skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The free-body diagram of the object has to show two balanced forces: the scale pushing on it, and gravity pulling on it.

The net force is zero.

When forces balance, they may balance to zero so the object in question doesn't move; but there is compression or tension in it. The scale measures that stress. If you remove either gravity or the restraining support (floor, table, ...) the stress goes away.

Force is defined as mass times acceleration: F = ma.

A body falling due to gravity experiences a force because it has mass and is accelerating. That's how force is defined.
In the same building is quite a bit different than 10km apart, even if a huge meteor would lead to the same conclusion for both scenarios.
Have you ever experienced a CAT 4 or 5? There won't be much left standing. It looks like a nuclear blast. This is just wind damage. I've seen water move entire homes a mile with the height of water being as high as 30ft. It can take weeks to months to restore electrical power. To clean the mess up takes heavy machinery run by fossil fuels. And what if you want to start doing repairs to your property that may not be damaged that bad? You will need a gas generator. Solar will not cut it doing heavy power tool work hours on end...meh.
The areas on earth where Tropical Cyclones occur are pretty limited [1]. And most of it is deep ocean where you wouldn't place wind turbines (or solar panels) anyway.

[1] https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about/weather/typ...
I need to do this. I’m highly suss of Authy holding my phone number given it’s owned by Twilio. It just doesn’t feel right.

Google Authenticator is still virtually useless because Google routinely locks people out of their accounts with absolutely no recourse.
It's good to see tech companies offering generous support to laid-off employees, but veterans of past downturns warn that this generosity may only last during the initial wave of layoffs.
What's it like processing Billions of records with Databricks + Delta Lake. Find out.
> If you throw 100 darts and get 1 hit that grows by 1000x, you're up 10x which is a nice return

This math breaks down when you’re unilaterally pushing up valuations and writing massive cheques. That your concentration and downside. It’s why Andreessen lags its peers on returns. If you’re a founder, take their cash (obviously), but understand you’re closing doors (so take a lot of it).
Think taxing vacant housing or houses only used during Christmas seems like a good idea. There are ton of houses near me here in London that are empty most of the year.
Your claim just launders the same character judgement through a drug shortage problem.

Now they are lazy and keeping drugs from people who are lazier thus more advanced along the type-2 diabetes escalation.

That's supposed to be a steelman of the position I listed?
Question:

Given the advances, how possible is it to use Linux without ever touching the Terminal? Until the answer is "100% possible", it will never be the year of Desktop Linux.

It's also worth noting that desktop computers are dropping in popularity for home users. Gamers will use them for years to come, but the average non-technical home user that just wants a web browser and social media are more likely to opt for a tablet these days. If they REALLY want a keyboard and a larger screen, they'll probably get a laptop.
What are you talking about? HPV is by far the simplest, cheapest and safest method of preventing a HPV induced cervix and throat cancer for a few decades already. Heck, I believe say most people can get it for free via health insurance.

What amazes me are people in this day and age treating vaccines recommendations as fear induced panacea.
That's because users don't have to suffer the permanent effects of their carelessness. There will always be someone they can scream at and blame for things going wrong. Because they're the customer, and the customer is entitled to satisfaction.

So all technology ends up being designed for careless and irresponsible people because it's generally profitable to do this. If you don't, someone else will.
RDFox is worth a try as an alternative, also datalog but C++ based, has incremental reasoning, and explainability. It's a database but also a rules engine that can chain any number of rules. As far as I know datomic is unique for its "query the database at any point in history" and incremental tracking of schema changes, easy to use UDFs, it really shines above other databases in that context.
Wow, this is a big issue! Is there any way to guarantee AWS-level physical redundancy in GCP without paying the latency/inter-region data transfer (higher than inter-zone outside US: https://cloud.google.com/vpc/network-pricing#egress-within-g...) pricing?

A nice thing about EC2 is that you're getting a pretty dumb, predictable service. There have been multi-zone or global control plane issues but the physical metal has bona fide redundancy between zones/regions.
I might be mistaken, but my understanding from having played around with LangChain for a couple months is that because you’ve got to keep all your state in the context window, giving the model access to a vectorstore containing the entire chat history allows it to retrieve relevant messages against your query that can then be stuffed or mapreduced into the context window for the next response.

The alternative - and I believe the way the ChatGPT web app currently works - is just to stuff/mapreduce user input and machine response into the context window on each step, which quickly gets quite lossy.
Was it Deimos or Phobos, which could be decelerated to crash into mars with todays tech?
First direct image of a black hole expelling a powerful jet
As Twitter proved, Clubhouse was a feature and not a product.
Bold to assume that nobody on the cricket team has dated each other..
Phone carriers are responsible for a lot because they had nowhere near enough IPv4 capacity to handle all of the phones & other devices, but it’s not just them. A lot of people use IPv6 but never realize it because the experience is so smooth — all browsers use Happy Eyeballs and it tends to pick IPv6 because it’s often faster. I know that because I semi-regularly get support requests from developers wondering why they couldn’t access an IP-restricted service because they didn’t even realize that their browser had picked the IPv6 record because it responded faster.
You meet your friend at a pre-arranged time, walk down the street and spontaneously choose which bar to enter.
At 10 billion dollars the accounting doesn't have to be precise.
Also helps them to tune it for their use cases where other users have to rely on closed sourceness of it
Calling this 'end-to-end encryption' really bothers me, as we already get that from HTTPS.

What this ought to be called is 'encrypted-at-rest' (EAR).

Words are important; there's an obvious downgrade attack where E2EE is implemented as EAR, but then later watered down to something like HTTPS (where the pipes are encrypted but that data is stored unencrypted.) You could do this without changing the language of the product offering, provided that the product is sold and marketed as 'end-to-end'.

Whereas if you created an EAR system and marketed as such, you'd be vulnerable to lawsuits if you pulled a bait-switch (which you might have done because the FBI is leaning on you.)
> It's not like syncing Authenticator data is less secure than anything else

This is false. Android backups are end-to-end encrypted with the ability to recover after device loss. Google already solved this problem years ago. Now instead of letting Authenticator use that solution (which it should have been using since the start, and would be the simplest thing in the world to implement) they had to build a whole new custom thing that is worse. But hey, I bet someone got a promotion for shipping a new feature.
Viruses and Bacteria evolve much faster than large organisms.

All STD's are evolving rapidly to the point even condoms might not protect you.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/sexual-health/3-common-stds-b...

https://apnews.com/article/monkeypox-the-next-std-3266fd0ae4...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/massachusetts-concerning-new-dr...
That religion is not their present cultural practice.

It's still their culture, as it was developed throughout history, you know, as cultures are known to do, adopting different things here and there, coming into contact with other ideas, and so.

Not to mention that the temple has been a holy site for their next religion too, for close to 2 millenia.

Anything to justify colonial plundering I guess...
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Nitroglycerin can either alleviate heart cardiovascular disease symptoms or it can go boom. What's your point? Almost every technology is dual use if you put your mind to it.
I'll just move in next to your home and play loud music all night long to express my liberty. I trust you won't have a problem with that.
This whole thing is basically a straw man. “Performance engineering works but sometimes it’s not enough to overcome a bad architecture”. Alright, was that actually in question in the first place?
I'd be willing to bet they'll have a proper flame trench for the next launch so this won't be a major issue going forward.
Dropbox lays off 16% of staff due to slow growth and “the era of AI”
>The article provides reasons why optimization gets harder, but no arguments for why a rewrite is better. It's unclear whether the author is arguing for rewrites or whether they're simply pointing out why companies take them on.

He didn't argue a rewrite is just "better"; his argument was that a rewrite was the only card of the table. The architecture was deficient and to get more performance you have to change the architecture, which means a rewrite.

I tend to agree; I take the view that most engineers are smart, and compilers/interpreters/virtual machines are even smarter so most targeted optimizations aren't going to result in very much gain. A codebase full of N+1 queries or unindexed queries never cared about performance to begin with.

For true gains, you will have to think about data which is the true bottleneck for most applications - getting data from memory, the disk or the network will be much longer that any instruction cycle. The way memory moves through your application is baked into your architecture and changing this will almost always involve a rewrite. To your final point,

>In my experience, you're doing work synchronously that could have been put in a queue and worked on asynchronously.

moving from a synchronous codebase to an async one almost always involves a rewrite.
> Though I have no idea if either can be found locally.

Which is specifically why I mentioned rosin. Though any acid could likely be used so citric acid or something that could work as well.
It's foolish to think that anything Microsoft does will trigger an exodus towards Linux.

Your typical non-technical user, if they decide they're fed up with the latest version of Windows adding more spyware/adware, is more likely to switch to a Mac than to Linux.
As a Gen-X, almost Boomer, and the only social media I use is Reddit…

I think, perhaps, you might be looking at the wrong “groups”.

CasualUK is where I spend my time.
"We will be focused on removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account from our platform as well as nudity, pornography, & sexually explicit content,"

What’s the issue with removing old unused and inactive content? Some people used imgur for sharing one off pictures or screenshots. The porn thing is not an issue either as imgur is more of a friendly community of genuine people. It will do just fine.
> it would be cool if you stopped trying to put the worst possible take on my words.

Your words are... really something. I feel like as an exercise, you should go try to make something useful out of a downed tree (find a good one!) with chips of flint and obsidian and at the end of the process show people the beautiful thing you made. Let them know how long it took, and how that time and effort ought to be considered "inexpensive."
It's a balancing act between the negative freedom to be allowed to manufacture and sell a locked down device VS the positive freedom to install whatever software you want on the devices that you buy. I know libertarians skew very much towards the negative end, but they don't get to gatekeep the word freedom.
Cloudflare Announces First Quarter 2023 Financial Results [pdf]
Got some write-up on that?
> the "product strategy" of most of these companies is close to just spitballing

Literally every company. That doesn't mean that a strategy doesn't exist and is actively curated and maintained by people whose full-time job it is to do so. It's always an educated guess at best. But it's pretty silly to come into a thread like this and be like "psh they store files what could they possibly do with AI".
Just that Go has 10x developers and projects that Rust has. And most Go projects are commercially supported while Rust projects are mostly done for free projects in the line of "let's rewrite X in Rust".

If you follow the money, there's where the developers are. And where the developers are, there is the success of a programming language.

If it ever was a Rust vs Go contest, Go already won and by a big margin.

I can't explain it very good, but I feel like a lot of weird people enjoy Rust and Scala for all the wrong reasons. It's like they enjoy the pain and want that pain to be inflicted to others so they push for those languages.
This paragraph by Tocqueville kind of haunts me.

“I see that in a certain portion of the territory of the United States at the present day, the legal barrier which separated the two races is tending to fall away, but not that which exists in the manners of the country; slavery recedes, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary. Whosoever has inhabited the United States must have perceived that in those parts of the Union in which the negroes are no longer slaves, they have in no wise drawn nearer to the whites. On the contrary, the prejudice of the race appears to be stronger in the States which have abolished slavery, than in those where it still exists; and nowhere is it so intolerant as in those States where servitude has never been known.”

Perhaps I was fed a reductionist view of the Civil War in grade school, but this seems to challenge core assumptions we were taught.

My view of the Civil War was further shifted when I learned that Lincoln’s idea of ending slavery never implied amalgamation of former slaves into white society— something he was openly against. He literally tried (and inhumanely failed) to deport all the black people to a remote location.

Before the War, Lincoln publicly complained that the slave states were breeding all the unwanted “mulattos”. The Emancipation Proclamation only applied to the Confederacy, almost like it was a war tactic.
I think you're missing the point, the suggestion is that somehow by using AI any copyright claims over derivative works are voided.
Coinbase responds to the SEC’s Wells notice
People here likely know SponsorBlock but I suppose many don't turn on all of the skippable segments that SponsorBlock can also skip, which aren't necessarily on by default. I save so much time not having to watch all of the filler content that's unrelated to the actual video topic at hand.

It's especially nice on mobile, with ReVanced on Android.
You're right, I think, and it's a little scary that this angle is being downvoted.

Yes, it's erasure. Literally and figuratively. It's harmful.

Yes, it removes incentive to create, and learn, and be challenged. It blurs truth and enables very real horrors of control. It's dangerous.

No creative person wants any of this for their work. It's demoralizing.

Only greedy publishers and rights-holders have pushed for this, and it's entirely out of short-sighted self-interest. The pretense that this is to protect the public is sooo thin.

If you're a parent who feels the need to buy a sanitized Dahl, I have to wonder what you're hoping to accomplish. Sanitized Dahl isn't Dahl, so what's the point?
We use XTDB 1 and have a multi replica production instance with about 600GB of data at ~100 million transactions. The biggest problem we have is with minor versions bumping the underlying RocksDB i dex version, requiring a full reindex of the main "golden" data store taking days to weeks.

AFAIK this is not solved in XTDB 1. I'm hoping XTDB 2 provides a better upgrade path for modestly sized databases like ours.
Pause.

You're the one who dismissed gathering evidence about real usage of streets because the only sensible solution is to live in dense housing and use mass transit. Which fails to recognize that solving the density problem involves major political battles that make it a generally nonviable solution to real problems that cities are faced with. Refusing to consider a politically workable solution because it is not your preferred one is counter-productive. And your preferred solution is NOT politically workable.

Second, in my reply to a sibling comment I showed evidence that electrification of cars is proceeding faster than electrification of bus fleets. So even though there are more of them, electrifying cars is actually proving to be politically easier.

Third, I picked on buses because they are the easiest form of mass transit to move to from cars. If buses can't be made to work for a particular metro area, then nothing else is likely to work either. And buses are failing to work very well in most places where they are used.

And fourth, the big problem with buses in America is population density. We're driving mostly empty buses that make little environmental sense. This is a sign that we're not actually underinvesting in bus routes. But it is hard to make mass transit work when people aren't all in one place. And as much as you might wish it otherwise, we're not inclined to congregate in a small area for convenience.
> That comic required significant work on the user's part to edit the images and re-synthesize portions of each frame repeatedly while doing things like inpainting, outpainting, re-prompting, etc. And likely required use of some other tools like Photoshop or Indesign (midjourney absolutely did not generate the bubbles or comic book text).

The issue is that the AI's output is deterministic, and the prompts it uses are commonly too short to be eligible for copyright, not least because someone else could plausibly use the same prompt independently. With the same seed, the AI would then produce the same image. Or produce a similar image in response to a similar prompt.

If you could copyright that, you then have an enforcement problem, because the usual way to show copying is similarity, but you can then have two images that are similar yet independent. And some light Photoshop work is not going to eliminate the similarity.
To be able to "do business" there, whatever it may entail. Contrary to the popular held opinion on certain online communities, businesses must respect local laws and regulations to be able to conduct their activities.
Their IOS first app and invite only launch alienated many potential users and gave an opening to Twitter to launch spaces with a huge audience.
It amazes me that in every market they serve, Amazon has no actual competitors from a feature perspective.

Like, Target does not compete with Amazon. They have a totally different home delivery model that is not in the same category of reliability or service.

It's annoying.
It's funny because AWS, at least for the services I knew of when I was there, did rolling deploys to each region over several days. us-east-1 was always the final day because it was the biggest region, so you'd think it'd the safest region since everything getting deployed was well-tested. But while I was there I remember at least 2 COEs where the root cause was basically, "us-east-1 had some hacky legacy configuration that no other region has and that wasn't known/accounted for."
> Company continues to pretend this doesn't happen on the regular

What do you want them to say? "Hey we have X breakdowns but please, pay!"
I tried, it is almost there, but font scaling at 4k was one issue--didn't work worth a damn in linux.
> This is acceptable conduct?

Sure. I think ProPublica is reporting an angle here that can't be proven that Harlan Crow is attempting influence peddling or trying to put cash in the pocket of Clarence Thomas illegally. This doesn't look like a corruption case. The situation is somewhat reasonable and Thomas might have profited by 1/3 of the ~$130,000 house that he inherited which is not really a big deal.

It should have been reported, yes, absolutely. But I think this is fairly mundane.

I also think it's worth pointing out that Justice Ginsburg received a $1M award from Russian oligarchs[1][2]. She also received a trip to Israel[3] from an Israeli billionaire. I suppose if I were a ProPublica journalist I would say she was lavished with a private arrangement in Israel by a foreign billionaire. These are probably also mundane, I don't think she was corrupted by foreign influences.

It's a good question of whether all of this is appropriate, I don't know. But ProPublica is not exactly an unbiased reporter in my opinion. Being donor funded probably makes one even more susceptible to political bias than corporate media imo.

[1]: https://www.genesisprize.org/honorees/lifetime-achievement-a...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_Prize

[3]: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/14/opinion/editorials/claren...
So your point is that the grid shouldn’t be powered by renewables because in a disaster you need to drive petrol powered vehicles and run a generator?
Saw this coming. Clubhouse was exciting at first when it was a place where you could pop in on random celebrity conversations, but now is mostly a place for bad bad business advice, bad relationship advice, and clout chasers trying to get rich quick
Oh wow they have a bunch of stuff.

I won a Sencha Mobile contest once, an eternity ago, and the website was hosted on the designers server (I met him on the sencha forums). We had a cron script to scrape twitter, and that cron job is still running and sending me emails, and I haven't been able to get a hold of him since.

It's been sending me emails every 60 seconds for a decade with no way to for me to turn it off.

Chris if you're reading this, please clear the cron job on blackspade.
This feature is now live! Here is a demo: https://youtu.be/Ucc8LKUFJCI
We implemented it in Postgres with 'created_at' and 'deleted_at' columns on everything and filtering to make sure that the object 'exists' at the time the query is concerned with. Changes in relationships between objects are modeled as join tables with a boolean indicating whether the relationship is made or broken and at what time.

Our data model is not large and we had a very complete test suite already, so it was easy to produce another implementation backed by postgres, RAM, etc.
I don't use Spotify, so I can't comment, but when I make those requests using Siri + Apple Music they tend to work.
I don't know what you are calling "good". That is a super loaded word. I would say it is effective though. The baseline evidence for that is how much money gets spent in that industry, I guess.
> Nothing about Windows stops the hardware from working with another operating system

So, a Universal Audio UAD-2 DSP accelerator card now magically works on Linux along with the entire software ecosystem built on top of it? That's disingenuous to say the least.