skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds like a Windows problem, plus compression settings. Your wlog is 24 instead of 21, meaning decompression will use more memory. After adjusting those for a fair comparison, pack still wins slightly but not massively:

Benchmark 1: tar -c ./linux-6.8.2 | zstd -cT0 --zstd=strat=2,wlog=24,clog=16,hlog=17,slog=1,mml=5,tlen=0 > linux-6.8.2.tar.zst
Time (mean ± σ): 2.573 s ± 0.091 s [User: 8.611 s, System: 1.981 s]
Range (min … max): 2.486 s … 2.783 s 10 runs

Benchmark 2: bsdtar -c ./linux-6.8.2 | zstd -cT0 --zstd=strat=2,wlog=24,clog=16,hlog=17,slog=1,mml=5,tlen=0 > linux-6.8.2.tar.zst
Time (mean ± σ): 3.400 s ± 0.250 s [User: 8.436 s, System: 2.243 s]
Range (min … max): 3.171 s … 4.050 s 10 runs

Benchmark 3: busybox tar -c ./linux-6.8.2 | zstd -cT0 --zstd=strat=2,wlog=24,clog=16,hlog=17,slog=1,mml=5,tlen=0 > linux-6.8.2.tar.zst
Time (mean ± σ): 2.535 s ± 0.125 s [User: 8.611 s, System: 1.548 s]
Range (min … max): 2.371 s … 2.814 s 10 runs

Benchmark 4: ./pack -i ./linux-6.8.2 -w
Time (mean ± σ): 1.998 s ± 0.105 s [User: 5.972 s, System: 0.834 s]
Range (min … max): 1.931 s … 2.250 s 10 runs

Summary
./pack -i ./linux-6.8.2 -w ran
1.27 ± 0.09 times faster than busybox tar -c ./linux-6.8.2 | zstd -cT0 --zstd=strat=2,wlog=24,clog=16,hlog=17,slog=1,mml=5,tlen=0 > linux-6.8.2.tar.zst
1.29 ± 0.08 times faster than tar -c ./linux-6.8.2 | zstd -cT0 --zstd=strat=2,wlog=24,clog=16,hlog=17,slog=1,mml=5,tlen=0 > linux-6.8.2.tar.zst
1.70 ± 0.15 times faster than bsdtar -c ./linux-6.8.2 | zstd -cT0 --zstd=strat=2,wlog=24,clog=16,hlog=17,slog=1,mml=5,tlen=0 > linux-6.8.2.tar.zst

Another machine has similar results. I'm inclined to say that the difference is probably mainly related to tar saving attributes like creation and modification time while pack doesn't.

> it is done in two steps: first creating tar and then compression

Pipes (originally Unix, subsequently copied by MS-DOS) operate in parallel, not sequentially. This allows them to process arbitrarily large files on small memory without slow buffering.
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I have trouble believing he was putting up a principled fight over… a journal app.
Like everything in US law its complicated because we are resistant to single unified systems. Working for two Fortune 500 companies is likely to end badly like you said in the EU. But there are many smaller companies here that are not as bureaucratized. So like startup + bigcorp would be safer, different industries even better. The tradeoff is we get fired all the time and have almost no worker protections except for in a few states like CA.
Is it normal that when I try to uninstall xz it is trying to install lzma?
How do I get started with Jax on TPU VMs
Probably? At small enough scale there might be elementary particles like there are for other things. We should probably solve quantum gravity before worrying about such details.
Last year, an unknown person took nominal control over OpenAI's startup fund
To be clear, the “beloved” era (while noting its subjectivity) is in reference to the pre-G/O Media era, which was run under a different editorial direction. That team has since moved to Defector.

The controversy you are referencing happened last fall, years after that team had left.
Passkeys are an open standard with multiple implementations. It represents the opposite of the trend you're worried about there.
It's effective but it's too big to be deployed on every vehicle all the time and requires some finesse to use.
WSJ marks one year of journalist's detention in Russia with blank front page
Sorry for your loss. Just met him vicariously and watched his first "Security Engineering Lecture 1" and I miss him already. He seems like a genuine soul.
Facebook paid individuals to record what data their devices sent out.

Ahh, yes. That is a huge distinction I was not aware of.
So sad to hear it. He made many contributions and made the world a better place.
I do not use this for two reasons:

- It is not open source.

- It does only run on Windows.

Alternatives include Krita, Pinta and The GIMP.
Be careful getting too excited about an amphetamine addiction. Delusions of grandeur etc. Maybe your body doesn't want to do homework for good reasons? I see the legal speed industry as just another shameless means to get people to continue working at soulless jobs. Cruel to drug so many kids. Might as well not reproduce in the first place if you insist they must sit still. Not to mention the side effects on heart, brain, sleep and tendency to become almost as insufferable as cokeheads. Way too many parents giving it a pass because it's sold as "medication". How about we stop creating fucked societies instead?
Sure thing. It's probably a good idea, since spammers like to submit a whole bunch of things at once.
For those curious of the costs: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/phones/state_of_phone_justice_2...

When I saw the subheadline "'Hundreds of jails' eliminated visits," I assumed this allegation was going to related to the places that used COVID as an excuse (valid or not) to cut in-person visits. I was surprised to find that these allegations pre-date that, even though I'm aware that many places have come up with all sorts of other reasons to discourage in-person visits, like concern that visitors might sneak drugs or other items inside. (Which isn't to say I agree with that justification.)

Only kinda related, but I also find it crazy when I read about getting rid of prison libraries in favor of making incarcerated folks (and really, their families) buy books (or pay per minute) on tablet devices.
It's easy to tamper with watermarks from AI-generated text
Damn, this is like the fifth time series framework posted this week.

This one seems theoretically more interesting than some others but practically less useful. For one, who wants to do stuff in tensorflow anymore let alone tensorflow-probability. Tp has had ample time to prove its worth and from what I can tell pretty much no one is using it because of a worst of both worlds problem—DL community prefers pytorch and stats community prefers Stan.

I’m starting to feel like time series and forecasting research is just going off the rails as every company is trying to jump on the DL/LLM hype train and try to tell us that somehow neural nets know something we don’t about how to predict the future based on the past.
As far as I've seen, the big tell for LLM-generated essays is that they're still largely fluff with little information.

My memory of college essays is that you find your handful of sources, extensively cite them, and you're pretty much done. It's not even the same kind of thing that current LLMs create, because they're not able to pull accurate quotes from articles, books, etc.
It's synergistic with PIT/TVI. If the car doesn't swerve to avoid it, PIT. If the driver keeps his car directly in front of the police car, grapple.
Interesting they would discuss system call overhead of opening a file, reading from it and closing it. Seems like in almost all cases the open and close calls would be overwhelmed by the other operations.
This isn't how I think of morality. Im mostly just being pedantic here but it stuck out to me in a weird way so here's an internet comment with my thought.

You can do whatever you think is right for you and I have no judgement for you either way, I just don't personally use morality to describe this kind of situation.

I think I agree with some of your underlying sentiment about the normal work and human experience being ruthless and cruel, and I understand the foolishness and danger in treating bad people like they are good by deciding to do that is your moral decision it isn't someone outside or morality in some way.

Morality is only really tested when it isn't the easy or most profitable way.
I work in the public safety domain. You don’t even need a tracker on vehicles. There are several camera startups in this space, such as Flock Safety, which can scan for plates and particular vehicle descriptions and alert law enforcement. These devices are more common than you’d think. Agencies can also enter data sharing agreements. I work on the consuming end of data from systems like this.

[1]https://www.flocksafety.com/

[2]https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2024/02/27/flock...
But a rank stack is cause for insurance because somebody is being let go. Needing to keep at least 94% of headcount, with no penalty to management for being above (and possibly a bonus for staying above the minimum) sounds like the opposite.
this is unsolicited, non-medical healthcare advice. yikes.
Yes, very similar. ElasticSearch changed licensing, so AWS forked it and created OpenSearch.
exFAT is pretty portable these days and not encumbered by annoying file and disk size limitations. Its the default for SD cards and has had native support in Macos and windows for 15 years, linux has had kernel drivers for 5 years and FUSE/3rd party kernel modules for longer. Unless you need to interface with an ancient system there's no reason to use FAT on portable drives anymore.
the formula is (years of experience / 5) for number of jobs you can do remotely
Chatbot letdown: Hype hits rocky reality
You'd also need protections against parallel construction.
and an urban legend (did we use to call them?) before online memes were a thing.
I don't recall saying books are like social media. I was only vaguely stating that kids and their media of choice have been "a problem" for a long time.

Is this one different? Certainly, but every new problem is different.

I'm positive we'll figure it out. The world never collapsed when GTA came out.

Part of me reads these no differently than those articles where "nobody wants to work anymore". If you change a few words, you could have written the same piece 100 years ago.
I was just talking to a coworker about this.

Imo it should be illegal, but what ever I guess haha

Basically, no need for a warrant any more. As long as it’s “in view of the public” they can track you entirely.

Champaign IL set these up on almost every intersection.
What really cracks me up is that people have this expectation that they’ll ever be “ready” to have kids. Not going to happen. The whole thing reminds me of the first few minutes of “Idiocracy”.
As someone with ADHD who has been on stimulants... yes, ADHD doesn't take time off, but it's not that simple, and you should be more careful with making confident assertions about what other people should do with their health.

Stimulants slowly stopped working for me at low-moderate doses, and at higher doses I started having bad anxiety from them. One potential solution to this was to take time off from stimulants at regular intervals (such as weekends) to reduce buildup of tolerance and stay at the lower dose while getting the effects when I needed them. I ended up not going that route (taking Strattera now) but it's something I've heard from a few people.

I'll also add that ADHD symptoms aren't always experienced as all bad by everyone. Some people experience it as more creative, or adjacent to flow, and only want "treatment" when they need to buckle down and do more "boring" work. I'm not in that camp, but a friend of mine is.
So they rebuild the bridge with taxpayer money. And spend the next 20 years suing Maesk for the cost. And the Feds eventually lose.

How is this a complication? The Federal government has no issue spending billions and billions of future tax payers taxes.
"they're said to travel about 30 mph" ... I'm underwhelmed. Cop still has to chase, fast enough so the dart can catch up.

Couldn't they fire a dart any faster than 30 mph (= 44 fps) ?
A lot of payment processor APIs use FS and GS intensely; I suspect it was an lighter way to serialize structured data when your typical card-payment terminal was an 8-bit MCU with a few kilobytes of memory and a dial-up modem.
>Good call. I guess I didn't perceive HN as for-profit. Perhaps OP's "At some point" is now, for me.

Props to you for consistency! No more questions.
Sure, but we already have CSV. A different format should have some advantage over existing formats. If you have to escape it either way, then use the format people can already process.
>Hans Jansen and Jia Tan

Are they really two people conspiring?

Unless proven otherwise, it is safe to assume one is just a pseudonym alias of the other.
"vehicle-mounted launchers that fire foam projectiles with a heat-activated sticky glue at fleeing vehicles"

This has a ridiculously Snow Crash like sound to it.
Head up! Sadly I can’t even get a local job due to being overqualified and can’t get a tech job cause I’m a junior haha:(
we all know why you've apparently taken offense to a non-confrontational personal opinion.
Is there an option for the public/non-law enforcement to access or pay to get this data? I know we're not getting the toothpaste back in the tube so we (the general public) might as well get some benefit from it.

There are a lot of government officials driving around doing non-sensitive/non-law enforcement work so they should have no expectation of privacy and no qualified immunity or some other exception related to active investigations.

This seems like a great way to ensure accountability of our representatives - if they'll let us.
Also Ty for replying..feels good to know I’m not alone in length. It can get deflating.

Congrats on getting married though! It’s why I’m trying to find a job haha.
No, I think Sam is too far into his own demented world to rejoin ours in a productive way. Hope I’m wrong.
But note this: https://twitter.com/birchb0y/status/1773871381890924872/phot...
I mean that says everything doesn't it.

CA still spends more than everyone else, regardless of Prop 13. Hardly deprived students.
Maybe it’s the centrifuges which will send the mail, making the world’s first uranium-enriching spam botnet.
Is entanglement real or is it just that two things happen to be aligned the same way and measuring them reveals how they always were?

Like if I gave two people red balls without telling them what the colour is. One takes it out and sees it is red, the other now instantly has a red ball. But they were always red. So there is no actual interaction between the balls, they were just set up in a pre-defined matching state.

To our observations the balls are in a quantum state (the balls are wrapped in paper you can’t see through) but they always had a specific state. We just weren’t capable of determining that state because the interior is invisible to us. The interaction would always have produced that outcome, so it appears like they are communicating when in reality it would happen regardless.
reported the account to github, just in case.
HN should be full of Mongo's users and advocates, and yet this site loathes it. That by itself is a sign that it's a zombie.

The reason we don't just look at revenue is that you can "buy" revenue with ads and sales teams. But if that revenue growth costs more than it pays because your customers aren't sticky, then your business doesn't work. You can't apply startup principles to this large, aging public company.
Massively gathered warrantless spying on the genpop should be illegal ...when it comes to tracking car license plates? I mean, compared to facial recognition and cell phone tracking, it seems quaint.
The book 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created goes into a lot of detail about this.
of course, but boards are largely impotent. they are too far from the action, don't want to rock the boat even more when things are not going great, and of course management easily bamboozles them with some fancy plan ...

but in the end there's nothing they can do, except fire the management. but it requires risk taking, and it's a collective action problem ...

so if there's a majority shareholder, maybe.. but usually they are the CEO anyway (or appointed it)
As others have said, you can just use your RDBMS for that now. Mongo is a feature of better products.
Requirements for Self Organization
They should have the goats eat cannibis to make it the perfect product.
Who needs sophons with people like that.
This is well known enough to be arguably common knowledge, but if you must:

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/adhd-brain-vs-norm...
some people cherish their neurodiversity. it doesn't feel appropriate to make this broad generalization about a psychiatric diagnosis.
The NY Civil Liberties Union did find that toll passes are scanned far from actual toll roads. It appears to be used explicitly for surveillance purposes.
Stick to cash or bill-by-mail, or connect your reader’s battery with a thumb when you need to use it.

https://www.nyclu.org/en/e-zpass-readers
New Way to build cross-browser extensions
Why doesn’t GitHub force “releases” to be a simple repo tarball for sources and with binaries from GitHub actions or such…

I find it incredibly ironic that a “version control” site gives no assurance of reproducible builds (nor reproducible source!!)

The real villain is not the perpetrator, it is Microsoft, and it is all of us.
What’s funny to me is that https://www.noozhawk.com/ (along with others) took up the mantle when the SB News Press went downhill. That domain is not as hot.
Tesla starts using 'Supervised Full Self-Driving' language
A la Elon Jet but for the vehicles of publicly elected officials? I think we should have the right to keep tabs on them given how prone they are to misbehaving.
You can't just go and rip out old code, it'll break everything else, you have to review each commit and decide what to do with each.
Sure, but we're discussing 1.8-bit models that, again I'm a layman, I assume are over an order of magnitude smaller in their memory overhead.
Just so you're aware, this sort of rambling in half-sentences generally comes across as a little unhinged, and doesn't generally persuade people.

Maybe if you took Adderall you could write full sentences. ;)
* I swear that HN has the least-thought-through hot takes of any media in the world.*

The irony is too good.
For some random server, sure. For a state sponsored attack? Having an embedded exploit you can use when convenient, or better yet an unknown exploit affecting every linux-based system connected to the internet that you can use when war breaks out - that's invaluable.
The installation he had at SFMoMa, in the side entrance, was really great. The space now just feels naked without it.
Why is rust beginning to sound like JavaScript?
> I'm surprised there aren't trackers on all cars already, like a 21st century license plate.

Are you referring to a state or government tracker on every vehicle? If so, it seems like you're implying that's a good idea. If that's the case, I hope there's some joke in here I'm missing.
> a narrowly-tailored way to prevent the offender from re-committing the crime

Like having to stay in a special room without other people who might be victimized? That seems more humane than wearing restraints all the time.
Something tells me that image models are sufficiently small, it's easier to just have your differently tuned models sitting side by side so you can easily swap and inference on them rather than compiling it into one model.
Not really because the power rating at which they start to make sense is in the multiple hundreds of kW. Cars don't need that much average continuous power while driving, on the order of 15-30kW depending on speed and grade. So a "more efficient than piston" turbine engine would be way too big and powerful and would cycle about once per hour. Overall excess mass and bad reliability due to frequent cycling. It's better to have a smaller engine that's sized for slightly over 15-30kW continuous duty. Realistically this will be a piston engine, or a fuel cell. I would love to use a turbine engine for my own application but the math doesn't work, unfortunately.
RedHat blog says no versions of RHEL are affected.

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/urgent-security-alert-fedora-...
The problem is that you need a large percentage of your vehicles equipped with this, because you never know which one will be taking part in a pursuit. And even if you're lucky enough to be taking part in the start of a pursuit with an equipped vehicle, surely the darts don't have a 100% hit rate.
> But if your (like my) passwords are 128+bits out of /dev/random, MFA isn't adding value.

no. a second factor of authentication is completely orthogonal to password complexity.
i'm not particularly convinced by anything there, and certainly not by a mere bulleted "brain structure" nor the section which expounds on it. if i'm being completely honest, i'm not entirely sure what's even meant by the suggestion that ADD/ADHD is 'caused by the structure of the brain.'

sentience is 'caused' by the 'structure of the brain.' and?
I think the lesson here is that you can't fix AI alignment issues by throwing adjectives and adverbs at the problem.
Can you buy it as an EV and then drop in the generator later? It makes a big difference for registration in some places.
The Frantic Calls to Halt Baltimore Bridge Traffic Before Ship Crash
I just leave mine off entirely.

When it fails to scan, they do ALPR to figure out who to send the ticket to, but, before they send a ticket they lookup against the EZPass database to see if your car is in it, and if so, they just debit your account like the tag did scan.

If that happens often enough, they send you a new tag and ask for the broken one back.

Oddly I keep getting defective tags.
[dupe]

Lots of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39832952
In 2002, Caltech students rejected one of his pieces, which would have been installed on the Beckman Lawn:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-may-22-me-calte...

https://campuspubs.library.caltech.edu/1826/1/2002_05_20_103...
> Turns out it was Joel Spolsky who invented that practice. I'm sure most programmers want to strangle that guy. Lol.

Did he though? or did you mean Fizz Buzz? But that was by his friend Jeff Atwood
The statement was definitely confrontational, and it being a personal opinion does not put it above criticism. Personal opinions can be bad, abhorrent, etc.

And before you launch another ad hominem argument: I do not take stimulants of any kind for my ADHD, so no, I am not defending amphetamines for ADHD because I am addicted to them.

Maybe keep your nose out of other people's medical business?
[dupe]

Actual article and more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39857535
Thanks, but how does Linux kernel ensures that it can talk to all framebuffer devices out there? Does it come with a generic implementation that all GPU vendors support?
Here's the OpenBSD license template:

https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/share/misc/license.template?r...
Why should he bother with improving any of the manufacturing quality when people will buy them regardless?
It’s really nice to have an alternative set of tradeoffs besides what’s offered by Typescript when it comes to type safe web programming.

Dart is a much nicer, more expressive, more predictable and saner language than Typescript and the ability to compile to WASM is really interesting.
I know the differences between them conceptionally.

The thing that people usually complain about is systemd forcibly setting its process manager at pid=1. I.e. the thing "discussed" in https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/12843

There is a secondary feature to run per-user managers, though I'm unsure whether it does run doesn't run without systemd PID1. Though it might only rely on logind.