skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What is going to prevent a process from _writing to AND reading from its own memory_ exactly?

I think pjmlp is referring to this: https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2022/01/20/an_armful_of_cher...
I wonder if there is an offline backup of Wikipedia on ISS? There should be. And on every manned space mission.
You're not reliant on imports, but unless you outlaw the export of energy you're still subject to the global price of energy. If they can export it cheap enough, energy producers would rather sell it to mainland Europe or around the world rather than sell it for less domestically.
We're not yet in a place where we routinely make so much wind power that we need less rather than more.

We need a lot more storage, even battery storage plus wind is way cheaper than current gas shortage induced prices, and both wind turbines and batteries are getting cheaper
Note that those headaches are still largely unresolved by this. It only covers possession, and it's a pardon, so possession is still technically outlawed.
> By honestly ranking their preferences, they threw away their say in the outcome.

When Begich came out as the loser, every one of the votes he got went to the voter's #2 choice which was either Palin or Peltola (and a surprising 29% of Begich voters had Peltola as their #2 choice!)

The only people who "threw away their say in the outcome" are the ones who didn't rank their preferences. They basically opted out of having a vote if their one chosen candidate didn't win by not making a #2 choice.

It's very clear with ranked choice voting when you might be throwing away your vote, it happens only when you don't specify who your vote should go to if your first pick doesn't have enough supporters. Every single person who selected a #1 and #2 choice had a say in the outcome of that election.
Yeah, and sometimes they can even send stock back that they already have on hand; when I was in manufacturing that would happen now and then.
A problem with all of these systems is that they are harder to understand, resulting in reduced voter confidence, or they demand more from the voter.

Any kind of ranking is going to mean you need to know enough about each candidate to put them in some kind of order. Maybe OK if there are two candidates but much harder after that. Most people will rank their favorite on top and then just randomly rank the remainder.

Simple plurality or majority vote is easiest to understand and easiest for the voter. You vote for the one candidate you like the best. If the isn't a majority for one and that is required, you have a runoff between the top two.
That's something they'll leave to the aftermarket outfitters.
I recently built a small home solar battery system with the goal of keeping my low-power DC devices charged and running during outages like this. I've only been running it for a few months now, but I've been using it to keep all of my USB devices charged during that time.

In an actual power outage, I can even plug in my modem, router, and AP—using DC barrel jacks for the modem and router and a DIY PoE injector for the AP—so as long as the upstream infrastructure is still powered I'll be able to keep working.

Since I rent, I can't do a roof-mount or grid-tie system, so I opted instead to build a 12V DC system. I purchased a used solar panel and I've assembled a ~0.5kWh battery from used packs.

I'm using insulated nickel strips to pass the solar panel cables through a closed closed window in a way that doesn't require drilling holes and has a minimum impact on the insulation seal of the window (although insulation in the UK really sucks anyway).

Most of the fittings and wiring have been used and come mostly from automotive scrap (an advantage of using common 12/24V standard fittings), so the financial cost has been very low. That said collecting use battery packs, testing cells, and assembling them into new battery packs certainly takes time.
"Firefighting" is being used in two different contexts here. In the SRE document, it means literal incident response, while in the Staff Eng context, it means "addressing whatever the organizational P0 is", which may occasionally be a literal incident, but it may also be developing an incident response team, or lending a hand to a project that is behind schedule, or...whatever.

There's always something that is highest priority, and having a floating person(s) who can continually identify and provide support for whatever that thing is isn't a sign of a dysfunctional organization.
> Despite a burst of pardons and commutations in his last hours in office, Donald Trump used his executive clemency power less frequently than nearly every other president since the turn of the 20th century, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Justice Department data.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/01/22/trump-used-...
I agree - for a few years my primary display has been permanently full-screen VSCode with Remote SSH, either to a remote server or a local virtual machine.

Occasionally I open another window to edit files locally, but that's become rarer. I love having everything in a container that I can always destroy and recreate, or spin up as many as I want for isolated environments. It taught me to write automation scripts and configs for reproducible setups. It's perfect for education and onboarding new team members too.
I don't really have to propose solutions, actually. My point was the problem, and its inconvenience for many assumptions many Americans have about housing, cities, markets. I don't have to have a ready-made policy prescription on hand to recognize that.

Here are some potential solutions anyways.

Some of these would be unpopular, but we could consider;

1. National standardization of zoning (like Japan)
2. Federal funding for local rail instead of highways (this would probably be the biggest one)
3. Municipal incentives for densification
4. Federal laws regulating the lobbying power of neighborhood associations
5. Beheading local gentry at the guillotine before inevitably being placed in its open maw ourselves (vive la révolution!)
There used to be one, maybe you can find one somewhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiReader
If a compile-time function opened a text file, read the content and returned it as a string (which becomes a literal), I would consider that pure.
You are just beind pedantic. I could have used jogging alone with mask on, in a park when no one is around which is known to be zero risk. Yet it was widely seen.
Oh hey, I made one too. https://betterpolls.com/

Focus on Condorcet ("Virtual Round Robin") counting. De-duping by requiring a google or facebook login (or anonymous with a crappy hacky captcha).
A very large percentage of federal possession cases are drug smuggling at border crossings. This amendment is to keep those people locked up since their initial charge of “possession” was chosen over illegal border crossing or whatever else since it was probably a) easier to prosecute, and b) carried a harsher sentence
im actually amazed you never ran into politics at work. you never needed to navigate around egos to get what you want, you do every thing purely on merit, every decision is only technical?

my whole career as been filled with stuff like people forcing their pet projects on the company, people hiring their friends and dealing with their in crowd
Why not just every space mission, period?
The war on drugs started around 1971 under Nixon. Clinton added “three-strikes” in 1994.
Agreed, Spanish almonds are way way way better.
Probably not whilst the sitting vice president put 1500 people in prison for marijuana violations and then laughed about when she was asked if she'd ever smoked marijuana.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxHORNMWPmg
In the spirit of C++ and C#, there could be a C?'1':'0'
Thank you, those things have been weighing on me, mostly because I feel powerless to a degree. When I can keep my spirits up, I try approach the things by asking questions in small groups and see change bit by bit. Which seems like an uphill battle, pitted against the mindless wheels of bureaucracy, as someone else here put it, but from time to time and with compassion people (me included) can see the standpoint of others better. It takes time. But much like the "solution" to racism can't be anti-racism, the "solution" to woke can't be anti-woke. We probably all just need a hug.
Maybe meant to exclude drug traffickers/cartel folks who could only be charged with simple possession for reasons.
It's a pretty empty gesture.
Edit: to see all available Anki decks, go to: https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/deck
You can serve a static HTML page from anywhere. GitHub pages, S3, maybe even Dropbox. Running a Rust binary is an order of magnitude more complex than that.
> "increasing your support for your genuine favorite can actually hurt their odds of winning"

This is referring to the monotonicity criterion[0]. The page has both toy examples and real world ones. It includes some hints about possible violations in Australia, but your voting system isn't very transparent so it is difficult to audit these situations.

As for vote splitting, I think it would be better to look at Favorite Betrayer[1][2]. Sometimes also called the strong spoiler effect. This is actually a big problem. It is why candidates like Bernie Sanders pledge to not run as independent after losing the primary. If you don't violate this condition such pledges are entirely unnecessary.

[0] https://electowiki.org/wiki/Monotonicity

[1] https://electowiki.org/wiki/Favorite_betrayal_criterion

[2] https://electionscience.org/library/the-spoiler-effect/

[0] https://electowiki.org/wiki/Monotonicity
That is an excellent point conveyed excellently and I agree with it.
Go is simple, but still decent for networking services. I don't get the "hype" per se either, but it's not a bad language really, and what it does do, it does pretty well. Local maximum, if that makes sense.
> The current rate of 9.62% is the lowest it's ever been, and its never changed drastically.

Recommend doing the math yourself as a sanity check using the composite rate formula in conjunction with historical fixed and semiannual inflation rate tables. The implication is that either the composite rate formula or the historical composite rate table is in gross error, where the latter is much more likely given a naive understanding of what the instrument's intent is.
> f you've not noticed, Russia's negotiations are about as worthless as used toilet paper.

If you dont try you dont know, do you?
I'm not aware of any way to actually increase the total amount of real gold in/on the earth in any meaningful way in an ECONOMICAL matter (i.e. you have a net positive income from producing it). The government can make more REAL MONEY for far less than the value of the money.
Noble thought but unlikely. With the end of WWII and the formation of the UN it was hoped that the development of newer and more terrifying weapons would stop but it was a false and unrealistic hope. I'm of the Woodstock generation and we thought the world was in for a much better age but tragically that never eventuated, wars never stopped and they're now escalating again in serious ways.

One hardly needs to study history to realize that it's mainly the study of wars, weaponry and people killing each other. It's taught us that civilization has always cycled between a state of fragile peace that's constantly within a hair's trigger from ending and actual war itself and descent into barbarism—and the longer the cycles of peace last the more sensitive the hair-trigger becomes.

Few would be happier than me to see this or the next generation succeeding as you suggest, but on the evidence I'd reckon the odds of success are extremely slim—so slim in fact that I'd put substantial money on it. As success would mean a complete turnaround in what's happened throughout all of human history—and as the unprovoked war in Ukraine has shown, we are not yet even on the starting block!

I'd also suggest that come any serious global conflict, treaties outlawing chemical and bioweapons etc. will be violated on a whim and the evidence is that it's already happened in comparatively small conflicts—not to mention Putin's sabre-rattling threat of not ruling out the nuclear option (and he's done so in what is still just a local conflict, albeit a serious one). What would be worse, the nuclear option or the other big two?

(As I write this my conviction is being further strengthened—I've just watched back-to-back television footage of the latest bombing of an apartment building in Ukraine where people were killed and the killing of dozens of innocent children in Thailand by of all people a parent!)
As far as I know Cloudflare Pages Functions with Durable Objects or D1 is the only edge infrastructure that can do this currently. D1 uses SQL as it is built on SQLite, and Durable Objects is used for coordination, but also has a transactional storage API.

D1 is closed beta, Pages Functions is open beta, but limited to 100,000 requests. You don't need Pages Functions if you have an SPA, it's more of an MPA thing where Workers is used as a server for SSR. It let's you push more work to the server like in the good old days, except the server is a JavaScript runtime running on the edge. Durable Objects is the interesting part, because it gives you the data locality, but also strong consistency.

Not shilling for Cloudflare, I just think that their stuff is cool and the rest of the industry is definitely playing catch-up to them. You can argue that most of us don't need the scale and it's true, but I would also argue that we can use the performance and the developer convenience, and by that I also mean time, which is by far the most important resource. Their runtime is also open-source, which makes you feel less tethered to them.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/workerd-open-source-workers-runt...
> I'd argue the same thing about the Clinton administration and Greenspan specifically.

I'm curious, what are the things that happened during the Clinton administration that you think were short-term gains at the expense of long-term improvements? I've always felt that many of the fiscal policies of Clinton were in favor of long-term stability (e.g. specifically his tax policies and balancing the budget).

Now, with monetary policy and Greenspan specifically, I 100% agree that the "Greenspan put" was absolutely a disaster for long-term stability, but Greenspan was in office from 1987 - 2006 (originally nominated by Reagan), so I see his choices as pretty orthogonal to whoever was president at the time.
> Hopefully Twitter will become a bastion of free speech under Musk's stewardship.

It won't. Musk will use it to promote what he likes and suppress what he doesn't like. Musk's fundamental dishonesty and hypocrisy guarantee that outcome.
You most likely want https://antmedia.io/
Ant Media WebRTC streaming library. It's the back-end for most adult streaming sites and alternative livestreaming sites. Cheapest option by FAR if done on budget hosts, especially if bandwidth is free or cheap (ex. Hetzner Cloud US gives 10TB free).

Some other options:

Free:

https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/ Free/Open Source, built for video calls but also works for livestreaming*

https://livekit.io/ Free SDK, similar complexity to Jitsi but tailored specifically for live streaming

https://www.ovenmediaengine.com/olk Roll-Your-Own auto-scaling live-streaming solution

...

API as a Service:

https://www.100ms.live/ Super low-latency livestreaming API with premium pricing

https://castr.io/ All-In-One, ok pricing

https://www.api.stream/ Good, pay as you go pricing

https://liveapi.com/pricing/ Good, pay-as-you-go pricing

https://www.simplelive.co/livestream One click embedded live stream start-up, pricing seems too good to be true

...

* Example repo which used Jitsi for livestreaming to thousands: https://gitlab.com/guardianproject-ops/jitsi-aws-deployment

...

All of the options will run ~$100 to $3000/month for streaming 100 hours a month to 1000 users, with APIs costing the most and bandwidth being the main cost of self-hosted solutions.

<$100/mo is possible by self-hosting on Hetzner or another free bandwidth host.

Using AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud anywhere in your stack can easily 2-3x your costs above the high bound.
Magic communist utopia money on your Solana wallet
Is a Long-Dismissed Forgery the Oldest Known Biblical Manuscript
>all current United States citizens and lawful permanent residents who committed the offense of simple possession of marijuana

>This pardon does not apply to individuals who were non-citizens not lawfully present in the United States at the time of their offense.

What about non-citizens lawfully present but not permanent residents, such as tourists and short-term visa holders?
doesn't mean their office and staff in china don't remotely have access to the data or the ability to replicate it.
Yes, that is the standard bargain for tenure-track professors at U.S. research universities. You pay a little bit of teaching time (0-2 courses a semester) and get an abundance of research time. Tenure decisions are mostly based on research success. Teaching plays almost no role. Essentially, you're on a six-year clock to get X number of top journal publications. That provides a massive incentive for professors to focus almost exclusively on research over teaching.

PhD students face similar incentives. While they might have to teach a course in order to earn their stipend, their job market success is based almost entirely on their dissertation. Every hour teaching is an hour not writing.

Adjunct professors ("lecturers") are different. Just speculating but... some professional flaws might only be tolerated in a university environment. You can go years as a lecturer without returning class quizzes. You can't go a month as a SWE without returning your boss's emails.

Caveat: American economist with experience working for governments and universities. Other countries may be different.
Kiwix is great - I have a collection of various things from their library https://library.kiwix.org/?lang=eng downloaded for when I'm on a plane or the internet is otherwise unavailable.

That and the TeXlive PDF manuals can get me through anything.
One man's pandering for votes is another man's fulfilling of electoral mandate and promises.
Kinda along those lines. What works best for me is to start with high level comments in plain English after thinking about what I'm trying to achieve for a bit. Then I make a skeleton of all the methods and classes that that will require. Then I'll comment each method (if not trivial) in plain English and only then actually begin development. The development phase seems to go by pretty quickly that way.

And as another plus, that makes my code very readable for others. I leave the comments in.
If he's really been involved for 5 years, it's absolutely mind-boggling that he's ignored all the other projects in this space that have failed. It will be a shame watching his project join them, but I guess that's your prize for failing to loop the community in on your community-based crypto platform.
Can anyone tell me what's the upside to these companies today? I have talked to a few of their users, but I still have not heard a sound reason. They mostly seem focused on items like clothing. If you can't afford it, don't buy it. Or use a CC and earn points. They don't seem to provide any extra consumer protection or benefits.
It is surprising that it is not typically taught in schools. One would think an understanding of how our government works and the limits of its powers would be critical for a functional democracy, but 57% of Americans have never even read the constitution nonetheless had any formal education about the context and consequences of its clauses. Of course there will always be more things we want kids to learn than there is time to teach them, but I seriously question what was prioritized over civics.
Unfortunately I think word of mouth is the best way to find good attorneys. Ask people who run similar businesses as you who they use? If there's a chamber of commerce in your city or town, you could ask them for references.
The universal cancer treatment will be full body transplant.

As long as the cancer isn't in the patient's brain, the patient's head could be removed and transplanted onto a donor (brain dead) body. This would render the patient a quadriplegic, but with repeated study over decades we might be able to repair the nervous system.

There isn't a large set of brain dead bodies to draw from, so if this process proves successful, perhaps we could one day start growing human bodies in labs from a monoclonal source. If we remove their ABO and MHC antigens, we might be able to lessen the need for an ongoing life-altering immunosuppressant regimen. These lab grown bodies would be headless/brainless from the outset via gene and surgical deactivation during development to remove any ethical issues. The bodies could be artificially innervated and pumped with the hormonal signals they need to grow until it's time to harvest them.

Cancer is thousands and thousands of different disease states, and it will remain a difficult landscape for the foreseeable future. A non-molecular approach of wholesale cancer tissue removal (via body replacement) seems like an out of the box solution that could work.
Sometimes students are lazy, and sometimes the teachers are shit. I've been the former at times and certainly had a few of the latter.

In this case though from what I read the teach was bad at his job. Maybe didn't need to be fired, but some action was warranted.
So they are essentially like a "sharpen" image filters.

Sharpening filters don't actually sharpen an image, you would need deconvolution for that and it is really hard to do and require accurate knowledge of the process that made the image blurry. And even the best algorithms can't recover information that wasn't here in the first place.

What sharpening filters do is that they increase contrast locally, so instead of having light grey -> dark grey, you have light grey -> white -> black -> dark grey. The sharp "white -> black" transition gives off the illusion that the image is more detailed than it really is. In fact, since it is generally a type of convolution filter, you are actually destroying data. Overdo it and you get a noisy mess.
I used to trigger my fuses in my apartment a lot, so I got a UPS power strip. I connected it to my router so the internet would stay on in case I was on a work call or something.

Maybe that’s the simplest solution. Every important appliance has its own UPS. Small UPS’s like that require no setup or permits and just kinda work.

I wonder if you could use one to power a fridge..
Antidepressants
This is an absolute deal breaker for me.

I sleep with earphones on. No wireless earphones have the thin form factor nor the battery life to last all night - and without the wire they'll get lost in the bed.
It means

> Don't fuckin' come here and ignore the rules
It's cool seeing the map of the cable he writes about, FLAG: https://www.submarinecablemap.com/submarine-cable/flag-europ...
Can I buy food with it?
Companies that are banking on edge computing definitely seem to agree with this headline :)
Yes, I remember - I had a copy on an SD card on my OLPC.

I believed it morphed into "Wikipedia for Schools" ^0 - possibly this ^1 is a comment about it?

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_for_Scho...

1: https://www.speedofcreativity.org/2008/11/11/wikipedia-to-go...
Paris is so openly hostile to tourists (strangers were more helpful than staff). I’m happy to visit everywhere else as we do more visits to Europe.
Could it be because he used to be involved with war on drugs?
I certainly have it, but I think there are ways to fight back.

Github and strictly source-controlling all my personal projects has done wonders for my progress.

The crappy part still is when you hit a blocker and really have to bust your ass to get through it. The temptation to go sideways and do something else is extremely strong when you don't have a business owner standing behind you.