skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great question and proposal and it's how we got here. It's step 0, but it's not the end-all-be-all; as itself will create problems.

You can let the forests grow, but you then _also_ have to let the other natural processes take place: disease and fire. Finally, you have to deal with something nature isn't good at: invasive species.

So now we're onto steps 1 and 2: how do we protect these forests that we're rebuilding? We don't really want them to burn the ground (excessive fuel build up), we don't want them to be out competed by invasive species, nor succumb to disease. We have to emulate natural processes then to protect old-growth... which is the core of this proposal.

Does that make sense? I too was pretty anti-interference until I attended university in the plains. For fun, I joined an outdoor club and assisted with nature research which studied many things, including fire, and realized that fire is very much a natural process that many species and ecosystems are dependent on.
I don't get these Window management s/w, nor the obsession with them. What could you possibly get done in those 4"x4" windows? Get a 2nd, 3rd, or even 4th monitor if you are short of space or just a 34".
> And it's starting to alarm me that nobody in tech appears to care about this and is just going "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead". That kind of arrogant dismissal of popular mood and forcing unwanted change on people is how resentment and revolution happen.

Tell that to the schoolchildren who excitedly use AI to do all the busywork for them.
You joke, but it's become a thing for kids to do Rubik's cube. I think it's great for algorithmic thinking. My kid has a whole bunch of classmates who spend their time cubing, going from one algo to a more advanced one, discussing with their friends.
I am convinced (convinced) that in a distant future the answer to some then-unsurmountable technology problem will be found in the depths of some obscure file which has (somehow, much in the way you described) "leaped" from system to system to system for hundreds of years ...
States will need to update their consumer protection laws to account for the electronic tags if they're used for prices changes while the store is open. When I worked in the industry, price changes were done overnight when the store was closed. Tags were organized into tear apart sheets by area and aisle. Price increase tags were first on the sheet and decreases last. The pricing managers were instructed to always post the increases first and if they weren't going to be able to get all the changes done before the store opened, to do all the increases for all areas and aisles before doubling back to the do the decreases. The reason was to avoid customers ever getting a higher price at the register than what was marked on the shelf.

The biggest problem wasn't shelf tags, it was sales items on end caps and special displays. Sometimes those signs would get missed and the wrong price would linger until someone complained. Since those displays often were built and stocked by third party vendors, the pricing manager wasn't always aware of their locations or required changes in signage.

I'm a bit astonished by my current state Michigan having such poor enforcement on pricing. I've lived in states in the deep south and on the west coast and they all had pricing laws that were enforced. I've seen entire convenience stores here with no price tags at all and even national retail chains like Kroger are sloppy with their pricing and signage. To me that's a sign that the state government isn't enforcing the rules or the rules are weak. At the very least there should be abundant price check scanners scattered throughout the stores that customers can use.
I mean, 2023 is the worst year in your graph, 2024 data is as of April, when peakload happened in summer every of the last 25 years [1].

There is some interesting data about CAISO batteries, but this graph is not it.

[1]:https://www.caiso.com/documents/californiaisopeakloadhistory...
American food is most similar to european food, but is still distinct. "Default" grocery stores in america are focused on american food, not european food. I don't think it's problematic that american food is considered the norm.
My parents used to force me to memorize my times tables and quiz me all the time.

Definitely paid off. Can calculate numbers in my head pretty easily. Definitely used to help with tips or commissions or whatever.
At a risk of venturing into dangerous territory here, the central premise of the article confused me. Far from being ideologically free 400 years ago, the world was rocked by violent religious, imperial, and colonial warfare, within and between countries; to say nothing of the way society treated people not like Captain Hawkins. I'm legitimately confused at what the author is nostalgic for.
No what he's getting at is that he has 70 unique states per element and binary doesn't align well to that. A 100% proven optimal way to fix this is with arithmetic encoding which is actually a lot faster than the above method and will save even more bits.
Interesting how malice is implied in the safest circumstances and mistake in the most hostile in those examples.
Arguments Are Soldiers
I got actual shivers when he found the tracks in the lake. Amazing detective work.
xerox

fire protection is easier than data retention

no perfect solutions, only tradeoffs
The world's most popular podcast used to be The Joe Rogan Experience, but since Spotify acquired exclusive rights to it, it is no longer distributed as a podcast, and is only available as a Spotify channel. Despite continuing to call it a "podcast", it isn't actually a podcast anymore.
Who Inspires?
no matter where you are on the political spectrum, you might enjoy "splitting" the animated gif https://images.wsj.net/im-972116/?width=1278&size=1 into its component still-images.

The credited artist, Eric Helgas, is quoted as saying "My work focuses a lot on iconic imagery and challenges the viewer’s perception of the objects I choose to photograph." https://lvl3official.com/artist-of-the-week-eric-helgas/

Well Eric, I don't feel challenged by this work. I guess you thought that I thought that stevedores, people with dirty fingernails, thick black hair on their arms, a preponderance of upper body fat characteristic of males, etc. would not carry Birkins. HA! jokes on you! Any body can carry a Birkin, and we might expect anybody who is afraid their femininity might be questioned to make sure to carry such an iconic handbag, so I'm sure all you've done is take a random sample. Where's the challenge?
> Galileo also couldn't explain the lack of an observed parallax effect between opposite seasons given the ideas about optics at the time.

That's not entirely correct. The lack of parallax was explained by the stars being far away; the problem with that explanation is that Brahe had measured the apparent stellar diameter of stars, which implied that for the stars to be as big as they appear to be to us, they would have to be far, far larger... which violates the underlying Copernican principle that the sun is but a normal star.
> None of those measures do anything to prevent someone from taking a picture of the screen, which is the same sinking boat you describe.

But it's relatively easy to only have the people that need specific information to have it. Receptionist only has your names and contact information; doctor only has your relevant medical information; etc etc.

With paper, either everything will be together in a big file, or it would be very impractical to manage.

> My argument would be that care is more easily achieved by smaller groups working on smaller populations using fewer components.

Potentially. Or they'll improvise because they're a small operation and there's trust. Many a small company has been caught with terrible physical or digital security, because nobody cares and at their scale dedicated people to care don't make sense.
No. Only that it would satisfy me, because I'm neurotically addicted to evidence and rationale.
It was not a general statement, but rather, a specific one.

> Lua is not "open developed". The development is done exclusively by the
Lua team, at PUC-Rio. So, we do not need a SVN repository. Currently,
we keep Lua with the good old RCS.

- Roberto Ierusalimschy

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2007-09/msg00476.html
Flatpak is a system for building, distributing, and running applications in an isolated environment. This topic is examined in (spanish language) depth both for people who don't know anything about Flatpak and for those who already know the basics about it.
> AirBnB doesn't allow hosts to accept cash or arrange alternative payment.

Not a computer or operating system I paid for.

> Amazon doesn't allow suppliers to offer direct sales to potential customers.

Not a computer or operating system I paid for.

> Even Visa and Mastercard officially don't allow merchants to offer discounts for cash transactions (although many do anyway). Etc, etc.

Not a computer or operating system I paid for.

In fact in every single case you listed a free platform that makes its money by charging fees per use. This is radically different from Apple's model.

Apple makes computers. Apple iDevices are some of the most expensive computers on the market. Apple cloud services are some of the most expensive cloud services on the market. Apple's operating systems hardcode the software to the hardware, meaning neither phone nor laptop can be upgraded. In every single case these are expensive devices and services that people already own. They should be free to download whatever software they want without a monopolizer telling them what's allowed to run on them.
What's interesting is that we may be causing much more loss of life with these bans than we are saving.

We ban or severely restrict many physical activities then we wonder why childhood obesity is so high and why so many kids have metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular issues.

Since the link is indirect we ignore it and a heart-attack is just considered bad luck.
Why would the US do that? Europe has no issues when a European corporation has market dominance. It would be dumb for them to do so in a global market. Do you see any push for diversifying the european market by breaking up corporations like SAP or ASML? If anything those two have an even tighter control over their respective markets than apple could ever have over their own.
Crazy to see Microsoft talking about performance like they have any expertise in the matter.
Original water came from comets, and the protoplantary nebula. Notably, as ‘high up’ as it’s possible to get eh? And frozen.

And doomsday preppers are a personality type visible across all civilizations in some form - due to humanities evolved genetic heritage.

Just like every other type.
I put my CPU code up here: https://github.com/neonz80/shallenge-x86 . It requires an x86 CPU with the SHA256 extension.

It manages 1.1 GH/s on an Intel i7-13700K.
indeed. paper-based systems are truly transparent in that you can walk through the entire operation shoulder-to-shoulder to perform the audit.

A software system, even when reading the code, is much more difficult to see the chain of custody and workflow
I imagine you know more than enough math to already do that!
Sure make it costly for the company that already pays the employee peanuts when some dickhead leaves a cart full of groceries to spite upper management. Sounds like a fantastic strategy…
> if you want access to their huge and very lucrative market.

But what gives some third party the right to that huge and lucrative market? It seems parasitic in a kind of way to demand that right.
That's just regular data compression.

If i had a text that was 100% 'aaaa' or 'bbbb' or 'cccc' with equal probability I'd feed 1/3rd probability aaaa, 1/3rd probability bbbb, 1/3rd probability cccc into an encoder. In this case since the probabilities are not binary numbers i'd use an arithmetic encoder to optimally compress this down to ~1.58 bits per symbol. So 'aaaa' would take 1.58bits to store as would 'bbbb' and 'cccc'
I love that quote too! I have it from the introduction, I believe, to Smoke and Mirrors:

>Fairy tales, as G. K. Chesterton once said, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated.

The corresponding original Chesterton quote is supposedly/apocryphally:

>Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

I like the original for the "children already know" portion, but I prefer Gaiman's for lyricism and, perhaps ironically given TFA, saying "defeated" instead of "killed."

At any rate, Chesterton didn't say it in so many words. There's some back-and-forth noted here, seems like it's oft-misquoted—<https://www.tumblr.com/neil-gaiman/101407141743/every-versio...>—with a longer version here: <https://saveversusallwands.blogspot.com/2016/05/tracking-bac...>.
Hallucination is a combination of two conscious states of brain wakefulness and REM sleep.

Computers cannot "hallucinate."
This is why I think we'd be better off doing a load of olympiad questions. Those are exactly the kind of thing where you can practice the flash-of-insight type thing that often gives an elegant solution.
When asked, by the author, to cite specifics, you're instead claiming something isn't "useful in prod" based on an impression you formed years ago while reading blog posts.
Gen-Selective Pseudo Labeling, Based on Datasets and Serverless Inference API
The Gen-Selective Pseudo Labeler (GSPL) is a tool designed to generate multiple queries about the same document and apply selection techniques using transformers. It leverages large language models (LLMs) to function as a judge, enhancing the labeling process through advanced completion and selection methods. This project is particularly useful in scenarios where multi-query generation and selection are required to improve the quality and relevance of labeled data.
> If you aren't working with people you like, people you respect, people that challenge and inspire you-- then why not? What's stopping you?

God I wish the world was like this again. I know so many people that don't have jobs and can't land anything because there isn't enough open.
With arithmetic coding this requires 1 bit to store: the value of the first bit. The other is known with 100% probability. This is very simple to implement, especially with bit-wise arithmetic coding.

The problem is that the Shannon limit doesn't apply to your example. A fixed 1:1 ratio bit string is not I.I.D.
Royal Road is one of the platforms for indie authors to publish serialized web novels. Many people use that to jump into a full time writing career -- successful new serials get on a ladder, paetrons get set up, and when enough chapters are written, they get edited and published to Kindle. The publication to Kindle Unlimited ends up with the books getting stubbed. In return though, you have a kind of presale so you know people like reading the work, and a sufficient fan base to appeal for support for a successful launch on KU.

One of the things I've been seeing the authors reporting to their subscribers are people stealing that work by scraping the chapters, running it through LLM, and then publishing it on KU. Authors have been adding watermarks into the text, though I don't know how successful that is.

(On the other hand, many authors use generative image AI to create covers, which has angered artists whose work has been sucked up by the generative AI machine).
almost no one I know over here grows their own (also the time I tried I found them very hard to keep alive in san francisco). but I've also always lived in places with a lot of Indian stores that had them readily available, plus they keep forever in the freezer so it's easy to stock up on.
A queue is simpler to implement than a deque and the same is true of a file system: supporting growing the file in both directions is more complicated than supporting growing the file in one direction. In practice, append is much more common than prepend, so the extra bookkeeping and code doesn't seem to be worth it in general.
Any plans to make this for linux? I have recently switched away from Windows permanently due to the whole recall thing, but your project looks great.
I’ve been sharing this video from NotJustBikes - “These SUV’s are literally killing us”.

Makes a pretty convincing case.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo
Wouldn’t two symbols with a 1:1 ratio have four possible bit patterns for two bits? (00,01,10,11) With the ratio only happening on average over a large number of bits?

Id there really could only be 01 or 10, then those are the two symbols in the alphabet, and you only need one bit to pick the next symbol (two bits of output).
Why did people want spices so badly? I can't imagine any cravings for culinary variety to cause me to spend so lavishly on spices. I assume they were being used for medicines or food preparation and preservation or other uses? I can also see them being status symbols by the rich because of their scarcity and gateway to new experience (What else to get the person who has everything)? If there's so much latent demand for new spices though, seems like there's a lot to be made on inventing new ones.
I do this at Stop&Shop (major northeast US supermarket) and it works just fine with paying card or apple pay.
Elongating the voice is exactly what I mean by an allophonic difference.

As for 'hamster', no one (that I know of) pronounces the /m/ as a glottal stop, although people sometimes epenthesize a voiceless consonant [p] (by devoicing the end of the /m/). Where some English dialects get a glottal stop is for an intervocalic or word-final /t/ (in addition, of course, to the glottal stop in the middle of 'oh-oh' and 'uh-uh'). I've also heard American English speakers glottalize word-final /k/ and sometimes /t/, but a glottalized stop is not the same as a glottal stop.
Yes. There's also an interesting tangential topic of so-called "counterfeit" or "replica" luxury goods where they can sometimes be unofficial items produced from the exact same factory, in-country, or abroad as "extra-runs", as well as items produced by those "skilled artisans" that previously worked at the official factories recreating the same items, using the same methods and materials, unofficially elsewhere.
It is, but it's intertwined in the Apple vs other platforms issue.

Regulators make a difference between general purpose platforms and dedicated/single purpose platforms.
Those two values aren’t independent at all.
>Create with Alexa,” a new AI tool for kids that generates animated stories

How soon until we find out it's child labour?.. on both ends.
It's hard to compete with what Win2k offered. That seems like it was the ultimate in intuitive, user-friendly, and stable.
Every supermarket checkout I've been to rings up all the items and shows the total (with any discounts) before you pay. By the time they receive card info, it's already too late to change the total or refuse the discount. At best they can refuse discounts to phone numbers that are used by too many people.
For Linux, why not use one of the many tiling window managers?
Swimming is not the only form of cardiovascular exercise and open water is not the only place to swim.
Your project looks interesting. Can we link on Twitter or LinkedIn?
> not voting or selling on risk analysis

I would be grateful if you could elaborate on this. Is this a strategy for a fund to make money that I don’t understand?
I'm not sure its Boomers who create these images. It's Boomers who reply "Amen" to a pictures of six-fingered Jesus wrapped in an American flag. (Actually I'm not quite sure - maybe it's just mostly bots replying to other bots...?)
It's all about building higher and higher abstractions. Arithmetic - > Algebra -> higher order algebraic algorithms.

For example, when I taught differential equations, my non-scientific observation was that otherwise smart students struggled more with getting the algorithms down, if they struggled with algebra. Having to constantly jump down to a lower level of abstraction while performing the algorithmic steps is what caused confusion to mistakes.
The submitted article is political in nature and thus inappropriate for HN, period, but your poorly-crafted, detail-light, dogwhistling ad-hominem only serves to reinforce the validity of his claims.
The problem with actually learning to code in school is that you'd spend a lot of time learning specifics that become outdated, which you could've self-studied anyway. Idk what it was like in the 1980s, but in 2015 our CS practice problems and tests were mostly pencil+paper, with actual code only used as a teaching tool in projects and some homework (more in lower divs).
This tickles me
Seems like it's the old I can encode all of wikipedia into a single word as long as you have all of wikipedia stored in your decoder.
I don't know if it is a mistake, but it's certainly the genie we let out of the bottle. If anything, we're seeing the acceleration of what happens when we have a world view that is founded upon exploitation, be that the land or the people.
I was always partial to the Looney Tunes' Hansel and Gretel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCwas_GPBxU
The more important number is "about one hundred times greater than required to support a 100% global renewable electricity system" which does sound pretty good.
Game consoles are not general computing devices. Apple has aggressively and repeatedly marketed iOS devices as being for general-purpose computing. (Remember the "what's a computer" ads?)

If Apple wants to claim their devices are computer replacements, they should be regulated like it.
Wow; I guess I've seen it all. Time to retire I suppose.
I am new to linux, so I don’t know my way around them currently!
Nah, their screen mirroring with Airplay is already open. They had remote desktop with the VNC protocol forever and that even isn't encrypted.
Oh man. My dream Git Successor combines a Virtual File System with a Copy-on-Write cache to allow repos to trivially commit all their dependencies including compiler toolchains.

Windows having CoW makes my far fetched dream a possibility.
> They are not ignorant just for holding a different opinion.

No, but this isn't a contest of opinions. The claim that RSS unsupported, no longer in widespread use, and/or is merely a remnant of a previous era is factually incorrect.

> don’t think it’s an invalid take to say that RSS is a thing of the past

Sorry, but it's an invalid take. I don't know what sites you're using that stopped offering RSS, but I have hundreds of blogs, podcasts, and aggregators, along with my favorite subrreddits, YouTube channels, etc. all subscribed via RSS, and the only time anything "dies" is when a blog or podcast changes its URL.
1) My wife loves Paris

2) Credit card points + Travel miles
not exactly a dupe; this is a repo to self host your vpn via a gcloud free tier account
I think that learning some basic by-hand computation skills is useful. The question is where do you draw the line. The current practice seems to be to stop at long-division. To me this seems a reasonable place to stop. There are hand methods to do more complicated calculations, such as computing square roots, that are not taught in school, which is probably fine. I don't think leaving out long-division would save that much time, and I think it's a good mental exercise for kids to have to learn a fairly complex algorithm. If I could suggest one improvement, it would be that in later advanced math courses, they returned to long-division and explained at a deeper level why that algorithm works.
One's default when seeing a claim to do better than the Shannon limit is to guess that the author is a scammer, confused, or both.

My impression in a quick read of this github page is that this person has no background in channel coding or information theory. Maybe not quite a scammer, but it appears this should be ignored.
Nah, there would just be more Androids phones sold.
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