skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, its a lot easier to use TiFlash than replicating your OLTP data to a read-optimized database (whatever it is).

1. Add TiFlash nodes to your TiDB cluster (you might need to config some ports and ip address just like other databases and then start the nodes)

2. ALTER TABLE your_table set TiFlash replica 1;

That's it. You won't need all data in memory and replicating details are taken care of silently (schema change, fault-tolerance, load-balance, consistency and etc).

I believe heterogeneous replicating even with minutes latency tolerance will not be as easy as above :)

PS: the good part of keep TP/AP consistent is that user can use them in a single application without any surprise: it's just a different forms of a single logical data.

PS2: I'm a dev of PingCAP.
I also don’t want to pay taxes but here I am, grudgingly paying them for the benefit of our societal structure.

Would I want to live in a world where people don’t have kids, where people can take as much time as they want because time is infinite, a world where you wouldn’t even go out on the street for the chance something would happen to you and deprive you of eternal existence?
I’m not sure, and in any case, it will be a vastly different future.

Imagine Mark Zuckerberg running his empire for 900 years straight.
The Five Cognitive Distortions of People Who Get Stuff Done [pdf]
Any ouija board lies with the wrong seance supervisor
You only need to take out a few key points to take out the grid. Large scale EMPs are not needed. Knowing which key points to take out is the domain of nation states, but it is absolutely possible.
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Very pleasant how intuitive you start building the city. I kind of missed seeing villagers running around and it is kind of hard to see if a building is active. The game feels really nice but I missed a bit of that visual feedback, but that might be just my taste. Nice work.
G. Gordon Liddy wrote about this in the 80’s. The story includes more than just transformers, but it identifies the impact of the issue and the means of attack.

https://vocal.media/theSwamp/this-fictional-memo-to-the-pres...
When you sell boxed software in a retail store, you're selling using the wholesale model: it has a retail price of $99 but you're selling it to them -- or more likely your distributor -- for about 40–50% of that price. The distributor takes another 10%, and the retail store gets the difference between that and the retail price they choose to sell it at. This is very distinct from the "agency" model that the App Store uses.

Well: actually, when you sell boxed software in a retail store in 2020, you sell nothing because nobody does that and this is a super stupid comparison for Apple to keep making. The Mac App Store isn't competing with Target and the ghost of CompUSA, it's competing with other online store systems like Paddle, which takes 50¢ + 5%. The iOS App Store is competing with... nothing, in practice, because it's literally the only way to get applications onto your iOS device. Which is kind of what's getting everyone to argue about this, right?
I’m sorry USA that this site needs to exist for you guys. Hope you get affordable healthcare soon :-(

It should be $0 and no hack required, for all, ideally at point of care (so no invoice).
Graphene already has left the lab, it's being used in some high-end batteries.
Yeah and any moron could build one. We really need to beef up our grid and stockpile critical components.
It happened in 2013, when the west and US specifically was in the habit of describing any non-Western aligned attack as "terrorism".
I do want to live in a world where people can take as much time as they want! I'm 20 years old, and there already isn't enough time to do everything I want to do. I also disagree that increased longevity will lead to a stagnant society. Just as we don't expect a 30 year old to be the same person when they're aged to 40 or 50, I don't expect a 100 year old to be the same person when they're 300. Neurons are replaced, old memories are forgotten, old habits are redefined.
Cringe-worthy on multiple levels. Instead of monitoring LED temp, he monitored cooling water temp to test his cooling system. Of course, you might consider putting his fingers on the heatsink as monitoring, lol. On a less critical note, he did follow British plumbing standards ...
I remember the times where colonizing the solar system was a means for our collective survival, not an endgame for which we irreversibly change our society.

That aside, we could populate the solar system just as well with people who live a healthy century.

It only takes a few months to get to Mars with the current technology.
Epic basically started that race to the bottom in the PC gaming space. Time will tell if it will actually drive Steam's cut down.
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Would it be possible to write directly to /dev/i2c in Linux and spoof the messages? Not sure what the use case of this would be, but might be useful for something.
> Imagine life with no kids

People will still be able to have kids. In fact in many cases people will be able to have as many kids as they normally would. As long as the fertility rate is less than 2 children/woman, the total population will still converge even if no one dies. Places like South Korean have a fertility rate of 1 c/w, which would produce a mere doubling of the total population.
I think what you're saying is that lottery tickets function as a regressive tax, along with cigarette and alcohol taxes. The poorest and disproportionately taxed with these kinds of products.

It's a good point, and many economists are against regressive taxation.

But people want to gamble and you're not going to change their behavior by eliminating the lottery. Before state run lotteries, numbers games were very popular and run by organized crime.

The government has much less power to change people's behavior that many assume. After all, the drug war has been a historic failure, just like prohibition before it.

You might as well make these kinds of activities legal in order to reduce violence and disempower organized crime.

People are gonna do what they want to do and ultimately, they are responsible for those (possibly poor) decisions. You can't protect people from themselves, only try and give them the tools to make decisions that maximize happiness over their life-time.
That's the scary part! I woke up very disoriented, full of all sorts of emotions - disappointment, sadness, total confusion. I couldn't make sense of what just happened. It was scary. I also missed my "dream family". I couldn't believe they were gone and it was all a dream.

I've told this to people, and they did not believe me.

It took a good 3 days to shake off all of the emotions I was feeling over a dream. I did a fair bit of research on this and found that many people report the same happening to them.
This is how I used to get all kind of old ICQ numbers back in the 90s. Hotmail addresses, back then, used to expire.

Ironically enough, I've been vulnerable to the described attack afterwards as I had my own domain, didn't use it much anymore, and gave it away (to a band with the same nickname). Back then, a domain was pricey, and I was poor, so...
This article is correct. However, it is important to call-out something that is far too prevalent, much code incorrectly uses correct crypto primitives. The world is full of calls to CBC with improper IVs, for one simple example. Another spot-on example mentioned in the article is timing oracles.

Security coding in general, not just crypto, uses an entirely different set of principles from functional programming. It is for this reason that "security" cannot be bolted-on, and cryptography cannot just be "dropped into" the code.
I don't see a practical difference. Do you mean we have to work to remove the time skip?
"Hey man, I don't want to create a 1000 hours of research, therefore I can't take the 5 minutes it would take to respond".

IOW, you can't point to the consumer protections that they're breaking.

Thank you for admitting it.
This also makes it difficult to write FOSS apps for iOS, because the developer would have to front the cost of a macOS workstation + the $99 yearly fee with no expectation of a return at all.
You do you.

I want to live 900 years and explore every discipline under the sun. I want to travel the world twenty times, read every book, see a hundred thousand sunsets.

Don't tell me I or anyone else doesn't deserve that. Evolution left us with bodies that don't permit it, but we'll escape that limit someday.
I won't say ageism the main reason I moved from programming to tech writing, but it's certainly been something on my mind. I look younger than my 53 years, but I'm pretty clearly not in my early 30s anymore. But, I haven't experienced any real ageism in this field, at least yet.
Hrm. I wonder if this is an actual use case for blockchain and proof of work.

If you want to send me an email, you have to send me an SMTPCoin. If my user doesn't mark it as spam, I give you the coin back. If my user marks it as spam, I keep the coin.
It is important that you maintain a good and ergonomically correct posture. A chair is simply a tool to help you do that. If you are average sized or close to average size, it is possible that you can find a cheaper chair which works for you. The advantage of ergonomic office chairs is that they tend to have enough adjustments for a wide range of body sizes. On the flip side, an expensive office chair is not going to solve anything unless you take the time to adjust it properly.
The "Wherefore" bit is actually an OKCupid question due to how commonly misunderstood it is.

When I tutored Shakespeare to kids, I always prepped the vocab for each scene, got extra copies ready, and made the parents act out bits. All out-loud. It really helps.
There are lots of ways and reasons to kill people. Poor people tend to die a lot younger than rich people and people just tend to not care or notice.

As Cher once said: "I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better."

Being poor doesn't make the people around you automatically trustworthy. Trust is a chronic challenge in the world. It's not somehow unique to wealthy individuals.

Though you do have a point about "especially for those not good with the legalities of trusts, etc." Most people who win the lottery have their lives ruined by it and end up bankrupt.

But it matters how you get there. If you build a business, you also build business contacts, etc. You end up knowing lawyers and the like because you had need of them along the way to getting rich, unlike someone with a winning lottery ticket. It generally seems to go better.
Is your argument that apple is passing off the extra 30% fee to the consumer?

If not then what you just said is bullshit.
I would ask why 80 just happens to be the best lifespan for humans. If we’re optimizing for things you listed, imagine how much more child-inspired joy and new idea throughput we could get if we had kids at 18 and died at 40?

I’m still unclear on the point of life, but I’m not convinced it’s that kind of optimization exercise.
It’s the same story repeated. I got so tired of listening to people complain I wrote a blog about it 3 years ago so I could hopefully quell the noise.

“Death gives life meaning”

“It’ll only be for rich people”

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2017/03/28/stories-that-should-...
No, in general the search-ability is considered lacking. The findings are often quite good. It’s often just difficult to find relevant results. Finding a needle in a needle stack. Think of poorly managed orgs that just throw everything on SharePoint.

On top of that, there’s often so much schedule pressure that project managers may only do a cursory look (if any at all) and unlikely to add anything of their own
right, and there are problems with this.

But this is irrelevant to the current topic.
> hyperbolic

That's exactly the word I had in my mind when I was reading the article!
Hi Everyone! This is the code part for a recently published paper that explores the idea of augmented augmented reality (AAR), found here: https://jjhartmann.github.io/AugmentedAugmentedReality/

We use a tiny actuated projector that is attached directly to an AR HMD to enhance the user's environment by projection mapping content. This gives the AR user a way to enhance their environment outside the headsets field-of-view while also solving some issues related to accommodation-vergence conflicts (VAC) by projection mapping to nearby surfaces.

Crucially however is the affordances this can provide when communicating with external, non-augmented user. The projector can be used as a bridge between the real unaugmented world and the virtual environment the AR user resides in. Imagine if you could show a collaborator a 3D model by using a perspective mapping so it looks 3D to the external user? Or collaborate on documents through an ad-hoc large display? These are some of the designs we look at in the paper, so if that sounds interesting, check it Github repo and paper!
I don't see how that would work. Wouldn't that miner have to win the race to find a block in order to help? Seems like this would greatly lengthen the amount of time for a transaction to commit. You'd have to tell your transaction to a bigger set of miners to increase your chances, but that would also increase the chance of your transaction leaking to a front-runner.
I bet they have better resources for finding and recovering their toxic waste after EOL than their customers.
Yep definitely, I had this exact thought last night and found an example kernel module to spoof a battery, and one to read i2c messages. There's probably all kinds of cool things you can do with a kernel module to communicate between the laptop's i2c port and a microcontroller. The docking connector conveniently has an i2c port on it, maybe I'll look in to this in the future
If Apple purchased 10,000 units of an app from the developer upfront, they can then resell each unit at whatever markup or loss they think people would buy it. This is a commission model where Apple is getting a cut of each sale.
Schools need not be pandemic hotspots
Awesome! Really good teaching tool. I loved your solution for forcing people to use the often-neglected row-reverse and introducing order.

The real braintwisters start when you introduce flex-wrap, flex-grow, and flex-shrink.
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And yet people would rather battle Apple than make a web app and push open technologies further.
I thought the strategic PPE reserves were exhausted from H1N1, not SARS. The Democratic House tried to replenish, but it was prevented by the Republican Senate, so there wasn't uniform lack of care or treating it as deadweight.
I attribute it to mortality denial as well as general anti-technology sentiment across the board.
You're getting some downvotes, but I actually agree with this. The next ten or twenty years are going to be the most exciting so far, and then it only goes up from there.
Every time I hear that phrase I get the cold chill down my spine. It just feels so disrespectful and visceral.

I’m in my 30s and was taught to have basic respect for others. People think my generation is entitled. Man our generation has another thing coming.
> Perhaps power electronics will move to higher frequencies, too.

They just did thanks to GaN transistors. The limitations in power electronics generally aren't the inductors.
I used to teach high school in Baltimore. It was an intense job that I rarely miss, but I do wish I could have experienced seeing how the kids processed it.

Then again, it probably would have been hella irritating in the moment. Kids telling me "no mister Johnson I will not sit in my seat, Wakanda forever", in Wakanda accent.
In the UK there is moneysavingexpert.co.uk that sometimes goes to ludicrous lengths to save a quid (a British pound)!

Think sign up for a credit card using a cash back site to buy an easy jet plane ticket using a promo code to fly for free kind of thing!
Monarch has distributions with predetermined bucket boundaries. These are indeed very useful.

Pet peeve: it can calculate and graph something it calls a quantile. But if the value is in the middle of a large bucket, it will just interpolate or something and the result will be terribly misleading. It'd be much better if it gave lower/upper bounds.

I try to use distributions via questions of the form "what fraction of values are less than / greater than N [which I've verified is a bucket boundary]?". This gives you an answer you can trust.
No.

If I could add 10 years on to my 30s I would. But adding 10 years into my 80s doesn’t seem worthwhile.
> why would I

Safety?
Steam already lowered their cut directed mostly at AAA games with sales over $10 million dropping to 25% and sales over $50 million dropping to 20%.

AAA devs were already trying to leave steam as much as possible, so they tried to bring them back while doing nothing for smaller studios and indies who can't afford to exist off steam.
"Science advances one funeral at a time." - Max Planck

"Death is very likely the best single invention of life. It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new." - Steve Jobs

I know my life is accreting old biases and obstacles. Today and for years to come (I hope) I have more to do, but some day I will become an agent of stagnation instead of advancement.

Nobody wants to die. But in the big picture, the alternative is worse.
One person's freedom fighter is another person's rebel; One person's soldier is another person's foreign invader... that's not a new concept? Didn't stop us from calling things wars, groups rebels or soldiers, and a whole host of other words for hostilities that all depend on your point of view.

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If you put something like a firecracker in a random mailbox and watch it blow up, it will scare people, but a limited number of people would consider that terrorism

If you go and put firecrackers in random mailboxes all around a city for a week, it will be called terrorism because there's an expectation there's some political or ideological objective someone is trying to meet with that fear.

No one knows for sure why you're doing it, maybe it's not terrorism, but it will be called terrorism because that's a logical conclusion. At some point in level of violence, or complexity, or damaged caused, people start to seek meaning past fear for fear's sake. This is why you see them use the word terrorism

If anything your hangup seems to be exactly that, people seeking meaning by calling it terrorism without some concrete objective being known to them, but it's common sense.

This was a sophisticated attack, a team of gunmen with scouted positions, communications lines cut, only very specific components being hit. What non-political motive can you come up with that out ranks some kind of geopolitical motive, or anti-government tilt? Even reasoning like "to wake up the government to the possibility" is political
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This is really fun! It reminds me of playing Pharoh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharaoh_(video_game)

A few ideas: (1) once you build everything there isn't really an end game. One easy way of adding more of an end game now is to do something like factorio and make upgrading the keep really expensive - you could have a couple of more advanced upgrades that require a lot of gold and glass for example. This would make the player need to harvest the full map. (2) deleting roads got really slow on a full map. (3) I clicked on the menu screen by accident frequently, but clicking on the menu again doesn't close it (you have to go to "return to game"). If you could make clicking on it again close that would be great. (4) the one thing that was a bit challenging is not knowing what my resource limits are. Adding resource limits as small text under the amount I have now would be really helpful.

As a future game design, it could be fun to add a public health element - homes can get the plague, and you have to build wells for clean water, morgues, parks, etc. If you build too dense, the plague spreads faster, but you also have a productive city. It would add a dynamic of having to carefully plan where you build roads and, as a result how dense you want your housing to be. A worksite could be plagued just like a house, and then wouldn't produce resources. This might work well with the current gameplay.
Arizona Iced Tea puts the suggested retail price on their cans. They do not disclose what price they charge to the retailer on the cans.
I was at a large company some time ago that had a script to delete any instances not tagged with a cost centre (from the testing account - they had planned to eventually run it in production but that was still a ways off).

One day an AWS API had an outage causing it to return an empty array for the tags list; the script deleted over 500 in-use instances.
The whole point of this is to be able to extend your healthspan, not just your lifespan. This includes age "reversal" and maintenance. A complete solution does not leave you in your 80s, it leaves you in your 20s indefinitely.
Yet they still can't properly render 21:9 content on a 21:9 display. You get a shrunk picture with black bars on all sides. Even their "Originals" or N-Series or whatever they call it now have this problem.

Here's hoping someone from Netflix is in the comments and can act on it, because their support system hasn't done anything in the 2 years since I brought it to their attention.

edit: Actually, I tried to track down the film used in the new encoding (I think it's The Dirt from the signs and dates seen in the frame captures) so I could screenshot for comparison. It actually worked in 21:9 fullscreen.

Was it the new encoding? I saw this problem up until this past week, most recently on Maniac but I checked that show and it's no longer an issue.

From the post I suspect it was this adding in extra blacks at top and bottom on 21:9 content in the old method:

> with fixed 4K resolution bitrates — 8, 10, 12 and 16 Mbps — regardless of content characteristics

But I truly don't know what it was. I just know that video no longer ignores 40% of my screen real estate by watching on a 21:9 monitor since sometime last week.

THANK YOU! That has been annoying me for years.

But Please add 3440x1440 to your testing. It's not shown in those charts.
Seconded. Now that I've installed auto time tracking on my computer, my estimate is that people do 2-3 of solid work a day. The rest of time is eating, reading news, reading/writing email, social media etc. It takes serious effort to put in 8 billable hours.
Hey guys, just wanted to add. I didn't make this game so I can't really take the suggestions into account. :( I just found it on Reddit awhile back and enjoyed it. Thought you guys might enjoy it as well. It seems to have been pretty stagnant since the original Reddit thread I found it from though (about a year ago): https://www.reddit.com/r/WebGames/comments/e9mpd1/lord_of_th...
What I want to see a benchmark like this one, https://kinsta.com/blog/php-benchmarks/

I think a workload like this is more common in the PHP world. Not saying that others don’t exist, but handling routing, queries, cached content is very different from simply doing mathematical/memory intensive applications.
Since I'm yellow/blue blind in one eye, but not both, it would be really interesting to try these lenses since I would be able to describe the way things look from both colour blind and "normal" vision.

Also, I read that they haven't really tested these glasses with yellow/blue blind folks (red/green blindness is far more common) to know if it is all that useful for them.
I can't say I understand this viewpoint. If you feel you're going to become an agent of stagnation, as you put it, simply put effort into not stagnating.