skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I, too, saw this approach on HN first – here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071754

I combined the bare repo approach with a per-machine custom branch approach described in https://www.anishathalye.com/2014/08/03/managing-your-dotfil...

The idea is that you have the shared configuration in one repo, and at the end of each config file, you include a local version. The local versions live in a separate repository and use a separate branch for each machine.

For example, at the end of .bashrc, you'd have

if [[ -r $HOME/.bashrc_local ]]; then
. "$HOME/.bashrc_local"
fi

and so on, for each config file. My general dotfiles repo is public here, if you want to take a look how I did it for the tools I use: https://github.com/bewuethr/dotfiles

This still isn't ideal. For example, I use Git submodules for Vim plugins in the shared repo – but maybe I don't need all of that on my Raspberry pi. I feel like at some point, a config file based solution could be better; or using a tool such as https://yadm.io/, which is using bare repos under the hood.
Is it a preference or a requirement that when someone points out issues with Linux, in this case from Linus... that Linux users must come to tell you all about how they use it successfully?
I like the idea that all the code in the book goes through a CI so any edited get compiled and unit tested. Certain words and phrases could be given “type annotations” to check consistent use of language.

Not to replace human review but should catch a lot of mistakes
I looked into this and IOTA requires special blessed "Coordinator" nodes, so it's not really decentralized.
I would not label this control - more like they gain experience in recognizing their own feelings, and for that split second after they register and become aware of their feelings, they choose an appropriate response. I remember Obama being heckled at a speech by someone - you could clearly see his irritation by his pause, a second or two of deliberate delay/processing what he felt, and then just gave a somewhat calm response to the person in an effort to defuse the tension in the room.

Trump notoriously sucked at emotional regulation, and he's what you'd consider 'an older individual'. He too would give measured responses, it's just that they were more direct/less diplomatic than say Obama's.

I used to be more knee-jerky in my responses, say 20+ years ago in my 20's, but after a lot of screw ups in life w/relationships (close/intimate ones in particular), a failed marriage, 2 kids and a lot of therapy, both group and individual, I've made progress in being aware of my feelings and responding in a more measured way, so outwardly that appears as if I have "greater control".

The reality is I'm still a mess - I'm just responsible for my mess before I vomit it outward on someone else.

LinkedIn Learning actually has this great one hour or so video I just watched that covers this nicely, I think it's called "Emotional Intelligence"... Some say it predicts how you will fare career wise far more than being just technically adept/skilled.

It's a process of "finding oneself" and figuring out where we fit best. Mastering responses to our emotions is a life long process and we tend to end up "automagically" drawn to similar people, cultures, companies, relationships....
Looking solely at electronic direct payments, it would be more than a billion transactions per day, there are multiple major schemes that work on the 100m/day scale each (Visa, Mastercard, US ACH, EU SEPA, China Unionpay, etc) and a lot of smaller ones that add up. So that's in the ballpark of 10k sustained average txn/sec, more in peaks.

On the other hand, there's room for a lot of growth, it's not even a single transaction per day for the almost 8 billion people that we have.
It's good that he threw in the towel. It takes a bit of a galaxy brain perspective to conclude that by being amateurish in his approach to font implementation with TeX/Metafont, Knuth was somehow being a more professional mathematician.

We need to accept that Knuth was an amateur type designer who was genuinely preoccupied with fonts (“I can’t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.” — Donald Knuth https://twitter.com/TeXtip/status/1389329788628783104). He could have delegated the design of the first font for his TeX system to a professional type designer. He didn't.
This is borderline ridiculous FUD.

Vercel didn’t force any kind of migration. They introduced a new tool for optimizing images, which is not only entirely self-hostable, but even includes prebuilt configurations for services that compete with Vercel. [0] Absolutely no part of it requires you to use Vercel’s hosting or image optimization service.

If you do choose to use their service, you can start with a free tier, which has clearly documented usage limits. I’m not sure why it’s surprising you’d be emailed when you exceed them.

[0] https://nextjs.org/docs/basic-features/image-optimization#lo...
Agree. Plus, anyone who has gotten into streaming knows that there is a learning curve which introduces the streamer to all sorts of hardware and software. The best streamers often invent specialized solutions for their needs.
StartChat is an stranger chat app like Azar and Omegle. Flippa listing link
It's more like "That's a cool YouTube career, how do I make one?"
My father. Very informed, but his views don't quite line up with either political camp he has to choose from, so his motivation to engage with the system at all steadily dips.

I mean, he still votes, but he's less enthused by it every time.
How long until this is used in interrogations of criminals...
FWIW I never heard the term "Gamma Squeeze" until it was thrown around in context of GME. I used to work in Options Market Making. I am not saying the concept didn't exist, but this seems largely an idea that has never proven itself in reality. I am not saying I am the end authority on this, but personally I would look VERY closely at anyone throwing these terms around. Google trends shows virtually zero mentions of the term until recently: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=G...

Frankly, the amount of misinformation being thrown around in forums like WSB these days is shocking to me. Its like the same people that realized they could easily distort views on the political system realized that was small game compared to getting rich off pump and dumps.
DeFi has no future.

People generally really like their interaction with centralized commerce and finance applications

Like BTC its success is based on culture wars, but at least BTC managed to choose a popular culture war which is the perennial fear of inflation.
That's certainly a concern - but if we're stipulating people with huge amounts of explosives and ill-will, they can probably also do a lot of damage without the nuclear reactor anyway.
>Do you reject volunteering?

No, I don't. My reply was in the context of full-time employment, not part-time volunteering for some cause on your own free time whenever you choose to.

"Volunteering" for your employer isn't really volunteering, I hope you realize that.

>The sentence "never work for a company for free" is utterly wrong-headed.

It is about as wrong-headed as saying "I refuse to make extra profit for my employer on my own free time on a regular basis without receiving extra pay in return" is.
> The point is they were born with greater intellectual opportunities than any prior generation.

Nope they weren't. This is the least intellectual generation since the latest 60 years or more. There's nothing "intellectual" about following the latest popular trends on Facebook or Twitter.
I've worked alongside a group researching similar techniques, it doesn't actually need to be implants - http://bretl.csl.illinois.edu/projects

I think we were able to get up to something like 20 characters per minute, but it was largely UX design. You can go from 6 -> 20 characters. I wouldn't be surprised if the implants improve the speed, but UX could probably play an equally large impact.
To add to the sibling comments, and with the risk of sounding cheesy - at least prisoners are aware that they are unfree: they are physically confined against their will by a well-defined entity for a clearly stated reason and duration. That doesn't help much with their mental degradation, except maybe making it less unexpected (although people are still surprised by the idea that prison just hardens criminals so idk.)

Outside of a penal institution, your freedom is limited by a multitude of varying affordances: behavioral nudges, implicit value judgements, unstated social conventions, and so on, which automatically limit your behavioral options. Many of these pressures contradict each other, and handling the cognitive dissonance every waking moment can slowly add up to decision fatigue.

So it is very easy to end up chasing whatever you sincerely believe to be "success", yet do it unnaturally and in spite of yourself. To compare with the prison example: it's very easy to get stuck in a situation where there is no obvious "enemy" who's keeping your stuck, and no obvious reason things are like this besides "they randomly ended up like this". And you can keep doing this for longer than the whatever the average prison term is, because you don't realize your idea of "success" is not really yours at all, it's a label you put on an unstable compromise with the totality of your being.

This is your brain on misaligned incentives. If you've ended up in such a situation, you're also probably in an environment that censures the kind of thinking required to realign them, and which offers no support with the work involved in getting out of the trap. So it's also very easy to start feeling like there's something wrong with you in particular, and slip into more chronic forms of burnout, depression, and more or less permanent mental dysfunction.

It's especially bad when a society runs on unresolved internal contradictions for a few generations - everyone's burnout adds up to a form of pervasive malaise, and the reactions can be quite brutal and senseless. Germany in the 1930s Germany or Russia in the 1990s Russia come to mind - historical periods whose horrors are usually downplayed in favor of romanticizing the struggle for survival in a society which offers no hope for a good life.

It can be draining. IMHO that's one reason why religions, ideologies, conspiracy theories, pyramid schemes, and other arbitrary value systems (including the monetary one!) manage to motivate people so well, regardless of having no ultimate basis in physical reality. They offer you a chance to extinguish all your self-doubts and replacing innumerable fickle sensors with a single value scale, so instead of suffering impostor syndrome and burnout, you end up happily believing that you're always right, and blind to any actual harm you might be causing.

So if you're currently having your brain fried by the world, remember that it's not your fault, and please do whatever it takes to resist and get yourself back to the clarity of a healthy mental state - even if that means letting go more preconceptions than you're comfortable with.
Fluency in digital culture is a separate skill from expertise in digital technology. Both are valuable, but the latter is what "digital natives" generally refers to.
Sounds like you're underestimating the underlying logistics of swapping out huge/heavy battery packs.

If you use the throughput (trucks refueled per period of time) of a conventional gas station as a benchmark to compare the battery pack swapping station with and try to think of all the additional difficulties you might see why I'm skeptical about the swapping of batteries, even when automated.

* Handling of liquid fuel is vastly less complicated than moving around heavy battery packs

* Space requirements are much bigger (because of volumetric energy density) with battery packs

* Battery packs may very well need to be transported to and from swapping stations, whereas fuel only goes to stations

All in all, seems to me that the flexibility that everyone is used to with liquid fuels is near unattainable with battery swapping.

I'm very inclined to bet that we'll be relying on liquid fuels for quite a number of years to come.

Might be methanol for electeic vehicles equipped with methanol fuel cells or maybe even formic acid.

Hydrogen, I'm skeptical about it. Too much of a hassle.
So this implant is 18 wpm, then - a bit slower than hunt-and-peck typing (which is ~27 wpm), but still very workable.
The Crazy Decoupler – NestJs Emitter
What a bunch of completely cuckolded liberal bullshit.
For starters, feeding corn to insects and then to animals, or more ideally, first fermenting grains and then feeding it to insects and then animals- each step actually increases the efficiency of the overall process, massively increasing the per-pound protein conversion ratio.
And we could go further from there to suggest that waste material from animals could be processed using anerobic and aerobic processes, including fungal, to create the feedstock for the insects, thus exponentially increasing the feed efficiency of livestock operations.

This entire article is a steaming pile of vegan masturbation. it concludes with talking about the rights of insects and crap like that.
Pluralization are not what you think them is.
this is excellent – great work!
Enriching HEU to weapons grade is trivial by comparison to enriching natural uranium to even just 20%. Really, the difference in effort needed is enormous. Yeah, you still need centrifuges, but you need many fewer centrifuges and many fewer passes.

Also, you can make a bomb with uranium enriched to much less than weapons grade -- you'll just need a lot more of it compared to weapons grade uranium.
You'll get many different responses to this question depending on who you ask. If you want to read into further i recommend you read the great scaling debate[1]. Its pretty long but does a fantastic job of summarizing the history.

In short the most popular reason for not having a block size increase (to allow many low fee transactions) was that it would increase the cost of running a full node, in turn centralising the network. More transactions would mean nodes would need a bigger hard drive and a better cpu to process the transactions. The small block camp wanted people to be able to run nodes on a raspberry pi. This theory is misguided in my opinion though, they chose to sacrifice cheap transactions to keep node running costs cheap.

[1]https://medium.com/hackernoon/the-great-bitcoin-scaling-deba...
> The main bottleneck for cryptocurrencies is that every single node has to validate every single transaction. So your global throughput is effectively limited to what a single node can process

literally what I said in my post. the mining aspect was your addition, not mine. I am describing an idealized model which doesn't even consider the added complication of mining to incentivise playing by the rules(let's assume coins are issued based on signs from, say, zeus). just simple consensus on a single 0/1 truth value.

this is the hard scalability problem, and people claiming to fix it are ultimately bound to create hierarchies of truth authority, undermining decentralization and recreating the existing concentric power structure (with themselves in the center) they claim to obsolete.
But isn't it though? Does someone literate in film need to make movies? Why can't someone be literate in tech without writing html?
So it is 'gLiTcheS' now or was this another 'acCIdENt' with their 'bots' when they declared it was “suspended in error by our automated systems”? Which one is it? [0]

Somehow it was not an accident when users were tweeting 'hammer' a few months back and getting suspended but this somehow falls under a 'glitch' (Yeah right).

Perhaps, another 'accidental glitch' once again by those who give no explanation of how it happened other than a vague description of the 'issue'.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27127997
NANO actually just went through a pretty big spam attack and it crippled the network for awhile, but they supposedly came up with a pretty novel solution in the latest version. I haven't dug into it yet though. But NANO is fee-less, so it is (was?) more prone to these types of attacks. Having a fee increases the cost of a spam attack.
This is amazing! I'm assuming when they say "imagining" they mean visualizing it as a mind picture? I wonder how this works for folks with aphantasia. Do you imagine the motor action of writing? Can a paralyzed person still do that?
I do disagree with the article: there are lots more opportunities for kids to deep dive into almost any field of tech that they choose to.

But, on the other hand, I've met teenagers who lacked confidence even using a browser to navigate to an unfamiliar website. They've learned how to navigate particular apps as silos.

This reminds me of my parents and grandparents' generation using computers. Comfortable with what they know and use regularly; no concept of what happens outside of that narrow window.
I've been playing around with pure-canvas web apps that are set up as follows:

Client -> Server: Raw event stream (keyboard/mouse/touch/resize events)
Server -> Client: Canvas draw batch stream

The server provides a small javascript shim that bootstraps a websocket & subscribes to all required event sources. It also subscribes to the server issued batch events and has logic to dispatch draw commands to the canvas element.

On the server, I use LMAX Disruptor to aggregate the client events and process them in micro batches (the size of which are determined dynamically based on backpressure). This results in an incredibly low-latency/low-jitter UI. Client events are passed around as readonly structs, so very little allocation or GC is involved throughout (.NET5/C# codebase). Processing is concluded with async/parallel dispatch of the appropriate client-side draw batches as they are ready to be issued. Not all client events result in a draw, and not all client events result in draws on the same client. There are some synchronous concerns between clients in my application, so having a single fast thread allows for lock-free processing of all events at the same time.

The only caveat I have encountered is the latency constraint. Going over ~100ms makes this sort of interface feel like crap. For LAN/localhost, this approach is effectively instantaneous.
>But having devs work in Unity or Unreal to produce a game is not really all that hard.

From OP.

Even with an engine game dev is much harder than front end web dev. The depressed salaries are due to the amount of passion game devs have.

Then again doing something in Unity is much easier than building an engine out. I credit Unity with teaching me to program.
It would be interesting to see how people compare in speed, assuming that the technology itself is not a bottleneck.

We could directly measure how fast a child thinks, or a CEO vs. a homeless.

Eventually we would be able to pinpoint mental problems by measuring the time it takes to think about a certain topic, check if the mind "locks up" for a couple of seconds on a seemingly unrelated topic which got triggered by the context the mind was thinking about. We could pinpoint the unrelated topic and have a base for a psychotherapy which could be more accurate than by just talking around in order to get to know the patient.

Let's say a group of 10 have to think out the ordering process at a Starbucks where every step has been provided by a list. An average of 20 seconds is used to do this +- 5 seconds. If there is an outlier, one could start to dig deeper into what exactly is making the mind to wander off. Multiple tests in different scenarios could then decide if the outlier is a slow thinker in general, or if it is a certain thing which triggers this wandering off.
This topic generates so much negative discussion... I am still trying to wrap my head around it
Heck, touch-typing is so ingrained in my brain that I sometimes recall how to type a word to remember how to spell it. For longer words I don't write by hand very often, it's simply easier for me to remember and transliterate the muscle memory.
Pytorch Image Models
Algorand looks like a promising proof of stake altcoin in my opinion.

https://www.algorand.com/
Employees grapple with re-entry anxiety as jobs call them back
It may sound stupid, but this was the feature i tried to add to ACE and i couldn't. And i spent the last decade trying to invent a drawing API that would let me do this effect.
Most full-time American nomads claim the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion via the physical presence test, which would make anything on US soil a non-starter for them.
Clinton received all the questions before the debate, I can assume they got them to Biden as well.
average english word is < 8 chars, so call it 8, and that gives you 10 WPM. Sent from a plane, I'm not doing more research than this.
And they know more about cultural computing. In the same way they'd be clueless when faced with a DOS prompt, many older people are clueless about how Insta etc work.

You could argue that's not really computing, and in a very obvious sense it isn't. But it's certainly a form of application development, for a very specific kind of application.

And the up side is that - unless AI takes over - people who can do nuts and bolts infrastructure computing will be rarer and in even higher demand than they are now.
I think the way “digital native” is someone for whom the technology is so pervasive that they don’t think about how it is implemented and spend more time thinking how it can be used.

Many times, it is rarely the people that developed the technology that are aware of all the ways it can be used, but rather people for whom the technology was a given.
I'm no fan of the man, but banning Trump, in retrospect, will be a mistake. From now on, Instagram/Twitter/FB will have to start taking sides in civil wars, religious disputes, and geopolitical disagreements. The Israel/Palestine conflict now has a new front. The Ayatollah is literally calling for more missiles to be fired[1] at Israel on Twitter. The lingering question is how, exactly, do you deal with this?

[1] https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/1392175039181623301
> His hiring “calls into question parts of our system of inclusion at Apple, including hiring panels, background checks, and our process to ensure our existing culture of inclusion is strong enough to withstand individuals who don’t share our inclusive values,” they write.

So they want to exclude someone for having different opinions to them, in the name of inclusivity?

Clown world.
If it pays for itself and then some then in 30 years you recycle the used reactors and replace them with new ones.

Recycling would mean sending the spent reactor back to the manufacturer who would have the tooling and skilled labor needed to safely open the reactor and extract the spent fuel (and then dispose of it safely).
I think you're applying your incomplete idea of what it means to create. Now phones/tablets let people say 'that video is cool, let's make one.' Same with pictures or other digital art. When I look at the creator options available in my pocket, I'm amazed.

If anything, back in the 90s having to learn to create web pages was a barrier to creation. Video? Forget about it. Digital cameras were just coming around, but were still super expensive. I have some old pics taken on my flip phone from the early 2000s and they are...really bad. Instead I had to spend hundreds of dollars are completely separate device to be creative. And that device still didn't do video.
Kids these days know less about cars than they used to. Lots of them drive, but they couldn't service the engine.

Same energy.
The spill is contained within the containment facility. I guess they could use enough explosives to also breach the containment facility. But if they're capable of that, they probably have the means to do even more damage by targeting a skyscraper. Multiple orders of magnitude more people died in 9/11 than in Fukushima.