skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting read

I donate every year as I get tremendous value from Wikipedia.

I am still inclined to continue, but will allocate more to other not for profits this year, as the foundation is just wasting money that can be better spent elsewhere.
> " Not just for the next 10 or 20 years. But also for the next 10 thousand or 10 billion years"

Lets run a mental experiment, shall we? 10 thousand years ago we were cavemen. Imagine a caveman trying to plan what should happen today. How good would his plans be?

"To ensure human survival, you should ensure Wooley Mamoth population doesn't collapse?"

Okay, cavemen were uneducated you might say, too primitive to plan. Fine.

Get Socrates, educated man and on the smartest people in history, could he plan two thousand years ago for what we should be doing today? Could he predicr threats of climate change, nuclear war, AI, what have you?

No, he could not and its only two thousand years.

Where, the farthest back in time, do we find people who could make any meaningfull plan for today? Probably less than 100 years ago.

So there are two possible conclusions:

1 Elon musk is 100 times smarter than socrates, enabling him to think 10,000 years ahead and predict threats we have not yet conceived. Because he is so used to planning in thousands of years, he is struggling to plan when his Tesla Autopilot will finally be ready or his new product will be released.

2 Society and technology has reached a steady state, and withing the next 10,000 years there will be less change than we experienced in the last 100.

3 This is just a pseudo-intellectual excersise by folks who also happen to be arrogant and calous.

What I find to be very pretentious is arguing you can predict anything on the timescales of the universe when the laws of physics behind dark matter, dark energy and Gravity on quantum scales are unknown. For all we know universe could reverse expantion and end in a Big Crunch in 1 billion years.
No, they didn't. This has been debunked numerous times. The evidence for that is on KF itself. The people who perpetuate this narrative are people actually engaged in harassment against others whose activities are documented on KF using their own words which, oddly enough, they really don't like... leading them to attempt mass deplatforming. Anyone with more than a passing familiarity with this situation knows the score, and no one is fooled.
Is anyone reading the C++ standard or is it just me? It acts as an excellent reference manual.
22 years ago I was programming on an almost entirely open source stack. Linux servers, vim, Perl and we paid for sybase. We used CVS for source control and when I heard about sourcesafes restrictions I was shocked.

We had unit tests, though it was your own job to run them before merging. If you broke them you were shamed by the rest of the team. We also had a dedicated lab for automating functional tests and load testing using Mercury interactives tooling (don’t miss that) that we would use to test out before upgrading our servers.

We used the techniques outlined in Steve McConnell’s Rapid Development, a sort of proto-agile (and editorializing it got all the good parts right while scrum did the opposite).
A distributed system would survive if the network it was running on had enough redundant paths and bandwidth available to keep a path available after some number of attacks.
That's what I'm saying, in part. Mr. Moolenaar's reports on his own on-the-grounds activities are quite clear (from what I remember now, a bunch of years later), and the goal of ‘build some schools’ doesn't make me wonder ‘what exactly does that mean’.

Moreover, the encouragement to donate to that charity is written into the license of Vim, and still I never went ‘ugh, why does he pollute the software with politics’ or anything like that.
There is this one: https://nanovms.com/
There's no limit to perfection, but java approach is reasonable, because it works in practice.
Do you know how incredibly rare false accusations are in the things? Perpetuating the idea that it's a thing that women do does severe damage, it creates an atmosphere that is hostile to women speaking up about their assaults and it sews seeds of doubt.
I am under the impression Jeff Immelt inherited a barn of cards and the cows finally came home under his watch -making him look less than stellar. It looked like Jack was your great Engineer-cum-MBA but instead there were accounting tricks that eventually caught up to the company after he retired. On the other hand, aiming to be among the top three of anything you were heavily in seems like a good idea to drive improvement and growth to stay there.
I love Bandcamp, they never reply my emails. :(
I think it is still a great resource for non controversial subjects.

For eg. The math explanations are amazing
>The project was funded by £3.5m from the European Union, £1.5m from Pobl, and a £900,000 infrastructure upgrade by Western Power.

Whoops.
Proof of work isn't "cooking the planet". Get a grip. And Bitcoin is a fantastic benefit for humanity resulting from proof of work.
It is meant to solve the class of problems (in the computer science sense) that is cryptocurrency. This is because I want a name system where the definitions are given meaning relative to our economic system but where the economics within the network should converge on better incentives (which is why the approach should encompass the space of solutions; so we can find the points in that space which have good tradeoffs w.r.t. reality, our current central currency model systematically produces pollution and the motivation of datalisp is to eventually replace that system with a provably better one).
a dumb question,why not just leverage wordpress
I dont think a universe full of lifeless rocks and deadly radiation has concept of good and evil.
I think her action here is to represent her beliefs by submitting an oppositional vote based purely on her ideology and not the actions of the candidate. It makes sense that the ideology is also debated?
Duplex LC connectors can be split apart and later reassembled. With a bit of fiddling and taping things you can get a cable through a hole that's too small for an assembled duplex.

https://www.flukenetworks.com/sites/default/files/blog/101_s...

http://www.fiber-optic-cable-sale.com/wp-content/uploads/201...
Why? DNA/RNA is a very specific self-replicating machinery good for carbon-abundant places with liquid hydrogen oxide. It's like living in an old apartment and concluding natural gas fire from the stovetop is the universal form of fire, or something. Most aliens are probably tangled magnetothermohydrodynamic plasmas in star atmospheres or something.
I agree.

Also...somehow, you got in a lot less trouble than me for saying this elsewhere, all power to you!
Cameo Succeeded by Making a Contrarian Bet Early On
I am not only talking about this incident, but in general. There are many other examples, including Drew insulting people for having valid reasons not to use Wayland yet. Stuff like that.
Neat note at the bottom, “* There is a temporary IPv6 fee waiver for organizations in the 3X-Small service category. A 3X-Small organization may receive registry services for up to a /36 of total IPv6 space and remain in the 3X-Small service category. This waiver will expire 31 December 2026.”
It improves velocity not code quality. You can achieve the same quality levels but making changes takes much more time.

Delivery costs of software is way down in many domains (SaaS teams frequently deliver dozens or hundreds of releases a day). That would not be possible without automated tests.
Putting all of these together amounts to building AGI. While I do believe that we will have that one day, I have a very hard time imagining as the quickest path to self-driving.

Basically my contention is that vision-only is being touted as the more focused path to self-driving, when in fact vision-only clearly requires a big portion at least of an AGI. I think it's pretty clear this currently means this is not a realistic path to self-driving, while other paths to self-driving using more specialized sensors seem more likely to bear fruit in the near term.
If verification is open to everyone, you could in theory have a toggle for “verified users only” feed which would fix the bot problem.
I meant that since types are erased at compile-time in typescript, its much easier to make a schema description DSL that would then serve as the base to derive both the ORM DSL (runtime objects) and the types (compile time checks). If you go the types-first route, you will be forced to use proxies which can be more painful and constraining.

The popular choice here is to use classes plus decorators, but its not the only choice

https://typegraphql.com/docs/introduction.html#what

The convenient bit here is that classes already have both a type and a runtime representation, and decorators are also available to attach any extra metadata necessary to that runtime representation
Underrated reply. Many in this thread erroneously take the prevailing state produced narratives as gospel imho.
> No one owes you anything not attention, not money, not food, not land, not bandwidth, not domain name, not peering agreements, nothing.

Naturally when it's your turn to have the boot on your neck I'm sure you'll lamely acquiesce to the situation because, after all, nobody owes you anything.

Sometimes tortious interference really is tortious interference. Sometimes common carriers need to be regulated as common carriers.
I’m sure there are places I’d feel proud to work, but right now it’s for myself.

I have built a successful consulting practice that has allowed me to bootstrap a SaaS business and buy and operate a very small farm.

The thing I’m proud of is developing a balance between seemingly disparate interests. I love working in different areas and building relationships between them.
So brave!
I think this is the original citation, "Intrinsic glassy-metallic transport in an amorphous coordination polymer" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05261-4

I really mistrust newspaper articles about new scientific discoveries, especially since they are often based on press releases from a university's PR department, and the PR department will often get the science wrong (because they are PR people, not scientists).
This moral high horsing on all things cryptocurrencies is getting really old. Thank God Bitcoin can't be stopped no matter how high the horse. We'll keep on voluntarily opting in to our own monetary system thank you very much, nobody is forcing anybody else to do the same. Keep making those horses as high as you like Bitcoin isn't going away.
>> "Edit: it was mastodon.social, the password reset email just took 15 minutes to arrive…"

They're waiting on a new database server to handle the load.

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/109262705755044079
Would this also apply to password-protected databases? Vg. an application program that stores user data in an SQLite database, put encrypts with a password that is not known by the end-user, only the developer?
Sad how perl self-destructed with perl6.
Yes. Only one on my 2015 Model S 70D. Not sure how many on other Teslas.
> JSON + faster

Only if you have a very competent backend team, who, apart from dataloader, will have to figure out caching.

> /less data

Graphql responses tend to be pretty deeply nested.
Wouldn’t weather of neighboring towns be highly correlated? I think Hurricane Ida alone last year brought a 1:1,000 year rainfall to over a dozen states if I remember correctly
Jack Welch was one of many voices in the 1980s and 1990s that oversaw the deindustrialization of the USA. The USA lost almost 2 million manufacturing jobs in the 1980s. We shouldn't blame Jack Welch for much of that deindustrialization, as there were other, larger forces at work. At least in the early part of the 1980s, President Reagan sought a "strong dollar" which made the dollar so strong that USA manufacturers had no hope of competing on international markets, and so in that sense, Jack Welch was only responding to the circumstances he was dealt. But his focus on "shareholder value" also meant that he signaled, and was in favor of, the end of the era when big USA corporations were making long-term bets in speculative technologies. And allowing the rise of GE Capital meant he was very much part of the movement that saw the USA retreat from manufacturing and focus instead on finance. So to the extent that he was simply reacting to circumstance, we can admire his flexibility, but his focus on short-term results, and his retreat from long-term results, we can blame him for his part in the deindustrialization of the USA.

More about that deindustrialization here:

https://demodexio.substack.com/p/why-did-the-west-deindustri...
I bought a Wii U (my only console) just a few months ago. It's still amazing, you can download all available games for free directly from Nintendo.

The controller is meh, however most games also let you play with a pro controller. The screen on the Wii U brick is barely used.

And if you have a party or so just let them bring their Wii controllers, all the multiplayer games support them.

If you are not a classic gamer but are looking for some gaming fun it might still is the perfect console for you
I know about IRC but the links are super helpful, thanks!
I am proud to work where I would because people help each other, management recognise hard work and we all get along. The idea that one profession (especially half of the ones listed here) is more noble than another is non-sense with the exception of about 0.1% of jobs are each end of the scale.
My understanding is that as a single user I cannot get an allocation for a home lab or a small set of VPSs. The (very reasonable) requirements are that you need to be multi homes, or need lots of networks for e.g. employees or have 13+ different offices for the smallest allocation. This is very good info but isn’t for a hobbyist.
I've done abstract reasoning tests and score top 0.1% and none of this makes sense to me without pouring in effort. Its interest related.
Peaking globally within 5 years according to the IEA forecasts.
>But there's really no gray area for KF

Is it? The problem I have is that this deplatforming campaign uses dubious media reports and Wikipedia to create this "It's the worst site ever and you absolutely have to drop it" narrative. e.g. The "The Kiwi Farms community considers it a goal to drive its targets to suicide" is sourced from the Book "Gaming the Dynamics of
Online Harassment" which itself links to some random forum with a post saying that. Somehow this is enough to post everywhere that it's a forum with the sole goal to drive people to suicide.
One of the servers inside your domain should be set up as the WSUS server. Through group policy, you set all computers inside your domain to get updates only from that server and only approved updates.

I have not done network administration in a very long time, so my suspicion is that many of these domain controllers were set up by not very experienced people with not very intelligent bosses thinking that "it was done once, therefore it is done forever".
A $51 million surplus on a $112 million budget, to be exact:

https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AWi...

Though in fact, the real surplus was nearly $90 million, because in addition, their Endowment, held at the Tides Foundation (and therefore not included in Wikimedia Foundation assets) increased from $62.9 million:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Endow...

to over $100 million:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Endow...

in the same year.

Note also that each year the Wikimedia Foundation pays at least $5 million into its Endowment. These payments are included in the Foundation's expenses:

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/wikipedia-endownemnt-fundrais...
JSON parsing is a minefield, especially in cross-platforms scenarios (language and/or library). You won't encounter those problems on toy project or simple CRUD applications. For example, as soon as you deal with (u)int64 where values are greater than 2^53, a simple round-trip to javascript can wreak silent havoc.

See http://seriot.ch/projects/parsing_json.html

Protobuf support for google's first-class citizen languages is usually very good, i.e. C++, Java, Python and Go. For other languages, it depends on each implementation.
It kind of seems to me that the average verified user would not likely pay $20 a year to retain their checkmark. Am I off base here? I don't "do twitter" all that much so perhaps others who do and have verified accounts can comment on this.
I also kind of see the blue mark as being a benefit to Twitter more than anyone else, before the blue mark existed, people just kind of new which account was "the account", then the check mark was introduced, probably to prevent fraud, imposters etc; However, this is why I see it as being important to Twitter, it made their platform safer and therefor more valuable.

I don't see why people would pay for this?

I also felt like saying, maybe just for fun, that I feel Twitter was better without the check marks, it felt like everyone was equal, that was nice.
I use printer mode (gray scale). I mean; originally just to irritate my boss during code review, but then it grew on me. I wish there was a good black&white underline/italic/bold theme a la Algol 68.
Google hasn't used TCP in the datacenter for years. What they use I don't know. But it's even custom switches with custom chips.

My son did work in graduate school for a clean-slate network implementation of a network for the datacenter. Maybe Google, I don't remember.

One issue I remember they addressed was, scheduling bandwidth for VM migration within their datacenter cloud. See, some customer reserves a 'machine' for their services but really they get something like a VM slice of a ginormous machine (Multiple TB memory, 100 cores or whatnot). Each customer gets some of that and thinks it's a machine of their own.

That customer slice shares the larger machine with maybe 10-100 other customers. Then somebody's slice starts to use more resources and has to be moved to a machine with more 'room'. That wants to be fast and seamless. It can be maybe 1TB of stuff. Their slice doesn't want to be interrupted for long. So this machine needs bandwidth that isn't subscribed for the migration. So does the target machine. So does the cloud network. Then all the addresses have to be re-homed.

Another issue: those competing slices need a virtual network adapter. They each think they own one (each is running a copy of linux or whatnot), but it has to be a physically shared and rationed device. All while using the TCP abstraction on a network-adapter abstraction on a driver abstraction, but really on their new network hardware that's actually present on the ginormous machine. This includes all the TCP features plus the bandwidth reservations the cloud needs etc.

So yes it's abundantly obvious that the datacenter needs (has) a new network.
Linux on Microsoft Dev Kit 2023
Then they can start their own country.
They aren't censoring anyone. People can pay to host their own infrastructure. Crypto projects are a legal liability for service providers and frequent abusers of service offerings. I honestly wish they would have been less specific in there reasons to not make it seem like some ethical dilemma but point is there are good reasons to not allow these types of projects. I don't trust them less I just know not to host certain projects there and follow a general etiquette. If I wanted to use them to host something more controversial then I'd reach out first to see if they'd allow it and build that relationship. This is no different than wanting to display a controversial banner in a private establishment. They end up taking on some liabilities which I'm sure they would like to be informed before doing so in order to make sure they will help provide some support if it becomes a challenge.
I don't have specific insight into WhatsApp but I agree with some other commenters here that changing your profile picture and having a link in the text definitely fits the pattern of a phishing attempt. It was probably auto-detected.

Sorry you got caught up in that! I know it is fun to have conspiracy theories but I assure you it is much more boring than that :)
I'm from PA.

Makes sense -- part of being "green" is not buying new stuff every year.

When I went off to college, you could order the laptop from Apple, then order the RAM from Newegg, pop out the battery, and upgrade the ram yourself (the slots were behind where the battery went in.)

This was before Bitcoin, but I remember how some folks were pissed I told all the moms you don't need a GPU to do computer security since you'll be able to SSH into big iron if you actually need that kind of thing.

Anyways, you'd go onto Craiglist and sell the ram for cash, to avoid the chance some asshole will do a Paypal dispute after you sent them the ram you no longer have a use for so they can get it for free.

And then when the laptop started getting older, you could at least just buy a new battery for about two hundred.

I think, during that period, I may have gotten hit with some malware from a keygen? It's been an arms race since I was 12 between "that's a CFAA violation" and "you shouldn't have been on that website" versus "a lot of the rhetoric around CFAA violations assumes I can't walk out of my apartment and pour a bottle of water onto your computer then claim stand your ground."

(Rest in power John McAfee. At least you made people laugh, even if you did murder a fellow Greg.)

- Greg
Definitely the better choice to preserve the Amazon- hopefully the international community takes this opportunity to pursue programs to pay Brazil to conserve it before the next Bolsonaro.
What are we waiting for then? Let's go!
This isn’t a hard call. He destroyed one of the most established and valuable companies in history by fabricating financial results and siphoning off company money.
We barely see neutrinos, we don't even know what dark-matter and -energy are, we can't reconcile micro and macro physics, we've lived for an eyeblink, we really don't have much clue.
You can have artificial habitats which are almost in any way better than a planet. Even bigger, by a few orders of magnitude, if that's your metric. Maybe that's not something that will be readily available to you during your first millennia in space, but we are talking about larger timescales.

The bigger question is if something that old will want to be bare-organic (as in running in actual wetware), or "virtualized". If the former, bigger, fancy habitats will be wanted. If the later, big and efficient datacenters will be more important. If they are as "we-want-morrrrrrr-choice" as we are, they are going to want a mixture of both.
> faster, less data over the wire, etc.

I've always wondered about this. Firstly, I'm fairly sure clientside JSON parsing is significantly faster than protobuf decoding but even data over the wire: JSON can be pretty compressible so surely the gains here are going to be marginal. Surely never enough benefits to UX to warrant the DX trade off, right?