skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously the populist case for war is different than the strategic case, but that doesn't mean it's about 'money' directly. US engagement in M/E is about a number of things, Energy Security being one of them, which is a legitimate interest of the US.

And of course, the US did and does not control the Oil Fields in Iraq, they didn't cut a deal (like with Saudi) for access to the Oil, all of the energy benefits go to other nations. So in this case, there's scant evidence 'it was about Oil'.

And the Petrodollar is a small thing, it's a side show.
There is this interesting website called walkscore.com which uses afaiu google maps data to find distances along roads and such from a selected point to basic amenities, then it calculates a score for driving, walking, and biking. It's a little difficult to find on that website but on some page there is a heatmap of precalculated walkability scores overlaying google maps. If you just scan around on that thing you may get an idea about the walkability of various US cities. That should be correlated with the stroadedness / strongtownedness of those cities
Even if they're not directly changing the suburbs with this proposal, the changes they want made to the city will make life worse for people who go there from the suburbs.
Assange as Ghandhi. Wow.

Remind me about how Rosa Parks ran and hid?
My layman thoughts:

The concept of utils as a common denominator for peoples value judgements or well-being is a dead-end. Economists use utils but that's only for working with ordinal preferences in math.

I do think that ultimately, people are guided by consequences even when following strict principles. E.g. not negotiating with terrorists leads to better outcomes in the long run.

Time is an essential component in these deliberations.

Human action is decided by peoples' preferences. Preferences are a list of desired outcomes. They are ordinal. They are personal to each individual. Valuations can be thought of as moving up the list of desired outcomes.
The most desired alternative has special names: goals and ends.

Since preferences are ordinal they can't be summed. This gives rise to the concept of marginal utility and opportunity cost.

Buying a pack of cigarettes is not irrational because preferences are subjective. Might regret it later though but that's simply you modifying your preferences.

I would argue though that if you modify your preferences frequently, you are indeed an irrational person. E.g. buying a pack of cigarettes and always regretting it later.
Wonder why FreeBSD is that slow at ZSTD compression tests ...
Do we have any contemporaneous record of this mechanism, or have references to the device not survived for some reason?

If such a device was considered advanced or cutting edge or of note back then then wouldn't we expect some reference to the device?
Sure, but in the Strongtowns models there is not space for cars - at least everyone owning a car they only use for weekends.

Only the rich own cars. Or those that live outside the urban core.

Welcome to our future if Strongtowns has a say.
From my personal experience the engineers I’ve worked with who are using Go seem to prefer writing SQL. The community doesn’t seem to like using external libraries over the standard library. Not always but that seems to be the preference.
Are you arguing that purchasing and maintaining your own servers is cheaper than using AWS? Let's hear the rationale, then.
Yes, if memory serves I you mounted the motor on the front bumper in a way that looked a little bit like a supercharger. It made the rear axle shudder around corners - hence the MacGyver’ed differential!
> The argument presented in the article, as well as ideas like the "utility monster" are based on the idea that the utility scales of different persons are comparable.

The article makes no implicit or explicit statement about how one defines a/the utility function, but I see no reason to believe the author thinks it's a universal function.
Y'know, debates about cloud vs in-house uptime aside, there's one thing I'm really grateful to the cloud vendors for: making downtime somebody else's problem.

Rather than a late-night panicked run to the smoking server, now we can just shrug and wait a few hours and it fixes itself. Most websites aren't that critical, and it's nice not having to lose sleep over devops issues.
it is linked, you just refuse to admit it

this is common in the west, you try to find excuses to what ever agenda your government has

as a result you fall behind on many fields, including education

it's no wonder 5G still isn't the standard, and yet you try to find excuses

that's what happen when old people rule your country and economy, they made decisions because they don't want to risk what they have for the few years they have left on this planet

now ask yourself, why

what's blocking from having 5G everywhere? despise being the "richest?" country on the planet

what's preventing it?

why are they trying to push 5G only just now?

they didn't have the tech "until now"

they didn't want to rely on china because they were the one with the tech?

or it simply was just they didn't want to invest because it would cost too much, so they focus on selected tiny areas only and forget about country side because "they don't need it"?

> debates = "flamebait that detracts from the discusion"?

how come? that's because you chose to be blind that we stuck with 2G-3G in 2021
Xsnow was always on for me around December. I found it even cooler then having my desktops on a transparent cube with a reflection with fish inside and wobbly windows that burn upon closing.
I guess that's because we're just using the benchmark we have. If it looks like what we see in the real world and it fools us, then it's good!
Agreed. In fact, I've heard government decision makers actually swayed to go to the cloud due to outages with logic along the lines of, "If Amazon can't keep AWS running, what chance does our 30 person, chronically underfunded, team have?" There is also safety in having the outage be somebody else's fault, and having that outage effect a huge swath of the economy - "Sorry customer, but it's not just us." Reminds me a bit of the "nobody gets fired for picking IBM" mentality.
Demo page for an old javascript port of Xsnow:

https://klepp.biz/Software/jsSnow_de.html
Thank you for posting that, you beat me to it. FOMA is a classic. Here’s a video illustrating the process of creating a microscopically flat surface from three unflat surfaces. It can be done with ancient technology, if you have enough time.

https://youtu.be/5m_Opf3nhQU
Is this a joke? The entirety of those countries citizens are subject to their own government's tyrannical rule
You even conjugate the verbs differently for your customers.

Richard Feynman talked about this point really frustrating him and turning him off Japanese entirely. He just wanted to use words to get things done...granted for informational purposes it's nice to not have to conjugate the verb for download based on who downloaded it.
I agree with Hans, we are going to see an explosion of collaborative tools next year. And Yjs is best placed to enable them.

The ecosystem around Yjs with the Y-collective is so impressive.
If you are 3 competitors on your market and you might lose x orders while your are down, but gain 2*x orders when the other 2 are down, you are ahead (with the same probability of going down as the others).

Real world is not so easy though...
Yup, this is a massive strategic blunder of historical scale.

While the US and western countries are asleep at the switch and think that they are exploiting cheap Chinese labor, the Chinese have a 100- and 500- year plan and are exploiting our myopia for short-term profits to gain manufacturing expertise and military advantage. It may not be too late to reverse, but it is close.

It is really the result of not thinking ahead and letting the business lobbies have what they want today, instead of putting long-term strategic considerations first. Different incentives, different results, tragedy of the commons all over again.
> If I go talk to the average person about Snowden or Assange they know little to nothing about what they revealed.

You are doing good, then. Need to keep talking to more people!
Compiz was what got me to try out Linux in the first place - seeing wobbly windows and the desktop cube convinced me that this wasn't just a dry server OS but was actually something that could be fun to use.
I think it is them frantically patching it. There are some Amazon staffers posting in the RCE reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/rcxehp/rce_0da...

> Our slack group for this issue is at 3,400 people, haha. It'd be funny if I wasn't one of them.
> Where do y'all work that has 5000 employees on a single issue??
> One that has an arrow under it's name.
So you want to live in a dense, urban walkable core, but also allocated space for everyone to own a car they drive for 1400 km per year.

Nope.
Those people, the gritty ones who can't make it through the interview hoops are busy integrating companies into the cloud providers. Now they're taking it easy whilst the new kids are getting a first class lesson in what grit is.
Unconventional might be the word you want, more than "dumb".

In a way, despite our general tolerance and diversity of thought, I've come to believe we're an extremely orthodox culture. As a general rule, there is a right way to do something, someone has almost certainly already discovered it, and your job as an artisan, engineer, or anyone else, is to look that correct way up in a book, and do it that way.

Just inventing your own take on something considered settled is thought to be extremely eccentric, possibly even a sign of madness.
Browser extensions have a higher trust level than internet sites. V3 simply dis restricts the former which gives the latter more wiggle room. Sure, there are hostile browser extensions, but at that point security and privacy is already compromised.

It will impact µBlock Origin negatively for example and I want this plugin to be able to access the page unrestricted.
I mean, it's amazing and all, but "uncanny valley" is still there with facial expressions.
One government should not be governing at such a micro-level for 330 million people. It's absurd and in practice becomes totally corrupt and undemocratic.

>>The fact that the provision you mentioned was discovered is an argument FOR this system

Being discovered a week before the vote meant that there was no time for all those affected to study its effects, let alone to negotiate an amendment for it, and furthermore, that it came within a hair's breadth of NOT being discovered.

Other very worrying provisions were only discovered after the law's passing.

>>Living up to the unfortunate pun, cryptocurrencies make crypto-fascists giddy. No accountability. No transparency. No arbiters of justice.

Crypto systems are opt in. The government mandates are violently enforced on those who would prefer to opt out. This sophomoric socialist argument that private enterprise is fascist is totally shallow.
John Deere Blows Off Shareholders Asking About Right to Repair
Not everyone. I am 66 and do not need glasses either for reading or driving. My sight is clearly not as good as it was though.

So what proportion of people really lose all focussing ability before the age of 50?
A) Counties typically already distinguish site value from improvement value but still tax both at the same rate. So a lite reform could be to lower the tax rate on improvements and raise it on site value.
What’s the point in reposting the same old Go complaints? It’s esr this time?

Respect for his early contributions, but he’s basically what PG would be if he had not become obscenely rich; rehashing old points, relying on history to have a reputation, contributing little novel output.

He sure can complain about things he has no intention to put effort into improving though.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Give a man a technology and he will figure out how to generate web pages with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dToNqP7mtwU
I totally agree with this one as it becomes totally useless once there's no internet connection.
I setup an IPv6-only server a few years back. At the time the biggest annoyance was that github wasn't available - so I couldn't clone my dotfiles, projects, and things.

Having checked just now I see that github is still IPv4-only.
> "CSS isn't powerful enough to style HTML however you want without having to add a soup of extra divs..."

This is untrue by any measure.

This might have been true in the days before flex or grid, but with those additions, there is no need for extraneous styling divs.

> "...and classes that are only there for styling."

That part is confusing. Classes? As in CSS classes? CSS has no other purpose than styling.
This is an interesting paper because it shows how fat cell tissue worsens outcomes for Covid. We’ve known for awhile that obesity increases the risk of mortality, however, this gives a clue (the inflammatory response and fat cells amplify the virus) as to why that’s the case.
"Vuity is by no means a cure-all, and the maker does caution against using the drops when driving at night or performing activities in low-light conditions"

I'm in Norway. My days - between sunrise and sunset - are less than 5 hours long right now, and the light produces long shadows and tinted clouds throughout the day. I could not use this product during winter: It lasting between 6 and 10 hours means my daylight is gone before it wears off.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply! If I understood correctly, you argue that the lexiscore might still lead you down a rabbit hole, even if through ever more challenging ideas, rather than helping you find nutritious content outside that echo chamber.

If you're really "skilled at" or fluent in the flat earth perspective, then content which presents a wildly different perspective on the same topic would get labeled as highly nutritious (or at least this was the intention). I understand your concern, and see how "advanced" content from the same ideological background might make it there, though I think there must be a point where you can't get more advanced at it, following which related content will fall in the boring sector, leaving the conflicting takes in the sweet spot (in theory).

It's also relevant to highlight something mentioned in the discussion towards the end, that actively moving across the diagonal channel (i.e. consuming both challenging content in a familiar topic, but also accessible content in unfamiliar topics) might be a further improvement, though this is not explicitly implemented in this initial version of the thing.
Running your own data center is on the far other end of the spectrum. There are numerous options between solely using AWS and building a data center.
Let's ask Litvinenko his opinion?
Most people where I work have already adapted to it, we've been remote for like 2 years at this point. Most of my coworkers have already invested in their home office, to the point where it's drastically nicer than their work counterparts. They don't want to go back to the office, they don't want to go back to using the office equipment, and they don't want to feel like they wasted money on their home office.

Corporate seems loathe to just go fully remote. We're apparently in a hiring drive; I'm curious if they're trying to overstaff so they have some breathing room for people that quit when they force us back in to the office.
Is there a case of an organization ever paying off "tech debt" (I refuse the term, I call it incomplete software)? I've only ever seen it snowball until the product falls into the sea and they start again fresh.
This caught my attention:

The researchers suggest that the current crop of machine learning architectures may be inferring something far more fundamental (or, at least, unexpected) from images than was previously thought...

Is it more plausible that this shows they are inferring something fundamental, rather than that they are differentiating images on the basis of some of their accidental (i.e. non-essential) features?
Did those people commit a crime under US law? Does the US have an extradition treaty with Iran?

Since the answer to both of these questions is no, what does it have to do with Assange's situation?
Do you not patch your servers? Or you don't need reboot for Linux devices?
Seattle used to have a decent downtown mall area but I think a combination of high rents, low traffic, general lawlessness and Covid has kind of destroyed that.
Where I was really impressed in Europe is when malls or store complexes were on major subway hubs and stations. People could do their shopping on the way home without ever having to drive.
https://archive.md/SBYDo
Most globalist thing I've heard all week.

Make things that fail with everyone else. Your customers will just have to get over it because everyone else is down.

News flash:
This is exactly why "overconsolidation" is a bad thing. The bigger, more complex, and integrated the player, the more devastating the eventual failure is as reality dictates you will build the most complex system possible until you outstrip your ability to mentally simulate, reason about, and debug it. You cannot create a thriving, resilient business ecosystem
With everyone flocking to the same players.

Customers must come first. Not your books. Working, resilient solutions. Anything else is LARPing, and kicking the catastrophe can down the road to someone else to pay.
The most infuriating among all of them has been our media - specifically mainstream media. They have played the entire saga down and in many cases many mainstream media pundits actively espoused for Assanges punishment [1].

I no longer hold the view that our media deserves the first amendment protection that it does. Mainstream media right now has no other purpose other than being active vehicle of the powerful and billionaire oligarchs to control the narrative. When 70% of the media empire are owned by billionaires why are we pretending otherwise? How different is that than state sponsored media in North Korea?

[1] https://greenwald.substack.com/p/julian-assange-loses-appeal...
A Load Balanced Restaurant
I would not expect the T type in a Collection<List<T>> to be used in a way where inference would be an issue. Typically, the type system would use parametric polymorphism to just deal with the Collection and then probably ‘pattern-match’ on the type inside a list.
Which means people suggesting one another to compare their downtime with AWS' should stop suggesting it, as you cannot rely on their data at all.
It kind of does in the screenshot, with the figure text stating that it is a sample of the applications output.
Surely, look no further than Edward Snowden.
Mine has exceeded AWS' uptime in the last 5 years. I think. I wish I had the actual numbers. If not, it's only because I actually didn't care very much about uptime, and did an in-place system upgrade on the live server late in the evening, and when it broke I waited till the next morning to fix it.

Also, the rather rare and brief maintenance window from the provider is always middle of the night for all my customers.
I'm fine with this, but I don't like the plan of making it harder to drive first, and then maybe later adding an alternative.
It's good think soldiers don't think that way. We probably would have never had a country.
i hope you will find a answer soon. i am not family with that. but we know Propane Tank Trailer information for logistic business. maybe someone will need it.

https://www.dreamtruegroup.com/propane-tank-trailer/
Two questions I have regarding your in-house hardware:

1. How easy can I access your physical servers ?
2. What happens if there is a catastrophic failure, for example local power outage or a major flooding
3. How secure is your server? Are you regularly patching your operation systems
4. If I want to run a project that requires double the capacity of your current hardware for a specific project, how long is it going to take to get it spun up?
Those evolved out of small towns. For some reason Strongtowns has no perspective on history. That “stroad” wasn’t one a decade earlier, it was a rural road through a small town.

Yeah, it’s be great if it were dense and walkable but guess what, we cant jump from farm land to NYC 5th Ave in one step.

It comes across as incredibly ignorant to be honest.
Poorly, because it doesn't.
I think he probably had more of an effect than is obvious. Activism raises the political price to governments of making bad decisions. When the powerful change their position as a result of activism, they always try conceal it - the effect is far in excess of what they let on.

In that light, I always found this story of the 6 scared, cold, humiliated and alone mothers of soldiers protesting outside the White House preventing nuclear war with Vietnam somewhat inspiring.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/johann-har...

(The connection is tenuous, but it's not completely unreasonable.)
There is an actual demo out you can download: https://store.playstation.com/en-us/concept/10004087/

I do not think they were talking about watching the video on their PS5…
Oxymonad?
Ah, I stand corrected :)
Well at least you said please, however:

I have built and run my own infrastructure from the ground up, and I've been made to transition to the cloud.

The experience hasn't been great. It may simply be sour 'grapes' because, after all the expertise a whole generation has built up learning UNIX, and all the internet protocols (DNS, ARP, Email, reading RFCs, networking, routing) we get told that all that old stuff is just 'legacy,' and that we should retool around amazon's proprietary services instead.

Some of us old timers argued against this only to be shouted down by people who don't even understand TCP/IP.

The current generation couldn't invent the internet. You know why, cos they would never have the patience to spec it out like the old timers did. Go read a few RFCs and try to imagine a scrum team today putting as much thought into an up front design.

Today we'd just cruft together an MVP, solve only the interesting parts (or more likely the easy parts) and then move on, letting dashboards which lie to cover it up.

Many of us have been taking shots at those 'big boys' since the start of this trend.

Now that because of recent events and we have a chance to be heard you're telling us to be quiet. Why?What are you afraid of?
The US government has already discussed murdering him, which tends to leave people shocked and suspicious.
PTK v7.5.2 can find stored XSS by using window.postMessage
> Still

it's usually a month or more after a large outage to see the full breakdown on what happened. people expecting to see it the same week are kinda not living in reality.
Are you doing your own engine or what scaffolding are you using? I'm assuming something that is pretty close to end vulkan? This is a topic close to my heart, lots of questions about how to scale, where to put the seams (node based loading has issues, have to be careful about loading screens, etc), how to keep player state backend access super fast once attributes bloat, how to keep low-lag player interaction when you want to force as close to a pure server-dominant state decision layer.

I think the tech itself is there just about, but there are some real technical limitations to why it hasn't been done (well) before. I'd love to hear how you are addressing these things.

As for the conversation about the matrix and the metaverse, my conclusion a long time ago was that the real matrix/metaverse will be FOSS. Thats why all these big companies (Meta, Epic, etc) dipping their toe into this admittedly juicy arena are going to fail in their vision. (also one of the reasons why I still have hope for a hacker culture of freedom in the future)

be warned though: with all this censorship they are coming for your game worlds next