skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compression is all about detecting patterns in the data, usually with some kind of sliding window of past data, used to predict future data. For gzip in particular, this sliding window has a fixed size of 32KB.

If the "weird" version is ~2000× the size of the original source, gzip would need a sliding window of ~2000× the size (about 64MB) to obtain equivalent compression.
Or balloon launched, parachute landing.
> North Dakota requires pharmacies be owned by independent pharmacists.

Germany does so as well, and requires even stuff like aspirin be sold only in pharmacies. Result is that such basic medication is a lot more expensive there than in eg neighbouring Netherlands.
> Typical ratio of people to managers in a company is about 1:4, so that tracks.

Over the last 10 years, we have improved productivity tools, and for every other role the expectations are higher.

I find it funny that the ratio of ICs:Managers has not gone up and the industry doesn't discuss that it should go up or what tools we need to help make it grow.
> Higher density cities require more outside inputs brought in from outside the city.

Surely, it can't possibly be that simple. Sometimes that's true, sometimes it is not. If I want fiber to my house in the country I might be paying $30k to get that line all the way to my one house whether I want 100MB/sec or 10GB/sec. In the city it might be shared with hundreds and only need to run a few yards. Same for sewage. Same for police and fire.
>> I think most people agree that the California system is a disaster.

And yet it is immensely popular. Why do you think that is?

I believe it's because rather than thinking home owners are evil rent seeking capitalists, most are hard working people who bought a house and think it's fair that the government not tax them out of it.
I think even worse than that are Product Managers who want to run their own developers using Scrum.....just no.....
Around 1863 they were debating whether the Sun was burning coal or meteorite impacts could generate enough heat for the sun to glow.

Experts Doubt the Sun Is Burning Coal (1863) (scientificamerican.com)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23074435
I don't think we should forego many of the various amenities that we use energy for, but we definitely can reduce overall energy use without causing a humanitarian catastrophe.

Take transportation. Gas engines are somewhere in the neighborhood of 20-30% efficient; the rest gets wasted as heat. Modern electric vehicles use motors with efficiencies in the high 90's. With battery/charging losses maybe you're somewhere around 80% efficiency. It'd be nice if people drove less on average as well because traffic can be a problem, but even without that we could reduce the energy needs of transportation to less than half the energy we use now, just by being less wasteful. The transition to EVs is slow because EVs are still expensive and cars in general can have long lifespans, but we should be hitting an inflection point if we haven't already where new EVs are cheaper overall than new ICE vehicles, and in a decade or so that should be true in the used market as well.

There's similar gains to be made by using heat pumps instead of natural gas for heating.

We're going to need a lot more electricity production even in a world that uses less energy overall because a lot of the stuff that's fossil-fuel powered now will need to be transitioned to run on electricity. So, I'm in favor of vastly increasing our deployment of solar and wind farms, and nuclear.

The choice between faster innovation or do something to avert climate catastrophe is a false one. We can do one or the other or neither or both. I really hope we do something about the CO2 problem, though.
Yes, but `setenv` is documented as not thread-safe.

Once you do unsafe things, the nasal demons can spread to safe code elsewhere.

Glibc's documentation is more explicit about the propogation of the nasal demons:

┌─────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────────────────┐
│Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
├─────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────────────────┤
│setenv(), unsetenv() │ Thread safety │ MT-Unsafe const:env │
└─────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────────────────┘
┌────────────────┬───────────────┬────────────────────┐
│Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
├────────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────┤
│getaddrinfo() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe env locale │
├────────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────┤
│freeaddrinfo(), │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
│gai_strerror() │ │ │
└────────────────┴───────────────┴────────────────────┘
Not scalable and would be politically less popular?
Just for fun, I decided to pass the output.js file through Google Closure Compiler's advanced optimizations. It does a surprisingly good job at reconstructing part of the strings.

% npx google-closure-compiler -O ADVANCED --js output.js

(()=>{})["co"+(1/0+[])[4]+"structor"]("co"+(1/0+[])[4]+...

Not pasting the full thing. But it reduces the output.js file from ~118 KiB to ~9.92 KiB, which is pretty good!

There is technically not much stopping the compiler from inferring that 1/0 === Infinity, recognizing (1/0+[])[4] is free of side-effects, and eventually concluding its safe to substitute the whole expression with "n". Google Closure already has optimizations for string concatenation, so if it were able to perform an optimization pass with Infinity, then it would also be able to emit the string "constructor" instead of "co"+(1/0+[])[4]+"structor"
"fun fact" JWST only has 65 gigabytes of storage and has to be downloaded daily at 10mbps

I believe I read the European Extremely Large Telescope is going to be doing a full sky survey every night generating 8TB DAILY
Article explains the aerodynamics of wing twist, in particular the positive feedback dynamics, which, when controlled, can be used for roll control (which was something I didn't know). This is in relation to the recent Launch HN: Radical (YC W23) – Autonomous high-altitude solar aircraft:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37901120
This is how you get the Office Space "I have eight different bosses" environment. And they all play "hide the problem, fluff the status" games so the leaders above++ have no idea how big of a shit show the ground level is.
Hm, I know that the Obama admin set more stringent standards, and then the Trump admin reduced them, did the truck exemption get removed?

Here’s the Biden admins rules, which really seems like putting lipstick on a pig at this point, “ The rule’s impact would vary among different types of vehicles. Mileage requirements for passenger cars would rise 2 percent a year from 2027 to 2032, and 4 percent a year for light trucks and SUVs over the same time period. The requirement for heavy-duty pickup trucks and vans would rise 10 percent a year starting in 2030.”
Mullvad Browser 13.0 released with multilingual support
Just reading a couple papers every day, the most interesting ones, and following up on reddit and twitter to get notified what people are talking about. And I am directly interested in long-context LLMs for a work related task.

I have also been dabbling with neural nets (pre-transformer), especially LSTM which have a "residual" connection, the one I was mentioning. That makes gradients better behaved. Schmidhuber tech.
They did not configure PagerDuty or VictorOps escalation policy properly. Low man power can only be justified by operation excellence in monitoring.
Interesting. Is that due to federal or state regulation? Or a choice by the banks?
I remember high-school economics class, every lesson the teacher would relate how georgism was a solution to the problem at hand. It sounded like a panacea for all society's economic woes.
This is not the way that turned it out. The curl vuln everyone was fretting about was https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2023-38545.html still very much a serious and real vulnerability.
They are going kaput, and have been for a long time. I was in one last year, and the store had many empty and partially full shelves. The last time I had seen something similar was when K-Mart hit the skids. Aisles of nothing, and then an aisle or two of things stacked so as to appear there was more on the shelves than there actually were.

It very much had a semi-abandoned, depressing feel to it.

CVS and Walgreens are headed down that path, too.
May was mostly limited: https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/09/tech/linkedin-layoffs-exit-ch...
This seems similar to Temu, where they exert significant pressure on suppliers and offer customers extremely low prices. Suppliers remain tied to Temu due to its large customer base, often sacrificing margin for volume.

From what I've heard, Apple also exerts tremendous pressure on its suppliers and boasts some of the highest margins in the industry. In return for their association with Apple, suppliers gain reputation.
So you're saying what... passkeys don't use the enclave at all?
I saw it available for purchase a few days ago. It was $1995 or $1945 IIRC.
Yes, similar to how they caught them by surprise in the first place. Not buying most of it.
That's not an alternative to the described micropayments system since this is an expensive bundle that doesn't depend on usage, so almost the opposite
Surprising since the lower wealth masses depend much more on unproductive wealth as their store of value (such as cash) vs the extremely wealthy that depend more on near monopoly of productive capital.

Maybe it's the minority who have tricked the majority to vote for their bidding.
I've been off YouTube for a few days and missed the new ad blocker news until coming to this thread. Now I'm like... `sigh` I guess it's time YouTube had it's mastodon moment...

But indeed Video is a different (heavier) beast than text. I would assume a less perverse set of incentives that a federated platform offers would get rid of 99+% of the "content" that Youtube currently hosts, but the remaining 1% would still generate traffic many times bigger than mastodon I'd think.
If you can stream video, you can stream game video. This has been possible for well over a decade.

Several of the most prominent tech companies in the world have already tried this business idea, and fallen on their faces.
>> Land Value Taxes just seek to be a more efficient (since they try to target rent seeking rather than profitable labor) and more just

So someone like Musk should pay basically no tax personally because he doesn't own any land?

I think the idea LVT comes from a period of time when land was a good proxy for wealth. These days, I think that's only true for the middle class, who gets crushed by LVT while the true wealthy laugh from their mansions on modest plots of land while spending their summers on billion dollar yachts.
1) The title is a clickbait, but

2) Thanks for leading with an example of a negative result! That's what any researcher faces every day, unlike what gets published, after all
> Also, while we’re on the subject, can we talk for a second about how completely unnecessary a 900-mile EV is? Why not use a battery a third of the size to give us something much more affordable with a still-useful 300-mile range?

I guess the headline they went with is catchier, but this is the real lede. Don't give me a 900-mile battery, give me a 250-mile battery that weighs and costs 1/4 as much. 900 miles is 12 hours of non-stop driving at highway speeds. I can't even conceive why anybody would want a personal car that does that. (Long-haul buses with bathrooms onboard and the ability to seamlessly switch drivers would be great, though trains would be greater still.)
Climate change is a driver here, but the smoke itself is local (at least to the same extent as most regulated emissions) and negatively impacts air quality.
5 single-family homes will consume the same amount of food and water as 5 units in a few duplexes or a five-over-one. The SFHs will consume more energy for heating and cooling (related to larger footprints) and use more resources to send power and water (larger distances to send power and water.) An SFH consumes more resources than a multifamily-housing unit holding the same number of people.
> They seem to be allowing it to be used by commercial entities, which might be more concerning, but not necessarily.

I think this might be what the common people are afraid of. While I don't use social media, I'd suppose many people wouldn't feel comfortable to explicitly disclose their identities to the all-devouring global companies. Another thing might be a requirement for identity verification in app stores, which is another story related to other regulatory proposals.
There is so much fucking wrong with the 'manifesto' but just this made me want to throw up.

> our control over nature

what control.. exactly. Destruction is not control, consumption is not control. Stop any volcanos lately? Prevent any earthquakes? We've been systematically raping nature for hundreds of years and are currently staring down the barrel of extinction because of our inability to control nature.
i've had my fun with better living through chemistry taking pills of unknown manufacture. you go ahead and have fun with that. if you get them cheaper, and i pay more for something i personally feel assured about, then you do you.

i've been around the sun enough times to know that when things are too cheap, there's usually a reason. history is full of pills being sold that weren't what they claimed to be on the box.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/comcast-should-s...

Advertising board also agrees.
Everyone knows no country besides the US has ever experienced a recession, since the NBER didn't declare it. And even for the US, they've only happened since the establishment of the NBER, since they weren't around to declare recessions before they existed and thus there were by definition no recessions. We should just abolish the NBER and thus ensure there will never be another recession.
They have been closing stores for a while, and will close a lot more in C11. Corporate is very much trying to devise some way of keeping the doors open, but they are going to hit the same wall that a lot of other retail operations hit.

The world simply no longer has a need for every street corner having the same types of stores selling the same types of things at the same prices.
I'm the opposite. Found Bandcamp UI pretty good, intuitive and no bs, discovered tons of good music through the Discover section on the bottom front page. Also the Bandcamp blogposts are the among the best music article. Soundcloud on the other hand I would only go via directly link. I guess it also relates to the genre you're interested in, my favorite artists probably never post to Soundcloud.
For anyone who wants to make sure they have a local copy of all of their Bandcamp purchases:

https://github.com/meeb/bandcampsync

(Disclaimer: author)
I like this series, thanks for independently taking the time to break this down.

I’m silent on other conflicts because we’re silent on this conflict. Nobody - zero - people were telling me to pick a side or understand the history or even try to berate me for merely being silent on the Myanmar one. Kind of weak to attempt that on a different one.

I find my country’s involvement to be arbitrary and would like it to not be involved in the ones people are used to it being involved in

The geopolitics aren't really that consequential for me or many of us, thats what the two gigantic oceans are for

Lets at least stick to placating the regimes that have natural resources, or semiconductors, until we have them too. Everyone else can figure it out.
How about a tandem wing aircraft?
It's probably that math phenomenon that explains why gas stations cluster together. I guess this is the one. I heard about it on here long time ago. https://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2008/03/25/game-theory-tu...
Many people prefer the weight of blankets on them. Slightly cool temp allows that.
i like how galaxies look like ellipsoids if you zoom out
Also, an encoder like these can inject any amount of entropy (eg replace "0" with "100500999-100500999") which gzip can reduce to "100500999-same" but without knowledge of JS semantics has no chance to reduce to either "0" nor the nearby "172913211-172913211")
AI training set
I appreciate the authors writing style. It helped me understand the subject without seeming verbose. That sweet spot can be difficult.
Exactly. Setting environment variables while a program is running is a terrible idea. Thread safe or not.

A lot of code, for good reasons, assume envvars are constants set before the program started and caches computations based on them, read config files and so on.

The fact that they are essentially global variables should be enough to deter usage of them.
How ironic that a campaign with "free land" in the slogan treated land as a public commodity and sought to make land the entire basis of the government's tax income.
Ridiculous. It's unthinkable a modern democratic nation would subject its citizens to rape, beheading, and torture to justify military action.
Did MS have that reputation? All I remember are endless posts bitching about stack ranking... and that was 20 years ago.
cuBLAS is cuda, clBLAST is OpenCL
Last two paragraphs first: You are making a logic error here. A human at a certain level of (whatever you want to call it, productivity, success, wealth, whatever) will want a certain lifestyle level and will use vastly more resources to achieve that lifestyle in a less dense city. You can see that comparing pretty much any set of cities in the world if you stratify by income and look at resource usage/co2 output/whatever. Environmental cost of importing resources is also pretty low as long as you have good transportation methods in use (i.e. shipping or train with trucks minimized). So, if you actually want minimize impact the correct thing to do is to expand and densify cities until the decrease in environmental damage per capita from increasing density equals the increase in environmental damage from importing resources. This means the best setup is a dense city with a decent resource feeder area around it, not a self sufficient area with a less dense/more suburban city.

Now for the first paragraph: This is kind of the point because maximizing use generally means more density, which means more opportunity to minimize use elsewhere. I did outline one situation that I thought was unfair and should be addressed, which is the situation where you buy land zoned one way with a much lower value only to have it zoned another way on you that makes it a lot more valuable. Other than that specific situation, I don't agree with you that your first paragraph is a problem, it's a positive feature.
Does he allow zero, or even negative star reviews?

If so, I'm in. There's a towing company near Denver that needs some zero star reviews.
Oh it's definitely not simple, I don't mean to input that.

Your examples only really touch on one relevant example though, sewage. Sewage isn't really an issue in rural areas, off grid seltic systems process waste on site and more compelling systems can even compost human waste with very little effort. Modern central sewage system only exist because of dense cities, they weren't needed before that.

High speed internet is purely a convenience and really shouldn't be a concern if there's any meaningful environmental impact from it. Police and fire similarly are conveniences that may turn into necessities in highs density areas. I live in a rural area where police may show up tomorrow if I call them now and our fire is mostly volunteer.

I've never heard of anyone having real issues from either. Volunteer fire still respond quickly enough and it's amazing how much less import policing is when people are more spread out and the expectation of turning to police for every problem isn't the norm.
Actual headline is "Tracking Cellphone Data by Neighborhood, Israel Gauges Gaza Evacuation"

Whomever submitted this sounds like they have an agenda.

FTA:

> The Israeli military says the tracking and the call to evacuate are to preserve as many civilian lives as possible during an expected ground invasion
Of course not. It's still my first recourse if GPT-4 can't answer my question adequately.
https://www.thriftyicecream.com/
Obsidian has a feature called "Shared vaults" which teams use to collaborate. You can also use a shared Git repo, or other cloud/network storage (e.g. Dropbox)

https://help.obsidian.md/Obsidian+Sync/Share+remote+vaults
> be expected if humans never existed in the first place.

Sans humans, surely the earth systems would be slowly creeping back towards more and more ice ... at least by the pattern of glacial advance and retreat in this current long term (million year) age of mini ice cycles.

But it's not, is it?

Instead the sea | earth surface layer is getting hotter, much hotter than expected and on a rapid (by geological time) scale.

This is entirely due to human activity as our population has rapidly expanded in the past 100 years and our resource consumption has exploded to match, dragging up carbon that took millions of years to lay down and more to bury deep.

The pressure this presents on human day to day existence is pressing down fast, we've become more and more dependant on daily movements of food and energy that are critically reliant on everything being "just so" - as much as we might kid ourselves we do not have robust supply chains that can rapidly adapt to the challenge of feeding a billion people if broad area cropping zones tip and become non productive for a decade or more.

Very few people are panicing about the fate of the planet on a thousand year time scale - it's a pretty rubust orbiting mass.

Sensible people are concerned about the future of humans on the scale of a hundred years.

It takes planning and coordination to ride such things out with minimal impact.
It’s all about the evaluation chart you take. It’s easy to pick random criteria to justify any of the following claim. Humanity is bloated. Mammals are bloated. Multi-cellular organisms are bloated. Eucaryote are bloated. Life is bloated.
Not intentional. Fixed! Was related to hovering over videos and keeping the hero video changed in case you meant to share it with a specific video in mind as the hero. Changed the behavior to only do that in if you use the dropdown at the top.
CVS bought out Target's pharmacy business:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/06/15/cvs-health-t...

Kroger bought out Albertsons, which had a 1700-branch in-store pharmacy operation too:

https://www.supermarketnews.com/nonfood-pharmacy/will-kroger...

Not sure how well the independents do with the PBMs these days and a lot of PBMs alliances with dispensing pharmacies.
Remember when reviewing the impacts of a new policy, they are always at the margin. So the appropriate situation to imagine for your bookstore is one where the benefits of land in the core are slightly greater than benefits from land in the periphery. Since LVT makes land in the core more expensive due to taxes, on the margin all businesses and residences would migrate towards the periphery.

Property tax creates its own distortions, just like all taxes. But it is less distortive since going back to the example of a manufactury or a bookstore, no matter where they locate the property tax changes less than a land value tax, meaning the decision on where to locate is based on efficiency rather than taxes.
This, along with the general inability to handle per-interface DNS resolution, is the primary reason systemd-resolved exists.
I was suggesting that the buffer be invalidated by each subsequent call – like some other libc functions' internal buffers – although, as I noted in the edit this would need `getenv()` to be able to indicate errors (specifically ENOMEM). It currently cannot do this as currently described, because NULL is used to indicate an absent variable.

You could also require callers free the returned memory when they're done, but that would be another change of API.