skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The description "real-time" varies in meaning depending on the application and acceptable average and maximum latency.

The un-informed usually thinks "real-time" means "hard real-time", but that's seldom necessary, so one can save on additional expense and effort by using a regular linux distro and removing most of the daemons and file location indexing.

I've done real-time development (for Space Shuttle, rocket and balloon projects), and largely all I care about is if a circular buffer can be emptied in time before it fills. That's one technique for avoiding latency variation issues.

The versions of linux that you would normally encounter aim for music real-time, which is about 10 ms latency. 30 ms is considered to be bad.

Most of the pro Yamaha synths use linux as the embedded OS, and some of the code is downloadable (they attempt to comply with the letter of the GPL.) So you can go down to Guitar Center and do a real-time test anytime yourself. :)

The iPhone is pretty good for music, because it was designed to have low latency when playing.

https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2018/02/17/10-years-later...

https://superpowered.com/androidaudiopathlatency

Looks like Wind River discontinued RTLinux, which was hard real-time (a real shame actually, as it removes one of the few hard real-time options):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTLinux
I loved Ultima VIII. Played it for hours and hours and hours.
Switch to an ISP that doesn't do censorship and so isn't subject to these orders. Andrews & Arnold. The big ISPs all wanted to be "family friendly" by doing DNS blocking, but A&A isn't interested in "friendly" so it has no capability to do that. When courts issued these rulings they all say obviously if you don't have blocking you can't and needn't block this thing either.

They are not a budget offering, and they don't believe in "unlimited" bandwidth, but their prices are fair and the service is excellent.

It's the difference between hiding a joint in your safe so there's less chance the cops find it and marching to just make weed legal.
They provide something for other countries to aim at besides major cities.
I don't even consider replicated set of monolyths as a distributed system.

If you've done your work correctly you get almost no distributed system problems. For example, you might be pinning your users to a particular app server or maybe you use Kafka and it is Kafka broker that decides which backend node gets which topic partition to process.

The only thing you need then is to properly talk to your database (app server talking to database is still distributed system!), use database transactions or maybe use optimistic locking.

The fun starts when you have your transaction spread over multiple services and sometimes more than one hop from the root of the transaction.
There was another example of this in Australia back in 2016 where some prediction markets offered a novelty bet on what colour tie one of the TV hosts would wear.

The host got wind of it and, for fun, changed ties at least five times throughout the evening.

https://twitter.com/sportsbetcomau/status/749219697359396864

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/federal-election-201...
MySQL springs to mind
Just so you guys know, they've had a patch for this in beta for a few days and they are pushing it to main currently (at least according to their Twitter)
I feel like there might be a link between the different awareness during exhaustion, and dreams.

Like, if you’re on deadline and pushing through with a few hours of sleep a night, both panicked and not quite sure how you’re getting done what you’re getting done, then you might have foggier dreams, or feel that background panic while in the dream environment.
Not sure what "open-source upstream" means, but in software, there is the complaint that companies like Google can add a lot of complexity to software projects, which serves Google, but not the classic home user of Linux. That can make it effectively their own corporate project and drown out more casual developers.
you probably wouldn't want it anyway. Using Servo only for rendering and using Rust for everything else would be preferable.
I agree => I'll try to expand?

In the case of WeChat, which from what I heard/read is nowadays deeply rooted in the life of Chinese people (used in China not just to "chat" but as well to perform payments, rate shops and even people, get credit ratings, maybe more), getting rid of something like that would be reaaally hard, even if officially the app is not forced on anybody.

Assuming e.g. that Facebook would create its "Libra"-currency, it would then make it available at least within Whatsapp, and when people would start using it (for any reason) then it would be 1000 times harder to get rid of Whatsapp-the-chat even if it would stomp on all possible individual rights because the "need" to have that whatsapp-payment(&future rating&whatever-method) would be stronger than any potential "future" loss of privacy.
Build distributed systems that can't be taken down. Social media could be built on IPFS and file coin and lib P2P. Protocols that have no ownership or entity to attack via political means. Email already works this way in a sense.
I agree. I liked Ultima 8. Don't get me wrong. 7 and 7.5 were better, but 8 was still enjoyable. I was disappointed when they didn't release an expansion pack.
> I'm not a crazy person and I agree with herd immunity

You're not crazy, but you are incorrect. Herd immunity only works for COVID if a) you can get 60-70% of people infected, and b) getting the disease confers immunity, and for a meaningful amount of time.

Getting to that 60-70% in the time frame that most people would tolerate would absolutely destroy our health care system, resulting in many more deaths (due to people being unable to get the treatment they need). Consider that hospitals in many areas were overwhelmed without most people going out and trying to get the disease.

And the immunity bit is still an open question. Many people have suffered re-infection, and it's not clear that post-infection immunity lasts more than a few months, which might not be good enough for herd immunity to stick.

The second bit is a bit of a gamble, so I'm totally open to argument there as to whether it's a gamble worth taking, but the first bit includes unacceptable outcomes. I'm not saying our current outcome is acceptable, but trading one bad thing for another isn't clearly better here.
It also depends on the available market for asics. In bear markets, asics are very affordable as miners go out of business but the price can go up quite a lot in bull markets which affects the profitability of buying new machines.
> not to mention completely disconnecting wealth from societal value creation.

You forget to mention that a lot of early adopters are actual criminals. Yeah, go make them the rulers of the world. Let's see how this ends.
Three Cost-Effective Design Patterns for AWS IoT Data Ingestion
Gold's market cap is approximately $9 trillion and I think BTC is a more attractive investment. https://cointelegraph.com/news/pomp-thinks-btcs-market-cap-w...
The most recent run seemed to start about the same time as GME - presumably people decided to hedge their bets. Maybe they sold GME at the peak and put it into things like BTC, coupled with a lot of new money trying to recover their losses from GME

Musk tweeted about it on Feb 8th which pushed it up, and then news stories of it hitting 50k, and now 1T, keeps the money coming in.

Stocks are massively overvalued, wouldn't surprise me if people are diversifying too.
This 100% already happens just because of jurisdiction issues.
I've used polymarket and want it to succeed, but it's not a smooth process yet.

Steps I had to follow to bet:

1. Send USDC to polymarket address

2. 'Claim' USDC when it arrives in Polymarket, but due to ETH gas fees, this function didn't work. It only works when they top up the relayer with ETH, so you can wait (as I did but it was emptied before I clicked), or pay more ETH yourself to self fund this conversion.

3. Place your bet

4. Wait for the bet to complete (to be fair, the team quickly resolved the market)

5. Withdraw the cash, this worked, although I got several errors throughout.

The best part here over other crypto based prediction markets is the resolution is quick (unlike the weeks/months augur can take), but that's due to the resolution being a centralised process, at which point, why am I bothered about using crypto at all? What's wrong with a traditional betting exchange like Betfair?
Wow! it's a flashback to the dial up days. Still impressive. Look forward to when we are able to advance this technology.
It is one thing to argue for an Indian National identity -- I think that's immensely useful and agree that it acts as a thread that can unify diverse polities and cultures.

The problem is that the BJP is advancing a conception of Indian National Identity that flattens distinctions and is predicated on a caricature of Indian minorities. Hindutva sees Muslims, Christians and others as second-class citizens -- it is a nationalism that comes at the expense of diversity, and sometimes at the expense of the safety of Indian minority communities, free expression & speech, and democratic norms.

Creating an identity from a subcontinent filled with dozens (if not thousands) of languages and ethnic groups is an immense challenge, but the project of Hindutva is an unbelievably blunt attempt to resolve this tension.

I should add that I am an Indian American, and a St. Thomas Christian from Kerala. My community is ancient, thoroughly Indian, and yet is an affront to Indian Nationalism as conceived by the Hindu Nationalist right.
Oracle took over MySQL as the acquirer of Sun, not as a heavy MySQL user with too much influence.
Take an iterative view. You're not going to get it on the first shot. But that's okay.

Try something, get a bead on if it's where you want to be. If it isn't reaim and try something else. Keep in mind all the things about being a dev, not just particular role. Team size, company size, pay rate, geographic location, editor, language, etc...
Shadowbans are a very useful tool against human-powered disruptive activity (sockpuppetry and what-not), because they shift the effort asymmetry to favour the attacker a bit less than it tends to do otherwise. (Given the possibility of being shadowbanned, the attacker has to either constantly check that the fruits of their labour are still accessible, or risk wasting work posting into the void on an account that has already been null-routed)

That this technology, when available, invariably winds up being used against good-faith users seems to be the usual grubby-fingers problem where the powerful take away from the commons of social trust for a temporary advantage, akin to police using COVID contact tracing data to chase small-time drug dealers.
TBH, I have never actually sprung for one in New England although I'm periodically tempted. The main culprit for extended power outages in New England tends to be ice storms so the temperatures are usually not especially cold.

I'm also on a fairly major road in an exurban but not really rural environment. I'd probably feel differently if I were at the end of a country road in the middle of nowhere. I also don't have vulnerable people at home. The only thing I really worry about is my pipes. Other than that, I'll fire up the wood stove and get out the lanterns.
There are many empty spaces created because of factories moved to China or because people are ordering from amazon(and supermarkets have closed down) and even in covid times people need to eat, while rest of the business in city has been shut down.

It does not make much sense to grow wheat, but it makes sense to grow spices or other products that are transported from afar and which can be grown local indoors instead.
Also, those vertical(and indoor) farms use LEDs, that consume much less energy - not to mention, that plants do not need that much light, than what is needed for humans to feel comfortable.
My personal rule for "%" operator is: avoid using it with any negative numbers. If you have to, comment well what kind of semantics you expect, and make sure you test this semantics.

Programming is about reading the code almost as much as it is about writing it. Writing "% -12" might seem cute, but it will make it harder for the next person to understand what's going on.
This is factored in the Loan to Value ratios.
Plane crash investigations are remarkable post-mortems.

It seems so unique, and it could be applied to many areas.
The fact that a European project was priced in Euros suggests that Euros are more of a currency than BTC. Converting to USD is a matter of convenience for you. But within the European economy that same project would have a near comparable EUR price in 12 months as it does today. That is not true for things priced in BTC as the value of the BTC is wildly fluctuating (though generally trending up).

Please find a contemporary (don't look to someone selling alpaca wool socks in 2010 and 2011), stable priced product line in BTC. Anything that I can be confident I will pay +/- 5% of the same BTC for over a 3 month period (I'm deliberately selecting a short period, most currencies are stable for 12+ months at a time when used to price goods and services).
They’re not inherently more efficient (other than the reduced application size), but Safari and Edge are both more resource-efficient than Chrome.
Surely neurodiversity also goes to the "right side" of the bell curve? Hypercharismatic people are just as atypical as non-charismatics. Probably the same goes for focus, intelligence and a bunch of other characteristics.
You don’t have to want it, other people want it. You want to have a pile of lightweight, secure doodads that other people want, because that’s easier to exchange than terminal wants like cars and sheep. What’s really crazy is the only reason other people want it is this same reason; it’s circular. It takes coordination to bootstrap, but once it’s set up it can be stable. Like those circles of people all sitting on each-others laps.
Try buying something like a can of milk anywhere on planet earth with BTC and get back to me on how successful you were.
New Nvidia graphics cards constrained in their ability to mine cryptocurrencies
Can OpenAI's GPT3 fool the general population? World's largest scale Turing Test
I finally managed to get access to GPT3 and am curious about this question so have created a web application to test it. At a pre-scheduled time, thousands of people from around the world will go on to the app and enter a chat interface. There is a 50-50 chance that they are matched to another visitor or GPT3. Through messaging back and forth, they have to figure out who is on the other side, Ai or human.

What do you think the results will be?

A key consideration is that rather than limiting it just to skilled interrogators, this project is more about if GPT3 can fool the general population so it differs from the classic Turing Test in that way. Another difference is that when matched with a human, they are both the "interrogator" instead of just one person interrogating and the other trying to prove they are not a computer.
This seems to be the secret: consistently training your brain by telling it “dream details are something important to remember”
because lots of people just do their jobs because they where graduated to do that job. Thry just got the paper and got the job. Technicaly shit hands they have and sometimes they are regular shitheads.
I torrented GTA Vice City at a similar speed when I was young. I'm sure NASA has that level of patience.
So instead of a siloed platform, you would advocate for a nation to allow tech employees in San Francisco to influence other countries' elections, censor their politicians, control their societies' discourse, decide what's allowed and disallowed, and so on? That seems like a call for external rule and a threat to national sovereignty.

There are real consequences to such acquiescence. Not everyone agrees with American progressive worldviews and Twitter obviously enacts one-sided censorship based on those views. As an example of the kind of topic that would be treated differently in Western social media versus other platforms, consider that India has historically treated transgendered people as a third gender (by my understanding). This feels more logical to me than trying to forcefully redefine existing genders or creating an infinite proliferation of genders, but under Twitter or Facebook's rule, any such opinions or debate would be deleted and users sharing such views would be banned. So why should recent rapid changes in Western culture take precedence over long-lasting local culture in this instance? I'm not claiming that either is right or wrong, but simply that the increasing degree of censorship and control enacted by American tech companies reflects the views and desires of a narrow minority globally - and therefore they shouldn't be given the power that they have.

In the case of the farmers protests, I think there's an "other side of this issue" for the very problems you are alluding to. Factual errors, widespread misleading claims, meme-ification, and trolling are common tools of those who are on the side of the Punjab farmers and those on the other side. To call out only one side feels misleading to me.
And here we see an additional cost of the xargs approach: the $(stat ...) in the above will get expanded inside the ""s before it gets fed to xargs, and you would have to debug that (and ultimately either use single quotes or use \$).

Nevertheless, I find xargs useful enough that I bite this bullet and have gotten very familiar with bash's quoting rules and how to work with them.
> people actually believe it is a reliable way to predict the future

It's comical because I made like 30 percent in the span of a few months by betting against well known biases in IEM -- the investment stakes are too low for informed participants to move the market meaningfully.

But it's too low stakes to bother automating arbitrage strategies that would remove some of the bias of the public market.
There might be many situations, but I was mostly talking about virtual vandalism. When you edit points, lines or routes in the wrong way, they get damaged. The volunteers guarding these need to fix them themselves, which can be a burden and they can get emotional already. You can imagine how that goes when more damage gets done where the fixing is left for those volunteers.

I don't know much about land-owners doing vandalism, often people try to communicate, sometimes this works out okay.
I was playing the Ultima and related rpg games on my c64 (and later Amiga) way back then, auto duel, Moebius, bards tale, wasteland. The closest thing to those in modern games that I've really enjoyed was Witcher 3 and DLC, Far Cry 5, and most recently the Panam quest line in Cyberpunk 2077.

GTA and other games are more about repeatable grind and forcing users to buy in game currency, less of a story line and game play. Look at what they did to Cyberpunk 2077, forced it to be released and it has the same repeatable side quest issue. Watch Dogs Legion story was mediocre story line, but the gfx are pretty darn good. Control had a very interesting story line and good gfx. Death Stranding was interesting but boring walking around.

World of Warcraft is all over the place, its really trying to force people into guilds, and the casual aspect isn't as fun, and the gfx are really outdated.

Its almost like, the games out now are super high quality gfx with shitty story lines. Or outdated gfx and good story lines. Is there any game people are even looking forward too anymore? Really feeling let down in the story/gfx department of newer video games.
Mutually assured destruction is not a policy. The actual US policy is assured destruction: use WMDs on us and we will destroy you, and e will posture or things to be able to assure that we can.
Hundreds of dollars? And he did just say he's unemployed. Not everyone has enough cash around to even pay for a consultation.
Non, merci: French village rejects Elon Musk and his satellite internet antenna
That much is true - direction and feature set. The accusation that seems weird is that companies would be motivated to make it proprietary just because they use it. At most, it seems like you’d get a niche for “enterprise” distributions with support contracts on the same stuff.
Anybody uses this in production? Is it good/suitable for managing servers (bare metal) behind VPN?
I don’t want the stick itself.

I do want the rest of the system to help me train to be a better player.

Any ideas?
The missing piece of the puzzle is the cost of recourse for things like non-payment.

If I buy fractional ownership of your rental LLC via traditional means, it's not hard to get those well-understand contracts enforced by courts. Not necessarily cheap depending on your lawyer, but it's well understood.

If I instead buy fractional ownership via some sort of crypto transaction from another country and suddenly the payments stop, it becomes difficult to work with a foreign legal system to understand essentially computer code.

Worse yet, what do you do if someone loses the private keys to their crypto tokens? Or they're stolen? Does the new holder simply get to collect the rent from that point forward? Does a hacker get to own the house because the owner's account was compromised?
Pretty much all the crypto betting protocols use stablecoins (mostly pegged to the $), people arent betting in eth/btc. Vitalik placed bets on https://catnip.exchange/ so would have been in dai.

Also on the topic of stability, Rai launched this week so we now have non-pegged stable assets backed by eth -> https://www.reflexer.finance/
Need a docker for electron
At least the trend seems to have halted for now. These abhorrent signs are completely pointless as a crime prevention device (obviously).

It's free advertising in two ways. One is for Facebook/WhatsApp (the use of these signs further normalizes WhatsApp and strengthens the brand), and the other is as a friendly gesture to criminals: here live people who can't afford fancy alarm systems and private security subscriptions, but can afford plenty of easily stolen devices and other loot.
Let's zoom out a bit. Is btc a currency or a stock or a store of value? Because depending on what you believe it is it will change how the discussion goes from here.

As a currency, which is what you mentioned, btc is awful. It's deflationary so nobody wants to spend it, it's volatile so you can get fucked in a transaction by the time it settles, and if you do spend it you have to pay a transaction fee. And where's the upside from all this pain? Nothing, cash is good enough.

If it's a store of value or a stock, then you should be absolutely worried about how it's distributed. Because based on that, it looks a lot like a ponzi scheme to me.
It's been almost a full day now, I wonder why they don't have a nice big HD photo from the main camera.