skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keybase and IPFS seem to show that a P2P fediverse scales, I don't understand why people are trying to make a fidonet/BBS style fediverse where 10s of thousands rely on one person' altruism instead of every peer caching some encrypted data and responding to some queries a few minutes or hours a day.
He has compared Twitter to a neural network where we (and bots) are the nodes. I feel this was him mostly trying to sound fancy, but in my mind I'm absolutely gonna grab this and run with it.

Mega-app, the way I understand that term, is not what he's after. He's mentioned that he wants to allow HQ video and compete with YouTube and have a separate app which shows a YouTube-like view of only tweets with videos on them. Like a projection of that content, from the same platform.

Or alternatively you can see it as merely a "videos tab" in a single "mega-app", but this distinction is not quite substantial on a higher level, only about the logistics of marketing the app and maintaining it.

As for there being zero building happening... of course. He's trying to stop bleeding cash for now. I'm not suggesting he's working on this NOW.
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Year Old Battery Tech May Be the Future of Energy Storage
No. People _seek out_ unincorporated land _because_ they don't want to be beholden to city services or any of the trappings of civilization. It's like Texas as a whole, opted out of power-grid interconnection with the rest of the country, specifically so they could deregulate their industry.

And when the consequences of their actions came calling, the rest of civilization stared, agape and aghast.

Here's the question though: Should it be legal for people to opt out of these things? Can they be forced to comply? If your answer is "no sane person would opt out of fire insurance", I would agree. But sanity is in short supply in the US lately.

I would argue that it's not a question of laws in isolation, it's a question of laws perverted by brainwashed people acting against their own self-interest because they've been sold a tribal identity of exceptionalism, by America's enemies, for the purpose of weakening America, and it is working better than they possibly could have dreamed.
I'm just as critical as anyone else in this space, but several popular Docker images do this and it is on the software not the management solution to enact best practices. However, as noted this software is sort of designed to accommodate those bad practices and I can give you a list of open source alternatives in this space with more security options so I don't think they are going to be able to compete well with other alternatives if they are still in the alpha phase unless they already have something that differentiates their solution that is appealing. So far I've found nothing.
Yes. That adds costs though
The slide rule didn't render arithmetic obsolete. Neither did the calculator. Being able to do math on paper is a side effect of understanding the base 10 representation of number most of the world has settled on. And the first thing someone in college for EE does is re-learn this arithmetic in base 2. The calculator is just an extra tool to get to numerical results faster.

ChatGPT is an extra tool as well. Smart students will realize they have an extra tool to get an upper edge when competing in the zero-sum game they've been thrown in. They'll have ChatGPT generate the essay from an outline they wrote and will then trim and re-formulate as needed, spending most time fact checking and reading from source material to make sure ChatGPT isn't making stuff up (what will get some of their classmates caught).
New induction stoves want to convince you to ditch gas
I tried both, I'm not sure how Axum is much different than actix-web, seems like they both have similar syntax for creating a new router, adding routes and middleware, and starting the server. I think actix-web has macro-defined routes but I haven't been using those anyway.
It's been so many years than my memory of it is pretty vague, but I remember loving this book.
That seems to be wishful thinking, not a fact based statement.
> while Ethereum and Bitcoin are fully transparent while protecting our privacy

Transparency plays both ways, and be sure that every address can be deanonimized
> This repository represents the reference implementation, provided as an open-source dual BSD and GPLv2 licensed C library

Dumb question, why dual license? Why not just provide it as BSD (the more permissive of the two)?
Is "government employees SHOULDN'T work in the private sector" somehow now a right-wing talking point?
Nice idea regarding version control.
What will happen when BTC, ETH are close to worthless but stable coins are the only things left? I guess it will prove once once for all the supremacy of the dollar.
Much needed thank you for doing gods work.
It should not be surprising that, after voluntarily providing your location data to an advertising surveillance company during the use of free services (using Google Maps) that that advertising surveillance company later monetizes that location data.

Stop giving Google your location if you don't want Google to know your location.
The standard single column of content layout of nearly every webpage is a bad fit for scientific content because the information density is way too low. A pdf, where I can display multiple pages, each with two columns, side-by-side is much better. This is really handy when you need to do something like refer to a figure/equation/table on the last page. I have yet to see any website solve this lack of density problem in any meaningful way. Of course, paper is still better, but I'll take a pdf over a web site any day.

A pdf is also much easier to archive. The job of sci-hub would but a lot more difficult if every paper came with separate html, css, javascript, and images.
Good point. I need to configure my RSS reader to filter out both!
Death. The actual threat is death for people who oppose the Saudi regime. Just as Jamal Khashoggi.

I get that things are bad, but they've always been bad, and the past was often worse than now. The old Twitter, for all its flaws, used to care about their responsibility to users and improved dramatically over the years in terms of preventing harm. (That's part of why Musk and his sycophants are so mad at it.) Twitter may not matter to you, and that's fine. But it mattered to a lot of people, and you dismissing that for all of humanity is of a piece with how the authoritarians and misogynists treat people.
Oh, I completely agree. Whenever I look at the *-share economy, it looks like the idea is "We take the dollar and share the pennies with you".
On average, EVs have better crash safety than internal combustion engine cars.

As for embodied carbon from manufacturing, and emissions from power plant production, here's a scatterplot of the available cars:

https://www.carboncounter.com/

Even in coal country, the EVs have much lower total (manufacturing + fuel) carbon emissions by a large margin.
Why would the US gov pay money in case binance.com goes down since afaik US citizens are not allowed to use it. Why even spend for investigating
One reasonable way to keep detailed records of transactions is a blockchain!

The best thing about a blockchain in a situation like this is that the different participants don't need to reconcile their transaction records to make sure they agree. Reconciliation between the participants—which is costly and can lead to disputes—is unnecessary.

Of course there are other technologies you can use as well, but using a blockchain would be easier and cheaper—especially if additional parties begin to participate in the arrangement as well.
Solid engineers work at all kinds of places and are capable of producing really cool stuff no matter where they are working. Don't judge something too much by its sponsors, IMO!
Yeah I think sand is used to control the heat distribution, which is hard to do when you are cooking over fire from wood or something similar.
I kinda think you're reaching here. 66 million years ago?
It was infringed long before it was added to an article.
please - out of all the tech giants the one constant is Meta delivers insane technology beyond their social networks. They are the goats of shipping cool shit.
Huygens' Descent (2005) [video]
Lots possible solutions. One of them is using Cloudflare Workers, it supports the scheduling parts and storing the previous state. Taking into account the check frequency you describe, I guess it falls within the limits of their free offering.
>I was helping my kid out with their Java homework and we we're both stuck for a good hour. Finally I loaded the question into ChatGPT.

What was the question?
Agreed. When the British people prove capable of protecting this invaluable history, other more storied institutions might then be willing to entertain their movement back under British control.

At the moment, the British have not proven themselves to be able to field a competent government, how do we know they will have the requisite sophistication to shepherd such human historical treasures?
Not to mention EVs are completely unsuitable for places like rural Alaska. They don't even put ethanol in our gas up here (don't tell Joe).
Or you could have a Troleybus:

https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troleybus

Does not need any rails and can navigate much steeper gradients & does not produce any local exhaust emissions.

They together with trams form the backbone of publich transport here in Brno, Czech Republic. Some city quarters are on top of a very steep gradient that buses have an issue to climb yet troley buses don't have a problem due to not really having to lug around a power source, just the powerful electric motor.

Most of the new troley buses now also have small bateries, which make it possible to navigate short stretches (couple km) where there are no troleys. This is super useful for both temporary redirections (where a street hosting a troleybus is being recontructed, it can go around without building new troleys) as well as for branching out to multiple destinations from the regular terminus when necessary.

The couple kilometers of range are really not a problem as the troleybus changes when traveling under a regular troley wire and thus does not need any dedicated charging stations or charging stops.

I really do wonder why more cities, especially in the west don't use more troley buses. My only theory being that they are somehow seen as outdated and not even considered when building new instrastructure.
I don’t understand how this would be profitable. It would take someone hours to just get to a site and back. The costs would be very high. Like 500-1000 per deer minimum, just to cover gas and labor
Please hit the - button at this top therapy comment so you can get the answer to the question you asked. Yes it’s possible. You can do it. You can do anything you put your mind into. You just need to figure out a strategy that works for you.
i remember. but was google "successful" with that approach? XMPP is a pretty niche thing, but i can count at least a couple friends who use it on occasion, whereas i haven't heard a single person near me mention gtalk in years.
Yes, due to their weight and that sweet instant torque.

As much as a quarter of the microplastics in our oceans are due to tire wear. So while it's hopeful that EVs represent the future of automobiles, far better would be a society that deprioritizes driving personal vehicles altogether.
Guess what word Cmd/Ctrl-F won't find in TFA? "Agriculture". All that I saw mentioned was "residential". I'm not saying CA has to immediately cut off the almond farmers (sure seems like a damned fine idea, though), but could agriculture's role in the situation get at least a passing mention?

Other than that, I don't know what else there is to say that hasn't already been said. The Colorado River is drying up, that doesn't look to be changing any time soon, but governments seem to still be going on about watering grass while avoiding the mention of the largest consumers, agriculture and industry. Okay, I guess the Southwestern U. S. is screwed; with that dead horse thoroughly beaten, let's go back to talking about Twitter.
New Federal Rule Has Done Little to Stem Spread of ‘Ghost Guns’
> bazel has provisions for patching stuff from http_archive if you supply a patch

That's a hack.
Friend clearly didn't live very far away
One reason this could be messy to add is that the S3 API includes support for reading arbitrary byte ranges within a file. There's an inherent conflict between that API and support for transparent compression. Compression performs best when compressing the entire file from beginning to end; when decompressing you'd similarly decompress from the beginning. To support byte range reads, the data could be compressed in short blocks, but those blocks will not compress as well.
https://archive.vn/1XWia
> But you can mostly ignore that most of the time, and 99% of users do so. (in much the same way that iPhones are decentralized across cell carriers, but that mostly doesn't matter to regular folks).

That wasn't the case at least for me.

I couldn't ignore the decentralized part of the deal, because I couldn't register at mastodon.social like how I could with twitter.com. Registrations were disabled (still the same as of today) and I was told to find a server.

I guess most people would give up at that point, though I still gave their server browser a try, and couldn't find anything that looks remotely official on the first page. It seems every Mastodon instance is its own kingdom managed by people I don't know running on arbitrary rules they've set. I could build my kingdom, but of course I won't, since I wasn't interested in the decentralized bit anyway.

tl;dr for now mastodon doesn't offer an easy path to just use the service w/o thinking about its details.
Thank you for the feedback! Would you be able to provide a list? Then, I can easily tell you what differentiates us from them in a meaningful way. So far, we haven't found any alternatives that would have the same vision as Infisical :)
I know, I mentioned that I am planning to build a website(s) with/for my portfolio of projects and tasks demonstrating various skills, but he keeps reiterating that I need to attend some locally taught courses to get a certificate.
> PrinPDFs are difficult to browse, impossible to read on a phone, uncomfortable to read on a tablet, hostile to screen readers, impractical to search engines, and the list goes on. It's just a terrible format, unless you're trying to print things on paper. ting things is a perfectly reasonable thing to do, but that's really not the main use case we should be optimizing for.

The printed page is the optimal format for consuming a thesis or paper, so it absolutely makes sense to optimize for that, rather than dilettante browsing on a phone.
zstd rocks. I'm using it in zfs with zfs set compression=zstd-fast-1 for a recordsize=16k postgresql dataset and compressratio is about 2.0 and it's super fast. Doubling usable SSD space for as good as free is always neat.
Obviously, but the whole point of this exercise would be because you anticipated the reduced storage GB-hours saving more than the compute time, right?
This ^

Does exactly what it says and gets bonus points due to self-hosted or as-a-service.
I love everything about zstd. It compresses well, it compresses and decompresses fast.

I wish browsers supported it for content encoding because it's a good deal faster and smaller than gzip, nevermind brotli.
Haha, yes, it indeed invents arguments that aren't part of specific APIs and would offer to do something that you'd like to do in a very easy way, but since they actually aren't part of the API, well, you're out of luck.

It's just taking the "I wish they'd thought of my use case when designing that API" on the next level by simply pretending in a very sincere and convincing way that your wish came true, then writing a usually-pretty-correct program around that assumption that would actually work _if that wish had come true_ - but unfortunately that API doesn't really accept this convenient parameter, so...it's not that easy in reality.
Injustice by Brad Nelsen

Fascinating execution on a fun sci fi idea: intergalactic prison from the inside. Delightful and creative character development and a cathartic conclusion!
ETH might have some utility if the token itself becomes worthless.
Twitter announces Blue for Business to help identify brands and their employees
Actions won’t run on repos with no activity for 60 days [0]. So make sure your action commits something to the repo to keep up activity.

This seems to meet OP’s use case as they have to commit state anyway.

[0] https://docs.github.com/en/actions/managing-workflow-runs/di...
Retool Workflows is the way to go https://retool.com/products/workflows (see the 4 min demo on their site)

Flexibility to write custom code and alerting logic, but no headache of managing your own infrastructure

Disclaimer: I previously worked at Retool :)
The issue is that people won't "wait awkwardly for nothing" forever. If someone can't see the label and is used to having it change automatically, they're likely to assume that the signal just "isn't working," causing them to cross without a walk signal.

IMHO the biggest problem here is that the label doesn't meet the usual standards for road/pedestrian signage. In particular, "real" road signs are retroreflective so that you can see them easily under streetlights (or in car headlights). This is particularly important for signs that are only relevant at night. (Semipermanent signs should be made of a sufficiently durable material, which this...is not.)
India’s Tuition Republic is bigger than ever. Coaching culture is an epidemic
Just venturing a guess - may be that libraries that link this would want the option of GPL whereas commercial/non-libre software might prefer BSD?
Github Actions. I run https://twitter.com/someonegoogled every hour using it. never fails. never late.
Working at a big company is different from working at a small one, and you say yours is "massive."

Big companies have to comply with basically all the laws and regulations -- some of which were written to apply only to them -- and their "target customer" is often everyone in the world. So you can't skip many steps in the checklist. Trademark searches, i18n, l10n, a11y, privacy, data retention, UXR... they deal with all sorts of stuff that little companies defer because they haven't found their product-market fit yet or are willing to risk annihilation if they get caught skirting a regulation.

Even if this doesn't affect you directly, the process sets the company tempo. If you don't take that into account, you might feel like you've inexplicably switched to the slow side of bullet time.

Find a coworker you respect but don't report to, and ask how you're doing on the terms that you're concerned about. Either you'll find out you're just fine, or you'll get practical tips to wade faster through the quicksand of big-company process.
People still go to traditional-school?
>The reason things like this go on in America and not in any other developed country is that Americans just accept it. "They didn't pay, so they die."

Your argument is based on a false premise. Nobody died. In a life/death situation, the fire fighters will do whatever is necessary to attempt to save lives, but they aren't worried about a structure that a homeowner chose not to protect.

In your country, if someone chooses not to insure a home, will the government rebuild it for free? What's the difference? I'm assuming the non-indigent case where someone can afford to pay the insurance. If someone is indigent they probably don't own a house. If it is government housing, then it of course would be rebuilt by the government.

There are plenty of problems in the US, but you have greatly exaggerated this particular issue.
Lost was one of a breed of "mystery pilots," where high-concept pilots imply deep and complicated backstories to explain that concept, by filling themselves with surreal non-sequiturs. If the pilots get picked up, the writers have to come up with a story to connect the nonsense. In the worst case, which I believe is the case with Lost, the people who wrote the pilot have actually moved on to the next project once it gets picked up, and a completely different set of people have to interpolate some kind of sense out of the pilot to continue the series.

The continuing story of Lost (and similar series) was a desperate improvisation being written by hired guns of whom there's no reason to think that they would have any more affection for the show than a random person off the street.

For an on-the-nose example, check out the recent, similarly-named FROM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_(TV_series) For a fun (<- minority view) absolute commercial and storytelling disaster version, check out Aftermath(RIP): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermath_(2016_TV_series)
Learn to take others seriously without asking for credentials. Whether or not I use C/C++ is irrelevant. Bazel is flexible, and you can use it however you want, correctly or incorrectly. The principles I've mentioned above are language-agnostic, and are recommended best practice regardless of whatever programming language you are building.

https://bazel.build/basics/hermeticity

> When given the same input source code and product configuration, a hermetic build system always returns the same output by isolating the build from changes to the host system.

> In order to isolate the build, hermetic builds are insensitive to libraries and other software installed on the local or remote host machine. They depend on specific versions of build tools, such as compilers, and dependencies, such as libraries. This makes the build process self-contained as it doesn't rely on services external to the build environment.

My overarching point is, you should fix your build rather than point blame to the tool's authors because you're using it in an unsupported way.
Oh a spokesperson said that? Must be true then. No spokesperson has ever pulled something like that out of their arse.
Why would anyone want to be Twitter? Everyone hates the company and it's never been reliably profitable.
But how many are not working as opposed to working in unreported ways or contributing to support their family or somehow still contribute to society. The concern is if a lot of them are unhappily idle at home it could be bad. Details matter if you are interested in finding solutions.
There is bad and then there is bad. If you think that the Saudi's and Trump are equivalent then I'm going to have to disagree, they're both bad but - and it is difficult to write this - I would prefer Trump by a very large margin.
To implement a traditional escrow you need an escrow agent and an escrow agreement, as you rightly note. In the event of a dispute, the escrow just holds onto the money until the question is resolved in arbitration or litigation.

Expenses involved is such a process include legal fees to draft and negotiate the agreement; paying the escrow agent for their bother; paying for litigation in the event of a dispute. Plus, you have the risk of the escrow agent misappropriating the funds.

Escrows can be implemented on a blockchain as well. If the use case is suitable, you can save a lot of money and hassle! And if settlement is on-chain and is indisputable, you might not even need any escrow at all.
LEGO Doom [video]
SE2 (Standard Edition) is their cheapest offering. Enterprise customers are probably using their EE (Enterprise Edition) license.
Related, ish: Twitter bots potentially posting with ChatGPT-generated contents https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1604841600416624642
There are fully regulated and big five audited crypto exchanges that operate fully within the appropriate laws. They don't trade with client funds.

They are not popular as they require annoying banking level KYC and are very limited by regulation as to who they can deal with. In many places, only audited high net worth individuals.

These are not the places crypto-bros trade on as the fees are not subsidised by house trading or self issued coins.