skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Misskey has a lot more features, but can be too much for certain scenarios.

Misskey is more geared towards "fun" communities, because of it's design and it's extra features.

Mastodon is more sterile/corporate and geared towards serious things.
Yeah, more specifically, it usually is referring to radio signal propagating using some form of bounce off the ionosphere. Usually only relatively lower frequencies do this (these are unfortunately named "HF" for high frequency). The more the earth is bombarded by charged particles, the less transparent the ionosphere is to radio signals, so the more likely you are to get a bounce from higher frequencies.
> Not sure what is low-tech alternative for espresso.

There are manual espresso machines like the Flair or the Cafelat Robot. But for many people, the moka pot is a no-fuss, close-enough alternative.
Not 99.9%, maybe 80% based on income statistics.
Why get irritated, especially when you can easily turn them off? I welcome new features like this and don't mind companies trying to 'advertise' them within their own proudct as long as I can easily turn them off. With the usage labels, I believe they even prompted you to turn them off on first start if you didn't like them.
I have a vague memory of some of the high-end ones being capable of recording DVDs and so you could use them to digitize your tapes. So those were not cobmo just for the sake of it.
Thanks for the clarification. My Google Fu apparently isn't up to the task, can you share where the knobs are to control this behavior?
grim way to think of people but ok have fun
2captcha is a human-based solver service.
gzip and xz are usually installed these days, zstd isn't.
Yeah, it would seem to me (as an uneducated moron looking from the outside) that if you have domain knowledge about what is being compressed, a specialized compression algorithm would be much better overall than a generic one.

Especially if major portions of the files are repeated.
It may be the 'LUCA' is very nearly the ideal early life form and RNA/DNA are the right way to do things. Just like water is pretty unique.

Or alternatively, the first successful organisms on a planet out compete and literally eat the other organisms to extinction.
If you boil a performance down to a script, and then you boil it down further into some archetypes, tropes, and a timeline, then not much is original, but you're also boiling away everything that makes a film unique. Just because things like sound design, actor charisma, and historical context are hard to measure doesn't mean they don't all add up.
CD Projekt Red's original great work: bringing Baldur's Gate to Poland. :)
Honest question: How can this work out if the legacy APIs are still at the bottom?
Wouldn't you only need two bits to encode C, G, A, and T?
To confirm we're not taking past each other: You can change 'Branch' to 'All' to see everything, and then re-filter.
> Just admit you chose a shit example.

This might have been intended to be a pun, but it just comes across as absurdly rude and not at all in-keeping with your "DE&I" background.

That there are new and different toilets in existence (which are notable in the fact they differ from traditional toilets, btw) doesn't remove the fact that the vast majority of toilets in use have not changed their interface design in many decades.

You can think of it as: "We developed notepad.exe, and someone else developed vscode.exe", as in they didn't change notepad.exe to become vscode.exe, which seems to be what you're implying by the fact that composting toilets exist.

Toilets are a poor example for another reason: they're just about as basic as it gets, crap in a hole and dump water on it with a chamber hanging above.

The UX, is of course the same.

And, please don't shit into a bidet, I hope you're referring to the optional additional thing that some people have added to their toilets as an extension, which doesn't change the core functionality at all of the toilet.
I don't know anything about DNA files, but I wonder how gzip (deflate) would fare if one of the non-default compression strategies were used.

e.g. the RLE strategy is good for data with many compressible patterns, while the filtered or Huffman-only strategies are good for data with few compressible patterns.

The default strategy is a balance between the two extremes, which isn't tuned for a specific kind of input.
https://twitter.com/ziontree/status/1497998920739274757
Unfortunately, however, FASTQ files have more characters than ACGT and (N). They include a second line that encodes sequence quality. In practice, that line is even more compressible, but it complicates things.

(And of course the label on each entry is just standard 7-bit ascii), and also very compressible, but it contains higher complexity text.
I always like this when the url is always copyable, but in our app, the state can get quite large. We started with base64 encoded gzip of json.stringified app state but just gets quite long. Arguably it could be reduced a little bit, but would still be hundreds-thousands of chars routinely, so we switched to using a little URL shortening service that we wrote on aws lambda+dynamodb
Humans already struggle to tease value out of the noise that is the SEO and ad and marketing filled internet. Making producing junk, noise, and spam easier can only possibly make that worse.

This is like turning on your microwave while playing a shooter on WiFi because "the space my router is in is already full of 2.4ghz noise".
If you see something absurd in a HN comment, it's worthwhile to check their comment history. You aren't missing anything or miscomprehending - it's just a troll.
How Random Is Crypto Wealth? A Statistical Analysis
It’s 100% wool. Why? (Edit. Oops correction. 80% wool, 20% nylon. 100% is throwing away money)

Wool is still popular in the UK despite carpet shops trying to sell the “bleach cleanable” benefits of plastic flammable carpet for many years

Even if it were plastic, is that a reason to have more plastic?
Yep. See here for an explanation: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12520124/parse-url-fragm...

Edit: better link to explain the concept
So they're using them to verify personhood, not to label a dataset...
> I use Safari almost universally, and therefore can't pass a recaptcha challenge

That doesn't grok - Millions of people use safari daily and pass recaptcha challenges. You probably have a content blocker set too aggressively or something like that preventing you from it - it's not safari.
Apple have a data export function. Read more here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204055
There's nothing "extraordinary" about that claim. All online service providers do this, Google especially, and everyone on the internet knows that.
Tossing another data point out there.

I've a son who's worked a physical job for 4 years and started IF two years ago. Starting at ~300lbs, he went to ~200lbs in 4 months and has been <200lbs since. His first meal is a late day lunch; the sort of food he eats hasn't changed.

It may be my genetic line has a disposition to sharply lose weight. In 2021, I went from 225 to 192 in one month (panic + light eating).
I'm not sure why gzip still pops up for FASTQ data, as it is quite easy to bin the quality scores, align it against a reference genome and compress it as e.g. CRAM [1,2].

With 8 bins, the variant calling accuraccy seems to be preserved, while drastically reducing the file size.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRAM_%28file_format%29

[2]: https://lh3.github.io/2020/05/25/format-quality-binning-and-...
That's not a problem with TCP, that's more of a problem with IP itself. Connections are currently identified by the source/destination IP and port numbers, but that should not have been the case. Imagine we use a UUID for the connection and keep an updatable cache between UUID and IP.

Still nothing to do with TCP.

Also, this kind of partial file transfer protocol is still needed because what if a host crashes? Even if we completely solve the mobile IP problem we would still rely on both ends of the connection tracking state. That state is lost due to a crash or power failure.
So far I love my Delonghi magnifica, no display or programming so it also doesn't do much and it was around $230 a few years ago. It grinds coffee beans and has sufficient water pressure and that's it. A bit loud, a bit bulky, but for the money it was a great value :)
I’ll let you in on a secret: I use my French press pretty much daily and throw it in a dishwasher every long weekend.

I suspect regular hits of mildly acidic boiling water keeps the microbes at bay better than most other sanitation methods.
I strongly second this. Abu Mostafa has videos and homework for this course too. This course was the one that made a LOT of fundamental things “click”, like, why does learning even work and what are some broad expectations about what we can and cannot learn.
I have some questions for folks who are working in this field. In particular, are you holding onto your FASTQs for a long time (> 1 year), and if so, why? Is max compression, or ease of analysis more important (IE, do you access the data during the retention period, do you ETL it to another format, etc). How much of your budget represents storage costs which could be affected by compression?

I'm curious because in the past I've seen people are very cost sensitive but also want to keep lots of data that seems to go mostly unused.
> If $7k destroys a friendship, it's not really that close of a friendship.

This is easy to say if you're a software engineer at a top tier company making a solid six-figure salary, but $7k is an enormous amount of money for the vast majority of people. I think I would significantly hurt my relationships if I failed to pay back $7k to any of my friends.
Sure. XML is a great tech. Much underrated today.

(Besides the insanity that correct parsing would need network access, it's mostly very sound).
Wouldn't CGAT be a 2-bit alphabet, bringing file size to 25% of the original? Assuming you go for a binary format with length headers, so you don't need to reserve control characters.
like the online tax return companies, their lobbyists push for minimal regulation
https://www.reddit.com/r/overemployed/comments/v4y76m/how_to...
Your argument seems to be based on the idea that Microsoft would do a better job than its competition technically. The fact that you're happy to rely on them also seems to imply you think they're unlikely to act abusively. However, you're writing your comment in a thread about a similar megacorporation, Google, who is acting abusively, because their engineers are saying parsing a robots.txt file would be too difficult.
How the world almost ended in 1983
Yes, though that's an interesting phrase - how can the company "put in" more police / LE officers? Aren't they assigned patrols or dispatched for specific incidents?
Raspberry Pi's new 12-megapixel camera modules provide powered autofocus
But that's irrelevant, it was not a big loan for the OP.
This firm is working to control the climate. Should the world let it?
For some reason that example reminded me of this example. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTkw9WOzhDs
A couple hours in even moderately chilly water -- to include off the coast of California -- will give you hypothermia in an hour, often as little as 30 minutes. If you have to float for 2 hours without being able to get out you'll have a problem.

Rip tides pull out, so let them pull you past the break then swim side to side. You shouldn't need more than 15-20 min to get past the worst of it, and can work laterally to inbound waves.
It's interesting how long they could get away with such horrible practices despite having a neighbor up north that a) won't hesitate to use cybercrime to fund their country b) probably wouldn't mind causing some random disruption even if it can't profit from it.
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida definitely doesn't have a pipe organ. It's a vox or farfisa.
Mostly unrelated to wind instruments: I always thought motorcycles and musical instruments came from the same Yamaha, but apparently they split back in 1955. Interesting that after almost 70 years both companies are still using the same logo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_Motor_Company#Beginning...
"Sex, in other words, literally makes them too ignorant to live." -- anyone with Kids can tell you this is true...
I built a quick/wip payroll validator [0] that can read state (i.e. payroll details) from the URL.

The purpose in this case was to generate a QR code, the idea is this can be included in physical payslips. Then the numbers behind the calculations (tax deductions) can be validated, broken down, and understood.
I'm developing more tools to these ends, via my overarching project calculang, a language for calculations [1].

I also have a loan/repayment validator [2] but haven't added this QR code feature yet.

Bank letters e.g. "Interest rates are rising and now we want 100e more per month, every month" could use a QR code to an independent validator or to see the workings behind the 100 calculation.

Not using this in the real world now and there are security considerations to keep in mind, but reading state from a URL facilitates the usecase: QR codes that link physical numbers to their calculation and model.

Implementation of payroll calculator is an Observable notebook and thankfully it neatly supports all my strict requirements as demo of this.

[0] https://observablehq.com/@declann/payroll-playground-ireland...

+Feature tweet: https://twitter.com/calculang/status/1608183731533107206

[1] https://github.com/calculang/calculang

[2] https://observablehq.com/@declann/loan-validator-dev
This is a handy trick that I've used on multiple occasions. However, it may not work on some corporate networks that filter URLs with more than a certain number of characters (I've encountered limits of 2048 and 4096 characters).

The rationale being that long URLs are often suspicious and could potentially be used for SQL injection or path traversal attacks. Whether or not this is a good heuristic is left as an exercise to the reader.
> I have a cat, but she's pretty unexciting by Internet standards.

I beg to disagree, that’s a great cat!
Said every customer
The numbers IIRC were in a journal. Presumably the possible dates of the entry are pretty circumscribed.
> These formats are terrible for downstream analysis: they are typically not indexed or sorted in a useful way, so it's common to convert them to other formats (BAM, CRAM), which are optimized for compressing DNA data (and likely exceed zstd in some circumstances).

FASTQ are raw data reads. BAM and CRAM are reads mapped against a genome.
Yeah, it is only a matter of time. Better to be prepared before it happens then to be caught off guard.
Here's something I wonder:

Imagine you're stuck on an island or in a forest, and you're stuck with what you find in nature only, or perhaps you get very primitive technology (e.g. basic metal working only):

What's the simplest way you could build some (mechanical) logic gates to do some form of useful computation?

I've seen some from lego or 3D printed ones, but they all look very complicated, e.g. requiring rubber bands or springs but not looking practical to combine many together in a useful circuit
I'm not into web "programming", but do people really have to abndon binary data storage these days? I think compressing more informaiton produces still more information. While JSON is by no means as heavy as, for example, XML, it's far heavier than just array of int graph[x][y];
Here's some evidence:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3803568

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15066518

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19124324

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20826618

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20841586

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21247759

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24791357

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24965432

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26061935

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26956077

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26965146

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28621412

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30855065
ah yes, did not think of this. Looking for cars really far out. Wonder then what the helicopter is really necessary for. Why aren't the cops just installing these cameras on the tops of tall municipal buildings?
Genome storage and compression is interesting. Most long sequences have a lot of internal redundancy/repetition that can be effectively compressed by standard algorithms, but something tuned specifically to the task, can do better. Then there is the question of storing many sequences. Whole genome sequences of thousands of bacteria from an experiment, for example. Each is almost identical to the other. This benefits from an algorithm that can compress that efficiently in terms of space, but also allows any part to be recalled random-access reasonably efficiently in terms of time. It'd also be nice to be able to add more genes to the database without having to re-compress the entire thing.

Wikipedia has a page on the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression_of_genomic_sequenc...
The thesis isn't particularly clear but what I think they want is a modification to Canadian building code so that structures up to a certain size don't need a second egress. They want that, I think, because that aspect of code makes it hard to design housing that sits in the middle of the scale between single family homes and high rises. That middle tier of housing seems like it could be important if you consider what NIMBY-ism and a shortage of housing is doing to some cities.

I couldn't find out out _why_ a second fire exit makes it hard though. Maybe it's not the door, but the need for an extra stairwell?

I'd hesitate to call it pretentious wank just because I don't understand it, so let's just say that the site was clearly not written for a lay audience.
Not OP but I have a electric burr grinder. You can also ask coffee shops to grind the beans for you (mention that it is for a French press so they get the grind right). It takes me about a minute 90 seconds to clean mine, I turn it upside down to get most of the grinds in the trash and then I rinse out the rest and dry. I clean it with soap maybe once a week.
There's a software that I used to emulate a pipe organ (and also harpsichords). I used it for years and it has a library with a lot of historical organs around the world: https://www.hauptwerk.com, as far as I know this is the only commercially supported PC/Mac software dedicated to this.
I posted on my sibling that 22% of Americans have no credit and of the ones that do have credit, 18% have a subpar credit score. That sums up to over a third of Americans that the credit system is either working poorly or not working at all.

Maybe you are indeed an “average consumer” (whatever that means) but if you are, then the credit system is heavily skewed in your favor, with many “non-average consumers” falling by the wayside.
My first family computer was a Tandy 386-sx that came with DOS 5.0.

Not soon after, we got an update to DOS 6.22, which also came with Doublespace, an on the fly disk compression system, which upgraded our 80mb hard drive to 116 glorious megabytes.

A few months later, I did something stupid and decided to reinstall everything from scratch. Used a boot disk and formatted the hard drive, tried to reinstall DOS 5.0 and the hard drive reported that it only had 2 Megabytes of storage available.

Instant panic mode.

I had no internet, I had the manual for DOS 5.0 and 6.22 and about 6 hours before my mom got home from her night job before I got murdered.

After frantically reading page after page of documentation, I found that once Doublespace is activated, the hard drive only has enough normal readable room to launch Doublespace, not to launch DOS.

A bit more reading, and I found that I could make a DOS 6.22 bootable floppy disk with the Doublespace system on it, so that is what I did.

Breathlessly I booted the PC with the floppy and it worked! Full disk file size visible! I hurriedly opened Doublespace, de-doublespaced the drive, and rebooted.

From there it was a race against time to reinstall DOS 5.0 (from 5 disks), install the DOS 6.22 update (3 disks), install Windows 3.11 (8 MORE disks), install all of the other software (12-15 disks in total) and then make sure everything was signed in and set up before the garage door opened.

I was literally putting the finishing touches on everything when my mom surprised me by walking in the front door. She had parked in the driveway instead of the garage. She looked at me, asked me what I was doing to the computer, and I told her that I had messed something up and her solitaire history had been deleted (which was true).

She said it was ok and went to bed and I collapsed after a marathon 8 hour blind computer repair.
A lot of folks don't appreciate how quickly normal can turn into dangerous in the wilderness. Because most of the time, it's all so tame. With our specialized gear and tech, there's not much threat ... most of the time.

I've been on mountain peaks on nice summer days when storms appear as out of nowhere (not the typical afternoon rains), and there's lightning, high winds, and 50ºF temperature swings. In that kind of situation, things can turn very dangerous very quickly. Stuff that you take for granted suddenly isn't true any more: some rock which is rough and gives great traction suddenly gets slippery, winds that come from a prevailing direction suddenly come from somewhere else and the formerly sheltered areas aren't any more, clouds and fogs may come in and visibility may drop to zero.

A common trap is slot canyons in the southwest desert in the summer, when it's hot and dry, and hikers don't know about the rains in the distant mountains.

It's easy to turn your back on the ocean, which isn't forgiving. Large waves can happen when least expected.
Not directly. More that they fund groups that are anti nuclear.
Is that natural uranium concentrated in rock formations? Because the weapons testing and dumping disperses the material.

I'm genuinely asking
Most of the buildings on the page are multistory. A door on the ground floor isn't a big deal, but above that they require fire escape stairs, which are big and ugly and create a section with poor views out the windows.
Repo description: "Tools for synching and streaming files from Windows to Linux"

It then goes on to talk about how much like rsync their new "cdc_rsync" tool is.

I get that the long version uses an h, but why include the silent h when making a shorthand? It sort of defeats the purpose of making a shorthand.
> going from an 8 bit alphabet (ASCII encoding) to a 4 bit alphabet (CGAT).

ASCII in the strict sense is 7-bit, CGAT is 2-bit.
> If your app has a server component that acts on this state, be super careful about acting on it and treat it as you would any other input under user control.

I would recommend signing it if it's generated by the server component, and checking the signature when the server component is provided this signed state.

For example to do this in Node is quite straightforward.

Key generation:

const crypto = require('crypto');

crypto.generateKeyPair('ed25519', (e, pubkey, privkey) => {
// save pubkey and privkey somewhere
// ...
}

Signing:

const data = Buffer.from(JSON.stringify(state));

const signature = crypto.sign(null, data, privkey);

const signeddata = `${data.toString('base64')}.${signature.toString('base64')}`.replace(/=/g,'');

Verification:

const parts = signeddata.split('.');

const data = Buffer.from(parts[0], 'base64');
const signature = Buffer.from(parts[1], 'base64');

if (crypto.verify(null, data, pubkey, signature)) {
// signature not verified, throw or return
// ...
}

const state = JSON.parse(data);

As the above uses Ed25519 the signatures are quite small too. It needs a bit more error checking, and might need extras like expiry time and such, but should be roughly sufficient.
What is this, chatGPT? RTX 4000 is a series of cards, some of which have 24 GB of VRAM. There is no such thing as RTX 5000 series yet.
seconded! it's a great book.