skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was the previous idea, but this work changes that. It implies that the cooling rates of meteors is actually much faster than previously guessed.
I think TikTok and similar products are garbage and will lower the average IQ, especially of younger generations. I am deeply concerned when I see kids hooked on that crack, because they are burning their potential. It's scary, and if I had one far fetched easy theory to make, I'd say TikTok is a way for China to mitigate the threat coming from the west's upcoming generations, by ensuring their collective capabilities are as limited as possible. That theory doesn't stand though, as TikTok (Douyin) also operates in China. No kid is spared.

But, two things:

- What they collect is literally nothing special. Worse things happen, and have happened in mobile apps/mobile SDKs. (remember Onavo, acquired by Facebook? Way worse). What do we think Google and Apple know about our devices (Check Apple terms, it's good fun [0])? Isn't this again about the recurring fear/shock that a Chinese company should not hold data about western citizens?

- the article isn't about how much TikTok can know by being in our phones, despite what most comments here imply. Instead, it's about how deeply TikTok taps in users minds by leveraging the unhealthy and addictive relationship we have with phones, acting as "prosthetic extension of our [my] corporeal being".

> What matters is that we rely on these external tools in the way we rely on our brain; if those objects are similarly accessible, endorsed, and integrated into cognition, we should simply consider them part of the mind.

[0] https://twitter.com/mysk_co/status/1589239911219331072
My heart bleeds for the poor lad. Are you telling me he won't be able to spunk $1bn/mo on fluffy vanity projects in 2023? Say it ain't so!
Soon to be only 5x slower. There's some serious performance improvements going on in CPython.
I had a tiny dream the other day, to leave for a silent retreat in a monastery and study cosmology.. something about the scale and timelessness of it was appealing to my soul
Practical question here. How are Elixir/Erlang apps being deployed nowadays?

My understanding is that BEAM is designed for long running setups where hot reload of the code makes sense, and reboots are not happening that often thanks to the supervision trees.

But practically speaking how does it work under k8s env? When pod is being destroyed, what happens to all the messages sitting there?
Pushing state out of actors is a possibility, but isn’t it ruin the whole idea of stateful actors ?
At least according to more recent publications and to my own experience, a single gigabyte of good DRAM does not flip a bit every few hours, but every few months.

On non-server computers, which seldom reach peak memory usage, a bit flip may happen in a location where it does no harm.

Nevertheless, after a few years of use, a memory module can start to have frequent bit flips, even many per hour. If you have ECC, you will be notified about this and you will be able to replace the bad module. On most computers without ECC, that can easily lead to undetected data corruption.

Also, when you have 64 GB DRAM, that multiplies by 64 the error frequency.
It's not so recent. The Aura Interactor (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aura_Interactor) was released in 1994...
I'll probably try out both Obsidian and LogSeq at some point. Do their use-cases overlap or are there different goals of each project?
Don't caring about audience doesn't mean not having an audience. But, caring about an audience, by definition means creating derivative commercial works of low value. It works in business, but not in art (unless your goal is to just make money and/or be famous).
I have personally not seen one single case where the website managed to do that. Ever.
From their Q3 earnings report 2 weeks ago (https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_news/Meta-Reports-...):

> we expect headcount at the end of 2023 will be approximately in-line with third quarter 2022 levels

Was that a lie or are they re-hiring in the future?
Many tech companies saw their stock drop in value. I don't think we can blame it all on Facebook's boss.
> I believe privacy advocates view private information without nuance, whereas normal people do not.

Most people aren't making informed, nuanced decisions about their privacy. Most people think online privacy doesn't impact anything more than what ads they see and so they don't care out of ignorance.

If people were aware of when and how the data they gave up is used against them they'd probably reconsider their views. The trouble is that people aren't allowed to know, so it's never in their face enough to register for them. People generally aren't great about evaluating consequences that aren't immediate or dangers that are at all abstract. That's what's enabled a multi-billion dollar a year industry to spring up around the buying and selling of data that "doesn't matter" and that "no one cares about".

That kind of thinking lets people get taken advantage of over and over again, get manipulated, lose opportunities, and have their money siphoned from their pockets without even realizing it had anything to do with the data that was taken from them.

Unless things change people will be trying to reassure each other that it doesn't matter who knows what they ate for breakfast even while they're being sorted into digital caste systems that will define and limit their options across many areas of their life.
What's your definition of 'true art'?
Agree, but don't like your rm example.

rm -- just means end of args, and it can conveniently be left off. That's not a kludge, it's a feature.

A feature that many command line utils (GNU grep) support.
Going Self-Hosted with Git
Why should our bodies evolve to become less efficient and thus to lower our survival capabilities?

I think the evolution at play here is not there. It's in self-control and being to maintain a healthy diet in the face of abundance. Indeed, those who can't do that and, for instance, become obese lower their survival rates because of the negative consequences. However this does not seem to affect reproduction rates (or does it?), which is key for evolution.
I've used it to talk to people in the past. It is uncommon but not unheard of.
For many people, there is an option that side-steps the racket entirely, massively improves their QoL, and can even save money in the long term - laser eye surgery.

(disclaimer: prices are likely to be different in other countries)

Prices and quality of LES seems to have dropped significantly even as glasses have become more expensive. I had some annoying myopy / astigmastism combo so I used to pay up to 200-300€ for glasses, and prescription sunglasses were also expensive.

Femto-LASIK surgery cost me a whopping 1500€ a couple of years ago, whereas an older acquaintance told me that he had paid 10x as much in the mid-aughts. A couple of decades of glasses would not have cost me much less, and the difference it makes in quality of life cannot be overstated. Easily in the running for the best money I ever spent.

Of course, not everybody can get lasered - children and teenagers, first and foremost - but a lot more people do than realize it.
If you let your own ignorance define anarchy, sure.

Anarchists simply want every single thing to be voted on by the people, whether through referendum or randomly picked representatives. Anarchists agree that there should be governing bodies (merely that they shouldn't be the ones we have right now, and that they should be more representative and prevent the formation of a political class) and that authority should also be granted by these governing bodies _and_ revokable by the same. Hence, there is nothing an anarchist loves more than voting. It does not prevent living in groups, just that there are no leaders in that group.

By saying it is defined as an absence of government and authority, you're either thinking of ancaps (which are a bad right wing joke made up of said Ayn Rand readers), or dogshit propaganda fed to you. Read a bit.
Complex PTSD has more to do with a person's concept of self, ability to have intimate relationships, etc. But there's probably no fine line between them.
“Fixing” the rules of division
Psychedelic drug research held back by UK rules and attitudes
The E-Note industry is getting hypercompetitive in 2023
REW is an excellent piece of software. You may be able to make some improvements for a single listing positioning, but just a heads up that you can't EQ away room level issues.

From their own (again excellent) help guide: https://www.roomeqwizard.com/help/help_en-GB/html/iseqtheans...
> It's easier to be wrong.

And it is cinsiderably harder to be actually helpful.

While everything you said is true, we and the author do not know what was previously discussed with the client. We don't know what was promised by either party, we don't know what the client messed up

Heck, I attended meetings with partners/clients that were simply impossible to get an output from, since the expectations in general were on completely different sides of the book.

But you air this out, realize that everyone agrees, most people resignate, and really helpful is this one guy, that offers to invest effort and time to work closely with a well chosen peer from the other side to get them on your side and finally work on the interesting things.

This is helpful. And it is hard.
Ok, why is this statement not true then:

> There's an awful lot of fancy piled on the simple fact that all "currencies" are negative sum games.

?
Just to make it clear: you don't have to write stateful apps, just because you can. It's still possible to have the more traditional stateless model like Rails.

If you do write a stateful app, and run it in k8s, you can have state handover to a newly created pod. It works pretty well.
MIT 16.399: Abstract Interpretation (2005)
> And yet if you don’t have an audience, what is the point?

Point is art itself
A.f.a.i.k the name is based on the underlying library and research on Dfferential Dataflow by F. McSherry https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/differe... and https://timelydataflow.github.io/differential-dataflow/ ... I think the pitch is that this concept is enough improvement on incremental approaches it warrants a new name.

But I love these. From Functional Reactive Programming through propagator networks and embedding functional languages in datalog datafun-style, there seems to be this new-ish approach to computation that maybe somebody finally cleaves out of academia! The eve-lang guys were close but too ambitious. Maybe VMWare has less ambitious, more focused tool in mind.

Because datalogs are so cool! But only time I see them in practice are bespoke implementations for like ... compiler optimization tuning?
If you are trying to tilt me over to always use linux instead of windows for all things you are doing a damn fine job.

My big pain in any OS is messing it up by installing the wrong thing or the wrong way. But at the same time I want to play with different languages.

I mean why use nvm just for node let alone anything else, when I can do this, it feels way cleaner.
Without wanting to overdo the "speedrunning 100 years of trad finance" crypto has just replayed 2008.

FTX is playin the role of Bear Sterns and Binance playing JP Morgan. Defi are subbing in for Mortgage bonds, CDOs and synthetic CDOs squared. Margott Robbie can play herself again the the explanation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlHrSZ7BVFI

As with 2008, it is entirely possible that an exchange does what it is meant to do and just happily generates piles of profit for zero risk - taking a percentage of every transaction a bit like ebay. Is that Banance? Or maybe Gemini of Winklevoss fame?

No idea, CZ of binance tweets like he gets this, but who know. SBF tweeted saying they had everyones money but i guess the character limit means he couldnt say the whole statement which really was "we have everyones money ... except for 5-6billion of it"
Any word on whether they are technical staff at all?
I don’t think that they themselves realized they had to diversify their bonds until some time after.
Layoffs at the top companies put downward pressure on the entire job market - fewer open positions, less mobility for everyone, more competition... if you're working at an average non-tech company and want to move up in salary, now you're competing with a bunch of people who have big tech on their resume and who were good enough to pass the big tech interview loop in the past.
i found my love in Trilium what has everything i need and if needed, i can still change the code by myself (AGPL) + files are stored as markdown documents (so i am still able to get into my notes, even if the repo would disappear). see
https://github.com/zadam/trilium

TLDR;
- future proof file format (markdown)

- possible as local standalone + sync to simple cloud storage (like gdrive/dropbox/...)

- gantt charting

- uml diagramming

- task management

- available on github

- active development in the last months and years

- editable
New reddit for small screens https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/lly7po/do_you_use_em...
Ahh. I think it was quite an effort. The whole organisation really did spend some time and tested it thoroughly. I reckon it depends on the scale and complexity of the code base. I'm not a dev, I don't know enough. I'm worried about changes to Python packages breaking my code. haha.
Just finished Pete Walker's book, also recommend. One of the most helpful things I've come across for dealing with the neglect I and my siblings experienced growing up. It's hard to know what you don't know... until you know it!
There's also the "Periodic Notes" plugin which additionally allows for weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly notes.
what you're saying makes sense (that this process difference could lead to differences in outcome) but i'd still hesitate against extrapolating to industry-wide conclusions from it. there may be other ways that checks & balanaces are incorporated into the chinese system that we're not seeing or hearing about. and you could as easily flip it around and note how amazing it is that there are so few extra buildings being reported as exhibiting problems despite this missing review process. without survey data, it's hard to know for sure how impactful the review process is (relative to cost in both time and money).
> What they collect is literally nothing special.

For the most part I agree, but it depends on the owner of the phone. Danish politicians have increasingly been using TikTok. It doesn't take a Chinese genius to correlate the location of two or more MPs during the current talks, regarding how to form the next government, to gain insights into how that could possibly pan out. They've basically stuffed a tracking device into the pockets of the most important politicians in the country and are now able to know when they meet.
Also the definition of an alibi!
Can't even buy Twitter.
I interviewed for a data science product manager role (I am one) at a games company.
They were doing very interesting things with generative models however the person running it’s speciality was a Phd in addiction (and plenty of work in the field)

Was so interesting from an intellectual stand point but so very very evil.
Why? It's much easier to draw a pixel sprite instead of creating a 3d model and then doing tricks to render it as 2d..

It's never a sprite though. Even back on the Super Nintendo game sprites had 9 angles * lots of actions * lots of frames for every animation. Multiply that by different lighting in modern games, and using the power of a 3D engine starts looking like an obvious choice. I know lots of games do this for environments. I assumed they did it for everything.
For the same reason certain religion known for door-to-door proselytism insists on being classified as Christianity: because it recruits from other Christian groups. Similarly, Emacs recruits users mainly from software devs and Linux users, many of whom have almost religious belief in Unix philosophy.
I think you're misunderstanding. If I have a lookup for foo.com configured to return 1.2.3.4 half the time and 5.6.7.8 the other half of the time, I want half the traffic to go to each load balancer. Maybe I'm running different software on each, or behind each. Maybe I'm using different networking gear. There are a ton of cases where getting close to 50/50 is what I need to get good experimental data.

Why would you think that it doesn't matter that the traffic doesn't match the ratios I picked? I picked them for a reason.
A simple ruler is enough. I am wearing glasses for 30 years and I had the few pairs with wrong PD, the next optometrist used a simple ruler and I am working with him for the past 20 years.
> A majority of what an ORM provides can be solved by a view or a function.

If you want to get a single number or column of numbers - then yes, you can go with an SQL query. But if you need to get data about products in a store, you'll have to fetch the data and create objects for every product. Wow, you have just written an ORM.
Do the extended creative process for yourself

Just like a hipster/enthusiast with a more manual photography and development process

some people might appreciate it, the market likely wont but thats already the same before AI
It sounds like you frequent some questionable venues. You'd be hard pressed to find many live sound engineers operating today that won't be working with a dual channel RTA (Smaart, or similar) and keeping an eye on the venue's transfer function during a gig as the acoustics change (different crowds, temperature etc).
For a bit of pedantry, the driver _can_ be right at the front of the vehicle and low enough, see city buses.
How many of them lost 75% in the last year?
That's apples to oranges. Python is slower, but Sqlalchemy ORM might be able to fetch results faster than Ruby. Though I'd assume the difference would be neglectible.
That's my experience exactly. About 80% move within an hour, and then the remaining 20% trickle in after that.
help me understand please. i am not from USA so i don't see of things as us vs them thing when it comes to china, for me, its all "them" anyway so be it china or usa.

what tangible privacy issues are with tiktok? in india the govt banned it last time over some bs reasons helping instagram but that is unrelated to "privacy"...

tiktok sells ads, instagram/fb sells ads. if i am using both, how is one better and another really bad?

its not like the US based companies aren't in for the money for the highest bidder and even harmful for their own citizens like the recent case of fb snitching on a girl who wanted an abortion?
At first it was just an adversarial game of Go, and then came the grey goo.
In German, "Just do XYZ" would be "Mach doch einfach XYZ" where einfach is the translation of just (and doch is emphasis).

Einfach can also be translated to easy, so the assumption that saying something like this means not taking the other person's problem seriously rings even more true here.
Just give it a try! Works wonders, I've heard.
Java is one of the most performant languages there is, so I’m not sure what’s your point here.
As I said I believe this applies equally to professional settings and interpersonal relationships. I don’t see why interrupting someone’s work and offering unsolicited suggestions should be considered gracious. It sounds irritating to me. Listening is very valuable in professional situations!
Federated Credential Management API is shipping
> TikTok (Douyin) also operates in China. No kid is spared.

Can’t vouch for the following observation, since I’ve never used either one, but:

"In their version of TikTok, if you're under 14 years old, they show you science experiments you can do at home, museum exhibits, patriotism videos and educational videos," said Tristan Harris, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology.

"And they also limit it to only 40 minutes per day. Now they don't ship that version of TikTok to the rest of the world. So it's almost like they recognize that technology's influencing kids' development, and they make their domestic version a spinach version of TikTok, while they ship the opium version to the rest of the world,"

https://thepostmillennial.com/tiktoks-chinese-platform-enric...
90% of content is some scene that draws out 20-25 seconds of boringness in a suggested ascent to some expected climax or resolution at the end, screaming "watch it, wait, it's coming!" at you the whole time, with that resolution then being just even more boring and trivial than the 25 seconds before.

I don't get why anyone with an IQ above that of bread would fall for this lame trick more than a few times.
I paid $11 (shipped) for a pair of glasses from them for use in VR. I didn’t want to screw up my normal glasses. For eleven bucks they aren’t bad at all. Not my style. And I didn’t get any coating so the reflections are bad but man, I can’t see for shit without glasses and I’m happy that if I even fall on hard times I can at least pay for a new pair of glasses.
Glasses are expensive because they are not just a medical device, but also a fashion accessory, and this market is a fashion market.

I have to try about 20-30 frames or so, until I find something that looks OK on me.

But! It is still possible to buy cheap enough frames that look fine. Why the _lenses_ are so expensive, that’s a different question. I routinely pay $700 or so for the lenses. Many professional multi-component _camera_ lenses cost much less than that. And it has nothing to do with Luxottica.
i.reddit for small screens without the “Open in app” nag: https://i.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/lly7po/do_you_use_emac...
Lua Programming Gems [pdf]
I had to run a very large accounting Excel file inside a web service about ten years ago. The service was born as manually operated Excel sheet plus interaction by email/phone and they wanted to scale it on the web.

I run it on Windows Server and paid somebody to write the Windows service to manage the Excel sheet. I can't remember which language I used for the web service itself.

They eventually gave up, commercial problems, not technical ones.
https://new.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/lly7po/do_you_use_em...

FTFY
Don't clean your glasses, wash them.

The scratches are caused by particles of dust pressed by you against the lens, and then rubbed all around. A quick rinse removes almost all the dust, and then you can dry them with any clean towel, tissue or even the shirt. I also use a drop of soap to degrease them.

I have plastic lenses with zero scratches after five years of use.
It's not because of the price point that you wouldn't send your overpriveleged kid there. It's because they'd run a decent chance of flunking out.
> Ruby3 was faster than python at some point, iirc

That’s the lowest bar for performance.
At least some connection with the following, surely? Years ago Scientific American had an Amateur Scientist column. This was sadly abandoned in 2001 apparently due to the lack of an appropriate contributor. Its projects are listed here.

http://amasci.com/amateur/sciamdx.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amateur_Scientist
It looks bad for career artists. Maybe it's an important step in terms of human expression and communication though, that visual and musical art won't require years of skill to convey your ideas or emotions effectively.

I don't have much of a solarpunk outlook on this, I don't think it's going to be that beneficial. It'd be nice to be wrong though.
3D doesn’t transfer well to stylized 2D. That’s one of the primary reasons why people are still doing it manually. Pixel art also has a much lower barrier to create.
My apologies, I only responded to what I read, I don't think I extrapolated beyond that, but could be wrong.