skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Are Binary Logs a Thing?
I was wondering if there are any logging frameworks which write data in binary rather than utf-8 encoded text. For example, the datestamp might be a 64 bit integer rather than a formatted ISO string. It would probably make it harder to work with *nix-like tools (sed, grep), but would reduce storage usage and perhaps make it easier to do structured queries on the data using shells like powershell.

I know there are services which store this type of data as columns in a logging database, but I was wondering if there were frameworks which used binary files to do so
Any recommendations of similar books?
Configuration management for a consistent and resilient dev environment
> My mental model about Nix is that it resembles make, but for the whole dependency graph.

I just started learning about nix a few days ago. I'm still a little bit confused and flakes are an abstraction, i didn't tackle so far.

My mental model is, that it resembles sth. like virtual environments for python or nvm for node.js installations. At least that's what i want to use it for.
Have you read the manual? I haven't used MS Word for many years (luckily) but the last time I did I actually did figure out how languages work once and for all. It made sense and it's quite powerful. I also figured out how styles work and that you should never press the bold/italic etc buttons, only use styles.
Yeah, I have some emoji domains, though the support is weird. Safari actually supports them best.

I keep finding weird places that support emojis, like usernames on some web sites. And someone on HN showed me recently that you can make emoji filenames in Windows at least.
I guess I wasn't assuming you needed to determine if it would halt for any possible (but finite) input. But fair enough.
RCS as a baseline standard is proprietary, but google then slapped a bunch of proprietary extensions onto it that it refuses to license, so no, it's not.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/new-google-site-begs...

> Google's version of RCS—the one promoted on the website with Google-exclusive features like optional encryption—is definitely proprietary, by the way. If this is supposed to be a standard, there's no way for a third-party to use Google's RCS APIs right now. Some messaging apps, like Beeper, have asked Google about integrating RCS and were told there's no public RCS API and no plans to build one. Google has an RCS API already, but only Samsung is allowed to use it because Samsung signed some kind of partnership deal.

> If you want to implement RCS, you'll need to run the messages through some kind of service, and who provides that server? It will probably be Google. Google bought Jibe, the leading RCS server provider, in 2015. Today it has a whole sales pitch about how Google Jibe can "help carriers quickly scale RCS services, iterate in short cycles, and benefit from improvements immediately." So the pitch for Apple to adopt RCS isn't just this public-good nonsense about making texts with Android users better; it's also about running Apple's messages through Google servers. Google profits in both server fees and data acquisition.

Like c'mon google doesn't care about open-standards except insofar as that allows them to embrace-extend-extinguish. google's end goal is imessage but with google servers in the middle instead of apple ones.
Looking at the image and then getting a pop-up video ad on the ibb.co page itself (plus a request to send notifications) was a bizarre multi-layer ad experience.
This revulsion only makes sense if you firmly believe that rationalism is the highest good, and that the only right way to engage with the world is through rationality, ie, dividing the world into "false" and "true" ideas.

There are good reasons that so many people realize for themselves that non-dual perspectives hold more value than dualistic ones.
Wow thank you for this! I suppose that's what the answer could have been for me, a kind of bridging between my lifelong reverence and pursuit of reason, and the passion or intuition that I didn't understand in others or myself.

I'm still early into reading the James Legge translation, but I've heard that there are many interpretations of the original. Is the tao of pooh not even close to daoism then?
No matter how nice a tv, when someone shines a flashlight at the camera, it won’t make you squint. Same problem. Plus, no static.
So Russia having info is worse because they would then sick the overreaching and cruel US govt on you? You do see how silly that sounds, don’t you? It proves the parent comment’s point that we should be fearing our domestic government more than a foreign one.

Imagine if the US wasn’t a police state, and the average person had good social/financial protections. We’d make China and Russia powerless according to your logic.
Hacker News’s simple and utilitarian focus is my favorite inspiration.
I really like the screenshot of 20 lines of source code. Ensures syntax highlighting works the same for everyone!
Yeah that was pretty cool, although I guess you run the risk of some browsers presenting it unrendered. If I had a majority of mobile users for a site, I probably wouldn't think twice before using an emoji in my url -- definitely makes it memorable
being just a regular IT person with 15+years experience and getting paid fairly well for what the local market is, whats the chance of a normal person working at a place that pays $700,000 as a SWE? How do you even approach that? Does someone mid career have a chance to pivot?
One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge
First, NY Post? F them and the horse they rode in on. They stoke culture wars at every turn.

Second, even if it was true (which I doubt), there are some things which should be ignored and someone believing this nonsense should not be coddled.

I'm very liberal, but this is just pure nonsense.
Offtopic but is there a "Figma for 3d" app? (Yes, I'm looking for the 2023 version of Sketchup which was simple and easy to use)
The thing is, these "No true Scotsman" justifications only come out later.

Despite significant literature on meditation psychosis, meditation is promoted as a completely safe practice and risks are almost never mentioned to new practitioners.
When I read all this, I can't help but thinking that Europe is doing better in this respect. Policies like GDPR help to prevent such large scale personal data collection and hence abuse.

Also, things like scores and rankings to get a loan/mortgage are not what I ever experienced. The procedure basically is, you take your last 3 salary slips and shop a few banks. You take the one with the lowest rent. Done. After all, you sign a document that states that the bank might sell your property if you do not pay off (for quite some months)

Or do I see it wrong?
Insist on such guarantees in the contact.
Haha. We called those "promotion driven architecture". I mean if you just shove the whole thing into a monolith, no matter how appropriate, how is this going to serve as a technical artifact supporting promotion?
Enums with associated values are a very basic data modeling primitive. Writing code without them is like doing arithmetic with only the multiplication sign, not the plus sign.
Not really IMO. At scale the model learns that the rainbow emoji is literally a synonym for “rainbow”. Computers are great at memorizing giant lists of facts such as this. It feels way more amazing for an LLM to guess the Carebear Movie from the rainbow emoji and bear emoji but it’s literally the same as asking the LLM to guess a movie that involves rainbows and bears with words.

It’s just an embedding space buried within the bowls of the LLM.
Also, in slack an emoji response doesn't need to be cleared (so it doesn't count toward a notification count). That is what got me on board.
Why are we still talking about this ?
Isn't most of "surprising new vulnerabilities" NOBUS? (NObody BUt US)

I didn't believe for a second that the MS Exchange vulnerability was not known & abused since forever. Now the Chinese have created what Zynga, Facebook, Pinterest, and the rest of the silicon valley failed to succeed. Get everyone meth-ed on an app. 150m Americans is nearly half the population. If you leave out the under 4 and the over 70, that's the majority of active population, having a homing beacon in their pocket reporting to China.

This puts Room 641A to shame..
I'm pretty sure mas-cli [https://github.com/mas-cli/mas] is abandonware. It hasn't received any meaningful updates in almost 2 years and most of its features are broken
And... How that is possible? When you want multiple atomic operations from multiple Microservices to fail altogether or not because there's a workflow that needs those steps?
source: I work at G

There's a process where you declare this work. And if it gets approved, you have ammunition to back you in a court case if it ends up going to such lengths.

I have had projects approved - questions that get asked are about e.g. conflict of interest or actual competition.

Google actually doesn't want to own your fruit-stand-in-the-park business.

This is intended to prevent situations like the zuck/winklevoss case (just to name 1 publicly well known example).
Ah yes, just four steps:

1. Understand the problem.

2. Devise a plan.

3. Carry out the plan.

4. Look back.

---

Compare with the Fenyman Algorithm:

1. Write down the problem.

2. Think real hard.

3. Write down the solution.

https://wiki.c2.com/?FeynmanAlgorithm

(The discussion on FeynmanAlgorithm links back to Polya's book since not everyone is Feynman.)
If you want to sell this idea you at least need to have a name for it.
e-moji should be attributed to NTT DoCoMo, who first had it on their feature phones in 1999.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji

The article above also noted how MSN Messenger and BlackBerry adopted emoji from 2003 onwards.
DM?
I'll grant you this: everyone believes themselves the heroes of their own story. Hitler didn't believe himself a villain; he believed himself a hero.

But the moral cannot ever be "according to his underlying beliefs, genocide was logical", or "genocide was wrong because ultimately it didn't help Germany achieve its goals". You can understand why he thought genocide was the right course of action -- understanding people from history should never be taboo -- but you cannot ever justify it as logically consistent.

Genocide is always wrong. It's so wrong, it should make anyone stop whenever their thoughts lead down this road. It's the definitive no-no of means, the means that can never be justified by any ends.

Hitler may have been wrong about many things, and even right about some, but genocide is definitely always wrong, and we can say that he was a morally broken person because of it.
Why eastern europeans in particular? Is it somehow related to slavic languages? Now I'm curious
Its probably still not challenging. Their major shtick is search, with a minor in neural net AI. Gen Z age range. Worked here on an internship. Bought a plane ticket to Hawaii during internship. Makes ~$150,000, +/- obfuscation error. Mostly only tends to make commits in the morning. May have been dumb and used GMail. If its not obfuscated, and almost exactly $150k, then its really easy.
Can you make it extra trash on mobile? You’re hired!
I did a lot of fine-tuning for an AI assistant I was building. I noticed a good improvement when I crossed the 200-300 samples (Q&A pairs)
I'm now also seeing (not sure if permanent or an experiment) related keywords being comingled with the result category buttons you're talking about, and it's absolutely infuriating. 90% of the time I'm using those buttons to switch to image search but it's a crapshoot whether Images will be where I expect it to be or in some random place in amongst other related keywords I don't want to search for.

For example, I just did a test search for 'bbc'. My options in that bar are now News, Live, TV guide, Sport, Football, Online, Images, Weather, Bbc news world

I'm fine seeing related keywords, but not where I'm used to switching the result type
Ready Worker One: Using VR to improve work from home setups
If you're interested in something like this with a
bigger code notebook-style code editor + AI code generation, we're working on it at op (https://opapp.io).
> TPG is paid astroturfing by the banks and it exists to pitch cards and inflate consumer perception of the value of points.

Source?
Maybe I'm not you.
The same with xlwings (works on macOS, too):

>>> import xlwings as xw
>>> wb = xw.Book()
>>> sh = wb.sheets[0]
>>> sh["A1"].value = "Hello World"
I wouldn’t be surprised if 150k is also fake but close to the real number.
I've heard such explorations referred to as 'reality safari' which I love. Immersing yourself in an entirely different philosophy to really feel it from the inside, to understand it completely and intuitively.

The fear many have about attempting such things mirrors the fear of e.g. psychedelic experiences -- the fear of "never coming back". Ironically, only living through this fear is what causes the bad trip in the first place. Egos, man, egos suck.
Not hard to believe. Reliability was one of the points in Steve Jobs' _Thoughts on Flash_:

> We also know first hand that Flash is the number one reason Macs crash. We have been working with Adobe to fix these problems, but they have persisted for several years now. We don’t want to reduce the reliability and security of our iPhones, iPods and iPads by adding Flash.
There are two modern cross-platform GPGPU standards that Apple Silicon can theoretically use or implement - SYCL and Vulkan Compute.

SYCL is Khronos Group's vendor-neutral, high-level programming framework. Application support is limited, but hopefully with Intel's backing, the situation would gradually improve. Meanwhile, Vulkan Compute sidesteps the entire headache with compute shaders. But I'm not familiar with it in terms of application support.

SYCL can be implemented on top of OpenCL and OpenCL's SPIR-V extension. It soon turned out that this route is unfeasible due to prevalent vendor lock-in that's not going to change anytime soon, so it has largely been abandoned by everyone else but Intel and Mesa. Right now SYCL is usually implemented by backends to GPU vendor's respective APIs, like ROCm, HIP or CUDA. Doing the same for Metal would be very challenging.

Mesa already has experimental support of OpenCL w/ SPIR-V on Intel and AMDGPU, so theoretically it can be extended to Apple Silicon. Difficulty of implementing OpenCL's SPIR-V extension should be comparable with Vulkan compute shader (which also uses SPIR-V). However, currently OpenCL on Apple Silicon is entirely unsupported. The last time I checked, it's on the roadmap.
So?

It doesn't mean all science fiction becomes reality.
SanDisk Extreme SSDs are “worthless,” multiple lawsuits against WD say
You can freely assume that (also not American). I think they are toying with their citizens.

It is better to think that the gov is incompetent than outright malicious (which is definitely the case). Gor some reason they NEVER drop the ball into giving more freedoms but they ALWAYS drop the ball on taking some away.
The butler is no "Castle Owner".

It is a cheap way to give people a strong and prestigious word to describe themselves, thereby smuggling in connotations. If you own something, you will treat it with lots of attention of course. People who tell you that you own something that isn't actually yours want to make you feel you own it and hence give it your 110%, while actually not owning anything.

There is no ownership here and project lead or project manager would be much more appropriate. I know that it's jargon, but it's pure connotation smuggling. Titles are very cheap, and people are gullible to be satisfied with the pride that comes from feeling like they own something.

Remember when people used to talk about "rockstar devs", ninjas and gurus. Or Apple customer service people being called "geniuses". Or "Scrum Masters". Or various wizards, magicians, and so on.

Also I never mentioned copyright at all. Copyright may or may not be relevant regarding ownership. For example when producing physical widgets without software, copyright is a non-starter in the first place.
I've never heard emoticons referred to as emoji, mainly because people don't use emoticons anymore (unless they still post on forums). It seems like a deliberate editorial decision. I would prefer to preserve the distinction, however, for reasons GP stated.
I've found that different subcultures can apply very different connotations to emojis (as well as other communications things). I think it's a fool's errand to try to find a usage that carries the same subtext for all subcultures.

This is largely a "know your audience" sort of thing. My approach is to just write like I normally do when I don't know the peculiarities of the specific people I'm talking with. In general, they will know you aren't "on the inside" and will understand that you don't know what the various connotations are. Even if they'll mock you for it later amongst themselves.
"3D" is such a broad term though, What specifically you want to do?
I agree with you, but, I once responded along these lines in an interview and it's not what people want to hear.
Many people don’t know this but you also need to set up a freeze at https://nctue.com/consumers/

I had to deal fraudsters getting cell phones and also electricity to their apartment.

Setting a freeze up here solved it.
Thanks, that did indeed take me to a sign-up page instead of waitlisting me.
Appreciate it! All the best.
The act of leaving your home country is often times a solo entrepreneurial act by the immigrant -- won't say it's majority or minority of the time, but certainly not a trivial percentage.
To me Excel's behaviour is way more problematic here. I carefully select the data I want, and it silently includes irrelevant data as well. I don't want the spacing preserved, but I really don't want other random data included.
>If anything it has lot of mountains to climb before it can be considered a challenge to the existing instruction set.

That's not what ARM thinks[0].

>There is nothing inevitable about RISC V.

As it turns out, the decisions have long been made, and RISC-V has been chosen.

0. https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/risc-v-part-2-ambitious...
I don't meditate, but I do introspect a lot. I often do so on walks. And I find I must give myself at least 10-15 minutes to even get into that mode, to stop worrying about what's actually happening or about to happen or did happen and to be able to let my mind wander and explore things deeply. So I force myself to continue until I reach the point where I'm no longer trying to convince myself to give it up and go home because there's something else I want to do so badly.

After that point, it's up to my subconscious. I'll stop when I feel like it, when I feel satisfied. That could be anywhere from 10 more minutes to another hour. But the longest part is always the beginning. The second part never feels like time is passing - it's exactly what I want to be doing.

Of course, if I only have 15 minutes, there's no guarantee I'm going to reach a place of satisfaction. I would aim to set aside 30-45 minutes whenever possible. I often see "do X for 1 hour a day" and that's just not realistic for everyone. You can definitely get good results with less time investment. But in general, yes you'll get out of it what you put in. I don't walk every single day and I noticeably suffer for it.
Also USB-C absolutely sucks. The socket seems to attract dirt and dust in a way that prevents its proper working like no other.
It’s inherent to their architecture. Feedforward deep neural networks are effectively massive piecewise linear functions. Unless I’m missing something, it’s literally impossible for any NN, no matter how large or how much data they’re trained on to give accurate out-of-training-data-bounds predictions for even a ridiculously simple function like x^2.
Vulkan is way better than Metal. Metal is simpler to learn. That is about it.
Average family income in 1950 was $3,300, according to estimates issued today by Roy V. Peel, Director, Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce.

The average income across all occupations in the USA today is $61,900. The average household incomes averaged to $87,864

According to recent data, the average price for a home in 1950 was just $12,000, while the average price for a home today is upwards of $540,000.

It turns out that a typical “household” back then had one breadwinner make the vast majority of the money. Today the households are often single-parent, or both parents working

So I don’t think that only a factory job could provide for a whole family back then. But my point is that whatever the corporation was (law firm, or whateve) they weren’t going to lay people off because the automation and AI wasn’t there. Now there increasingly is. The number of people who hold a job for 20-30 years at the same company is much smaller than back then.

I guess the main factor is the diminishing returns of a glut of products (crops in the farm example, or AI-generate content now) which devalues that specific industry’s products and makes everyone in a race to the bottom, so humans are priced out of a job. If you do this across enough industries (and many today are electronic or manufacturing) that means humans are no longer cost-effective to employ for any except a diminishing number of positions. What will we do with the growing unemployed class?
> manager/hiring manager that just went "eh he's ok let's give him an offer"

When you've got plenty of money in the budget it's not beyond poor managers to hire more for no other reason than to grow their "kingdom", as a bigger headcount equals bigger importance.
> You have to do your own research.

Generally a bad idea. Usually leads to quackery, pseudoscience beliefs etc. Individuals are much worse than institutions on matters of research.
That kind of magic is hard to find
Back in the day there was even a Mac browser plugin called "Click to Flash" that would prevent Flash from loading in web pages and draining battery like crazy. Made the web livable and more secure throwing Flash garbage ads everywhere.

Ah, the dev page for these: https://hoyois.github.io/safariextensions/clicktoplugin/

People also don't remember the huge number of CVEs that Flash had: https://www.cvedetails.com/version-list/53/6761/1/Adobe-Flas...
Why are commercial airplanes still so slow?
Whatever happened to supersonic commercial flights? It takes so long to get anywhere on an airplane and it 2023, their speed is still the same as 80 years ago.
How to Prove it is pretty nice
Rethinking the `setup` convention in Neovim. Is it time for a paradigm shift?
The impact of rockets on climate change is about 0%.
Completely normal for everyone to hate the security team. Also normal to blame security for all delays, and possibly the poor weather.

If you don't get hacked, everything we asked you to do was a waste of time and resource. If you do get hacked, we were incompetent.
But why would you want to? The COBOL code is probably understandable. The Java code is automatically generated crap. Just pay for the dev to learn COBOL. It'll probably be less expensive in the long run.
I use emoticons when texting (because I'm a graybeard), but my phone translates them into emojis before sending. So I've just taken to calling them all emojis.