skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The OS are making a lot more data freely available as part of the Geospatial commission push to make geospatial data more widely available to drive innovation. I wouldn't be surprised if this is all a slow response to external activities like OSM and Google
Well, no, there are errors, and then there are environmental situations (if we ignore, for a minute, hardware malfunctions).

like "file not found", "disk full". Something in between like "out of memory".

Misusing an object as the wrong type, or division by zero, or accessing missing memory are errors. These usually point to defects in the program, or in some cases defects in the program's defense against bad inputs.

There are related errors are the hardware level, like numeric exceptions and bus errors. Without these, machine-language programs just lock up or produce garbage results.

Situations like "file not found" or "host not reachable" are usually environmental conditions, and not internal problems. There are ways in which they can be internal problems; two modules in a program might be related in such a way that one prepares a file that the other expects to exist, and there can be some bug in that.

Then there are situations like "out of memory" or "disk full" are somewhere in between. All the operands to the calculation exist and are well-defined, the operation is correct, but just there is a resource issue. In pure computing theory, these situations are the heart of the distinction between simulating a Turing machine by means of a finite tape, and the Turing machine abstraction, as such, which has unlimited tape.

In summary, there are basically three categories: errors (programming mistakes), environmental situations (issues in presentation of the inputs to the program, like asking it to operate on a file that doesn't exist, or connect to a host that is down) and resource exhaustions (out of some type of storage).

There is no emotional attachment in this classification whatsoever; and there is value in their separation.

Then there is another category of errors: faults in the hardware. The foregoing assumes that there are no malfunctions in the hardware; no cosmic rays that collide with silicon, flipping the values of bits and such. In some situations, you need a demonstrated strategy for these. Like what if an error happens in a DRAM chip that is not detected and corrected.
Hrm, but it's obvious if somethingis commented out code vs an actual comment. I'm probably missing something here.
This is true, though to be fair to the critics, the syntax through which you express these complex queries is often clunky and unintuitive. For example, I need to re-read the documentation every time I use the annotation API because it's generally not obvious how to use it, and I've run into a few edge cases where you need extra code/syntax just to deal with its nuances and ambiguities.

Even though Django has come a long way, I greatly prefer ORMs like SQLAlchemy and Ecto that map more closely to the SQL query I'm trying to write.
It's being revived: https://uo.com
I think Garriot is no longer involved with Shroud of the Avatar, I'm not sure of the details but it seems he sold or left the thing in 2019 and probably stopped actively working on it earlier than that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Garriott#Games
The bias is the point. It's expressing an opinion. This isn't a government scientific report where the language should be as devoid of emotion as possible, this is an internet chatboard. Expressing opinions is the whole point.
Reminds me of this:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48743043
this is a subjective opinion, at best.

If it is not clear enough to stand prosecution, then it is not 'hate speech' really. There needs to be clear-cut definitions and enforced uniformly.

Twitter has lost that trust, and now raises alarmms across the world.
Have you ever tried Niacin/magnesium approach for treatment?
Yeah and I guess American roads don't suit the google maps cars either.

I mean just look at them:
https://i1.wp.com/thirdeyemom.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08...
The lawyer is almost certainly going to be significantly cheaper than the cost of the commercial service on an ongoing basis.
It is a bit of a chicken-and-egg issue.

People in Norway rarely grow up in totally deprived, violent conditions. Maybe they respond to rehabilitation efforts better, in the same way that a healthy person exhibits better wound healing than someone with diabetes 2nd type.

One could make a practical experiment by dumping an assortment of, for example, Islamic State executioners into Norwegian prisons and watching how many of them return to their old habits, but Norwegians wouldn't probably want to try that.
The reason is pretty clear. News companies benefit a lot more from Facebook than Facebook benefits from them. The whole idea of this law was to extract even more money from Facebook but now it blew up in their faces and they have lost money so they are using their power in Australia to make it look like what Facebook has done is evil.
The reaction of Koo may be more accurately described as being to globalization and the cultural homogenization it entails than against the largely western right/left divide.

The diversity of opinions on mainstream platforms is starting to resemble being in an airport where you have the choice of mcdonald's, wendy's, burger king, or taco bell if you are looking for something exotic. Sure, it appeals to everyone, except it appeals to their vices and when they don't have better choices. As soon as people can afford better, they switch. From an economics perspective, the mainstream US platforms are an "inferior good." The last 10 years of social media has been a real time spectacle of intellectual mean reversion.

I'm cheering Koo on anyway. They're going after the regional desires of hundreds of millions of people who have a country in common. The bar to creating services like this is really low, and there are so many other huge countries to serve.
> I am the original artist behind the iconic GIF

Who can validate that?
Second US stimulus package plus inflation fears in recent weeks. A lot of it is speculation to be fair. As gold didn’t perform and lagged bitcoin, most institutional players bet on bitcoin instead.
Don't post anything else online. Get a lawyer and keep your lips sealed
The point is that Windows' biggest advantage is its familiar GUI. The trouble with Linux on the desktop (and in most small business environments where the sysadmins only know how to drive windows server with a full gui installed) is the Linux GUI can kinda suck, and way more people are familiar with the Windows GUI.

Take away the GUI, and Linux becomes a pretty easy choice.
The linked Medium posts have a bit more content https://joekelly100.medium.com/how-to-kill-bitcoin-part-1-is...

Note that this is from last July, when the price of BTC was significantly lower and thus the price of the attack is likely higher now. That said, this becomes more feasible in the long-run when mining is purely funded by transaction fees.

Something I don’t see talked about much is the fact that, although Bitcoin is intended to be non-inflationary in the long run, the mining network that keeps it secure is currently 80-90% subsidized by inflation.
Consider submitting them
I first saw this about 1993 in an military patch maker shop, the man said it was a prototype but unsure how official it was.
That’s the party line, however Windows with no GUI is extremely awkward to use, and most people just end up using RSAT to interact with it, which is just running the GUI remotely.
Ultima VIII was the first (and only) Ultima game I played. There was so much hype for the franchise and I had never played, so I bought it new and had high expectations...

ooof. i tried to play it but got into some boring dead end where i didn't know what to do next and figured i missed something but realized i just didn't care and would rather do some chores than keep playing.

i was just confused that anyone liked ultima at all and forgot about it.

kind of interesting to see the story behind that game (i forgot about it so much that i never bothered to look into why it sucked so much before today).
That was my thought in response to the proposed pipeline to take water from the Columbia river all the way down to California.
Just curious, do you recall what the name of this company is?
searched linked page and documentation contents for "secu" - 0/0 results found. can anyone vouch for its security?
Also it is partially powered by KDE4 :) https://twitter.com/ivan_cukic/status/1362722727560425476
> That country was Germany
It sounds wrong to depend on the file length for correctness even on physical file systems. What if the file length shrinks during the copy? You need to just keep going until you can't anymore...
Rethinking Our Sister Planet: A Handbook for the Development of Venus (2017) [pdf]
ext4 does not support sharing blocks across multiple files, indeed. Try btrfs or perhaps xfs.
Ideally also a way of saying "... except for X Y Z" while remaining appropriately polymorphic. I've remarked before that while checked exceptions help make sure you consider every possible situation, imprecision forces you to consider many (too many?) impossible situations as well.
It is very nice but like other redhat stuff this somehow prevents browsers from saving passwords, or at least it did last I used it.

EDIT: Actually they seem to have fixed it now. Nifty.
Free speech would mean you support (private companies like) reddit's choice to ban the white supremacy subreddits.

What does it have to do with that website being full of bigots? Their speech is not limited by the government.
I can't tell if you're being serious. If by your answer you mean nothing, are you saying that the farm bill panic is simultaneously both fear-mongering and push back against blatant propaganda by those in power?

If by your answer you mean something else, why didn't you just say so instead of being so cryptic?
I don't play games (as much) and have never played any of the Ultima franchise.

To answer your business-management-related question though, I am looking at the price of their stock over since 1990.

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/EA/financials

1990: $0.xxx

2000: $20

2010: $17 (valley between 2008-2013)(the global financial crisis?)

2015: $55

2021: $145 (there is a drop between 2018-2020 down to 100)

Whatever these guys are doing, judging from their stock price, it works. Shareholders like them.

Sales/Revenue filed:

2016: 4.37B

2017: 4.81B

2018: 5.16B

2019: 4.93B

2020: 5.47N

Cash cow...
I agree, I can't remember the last time windows crashed. My home PC is a 2014 low-budget build and I don't recall any blue screens of death or freezes.

I often wonder if people run Windows on a potato to account for all the crashes people seem to have.
Query Optimization in Postgres with Pg_stat_statements
Sadly people are still buying crappy motherboard/laptop that have crappy drivers and blame it on Windows.
MSI ethernet drivers sometimes trigger a memory leak that eat up all the RAM in a few seconds.
Dell thunderbolt docks are buggy and trigger a BSOD.
I am not sure what you are replying to, so I assume there is some miscommunication.

I don't know anything about mapping public Wifi access, like in shopping centres.

What I meant is that already some people feel like their city and a 30km radius around it is "their area" and they want to control what and how things get mapped there. It can lead to heated and emotional discussions, we are people after all :)
If a big company with lots of human resources would do this, there is hardly any fighting back.
Of course noone solders SMD or mills device chassis manually, but top-level assembly is mostly manual labor.
Likely true for ‘hypercharismatic’. It certainly seems true with say, charismatic sociopaths.

However we might make a distinction between hypercharisma, and high-normal charisma combined with social access.
In my youth I used to use BCD to handle large numbers and mathematics, so bit/byte representations have always been of interest. In that regard, I really appreciated the Infocom text compression.

Use your favourite seach engine to look up ZSCII which, roughly, is three characters per two bytes (five bits each) with special markers to switch between three different 'alphabets' for what characters the ZSCII bits represent.

Edit: Coincidentally there's a British quiz show called Only Connect, and a few days ago one of the contestants offered xyzzy as an answer to a question where they had to provide the fourth entry in a sequence. The host had never heard of it, and expected a different answer, but it fit and they got the points.
Where is japronto on the techempower? It's not even on there.
Based on the people I know, paying someone skilled wages to do an unskilled job is more than worth it right now.

One of the shops I know of is making small little pieces of aluminum in the central US and shipping them to Foxconn in China for assembly into computers. As fast as they can make them, which is constrained by the number of people they can get on the floor. 2020 was their best year ever, by a wide margin. Things are seriously crazy right now. If you’re wondering why, the answer is most likely tariffs. The more American value in the product, the lower the tariff once you import the computer. Nobody knows if Biden will continue this.
>There is currently no defense for this attack in Bitcoin, as the simulation
demonstrates.

The entire Bitcoin miner reward model is the defense for this attack.

Nation states have powerful computers... but nowhere near as powerful as the decentralized Bitcoin mining network combined.

Even if they did currently, the endgame for Bitcoin as envisioned by Satoshi Nakamoto was for everyone on the planet to be mining Bitcoin at the same time.

If a Nation State could ever become more powerful than every single private processor on the planet combined... I think it would be game over for a lot more than just Bitcoin.
There's a similar problem with websites which map rock climbing routes. Some make their data open to some extent, but not in a way that can be meaningfully contributed back to OSM. Even though they all use OSM data (usually via Mapbox), to generate their maps, and allow users to draw and annotate layers on top of it.

I'm very interested in working towards an open tooling and open data ecosystem for rock climbing information, but I don't know where to get started on finding others to build it with.
Cloudflare Must Block Pirate IPTV Services, Appeals Court Confirms
Why private jet travel is booming in Hollywood during the pandemic
how much of that is due to basic social safety net?

on the creek behind my workshop, thieves were running stolen copper. they would use boats to come up into businesses storage yards from the SF bay, then dump the copper in the creek. wait until they had a buy lines up and pull it up at their leisure.

they were caught eventually. 5 years later and out on parole. and guess where they came first - back to the creek. no other way of making a living, no basic support.

i think criminality becomes very different when its just a lifestyle choice and not the only way to provide for basic human needs.

sure, focus on rehabilitation. but it doesn't matter if they throw you back on the street when you're out.
Threat Brief: SolarStorm and Sunburst Customer Coverage
> "fight like hell".

I think taking quotes out of context does not present things as they actually happened or provide a fair analysis. We have to be careful of cherry-picking.

Here's the full context: “fight like hell, and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.” ... “We will not be intimidated into accepting the hoaxes and the lies that we’ve been forced to believe over the past several weeks.”

Per legal scholars, like Jonathan Turley,[1], "those words could be equally consistent with calling for a protest, not violence, as many groups routinely do at state and federal capitals." which explains why the legal system has not been able to convict Trump.

People seem to have varying opinions on this topic, but at the end of the day if you look at the facts, it becomes much simpler to understand.

[1] https://jonathanturley.org/2021/02/11/reckless-rhetoric-is-a...
We use the WebView approach for Kreya[1], though not with Tauri. We had some occassional issues with Chromium/Safari differences, but otherwise it works fine.

We use WebView2 on Windows, Safari on macOS and WebKit2GTK on Linux. Not shipping a whole Chromium installation on each install and update reduces the installer and on-disk size a lot!

[1] https://kreya.app
> One such mechanism is the use of reason to draw inferences from other relevant facts.

The “other relevant facts” are called “evidence”.
An observation is evidence for a proposition when the posterior probability for the proposition, after updating on the observation, is greater than the prior probability of the proposition, before the observation.

Ok, so I guess you are saying that the evidence is not __legally considered__ evidence, or isn’t “evidence” in the legal sense of the term, and that that is why it wasn’t presented it court?

I have to admit that I’m not particularly clear on what kinds of evidence are and aren’t considered “evidence” in the legal sense admissible in court. Are you familiar with the criteria that make the distinction?
So cholesterol plays a huge role! The brain is the fattiest organ, so it makes a lot of sense. That we haven't found a correlation between statins and depression is certainly a quandary though.

I wonder if our national obsession with anti-fat dietary advice has had an impact on depression's prevalence in our population. It would seem to make sense that if we depress people with low-fat frankenfoods they naturally react with lower physical activity levels.

I wonder if omega-3 / omega-6 dietary balance changes the structure of the cell membranes to make them less permeable. Greater omega-3 cell membrane composition certainly seems to have a real impact on retina cells and the overall function of the retina[1].

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2174995/
Latency might be 11.5 minutes now (I didn't check, but I'll believe it), but it ranges between about 2 minutes and about 20 minutes depending on how the earth/mars orbits line up.
Serious question: how does a project adopting a "safe" language benefit the company that's pushing it or give them more control? For example, if I write my web server in Go, does that benefit Google in any meaningful way? How?

Likewise, I usually think of Mozilla as one of the primary promoters of safe languages (specifically, Rust). Do you think they benefit in some illicit way if someone chooses to use Rust?

I read your linked post, but, without reading the whole thread, I'm not sure how it doesn't amount to saying that security bugs are, on net, a good thing.

To be clear, I have my own criticisms of these newer languages that center on their corporate-driven development (e.g. they're generally designed around the belief that the developer should also be the final packager of the software or should at least determine what the final binary looks like), but their additional security is not something that I had thought to criticize as such.
ext4 has no reflink support. btrfs does by default, xfs under some configurations. server-side offload is supported by nfs and cifs but also needs server-side support.
You are correct, I did. Thank you. That's just amazing!
FaceBook has Boosted Posts and there's Google Ads, so there is a paid channel for getting noticed if you're not a household name.

It also worked for places like NewsMax to get noticed.
>"Richard", they told me, "your release of games is extremely unreliable". They wanted us to change our development process to meet their deadlines. The game we were developing when we sold Origin* was Ultima VIII; EA wanted it on the shelves in time for the following Christmas.*

versus

>Yet the actual EA executives in question have vociferously denied micromanaging the project, insisting on the contrary that it was conceived, created, and finally shipped on terms dictated by no one outside of Origin.

Someone is lying. Either a new deadline was imposed on an existing project by EA executives or it wasn't.
Ok yeah, i should have been way more clear here. I just meant that your data can't be snooped from the cloud, due to encryption, if backup is turned off.

Of course, this also assumes you trust apple and the implementations of encryption, blah blah blah typical security-depends-on-trust-someone-somewhere warnings.
Think more interesting number would be total paid-in capital. That would be a better metric to gauge the baseline value. My guess is it’s closer to $10-20B.
> Exult could seem like abandoned software but it's really not

There is a new release within the last year. And there are still lots of commits happening, including several within the last 24 hours.
Hi

So I assume that you are doing hyperparameter search? Can you share what optimization method you are using for search (e.g. random, gp )?

Also, is the search can be distributed in parallel to multi node ?

And, if mindsdb is not part of the db, what happen if minddb fail ?

Also, do you support automatic retraining? If yes, can you elaborate more?
> Electron gives the promise of total code re-use across platforms which is what makes web technologies more suitable for desktop apps.

I am not sure what the point is of Electron: a shitty-resource hungry app that literally is a wrapped web-app. Instead of writing platform specific apps that leverage the power and capabilities of those platforms, we get a jack of all trades and master of none. Electron is a business decision, not an enlightened technical one.

What value does electron add to the user? I would argue none. That Slack can’t find the resources to write actual Swift for a Mac App is just amazing to me. Instead we are essentially interacting with a lowest-common-denominator web app. Is a chat app that hard to write natively? We’d get better performance, a smaller footprint, and a more polished, platform-specific product.
TOR is a very inefficient way around that if you don't care about privacy.
RealT.
Antidepressants aren't just used for depression, they're also used to treat a spectrum of anxiety disorders like OCD and panic disorder, although the doses used to treat anxiety disorders are much higher than those used for depression. I don't think the BDNF-related hypothesis explains the efficacy of antidepressants in treating anxiety disorders, but I could be wrong.
Most companies today use frameworks that have good cross-compatibility so it tends to just work. In my opinion though, a responsible web developer is going to test on multiple browsers at the very least.
It's kinda like how Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster could be real, and we'll never really know for sure, but most people conclude that they are almost certainly not real.

Some motivated people have spent a lot of time and money trying to find proof of those creatures, and come up with nothing but some blurry pictures (including some known to be intentional fakes) and conjecture. So there's not much reason to take them seriously.
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
I shipped a Mac app to the App Store using native web views via macgap in 2013 :) Idea is not new but still better than electron up until today.
you have to check either your biases or where you get your stories from.

If the impeachment managers did this stuff (fake the evidence such as videos, tweets, etc) in a real court, they would face serious consequences.

The Chief Justice recognized it as a sham and did not participate, and one does not need to like Trump to know what this second round was.

The first one was atleast done by the book...
I'd chip in $10 for him to get a lawyer
It's called wash trading and for securities, it is illegal. I dont think the Nyan Cat NFT is a security. Its more like a commodity. And yes, wash trading and money laundering via art is an age-old practice.