skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you can print things off the internet, so you’d likely have this same problem with books
What I've found out, after going from a pretty damn athletic lifestyle (10+ years of boxing) to turning into a full-fledged couch potato (smart working, working from home, pandemic, accumulated injuries preventing me to exercise regularly), is that the body is pretty forgiving as long as you keep it under a constant exercise routine, but it suddenly starts taxing you as soon as you become sedentary. Pretty recently I've taken a photo with a colleague coming to visit my hometown, and I couldn't recognize that fat f#@k in the photo which was supposed to be me.
Cool, but can this tech ever approach the effectiveness of a smiliarly-sized solar panel? Sure, a solar panel does not directly absorb CO2, but at this point wouldnt a panel generate literally a thousand times as much power without all the maintenace issues?
It's not idempotent - the same source URL entered multiple times yields different shortened URLs. Not sure if that's a feature or a bug ...
Oh, I've noticed that too. I'll look into TikTok once every couple of weeks and I have a timed lockout set, so I don't endlessly scroll through it. It's certainly incredibly addictive.
I don't think the proliferation of fractionally reserved shitcoins and Ponzis was the intention of Satoshi Nakamoto or other Bitcoin devs, and a currency like UST or LUNA is not "decentralized" if some central authority can just halt the chain.
Is it possible to use this without a phone, just connecting 2 PCs ?
> It knows it has $1000 lying around doing nothing useful so it just gives a fraction of it to me as a loan. The bank does the following:

The bank does not have to do this everytime, Most of times it just creates a loan account and adds a number in the database and creates money out of thin air.
Anything collected or tabulated can be used for or against you, legally or illegally. Phones and corporate databases contain more information than were known in dystopian stories of the previous century, yet people are are naively comfortable with this. This article merely points out that the world is not rainbows and unicorns and that people should be aware of what they have done before they do it again.

Perhaps edit what one says in the town square?
I don't see how it's NOT going to devolve into a battle of wills until only one is left standing.

The combined company now has two very visible projects that don't make money: Cura and Thingiverse. Considering both will fall under the Makerbot guy, I think both will die.
Or use DecSync [0] and eliminate the need for any central server.

[0]: https://github.com/39aldo39/DecSync
A higher price doesn't mean that most people, or even most of the people who buy it, think Hersheys is objectively "better".

My assumption in this case would be that it's higher price because higher cost because imported, and consequently it's only bought by homesick expats or people who specifically want a famous US brand, not people who are optimising for price/quality.
Good point. Essentially no human can perform an actual floating point operation in a second.

This might expose the error of the article though. Depending on what you measure by, computers have already beaten humans. But by other measures (now increasingly human biased, like having a cultural conversation), computers are still way behind.
I understand 'I'm sorry...' is a turn of phrase but it's absolutely not necessary here.
If Google asked me to help with solving world hunger, I wouldn’t do it. Helped them enough with my data, and my lost faith in humanity when they were complicit in ruining the web.
I’m asking that we don’t exclusively feed a diet of soy to developing people until we understand it better.

I’m not saying soy is bad, I’m saying I have an anecdote in my life very recently that indicates it can mess with hormones of adults and that the science doesnt seem to be very conclusive yet.

That this is controversial is really scary; people really want soy to be without fault, and that’s fine, but I want to understand the health impact before we give it to developing humans. I’m not against soy as a premise, I even eat a serious amount of soy in my own diet.

However we understand the impact of dairy (not saying it’s better, but at least understand, which was my only positive point about dairy)
> Surely Excel formulas are the most commonly across the whole population of computer users?

Maybe, but of developers who’ve installed an editor? And would go through copying formulas back and forth?

Surely at that point you’re using vba, or you’ve moved to scripting excel from the outside, or off of excel entirely?
If the VC market is strong tech conferences can be pretty good. I’ve been wearing quality swag from companies like GitHub for years.

But generally speaking you’re right. Conference swag is usually junk and I rarely take the time to even pick it up anymore.
I still wouldn’t buy a 50-mile electric, especially when 100+ mile electrics are readily available.

I don’t want to be stopping all the time and even less want to be unpacking and repacking my trunk regularly to move a 75 pound battery in and out.

Nissan figured that out and put a 40kWh battery into their base model. Mine is 24kWh. A 50 mile range would be something like a 16kWh battery. Unless that’s a hybrid, I think it would flop in the market.
> The simple act of sprinkling rock dust—an abundant byproduct of mining—on farmland could capture 45% percent of the carbon dioxide required to help the UK meet its 2050 net-zero targets.

Has this news been brought to me via the 'mining board'? Is it an attempt to get us to pay for their waste?!

And won't rock dust degrade the soil quality?
I confused the headline with micro deposits, like the 10 cents that gets deposited and withdrawn to link a bank account.

I wouldn't pay for my searches. I don't think I would pay for maps either. Plenty of alternatives.
The idea is that you will continue to use Google's services on the condition of receiving UBI. Crowdsource would continue to exist until UBI is in effect and then be used as a gamified way to earn even more money. Remember UBI is not infinite money. You get a baseline for paying your bills. Above and beyond you'll need to earn whatever you need for pleasure.
Liberating out-of-copyright photos from SmartFrame's DRM
How big is an E. coli cell and what is its mass?
This is Ben Thompson’s Aggregation Theory in a nutshell

https://stratechery.com/aggregation-theory/
Yes, abuse should not be tolerated as a learning experience.

There isn't much hope in breaking the wheels of the megacorp and government alliances, but at the very least we can share our criticism and condemn these behaviors.
(Not replying to you but in general to the others)

> as an Iraqi who have lived through the "war"

This is why it's never a great idea to assume anything and interested better to try to keep things neutral and reasonable.
POI and Mr. robot's hacking situations were both too easy but relative to Mr Robot yes POI was extremely more easy. I was more speaking to technical accuracy that was actually in the writing of the script (but for POI it was glossed over how to make the AI work and Mr Robot just made good situations that someone could actually do). But, at least POI and Mr Robot were trying.
Penalties are standard in many Consulting contracts.
Fixed price contracts are also frequent.
Except when is to reward the board ;-)
The conflict is between “the world is just trying to rip you off” and “you should work to benefit society”.
So, I want to share a use case. I use a Mac and iTerm. iTerm comes with a nonstandard terminal extension called `imgcat` that allows you to output images, including over SSH. My understanding is basically that it works by passing some special control characters to iTerm itself, who then render an image accordingly. Clearly this is well outside the bounds of what a normal terminal does.

I have a project that involves maintaining an image database of about 15,000 images. The images come from one of three canonical sources, or they can be gathered manually and added. Over time, more data points get added (typically every few years a new batch of a few hundred are added), and manually added images are replaced with canonical images, and canonical images upgrade in quality. I wrote a command line tool that basically allows me to monitor missing images, available upgrades, sources for each image I have, etc.

So, I run my tool, and it says, say, "there is a canonical version of image 12714 available, do you want to replace the current version?". Typically it's going to download both versions, and I'm going to proceed by imgcatting both versions and making a judgment call. This is happening on a remote server than isn't running a windowing system. I make a decision there and it's solved quickly.

Absent imgcat, the workflow is that I maintain a full copy of the database on my local machine, rsync the image directories, use a window manager to open a file explorer and preview both versions of the image, make a judgment call, and then return to the same terminal environment where I tell the same command line application which version to keep. Repeat several hundred times. This doesn't seem like a better workflow to me.

So I guess my question is how do I benefit from my terminal emulator not being able to display images, based on the design I've just told you?
Good to hear. I also learned a lot from this discussion!
It isn't a terribly difficult drug to quit but it is addictive. Some people use it to wean themselves off of opoids.
> People complain about Tether but the whole banking system is just Tether on steroids.

With regulation, and audits, and insurance, and government guarantees that if something goes really wrong you will be made whole (as long as you don't deposit more than 7 years the median US income).

I also wouldn't deposit my money in an 1890's US bank.
Like for any algorithm choice, the optimal choice depends on the context.

On a desktop/laptop computer, wasting a queue slot matters very little, but it may be useful to achieve the maximum speed, so this method does not seem preferable.

On the other hand, in many microcontroller applications there is no other read/write RAM, but a few kilobytes of internal MCU RAM. So the amount of used RAM may be the most important resource and there may be many FIFO queues for various peripheral interfaces.

For such MCU applications, it is valuable to be aware of this alternative FIFO queue implementation, as it may be the best choice.
https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Books
Note that there is a portion of Medicare recipients who would dispute that it is socialized medicine or that it’s even government run. Perhaps they feel that the monthly copayment/taxes paid for the various portions are it’s entire funding? Perhaps its just cognitive dissonance (Medicare good, govt bad?). Does it matter why?

It similar to the arguments for the ACA but against Obamacare in spite of the fact that they’re the same thing…
Maude Overview
Yes, it was those evil “boomer” companies that charged us money and gave us poor UX. Google saved us from that, praise Google.

I call this “digital tunnel vision”.
Aren't they already doing this with reCAPTCHA?
> In case of a parse error, you may not be able to recover correctly the parsing of any code beyond the error.

Of course, ambiguous syntax will obscure any information beyond what can be understood (short of having a compiler track changes between runs).

Some languages / compilers can recover after a parse error. Going back to the ts language server, if you introduce a single quote, unclosed, nothing works until the end of the line (single quoted strings cannot be multiline)

Both before the quote and after that line, however, features such as auto-importing and autocompletion still work as expected.

This is an issue of where the boundaries of the ambiguity lie (what is possible) and the implementation (what actually happens). I suspect many language / compiler / IDE tools fall in different places on the spectrum of possible and works to possible but not implemented. My hunch is that more and more, tools are getting closer to the "possible and works" side of things.
Thank you for the chart. I think that any discussion of the matter will be futile. If only because none of us - even the scientists - have enough information to make a prediction about scale, rate and impact of climate change over time. But the pattern we are seeing now indicates that things are moving faster than the climate scientists expected.

I feel the word 'existential' is appropriate (and by the way that word was used by EA not me) because for hundreds of millions of people - maybe more - food and water shortages, accompanied by disease may well have such an effect. When the scientists talk about human lives impacted under different levels, we know these are best estimates, and most likely deliberately cautious.

When the summary says 'Approximately 3.3 to 3.6 billion people live in contexts that are highly vulnerable to climate change (high confidence)', what does that mean? Highly vulnerable to me doesn't mean they'll just feel uncomfortable, but something more. Optimist vs pessimist perhaps?

Anyway, as I said, I am not expert enough to make any kind of predictions as to the future. All I do is watch as various predictions in the Reports are reached ahead of time, and it's very worrying. Because we haven't factored in so many things (because we can't). Will runaway catastrophic impacts occur, such as a massive uptick in methane emissions after sufficient permafrost melt? What will that mean? Will the food chain on which billions rely collapse because of ocean warming and increased acidity? Will the increasing unpredictability in weather patterns make mass market farming impossible to guarantee?

There's so much we don't know. This is uncharted territory really, isn't it?
Thanks for catching that! I fixed it up in a PR and merged in: https://github.com/benbjohnson/litestream.io/pull/55
Today I learned the mathy definition of idempotent (used above) which is different than the one more commonly used when talking about code: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idempotence
I bike year round, even in 10°F or lower. But it does require a place that plows the bike lanes. Going through snow with an ebike isn't bad when you're the first, but when it has already been turned into a potato field by everyone, then it's definitely a struggle.
Probably because KDE Connect was made originally on top of KIO [0] library, which wasn't designed for real time data exchange.

[0] https://community.kde.org/KIO
Reddit says that this should work:

https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/7x80gh/pairing_two_des...
For knowledge workers who are productive enough to be able to experience a four-day work week, should society do anything to support essential workers so that they can also have a four day work week?
You can think of a lock-free data structure as a data structure with an embedded wait-free lock implemented with atomics. This has several advantages:

- Less memory - a pthread mutex is around 40 bytes, compared to 4 bytes for this queue.

- No waiting - in some cases you don't want to wait, just do a try-push and if you can't, do some other work with the thread and then try again. Eventually you will have to either wait or discard the data, depending on your situation.

- No syscalls - mutexes weren't always as light as they are now, older implementations would always do a syscall and context switch to take or release a mutex.
The replies you're getting, wow. Can't imagine a better way to prove your point.
Active surplus?
This is correct, Hershey’s contains butyric acid which people that are used to don’t taste: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hersheys-chocolate-tastes-lik...
Don't forget to stop writing to the database while doing the backup, otherwise you can run into an infinite loop if you write faster than sqlite3 .backup is doing the backup :D

Learned that the hard way when implementing sqlite3 backups on Gladys Assistant ( open-source home automation platform https://github.com/GladysAssistant/Gladys )
Why is it necessary to create an account?
A service that says 'here is an alternative to our service'? Right on their own website? Even though cron backups are basically 'competition' to litestream?

That's it. I'm giving fly.io a try next hobby app I start.

I'm so impressed with their business decisions right now, I was afraid for litestream but then I read how the creator is just hired to work on it full time. What a splendid development!
This is great!, I mean its dumb, but it made me chuckle. Will I ever use something so silly? Of course I will.
>Sorry for the ones who died

Combatants on both sides, obviously.
Oh, and the civilians, too.
You can backup contacts and calendar usually from within your email client
I never had weight problems… I naturally started intermittent fasting without realising it was a thing! I never have breakfast (only an espresso), I have lunch around 1pm (usually one dish and no dessert), then dinner around 8pm (again usually just one dish) and that’s it. No snacks or other meals during the day!
That's a pretty accurate way of putting it.
I sent this guy my old Convergent NGen hardware, and he revived it! Even sent me some of my old code off the disk drives - he's a really nice guy with lots of tricks up his sleeve. Replaced hard drive head bumpers etc. He 3D printed some parts to revive a QIC (Quarter Inch Tape) drive. That video is on his site too!
Dismissing all concerns about geoengineering as moralizing is not reasonable. People are right to be cautious about geoengineering because our track record isn’t great, there are second-nth order effects which are hard to predict in a complex system like Earth, and there is no backup Earth or reset button. To wit, the geoengineering project of pumping tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every day hasn’t gone that well.
I implemented a daemon for reading notifications (including SMS) on Linux https://github.com/pzmarzly/ancs4linux

Adding support for sending SMS shouldn't be hard, but I don't have time recently to work on that. https://github.com/pzmarzly/ancs4linux/issues/10
Terrible take, Heroku didn't fail.
This is exactly it.

There seems to be a "pseudo-polymath" personality type among some engineers. Based on an unexamined but deeply held philosophical belief that engineering concepts and ways of thinking neatly generalize to all fields. The pseudo-polymath engineer is an instant expert in anything he bothers to turn his mind to and subsequently systematize.

Engineers who think they have unique outsider insight into an unrelated field like medicine or cognitive science should tread very carefully. If you can, try to validate your ideas and assumptions with a subject matter expert. Don't underestimate the large stock of knowledge and discourse that already exists in these fields.
to be fair, this sounds like a situation where Litestream is the more appropriate solution!
It seems to me a likely use of this new AI would be to use it to invent human brain augmentation -- first for expanded mental ability then for faster communication.

The Borg may be inevitable.
Seems like a feature since it says try again when you create a link.
If I'm using "-e", I also like to use "set -o pipefail" which will fail the script if any command in a pipeline fails too: x | y | z, which is useful if 'y' fails but 'z' continues to process the output and returns 0, -e won't catch that (the example script doesn't use pipes though).
Imagine if everyone just issued stablecoins against their assets such as their house, future income etc. and turned around and bought treasuries. So every usd in m1, m2 etc. gets swapped out for 300 million different stable coins all pegged to the usd. Now the fed raises interest rates. This does not end well.
This made my day lol, thanks for sharing it.
Oh. I thought

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3090

... nevermind.
Sure, but paying someone who's been with you for two years more for the same job still beats paying a new hire more for the same job, which is what often happens in practise.
There’s something about marginally screwing over your employer people at large companies seem to love.
I agree it's quite annoying. I always redefine the unreadable blue on Mac. It does seem like some platforms (Ubuntu?) have fixed it though based on this table:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#3-bit_and_4-b...
Didn't read the whole article - but I'll just write this anyway.

For prices this low - it's not about the price - it's about the hassle of paying.

I'd probably buy much more unneeded stuff if I was walking past a stand of products on the street and could just take what I wanted and it would magically get paid for by me without any need of interaction.
Moon dust is extremely dangerous. The taste would likely be just a function of nutrients. Seems like it would be a big risk. The ISS and subs do just fine without growing food.
If only I'd said something like "vaguely ‘libertarian’" to dismiss any notion of orthodoxy in the matter. Curiously, my good friend who most suffers from the what I accuse him here also holds himself in similarly-noble terms as you appear to. And yet... .
Offer positive feedback instead of criticism. Give examples of how they could be or do better.
Germany is already well on its way to try out renewables in earnest, so the anti-nuclear camp's arguments seem to have convinced a majority of the voters and environmentalists, socialists, conservatives all pushed this when in power. The arguments backing this wouldn't change, so I don't think such a revelation would have a big impact on German energy policy. Besides, the pro-nuclear camp has always had very deep pockets, so I guess whatever funds the Soviet Union/Russia might have provided would have at best/worst only leveled the playing field somewhat. Disclosing this might end some careers, though.
>"Maybe 3090 is already a human brain"

This feel like a variation on Betteridge's law of headlines which states that if a headline asks a question, then the answer is "no". In this case if the quote says that 'maybe' something (fanciful) is true, it isn't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
Improving Distributed Caching Performance and Efficiency at Pinterest
If you mean terraforming the moon, that won’t work. This is only for indoors experiments.
Is the editor an existing project or based on an existing project, or is it brand new for the engine?
Litestream author here. The motivation for this docs page was two-fold. First, laying out the different options with their trade-offs helps people understand what Litestream is trying to be so it helps keep my focus narrow. For example, if someone is looking for very high durability guarantees then they can see that rqlite might be a better fit and they don't try to fit Litestream into that mold.

Second, Litestream doesn't interfere with other backup methods so you can run it alongside a cron-based backup. I typically run both because I'm overly paranoid and because it's cheap.
Pretty much a solved problem for a nuclear sub sized base.
https://youtu.be/QEX1YFXYTdI

Mythbusters proved a car can run on cooking oil that is used.
> if those sources are veritable.

Those sources are pretty shit, honestly. One says the Red Army Faction claimed responsibility (this is not disputed). The other cites an (unnamed) "former Red Army Faction" claiming they had meetings with Putin, but makes no connection with the Herrhausen assassination.