skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you pay things with your credit card at Ikea, the transaction is not being settled at the exact instant. It's not like your bank is sending money to Ikea's bank directly.

When/If people get to be using crypto to pay for things at Ikea, it will be the same. They won't be using the blockchain directly. They will be using "layer-2" systems. These systems will be more efficient because they can batch multiple transactions into one.

(With decentralized tech, there is also the possibility that IKEA itself can provide banking/financing services separate from their furniture retail business and that people might be using their "IKEA card" to pay for things anywhere.)
The OP is saying that the comment that says GTK is unintuitive is useless is true, and you are saying that GTK is beautiful and intuitive, which is just confirming the OP's comment. I think you miss the point here.
At some point they have to face the reality these "stereotypical biases" are natural and hamstringing AIs to never consider them will twist them monstrously.
I honestly eats most people's "big data" for breakfast. Combined with datasette for turning your ad-hoc queries an api of sorts it's like a superpower.
Nice.. I didn't know about that!
> Problem with that is the deciders in these states don't reflect the population of the state in general.

By "the state" did you mean the US? If so, I'm not sure reflecting the population of the nation is a sound idea. I was not born in the US nor was educated in the US, but I thought the founding fathers spent inordinate amount of energy to design a system so that democracy would not mean the "tyranny of the majority", and local governance throughout the entire political system in a country as large as the US is one of the greatest invention in politics.
this is a really could way to think about it - moving the legal responsibility outside the organization, instead of trying to solve everything in one big move
We can transmit electricity over long distances thanks to (U)HVDC and it is more and more applied:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HVDC_projects
Well, good thing is during that reboot time your brakes will likely work to its full potential, you'll have engine braking, your clutch will work, your transmission might work if you have a separate TCM, your steering will work with power steering.

You will just lose power, as though you let off the throttle fully, during this time.

In fact your car turns off fueling when you let off the throttle fully to conserve fuel.

I think the only danger is that if you were going full tilt on a sports car, and the throttle failed close, you will get lift off oversteer probably.
> doesn't and social pressure forbids head-of-line

This is a horrid implementation of a work queue or any queuing in general. You have a multiple workers (tellers) and a single queue - the rest is a dumb design. The other option is work stealing but the example would not work so well with a bank and tellers.

Virtually all banks around here use ticketing system with different queue, effectively a priority queue with multiple workers.
Did you ever look into this? I've been wondering the same now for a couple of years.
> Contacting all those contributors to get them to agree to a license change is a large undertaking.

With the right licensing language it doesn't need to be.

Authors must maintain contactability through emails listed in source / git commits, if authors fail to respond to pings about changes to licensing in a timely manner they forfeit their rights.
A programming dilemma as old as time: Encoding Rectangles
At minimum wage you'll be hard-pressed to convince a court you had no choice.
Can you think of an example?
I think he means people like Vandana Shiva (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandana_Shiva). She's been on plenty of western interviews, talks, etc. advocating organic farming.
Do you use some SaaS based APMs ( like New Relic , Data Dog ) or something in house ?.
Is SaaS based platforms for monitoring secure enough to share the critical logs?.
Trying to make a decision in own org. Currently running ELK stack.
Most cars today do not have traditional keys in an ignition cylinder.
I agree java forces a set of constructs, but it's a clear win for c++ - it has far too many constructs that interact in incredibly subtle and complex ways. And it will only get worse over time as they accumulate. At least I can obtain a fairly good mental model for what Java does without being a wizard.
A lot of the art though is what not to write. Too much code is written.
>You just had to listen and watch what they were doing for the past 20 years.

in all fairness, that is prime conspiracy narrative. "just follow the line of strings and it all makes sense!".

The US has been in a swing between the two parties for the past 40 years. to suggest that there's been some kind of plan to fill the courts up an convince the country to overturn a previous ruling would only be possible if you believe the opposing party was in cohoots with the plan. Which is a conspiracy level take that I'd need signifigant, official documents to be swayed on.

Occam's razor still supports your point while keeping the story simple: there's been decades of swing votes with each party getting a justice in over the decades. with the last case happening right towards the end of a controversial president with a controversial 2016 and 2020 election period.

It's a platform, sure. But I think this comes down to a series of happensstance for their plans lining up rather than some carefully crafted web of plans like some sort of thriller movie. We don't need to turn into reddit and make things out to be some grand conspiracy to discuss a topic
It's not open source, for anyone wondering.
If macro op fusion is viable then there are more opportunities to throw more transistors at it to get more performance.
"gas fees" is such a wonderful euphemism. at least one, possibly two of the fintech blockchain workshops I went to 5 years ago sold the basis of reasoning as "removing intermediaries and rent-seekers" and here we are, having a "processing fee" cost added which on surge pricing models, inflates to many many multiples of the transaction value.

Here, have that stick of gum, its only 1c but unfortunately, there is a $100 card processing fee, stripe charges me, and visa, I have to balance out you know...
Jfc dude. What do "the demographics" have to do with the bridges falling down?
Comfort in the unknown helps a lot with this -- creativity is also a skill that can be trained and tested like muscles.

I usually get stuck in "cycles" where I know I'm not making progress, but I'm exploring my interests and seeing what sticks and what doesn't.

I've found forcing myself to a bare minimum has helped. The age-old "write one article a month" type of thing has forced me to find that sense of purpose to sit down and write something. Sometimes it turns out well, sometimes it doesn't. The process and lessons learned have been more important than the (immediate) results.
> the cost of PV/Wind has dropped to make it irrelevant

The cost of PV and Wind (with Storage included) is already vastly lower than any commercially available Nuclear Power design.

They're also a whole lot easier to deploy and maintain, don't come with all the risks involved in current Nuclear Power designs.
I agree those are downsides. But I think memory safety matters more in the problem space where c++ is relevant. I understand that's debatable, but I think the historical evidence suggests that it is impossible to write memory-safe c++ code beyond a fairly low complexity threshold.
What if many don’t see it as unjustified? Given how the last few confirmations have gone, politicians seem to have even less respect for this institution in particular. They’ve shown the citizens how they will fight tooth and nail for every last drop of power they can grab onto. We will not remain strong and flourish; we’re more likely to have another civil war in the next few decades.
I remember an equally ambitious initiative called HSMC (Hindustan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) was in talks a few years ago. I hope this one takes-off the ground in a better way. It's about time.
Is that an issue with GTK or the Gnome HIG?
I notice that a lot of people who have never driven 1980's era and earlier cars have no idea that cars were _always_ broken in some form or another. Every single car had developed some problem or another every year, one simply got used to this car having a bad window motor, that car having a bad started solenoid, this one torque steering to the left, that one thumping on brakes, this other one running rough when driving to the east, that one leaks transmission fluid, that other one won't restart after five minutes but will restart after half an hour, this one has no A/C, this one has terrible wind noise, this one blinks left when the radio is on FM, this one drips radiator fluid into the cabin when the heat is on, that one will spontaneously activate ABS in the last second before coming to a complete stop 50% of the time, this one squirts washer fluid onto the roof of the car to your right, this one dims the dash lights when the radio DJ talks instead of playing music, that one overheats, etc etc.
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Did you even read the PDF? "holding against WOT requires average of 175 pounds of force on brake pedal"
History has demonstrated over and over and over again that c/c++ code above a certain complexity threshold (which is fairly low), _will_ have memory safety issues. It doesn't matter how good you are at engineering.
>I'd say that Linux is irrelevant..

>I was piling up a backlog of problems that I didn't have easy solutions for with Fedora and one day I installed Ubuntu and... it just worked!

I'm lost completely, completely different distros.
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Worked with a coder who thought the correct return value from a DB with no data was the literal string vallue 'null' and so had tests for != 'null' coded everywhere, alongside != '' and != None cases.

I totally get it, when you've only ever seen DB responses via the command prompt which promotes null/nil fields to words, without any symbols to show its a textual reference, not the literal DB state.

And yes, we wound up with DB rows having the word 'null' written back into previously nil/null values.
It is just a draft copy and hasn't been voted on yet. No idea who leaked it, might be a hoax. Everyone is getting upset over it for no good reason. It just makes abortions legal or illegal at the state level if voted yes.
Their CDN certificate seems to have expired 3-4 months ago, which is a quite scary warning for a user to see when downloading an exe from the internet. No Linux download either it seems (Pitivi is a Linux program)
I'm not sure the history of software driven avionics and space accidents really support that as an argument for their safety?
Heh. I remember when Actionscript deprecated drawCircle(origin,radius) for drawEllipse(origin,w,h) ...and yet, rectangles always still had an origin in the upper-left. I guess it depends on whether you're trying to write your own drawing API or if you just want to get things done.

If you do want to get things done then this question is more like the bikeshedding as old as time. Put fingers to keys and write R(w,h)=>{someshit}
That is such a well articulated observation, it resonates strongly with my own experience.

I grew up on PHP, it was the first thing beyond BASIC I ever wrote, and I wrote a lot and enjoyed it so much. It really was this magic thing, that you just modified whatever file you needed to modify, throw it on the server, and hit f5 to see your changes reflected.. No processes to restart, no state to be lost, you jammed, and it was a very gentle way to learn.
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Such a backfire on the narrative setup.

Elons so evil amirite?

He noped out of there when they started acting shady.

Oof.
Care to give me the 411 on why this makes Politico not worth listening to?
Do you have a source hydro turbines “turning fish in to mulch”? I’ve been around lots of hydro projects and the main hazards for fish seemed to be either dewatering of habitat due to turbines reducing flows too quickly or I heard it is bad for them if the dam uses the spill way and makes the water all aerated
I never said it was unique to entropy. (And i still don’t understand if there some meaning that escapes me in calling entropy a “model”. Are temperature and pressure also “models” or is it unique to entropy?)

If I have a system in thermal equilibrium with a heat bath and know the macrostate P,V,T I can calculate the energy of the system only as a probability distribution - it’s undefined. If I knew the state precisely I could calculate the exact energy of the system.

If I define lycanthropy as “error in the determination of energy” it’s positive given the macrostate for the system in a heatbath and zero given the microstate of the system. Of course, given the microstate one can know the energy but can also pretend that the energy is still indeterminate.

While the distribution of energies - and the whole thermodynamical model - may still be useful its meaning would change. It would no longer be the most complete description of the system that encodes what can be predicted about it. Of course if that was never the meaning for you, you’ll see no loss. But I thought we were talking about physics, not mathematics. The meaning of thermodynamics is a valid point of discussion. The interpretation of the second law remains controversial.

I think this discussion has run its course - I may no longer reply even if you do. Thank’s again, it was interesting.
The point is that it's possible and we're improving on it every day.
If you are arguing most string ops have just a few chars and therefore don’t use vectors… why do we need to spend silicon enhancing rep prefix in the first place?
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To clarify, my original post was more satire on the idea of using 4-5 different SaaS/PaaS services in order to put a simple HTML site onto the net.

I don't have any moral opinion about it - in fact I run a site with the setup described which is half why I am satirizing it (It's cheap to run, but it's also overly complex, has a load of dependencies that ultimately a simple HTML file shouldn't have, and the final setup is quite limiting).

I do think we lose something intangible by building websites with mousetrap-esque technologies. The idea is usually that when you abstract something away, it becomes simpler to understand and quicker to develop in - but IMO it seems like we have abstracted away and it has become harder to understand and slower to develop in.
I wish it would be available for macOS
GPT-3 take on the paper abstract and title:

> Reviewer #2: The authors provide a complement to the original DALL-E paper, but the paper is light on empirical evaluations. It is not clear why, for some of the prompts, the generated images are so poor and for others, they are pretty good. Why not provide a quantitative evaluation of this?

(cherry picked from 10 attempts, temp=1)
Almost all largely populated areas in Australia are coastal.
Agree, Outlook.com has been worse then before, its freaking bad.
Vim's UI is elegant, for sure. Its internals perhaps slightly less so, hence Neovim.
> we tried to reduce flakiness by buffering clicks/interactions with sleep()...

You should have used waits instead of sleep. Wait pools until your DOM is in the state you are waiting it to be, unless given timeout occurs: https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/webdriver/waits/#expl...
Does anyone understand this? "Some of the main differences that the MMR has from conventional nuclear plants is that the reactor cannot meltdown as the heat is passively released into the environment..."

300MW is a lot of energy to passively release into the environment. Does this design really fail safe? And if so, how?

The Fukushima issues were caused (IIRC) by failure of the backup generators to run the cooling system after the reactors were shut down. Do these small reactors really not need any external power when in that state? And do they get into this state by default? I.e. do they shut themselves down without external power and if the control systems fail? That would seem to be a massive safety advantage if it's true.

I remember reading about UK magnox reactors where the graphite control rods were held above the core by electrically powered actuators and which were designed to fall into the core (and stop the reaction) if there was a power failure. Perhaps these reactors are similar.
> "your transmission might work if you have a separate TCM"

This is why well engineered vehicles have a separate computer for everything and not just one little chip.
> Initially it was for tracking all sorts of gear you use in your activities (because strava only tracks bike or shoes)

That doesn't seem to be true anymore. These days I can add any kind of gear to my bikes in Strava and track its usage over time. I use it for tracking tire or chain mileage in particular.
It’s crazy to see how much has remained the same, even if so many new things were added. Looks like pretty much all the buildings that existed in 1777 still exist today.

Even crazier to think that at the time the original map was made, pretty much all cities in the US didn’t even exist yet.
> nor is it collecting any PII that would be subject to GDPR

Yeah that's not how that works. Reddit is a free text input interface. I'm free to put PII in any post or comment I want to and you have to comply with data protection laws accordingly if I want my information redacted later on.

The same way you wouldn't just "let it ride" if someone uploaded illegal content - the content itself is what's protected, doesn't matter how Reddit structures its web forms.
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Viruses are natural, so should we stop trying to hamstring them?
My favorite example of elegant software is the way Spotify organizes playlists and allows for playlist sharing between users. The playlists are very easy to search, browse, and make. They are also easy to share with friends, and you can find an endless number of playlists curated by other users on almost any topic you can imagine!
Again, that cuts both ways.

Don’t look at the fancy clothes(or whatever you think is silly games), look at the code.
> for example car insurance charges you differently by gender, because the statistics for genders are different

Interestingly, car insurers in the EU are no longer allowed to differentiate premiums by gender. But since this law came in, the difference between average male and female premiums has widened, based on correlated risk factors, such as occupation and model of car. https://www.theguardian.com/money/blog/2017/jan/14/eu-gender...
How Important Was Oil in World War II?
>Zooming out a bit, pro-life people see abortion as a modern analog to slavery in the US (where enslaved African-Americans were viewed as 3/5 of a person), except that unborn babies are viewed as not a person at all -- and this framing is used to justify killing them, not merely enslaving them and denying them the right to vote.

I would argue the better slavery analogy is taking away the bodily autonomy of one individual and forcing them to go through an unwanted and dangerous process for the sole benefit of another individual. That would be like making it a legal requirement for us all to regularly donate bone marrow. Even if we acknowledge the fetus as a person, my rights over my body should still supersede anyone else's rights over my body.
I don’t understand your explanation for the reason for your comment.
Your assertion depends on his evening meal being deleterious.

https://naturallystrong.me/david-sinclair/

He's got an excellent diet. He's also got very solid reasoning behind metformin supplementation, having done years of research and investigation. He's a smart and respectable guy, operating in good faith with his research, so if you find yourself disagreeing with him over something trivial, it's unlikely you're right and he's wrong.

Implying that metformin is useful only to mitigate hypothetical harms from nutrition (a trivial dispute) is probably wrong.

Across various interviews, he's recommended metformin for exactly the mitochondrial effects you're talking about. He doesn't supplement on workout days to prevent disruption of the healing and recovery. Metformin isn't something that anyone should start taking blindly or blithely, as it can amplify damage from other circumstances, but it's got a clear place in Sinclair's regimen for very good reasons.

Metformin's longevity effects work on a lot of species. It's got solid science recommending it for life extension, like the other things Sinclair uses, but unless you're a doctor, or work with one to create a comprehensive life extension, health, nutrition, and fitness plan, metformin probably isn't a great idea. Sinclair is doing something similar to juggling chainsaws - it's really cool that he can do that, but it's dangerous for amateurs. Too many unknowable factors can blow up in your face.

Then again, maybe it'll be part of a standard regimen in the next decade, and the immortals are living among us.
And how do you know a rat has better quality of life? Attention sure, but that isn't necessarily indicative of higher brain function. I believe when you're not paying attention to anything the DMN(default mode network) is active, which doesn't mean very much.