skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know what's better than free? Something that's free and also being used by the majority of industry players.

Personally I think this news is a huge one for Linux and RHEL based users community in general. This is the main reason why FSF's GPL is a great license for open source software.

According to the article not only the Rocky Linux becomes the natural successor for CentOS, it also added the real-time capability to RHEL based clones, and all it's done with the collaboration with the Linux community. This looks to me like a RHEL distro on steroid and before long there will be tens if not hundreds of books using the Rocky Linux in its title descriptions.
Realizing that I couldn't run from the judgement of God. At the end of the day I wanted to be "the one who didn't suffer". That's not possible, and counter-intuitively, is the best way to maximize suffering.
Meta definitely isn't dying, it's sliding into old age and slow growth. It's Walmart with Amazon (TikTok) on the scene. Walmart didn't disappear due to Amazon; Amazon's growth didn't actually erode Walmart backwards in any meaningful way; Amazon's growth likely came in part at the expense of Walmart.

TikTok is a large niche social network, as are all major social networks in the West except for Facebook. That's why it'll find a lower plateau than FB core in terms of users, as with Pinterest, Snap, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, WhatsApp (if one even cares to consider WhatsApp & Co. social networks, either way).

Walmart hasn't been a great investment during the Amazon era. 20 years ago WMT was ~$55 / share. Inflation adjusted that's around $90 per the BLS (likely there has been more inflation than that). Today WMT is $142. So 20 years to add 57%. And sure, they pay a dividend, that merely makes the return a bit less mediocre - the S&P 500 is up 336% in that time for example.

Meta, as with many (previously) overvalued tech stocks from this era, is in for a long stagnation vs the recent highs. It'll remind you of Microsoft ~2001-2015. Future returns were massively pulled forward. The pandemic remoting hyper activity era also pulled returns massively forward in other areas, which will be paid for via many years of stagnation in areas like advertising, ecommerce and remote tech (eg Zoom is an excellent example of said future returns being pulled forward; growth in remoting that might have taken a decade gradually, was zoomed forward courtesy of the pandemic; now the hangover).
Shifting a large city away from having a lot of car infrastructure sounds extraordinarily complex, expensive, and time consuming. I would potentially support it, but surely scooters are cheaper and quicker to implement.
https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1587091081920929796

https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1587091085288947712...

Chris Murphy at least thinks it is an issue, as do I.
I disagree that this requires "advanced aliens" having abilities we've never observed.

Let's assume that a fictional alien race has the technology level we have right now and no significant advances happen after that, just the buildup of the infrastructure that we could build today but haven't yet built because we just invented it a few years ago.

With this level of technology it seems entirely plausible that a planet will spare the resources to prepare a single 'generation ship' once every 1000 or 10000 years - like, if once every hundred generations a crazy billionaire decides to spend their wealth on this, it should be in the ballpark of what's possible; it doesn't require a consistent effort of the whole civilization, sporadic one-off actions every few millenia are enough. And within 10k-100k years of settlement, that planet definitely can gain the same capability. And that's enough - with this stagnant level of tech, and with this conservative rate of expansion, that alien race would still be expected to populate the whole galaxy long before the first hominids appeared on Earth.

Of course, the species destroying itself is a valid argument - that's why this chance is an explicit factor in the Fermi Paradox.
Quality of life in Japan keeps improving because their population is falling while their "slow" growth economy continues to improve life for the remaining share of the population.
right, but its also just a 10x revenue multiple. it makes $4bn in revenue a year as is.

he reduces costs and that gets it in line pretty quick
Isn't the purpose of the hormone treatments, surgeries, etc. so that someone of the male sex can appear as if the female sex, or vice versa?
>and spend a few thousand on hardware tests

Okay, that should let you just about afford to certify an Ethernet cable.
I'm fine with a 100% self-driven/auto-piloted scooter/bike .. I'm sorry, but there are far too many uncoordinated fools out there without the slightest concept of newton's 2nd who are perpetually coming right up on my back for me to be cool with anything else (in an urban area at least).
You can use any custom validation there is for any field.
It's ridiculous, in London you can hire one and ride that around, but you can't ride your own. You also need a driving license.

Completely unfounded but I think there is a lot of pressure being applied by the taxi groups to try and discourage them.
I have this weird feeling I kicked it off with a reply tweet[1] where I said

Comma AI is going to outlast almost everyone

"The company, unlike its competitors, has paying customers for its products and is generating profit from its openpilot business model."

Profit today: That's INFINITE runway ;-)

I suspect that implication of a Sisyphean task might have pushed him over the brink. 8(

But, probably not.

[1] https://twitter.com/mikewarot/status/1585406659467579395
> (with no hint of how much "mixed race" is partial-white)

You mean people like Obama? Guess he counts as basically white in your book, because he's "mixed race" and partial-white? I guess you figure Obama as president was not "substantially" different from Eisenhower being president in the 50s, both are basically white right?
This is not just pandemic related, this goes back to the 2008 crisis.

One could even argue that this is the long term consequence of de-pegging the USD from gold combined with de-regulation and corruption in the financial markets.

Any way, this is definitely a self-made crisis and not one "caused by covid".
I get the purist push for Vanilla JS but for me it's still way too verbose. W3C has had decades to fix it and while it's improved it's still verbose as heck. Just implement the jQuery API into Vanilla JS and people would stop using jQuery.
> for example git could be described as a application of blockchain technology

Git isn't a blockchain as it lacks a consensus mechanism. It can however be used as an append only immutable distributed ledger. If that's all you need, you don't need a blockchain.

That's precisely why consortium and private blockchains do not make any sense. Either they have a consensus mechanism that's useless and wasteful, or they're just not blockchains.

We can't call everything a blockchain otherwise it's not possible to talk about the technology in a meaningful manner. Blockchains were invented in 2008 in the Bitcoin paper. Merkle trees dates back from the 80s. It makes no sense to call a Merkle tree that happen to have the constraint of having a single child per node a "blockchain" except to ride the hype train.

Merkle trees have a lot of legitimate use cases. Blockchains only and single use case that make sense is making so-called "cryptocurrencies", which in turn has a single use case which is speculation, which is not something either useful to society or desirable for most people.
Combining htmx, _hyperscript, tailwind, and my preferred server side tech has really minimized the web ui friction for my projects. Good luck with the end run and I hope it works well for you too.
Obviously this would be the optimal solution, but we have to operate in the realm of reality. There is no political will to eliminate car centric infrastructure.
No, that's the whole point of having a layered network stack.
In 1992 I had an office with a door, a window, a Sun workstation, lots of bankable vacation time, a salary that let me buy a house in a nice neighborhood, and coded in a programming language that I could completely understand for a machine whose instruction set was tiny and sensible. Now I WFH with a really crappy corp-issued Windows laptop that's sluggish compared to that Sun, haven't had a real vacation in years despite "unlimited" PTO, and have to use a small safe subset of C++ to code for chips whose ISAs have bloated into behemoths. On the plus side, I now have git, instead of Cray's UPDATE, whose underlying metaphor was a box of punched cards.
That's a really lazy and self-centered solution to something that helps a lot of people get around. Would you like us to take this position about cars?
The "fiscally responsible" party
Me too. Unfortunately new doctors have to start practicing every now and then, or we'll run out of experienced ones. Which new surgeon would you prefer.
This sounds suspiciously close to one of the main arguments for affirmative action: that it is meant to compensate for past discriminatory policies.
The 6 times faster benchmark from that article is describing a Java server and Java client.

This thread is about protobuf vs JSON in a JavaScript environment.

The article you linked _does_ talk about JavaScript environments, too, but the numbers are much less impressive.
Bruno Latour is a significant thinker on the sociology of technology. He died recently.

This book is, according to him, "the best presentation of my entire work that I am aware of."

The "Thinkers for Architects" book series is intended to introduce the work of important philosophers and other theorists to a relatively non-academic audience. As such, the books are of interest to readers from outside architecture (they are often very good).
if only they weren't right 95% of the time. Anyone they know that uses alternative web platforms uses them for those exact reasons, and they're generally pretty correct in that assumption, who else would be motivated to use them to any discernible degree?
Standardized tests are an opportunity for students to distinguish themselves no matter what school they're stuck in. Yes the wealthier students on average study more for the SAT, but anyone can study for it with widely available materials. UC Berkeley got rid of the SAT/ACT requirement and is making their own test instead; if other schools did this, having so many different tests would ironically favor those with the most resources.

And what's the alternative? There's not a lot else to go off of since GPAs are whatever.
The issue of how simple is too simple is thorny for activism. Nobody wants to have to start from zero and re-litigate all the details every time they want to explain their cause to a random person off the street. And no random person off the street wants to hear an excruciatingly long lecture on the consumer electronics industry when they ask an activist about their cause. Slogans and acronyms are useful. But it's still getting people to understand what specific policies do and don't follow the spirit of the slogan.
Ultima I was a phenomenal game, but also incredibly hard by today's standards
Just came back from Austin (way smaller than Dallas) and it was during a large event weekend (F1 weekend). We used the electric scooters pretty much the entire weekend to get around the city, it was really good, much faster and efficient than taking an Uber/Lyft or driving. Most of the larger streets had a bike only lane and we never felt unsafe (my 70yo dad was riding with me on another scooter). Overall, I think that when combined with a good planning strategy from the city these types of micro transport could be something really good. I still think that good public transportation should be the goal here, but that requires way more infrastructure investment, and electric scooters or bikes could be the next best trade off.
the 360 has no hypervisor.

The CPU had an emulator that you could run on x86 Windows, but it was not itself a hypervisor.

The hypervisor in the XB1 served a more important purpose: to provide developers a way of shipping the custom SDK to clients, and not forcing them to update it. This was quite important for software stability and in fact we made a few patches to MS's XB1 SDK (Durango) to optimise it for our games.

VM's are VM's, there are performance trade-offs.

I know this because I worked on AAA games before in this area, do you also work in games and are repeating something you think. you heard?
> One need only look at traffic when raining and people revert to drier methods of transport.

I understand the point you're trying to make but this is a pretty insane way to support it. :D Looking at traffic when raining and concluding that the reason it's worse is because there are more cars, ignoring the fact that people drive more cautiously and have more accidents in the rain, is kind of a leap.
After I bought M1 for my wife, she doesn't even need to be in the same state as me. It's truly a marriage saver.
They do get sued for things like that.

It's possible that's one reason and another is to force people to buy new products more often or pay for repair services. When asked however, they claim it's the first reason because it makes them look better than if it was both.

This is an extremely common manipulation tactic
> Yeah, it's pretty crazy how desensitized we collectively are to cars constantly killing people.

A bit hyperbolic, don't you think? The average is 1 for every 100,000,000 miles driven. And more like 1 in 600,000,000 if you are talking about people killed by cars who were not themselves in said car.
The United States is locked into a net budget deficit as long as nations like China are allowed to have net budget surplus though repressing the wages of their people though various authoritarian control and subsidy.

It will take either an end to global trade or a massive unilateral revision by the United States to fix it.

If the US deficit stopped increasing it would result in US consumers being forced to eat the deficit instead.

Edit:. This isn't my idea. I'm parroting a guy by the name "Michael pettis".

look him up and don't credit this to me. I'm just a fool who believes this guy who posts on the internet.
So they shouldn't be giving their rainy day fund away to random other organizations.
He seems to misunderstand the dynamic here, he thinks he is doing them a favor writing whatever driver he is.

He does not seem to understand that the favor is the maintainers accepting to merge his code.
Assuming that's true--and I'm not sure it is--mass retirement of baby boomers, which has already begun due to forced retirement during the pandemic, is going to absolutely decimate the labour supply, which has enormous knock-on effects (including a rise in inflation).
Federal Reserve is not strictly part of the federal government.
There’s only one outcome for hedonists. Wireheading. I suspect many people will go this way, I won’t.
If equities are really just shares of ownership in the means of production, it's basically everyone owning some portion of the means of production. I wonder if anyone thought of that system before?
One or two vendors will emerge with an off the shelf solution, then third party fleets will integrate that with gliders from Big Auto. These alsoran attempts like Argo are a waste of money. Rising interest rates are improving capital allocation.
> Running in small areas shows that they can drive in small mapped out areas under specific conditions.

That is fully autonomous driving. It's just classified as Level 4. Geofences and operating conditions can be extended to provide a real, useful taxi service to a lot of people.
The protobuf javascript generator and runtime really shines when your stack is compiled using the closure compiler; it shrinks down to very little code. Unfortunately, very few people outside google use this.

The protobuf-gen-es plugin sounds nice, I'll definitely be checking it out.

However, I don't understand the desire for people to write protoc plugins in anything but C++, and I'm not even a C++ developer (I much prefer js/ts for many things). Instead of a single c++ source file with a builtin cool templating library which compiles trivially to a tiny binary, you inherit a huge dependency chain that includes the typescipt compiler and nodejs runtime. Totally unnecessary IMHO.
> I know that in Andrej's interview he talks about how he felt the Tesla team had become autonomous and didn't rely on him anymore, maybe George resonated with that.

Ah, yes. Andrej left because the Tesla team has everything to finish FSD this year.

It has nothing to do with Elon’s obsession with the Boston Dynamics robot, nor the failed progress on FSD.
Here in London they’re pretty strict about parking them in designated marked spots, not leaving them littering streets randomly.

The apps will remind you repeatedly to park correctly and will fine you if you don’t, which I’m pretty sure they’re required to do as part of their licensing conditions.
I don't think it's a question of can Meta walk things back but whether Zuckerberg has the humility to do so. It certainly doesn't seem like Zuckerberg possesses that ability so it's more likely they'll just double down on "the metaverse".
When you factor costs. Which was Andrej's point, if you watched the video
its more similar to distributed microcontrollers by a matter of fact that the nodes don't allow much processing and there are many nodes that replicate the function. it is less similar to simply microcontrollers or simply distributed computing.
So giving Black students a slightly higher chance to get into Harvard, all other things being equal, reminds you of sending the cops to overpolice neighborhoods Black people live in? I guess they're the same in a way. Doing bad things reminds me of doing good things because things are being done in either case.
Nobody--yourself included--wants us to honor every bad precedent. Should we be stuck with Citizens United for all of eternity? Of course not--everybody wants that sumbitch overturned!. Pretending that you believe precedent to be sacred is both silly and transparently self-serving.

> The law was already settled on this issue.

The idea of "settled law" is a rhetorical device and nothing more. SCOTUS has been overturning precedent on an almost annual basis for centuries[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_overruled_United_State...
The federal reserve is not a part of the federal government in any form or capacity. They are a nonprofit business operating under a government charter defined by the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 and are completely separated from the US Treasury Department and the US Department of Commerce.
>"Before Dracula PRO my life was meaningless, colorless and sad. Now it is vibrant, electric and full of the best code I've ever written."

100% agree /s
> wanted to be more productive you'd not even send many people to college in the first place and just have them go straight into the labor force

This is incorrect. The question of education's impact on GDP per capita is thoroughly researched [1][2][3]. When one broadens to measuring living standards, the results get starker.

[1] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/60b0/ad7223c9ba54c73af7d332...

[2] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09654313.2018.14...

[3] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ma-Wadud/publication/48...
Japan is not an enviable economic environment.
There's some will. DC metro is seeing changes. More robust bike lane networks downtown. More bike lanes in the suburbs. More mixed use development near transit hubs (with underground parking or limited parking).
yep, true! however, the devil is in the details. from what i've been told, the big challenge was latency: they worked a lot to bring the latency down to acceptable levels - essentially to be usable in a cloud IDE

iirc the team managed to bring it to a lever an order of magnitude lower than off-the-shelf models
Zurich and to some extent Paris. The key is to have bike lanes and designated areas where the scooters can be dropped.
Those segment cameras are great and they made a good impact where I live. They control a school zone that up until recently has been massively disrespected by commuters trying to avoid a stoplight on the main artery.

Honestly the only cameras I really don't like are the red light cams that for some reason are also accompanied by lowering the yellow signal's time by half compared to a non-cam light controlled intersection. I'm sure there's a great reason for that happening but I can't think of anything charitable.
When DOOM was released in 1993 it spread like wildfire across bulletin boards and early FTP services. But the vast majority of players got it from a floppy copy at their local computer store - it was shareware, and so copying the floppy was fine. They even encouraged stores to charge for the shareware game, they wanted it distributed as widely as possible.

And if you paid the $40 for the full game, you got floppies mailed to you.

There was no easy way for the company to let you know there was an update available (the early versions had some well-known bugs) so the user would have to go searching for it, or hear a rumor at the store. If you called id, they'd have to mail you a disk with the updated executable on it. This was all confusing, time consuming, and was only for a game.

Things were much worse with operating systems and programs.

Now almost every piece of software is either distributed via an App Store of some sort that has built-in updates, or has a "Check for updates" button in the app itself. Post an updated build and within days a huge percentage of your users will be running the latest software.
I've really softened on Zuck in the last couple years. The Metaverse stuff looks stupid from the outside, but all else considered, isn't this exactly what we've been asking for out of FAANG for the last ten years? To put all of these insane resources into something that at least could be a cool future to live in?

I was the biggest skeptic on earth when they bought Oculus, and assumed it was the death of VR. But they've been steadily grinding at it, and the newly released Meta Pro is, as someone with extensive experience with all of the consumer headsets, the first product that looks like an actual generational leap above the initial headsets. They are really nailing the big problems with VR, which are control (the inside-out tracked controls with Meta Pro are an industry first), and form factor ease of use.

Look at what literally every other company is doing right now. Apple's keynotes consist of new emojis and better cameras. Google I/O is literally just an ad for GCP at this point. Amazon isn't even trying to pretend they are doing anything innovative, beyond adding to the AWS hairball. I think Zuck has about a 5% chance of success here, but the fact that he's trying something new is better than anything else in tech ATM.
Right, but the galaxy is 13 billion years old and only 100,000 light years wide. We could theoretically detect any operating Dyson swarm as long as it was in operation 100,000 years ago or longer, and there's a 10 billion years of "longer" for someone to have built them.

We don't have a view of what exactly is happening right now across the other side of the galaxy but (on the timescale of the galaxy) our view isn't that out of date. If civilizations are common it would be weird if none of them had more than a hundred thousand year head-start on us. That sort of timing would be freakishly coincidental on a billion-year timescale, like everyone finishing a marathon a tenth of a second apart despite having started half an hour earlier or later.
why care about twitter? go somewhere else or build something else. dont worry about twitter its not worth it
No, it's really not. It's mostly due to quantitative-easing measures post 2008 and Covid-related deficit spending.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S