skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to go digging on that site a little bit to get to the why:

"The building typology of five to six-storey apartment buildings usually involves a single shared central stair, accessed directly from the street with typically two to four dwelling units per floor. However, because the Ontario Building Code requires two means of egress, mid-rise buildings in Toronto are designed with two exit stairs connected by a common corridor. The result is that mid-rise construction only proves feasible on larger sites where around ten or more units can fit within a typical floor plan to achieve an efficient floor area ratio. Zeidler explains that “this appears to be a reasonable precaution for life safety. However, the life safety of this single stair type in Europe has been equal to, if not better than ours,” due to the fact that the single stair scheme is shared between fewer units. By changing the code requirement for two exit stairs, apartment buildings of midrise height could be designed around a single common stair. For instance, a point-access block, the dominant housing typology in dense urban contexts like Berlin, Paris, or Barcelona, is currently not permitted in Canada."

https://secondegress.ca/A-Wicked-Problem
> if you're saying we have to pick the density we're ok with, does that mean she just shouldn't exist?

What? No. How does that follow?

I believe she (and everybody else) should have at least the basic needs met automatically: food, shelter, clothing, most medicine, electricity and telecomms, etc. We have the technology and resources to do this now, it's just a matter of logistics. A single modern server could compute utopia in a few minutes.

>> We have to decide what population density (and economic order) we will live with.

> What does that mean in this case, though?

Well, in this case they tore the place down. I have no idea what happened to the residents.
My main issue is that I would rather not use Facebook products, and I would rather we don't create standards which rely on Facebook products.

The FOSS funding issue I more of a side-point which I didn't even bring up, but I don't see "get hired by Facebook if you want to work on FOSS" to be a healthy solution to the FOSS funding problem, we need a way to ensure funding for FOSS developers who don't work for Facebook. But that's not strictly related to the zstd thing specifically.
What does your ideal git host do when one of its (non-paying) clients uses bots to clones repos so hard that its (paying) human clients are unable to clone their repos?
I remember when WebSphere Portal Server used to do this, and the URL would exceed 4096 characters, which was the limit that IE 6 (?) would support, breaking the entire site.
- Myth 1: Quantum Computing Will Take Over HPC!

- Myth 2: Everything Will Be Deep Learning!

- Myth 3: Extreme Specialization as Seen in Smartphones Will Push Supercomputers Beyond Moore’s Law!

- Myth 4: Everything Will Run on Some Accelerator!

- Myth 5: Reconfigurable Hardware Will Give You 100X Speedup!

- Myth 6: We Will Soon Run at Zettascale!

- Myth 7: Next-Generation Systems Need More Memory per Core!

- Myth 8: Everything Will Be Disaggregated!

- Myth 9: Applications Continue to Improve, Even on Stagnating Hardware!

- Myth 10: Fortran Is Dead, Long Live the DSL!

- Myth 11: HPC Will Pivot to Low or Mixed Precision!

- Myth 12: All HPC Will Be Subsumed by the Clouds!
However the value of Carmack is significantly higher; there's something to be said there (though not sure what exactly it would be).
Re "Epic Fantasy"

I'm a recent fan and discovered I enjoy the worlds. I find them engrossing. imo Sanderson could cut down 10-20% (Rhythm of War in particular suffered from length). But, I did appreciate his own defense of length in the genre.

https://www.tor.com/2014/03/04/words-of-radiance-and-the-art...

His insight seems to boil down to

1. Treat it as multiple books if you prefer.
2. "I get the chance to write what I enjoy. I understand it's not for everyone. That doesn't bother me."
These folks never did a basic penn test ? Unauthenticated access to a different URL seems like a common thing to test for.
Pity that even Limbo from 20th century was more feature rich than Go.
> but it cannot make decisions for you

Oh you poor soul. AI is already making decisions for and about you, and policy will often prefer that automated decision over a human one, or worse, will farm out the "human appeal" to what is basically an internal Fiverr system that requires the humans to only take about 60 seconds for each appeal and can not possibly make good decisions.

I know from my work that a high quality human review of a simple situation with significant data labeling and highlighting important and relevant info to be reviewed costs about $1. If you are spending any less than that on a human review of arbitrary data with arbitrary rules you should consider it worse than a coin flip.
Seriously curious why I'm being downvoted for expressing interest in Janet or macros? :D
I'm just the other way: had an Instant Pot for a couple years (which is great) but I bought a Zojirushi rice cooker and LOVE LOVE LOVE it. Japanese medium-grain rice in the Zoji is amazing. I cook 1-2 cups nearly every day to snack on.
These comparisons—except for Chernobyl—are disingenuous. Nuclear weapons testing has been outlawed and has mostly stopped, natural Uranium and—even more so—Potassium don’t release radiation in nearly the same concentration as Fukushima (or Hanford to that extent). Radiation is dangerous when it concentrates.
It's "fascist", classically. For the Italian movement during the 20s-30s this idea was quite explicit. Roman empire was a strong theme in Italian propaganda, with Mussolini fashioned as a Caesar / Augustus type. It was effectively the same in Germany, although less literal.
We use SQLite for logging all the things. This sidesteps entire rabbit colonies worth of issues - especially with regard to downstream parsing & reporting.

I have found the extra structure and familiar semantics make it a lot easier to talk about what we log, how we log it and why.
> A human should be able to tell whether they are breaking the law or doing something that is dangerous and, thus, stop.

Yes, but:

- When determining whether or not a process is automated is legally important, it's usually because it is fine (legally) if done by humans - it's doing it automatically, at scale, that is the issues.

- White-collar workers generally don't do things that are obviously dangerous. They're crunching numbers and typing data into forms, and their input is usually a small component of any danger materializing.

The way I see it, the difference here is whether a human worker is able to override their checklist in cases where the action is neither illegal nor dangerous, but they realize it's obviously wrong or unfair.
Very good point. Macros are an amplifier. If you have problems, macros will amplify them.
Rewrite our DNA from quadature to base64. Much more efficient.
> Legally, in order to be able to do certain things in a corporation you need to be a manager, director, or VP (i.e. sign contracts).

(1) you probably mean “e.g.”, not “i.e.”, since you said “some things”, but “sign contracts” is just one thing. Latin abbreviations may be convenient compared to writing out full English words, but they aren’t interchangable.

(2) In either case, this is wrong, since even with “e.g.” it would require “sign cobtracts” to be a valid example, and its not. To sign contracts for a corporation, you need authority from the board, which it is free to give to anyone (even a non-employee). There are a few individuals or combinations that people can safely assume have such authority as long as they don’t have specific negative information, but it is much smaller than the list you provide, and not germane to who can have signing authority.
Neat. I did this for a very basic react ratio calculator I built. My state was so basic and small, it felt fine for a toy project. Certainly a practice I would scrutinize in a production application, but it could be useful.

https://locofocos.com/anything-ratio-calc
Looks like with the NVIDIA 4090 we're about 1/200th of the way there for $1600, but that's with a lot of commercial markup.

I think if you had the credentials you could probably rent a server farm or a cluster of 160 Tesla v100s that would meet that requirement, although how long you would have access to that for $1,000 may be very disappointing.
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I've been a huge fan of Erik Larson's book because he writes non-fiction in a very exciting ways where it doesn't feel like filler.

The Splendid & the Vile was the most enjoyable book of his imo.
I know this is sacrilegious, but we drink so much coffee around here that I’ve kinda come to the conclusion that buying pre-ground isn’t the end of the world. I’ve always been a buy beans and grind fresh guy (and we typically buy beans from the local roaster). That said - if you buy a bag of ground and use it within a few days / one week, I’m not sure the quality is degraded to the point that it’s noticeable in terms of everyday brew - again, especially if you are going through multiple pots per day.
We tend to grow a lot of crops for animals, up to 3/4 of U.S. cropland in 2011 [0]. According to The Independent[1], in the UK it's 2/5 of arable land for growing animal feed. The FAO claims that 40% of all crops are used to feed animals[2]. It's not like livestock are only raised on non-arable land; we spend plenty of effort growing human-edible plant food for animals to eat and inefficiently convert to animal protein. Talking about animals surviving on only non-arable land seems like a motte and bailey that ignores what we're actually doing.

[0] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1720760115#body-ref-r2 - original data is actually from a Nature article found at https://www.nature.com/articles/nature10452

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/wwf-norfol...

[2] https://www.fao.org/3/ar591e/ar591e.pdf
I'm slightly surprised that speed and file size would be the only considerations. For an archival format wouldn't you at least want a format with very robust error detection, even error correction? None of the proposed formats have this, basically just having a simple 4 byte CRC or XXHASH. Some kind of random access to the compressed file might be useful too (which xz has).
> 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.

If you're that offended over a single line, get a thicker skin. It wasn't even criticizing you but your choice of example.

> crap in a hole and dump water on it with a chamber hanging above.

Some toilets have flush buttons. Some have multiple buttons. Some have levers. Some have levers above you. Some are electronic and require a button push in a completely different place. Some require you to manually get and dump water. Even the act of dumping water has differing UX, and has UX which has certainly changed over the years.

> 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.

It's different UX which in most high end modern day toilets is integrated into the toilet itself.

The point is that the UX of modern day toilets is only the same in that there's a hole over a chamber. The hole may be at seat level or on the floor, there may be buttons or levers or many other things. Old toilets would also certainly not have had such wide holes -- another UX difference.

In your Notepad vs VSCode example, the thing you describe as a "toilet" is more akin to the UI element which shows you editable text. Your basic toilet is Notepad, a modern day toilet is VS Code. The only thing even remotely similar about them is that they both have a text editing UI. Just like the only thing in common with toilets is that shit goes into a hole. Everything else is different.
I've been debating getting an eInk tablet/laptop for a while

What do you like about the Boox the most? Which model do you have?
For a less technical history of the field and major players I'd recommend Genius Makers.
Same. If nothing else zstd universally supports compression and decompression with threading across any number of cores. It will even adjust threads dynamically based on the next limiting factor (I/O speed). Meanwhile it's also generally faster and provides significantly better compression ratios (as you describe).

In my mind "always threading, everywhere" is reason enough to always use zstd. Sure there are implementations for other compression algorithms that support threading but the reference zstd implementation from Facebook always does, everywhere.
If you're more inclined to theory, I would suggest "Learning Theory from First Principles" by F. Bach: https://www.di.ens.fr/~fbach/ltfp_book.pdf

The book assumes limited knowledge (similar to what is required for Pattern Recognition I would say) and gives a good intuition on foundational principles of machine learning (bias/variance tradeoff) before delving to more recent research problems. Part I is great if you simply want to know what are the core tenets of learning theory!
How to spot fake olive oil
Vendoring in go mod should be mandatory.
Aerostich R3 riding suit for touring Upstate NY :)
> Why does the Go team ban so many people?

As far as I know, they don't. AFAIK the two cases discussed here are the only two notable ones (that is, people who are not outright trolls and the like).
A month to deeply understand?

I've been doing it since early 2019 and there are still subtleties that catch me off guard. Get back to me when you're not surprised that you can get rid of biases from many layers without harming training.

I broadly agree with you, but the timeline was just a little too aggressive. By about 10x. :)
It would seem to me that the sheer amount of observation on the macro scales has the effect of freezing the quantum observables in space and time, giving rise to the common, agreed-upon, reality. Seems like a solution to a problem.

[edited for spelling errors]
>I've borrowed thousands of dollars from family at times

Is this common? Such a thing is unthinkable to me, and even friends from more businesslike families than mine have expressed major shame to me that they had to get a couple grand from their dad to cover closing costs (paid back within weeks)
I suspect all this back to office stuff is just an excuse to fire people because this year will be brutal and they need to save costs.
https://electricliterature.com/was-1984s-the-terminator-a-ha...
A big chunk of why is the % of floor area that is used for housing versus “support”. Basically a single stair layout gives you 90-95% floor efficiency, and a double stair is closer to 80-85%. People don’t rent common spaces like stairs, so you can bring the value of a building up by ~10% by allowing each apartment to have only a single exit staircase. Also if a lot is small (like 20ft wide or less), you have to compromise the design. For instance, instead of having full-floor units that get cross ventilation (windows at front and back), you may need to have duplex units that take up 40% of the front or back (so only get one side of the building).
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Back in the late 90's I had a friend who wanted to open a high-end Italian furniture shop. Dude knew nothing about furniture or retailing. He said "you can afford it so you should lend it to me". I knew the money would never be paid back, and the friendship would be over. So I kept the money, as the friendship would be lost either way.
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There's also no need. Just leave it in the plant. Or put it in a cave if that makes you feel good. It's not an actual problem.
Stadia did impact my work a little, but not enough to matter to me. I'd be upset if I worked on it directly.
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I would zarr for dense matrices, mostly (I use them with microscope images). I see it also used for frequency/spatial observations in genomic imaging.
But I prefer parquet for most direct analysis of sequence, since it's the format best integrated with big data analytics. I care much less about total compression size than I do the ability to decompress the data I need quickly (say, to ETL it to a featurization pipeline).
This article makes it seems as if it's the world's first instance of solar geoengineering, but hasn't China been working on this for years?
One recent method that does this is SPRING: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6662292/

Although I'm not familiar with all the details of the method, my understanding is that the reference used by compression can be extremely low quality for biological purposes while still providing good compression -- making it possible to make a quick-and-dirty reference with much less computational time.
The prevalence of “computer says no” or “machine says no” in our modern society makes me scream and can honestly send me into depression and anxiety. It creates the most helpless feeling.

I have an increasing pile of issues with companies’ services that just persist because fixing them requires getting in contact with a human and a human who actually knows something and isn’t just a terminal for the computerized system.
I've found that this applies to much more than just money.
Interesting.

In your professional nuclear engineer opinion, what is the future of nuclear in the energy mix? Not in the political sense, but I keep hearing these claims that solar/wind will just destroy nuclear due to lower costs. Does that make sense to you, or do you think nuclear has something to offer?
Sounds weird but Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time. By far it’s my favorite fantasy series, and have read it quite a few times since I was a kid. I find that it has tinted my view of how the world works. Looking back, it provided heroes I looked up to and modeled myself after.
DNS traffic is plaintext. MITM is all that's needed to be able to bypass custom DNS servers. An ISP, obviously, has to be in an MITM position to be able to provide internet service.

Here's an example: https://jeff.vtkellers.com/posts/technology/force-all-dns-qu...
What is a dollar worth to you? Stupid question, right? A dollar is a dollar. How about a penny? Would you bother to pick up a penny? How about a million pennies?
If you're making $10 million/yr, $1k to get someone to buzz off is cheap.

The inequalities of capitalism are gross, but while we're here, that's the way the world works.
Get a strong grasp on Linear Algebra and everything else falls into place more easily

https://math.mit.edu/~gs/learningfromdata/
Perhaps if a friend asks to borrow a substantial amount of money, depending on the circumstances, you could say something like:

"listen, how about I guarantee a bank loan for you of that amount, then you get the money you need but there's no scope for it to lessen our friendship"
"Servant" I think is the term here. True, it's not a term we've heard much since the Gilded Age, but as long as we're doing a retro Gilded Age economy we might as well recycle the vocabulary.
Zstd doesn't use a login, it doesn't track you across the internet, it doesn't make shadow profiles on you, and it doesn't have ads or telemetry. Zstd is even part of the Linux kernel at this point[0], so it's safe to say that it isn't a Facebook product anymore. They can't pull the rug on zstd, since it's BSD/GPL licensed. Unless I'm missing something, nobody is feeding the beast by using zstd.

There's lots of similar cool technologies made by other "evil" companies. I don't use ZFS, but its origins in Sun/Oracle isn't the reason I don't.

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181109190304.8573-1-kilobyte@...
People are tired of being abused. The powers-that-be don't like it and are trying to change the narrative to things like "people don't want to work" or "quiet quitting".
My SS one is from Bodum and sadly not sold anymore, IMO it’s by far the best looking SS one: [0]. I’ve had it for over 10 years by now, and it’s seeing use every day as it’s also my only one ;)

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/rlZwdww.png
This is presumably being downvoted for the unnecessary “gotcha” phrasing, but it is an interesting point of distinction. I have an intuitive guess as to the principles at work, but I don’t really know the actual physics.
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Depending on the language and framework you're using, there may be options for logging that's non-intrusive. For example, Spring Aspects and Python decorators. Clean logging is a very common problem that probably already has a lot of solutions if you go looking.
> "it would be a fair bit of extra work for us to read robots.txt",

Can someone explain what this means? After all reading a small text file is plainly easy to do so its meaning must be something other than obvious.
The kind of behavior described in the article can be off putting and unethical.

Sometimes however pushing the boundary causes positive change.

I am a photography enthusiast and a lot of very impactful if not world-changing photography in the past has been called unethical in their times.

Some examples are Robert Frank's "The Americans" (https://www.lensculture.com/articles/robert-frank-the-americ... https://www.nga.gov/features/robert-frank/the-americans-1955...), Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migrant_Mother)" and Steve McCurry's "Afghan girl" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Girl) photos. All received harsh criticism, but also raised awareness of issues in transformative ways.
Hi! I'm an exception!

I find Org very hard to learn, mostly because I'm a "non-user" in the sense explained in the page below. Note that that page is about a video, and that it is possible to read the subtitles of the video without watching it by following the second link...

http://angg.twu.net/2021-org-for-non-users.html

http://angg.twu.net/SUBTITLES/2021-org-for-non-users.lua.htm...
"Side hustle" is a term that's supposed to make you feel better about needing a second job to live. Reject it.
> Disney knows they'll lose money if any of their protagonists admits they hate Nazis.

Um, no?
This 100%. I try to cultivate friendships with people whose mental model of themselves and their friendships with me would require that they treat a loan seriously (even if, in the end, they couldn’t pay it back).

With such a friend, whether to loan money is an easy question to answer: yes, as long as I can afford to.

With anyone else I figure I’m not a bank (or a loan shark), so I shouldn’t get into a bank’s business.
If only we could harvest the energy of good intentions!
> Hacker News Guidelines --- What to Submit --- On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html