skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No caffeine after 2pm here, exercise 3 times a week and 2x daily dog walks. No phone or devices after 9pm, bed at 11:30 and out of bed at 8:15 7 days a week (thanks dog). I still go through multi week long stints of lack of sleep, grogginess, general unpleasantness in the mornings until 12-12:30.

Generalizing that everyone has terrible habits is ridiculous, it's the equivalent of telling someone who is suffering from depression they just need to exercise to feel better, or someone who is obese to just "eat less"
Not necessarily flash - the p900 you list isn't flash for one. Nor is it necessarily over PCIe...
The idea that real estate speculation being the baseline goal of universities is funny but doubtful.

Instead, consider that survival is almost always one of the main goals of any larger organization. That happens for a variety of personal, individual reasons: job security, reputation halos, personal networks, etc. But in the end, it translates into organizations taking actions simply to survive. And since one of the best ways to survive is to grow, taking actions to grow.

This is true for everything from charities that take care of the poor and sick to for-profit corporations to government agencies. And, of course, universities.

So why does a university spend a ton of money on renovating their football stadium? Simple, it makes alums happier (more donations), it looks better on televised games (enhanced reputation), etc. It helps the university survive.
Nope. These regions don't have a choice about whether to opt in because they are part of larger political units that have the power to make this choice for them (as long as they remain part of those political units.)

What they are doing is trying to subvert the agreement without leaving those larger political units that are signing on to the agreement. (For the London this is the UK and for Switzerland it is the European Market.)
When the answer is obviously... no... why ask?
You can collapse threads by clicking [-] and expand by clicking [n more]. Are you asking for something different?
Which is true and fair. But as a method of describing a very technical thing to non-technical people, it seems like a useful tool. We're not trying to give them a CS degree here, just give them enough information to continue reading the article without being totally confused.
Tax dollars that go to universities for one reason or another are tax dollars that cannot be spent on healthcare - tax dollars that can't be collected from tax exempt institutions (like almost all universities) are tax dollars that can't be spent on maintaining infrastructure. The possibilities are endless. The questions isn't whether or not education is "good", because it obviously is, it's whether the level of resources devoted to it can be spent to better effect elsewhere, which is probably true.
^^ This.

Another situation that can be avoided by this is where a release changes during its lifetime.

One release in my collection is a free download[1] (shamelessly so), but one track was removed after it was released commercially. So there’s a situation where my immediate download on day 1 of release has the original track order, but current downloads of it have the revised running order.

Since it’s Friday, I have no hesitation in recommending either or both releases. Good headphones are recommended.

[1] https://specialrequest187.bandcamp.com/album/zero-fucks

[2] https://www.discogs.com/Special-Request-Spectral-Frequency-E...
My biggest take away from this is "I certainly hope this person isn't responsible for actually designing the bare metal storage infrastructure meant to underly something important". They seem to be operating from the premise that data replication at the 'cloud' level can solve all their problems.
I opened a restaurant and nobody wants to pay for the food. Obviously it’s because McDonald’s exists.
https://youtu.be/J3FcbFqSoQY and https://youtu.be/aoczYXJeMY4
It's true and untrue depending on how you look at it. Flash memory only supports changing/"writing" bits in one direction, generally from 1 to 0. Erase, as a separate operation, clears entire sectors back to 1, but is more costly than a write. (Erase block size depends on the technology but we're talking MB on modern flash AFAIK, stuff from 2010 already had 128kB.)

So, the drives do indeed never "overwrite" data - they mark the block as unused (either when the OS uses TRIM, or when it writes new data [for which it picks an empty block elsewhere]), and put it in a queue to be erased whenever there's time (and energy and heat budget) to do so.

Understanding this is also quite important because it can have performance implications, particularly on consumer/low-end devices. Those don't have a whole lot of spare space to work with, so if the entire device is "in use", write performance can take a serious hit when it becomes limited by erase speed.

[Add.: reference for block sizes: https://www.micron.com/support/~/media/74C3F8B1250D4935898DB... - note the PDF creation date on that is 2002(!) and it compares 16kB against 128kB size.]
If Bitcoin is money, then it is absolutely fiat money and always has been.

The alternatives would be that it is commodity money (which is not the case because you can't use a Bitcoin other than exchange it for something else) or representative money (which is not the case because Bitcoin isn't backed by anything else for which it can exchanged).

Up to this point, it's been a rather degenerate case of fiat money because the agreement that it has value has not been governmentally backed.

But now that's no longer the case. Congrats, Bitcoin, you now absolutely meet all the requirements of fiat money!
Sorry, I didn't say you can't consider Aduhelm to be an herbal supplement, just that every premise and factor in the current discussion would be rendered irrelevant.

So OK, let's agree that Aduhelm is now an herbal supplement. The FDA no longer has the authority to ban it from Walgreens. What's your point? The FDA's decision is about Aduhelm's proven effectiveness as a drug, and it has no bearing on whether Biogen wants to sell it as OTC herbal supplement. Do you believe the FDA is what's preventing Biogen from doing that right now?
It looks like the second. For many of its operations, the statistics module first converts floats to integer ratios (integers are bignums in Python), does intermediate operations using integer arithmetic, and converts back to floats at the end.

Here's the internal _sum function for example, which you can see maps _exact_ratio over the data before summing: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.9/Lib/statistics.py...
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Rent3D++ dataset is not available for download, there is only a Google form they want you to fill out and no automatic email is sent upon submission. It's great that the source code is available, but it kind of defeats the purpose if the data it relies is behind a wall or at someone's whim before you can access it.
instead of a landrush for names on each service, you get a land rush for ENS names and somebody has already beaten you to the good ones https://app.ens.domains/address/0xAb48EdD90bdF367d326D827758...
Standard Inflation Theory Leaves Out Social Conflict and Costs
Whats the alternative, no crumbs? Lol
yeah it says that the person expressing it has worked with managers for years and years now and even the good ones' biggest value-add is just telling the bad ones to fuck off

those managers are great for a remote IC. makes my life easy so I can minimize my hours and increase my effectively hourly rate
Depends on which phase of the moon it is. Best to look at the total cost of ownership over the warranty period and see if you’re happy with the monthly total. Anything outside that is a bonus! Same applies to Apple.

Keysight’s semi legendary reputation for reliability comes from the second hand market which has had all the lemons removed from the table. Their production reputation is “average” and their in warranty fees “surprising” (I’m still getting over having to pay for a new OLED display for a DMM that was 2 years old)

Better buy Chinese these days and plan to throw it away.
That's awesome! I definitely couldn't have either.
I think you might be off by one for the "correct" result (i.e. 2^-55), which is what fsum arrives at.

>>> 0.3 - 0.2 - 0.1
-2.7755575615628914e-17
>>> (0.3 - 0.2 - 0.1) / 3
-9.25185853854297e-18

But either way, the fundamental problem in this case (as you noted) is actually due to loss of precision from numeric representation.
E.g. U.2 drives can utilize NVMe but in a form factor easier to swap (including hot plugging support).

Edit: typo
How much space do you typically save by compressing these days? Given that even smallish things like documents are already compressed archives, pictures/audio/movies of course already have heavy purpose-specific compression.

The main things I can still think of that are sparse on purpose are database files and disk images (not very mainstream, but also not uncommon). So like, a few gigabytes per terabyte (a few promille) unless you're really heavy on either databases or virtual machines?

I can see why one would like to enable it, but deduplication (which breaks if you naively implement compression, iirc that's why restic hasn't yet implemented it) is much more worth it because it enables incremental backups and you don't, for example, have to worry about making a copy of another system that has many of the same files (think game files or system files).
That's a fine way to put it, but it's not as relevant in the context of the BBC article, particularly focusing on why the leak matters.
No, it's a growth-oriented move designed to attract capital to the country.
Nope. Appears to be broken for Nvidia 10 series. I'm on Intel with a 1070ti + another user reports issues on the 1080ti (see similar post in this thread; reported to author here: https://github.com/chrxh/alien/issues/21).
The humanities, liberal arts, and social sciences are usually lumped together as "not-STEM".
Yes, there are tradeoffs anywhere - which means we should rationally assess what we're putting into education and whether at least some of those resources can be put to better use in other ways.
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Consider reading Carlo Rovelli's "Helgoland", which is a good introduction both to Rovelli (a brilliant, poetic, and humble writer) and to Relational Quantum Mechanics, of which he is a major proponent and likely founder.

Why? Because he asserts that there is no measurement problem, and that the EPR paradox and violations of Bell's Inequality don't exist: They are based on misunderstanding what QM is actually predicting and what QM observers are actually observing. Likewise, there is no wave function collapse, no need for MWI, no hidden variables, etc.

To sum up the physics, badly....

Background: Relativity took as its principles that physics is universal (the universe is isotropic), that there are no fixed reference frames (all measures of speed, and therefore of a few other things, like energy) are relative to the observer making the measurement), and that the speed of light is a fixed constant. From that we space-time curvature, etc.

Relational QM takes this same perspective: Measurement is relative to the measurer, which can mean an observer or anything else affected by whatever is manifesting itself, like another particle, e.g.

Manifesting is a deliberate word: Absent manifestation, nothing has properties. Properties only make sense in the context of interactions.

What is the charge or spin of an isolated electron? 無 (mu): the question makes no sense, because charge and spin and everything else only arise, are only measurable, in interactions.

So take EPR: There is no paradox, because when Alice measures the spin of one of the entangled particles, she may "know" that Bob will measure or will have measured opposite spin, but she doesn't "know" this yet unless and until she interacted with Bob.

It is only after this slower-than-light communication that the two opposite spins - and the predictions of QM - are confirmed.

Until A and B interacted, entangling their states, the states A-observes-S1 and B-observes-S2 were independent. The interaction between A and B, state "A+B share information re S1+S2", took place without anything ever being FTL, without violations of locality, etc.

What I do not yet know, and have not had enough to look into, is whether and how Relational QM might or does change what we expect of quantum computing. At some point, I'll seek out some Aaronson on the subject, e.g.

Read the book, well worth it.
I mean, of course hodl, but not at the cost of dying of starvation or missing out on having your dream home, etc. Bitcoin subreddit is full of stories of people buying their first homes or cars, I've seen many people start their small businesses with their gains.

Life is short, you enjoy/spend what you have while you're here.
> What’s in it for Ireland?

Participation in the global economy.
It is undoubtably the working classes who benefit from stability. The people who control businesses are not laying themselves off first, nor are they living paycheck-to-paycheck.
You have to look at relative frequency, median wages. A competent coder can made a solid 6 figures.But it requires top .001% of music or athletic ability to make money as a pro. Just being very good at football may be enough to letter but not to join the NFL. Same for writing or acting. World famous actors or writers can make tens of millions of dollars at their craft, but some unknown guy who join #10 at Facebook , Airbnb, or coinbase can easily be worth as much or more.
> it's exceptionally simple to scale up and down in accordance with available cheap surplus.

This point comes back frequently, but it's actually not true.

In order to turn a profit from bitcoin, you need to offset hardware depreciation costs, and that usually means you need to mine 24/7.
> Rights exist regardless of society, society merely limits them.

Exactly. Universal human rights are in fact the basis of most modern government, international law, and more. Recall that someone once wrote,

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men ...

Note that no higher power (beyond a "creator") endows these rights. Since that was written, that philosophy and government based on it has swept the world. Most people reading this comment live in a country that operates on that or a similar basis. The evidence of belief in it and its success are overwhelming - I always wonder why it's trendy these days to try to shoot it down. Isn't it good news (except for people who want to oppress others)?
I'd be about $500/month to commute into Boston daily between rail/transit pass and parking.
Unless the real world shits on their desk with a large campaign contribution they still won't care.
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Email is decentralized well enough, with the hosting providers both legally liable and visible. Telegram isn't.

The e-mail equivalent would be something like Matrix/IRC.
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When I setup a small online business, that was one of the first things I did. It doesn't cost much at all, and was very easy.
Ziggurat Release 3.14.0 uses latest kafka streams v2.8
DDR4 is effectively a block device and not 'random access'.

Pretty much only cache is RAM proper these days (aka: all locations have equal access time... that is, you can access it randomly with little performance loss).
> Which directly leads to instability when the value of the backing changes.

You're not correct. Instability leads to changes in the buying power of currency, not the other way around. Unless you're talking about monetary inflation. What mechanism do you think there is to change the value of gold in a gold-backed world? The mechanism is that when there are better places to put your money than keeping it in dollars (gold backed or otherwise) the value of those dollars goes down. And vice versa, when there are fewer better places to put your money, more wealth will be held as currency and push its price up (this is why deflation is seen as bad - beacause it generally coincides with an economy that has been invisibly failing for years).

Monetary policy had been inflationary and insolvent, and rampant expansion of the money supply lead to high price inflation which of course ended in a crash. It was monetary expansion that lead to the problems in the 70s not mysterious changes to the value of gold.
Because oil was discovered in modern times when Norway was already a developed society with strong institutions and an educated populace.

In contrast, El Salvador right now is still fighting barbarism and anarchy.
People in El Salvador will simply have the free choice to put their money into BTC. If people in El Salvador make or lose a bit of money because they diversify their exposure, will they not have contributed to the overall price signal process of the free market? Why is it bad to give people options?
it's worth noting that 40GbE is an absolute dead end in terms of technology, in the ISP world. Look at how many 40GbE members there are on many major IXes and other things. It's super cheap to buy an older Arista switch on ebay with N x 10GbE ports and a few 40GbE uplinks, because they're all getting pulled from service and sold off cheap. The upgrade path for 10GbE is 100GbE.

major router and switch manufacturers aren't even making new line cards with multiple 40GbE ports on them anymore, they're tech from 6-7 years ago. You can buy either something with dense 10GbE SFP+ ports, or something with QSFP/QSFP28 or similar 100GbE ports.

If you want something for a test/development lab, or are on a very tight budget, sure.
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Bubble or artificially high asset values are not transfer of wealth. Either: the bubble bursts and excess value disappears, or future returns are significantly lower.
I find it very hard to come up with a use case where a weekly 6 hours of downtime at night EST would be acceptable.

US government websites already often do this, and I find that completely unacceptable since these services need to be available to anyone, regardless of work and life schedules.

Any website that's international would also suffer greatly for an EST centralized scheduled downtime.

Maybe a very localized website that doesn't have much impact on real life?
Cute Doodles – Doodles EM Português
Eles sempre fizeram parte da minha vida e eu nem sabia que tinham nome…
Eles são os Cute Doodles! E eu apenas chamava de meus rabiscos.

Descobri que o Tédio pode ser uma oportunidade de criar e gerar vida.
Sempre estou com uma caneta ou lápis a mão, pois se ficar com tempo ocioso, começo a observar o que tem a minha volta e ocupo meu tempo desenhando corações com carinhas, flores com corpo e boca, copos que conversam, sol que dá bom dia, e por assim vai…

Os Cute Doodles são uma forma diferente de ver a vida. São desenhos que ganham uma vida real, mesmo que apenas na imaginação.

Os Cute Doodles ou doodles fofinhos, fazem a alegria das crianças, porque os pequenos já fazem isso naturalmente: Imaginar e criar sua própria realidade.

O canal Cute Doodles é a porta para descobrir a vida secreta das coisas, e para você se encantar com os doodles desenhos. Nossos vídeos são criados para levantar seu ânimo, mesmo em dias desafiadores.
They all have their own store brands.
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Grocery retail is much more complicated.

They may charge shelf space rent.
* I don't think you really have the knowledge or reflectiveness to understand what was good or not

Really wish I could just edit my comment.
> What's your source for the claim that a typical Roman citizen is white? That's a pretty bold statement. Much bolder than the relatively non-controversial statement that Rome had a diverse population.

We're circling back to the definition of "white". How's that a bold statement? Today's Great Britain has very diverse population, too, including lots of people from Africa, and yet I wouldn't think that a statement that a typical Brit is white is controversial. Typical Brit is not black, although there are many black British people, of course. And even if we constrain discussion to the most narrow definition of "white" (say, 18th century Englishmen) let's not forget that English people are the result of centuries of mixing of Britons, Germans, Celts... So, white Britons are themselves of diverse ancestry, but all these diverse ancestral people are "white". Let me repeat that race is an artificial construct, but if I'm pressed to say if someone is "white" or "not quite white" I can only go by outside appearance. Someone in Europe can have some genes from one Zimbabwean ancestor, but if he "looks white" to me, I can only say he's "white".

> The problem is simply with depicting all of Rome as (essentially) British.

Yes. That is a TV series. The point of TV series (in my opinion) is not to be 100% accurate, it's to entertain and (somewhat) educate. And the people in TV series are not real ancient Romans, but current actors. The series is for British audience, so it's normal that it's filled with British actors. If the series was produced in Bulgaria, the senators would be played by Bulgarian actors. Both are not exactly of the same color spectrum as ancient Romans, but are close enough to pass as Romans to their viewers. If the series was produced in China, and Romans were played by Chinese actors, that would probably pass as normal to Chinese audience. Maybe Zimbabwean actors could pass as Romans, at least in sub-Saharan Africa; why not? I'm not sure why people insist so much that British actors are bad representation of Romans. They seem quite OK to me (I'm not British).
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Making laws that prohibit purchasing, selling or holding bitcoin, with penalties.

Laws already exist requiring gatekeepers of the financial system (e.g. Banks and payment processors) to monitor transactions on illegalities, e.g. money laundering. Bitcoin would just be added to the list. Banks are required to set-up their own systems for this. It'd be trivial for banks to find out which bank accounts are owned by exchanges or bitcoin companies like Coinbase, and close those bank accounts, as well as freeze any transactions to these bank accounts. New companies can't open new accounts. If you try to make transactions you get your money frozen/seized. And even if you hold bitcoin, to use your profits (e.g. to buy a house, a car, pay rent) you'd need to go back to dollars through a bank, or launder tons of cash, or find a counterparty to your transaction willing to illegally accept bitcoin e.g. when selling his house, all things extremely unlikely to happen at any scale by regular joes.

At that point the amount of capital flowing to bitcoin will massively decline and bitcoin plummets. Nobody is investing in an asset class speculatively if the only way to buy it is to go to a street corner and meet up with an Internet Guy with a bunch of cash. That's fine for buying drugs, it's not going to drive a trillion dollar market cap (like today) illegal virtual coin that's otherwise useless.
How does inflation suck money from the poor? That is, the ones who are most likely to have loans that will be reduced by that very same inflationary policy.
A better solution for countries suffering high inflation is to not have high inflation.

One option is Bitcoin

El Salvador doesn’t have too much inflation since it uses USD. In their case, independence from USD is also a goal
Can this be done using existing PostgreSQL functionality around replicas? I think there's a plugin for PostgreSQL that supports master-master replication as well.
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