skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think Maursault has thoroughly demonstrated their lack of serious thought

When you can't beat the argument, pull out the ad hominem fallacy and attack the man. Fallacy, of course, is faulty reasoning.

> So if you encode only one bit per cube of this fm cubic lattice, and you manage to encode this into single atoms of silicon, you need a volume of silicon 8,000,000,000,000,000 times larger than the system you model.

This explanation is indicative of linear thinking. Apparently Google Earth is not possible, as it would require a computer the size of the planet. Digitizing the Library of Congress apparently requires a memory stick the size of Congress. Seriously? You just can not comprehend how things could ever get better than your current understanding of how things are right now? Consider that if you lived in 1500BC, were an expert at the time in farming, and a plough was described to you, you would mock the person describing it, and insist that tilling soil was impossible.
Having used both moment and Luxon in the past, the date-fns API makes no logical sense to me at all.
Top bloggers aren't stupid enough to put their blogs in someone else's platform.
The comparison is being done between x_ts, which is a float, and x, which is a datetime object. Call be crazy but I think allowing this comparison to begin with is the problem.

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> ts = 1571595618.0
>>> x = datetime.utcfromtimestamp(ts)
>>> x_ts = x.timestamp()
>>> type(x_ts)
<class 'float'>
>>> type(x)
<class 'datetime.datetime'>
As important as the relatively low file size is for the utility of this library, the API compatibility with Moment is perhaps the magnum opus.
I only wrote that quorum is not a transaction (no transactions in cassandra), and that is not a consensus.

While quorum looks a lot like consensus, it is not since what is returned to the client is the latest timestamp. Different nodes could have and return different data. So Quorum write+local_quorum read might fail even if you are in the datacenter that accepted the write. Quorum is also on the total copies of the data, not a quorum of DC, so in certain (weird) multi-DC setups you could have a quorum in a single DC.

In general though I think that the data consistency options of cassandra (quorum/local/N) are a good idea but underdeveloped.

Anyway my point was: cassandra has too many pitfalls and eliminating those restricts the use case by a lot more than people realize. Plus the naming of all features look designed to trick you into thinking soewthing else
All of these are wrong. The cost is building your own streaming platform which is what all film studios have done. It's many billions in tech and operations.
Tree is a type of graph, though.
https://kotaku.com/nintendo-switch-botw-emulator-pc-piracy-d...

According to this article, this is an initiative championed by Denuvo alone, without Nintendo's involvement.
And why is this not higher... Seriously
Not a TV, but my monitor is 3440x1440. However, it only supports 30Hz at that resolution over HDMI since it has an older HDMI version. It only supports 3440x1400 at 60Hz over DisplayPort.

So, if your TV has any other inputs, might want to try those too.
Or “Russian oligarchs put plutonium in Putin’s coffee”.

How long will the rich and poor of Russia put up with the cost of this war?
> The thing is, despite what extinction rebellion et. al. tell us, the global economy is moving to renewables pretty much full speed.

No, no. Until there's still a drop of oil or a lump of coal to exploit, there will be no "full speed". Corps want you to believe they are thinking green, while they just don't care.
Events like the energy crisis in Europe might open a few eyes, but nothing more.
First thing to do when threats are made is to decide whether they are credible.

The sinking of the Black Sea Fleet would be a huge escalation and a declaration of war, not to mention not a smart thing to announce your plan in advance.

To me it's the same as when Russia makes big threats. It's a war of words but with no plan for actual action.

Edit:

It seems to me that the US are trying to corner Russia into escalation and warning of potential Russian escalation as the same time.

Russia has made a mistake in invading Ukraine but the US seem to be the force behind making the situation worse and worse since, possibly with the objective of regime change in Russia. Considering the US's track record that should make everyone worry.
In a very globalised world, where your developers can be working in a multitude of countries, I've found that the only sane thing to do is a) run all your boxes with a TZ of Zulu and b) the only date format allowed in logs is RFC-3339.

Sure, you can format datetimes in localised formats for end users, but standardising on UTC+0 and RFC-3339 for programming and maintenance purposes just prevents so much confusion and hassle.

Not that I've ever had to spend a day trying to troubleshoot a bug that was alerted by our monitoring system at 2020-11-09T09:11:05Z (as it was defaulting to UTC), but the relevant logs were timestamped at 10:11:05 09/11/2020 (I only wished they'd used the normal German period separators in the date to give me a clue) because of course your German colleagues want their timestamps in German format and defaulting to CET...

When you have colleagues in Europe, Oceania, and distributed from coast to coast in the US, doing everything in UTC means everyone only has to do one mental conversion from their local timezone to UTC, as opposed to trying to remember if they're in LA or New York, or if they're in Mountain Time, if they're in the parts of the US that are Mountain Time but don't do daylight savings.
I agree with the other posters: this is an absolutely inspired idea, which was then executed in the worst way possible by choosing a blind spot in AI generation.

The comment by nextaccountic is spot on.
Sometimes you see mentioned limited runs on certain Thinkpad models where the insides can all be upgraded to more current performance levels. I'd love to be able to ship my Thinkpad somewhere and I get to choose the not Intel/AMD CPUx86, rom based OS genode/sel4, Plan 9 Legacy OS userspace environment for recreational programming Emacs CL.
I think you're wrong here.

My partner works in design and her design teams have jumped all in on using Stable Diffusion in their workflows, something that is effectively in "version 1." For concept art especially it is incredibly useful. They can easily generate hundreds to thousands of images per hour and yes, while SD is not great at hands and faces, if you generate hundreds or thousands of images, you get MANY which have perfect hands and faces. Additionally it's possible to chain together Stable Diffusion with other models like GFPGAN and ERSGAN, for up-ressing, fixing faces, etc.

Self driving cars are completely different, no one was using "version 1" of self driving cars within weeks of the software existing. Stable Diffusion and similar models are commercially viable right now and are only getting better in combination with other models and improved training sets.

I think you're shifting the goalposts to what success is here to be quite frank. "The model needs me to be able to specify multiple characters in a scene all performing different actions."

The truth is, if I had to ask art professionals on Fiverr for "beautiful art photography of multiple characters doing different actions", it would be difficult and expensive for them too! And worse, you would get one set of pictures for your money and if you weren't satisfied, you're shit out of luck! On my PC, Stable Diffusion can crank out > 1000 unique pictures per hour until I'm satisfied.
Your assumptions are just wrong.
Currently, self driving cars are much worse than humans. Invest some time and do the research. It's appalling how misleading sources like Tesla PR are.
Just for reference G1 is 15y old.
> This is more of an urban legend than anything (…) but it goes to show the emotional power of new technology.

What does it show if it didnt actually happen?
Victoria 2 is a very good game, and you can get it fairly cheaply (5€ when I bought it on steam), so it is well worth the money.

That said it is a very old game, and it shows in terms of functionality and game play.

If you’re just getting started when it comes to paradox games, and you're looking to victoria, then I'd recommend waiting until the 25th of this month when victoria 3 comes out, and get that instead.

It will have issues, but will be much more familiar to a "modern gamer" than the 10+ year old victoria 2.
I'm jumping around on the screen using <leap key> <where to go key> -> <hint keys> https://github.com/abo-abo/avy#avy-goto-char

This UX does not break my flow (it doesn't require focus/conscious thought):

1. Press <leap key> + <where to go key> while looking at the place I want to jump to
2. Hints are shown instantaneously (while I'm still looking at the place). Press <hint keys>. I'm there.
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lobste.rs has computing only related content (no business - world news) and has a fair amount of retro computing posts
Don't think we use them as long term solutions over things like physiotherapy though.
It's still stupid. This is like asking DALL-E to generate an image that solves a math equation step by step. Of course this is easier for a human to do.

Try getting a landscape in the style of vincent van gogh for 10$ on fiver though. AI will give you that in seconds easily, and that's what's amazing about it.
DIP1000: Memory Safety in a Modern System Programming Language Pt. 2
Some redundancy in tags (<b>, <strong>), forgiveness when it comes to coding (you can type anything, no errors, no problems, every browser decides how to interpret the code)
TeamViewer sends former clients to the collection agency
Any system, no matter how complex, can be composed of smaller units that only have super basic needs.
Probably a good question to ask here: https://gitter.im/iamkun/dayjs
I am really curious. It would make sense to use Cassandra as low logic, high volume simple storage. And then use something more relational / graph and ACID on top of it
Not if you use 2 spaces for indent ;)
Imho it is misleading to introduce Holodomor without mentioning that large parts of Russia and Kazakhstan also suffered from the famine of 1932-1933.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1930%E2%80%...
> Airtags are explicitly not meant to track people. Apple goes out of their way

The amount of Apple apologism in this site makes me think sometimes.
They "went out of their way" by releasing a dumb Android app which everyone should have to install and know it exists as a band-aid after their technology has been shown to be used to harm and abuse people. They know airtags can be used for crime and don't care.
Do they make catastrophuc errors like mistake back of a semi for an underpass?

Do they stop in front of a cardboard box and just stand there for minutes?
I was one of those protestors.

I was just pointing out that if you know somebody who was pro invading Afghanistan (which in 2001 was like, 90%, so most people do) or Iraq you know somebody who would probably be pro-Ukraine war were they born Russian. It shouldnt be a mystery.
Yup, who the hell knows exactly what job they want when they are 40 (peak of their career) at 18 years old? Very few.

Far better to find the best balance between: interests, job prospects and income

If you're interested in subject A and subject B, but subject B can take you twice as many directions, go with B.
This reminds me of people who even in adulthood confuse "left" and "right" - I have always wondered how that happens.
I don’t quite understand what you’re asking here.

I’m no expert in the new hotness, but I hope you’re familiar with surround.vim and repeat.vim.

Both of those are by Tim Pope. Check out all his plugins!
You are trying to convince me with the popular "This is not going to work for a much more complex system".

I heard it very often. I don't buy it. Any system, no matter how complex, can be composed of small, simple systems.

I never ran against a "complexity wall" when writing software in a lean way and suddenly thought "Damn, those tens of thousands of lines of library code now would be the better approach".
Moment and friends shine when you need to display and interact with dates from a human perspective. Calendars, scheduled events, etc., all are hard to do without something like moment.
Ha ha! Very good! The writing is good, the ending is brilliant! :)

I love the binary numbers bit. It appears very often in sci-fi when interacting with aliens. very good to have it explained nicely and be a "puzzle" to solve.

But I'll just note that as far as I know - von Neumann probes are not passengers, but rather the ship itself, which replicates and travels to new destinations.

It might be ok in this short story because kids found the ship, so they didn't know better, but it's important to get the science right in sci-fi. Readers are smart :)

Keep at it! I'd love to read more of your stories.
(Short stories are great for sci-fi in my opinion!)

P.S

A great book about Von Neuman probes is - We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor
I think it's more likely that he retires to the country.

Precedent matters if you may be on the other end of it in months/years.

Also retirement to the country is not forever, which again is useful in political struggles to come.
I read the GitHub page with interest, but glazed over at the examples. Full credit to the author; the whole README is well written. But I’d love to see this demonstrated on YouTube.
HTML is not fit for some of what we currently do with it. Its print roots are obvious and _relatively_ well adapted for structuring editorial content. There are still many maddening issues when you come from a print background but it is not always clear if they are on the spec author or on the implementor: bad justifying and hyphenation, vertical displacement caused by sup and sub, etc.

But the big issue is all the UI stuff that goes around that editorial content, that we have to reinvent all the time or use piles of third-party stuff for. HTML has no tabs, no cards, no popins, no mega menus, no button groups, no steppers, etc.

We shouldn't use that "platform" to build applications.
In no particular order:

* LWT (Lightweight Transactions) are nothing like what you expect when you head "transactions". LWT are single row only.

* error handling is asinine. E.g: A quorum insert fails. is the data there or not? Maybe!

* material views. Added, removed, readded, deprecated.

* big limits on secondary indexes which only work inside each single partition

* different format of timestamp for insert and select

* BATCH is atomic, but not isolated.

...In general CQL feels like a hack. In classic SQL you understand early that you can compose queries, subqueries and such. CQL leads to you to believe that this is possible, only for you to find out that it isn't. The docs are full of stuff like "You can do this query, except in this case, unless this other case in which you can again, but not in this other". It's just exception on top of exception. Even the documentation does not list all exceptions (I managed to find a couple in my last work).
It's scary that billions of lives are in the hands of probably just a few thousand people and hundreds of millions in even less hands.

I wish people in the U.S. would realize the increasing danger we find ourselves in as power gets more and more concentrated and radical here.

But alas, the three things humans are well evolved for -- power dynamics, violence, and technology -- keep rationality, emotional intelligence, and peace at arms length.
Ironically, that case might, at the same time, be the one who brings down the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions.

The standard set by SCOTUS was, apart from what you've already said, that a time extension was permissible as long as the "traditional contours of copyright" were not altered. One of them was explicitly called out, fair use.

The Court also explicitly mentioned that for a regulation to survive constitutional scrutiny in regards to copyright, it must not supersede, nullify, or even "disturb" the exercise of fair use.

This set the precedent that fair use is constitutionally required, not only a generous grant by Congress.
Absolutely. Great job. No question. Everyone should build things and follow their heart. Full stop.

This wasn't anything about the posted software. It was a reply to a comment.
The NATO would be stupid if they nuked back, they have much, much more effective ways of striking back than tactical nukes.

One thing that has been suggested was the destruction of the black sea fleet for example which might thread an interesting needle:

- because it is stationed on Crimea one could argue it is not Russian soil, if one does not accept the Russian anexation of 2018

- it is mostly a military target so civilian casualties are not on the scale of e.g. nuking a city

- the defeat of the black fleet would certainly be felt in the (as of now) mostly isolated Moskow circles and political survival for Putin would be hard

As everything war you cannot really 100% rely on such planning tho. Unforseen dynamics may arise that take you for a ride with a destination you may not like. IMO Putin is currently on such a ride and if we had a machine that would return everything to a pre-Invasion state, I highly suspect there would be one Russian dictator that would like to use it.

But no such machine exists, and I think "the West" in case of tactical Nuke use has to find a way of threading the needle, with just enough retaliation to stop the Russians from doing more, but not so much that they completely panic. Doing nothing in return will normalize nukes, so it is not an option.
Digital Audio Broadcasting
Noone else has to guess (or go and inspect what an overloaded comparison operator actually does) if there is a meaningful name attached to the comparison, like in the parent comment.
American copyright law before 1976 was radically different from the current situation (which was largely implemented with the Copyright Act of 1976). Probably most importantly, unpublished works, and works without an explicit copyright mark (on paper!) were not under copyright. This is why nearly every single bit of software IBM wrote and provided to customers and users in the 50s to mid 70s is public domain; it was never copyright to begin with.

Anyway, the copyright term in the USA and elsewhere too, have been repeatedly extended. I say it's a distinct possibility that some works under copyright now, will still being under copyright another 100 or even 1000 years from now. That is, assuming anyone is still around to sue and be sued over such things.
I have meant to write out my approach to distraction-free device life. Unfortunately, it is always a work in progress, and I keep finding more straightforward, essentialistic, and lesser ways of getting things done while being extra-device-free.

So, here are the titbits that come to my mind right now. Of course, the shameless plug that I throw at anyone starts with a No Voice Call[1] rule, except the list of people on my earmarked “!DND” group.

A smartwatch (Apple Watch) helped me further my lifestyle. I have not taken my phone on my morning and evening walks. I usually don’t look at text messages, and notifications, so it works for me.

I do not have most of the standard apps, no social media apps, and no notifications except for the health app, which is mirrored on the watch to ping me if I need to walk around, breathe, etc. I wrote an article in 2014 to answer a common recurring question that I fielded, and it still holds to this day - disable all notifications[2].

The other thing I find helpful and am used to these days is that my phone is the most boring. The only thing I use most often is a Camera (this is where I realize that the best-sized iPhone 13 Mini lacks a good Camera). Here is my Phone Home[3] evolution, and you can see the onset of boredom as we progress by the year and versions.

I want my phone to behave as that tool that does its job, then gets out of the way. No, I do not reject new technology innovations; instead, I refuse the ways of the people how they engage with these tools.

1. https://phone.wtf

2. https://brajeshwar.com/2014/missing-step-productivity-activi...

3. https://brajeshwar.com/etc/phone-home/
Reading that back, it sounds like a complete scam you might encounter from the lowest reaches of the web.

For me, Magic Leap used up any good will by over promising and under-delivering on their initial release.
This is Chris, co-founder of Comtura.

Fathom allows you to leave bookmarks in parts of Zoom calls and push information based on these bookmarks.

Comtura makes suggestions based on what our AI thinks you should put in Salesforce. We also integrate with more WebEx solutions such as Zoom, MS Teams, Gong.
It isn't Iraq especially in the sense that Iraq had no where to go. On the other hand Russia can get the ** out of Ukraine and then carry on (more or less) as before. Yes, their economy is totally doomed now because it depends on energy that they are going to have a struggle to sell - for 10 years at least, but they do have a deescalation option. Iraq did not. Ukraine does not.
> The usual sly British games with the English language.

> I first noticed it when they were ranting (very politely, of course) about some Indian policy change. They never said "the Indian government;" it was always "Modi's nationalist party."

What sly British language? They do the same when talking about other countries - Liz Truss, Kwarteng and the Tories, Biden and the Democrats, Macron, etc. It's pinning political actions on the people and factions responsible instead of obscuring them behind a faceless "the government".
Sure, but there's also a reason we don't have `x.is_numerically_equal_to(3)`.
The west would generally need to pursue a severe escalation in response to a nuclear threat otherwise it sets a terrible precedent. I think something on that scale, but well below a nuclear response, is likely.
The answer to this in my opinion is "Yes".
It is not a trivial topic, however.

We now have the technology and medicine that can extend life far beyond
what I find ethically defensible.

Assisted suicide / mercy is not legal in most places but it does
happen every day when a doctor in good conscious cannot inflict further
suffering.

My grandmother, after being in hospital for weeks, wanted to check out.
She refused to eat. The doctors gave her morphine to make it easier.

Having to go on a hunger strike to be allowed to die sounds awful
way to go.

At least in the west where I have spent most of my time we are far too
"afraid" of death.

Death is as natural as birth.

"whereas there is obviously nothing in the world over
which every man has such an indisputable right as his own
person and life” (Schopenhauer, 1851, 1974: p. 306)
Kiwifarms.net is now protected by HAProxy
They’re fighting back censorship by using open source tools out there. Pretty cool. I wish I saw more companies doing this in general. Custom solutions excite me.
And yet I can buy a car from a website even though cars are hardware that can vary in price by 5x or more.
https://lobste.rs/t/historical
What Putin accepts or not is irrelevant - it's what the Russian state will accept that counts.

Putin is dead in 5-15 years no matter what. Russia should,could,will have 100's of years left if it starts to act 1/2 way sensibly.
> One can wonder if Putin at all has or had a true image of Russian military capability.

It is highly unlikely he has. But in the end, it is his own fault for creating that environment.
Text Inversion as a Service?
"write will fail"...but the data will still be there (you can SELECT it normally) and will be replicated to the node that was down once it is up again.

Unless the node was down too much and could not fully catch up before a set time (DB TTL if I remember correctly), in which case the data might be propagated or not, and old deleted data might come up again and be repropagated by a cluster repair.

So much fun to maintain