skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every time someone asks how's possible Twitch got so popular (or watching recorded videogames play on YT), I tell people how being in an arcade as a child in the '80s / '90s was.
Joystik Magazine was an epic publication. I remember visiting the local newsagent (Australia) every week to see if a copy had arrived and the feeling of glee seeing a new cover. The screenshots, layouts, fonts - all so unique at the time. Pretty sure I still have them lying around in storage somewhere and they’re probably also available on eBay - somehow a PDF just doesn’t do it justice.
I find the information in this article to be extremely well-presented. The diagrams are an effective way to highlight the exceptionality of many of these statistics, and, as someone with limited knowledge on geography, they provide good context and make the topic more approachable than if the author had just rattled off statistics in prose.
I will mention Baremaps [1] and its OpenStreetMap demo [2]. Baremaps can be used to import data in Postgis and serve vector tiles efficiently. Its developer mode, featuring live reload capabilities, makes it easy to customize vector tiles and integrate third-party datasets into the base map.

[1] https://github.com/apache/baremaps

[2] https://demo.baremaps.com/
Both seems like a wank project made by bored engineers tbh...
I think I am missing some text - is there anything between

"Then combine all those geojson file into one mbtile file by using tippecanoe."

and

"Then, convert that mbtile file to pmtile by using go-pmtiles"

??? I see only a grey box - looks like some code should be displayed there?
My experience with Confluence is it only works if you have a link to the document. Search is utterly useless. The only search I've found worse is Google Docs. I can be in a meeting and search direct quotes or titles of documents being shared on screen and they will not come up in gdoc's search; I have to request a link every time. Even for documents I've previously opened.
I did misread - thank you for the correction.
Well one can still visit the catacombs to satisfy their morbid curiosity

https://www.outlookindia.com/outlooktraveller/explore/story/...
They have at least sales and partnerships: https://business.whatsapp.com/
People take lateral moves quite frequently.
Docker caches the results of each command, so to "bump" the versions you have to trigger a rebuild of the whole image and tell it to toss the cache. So it'll re-run apt-get update and use whatever the latest stuff is as of the moment of rebuild.

There are a few problems with this, as noted elsewhere in the thread:

1. You have to do an uncached rebuild and repush all of your images, using some ad-hoc company specific process. There's nothing that can do this for you at the end points or service levels, because Docker images are meant to be immutable after build and don't come with the scripts or inputs used to build them.

2. The default is to use caching, so devs may not notice that they didn't refresh their base OS for a while.

3. You don't get notified when updates are available or applied. There's nothing like the unattended-upgrades package that comes with Debian normally, which will apply upgrades and then tell you what happened.

4. Because of (3) the latency is very high. There is no story (other than third party scanners) for getting notified about urgent upgrades. If there's another zero day in OpenSSL then with a standard Linux install you'll get patched as soon as a new package is released and your machines update, so pretty quick (a day or so). With Docker images, it'll get patched on an app-by-app basis if and when people get around to doing an uncached rebuild and repush of the image.

5. Kernel upgrades are a whole can of eels in container-world. People like to think of the container as being a self-contained OS but it isn't. There is a largely unstated and untested assumption that any Linux distro user space can run on any kernel version or configuration, regardless of whether the OS originally shipped in that configuration, and everything will just automatically do something sensible. Mostly this assumption is OK because servers are very simple, but it's not actually guaranteed by anything. A lot of people misunderstand the "stable Linux syscall interface" guarantees and what that means.

It's for reasons like this that I prefer the slightly older way of running real binaries that are exposed to the OS and which use OS specific packages. I configured unattended-upgrades and use LTS versions of the OS, so that security patches just stream in without me doing anything. There are a few downsides to this too:

1. You have to either restart your servers from time to time to force security patches to actually get reloaded into memory, or use the needrestart Debian package - however that only works if you're using package metadata properly.

2. You do need to understand at least a bit of Linux sysadmin. Enough to know how to ssh in as root, use apt-get and so on.

3. The tooling story is poor, hence my musings above about demand for something better. Without Docker, today you're going to be manually copying files to the server, having to learn systemd and how to start/stop/enable services, how to restart them on upgrades etc. That's why I've written something that does it all for you.
97% of American adults own a cellphone or smartphone (2021)
Just a practical answer - I have 3 bank accounts - a spending account, a current account that just pays my mortgage and tax, and a savings account. Only the spending account has an app on my phone, and it only ever has a months spending in it so the amount that can be stolen is limited. In order to take my savings (quickly) a theif would also have to compromise the 'mortgage' current account as it is only set up to pay into that account.

If my phone gets stolen, I expect the current account to be cleaned out with a 5K loss (2K balance + 3K max overdraft), and I'll lose access to anything with 2fa set up for a few days. That would suck a lot.
>Remember, input is fundamentally required. Without that dataset, Stable Diffusion delivers exactly nothing.

That's true of lots of things that are legally considered transformative though. E.g. without all those books that Google scanned, Google Books would be completely useless.
> How would you implement a right to repair for software in 2023?

What has 2023 do to with anything? The four essential freedoms for software were written more than thirty years ago and today are more relevant than ever: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html#four-freedoms

To answer your question: any government mandated software, or software used, or bought, or promoted by, or paid for by the government should be free software.
Device JNEEG to convert Jetson Nano to brain-Computer interfaces. Short report
https://github.com/bkw777/LPT_Capture
You would, in theory, just need to remember your one strong password, like with a password manager (except 2fa and such). The benefit is that you don't need to store anything, just remember your master password and the "salts" are obvious to you, but an attacker with the clear text password would not be able to differentiate a random password to a pashword result. From the generation time and cpu usage on pashword I'd also guess bruteforce is very hard even if you would know it's generated.
Text-to-4D Dynamic Scene Generation
Interpunct
It was always meant to be a game as a service, they had to monetize it long term and they have been adding free content regularly.

I think the mistake they made was not calling it Fallout Online in order to set expectations and of course, release a complete game at launch.
Are you a simple parser? Because you read until finding the first reason to stop and bailed out.

Marginally more advanced compilers will try to recover, get to the end with as much context as possible, and then complain, including maybe some extra info that came after that might be relevant to the error seen.
Images considered harmful (sometimes) – Jon Udell
Wow that is awesome. Hopefully the first feature they'll add will be to spit out midi rather than wavs (or ML that can decompose wavs to midi)
I don't care about exercise. I'm just gonna ride my bicycle, bicycle...

During all weather. Or fucking walk when I'm too lazy to schlepp it downstairs and up again, because locking it outside seems too risky.

( Something almost identical to this!1!! https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/kalkhoff-retro-g... <- klicky pictures )
Do you use ccache?
How is using this tool different from manually concatenating (website name + username + secret key), e.g. “reddit$myname$123456”? Since Reddit would hash it anyway, this plaintext string should be as secure as a Pashword.
The author plays really loose with the meaning of nationalisation too. Because boy, we can definitely show you what proper nationalisation feels like.

What happened was, the NSIG bought a block the same size as Bpifrance did (a public, state-ran investment bank), the state didn't like it because China has a habit of coming in, draining companies dry of wealth and IP and leaving, and said fuck off. Nothing really surprising about any of this.

If Intel or Texas Instruments was about to be controlled by foreign powers, the US would intervene in the exact same way. Probably even harder actually.

Bpifrance's involvement: https://www.usinenouvelle.com/article/le-role-trouble-de-bpi...
I'm not sure I agree entirely. Yes, Slack can be a table saw without guard. But the guard solution for Slack is company culture: each team needs to have a proper front-desk process, and the manager needs to (viciously) defend his team members that are not on front-desk duty (if at all -- a good organization has a central front-desk process for all its teams).

There are organizations that get this right.
ArcaOS 5.x Retro Gaming Machine
it costs just the (nominal) registration fee per country if you are classed as a "small payment institution" (less than 3m EUR transactions monthly)
The effects of mosquito saliva on dengue virus infectivity in humans (2016)[pdf]
You do not need the whole china to do it. And you do not need the majority even. Just some and then recreate from parts to WeChat to TikTok … and it is one way street as well as not many steal anything back.

I still think the west is doomed. But both hk and Ukraine is a wake-up call. When they act very badly can you fight back or just be German. Too many dependence …

Good luck. You need it. We all need it. As only left thing is luck. I hope not. But your response …
Two very different game types, F76 was not a sequel to F4, and it was not even a spin off like Fallout New Vegas. It is a forever game/Game as a Service/ Always Online game. They were super duper clear about it all too. All good if you don't like it but you are spinning tales if you act like they put microtransactions into a singleplayer game.
Because they don’t always do the same things? I’m assuming that as someone with this vocal a view, you seldom actually use the app if you can help it.
Of course, they did. The initial compiler was written in Ocaml.

Early Rust looked much more like a ML language. They intentionally moved to a C-like syntax because it is more familiar to their target audience.
Punishes? Apple is the most highly valued company of all.
I understand both sides of the equation. I absolutely want to keep the level of autonomy a founder has with a start-up, which you will not have with a union, but at certain point, start up stops being an upstart ( Google, Meta come to mind ) so different rules may apply.

But you are right, average compensation tends to up as a result and even out across the ranks ( and some people don't like that too ).
Usually copyright is the author's right and only the author can enforce that right, so it would take the public domain author to sue users, which I suppose rarely happens.
Every time I bend down, my 5 year old tries to jump on my back - is this all small children or just my own ?
I run three times a week.

I used the Couch to 5K program (in my case, NHS's podcasts <https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/exercise/running-and-aerobic-ex...>), then after hitting 5K, increased the distance by 10% per week until I hit 10K. I listen to podcasts while running.
I wish they delivered to the UK, I would switch so much of my online buying to them instantly for this. It's still incredibly useful as a resource when buying elsewhere though, I just wish I could reward them for this consumer advocacy.

I just looked up a product I've had problems with - Netatmo Presence outdoor security cameras - and found they're rock bottom of the in-warranty returns list: https://www.galaxus.ch/en/s1/product/netatmo-presence-1920-x...
"Cleanup tasks" will always be appreciated I am sure, but again I would caution that there is a trap here. It's easy to clean up any number of things as you go, and construct an illusion that somehow, you are being productive.

When I hire people, aside from fixing mistakes in the documentation they encounter, I want them to have all the time they need to learn, ideally with a set of curated onboarding tasks that progressively give them expertise in the system they are intended to operate in. There is a time to "make things better" and, in my opinion, that's after getting up to speed in a sense that lets me collaborate with the team in a productive manner. I won't begrudge someone the opportunity to clean things up, but each individual is the ultimate arbiter of how to be effective at the end of the day.
ChatGPT doesn't use my kind of language, I've never seen it do exclamations like 'wow'. I'm just very enthusiastic about VR from using it a lot, and it has allowed me to relive some classics in an amazing way. As well as some amazing new content of course, but there isn't that much of it yet.

But the things you mention benefit the most from VR. Graphical resolution is indeed a bit lower with Flight Simulation but the feeling of flying is much more accurate. I've flown real Cessna 172s and I've never really felt like flying in a PC simulator until VR came around.

Google Earth is also quite amazing in VR. Of course for both experiences you need a serious PC, neither flight simulator nor google earth will run on the headset natively.

The resolution and colour depth is really one of the least important things in my opinion (and they will be solved in due course, the first TFT screens were also quite horrible and still we played sims on them).
Mosquito saliva alone has profound effects on human immune system (2018)
A 'tracker' is a usually-sample-based music making software. AFAIK they were originally developed by demoscene groups (concurrently to game studios that used the code privately whereas the demogroups would release binaries for others to use for music-making with few limitations) These 'sample mixing engines' were developed in order to be able to add music to their productions (demos and games), and it became it's own whole-world. Fully agree with sibling comments, module trackers can be huge fun! Near zero barriers-to-entry.. and there's still some great stuff being made in this format too!
Europe has much less of a hero worship problem, and the very idea of having to deal with an Euro Musk is something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. There's always been very few public figures, the world's richest man is french, yet is not always spamming on Twitter.

The reality is, there's different specialties. Sure, serious tech players are American and Asian. Serious hardware players are European (TSMC and Samsung's foundries are non-existent without ASML, and therefore Apple doesn't get to make the M1), serious banking sector tech players are European, serious healthcare tech sector players are european, etc.
Invading other sovereign countries is a "daily occurance" for many countries, be it middle east, africa or somethimes even within europe. So is bombing those countries, bombing across the disputed border, etc. Also drone bombing countries you're not even at war with and hitting weddings... or political leaders of those countries. Also interfering in countries internal politics, staging coups, assassinations, financing terrorists groups... oh wait, freedom fighters (they only become terrorists after they turn against usa), and targeting "digital targets", from "classic hacking" to stuff like stuxnet.

The difference now (for us, europeans) is, that because of this specific occupation, which isn't done by "us" or "our friends" (we would help with the occupation if it was), our politicians are willing to screw massively with our economies, degrade the quality of life for normal people, endanger basically everyone in the world with looming prospects of WW3, conduct possibly internal terrorism (nord steam) and kill a bunch of people who'd prefer living normal lives... and all of that for what? Because nato (mostly americans) are in a dick measuring contest with putin, or maybe as a 'revenge', because of cuba, or who knows.... in the end, politicans stay rich, military industrial complex gets a lot richer, normal people in europe get fucked, ad soldiers die.
> EDIT: The covers of some modern french translations are also incredible. Just the four letters D U N E, which are exactly the same shape but rotated 90 degrees. It's an incredibly simple and effective design.

Indeed, the Robert Laffont 2020 edition looks great:
https://www.noosfere.org/livres/EditionsLivre.asp?numitem=13...
Yeah - I kept waiting for the nationalisation and bit and it just didn't happen.
The vast majority of languages are dead, dying or headed for a tiny niche. How many languages can you name that aren't? There can only be at most 3 languages with more than 25% market share.

Even Python is likely to die; in time. Most things do. Something will have to change first, at the moment it is doing great.
I dearly hope the regulations actually live up to their estimated benefits, and that the cost of compliance also includes the indirect negative impact on future product research and development, not just direct impacts on existing businesses.

> The draft legislation includes an impact assessment that [...] total cost of compliance [...] estimated at EUR 29 billion ($31.54 billion), and consequent higher prices for consumers. However, the legislators foresee a cost reduction from security incidents estimated at EUR 180 to 290 billion annually.
Maybe. I know why I am not pursuing any non-IC role these days, which seems to be THE way to ridiculous compensation packages. I am not willing to put up with the stresses involved if I am to do it well. And that is before you get to dealing with the backstabbers, yes-men and obligatory birthdays. It gets old fast.
The internal representation doesn't really matter, does it?
Cuba didn't push US boundries, they just chose to be friendly with a country that US wasn't friendly with.

and now, 60 years laters:

https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-business-cuba-israel-...

> UN votes overwhelmingly to condemn US embargo of Cuba

> The vote in the 193-member General Assembly was 185 countries supporting the condemnation, the United States and Israel opposing it, and Brazil and Ukraine abstaining.

(let's not forget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods )
> It's just like walking out of a meeting saying "y'all got this, I'm not going to be of help". It can seem rude to some, but it can also seem rude to stick around just to for looks.

Rude or not, sticking around in meetings you can't add/receive value to/from is a great way to get nothing done.
Sorry for the many autocorrect errors, it was late.. It's too late to edit it now. The correct post should have read like this:

The trying to create reality is simply recreating familiar paradigms to help new users get a foothold. You can't jump right into the most modern user interface. Even for advanced users.

This is why a 'modern' desktop still mimicks a messy desk from a 70s office worker. The very earliest computers skipped that step due to technical limitations but the mainstream users had a hard time grokking them. Only with the mobile phone have we started to really leave that behind. VR will be similarly rooted in the past until people find their footing and embrace new ways to interact.

And why meeting rooms in VR have to have chairs, tables and people have to draw on virtual whiteboards instead of just in the space in front of them in 3D. The tech is getting there, but our minds take even more time.
> Just the four letters D U N E, which are exactly the same shape but rotated 90 degrees. It's an incredibly simple and effective design.

For those interested: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/P/B08HPFCMLS.01._SCLZZZZZZ...
>you got cussed out by the high priest of IT because your backups were taking up more than 500KB of drive space.

IT becoming upset when the things people need to do to get work done deviates from their IT model?

Some things never change.
> Currently we haven’t hit the point where many people, even many self-described fans, use these systems heavily

How many minutes per day would you consider “heavy usage” given the current entertainment/gaming focus?
Link to paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11280, dynamic visualisations only work in Chrome (?)
The other day, I was looking to embed a tile based world map without detailed zoom levels (up to z11-12) into an offline desktop application. I was surprised by the difficulty to achieve this. The source formats are really heavy (120GB+ for planet) and the tools either too slow and/or overly complex (for example requiring setting up a DB to import the data in). Most tools I found seemed to be for making maps for smaller areas. I ended giving up...

Maybe I've done it wrong. Would love some good pointers on this. Any simple ways to generate vector tiles for a world map up to zoom levels 11 or 12?
It wasn't worth pushing through. The other arguments are equally as incoherent until it gets to the hard problem of consciousness, which seems to a problem for the author to explain concisely.
Heard that here (?) how a senator insisted a project on reusing the components of an old programme and then become the administrator of that project. Hence overall you can say we have 40 years idea for the new moon landing project. Great for retirement.
On a similar note, I just bought a Greaseweazle. Floppy disc to USB capture.

https://github.com/keirf/greaseweazle

I've been through some childhood 5 1/2 inch floppies. Some still work. Found some old BBC BASIC programs. Very nostalgic.
Google makes billions in profits by selling ads. Many of the buyers of those ads are affected by interest rates. Therefore, Google is affected by those interest rates.
IMHO the Dune Encyclopedia (written in collaboration with Frank Herbert) does a much better job elucidating aspects of the Dune Universe in an interesting way than Brian's books do -- there's a narrative thread that weaves through the last three of Frank's books that is really, really present and which Brian's books set aside for an alternative -- and to my view, much less satisfying -- interpretation of late-stage events in the series.
I remember my mind being blown in the videogame Descent on (I think) the Playstation - you fly your ship into a little cube and enter a vast space. It's how I imagine people would have felt playing Pac Man with its screen wrapping - a thing that's only possible (in realtime at least) in videogames. You're watching a world being created with new physics.
That's not true most manufacters can change the machine yearly but try to change sap for oracle, or your custom solution for sap, and you are spending million of dollars in multi years projects,
I'm not expecting free and cheap software to end , but having a game than breaks in 10 years isn't problematic, but pushing delicate software for no reason, that could break in 5 years, becouse is impossible to the customer to know the dependencies of the program, or how robust is under stress test and cybersecurity, means we lack engeniering discipline not economics reasons.