skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep seeing information about Matrix and initially dismissed it as JACR (just another chat room). I hate Slack, so why would I want to use Matrix?

But, after reading this, it's obvious I was totally wrong. Matrix is to Slack like Mastodon is to Twitter: decentralized. Right?

Is there a good starting point for learning about Matrix? Especially for someone who hates chat rooms. :)
Critical cross-account vulnerability in Microsoft Azure automation service
If you are going to poke, does that mean you consider there to be a perfect war?
this is a common talking point amongst those that don't understand that in the UK a legally binding referendum is not possible, at all, ever

it's a direct consequence of parliamentary sovereignty

parliament can make any law except those which bind parliament (which a legally binding referendum would do)
Presumably it would be in the interest of the EU to prevent coups within their member states, so the EU Army would defend against them.

That would have the advantage of removing the most common source of coups - a corrupt military leadership.
Well there isn't currently any plausible threat of restricting the ability of a small group of developers to make their own software, without government oversight. If we had a piece of malware that killed a bunch of people and brought the economy to a screeching halt worldwide, there probably would be calls to restrict individual developers from making whatever software they want, and the situation would feel quite different.
Do you think the recent shipments from the US of 17,000 anti-air and anti-tank missiles is enough to alter the calculation by much?
Red Cross found that the civilian evacuation route from Mariupol is mined [1].

This is going to be the most well-documented case of war crimes the ICC has ever tried.

[1] https://www.novinite.com/articles/214142/The+Evacuation+Rout...
The US population is in debt. Decreased military spending could go into 10x’ing the number of doctors/nurses/hospitals, but our system has instead 10x’ed the number of weapons/soldiers.
Indeed. The main differences are 1) lead times 2) financial risk. Everything is slower and costs more when you go from software to hardware. Like 10-100x.

The difference that most shocked me is just how unmotivated manufacturers and resellers will be to get your business. You have to audition, and sometimes plead, to give them money. The reason is because the cost of taking on a customer for hardware can be very high. This is much less true for software.
> Tweaking settings to get the best X11+Enlightenment speed possible

So much time lost :-) Thx rasterman !
Tim Bray wrote a post, "On the Goodness of Binary Search," in which he stated, "Simplicity is good, and binary search, coded properly, (see below) is awfully damn simple" (emphasis in original):

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/03/22/Binary

In an update to his post, Tim linked to Joshua Bloch's "Extra, Extra - Read All About It: Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken" post about the problems you describe:

https://ai.googleblog.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about...
Modern games use multiple threads for more than a decade now.

Single-threaded computation is for serialized state mutations in the main game loop. Everything else, like loading data, can and does happen on other threads. The latest engines use a job dispatch system with fractured/sharded state to distribute work as much as possible across cores.

As far as this topic, loading new data is already done in parallel, and can now be further parallelized at the block level with built-in APIs with the typical OS overhead or custom virtualization layer.
To all the people assuming we're reducing immigration because of some kind of phobia.

The simple truth is we don't have anywhere for them to go.

We have a near permanent homeless population, with people living on the streets for years before a social housing vacancy becomes available.

Accepting an infinite number of immigrants would turn the entire country into a slum. We're in the middle of a massive housing crisis.

What are we supposed to do with them?
Major Geeks replaced them for me.
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We're an AWS Typescript shop. On the FE, we're writing React/React Native. On the BE, we're Serverless with SST Framework.

We're hiring mobile engineers (React Native) and mid-level to senior engineers working mainly on the backend.

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I would say the biggest thing that helps me deal with perfectionism in my job is to ask for help once I realize it's blocking me.

Usually the help is very simple, like "help me break down this larger ticket into smaller tasks". It might only take them 15 minutes to do this, and feel like you're wasting everyone's time, but getting past the blocker is more important ultimately.
Whenever I start caring too much about something, I pull up the "pale blue dot" image (https://funnyjunk.com/The+pale+blue+dot/funny-pictures/52789...) and remember that I will die long before Voyager will make it even 10% to the next star. All of humanity, including us, is just a tiny speck in an unimaginably vast and uncaring universe. Some people find that terribly upsetting, but to me it also means freedom because nothing matters very much anyway.

So when you feel perfectionism exerting its insidious pull on you, zoom out and remember that "it is not that important".
1. Breeder reactors can be used to massively increase effective fuel efficiency.

2. Uranium can be extracted from seawater (virtually limitless) at an estimated cost of 2 cents/kWh

3. Renewables have even more stringent metals and rare earths requirements
Isn’t there another FS called butter-fs that is separate from BTRFS?
>Recreating NATO (and dissolving decades of institutional investment) and calling it the EU Army and then excluding the United States from backing you up just does not seem like a smart idea.

Why is that? I personally would love to see an EU army formed with no backing whatsoever from the US (this would probably mean that NATO would have to be dissolved).
Deadlines, mostly.
A Texas Town Buried in Debt Embraced a Crypto Miner It Didn’t Want
Limelight Networks to Buy Yahoo's Edgecast in $300 Mln All-Stock Deal
Tipping culture in the US will never change unless millions of customers suddenly stop paying tips. When millions of customers stop paying tips at the same time if puts the pressure on establishments to start paying their employees fair wages. Customers should go on tip-strikes.
What exact precedent are we trying to set here? Every national election has potential long-lasting effects. It’s always argued by the losing side that the winners are misinformed.
The 3G was a watershed moment for the iPhone. The 3Gs was my first one (I love Apple, but they have their flaws. I always buy the 'even numbered' versions where they've done at least one hardware revision on any new design) and a lot of people hopped on around then or the next model.

I feel like the watch is waiting for a similar notch-up in sales.

The other way to go is to make it into a standalone phone, which I am not sure I'm interested in (yet) but would be a reasonable approach. Given how they've handled the watch so far, I think that's more likely to happen than my thin watch request.

Or perhaps they'll do both. Fat version or tall version with a phone, smaller version without.
>poorer folk increasingly vote for the party that openly pledges to give them the least, at least in tangible terms.

One of the keys is that they pledge to give other groups even less.

As LBJ said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you"
It's not really insane, it's a difficult dilemma.

To play devils advocate, why should we give our enemies the same rights as our neighbors? Both cohorts are not held accountable in the same ways, nor can we expect our enemies to reciprocate the same good faith.

I think in principle free speech is good, but RT news - and any and all messaging coming out of Russia - should be classified as such. If said propaganda is disguised as genuine sentiment on social media then that's bad for free speech.
Tipping culture in the US will never change unless millions of customers suddenly stop paying tips. When millions of customers stop paying tips at the same time if puts the pressure on establishments to start paying their employees fair wages. Customers should go on tip-strike
It looks stupid in hindsight. But we all found out that the weapons meant to stop a mechanized invasion of Western Europe do in fact work.
Yes, see: https://www.usdebtclock.org/
But the paradox is that everyone is part of some kind of "vulnerable audience".

Maybe you like to consider yourself superior to the people who would lead credence to what RT writes, but in my opinion there's nobody immune to some kind of propaganda machine. Maybe something more insidious is required for you or me, but in the end it's hubris to consider yourself invulnerable.
If all of NATO wasn't brought to bear to defend Estonia or Latvia then NATO is worthless. I understand your point though, risk civilization over very small nations with low populations? I think the answer still has to be yes.
Also 48 Laws of Power

https://wikisummaries.org/48-laws-of-power/
It’s simpler than that: Fox News has been inculcating fascism in the USA for 20 years. We are transitioning rapidly from democracy into a dictatorship.
Sure, C is a fine choice today. However, since the subject matter in this book can potentially have a half life of 10-20 years, perhaps a more modern C in the same performance space with easy compilation and quick learning curve might be better?
There is no such thing as no decision; delaying a certain decision is a way of deciding it, and is always on time.
IANAL but it sounds like the fact that you offered a subscription service for access to $company's asset puts you in more trouble. you may have only gotten x dollars from your subscribers, but it's hard to dispute that you intended to extract y dollars in potential lifetime revenue from those 25k monthly visitors, especially if your revenue growth hasn't been trending negative. it's arguable those free sites didn't cause $company any loss, as those people may not have been interested in the asset had they had to pay for it, but if someone pays you instead of the owner of the IP...
Reading this thread is like reading a "tabs vs spaces" flamewar. I voted and strongly supported remain. We left. Let's move on (e.g. start a campaign to re-join or some other future) rather than re-hashing the same arguments over and over and over and over again.
I think if what I did imperfectly would bite me in the ass in 6 months. If not, I just let it go.
A related question: When I use the Print command in Safari (macOS) to convert the blog post into a PDF document, the background colors are not rendered. Does anyone know why?
I’m not against this as an American but I am noticing how Americans are suddenly much more popular in Europe again.
Yes. They are going to switch to vacuum explosives. They wont risk their tanks getting to close to Kyiv. They will just level Kyiv from a distance using dummy explosives. That is why everything is parked north. They are trying to bring up more TOS carriers from the south and east.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOS-1

Vacuum explosives aren't nuclear, but god damnit:
https://pomf2.lain.la/f/7vj9hxrh.mp4
What to Make of Microsoft’s Year in Cybersecurity
Major Geeks maybe.
> Russia seeks security, while the U.S. and its NATO allies have been using Ukraine to deny that security — to “break Russia,” in Henry Kissinger’s 2015 phrase. The U.S. does not want peace, unless it be the peace of a conquered Russia.

Oh brother.
> Unlike Russia who is today talking

So the US has never done something that Russia has also not done? I don't understand.

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U.S. Withdraws From ABM Treaty; Global Response Muted

https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2002-07/news/us-withdraws-ab...
Well, it's irrelevant for 'normal' folks until the inevitable wars crush them under the tank treads of the ones doing the power manipulation (and/or they get laid off, or can't pay the bills with their ever inflating currency, or crushed under unrealistic workloads and burn out...).

In a society, it's never actually irrelevant for anyone. 'No man is an island' and all. Even someone who checked out so completely they moved into a cabin into the woods can get hit by errant bombs or shot by invading soldiers.

What I've learned over the years is that most people prefer to focus on the fun thing right in front of them rather than the larger mechanics of the environment they are in. That fundamentally makes them easier to manipulate for those trying to get control of the larger mechanics for their own benefit.

Sometimes, you get folks doing that where most everyone's benefits and their benefit aligns.

Often, especially if people aren't paying attention or there is a broken system that incentivizes it (which is typical) you get people whose idea of 'benefit' is pathological for others.

Figuring out how this all works, AND being able to influence the overall mechanics and systems so evil folks don't get into power is very difficult and often thankless. Most people can't handle it, so most people check out.

Bad actors like to encourage this, as it makes their life easier.
52% of voters, not even 52% of the population.
You had plenty of company in that mistaken assumption, sadly, and I'm afraid to ask how many other people will pay the price before it's over.
I definitely see the C aspect. Go is like a cleaned up C with a tracing garbage collector.

However I'm surprised that many python fans like Go. It seems like just enough static typing to make the patterns that you are used to painful, without enough to actually describe your program.
I have all major browsers installed (for dev testing). I mainly use Firefox and I hope they won't follow Chrome here. Google says manifest v3 provides security. I think that is a blatant lie. You can allow blocking request for addons. The threat from malicious pages is greater than from malicious addons. And if your plugins are indeed malicious, you have larger concerns at hand anyway.
Perhaps you can’t resolve that contradiction because it doesn’t exist. By income, Democrats won the lower third and middle third income groups by 55-45 in 2020.
On M1 Mac I have long since left the Chrome* ecosystem. They are bloated and inefficient.
Many Ukrainians resident in the UK will not meet the official criteria to bring those close to them in, because they will not have reached the status called "Indefinite Leave to Remain", "Permanent Residence" or "Settled" (as opposed to "Pre-Settled"), each of which take 5 years if I recall correctly.

For UK citizens wanting to bring a family member from Ukraine, I hope it's not like the regular, draconian family scheme where approximately 50% of UK citizens with a foreign spouse cannot meet the eligibility criteria to bring in even their own spouse, so they have to move abroad to be together. (I was astonished when I first learned that, as I'd grown up imagining that genuine marriage conferred the right to live together.)

The UK Home Office strongly rejected what is a high-level human right in the EU, that is "right to family life". Even UK-born UK citizens don't have it.
No worries, we in Poland will take them all. I'm so proud of my country now.
Yes, I set the quota higher. Should work again.
Unfortunately deletionpedia only grabs pages that are previously marked on Wikipedia in some way. The disappearing tech-related articles I've been looking for (smaller programming languages, "Quote notation") can't be found there.
the way I think about what's happened in the USA is that primarily by means of "lobbying" it happened that the public (i.e. the citizenry) stopped being made out of human individuals and became corporations and other large businesses.

this implies that giving out public goods is actually about giving tax breaks and subsidies to campaign donnors and lobbyists both of which are really for-profit companies.

...or something like that.
>primarily because CNN is not government owned media

Depends on how much stock you put in Operation Mockingbird.[1] Many journalists in mainstream media absolutely carry water for the government. And it's not just CNN either, it's Fox News, NY Times, Washington Post etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
For the record, the combined E.U. GDP in 2021 was $17.1 trillion USD, while the U.S. GDP in 2021 was $20.94 trillion USD.

Even so, U.S. military spending is $768 billion or ~3.7% of GDP, while E.U. spending was around $220 billion in 2020, or about ~1.5%.
C runs on platforms such as microcontrollers that don't have MMU's. Malloc is available on those platforms.
Russians need some way to tell friend from foe because Russian and Ukrainian military vehicles derive from the same Soviet root and are hard to tell apart visually. Back in the Soviet era the Ukraine was a center for weapons manufacturing so many Soviet weapons were "made in Ukraine."

I'd expect other military forces to use identification marks in a similar way.
I'm the author of the FAQ. Of course the ISA is basically MIPS R6 with encodings and ABI replaced, to the uninitiated, and there is indeed an ongoing case of CIP United v. Loongson Corporation about the IP rights infringement. Just look at the privileged architecture and it's immediately clear it's just Loongson 3A4000 (a MIPS R5 implementation but with unauthorized and incompatible modifications here and there) only with the decoder stage replaced.

As for the "downplaying" of facts then: the original article is in Chinese, for a Chinese audience whose sentiment towards Loongson (or just about any "domestic CPU" development) is quite different from the typical Western think; so I have to tone down a little to maintain neutrality, both for presenting the Loongson side of argument, and for not needlessly enraging the more radical readers. And it certainly seems the translation has this "quality" preserved enough to be noticed...

Anyway, although the 3A5000 is remarkably faster than its predecessors and all RISC-V offerings that I know of, and is readily purchasable (which is the main reason I'm doing LoongArch work btw, uptake of this architecture may even help RISC-V in the end), the company may well not be worthwhile to support; it's already an entirely different company from the old Loongson 2F era. As we actually have enough Loongson criticizers even in China, I think I'll edit the FAQ to include more critical opinions (in both versions, of course).

And thanks for the frank comment!
Well, AI research is full of pathologies and I don't decry the "influx" of people from the sciences into the field. I'm just worried that the people who enter the field don't understand what's going on because they don't know what's been done before. To the extent that scientists from other fields can bring in the tools that computer science is lacking and a fresh new look at what AI reserach has done so far, then it's great to have them. I'm convinced, like I think you are, that progress towards artificial intelligence can only be achieved by an inter-disciplinary approach.

>> (...) the older generation of csci academics and much more aligned with my view).

That's true and hardbreaking. I don't know what we can do about that. The success of big tech corporations has broken computer science education, I'm afraid, and now all that graduates care about is how to make a six-figure salary at a FAANG.
Approx 30k migrants crossed the channel by boat last year and only 5 or so were returned.
the franchise was exactly the same as for general elections
I miss Kuro5hin.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuro5hin
Suffocation, dying fetus, gorguts, immolation, incantation, cannibal corpse
The book is very clear that everyone, regardless of ability, has a right to perform the term of service necessary for the franchise, and that all have complete freedom of speech.

There are many sloppy criticisms of the book, none of which have bothered to actually understand it.
I use the exact same mental image!

On the same theme, when I was a teenager my dad told me, in passing, to try to not to be the person caring the most about something. It has stayed with me since.
This quote also suggests a failure mode: if the people expect more than the people are willing to give plus maximum debt increase. Like you want low tax/social security payments and retirement age of 50.
Perfectionism can be a symptom of codependence. Codependence is a loaded word, but understand that many, many people struggle with codependence to some degree.

Us codependent personalities gain our sense of well-being based on what others think about us. So, everything has to be perfect because the prospect of rejection is very scary. I view a rejection of my work as a rejection of me to an exaggerated degree.

If this rings true to you, my advice is to find a good book on codependency or begin seeing a counselor and begin to understand yourself a little more.
I guess someone shoulda glued it back together when it cracked open? Is it too late to glue it back together now?

"For lack of some caulk civilization was lost"
Poor white people vote Republican. If you actually look at the entire population, Democrats consistently win the lower class.
The Emu War would be pretty high on that list [1]. TLDR; the Australians lost a war to Emus.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
“This is a lifestyle,” says MECA president Steve Stern in that video. “Everybody loves driving down the road with their tunes jamming. That’s as American as apple pie. We just do it on steroids.“

If driving by my house at 2am pounding bass loud enough to shake my windows really is quintessentially American, I’m not sure that America is the place for me.

I’ve encountered these people and I don’t like them very much.
Break huge goals into smaller achievable ones and always make it a point to ship "something."

Not sure if that applies to your context but that's how I see it with building stuffs.
Ha, same here. I think I spent two hours composing this. That's why these issues are so difficult. One needs time to sort things through, let the emotions settle, and find the proper words. Not something for Twitter.

Have a good week!
Building Wordle with React (and Stacked PRs)
> That would trigger a nuclear bomb from Russia

There is no reason for Russia to do so. Ukraine is not part of Russia. There already is a precedent for military operations in a country occupied by Russians (when Trump bombed Syria).
>Accepting an infinite number of immigrants would turn the entire country into a slum

I mean, this sounds pretty immigrant-phobic to me. When you picture "war refugees" do you only think of people who cannot get a job? There are doctors and software engineers fleeing war right now too.

UK unemployment rate is only 4%. That's considered "full employment" in the US. It seems like you could use the extra workers.