skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it's really not social media in particular. It seems pretty clear that when delusions are coming on, a person will seek out those who humor those delusions. If you're talking pre-social media Internet, you'd have the person on BBSes and email lists for whatever they find appealing.

And it's worth considering that the situation isn't some mentally ill people and some opportunistic/predatory people. You have a mixture of delusion and predation over a substantial population and you have the ability of people in these groups to seek each other out. Maybe if you shut down usenet and everything past that, you could stop this phenomena, at the expense of more or less shutting down the Internet. But otherwise, the discussions blaming social media in particular for this stuff seem misguided. Social media is about connecting with people you know whereas "socially resonant insanity" or whatever wants to call it, involves find new friends and new facts.
How does one get this good as a developer!
I don't think there are.

IIRC, until recent demand triggered by use of tether in ethereum "defi" I believe the only US exchange which even had access to tether at all was Kraken and it didn't see much trade.

Basically the main reason for tether existing outside of acting as USD in bitfinex is for people to trade altcoins at sketchy offshore altcoin exchanges that have no access to actual USD by virtue of being sketchy and/or offshore. I believe there is essentially no reason for US residents to use these exchanges except for access to more obscure altcoins (as they require much smaller bribes to list things than larger exchanges).

It's extremely hard to estimate the aggregate impact because the very same exchanges that use tether as their primary/only form of "USD" are the ones which have volumes which are dubious (zero fee trading) to outright obviously fake (e.g. showing volume when the exchange is off the internet).

It's also hard to estimate the impact because its possible that as tether comes untethered people will trade out of it (e.g. into Bitcoin) thus driving _up_ the price of the things they're trading into.

(see the bitwise report to the SEC on fake exchange volume: https://www.sec.gov/comments/sr-nysearca-2019-01/srnysearca2... (they also wrote a paper on the subject, but a quick google isn't turning it up).
Why do they use it then? Just stop using. Damn ppl are dumb. “Oh it hurts when i poke my eye with a needle guess i will keep doing that for 3h everyday”
Objective C does (explicit) reference counting, though I suppose that's a pretty limited use case these days.
Yeah I think using ZFS on even Linux is fine now since they’re using the same code base at this point.(IME Ubuntu has the most painless experience as it ships with the kernel by default.)
Would you look at that? Turns out there was election interference and vote counting machine hacking. Except it was all done by Republicans and Qanons. Ironical twist!
I have never tried AWS managed elasticsearch, but Azure Search doesn't have many knobs. Most of the time it's just instance size, replica and partition count.

The downside is that the service is probably called "Azure Cognitive DeepMind Quantum DevOps Search" by now.
Or they just thought the existing uses of the name were for sufficiently different things.
There is only a limited amount of time in life. It matters on what you spend it. Given that the way programming in industry is done is generally fucked up, working super hard at becoming super fast at doing that brand of programming can be a waste of time. Of course that depends on what your goals are.
> How will the Solar System die? It’s a hugely important question

Why?
Yes, most likely the ilness would be there even without Facebook. But the platform enables some destructive behavior while in the real life, I hope, more productive support structures could exist.

But, realistically, is the choice social media or real life? Or is choice between one part of the Internet and another part of the Internet? Which is to say, what are you talking about doing? Ending Facebook in particular? Ending "Social Media" but not say, youtube?
We can't really know. Some of the proprietary ingredients are still unknown
> I think if you return to first principles, where the military exists as a tool of the state to conduct policy through violence (or threat of it) then most of the projects don't make sense given the abject failure of the military to achieve success over the last few decades.

Tell it to Azerbaijan. The fact that the US didn't have a coincidence of plan and excution sufficient to achieve anything doesn't mean others can't, even with vastly fewer material resources.
> Together, these findings demonstrate robust cellular immune memory to SARS-CoV-2 and variants for at least 6 months after mRNA vaccination.

So just 6 months. I wouldn't call that durable (since that refers to duration).
A survey for this is going to be useless for getting unbiased data.
Sprints solve a huge problem for my team: arbitrary, made up deadlines.

We run sprints, measure velocity and use that to plan work.
I guess people have always needed a wise knowledgeable parental figure to give them extremely simple things to do, to make everything alright. Communion, masks, sacrificing virgins, etc.

It helps deal with the fear of the unknown.

I guess one step in growing up is realizing nothing is good and also nothing is bad, it's all subjective...the world is essentially a thin veneer of civilization on top of total chaos.
Gevent is indeed amazing. I just started using it. Isn't the point of this post's effort to bake in its functionality? Handling exceptions with gevent doesn't seem trivial to me, for example, and it'd be nice to not have to monkey patch, as easy as it is.
>That's a post hoc rationalization.

Very true. Everything I typed is in fact a post hoc rationalization. Sadly enough, I had to look that up since Latin is not my first language. LOL. Have a chuckle at my expense. I promise I don't mind at all.

> Are you predicting that the 2D hexagonal structure will also be lost in a 2D environment with odors/etc., and this conclusion about it being 2D vs 3D is false?

I'm no rat expert and I don't play one at my desk.

I am saying that the discovery that navigating in a true 3D situation, a much more complex situation than navigation of a planar structure with a floor and ceiling and no opportunity to take the stairs to the next level, involves an order of magnitude more complexity and that as a result they should not have expected to see the grid structure preserved and echoed in the brain as a spherical 3D hexagonal grid. There were indications that the grid stored contextual information along with positional information and that changing one of those things warped the grid in ways they didn't understand (2D case).

This in itself should've been a clue that adding another dimension or degree of freedom of movement could have its own very different footprint.
Feels like they really buried the lede here. From the article:

In an April screening of channel Three’s comedy current affairs show New Zealand Today, hosted by Guy Williams, the Wizard said he liked to tease women by telling them they were devious, and said “they use cunning to get men who are thick”.

“I love women, I forgive them all the time, I’ve never struck one yet. Never strike a woman because they bruise too easily is the first thing, and they’ll tell the neighbours and their friends … and then you’re in big trouble.”

So really, “Wizard says gross things about women; gets fired” would be a more appropriate headline.
It is amazing how often this is mentioned. You can tap and hold the brightness control.

If I tap and hold, I get finer grained control of brightness with one or two motions then I ever did with a keyboard.

I'm still not a particularly big fan of the touchbar, because I'm an emacs user.

My wife, on the other hand, won't let us buy another Mac without one, she loves it. She's a pro photographer not a software developer, and that's the market for the touchbar.

With that said, once I disabled Siri, the touchbar has never gotten in my way.
Yes. I made the mistake of only getting 16GB on my 2019 16” and plan on rectifying. For my workflow, 16GB is unusable.
Disclaimer: I work on an open source alternative to Algolia called Typesense [1]

If I had a dollar for every time I've heard Algolia is expensive! And if I had a dollar for every time I've said that statement!

If cost is an issue, definitely checkout Typesense. You can self-host it for free, or use the hosted Cloud version [2]. There are no per-record or per-search charges, which makes it very economical even for high volume use cases. In either case, I've seen savings of up to 96% in some cases compared to Algolia's pricing.

[1] https://typesense.org, https://github.com/typesense/typesense

[2] https://cloud.typesense.org
> I mean, come on, you have that big nice touchscreen and you're not going to use it?

The best case with a desktop-like environment like sxmo is to just reuse the touchscreen digitizer as a plain old touchpad, with some tweak for other gestures (e.g. tap for clicking, double tap for dragging). AIUI, this is how mobile clients for VNC and RDP work already, so enabling this on the mobile desktop itself would be quite straightforward.
I always imagine these are the folks who started programming as teenagers or earlier.

Or, incredibly seasoned vets into their 50's and beyond.
I'm currently TA:ing my uni's Introductory Computer Engineering class (from logic gates to assembly). It's not as much of a weed out class as you'd think and yes, it's the first class they take, along side some introductory python. Most of them do seem to hate the assembly part though personally I found the part where you have to actually make an instruction to be much harder when I had to take this class
Even if it worked ( which it won't ) soldiers don't want that shit in their field of vision.

They want better data. AR won't magically give you better maps or weapons even if it's in the magic YouTube video.

> All members of a platoon can know where all of their teammates are at a given time, no matter how dark or dense the surrounding terrain.”

Cool, need to teach loitering munitions how to work this out on the fly and send in a payload. I guess look for the people with the frequency hopping ability. Maybe jam for a bit then see who hops. I'm sure it's complex but should be doable. In war zones you can make mistakes.
As yet another option, I really like Anyio, which is a "frontend" to either Asyncio or Trio, which provides a consistent and tidy API for what is known as "structured concurrency" (I think the name was popularized by the C library Dill).

https://anyio.readthedocs.io
They've got drones that can track you by BO.

https://www.wired.com/story/this-drone-sniffs-out-odors-with...
Because people's stated and revealed preferences on this topic are drastically different.
... and with these architypes, the definition of a 10x-er would be - One who pounds out the solution in an hour because they understand their language, codebase, and requirements.
Visual Site Mapping for Life
I've always had a somewhat weird work process. I probably spend a large amount of time just plain fucking around. But it's interspersed with exploring solutions to the problem.

The fuckaround time is important. It lets me re-evaluate the problem with a clearer mind.

Oftentimes this looks like I'm doing nothing for a day or two. Then by day 3 I just write everything that needs to be written in an hour or so.
Thanks for the reply bro have a good weekend
Oh hey I built a similar recipe search site with 2 Million recipes a couple of months ago, where you can search by recipe name or filter by ingredients:

https://recipe-search.typesense.org/
> Programs that just divide up work across processes are much easier to write without introducing obscure bugs due to the lack of atomicity.

You often don't even need to do this yourself. GNU parallel is the way to go for dividing work up amongst CPU cores. Why reinvent the wheel?

I agree with you that threads are talked about way more than they should be. It's like all programmers learn this one simple rule: to be fast you have to be multi-threaded. It's really not the case. There is also massive confusion amongst programmers on the difference between concurrency and parallelism. I sometimes ask applicants to describe the difference and few can. Python is fine at concurrency if that's all you want to do.
A survey would be heavily biased. Telemetry will have much less bias (there is still some since people who disable telemetry have their usage ignored)

With better data you can make improvements that help more actual users instead of just focusing on what vocal minorities think.
this, Netflix should not explain their actions. And if they suspend someone they better follow through and just fire them, indecisiveness projects weakness.

I'm glad Reed Hastings fully supports this, he is a major donor to the DNC, they are fighting their own.
So, latency is certainly one locus of optimization.

Another locus of optimization might be development speed and cost. An SPA is really two apps, a front-end, and a back end.

It costs 2x to do an SPA, and all things being equal, features come out 1/2 as fast.

Which wins the app with latency, or the app that gets features twice as fast?
The "async/await" syntax is agnostic of the underlying async library, but Asyncio and Trio provide incompatible async "primitives". So yes, you need to write your code for one or the other, or use Anyio, which is a common layer over both.

Many more libraries use Asyncio than Trio, so I have come to recommend Anyio (which has a Trio-like API) but with Asyncio as the backend. That gives you the extensive Asyncio ecosystem but with the structured concurrency design of Trio.
Seems useful to me. There are so versions of kiosks in the world, and this prevents an MS license fee.
That's a non-sequitur. The claim isn't about what's easier to prevent. The claim is that unvaccinated are more of a burden on our healthcare system. Ok, I'm open to that, but let's see the data.

I'm not bored of questions, I'm bored of unsubstantiated claims.
I like the GIL and would prefer it not be removed, regardless of any impact on performance.

It's a powerful assumption for both python code and extensions to be able to make that only one thread will be executing in the interpreter at a time. Knowing it, you can do a lot of things with a much lower cognitive burden. I tend to think through a problem initially in a non-concurrent way and then think "ok, but there's concurrency to think of too, so how is this all affected?". With the GIL you usually don't need to go far into that if at all, and that's useful.

That doesn't mean I don't approve of concurrency. I use lots of languages, and a need for proper concurrency is one of the major reasons I might avoid python as a tool for a particular task.

But there are lots of languages, and python became the popular tool it is with the GIL. If python were to embrace concurrency in the interpreter its nature would change, and I think my toolbox would lose something valuable.

That said, I'm not worried. CPython exists in a cloud of extensions developed against its C API, and these are heavily reliant on the GIL. Refcounting isn't even the start of the problems you would need to solve in order to remove it and not have everyone just move to a fork that still has it. I'll be astonished if anyone manages to pull it off.
found Zuck's sockpuppet
Because it's where we live?
My point: Two tanks can't deal with a trench. 10 tanks can't deal with a trench. They just don't have the right weapons for the job.

What the US Military does, is combine a force of an M1 Abrams + M2 Bradley IFV, maybe with a M109A6 Paladin self-propelled armored Howitzer and a cell-phone that can call an AC-130 if things get really bad.

Each machine is designed for a different situation. For the trench, the M2 Bradley IFV has the ability for anti-trench air burst rounds... and the M109A6 Paladin classic "artillery" can lob explosives at a very high angle and probably hit any trench from miles away.

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M2 Bradley IFV can take a trench: it has grenades, air-burst weapons, machine gun, missiles and more. M2 Bradley IFV has thinner armor however. So the M2 Bradley fighting by itself is still not the best option: if the opponent has a 100mm anti-armor gun in their trench, they may kill the M2.

M1 Abrams can't take the trench, but it can lend its armor to the M2 by driving in front of it: blocking those anti-armor shots and making things safer for the M2. The air-burst attack can likely be done from behind an M1's cover.

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If you know the enemy will only send M2 Bradleys, you simply set up bunkers (covered above-grade concrete structures) with anti-armor cannons. Bradleys only have a 30mm gun, so you can build concrete + steel walls that can stop that attack.

If you know the enemy will only send M1 Abrams, you simply set up trenches (below-grade dug structures). Tanks are direct-fire, and the ground is a surprisingly good shield. The M1 can probably penetrate any reasonably built bunker with ease: thanks to heavy 100mm+ sabot rounds (I forget how big tank guns are but... much bigger than M2 guns)

If you build a trench + bunker, now the opponent has to send the M1 Abrams (for the bunker) + the M2 Bradley (for the trench). Now you have an opportunity for the bunker to shoot the Bradley with a 100mm weapon, killing it. And for the trench to similarly attack the tank, largely with impunity (if the supporting M2 is dealt with).

Or maybe the US Army decides to call in the AC-130 and just pew-pew-pew you from the sky at that point.
But WWI trenches weren't those kind of six foot deep trenches that are dug out by a squaddie and a spade.

Trenches (at least on the less mobile German side) were underground bunkers, concrete and steel reinforced that could survive literally hundreds of tons of high explosives. The shit fired here would be laughed at by WWI defences. Honestly the dummies in the trenches were getting hit yes, but they were still standing. 1916 those dummies would be five hundred feet in the air along with a ton of earth. And the machine gunners would be underground safe (if not actually sound).

Yes, the air burst attack there would kill anyone standing in an open trench.

But a minute after opening up (and remember this is going to be divisional level artillery you are airbursting here - hundreds of tanks across miles of front, someone will notice) once the attack starts everyone is under the ground in bunkers.

The minute you stop they come back out and start firing back.

(And they will have mined the ground, have anti-tank weapons etc.)

Honestly the more I think about how lethal a battlefield is nowadays the more I think any "front" less than 500 miles wide is just going to bog down
Sounds like the 'hologram highway' sequence from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporated_(TV_series)

The show is watchable btw. for the somehow cyberpunky feeling. Unfortunately canceled after 1 season only, in spite of favourable reviews. Strange.

Anyways, the most memorable thing for me was the part where the protagonist hops into his self-driving e-car to commute from the gated community he lives in, to work in downtown.

There is a sequence where it zooms out, to behind the car and then upwards, like filmed from a quadcopter, or so.

And then you see all the nice trees next to the highway are just fakery, hiding the ghettos next to it, by holographic walls :-)
Or wealthy parents (feeds into 1)
I had an 86 Riv in the early 90s while at college. It was an old person's luxury coupe and rode like a boat with big, fluffy velour couches for seats. The touch screen was actually very good. Climate control (with two zones), music (including a 6 disc changer in the trunk) and some pretty geeky charts about engine performance. The touchscreen was a good 25 years ahead of its time.
> should it be illegal for said companies' employees to reach out to their representatives?

If they're doing so on their own behalf, with no compensation or censure for doing so or not, that's fine. If they're doing it on their employer's behalf, their employer (not them) should face felony charges.

From the first amendment:

> the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

People have a right to reach out to their representatives. Corporations do not have a right to reach out to people's representatives.
What will you be doing?
>I just know that there's something wrong or missing.

I'm starting to think that the thing that feels "wrong" is just that it directly contradicts foundational elements of your current belief system. And it's perfectly natural to avoid updating a belief system that has and continues to serve you reasonably well, even if you know deep down that it's inaccurate. Because you also know that updating it will have a significant cost as the implications unfold.

I don't think it's a coincidence that the "religion solution" contains a lot of brute-force belief-writing and evidence-avoidance techniques.

Coming from someone who no longer feels the incongruity, and has paid for that update.
Why is it ignoring that?

Those are massive financial variables, minimum.
Almost all combat is N+1. The holy grail is asymmetric weaponry/tactics. Unfortunately all asymmetric weaponry/tactics is eventually countered through R&D. The critical question is whether one combatant can gain a strategic edge over another during the novelty period of the asymmetric weapon/tactic.

Ah, the joy of the Military Industrial Complex's feature treadmill.
While Cloudflare does run Nomad, a lot of services run on Kubernetes as well[1]. Different tools for different use cases.

(Disclaimer: engineer at Cloudflare, and author of blog post linked below.)

[1]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/high-availability-load-balancers...
the situation where the comedian everyone is mad about is still filthy rich and getting tons of press? working the same as it always has
Isn't the trouble that Tether substantially influences the solvency of all other stabletokens and the value of cryptocurrencies themselves (in relation to X fiat)?

For example (admittedly this is probably way off-base here), let's say there were only two stablecoins (USDT and USDC), and only one of which had true 1:1 buyback (USDC) where >=1 entity would exchange one USDC for 1 USD (I know the reality of USDC is muddle too). Let's also say the amount of USDT in circulation was $10b and the amount of USDC in circulation was $1b. If there's a well-established "distrust" of USDT, where people only "temporarily" keep it on hand or use it as an intermediary, they're still using it to acquire other cryptocurrency, and thus inflating prices, right? If everyone attempts to exit onto the USDC, the available supply will dry quickly, causing the <X Crypto>/USDC price to plummet (?).

Thus even if you thought Tether was intolerable I feel like it's an implossible belief to simultaneously think (1) that Tether is a scam, and (2) cryptocurrency can be seen a store of value. (I know there are others who recognize and highlight other utilities of cryptocurrencies).

(I am super interested in the flaws in this logic because as an aside, if there's any general reading material regarding these kind of economic thought experiments, doesn't have to even be crypto-related, I will certainly take any recommendations! I find them really fascinating. Someone mentioned a Darknet Diaries episode on counterfeit currency; Probably the first thing I have to look into.)
IMO, it's a good thing that decode() doesn't on strings in Python 3.
Can you recommend any good alternatives?
Muh far right extremism.
He was stabbed by some somali nigger.
R can do this too if I understand correctly.
Quite true. Definitely a benefit. I guess my point is that if you are leaning on Python for performant concurrent operations, you are likely to also be thinking about how to isolate that component for a rewrite, monkey-patching or no.