skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Narrative Capture (2021)
The main reason for 2.5g is for digital video (2.5gbit will allow do 2 1080i 2110 streams), and especially the increasing numbers of wifi6e APs that do >1gbit but nowhere near 10g
There are many kinds of quantum weirdness. One of them is this: we think classically of the past as definite and the future in terms of possibilities- but in reality both the future and the past are indeterminate in exactly the same way (it’s just that typically there are a lot more possible futures for the current state than pasts, because of entropy). In fact you could define the past as being the direction in configuration space with the smallest uncertainty, and the future as being the direction with the most uncertainty. In this view, at the Big Bang since there is no direction with less uncertainty, there is no past at that point.

That’s not the only quantum weirdness, but it’s a big one.
Have had great success with this myself. Oddly resellers on Amazon seem to be the best source I have found, just search for something like "HP ProDesk" or one of the generic corporate-focused lines from other manufacturers and find one that fits your budget. Maybe filter to 100-300 dollars to get rid of the new stuff. There's also a surprisingly vast selection of recycled commodity servers and similar on there, too.
Not OP but the "-Object" commands are pretty fundamental to creating useful pipelines:

Select-Object - Pick out specific fields from an object, create calculated fields etc.

Where-Object - Drop non-matching objects from the rest of the pipeline.

Group-Object - Cluster objects into groups based on a shared property value.

Sort-Object - Order an array of objects based on a property value.

Get-Content - Read from a file.

ConvertFrom-(CSV/JSON) - Parse a json/csv formatted string into a powershell object.

ConvertTo-(CSV/JSON) - Serialise a powershell object into a csv/json string.

(Parallel)ForEach-Object - Loop over each item in the pipeline, performing one or more actions on it. Usually occurs at the end of the pipeline, or when you need to call an executable that can't handle pipeline input.

One thing I struggled with in the beginning, was not knowing what properties an object might have. You can pipe any object into `Get-Member` and it'll list its available properties and methods.

Many of the "-Object" commands support the use of script blocks if you need to carry out more complex filtering/projection.
The Fastest Data in the World
Indeed, but worth noting that LZ is a modelling scheme, whilst Huffman is a coding technique.

That is, LZ determines, dynamically as it goes, what are all the elements we want to encode and their probabilities. Then you need a coder, like Huffman, to actually encode it.

In the post I used a semi-static zero-order byte-based model.
Which means I counted the byte occurrences first and just used that count for the probabilities throughout all of the encoding. Then I used Huffman codes to translate those probabilities into bits.

But I'm considering writing a follow-up changing this static model for an LZ77 one as I think that would be fun.
There is currently no law in Russia that forces people to buy Apple products.
> a human making the final call on top of a given option would need to explain and rationally explain its decision.

To who? What you describe does not seem much different than the representation governments most of us here are accustomed to, other than the algorithm eases some day-to-day work required of the constituents. Already nobody cares, and no doubt would care even less if they could let an algorithm let them be even less involved.
> I don't want this to be mistaken for a story about web design. If you squint, you will find the same set of tradeoffs in all manner of creative work and systems thinking

Lots of comments about literal maps and then web design. This generalization of the idea quoted above made me think of something I believe about technological convergence (putting everything into phones and tablets). We’re losing the way custom made devices for different purposes were able to optimize for one purpose. I was thinking of the alarm-clock/radio (which itself is a converged device, it loses benefits of a wind up alarm clock and the benefits of a dedicated radio) vs just using your phone as an alarm clock and music/news player. For one thing, the alarm clock has the time always visible. For another, the radio is instantly available with a single click. And that’s just one of a hundred things that have been converged into the phone (starting with the actual telephone).

I’ve been working on learning to build my own small computers. Part of it is that each one could be for a unique purpose and designed accordingly. (Circuitry, buttons, etc.) Thinking about it like thus article, one could go further and not limit each application to being “a computer” at all.
I see. With that understanding, yes, the form of the statement is the same.

The difference, to me, is that I can see how renting myself to a corporation (yes, it's a dictatorship) can result in more net freedom for me on the axes I care more about, but I cannot imagine the same being true of slavery. So, yes, the form of the statement can be the same, but the underlying reality seems to me to be quite different. (People by the millions voluntarily left the family farm to go work for a corporation, but at least in modern times, nobody voluntarily enters slavery.)

So, yes, "complete freedom means that I should be free to do X" may be logically true for all values of X (or at least those that don't impinge on someone else's freedom). But as a practical argument rather than a purely logical one, people only care about acting in ways that they view as increasing their well-being. Some actually view working for a corporation as doing so; nobody views slavery that way. So some of us care about the freedom to work for a corporation. Saying that we should not have the freedom to do so feels restrictive in a way that is different from saying the same about slavery.
People can share, and share responsibility for a utility. A tool.

When you have a "community" the games are endless, and need not have any connection to the original purposes.

why does a simple tool need to have a community? Why must popularity contests and personality cults be a factor in our software? How can such things lead to better software? Aren't they much more likely to lead to results like this?
Footage reveals 'miracle eagle chick' in flight
I will never forget that part of Shenmue 2. It blew my 14 yo mind at the time when I found out that not only Kowloon city was real but it was also 10x more depressing in real life.
Kurzweil: We are going to expand intelligence a millionfold by 2045
I think it's really close-minded to stereotype millions of trans people and treat them like a monolith. Culture shapes behavior sure, but trans people globally operate under similar constraints. Whether or not you consider yourself part of the global or <insert country> LGBTQ+ community is pretty irrelevant to bigots. There's no way for you to appease or become "respectable" in their eyes, even if you throw trans people under the bus. You're always gonna be a f*g to them.
What's a GCA?
The gibberish was dubunked, correct.

The neuroscience, which is nuanced and complex, continues to prove valid. Our two hemispheres process the world differently.
It's a weird example, but what about

a 1
b 101

?

It is neither prefix-free nor suffix-free. Yet every occurrence of 0 corresponds to an occurrence of b.

However, this is obviously inefficient. So I guess the question is whether there's an optimal code which is neither prefix-free nor suffix-free.

--------------

EDIT

I did some googling and found this webpage https://blog.plover.com/CS/udcodes.html where the author gives the following example of a uniquely decodable code:

a 0011
b 011
c 11
d 1110

I guess this is "almost" prefix-free since the only prefix is c of d. If a message starts wiht 1, you could find the first 0 and then look at whether there's an odd or even number of 1's. So I think I can see how it's uniquely decodable. However, my crypto knowledge is too rusty to remember how to show whether this is an optimal code for some probability distribution.
> but what about hardware that's already here? (I'm also Brazilian)

It's ridiculously expensive.

Very little hardware is produced domestically, and the little that is, you don't want to be running your switches on what is in essence a no-name "intelbras" brand.
All models are simplifications. High versus low context is only one of many dimensions in its model.
Proactive Measures Against Password Breaches and Cookie Hijacking
Did the opposition to Brexit before the referendum campaign all or mostly on why Brexit would be bad, or did they put any significant effort into arguing that even if you were very pro-Brexit you should vote "remain" on that particular referendum because that particular referendum was flawed?

The question on the referendum was "Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?" and your choices were "remain" or "leave".

The correct referendum would have been something like "Should the United Kingdom (1) prepare a detailed plan for leaving the European Union and negotiate the necessary trade and travel and military agreements between the UK and the EU that implementing the plan would require, and then (2) hold a referendum on whether to enact that plan and ratify the accompanying agreements?"

From what I've read a lot of pro-Brexit voters envisioned a quite different Brexit than the one they actually got.
Ask HN: Your Yearly Power Usage in Kwh?
Last week we did our electrical meter reading for the yearly re-balancing of our electrical bill (sidebar: here in Germany we typically pay a monthly rate based on average past usage at that residence, and that rate is adjusted up or down yearly), and i was somewhat surprised to find that we had used only 1077 kwh for the previous 366 days (about 10 of which we were not at home), which meant that we got a refund of very nearly half of what we'd paid in during the previous year.

1077 kwh for a year seems somewhat low to me, and i know it's low for the US'ians in the crowd (most of which who have to deal with air conditioning costs), which has made me curious about average Geekdom power usage, in particular among folks who place an explicit focus (as i do) on reducing their electricity costs.

To the best of my recollection, this two-person household has the following electrical usage:

- a raspberry pi 4 for the NAS and various network workloads, hosting about half a dozen external SSD drives on two externally-powered USB hubs.

- a pi5 for other network workloads

- a second pi4 part-time for software development

- a single Pi Zero acting full-time as a pi-hole server

- the ISP-provided network router

- two "mini-PCs" (an intel NUC and a generic-brand equivalent one). One is often, but not always, in "suspend" mode when not in active use. The other never is.

- one Lenovo laptop (rarely on)

- one 22-inch monitor

- one 32-inch monitor

- a small-format refrigerator (typical size for this country)

- a two-range stove top

- a water cooker (what some of you might call a "kettle")

- 5 light sockets, each with a 4-watt LED bulb

- a washing machine run 1-2 times/week, supposedly using about 0.45kwh/run

- a handful of mobile devices (5 at the last count)

- a couple of lamps we rarely use

(edit: HN doesn't support "-"-style lists, apparently)

We have no power-generation capabilities, e.g. no solar panels.

To help me put this into perspective: are y'all's[^1] workloads and/or yearly kwh usage?

[^1]: i'm a long-time resident of Germany but am not a native.
To be fair it's still random from the user perspective.
love this and have been using tf/idf for embeddings and various measures of similarity for some personal pet projects. one thing i came across in my research is that cosine similarity was more useful for vectors of different lengths and that euclidean distance was useful for vectors of similar length but simon alludes to a same-length requirement. i’m not formally trained in this area so i was hoping someone could shed some light on this for me.
The divergance might look worse, but - jealousy aside - the real measure is absolute improvement / decline, not relative.
If you just want to do what awk can do, then you do not really need other packages.
Let's put it this way: the idea makes so little sense that it has never been done at scale. That is saying a lot since it is:

- An obvious idea. People routinely benefit off of senior and student benefits from friends and family members.

- There are more than enough people who lack scruples and would outright exploit seniors. I would imagine that there are even more people who would be happy to enter arrangements of mutual benefit.

The underlying problem is that such a company would erode social trust. There would be a very short term opportunity to exploit the loophole, so to speak, before senior benefits would be tightly controlled, reduced until such a scheme is no longer profitable, or outright eliminated.

And that is taking the perspective of people who would partake. There are more than a few people who would find such schemes morally reprehensible and would never participate (which would limit the market).
Not quite. Would expand on it more but there are character limits on HN. My main point is that if you are coming from other field, you need to prove yourself - take the necessary education, some kind of courses, earn a certificate that proves you are willing to dedicate yourself to new career. Simply giving someone job that they do not how a good grasp on, is more of a favour than a logical business decision. It is better for them to get quickly on track via courses and education, as well the company that has chosen such candidate for HR.
I enjoyed this.

I wished a bit that the website's "Increased Lifespan (source)" also claimed a 50% lifespan increase from the linked SA blog and associative study that showed a 50% likelihood of survival increase over a given period.
Let d1 = data[state==0] and d2 = data[state==1], then var(d1$pref) = 0.26, var(d2$pref)= 0.26 and var(d$pref)= 0.256 (using R and one of your dataframes), so the intuition is that knowing the state does not give information about the preferences of the voters, so this suggests that any model based on state should give poor results and so having R^2=1 is not a big paradox in this case.

There must be a formula to compute R^2 from variances both among states and inside states but anyway, when the variances inside any state are bigger that the total variance that should imply that the feature that divides the population in groups is of little value for prediction so it should have a small R^2 value.
Actually Azure CLIs are kind of schizophrenic, in typical MS fashion.

You have Azure Powershel Cmdlets (the old 5.1 based, and the new Powershell Core based), AZ CLI (in Python), AZD CLI (in Go).

The only one that offers full power is actually the AZ CLI one, e.g. some Kubernetes features aren't exposed in the others.
Vogons!
Apache Guacamole

Extremely elegant ES5 project

https://github.com/apache/guacamole-client (mirror)
My stupid eyes read `Bob van Luijt` as `Bob van Luajit`...LOL I'm so messed up!
Do you get the 95% number from the dashboard or from actual mileage that you’re able to drive? In my experience those two metrics can be very different, e.g. a vehicle with reported battery health of 80% getting just half of original range.
What you don’t get paid is not pay.

That is money that leaves the employer’s account and goes into the employee’s account (or government’s account for tax withholding).

I don’t see how this can be obfuscated.
If you think two items cover the same highly similar _keywords_ then Jaccard distance should work.

If you think two items share highly similar _text_ then give Levenshtein distance a try.
You aren’t wrong. USB is not a good way to do this.
My daughter is in gifted.
She still has a regular home room class that she is in 80% of the day. Gifted is treated as an elective where they have a class or two that is small in size and more intellectually stimulating (or so they say, I don't sit in there and have nothing to compare).

No extra homework...they don't give homework at all nowadays.

Because of how fragmented the United States school system is, your experience will definitely not be applicable to everyone. Heck, even the county next to mine does gifted differently.
Why the comparison to Fox News? Fox News is terrible, if the mainstream media is only aiming to be slightly better than Fox News, we have problems.

It is mistaken to think that the choices are only Fox News or CNN(or equivalent), the other (seemingly growing) choice is no news at all.
Most likely whatever password app you use supports these now. I know for myself, I started using Authy long long ago when there were not really many options.

In my case, 1 Password can do this now. I believe the same is true for Bitwarden and Apple passwords.
It could be done quickly by reading the MFT. WizTree can calculate the size of all 236k directories/800k files on my system in two seconds. For some reason, Explorer takes ~10 seconds to calculate the size of a single directory (Program Files, 17k directories, 240k files). If Explorer just did what WizTree does, it could actually show and sort by directory sizes.
True, but managing 5 servers requires overhead. Where does the load balancer sit? What happens when it goes down? What if the entire datacenter loses comms? That is why cloud providers have AZ's that are physically separated from one another at different sites. When your boxes are spread across different physical networks, how do you connect them securely? For true HA you need a system that can self heal. Just throwing servers at the problem does not make things better. Reminds me of the expression 9 women can't make a baby in 1 month.

None of this is impossible, but when you are a small startup it makes sense to offload this to someone else and not waste time reinventing the wheel.
I read it correctly - I just wanted to allude to the fact that your advice to them was super incongruent with their psychology. These people are compelled to control their family members.

You’re right that they should bow out of any relationships, but it’s like trying to tell a bear not to eat meat. They don’t need to do it to survive, but their compulsion to do so cannot be overridden.
Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture:

- layout of an expert system's components

and this picture:

- an agentic framework that uses an LLM as its reasoning system

They're the same picture :)
PowerShell has the whole Windows OS libraries, COM and .NET available, without additional installation, a bit more than just Python.
I want to challenge the lazy acceptance that an “activist media” is even a thing, or is it just a way saying “things are happening that I don’t like”?

What are the signs and effects of this activist media? Who are its players? Are there sides? What are they?
I was under the impression much of that is due to the fact that PowerShell is Windows-only, while PowerShell Core is multi-platform.
Look at the Exception section.

Grease payments are allowed. You can’t bribe border guards to sneak things through, but if they demand a bribe to do their job or your servers get mysteriously blocked from import, paying them off is allowed.
I get the point.
Only a few days ago I watched the restored version of "Jeanne Dielman,...", to its full length of 3 hours and 20 minutes. Nothing happens in that movie, absolutely nothing at all, except for the registration of a housewife's daily routine and a few conversations with her son. Until the last quarter of an hour.
You start with boredom, wanting to stop and forget all about it. But then curiosity kicks in, and you learn to appreciate the innumerable small details.
That's such a thought-terminating cliché.

Journalists were always activists in some sense. You need to have a strong moral sense to uncover truths that power wants to keep under wraps, you need to have a strong inner motivation to seek out information that can get you or loved ones harassed or even harmed.

Trust has eroded because the business model for journalism has eroded, with a lack of money the news had to look into tapping other sources of income like pay-per-click ads, to increase that you need to have clickbait, ragebait, all kinds of manipulation to make someone choose to visit your news site instead of the 100s of others that popped up on the internet. With that you start losing trust.

Also I believe your view of journalism is very likely an American one, with your 24/7 "News" channels that are more a drama-generating machine than actual reporting, or investigative journalism.

There's still a lot of good journalism being done, and nowadays a lot outside of the usual institutions of news where investigations could be done before but got eroded because they got poorer.

Journalism necessarily requires some level of engagement and activism, I just don't think what you mean by "activist" is the actual meaning of the word but a catch-all umbrella for stuff you don't like. Would love to be proved wrong though.
GraphReader: Building Graph-Based Agent to Enhance Long-Context Abilities of LLM
That's actually a very interesting point of view.

It's also interesting that you bring the Japanese into this. While they certainly to care a lot about producing high quality work, they also have one of the world's highest suicide rates.

I understand taking pride in what you build.

However:

1) it's important to not let that destroy the rest of your life

2) it's a lot easier to take pride in what you build when you're working on something you own[0]. As I believe I alluded to in other comments on this thread, and was kind of insinuating with the original comment that you replied to, deciding that extra effort spent on a dysfunctional enterprise project micro-managed by 3 competing orgs who spend their time changing requirements in order to win minor political victories (yes, this is an extreme example, please bear with me) is better spent on a personal open-source project, or even building something like a sport club or happy family seems to be the logical course of action when you care about what you build.

Which isn't to say don't do the best you can at work - ship the code they ask you to ship, write it well, add unit tests, all that jazz.
But then once that's done, you can either focus on being the best employee for Megacorp, which is likely to be soul-crushing, because you'll have extremely little reward for your effort, or you can be the best employee of You, LLC, where you natural human desire to make something beautiful can express itself in a way that is much more rewarding for you, both financially and emotionally.

[0] https://paulgraham.com/own.html
I doubt that’s actually true (though maybe it is, I don’t know). Anyway 3D APIs are implemented in Webkit, as well as WebRTC and co and many other APIs.

I’m talking specifically about having access to the bluetooth stack, having access to the device’s vibrations, etc.
I believe FIRE is on it.
And, another big quantum weirdness is that matter has not only a probability but also a phase angle, so different possibilities can add but they can also cancel out, which is not how classical probability works where probabilities always add together.
Startup automating NHS registrations raises £2.7M
I would like to have a more algorithmic society with human in the loop calling the final shots and placing the rationale on top

Let’s re-audit the algorithm regularly; say, perhaps, a central committee revisits and revises the plan every 5 years?
For mismatches, custom scripts & commands in Powershell benefit from having a standard way to take input, and because the output is not text, you're also safer on that end

But in the end really it doesn't matter in whose end of the kingdom the bugs come from. What matters is that's how people write Bash.