skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which country any NATO member attacked, occupied and annexed? Because that's what Russia does when it invades (like with Crimea).

Let's keep the same meaning of the word 'invade' when we talk about Russia and NATO.
Wyze Cam Vulnerabilities Could Let Attacker Access the Live Feed, Research Finds
I appreciate this insightful comment.

You seem to know more than the average person about this topic.

Would you care to elaborate on the risks associated with this retina blockchain tech?

I'd value your thoughts, as would many others here I'm sure.

Thanks either way!
(The traffic jam quote is from Frederik Pohl.)
If we ever get viable neural interface available, I definitely want to wire myself to my garden. The first thing I did on bare plot was to put in rotten wood and cartons for fungi to grow.
Well, the wind blowing on some hill somewhere in europe isn't of much help, it needs to be diverse enough that some countries can make up for the entire lack of production of other countries.

I am not convinced there is much diversification. I just did some back of the enveloppe analysis to convince myself. I am using hourly wind electricity production data from this source [1] which is referenced on the europa website [2] (first source I found, I don't necessarily vouch for it). I only looked at 2014-2015 (the last two years of this time series), took the daily production at 2pm (seems to be peak production and peak demand), and then calculated a weekly average of the 2pm production by country for every day. I took the low points for the UK (arbitrarily, that's where I am now), and looked at the percentile of each country for those UK low points.

So the way you read this is for the week ending 28 June 2014, when the UK was at its 1% worst wind production across 2014-2015, at that time Norway was at its 15%th worst production, Sweden 9%th worst, etc. "15%th worst" means that the norwegian production for that week was below that level only 15% of the weeks in 2014-2015.

2014-06-28 2014-09-09 2014-09-16
United Kingdom 1% 1% 2%
Norway 15% 21% 20%
Sweden 9% 0% 11%
Netherlands 1% 19% 18%
France 2% 9% 15%
Germany 23% 1% 41%
Italy 63% 9% 18%
Portugal 32% 5% 60%
Greece 55% 5% 8%

so you do get some outliers (Italy and Greece in the first column, Portugal in the last), but overall, all the major countries are down at the same time, so it's not Portgual that will produce the wind energy for all the other countries.

[1] https://zenodo.org/record/4803353
[2] https://data.jrc.ec.europa.eu/dataset/jrc-emhires-wind-gener...
The irony is the good parts of "democracy" aren't actually the democratic bits at all, but rather a basic respect for civil liberties (a.k.a. natural laws) which are subject to neither democratic votes nor authoritarian decrees. The key is not to lose sight of the fact that what the majority wills is not always right.

This is why attempts to impose democracy from outside tend to fail. Giving people the vote doesn't automatically lead to respect for their fellow citizens' civil liberties, which is much more fundamental.
"Doorway in the style of Escher"
There it is, "speed as a factor" (or in this case, a variant).

This is a classic law enforcement trope. I'm sorry but no-shit "speed" is a factor in a collision, so is the strong nuclear force. Stating such a thing proves nothing towards:

1) If someone was _actually_ speeding, as often the precise speed is totally unknown at the point of impact/accident. A cop that rolls up to a car impacted on a tree has no idea if they were doing 50 or 60 in a 55, but you can bet the farm they'll check the "speed as a factor" box.

2) If the accident would have happened had they been traveling 5MPH slower (speeding vs not speeding)

3) If the person would have survived at 65MPH vs 70. Remember that survivability has a cut off point, you're dead. Hitting a concrete wall head on at 65MPH is 100% lethal, 70MPH doesn't make any difference with respect to "survivability".

Couple all this with speed limits being insanely low throughout the US and routinely exceeded by 10+ MPH, no-shit that it's "a factor" in the majority of collisions... everyone does it. That's garbage data.
>Can you demand the company accept Plan W? Also no.

Maybe I'm misremembering but I vaguely recall a story of a man who altered a contract, signed it, and mailed it back to a telecom company. They signed it without reviewing and when it went to court it was upheld because both parties signed the altered contract.

But I understand that's different than "demanding" they accept it so it doesn't negate your point.
This article correctly asserts that advanced programming techniques aren't invalid because less experienced developers don't immediately comprehend how they work. But from a business standpoint, it is still important. If you are the senior developer and all of your team are fresh out of college, it might be counterproductive for you to go crazy with programming "magic". The examples given of what isn't magic (inheritance, extensions, monkey patches) are completely arbitrary. The truth is that it isn't magic to some developers and it is to others, and you need to know who's reading your code.

In the same vein, there are plenty of operations that can be done with arithmetic only (obviously not magic, right?) whose purpose is completely incomprehensible to anybody who didn't write it. Most of these will also be incomprehensible to the author after a period of weeks or months. The same goes for complex sed or regex expressions or a million other one-liner tricks that we nerds love so much. Even if I don't expect anyone other than myself to ever read the code (no, make that especially if it's just for me) I write a brief comment with some explanation of what it does. Or maybe wrap it in a semantically accurate function.

I did a little bit of Ruby/Rails about 10 years ago, and this article also reminds me why I have avoided Ruby since, coming to down to this (non)quote:

> As Matz says (reciting from memory), “Ruby is complex language to make developer’s life simple”, not the other way round.

Ruby claims to make the developer's life simple by being complex, which in my opinion is just backwards reasoning. You lost as me at "parentheses are optional". I'm not even a Python guy at all but I'll go back to my favorite truism from the Zen of Python: explicit is better than implicit. Give a team of nerdy programmers too many routes to the same goal and you're guaranteed to end up with a bunch of code that nobody understands.
> ruined all other text editors for me

Emacs has a text editor too ?!!?
Monkey see, monkey do. For physical skills, watching somebody do it while they explain why they are doing it that way is much more illuminating that text alone.

For strictly intellectual skills I find short introductory lectures on YouTube a great way to survey a topic. For a topic I know nothing about I find YT great place to find which direction is most interesting to pursue.
Karencam? Stasicam? C'mon, these are great.
The perception of odor pleasantness is shared across cultures
What if you were inventing a language (or a programming language)... If you decided to prevent people from saying things you disagreed (assuming you could work out the technical details of doing so) with would it be moral to do so?
[edited for clarity]
rimraf is your friend
> solve a worthy problem: proof of personhood for crypto

This is a problem? Like I have a SSN, a drivers license, and a birth certificate. These are tools developed already by my local and national government to prove personhood. They are used in a legal context, often. I have never once wished my identity could be involved in a cryptocurrency for any reason.
I agree, there's definitely some friction there and for random personal projects I for sure choose to host on the same architecture I develop on.

For large deployments, the calculation might be very different. Beyond that, plenty of people are developing on Arm Macs now.

> unless the cloud provider is an absolute giant and has a proven track record.

Right, well, this is Amazon AWS we are talking about?
What are some of the biggest lessons you learned from this experience? What do you feel like you did right, and what would you do differently?
I can certainly share your concern here, but not sure what can be done about this. Since you probably have done more thinking in this space, what are some things you think are possible?
> Edit: Also, who gets to keep the nuclear weapons?

Russia will keep the nuclear weapons. From the split there will still be a Russia, it'll hold Moscow and St. Petersburg for example. That new country will still be a significant economy with a large population (Western Russia obviously by far holds most of the nation's population density). Ideally they'd downscale the number of nukes they have (with the US also doing so), but that might be hoping for too much.

The biggest problem with the splintering will be what China and North Korea do in their regions near the present Russian border. China would have to be very tempted to conquer more of Asia (some territory bordering the Sea of Japan and Okhotsk), going up the coast to open up more routes for their navy forces into the Pacific.
The restaurant culture is toxic and consumerism is killing it. When I started washing dishes, there was a clear dividing line between coffee shops, restaurants and fast food. Most people had their preferences and stuck with it. Slowly those lines have been blurred as the corporations pretty much have a template for what stores goes in any new shopping center. The people that grew up working in restaurants are used to very similar routines, no matter where you go to work. Long hours sure, but for well managed restaurants, those hours instilled a sense of pride that you will not find in the part-time, in/out, do everything workers that the average chain eatery will hire. The community based restaurants treated good workers as a asset, but the corporations are looking at the bottom line, so all workers are treated like a replaceable liability.
The physicists don't "keep it running ". They have engineers and technicians and so on for that. They come up with models ,design experiments and analyze results of extremely complex phenomena. Almost all of them also have a PhD, they are a lot smarter than your average software team. Okay if you compare them to say people working on compilers at Google , it might be similar, but not to your average team
“Criticize?! It is meant to draw blood! It is Art! Art!”
Implement an Uptime Monitor Using AWS Lambda, EventBridge, SNS, and SQS
Yeah. After wasting two years working on a programming language I realized nobody was ever going to use, I made an oath to just stick to hacking on top of language that already exist
New Social Media App BeReal Is Trending at Colleges as 'Casual Instagram'
Frogs are dying across eastern Australia. Scientists don’t know why (2021)
I searched for “what about” in the article, and it is indeed there. Chomsky responds to the question asking if the war
is about Russia trying to stamp out democracy by saying “What about what the USA is doing?”
> Most painful mistake was that right at the end of the cold war Russia wasn't strongly encouraged, even pressured or bribed to join NATO.

Because NATO works by consensus not majoritarianism, that would have given Russia a NATO veto, in effect. Despite that, Russia was on the NATO onramp from almost immediately after independence from the USSR until Putin demanded that Russia bypass the readiness criteria being applied to other new members and be immediately granted membership (and still technically was on the onramp after that, though no real progress was made between that point and when relations seriously started to degrade with Russia’s invasions of various of neighbors that were also, and more serious, NATO aspirants.)
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day.

Give a man a homemade shitcoin and insert yourself as the transaction processor middleman, and you feed yourself in perpetuity.
map capslock to be a control key.
And Russia had absolutely nothing to do with the election of Yanukovych and the widespread corruption. Their hands were so clean!
Reproductive cycle of figs and fig wasps
I would use it for my own lawn to make it so I could set the height of my lawnmower perfectly.
https://cdn.openai.com/papers/dall-e-2.pdf

> Given an image x, we can obtain its CLIP image embedding zi and then use our decoder to “invert” zi, producing new images that we call variations of our input.
..
It is also possible to combine two images for variations. To do so, we perform spherical interpolation of their CLIP embeddings zi and zj to obtain intermediate zθ = slerp(zi, zj , θ), and produce variations of zθ by passing it through the decoder.

From the limitations section:

> We find that the reconstructions mix up objects and attributes.
I agree that many of us are not seeing the writing on the wall. It does give me some hope that folks like Andrew Yang are starting to pop up, spreading awareness about, and proposing solutions to the challenges we are soon to face.
Here's what I don't get about this issue: Given that crypto's value prop is a decentralized, democratized currency free from any regulatory body's oversight, why are crypto people viewing this as "a problem"?

It seems to me that they want to have their cake and eat it too.

The "identity verification" function is one of the roles that governmental agencies are well-suited to perform.

Another is prosecuting fraud.

If crypto doesn't want government "interference" then why is the crypto community so invested in replicating that "interference", except in an objectively inferior way?
Unfortunately, Crysis 1 is seriously single-thread bottlenecked. It was designed in anticipation of the "10 GHz Pentium 4" school of CPUs that never ended up existing, so it runs like trash even today with high-end hardware.

The remaster does not fix this and actually is a step down in visuals in some respects, due to the ever popular "we remastered from a shitty port that never worked right in the first place". Halo also comes to mind, with the Halo PC version having completely broken shaders and much different weapons balance from the xbox version. In the case of crysis I believe it was the other way around, the game was remastered from the lower-fidelity Xbox version... so it actually is visually worse in some areas.

https://gamerant.com/crysis-remastered-review/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_Az4-2o9AI
Good point. Those are very real problems too, especially in small office environments.

You don't want that server in some spot where someone can accidentally kick it and suddenly the server goes offline. You also don't want it in an unventilated closet where it'll overheat.

As for noise... in this day and age of open office spaces and chatty coworkers, you'll be lucky if the server noise is your biggest problem. Unless everyone is working from home, and now the problem is physically accessing the server if it goes down or needs other physical maintenance.
And when we translate these fungal sentences...

"Juffo-Wup is the hot light in the darkness. All else is unfulfilled Void."
> How much longer will people continue trusting venture backed startups that are almost guaranteed to go belly up within 24 months?

A lot.

We are raising generations that hail hashes representing urls to some origin server hosting a picture of a stylized horse (till the origin server doesn't shut down or changes the resource) over real estate, traditional stocks or even just luxury or anything you can touch or use.

We hail as heroes few dozens of crazy dudes putting all their life savings into meme stocks and picture them as heroes fighting against "the system".

We hail as heroes controversial entrepeneurs, generally sociopaths full of themselves, rather than hard working common people.

We are creating generations of ever more connected but lonely individuals desperately trying to find their place in the world, and somehow, we tell them that money is the answer for finding that place and purpose.

There is no shortage of people desperate for "making it" with ease and willing to take huge risks.

Go on reddits or boards related to personal finance, risky crypto speculation and meme stocks are discussed more than taxes, education investments or simple funds.

I think VC craziness is going to increase a lot and spread to places and countries where it wasn't the norm, that's up to you to decide whether it's good or not.
Of course it is. Software has a very high margin. You could get by with a skeleton staff, and make a nice profit.
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This. The whole idea of a patent is that companies share the details of the invention in the patent in exchange for a temporary monopoly on the idea.
Last release was all the way back in 2017?
This is kinda like asking someone who just got robbed “Why did you leave your door open? You’re responsible for your home no one else.” That’s true, but it’s still not okay to rob people!
bad grammar and it makes my brain melt trying to parse through the error.
I made the decision after a lot of reflection. We still had ~6 months of runway so I could have spent more time "pivoting" around.

The issue was that what I was hearing from prospects, customers, users signaled a bigger issue that could not be solved with a product tweak or two.

At the end of the day, I felt like the story I would need to tell a future investor (and new/existing employees) would increasingly become disconnected from the reality I was experiencing talking to customers/users.

I didn't feel at peace about it at all. I considered it to be a form of lying.
Germany solar industry killed itself. It was run by greedy subsidy collectors that cried for anti-dumping tariffs once they realized they were out produced by Asian manufacturers (and out funded by Chinese state backed banks). Germany did help to propel the solar manufacturing industry to what it is today so.
Were you profitable?
I'll confess to having a flat policy of downvoting any comment I see that says "I'll get downvoted for this", regardless of whether I agree with the rest of it...
EU has common energy market. In reality it means Germany can be VERY grean, while importing atomic energy from France and coal from Poland and Balkans.

Who will loose in this are poor EU nations, 10x higher energy cost compared to local production cost. Germany is basically outsourcing negative impacts of its energy policy to its neighbors.
I originally called it "Friday Feedback" - you will probably see a launch post ~6 years ago with a search for that :)
Code escrow and SaaS escrow are both guarantees that exist. Larger customers can negotiate it if they aren't sure what will be the future of the company. Redis (back when they were called RedisLabs) used to offer that for their proprietary components several years ago, although in hindsight it clearly wasn't needed in their case.
I expect that interactive art will be huge. Game design gets fascinating, for example.
> he was indeed an apologist for it during its era in power

The US did indeed arm the "Khmer Rouge", whatever that is, after its era in power.
Reminds me of the United Nations using eyeball scan payment systems instead of cash to let refugees buy stuff from local stores.
Yes continuous stream of pump and dumps that get marked up at every round and never make a profit but make early shareholders rich.
> My experience with this, is moving away from the Nvidia kernel isn't practically feasible

Oh yup... for just 4.14 (from the NV 4.9 kernel), took so much work to keep up...

I eventually had a project to decouple nvgpu so that it could be used with a regular mainline kernel as a DKMS module... but I didn't get around to it. The situation on that front will become better in the future, but it's taking way too long.

> Userspace may be a refuge, but even trying to upgrade away from the Nvidia/Ubuntu 18.04 userspace was always going to bring up general incompatibilities and small problems.

CUDA 10.2 doesn't support Ubuntu 20.04 so hello problems on that front. Enough said...

> Nvidia needs to step it up, big time. Jetson Xavier users are finally going to get a beta for Cuda 11, when x86 and SBSA arm users had Nvidia's official Cuda 11 for almost 2 years now.

Yes... the thing is that Jetson has been put exclusively on an LTS lifecycle and that posed a bunch of problems. We have promises that it won't happen again in the future, with CUDA being decoupled from L4T shipping sometime towards the end of the year.

And the beta shipping tomorrow is for CUDA 11.4, not the latest 11.6.

Also as a side note if you're on Xavier and trying to OTA update to the BSP released tomorrow, just don't, that flow is just not supported. Full reinstall required between major BSP releases.
What if explicit, questionable and even illegal content was AI generated instead of involving harm to real humans of all ages?
“Preventing Harmful Generations”? = Fail.

Caravaggio is probably chortling from wherever he is ..
You're better off. The kind of shallow person who chooses romantic partners based on the color of their text bubble in a messaging app is the kind of person who does not have successful/stable relationships.
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Sounds like a cool startup idea -- a company like codekeeper.co but for documenting and open sourcing a product given they go poof. All the legalese that would entail and integration with source control included, of course.
> If you're generally sceptical of crypto, Worldcoin will seem outright useless to you.

How about those who are simply skeptical that Silicon Valley venture capitalists have any interest in solving global poverty?
Maybe this is off topic to your comment but every time I see a16z mentioned anywhere near crypto I have to laugh because I remember how big of a deal the "It's Time To Build" essay was only 2 years ago. Instead of building anything of actual use, they pour money into Ponzi schemes.
Who is we? I sure don’t. The vocal minority that lionizes this behavior is just that, a minority.
d12frosted/emacs-plus/emacs-plus@29 on Homebrew is my fav way to install master on a Mac. Trackpad scrolling is smooth even at 120hz.
This is not what a dichotomy is. Chomsky’s point is that both the expansion of NATO and Putin being a dictator played a part in the invasion of Ukraine. He’s presenting these two facts as the opposite of a dichotomy!
I actually started reading it a couple of days ago. :)
It's not that you can't change the DB. Options could be:

- collaborate more with any breaking changes

- add features to the DB and keep backwards compatibility

- use a DB View so it can be changed as needed and not affect other apps (most similar to an API)

- use Stored Procedures instead of direct table access as it gives more compatibility

- there are other methods too.
Having worked with rails professionally, I agree magic is a stupid term to use. It needlessly suggests some kind of unexplainable or opaque mechanism. As much as I wish ruby were more popular than python, python does it better by simply calling conventions "Pythonic" rather than a loaded word like magic
In addition to this the vast majority of the people 'farming' games like axie are in poor countries particularly in south east asia. Just like how WoW offshored gold farming to china. Axie and similar play to earn games basically allow relatively wealthy western players to offshore the grinding to people in poor countries.
This is another thing I hate about the term "speeding". It makes no distinction between someone doing 55 in a 15mph neighborhood with playing kids, and someone doing 90 on an autobahn-tier controlled access highway with no traffic.
Speaking of snapshots, are you planning to have analogs to ZFS's send/recv and diff? I didn't see any mention of them on the snapshots page or the roadmap, but I could be looking in the wrong place. Already having reflink support is exciting though; a ZFS replacement that can also do reflinks would be amazing.