skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to be an imagery analyst. You're spot on about infrared imaging. Normal dirt, rocks, and plants show more contrast than human vs environment. The only way to tell that the blur you're looking at is a person is if they start moving, and you recognize it's a human by the motion, not by the shape.

When I was an E-3, I had a three star general ask me if the image I was analyzing was a picture of a MiG-29 Fulcrum. I had to explain to him no, sir, it's a pickup truck. Probably a Hilux.
Microsoft sells to a lot of crusty enterprises, and I bet a lot of the IT folks there think NAT is for security and refused to use IPv6 if it wasn't NATed. They probably deployed it that way to placate that particular piece of brain dead security cargo cultism.

Azure sucks anyway. Their prices are not good and their management console is horrible.
This doesn't really solve the problem causing GitLab to enforce this change; I highly doubt the cost of providing support to users for MFA had any bearing on this discussion.

Meanwhile, Gray's suggestion would provide any attacker within enough capital to a backdoor, while legitimate users need to pay to unlock their account without any benefit to them from a security perspective.

I strongly disagree with such a concept -- unless, as you mentioned, payment could be used to verify the identity. That said, I think that's the same reason GitLab is now only offering MFA for paying customers, because they have a bit more PII to confirm your identity if you're a current customer -- in which case, why require payment at all?
As a piano teacher I've been teaching online since March and the Shared Piano part of the Chrome Music Lab has been really useful for demonstrating various concepts!
People have been using money since before recorded history, and bronze age technology is sufficient for gold to be used as reliable money. If any kind of financial system is to arise from the ashes of civilizational collapse, it will almost certainly use gold. So I wouldn't say "meaningless"... just not immediately useful, perhaps.
Video players, or at least media files themselves, are often hosted on a separate domain. You have to find it in uBO and block it.
Inhales

Oh yeah, that vintage cynicism. Smells like a nice old book.
I am just saying that the function has merit. Even if it could have been written much better. Thats all :-) It served me well.

Reg downsides: Maybe don't use it on a directory with 1000 entries...? Its good to be aware of that or not?
Aha! I'm an idiot; I thought this referred to social engineering of the person who owns the handset/SIM, not phone company staff.

That makes a lot more sense. Thanks!
That should be easy to prove with user agents from the web logs - show the analytics vs access log percentage difference.
I think it's intentional. It doesn't happen when I am on desktop using the same site with virtually no change. Are you also using Firefox by any chance?
> Starting fresh (i.e. no experience with an IDE or vi/emacs) there is zero productivity benefit to choosing vi or emacs over a real IDE in this day and age.

vi/emacs will definitely still be around in 20 years. Other editors may not be.
What is interesting is that they set out from Puluwat[0], which was the site at which one of the pacific's last master navigators was interviewed by modern anthropologists in We: The Navigators[1]. See the Wa[2] local vessel page I co-authored to front page featured article status on Wikipedia for more details, including the amazing expanse of traditional voyaging.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poluwat [1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/758833.We_the_Navigators [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wa_(watercraft)
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AWS supports IPv6 almost everywhere. Azure has some support but requires IPv6 NAT for some mysterious reason. Most of the smaller cloud/VPS providers support it: Digital Ocean, Vultr, Linode, OVH, Packet.net, and so on.
Absolutely! Although I've been getting closer to 2-3% for gold. Silver though has a much larger spread, the price has to increase significantly to not loose money.
Perhaps platinium prices arr more set by practical uses for things like catalytic converters and the demand is down with the rest of the economy?

Of course gold's speculation value is essentially memetically driven by history and platinium tends to lack that.
I have an LLC set up and I'm brainstorming ideas. Probably won't turn into anything, but I can dream.

Are there other people out there like this, or do most people start out with an idea?
And what if I'm searching through a large directory? Your response doesn't address the argument being made.

Creating an API where the entire set of data is returned from a data source, without an option to limit the result, is bad. It means that, if I have to read a directory with 2000 files (and this is quite possible! - think /bin, etc.) the function will have to allocate a slice with 2000 entries, and then call stat on all of them.

Stat is not free, especially on certain filesystems (NFS!), nor is reading directory entries.
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I thought the arXiv was already included in GPT-3's training data.
could be worth shopping around!
I also wonder if they're pushing this for lock-in reasons. If they make everyone architect in this way then people need more load balancers, NAT gateways, firewalls, and other complexity, and they charge for all that.
Calling stat on all the files is just really expensive if your directly is large.
How is it implied? You basically said going from $1 to $10 is easier than from $10 to $100. They are both a 10x increase in market cap. Why would one be easier than the other, aside from the mild psychological effect on retail buyers?
So just what the fuck are you supposed to use on a directory with 1000 entries?
In what universe calling stat on every element of an array is “saving a lot of manual work”?
that's why I wrote: be aware of the downside...

It's a mega convenient function if you want to slurp in a few files.
'From my experience playing a few games on it against decently strong opponents has been that at high levels it becomes "Chess, but it's much much easier to checkmate, and 2~3 times a game some time travel shenanigans happen."

The main reason for that is time traveling and dimension hoping come at a tempo disadvantage. When you create a new timeline, you make 1 move, but give your opponent 2 moves. You used your turn in the present, and created a new board where it's their turn in the past.

Any time travel or dimension hops need to be worth twice as much, minimum, as a normal move to even consider making them.

It does have more depth than normal chess, but it's not infinity deep. I still love it. My biggest concern with high level chess matches is that many, many games end in draws. It feels like it's impossible to a draw a gam e in 5D chess' [0]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/hxqo6d/how_to_play_5...
I’d love a special or grouping aspect so that you can limit or focus conversations.

I’ve been in a VR hangout and one person was monopolizing the conversation. Walking away is a very natural signal and allows for a new side conversation to form.

It doesn’t have to be VR of course, but some kind of break out session while the main content continues.
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> There’s no actual definition of ‘hyperinflation’ that I’m aware of in the macroeconomic literature

There are plenty of definitions, just none that are universally accepted.

It’s similar to “recession”, which in the USA means two quarters of negative GDP growth but isn’t a universally agreed definition.

Colloquially, in the USA, “hyperinflation” refers to Average price increases of over one hundred percent per year for a “basket of goods”.
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After building 7 more tables they might actually ROI on the circ saw and orbital sander and consumable supplies. Then they just have to start working down the capital costs of the table saw, router, miter saw, and clamps.
The article seems to suggest it's rising because of the lockdown. In other words: we aren't mining it currently, or not mining it very much.

My general impression is that gold is going up because of its use in electronics. Platinum is also used, but in smaller amounts.

A typical iPhone is estimated to house around 0.034g of gold, 0.34g of silver, 0.015g of palladium and less than one-thousandth of a gram of platinum.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20161017-your-old-phone-i...
> apparently telling them that the first consultant refused to do the job.

While I don’t think they informed them of this in good-faith, it is a nice heads-up. In this case, it meant Consultant2 consulting RefusingConsultant that probably knew the IT better.
They'll just unplug the mouse and plug in the drive to see what happens!
Charles Stross' blog dates to 2006, though that's wading into the 2.0 era:

http://www.antipope.org

I've stumbled upon some rare updates here and then for specific interests. For instance, an early '00s Gundam site on Angelfire that was updated in 2014:

http://www.angelfire.com/anime2/zeonbase/1aindex.html
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To be clear, it is about the type and frequency of ads. I don't live in a place with a bunch of billboards, but whenever I drive through the Bay or LA it is jarring. Same when I watch YouTube on my phone. So it a big part is how they are used and implemented. For example, I don't mind the ads when listening to podcasts (I couldn't care less that rocket mortgage wants to tell me about themselves) or DDG's sponsored links. These do not feel invasive and since I am using a free service I can accept the payment of my time/(half-assed)attention as a means of funding the service. It is this type of advertisement that I do not think the general populous minds (as a form of payment). But I am not comfortable with ads outside this scope (tracking, individualized, etc).

And I do like to pay for services to bypass ads even though I use ad blockers that mitigate them anyways.
I'm highly skeptical of the "overwhelmingly approve" part.

Do Americans overwhelmingly approve of the deprivation of their disposable income and health due to the broken status quo? Of course not. It's just that many don't connect the dots because the debate isn't even happening. Democrats and Republicans are captured. The media doesn't seem interested. The system is too complex for people to even understand and know what to criticize. Most Americans don't even grok the fact that they would receive employer-paid premiums as salary under universal healthcare. They don't have a clue how well universal healthcare works in other countries and how widely approved it is (relative to a privatized system). Saying that Americans overwhelmingly approve of their private insurance plan is like saying Russians overwhelmingly approve of Putin...ya, ok, but I don't think the people who repeat that statement know how meaningless it is.

Do you know what American political scientists call foreign democracies with captured politicians, distorted media, and widespread corporate cronyism but...ostensible elections? Pseudo-democracies. There's a spectrum from democracy to pseudo-democracy, and we all know where we're headed.

As for the connection to trust in science, I already spoke about that from one angle (the exploitative interface between the average American and their medical care). Another angle is the following: the very same medical paternalism that broke our healthcare system also broke the institutional guidance regarding COVID-19.
Again outside of the employer-sponsored program where employers drove the conversations with their massive leverage. This is the crux of the problem: if you organized everyone into a big group, then they have leverage. Otherwise, you're SOL.
Harari sees history as fiction. But I think we need to make a distinction between fiction and physical reality. Gold is a physical reality that got married into human's fiction.

DEC technologies are still around. They just got replicated and extended into other technology stacks. It's not easy to replicate gold. The easy way is to mine more gold. Technologies are ideas. Gold is physical.

Bronze and iron became less popular after BC. Will steel go away any time soon? No. Humans have worked with gold much longer. Gold has had its ups and downs. It has always come back for thousands of years. This suggests it's not going away (Lindy effect).
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It may be so, but I'm talking from experience - as a keyboard geek I have, over the past ten years, taken all sorts of weird keyboards (and mice) into various big banks with not a hint of trouble. USB storage, on the other hand, qualifies for an instant termination.
For dealing with multiple files at once, I would recommend using buffers and ideally a fuzzy finder, such as fzf. I would almost advise removing nerdtree while you get used to using buffers, as it probably shouldn't be used for a lot of tasks that it's tempting to use it for.

I also use a buffer explorer plugin and LSP servers too (go to definitions, find references, etc.), but buffers and fzf alone can be very powerful.
This is the best chart I've encountered for such comparisons: https://www.longtermtrends.net/stocks-vs-gold-comparison/

There are extended periods when gold absolutely crushes everything, and periods when it is totally flat (or worse). In the long run, yes, it is a poor investment because it is an inert metal. But for certain periods of time it is absolutely a great alternative to bonds and equities.
The argument being made is that Go's design isn't so much "forward thinking" as it is driven by Google's interests.

What they are not stating is that Go is a conservative language with a standard library hampered by that conservatism, nor are they making a judgment on the current state of the language.

If you are going to criticize someone's post, give them the respect of actually reading their argument, and not just writing a knee-jerk reaction.
That still involves heating though, right?
try millions of files :). You can run out of inodes too :)
Thone 5,000 IU once per day (qd)
All politics aside, the quality of the writing, and especially the editing, has plummeted in the past decade at least. The NYT used to set the gold standard. Now it's shocking to read, and I don't mean the content.
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The fact that go eventually fixed things doesn't really speak to the top-level comment on this thread that "The best thing about Go is how things are designed thinking ahead in the future and avoiding hypes."

That the things needed fixing (and especially in cases where there were previous ways of doing things that had to be entirely discarded) seems to go against the idea that there was thinking ahead in those areas.
Is there a tool that can randomly take 128mb chunks of memory out of the pool and test them around the clock?
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Those are ways in which people acting in their own rational self interest create a situation in which they are all worse off as a result. This is called a market failure, and there are plenty of examples where this happens (for instance, why voting seldom produces the best possible candidate, or why armies run away).

Remember, someone acting in their own rational self interest does not mean they will never experience deleterious consequences. It simply means people will take actions they think will result in the best const/benefit for them.
Someone upthread was talking about how, as a Salesman, you have to read the room and know how to talk to clients. I did that for awhile, and always got a lot of mileage out of asking the customer what they ultimately wanted to accomplish, which usually revealed that what they were asking for was a solution to a self-made problem, and there was a better alternative altogether.
Such an odd decision... they had an app for private communication (the value prop was "you can be yourself when your parents and boss aren't in the audience") and tacked on the supermarket tabloids and celebrity news.
> why people feel the need to use software like this

The same reason people download executables from the internet that claim it will give them more RAM - personal ignorance and hyper-suggestibility.

> They use CCleaner on a new machine to strip out OEM crapware

.. Perhaps you're one of those people.. you do know CCleaner doesn't do that, right?
> In any case, it seems like you are just looking for a way to rationalize your current behavior.

Not in the least. I find ads annoying and I don‘t have any skin in the game when it comes to advertising. But it‘s not a matter of simply trying Brave. I want to understand how it works for users and also for publishers. And I want to understand how it is not a proprietary system with a gatekeeper role as a structural feature.
> Your comment would be a lot more useful if you explained what those commands do.

I think it's actually more likely to be useful for you (or anyone) to get intrigued, fire up vim, and use, say, `:help :term`. At least, that's what I'm off to do!
Facebook is in the slow process of finally dying. Their ownership of Instagram is sustaining them for the time being, but they are now desperate to steal some market share away from Reddit, TikTok, and WeChat. Facebook is far more desperate than they're letting on publicly. They have already been on the decline for multiple years; the competition is now finally speeding that process up dramatically.

When was the last time you truly cared about anything Facebook-related? A few Twitch streamers switching to their platform? The only reason anyone is streaming on Facebook right now is because they were offered multi-million contracts, or because Facebook is currently paying out "autoplay while scrolling through feeds" as view counts (ie. advertising payouts based on PPV instead of PPC/PPA); when that stops, those streamers will lose everything. Facebook has inflated its viewership numbers by cheating via a "loss leader" tactic, but with nothing else recuperating the losses, which only leads to financial collapse.

tldr; Facebook is finally coming to an end. Their executives know this better than anyone, so they're scrambling to pick up as many scraps as they can in order to delay the inevitable.
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From the article: “What we did was not cold fusion,” says Lawrence Forsley, a senior lead experimental physicist for the project. Cold fusion, the idea that fusion can occur at relatively low energies in room-temperature materials, is viewed with skepticism by the vast majority of physicists. Forsley stresses this is hot fusion, but “We’ve come up with a new way of driving it.”
What a huge favor to Microsoft, which now can acquire TikTok for a lot less!
Did you check out the "GHC calling convention"? They implemented it specifically for this purpose.

https://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#calling-conventions

My understanding is, for "fast path" instructions (e.g. integer addition) there's no register spilling necessary, so passing VM state in registers makes sense. For more complex instructions, you rely on LLVM to optimize registers as it would normally, with callee-saved registers. Of course, one must still pass as little state as possible - e.g. just sp, cp, maybe top of stack / heap, and then a pointer to *vm_state for all the rest.
Would you still consider 5,000 IU of Vitamin D per day safe as far as these calcium issues go?

I had a doctor tell me to take that dose for at least a few months a few years ago after low levels in my bloodwork during the winter. But I've never known if I should lower the dose to take on a continuing basis or adjust during the summer when I get a little more sun (but I still work in an office/at home so spend a lot of time indoors, especially now).
>To overcome that barrier requires a sequence of particle collisions. First, an electron accelerator speeds up and slams electrons into a nearby target made of tungsten. The collision between beam and target creates high-energy photons, just like in a conventional X-ray machine. The photons are focused and directed into the deuteron-loaded erbium or titanium sample.

that way of X-ray generation is of very low efficiency. They should have put that deuterium loaded erbium, titanium (or Pt or Pd like in the famous cold fusion experiment) into the Sandia Z-machine. The typical target for the Z is either LiD or frozen D, and i wonder why they have never tried more heavy metals, especially Pt or Pd, loaded with D given how heavy nuclei is supposed to help in the fusion based on the cold fusion effects and which this NASA research seems to hint at too:

>But the lattice helps again. “The electrons in the metal lattice form a screen around the stationary deuteron,” says Benyo. The electrons’ negative charge shields the energetic deuteron from the repulsive effects of the target deuteron’s positive charge until the nuclei are very close, maximizing the amount of energy that can be used to fuse.

Honestly, my best bet is that Musk, who needs at least fission or even better fusion for Mars (space is the only business case for any plausible peaceful fusion), would soon start a venture for it. The inertial confinement, either Z-machine style or laser (modern lasers are much more efficient than NIF) is clearly the way to go, especially for space and when you need real result instead of large government sponsored research.
And paper money really exists as a physical thing and required technological and societal advancement to exist. Currency is an abstracting fiction to make trade easier. Confusingly they are separate in the same way money has no utility in itself but is portable and may easily be exchanged giving it high utility.
> Things like no package management, no vendoring, importing modules directly from GitHub without any concept of versioning, the confusing mess that is $GOPATH

You just said "no dependency management" 4 times in a row.
>why they'd add an interface that accumulates everything into a giant array by default

While I can't speak for Go's authors' mindset, here's my view:

One array of records is about as simple interface as possible, and it's good enough for many use cases. Contrasting with that, reading the directory with repeated readdir()'s or equivalent is fraught with hidden pitfalls. You end up being responsible for sorting, for resuming syscall in case of a signal or other interruption, for handling changes to the list of files during read... and probably other concerns above and beyond that.
Definitely click on the second to last icon on the bottom of the SPECTROGRAM page to see the spectrogram applied to an old POTS modem dialing out to another modem. Notice in particular that the DTMF touch tones are indeed composed of two tones.
I personally avoid gold because I think the price is distorted by the nutters.

But I don't really have any evidence to support my position. Do the nutters have enough money to move the price?
Could be interesting, and maybe useful, but the distinctive thing about scientific papers is that they tend to be reports on things that happened in the real world. Might be useful on something self referential like math or philosophy though.
At very least it might cure them of that delusion, and prompt them to use a proper firewall.
The catch is that the receiver has to be sent out first. And what difference does 'where' make when digital?