely and appropriately - are skills that no one learns during a CS degree, nor doing code monkey work. Ideally, this is the sort of thing a junior engineer gets taught during their first years on the job if supported by a capable mentor. But if they don't have one? Tough.
It seems relatively accessible too, at least as a technology and conceptual model it shows a simplicity that allows the majority to get their hands on it and thus a potential for more growth and innovation. It’s interesting that it also allows refrigeration.

If we could combine heating, refrigeration, with a configurable output of either end on top of it being a generator of voltage… is quite amazing.
As long as app stores are able to skim their take, expect Apple and Google alike to continue slow rolling browser capabilities.
Indeed, and even if a separate group decides to maintain a (potentially diverging) version based on the open-source versions, without a clear commitment from the BSL upstream every security patch puts them at risk of claims of license violations.
Yep, if direct political donations are banned or highly limited, then SBF (and Thiel) will just fund a bunch of media startups that promote their preferred policies and candidates. These firms can appear to be profit seeking ventures while staffed with ideologues who are incentivized to optimize reach and influence.
Cloud giants get whatever they want.
Amazing. I guess the only thing you can do is consider holding and maintaining that land forever. Maybe one of your lineage can build a house on it one day.

Edit: oh this just came to mind. A friend of mine related to me he had similar problems building a house and hired a lawyer to essentially bribe the relevant people.
Free market: tabacco lobby. That was not a good thing for us.

Watch a documentary on how they created false research on purpose and lied in public.

You don't want a free market.
This is "mostly" maths for "big data" (aka statistical efficiency over huge set of data or "qsort-ized" algos) but kind of taught the wrong way: first you learn maths, then you code algos based on current hardware architecture.

I had a doubt when I did realize I could not find one of the most important topics of computer science: proof of accuracy of floating point computations.

I see this more like an index of a library of various algorithms, and that, I think it's good.
What's interesting is the justification for this change. It is not the typical "oh no terrorism" or "think of the children". Its specifically "nation states with an offensive cyber programme" (e.g. China, Russia, probably not US because ally). That is a new argumentation for an expansion of powers, and to me it feels like a better one (note, I have no idea whether this expansion of powers actually is limited to only the stated goal).
Because PoW is designed to use as much electricity as possible. If electricity becomes cheaper (as a consequence of providing more electricity), PoW miners will simply use more of it.
That's a good shout actually, thank you. I don't think I've ever used wireless charging.
yep, "things have started to take a toll" says it all.
What makes you so sure the existing lobby are not the ones pushing for this? Also what makes you so sure that the banking/Wall Street lobby is not larger than the crypto lobby in terms of $$$? I suspect it is much larger. I also suspect they are the ones more ideologically aligned with DC here.

Proof of stake and other “environmentally friendly” consensus algorithms allow a select few to control the network and benefit the most from it which I suspect is the real goal here. The “environmental impact” is just an excuse.

It’s true that a large percentage of Bitcoin is owned by a few people, but at least now the benefit to them is only financial gain. Once you start to allow rich people to validate the blockchain itself, then they can begin to censor and block transactions or wallets from any individuals they deem unworthy or a threat to the powers at be.

We’ve already seen this happen with pretty much every traditional payment provider over the last few years to some extent so it was only a matter of time before they decided to come for Bitcoin.

Their real goal is to cripple and control the Bitcoin network. If they really cared about the environment they would go after energy companies or defense contractors or the banking industry who all use orders of magnitude more energy than Bitcoin miners.

As a sidenote, the executive branch has become much too powerful. They were never supposed to legislate like this. Every president since George W Bush has used extreme executive power, and no one seems to care. We are supposed to have elected representatives to legislate, not a king.
UTM running Windows 10 on an M1 iPad Pro (virtualized at full speed)
The 21st century humanist understanding was always predicated on a world order of massive inequality and international power balances. Now that non-Western countries are providing more competition, and Western countries are seeing their relative living standards drop, it's not a coincidence that humanist values are more wobbly than before.
This has been a thing for ages - at least my last couple of phones. I do a lot of outdoor activities, and it's a constant battle to keep the phone dry enough to charge.

In one case, I had gotten into the habit of storing my phone next to my water bottle, which I think caused condensation from the cord temperature, inside the port. A very stressful few days unable to charge.
Yes. Be good in one thing, not mediocre in 3.
We need to define such terms as "digital goods" and "useful". And then discuss whether bitcoin is either.
Apple???
Because why?

It's obvious that the money streams are under control of the state.

Your sentiment indicate that Bitcoin should be okay because why exactly?

The country doesn't want crypto that was and is clear since ever

And I also brought this point up for the last 5 years.crypto is solving a problem people like you think they wanna solve without understanding that it's on purpose how it is.

It's nothing to be fixed.
Swagger has been retrospectively renamed OpenAPI 2.0
Digital goods are exclusively luxury goods, while all the basic necessities that keeps our society running such as food, water, medicine and shelter are physical.

From this, it's quite obvious to infer that physical goods are more useful than digital goods, it's not even a contest.