skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like additional info about the Content Defined Chunking part of the specification.

How is the content defined? Where I'd try to begin is with a single pass that looks for runs of 'null' ('\0') bytes, even one long, as potential boundary ends. During that pass also look for 'magic signatures' for known stream types like already compressed content streams (all the more so to just not try compressing anyway). The CDC might also be aware of some file structures, zip, 7z, tar, etc; and have a dedicated segment creation algorithm for them. At a low level, the two ends should exchange a list of segment offsets, lengths, checksum (partial?) and maybe some short fragment of bytes to check. (E.G. 4 byte chunks at various powers of 2 offsets or major chunk starts.) Where the two ends have differences in chunks existing they might also expend some minor additional effort to investigate if the chunks that were identified on the other side exist locally; in case the two versions are using different filters or happened to reach different conclusions.
I write, and I have found that keeping an old Nintendo DS with Advance Wars on hand is often conducive to entering states of flow. It prevents me from seeking out the internet if a self-contained object of interest is near to hand. When I lack substantive thought to record, I will pick up the game until one formulates, and it is easy to put back down.
Old CNAME was pointing to microsoft.github.io.

Now the CNAME is pointing to redirect-dns.msftdomains.com.
It’s annoying that this is something you even have to worry about. Gyms are kind of a sacred/vulnerable space, in that they are somewhere you go to better yourself … so someone filming in them and capturing people feels especially perverse.

Not unlike filming in a church, and capturing in the background normal people going in for confession.

If you haven’t said something to the management, you should. I can’t imagine they’d be thrilled: they should be scared of people wielding cameras within their walls for many reasons.
Agree. The conversation on this thread seemed to be trending toward the conclusion that influenza is rare. It certainly is not.
Please don't take HN threads into religious flamewar. Also, please don't fulminate. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://github.com/remkop/picocli

"Picocli is a one-file framework for creating Java command line applications with almost zero code. Picocli aims to be the easiest way to create rich command line applications that can run on and off the JVM.

Picocli supports a variety of command line syntax styles including POSIX, GNU, MS-DOS and more. It generates highly customizable usage help messages with ANSI colors and styles. Picocli-based applications can have command line TAB completion showing available options, option parameters and subcommands, for any level of nested subcommands. Picocli-based applications can be ahead-of-time compiled to a GraalVM native image, with extremely fast startup time and lower memory requirements, which can be distributed as a single executable file.

Picocli generates beautiful documentation for your application (HTML, PDF and Unix man pages)."

https://picocli.info/quick-guide.html
What the actual fuck are toy talking about?

Yes they did. They claimed every Tether was 1:1 backed by US Dollars.

Not assets with equivalent dollar value but full on actual dollars.

They kept doing so until they lie was fully exposed. Then they changed their story.
Learning React the Hard Way
Every known climate projection, and which ones might work
my impression from a short chat with their cofounder is think "firebase for duckdb". pretty solid initial plan, at least
Another well-cited predecessor is "A low-bandwidth network file system." (https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/502034.502052), which was published in 2001. It uses Rabin fingerprinting to define chunk boundaries.
You can use chezmoi to manage files outside your home directory if you really want to.

For an example, see https://github.com/felipecrs/dotfiles:

The `home` directory contains home directory files.

The `root` directory contains root directory files (e.g `/etc`).
What specifically falls under the license? Surely not the rules or mechanics, only the particular expression of those. The art, sure. Maps, sure. Not sure you can claim right over "orc", "dragon", "wizard" or any of that.
How about some respect for the strangers that also have a right to use the shared public space. Is it really too much to get consent before they start recording?
Why do people always go ad-hom?

:-(
Complaining that the only thing SF does to address homelessness is clear out homeless encampments is exactly what the left does 24/7 in this city. Then they demand that the city double-down (for the umpteenth time) on all the other programs that the city dumps billions into.

And the whole corporate conspiracy canard simply doesn't work in this city, either. All the "pro corporate" reforms from the past decade were responses to the city absolutely freaking out about companies fleeing and the city losing the billions in revenue it relies upon for its social program expenditures, which on a per capita basis might exceed even most European cities, let alone other cities in the U.S.

But you're absolutely correct that the one thing the left doesn't do is the one thing that would help the most: reduce the cost of housing development. (As opposed to what the city has done and continues to do--create tens of thousands of 100% publicly funded units for the homeless, which because even the city is obliged to follow its own anti-housing policies, results in unfathomably poor RoI for the already unfathomably huge sums of money dumped into these projects. And which because it's become a drug addict mecca, generates homeless addicts faster than it can house them. Though, to be sure, the city has been this way regarding drugs for decades. My mother does in-home care with older drug addicts in assisted living facilities, and stories about how they got sucked into the SF drug culture in the 1970s and 1980s are common. Though unlike today, Marin was also an epicenter of predatory drug culture, the human detritus--and I mean that to insult Marin, not the individuals who suffered and continued to suffer--of which typically ended up in SF.)
I'm not sure this article has much insight, rather appears to be content for the sake of content.

"Right now, $300,000 is not enough to create a prototype and show traction on the global market. It’s a simple math. Let’s say you need three developers."

That's not simple math - that's faulty assumptions.

While there are always exceptions, you don't typically need to hire 3 developers to build a prototype!

The biggest thing missing from this article is customers - who are they, what do they want, and how much will they pay?
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> Do you think it’s possible for people to learn and change?

Yes, if they get actionable advice, which they can understand and follow, which "just be yourself" is not an example of. It's not just useless advice, it's wrong, showing a fundamental misunderstanding by the advisor of what the problem with the advised person is. It's not only frustrating, but it causes the advised person to dismiss any further advice from the advisor.
Déjà vu, this has also been said for photographers and digital artists.
> Not sure why this is getting downvoted, I believe it’s correct for the U.S.

That's the problem: A US-centric "end of story, period" generalization. In general, you are not allowed to take pictures of other people in public without their consent in Germany and many other countries.
> I jut wonder why the economy goes through such cycles and how to break that cycle.

You answered your own question there. If funding and policy is made by humans, they'll be influenced by others and if everyone starts hiring or firing, pretty soon you'll have a bubble or a recession, respectively. The only way to stop that is to not have humans make decisions.
Sapling has basically combined Mercurial’s UI/UX, and added several more nice features on top, and added Git as a backend (ie, you can use sapling to seamlessly contribute to git projects) - https://sapling-scm.com/
The Laughter Epidemic
On flooded island of homeless people, climate change has never been more real
That's one frame of reference.

Another way of looking at it is that there have always been profit or power seeking activities that cause massive harm to entire generations, until the culture finally learns how to rise up and counteract it.

Usually the pattern is that something genuinely new comes along that we don't have a plan for, millions of people are terribly harmed, and then we sort of figure it out.

Industrialization brought great progress, but it blackened lungs and enslaved children until the progressive labor movement restored some balance. Mechanized warfare and the desire to dominate Europe laid waste to two entire generations, globally, before modern international cooperation brought it somewhat to heel. We poured toxic waste into all the rivers, we applied different laws to people who had different colored skin, we incinerated people who were unlucky enough to be born above oil deposits, all to make a few bucks.

And we've let tech media companies relentlessly commercialize and sexualize us, drive us to anger in search of "engagement" and disassociate us from each other and from our work and things that give us meaning, for at least two generations.

Hopefully we'll figure out how to move past this era too.

It's not a "kids are alright" kind of moment, it's just one of generations of examples of greed leading to people getting harmed.
Again, naming Rutkowsi invokes an impression of his style. But, copies none of his paintings.

Read the paper. What I found is that a random sampling of the database naturally found a small subset of images that are highly duplicated in the database. Researchers we able to derive methods to produce results that give strong impressions of images such as: a map of the United States, Van Gogh's Starry Night, and the cover of Bloodborne :P with some models and not at all with others. The researchers caution against extrapolating from their results.

> We speculate that replication behavior in Stable Diffusion arises from a complex interaction of factors, which include that it is text (rather than class) conditioned, it has a highly skewed distribution of image repetitions in the training set, and the number of gradient updates during training is large enough to overfit on a subset of the data.
Oh but we were. Disney benefited from other people's public domain works but we can't we benefit from Disney's own works because they lobbied to extend copyright duration and deny us our public domain rights.
I question how much of this is going to actually help with climate change and how much is just inflating another bubble that will enrich investors and do little for the climate.

So many of the startups being backed are building things that either have a very minimal impact or they're based on technologies that are so far out they won't be commercially viable for 20 years, if ever.

The big things we need are all boring infrastructure investments that don't have startup-like returns. Things like rearchitecting the electrical grid, upgrading rail and public transit, etc.
It’s actually worse. Even if we dropped our emissions to 0, global warming still keeps going because we’ve pumped so much greenhouse gasses into the air already.

I think OP is correct that we have to get behind nuclear in a big way. A way that we haven’t even started going down. You’re also correct that it’s not sufficient.

However. If you have a lot of nuclear capacity (and I’m talking a massive overbuild in capacity), suddenly spending gobs of it on CO2 recapture isn’t a big deal. That’s probably why OP is saying nuclear at this point is the only viable path forward. Because if you want to do recapture at scale (and you have to go try to even try to arrest the growth), nothing other than nuclear can provide the capacity needed.
Wow. Very "what's yours is mine, what's mine is mine".
Microsoft have this for DFS-R and the spec is open https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocol... - its pretty straight forward to implement.
The Tarsnap technique is interesting but that presentation is a bit hard to follow. What are the examples for values alpha and p?
After they destroyed it, she presumably did the same job somewhere else, with better electrical safety but higher rent. Her job wasn't created by the walled city, it was created by the economic order of Hong Kong.
The alternative of wiring up your own dependencies is pretty trivial and I really prefer it. Martin Fowler calls it a Service Locator, https://martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html#UsingAServi...
> I just want a single command that will do all the reverts cleanly

Well, "rebase -i" will do that if it can be done but that’s unlikely unless your commits have nothing in common.

As changes will be necessary to adapt the code to the removal, it’s kind of hard to tell from the start what will be affected. Things might have knock on effects. It’s funny because I don’t really like Git but this is one of the case where what it does seem to be the best doable considering the actual complexity of the issue.

If you just want to see what will be reverted you can do a three way diff between HEAD, the commit to revert and the commit you intend to revert to btw.
I assume this means NSFW stuff? I never see anyone call themself a "connoisseur" of art unless it's porn.
What really helped me was to create aliases and short scripts for the variety of commands that I used. For example, I created a small script called `git-back` that is `git reset --soft HEAD^1`. The `git-back` takes a parameter for how many commits back you want to go.

Not sure if this is what everyone wants, but adding a wrapper language around the commands was really powerful for me. Everything could be tab completed, used names and terms that I could remember, and at times the new commands became so baked into my mind I forget at times they are not part of core git.
HN threads don't need to be technical, scientific, or engineering. They just need to be intellectually interesting (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

Anything as prominent in humanity and history as religion is certainly that. However, flamewars destroy intellectual interest (put bluntly, they're predictable, nasty and dumb), and it's nearly impossible for a large community to discuss religion without religious flamewar (the most predictable, nastiest, and dumbest of all flamewar). That's unfortunately the other issue with stories like this, besides the run-of-the-mill controversy that you correctly point out.
“the customary afternoon nap”

That 90+ minute break is a little more than a smoke break in the middle of a long shift. Similarly people didn’t have stop watches to time the other two breaks which lasted significant periods on top of the normal short breaks required for any significant physical labor.

Also in reference to “work that need to be done” we don’t include washing our clothes or shopping in labor statistics. If you define works as any productive activity then modern labor statistics also need no be dramatically increased.
You have things a bit backwards. The try operator was not conceived until after sum types and traits were already stable parts of the language. The addition was simple, didn't really alter the language in a meaningful way and is almost purely syntactic sugar meant as a quality-of-life improvement for users. (ie. it hits pretty every single point in the article's definition of microfeatures)
But what is and isn't "half-baked prototype"? People/users/media/investors confuse GUI with functionality with "addresses actual use case(s) for users who might pay/subscribe".

I'd rather have something with a brutal/nonexistent GUI but provides useful functionality and gives me a warm fuzzy that the developers have some use cases in mind, or a suggested workflow.

Yes there is a first-mover advantage to getting into a domain early.
Just curious - what about wearable cameras? Like a bodycam.

Kinda like a dashcam, but worn by a person rather than a vehicle.
This is great for syncing, but what about separating courgette from Chromium so that we can finally have a descent delta diff program? I am tired of Windows community relying on SmartVersion to create ISO diff files just because you need to be a master at compiling Chromium just to use courgette.
It's a good thing that so many young people feel free to be themselves, in public and on the record, instead of constantly stifling themselves and hiding away. Just think about how much previous generations had to hide and play-act and deny who they were. It led to nothing but pain and suffering and death.
It's difficult to know, but my gut feeling is even if you had a website, not that many people would have come and you'd have spent a lot of effort for nothing.

Even if the site immediately starts a video call when you open it (like Omegle) you'd probably get a lot of people disconnecting immediately and generally wasting your time.

Personally I'd be more interested in a large group chat you can just hop in and out of, less social pressure that way, and easier to keep going.
UK Excess Deaths Increase
Apparently those attestations are relatively recent in their history, but also not very convincing:

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2021/03/30/tether-takes-ste...

"as noted later in the article the composition of Tether’s assets is not spelled out in the attestation"

Meaning they may be backed by loans or fraud coins or anything.
Germany reminds Musk that removing disinformation from Twitter is a must
You misunderstood my point...

Fire is warm and it produces light, and it's easily observable in nature, it's a "thing" which humans could easily describe and recognize, before reproducing it. Someone was rubbing two sticks together, and noticed things became warmer, and warmer as they went, starting to feel like the warmth of fire and it happened.

In the case of AGI, I don't feel like we have a definition of done, so it seems kind of crazy to be chasing it / throwing money at it.

I didn't say say I'm against it, but does seem like a crazy way to go about it. Keep producing models that one day might mimic intelligence as we know it?
> I’ve been a product manager/CEO in fintech

You talk about hiring developers, all kinds of marketing strategy... do you know anything about mental health? What makes you qualified to run a mental health company? Where do you discuss bringing in doctors, or mental health specialists, instead of FAANG devs? Is the "health" part just an afterthought?

> investors may not be impressed by the quality of your product

yea, when the founder doesn't seem to think that mental health expertise is important for a mental health startup, investors might be unimpressed.

> It’s ok to mention in your presentation that you have people with FAANG experience in your team

Maybe mention people with, you know, mental health experience?

Even your web site only refers to questionnaires and approaches "approved by" mental health professionals... No claims you have even a single one on staff.

Some fintech washout thinking he can immediately pivot to health of any kind, I hope people can see you for being the total fraud you are.
What worries me is that these “paper” items are increasingly being coated with PFAS and related compounds. I’d like to know that my paper doesn’t contain those long-lived chemicals.
The best third-party code has benefitted from industry-wide testing and fixes no single team could match. People we hire might come in already knowing it.

Competence is partly in recognizing that a problem has been solved and is no longer a good use of time, at least until we have a plan to make an improvement so great to support the redundant maintenance forever.
Not 100% sure I agree…

https://www.ourherd.io/ has had really strong feedback that it has had a positive impact by actually being a social app tailored for mental health…
Quantum Change in Psychology
I bet almost all of them be be homeless again within a year. The problems that made them homeless in the first place are not just money problems.
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Some wifi cards I've used in the past have supported only very limited number of clients in host mode. I'd love to be able to see something like "maximum supported hosts".
For 1, I just use latexmk. I honestly assumed that was standard but I guess not? It comes with TeXLive anyway. For the rest, I use Zotero with betterbibtex and with both that and LaTeX in general I use the more recent biblatex instead of bibtex.

This won't fix everything you've mentioned, but I feel like I generally have a lot fewer issues than what your comment would suggest.
> The driving motivator is just greed, nothing else.

In some cases, sure. But I feel it's also a cop-out - it's easier to assume those business men are just driven by greed, than to look at the messy interplay of motivations and incentives that are the actual driver.

Perhaps that's too cynical a take, but I think it's quite common for small companies to focus on growth because... that's How Business Is Done. Many entrepreneurs are not experts in market economy, nor do they have everything figured out - they follow their intuition, what other entrepreneurs and business press says, etc.

> Growth is not per se required to run a successful company for a long time, that is just plain myth.

Define "long time". I believe that with competition and sufficiently long time, it's not a myth, but an inevitability.

> Also, as soon as you make growth the main motivator to run a company you are opening yourself up to go bust, inherently so.

You can always go bust. If you build a non-expanding, sustainable business, it's only a matter of time before change in the market, or competitors, or just plain increase of costs of living / inflation in general will force you to either grow or give up, as some nonzero amount of growth will be required to just maintain your status quo.

Turning this around, and giving another answer to the "driving motivator" question, you can view it through perspective of observer selection: pretty much all companies pursue growth, because those that didn't are no longer operating.
You’re again misreading what I’m saying. At no point would anything I mentioned be described as only considering git as my only hammer.

It’s easy to say “you should use XYZ” in a vacuum but there are often always tons of other reasons to pick a solution.

Thanks for your thoughts, but they assume I’m not well versed in the domain enough to make the correct decisions for my teams.

It’s also besides the original point that git has a very poor UX. Like yeah there may be things with better UX, but that doesn’t lessen the original criticism nor does it mean one should switch just because of it.
More GPU power and the pictures might get better?