skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember reading this theory a bit ago and I thought it was one of the more compelling observations. It depends on whether you're focusing on foreign or domestic politics, because both fit in various ways. When the republic fell to an empire, it was due more to domestic issues: the agrarian middle class was displaced by slave labor and mostly forced into professional military careers, and the very rich infought into conquering the state. The the empire fell (at least, the Western empire) it was foreign issues: the central state was over-extended and unable to hold the full Pax Romana territory any longer.

The useful lesson from the "falling Empire stages" is to gracefully cede influence without entering into counterproductive wars with new rising powers, as you mention with China.
Just looking down the list makes me tired. If I have to give my data to one and only one party in return of many valuable service, I chose it to be google. I know they are not the initial google anymore but I do not have time to redesign my life with many, but many-many privacy focused apps, just because. My privacy from one single company is not that important. Benefits I get in return, and combining them under one umbrella, which is google, is extremely valuable on the other hand.
This is actually why I think we need more cloud and not less. The problem is poorly designed code, not monolith or microservice.

For example, ValidationService as described above could be replaced with OpenPolicyAgent and would scale much better.

That said, I could see someone pointing at OpenPolicyAgent and asking why they didn’t separate distributed updates from the policy spec as two distinct projects, this way you could re-use parts of OPA to distribute config files or feature flags. You can now too, but it requires the extra hop of compiling a function to answer.

Come to think of it, distributed state updating is roughly the same general problem that Kubernetes Operator pattern solves.

Another way of putting it, we have cloud primitives but not enough of them, maybe - or they aren’t well enough explained - to make the choices or restrictions of different architectures a bit more obvious? I especially look forward to a future when we get “design systems” for the programming we do with business logic in the cloud.

I’m over-emphasizing cloud here. I mean code you don’t directly have to maintain and write regardless of where it runs or who wrote it.
As always, the most informative and best written source for a financial story is Matt Levine:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe...

Read the past week. Subscribe for free via email if you have even a passing interest in financial markets.
But agents and genservers are a good way of dealing with state.
they would shovel the snow and salt the sidewalks at my uni with enclosed with hvac, basically more durable 'golf carts' with a truck bed with a salt dispenser and a snow plow in front. seems like something like that would make a decent winter grocery getter or commuter.
Lightroom has profile for most lenses, and given it knows which was used from EXIF data, applying the correct correction is all automatic.
Context can be expresses with thin, somewhat redundant interfaces that group code around how they map to desiderata. Eg the meat in “matrix pseudoinverse” and “linear regression” is the same, but you can expose domain-meaningful abstractions. Regular OOP does “tangle and weave” without the messy text transformation mechanics.
De-Cossackization
The Eastern empire lost its ability to project power across the Mediterranean by the mid 600s and completely lost its ability to project anything more than local power by about 1000 AD. By 1453 the Byzantines couldn't even be considered any sort of empire.

Western Rome also lost huge ability to project power when it fell and decomposed into its constituent states. Whereas as recently as the reign of Diocletian Rome was projecting power well into Germania proper by the end of the 4th century Rome couldn't even defend its own borders. The equivalent for the US would be China/Russia wantonly attacking American client states (Germany, France, Israel, Taiwan) without fear of retaliation.
They totaled the car, which was rented as well as damaging two parked cars belonging to residents in addition to several trash cans. The LAPD has a $1,000 reward for information that may lead to an arrest.

https://www.foxla.com/news/tesla-flying-jump-video-crash-los...
I agree with you, but... I don't think it's quite there yet. "Professional" cameras aren't yet irrelevant. But eventually they will be if they don't make some changes.

This is film vs digital all over again.
FAA official says former Boeing chief test pilot misled her about 737 Max
I think it's basically just replacing having a circuit-breaker -- if they had a circuit breaker like a lot of other exchanges, the crazy price jump never would have gotten going.
One person's junk is another's treasure; one person's "normalized data" is another person's "you removed the one data point I cared most about!"

One thing this article is reinforcing to me is the value of domain knowledge to an analyst. I am deeply skeptical of "one size fits all" analysis tools, services, and consultancies for exactly this reason. Making insight actionable requires knowing what actions can be taken, and how.
Software can't fix a slow aperture.
Dehydration skews a lot of blood values. Hematocrit is probably the most direct, since it's the percentage of red blood cells in a volume. Dehydration decreases the volume, and thus increases hematocrit. Electrolytes get out of whack too.

In practice, I don't think anyone really does this: thirst, urine/sweat, and weight are very easy to measure, and the obvious next step would be pulse or blood pressure.
> Sure, but how does this system work?

You walk or take transit within that area? In my experience European cities are super walkable within the core, never bothered with taxis or ride-sharing.
I tried that for a while but now my reviews are basically:

"No, stop, don't."

https://youtu.be/uVdDXeYM4ss

It's like I'm talking to children, they think I'm just old and stuck in my ways and that I just don't understand.

Eventually my prediction comes true but none of them have ever said anything, they just go implement what I suggested and act like they solved the world's greatest mystery.

I guess it's easy to forget my comments from months earlier, it's almost as if I've seen their code before and know how it ends.
nice followup :)
For those wondering what Vampires of Pittsburgh is:
https://sob.fandom.com/wiki/Vampires_of_Pittsburgh
I have never seen a company based in the US distribute such absolutely terrible software unabashedly, no. I recently looked at the software which came with a laser cutter, which included a cracked copy of a CNC controller software, some random utilities with no confidence inspiring features whatsoever, burned to a CD-R and shoved in the box. That's the sort of level of quality and polish which didn't even strike me as abnormal.
It's presumably not just food poisoning--it'd be exercise-induced.
I think OneWeb is backed by the british government, and as we're finding out, global satellite networks are quite useful in military conflicts. While there's definitely a commercial aspect that has value, the military value is likely significantly higher.
Dollars to doughnuts is a too-worn-out phrase.

Proposed replacement:

"Gömböcs to Mömbius strips says its true ..."

"If it's three platinum Gömböcs to my two rubber Mömbius strips, you're on."

"I'm so confident I will throw in a hand-blown Klein bottle."
I thought almost any new phone - with GPS/bluetooth off - will last several days.

My Nokia was getting 8 days before I started putting all the apps on it. The more apps I added, the worse it got.

Nowadays I generally restrict apps from running anything in the background/sync'ing etc etc if I can.

I am happy to wait a few seconds for email to sync when I open the app rather than have my phone beep at me for every new email...
IMO maybe its a little absurd every minivan or whatever can go 120mph and go zero to 60 in 5 seconds. Why do you need that power? Not for legal driving sitations that's for sure since as soon as you use that power you have on tap you are basically driving recklessly by definition. Tool for the job and all. I can manage life going to the grocery store with something with the performance characteristics of a golf cart or a bird scooter. Don't need a 5 second 0-60 for that, personally.
Good idea to just abort it. :)

However, I tried your suggestion from another terminal, and gdb appears to shield the program somehow. What ended up working is running "signal SIGABRT" from within gdb.

One thing that's still lacking is gcore's ability to take a snapshot of the core without killing the program. "Unlike after a crash, after gcore finishes its job the program remains running without any change."
https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/gcore.1.html
> MAGMA

Out of curiosity, why do some people change "F" to "M" for Facebook to Meta, but leave the "G" there for Google?
We have a little bit of a self-vision problem. Historically, America focused on conquering new frontiers: manifest destiny (with all the nastiness that includes), industrialization, the space race, computing. It's not really clear what the next national frontier will be, and a lot of the domestic politics are anchored more around the allocation of resources from past frontiers rather than the establishment of a new frontier. This is all orthogonal to external enemies like the USSR, which I just see as a relatively generic phenomenon; countries frequently unify around external enemies, and you're probably right that the current situation with the USSR won't have a very long-lasting effect.
Those all seem like legit problems that need to be handled, but none of them justify LME's super-corrupt "solution" of "take-backsies for big/high-status traders, but brutal market discipline for Gary Greentext on WallStreetBets".

Don't like short squeezes? Then don't allow naked shorting (which, contra the confused author, this was).

The trades could have been satisfied but for an extra transaction? Natively support the transaction.

The nickel doesn't meet the spec? Create a new category for it, or don't support it to begin with.

In no case is a sane solution to play favorites with overleveraged traders.
To add, the 13's cameras are even bigger now. I wouldn't be surprised if we see another 1.5x increase in the size of the sensors by the iPhone 15's launch. It turns out that giving the algorithm more to work with vastly increases how much it can do.
If your team loses the basketball game, the rest of your high school hates you.

If you lose your job, you lose your health insurance.

If you bet on the wrong part of the roulette wheel, you lose your chips.

If you miss your rent, you get evicted.

In all these endeavors, if you screw up you suck up the consequences, end of story. I feel literally no pity for traders who got margin called, they're forced to buy nickel to cover their short positions but they're just not worthy victims, they're debtors. And these are expensive people, these traders took out those loans to buy proof of their superiority, like cars, houses, jewelry for wives and affairs, investment-type goods like watches...maybe one of them was smart enough to buy Magic cards, but if they get short-squeezed, I doubt it.

To my knowledge these traders are consenting adults, 18 and up surely, they gambled and won and took their money, this time they gambled and lost. They have to pay, with nothing but silence from them.
High intellect, low wisdom. The shorthand here is common in games where your character has certain capabilities/stats: intellect (int), strength (str), defence (def), etc.
> It's rarely because we don't know about it or don't understand it

That's pretty arrogant. In fact, big companies have many (influential) people who've been working there for a long time and have relatively weak knowledge of the technology landscape outside their company.
> In such a case, a massive fine would not only bankrupt that person

At worst you are fined for 4% of your annual income, it wont bankrupt you. No government is going to go through all that hassle just to fine an independent journalist for a paltry sum. If they really wanted that power they would add defamation laws like UK where they can put you in jail for speaking negatively about public figures.

And until the thing you fear happens at least once to a small business we can assume it will never happen. In the extremely unlikely event that it really happens you pay a 4% fee of your annual income, that hurts for sure but it isn't life altering.
Oh lordy, no, they didn't solve it.

If you're not married, you can't get public housing until you're 35.

If you do qualify, you have to enter a lottery for the opportunity to choose a unit. The chances of winning the first time are low.

Then once you've won, the wait time is 4-5 years before you actually get the place. But people do it because you can buy the unit subsidized, then after ~5 years, you can sell it at market rates. It's basically a free hand out by the governement.
The CEOs Who Were Briefed by the White House on the War in Ukraine
That's a very wishy-washy response without an effect size, though.
RPIs are increasingly hard to get or too pricey. What gives? Is it the supply chain issue?
And the asahi linux project has been hacking away at linux on the M1 family without any issues....
"Are you complaining about missing drivers in Linux? For the life of me, I never had to install any particular driver since like 2010 on both laptops and workstations. Not even for printers."

Yeah well, then you are among the lucky few, or you are not aware of the difference a good driver makes.

Right now I cannot get my linux workstation to do screencasting with hardware encoding(with OBS). On windows no problem.

And the laptops. On ALL my laptops I owned (6+) I tried linux, but experience was always worse, or even impossible. That includes tweaking, messing with grub, tlp and and in one instance even compiling the kernel.
Still way worse battery life, performance, standby resume issues, freezes and dont get me started about touchscreen. I hate windows. But I have work to do.
Because Google's name change happened long enough ago, that nobody remembers it.
What is interesting about Rwanda is the artificiality and strength of the division between Hutus and Tutsis. I wonder how many people know that the history; that the 1994 massacre was of the formerly "upper-class" Tutsi.

The highlighting of divisions - imaginary or real rarely helps and almost always makes things worse.

There's a reason retaliation in soccer is an automatic red card. It's not that the retaliation isn't warranted; it's because it typically is.
The feature is not implemented on iPhones so that you are more incentivized to buy their smartwatch.
IMO it looks like Apple took this tradeoff by assuming people will get a case, and all the ones i've seen (and have[0]) include making the back of the case either flush with the sensors or further out than the extruding bump.

0: https://www.spigen.com/collections/iphone-13-pro-max/product...
they sound like a great option for major cities where there are already tons of speed limiting because of the population density.
I prefer to describe this as the world being in a permanently inflamed state. "vibe shift" doesn't really capture the feeling.
They did and will lose money on their bets, just not ridiculous amounts that don’t reflect the real market price. Also the bailouts we’re talking about here are loans to nickel miners to cover margin calls, not free money. They will make money selling nickel at a higher price.
I’ve noticed with my 12 pro, my wife’s 11 pro, and my mom’s S10 that shots will sometimes look distorted in weird ways. With someone’s face being unnaturally elongated, or an arm in the foreground shortened. You’ll think you captured the shot and will only notice it after.
What If Working in Sweatpants Unleashed Your Superpowers?
It will take a massive dump, just like it always has.

It amazing how short people's attention span is. It's not the last housing crash in the US or Asia was that long ago.
Yeah, same as everything else.
They brainwashed an entire social group into thinking the best way to get what they want is to kill the otherside. China sold them machetes, but in America, we have half the world's guns.
- Anything from suckless

- Lua

- Redis

- idtech3

- libuv

- linux kernel

- sqlite

As much as Ruby, Python, and Go tout for being elegant or clean to read, they are pretty horrible to read in the wild. C is where it's at.
Republican Rome was never conquered. Rome was sacked--which, it is often theorized, created a long-standing cultural fear of the Gauls/Celts that remained largely until Julius Caesar's Gallic conquests/genocides--but the attackers did not stay and did not attempt to replace the governing apparatus.

Roman history, particularly pre-imperial, does show a lot of "why exactly will they not just die?", but some level of resilience in large Mediterranean powers of antiquity was pretty common. (Carthage took two wars and decades to lose the Punic Wars.)
Hackers claim to have breached Okta systems
Mapped: Global Happiness Levels in 2022
I've had light issues on every new PC I've had in the past 5 years. Be it the sound card, or the WiFi, or the NIC, or suspend / sleep. I will state all the issues were usually fixed in 6 months to a year as new kernels with improved drivers were released. So Linux on bleeding edge hardware is usually so so. (My TR workstation wouldn't even boot Linux without a specially compiled kernel and some boot parameters when it came out).

But if your hardware is over a year old, the Linux experience tends to be rock solid.
We need a movement where top websites refuses to put up cookie consent or pay any fines as part of the civil disobedience.
Before we invented terms like "microservices" and "service meshes" and even SaaS and PaaS, the phenomenon was just called, "Dazzling them with bullshit."

Tony Hoare used his Turing Award speech to state the following:

There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.

Microservices were meant to be simple encapsulation but if you create enough crosslinks in a network of very simple services then rather than removing the weight you've just pushed it out of the nodes and into the edges. And since those edges don't exist when the system is at rest, they are dead awful to analyze and reason about. There are no obvious deficiencies.
In my experience, 95% of the people advocating microservices can't properly explain ACID. Not to mention advanced concurrency concepts like MVCC.

Regarding division of work, those advocates seem to have forgotten that libraries exists.

Or that you can deploy a monolith and still scale endpoints independently.

Microservices might be a good fit for tiny fraction of real world scenarios.
Good, just be you.

Sadly I notice some haggling tourism, people are being misled by blog posts and vlogs that the culture there is to haggle and that the seller respect you more when you haggle. I find that to be totally unsettling.

I am a local in a developing country, with an upper middle class income, I do not haggle, I give extra tips, my friends from similar income level do so too, some do for things I do not tip for. If you are a tourist and wanna have a local authentic experience you probably should match the behavior of the people of that nation with same income level as you not of the vast majority that can happen to be poor.

Also I won't trust diaspora colleagues, just like how Italians will always insist that the pizza you've ate in Italy was not up to standard and not a real pizza just a round piece of bread with vegetables on top of it and the real pizza is on mr mario's pizzeria in the luigi street in Milan, all diaspora of the world do the same.
Am I missing something, or is the only similarity "man turns into animal"? Because there's absolutely nothing eerie about that single element showing up in multiple places.
I don't mean to suggest that (also as it turns out there's just a frightful scarcity of doctor candidates willing to work in rural America to begin with so that's a moot point to argue any which way).

I sought to note the particular and unique plight of African Americans. I came upon this picture of Ruby Bridges a month ago: https://i.imgur.com/SSRsywY.png and I got to reading what became of her, and I found this recent picture of her: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Ruby_Bri... that's that little girl who put up with a lot of shit just to attend the same school as white girls -- and she doesn't even look that old in this recent pic! The idea that we don't have to do anything to make up for denying the black man and woman the right to drink from the same fountain as the white man and woman, to attend the same school only a few decades ago is deeply unsettling, as the auspices of privilege reverberate down the generations, so do the weighted anchors of un-privilege.

In that vein, I think the argument you seem to be converging toward is not very strong because we have a special select of Asians and Hispanics, they are a special bunch to have taken the initiative to leave everything behind and immigrate elsewhere for a better life, likely they were moneyed enough to make the move, likely they had a strong social support networks as indeed Hispanic&Asian households do, better eating habits, probably more active, etc.
Unless there was a third person in the car besides your neighbour and his wife, I'd take the statement of the wife "demanding" to walk home with a grain of salt. Especially an adult who would have heard about others freezing to death and hopefully knew better.
Your response remains starkly oblique to my point. My point is that people in elevated risk groups (elderly, immunocompromised, etc) should be encouraged to wear an effective mask. We know that N95+ masks have strong supporting evidence of their efficacy. We know that similar evidence is distinctly lacking when it comes to most cloth and surgical masks. The continued social acceptance of sub-standard masks sends (IMHO) a dangerously misleading message which places these people at risk.
In North America, if they bridge together the two phases to give you 120V only service, your electric stove, the big one, (and electric water heater if not gas) won't work at all. I don't mean work poorly. I mean zero heat output whatsoever.

Of course, a toaster oven or a single-plug-in burner will still work, but you'll have to coordinate.
The workflow is still easier that way.

I do have to go through the step of post-processing…but I'm doing that with JPEGs from the phone regardless.

Completely tangential rant: #nofilter is dumb. Your camera is actually producing a low-contrast black-and-white image that is then demosaiced and interpreted according to an engineer somewhere who is trying to make it look fairly literal. There's filters all the way down.

Wait, where was I? Right. Post-processing. So once I've editing the RAW file in the Photos app, or in Lightroom…boom, it's right there for me. It's on my phone, it's getting backed up to iCloud, and I can trivially post the photo anywhere.

Whereas, on a stand-alone camera, I have to jump through a series of connecting hoops. So RAW doesn't have much impact on the workflow.