skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's definitely ways to handle that better than O(N), at least in the average case.

O(N) root-level snapshot objects of the state, I mean. Like O(N) git commits. The minimum size of the persisted MVCC snapshot data, probably just scales with O(log N) of the number of connections, depending on what sort of data structure you're using for copy-on-write'ing your snapshots.
> At that point, some countries (presumably rich ones) will have cleaned their own houses emissions-wise and be signed up to assist poorer nations.

> It will then become unacceptable to them that their efforts are in vain and at risk, because other countries are free riding and doing nothing, and continuing to pump emissions into the atmosphere.

The idea of invading countries to stop carbon emissions is interesting as a thought experiment, but given how things are now, it's far more likely that most countries (including rich countries) won't make efforts to massively reduce carbon emissions until it's far too late. It may already be far too late.

Most countries aren't even interested in trying to limit emissions to their current levels which is a complete joke compared to what is actually needed to have a chance of stopping global warming (assuming it can still be stopped).
If you need an affordable car, you wouldn't look for a brand new car. You'd buy a used car. Even if the government was willing to subsidize your car, it would be much better to apply that subsidy to a used car.

The analogy isn't perfect, especially when land is a large fraction of the cost, but it sure seems like new construction is the most expensive possible housing. Why is San Francisco trying to use their limited budget to create "affordable" new construction?
Samsung Foldable Galaxy Phone is the most expensive phone ever
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Transformations of High-Level Synthesis Codes for High-Performance Computing
Back when countries near proximity had access to conventional military gear with equal level of power, all out war made sense, you simply had to destroy the other countries gear to deter them from ever trying that shit again.

but after the development of nuclear weapons, this is no longer a realistic choice. Instead, look at the Russian model:

1) Infiltrate high society of an enemy country decades before saboteur activities. Helps if you have kompromat of sexual nature. Especially, if back home if the truth ever got out, you would be finished. Elites are used to doing whatever the fuck they want and getting away with it so there's little to suspect or take precaution. They are the perfect weak willed asset that can be easily persuaded to serve their own interests which is aligned with the foreign government's.

2) Use your newly acquired assets to spread misinformation through social media. Instigate separatist movements within the enemy country.

3) Wait for the enemy country to react and use it as an excuse to "protect ethnic minorities" or some other bullshit like pipelines.

4) Start arming the rebels, send professional soldiers and latest equipment to make the enemy hurt.

5) Occupy the rebel territory, sign ceasefire, and let UN sit on it's ass for decades until the rest of the world forgets.

6) Repeat.

The American model is a bit different and rarely need to involve the military unless other escalation method fails:

1) Bribe the elite, give out monopolies, lucrative contracts to further American interests at the peril of the victim country's citizens in the name of "Freedom". Target country is cleaned bone dry of resources. If you had oil and lived in the same continent, chances are high that the US is directly responsible for narco-economies in South America.

2) Let human greed corrupt the government inside and out so they are more open to electing a leader serving their own self interests that are aligned with American interests.

3) If somebody doesn't take the silver, they get lead or crash and burn. Make it look like an accident.

4) If all your assets are gone thanks to annoying rebels that took up arms to protect their country from corrupt foreign interests, send in the military to crush them, install someone friendly to the US, and this time give them the latest hardware and weapons aimed at their own citizens.

tldr: How poor and rich empires do empire things slightly differently in robbing the world blind.
> Isn't that curation?

It's not the kind of curation we're talking about, no. We're talking about whether it's allowed (or at least publicly visible) on their website at all, not what is shown on the front page to each user.
Basically all war is caused by a combination of competition over resources, and a fear of/interest in subjugation. There's no such thing as unlimited resources, and there will always be someone who wants to subjugate you, or someone you want to subjugate. Logic doesn't prevent a war.

The point of the article is that people thought WWI would not only be impossible, but that it would also be "bloodless". It turned out to be the bloodiest war the world had ever seen.

The future big wars will (eventually) turn the world into an apocalyptic hellscape, but the beginning will be fought with robots and big guns. Less infantry, but more damage. Lots more civilians dying of starvation, cold, disease, once critical infrastructure gets taken out. People in cities are mostly dependent on utilities, so once those go, it's going to get chaotic. Also we don't really have industry anymore, so a trade embargo might totally erode our ability to wage war once we exhaust our surpluses.
An Ancient Inscription, an Eccentric Scholar, and the Need to Touch the Past
While I think this is a really good OpenWrt-router, with good value for money and easy installation...

It is fair mentioning that this model is discontinued from TP-Link and you will probably have to buy it second hand. It also comes in at least 5 revisions, with various levels of support, making life a little bit more difficult for the average, uninformed buyer.

As a side note: I have a 350mbps symmetrical FTTH link and I've had no issues maxing this line with regular, official OpenWRT builds.

Unless you need significantly higher speeds and can prove that official builds can't do it, I see no reason to go with unofficial, unsupported builds.
I work in biology, and barring the simplest scripts everything computational we do is run on the university supercomputer because its waaaay faster and cheaper than keeping expensive hardware up to date ourselves, in fact I can get away with just using my phone and the supercomputer if I REALLY wanted. I know in video editing, similar 'rendering farms' are used instead of the top spec personal machines of yore. How long until developers also adopt this philosophy of remote computing, or is the switch already happening?
This sounds great. How the hell do you get customers to buy into it though? I often wind up falling into this sort of situation with old customers once they're confident in my work and fairness. But for new customers, how do you tell them "don't worry about how much this will cost or how long it will take"? How do you build that in a contract?
No disrespect to Petzold intended (I'm a huge fan of his technical works) but "Code" is at best at a pop-sci level. It prepares one for doing digital logic as well as "A Brief History Of Time" prepares one for doing coursework in cosmology.

Try the Brown book or Mano's "Digital Design" (my preference; took a while to remember his name) and see if it works for you. Good luck.
> Why trade one field I hate for another field I hate (and would likely hate even more, that I'd probably also be mediocre at at best) that pays more?

For the money? As a programmer, it is very possible to just FIRE at some point and turn all the corporate world nonsense into a mere bad memory.
> Modern warfare grants (perceived) first-strike capability to almost any state

What are you talking about? Only 9 states have nuclear weapons. Of them, only 5 have any significant number.
It's stunning to me just how many calories moving over land in cold weather takes. Once you cross ~20 miles/day, especially on snow or ice, it becomes practically impossible to maintain your weight. 7000+ kilocalories a day, vaporized into raw thermal and kinetic energy.
The ChromeOS browser does not have access to local files, it can download files to a ~/Downloads folder, but it cannot manipulate local files.

The entire point of ChromeOS is aggressive sandboxing, not breaking out of the sandbox.
A 10 year old desktop PC with similar specs would have lasted just as long. I just upgraded my PC from 2008 (original Intel Core i7) to a Ryzen system this year, and a Mac Pro had much more power to begin with.
Depends on third party services. Perhaps something involving janus gateway would be better?
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Colloquially, data centers also have "weather", ie, sporadic events that cause random slowness, network congestion, or scheduling problems on your cloud.

When there's bad weather in a data center, you sometimes just have to wait it out and run your jobs another day.
My android has suggested "Thanks Honey" as a SMS reply to people where that wouldn't go over well. Gmail hasn't done that yet.
> If that weren't the case, not sure why it would be so costly to comply with the EU laws. Doubly true because of ContentID.

Because the costs are determined not by the number of true positives, but by the degree of difficulty in identifying those true positives with both high precision and high recall, and by the level of risk that false negatives provide.

This is why SESTA forced Craigslist to shut down their personals section in the US. No, the overwhelming majority of posts were not by sex workers, but the liability that SESTA imposed was so high that there was no way for them to operate it in a manner that wouldn't expose them to massive legal risk.
Because this is about liability, not tech. Nothing is 100% perfect.
> You could call it “facisism” but that just creates more mudslinging...for example does it help by name calling the franchisees “outlaws” or “criminal enterprises”.

I'm not really concerned about offending people by using the term "fascism". And it's hardly about the issue alone, or this issue even playing a significant part in my interpretation of where we are with respect to history. It's the entire zeitgeist of the last 10 years that have got me worried, and particularly the past 2 years. If you're at all familiar with interwar European history, then you've probably had at least a few shivers of recognition over the past 2-3 years of that epoch.

I mean, by God I hope I'm wrong, and I hope people will look back at my comments from this time and laugh, "what a paranoid idiot".

But I don't think I'm wrong. We're at a dangerous point in time. Things could go real bad, real fast.
There are features in PyCharm that I have found so, so useful, that I refuse to write Python in anything else.

When Julia and Rust get support that good I’ll never have to use a text editor + plugins again; and I will be very pleased (even though the Rust sublime text plugin is very nice).
I asked if all it was doing was destroying the world. Then, in a follow-up, I asked you to explain the physics of how it was destroying the world. The emphasis being on the word 'how' in that question. I didn't mean the literal physics in the sense of tearing the earth apart - I meant the process by which it was eroding culture, community, values, etc.

I think that there is a decently strong case to be made that social media, especially certain forms of social media, are in fact doing those things. I think there is a case to be made that advertising generally has helped that along, by allowing social media services to be free for users. I don't really see the case that 'ad tech' has had much to do with that, other than by optimizing the ads seen to make the companies marginally more profitable.
This doesn’t seem like a very big deal.

Unless I read it wrong this only applies to repairs that could interfere with the operation of the T2 security chip, but I’ve only ever had my Macs repaired by Apple or authorized third-parties when I couldn’t do it myself so maybe it’s just me not seeing the issue.
Great to hear, I'm happy you enjoyed it so far :)
I don't understand the downvotes you're getting.

It might not be as narcissistic as it seems to you: I have been embarking on a couple of adventures, certainly not even close to this Antacrtica crossing, yet my unassisted trips were seen as some as a egoist, narcissistic showoff thing to do. I got a lot of people telling me they assumed I was doing it for likes and follows, only my close friends understood that there's something deep inside you that tells you to go and explore; not for fame, which is shortlived, but for your own good. Without The Life you're struggling, trying to cope with civilization and routine while they eat you from the inside.

More than the "car crash" thing that you mention,I believe people are interested in witnessing success, and happiness. On top of that add the whole "fuck you i'm going" pornography, quitting everything and embarking on a solo trip seems to be a common secret dream that people working 9-5 hide deep inside of their heart.
We need to take a MUCH harder stance against Russia poisoning the public discourse with conspiracy theories, fake news and alternative medicine/science/history/morality. We have to restore values and trust to the public affairs.
Not at all, because it doesn't fix out of bounds errors caused by copy-paste errors where the given buffer size doesn't match the actual size of the declared buffer or string.

A situation which is described on the field report I linked to.

Only C++ compilers like Visual C++ which provide overloaded versions of Annex K without size parameter thanks to the improved C++ type system, do actually provide a real usable version of Annex K.

But then it isn't C anylonger.
> What's the point of war in the modern world?

To create reasons to keep funding the military industrial complex.

To assert political and economical power.
Postmortem on the read-only outage of Basecamp on November 9th, 2018
Because no amount of money overrides the pidgeonhole principle. If the city keeps refusing to expand the market rate housing pool, then rents (and by extension land prices) are going to keep rising. Mandating below market rate units or building public housing is putting a tiny band-aid on a larger discrepancy between supply and demand.

It seems to me (SF resident) that a lot of people have some idealized views of the city, and fear that increased density will mar that image. And thus, the tendency to try and use price controls to fight market demands.
Bacon egg and cheese on a buttered roll for breakfast. A cheeseburger deluxe for dinner. Oh... and 2-5 pints with everyone after work before I ate dinner on my walk home.
In my experience, whatever you think is honest and accurate, triple it. And whatever you think is a fair price, double or triple it.

A proposal doesn't need to be done in a special tool. It's a simple document that outlines what will be done. I've personally used notepad.exe at times. Always send the proposal, estimates and payment terms before even starting any work. If it is a larger project, you can charge for the proposal itself.
If you need to be hiking all day for months to lose weight, you are ptobably going to gain it all back once you stop.
Mmm. Even with $100 billion, I don't think they could do it at the rate people are uploading at...

There are three major problems:

1. Audio, video and image recognition systems are nowhere near close to perfect and the upload volume means even a small error rate will result in a large amount getting through.

2. Users are constantly coming up with new ways to avoid the filtering systems making it a game of tag, but where one side is made up of tens of millions of people.

3. There isn't a central registry of who owns what type of copyright in each territory so there is no good way to know if the person uploading has the right to or not.

Then there are the issues of compositions... someone has the right to a music track, but only when synchronized to a particular video or someone inserting a frame of a copyrighted image inside their video.

And this will affect far more than YouTube. Copyright extends to all creative works including this comment. Image hosting services, forums, reddit, social networking sites, comment systems, review sites should all worry.
If you goal is to make lots of cheap subsidized housing, mandating developers to give away 30% of their profits will certainly cause a ton of other issues.

I'm not familiar with San Francisco's "Inclusionary zoning," but in Chicago, developers are required to have 20% of their residences meet affordable housing guidelines.

If the developer doesn't want to have 20% "poors" living in the building, the developer can build those units in another building within one mile. If that doesn't work, the developer can a make payment in cash to the Chicago Housing Authority and it will build the housing. This payment must be made before the developer's building permits are issued.

For a typical 40-story residential skyscraper, the payment is about $2 million, and is what most developers seem to choose.

Chicago still has affordability issues, but these payments aren't stopping development at all. The city continues on a high-rise residential development boom.
I pay for many things that go through my mobile and are in addition to my mobile service. Paying is not the issue; ads are the issue.
The Japanese carpenter has wisdom that allows him to to judge the right level of complexity vs simplicity. But the new generation of developers don’t have that, it’s just ordinary ignorance and is why someone was asking in the article.
Yeah, having dealt with Chinese vendors and mfgs for years that is a scary scenario.

I've met contractors who did extensive work for businessmen in the US, who then turned around and told the contractor, "You want to be paid? Sue me!"

The whole culture of trust / fairness / honesty is very different from the west.

Is it really that different? There are some people who are good and some people who end up being opportunistic in evil ways. The more I learn about differences across cultures, the more I conclude that the differences are always ones of degree, and the differences are made more visible due to the cultural contrasts. That said, is there more rule of law and enforcement around IP issues in the west than in China? I suspect that's also true.

Dealt with our products being knocked off for years, wouldn’t want to buy cancer meds ever!

There are also people in the west who aren't above faking treatments for cancer.
I read the article about ZeniMax's suite, and it seems to be because Carmack was on their payroll when he developed some of his ideas. Then he worked with Luckey. Unclear why Facebook would fire Luckey because Carmack brought some grief with him. It'd be interesting to know how exactly the lawsuit implicated Luckey. Then it'd be easier to understand why Facebook fired Luckey.
I used quotes to indicate my lack of surety in using that term. This is the more traditional use of quotes. Nothing passive aggressive/“scary” intended.
I am positive Microsoft does it for that reason but this isn't a project by Apple.
You are right, this is only for string litterals (so read only).But Wikipedia C11 mention the feature, what do you mean by c11++ ? Btw c17 added 0 feature.
I've been a monthly donor to the Guardian for a long time now. Their opinion pieces have been getting more hysterical over time but I just don't read them, and I think their news coverage is really great.
It's nothing technical. It's about deciding to delete or otherwise suppress certain content based on vague editorial terms, instead of being neutral and letting users control their feed with better tools. This is specifically content that has not otherwise been flagged by police or other authorities.

Making editorial decisions like that does give lawmakers leverage to push for more responsibility.
I can happily go point by point here, but my original comment wasn't intended to suggest I agreed with the current state of world military balance and shouldn't be taken as implicit support of US policy.

That said -
* The S-400 is an impressive system. The Russians have so built ~300 of them, and like any system, the soft factors are more important than the paper facts suggest. Training, deployment, doctrine, and strategic/tactical goals would greatly affect the viability of it on any modern battlefield.

* Space Superiority is more than just ASAT capabilities, but its an area that few other countries have ever even attempted, and with the US's dominance in rocket technology (arguably anyway) and high altitude laser platforms, I'm fairly confident it would be a stalemate at best, with even the closest competitor. I would agree its an area of US defense that will need special attention over the next ~10 years.

* Insurgency =/= Great War.

* OIF was heavily supported by carrier based aircraft, and there are exactly zero countries that posses a modern enough navel force to threaten US control of the actual blue water areas. US Submarine technology is decades ahead of everyone else at this point. There are concern developments in this area, but again, we're talking "Great War"

* True point. Wars tend to get people pointed in the same direction though. Especially "Great Wars"

* US pilots put in more seat time than every other country combined. This is a factor that cannot be overstated. Putting 10x the number of the worlds best plane in the air means nothing if the actual operator cannot leverage those tools effectively.

In the end, these are all great points as to why the US has room to improve its lead, but none of them really address the core point which is that the US is currently the undisputed leader in almost every military category, and any "Great War" involving the US would be a very lopsided affair. You're more than welcome to pick your challenger and we can see how long it takes me to make a list twice as long with their problems, although I can't guarantee I'll actually spend the time doing that today :)
Also it feels like food supply is much more fragile now (more dependent), almost 8 bln people now compared to ~1.5 bln 100 years ago, if this collapses, it'll collapse big time.
> Thus, a backend concurrent connection (i.e. transaction) cap of N, translates to O(N) concurrent MVCC "world states" that the DB engine has to keep track of. No matter how efficient the DB engine is at doing that, that's still a lot of state!

I don't think any realistic implementation keeps information that increases at a rate this implies. Undo based systems have the undo size grow roughly at the amount of changes that aren't visible to everyone, and postgres style in-heap MVCC systems have similar amount of data growth inside the table. Usually the amount of that additional state is more correlated with the age of the oldest observer than with the number of concurrent observers.

> If you allow clients unlimited concurrency, they can execute enough transactions to fill memory and disk with MVCC world-states, causing potential data loss (since the full disk may have prevented the DB engine from writing down a committed world-state.)

I don't think any real-world DB implementation would work that way. The definition of committed in most of such systems include that the necessary data has been written to disk before signalling success for the commit.

This problem also seems largely independent of connection/transaction limits.
I was just going through GitHub and couldn't find how to do "few recent merged pull request".

Any pointer?
> I don't understand it. How did you end up in such a situation?

mental illness
Some kind of generic IoT sensor that you could attach/integrate with almost any physical object, that could open up that object for digital communication. And the sensor would have no/very long lasting batteries.