skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The levels only differ in the quality of the lz matches. Slower levels search further potential matches - you cannot see that from a compressed stream.

If you see a match that would not be visible from given compression level, or conversely if you don't see a match that should have been selected at given compression level, then it is clear that the level couldn't be used to make that compressed stream. I think preflate actually does this, maintaining multiple hash tables over the course.

That said, I see where my explanation was slightly off in hindsight (sorry!). A bitstream only composed of blocks with the static Huffman table can be produced in multiple ways. One such case is of course a very specific input that is more beneficial to not use dynamic Huffman tables (that said, zlib tallying is AFAIK greedy so this should be very rare). Another case is Z_FIXED, which was actually what I had in mind at that writing---I should have said compression parameters instead. But I stand by the claim that many parameter combinations can be excluded from partial or full decompression, and for the practical purpose this is enough to be classified as the "estimation".
IIRC it's used to extract/generate the signatures needed for YouTube media URLs
Luckily I don't need InReach, so it was an easy decision for me. Last year I made the mistake to cheap out and get a 64sx. It's a fine GPS, but it's was not really a big improvement over my 62s. Having GLONASS and Galileo as well was nice, but the 64sx is not multi-band, only has a few extra connectivity options, and still has the same old interface as the 62s.

However, I love the 66sr. Not only is it fast and accurate, the screen is so much nicer than the 62/64 series. The UI has the same base interface, but looks much refreshed compared to the 62/64. And I love the support for Live Geocaching. No need to plan ahead and do pocket queries, but I can just download caches on-device.

I was first a bit hesitant about the built-in lithium battery (no more replaceable AA batteries), but then the 66sr has more than double the battery life of the 66s (36 hours vs. 16 hours), so it's not an issue in practice for my uses.
A third of Pakistan, a country 1.2 times the size of Texas, is underwater due to climate change related flooding. Can the first world ever really fully repay for all the damage they've done. It seems that a genuine effort to would completely bankrupt them. How much growth in GDP would be wiped away if we truly put an effort into internalizing these "economic externalities"?
Heck, HN constantly gives rise to bickering about how $109k is a very low salary to make.

The fact that puts you in the global 1% blows my mind

edit to clarify: This is not a value judgement on money. Just saying it blows my mind – the human brain (at least mine) wasn’t made for the power law
FISERV sucks
> No one is talking about the dangers of Khan Academy or Duolingo.

Isn't this why the author's food analogy is more communicative than the popular cigarette analogy?
The latter does not preclude the former.
That's kind of the point. Calling it "technology addiction" or "phone addiction" is reductive to the point of being completely false. Internet connected devices are tools at the end of the day, and any problems result through the ends those means are used to access or interact with, not the means themselves.
You need to run some obscured JS to get decent download speeds from Youtube. Something along the lines of PoW.
that is funny, just the other day i was thinking about how i wished twitter, in particular, felt more 'fun', and started making a stylesheet to try and make it feel more 2006-ish or something lol https://i.jollo.org/xoYwhYpb.png
Give me a private, cross platform browser that isn’t trash and I’ll never user another app again.
They need to run a JavaScript function to download YouTube videos at normal speeds.

Edit: it's also required to download music, otherwise it will just fail

Source:

- https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29326#issuecom...

- https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/d619dd712f63aab1...

- https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/cf001636600430...
I really appreciate the work this subculture does. I was a big fan of Soul Reaver back in the late 90s, and it was famous for having about 1/5th of the game removed before release. Twenty years later, I finally got to see what it would have looked like, just because someone stashed a few prototypes away.

I'm sure there are plenty of other examples, especially of unfinished games that were never released, like Sierra's Babylon 5 space combat sim, Dead Phoenix on the GameCube, etc.

There's a section in the bonus material for the Blade Runner final cut where someone mentions that the only reason they have the unused footage is that someone intentionally ignored instructions to destroy a palette of film back in the 80s. The film world finally caught on about archiving that material. Hopefully the game industry will sooner or later as well.
I'd have to read up on the specifics as well, but I think basically Youtube uses a lot of obfuscated, rapidly and automatically changing Javascript code to fetch the video data. A project like youtube-dl has to run this code to be able to download videos, because that's what's happening in the browser as well.
It's becoming clearer that with all the brain and consciousness theories out there, the proof will be in the pudding. By this I mean, can any particular theory be used to create a human adult level conscious machine. My bet is on the late Gerald Edelman's Extended Theory of Neuronal Group Selection. The lead group in robotics based on this theory is the Neurorobotics Lab at UC at Irvine. Dr. Edelman distinguished between primary consciousness, which came first in evolution, and that humans share with other conscious animals, and higher order consciousness, which came to only humans with the acquisition of language. A machine with primary consciousness will probably have to come first.

What I find special about the TNGS is the Darwin series of automata created at the Neurosciences Institute by Dr. Edelman and his colleagues in the 1990's and 2000's. These machines perform in the real world, not in a restricted simulated world, and display convincing physical behavior indicative of higher psychological functions necessary for consciousness, such as perceptual categorization, memory, and learning. They are based on realistic models of the parts of the biological brain that the theory claims subserve these functions. The extended TNGS allows for the emergence of consciousness based only on further evolutionary development of the brain areas responsible for these functions, in a parsimonious way. No other research I've encountered is anywhere near as convincing.

I post because on almost every video and article about the brain and consciousness that I encounter, the attitude seems to be that we still know next to nothing about how the brain and consciousness work; that there's lots of data but no unifying theory. I believe the extended TNGS is that theory. My motivation is to keep that theory in front of the public. And obviously, I consider it the route to a truly conscious machine, primary and higher-order.

My advice to people who want to create a conscious machine is to seriously ground themselves in the extended TNGS and the Darwin automata first, and proceed from there, by applying to Jeff Krichmar's lab at UC Irvine, possibly. Dr. Edelman's roadmap to a conscious machine is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.10461
you get 0.5~1+ second delay when you use containers in lambda, think its worse on Fargate unless somebody can update with real data here recently.

if you dont use containers in lambda, its super fast unless you start using C#/Java
> Your Internet service provider can see every site and app you use—even if they’re encrypted. Some providers even sell this data, or use it to target you with ads.

> We believe privacy is a right. We won't sell your data, ever.

"We, the people who make up this company now, but not in the future, PROMISE."

I notice they didn't say "we don't keep the data."

According to the comments, this is just wireguard. I deployed my own on a webhost and I use that, probably to the same effect. I guess I have to trust the webhost not to go snooping in my private logs, but that's a whole lot more targeted and requires a lot more effort.
Right. Essentially, community moderation and no legal repercussions.
This involves a serious, perhaps even fatal, misunderstanding.

It was not impossible to write safe C. That's sort of ironically illustrated by WUFFS. WUFFS-the-library is literally C source code. C source code for a safe, very high performance data processing library. A human could have written that library in C. But they didn't, humans wrote that software in WUFFS-the-language and the tool which turned that into C to produce WUFFS-the-library.

So, this bounty can't do what you claim. The existence of TigerBeetle, apparently high quality software written in Zig, doesn't mean somehow Zig is how you produce high quality software, any more than the fact somebody beat a Dark Souls game with a guitar controller means the guitar controller makes Dark Souls easier to beat.
What does it mean to be smart?
What chain of evidence is needed if the actual people involved say they saw something? Their testimony is not open to dispute, you either believe they saw it or you believe they are liars. How would that account be tampered with? Anyway, according to all involved, there is infrared and radar that corroborates the eyewitness accounts. Of course the Navy has that classified, but interestingly, there is no official denial to say otherwise. I think I will believe these people until the service shows me a real reason not to.
I've got an eMap - last time I tried it (after it was off for N years), it took upwards of 20 minutes to get a fix with a clear sky because it could only track (AFAIK) 6 satellites and without the hints from recent use, it struggled badly.
It's used in the YouTube extractor: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/d619dd712f63aab1...

I believe YouTube limits your bitrate if you don't pass a specific calculated value; it's possible youtube-dl has to parse and eval JS to get it.
Yea! Why should phone companies be forced to carry conversations they don’t want you to have over their networks? Why should ISPs be forced to serve content they don’t want you to see? If you want to call the competitor of ATT to switch your service, well you need to do it using a competitor’s line, and, if you want to view competing plans over Comcast’s internet, well you need to do that at the library or on someone else’s network!
Obvious \s, the issue is that these “broadcast companies” are used by everyone, and should be treated as a utility.
Need an open source project that tries to build it.
(There is a lot of hard problems to solve but it is worth the effort)
Need to start with stick figures in 2d worlds.
Next upgrade to voxel 3d worlds.
Finally upgrade to 3d worlds rendered in unity/blender/etc.
(It will take too long to get Disney/Marvel quality in the first release).
Need create a ViT/LLM trained on scripts and existing movies.
Can use future versions of AI image generation to get to high quality.
That's probably the appropriate action for contest filings in Santa Clara county. Either it's a new purchase, the assessment is more or less the purchase price and someone read bad advice on the internet to always contest assessments, or the assessment has been prop 13 limited and contesting it is clearly a joke. In 2010, the Santa Clara Assessor actually lowered my assessment, which I thought was funny, but I bought in 2009, and I guess the market hadn't hit bottom quite yet. That said, if the property use is significantly impaired and the assessor wasn't aware, there's a case to be made. Although, lack of access to fresh water has been an issue in the Monterey Penisula since at least the 1970s, so I'd guess the assessor is aware, and the market should be too.
I'm confused. What does budget have to do with using Blender? I thought a big movie budget is needed mainly for the labor and artistry, and comparatively little goes into software licensing. Is that not the case?
Yeah, truly a misstep, going after a criminal president from 2 decades earlier. Weird hill to die on, dude.
The Immune System by Peter Parham. A masterpiece.
On the other hand, a lot of GDP would be saved if we stopped putting countries one third underwater!
Definitely. Probably for a reason.
You'll like some of the apps available on CapRover, like PenPot. I've used CR several times just for a few apps they supply.
Why the cringe? While computer dating would have been rather rudimentary at the time, it still seems plausible that two wildly disparate people like that would have algorithmically incompatible dating profiles.
You're looking for Sandstorm containers. They are much more hardened and purpose-built for self-hosting. To my knowledge, nobody's ever reported a container escape that affects Sandstorm.
Does it work in countries like China to bypass their Great Firewall?

Edit: Out of curiosity I searched in some Chinese tech forums. Apparently it works, but it is so slow, not really useful for any serious use.
I'll counter. Don't tell my why you recommend it; tell me briefly what it's about instead and I'll decide for myself whether or not I want to read it.

I like to have moments to myself without feeling like I am being sold something. I feel like I am constantly being sold things on the internet; let me do the discovery myself. Let me decide for myself whether or not it is interesting to me.
> it still requires an initial lock to GPS before feeding them in

Is there any technical reason, or is it just protectionism? (as in, no GPS lock? No lock at all, even if Galileo and Glonass are 100% fine!)

> Beidou is still banned and blocked in firmware while in US even though the satellites are broadcasting, since this constellation lacks US approval

Is it legal to use a Xiaomi phone in Wifi only mode with Beidou GNSS?

> Here's some slides about BeiDou's technical details, specifically note the 2-way messaging

Super interesting, ty! I see interesting details like "Horizontally positioning accuracy is about 1.5m" so it should be better than GPS! Also, it supports 300k SMS/h with a coverage over Japan, India and Thailand!

I would love to play with Beidou!
Hard question, there's a lot; one favourite I came across years ago on one uni. course when I was finishing my SW Eng. MSc and while had I worked in Global SW Dev for years. The research was so well put together on a difficult to measure topic:

An empirical study of speed and communication in globally
distributed software development

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.324...
From the lens of a Product Manager working in ML / Large Language Models...

The Alignment Problem

By Brian Christian

How do we tell the computer to do all the things we want it to do, all the things we don't want it to do, and all the things we didn't realize we want it to do or not do? How do we capture the rich implied and inferred nature of humanness? That's the Alignment Problem. The book dives into this broadly – but also gives an excellent non-technical survey of the evolution of machine learning.

—

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

By Scott McCloud

This is magnitudes more than a dive into the perhaps easy to dismiss artform. This book is about storytelling and why great stories resonate. It's one of the best pieces of media, on media, period.

—

An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

By Will Larsen

When I my company was acquired by a very-big-Giant, my personal antibodies reacted negatively to the how the big G's way of thinking and doing – I was harmfully autoimmune. To some extent I had to accept things, to another extent I needed a different perspective. This book helped me transition and it's one I push on all of our leads. While we as PMs don't manage people directly we architect the whole system – and this book is an insightful (I buy it for all the team's leads) lens on how big teams where personal alignment and corporate alignment problems need to be negotiated.

—

Exhalation Stories

By Ted Chiang (also recommend Stories of Your Life)

The author has an absolute magic way of taking a kernel of an idea and spinning not only a whole world, but a whole new way of looking at the world – all in the span of a short story. You can't get any closer to home than "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" where the protagonist rears an artificial intelligence from "pet" to a human-like mind.

—

The Pragmatic Programmer

By David Thomas and Andrew Hunt

PMs need to get things done. Even if we don't code, we need to think deeply on how it's built to ensure it achieves our goals now, and what we project them to be in the future. As the title suggests, a pragmatic take on building code-driven systems.

—

Design of Everyday Things

By Don Norman

The OG design-thinking before IDEO corporatized it.

—

Principles

By Ray Dalio

"Principles are ways of successfully dealing with reality to get what you want out of life." This book influenced me to distill how we take action and prioritize and how we decide as a team. I'll admit some of the set up of the book irked me, but the distilled world view that form the Principles in the second half of the book generally resonates; the world works a certain way, find those patterns, use it to your advantage (and for good).

—

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

By Edward Tufte

You could jump into any of Tufte's books, on any page, and come away with new ways of looking/thinking/telling stories about data. ML problems are data problems – let's think well beyond raw dumps and tables.
The stopping problem is a big part of it but I think also the older you get the less concerned you are about social conformity. You just do the things that make you happy regardless of what the young people think.
Thanks, it should work now. You might have to use Ctrl+Shift+R to force update.
I mean, if we choose the metric of "presidents capable of not resigning in disgrace", then Nixon is literally the worst, and by an infinite margin.
I'm not sure about the policies bit. Sure, on the social front God, Guns, and Gays are powerful motivators to get those people to vote.

But economic policies from the same side seem to be mainly about lowering the tax burden of the rich.

What am I missing?
> I believe YouTube limits your bitrate if you don't pass a specific calculated value

It's starting to become Widevine bullshit all over again.
It's still here and we're still working on it! It's 300th release just rolled out. I'm personally working on packaging three different apps right now.
I moved from an original Canon 5d to the X100F a few years back. The immediate improvement in AF was jarring. So was the output straight from the camera. Then there was the incredible size- I could just slip it into my jacket pocket.

I moved up the the X100V when that came out to try and get even better AF performance (most pictures are of my busy kids) and it has been a worthy upgrade.

Since then I’ve tried an X-T3 and an XPro2. I fairly quickly sold both. The XT3 is just too big for me to want to take out. The XPro2 is smaller but still much bigger than the X100.

As hard as I tried to justify spending more money, the X100v is basically perfect for my needs.

A Leica Q2 is on my wishlist but I wonder if it too would feel too big to take with me most of the time.

It’s true that the best camera is the one you have with you and because of the size of the X100, you can basically have it with you all the time.
Also Rick and Morty is an incredibly nihilistic show. The character dynamics are terrible (to each other), and that limits the long term capacity for stories.

They were able to pull a good few seasons, but it starts looking as the same destructive jokes over and over.

I still watch it and enjoy it, but I feel a bit empty inside, it’s such a bleak view inside humanity…
No.

We need to divorce the public policy conversation about climate change and carbon emissions from all of this inflammatory and polarizing rhetoric.

Promote policies that target the worst sources of environmental pollution without coding your speech in a manner that causes everybody who voted for trump or itemized their taxes or whatever to stop listening in the middle of what you're trying to say.
Not sure what you mean - he never implied that mullvad didn't support wireguard. He was asking why the original commenter used OpenVPN over wireguard.
And you think that inclination is temporary? I urge you to examine the history of concerts in that game. A bit under 11 million watched a concert by Marshmello a year prior.

And that's not counting the upcoming stuff. Trying to write off something this successful as a pandemic driven fad kinda speaks to that whole being out of touch thing I was talking about.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/28/22699014/fortnite-soundwa...
From https://developers.cloudflare.com/warp-client/known-issues-a... :

> In a number of cases, if the origin site you are communicating with cannot determine who you are and where you are from, it cannot serve locale-relevant content to you (that is, anything related to a customized user experience, such as language or regional configurations). Sites inside Cloudflare’s network are able to see this information. If a site is showing you your IP address, chances are they are in our network. Most sites outside our network, however, are unable to see this information and instead see the nearest egress server to their server. We are working to see if in the future we can find a way to more easily share this information with a limited number of sites outside Cloudflare’s network, where it is relevant to both parties.

Given that Cloudflare has recently announced that a site’s operators promoting doxxing is an acceptable use of that same Cloudflare network (their backtracking on grounds of imminent threats to human life in one situation does not make this any less their policy), I cannot in good conscience promote Warp to anyone.
Roblox wants to advertise to gamers ages 13 and up in the metaverse
Graphics programmer at a game studio

Real-Time Rendering is probably my most used book when I started

It is more of a breadth than depth book though
https://archive.ph/jEqvW
Why? I am so tired of certain section of Indians online pretending that somehow all entertainment should be dictated as per their sensibilities of what's acceptable and what's not. What's wrong in having movies that are over the top? Everyone has different tastes. What's worthwhile for you maybe boring for someone else. I am not saying you have to start appreciating RRR if it's not something that you enjoy, but don't invalidate an experience that millions of people clearly enjoyed. I can appreciate a K Balachander, Gopalkrishnan, Satyajit Ray masterpiece while also hooting for Bheem in RRR. The greatest achievement of Indian cinema is how varied our repertoire is and there is something for everyone to enjoy. Celebrate it, don't be embarrassed about it.
Bose was a socialist in the sense that nazis were nationalist socialists so I’m not sure what your point is there.
On a final note, if anyone is looking for a government regulator with a proven track record of resigning when things go wrong, know that I’m available.

Hehehe... Classic Dutch humor
the equivalent is an IP address.

having said that, in 2022 with a fiber connection and a 200$ NAS (with a very user friendly web interface) you can host a DNS, a web server, a WordPress instance, a mail server, a mastodon instance and serve a lot of content.

that's what decentralized internet is all about.