skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not liked by the Left but easy to say:
Most countries once managed successfully or not so successfully by "Whites" or yes, even plundered by them took a nosedive towards reduced productivity, neglected maintenance, incompetence, infighting, embezzlement, dictatorship, cultural / tribe / religious clashes after handover to local authorities happened.

Just look how economically thriving Mozambique and Angola were, and what happened after they gained independence from Portugal.

South Africa is another example in that long list.

Hell, just look what happened with Libya and Iraq after their dictators, who subdued the masses but kept the peace, were disposed of respective being helped in their disposal by the US government.
>Because saying that is stupid since Apartheid is the source of these problems?

Other African nations that didn't have Apartheid or similar institutions have similar economic and political results. And even the one sub Saharan nation that didn't experience colonization, Ethiopia, isn't screaming ahead of its neighbors economically or otherwise. Its GDP per capita is slightly ahead of Uganda's and fairly far below Kenya's.
I just googled it after your comment and the conversion of football field came in terms of acre or hectare so I think Area is suitable. I will see what most people are using and based on that I will set its value.
Agree. It is negligent and unqualified management at the root of this. Talented employees who know better and try to do better are dealt dirty hands; forced to either commit illegal acts like this or face intense psychological abuse, the PIP train, and ultimately termination. Sometimes they realize what is happening and they quit. Either way, Amazon facilitates and even encourages this behavior, as people receive raises for this stuff.

I hope employees can experience federal protection against this. We definitely need it.
The bookshelf becomes the bookshelf.
>And before the usual white supremacists show up, yes, it was better during apartheid

Better for WHO is the important thing to remember. An unequal society doesn't get to claim it's better just because a part of it was way better off.
I’ve always hated this aspect of journalism- news stories latching on to an innocuous detail and then playing it up to make the whole operation seem like a circus. It plays to the Dunning-Krueger effect so hard.
Many startups can only dream of being as long and influential as IBM is.

Also note that IBM contributions to Linux kernel in 2000, was one of the reasons it actually took off.
I think Terraform provides multi cloud provisioning. Not an expert on this but I think it's good enough for common services across different clouds.
Exactly, I'll also add failed social policies to this list. The economy of Johannesburg goes well beyond gold. The country has amazing natural resources and some very smart people, but sadly the smart ones are in the minority.

My brother in law does land evaluations nation-wide. One of many examples he gave me was that there is a program there to expropriate farms from white land owners and give them to blacks (I'm not referring to the expropriation without compensation FYI). The idea behind this was to give the blacks a way to earn money by being able to have land. He personally observed farms that had been expropriated and it's effect. Before the expropriation they were productive thriving operations, afterwords many ended up ceasing to produce anything and the properties went into dis-repair.

Farms, beyond supplying the country with food provide a valuable export.
> If issues are much more frequent than with human responders, the system will obviously not be deployed.

Part of the issue is that they're using metrics from a poorly supported system as comparison. If they funded the emergency service optimally then these comparisons would make sense.
Good work. Perhaps you can steal this idea:

Metric intervention
https://userscripts-mirror.org/scripts/show/130277
> Converting that old French system the Brits are still using to the metric standard of science. ~ foot, inch (00',00",00'00,00'00"), yard, mile, stone, Pound-mass/Lbs., Gallon ~ It will totally convert something heretical like: 1'23 1/4" x 2'12 5/8" into something elegant and civilized like 89.535 cm x 93.0275 cm

This (uhm) didn't take a year to make but it was rather useful when I needed it.
[0] only seems to indicate that Republicans have consistently been an extremist party for 20 years, as stated in the comment you replied to, regardless of which way the Democrats have moved.
The results are correct, but the explanation is wrong, e.g.:

By using our Celsius to Fahrenheit conversion tool, you know that one Celsius is equivalent to 33.8
1000 C = 1000 x 33.8 = 1832 F

Probably the explanation engine doesn't support the offset in the underlying linear formula.
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RedHat spends a lot of time back-porting security updates to older software (e.g. RHEL7). Stream is always only the latest RHEL version, I believe.

The whole point of RHEL is the long term support (the back-porting), which is what they're going to stop publishing.
>I imply nothing and the statement is a simple, albeit troubling, fact

Words have implications. This is one of those fallacious "but it's true" things, where it honestly becomes difficult to give the speaker the benefit of the doubt - i.e. that you think the phrase "South Africa was [insert anything positive] under Apartheid", by itself, has no possible implications.
I thought CentOS Stream is for testing QA'd updates to already-released RHEL versions.

(Fedora is for testing stuff to go into future RHEL versions.)

So CentOS Stream shouldn't be that buggy, no?
Twinklr: A Modern Music Box
corruption becomes a value in itself, people adapt to prefer corruption because it gets them further ahead than following rules
I'm definitely not google scale, but we're global, in over 300 cities spanning ~30 countries. On an avg day we process well over 25k rps on multiple services. Simple architecture and IaC like terraform is exactly how we manage the dependencies. It's the solution, not the problem.
You can't force any company to pay for anything. It all comes from the customer's pocket at the end of the day. We can start however by ensuring a fairer playing field amongst ISPs. They've gotten too huge and too comfortable with mediocrity. it's time to rip these companies apart.
Apparently I choose a great example then!

There are a lot of examples where the assumptions, especially this one, of microeconomics hold. Profit-maximizing corporations don't have cyclic desires. In many cases, people don't have cyclic desires (e.g. in the flavor of the soda they want). Microeconomics starts with those, much as becoming a structural engineer requires understanding the basics of Newtonian physics.

They get into more complicated math in more advanced courses, but they don't start there. All of engineering, science, etc, is "the math at a deeper level is too complex, here's a simplifying but false set of assumptions". And then a subset of people who learn about that care about cases when the assumptions break down and studies the next level.
> Yes. It’s still silly to compare power users and non power users though in this context as I’ve pointed out.

sure, and that's people like you who constantly bring those $0.12 of reddit revenue per user doing such silly comparison.
Say goodbye to the ice caps and welcome to the jungle.
> Many startups can only dream of being as long and influential as IBM is.

Okay? Do you feel attacked because I wrote something negative about IBM? Not sure how that is relevant to my point.

> Also note that IBM contributions to Linux kernel in 2000, was one of the reasons it actually took off.

And that influences the motivations behind their current decisions how exactly?
The kernel, the compiler, the C library, and the init system have more sway than various packages under BSD, MIT, or other licensing.
It seems the most common method to acquire starter cells is by taking a cell sample from a live animal, which can be performed using minimally invasive methods or by biopsying a recently slaughtered animal where the tissue is still viable

- https://gfi.org/science/the-science-of-cultivated-meat/
How does this compare with pgTyped[1]?

[1] https://github.com/adelsz/pgtyped
He has a hypothesis that he is publicly testing. Not sure how they are the same.
No one on that list devs or publishes the games that sell PlayStations.

Sony are at least a decade ahead of MS in terms of having built a pipeline of developers that have the IP and quality standards that are console sellers even at the $500 price point.

I toyed with the idea of buying a series s because forza horizon is fun but it wasn't enough to justify even a $250 console.
It depends on the resolution and shades of gray your home printer can output. It will work, of course, but you may be disappointed with the harshness.

Last time I printed on an Epson 9600 @1200dpi. It looked awesome.

Salt prints are great fun and have a distinct look. Very different from palladium and platinum.
Using GPT-4 to measure the passage of time in fiction
> often ship with "more modern" server software than Debian does

That's not really true. They often ship with Red Hat specific software (like Podman is) replacing widely used software (e.g. Docker, to which Podman still isn't feature complete even though it has been shoved in everyone's throats for a couple of years now), but "more modern" will vary wildly based on the release date.
The take away is that they measure the amount of red light compared to infrared and if there's more red the plants are less healthy.
I think Somalia is close, as close as any. At one point a couple of years ago I thought Venezuela might take the “prize” or even El Salvador, although the leadership there is cleaning house with a very stiff broom currently. Afghanistan, no, although the national army collapsed within a couple of days, there was a strong and organised force to take over.
You can see an example by clicking "new game" on here: https://word.red/

We are working on getting it subsecond for most images, but we're not there yet.
This is the correct way to go about it imho. A real hard fork would inevitably fall behind upstream and the project will eventually be abandoned.

Theia[1] is a bit closer to a hard fork. They even try very hard to avoid saying outright they're just a rebranded VS Code, using euphemism such as "Theia embraces many of the design decisions [of VS Code] and even directly supports VS Code extensions."

1. https://theia-ide.org/
Man I wish I could get my other possessions under control like that. Or more to the point my wife’s ;)

But I can’t give up the physical experience of reading on paper. Even e-ink displays don’t do it for me. Nevertheless I can get paper copies of almost anything I need from the library, and I’m a member of multiple local libraries.
What the heck is "thug culture populations"?
Creating and Playing Games (2022)
People don't get "ready" for new things. New things happen, and it takes a generation for people from before that tech to die out.

That's what's happening with social media. Boomers cannot learn to live with it, we just have to wait another 30ish years. The same will happen with AI.
Surely they were benchmarking on the credentials of the founding time moreso than the actual memo, right?
You're confusing Twitter with a properly-run company.

> What does the CEO have to say about this?

Nothing, because they're not a real CEO, one assumes.
This is definitely NOT the behavior of Google maps in any android device (always default rom) I ever had, never saw any ad as you describe, and I keep using them daily... don't you have by any chance crapware-infested-from-manufacturer brand like Xiaomi or Huawei?
There needs to be some very strict labeling requirements for this. If I'm going to eat lab grown meat, I would like to know beforehand.
Can't resist: there's already no need, even if we want animal products
Musicogenic seizure
iirc the matrix literally reused the same sets and backdrops from the production of dark city
Would you mind saying which city and which wage?
I'd argue that IBM's contributions in that timeframe were more about about validating it from a large business perspective than about technical contributions (that tended to focus on large system performance which wasn't actually that important for Linux taking off).
Drizzle ORM: TypeScript ORM that feels like writing SQL
This data almost certainly wouldn't exist, without that view. In some cases, it's much harder to find something you're not looking for.
What do you mean? ChatGPT/GPT4 is way faster than a human in every task.
I refer to a trip to the grocery store as a mission sometimes
No. That is simply a token containing some claims sayings you are you, no passwords or anything like that is transferred. Having said that; it is still best practice to set up MFA for all your accounts.
I've seen them. The ones I have seen are more like pins on the map for locations that clearly say Ad on them.
Ish. Just changing where you are oriented can impact how some people are thinking. By nature of their orientation.

Moving to a mouse primes my brain to start thinking spatially about things. Which is not something I'm typically doing when looking at textual/symbolic things. I can see some value in doing it, of course.
A fun game to play on Google Maps Street View is to go to Johannesburg or Cape Town and time how long it takes to find a home that doesn't have a spiked/barbed-wire/etc. fence or wall.
Diagram has been acquired by Figma
Maybe AI+Birth Control are the great filter.
The answer is never "blacks" that's just not an actionable thing.

If you think crime then the problem then you can come up with suggestions to improve things (policing perhaps? Gun control? reducing poverty?), those improvements really have nothing to do with the skin color of anyone though, just a distraction.
This was the case for rider as well. By the time it released it was plenty performant.

I’m not concerned about that yet.
I hate when figma just always gives me CSS for absolute positioning. Is there any way around that?
RISC-V: exploring a bug in stack unwinding
> I was under the impression they were profitable prior to the acquisition so I’m not sure why they’re squeezing so hard and ruining the great brand and good will Red Hat had built up.

Some growth metric that can't be realized quick enough through innovation (new products or services), so the only recourse is to cut costs or get more revenue from existing products without improving them.
Exploring OpenAI's Whisper with Non-English Voices
Playstation also has longstanding advantage for non-competitive games (JRPGs, action adventure, etc). The 360 was the last generation of Xbox that had a comparably wide spread of genres… each generation since has been host mostly to things like competitive FPS games.

Due to this, I've not felt a need to own an Xbox in a long time. A combo of a PS4/PS5 and custom PC has yielded the best coverage.
I've never heard of anyone comparing to a football field in the Area domain. Of course this is cultural, but at least in the US - the length is what is commonly compared.
I have not found that to be reliable enough to trust overall. I hate Waze wanting to announce every damn thing, it's annoying after a while. I don't care if there is a car on the side of the road, or the tiniest piece of cardboard in the road that someone felt compelled to flag for points.
you'd be surprised how far you can get with this. Handles are basically how things like Erlang VM (and IIRC javascript VMs) work.
What is most interesting about LLMs to me is the vastly different experiences people are having with them.

Personally, I can't understand how someone who has spent time with chatGPT4 can say that as a blanket statement.

On the other hand, if you are viewing things from the perspective of creating a mass market product, I would agree. I am not sure there is going to be a product beyond the scale of the chat interface to the models. Everything will be very niche and customized if the chat interface is not the best use case. How that plays out is what I think will be groundbreaking.
This reminds me of Nissan motors chasing the man of the same name that was harassed by them for 25 years to buy/steal the nissan.com domain after car vendor finally figured out what the Internet was good for. Nissan Motors first tried to low-ball him, and then sued, repeatedly for the next couple decades to simply "take" the domain, but he won over and over - it was his freakin' NAME, and fairly got it first.

Tough luck Nissan motors, at least the Japanese court stood up for the man and his rights. The owner finally died after covid in 2020, and the domain still sits parked.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/35179/the-man-who-fought-nissa...

Something tells me if this were Apple in the US, he's have been steamrolled like a piece of dung left in the road and domain taken as these poor bastards daring to use a fruit borne from the beginning of time before Apple Inc will now get.
At some point the fake meat is cheaper and more people buy that.

This causes real meat to become more expensive because it becomes a luxury item - only wealthy people can pay for the intense farming practices that today every consumer is helping pay for.
Magic ToDo is a super-low-friction, ML-powered To-Do generator
Three thing:

a) pointers are handles, to parts of virtual memory pages. When your process maps memory, those addresses are really just ... numbers... referring to pages relative to your process only. Things like userfaultfd or sigsegv signal handlers are even capable of blurring the line significantly between self-managed handles and pointers even by allowing user resolution of page fault handling. Worth thinking about.

b) If performance is a concern, working through a centralized handle/object/page table is actually far worse than you'd think at first -- even with an O(1) datastructure for the mapping. Especially when you consider concurrent access. Toss a lock in there, get serious contention. Throw in an atomic? Cause a heap of L1 cache evictions. Handles can mess up branch prediction, they can mess up cache performance generally, and...

3) they can also confuse analysis tools like valgrind, debuggers, etc. Now static analysis tools, your graphical debugger, runtime checks etc don't have the same insight. Consider carefully.

All this to say, it's a useful pattern, but a blanket statement like "Handles are the better pointers" is a bit crude.

I prefer that we just make pointers better; either through "smart pointers" or some sort of pointer swizzling, or by improving language semantics & compiler intelligence.
RHEL X.Y isn't a simple snapshot of CentOS Stream X at a specific point. It is a fork of CentOS Stream, with cherry-picks and so on. The specific details of what patches made it into RHEL and when and how to create reproducible builds are now only being provided to customers.

In the past, customers have been able to redistribute the RHEL repos freely. I assume that will remain the case as long as CentOS Stream is open source.

Edit: Actually, it wouldn't surprise me if IBM put some content in the RHEL repo that is under restrictive licenses that couldn't be redistributed just to complicate things, but all the important parts will remain open source, due to close ties to CentOS Stream and Fedora. Rocky/Alma already have to replace trademarks, and this wouldn't be much different, but they would have to obtain access to the repos as customers themselves, or have another customer strip the bad stuff out before throwing it over the fence. We'll have to see how hostile they want to be about it.
Facebook, Fosstodon and the Fediverse
But what's the alternative, right?
Blizzard fans are not largely console gamers.
I use a system much like this for entity management for games, but with an additional property that I don't see outlined here:

when an entity is "despawned" (destroyed), it is not "freed" immediately. instead, its id ("generation counter" in the article) is set to 0 (indicating it is invalid, as the first valid id is 1), and it's added to a list of entities that were despawned this frame. my get-pointer-from-handle function returns both a pointer, and a "gone" bool, which is true if the entity the handle points to has an id of 0 (indicating it used to exist but has since been despawned), or if the id in the handle and the id in the pointed-to entity don't match (indicating that the entity the handle pointed at was despawned, and something else was spawned in its place in memory). then, at the end of each frame, the system goes through the list of despawning entities, and it's there that the memory is reclaimed to be reused by newly-spawned entities.

in this system, it's up to the user of the get-pointer-from-handle function to check "if gone", and handle things accordingly. it's a bit cumbersome to have to do this check everywhere that you want to get a pointer to an entity, but with some discipline, you'll never encounter "use-after-free" situations, or game logic errors caused by assuming something that existed last frame is still there when it might be gone now for any number of reasons—because you're explicitly writing what fallback behavior should occur in such a situation.
I wonder if OP used ChatGPT for development as well as content of this site
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I don't have issues with the network, but if you order a phone from Google, specially with a deal, there's a chance you may run into issues.
Shoes carry large amounts of fecal bateria into homes, including E. coli: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/shoes-carry-poop-b...

> should apply equally to the workplace as in the home, no?

Probably. You should bring it up with your boss.
> you ban the questions

I'm not a moderator -- I'm not banning anything. You literally stated no reason. You asked no question. Why are you telling me that I can't handle the question when you haven't even hinted at what the real question is?

And if the question you think we should be asking is "Is it because of all the Blacks?" then the reason that's not taken seriously is because it's (a) obviously false and (b) obviously asked in bad faith.

Why aren't we allowed to bring up the possibility that it's because of the world cabal of Pashtun lizard-humans using their space laser to destroy society so we don't figure out the dark secret that the Earth is actually toroidal!?
> If we consider that media/marketing driven entertainment is a negative externality

I guess that's the difference here. Most people do not consider this a negative, it gives them more options. You're fooling yourself if you think people would prefer to ditch AAA games and just have obscure indie titles.
Many startups can only dream of being as long and influential as IBM was.
I think that the cloud assets Microsoft has in Azure are a far more eminent competitive threat than buying Activision.
Microsoft has against Sony the advantage of being able to leverage its cloud division to undercut Sony with GamePass. From day one, Microsoft has datacenters close to most markets and can just add more and more racks of Xboxes in those locations, leveraging their investments in the cloud business to gain an advantage in the gaming business.
The previous president, Zuma, constructed a lavish swimming pool at his private residence with public funds. When pressed on it he said it was a fire pool and went so far as to bring in a group with pumps to demonstrate pumping the water out of the pool to put out a fire. Everybody knew it was BS and akin to saying that you swimming pool is a fire prevention tool but...
The Lindy Effect.[0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
I’m still trying to wrap my head around this. Do you have a link to help explain how this would work?

I happen to be working on a commercial product for which manufacturing quantum computers is a real use case, so I should understand this.