skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't use Iguana in particular, but zstd and lz4 in Marginalia Search.

First, I use it to store and retrieve crawl data faster. Mechanical hard drives are much slower than these decompression algorithms. So for sequential access, you can make a cheap mechanical drive faster and bigger as big as long as you've got some CPU cycles to spare to decode the data. (This is also true for network, basically anything outside of RAM, as long as it's nice and sequential, there's probably an argument for compressing it)

I also use them to keep more stuff in RAM than what should be possible. I do transparent compression/decompression of some large strings e.g. document HTML that typically compresses with a factor 10x. These algorithms are so fast the performance hit of decompressing the strings as they're used is like a 10% pessimization of the run time for significantly slashing the RAM usage.
Whatever form of aviation brings society the most value is the optimal one and should be given preference.

If I had to place my bets, I think that drone-operated aviation, delivery, etc. will become a trillion dollar market.

If that's the case, then obviously it takes precedence.
Facebook and Instagram owner Meta threatens to cut off news in California
Why not both? Seems to be a greatly profitable red herring...
> Strange to see all the comments arguing that in fact the browser ought to be an Origin Agent

Funny

One universe I could see is the browser allowing a user to grant cross origin cookies when wanted. Though even then a site B that really doesn’t want this can stick CSRF tokens in the right spots and that just falls apart immediately

I imagine you understand the security questions at play here right? Since a user going to origin A might not know what other origins that origin A wants to reach out to.

CSRF mitigations mean that origins could still block things off even without CORS, but it’s an interesting thought experiment
Great idea. All my scripting is in Python so waiting for that SDK!
>If we assume that there is a cure for ADHD

Honestly, the "cure" for 90% of ADHD symptoms is fixing our society that expects everybody's brains to work the same way for no good reason.

Most people are expected to be happy getting educated the same way, going to work at the same hours, and generally fulfilling the same sort of expectations.

We don't expect a racecar to be a great vehicle for hauls to home depot, but we expect all humans to be good with coming to work on time, filing taxes, paying fines promptly, etc — even when a lot of this can be automated away.

Then there are stimulants like Adderall which help people with ADHD manage the symptoms that affect them, like executive dysfunction.

But overall, the way ADHD is diagnosed is, remarkably, by how much inconvenience it causes to others.

Which is more of a you-problem than a me-problem ("you" here refers to society).

>which tools and programs would be needed to accumulate and distill all relevant information and let people with ADHD discover and implement that cure?

Tiddliwiky and social networks to raise awareness.

Frankly, that's going to get most of us about 90% there.

Most of "cure" of ADHD if changing the lifestyle and expectations.

Other than that, repeat after me: ADHD is not a disease, and does not need to be cured. Neither is autism.

Both can be a great asset too.

There is more than one neurotype.
A brain drain from fleeing workers is roiling Russia's economy
You should check out love hotels in Asia (Japan, Thailand).
I wonder why their PR department hasn't yet figured out anything beyond blackmailing? The same story has been going on throughout the globe for about ten years.
Yes but now its all AI and LLM spam instead.
>Women aren't more "neurotic", that simply isn't true

On average, they very much are. Source: I have friends of both sexes. They're also shorter, anyone disputing that?
7 billion requests last month with the average user making 344 requests per day. Crazy numbers. Is there no way to optimise and cache some of this?
I also quite enjoy the mpv/yt-dl(p) setup, and I often pair it with ytfzf[1] to ease the search part.
FreeTube[2] is also a nicely done desktop frontend, capable of proxying requests through invidious.

[1]: https://github.com/pystardust/ytfzf

[2]: https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube
> these multi-billionaire corporations are taking everyone's honest work, putting it into a computer, and selling the output

And then there's the tens of thousands of people training models and making them freely available to everyone. What I fear most is that regulations introduced "to stop" the multi-billionaire corporations will in fact make sure they're the only ones with the resources to comply with the regulations.
The boat can change route.
> Hackers from North Korea, Russia and Iran

Hello, CNN, you forgot China. /s

One cannot trust those propaganda spreaders to do their job propperly.
Not an expert but I think the issue is datetime math. Ex:

SELECT ('2023-03-12 03:00:00 America/New_York'::TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE - '30m'::INTERVAL) AT TIME ZONE 'America/New_York'; -- Do some math over US DST switch

You need your initial datetime to have a time zone if you want to do math that's aware of time zones. And sadly if you don't store time zones (all times are "local"!) then you can't get that information back.

I think best practice is to have PostgreSQL run in UTC and always store a time zone, that way you're always aware of time zone info and aren't restricted in the future.

The problem here is actually knowing what time zone to use. You can get quagmired pretty quickly in like, do we surface this to users, do we use browser location, is there an address/location we can key off of, how do we update it as they move, blah blah. I understand the appeal of being time zone naive. But it's not cut and dry IME.
You are describing ignorance, not skepticism. A scientist's occupation is examining that very pile of "I don't know".

I said, you assume the observation to be real. That does not say you already knew what it was.
Torpillage neurologists of WW1, Electric therapy to send hysterics back to front
Sure it will. I've got similar setups working effectively with both OpenAI Api and Falcon. Though there is room for improvement, it's moving at a rapid enough pace and it's already better than old school search.
It's the only such reference I could think of that others might recognise.

I'm reading the web serial Pact right now, where the main character can lie but it costs him dearly each time: https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/

I also really enjoyed the ending of the Confederation Trilogy by Peter F Hamilton, which revolved around the inability of the Tyrathca race to tell lies.

PS: Just for laughs, I used to practice talking like an Aes Sedai, never telling an outright lie while actively deceiving people. It's an interesting skill to acquire and surprisingly easy. Once you learn how to do it, you'll never see a press conference or a political speech the same way ever again.
Allow me to introduce you to RFC6902[1]. A standard of how to update without sending the whole thing. There are libraries for almost every language as well.

[1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6902/
> Having every transaction recorded in a public append only but otherwise immutable ledger does not afford the privacy choice you have with fiat.

This would be good or bad for scams? For me this sounds worse for scams. Regarding choice: You could use Monero/XMR if you want to use it like (fungible,mostly anonymous) cash.

> People using fiat are not losing their life savings when they forget their bank passwords, [...]

This is not a like for like comparison. If you forget your wallet somewhere, your money is potentially gone as well. On the other hand if you have your crypto in a bank (custodial), it is the exact same as fiat (with the same caveats).

> [...] nor are they sending money to the wrong address and losing money irrecoverably.

This is maybe the only part that is really different here. Fiat doesn't have the capability to "send" at all, but banks have. The non-custodial part about crypto has the property of higher responsibility. If you have it somewhere custodial you could have the same properties as with fiat (properties not inherent to the currency).
The real discovery to me seems that you are actually supposed to read through the errors, and that it's ok to not understand them completely. As a TA I got to see huge jumps in productivity and independence on students that read a couple more lines and reasoned instead of bailing out at the first ugly line.
correlation: A technology (lead pipes) was really popular in urban areas later in the empire, when it could be used. And the Roman Empire fell.

causation: ???

But the lead! So what? Show me a causal chain or this is yet another a puff piece from Ars. And an old one at that.
Man, there is one laptop that I really desire but noone seems to manufacture.

Form factor: 13 inch, 3:2 aspect ratio display,

Display: 1080p resolution, no touchscreen, matte display.

RAM: DDR5 32 Gb

SoC: a top of the line mobile chipset like Snapdragon Gen 2. With roaming internet using phone SIMs.

Battery: 99 WHr. Fast charging. (Probably my biggest criteria)

Keyboard: Similar to Thinkpad keyboards.

Open Bootloader, so I that I can throw Linux in it without too much headache.

Give me something which may be a bit underpowered, but has multi day battery life and ability to fast charge in minute and I am good to go.
I hope that open laptop initiatives do pick up, so that we can have such enthusiast grade devices.
Ideological conformity is their product? Uh, anything to back that up?
Go on do it, I dare you
Good gracious. Just looked at CHANGELOG. It was 20 years ago this month that I made modest code contribution to this project.
Epistemology Is a Puzzle
The problem is that many, many 3P app users are some of the most active and engaged on the platform. For example, mods of literally thousand of the top subreddits use 3P apps for moderation.

Any new user would just use the official client, but the fact that so many alternative ones exist and so many people use them is telling of the unusable state of their app.

I use reddit every day, only because I don't use the official app, because of that it's become my go-to site to look for things, even on a computer.

If I lose access to my 3P client, which is tens of times faster, not clunky, customized to my liking, has all the shit sub filtering set-up and is generally a joy to use ( mind you, it has ads too) I will simply not bother anymore.

So, people that use 3P apps usually engage more because otherwise they wouldn't bother, this change is going to royally piss off every single one of them. In the short term maybe some users are going to switch, but in the long run I think the platform is going to lose lots of people that actually engage in the community.
> You can argue about the semantics (i.e., death camps versus concentration camps),

Hundreds of thousands of deaths is semantics? That is a disgusting point of view. I wanted to ignore this entire conversation because there is no postive side to it. But quite simply it is disgusting to minimise the horrors that happened at camps like Auschwitz by comparing it with camps such as Dachau and it really highlights the fact that the opinions that oppose the opinion of the Auschwitz museum as held by people who are fundamentally deatched from what actually happening and having the correct perspective.
a) they can't?

b) it works

And it's not like PR are on their own there, somebody dictates what they would pursue.
>Flow state is always described as being in a state of intense focus and where you might not even notice the passage of time.

Also known as the "What? It's 4am? I was just playing Civilization!" phenomenon.

>Time slows down though, and even though you are relaxed and calm you feel the performance difference from what you are normally able to do and your fear is the knowledge that if you come out of this state before the danger is over you are done for.

It's always a bit mindblowing to remember that what we perceive are ultimately all just manifestations and creations of our brains. There's no such thing as time or light or sound or smell or taste or whatever else in our plane of existence, they're simply how we perceive it.

>That second state feels different and I'm sure its the 'flow' people that do extreme sports talk about. Is there a different name for that state?

I've often heard of it referred to as the "Fight-or-Flight Response" triggered by an increase in adrenaline, "sharpening your senses" per se in order to better respond to potential threats and/or the situation at hand. It's very expensive biologically speaking, though.
Good bye reddit.
I now routinely introduce this technology as "copyright laundering" and the hype put out by start-up boards and VCs as a ploy to disguise this fact. The "AI threat" is smoke-and-mirrors to dress up what's happening.

I derive a huge amount of value from chatgpt because I can copy/paste without any IP impact. I could always have done this: from github, from ebooks, from many sources.

Now I can benefits from the labour of many for free -- their copyrights laundered through a thin statistical trick.

As with crypto (, pyramid schemes, etc.) the big "philosophical pitch" becomes a disguise for a brutal material reality.

Midjourney, ChatGPT, etc. are doing automatically what would be illegal by-hand.
Not just crypto bros, this kind of thing is rife in politics too. Brexit is full of it. People pick one article about one minor thing in one niche area of the economy and use it to 'prove' their entire agenda.
IIRC, when using distcc you must make sure that the Toolchain is ABI-perfect identified by its path.

So:

/opt/ourcompany/dev/bin/cc

absolutely *needs* to be the same on all machines involved or you risk very hard to spot issues.

For that reason, either use the absolute same distribution for everyone (and then run /use/bin/cc but watch out for alternatives!) or roll-out your own toolstack but make sure to put its version in the path.
Thank you, Promising work!

Question: How was zstd built in the tests?

In other words, was the possibility of 2-stage pgo+lto optimization taken into account?

(the alpine zstd claim ~ "+30% faster on x86_64 than the default makefile" [1] )

[1]
""

# 2-stage pgo+lto build (non-bootstrap), standard meson usage.

# note that with clang,

# llvm-profdata merge --output=output/somefilename(?) output/.profraw

# is needed.

# believe it or not, this is +30% faster on x86_64 than the default makefile build (same params)..

# maybe needs more testing

# shellcheck disable=2046

""*

https://github.com/alpinelinux/aports/blob/master/main/zstd/...
If someone wants you dead they can just shoot you.
Yeah, I think often these benchmarks don't capture the constant factor. The rate at which 4 Kb strings can be decompressed probably matter more than rate at which 400 Mb files can be decompressed.

Benchmarks are hard though.
Ask HN: How can I setup a company to trade US stocks for customers in Europe?
How can I setup a company to trade US stocks for customers in Europe?

The company would let customers trade US stocks at very low commission fees.
nice, I had considered a chrome extension to do that
Why 5G feature phone ? I assume you want 5G purely for future proving ?
Long ago I wanted to make a specific script for Gimp which needed to be written in Scheme. I didn't know anything about FP at the time and didn't really understand why things were done the way they were.

Over a decade later I decided to learn F# and now it makes sense.
I have a 3TB pgsql db running on 32 CPUs with 128GB ram
"Extraordinary" is no scientific category, it's purely subjective bias based on limited knowledge, aka "ignorance". Basing (in)actions on ignorance and faulty logic is never advisible.

These objects exist in a domain of low observability due to common limitations of our sensor technology. Additionally, you assume them to be entirely passive and observed by uniform chance alone. Which presumably should lead to them turning up in somebody's living room. That is nonsense of course.
Isn't it a misnomer to call it a "compiler"? Even it's github README says otherwise,

> distcc is not itself a compiler, but rather a front-end to the GNU C/C++ compiler (gcc), or another compiler of your choice. All the regular gcc options and features work as normal.
Why Conflicting Ideas Can Make Your Strategy Stronger
I like how the first article photo depicts an innocent asteroid, just hangin' out, with the Sun in the middle, and the article assures us there is no imminent destruction from a 3-SUV body, and then there's a video at the foot of the article with two amber bodies just destroying the hell out of each other and smearing into space dust.
> One was during an actual life and death situation involving a rock slide and the other when playing Counter-Strike and my whole team got wiped out and the opposing team converged on my position.

Luckily, never experienced an actual life and death situation. But I do get into a flow state quite frequently while playing FPS games. Best way I can describe it is being in a state of complete automation, incredibly quick reflexes compared to your usual self, and making multiple correct decision in quick succession. It usually lasts a few seconds to a minute until you snap out of it after stepping on that random claymore at the top of the ladder ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

The only way I know how long the sequence actually lasted is by rewatching the video recording and realizing it wasn't 5 minutes but a few seconds long.
Use Arch. You'll soon miss those out of the box power saving features on other distros very quickly
Show HN: New retro portal website in HTML 3.2 with loads of content including HN
So I was bored and made a retro late 90s style portal website in HTML 3.2. Works with old browsers starting from Netscape Navigator 1.1 (but also has TLS and a tiny bit of CSS for modern browsers).

Basically I tried to answer the question "What now?" after you get your late 90s retrocomputer up and running. Where's the fun in games anyway?

This thread in HTML 3.2: https://home.goto95.com/hn/item/36148940
> we will be forced to remove news from Facebook and Instagram, rather than pay into a slush fund

a little gaslighty, since it’s a choice and not an operational issue to comply with an onerous regulation, it’s just a tax
why couldn't they learn from history? communisum will only bring misery. Let the market decide. If people don't want to pay for news , then let them die. Eventually,there will be new media companies who learn to be lean and make content that is profitable.
Do an experiment: pick one category of apps, whatever category, and look at the top 10-20 apps in that category. Half of them will have misleading data disclosure (as in, they say they don't gather user data or don't track users, when in fact they do), fake reviews (easy to spot 5-star reviews with same/similar text), don't actually have the advertised functionality etc.

The same with search: do a keyword search on the App Store and see how many results actually match the query and how many are ads.

This is not just my opinion - it's fairly easy to find multiple security researchers documenting these cases.

I have spent countless hours (if not days) reporting apps to Apple - basically doing free work - when Apple touts their App Store security and review process.

Also, the parent comment I replied to mentioned the developer fees that make the App Store safer for users - that is what Apple marketing wants us to believe, the reality is very different though (and I say that with a heavy heart, as an iOS/macOS developer).

Apple could and should do better and, until they do, they have no right to pretend the App Store is safe.
I was not talking about human intelligence.
Intercal by Donald Woods and James Lyon
I was not prepared for the number of penises I was going to see.
> If the answer to those three questions is "yes", then I would argue that yes, you absolutely should have to pay royalties to the authors.

Copyright lobbies can't have their own cake and eat it too, if you want to enforce such a different way of thinking about copyright compared to the current one, that would destroy the current industry and rightly so.
Probably (a), but the point being that I would have expected them to come up with some more constructive lobbying strategy.
Is bazel build distributed? distcc lets you use a lot of machines to speed up the wallclock-time of your compilation.
Similar project leveraging the openness of the openPOWER architecture and I believe much more advanced : https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/fr/

I think people should start small and target an open motherboard first and foremost for the Framework, that way you don't have to design a whole laptop. It's very probable that the pioneer who care about that kind of thing are willing to buy or already own a Framework. A laptop with a small production is goind to be expensive anyways, better leverage the ecosystem.
Hard to tell but that sounds a bit like a test problem. If you have high test coverage (which you must do in a language like python) most bugs should only result through complex interaction.
That's the beauty of low level code... It can last generations!
Also:

lynx gopher://hngopher.com
In my opinion it was real estate that sucked up most quantitive easing during the Great Recession, directly as well as indirectly through the fact that it was sub-prime mortgages being bailed out.

Real estate collapsed during the pandemic so all the pandemic-era money went into peoples savings accounts and then onto everyday goods, which capitalists used to make more money. The savings rates of Americans points to this picture as well.
Some are made by AI!
How do blind people play (computer) games
Theres extensive literature covering research into neuroticism, which women score higher in.
As the founder of NLP Cloud (https://nlpcloud.com) I can only guess how costly it must be for OpenAI to maintain several versions of GPT-4 in parallel.
I think that the main reason why they don't provide you with a way to pin a specific model version is because of the huge GPU costs involved.
There might also be this "alignment" thing that makes them delete a model because they realize that it has specific capacities that they don't want people to use anymore.

On NLP Cloud we're doing our best to make sure that once a model is released it is "pinned" so our users can be sure that they won't face any regression in the future. But again it costs money so profitability can be challenging.
Flightradar24
If you don’t mind that Reddit knows your IP, and if you want to explore the NSFW side of Reddit, try https://reddtastic.com

You can view multiple subreddits by joining their name with a plus sign, e.g. https://reddtastic.com/r/nsfw+gonewild

Edit: Yes, the home page is NSFW! You can also browse

- Reddit’s front page: https://reddtastic.com/r/

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- Or any other subreddit like https://reddtastic.com/r/aww
Social housing is a thing in much of the world. Housing is cheap in many countries around the world as well. Healthcare is free in most of the world and good standard in majority of the developed world.