skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
scarf so thin it's not even visible..
Decompression is multithreaded by default. Compression with an argument. However it is built-in.
The Authors Guild v Google decision about Google Books seems relevant:

> In late 2013, after the class action status was challenged, the District Court granted summary judgement in favor of Google, dismissing the lawsuit and affirming the Google Books project met all legal requirements for fair use. The Second Circuit Court of Appeal upheld the District Court's summary judgement in October 2015, ruling Google's "project provides a public service without violating intellectual property law." The U.S. Supreme Court subsequently denied a petition to hear the case.

[...]

> The court's summary of its opinion is:

[...]

> Google’s unauthorized digitizing of copyright-protected works, creation of a search functionality, and display of snippets from those works are non-infringing fair uses. The purpose of the copying is highly transformative, the public display of text is limited, and the revelations do not provide a significant market substitute for the protected aspects of the originals. Google’s commercial nature and profit motivation do not justify denial of fair use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,....

This doesn't touch on the ethics of course – at minimum I think allowing people to exclude themselves or their work from a dataset is necessary.
Vagueness fallacy as well as as hominem argument. If you disagree with what I've said, you must specifically speak to it. Handwaving and attacking me personally will never be persuasive.
does the intuitive sense go wrong when you go to a different part of the world? how does that work out?
I’m no longer a free speech idealist.
Am I the only one who sees the hypocrisy in the ranter and general sympathy from HN code towards them.

"Normal Land Line" wasn't something that came from nature. It is a sophisticated technology invented by humans with the same User Interface flaws and Laggard-Ranting that every generation goes through.

When Mixed-Reality becomes popular, I'm sure there will be many complaining "why can't I just have simple smartphone" and there will probably some Gen Zers sympathizing with them and reminiscing about the simple days of smartphone.

Newsflash: Adaption and Evolution is the name of the game. I can understand if a disabled person complains inability to use gadgets(although smartphones have better accessibility features), but you can bet your bottom dollar, most of these people whine because they aren't curious about the world and stubbornly refuse to adapt and the rest of the world has to bend over backwards to accommodate them?
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> I'll have to leave you to dig it out, if you wish.

I don't.
The right is still for censorship, but selectively just for the things they want censored. There’s no pendulum, just an explosion in hypocrisy. The left used to rely on goodwill and ethical human behavior to do their “censorship” for them, but we’ve lost that at this point and people don’t care if they’re perceived as evil anymore because they have a large enough mutual admiration club now.
I dig it. Nice work.
Comparing Fukushima to Chernobyl is not really justified

Chernobyl: Core meltdown and catastrophic explosion of entire reactor. Caused by gross negligence when safety system disabled.
Direct deaths: <100
Estimated indirect deaths: 4 to 16 thousand

Fukushima: Caused by 4th largest earthquake in history. No core explosion. Hydrogen explosion destroyed non structural part of building (this was by design). Core meltdown but largely contained. Contamination of air/water from venting to atmosphere.
Direct deaths: 1 employee died of cancer
Estimated indirect deaths: 300-2000
well, you could always move somewhere very rural with poor cellphone reception.
Ask HN: Google's AlloyDB in the Real World
It's been half a year that Google has intoduced its version of Postgres tuned for extra performance.

The claim is pretty bold, promising 4x speedup for transactional and 100x speedup for analytical workloads.

Has anyone migrated or tried to migrate to AlloyDB already? What is your experience? What's stopping you?

https://cloud.google.com/alloydb
The stock market crash is exposing Wall Street's biggest charlatans
“Reading, language comprehension, and critical thinking are more universally needed than, say, matrix multiplication or integrals.”

Based on current wisdom. Current wisdom has a spotty track record though. It was once an obvious truth that reading was only for a select group. Universal literacy would have been as absurd back then as the notion of universal math literacy is now. Which is depressing, because one would hope that at least this historical analogy, and it’s implications, had occurred to more people.
alternatively: https://archive.ph/yzh1p
When our robots [1] provide some sort of screen-based interaction, there's always an option to speak with a human via remote video chat.

There's this misconception that everything needs to be autonomous all the time.
Not only does this not need to be the case... sometimes it's distinctly better to build a system that can accommodate some remote human assistance -- whether that's flexibility, customer service, cultural, or even as a technology assist (e.g. to overcome "last mile" issues until the autonomy catches up). By building 95%-99.9%+ autonomous systems, you learn how to achieve 100% service operations, bootstrap new capabilities, and improve autonomy based on real-world experience.

[1] https://www.cobaltrobotics.com/
Well, if you stand on really strong foundations, you can picture everything that happens in your minds eye. It’s algebra with a geometric twist. Simplest example I can think of now is intersections of planes as solution spaces, thats the picture you could imagine from a bunch of equations. Sorry I had it 4 years ago but at the time I could have written better about it. I used contemporary linear algebra, howard anton. Another simpler example is span, the total space of points that you can get by adding and scaling specific vectors that you have. Imagine an infinite plane created by the configurations of two vectors.
Presumably all beliefs not their own, they definitely dog-whistled that not that I can speak to that directly. But they were clearly exclusionary to different sexuality/biology.
To clarify, by a “standard” keyboard I mean a (usually US) QWERTY PC keyboard with 101 to 105 keys (depending on the amount of Win/Super and Menu keys and the presence of an additional punctuation key to the left of Z). Those have three rows of three keys each above the arrows (not counting any “media keys” such as Power); the topmost one of those is PrintScreen / SysRq, Scroll Lock, and Pause / Break, though some of those labels may be omitted. I honestly have never seen a full-size PC keyboard without those. (How am I supposed to hit Ctrl-Break or Win-Break otherwise?)

Strictly speaking, there is no Break key in the same sense that there is no SysRq key—there are only special Break and SysRq scancodes that AT and PS/2 keyboards send instead of Pause and Print Screen when Ctrl or Alt respectively is depressed (thus the combined labels), while USB keyboards don’t even have those, they just send normal modifier sequences. But I don’t think that’s what you had in mind :)
Sure, there are pocket calculators that can run off of ambient indoor lighting, but they have to be designed to run on a truly miniscule energy budget -- on the order of a fraction of a milliwatt.
As a healthcare consumer, I’ve been pretty dissapointed with EHR - apparently transferring medical data between hospitals requires an “hourly fee” and consultants, possibly even if both hospitals use Epic MyChart?

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/10/epic-systems-ju...
This is one of those things that I would love to have while at the same time know most people I know would be befuddled as to why I'd want such a thing.
And as always... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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Also, the robot voice. A while ago, SF movies were projecting robot voices easily distinguishable from human ones. I made peace with the idea that I'd hear something in line with those vocal timbres when the time would come, but nowadays the phone chatbots (and also other use cases where they resort to employing assisted human-robot interaction) are all imitating human voices. I find it jarring, it's like when I figure out that some (human) stranger was trying to trick me by impersonating someone I know.
User experience and design. GitHub was a fresh breath of air compared to SF at the time.
> old mutual friend

Just someone we played sports with. He didn't live in our city, moved away in his youth, and we had zero friends in common on facebook. Haven't seen him suggested as a friend since he disappeared as a suggestion a couple of weeks after that.
The target users don't have that amount of data

believe me

I worked as an accountant
> One we use has gone to a lot of off-shore tier 2 and tier 3 support staff lately

Does the company name begin with an A, before and after?
Both authors have 8+ years of experience, so it does strike me as a controversial take for clicks & views.

Web workers definitely have their place to be useful. I think we can just take it as "Web workers weren't the right solution for this".

Still an interesting read.
Some stuff just takes time to manual test, e.g. if you provision multiple cloud resources and must coordinate them. Or anything involving some sort of multi step process. If you want to ship quickly, you want a test suite to save you the trouble of doing an hour long of manual test for each change you're adding. Delegating the verification to computer, so that my small team can move faster on the other things we need to build, is a no-brainer. At least, once the "cost to manually test" becomes greater than "cost to implement some tests and setup CI".
It is measurable, but not harmful to a meaningful extent. There are lots of sources of low-dose radiation in the natural human/primate/.../mammalian environment.
Related discussion 1 day ago:

Obesity: A Chemical Hunger (2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33219425

(12 points, 5 comments

'twas an interesting read if you ask me =)
Losing brake boost in a failure condition is the typical failure mode in most vehicles with hydraulic brakes. A hydroboost failure in modern medium trucks reduces braking performance just as much as an air pack failure in the deuce and is just as scary..

The brakes, unboosted, are supposed to still be capable of stopping the vehicle. This is also why hybrid and electric vehicles with regenerative braking, that normally use brake-by-wire with a pedal feel simulator, fail through to using the PFS as a direct unboosted hydraulic cylinder.

Losing all brakes in a hydraulic circuit failure is just because those trucks are so old they only have single circuit hydraulic brakes. Part of the A3 upgrades was changing over to a modern dual circuit hydraulic system.

So basically, the issue is that medium trucks are in a weird in-between. Not heavy enough to require full air brakes, but heavy enough that some of the safety assumptions we make about light vehicles are potentially less true.
You never said "you wouldn't want to know why..." ?
That's the amazing thing. They are not. Most likely it will be far worse than they are imagining. I hope I am wrong.
I use this all the time. It's a big time saver on multi-core machines (which is pretty much every desktop made in the past 20 years). It's available in all the repos, but not included by default (at least in Ubuntu/Mint). It is most useful for compressing disk images on-the-fly while backing them up to network storage. It's usually a good idea to zero unused space first:

(unprivileged commands follow)

dd if=/dev/zero of=~/zeros bs=1M; sync; rm ~/zeros

Compressing on the fly can be slower than your network bandwidth depending on your network speed, your processor(s) speed, and the compression level, so you typically tune the compression level (because the other two variables are not so easy to change). Example backup:

(privileged commands follow)

pv < /dev/sda | pigz -9 | ssh user@remote.system dd of=compressed.sda.gz bs=1M

(Note that on slower systems the ssh encryption can also slow things down.)

Some sharp people may notice that it's not necessarily a good idea to back up a live system this way because the filesystem is changing while the system runs. It's usually just fine on an unloaded system that uses a journaling filesystem.
Pushing unrealistic beauty standards on to teens
These hangups seems to me like the kind of thing that is going to greatly improve over time. As was mentioned in another reply thread, the kiosks would benefit from being able to simply repeat your order. It's only a matter of time until this is a feature. Similarly, what falls under your definition of "normal use case" is going to slowly expand as the developers become more familiar with what implementations are important (and have better libraries to deal with the routine implementations).
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The Microserver G10 Plus is not too bad. Replaceable CPU, iLO option, half the size of the G8 (though external power brick)

The regular G10 one is pretty useless obviously. Soldered AMD CPU, cheap design etc. No iLO. It's more of a home entertainment thingy, nothing enterprise-class at all.

I agree I'm looking for something lower power too. I have three G8's but they are each doing 50W idle so I can't run them 24/7. And this is with the lowest-TDP processor that is available for them! (E3-1220Lv2, 17W TDP). The iLO alone is consuming 5W even when it's off.

I'm not sure how much power the G10 Plus draws but I haven't really considered it. It's too expensive still (I bought all my G8's for 175-200 euro each and 2 of them even had a 60 euro cashback on top of that!! So I barely paid more than 100 for them brand new. Crazy cheap pricing for a well-built 4-bay server. Each of the drives inside them cost more than the server itself :)

But 15-20W I think is very ambitious with 4 3.5" drive slots. 30W would be doable I think.
Yes. Many people pirate software when they are unsatisfied with the price or features.
The phrase makes people think that if they are paying then they're not the product. The price the user pays is not always monetary.

A better phrase might be, "If you are the product then who is the customer?"
Because we compete for resources with animals and there is no inhibition to prevent them from deploying additional intelligence to hurt, hunt, or starve humans.
To the contrary, this proves just because some idiot is willing to pay millions for something doesn't make it worth what they paid.
You say it’s patently false and yet here I am saying I’ve seen startups own houses and cars. Maybe your and their tax accountants would disagree, but that’s a different topic.

My point is simply that the low founder salaries are not because the founders are being particularly frugal or living humbly. The low salaries exist simply to pay for the things that the business’ accountant can’t expense. In every respect, the founder lives their business.
it's a nice touch that sl includes a man page and command line flags
What is your point? Someone called her an asshole and then gave a reason. You don't like that reason but you say it's fine not to like her. Seems like a pointless conversation.
> no one is getting dehumanized

[citation needed]
Same here. IT people would prefer to shut down the company rather than help it achieve its mission because they are heavily incentivized to prevent security incidents and not incentivized at all to help with the mission.

Couple that with a CIO who wants to build an empire and second- or third-rate MCSE "Certified" personnel and IT inevitably becomes a huge impedance against the corporate mission.
I can't imagine we'll have banknotes and coins in 100 years from now. Cash is neither efficient nor environmentally friendly. The efforts around helping the marginalized groups should be focused on getting them a debit card not keeping cash around.
Roaming isn't really correlated with political boundaries like state lines here in the US. It tends to be when you're in a rural area that only a competing service has bothered to put up towers in.
Ever tried to install gitlab? It's like 1GiB compressed package. lol
OMG, thank you. jq is great but its syntax is impossible to memorize. This is so much better.
"Gee that guy made a good point...I don't really have an answer...I know, call him a pigeon!"
> and I got tired of questions/comments :)

I'd be very attempted to gruffly retort "murder and racketeering charges" and see how fast they stop being curious.
If a company makes you BYOD, you should be able to bill them for wear, just like how you bill them for gas and wear to your personal vehicle when they make you drive to a conference or something else like that.
The author of lzip has pointed criticism for the design choices of xz.

I generally use lzip for data that is important to me.

https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html
> I think allowing people to exclude themselves or their work from a dataset is necessary.

or they could open it all up for everybody and stop protecting the rights of death people (authors dead less then 70 years ago)

then again, that will make the publishers starve... but why pretend publishing corporations need food?
I don't get it. Was their sonar broken?
I was taught Pascal using the Free Pascal IDE, for OI competitions, in high school.

I wish the teacher had made us jump into C++ directly.
Gödel numbering is chosen because numbers are very easy to reason about and mathematicians like that things are provable from simple principles like arithmetic, and because for Gödel's theorem to actually work on theories of arithmetic the encodings of formulas have to be numbers.

Of course, you can choose some other encoding scheme - one that is easier for humans to read, such as the binary encoding of a nicely formatted string - but that's not as directly amenable to a rigorous mathematical proof. In particular, you technically have to prove that that encoding scheme doesn't lead to ambiguities, i.e. every string has (at most) a unique parsing. That may seem (and is) obvious, but technically does require a proof, something you can avoid when you just use Gödel numbering via the fundamental theorem of arithmetic instead

But Gödel numbering is not really the bread and butter of the proof. The more technically relevant part about Gödel's proofs that doesn't just readily follow from the halting problem is the fact that incompleteness of first-order theories has only very weak conditions - Robinson arithmetic is already sufficient.

You have to prove that Robinson arithmetic is strong enough to express every primitive recursive function and that requires some mathematical tricks.
I don't get it. One of the developers deleted the 'code of conduct'? And then lots of other people left strange comments on the commit?

What's the issue here? I'm not sure I understand the context.
What's amusing about the sales pitch? (I'm always looking for a laugh.) Amusement is actually what I got out of the article. It was nice to shake the dystopian vibes that I associate with workers being replaced by robots. Something about the hospitality industry and (as described by the author) "bimbly" robots is light and fun.
I think Kanye actually is more mentally ill than our misguided uncles. I believe he has even spoken about his struggles with it during more lucid times.
You can buy into it and sound ridiculous while doing so
Aye, pick the right tool for the target audience. If you are the target or you know everyone else who needs to read the output will have the ability to read zstd, go with that. If not consider pigz. If writing a script that others may run, have it default to gzip but use pigz if available (unless you really don't want that small % drop on compression).
Cash can get lost, stolen, or damaged. It is especially a risk when you’re bringing a bunch of cash for an international trip.

> transaction fees, particularly when traveling internationally

Many banks offer no international transaction fee cards. Charles Schwab Checking is one such example.

> magnetic fields suck. Plastic gets brittle

Cash is filthy disgusting and deteriorates. Also risk of receiving counterfeit bills.
For what it is worth, I did an estimate on here awhile ago (welcome to search my history) where IIRC you had to eat several kilos of boar and mushrooms every day to approach limits for radiation workers (which has a large safety margin).

I think many people forget that we are really good at detecting radiation. This is mostly due to Cold War era fear and so a lot of research got put into this and we have cheap and sensitive devices. Cheap enough that there are large public networks of radiation monitoring set up by citizens. Not too dissimilar from citizen weather projects.
What sexualities do you believe they're excluding?
I've made it to my late 30s only owning a car for maybe 2 or 3 of those years. I've never felt the desire, my mom always commented it was odd back when I was a teenager... But I digress, it is very possible and it's easier than ever. I grew up on the rural west coast, moved inland to an agricultural area. Never living in a proper city by most metrics. Certainly I've missed some opportunities along the way, c'est la vie, but it is easier than ever and I'm meeting more and more people like me as time goes on. I also don't have a photo ID as a general rule, but that's a whole different can of worms and in some cases much more limiting than living car free.
Most people seem to create their own hurdles or embiggen real ones that they do face, certainly I do in my own ways so don't take that as a judgement just an observation. Choosing to go carless is not half the hurdle many people perceive it to be.
1. Celsius has closer to $500M in BTC in a cold wallet that for security reasons they do not want to touch and trade with on a daily basis.

2. They call up Tether who loans them $500M worth of USDT which they can use as a more liquid security to loan out or trade crypto with.

3. They pay interest to Tether on the loan in crypto.

4. Eventually they have to pay back the USDT loan with USDT, although if their BTC value hasn't declined they probably extend the loan period instead -- although sending the USDT back is probably how Tether gets burned.

5. If the loans are denominated in $USD and Tether accepts USDT at the market rate for paying back the loans that would be a mechanism that would naturally pin Tether to the $USD via arbitrage by people who want to buy a cheaper USDT token to pay back their loans with whenever Tether falls, and don't want to be actively paying back Tether with their USDT when the price has fallen.

> But they have to know that none of that funny money is going to get paid back with real money.

To first order, none of it is about $USD so literally nobody cares, and its all just funny money collateralized by other funny money.

It is very much like someone sitting on a vault full of Gold (the BTC cold wallet) that wants to borrow money (the USDT in the crypto space) in order to have liquidity (buy crypto shit with it).
Tails 5.5
Lisp's conditions and restarts are great for this, so you can make the policy decision at a high level while not fully unrolling the stack and allowing retries to be done in the original context if that's the verdict.
Flash is not power intensive, for iphone workloads

so it doesn’t matter. (ie not worth the cost)

the density is good enough already.
Organizational changes come with resistance in all fields but if your doctor & nurses go out in the streets and say : people is likely going to die because of this, maybe is time to hear out.
Is C actually simpler than Rust? It's certainly less powerful, but it has so many weird edge cases (e.g. the integer promotion rules) that I'm not convinced it's actually easier to learn fully.