skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. It's gotten easier. If I was starting Emacs from scratch again, I'd probably write my own vanilla config. But Doom helped introduce me when the concept was bizarre and foreign to me, and I'm very grateful for that. Now I'm comfortable with my Doom config, and it works great, so I have little incentive to ditch it.
It’s about time to re-read Going Postal; a fine reminder.
Freshmeat v2? :-)
The thing about telemetry data is it's extremely repetitive. Take for example a CLF[1] log line:

127.0.0.1 user-identifier frank [10/Oct/2000:13:55:36 -0700] "GET /apache_pb.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 2326

As written this is 99 bytes (792 bits), but how much information is actually in it? We have an IP address which is taking up 9 bytes but only needs at most 4 (fewer in cases like this where two of the bytes are zero if we employ varint encoding). Across log lines the ident and user will likely be very repetitive, so storing each unique occurrence more than once is really wasteful. The timestamp takes up 28 bytes but only needs 13 bytes--far fewer if that field is delta encoded between log lines. The HTTP method is taking up 5+ bytes, it's only worth 1 byte. The URLs are also super redundant--no need to store a copy in each line. The HTTP version is 1 byte but it's taking up 8. The status code is taking up 3 bytes but it's only worth 1--there are only 63 "real" HTTP status codes. The content length is taking up 4 bytes when it needs only 2. So I guess this log line only really has ~33 bytes of information in it (assuming a 32 bit pointer for each string--ident, user, URL). Much less if amortized across many lines. So maybe by naively parsing this log line and throwing a bunch of them in columnar, packed protobuf fields (where we get varint encoding for free), and delta-encoding the timestamps, and maintaining a dictionary for all the strings, we might achieve something like a ~5x compression ratio.

Playing around with gzip -9 on some test data[2] (not exactly CLF, but maybe similar entropy) I'm getting like ~1.9x compression.

Obviously if I parse this log line into a JSON blob, that blob will compress with a much higher ratio due to the repetitive nature of JSON, but it'll still be larger than the equivalent compressed CLF.

I'm working on a demo for my "protobof + fst[3]" idea, so I'm not sure if my "maybe ~5x" claim is totally off the mark or not. But I'm confident we can do way better than JSON.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Log_Format
[2] https://www.sec.gov/about/data/edgar-log-file-data-sets
[3] https://crates.io/crates/fst

EDIT: I guess maybe another way to state my conjecture is "telemetry compression is not general purpose text compression". These data have a schema, and by ignoring that fact and treating them always as schemaless data (employing general purpose text compression methods) we're leaving something on the table.
Working my way through Nand2Tetris, turns out it's quite a slow grind unless you've done it before, but very satisfying challenge.
My understanding is that in the US there are different degrees of "murder", the less-serious ones are equivalent to some variants of manslaughter in the UK, while in the UK, "murder" refers only to the kind that gets you a mandatory life sentence.
I mean, it's just one program out of many. Japan is the largest bilateral national contributor to foreign aid to Nepal: https://www.foreignassistance.gov/cd/nepal/current/obligatio...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_aid_to_Nepal

In 2019, 146.7M vs 129.0M from the U.S.

Lots of Japanese people travel to Nepal to volunteer in schools and clinics and stuff; when living in Japan I knew several different people who'd done that sort of thing. It's like U.S. doctors and contractors doing projects in Central America. Japan is very into building soft power in SEA through development assistance.
The conflict of interest part is a bit funny. Keeping network operators from participating and competing with other web services is going to weaken the network industry. Losses in one sector will cause bankruptcy, if other sectors do not make fill in the losses.

A similar situation occurred with transportation companies in the US. Rail companies were prohibited from operating buses because of a conflict of interest. Rail failed. Busses prospered. Until both industries failed. And now airlines prosper.

We are just one stone throw away from causing network operators to be bored with their jobs. And then abandon ship until some weak dipstick can’t get a job anywhere else and ends up with securing your boring network.
Probably jaw related, you should have it checked. Can be a posture problem.
Yes please add 2022, because when I looked at the PR, I was wondering why it took nearly 2 years to release after the PR was merged.
Relic: code-signing multi-tool and server
I've taught programming at the university for a decade. There would always come the time when students would ask what text editor to use. This was an interesting and varied question for many years.

But nowadays, it's just VSCode. It may not be open source, and it may not be a particularly exciting (or good?) text editor. But it has become so ubiquitous that I'd just short-change my students if I recommended anything else.

They'd still occasionally see me type into my Emacs (which looks nothing like stock Emacs). And sometimes it would even get a kid or two interested. Some even switched to Emacs because of those classes. I have since given up teaching, though.
100% agree, just saying there’s more art and other amenities than people realize. Also, one of the genuinely friendliest places I’ve ever lived.

The weather is bad enough that I consider it basically uninhabitable if you have seasonal depression. South Bay is a cultural wasteland but god damn the weather is 10/10.

The biggest drawback beyond the weather is the coke/steel plants regularly put shit in the air far in excess of EPA guidelines and the water supply is about two steps above Flint in quality.

Overall, PGH is amazing if you can live with the climate - but if you can’t, you can’t.
looks like bundles of kitchen knives.
The "clinical test data" was paid for by the company. There seems to be some placebo bias (no control group). Test patients had to meet "specific criteria" which is probably what this consultation is about as well.
This is made worse by the sheer, but actual, complexity that surrounds all this. Especially the "scopes¹".

So someone buying and selling, say, diesel in solar-powered-fuel stations, can still have "net zero" because they themselves don't emit, but both the people buying it, and the companies producing it, still emit immense amounts of carbon.

Which is then a very easy way to "greenwash" your business. To have marketing, that's not even a lie, but still being very misleading.

(I used to build accounting software for carbon emission accounting, it's way, way more complex that this diesel-example)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_accounting#Frameworks_a...
I find the opposite to be the case. The large news orgs with all the paywalls are now mostly used to push a narrative. This has been the case for years, best demonstrated by this clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksb3KD6DfSI

The free internet still exists, and is not paywalled.
I think it depends on what you consider a weakness of human nature. We're susceptible to sugary foods, even though they're bad for us: are bakeries frauds? If we suddenly stopped feeling emotions tomorrow - if we all started acting totally rationally, how many industries would fall apart, even though we're theoretically way more efficient?

The same goes for our need for convenience and luxury. We could have all survived on brick phones or Blackberries, but we now employ so much of our population making slightly-more-luxurious iPhones. At some point, these impediments are what cause us to grow.
out of curiosity - what's your interest in this topic? I follow it because my son has Kabuki.
I don't! I take the moment of downtime. It's usually instant — only as long as it takes to stop and restart the server. Occasionally a DB migration will take longer — the longest I've so far was 10-15 seconds — and the site is down for that time. I think this is acceptable, but it would be nice to have a more seamless automated solution.
WizardLLM beats GPT4-0314 nearly close to the latest release GPT-4-1106-preview
> Citation needed.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01651... ("Under this model, immigrants do not fully assimilate; rather, they transmit certain old-country values and behaviors to their descendants in the new country. Empirical support for culture transplant varies depending on the particular trait in question. Social trust, for example, shows strong evidence of transplant over different time periods and in many different countries.... the results suggest that a 'transplant' does occur in the U.S., as a strong relationship exists between individual savings and ancestral savings rates. The relationship is robust to a variety of specifications. In a midrange estimate, a 1 percentage-point increase in ancestral-country savings rates is associated with a 1 percent increase in retirement savings among second-generation immigrants.")

> From your own example, you seem pretty well-integrated into mainstream American culture only one generation down.

Only superficially, despite coming from a very westernized family in a former british colony. There's an enormous gap in "deep culture" between me and my wife's family and my wife and her family (who came here before the American revolution from Britain). You think you're well-assimilated until your kid wants to "express themselves" and you realize you abhor how Americans raise their kids, interact with their families, view the world, etc.
That appears to have already been mentioned in the article itself. Reading over it it seems that the improvement here is fully independent control of all the blades. From what I can see in diagrams of the Voith Schneider Propeller it seems to be a single linkage to all the blades that cause them to all be at the same angle depending on their current position in the rotation.

If I'm getting this all wrong please someone correct me, I am interested in learning what the differences are.
Apparently 60-80 percent of people can hear a sound like a faint buzzing or hissing when inside a perfectly anechoic chamber but Tinnitus is more noticeable in regularly quiet environments.
A single piece of investigative journalism can cost the NYT 500,000 easily. A reporter can work for a year on a single article where every piece of evidence has to to be verified, lawyers are involved to check liability, the journalist(s) and photographers have to travel around the world to follow leads. Then the article needs to be written and illustrated, and coded if it has animated graphics. It's all super expensive but the NYT can afford this because they have a multi-billion dollar annual budget. When you're on substack you have to churn out content or your subs will cancel. The only way to consistently create content is to write editorials.

See for example "These Journalists Spent Two Years and $750,000 Covering One Story": https://archive.ph/L7PA2
How did you figure it out?
Wow, I own like 10 pairs of Alden shoes/boots. I recall hearing something about this at the time but didn’t realize it was that much, which I imagine is an amazing amount for them… I’d doubt their annual revenues amount to that much.
Turns out if you stick your fingers in your ears and scream loud enough for long enough, people will just accept the words, rather than the actions
> embezzler spots an opportunity to get back some of what they are owed, they strike, and are successful. Then it spirals from there.

This strikes me as the typical fraudster more than embezzler. Making up the gains versus having actual profits that they then steal. Madoff was a fraudster; Bankman-Fried more an embezzler.
What does "state-of-art" mean? Every one seems to be using this while in my head SOTA means "top of the line". When it says comparable results in benchmarks, how is it SOTA? Or does SOTA mean topping on really really specific benchmarks?
individual blade control seems like a pretty big difference
AI Has a Measurement Problem
I worked with a guy who had multiple jobs like that, was supposed to be on call 24/7 for the job that he had in common with me. One day he finally answered the wrong phone with the wrong company name when his boss was out of town and some director tried to contact him in an emergency.

He was highly skilled, but also was not well liked by his peers. He knew how to suck up to no end, deflect blame for his own mistakes, and how to get out of work (presumably so he could do his other jobs) and get it dumped on others.

He was hated by his peers and it was no surprise (to anyone who worked with him as a peer one on one) when he got caught.

It was a similar situation where his skills were excellent when tried, but he chose to put them to use put to use to shaft other coworkers and honestly not do much at all / work elsewhere.

I ran into him later and as usual he was all about the excuses and about how he felt the folks at the company were bad people and so on, but it was like everything with him, a little truism that he bent to mean that he should get his no matter what the cost to anyone.
The is a deeper truth to this statement that you are letting your resentment get in the way of.

Most of us live grim lives and little desks, when there is so much in the world to offer. We are the ones being wronged, not because we shouldn't do the work, but because they will never offer us enough to experience the other side.
Tried to use one of these in a space application once: cold side on the sensor, hot side attached directly to a radiator. Unfortunately the thermal conductance [W/°C] from the hot side back to the cold side was high enough (relative to my radiator's thermal conductance to space) that I needed to pump not only the sensor's heat load, but a small fraction of the Peltier's heat as well, which ballooned the electrical power required. Not worth spending that much power to buy an increase in SNR from a cooler sensor.
> Keeping all of your application logs and telemetry forever is expensive, and I can't recall a single time when having more than a day's with of history was ever useful in tracking down an operational issue.

A day is a pretty small window, I'd say a week or a bit more is good enough for most orgs. That way you can compare specific endpoints/code between deploys, answering questions like "was this endpoint this slow last week too or did I break it?". Some issues take a few days to brew and having historical data is important in debugging. Many orgs don't do load testing at all or have any real performance analysis done before things crash.

Log retention is also directly tied to how fast and easily can you detect and recover from issues.
Author here: That's an important aspect actually. These days I'm just not excited any more to tinker with my development environment. I've got better things to do...
Not a direct comment on the question but I had a math PhD as an intern before. One of his comments was having tons of high dimensional linear algebra stuff was super advanced 1900s and has plenty of room for new cs discovery.

Didn’t make the “what was going on then in physics “ connection until now.
Irregardless, if the misunderstanding is widespread enough, it literally becomes the meaning.
> Why am I expected to pay another $10 to block ads.

You aren't.

Twitch Turbo costs $12/month. If you're spending more than that on multiple subscriptions then you're better off getting Twitch Turbo and not getting ads on any stream, rather than just those you subscribe to.
That sucks. Yeah that's a consolidation and generally it's not good news.
Rockets fly cause he is simply a marketing campaign and someone who is able to grab billions away from the US government despite the fact that he is actively fighting against the democratic and civilized world and is happy to keep kissing every dictator's ass in exchange for cheap(and crap) manufacturing. So yes, you can add hypocrisy to the endless list of bad things about him. To rephrase Archimedes' famous quote: "Give me enough money for a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world"
Why? Thats is SV tech company 101. When Apple does it they call it "courage".
> and would be quite disappointed if there aren't at least three companies working it right now

Why does it need three companies working on it? Isn't this just a matter of prompt engineering?

I've never played with an LLM, so I really don't know. Perhaps it requires some ordinary linear code to produce a "comprehensive test suite".

Ultimately, the problem I can't see 3 or 300 companies solving, is the correct interpretation of technical instructions in English. Native English speakers have trouble with that, and I doubt that a machine can out-perform a native speaker. Maybe I'm wrong, and it can; but it needs to also be able to convince me that my doubt is misplaced.

Writing technical specs is like writing laws; you're using vague words to describe something precise. We don't use machines to interpret laws, and I don't trust machines to interpret specs.
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I mean this is exactly what I'm talking about. Let's take the wiki article, and lets take your comment, and tell me which of the two would give the average person a more accurate overall assessment of what really happened with Climategate? And if its the former, then to what end are you offering the latter? It's this kind of question that is critical for media literacy imo.

I don't love playing fast and loose on a particular paper, but (1) I don't fault them for not wanting climate skeptics to be able to launder the prestige of being published in the IPCC to lend credibility denier narratives, (2) nothing about this changes the IPCC conclusion or the underlying reality of global warming and (3) if all you present is this one-off without context, it serves to spread the false impression that climate science writ large is uncertain.

Spreading that form of uncertainty without the benefit of context serves the purpose of spreading misinformation. That's the topline, and losing track of that topline is a failure in media literacy.
smishing is such a stupid term -- this is the kind of nonsense they invent and then test for on CompTIA et al cert exams
It is illegal for bridges to fall down. If it isn't, it should be! (Sarcasm, of course).

Often things like this are a technicality somewhere, where the FBI needs the funds unlocked to do X Y and Zed and the way to unlock them in this case is a criminal investigation.
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Which device do you use? I'm also a heavy snorer, but tested for apnea and came back negative. I've used a mouth guard that was supposed to be fitted but the drooling and the jaw pain makes it impossible for me to use consistently.
This just reads to me as a lawyer covering their ass. A blog post on a law firm's website saying crime pays? That's not a good look.
if you don't have metrics for cpu/memory/storage how do you know when to scale the app, or when you are at limit of the storage? i feel like you have never touched servers/backend in anything more than simple projects (or at all). with full storage/memory there could be an issue that you won't be able to ssh to the server, so it speaks about your knowledge in this matter.

collecting user-identified telemetry is debatable (depends on the case), but not collecting anything at all is just plain stupid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Glacial_Period

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_modern_human#Anatomical_...

Anatomically modern humans didn't have much of a chance to develop until we got some decent weather.
lol, sounds like a Rodney Dangerfield gag
Thanks for the ideas, I’ll check them out.
I actually don’t like the text that I am working on to look like a refined press article in a magazine, a beautifully typeset page from a book or a nice looking website. It is not a published text. It should look rough, unfinished, unrefined and functional (to me). When I write on a piece of paper, my handwriting looks ugly, irregular, misaligned and maybe there are some drops of ink splattered around, so I don’t want my editor to make me believe that my writing looks presentable.

For Org Mode, my main concern is that I want to quickly identify the structure of my documents and differentiate all the relevant parts visually. I like to keep font sizes and spacings small to fit as much text (= context) on my screen as possible. I also like using monospace fonts because it feels more like working on a draft (e.g. with a typewriter) to me and I can work more spatially with text (e.g. making little diagrams or figurative text arrangements) which would not be possible with proportional fonts.

When everything looks too good/refined, I get distracted by wanting to shape my text to make it fit in that perfect environment. Then there is no space for swift notes, unfinished drafts, rough edges and this becomes a problem, since I am already a compulsive perfectionist and like to waste a lot of time with irrelevant details. Of course, this is just my personal preference, so I am not saying that this is how it should be. Maybe I am just trying to understand why I like it better this way.
I think to me it was the premise of MattKC's video that made me question whether or not this was some massive smoking gun. Like you said, the game ran fast enough, and Nintendo wouldn't willfully ship crap out, especially considering this was a flagship title. I still maintain that the compiler flag thing felt more like a MacGuffin for the sake of getting another clickbait video out. Even Nintendo themselves did end up using the compiler flag on the PAL region variant of SM64, which did help performance a bit, but wasn't some major gamechanger (no pun intended) in the end.

I even say this as someone who generally isn't a fan of Nintendo from the perspective of their corporate policies. I don't think Nintendo did anything wrong here, especially given how new this system and the brave new world that was 3D gaming in the home was at the time for them.
Reminds me of the time I spent HOURS preparing to cheat for a history map test in middle school, didn't pass, and realized later how much easier actually studying for the test would have been.
How it is different from History ?
"Selfless" is society's perception, not their own self-image. Nursesare humans who eat and pay bills like the rest of us.

> Stanley's findings chime with the opinions of Nicki Credland, a reader in critical care nursing at the University of Hull, UK. She argues that the hero narrative can undermine the skill and education of her colleagues. "[It suggests] we do our jobs because we have a calling and an innate desire to help people – but that's no more true of nursing than it is of many other professions," she says. "And it has a negative impact when we want to be appropriately remunerated for the skills and expertise that we have."

A related effect is the US' tendency to pay lip service to "support our troops!" while our VA is in shambles.