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It's unlikely to be the most performant since git is first and foremost designed to version control plain text source code for developing software. This is version controlling JSON data.

Git stores every version of a file as distinct compressed copies (objects). Periodically, it packs these objects into a pack file. To save space, delta encoding is used in this process. As far as I recall, this is done on a line by line level. In this case, simply dumping this JSON data is going to hamper the delta encoding and the repository will grow substantially in size each time there is a change in data.

Then there's the issue of retrieving the data. The basic implementation of reading objects using git checkout and rewriting the objects to disc but there are other ways to read the raw file contents into memory and do your stuff there.

It's not going to be the most performant or best way of version controlling data but in many cases it will do a decent job.
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I am guessing kids / child here means or include Teens? Because if they are not hooked to Facebook ( which I dont know any kids or teens are ) they will still be hooked to instagram. Which many kids and Teens do use. And increasingly they are going over to TikTok. Although instagram is fighting back.

And even if you ban them from using ALL meta product. They will still be hooked to something else. Forum ( That is a form of Social Media as well ), other media for celebrity news or whatever. Ban Whatsapp? There is iMessages on iOS and used mostly across teen age group in the US, Line in Japan, KakaoTalk in Korea. Did anyone remember SnapChat ?

Even if you DO ban all of them. They will still get spread in school talking about the trendiest topic. They will find a way to join the conversation no matter what so they dont get left out. And I have seen this first hand.

I am not against Facebook providing some sort of filter or mode for Kids or something. But it is ultimately the parents that is responsible. The world has changed. And I have always argued it is not the platform or social media. It is the internet itself, extremely affordable and accessible via Smartphone everywhere. And so far I didn't even mention Youtube.

Parenting in the 21st century is harder than ever.

On the other hand kids these days learn so so much more at their age on topics that you could never imagined over the internet. Things I could only dream of when all I had was books in library written by people not targeting my age. ( Which is actually another issues because those who are curious and willing to learn excel so much further than the bottom half of the class, it seems the information super highway has fastened inequality everywhere. )

I am actually surprised at the Hotcake being the most upvoted comments, for the past 6+ years Facebook has been the most hated company on HN and anything that goes against hating Facebook tends to get downvoted.
The west is explicitly not going to war in/over Ukraine. Because as you implied it would be a war with Russia and that would be too much.

And Ukraine does not have F-35s and will never have.
Thing is, if you needed to make a fire in the rain and skin & prep and animal, you'd have a good chance of at least getting most of the way there as you understand the concepts. The problem here is more equivalent to not even knowing what and animal or fire is, nevermind how to do the tasks at hand.
This is true prima facie, as a snapshot of "caring".

But prolonged exposition and mutual relationships (even ones kickstarted by selfish, careless objectives such as "Pay me!" or "Go to war for me!") necessarily lead to intertwining of identities. And once you consider something (or someone) a part / extension of yourself, caring follows.

In other words, given enough time and substantial interaction, the lines between "you" and "me" blur. That's just a biological (physical?) observation; cf. parasites and symbionts, nation building, product marketing, leadership…

Of course it's a scale, not a binary care / don't care. A doctor may care very little about a celebrity he knows he'll be interacting with for a year or two, max. But family doctors still exist, too.
Economics are fully at work in every market, including renewables. If it's more profitable to... I'm not even sure what your alternative would be but I'll say feeding the energy back into the grid, then miners would do it. It's definitely not up to you to decide what people can and can't do with their energy, especially off-grid renewables, just because you perceive their use to be "wasteful"
I'm not surprised - people want to buy them, so they'll happily sell them.
"The Event" isn't the whole of it though, Trump tried a lot of different ways to try to get the result overturned. The events of Jan 6th are only a small part of the picture.

They may not have been a believable threat. But trying to strong-arm more votes out of various places, refusal to concede, throwing around unfounded allegations of mass cheating, constantly, and then the mountain of lawsuits and talking heads... it's beyond the pale.

If they don't see that threat, when would they? Because from here it looks far more like they don't care so long as it's their guy. And that's scary.
The answer is probably fighter jets and drones.

Fundamentally almost no one reading this (myself included) knows jack shit about the actual performance of the F-35 in combat, how good drone technology is etc.
> Honestly I think providing an alternative financial system is more practical than most of the other energy intensive things we do these days.

About 25 % of energy expended today is to make people not freeze, which is the single biggest or second biggest energy consumer world wide. The other one is transporting stuff and people. The third one is making stuff (food, buildings etc. use a lot of energy).
I built something similar 2.5 years ago in case you're interested: https://github.com/tobilg/lsh
Sure. That wasn't a criticism of crypto.

Whether one of those properties is "freedom from regulation" is yet to be seen. I personally quite doubt it.
Thought it was about following the principles of the mundane or something like that based on the name. Maybe a poor choice of name if it is rather about attempts at categorizing knowledge. Or maybe a self-aware jab at the futility of attempting to manually categorize knowledge?
> Similarly, planes operating in the middle of Poland can attack targets in Kaliningrad - another crucial strategic ability for Polish defense.

If that happens, i.e. a NATO country directly attacking Russia, then a nuclear war starts. I'd put China in the same basket, also Pakistan if it gets attacked by India or vice-versa. Proxy-wars (to use your example Poland attacking Belarus) are of course more complicated.
Sounds similar to logcheck. There is also journalcheck for systemd based systems:

https://github.com/trentbuck/journalcheck
This can be safely thrown in the trash. From the start, the author has the hubris to present himself as capable of being an arbiter of truth, rather than simply that he has various viewpoints the correctness of which is unknown.

> Given a text input, we want to classify it correctly as fake or not fake.

Humans aren't capable of doing that reliably; you expect to train an inhuman, non-sentient system to discern the truth about complicated stories about the world told by the media? Stupid.
Or Ada. I wish AuroraUX was still alive. :(
State controlled violence backed money

vs opt in p2p networks.
Does anyone knows what's the argument to use manned planes over drones anyway?

Turkey, which is kicked out if the F-35 program for political reasons, demonstrated huge success in battle through it's home grown drone programs.

F-35's were supposed to be the stealth weapons who were to be able to penetrate Russia made air defences etc, but Turkey proved in Syria that relatively cheap drones can do just that. Before the Turkish drones, only Israel was able to hit a Russian made air defence system and that was done when it wasn't operational at that moment. During the conflicts between Azerbaijan-Armenia, Syria, Libya the Turkish made drones hunted down multiple such system and provided very impressive footage of the action.

Again, Turkish drones are suspected to be used in first ever AI based attacks, where for the first time machines decided who to kill and who to spare[0].

Though Turkey has a sizeable engineering capacity, it's not a rich country. Budgets used to develop these drones are nowhere near the F-35 or similar projects. One wonders, what's the argument to invest so much in planes when there's low hanging fruits in the drones business.

It seems to me, the 5th gen plane projects are like trying to breed the next gen horses instead of developing the automobiles.

[0]: https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a36559508/...
When hyperinflation kicks in, will the United States military step up and try to curtail it?

If so how?
That is such a fun attack vector, can't wait to see all the stories about socially engineered attacks when this tech will spread.

Now crypto user not only will need to audit all source code of his wallets ans every smart contract written in whatever flavor of the day language including Haskell. But they will also need to do an interview and assess technical knowledge of every signer of his wallet. Every wallet. It will be glorious :)
So now Google even copies AWS outages...
Anyone knows whether the agent is publicly available?
I don’t understand, your problem isn’t with the license but the software, but you don’t explain why you prefer FerretDB’s software? Is it more reliable than MongoDB?
But is it actually adding anything? Even the article says what they are doing (reselling digital goods) doesn't require any blockchain technology at all.
About virology, there is no doubt that the first RNA molecule was a virus.

All the popular presentations about the "RNA world" are either incomplete and/or logically inconsistent.

There certainly was a RNA world, in the sense of a world where there was no DNA, but only RNA.

However, there must have existed 2 stages of the RNA world, the later stage, when protein synthesis based on translation from RNA existed, like today, and also an earlier stage, when only RNA replication existed, but RNA did not perform any useful function for its host living being, but it was only a virus that was replicated using energy and molecular components from its host.

The fact that there are RNA molecules that can have a catalytic effect like enzymes, as mentioned in the article is completely irrelevant. If such catalytic RNA molecules had ever existed before the apparition of RNA replication, they would have immediately disappeared without living any descendants.

Only from the moment when some self-replicating RNA molecules has appeared, i.e. the first virus, we have some chain of nucleic acid replications, which has continued until today and all the existing nucleic acid molecules must be descendants of the first virus.

The first replicating RNA molecule required for its synthesis energy and molecular components, in the form of ATP and free nucleotides, which can condense into RNA.

So there must have already existed an equivalent of a bacteria, with metabolism using energy from the environment (i.e. dihydrogen with carbon dioxide and ionic gradients), which was already able to make ATP, which would have been needed to synthesize the polymers made by condensation, e.g. peptides. The apparition of the first RNA virus was an initially undesirable side-effect of using ATP to perform polymer condensations.

Because any memory molecule, like RNA, needs an already existing living being for its first replication, there must have been a stage prior to the RNA world, when there were self-replicating living beings, but without memory molecules.

The self-replication of a system does not need a memory, it can be "hard-wired", where there is a closed chain of chemical reactions where each reaction synthesizes a new component based on previous components and eventually the first component is synthesized from the last components.

However such a self-replicating system without a memory had extremely low chances of evolution, because any random change was almost certain to break the self-replication cycle, leading to death without descendants.

Only after the apparition of RNA, and especially after the later appearance of the RNA to protein translation mechanism, it became possible for mutations to accumulate and eventually create a variety of living beings.

While the first RNA must have been a virus, because diverting ATP and other useful internal components to the production of RNA molecules could not have been of any good for the host, some time after the apparition of RNA-based protein synthesis, some form of symbiosis between a host and some DNA virus must have created the ancestors of bacteria.
TLDR: I think you meant to say "US military" instead of "US army".

Read on if you are interested why it matters.

The US Army is a branch of the USA military. The US Army is not a costumer of the F-35. The F-35 is a joint project between the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps. That's 3 other branches.

Now one can say that this is a silly interjection and I should just see "US military" every time I see the word "US army" in the GP comment.

But, in the case when we are trying to understand the F-35 project understanding the crazy force structure of the US military is a must. Why? Because that structure left an indelible mark on the airplane!

Very roughly: The Air Force is the folks with the airplanes, the Navy is the one with the ships and the Marine Corps are the troops on the ship. But turns out in modern warfare you can't do naval warfare without having proper air cover, so the US Navy also got airplanes. And historically the marines were left in the lurch one too many times so they insist on having their own transportation, so they have ships, and also airplanes. (Very rough explanation, bear with me.)

You can see that the branches are somewhat converging, will we end up with 3 carbon copies of the same thing? The legislators asked the same question and put in the law limits on each branch. There are experts on what the particular limits are and etc etc, what matters to us in terms of F-35 that the Marine Corps can't have ships bigger than X. So they can't just buy a conventional aircraft carrier. Therefore the marine's airplanes have to take off vertically.

This means that when this 3 branches joined forces to build an airplane together the airplane had to be designed such that it can serve all 3 of them. So the F-35 has to have a variant which can take off vertically. And many says that capability made the whole thing waay too complicated and the boondoggle it is. And it's not a real physical "we need otherwise we cannot fight" thing. It's a legal loophole.
You're assuming that miners are paying the full cost of the energy they're using, which is not the case - see all the mining operations in places with subsidized energy, i.e. everyone else is paying some of the price, not to mention the externalities.
Realistically the US is never going to fight a war with an equal adversary.
When they did WW3 simulations in the cold war it always ended with mushroom clouds.
Why not just replace battery at pit stop?
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This is a good point. Black markets are indeed part of the real economy, whether governments and people like it or not. That being said, regulation is inevitible.
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It's true - crypto is bullshit. I've had a hard time shaking the realization that money is bullshit too.
> Was Facebook the reason I was depressed as a teenager, or was it that my single mom was visibly living paycheck to paycheck?

Probably, the collapse of nuclear family in western society and ultimately the sexual liberation. Personal circumstances aside, statistically speaking.
Humans have also been gambling for thousands of years (which is just playing games with the added component of money on the line), so by this logic there's value in it too. I would also be interested to see the worldwide energy consumption of all gaming devices in comparison to the worldwide energy consumption of all crypto mining, especially now that many have moved to proof of stake.

Considering the explosion in the gaming industry in recent years you may find that it outpaces crypto already, or is catching up very fast.
My thoughts, not being in the field, are parallel to the parent post. "It's nice and all that we're achieving better and better computer performance at things that used to require the human brain, but it seems we're doing so by building larger and larger computers."Not to detract from that achievement, I love large computers in their own right!

I'm a dabbler in Go, and "somewhere below professional" at the game of poker. I've followed the advances in the latter for more than a decade, eagerly reading every paper the CPRG publishes. They use a LOT of compute power!

I know from experience that "The specific settings matter a lot.". For several years, I made my living "implementing papers for hire". It's real work, no argument there. Sometimes the settings are the solution, and heck, sometimes the published algorithm is outright wrong, and you only discover so when trying to implement it.

But the second part of your point, that it's not simply achieving more performance by throwing more transistors at it, I don't have experience with, and I sorta don't believe you. :)

Your comment is quite well written, making me (irrationally?) predisposed to suspect you're correct on factual matters, or at least more of a domain expert than I. Can you cite sources, or simply elaborate more?
Not sure I really trust AMD not to trip over their own feet when it comes to software unfortunately.

Hats off to them if they manage to really land a blow on NV here.

Also potentially keep an eye on Intel a few years down the line? Since they can actually do software in my experience (and, get this AMD, document the software!)
This seems really cool!!
Nope - all good here. Personal and corporate Gmail/Gcal working currently.
I love that a service to detect outages had an outage because there was an outage on their provider, which is most likely the same provider that most of their customers are running services on that they want outage monitoring for

Can't say I'm thrilled that they "learned" to move to a different region than the one that went down today. They do also say they'll also add redundancies in other regions, but the fact that it's written in a way that implies switching regions is the more important of the two changes is a bit strange, and in any event means the service is still dependent on the same AWS products. Definitely an improvement but I guess I would've expected a product like this to already be running across multiple providers and not just AWS, so it's certainly surprising to me that they were utilizing only a single region.
Your bank account and credit cards are not programmable money. They don't have smart contracts where third parties can verify the fairness of the financial instruments you are purchasing. All you have is trust in financial institutions.
But, Minute Physics and Veritasium are on YouTube. So, maybe it's just cross-posting and their 99% audience is not there?

Of course from a "can I adopt X" perspective, cross-posted content to X is fine, even if most users watch it on YouTube.

But for that to be meaninful on a larger scale most popular content should be cross-posted to Odysee (or original to it).

E.g. Veritasium is for sure popular, but it might just be part of a tiny slither of YouTube content that made it to the platform - so that would mean I could adopt Odysee as a YouTube replacement only if my interests intersect with that slither.
That was the story at one point.
Which providers?

My experience is that my first cgi-bin script were about a order of magnitude easier to deploy that anything other then say a traditional php/mysql script. and i had the flexibility to use basically any programming language back then too.

I did not have to learn git, figure out how the cloud router used worked, i just had to place a file in a directory.
For crontab it was the same dump the script to a directory edit the crontab file and it worked and it was the same no matter who i bought the service from.

Sure there were scalability issues, and the security was questionable but in terms of ease of use are we really moving forward?
Bitcoin solves the Cantillon effect, which is much more important for humanity than any consumer startup solving a problem only the most privileged have.
I have a list of explicitly installed packages through pacman, put it in a plaintext file, and then install those on a new Arch Linux that is supposed to be used for desktop use.

The most issues I have is related to Nvidia drivers because I need an old one. I think it is from AUR as well.
> Bitcoin provides sound money for unbanked people all over the world

LOL, no, it does not. It does nothing at all for the unbanked.
The altcoin bubble will certainly pop.

Bitcoin isn't going anywhere though, so if you include that under your definition of a "tulip", I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you.
Is this just protifing on a topical craze or does this have staying power? What experience does in-game NFTs offer to players that they otherwise cannot find in traditional database backed assets?
And literally every single thing they are doing could be achieved with a simple database shared across games, as they already do. The only thing NFTs achieve here is just being used for marketing.

Yes, it's a "real" use in a "real" company, but that's like trying to argue that Bitcoins are useful and totally absolutely not a scam because a few real world companies decided to accept them as payment. Like, "sure, wink wink".
The traditional justifications are:

1. The lack of war against our international rivals is in fact a huge success, indicating our powerful military is an effective deterrent. If we didn't have the F-35 we'd all be speaking Russian right now /s

2. Preparing for the last war is a perpetual problem for the military. That's how we ended up in Afghanistan with high-speed air superiority fighters, but no IED-proof vehicles. We should counter this known bias by buying stuff that would have been completely useless in our last major wars /s
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This also has to do with it making it easier to get military assistance from the United States in the case of war or conflict.
Playing USB-Cs advocate, a world where every specialist connector on a laptop would double as another USB to hook up random gadgetry when not in use as the primary role would be awesome. For example I never use that HDMI or the ethernet port. They exist because situations where the matching plugs are part of infrastructure you don't control, but I might prefer a world where those plugs need to be labeled because all the ports are the same to double as lowly gadget hosts.

What's bad is the usual implemention where you have one "holy grail" port that's effectively a proprietary docking station connector (because no other docking station has the exact same subset of "concurrent beyond-USB stuff") that might downgrade to some single usecase protocols beyond serving as a lowly plain USB. But where you have a serious lack of other "USB and/or X" beyond The One. This quickly gets ugly when you want to connect display and power separately. You absolutely need another port that's also capable of delivering power (or the reverse, a second display-capable USB so that power can be fed in isolation via the docking-capable port), but this is unfortunately rare, instead you get special ports that are completely useless while doing the docking station thing.