skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Servers for the original LittleBigPlanet permanently offline
Imagine you during covid lockdown with no TV, no internet, no phone, moldy food and no one to talk to. That's how I imagine solitary is. We put people in that situation for years. It makes them literally crazy. Modern day Gulag.
Why should you be treated worse than a president or king?
I love this, not because of the "it's for beginners" framing, but from a "I want less boilerplate" framing. I look forward to a future .NET that gets less verbose each release, regardless of language chosen.
> We (the kids and I) now lovingly call her "hate speech Mom".

Hook-up mom would be better.
Maybe it's a US thing.

In countries with a better social safety net, it's not necessarily the case. I was the first kid in my family to ever get to college, and I had to win arguments in the family to do so. Leave school and 'Get a job' was the general thing to do in my Northern-England city.

My dad was a docker, my mum a part-timer working in travel-agents, building-societys etc. We lived in a terraced house, 2-up, 2-down, all 5 of us. I bought them a house a few years back, one of their choice close to where their friends lived, because it meant that their state pension went a lot further when they didn't have to pay rent.

I got my college pretty much paid for, being from a low income family, ran up a bill of a couple of thousand pounds per year because London, which was workable-off during the summer holidays. Once I started a PhD, I was paid ~£18k/year by the government, and then later by the MOD. I actually took a pay cut to move to a salaried sw dev position, when my conscience finally drove me away from indirectly killing people.

Both my younger siblings went to college too - once the door was opened, it was easier to walk through, although student loans were a thing for them, it's nothing like the loans over here in the USA that my wife incurred. Both of them are doing pretty well these days (certainly compared to our parents lives), though I was fortunate to get the breaks in life - Apple bought my small company after a half-decade of trade-show demos and meetings. Part of the deal was moving to CA... Shame... :)

So if this docker's brat and his siblings can do it in the UK, I'm fairly certain that others can too. Perhaps it's just another sign of the beginnings of the end of the US-style of capitalistic hegemony, rather than a general thing.
I second this. The video courses are pretty good. For me though, the killer feature is having the vast O'Reilly library as a reference while learning. It's often nice to pause a video and dig deeper in a book on a particular subject. Additionally, each subject is usually covered by multiple resources so you can find different ways to approach and absorb the content.
Ukraine to Legalize Cryptocurrency
Presumably, if your claim were accurate and such deaths were occurring on anywhere near the same scale, then the internet would be flooded with those stories. But it's not, and there are no statistics to back up the scale you're implying.
Adam Lanza's YouTube Channel Has Been Found
>An example of Extend would be building features for WSL that only work in WSL, not Linux proper.

That thing already exists, DirectX is available only under WSL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/wp-content/uploads/si...

Extinguish phase is not clear though. (at least for now)
Nope, seems like nothing in this list would be for health-conscious folks. We just has a huge (pun intended) HN thread on obesity in the USA...
If I'm reading this correctly, it can be scripted. It's just that the API that does it isn't public.
This is also the same company that allowed a terrorist to livestream a killing spree for 17 minutes despite it being reported over and over again. To add insult to injury they allowed copies of the same footage to proliferate across their platform for weeks.

Facebook spend a lot on PR talking up their AI capabilities and how it's being applied towards moderation. Would be nice if it actually worked.
> At least some of the documents have been turned over to the Securities and Exchange Commission and to Congress by a person seeking federal whistleblower protection, according to people familiar with the matter.

Why the SEC?
While absolutely "zero downtime" is hard to guarantee in the face of massive catastrophic system failure, a distributed NoSQL database like Scylla should prove to be survivable with the loss of any one datacenter. (You'd have to knock out two of three, or all three datacenters to pull us down. Is that still possible? Sure.) I do recommend people put a lot of thought and some actual chaos monkeying into their "zero downtime" architectures.

https://www.scylladb.com/2021/03/23/kiwi-com-nonstop-operati...
I do too! One thing I do hope happens is Giraffe is able to use some of the newer APIs to simplify configuration. Config is generally something you stuff in a file to not look much at, but it can sometimes feel kinda hairy.
Raspberry Pi 4s Launch into Space as Astro Pi Program Upgrades
I refuse to let Amazon define Rust
> Is it because we pay more attention to FB or is it because FB is different in some way?

Facebook probably has the most well-known face of any of these companies in Mark Zuckerberg. And one difference between Mark and other typical cut-throat business leaders is that he's got a reputation for being weirdly socially awkward in a noticeable way to the extent that there's numerous memes about him being a robot or alien.

Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, and others might be similarly ruthless or worse entrepreneurs, but they don't come across as the same level of creepy even though they also want to own your data, put cameras and microphones in your house, just as much as Facebook.
Edge defaults to Bing for searches, which is a direct source of revenue via ads. Edge also uses browser history for ad targeting via the "personalize your web experience" option; I don't recall whether that's enabled by default but I'd expect it is. On top of those there's a price-comparison feature (affiliate revenue) and a Pinterest partnership.
Yes, it's not good.

> That way any other people on his network wouldn’t have a problem, either.

Given that he's setting DNS servers statically on his own clients and has working DNS resolution on the DHCP-provided DNS server(s), that shouldn't really be an issue for other people.
Your analogy relating to Zuckerberg is absurdly tone deaf.
That's not the only collective fiction that's problematic. At this point, the lies are the only thing keeping everything going.
Obviously these people can perfectly live on their own and forget their family behind
Another public good that cryptocurrency has been contributing to is advances in zero knowledge proofs including some really interesting stuff like SNARKs
> is so old

Indeed - looks like the older the software, the more efficient it is.
I think someone, somewhere, needs to do a lecture series on how to create an information architecture that facilitates this sort of thing. It would be an uphill battle for me to argue for this at my company, and we are relatively benign as these things go.
Most journalists nowadays seem pretty gullible and hard set on their preconceived world views. I fail to see any advantage in critical thinking skills on the media class.
> ZFS had a problem, where they were using something that should not be used (fp in kernel), which got removed and they had to find a replacement, which was GPL-only.

All that symbol did was tell the kernel to save the fpu registers.

It's dishonorable of the relevant kernel developers to pretend that's something relevant to the GPL.
And C has a solution for that:

Package: tarball of code.

Manage: download tarball of code and build/install libraries using configure/make. Then tell the compiler where the headers are and the linker where the libraries are. Easy peasy!

(OK, we know it’s not quite _that_ easy in many cases.)

The elephant in the room is that people on HN and elsewhere violently nod about the need for a “proper package manager” when they are actually in disagreement about what a “proper package manager” needs to do. Meanwhile, it turns out that you can do without one, as the C community and all the “non-proper package managers” out there amply demonstrate.
> This assumes the meaning of freelancers is being able to join and leave an employer when you want, and not being able to fix your own prices and refuse gigs like others are saying.

You see it that way, but the Dutch law doesn't. If the freelancer has no real choice and cannot dictate his/her own terms they are not a freelancer but an employee without the benefits of an employee. Social programs should be displayed these days on your paycheck if you are an employee. Not every (administration) company is doing it properly though.

Forcing freelancers to work more hours for less than a sustainable minimum pay solves nothing as the minimum wage is calculated on a full workweek.

I'm sure Uber is allowed to offer freelance work, but not with the current way of doing business. As soon as they let the freelancer dictate the pay (or at least properly negotiate) it looks they will be fine.
Evolution of Fast and Efficient Transformer
Transformer optimization and acceleration
I think there are only three types of modern social media: Facebook, Pinterest, and then virtually everything else. (I don't consider Reddit to be in this conversation because it's a glorified forum, and those have been around since BBSes).

Facebook was conceived and still largely operates as a social network in the community aspect: you are in touch with your friends and family members for the most part. Facebook has of course tried to deviate from this path in the last decade, but that's still strongly what the site is.

Pinterest is probably the least interactive social media platform in terms of communication between people, but it's probably the most useful, even if it's nothing but a collection of bookmarks.

All the other social media platforms are basically centered around groups of people yelling at influencers in a desperate attempt to be noticed. They are giant dopamine sinks.
> Google is a close third, if you hold Google responsible for its own search results (and not the websites they link to which their algorithm considers most important).

If you include the videos that YouTube recommends, they pull even with Facebook and Twitter.

They are all optimizing for the ability of content to keep eyeballs glued to the screen (so they can show more ads), and nothing else.

>in Google’s effort to keep people on its video platform as long as possible, “its algorithm seems to have concluded that people are drawn to content that is more extreme than what they started with—or to incendiary content in general,” and adds, “It is also possible that YouTube’s recommender algorithm has a bias toward inflammatory content.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/youtube...
Thanks for the additional context.

As written, nothing changes with this not-revelation, revelation with respect to Section 230. It does recolor some of their statements about consistent treatment and enforcement but those are other matters.
In this case, the consumers are making the choice, not the drivers. I'd generally prefer consumers to have more options than drivers, you can't just sacrifice one for the other...
Is Wikipedia wrong? They say this:

> Alzheimer's disease is believed to occur when abnormal amounts of amyloid beta, accumulating extracellularly as amyloid plaques, and tau proteins, accumulating intracellularly as neurofibrillary tangles, form in the brain affecting neuronal functioning and connectivity, resulting in a progressive loss of brain function.
> x86

8086, to be specific.
Will it still be another 1-2 year wait for an interview once they’re eligible or is that being sped up too?
Also, you might want to check with your DBaaS provider if backups, upgrades or other administrative tasks can be "pause and resume." Because you never know when you'll have a burst of real-time traffic even in a projected lull time for your production systems.
Perhaps I am alone is this (based on the votes) but when I go to https://www.postgresql.org/list/ it requires a great deal of clicking to drill down and lets say I eventually end up some where like https://www.postgresql.org/list/pgsql-general/2021-09/ I am greeted with a lot "Re:" "No subject" etc.

Perhaps what is comes down to is I am trying to interact with a mailing list using a browser which is perhaps unfair. I would say that discovering what is being talked about and the barriers to entry for subscribing/unsubscribing provide way more friction then, lets say a subreddit or even a more classical forum layout.
You're asking the wrong question. It's not up to you to prove the unlawfulness, it's up to them to prove the lawfulness (which is clearly not given if the contract expressly mentions only damage photographs).

The next time this happens, simply tell them that they have no right to photograph beyond what was agreed, and instruct them to cease immediately. If they feel differently, it is up to them to demonstrate on what grounds they may photograph.
The barrier to entry to doing fast linear algebra from scratch is the lowest of any of c,c++,Fortran.

Python and matlab being to slow at “low barrier to entry level” for sure anyway.

I’m not going to comment on julia because I’m still drinking coffee. In theory… blah blah maybe it should fill this role.

Sit down, write stupid simple Fortran code to solve a large linear algebra problem (a discretized partial differential equation system) and things like matrix multiplication and numpy style mat(:) access are built in. (Numpy borrowed the syntax from fortran, actually)

For a scientist, this is way easier than wading into c++ and getting it right; or sticking with c, and avoiding the footguns.

Fortran gives you maximum serial speed with minimum effort… it is easy to write efficient serial code, while knowing almost nothing of programming. Memory management sure, but even there, there out of the box are no pointers to fumble and your allocations are going to be contiguous. Optimal
Array Memory access comes down to knowing Fortran is column based.

Ah but then you need to go parallel, where the documentation more in c these days.

But you’re already comfy with Fortran now, so, scientist that you are, you dig and experiment until you get it running in openmp, mpi, and cuda, etc.
Especially after Jan 6, there are a couple of things you can say in an ordinary spirited political debate that will cop you a ban on FB. One is several flavors of "Americans are X," another is variants on "Kill the filibuster" (which I assume is pattern-matching to '[violence-word] the [congress-word], which they probably up-sampled in the threat modeling for, uh, obvious reasons).
> a really unhealthy take

And yet the attitude that developers must have something looking over their shoulders lest they ship code that doesn't meet some arbitrary metric is ubiquitous in the industry. Just look at all the automatic code checking incorporated into CI/CD pipelines.

Of course some of the automated checking is both healthy and reduces toil. Security sanity checks, for example, But take a look at your own organizations CI/CD pipeline and ask "how many of these checks are there because someone, somewhere, didn't trust the developers to do the right thing?"

This lack of trust in development teams is especially rampant in outsourced work. It's an attempt to paper over the fact that shipping your development to a contractor on the other side of the world is a terrible idea.
What do you mean? It took millions of years to "make" them, and the same initial conditions can not be recreated, either.
Wait until winter, now it's just no wind but then you'll have no wind and not much sun both in the same time.
That's why it matters that it's also open source.

It's similar to Big-O notation, seeing that it's in Rust gives me an idea of performance profile to expect. If it's a Rails project I know that the best case scenario is fairly resource intensive, no matter how good the code is. If it's Rust then I know that for an average quality open source project it will be lower resource usage. If a project ends up being terribly inefficient after that, I'll drop it regardless of what stack it's in.

Knowing what tech stack something uses is a valuable first signal.
> France has a long standing tradition of granting citizenship for service to state, nation or society (he right of spilled blood, bad translation).

Indeed, and that should not be diluted by lowering the bar to "has been showing up for work for two years", which is pretty much as low as can be and, frankly, an insult to those who got it by spilled blood or outstanding service.

I'm not against this program but, since it is done in relation to the pandemic, it should have been restricted to those who did exceptional things to help during that time , garbage collectors clearly haven't even if their role is essential.
Just to play devil's advocate — OOC, what do you think the end game for Álvaro would be under this scenario?

Under the most cynical interpretation, I guess he'd convert Ongres from a Postgres consultancy to a trademark troll and sue other companies who try to use "Postgres"? Maybe, but that's a pretty serious professional change, and seems a little unlikely, especially given that's a considerable chance that he loses the trademark again if it does end up in court.

For my money, the most likely explanation is that it was a land grab move for prestige purposes that went too far. (And one which may backfire as Google ties this press release to his name.)
+1 for Merzbow
The only truly crappy part of Windows, IMO, is drive letters and ridiculous legacy file system layout. And WinSxS (people will disagree with me).

Other than that, it’s a robust, well written system.
Your argument would hold water if the alternative to patients getting treated by unvaccinated nurses were patients getting treated by vaccinated nurses. But that's not the case here. The alternative to patients getting treated by unvaccinated nurses is patients not getting treated at all.
Quote: "I'd prefer one from my lifetime (30-40 years)"
Work begins on wrapping Arc de Triomphe for Christo artwork
We run a few websites with the backend written in Python or Go. Neither provides information about that; there's only a Server: nginx header (which seems quite unnecessary too).
Additionally it's proving a translation of the algorithm implemented in solidity. Solidity is not what is run on Ethereum, EVM bytecode is. Solidity is compiled down to EVM bytecode and that's what is run.

That seems like another point where a bug could creep in.

I wouldn't be surprised if there was a hard fork to save the deposit contract if there was a critical bug discovered.
Nevertheless the calculation of the article is complete bullshit. You can not claim "not using fossil fuels would save billions of lives" when you need fossil fuels to keep billions of people alive in the present moment. It just doesn't make sense.
The hard problem decomposes with the assumption of panpsychism. Matter == mind, and done.

That leaves the problem why we experience aggregated consciousness instead of distributed consciousness. The straightforward answer is that consciousness has a tree structure determined by information coupling resulting from neural activity. Our "top level" consciousness is the root of the neural covariance tree, which is formed by quantum entanglement in the brain. Thus consciousness is a hierarchical structure, at each level responsible for integrating information and choosing a new state.
vim ~/diary/2021-09
next month :
vim ~/diary/2021-10
dunno why its in months. years ago I noticed a colleague doing this, thought it was a good idea and pretty much copied him. (he used emacs though ;) )
The "publisher" versus "platform" distinction is 100% a made-up distinction to motivate bad §230 takes.

What §230 does, very simply, is say that websites posting user-generated content are not liable for that content, even if they moderate the content. It was passed in response to a pair of court decisions that concluded that a website that moderated content (including, for example, weeding out profanity or pornography) was liable for all content posted, and a website that provided no moderation whatsoever wasn't liable.
I find it funny how we use phrases like "Russian oligarchs" all the time without batting an eye, but we never use them when referring to the Bushes or the Clintons in the US.
Computer vision – an anxious view of the world
> The most insidious pattern of mindless engagement is when you're bored at the checkout line, waiting in-between meetings with nothing to do, sitting on the toilet.

Just curious, why is this considered the "most insidious"? Isn't that time wasted anyway? Before cellphones you would just stare off into space (you're not getting any deep thinking or deep work done waiting in line) or would just browse the gum or trash magazines.

> computer access only, never mobile

This one definitely makes sense. It was interesting time when Facebook was around but smartphones weren't fully ubiquitous. You would only see your feed on the laptop and had to text friends to stay in touch in real-time (even if async)
From a discussion of case history provided by your helpful link:

"Generally, courts have said that a service’s ability to control the content that others post on its website is not enough, in and of itself, to make the service provider a content developer."
I'm afraid that It's just a guy with grandeur delusions.
Because everything everywhere is securities fraud.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everyt...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-eu-transit...

That's maybe how they are trying to spin it yeah.
For me, the ease in deployment/setup is pushing me back to CGI-ish setups for server-side apps.
I think it’s valid because it’s an example of a system not working for a small minority while still working well for others. And more pertinently, there’s no plans to fix it for him specifically just because he’s the CEO. It’s better to spend time making the account compromise system better for the vast majority of users instead.
I'm not Cal, but it seems like the real fix to that isn't finding another attention-consumer, but instead fixing whatever is causing excess can time.
No, not really. Under Curry-Howard, if you have a total function that returns an integer, you’ve proven that an integer exists. But we knew that already.

To prove non-trivial things, you need more sophisticated types that make interesting assertions about their values, where it’s not immediately obvious how to construct a value of that type. Special proof languages are used for this.
Oops I forgot to put the link to my model.

For your specific questions:

- Solar energy: sort of, I did three variants (100% solar, 100% wind, an the current Wind/solar ration)

- energy import: I kept the same energy import profile as of today. It would have made the model much bigger (I would have needed to simulate the entire European grid instead of just the French one, making me deal with tons of different data sources, which I didn't want to). By the way, the power connection between countries are currently pretty tiny compared to the consumption of a big country (granted, that could probably be changed if needed, but I don't know by which margin).

- demand shaping not at all, and it would definitely have an impact for short periods. But for the longer wind-deprived periods (in weeks) which I was trying to measure, I don't think it would make a significant difference.
> Actually you've removed a keyword that our error messaging framework uses

Hmm, so something is parsing a string looking for specific character sequences? I'd say the developer who changed that is doing the team a favor by surfacing a terrible practice.

Edit: NVM I see you acknowledged that in another comment.