skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And indeed can be a valid case of "stealing".

It's not stealing, government didn't steal anyone's money, they just devalued it. In a similar sense, gold miners are increasing the supply of gold and lowering its price, but they still aren't stealing anyone's gold - they're making more. The fact that fiat money is completely fictional does make it more prone to systemic abuse - but even in that case, what the government is taking away from people is value and labor, not money itself, and those two are a little more abstract and harder to reason about.

The word "stealing" has a specific meaning related to physically taking something away from someone else, let's not use it in contexts where it doesn't apply. Especially when the use of the word is mostly perpetuated by copyright holders who want to persuade the public that not giving money to them is equal to stealing from them. That's bullshit, and it will always be bullshit. To me, it sounds horribly similar to narcissistic abuse: "How could you not give money to me? Do you have any idea how much that hurts me?".
Hey, thanks for that.

So it’s not every 7 years, that’s the minimum time between referendums, which I (inaccurately) read in your original comment.

> A referendum on a united Ireland is to be called by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when it appears likely that a majority of the people would vote in favour of a united Ireland. If the referendum is defeated, at least 7 years must pass before a new referendum can be held.

I think, though, if this was applied to Scotland then they would have reasonable cause since there definitely an independence movement.
The project is definitely not dead! Right now it is entirely volunteer-driven, so the amount of work being done depends on the amount of work put in by the overall community. Feel free to drop by our Zulip to catch up on the latest developments: https://ponylang.zulipchat.com/
There's a list of older games you can play at the bottom of the page.
Googled ipfs and tor just to make sure it's not hard to find.

The first result was a guide on how to do it.
Maybe you could try swipe left/right or rotating gestures that snap to 90 degree increments.

That is, rotating with one finger by holding and dragging either in circle or straight line.

Better not the two finger rotation known from map apps.
I doubt there’d be too many people in Westminster willing to repeat the Troubles with a similar level of entusiasm.
Depending on how you draw the lines you end up with very different lists. Europe’s classification of the oldest hotels generally means parts of the same physical building which would exclude most of the Japanese hotels as Japanese buildings get replaced far more frequently.

The Japanese practice of adopting adults to continue a business also blurs the line here. Is selling off the business to someone else enough to maintain continuity? How about operating at the same location? What if the original structure is rebuilt?
That was…oddly satisfying. Really wish I could do another one!
https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/C5c.html

Basically a hurricane is already expending a megaton of tnt equivalent every couple of minutes so the nuke does diddly.
I like this guy:

> Q: I Added you as a friend but you didn't accept. WHY DO YOU HATE ME?

> A: I dont accept any friend invites. But maybe I still hate you, who knows?
Welcome to ‘Swiftonomics’: What Taylor Swift Reveals About the US Economy
On WikiLeaks and Turkey topic see also story of this pretty controversial leak:

>Why Did WikiLeaks Help Dox Most of Turkey’s Adult Female Population?

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/07/why-did-wikileaks-he...
Pay extra to use features that would normally require buying a more expensive SKU.

We’re talking the difference between Chill Mode and Standard Acceleration, not seat warmers.
It's not that unusual a situation. Toronto (with about 30% of Ontario's population) produces some 60% of the province's GDP. Ontario without Toronto would be about as wealthy as Poland, per capita. Perhaps all we're noticing here is that there are tremendous gains in efficiency to packing people in densely in large cities.
I've also heard the response to this being (paraphrased from poor memory):

"That's effectively what billionaires do, pushing that button over and over again and the random people are those that die from poor safety conditions in factories (because it meant more money for the billionaire), or by users of their products that were known to faulty but it would cost too much to do a recall, or because as workers they weren't given inadequate health benefits, or people near a factory got cancer or some other illness from poisoned land and water (because proper toxic waste disposal is expensive) and on and on they push that button over and over and over again."
PHP, Java and .NET have been doing it for 20 years, more or less.
Thanks for creating and sharing. I really like it. I would like a Easy, Hard, and Insane mode with increasing # of tiles.
Right, so there’s no ministry of truth but choices of some media companies to promote government recommendations that turned out to be best to their knowledge and not absolute truth?
> As a format FB2 is better than ePub because it separates the content from the view while ePub mixes them heavily.

Problem is that as soon as you need some typographical or layout feature beyond what is natively supported by FB2 you're out of luck.

With ePub you still have a chance of manually creating some custom effects before having to give up and fall back to a PDF.

Now granted, for your typical run-of-the-mill novel it's usually not a problem, because those rarely do anything non-standard with regards to layouting or typography.

However some books do play around with their layouting and/or typography, sometimes quite heavily. House of Leaves e.g. would be impossible to properly reproduce in FB2, and since that particular book goes really overboard in terms of playing around with the page layout, I think even as an ePub it'd be quite a feat to successfully pull it off.
> when the user is unable to use their hands

this is still potentially a huge domain. one could imagine a benign scenario where voice assistants enhance people's abilities to interact with each other (and digital devices) when a more potent UI is not within reach

privacy concerns (->controversial business models) and technical ability to deliver a desirable service (that people would pay for) might indeed prevent this vision from catching on in the short term

another factor that may complicate adoption might be just cultural / perceptions. It is a somewhat odd thing to be shouting at devices - especially in the presence of other people. User interfaces that interfere strongly with communication habits and behaviors established over millennia (see also wearing VR goggles) might have a harder time seeing adoption outside very specific scenarios
Yup. At the risk of being glib I would say this is 90% of the issue. Or more like 'the big blocking issue' at the moment.

Voice can do way more than we know, but we have no idea what it does or how to use it.

Standardizing the interface and providing tutorials would possibly change things dramatically.

And this goes for the back-end protocols as well.

The tech is way, way ahead of the UI and integration.

Imagine getting the power of 'git' with no tutorial and not really an understanding of what it does? Good luck with that.

90% of us would be using it in the car to do a lot of things if we really knew how to do it:

You: "Siri: Command. Open. Mail. Prompt. Recipients starting with S"

Siri: "Sarah, Sue, Sundar"

You: "Stop. Command. Message. To: Sunar. Thanks for the note. Stop. Send without Review"

Some of this already exists, but it's product specific etc. there needs to be some kind of natural universal interface - or we have to wait until the AI is really, really that good.
Because major environmental actors (big NGOs...) are mostly engaging in a PR exercise to incite fear into our collective lizard brain. As Attenborough said: "saving our planet is now a communications challenge"

Linking Climate to life-threatening scenarios like Hurricanes (that hit you in-your-face) and food crisis, are more apt to rattle us into panicky action.

Slow, inconspicuous, decades-in-the-making ill-health (but not sudden death) inducing chemicals in our water, air and food will never make it through our current processes of media and political decision-making.
I've dealt with pretty much everything from steaming nightmare creeping Cthulhu desktop applications right into back end fintech stuff written in the dark ages over the last 30 years. At no point have I found this solution being applied where it solved a problem. I have seen it applied many times where it created problems!
I implemented a simple round robin userspace 1:M:N scheduler in Rust, Java and C.

It has 1 schedule thread that preempts kernel and lightweight threads and M kernel threads and N lightweight threads

Hot for and while loops can be interrupted by setting the looping variable to the limit.

https://GitHub.com/samsquire/preemptible-thread

I am currently investigating coroutine transpilation with async await similar to Protothreads implementation that uses switch statements. I am trying to do it all in one loop rather than reentrant functions as in Protothreads.

Essentially I break the code up around the async/await and put different parts into a switch. I "think* it's possible to handle nested while loops inside these coroutines.

The problem I don't know how to handle is if a coroutine A calls coroutine B and B calls A. I get the growing data problem which I'm trying to avoid. I want fixed size coroutine list

I think some Microservices take more CPU than others. You can scale one Microservice more than another based on CPU usage.

Another of my benchmarks is multithreading message generation and sending it between threads in thread safe. I can get 20-100 million message sent per second, sending in batches
> One is incredibly difficult to fix with permanent effects

Not very significant permanent effects most of the time. E.g. a million people are happily living in Hiroshima right now.
If $33 is not cheap then maybe not. But I buy my delta fans at mouser or digikey, and they have a wider range of specs than typical consumer websites. They come without connectors though so there's some crimping/soldering required.

For our little rendering cluster I bought a bunch of 12.000 rpm fans to cool the rack mounted threadrippers. Worked fine, no watercooling in the rack needed and 4ghz on all cores under load.
The guy in this article will be able to turn his skill into a 7 figure job easily if he goes into enterprise software sales.
C++ already has that problem sorted out with Conan and vcpkg.
HTTP is kinda dead already, with browsers insisting on HTTPS.
I think you should lean into this problem and just call the game "clockwise"

Consistent across platforms, consistent "ideal" count, clever-ish game name
"just be better" -- no, that's improving a skill that you already have.

This is a formal lesson in a skill that most people have never been taught.

Nearly every human behavior needs to be learned. Not every behavior is taught.
It would mean a protracted set of negotiations with Westminster throwing as many wrenches into the works as possible.
I think Twitter is especially vulnerable to an outage of some kind just with the massive knowledge that has left. Things will start falling apart when whoever is left starts making changes, could be 2 months, could be next summer. The other element is if they don't have infrastructure engineers (SRE?) left and nobody is monitoring and keeping tabs on various things that always fail and once those pile up something will fail publicly.

People may casually look at twitter and think its a 280 character text field and like 4 buttons to like/retweet/reply/share (and reply is a recursive feature in a way) and assume you don't need a lot of technical complexity for that. You're correct, you don't, someone could probably build that flow in a weekend or less. The major feature of any public social media company is content moderation. That is invisible to end users and I imagine a lot of back-end processing and systems are required for that. It doesn't matter what the content is, it needs to be moderated and that usually falls on human judgement at some point for the more nuanced content. Things that need to be moderated start with content like the spam you get in your email or low effort promotional content anywhere online. Then work your way up thru content that will bring lawsuits against twitter, etc.

My guess is once Musk starts initiating changes they will start discovering how complex it is to make changes, maybe backing out changes initially when BadThingsHappen™. Then he will get tired of it and put someone in charge and find another toy company to play with.
Fun fact buried in the article, Acorn renamed itself to Element14 and are today of the biggest Raspberry Pi distributors (edit: incorrect, see below):

> Acorn sold its stock and used the money to refinance and restructure the company. In 1999, the company renamed itself “Element 14” and changed its focus to developing telecommunications products.

https://community.element14.com/products/raspberry-pi

So they're still selling ARMs!
> Be sure to use these exact hash and chunker values, otherwise you will get a different CID! It might be good to do a quick test run and make sure your CIDs match with ours (we also posted a CSV file with our CIDs in one of the torrents). This can take a long time — multiple weeks for everything, if you use a single IPFS instance!

IPFS devs, take heed. This is a very dedicated and determined user. You should make this very obvious hot path a lot easier for users who are not this determined.
yeah notion's search never seems to provide me with what i am actually looking for.
"Russian intelligence" at this point is liberal Pizzagate. The organization that can't even spy on its neighbor's openly operating military cannot subvert the world.
You can enforce the same with plenty of strong typed languages with automatic memory management, no need to go Rust for that.
I call them dolphins
That reminds me of WH40k, a fantasy universe where time/date was tracked based on when the last contact/sync [1] with earth's time has occured, with similar idea as NTP stratum.

I guess for multiple planets some astronomical recurring event could be used as sync source (say have "tick" be determined by some pulsar and adjusted for doppler shift)

* [1] https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Imperial_Dating_System
I do a lot of micro-commits as well, though I rarely find that other members of my team are doing the same, to the same files, at the same time.

When that happens, we look into if it's possible to do more frequent merges (fast-forward rebases through Gerrit, to be specific) of our smaller commits to master, so we don't accumulate too much in isolation.

I find it helps reducing bugs as well, if two or more members are doing active work in the same area in that way, it's not good to be working in complete isolation as it just opens up for bugs because of incompatibility with the work going on in parallel.
Long press can be right click!
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine :

"a Turing machine is also equivalent to a two-stack PDA with standard LIFO semantics, by using one stack to model the tape left of the head and the other stack for the tape to the right."

Forth is essentially a two-stack PDA as described.
Wikileaks was very useful to decode the relationships between Erdogans inner circle and and certain appointments for govt positions and businessmen.
Nope, Siri can also do multiple timers. It asks for an name if an unnamed timer of the same length already exists.
I suppose they have also been in contact with Teamviewer and maybe they were the ones who suggested this solution being that they were the ones adding that hidden font.
Firstly, congratulations for working on a very interesting project and thanks for the insights.

Indeed, there are some points in your reply which I think would fit better to a networkx vs. memgraph comparison post.

That being said, your blogpost is titled "Who ranks better?" and it is mainly about the speed of running a PageRank.

Networkx is a no frills Python package that is much easier to use and experiment on. Outperforming networkx in speed is not really a feat, however any new network package should certainly do this. And further, do this with networkx on equal footing.
For instance, igraph outperforms networkX in pageRank by 20 times, and graph-tool by over 50 times (without load times)!

And I am sure memgraph can do so as well, just that this blog post doesn't seem to conclusively demonstrate that fact.

It would make little sense to me to use networkx as a tool to load data from memgraph. And to be honest, using this triple (quadruple) Python list operation and not even use the numpy-based performance that networkx does offer (little as it may be) just doesn't seem right.

I understand that memgraph has other advantages, like persistence, however in that case networkX is simply not a good comparison. If that's the focus, why not query a local Neo4j? That's gonna be a pretty speedy PageRank as well and an interesting challenge.

All in all, I am sure Memgraph performs great, and I am looking forward to other comparisons in the future!
These are 'interesting', but ultimately naive ideas, and the headline is presumptuous.

Instead, the world needs agreement. And, wow!, an agreement among countries to simplify time keeping is an achievement!

We do not need a more complex POSIX time spec, but we need to cope with billions of written lines of code from the past that use the existing API. We need that API to be as stable as possible to reduce complexity. We need to see that no changes are needed to existing code.

We need to reduce complexity, e.g., by removing an irregular, unpredictable drift between TAI and UTC.

We do not need to rewrite legacy code to use a shiny new API, but we need to make sure that legacy code will not break, because we do not know, unfortunately, were all that code hides.
> TrueCrypt is no more

https://veracrypt.fr/en/Home.html
You CAN. You just really shouldn’t.
I think everyone’s in their own situation. Easy stuff:

1. Start a garden this year. Learn the basics. A big garden is just the same principles at a larger scale.

2. Just start doing everything yourself. Go on YouTube and watch how to do X and do it. It’ll build general knowledge of how things work. Saves money, builds confidence, generally good skills regardless.

3. There are survivalist camps if you’re hard core (don’t think it’s necessary, but some people might like it idk)

4. Start curing / pickling your own food. Some simple examples: but everything from the store to make salsa and try that. Make your own bacon (very good) by buying pork belly. Country ham can be delicious and fairly straight forward. Just be sure to follow guides. The USDA publishes guides on canning for instance
> how successful will they be with understanding their bank account contract, properly filing their tax, passing contracts with local entities

All these things should be available in English, if GER is serious about overcoming the skilled labour shortage.
Young humans. Older humans with physical disabilities. Older humans recovering from injuries.
Yeah, my dev box has a binfmt_misc interpreter for .wasm files set to wasmtime. It's pretty neat!
The reason for voice assistants not taking off is quite simple imo. You don't know what it's capabilities are beyond the well known use cases ("set up a timer for 15min") but are well aware of that it's not going to understand everything. It's limitations are obscure and you've been misunderstood in the past, why waste more time. Compared to a human who understands everything you say, you have the full confidence of using voice.
You guys know why they call it the Xbox 360?
They were doing the opposite, releasing some documents and holding onto others for their own strategic reasons. It was always super shady, compounded by the fact that much of it was driven by one man’s ego.
Wait you mean those who think the US should meddle with it right?
I'm no expert, but maybe it's disks that are failing; not catastrophically, but causing enough read errors to make most files unavailable.
Google is pretty good about that. It will say "Ok, your alarm is set for 7 hours and 40 minutes from now" and similar.
I’ve found that brewing my coffee in 190 F water in an infuser type pot to give the taste I prefer best. Just good coffee flavor with no bitterness and is also conveniently a temperature that is immediately drinkable by the time I pour it.
Ok good one. I'm not even mad, maybe a bit :)
Different company, the ex-Acorn one was bought by Broadcom in 2000 and disappeared, Farnell renamed itself Farnell Element14 circa 2010 (although it looks like they're just back to being Farnell again now).
Nice.

It looks like it's always the same picture? It would be nice if you could play this with a random picture.
>For me, the quality improvement from 480i/p to 1080p is huge and I wouldn't personally sacrifice that

You'd be amazed how high quality you can stuff into 4.7gb if you use a proper encoding format like H264 or HEVC. Pirates have been doing it for years, it wouldn't be too unreasonable for legit companies to offer it as well.
Zotero citations in Markdown – publishing to ePub or PDF
Combining ‚become:‘ with the ability to serialize objects was fun.
There's a system at Amazon that lets customer service reps communicate with you after a call. I think it may even be a successor to the one Steve Yegge wrote about whose UI was Emacs.

Anyhoo, I called to complain because of the two orders I placed at Amazon in the past few weeks, one -- a video game -- arrived without media and the other didn't arrive at all. I'm beginning to think that with inflation and Amazon working conditions being what they are, there are people in the fulfillment chain just helping themselves to customer orders and reporting them delivered as intended. The CS rep processed the refund on the second package (I ordered a replacement for the first that arrived just fine) and I recommended she relay my complaints, with a word that these incidents jeopardize my willingness to do further business with Amazon, to higher ups at the service department and she agreed to do so. I thanked her for her help and ended the call.

Few hours later I get an email through this system. The rep, whose name is "Princess", sent a personal note to tell me how much she appreciated how I was on the call, citing my "warm approach".

Wherever you are, Princess, know that it was nothing. It's Jeff Bezos who needs to get his act together, and people like you are just on the front lines, catching hell from cranky bastards like me. I'm happy to show appreciation for help when it is given.
> Lack of familiarity is not the same as unintuitive.
I'm not saying that C++ has zero size types. I'm saying that no_unique_address and EBO are a way to store a stateless object without it occupying any space, which is all you need to implement a zero space overhead Mutext<T> for stateless types.
Although I like Rust, C++ keeps being my systems language when coding outside Java, .NET and Web.

Why?

Those ecosystems are built alongside C++ tooling, so no need to add an extra layer of indirection.

I already have the safety from those ecosytems, if I am reaching out to C++ is exactly because I need to do some unsafe stuff, or binding libraries that are anyway written in C++.