skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I didn't get back to this until now.

I was thinking of lossless compression, lossy is another can of worms on top of lossless. Lossless compression works, in principle, by the realization that the probability distribution of the all possible input strings is not flat. There are some strings that are more probable, and strings that are less probable. The reason some strings are more probable is that they result not from random processes, but there is some process or algorithm that generate them. Thus, they have inherent structure to them. A random string would be a string that has no structure detectable by any algorithm smaller than the string itself. If the probability distribution of the input strings is not flat, then we can use entropy coding to describe the common case - non-random data – in less bits than the input.

However, the difference between some specific compression algorithms and a "general compression algorithm" is the assumptions they do. Most compression algorithms don't consider the probability distribution of the "full" set of input strings, but they rather divide the input string into a predictable sized chunks, and consider the distribution of those chunks. This is way simpler, and yields to being able to compress somewhat well, while still having rather "static" distribution (like morse code), or only simple algorithms (like adaptive Huffman coding) to adapt the distribution to the input data.

But if we don't restrict ourselves to the world of "compressing a stream, message by message", but enable "intelligent" compression that is allowed to use any computable means to achieve smaller compressed size and can adapt to the whole context of the input, we can see that "message-by-message" entropy coding is only a subset of what we can do. (And we of course _also_ have that subset in our toolbox.) But the true challenge of the compression now evolves into being able to find and represent approximations to the "full" distribution of the input data. That involves things like identifying structure in weather data! If the input is large enough to start with, the more complex model might be worth it. And if it isn't then we can intelligently just decide to use DEFLATE.

> what room is there for "intelligence" in a rigid, statically-defined, system?

But as we can see from above, surely intelligence that is tasked with compressing stuff, doesn't need to be "rigid"? The intelligence is in the compressor, not in the compressed result. The compressed result might be assembly code that unpacks itself by doing arbitrary computations, and to achieve good results, the generator of that code must be sufficiently intelligent.
Blaming is nice, moving your business elsewhere is better. Unfortunately, not everybody has more than one ISP serving their area.
ARIN’s free pool of IPv4 address space was depleted on 24 September 2015. As a result, we no longer can fulfill requests for IPv4 addresses unless you meet certain policy requirements that reserved blocks of IPv4 addresses for special cases. https://www.arin.net/resources/guide/ipv4/
ie. you have virtually no other option than to buy on the private market
I do remember the impression however, that the protocols did not scale
well beyond a small LAN.

Apple deserves a lot of credit for trying to smooth over the UX. The reality wasn't that things were very much plug and pray. I absolutely remember things grinding to a halt for instance when trying to print with more than 1 or 2 computers on the network. Unfortunately networked PCs started to become fairly popular around the time that Apple went to shit. Pretty much everything > 7.5 and < 10.4 was a hot mess with the worst being MacOS 8.x and 9.x with their instability and disk corruption issues.

Trying to integrate Apple stuff into a heterogeneous network? Ughghhghgghgh. Neither AppleTalk nor MacTCP were PPC native, so with PPCs we got OpenTransport. Compared to e.g. Trumpet on Windows, I always seemed to have problems.
Why a spike? Cellphone usage has been a gradual increase, just like cancer incidence rates
Just want to add my personal experience

I take Curcumin and Chyavanprash regularly in India and also do get my blood tested for toxic metals as it’s quite cheap here to do so and I have never found lead or any other toxic element in my blood.

However when a German friend who doesn’t take these but other supplements in Germany (Siberian Ginseng amongst others) did the same test, she had higher levels of Lead in her blood (which could also be from water in Berlin)
It's not just terrible; fats are essential nutrients whereas carbohydrates are not. You will die if you don't eat some minimum amount of fats. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_poisoning , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_fatty_acid
Gitlab. The company could grow, and you'll need more features, and you'll likely lack time/energy/resources to deal with admin stuff like source control. Gitlab self-hosted is mostly painless to manage - the default installers just work as long as you have an instance dedicated to it, and on a day to day level it is not at all burdensome to operate.

Another key point is: software is not just software. Your team will develop habits and working style. It'll be dead investment if you have to change software at a later time.
IMO it's top vs bottom, not generation vs generation.

The vast majority of us are working class.
> Ignore the billionaires. Focus on what you can control.

This is a good point. If you think about it everyone is successful for a given low enough threshold for success.
I've seen the same thing, querying SF hangs for some reason. And so does Cascais in Portugal. It works in San Mateo and Lisbon though
> I won't be surprised if single cell organisms, even prokaryotes can detect and react to sound

It would have to be pretty insanely high in the ultrasound. A 30 kHz (above the top of usual audible sound range) wave is around 10 mm (10000 µm) in wavelength; a typical prokaryote is of order 1 µm. While there are some uses for MHz-scale ultrasound, the attenuation starts getting pretty insane -- there's just not much energy at the scale of gigahertz sound to detect.
That are obvioulsly westernized indigineous people. Original indigineuos people don't have factories that produce plastic.
Yes the world is getting louder and I have been struggling with that for years.

I live on a main road with constant traffic zooming past at all hours of the day and night. I do not sleep well. I am angry, discombobulated and generally a grumpy old man.

I tried headphones, noise cancelling headphones, wax ear plugs, silicon earplugs and good old fashioned builders ear plugs. None of these worked for me. You just cannot sleep in headphones unless you are a 16 year old gamer who falls asleep at 03:00am.

I looked into what Autistic people use to reduce or remove loud noise from their lives.

My friend who has two autistic children recommended ear loops. I looked into them, ordered them and have not looked back. I wear them all the time.

I am surprised that I actually enjoy taking them off to bask in the world of noise but I do not want noise intruding into my peaceful and quiet mind.
I suppose snapshots, so you can retirn to a previous state in case of trouble
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https://testflight.apple.com/join/2y3aGPZC
Seriously? The grinder is the most important part, in my experience. When I first got into aeropress and pourovers, I was frustrated for years with bland and inconsistent brews. It was only after I upgraded to a decent burr grinder that everything fell into place. It’s just impossible to tweak anything else without first starting with a good grinder. I make adjustments of a few micron at a time with my grinder, and the difference is significant for both espresso and pour over. It’s much rarer that I make adjustments in water salts, brew temp, and brew method.
I shouldn't have said "raised", that was wrong, but I just wanted to talk about beef cattle that are not pasture grazing at all, or at least only for a tiny percentage of their lifespan. About 80% of beef cattle go from mother's milk, to feed lot once weaned.

Of course you can buy the other stuff, I said as much.

My point is that this statement is one part deceptive, and one part obviously wrong for the US, the market in question.

> Beef cattle are almost always raised on open pastureland. They live a very normal, happy, life for all their years.
You can have a cellar by/under a modern house just fine.
If we're all doomsday prepping, serious solar and a deep freezing rig is a must, same with water storage/filtering.
That's rich coming from Drew.

I'm being very hyperbolic, he's a perfectly decent guy, but he is very opinionated and can be pretty harsh with people he disagrees with or that do things he doesn't like. Some would call him toxic, I wouldn't, but I think this word "toxic" is thrown around too much. I've been called toxic for farting. I'm gonna come out and say it: it's just boys being boys. You can chastise me for that position, but people are going to be themselves in the world, we don't need to correct every indecent viewpoint or act of expression that happens anywhere anytime, and we can't. Hyprland is good software, and this comes from a Sway user who has no interest in using Hyprland at all. If some guys in a chatroom want to make dongle jokes or whatever I think you've got to be looking for reasons to be mad to make a big deal out of it.
A smaller vehicle can only transport 4. A bus can transport 30+.

Say each car transports 2 people, it's 15 cars, where their combined emission is less than a single bus.
Yeah, the US and Canada are the only two first world countries not slated for long-term population decline due to immigration. Japan is going to have to be more welcoming of non-Japanese people.
What does you mean by this? Many of the immigrants I know work much harder than me and still struggle to find their footing.
'Analog' FPGA are an interesting window: https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/ http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.50.... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23432601
NZ retailers on Shopify hit with card fraud
What's funny is, I heard before that the N64 could stream textures from ROM. But I can't think of any games that were known to do so. In this thread someone mentioned it in 2021.

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/17566/why...

I guess the big deal is that this time it's optimized for absolutely as much resolution as possible, even at the cost of poly count
But what about Office, Adobe , Affinity?
In the long term human populations have fluctuated wildly. As demographics get bad and Japan gets poorer I'd bet they will start having more children.
Sometimes, many gates! The 74xx series shows the progress of semiconductor technology over time. Later 74xx series chips are MSI. Oh, that term is quite antiquated now isn't it? Medium-scale integration. (Just about everything is far beyond VLSI these days. Very large scale integration.)

The 7400, the first device in the series, was just four NAND gates in one IC. NAND is the easiest function to implement in TTL (and most other logic families). The somewhat later 7476 is a dual JK flip-flop. It takes eight NAND gates to make a JK flip-flop, so a 7476 is about four times denser than the 7400. And devices like the even later 74161 4-bit synchronous binary counter have many dozens of gates [1], being roughly four times as much integration again over the 7476.

The 7400, 7476, and 74161 were at the cutting edge of integration in 1963, 1966, 1969, respectively.

[1] https://makeyourownchip.tripod.com/74161.GIF
That is changing though.

Vietnam and India have been eating into China's manufacturing dominance as their economy weakens and wages rises.
From what I can tell, if you were to sell a $5 game made with Unity and made $200,000 per year, the total charge would be $8,000. But that charge would be $40k if your game was only $1 and $800 if your game sold for $50. For Unity Pro if you made $10 million selling 1 million copies you would be charged $60,000. That same studio making $10 million on a game written with Unreal Engine would be charged $500,000 in royalties. That is far more than $60k for Unity. It still appears that Unity is the budget option, it just isn't quite as cheap as it used to be... So I couldn't find a situation where is cheaper to go with unreal (5% revenue share) than with Unity...
Put the solar panels on the school buildings, and the busses can plug in when they get there (and you get the benefit of reducing the school's electricity costs in general). They'd probably be able to charge enough in the sunny period of the day to do both the afternoon and next morning run.
The texts part depends on your perspective. We share most accounts with my wife because we literally have no secrets and it makes life so much easier. We don't really text, but we also grab each other's phone quite often when it's closer than our own. Then again, we don't really use our phones a whole lot either, a battery charge lasts 4-5 days.
What makes this different than the Nike run app, that has voice coaching while you run? How does it understand the goals I have for a given run (e.g. recovery vs. tempo vs. endurance) or distance impacts? What kind of runner is this for? C25k, hobby joggers, Kipchoge?
Ahh, that was the context I was missing. Indeed, makes sense for board games.
How about absolute lack of hard work? What does that predict?
Sandstorm is awesome but requires significant modifications to apps in order to work within the system. Also, it doesn't solve the complexity problem. You still need a programmer or sysadmin to set it up and manage security.

See also Cloudron, Yunohost, Umbrel.
NixOS gives you precisely this kind of control- through a few different mechanisms. Some packages in nixpkgs, and most NixOS and home manager modules, expose a lot of configuration options where you can configure various plugins, add extra packages, etc. Nix also lets you provide overlays and overrides to add custom packages (new packages, or customized versions of existing packages) and gives you the option of changing parts of a package. If none of that is sufficient, you can even supply your own patches to the code, or build the package from your own fork of the upstream repository.

In practice this is one of my favorite things about nix. I find that I contribute much more to open source in general because it’s so easy to say “replace this dependency with my version when you build this package”.
Yeah, it's a restoration project.
https://github.com/facundopignanelli/enroncorp
Sure, that’s right. I guess it’s just people used to fear getting arrested but it didn’t turn out to be a very useful deterrent. Now we have smash and grabs in busy grocery store parking lots at 12:30 in the afternoon because kids really know the police don’t care.

If only we gave those kids food or better economic opportunities, they wouldn’t be doing those smash and grabs in stolen Kias for kicks.
Yeah that is cool, because I hear that the tooling for FPGAs is still very proprietary. And it doesn't do much good if one's CPU is "Click the CPU button on the FPGA GUI"

EEPROMS, I assume, you can build your own programmer pretty easily?
PostgreSQL 16 – Release Notes
This project seems to implicitly assume that a formally specified code of laws, where statutes can be interpreted largely mechanistically, is a good thing (and by extension, that the existing system of human interpreters with discretion and margins of error is a problem to be overcome).

I don't disagree with this assumption outright, but it's certainly not obvious to me that it is correct, and the authors appear to present no arguments supporting the same.
What parts of the hard work did you see as most effective in improving outcomes?
One of the most financially rewarding career moves I've ever made was to give up the manual labor jobs I had as an field archaeologist and start focusing on "easier" tech jobs. Hard work is at best mildly correlated with financial rewards, though a 5 minute conversation with most workers would quickly disabuse you of even that notion.
https://www.contributor-covenant.org/ is (was?) the most widely adopted code of conduct in FOSS, initially drafted by a Ruby contributor, who also happens to be transgender if that's pertinent information to you. It's the genesis seed from which all this code of conduct madness stems from. Personally I'd stick with "be excellent to each other" or "say what you want, just don't use slurs or deliberately insult other contributors" or something vague, ambiguous and universally understood as that. I'm not really a fan of rigorous social rules, so my view on this starts from that position.
I suspect a lot of these can charge during off peak hours, most of which are later in the day.

The article you referenced is the average price consumers pay, much of cost is going to come from peak times.
Related: Our Oppenheimer Moment: The Creation of A.I. Weapons, an article in which Alex Karp of Palantir advocates for a Manhattan Project to build superintelligent AI weapons control systems.

https://archive.ph/rCMnE

These systems will output new plans and asset movements etc. so quickly that keeping humans in the loop will severely disable them. This will push towards greater and greater autonomy, eventually emulating life-like qualities like survival instincts.

It's a dangerous trajectory for humanity.
Not strictly what you're looking for, but in Lean (functional language/theorem prover), there's some interesting work being done. Using the tool actually shows which suggestions will compile, which certifies correctness to some degree. https://leandojo.org/
Unity Backtracking
That seems like a false dilemma. Busses have a life cycle, so need replacement every so often already anyway. Over the life cycle electric busses shouldn't be more expensive than ICE ones (electric have higher capital cost at the moment but lower operating costs due to fuel).

So it's unlikely there's a valid case to be made that the cost of electric busses would be preventing expansion of public transport.
As far as I know, there's no legal requirement for anyone to have their company deduct taxes / SS from their paychecks. I mean, we all do it, because it's more convenient than to have to track it for yourself (and also keep enough money on-hand to settle up with the government at the end of the year).

The standard thing to do would be to fill out a form, in order to have a deduction rate changed, and then another to have it changed back. It sounds like the form anyone else would have filled out would have gone to her, and then she'd have made the change in the payroll system. If she didn't fill out the forms, then what she did was irregular (and maybe worthy of some kind of discipline), but if she was smart enough that she did file the proper forms before she changed her own settings, then I can't see them making a disciplinary charge stick.

Even apart from that, so long as she paid the correct amount of taxes at the end of the year, she's not in any legal jeopardy. She didn't steal anything from anyone. I'm kind of cross with TFA for not explaining that clearly.

Obviously, yeah. Someone screwed up, badly, to have kept her on leave and on the payroll all this time, but that's not her responsibility.
So I guess you did? You did miss that part??

—

Sorry for seeing humor in your non-response repeating refrain, and then adding my own poor attempt at humor.

But, what you wrote was obviously read.

And responded to directly with a good point that you seem to have missed twice now.
General purpose Linux distributions whether using Wayland or X don't meaningfully protect you from compromised software running on your system. Traditionally on all systems 99.9% of the game has always been and remains not installing malware or compromising your data or credentials.

This means 99.9% of actual threats to your security remain the same.

If you want actual isolation you need to run something like qubes which ironically actuality uses X
The "picmi" program is by far superior for nonograms (though a couple of its builtin puzzles are unfortunately ambiguous), though it still doesn't support color like most proprietary implementations do. It's easy to create and add an XML puzzle collection if you have a directory of black-and-white images (though images not specifically designed to be nonograms are likely to be ambiguous).

Actually, this generalizes: SGT's puzzle implementations are never as good as a dedicated program; their value is in their bulk and relative uniformity (though that is not very complete; half the programs don't support possibilities (and none support multiple flavors of possibility or global usage tracking; see e.g. any halfway-decent Sudoku program) and several require keyboard or require mouse where others don't). I'm also irritated that there isn't a command-line interface to automated generation/rendering/solving at least (I wouldn't want to play most of them in a terminal).
I did some searching in this space as I wanted a proper unit aware calculator for my phone. I ended up finding Frink and rink; but Frink's android app is atrocious, and Rink doesn't have one. I hope something like hissab can leverage Frink's unit list with a better interface.

I'd like to see an effort to add common constants. My standard test for an app like this is getting the diameter of earth in light seconds; which wasn't possible because Hissab doesn't have Earth's diameter.

https://frinklang.org/

https://rinkcalc.app/
> it's not obvious when you start that a private network has the cost of an NAT GW attached to it

It’s not actually required.
And I don’t mean the completely unrealistic “if you run stuff on your private network that never needs to connect to the internet, then you don’t need a NAT gateway!”. I just mean you can implement routing to the internet in cheaper ways.

If you don’t need 100Gbps highly available outbound traffic routing like a NAT gateway provides… you run a t3.nano instance doing forwarding and NAT that will sustain 30Mbps and burst to 5Gbps for $3.80/mo. Just on raw bandwidth, unless you need more than a t3.large can push (~500Mbps continuous, 5Gbps burst), it’s cheaper to run an EC2 instance as your gateway rather than use a NAT gateway.
IPv1 is a cozy place
I suspect it varies wildly on region. Rust is the biggest enemy in places that get snow.

From that, I suspect seats get beat up.
The kid doesn't give a damn if the cars behind the car that's about to hit them are braking. All that matters is whether that first car is able to brake fast enough to avoid hitting them, or if not, whether the car has slowed sufficiently to maybe not kill them. If networked autonomous cars are moving faster, the kid is much less likely to survive. Period.

Maybe the car detects the kid earlier. But that's not guaranteed; if the kid runs out from between two parked cars, for example, there may not be sufficient time at higher speeds for the car to stop.
Indeed. Ambiguity in legal codes is a feature that allows them to remain relevant for more than a couple of years, and the formal-law "utopia" that some commenters here appear to desire would be a nightmare if put into practice.
FOSS software projects are social clubs. They're endeavors undertaken willfully, voluntarily, usually without any expectation of financial compensation, out of personal interest. They have a goal, yes, but at the end of the day people get involved because it's fun, and they're trying to have fun and do something they think is cool. Telling someone they can't share a winkyface in chat is offputting to I'd say most talented people that do this sort of thing out of personal interest. I don't think it's a coincidence that we see alongside this rise on CoCs a rise of frustratingly hostile user experience in software.