skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well there are no second or different options in reality. Since it can only fork intentionally you will only have the one chain that everyone uses unless there is an intentional fork but then the networks are separated and you pick the one you want. But to answer the question theoretically, it simply boils down to which one you choose.
A new node MUST choose the chain he wants to join and he does so by selecting the nodes he want to connect to. From all the nodes he selects over 80% (hard coded quorum in the code) must be on the same chain if not his node will be in a state where it can not reach consensus and it will force the owner to remove/add nodes until the quorum can be reached.

> the longest chain rule (LCR) [1]. In your system, what's the rule?

There is no direct equivalent to the longest chain rule because blocks are final on every chain. There is no "chain switching" possible (that would directly contradict finality). Instead the system is made so that forks dont happen. The system will produce empty blocks rather than fork if the 80% quorum can not be reached (for example if huge parts of the world are temporary discontented from each-other).

So any actual fork would need to be intentional and thus actually produce 2 immutable chains in 2 different networks with finality. Nodes wont be able to switch between these chains, the intentional fork separates the network. If a nodes wants to switch later on that is the equivalent of turning it off and starting a new one on the other chain.

BTW this is not MY system its been implemented multiple times with the oldest running since 9+ years [1].
It has never forked so this is not an actual problem in the real world. Dude to the quorum of 80% every change (in the code) goes trough an amendment process and will only ever get activated if it has 80% support. If a node is overruled it still is on the same chain. Unless the owner refuses to update in time then his node becomes incompatible with the rest and is ignored.

[1]The oldest running distributed ledger ("blockchain") that uses this system is the XRPL.
You can read about its consensus mechanism on xrpl.org/intro-to-consensus.html and xrpl.org/consensus-network.html
There are ofc many other projects that build upon the same principles.
A spare battery could fix this. Of course, only if designed this way.
You are supposed cite paraphrasings. If I say "A key concept in the philosophy of Existentialism is that awareness of one's own free is an uncomfortable experience, characterized by the three feelings of despair, forelorness, and anguish", then I should have an in-text citation (a footnote in the Chicago style, one of those parentheticals in MLA) referring to Sartre's Existentialism is a Humanism essay.
GitHub Valet: Migrate Azure DevOps, GitLab CI and more to GitHub Actions
You are having a great ability to see a typical website w/o React. You can even enjoy of tables instead of divs.
It’s only insane because we aren’t charging enough for the water. It’s not properly accounting for the real cost of the water usage.
Yes but no one agrees on what that should be. For example, I need to flip through a 623 page manual to discover -fdiagnostic-color=always is the magic incantation for gcc. I have to repeat that for every app I use. Some do it using environment variables, except no one agrees on names there either, so I have to bloat my environment and it slows down process creation. Whereas with my sed solution, anyone who knows regex can could write it in a few minutes, and it only has to be figured out one time. Furthermore, there will eventually come a day when the tools we pipe stuff into all get good enough to gracefully consume ANSI codes, and there's no longer a need for sed. But we can't evolve in that direction if we use the solution you're proposing, which binds us to a colorless past. Erring on the side of having more information is always a good thing. The burden of the flag should be on disabling, not enabling, and there shouldn't even need to be a flag since there's sed.
1-2 weeks is low. 3 weeks in summer (all at once) is standard, with a week at Christmas and another 1-2 weeks elsewhere.
FWIW, all this stuff above about /dev/tty is absolutely wrong.
I’m actually struggling to understand the article because the Ulster Flag is used to represent Northern Ireland in pretty much every kind of context. Whether or not Northern Ireland is technically a country or province is irrelevant and just semantics.

If you look at golf Rory McIlroy’s name appears beside the Ulster Flag. In the commonwealth games it’s the same.
Well only 60% of the population actually voted, so arguably ~50% of those who took the time to vote.
Something like 80% of the water used in California goes to agriculture. Another 10% to industry. The remaining 10% includes all the grass lawns you see (which are increasingly irrigated with recycled water) and all residential and urban life. There is plenty of water in California, it is just mismanaged. I imagine that's true everywhere else in the west as well. Water rights laws are some of the most corrupted things there are.
Isn’t Scott Galloway the guy who’s famous for all his predictions being wrong?

https://galloway-index.webflow.io/
It is really sad that the new era is about many streaming services instead of a single one. Netflix was a godsend and an amazing service (still is btw), but now my shows are split between so many streaming services that I’ve started pirating movies again. The only service I’m paying for is youtube because these ads are annoying af otherwise. Imagine a single service where you can watch all movies. A bit like Apple music I guess (although they still lack a lot of foreign songs). Why can’t we do the same for movies? I predict that as internet speeds increase we will see pirating movies make a come back.
Plus, for course notes that is just extremely lazy. The students who are paying for the course are almost certainly being cheated, if the instructor can't even write their own slides then I doubt the quality of instruction is very great either.
At the risk of implying you haven't read the article, these experiments took place while those astronauts (specifically the Apollo 11 to 14 missions) were in quarantine. They didn't know whether lunar dust could have some other adverse effect on the biosphere. They stopped doing the experiments after Apollo 14 in 1971.
Just to support your point, currently the Northern Ireland fiscal balance runs at a deficit of £10 billion per annum and has run a deficit since the Great Depression. [1]

https://factcheckni.org/topics/economy/how-dependent-is-stor...
Planet Computers Astro Slide 5G: keyboard-equipped phone with retro appeal
It's there in the text but it is not formatted as a link. It would have been nicer if we could click on the footnote to go back to the text.

1. You can search for Space Quest
2. Search for Unique writing stye. It's at the end of that paragraph
3. Appendix B
The number 1 thing to ensure developer productivity: Help them maintain their flow.

Nothing destroys productivity quicker than flow disruption: eg. lots of "really quick" meetings, bonus points if they are spread about 45 minutes apart and take no longer than 15-20 minutes.
As far as I understood it the re-unification costs would fall mostly on the Republic of Ireland and they're not negligible, not sure if the people from inside of the Republic of Ireland would be willing to put that on their expenses tab. I might be wrong, of course, as I'm not from that general geographic area.
EDIT: I just tested importing a few different image formats and didn't have any issues, so Krita could be a good alternative.

Thanks, I was aware that Krita could do CMYK but how about importing assets created in other programs? Can it import any type of image files? I ask because I thought that Krita was more of a drawing/painting program and I'm not familiar with its import capabilites.
Flight data suggests China Eastern plane deliberately crashed: WSJ report
Great initiative. More professors should do this; write your own material suitable to teach a course, and make it freely available.

What I also like is that if you find errata, you have a place to send them, with a reasonable expectation that they will be picked up in a new version.
Are there any programs that can track temperature for different vendors? I'd love to run a few ssds through a benchmark and have hard data for thermal data.
I wonder if Microsoft considers Azure DevOps a dead end long-term.
England is a country. Scotland is a country. Wales is a country. Northern Ireland is ...
EightBit-Atari-Fonts: Fonts generated from bitmaps from Atari 8bit computers
https://15.ai/ uses emojis for emotional context and it works pretty good.
> Why does every government seem to be intentionally marching towards a surveillance dystopia?

Because it is very tempting to control the others. Of course, the idea that they might control you, is disgusting.

> Of course reporting or warrant requirements are never included.

They are not followed anyway. See US.

> Just automatic unaudited AI word matching, a secret trial and then straight to the gulag for you.

Welcome to the club, my friend. People (and governments) learn nothing from history. And when someone comes and put them in jail, he is a bad dictator. That someone paved the way for the bad dictator to act like this, this occurs to no one.

> Every one of them seems to demand completely unfettered power to invade innocent citizens privacy.

If google has your data, why not your government ? Just like google they promise they only use it for good. And of course, they want privacy. But not for you.

> If they were not acting in bad faith they wouldn't be scared of the sunlight, they would be proudly shouting their achievements from the rooftops.

When you have no achievements, it is very hard to "proudly shout them".
It also notifies the user with a haptic and audio notification when the Watch has been used to unlock a Mac.

In an open plan office it works around 2 meters away at maximum.

There seems to be some kind of heuristic when it allows it too, the first login for the day requires a password or TouchID to be used, but the ones after that work via the Watch.
ya.. I'm in the boat. fortunately my employer is great, but i still feel like a hostage for 3 years and counting until my been card comes in.
then I'm a different kind of hostage because the US wants to tax me globally should i decide to leave again?
Yeah there’s a huge amount of good content on netflix. I really don’t understand this debate.
>Anyone is having the same issue?

honestly, I am a bit perplexed by your wording. there are no issues, you are simply using a very very very small screen. just buy a big e-ink reader like the Kobo Elipsa
The pixel 4a will be good for another 3 years? What kind of apps are you using? I'm still using a Samsung S7 and don't plan to replace it until it explodes or turns into dust. Then again I don't play games, but I do use it extensively to write/browse/chat. It's somewhat sluggish, but who cares? This idea that we need perfect loading times and constant high-tech phones is such a spoiled mindset.
Don’t know if you want to be checking it with every launch, but enjoy.
It was hard to choose one example as there are too many to choose from. I posted this one I found on VI-Control forum, because it is avaliable on Youtube (some are unfortunately avaliable only to members of the forum).

I must say this is one of the most impressive things I saw (heard) in a long time.

There's a very long thread on VI-Control with many quality examples (note that older examples are based on older version of SynthV): https://vi-control.net/community/threads/synthesizer-v-vocal...

EDIT: there are free basic/lite versions of SynthV and Solaria voice avaliable, if anyone wants to try them out.
This reads a lot like "she fought for the right cause (communism), too bad she went a little too far in her actions".
It's interesting to see the open contempt towards anything that has to do with graphics and/or multimedia:

>No Gulag or lice, just a
future whose intellectual tone and interaction style is set by Sonic the
Hedgehog. You claim to seek progress, but you succeed mainly in
whining.

I'd say most of the complexity of modern OS's comes from handling all those interactive 3D/UI/Audio use cases, an area that desktop Linux is 15-20 years behind it's main competitors. A coherent, robust story is just starting to emerge, but as a veteran Linux enthusiast, I have become wary of the hot new thing just over the horizon that promises to solve all our problems.
Well, since I wrote essays saying the books sucked to make sure that nobody would think, damn, I gotta read that book - no.

Although I do have some books I have written there is not much money in being an author unless one succeeds wildly and so I have not put the effort into publication as that is not the interesting part of writing.
A counterpoint though, I certainly remember the names of many of the American mass shooters and almost none of their victims.
The web? Mostly the same. React is close to irrelevant at this zoom level.

Front-end web development? Not much, IMO. It didn't realy bring anything revolutionary. The field started to suck way before React.
The situation now resembles the vertically integrated film and distribution companies that had to be broken up in the 20th century.

https://nofilmschool.com/vertical-integration-legal
Seems like sort of a classic debt vs. equity problem. The government obviously cannot deliver on a promise of X amount of water regardless of rainfall. It would make a lot more sense if the rightsholders received a percentage of the inflow. The good thing about the dam is that it can absorb fluctuations on the scale of a few years, but as we see, it can't absorb a decade long decline, and they should reduce allocations proportionately without having to declare an emergency to do it. That way, farmers would have at least a few years to make adjustments.
My only suggestion would be to add some padding to the text field, at least as an option.
because it works (TM) everytime, no compatibility issues whatsoever.
That's changing, there's a growing number of people who identify as 'Northern Irish', as opposed to Irish/British.

I would argue that we do have our own identity, Northern Irish culture/sense of humour/food/drink/etc is distinct from other places.
>I'm surprised no one has mentioned using a teleprompter yet. You can pick one up for around $100 and when combined with a little 7" monitor (another $100) attached to your computer, creates a nice setup for zoom calls where you can look directly at your partner. Also doubles as a great talking head setup for video production.

For anyone else confused about what a teleprompter adds here, it's that the two-way mirror lets you put a webcam 'behind' the virtual reflected screen, so it can be perfectly centered in the screen.

Though this just makes me want to tape or suspend a webcam to the middle of a regular monitor, so it could show actual size human faces.
16 is what a machine should calculate. There cannot be ambiguity about it. Fight me now.
That's they want you to think. I think he just needed a good reason to leave.
I agree, and thanks for the advice. However, as another commenter pointed out, I believe the lack of good games in mobile app stores is a direct consequence of the economic model, driven by ads and internet connectivity.
Just glancing through the chapter on matrices, and I really wish I'd have found this last weekend, when I happened to be diving into projection matrices and homogeneous coordinates from a geometry point of view

Some videos on it that I found helpful:

- Math for game programmers[0]

- Homogeneous Coordinates (Cyrill Stachniss, 2020)[1]

- Essence Of Linear Algebra, 3b1b[2]

It seems like a really good companion book to Physically Based Rendering[4], which also requires some amount of calculus and statistics. The primer in the article only has a section on blinn/phong shading, which is great as something that's quick to implement.

If you're learning any of it for the first time, I really suggest using a repl based language like julia or python that make it really easy to plot the functions being implemented. They can be hard to write tests for, but can also be very easy to visually see something wrong.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1n02xKP138

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQdm0Z_gNcw

[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-GT3co4r2y2YErbmuJw...

[3] https://www.pbr-book.org
It's based on nothing concrete, but I'd assume those that don't believe Northern Ireland should exist would be more likely to not vote in the Northern Irish elections.
Samsung S7 user here. Perfect phone. Good looking (silver one is awesome), no notches, great camera, good battery.... and perfect size. It's hard to accept for companies that they already achieved a great result, and only minor improvements need to be added. Maybe because if they would keep selling S7a, S7b, etc people wouldnt be so convinced to buy new ones so they need to make changes and somehow convince people the many changes are for the better... even if they aren't.
I've been reading lots of books (On computer graphics) and it's surprising how much better the average book content is then most online resources. I guess the difficulty to get it published really forces the quality to be high. It's so easy to get a copy of "The Cg Tutorial" for a couple of bucks online and get an overview of the graphics pipeline that is super higher quality(Though for 20 year old GPUs).

It's great that people are putting versions of their books online. I just hope that they keep making physical versions. I much prefer reading on paper rather than a screen or even kindle.
The question is what are good companies to invest in long term. And IMO the “bad bets” of the last few years become good bets (netflix, uber, facebook, wework, etc.)
You can hear that the human readers place emphasis based upon an understanding of the meaning of the text that they're reading, and also based upon an understanding of the humans at the receiving end. It seeps through that they're human. The AI generated samples are good, but they're bland in comparison. The human emphasized words are typically not emphasized in the AI generated samples.
I think the greatest danger is that articles like this over play the abilities of AI and that it gets used in ways which are inappropriate or even destructive.

We will use bad AI to destroy ourselves before capable AI gets a chance to do it.
Jay has done a test regarding ssd overheating: https://youtu.be/dDTH93dgulE

Verdict: once you have any kind of passive cooler on one it won’t overheat. But he has only tested it with one fast PCIe 4 x 4 drive.
the subsequent blog post (https://blog.heroku.com/we-heard-your-feedback) says:

> Additionally, we have no evidence that the attacker has accessed any customer accounts or decrypted customers’ environment variables.

which, as pointed out in its HN thread, means "we now know they got access to encrypted vars, and we don't know yet if they could have decrypted them." in BS-speak.

The title "We've Heard Your Feedback" is also a red herring, usually means "we know we fucked up bad and we still have no idea of the whole impact of the breach".
That feels very subjective. IMO Netflix produces more, so they produce more bad content, but they also produce more good content.
It had never even occurred to me that my storage would want cooling, until I swapped in a new motherboard, moving from atx to mini-itx, and I noticed that the nvme.2 socket was covered by a heat sink. Performance is literally 50% better - and it still gets toasty.
Europeans data shared 376 times daily, US 747, in advertising sales, report says
When I was a kid, some of the grownups I knew had stomach ulcers.

This was considered a chronic condition caused by stress. One of the few remedies was to go on a "bland diet" to avoid irritation. Nothing spicy for you! Ulcers also led to stomach cancer.

In 1984, Robin Warren and Barry Marshall had a theory that ulcers were actually caused by a bacterium called Helicobacter Pylori. And they thought they might be cured by antibiotics.

So Marshall drank a glass of broth full of those bacteria from an ulcer patient. He got ulcers. Bad ones.

The two doctors worked out a course of antibiotics and cured Marshall's ulcers. They won a Nobel Prize for it.

For any of you younger folks who have never heard of stomach ulcers or stomach cancer, now you know why.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/the-doctor-who-drank...

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/when-scienti...
In an academic context, plagarism enforcement is less about the theft of ideas (which are no less stolen when simply regurgitated with a citation next to them), than as it is about establishing a chain of influence.

If I write an article that uses someone else's ideas, then I cite them, so that a reader can go "huh, that idea's interesting, let me go see where that came from" and then they can see what influenced those ideas by that papers citations and so on and so on.

The fact that students don't have this concept of intellectual chain of custody hammered into their skulls is a failure of the education system. Citing quotes is obvious, but in this day and age it's probably the least necessary. I can Google an exact quote and find exactly the article it came from. Much harder to search is provinance of paraphrased idea or general concept, or the source of a factual statement that I find dubious.
Regarding 1, I actually go much further and have blocked many of the major politicians (on every side of the spectrum), and muted their names.

I see very little partisan politics on my timeline now.
Wouldn't they be more likely to vote for the pro-United Ireland party?

If they don't vote, then they are content with how things are, no?
You can read the temperature from SMART interface.
Every language has its own design features that end up influencing its generics system. Java has subtyping (in the form of class inheritance). Rust has lifetimes and linear types. Go has its ‘structurally typed’ interfaces (which are the reason impossible combinations of constraints exist in the first place).
Haskell has none of those, but it has plenty of other features that at least historically caused exponential compilation time [1] and unsoundness [2].

Even C++ arguably falls into that category to an extent. Its template system definitely could have been designed better, and using Haskell-like type signatures like Rust does is arguably a better approach… but Rust trait signatures tend to be more complex and less elegant than Haskell ones, because the simple and elegant ones have runtime overhead that Rust, like C++, isn’t willing to accept. (For example, see functions being a trait as opposed to a type.)
And even Rust struggles to match C++ in metaprogramming expressivity, which also helps C++ reduce runtime overhead. Upcoming Rust features like `const fn` and specialization will help with that, but both have been ‘upcoming’ for many years…

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8130487

[2] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/7148
Congratulations, you've reinvented citations. Paper A cites papers B, C, and E, which in turn cite F, etc.
reproducible builds are a thing but yeah no easy solution out there for binary/code authenticity