skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Precisely so! There are two CAN buses and one UART port to log from, and the Python code spawns subprocesses for each of them. They each create or open a SQLite database named after their bus/port and get to work.

This setup is easy to put together but might not be optimal. I don't have a lot of experience with SQLite performance tuning, and I wonder if it will be faster to have worker threads pass everything thru IPC to a writer thread, which batches rows and writes to a centralized database.
The sports cars analogy doesn’t resonate with me because there’s a functional difference between regular cars and sports cars. And plenty of people buy sports cars like Miatas, which have less than zero cachet or coolness factor, and thus can’t really project being “above” anyone.

Clothing with the modifier “extremely” probably makes sense though.
The president doesn't set (artificial, external) supply constraints nor prices, so your point seems either malformed or just wrong.
...We really front paging emo high schoolers on HN now?
If FTL exists there is no reason to believe without knowing specifics that achieving it requires a particular level of improvement over present development. It be technologically behind us along a path not taken or just ahead. There is a fantastic little short story exploring this idea its only a few pages.

https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken.pdf

If FTL isn't a factor its not necessary for them to have survived millions of years. Maybe we shall be ready to undertake such journeys in a century and perhaps suitable targets exist only decades journey away.

Lastly even capable humans sometimes make simple stupid mistakes. No reason to hold our neighbors to infinitely high standards. Centuries of progress didn't stop us from losing a space probe because of a failure to convert units properly.
Back in the 1990's there were maybe 5 languages commonly used (C/C++/Assembler/Turbo Pascal/Visual Basic).

Now there's 40. Each one needs it's own networking library. 8 different kinds of databases - with each language needing it's own adapter. 5 different web frameworks for each one. 3 different json libaries.

It's a classic cartesian product. And instead of "I'll help fill in the gaps", its "I'll solve the problem by writing a new language!" -- which just makes the cartesian product bigger.
Agreed. Another way to also look at this is that if 95% of the people's median (not average) shifts upwards, I'll accept the trade offs. That's improvement for vast majority of the people.
The Puebloan discussion is very…odd. It focuses on the Pueblo Revolt (1680) as a magical demarcation point for Puebloan contact with the horse, based on two 100-year-old Anthropological papers that I’ve never seen referenced in the New Mexicana literature I’ve read. Nor have I ever read the Pueblo-Revolt-horse-first thesis mentioned in any New Mexico history texts from the 1800s, or 1900s. It reads like a straw man argument to me. Nowhere near “the earliest date accepted by Western science” argued (without support) in the conclusions. Anthropologists might have been that foolish, but no professional Western historian ever was. (I stand to be proven wrong, however.)

European contact (riding European horses) for Puebloans would have started with Coronado’s expedition in 1540, and certainly extended with Oñate’s colonization starting in 1598. The Pueblo revolt was 1680. That is at least 80 years of intimate (read up on encomienda/repartimento and Mission churches for more details) Hispano/Pueblo contact prior to the Revolt. What historian would think Puebloans were uninvolved with horses pre-Pueblo-Revolt, when they were in physical partnership (a highly unequal partnership) with horse-riding Europeans for 80 years prior to the Pueblo Revolt. Why would a horse bone at Paa’ko in the early 1600s, when there were already many Spanish colonists in Northern New Mexico, be a surprise?

[There is, however, no mention of Puebloans using, or even being aware of, horses prior to any European contacts in any historical chronicle of the period, and this was such a crucial point for the Conquistadors that someone would have mentioned it, since the horse was perhaps the major strategic military advantage they had from 1540 through 1680. Evidence of that early an awareness would be significant if true. Very unlikely, given the European historical records that report no horses in any Pueblos encountered over those many years, but not impossible.]

Also, arguing “broad use of the horse” in Pueblo culture from a single Paa’ko horse bone dated to the period when many Spanish colonists were also in the 240000 sq mi “Kingdom of New Mexico” (Santa Fe de Nuevo México) is a bit of a stretch.

It wouldn’t surprise me, or many others, that horses were in more common use by the Comanche, Apaches, etc. in the 1600s than previously thought. It would add credence to the notion that availability of horses led to an increase in raiding parties from such tribes on the Pueblos after the Revolt and was one reason the post-Revolt Reconquista was so surprisingly successful.
I feel like I’m part of the small majority thinking that it’s a reasonable price. It’s the first generation of the product so I’m looking forward on seeing how it changes in the future.
I just scrub my ZFS pools once in a while and that's it... OpenIndiana autosnap is the rest of it which is built in. Then Monit to check pool health and alert me automatically.
Of course, with Google, nothing is "free" free.

Google tracks your location so that they can track ad conversions based on store-visits
(no I'm not kidding).
If the US had an alien space ship, why keep it secret? Seems like it would a globally important discovery and diplomatic / technological credit for the US.

Even if the US were inclined to keep their space ship secret, other countries should be encountering UAPs given that the US sees hundreds per year. Some ground control operator should eventually share an in-focus picture at some point.
> I even think AI is going to improve warfare, when it has to happen, by reducing wartime death rates dramatically. Every war is characterized by terrible decisions made under intense pressure and with sharply limited information by very limited human leaders. Now, military commanders and political leaders will have AI advisors that will help them make much better strategic and tactical decisions, minimizing risk, error, and unnecessary bloodshed.

While wars have actually been getting less deadly over the last century, I think this is because of reasons beyond just technology. If it were technology alone that we depended on, his notion of commanders using AI advisers to make them strategize war into a death-and-suffering minimalist process is laughable. Instead, they'd more likely just start more wars, more easily, always confident in their supposed technological edge while really just creating more murderous catastrophe and failure.

That this has happened less over time despite the advances of technology has been more a social phenomenon of lower human tolerance for violence in general. A more widely connected and wealthier (more to lose) world has helped this mentality accelerate, yes, but fundamentally, this intolerance to violence is a human trait that was given more space in which to proliferate by technology. The technology didn't bring it into existence. AI will be little different.
Discord: you can do text/voice chat with your friends for free, but if you want to use certain emojis, then we charge a fee

This guy: I'm being oppressed
Wash trading and whales dumping.
Yep yep. Great way to solve a leak is shove enough stuff into it; it’ll stop leaking after enough!
There's a simple, rational explanation: The man needs to make a living. Lectures, documentaries, a book.

> He left the government in April after a 14-year career in US intelligence.

A government pension requires 20 years IIRC. Grusch is only 36.

The formula: Tell the truth where possible, be vague but suggestive about the rest.

And of course there were secret UFO programs -- if something from Baikonur shows up here, wouldn't it be better if the Kremlin thought it might still remain secret? So sensing, reporting, collecting efforts would be classified.
I had a Toshiba T1x00 in my house (probably a T1000) and I can confirm it was able to do Lotus 1-2-3 and WordStar. Games were strange on the wide screen, and its other killer app was as a serial terminal.

The TRS-80 model 100, an earlier laptop, found a killer app as a word processor and communication device for reporters. Some were still using them into the late 90s.

And the ones that didn't really have killer apps are from a litany of defunct companies/model lines like GRiD.
Please add the /s to your comment so nobody accidentally thinks you are serious.
Too late to edit… the earliest relevant public reference I have found is https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.c/c/Tw-pMLfC52M/m/VQIm... including the phrase “a presentation of the issues involved there (and hopefully a solution) are planned for the next X3J11 meeting” which to me suggests that X3J11 created locales themselves.
> except the capitalists

The article is about monetising social status, and I think the majority of criticisms about capitalism are actually thinly veiled complaints about social status (often complaints about how others get more, rarely mentioning someone’s benefits compared against those that get less).

However social status exists independent of capitalism.

Replace capitalism, and you just end up with similar problems, just rotated, because the underlying motivation is the human drive for social status.

The article implies a wish for a world without social status signals, and rightly denigrates caste systems. Can we even change our nature to avoid status signalling?

Virtue signalling is also status signalling - just declaring a particular caste - and this article clearly declares their virtue.

I agree we should aspire to not be judgemental, and we should aspire to generosity, kindness, forgiveness. Regardless of what ingroup we belong to. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be aware of human failings, and imperfection in our systems is a compromise.
I am sure people in actual caste systems would be pretty excited if they could join a higher caste for $3 a month.
It could be polarizing, where from a religious perspective, other life doesn't break anything and is more evidence of the divine.

From a political perspective, it is risky because all our current rules are based on a now-obsolete ontology, nothing needs preservation, we are just animals again, all is material. It creates a power vacuum that some people will rush into.

The rationale for that would be, if you don't have to fear the aliens, and we're tiny specs in the universe, why should you fear other men? We are now one species and if you can't get on board with that, there are no moral consequences to shortening your time here, since as we are not the top of the pyramid, we can no longer be held morally responsible to each other - there is only this new power. If it doesn't control us, nothing does, etc.

I think the religious view would be that they must also know God, and the only way you can trust another species enough to relate to it is either it accepts your dominion, or recognizes some similar principles of divine authority. Someone who has a personal relationship with God is perfectly equipped to relate to other beings as best a human can, whereas without that, they'd have to worry about you stealing stuff.
Most of which are for medications that I should ask my doctor if they're right for me. USA and New Zealand being the only two countries that allow direct to consumer pharmaceutical advertising, even the sheer amount of ads for pills was surprising. I'd change the channel during one such advert, to get another advert for a different medication on the next channel.

We tend to only advertise pills aimed at aging boomers during boomer prime-time.
Urbit is pretty easy to use now too.

https://tlon.io/
Eh, you're giving nations too much credit.

What's going on is something like emergent disinformation. A combination of

* intentional withholding of facts (we don't report on how much we know about foreign spying and interfernce with aircraft, etc),

* incompetent reporting within the government (the person denying things is a low level public relations person who isn't told much and knows very little, forced to change stories when scraps of information come down)

* memes (UFOs go through waves of popularity of public interest)

* legitimate hallucinations

* hoaxes

* rare atmospheric phenomena

What is almost certainly happening is we've got foreign spies etc. with ordinary, unusual, and unfamiliar aircraft bothering us along with thrillseekers with drones etc. on an uptick because drones are cheaper and more possible these days. There might be some really interesting secret aircraft both foreign and domestic flying around, and generally the governments aren't showing their cards about what they can do and what they know... they benefit from the confusion and conspiracies keeping their adversaries off balance chasing the unknown.

In the end the people who do know everything know some interesting but still certainly rather mundane information. It's not a case of a grand conspiracy where somebody is trying actively to manipulate public opinion, just vague intentional lack of communication and keeping secrets by just not telling most people anything involved.
I get the point, and appreciate their input to the discussion.. but I'd rather pay money to matrix / element.io and make their service better. These kinds of problems don't seem to come up so often with FOSS. I don't use discord, but I can def see this kind of thing impacting children who do use discord.
Has anyone tried using canvas to stymie scrapers?
Most risky investments don't "look deep into your heart and assign you risk based on the order in which you joined".
Porn is toxic to publisher platforms who rely on advertising and UGC for their business.
Open ocean vs. reefs
> It's no more illogical than, say, the progression of the SPX500 and Dow Jones Industrial stock market indexes between 2019-2020-2023.

> "How does the market not care vis-a-vis the gruelling recent pandemic, ongoing supply shocks, mounting climate change disasters, population curve declines, military instability .....

The progression was completely logical. Central banks deployed trillions in QE. Market participants decided that betting against institutions with so much money was not wise and joined the bull ride. We are now paying with inflation.
Ha ha ha! :) I wonder what perturbed you in what I said that you got to pretend that! Ha ha ha! :)
That was long before they switched to canvas rendering, too: they were still just using contenteditable, though potentially with mild layout augmentation with things like absolute positioning and sizing of things (I don’t know).

Flowing text around an image: the web has been able to do this for donkey’s years, it’s the float property. More recently, there’s the CSS shape-outside property that even lets you use non-rectangular crop: https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/CSS/shape-outside.
This is really interesting if you consider a different vertical, like competitive gaming.

The whole concept around that is that, monetizing "functionality" would be unfair (breaks balance), so the healthy strategy is actually monetize "aesthetics" (skins, effects etc.)

I also don't have a clear framework to judge this, but at least in my subjective opinion, I would much rather a platform be monetized via the creation of powerless "figurehead elites" through aesthetics, than to tax the commoner when actually doing something productive. If economic realities imply there must exist different castes of users, won't it be better if the difference is purely a social rather than practical construct?
> Haha, we don't have to agree on this one - although I will say they are super fun to shoot.

I am the opposite. I own them for the philosophy of autonomy, freedom and individualism that guns imbibe. Target shooting isn't that much fun in cities (indoor ranges), only if you go out to the country.

This tweet describes it all:

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The Bill of Rights feels intense today, but try reading it in the mindset of someone in 1791.

A few years removed from Louis XVI selling Divine Right of Kings.

Then suddenly “Hell no, also we’re gonna say and print whatever we want, you can’t search us, and everyone gets guns.”

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Quoting, source: https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1525640468129673216
During World War 2 the British consulted astrologers as part of their planning process. Not because they believed the astrology predictions, but because Hitler did and was known to have astrology influence his attack plans.
They weren't ready for how thiccccccccc Ice Spice is
Operating an aircraft carrier is extremely expensive. Wikipedia says 6.5m PER DAY

> In 2013, the life-cycle cost per operating day of a carrier strike group (including aircraft) was estimated at $6.5 million by the Center for New American Security.
Good luck recreating all the data science libraries in Javascript, that was decades of work. We now have WASM so its far more likely JS just isn't needed
Twitch’s New Branded Content Guidelines
lol, 1791 was a long-ass time ago, and the flintlock era is long past. Also they all had slaves and didn't believe women had the right to vote, and that black people were people. Franklin likely lost his mind to syphilis. There's no sense putting on a hat that doesn't fit. I prefer to evaluate the role of guns from first principles in the current world not the age of dysentery and cholera. Times change and laws evolve. It's a good thing.

I've never understood the elevation of the founding fathers to infallible deities. They had some good ideas, and some terrible ideas, and that doesn't detract from what they accomplished.

The wedding is over, the priest can go home now.
I did not infer a direct comparison, personally. To me it was more of a dictionary use of ''caste'' as opposed to an encyclopedic one. No censorship required in this case, please.
Just because someone can't wring your hand doesn't mean they don't deserve to influence a project. Releasing work under a license like MIT is an act of benevolence since it's giving up leverage and relying on de facto leadership. It's the hardest kind of leader to be, since de facto leaders are only followed on merit. It's not unusual at all for folks who started projects to end up caving to political pressures and getting replaced by the sorts of people you're talking about. But every now and again a Medici comes along.
This reminds me of people who gripe about sports rumours in forums about rumoured player signings. If you're not interested in speculation about hardware not yet freely in the hands of users, why not leave it to people who find that discussion interesting?

There are reports now from dozens of people who've had similar 30 minute sessions using some of the features. That's enough to get an idea of some facets, guess at what's not polished, what's not ready at all. But they're all easy to ignore if you want to wait until next year.
The person doesn’t even like Discord:

https://j3s.sh/thought/using-discord-is-morally-lazy.html

So it seems weird to publish a rant about Discord Nitro.
At this point Haxe or Zig would be far better candidates, but this depends on why Rust was chosen in the first place.
My impression has been that the value leaving the SEC-declared security shitcoins is not stopping at or in some cases even transiting via fiat, but is migrating to BTC and other large cap coins that have not yet been explicitly declared a security.

Many of the security shitcoins (MATIC, FIL, numerous others) suffered a single or double tap over the last couple days without the rebound that BTC, ETH and other unnamed coins have experienced.
> qubes-style cluster-of-communicating-unikernels on the desktop

Oh hey, yeah. A bunch of small utilities that communicate and interoperate. I can see it working out. You could even have them communicate with each other via some sort of universal interface.
Schizophrenia and pranksters both exist. Also people who want to get notoriety by saying anything they can to get attention.

Certainly much of the whole present "flat earth" popularity was driven by a bunch of people who thought it'd be funny.

I take just as seriously people who insist UFOs are aliens as those who insist the world is flat. I'm sure you can find somebody on youtube who has been "shown some documents" about how the world isn't round.
> How do you suppose it should be paid for?

As I get older and crankier, this is pretty much becoming my response more and more often, and not just to issues of who pays. More often than not the response is handwaving.
How about a world in which bullies who spit on the social contracts (and society in general) get a free ride, benefit from it and win? Would you prefer that?
Unfortunately, still in 2023, one's OS is still largely dependent upon C (and assembly for certain optimizations). Rust is dipping it's toe into the OS world yet, but isn't fully mainstream.

Also a lot of that C code in Unix, you know, actually like works and has worked for a long time! 50 year old C code in a Unix operating system isn't going to be unheard of here shortly.
It is frustrating that Combine and SwiftUI were not open sourced, though there are few other Apple packages I find I want to reach for on Linux
Canvas is a really nice vector API, very underappreciated precisely because of its elegant simplicity. Its problem is that, because it's so straightforward and well-designed, people can't easily use having had to work with it to pretend they are Big Brain.
Are there any PC laptops, running Linux or Windows, that you can buy for a similar price that run as long, as cool (temp), as fast, and with a screen as good as an M2 Air?

I know there are faster machines, but they’re usually hotter. There are cooler machines, but they’re usually not as fast. There are cheaper machines but the screens are worse. And there are long battery life machines but they’re usually low performance Chromebooks.

I don’t know of any other machine that made the trade-offs to end up offering a similar combination. At any price.

And I said nothing about noise or thinness.

Once you’ve used one, it’s a very seductive combination of features. I don’t want to go back to “6-8 hours of battery life is enough”, or hearing fans, or using my laptop as a hand-warmer in summer. And I don’t understand how 1080p is still so common.
> Maybe it doesn't provide the social clout, that's not the point for tons who wish they could sit courtside

There is no maybe about it. Tell me another reason why people would want court side, that wouldn’t also apply to a high school game (where people could sit court side for free but absolutely don’t)
You are taking the person's use of the term ''caste'' too literally.